I tried to play DMC4 and DMC3 recently and found them agonizingly unwieldy. The character is so slow, and your weapons surprisingly short, and the main defense is... jumping? Rolling seems worse than I recalled
Far different than I remembered and a lot less fun than Bayonetta, God of War, Soulslikes, etc.
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
VishNub top row third cup will likely disassemble everyone else (though second row most right might put up a fight, given claw size)
I'm also willing to bet the middle ones are cuddly and blind.
(I like the black and white ones at (2,2))
I assume those are all different species? And you can you ID them on sight?
o_O
There are some color morphs within species, and diet and such can change coloration. I suspect that the three on the right top and the one orange one to the left of that are all the same species, as is second to last row and last row first column, and so are the rest on the last row. Middle two look like blind cave species. First two are probably same species, two on the left on second and third row are the same species.
So, no, I can't ID them on sight, but I can tell you stuff about them. I can tell who'd win because size :P
(and because the two I said would win are of a particularly aggressive clade and the only others of similar size, the black white ones, are either of a species with pitiful weak claws or are females, which isn't a huge handicap except that during breeding season the males molt to switch to enormous unwieldy claws for fighting)
As is proper.
Except that when pregnant, the females go from winning like a little less than half their fights to basically all of them, for two main reasons:
1) they can't escape from danger easily because they would lose their eggs if they tried to swim
2) fuck you
Are they fighting males (of the same? different?) species?
The most common/notorious species (you have eaten them, surely) form extremely vicious hierarchies. They basically fight without regards to sex, though during mating season the males have the claw advantage (seriously, though, sufficiently unwieldy that it's not really helpful for fighting predators). But yeah, they'll fight whatever, and their mating usually occurs following combat. Kind of like Klingons, frankly. Fighting followed by kinky restraint sex while the other crayfish walk around the tank all bored, or sometimes try to start fights and get frustrated and leave when the ones busy fucking don't want to fight.
I have not tried to fight ones of different species, but my advisor has and said that it's basically just sad watching one animal take the other apart.
I really just want games like Left 4 Dead in terms of co-op.
Challenging, replayable maps of significant length, no loot grind, strong co-op design from the ground up. Ideally add more weapon variety and some neat character abilities
Make it free to play or add micros or whatever, sure, as long as it's cosmetic stuff (which is great! I'll buy some, sure!). Make new maps and characters that I have to buy, sure. But just give me some good, challenging co-op gun play that people can just play with each other.
Making games is hard and having ideas for games is easy
I have design docs for a turn based squad tactics game, with suppression and etc, but will I ever make it or get other people to help? I dunno
Designing AI for that shit is wild
The trick is to design a fantastic AI paradigm that should make serious cost:benefit analyses of all its options and select those appropriate to the players' skill level and then watch players describe it as "having sad in a corner shooting a brick wall for 10 minutes."
I really just want games like Left 4 Dead in terms of co-op.
Challenging, replayable maps of significant length, no loot grind, strong co-op design from the ground up. Ideally add more weapon variety and some neat character abilities
Make it free to play or add micros or whatever, sure, as long as it's cosmetic stuff (which is great! I'll buy some, sure!). Make new maps and characters that I have to buy, sure. But just give me some good, challenging co-op gun play that people can just play with each other.
Guy was supposed to come in for an interview today. Doesn't show, doesn't contact us. Boss texts him to ask where he is and is told that something has come up and can he do the interview tomorrow instead?
I tried to play DMC4 and DMC3 recently and found them agonizingly unwieldy. The character is so slow, and your weapons surprisingly short, and the main defense is... jumping? Rolling seems worse than I recalled
Far different than I remembered and a lot less fun than Bayonetta, God of War, Soulslikes, etc.
The rolling is definitely something that was giving me a hard time. Since you can only roll while locked and lock was a hold button the I would accidentally jump so god damn much and it just like made it all feel so cludgey.
Rolling is my jam and an action game where rolling is giving me a hard time is a bit rough.
I'm still gonna pick it up and hopefully find a way to make it feel better. But yea during the demo period the combat never felt as great as I hoped.
What if you’ve already played the last multiplayer game you’ll ever play with chums
My MP desert was replaced with weekly Netrunner and D&D sessions for a time. Now I get my competitive kicks solely through boardgames. And illegal street racing, of course.
Making games is hard and having ideas for games is easy
I have design docs for a turn based squad tactics game, with suppression and etc, but will I ever make it or get other people to help? I dunno
Designing AI for that shit is wild
The trick is to design a fantastic AI paradigm that should make serious cost:benefit analyses of all its options and select those appropriate to the players' skill level and then watch players describe it as "having sad in a corner shooting a brick wall for 10 minutes."
Surely we can just train up an AI through machine learning
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DemonStaceyTTODewback's DaughterIn love with the TaySwayRegistered Userregular
I was kinda hoping that I woulda been more into Anthem so I could maybe find some friends to play that with but the demo just kinda chucked that idea out the window.
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
Here is a picture of a male being held
Clearly overcompensating for something with those claws
I'm just saying guys...CS:GO is real fun, lotta strategy and opportunity for tactics at most levels because not everyone is a flick god even if they think they are.
What if you’ve already played the last multiplayer game you’ll ever play with chums
My MP desert was replaced with weekly Netrunner and D&D sessions for a time. Now I get my competitive kicks solely through boardgames. And illegal street racing, of course.
Bogart drifting at high speed around in on-ramp on the way to the board game shop is canon now imo
ME3 was maybe my favourite MP game, largely because of the frequent sessions with PA folks.
yeah it was tons of fun
I think my only gripes was that enemy resilience was poorly communicated visually, and some enemy like grabbing you and killing you or something like that being kinda clunky
my memories of the gripes are overshadowed by the memories of my waifu Black Widow going "kaboom kaboom kaboom"
Abdhyius on
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OrcaAlso known as EspressosaurusWrexRegistered Userregular
ME3 was maybe my favourite MP game, largely because of the frequent sessions with PA folks.
I just want to recreate that experience. Co-op, short matches, varied environments and playstyles, cool people to play with. Been 7 years and still nothin'.
I really just want games like Left 4 Dead in terms of co-op.
Challenging, replayable maps of significant length, no loot grind, strong co-op design from the ground up. Ideally add more weapon variety and some neat character abilities
Make it free to play or add micros or whatever, sure, as long as it's cosmetic stuff (which is great! I'll buy some, sure!). Make new maps and characters that I have to buy, sure. But just give me some good, challenging co-op gun play that people can just play with each other.
What about the skippy factor though
What is the skippy factor
Burning limited resources to steal a health pack he doesn't need but you do
Repeatedly opening and closing the safe room door with three people inside and you outside
I was kinda hoping that I woulda been more into Anthem so I could maybe find some friends to play that with but the demo just kinda chucked that idea out the window.
This was kind of disappointing but otoh I'm not tryna get into another loot shooter with chores to do
I find that multiplayer always feels like this big stressful undertaking and then you do it and it's lighter and more fun than you remembered
There was a period of time where playing with people was new and exciting and everyone was super into it and helpful because it was new.
Now it's in everything and everyone's a dick because who cares, fuck you. I think this is why there's a resurgence of single player games. However a good solution is to just be able to play with personal friends instead of random fuckheads.
Monthly reminder: bring back community servers, game designers.
If we do that, how will we bilk out an extra 10% of earnings from an IP?
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
ME3 was maybe my favourite MP game, largely because of the frequent sessions with PA folks.
I just want to recreate that experience. Co-op, short matches, varied environments and playstyles, cool people to play with. Been 7 years and still nothin'.
Letting me tweak and customize weapons and stuff and carry that In and out of co op is big for me
I liked blops3’s work stations where you could customize load outs to be ready for your next co op
I really just want games like Left 4 Dead in terms of co-op.
Challenging, replayable maps of significant length, no loot grind, strong co-op design from the ground up. Ideally add more weapon variety and some neat character abilities
Make it free to play or add micros or whatever, sure, as long as it's cosmetic stuff (which is great! I'll buy some, sure!). Make new maps and characters that I have to buy, sure. But just give me some good, challenging co-op gun play that people can just play with each other.
What about the skippy factor though
What is the skippy factor
Burning limited resources to steal a health pack he doesn't need but you do
Repeatedly opening and closing the safe room door with three people inside and you outside
These sorts of things
This is a crucial aspect of every co-op game and they are richer for it
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BethrynUnhappiness is MandatoryRegistered Userregular
I'm just saying guys...CS:GO is real fun, lotta strategy and opportunity for tactics at most levels because not everyone is a flick god even if they think they are.
related, the reason I don't like bullet-spongey multiplayer shooters is because it makes tactics less important
getting the drop on someone means less when it takes a long time to kill them. If there's two of them, it doesn't help me as much that I predicted where they'd go and laid an ambush, if it takes so long and so many shots to kill them that they have ample opportunity to turn around and fuck me up
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Powerpuppiesdrinking coffee in themountain cabinRegistered Userregular
I really just want games like Left 4 Dead in terms of co-op.
Challenging, replayable maps of significant length, no loot grind, strong co-op design from the ground up. Ideally add more weapon variety and some neat character abilities
Make it free to play or add micros or whatever, sure, as long as it's cosmetic stuff (which is great! I'll buy some, sure!). Make new maps and characters that I have to buy, sure. But just give me some good, challenging co-op gun play that people can just play with each other.
What about the skippy factor though
What is the skippy factor
Burning limited resources to steal a health pack he doesn't need but you do
Repeatedly opening and closing the safe room door with three people inside and you outside
These sorts of things
This is a crucial aspect of every co-op game and they are richer for it
Of course, I did not mean to imply otherwise
Skippy probably doesn't even enjoy it, he's just providing a public service
not gonna lie, part of why apex legends is like "this is kinda neat but I feel like there's not much here" is because I got nothing to grind towards
it's never a great motivation in a game, but it is one. And like, none of the customizations in apex legends interest me. They're either ugly or boring.
I'm just saying guys...CS:GO is real fun, lotta strategy and opportunity for tactics at most levels because not everyone is a flick god even if they think they are.
related, the reason I don't like bullet-spongey multiplayer shooters is because it makes tactics less important
getting the drop on someone means less when it takes a long time to kill them. If there's two of them, it doesn't help me as much that I predicted where they'd go and laid an ambush, if it takes so long and so many shots to kill them that they have ample opportunity to turn around and fuck me up
just buy an smg and hold mouse 1 and kill them all, ezpz
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
Surely we can just train up an AI through machine learning
Sure, as long as you have a couple of dozen to a thousand spare CPUs to run it on.
I have one Surface Pro 6 i5
That's probably fine, right
They are doing some machine learning stuff on mobile phones and it blows my mind.
I heard a cool story about a program designed to allow African farmers to take pictures of their cassava crops, and it will tell them whether or not it thinks the crop is sick AND show them the features it's identifying as possibly diseased, so they get more experience and also can kill problem crops before the diseases spread.
Granted, they're not TRAINING it, so it's a simple feed-forward pass, but still!
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TL DRNot at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered Userregular
Traktor's new controller has motorized platters, which historically I haven't had interest in, but...
I didn't think the TTK in Apex Legends was that bad.
Just went through a phase of blackout in blops4 where they added armor repair but didn't nerf level 3 armor (something like 50% damage reduction and it is the only armor that offers head protection) and hoo boy was that a bad time.
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
i don't mind a grind toward things
what i can't abide is a game that takes away my progress and calls that difficulty
I'm just saying guys...CS:GO is real fun, lotta strategy and opportunity for tactics at most levels because not everyone is a flick god even if they think they are.
related, the reason I don't like bullet-spongey multiplayer shooters is because it makes tactics less important
getting the drop on someone means less when it takes a long time to kill them. If there's two of them, it doesn't help me as much that I predicted where they'd go and laid an ambush, if it takes so long and so many shots to kill them that they have ample opportunity to turn around and fuck me up
The lethality of everything, and close quarters also means you can do stuff like covering fire and baiting and fakes and stuff.
I get why this game is still around and huge, there is a lot of depth to it beyond "buy awp, point and click"
friendly fire is an underrated thing, in coop games
I have fond memories of all the umpteen hours of halo coop we played, and how our working together to save the galaxy was always a tenuous alliance at best.
we're attacking in perfect sync, like a beautiful duet, but then one of us just happens to have their head in the other's sights and the temptation is too high and then it devolves into clones of master chief killing each other for like ten minutes
EDIT: and each of them spawn with grenades and all of the grenades remain on the ground and then both of us die in a gigantic series of explosions from forty grenades and we reload at the previous checkpoint
Me3 is probably the most fun coop multi I played, and I chased that experience for a while. The other one would be L4D2.
The main gripe I have with ME3 is that all the challenge was in wave 8-10+Extraction. There was so much slow ramp up in each map.
Also it pretty much is the introduction of lootboxes into AAA games. (I don't know how it compares to FIFA, but it's gotta be close).
And I remember some people never getting the weapon they want.
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Far different than I remembered and a lot less fun than Bayonetta, God of War, Soulslikes, etc.
The most common/notorious species (you have eaten them, surely) form extremely vicious hierarchies. They basically fight without regards to sex, though during mating season the males have the claw advantage (seriously, though, sufficiently unwieldy that it's not really helpful for fighting predators). But yeah, they'll fight whatever, and their mating usually occurs following combat. Kind of like Klingons, frankly. Fighting followed by kinky restraint sex while the other crayfish walk around the tank all bored, or sometimes try to start fights and get frustrated and leave when the ones busy fucking don't want to fight.
I have not tried to fight ones of different species, but my advisor has and said that it's basically just sad watching one animal take the other apart.
The best stats are how if you put two females and one male in a tank, 80% of the fucking will be sapphic.
They got Danny Trejo to help advertise MTG Arena with Day9. That is weird.
What is the skippy factor
No, he cannot.
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The rolling is definitely something that was giving me a hard time. Since you can only roll while locked and lock was a hold button the I would accidentally jump so god damn much and it just like made it all feel so cludgey.
Rolling is my jam and an action game where rolling is giving me a hard time is a bit rough.
I'm still gonna pick it up and hopefully find a way to make it feel better. But yea during the demo period the combat never felt as great as I hoped.
My MP desert was replaced with weekly Netrunner and D&D sessions for a time. Now I get my competitive kicks solely through boardgames. And illegal street racing, of course.
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Surely we can just train up an AI through machine learning
Clearly overcompensating for something with those claws
Bogart drifting at high speed around in on-ramp on the way to the board game shop is canon now imo
yeah it was tons of fun
I think my only gripes was that enemy resilience was poorly communicated visually, and some enemy like grabbing you and killing you or something like that being kinda clunky
my memories of the gripes are overshadowed by the memories of my waifu Black Widow going "kaboom kaboom kaboom"
I just want to recreate that experience. Co-op, short matches, varied environments and playstyles, cool people to play with. Been 7 years and still nothin'.
those little booooootttsssssss
Burning limited resources to steal a health pack he doesn't need but you do
Repeatedly opening and closing the safe room door with three people inside and you outside
These sorts of things
This was kind of disappointing but otoh I'm not tryna get into another loot shooter with chores to do
If we do that, how will we bilk out an extra 10% of earnings from an IP?
Guess they need to put them out faster now
Not much time left
Letting me tweak and customize weapons and stuff and carry that In and out of co op is big for me
I liked blops3’s work stations where you could customize load outs to be ready for your next co op
Attenborough is 92 after all.
This is a crucial aspect of every co-op game and they are richer for it
related, the reason I don't like bullet-spongey multiplayer shooters is because it makes tactics less important
getting the drop on someone means less when it takes a long time to kill them. If there's two of them, it doesn't help me as much that I predicted where they'd go and laid an ambush, if it takes so long and so many shots to kill them that they have ample opportunity to turn around and fuck me up
Of course, I did not mean to imply otherwise
Skippy probably doesn't even enjoy it, he's just providing a public service
I have one Surface Pro 6 i5
That's probably fine, right
it's never a great motivation in a game, but it is one. And like, none of the customizations in apex legends interest me. They're either ugly or boring.
just buy an smg and hold mouse 1 and kill them all, ezpz
They are doing some machine learning stuff on mobile phones and it blows my mind.
I heard a cool story about a program designed to allow African farmers to take pictures of their cassava crops, and it will tell them whether or not it thinks the crop is sick AND show them the features it's identifying as possibly diseased, so they get more experience and also can kill problem crops before the diseases spread.
Granted, they're not TRAINING it, so it's a simple feed-forward pass, but still!
Just went through a phase of blackout in blops4 where they added armor repair but didn't nerf level 3 armor (something like 50% damage reduction and it is the only armor that offers head protection) and hoo boy was that a bad time.
what i can't abide is a game that takes away my progress and calls that difficulty
The lethality of everything, and close quarters also means you can do stuff like covering fire and baiting and fakes and stuff.
I get why this game is still around and huge, there is a lot of depth to it beyond "buy awp, point and click"
I have fond memories of all the umpteen hours of halo coop we played, and how our working together to save the galaxy was always a tenuous alliance at best.
we're attacking in perfect sync, like a beautiful duet, but then one of us just happens to have their head in the other's sights and the temptation is too high and then it devolves into clones of master chief killing each other for like ten minutes
EDIT: and each of them spawn with grenades and all of the grenades remain on the ground and then both of us die in a gigantic series of explosions from forty grenades and we reload at the previous checkpoint
The main gripe I have with ME3 is that all the challenge was in wave 8-10+Extraction. There was so much slow ramp up in each map.
Also it pretty much is the introduction of lootboxes into AAA games. (I don't know how it compares to FIFA, but it's gotta be close).
And I remember some people never getting the weapon they want.