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[PA Comic] Monday, June 23, 2014 - The Red Zone
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[PA Comic] Monday, June 23, 2014 - The Red Zone
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I have never been able to wrap my head around how people fail so hard at this. I don't play Wildstar, but I've played plenty of other MMOs and this is a universal concept. People suck at moving out of area-specific damage zones.
Mike in real life has a Razer laptop. Back when he had an Alienware laptop, they drew it with the little alien-head logo.
Get. Out. Of. The. Fucking. Fire/Poison/Acid/Void.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2014/06/22/people-send-me-stuff
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2014/05/26/a-tale-of-two-laptops
i suspect this is not a comic about raiding, but about the first dungeon in Wildstar at Lv20.
Seasons don't fear the reaper
Nor do the wind, the sun, or the rain
Normally I try to make some humorous comment rather then rant like a crazy person in chat (to not strip away the remnants of our already flagging morale), however there is always that one guy that just blows up via text. Then he's kicked.
I think this comic is applicable to pretty much any MMO, regardless of which inspired it.
Also, sometimes there is just so much Red, how do you not stand in it.
And, even if they are good about moving, they can be bad about clumping before a spot appears. Which means the chance of spot making multiple people move is greatly increased.
This was already done in Neverwinter, and WoW to a lesser extent (you see the ground effects but it's not bright red).
Why is Wildstar considered the most amazing thing ever to exist in the entirety of Creation again?
Doing the Hydra boss fight with PUGs was awful. You had to taunt trade, and the random dudes I grouped with never understood the forward diagonal move, where you actually clip into the mob's character model to avoid the cone breath-attack, because the cone was so wide that you couldn't just side-step it.
IRL would be fine, because, even though a suicide pact is a sad thing, the folly would be over with; in a virtual suicide pact, there is an inevitable rinse&repeat.
Yelling at butts will never NOT be funny. Thanks, Psy!
Also, Abby is awesome. Keep up with TLH because it's the tits!
I love League of Legends, but seriously...screw you, Teemo.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Right, @ceres?
Wildstar cranks telegraphs to 11.
Oh my god, this so much.
"Casual raiding guild" in The Burning Crusade expansion of WoW was like a secret code for "we run Karazhan every Saturday night and wipe on Curator for four hours"
I mean, great, you want to keep things light and fun, but at some point, the people who are shit at the game either need to learn how to play or fuck the hell off, because otherwise you ain't getting nowhere. And if you're not playing to succeed at the raid, why even do it?
I'm not saying don't try to succeed, but losing can be fun. Usually failing is how you learn to get better.
I kinda think the average perception is, "if you are not a master then don't even try" I think this attitude turns people away, and discourages some from even trying. No one wants to be berated for making mistakes or maybe just not being that good.
So far the 3 or so adventures/dungeons I have been apart of have all been abandoned for one reason or another(mostly dissconects), and the PUGs have all been pleasant. But mostly it was fun, we didn't accomplish the goal, but I did enjoy my time playing with others.
I have no desire to play with anyone who's philosophy is to "Get Gud or GTFO". I guess I understand the reason, some people feel they have wasted their time by not accomplishing the goal.
Like I said above, some seem to lose the point, its a game, relax and have fun.(none of this is directed at any of you, I'm just trying to expand my views on this discussion)
There are mistakes and there is stupidity.
Failing to move out of a gigantic flaming circle on the ground more than once or twice falls into the latter category.