Posts by Jetsetlemming

The mimics reminded me of the traps in Sen's Fortress, and the floor switches that activate arrow traps that can be used to your advantage to kill bad guys. That also which got me thinking of other, similar traps. Traps that don't activate when you touch them, but give a warning click or something, and then activate when you leave are interesting, since you get that "o shit" moment and then can plan a desperate, unlikely plan of escape to avoid damage.

Also, the boxes you find rarely in the 3d fallout games that have a grenade wired to the side, and explode if you open the box without noticing and taking the grenade first. It's a very simplistic version of the standard trapped chest idea from RPGs, but without needing any kind of game mechanic other than the player noticing and frobbing a thing.

edit: The STALKER example reminds me of the land mines that are in Call of Pripyat. You similar to the anomalies, you feel them out by throwing bolts, but instead of a big dramatic effect, you get a little *clink!* noise. On the other hand, if you step on one yourself, instead of getting sucked into something you might possibly escape... you just fucking die with a loud noise. Very stressful, and thankfully only in the one spot, but as a novel challenge it was cool.

The plot of this event is really fucked up. Overwatch is invading a sovereign country, explicitly against the wishes of its government, to kill "extremists". It's basically robo-Yemen. And sure, they've addressed this stuff in retrospect previously, in that it's why Overwatch was shut down, and present characters sympathize with that decision, but in the event there's no negativity shined on this at all. It's just gross. I'd much rather fun Frankenstein type stories, or sci-fi stuff, than ripped-from-the-headlines Team America World Police type shit.

The fact that the enemies are robots doesn't help, because how the hell are a bunch of robots that clearly aren't even sapient "extremist"? The framing around this event is borrowing from REALLY gross stuff.

Ever since I upgraded my graphics card to a gtx1050 ti, and started being able to afford running Vsync in most cases, I can no longer stand to have it turned off.

Tried the demo. It's pretty fun, but reminds me of Deus Ex: Human Revolution a lot, in that it's a good game with some really frustrating fiddly bits. Probably the worst for me is the menu design: The text field constantly pivots back and forth when reading books and letters, which is migraine inducing (please tell me there's some way to turn this off?), and there's no extra keys for different menu screens, so if you want to check your map, for example, you have to hit J to open the mission objectives, click the Notes and Lore tab, click the Maps sub-tab, and THEN click the map you want.

edit: Also I found multiple visual bugs where you can see outside the world in Mission 2, like boardwalk planks with white nothingness between the boards, or a crack between two bookshelves with the same white void peaking through. Feels weird for a game that's been out for months and received multiple patches.

Quote from grapen

4 hours ago, grapen said: I'm not really into these types of collectibles, but it makes you think on which hero would look best as a statue. Widowmaker is one of my least favourite characters, so that one's a no. I think I would give it to Orisa. She looks great.

Ana's Lunar New Year skin.

$150 lmao

Big new PTR patch with a rework of Lucio. His aura radius is reduced from 30m to 10m, but now it's visible to him and his team, and his heal and speed boost are both buffed 50%. He gets a free 30% speed increase while wall riding, plus an extra boost when he jumps off a wall. Finally, his projectiles are a bit faster. Tested it a bit, and it feels extremely different to play, but potentially satisfying? That boost when jumping off a wall means, as far as I've found, you can no longer ride around an outside corner, because you're pushed away from the structure, however since it stacks with amp it up, you can do crazy shit like jump over the wall around point A in Eichenwald when respawning as a defender.

Also, Eichenwald now has an extra corridor connecting the health pack room on the left of the bridge choke (from defender's view) to the little tiny tunnel there on the left, meaning a Mei wall can no longer fully block that choke. However, that tunnel is a crazy kill room for scatters and grenades.

Edit: Also your progress towards capping a point on 2CP maps are counted as tie-breakers now, which means if you get completely shut down on point A on attack, the previously defending team will instantly win the game by touching the point uncontested. Caught everybody by surprise both times I saw it happen.

I think they've put more work in to improve the rendering quality from BF4's Frostbite... but it's really hard to tell. Especially for an area you'd expect a Bioware game to get the most attention, people. Skin lighting, especially for the darker skinned characters, looks pretty bad in that video.

Based on two rounds just now, Canals feels very T sided, but I could've just been unlucky. B point especially is very easy for T to take and defend, it seems. A is kinda ridiculous, hard to really evaluate: It's enormous and right next to CT spawn, so nobody ever goes for it first, but late round rotates to it nearly always worked because everyone was so B focused.

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On 3/16/2017 at 5:47 AM, Beck said: Played my first 4 placement matches last night and lost them all.

So many players who just solo one character and complain about the team setup whilst playing a character which probably isn't suited to the map.

Had a guy playing Rein who would charge in alone whilst we were all dead, use his ult and die, and then complain saying he had a lack of backup.

It's really infuriating. Placement matches are always shit and I seems to always get the trolls/stubborn/brain dead people on my team

People who refuse to work with their team are so frustrating. I've discovered that basically the only solution to these people is to break from good practices and instead work with them, essentially babysitting them, to try to keep their dumb ass alive. For example, if your team has a ~pro genji~ who keeps jumping into the middle of the enemy team, dying, and then raging at his team, playing Zenyatta is practically essential, both because you can put your Orb of Harmony on his useless ass and hope he lives long enough to scratch somebody, and because you double as a backup dps. Having a Genji on your team significantly reduces the value of Ana simply by existing as somebody you can't actually shoot to heal, because even when he needs it he'll keep double jumping and dodging around you while spamming the heal request button.

Quote from blackdog

10 hours ago, blackdog said: Oh wow @Jetsetlemming, saw that available and intrigued me a lot.

Im gonna wait a sale tho, more so because I have several adventures in the queue already (Oxenfree, TellTale stuff and more) and if that's really best than wouldn't be so nice to go back to other games

It's only $20, and it's easily worth it. It's a pretty long game, and has a TON of optional/branching/secret stuff in it. Plus it's a tiny dev team who worked really hard to get to this point, they deserve support. And it's definitely a better game than any TellTale game I've ever played. TellTale's okay, but this is like... look, it's video game's Citizen Kane, ok!? It just is!

Just finished Night in the Woods. Fantastic game, and probably the closest I've ever felt to recognizing the lives of characters in a piece of fiction. Absolute best writing of any game imo.

There are genuine fuckups with the Switch's design through, especially those "Joycons". https://www.videogamer.com/news/problemat…simple-wire-mod

Quote from MikeGon

7 hours ago, MikeGon said: ...Hmmm DPS players and snipers who can't get picks

If I don't instalock Hanzo and spent the entire match dying over and over to Pharah, I will forfeit my Honor

It's like there's a DDOS going on, except instead of just internet connection requests it's a bunch of shitty players.

Played three losing rounds in a row, all three had the same guy accusing everyone who killed him of hacking. Did all the good teammates leave for the PTR or something?

Quote from SotaPoika

8 hours ago, SotaPoika said: What SR did you get after those placement matches and what did you end your last season with?

I was at 2800 last season. Ranked 2160 after placement.

I did not have good luck with my placement matches. A whole fucking lot of genjis... and 5/10 rounds on Hanamura, 1/10 on a KOTH map (guess which ones are the draws?)

Orisa is really fun, in theory. Her kit is totally the kind of stuff I love, too, as a Heavy with lots of utility. Too bad I can only play her against bots rn, because in live games somebody else always loads first and chooses her and then fucks around all match, clearly without ever actually reading her abilities. In like two months I look forward to getting to play her against humans.

I universally hate angry, ranty, "rage" youtubers... unless they're Scottish, for some reason. This "Why you suck at Overwatch" video is actually pretty useful. :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQrKRqD373Y