Posts by Rick_D

ok i've left DICE, was let go this morning, apparently someone forwarded a bunch of my comments from mapcore to HR... thanks for that.

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Quote from Vilham

yes same here, it is fcking ridiculous that i have to pay the same price as for game, just to have some new maps and shit, half of that price and i'm buying it

There will be 20 (!) new maps, new game modes, new weapons, vehicles, character skins, etc. - plus you get early access to all of it. That's quite a crap load of content. Sounds like a good deal to me. Then again I play this game daily, if I only played occasionally I probably wouldn't bother either.

Also, for comparison:

BF 1942 was 50$ expansions 25$-30$ x2

Total cost 110$

BF2 50$ Special Forces Expansion 30$ Boosters 15$x2

Total Cost 110$

BF3 60$ Bf3 Premium $50

Total Cost 110$

You do realise that BF3 premium doesn't give you any expansion other than Return to Karkand right? You still have to buy the other expansions, you just get early access. It's total bullshit.

this is completely untrue. you need to up your reading comprehension skill stats, i suggest [boots Of Reading] combined with the [staff Of Reduced Butthurt], both have pretty good stats and will allow you to beat the final boss: Ura Fay'get

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If this is pointed towards me, then you misunderstood my post. I've played and finished Half Life atleast a dozen times and the last time I played it was only a couple of months ago. Still having a blast.

The point I was trying to make was this: I can still play the original Doom with as much fun as back in 1993. But If you say System Shock is a classic, you should play it, I can't. It's simply too dated for me to get immersed in without the nostalgia factor to get me through. But, if I played in back then, I could still play it now. Does that make sense?

i understnd, i was directing that at anyone really. just a general outburst of rage, derp.

yeah mazy i am mad early game and it's already fucking slow

Anyone else playing this? Shit rocks.

I just whooped the shit out of the English cause Queen Elizabeth gave me some dirty looks. Nothing like beating a woman to make you feel like a man.

i played through HL1 most recently about 2 years ago, it's still amazing. And the us being for the most part faggy artists i agree it looks dated, which it is, but it's also like saying you don't want to listen to music from the 70's because it doesn't have synthesisers and the bass never "drops".

stop being cunts. play HL1.

lightbox is terrible why does everyone use it. stop it.

just a reminder when making stuff like that, try and make it feel like it;s actually made from separate sheets of metal instead of a single solid piece

fuck you if you haven't played HL1, what the fuck is wrong with you.

Quote from Taylor

My little group of Monk (hello!), Demon Hunter and Barbarian (used to be another DH, rerolled) has now got to Act 3 and we’ve hit another wall where we can kill normal enemies fine but elites are impossible.We now need to all gear up again but there is no productive way to do this. I’m struggling to stay awake at my keyboard as I run through the easier bosses I’m totally over-geared for, knowing I won’t get an upgrade but hoping I get something I can sell (and actually getting sub-60 junk items seemingly competing with each other to be the least effective items in the game). It struck me that this is the only end-game Diablo 3, with its bad itemisation and vested interest in promoting the auction house, can actually support.

I'm even having second thoughts about the skill system. Because, while I support the idea of changing your base skills around and promoting experimentation, the fact is Inferno kind of squishes everyone into the same build anyway, and the itemisation does very little to differentiate builds outside of random +5% Damage On Random Skill stats. This is the complete opposite of Diablo 2 where each build within each class focused on specific groups of items to make it viable in addition to just picking the skills. There are a lot of ways the new system can be intertwined with items, and I think the game would be better for it, but it is not happening at all right now.

Gearing up in Diablo 3 gives me flashbacks to when I worked in an accounts office; there’s some extremely intricate and completely soulless spreadsheet powering all this and not much else. The main concern seems to be keeping everything scaling forever as evidenced by my clear goals as Monk: I need all resist, poison resist (one with everything), dexterity, vitality and LoH. The more of this I get the better I objectively become at everything and none of them have hard caps.

Sets and uniques became obsolete on day 1 because they just adhere to their ilvl * mod with appropriate stats and there are much higher ilvl’s available deep into Inferno. Increasing the power differentiation for an equivalent ilvl item in 1.03 will make these better but they’re not going to actually become interesting. The easiest example Is Tal Rasha as this is in both games.

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The hell are those set bonuses? Remember the Trang-Oul Necromancer set in Diablo 2 that changed your appearance and gave you 3 abilities not even native to your class? Was hardly the best gear in the game but it was pretty damn cool.

I’m worried this is because of the RMAH. They don’t want to make interesting uniques and sets because when they stamp out another tier of ilvl they don’t want people holding onto old items that scale well or do interesting things. This clearly was the case with the WoW expansions where they wanted everyone moving into the next tier of gear; so they added “ratings” rather than percentages and items like the Luffa started getting fail rates over a certain level.

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wonderfully sums up why i abandoned this after a while

i'd have to be funny first

here's a sample

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lie and say you made it all. that's what i do. i applied to DICE with simon barskys portfolio.

i loved it. come at me bro.

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man that lamppost is sweet

yeah those doors totally ruined the game for me. fuck those faggots. 0/10 i want a refund.

Quote from PogoP

Looks ace! Nice to see a new type of game rather than just generic shooter no.503929 (im looking at you, crysis 3!)

please, tell us your opinions, they are so relevant and inspirational.

Quote from Dark

For me, that was gay as fuck, needs more blood.http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rFc72ruizss/T ... Classy.gif

my new favourite mapcore poster