Penny Arcade - Comic - Division Of Labor

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Penny Arcade - Comic - Division Of Labor

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

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ViRGE

Can you actually mutiny in Sea of Thieves? That sounds kind of fun...

Skull2185

I learned everything I need to know about boats from Captain Ron. Also the important distinction between gorilla and guerrilla.

Lucascraft

All up in that sloop.

Prowlingmonkey

Couldn't help but read Gabe's dialog in a pirate voice.

dennis

Pirate Captain Gabe is fantastic.

KalTorak

now get to work starboarding

Thawmus

Reminds me so much of the demands in Guns of Icarus.

Tofystedeth

this comic makes me really miss puzzle pirates. Taking a sloop out to hunt ships from a flag that we'd war dec'ed, but having to crew it with only 2 people because any more would raise our boats might rating too high to attack any of their sloops even if they had a full crew of 7. So each person was frantically bouncing between 2 puzzles.

sparksky

Honestly, they had me at "that's a boat word, you stupid piece of shit."

Lucascraft

It's extra great, because you know that Tycho knows that word. But Gabe doesn't give him a chance to demonstrate that knowledge.

CallofBooty

For a second there, I thought they finally discovered Blackwake. I've been addicted to that game since last March. Discovered how awesome it feels to be a cog in a well oiled death machine and alternately how hilarious it is to be in a sinking ship of fools while everything is on fire.

RatherDashing89

I, for one, am very glad I have friends who will shoot and drive in Guns of Icarus. I would much rather run around frantically than try piloting those things. Not to mention the responsibility. That's why I always preferred healing to tanking.

Skull2185

Don't you have more responsibility as a healer?

Linktm

This is why I play Junkrat in Overwatch comps, less responsibility.

Skull2185

I played WoW a loooooong time ago, because my brother talked me into it. I was a Paladin, I think. I was a human warrior, but I had some healing skills. Anyway, we were playing and had a shitty group with no healer. My brother said I had to be the healer then, and it was very stressful... I didn't do a good job, and got yelled at a lot.

Sadgasm

sparksky wrote: »

Honestly, they had me at "that's a boat word, you stupid piece of shit."

Me too, the casual, completely unwarranted hostility is just...just spot on

RatherDashing89

Skull2185 wrote: »

Don't you have more responsibility as a healer?

In my WoW experience, healing was frantic but straightforward, like Whack a Mole. Tanking involved more premeditated strategy and tanks were expected to set the pace and make the decisions. So while anyone might get blamed for failure, as a tank your decisions really did have the potential to cause a wipe.

Of course, this is coming from regular 5 man dungeons in the Wrath era...when fights were pretty simple and you weren't also playing DDR at the same time. And healers were scarce enough that just playing one earned you quite a bit of good will.

So tanking actually felt a bit like steering while healing felt like playing an engineer.

Tofystedeth

RatherDashing89 wrote: »

Skull2185 wrote: »

Don't you have more responsibility as a healer?

In my WoW experience, healing was frantic but straightforward, like Whack a Mole. Tanking involved more premeditated strategy and tanks were expected to set the pace and make the decisions. So while anyone might get blamed for failure, as a tank your decisions really did have the potential to cause a wipe.

Of course, this is coming from regular 5 man dungeons in the Wrath era...when fights were pretty simple and you weren't also playing DDR at the same time. And healers were scarce enough that just playing one earned you quite a bit of good will.

So tanking actually felt a bit like steering while healing felt like playing an engineer.

Yeah, and dps tend to have to deal with mechanics more often. Some mechanics never even target healers. And DPS have to deal with burning down targets and interrupts and stuff too.

Healer responsibilities are often just don't stand in bad things, and keep the green bars full.

Source: holy paladin since burning crusade.

Tofystedeth

news post wrote:

The fantasy more or less is to sail a ship like in Black Flag, except the people running around out there on the deck are, for lack of a better term, people. Or, and I would also accept this, an action/arcade manifestation of Puzzle Pirates. Good God, that game was ahead of its time.

Okay you have my attention.

DemonStacey

I cannot wait to see them play this together.

Shenanigans will ensue.

Entertainment will be had.

Shamgar

I've not seen one of these "Friday hang times" before -- is that on the PA Twitch stream?

Does Not Equal

Maybe the second or third time I've seen the strip with a mistake in the text.

MaximumSquid

I watched a little bit of the game on Twitch.tv
The game is very enchanting, but lacks content currently

You really need to bring an already strong group into the game to get "the experience"

dennis

Shamgar wrote: »

I've not seen one of these "Friday hang times" before -- is that on the PA Twitch stream?

Yes.

poipoigirl

Gabe is a harsh but (un)fair leader lol

spool32

the typo in the strip is bugging the crap out of me. They forgot a word!

Commander Zoom

Tofystedeth wrote: »

this comic makes me really miss puzzle pirates.

Same.

Djiem

Oh god I miss Puzzle Pirates.

Quid

As someone that has worked on many boats, both the words and the division of labor check out.

poipoigirl

How many boat terms does Gabe know? aside the two he used.

Quid

“Rigging, bailing, patching, navigating, cannons, and crows nesting.”

“You stupid piece of shit” is also definitely a boat term.

BaconGrease

That bandanna! (countdown to store availability)