Penny Arcade - Comic - Optimal

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Penny Arcade - Comic - Optimal

Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.

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Huttj509

Have mercy.

jwalk

BOOM!!! HEADSHOT!!!!

Enlong

Sounds like the TF2 Ubercharge problem. Wasting it on one person is better than wasting it on zero.

Tofystedeth

At least you don't lose your ult on death. Unless you switch characters or are playing the game type that switches every time you die.
I definitely had a few matches when playing that mode where I just managed to get Mercy's ult up then died.

HeWhoSees

Oh, hello karma. Been a while since I've seen you out in the open like this. How's it going?

H3Knuckles

Tycho, linking to wh40k wikia and not Lexicanum? For shame! :P

Rehab

Gabe was probably going to use whatever he had to kill him anyway.

RatherDashing

So is Zarya brutal but kunnin' or kunnin' but brutal?

Bursar

You have to be kunnin' if you want to live long enough to get brutal, so I guess the second?

Zomagic

NEVER wait to pop ults, in any game. I mean, obviously don't waste them, but if you use them early and often, that's that many more uses you can get in a match. If it's got a 90 second cooldown, and you waste 3 minutes waiting to pop at some perceived optimal time, you effectively wasted 2 more opportunities to use your ult. That is ON TOP OF the fact that you may get killed before your perceived optimal time.

Golden Yak

Man, how amazing would it be if voice-chat altered your voice to sound like whatever character you were playing as?

Korbo

I absolutely adore Reaper's face.

Steel Angel

Golden Yak wrote: »

Man, how amazing would it be if voice-chat altered your voice to sound like whatever character you were playing as?

Given that you can have multiples of the same character on a team it would get really confusing.

ArbitraryDescriptor

Rehab wrote: »

Gabe was probably going to use whatever he had to kill him anyway.

I thought that was what had happened since I, for some reason, seem to read these Last panel, First Panel, Second panel

RatherDashing

I feel ashamed as a cooldown hoarder. Normally I never use cooldowns because I am saving them for the absolute maximum yield. But I played Mercy exclusively for the day of beta I played, and I didn't even realize her rez worked on multiple allies. I assumed you had to target a downed ally, too, so I may have missed a bunch of opportunities.

trident042

I'm reminded of the TF2 PSA: Pop It, Don't Drop It.

shadowysea07

"I feel ashamed as a cooldown hoarder."

I blame video games teaching us to hoard everything.

Commander Zoom

"But I might need that Elixir later!"
"This is the final boss."
"... He has another form after this one, right?"

homogenized

Commander Zoom wrote: »

"But I might need that Elixir later!"
"This is the final boss."
"... He has another form after this one, right?"

I wonder if there's game that makes the last or bonus boss(es) stronger for every one-time-use-super-item you still have in your inventory. It could power itself up by forcing more on to you and striking before you can use them.

Tube

A great solution for that hoarding problem is in the zeboyd RPGs. You get a certain amount of the item and it refreshes with every battle. You can't just hoard a ton to make the final boss trivial, and you have no incentive to hold onto everything just in case.

Tofystedeth

shadowysea07 wrote: »

"I feel ashamed as a cooldown hoarder."

I blame video games teaching us to hoard everything.

We're gonna end up like the generation who went through the Great Depression.