For me I think the best bit about marvel snap is that there are climbing decks that can take you to the highest rank in pool 1 and 2, which is where you will spend the majority of your early experience. You generally will get matched with people that have access to the same cards (technically, I think it matches your “collection level”, and some f those good early decks stay pretty good. I’m approaching the end of the currently available collection, and so far I’ve spent exactly ten bucks for Miles Morales.
I can’t say there’s no gacha bullshit, once you’re out of pool two you won’t get cards directly any more, you’ll be rolling for them in boxes along with avatars, boosters for your cards, and credit bundles, but it hasn’t taken much grinding to get here, I just happened to be in the beta so I’m ahead of the curve a bit. I play roughly 20-30 minutes a day and have little difficulty completing the daily missions. The extra progression I got for my 10 bucks felt nice, but I very likely won’t buy anything else for a while…. Although black panther is supposedly next month, so maaaaaaaybe….
I think once you get up into the thousands on your collection level it might be a bit frustrating not to be playing with the new hotness that just dropped, as the new cards you pay to access immediately aren’t available to free-to-play players, and the finer points of the collection level matchmaking are a bit obscure, I think there’s lag-time of about 2 months before each card becomes available, so that’s a bit pay-to-win-y. Still, once your collection gets big enough, it’s unlikely you’ll end up steamrolled because of a single card.
It’s a grind, but it’s not, like, Overwatch 2, 350 years to unlock all characters grind. The game is fun, you can make progress and compete on, like, 20 minutes a day.
I'm still trying to figure out how you got 2 Onslaughts here
I had one in my deck, opponent had one in their deck. I played Morph, he turned into an Onslaught. The location that he was at happened to pull the Onslaught I still had in my hand.
It was all extremely dumb, very funny luck
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Indie Winterdie KräheRudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered Userregular
DS2 is trash. All my homies hate DS2.
so I'm in the mood for some Elder Scrolls
but Skyrim's old and tired, Morrowind is still fantastic but needs so many gosh darned mods to be playable nowadays (Skywind release date when, devs) and I continue to think Oblivion is hot garbage
with all that said, is
is TESO any good
How MMO is this MMORPG, do I need to collect 10 guar leathers to get a green inventory expansion or is it less braindead than that
If the parts of TES you care about are the writing and world exploration, TESO is quality stuff. If you're there for the combat... *palmwaggle* Look elsewhere. Like, there's genuinely questlines in that MMO that stick in my mind more clearly than the best stuff from Morrowind. Also, there's low key queer NPCs all over the place, which I can only approve of.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited November 2022
I really enjoyed ESO while I was playing it, only stopped because my attention span doesn't stick to anything long enough, I will probably re-sub at some point.
The world is cool to wander around in, it has a lot more varied environments than the main games. And if you like the house building/decorating stuff from Bethesda games then this version is by far the best it's ever been. It's free for the base game plus Morrowind which is a ton of content in itself so there's no reason not to try it and see if you like it. The main reason to get a subscription is for an infinite bag of holding for craft materials but you don't need that when you're just trying the game out.
If you care about story it's a good idea to do the various storylines and expansions in a certain order because they all reference each other, this site has a guide to the suggested order and that whole site is good for all the ESO info your heart could desire.
The guy who's site that is also has a youtube channel:
Oh also if you want to do group stuff I was in a guild called Circle of Blades who seemed like really nice folk, I left because lol I'm too antisocial, but if you want to group up with people I can recommend that one at least.
Brovid Hasselsmof on
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
DS2 is trash. All my homies hate DS2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMebz9mF1Qo
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I'm still trying to figure out how you got 2 Onslaughts here
I had one in my deck, opponent had one in their deck. I played Morph, he turned into an Onslaught. The location that he was at happened to pull the Onslaught I still had in my hand.
It was all extremely dumb, very funny luck
Morph is a weird, very fun card.
I don’t think he’s very good on average, but if you want shenanigans, he is a card for that.
i am ver excited for the unliving, sad to see it's going early access first tho
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
I've been playing Slice & Dice on Blursed mode, and let me tell you, it is a hoot and a half.
If you've not tried it yet, the way Blursed mode works is that it gives you a couple of blessings at the top, and then at every boss you gain a new curse. If you manage to beat level 20, then you get another blessing, and you're restarted back at the beginning, with all of your equipment and level ups removed.
I just beat level 60 on it, and will be starting my next run through when I next play. It does a very fun thing where every time you pick a curse, you're probably going to pick one that won't hurt you too bad at the moment - if you've got a sharpshooter in the party, it's hard to be worried about more dangerous archers, if you can do a bunch of AoE attacks then more enemies on screen might actually be somewhat of a boon, etc. But when you restart, you're stuck with those curses and you might not roll those new classes.
I've had a bunch of close calls, but it does feel like, fairly balanced as an infinite mode, which is neat.
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Garlic Breadi'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm aRegistered User, Disagreeableregular
I've also been playing a good bit of Slice and Dice and what I've really been hankering for is like, an extended Classic mode where you go to wave 20 and then there are 10 more waves where you get offered tier 9+ items every time. The game has a very slight "driving to the fireworks factory" problem where you can get maybe 2 fights with one character being built to be broken in half, but I'd like it if we could just really get a lot of stupid, absurd fights.
I ate an engineer
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
DS2 is trash. All my homies hate DS2.
They need to tune the "random events" upwards a little bit, particularly the Anvil because that's the only way to even see the highest rarity stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi69VpoV1vs
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This game has me interested because it's a bit like satisfactory, except you're on a platform in space and have to pull asteroids in to mine resources from them.
And you eventually make the platform move around so you can dock with larger space objects and start mining them.
And you can eventually make your platform into a friggen SPACESHIP if you want.
I had a match yesterday where turn 2 revealed Weirdworld, where for the rest of your game you draw from your opponent's deck and vice versa. I'm playing a discard deck, so luckily I had 1 discard card and Apocalypse, so it's ok, fine.
Turn 3 revealed Ego, which is a location that takes over the game and basically randomly plays both players for the rest of the game.
Ego does not know how to play a discard based deck well. I did not win.
"The big brain am winning!"
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
I think about how I got in trouble with my grandfather because he looked through the manual one day and saw the one picture with the topless woman and a dragon and assumed the entire game was that.
I've been playing Slice & Dice on Blursed mode, and let me tell you, it is a hoot and a half.
If you've not tried it yet, the way Blursed mode works is that it gives you a couple of blessings at the top, and then at every boss you gain a new curse. If you manage to beat level 20, then you get another blessing, and you're restarted back at the beginning, with all of your equipment and level ups removed.
I just beat level 60 on it, and will be starting my next run through when I next play. It does a very fun thing where every time you pick a curse, you're probably going to pick one that won't hurt you too bad at the moment - if you've got a sharpshooter in the party, it's hard to be worried about more dangerous archers, if you can do a bunch of AoE attacks then more enemies on screen might actually be somewhat of a boon, etc. But when you restart, you're stuck with those curses and you might not roll those new classes.
I've had a bunch of close calls, but it does feel like, fairly balanced as an infinite mode, which is neat.
Update:
Died on level 73. The run was based around getting good item/ability synergies, and the fourth time through simply did not have the right items (the one very sick thing I had at the end was a Wraith with a dueling pistol who could readily drop 8 damage on anyone targeting them (while also often being immune to the attack in the first place, because Wraiths are fantastic)).
ah sorry, that was supposed to be part of a longer post, but that seems to be lost to drafts now
but the image itself was a side of warcraft that the actual in-game story didn't really show you at all
here's lothar carrying a baby and leading a little girl along (who herself seems to be trying to care for her toy bear)
and you can see that they're a little ragged looking, underdressed for the weather, but bracing their way through it
showing the refugee side of warcraft made for an interesting contrast and added a little bit of flavor to a story that was otherwise pretty boilerplate fantasy
I'm sure by now WoW and Hearthstone and whatever else tacked on a billion pieces of lore onto Lothar's story, and the kid in that picture is probably a named character now with an epic quest level or whatever, but at the time it was something that really whet the imagination, just a little glimpse into a more complex world that the player could fill in on their own
really that's true for a lot of the early blizzard manuals, they didn't quite have the storytelling abilities to convey everything they wanted to say in game, so the supplementary materials carried a lot of weight
ah sorry, that was supposed to be part of a longer post, but that seems to be lost to drafts now
but the image itself was a side of warcraft that the actual in-game story didn't really show you at all
here's lothar carrying a baby and leading a little girl along (who herself seems to be trying to care for her toy bear)
and you can see that they're a little ragged looking, underdressed for the weather, but bracing their way through it
showing the refugee side of warcraft made for an interesting contrast and added a little bit of flavor to a story that was otherwise pretty boilerplate fantasy
I'm sure by now WoW and Hearthstone and whatever else tacked on a billion pieces of lore onto Lothar's story, and the kid in that picture is probably a named character now with an epic quest level or whatever, but at the time it was something that really whet the imagination, just a little glimpse into a more complex world that the player could fill in on their own
really that's true for a lot of the early blizzard manuals, they didn't quite have the storytelling abilities to convey everything they wanted to say in game, so the supplementary materials carried a lot of weight
and here I thought it was because of the weird, giant bulge in lothar's glove's forearm
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speaking of supplementary materials
I wonder if they'll just film the Karen Traviss novels and call it good.
ah sorry, that was supposed to be part of a longer post, but that seems to be lost to drafts now
but the image itself was a side of warcraft that the actual in-game story didn't really show you at all
here's lothar carrying a baby and leading a little girl along (who herself seems to be trying to care for her toy bear)
and you can see that they're a little ragged looking, underdressed for the weather, but bracing their way through it
showing the refugee side of warcraft made for an interesting contrast and added a little bit of flavor to a story that was otherwise pretty boilerplate fantasy
I'm sure by now WoW and Hearthstone and whatever else tacked on a billion pieces of lore onto Lothar's story, and the kid in that picture is probably a named character now with an epic quest level or whatever, but at the time it was something that really whet the imagination, just a little glimpse into a more complex world that the player could fill in on their own
really that's true for a lot of the early blizzard manuals, they didn't quite have the storytelling abilities to convey everything they wanted to say in game, so the supplementary materials carried a lot of weight
Ah yes. I also loved that stuff. I too am nostalgic for a time when blizzard's stories were not overwritten and better for it and I didn't know what the actual company was like
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
I've been playing Slice & Dice on Blursed mode, and let me tell you, it is a hoot and a half.
If you've not tried it yet, the way Blursed mode works is that it gives you a couple of blessings at the top, and then at every boss you gain a new curse. If you manage to beat level 20, then you get another blessing, and you're restarted back at the beginning, with all of your equipment and level ups removed.
I just beat level 60 on it, and will be starting my next run through when I next play. It does a very fun thing where every time you pick a curse, you're probably going to pick one that won't hurt you too bad at the moment - if you've got a sharpshooter in the party, it's hard to be worried about more dangerous archers, if you can do a bunch of AoE attacks then more enemies on screen might actually be somewhat of a boon, etc. But when you restart, you're stuck with those curses and you might not roll those new classes.
I've had a bunch of close calls, but it does feel like, fairly balanced as an infinite mode, which is neat.
Update:
Died on level 73. The run was based around getting good item/ability synergies, and the fourth time through simply did not have the right items (the one very sick thing I had at the end was a Wraith with a dueling pistol who could readily drop 8 damage on anyone targeting them (while also often being immune to the attack in the first place, because Wraiths are fantastic)).
Yeah, I've been toying with it a bit, but I could see Blursed becoming my favourite way of playing.
Although I kinda wish there was a variation of classic where you got to load up on a couple curses and and a couple blessings as modifiers. Warped mode or something.
I've been playing Slice & Dice on Blursed mode, and let me tell you, it is a hoot and a half.
If you've not tried it yet, the way Blursed mode works is that it gives you a couple of blessings at the top, and then at every boss you gain a new curse. If you manage to beat level 20, then you get another blessing, and you're restarted back at the beginning, with all of your equipment and level ups removed.
I just beat level 60 on it, and will be starting my next run through when I next play. It does a very fun thing where every time you pick a curse, you're probably going to pick one that won't hurt you too bad at the moment - if you've got a sharpshooter in the party, it's hard to be worried about more dangerous archers, if you can do a bunch of AoE attacks then more enemies on screen might actually be somewhat of a boon, etc. But when you restart, you're stuck with those curses and you might not roll those new classes.
I've had a bunch of close calls, but it does feel like, fairly balanced as an infinite mode, which is neat.
Update:
Died on level 73. The run was based around getting good item/ability synergies, and the fourth time through simply did not have the right items (the one very sick thing I had at the end was a Wraith with a dueling pistol who could readily drop 8 damage on anyone targeting them (while also often being immune to the attack in the first place, because Wraiths are fantastic)).
Yeah, I've been toying with it a bit, but I could see Blursed becoming my favourite way of playing.
Although I kinda wish there was a variation of classic where you got to load up on a couple curses and and a couple blessings as modifiers. Warped mode or something.
My current weird mode desire is for an "Into the Breach" mode, where you play through as normal and then at the end you get to send one of your people back fully leveled to hang out with a bunch of level 1 characters (and a bunch of curses get added, naturally). Maybe future repetitions allow you to send more people back, until the final run where you start fully levelled but absolutely drowning in curses.
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
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I can’t say there’s no gacha bullshit, once you’re out of pool two you won’t get cards directly any more, you’ll be rolling for them in boxes along with avatars, boosters for your cards, and credit bundles, but it hasn’t taken much grinding to get here, I just happened to be in the beta so I’m ahead of the curve a bit. I play roughly 20-30 minutes a day and have little difficulty completing the daily missions. The extra progression I got for my 10 bucks felt nice, but I very likely won’t buy anything else for a while…. Although black panther is supposedly next month, so maaaaaaaybe….
I think once you get up into the thousands on your collection level it might be a bit frustrating not to be playing with the new hotness that just dropped, as the new cards you pay to access immediately aren’t available to free-to-play players, and the finer points of the collection level matchmaking are a bit obscure, I think there’s lag-time of about 2 months before each card becomes available, so that’s a bit pay-to-win-y. Still, once your collection gets big enough, it’s unlikely you’ll end up steamrolled because of a single card.
It’s a grind, but it’s not, like, Overwatch 2, 350 years to unlock all characters grind. The game is fun, you can make progress and compete on, like, 20 minutes a day.
edit: forgot to hit "post". :P
I had one in my deck, opponent had one in their deck. I played Morph, he turned into an Onslaught. The location that he was at happened to pull the Onslaught I still had in my hand.
It was all extremely dumb, very funny luck
but Skyrim's old and tired, Morrowind is still fantastic but needs so many gosh darned mods to be playable nowadays (Skywind release date when, devs) and I continue to think Oblivion is hot garbage
with all that said, is
is TESO any good
How MMO is this MMORPG, do I need to collect 10 guar leathers to get a green inventory expansion or is it less braindead than that
The world is cool to wander around in, it has a lot more varied environments than the main games. And if you like the house building/decorating stuff from Bethesda games then this version is by far the best it's ever been. It's free for the base game plus Morrowind which is a ton of content in itself so there's no reason not to try it and see if you like it. The main reason to get a subscription is for an infinite bag of holding for craft materials but you don't need that when you're just trying the game out.
If you care about story it's a good idea to do the various storylines and expansions in a certain order because they all reference each other, this site has a guide to the suggested order and that whole site is good for all the ESO info your heart could desire.
The guy who's site that is also has a youtube channel:
Oh also if you want to do group stuff I was in a guild called Circle of Blades who seemed like really nice folk, I left because lol I'm too antisocial, but if you want to group up with people I can recommend that one at least.
Morph is a weird, very fun card.
I don’t think he’s very good on average, but if you want shenanigans, he is a card for that.
If you've not tried it yet, the way Blursed mode works is that it gives you a couple of blessings at the top, and then at every boss you gain a new curse. If you manage to beat level 20, then you get another blessing, and you're restarted back at the beginning, with all of your equipment and level ups removed.
I just beat level 60 on it, and will be starting my next run through when I next play. It does a very fun thing where every time you pick a curse, you're probably going to pick one that won't hurt you too bad at the moment - if you've got a sharpshooter in the party, it's hard to be worried about more dangerous archers, if you can do a bunch of AoE attacks then more enemies on screen might actually be somewhat of a boon, etc. But when you restart, you're stuck with those curses and you might not roll those new classes.
I've had a bunch of close calls, but it does feel like, fairly balanced as an infinite mode, which is neat.
i understand early access's benefits for developers but fuck if i don't completely hate it for consumers
(you can also stack a couple of blessings that up your item level and you'll get a bunch of them)
This game has me interested because it's a bit like satisfactory, except you're on a platform in space and have to pull asteroids in to mine resources from them.
And you eventually make the platform move around so you can dock with larger space objects and start mining them.
And you can eventually make your platform into a friggen SPACESHIP if you want.
"The big brain am winning!"
i think about this picture a lot
how come?
Update:
Died on level 73. The run was based around getting good item/ability synergies, and the fourth time through simply did not have the right items (the one very sick thing I had at the end was a Wraith with a dueling pistol who could readily drop 8 damage on anyone targeting them (while also often being immune to the attack in the first place, because Wraiths are fantastic)).
Usually with my hands, sometimes with a partner.
pleasepaypreacher.net
ah sorry, that was supposed to be part of a longer post, but that seems to be lost to drafts now
but the image itself was a side of warcraft that the actual in-game story didn't really show you at all
here's lothar carrying a baby and leading a little girl along (who herself seems to be trying to care for her toy bear)
and you can see that they're a little ragged looking, underdressed for the weather, but bracing their way through it
showing the refugee side of warcraft made for an interesting contrast and added a little bit of flavor to a story that was otherwise pretty boilerplate fantasy
I'm sure by now WoW and Hearthstone and whatever else tacked on a billion pieces of lore onto Lothar's story, and the kid in that picture is probably a named character now with an epic quest level or whatever, but at the time it was something that really whet the imagination, just a little glimpse into a more complex world that the player could fill in on their own
really that's true for a lot of the early blizzard manuals, they didn't quite have the storytelling abilities to convey everything they wanted to say in game, so the supplementary materials carried a lot of weight
and here I thought it was because of the weird, giant bulge in lothar's glove's forearm
It's like looking into a mirror.
Once upon a time, Warcraft was my favorite fictional universe ever.
Then Warcraft 3 happened.
looks like a big ol' pimple the size of a golf ball
put a popping video on the internet
speaking of supplementary materials
pleasepaypreacher.net
I guess Netflix MIGHT be desperate enough to try and make this a reality.
why are you like this
I wonder if they'll just film the Karen Traviss novels and call it good.
Ah yes. I also loved that stuff. I too am nostalgic for a time when blizzard's stories were not overwritten and better for it and I didn't know what the actual company was like
Yeah, I've been toying with it a bit, but I could see Blursed becoming my favourite way of playing.
Although I kinda wish there was a variation of classic where you got to load up on a couple curses and and a couple blessings as modifiers. Warped mode or something.
My current weird mode desire is for an "Into the Breach" mode, where you play through as normal and then at the end you get to send one of your people back fully leveled to hang out with a bunch of level 1 characters (and a bunch of curses get added, naturally). Maybe future repetitions allow you to send more people back, until the final run where you start fully levelled but absolutely drowning in curses.
AYA continues their very unique marketing campaign.
Then again so does Last of Us