Everyone would be dead if he was using more than 20% of his power
#Dispatch (Spoilers)
lament coyote
main grove
I honestly think he and Wubbie make a good team
rose cove
Boy do they.
main grove
and they would play magic the gathering together
rose cove
Hrm. Actually, Int/Cha Wubbie is a good build for the game.
Side note, Coop was a very believable menace when she got Shroud Amp'd.
rose cove
I sadly didn't get to make that choice.
Because I failed fucking two 80% chances of success back to back.
main grove
Oof.
main grove
I do wonder if the choices are like a bar for Visi being a villain or if there's just one or two
rose cove
No clue.
main grove
Because I stuck by Visi the entire time, except for cutting her from the team. And from what I heard most people who cut her have her be a villain in the end.
main grove
That's the thing, I cut her but she still took the bullet
Perhaps I am just that much of a charmer
rose cove
There's definitely more going on then.
vestal kestrel
Because I stuck by Visi the entire time, except for cutting her from the team. A...
Did you romance her?
odd parrot
She was kinda mean there
rotund valley
https://www.eurogamer.net/dispatch-writer-regrets-cutting-sex-scenes
we may yet "get to see those one day".
For the actual relevant part
"We're still an indie studio, I think people forget that because it's doing so well and looks so good. But because it looks good, it costs a lot per second to make this video game, and sometimes it costs things that often with these games is branching too
Basically as one may expect; most indie studios don't have huge reserves of cash, and the polish this game has means a lot needed to be cut which would have benefitted it in various ways
Does mean the next game they make, whether it's a season 2 of this or something else, has some potential.
rotund valley
Season 2 Wubbie sex scene don't ask who with I do not know <:PlantGun:7214012045...
Phenomaman, easily
main grove
Yeah probably.
rose cove
So many people will try to jump Malevola's bones.
magic brook
Ep 4
Grimmi: Please let me steal her from MoistCritical. Please please please please please please
magic brook
Huh, waterboy is good for when excess in a stat causes a failure
odd parrot
Huh, waterboy is good for when excess in a stat causes a failure
It was really funny to me how people made a bunch of build guides before those chapters dropped and they were really bad
For handling the second half of the game
magic brook
Turns out, specializing your heroes is the way to go
rose cove
Generalize Malevola because she's already generalized.
odd parrot
And you’re never sure who she’ll be paired with for healing
rose cove
Golem and Punch Up are wonderful Vigor monsters.
main grove
I had golem as smart, tough and fast but he could rebuild any time he fancies
wide frost
it's very funny that Golem is just Clayface
magic brook
Now I want him to have a trans daughter like clayface
Robert: No one's trying to fuck Shroud
vestal kestrel
I know we’ve talked a little bit bout not being sure of the factors going into this
magic brook
Excrucian strategist in Dispatch: she doesn't get downed, but rest takes longer
She can learn to enhance allies, specially when there's synergy
Grimmi is a proud mom at waterboy befeiending ounch up
magic brook
A super baby eats people
main grove
Dimension pocket.
I will admit I failed that one and then reloaded because I didn't want the failure
rotund valley
I'm glad people enjoy Wubbie
It does feel like phenomaman is the more popular option, certainly more talked about, but they're both my precious boys
magic brook
Huh
The super bar has an issue of people jacking in the bathroom?
main grove
Well they are villains
rotund valley
There are only so many villainous things you can do in a bathroom that aren't just a bigger inconvenience to you yourself.
main grove
If you could have dated anyone in the game, not just on the team but anyone in the game, who would you pick?
I say in the game not the team because Royd fans deserve to eat too.
magic brook
Prism
main grove
right there with you
rose cove
If you could have dated anyone in the game, not just on the team but anyone in t...
Phenomaman
Dumpy gets my "I can fix him"
Also no sex, so yay!
magic brook
Ep 4
I love waterboy getting over his stutter ||to tell people to pay back all he spent for them||
||Dude: starts a bar fight abd brutalizes people
Dude when his arms are getting broken: Please, no!||
||Grimmi chose the truth. And flambeau flipped out||
lament coyote
||Dude: starts a bar fight abd brutalizes people
Dude when his arms are getting ...
He was just trying to open a conversation
magic brook
Ep 4
||Robert exploded||
lament coyote
Good I hate that guy
magic brook
Malevola was sent as a teacher at sunday school
magic brook
Uh
lament coyote
oops wrong address again
lament coyote
well no duh
main grove
Marrying and STAYING married to a billionaire sends you to hell
All you have to do is divorce him
We can get that bezos money yet
magic brook
Killing one and donating the money works too
main grove
Hey so you know the bar fight scene
and like of all of them Robert was being a god damn savage with darts and biting thumbs off and everything
did like
the lady he actively ripped cybernetics out of her head die?
Because like
that's not a small thing
He pulled like an optic nerves worth of tubing out of that person's skull.
odd parrot
Pretty impressive how long she lasted honestly
uncut hearth
shroud slander up to the final part
magic brook
Chase believes in determinism, you are born good or evil
Probably a belief he sank into after shroud's betrayal
magic brook
Ep 6
||Chase dead, damn
He sacrificed himself for invisigal, in the end||
lament coyote
If you have waterboy in your team ||a conversation reveals he’s not naturally a stutterer yeah||
He’s just constantly nervous
rotund valley
If you have waterboy in your team ||a conversation reveals he’s not naturally a ...
Forgot the second || in case you wanted to put that in spoilers.
Not really an issue IMO since this is a place for talking about spoilers in the first place, but thought you might want to know.
lament coyote
In the comic
Shroud’s augment short circuited from someone spitting out his drink at him
So yeah he somehow neglected to make the cybernetic implant in his own body waterproof
magic brook
||Shroud panicking at the two astral pulses||
||I love how cowardly and immature elliot is at his core
He realized there's no victory state to being a hero so he decided to govern the world as a supervillain, with an implant to predict people.
Which fails against any thing he doesn't know or randomness
Abd requires stupid amounts of energy to work at full power
I bet he would have burned his brain trying to go to war with the government||
main grove
I said somewhere else as well, dude made incredible prosthetics. Could have been both rich and a hero and considered a saint. But nooooo he wants to be a super villain.
magic brook
Robert shows signs of being perfectionist and a bit controlling
Thing is, he places people above that
He is willing to overcome himself to help others
magic brook
I said somewhere else as well, dude made incredible prosthetics. Could have been...
Dude is like lysandre from pokemon
lament coyote
What he wanted was acknowledgement as a superhero
wide frost
i'd be a little upset if dispatchers weren't a little bit controlling
magic brook
There was some fraud shroud meme that I wanted to check later but can't find it
lament coyote
Do you know his supervillain origin story
lament coyote
Basically
||he wanted to join the Brave Brigade alongside Robbie, Mechaman 2, and constantly asked him for the mech suit Robbie promised to build with him in exchange for the astral pulse. Robbie reneged and mocked him because he didn’t think Shroud could be a super hero, and showed it by basically brutalizing him bare handed while Elliot was packing helluva lot of augments||
||Elliot returned a few hours later with Robbie’s gun and killed him||
lament coyote
Robbie was kind of a guy who thought that a powerless person trying to be a superhero had to be a real goddamn hardass
Which is why he was so strict to both Robert and Elliot
Basically Robbie privately to Chase was like “hey, if he comes back after the beating I gave him, I’ll have to seriously need to think about building him that mech suit”
Elliot did come back but with a gun
wide frost
ouchies! a slight miscalculation
magic brook
Shroud tries to sound sophisticated but then swears
He almost sounds like a redditor sometimes when swearing
lament coyote
I mean yeah
Even when he was young he was kinda like that
Like during the days when he was trying to join the brave brigade
He would be like “what’s up dawg?”
Honestly he was basically water boy of the time
odd parrot
wide frost
hahaha
magic brook
In his defense, he was not trying to kill his son!
It’s just that after killing his partner he could not get any kind of contact with him afterwards unless it was a fight.
Oh no
The grammar
main grove
Where in the love of george michaels is Robert's Mother?
magic brook
Shroud not knowing his underling's pronouns
||https://www.tumblr.com/fruitytrollroll/800232232503623680/super-funny-that-the-sonarcoupe-choice-results-in?source=share||
Tumblr
rose cove
Where in the love of george michaels is Robert's Mother?
takes a shot Next Season we find out that Robert's mother is a villain and the reason she was never around was because she was in jail.
lament coyote
Dang
Oh yeah another fun fact from the comic
You remember when Robert was yelling at Visi to get up?
He’s channeling his dad in that scene
When he was a kid
His almost got shot in the head by the mech
Clipped his ears
Instead of comforting him
His father just yelled at him to get up
main grove
Oh that's how he lost that chunk of ear
lament coyote
Yeah
He was shot by his fathers mech while doing repairs unsupervised
(He was repairing his father’s mech while unsupervised because his father was too busy grilling hot dogs for his friends)
(Yeah all evidence suggests Robbie was kinda a dirtbag)
Robert is a better superhero than Robbie in most playthroughs
main grove
My playthrough certainly called me a hero
lament coyote
I do feel like
If Robbie actually spent any amount of effort to properly mentor Elliot
There would be two mecha men in the southlands
Not one
main grove
I hope Robert's kid would wind up okay. I mean he'd have a dozen people looking out for him but Robert doesn't even have a bed for himself so some self destructive tendencies would need to go first
uncut hearth
I just saw someone having a conversation that looked odd to me
and also started saying that Dispatch was intended to be non intrusive for its audience and it was made for the regular cis white male, which is kind of an odd sentence
main grove
Well I certainly know that my gay buddy was a little annoyed with how it could be a little forceful on the "date one or date the other" stick
He also got a bit mad because my visi was a hero and his was a villain and we had similar situations I believe. Though I might have been a little more inspiring, it felt a bit like I got her to be a hero by dating her
worthy ice
It's notable that you do get points towards hero visi in the dispatch shifts as well
It's not just dialogue choices
You gotta send her out on stuff
lament coyote
oh that's interesting
I did tend to use her a lot
moment I realized that she has a great synergy bonus with golem
main grove
My friend did say she got injured quite a bit so you might also might have to do a good job at it.
magic brook
I hope Robert's kid would wind up okay. I mean he'd have a dozen people looking ...
The kid would have a weird childhood with the z team, but a loving one
Mandy and Chase would be the most normal
magic brook
(Yeah all evidence suggests Robbie was kinda a dirtbag)
"Kinda"
vestal kestrel
@odd parrot Star Blazer is absolutely the most fucked strong person in the final cast tho
little urchin
She's competent
odd parrot
Yeah Star Blazer is fucked up
rapid veldt
little urchin
Her powers are more Captain Marvel
little urchin
Oh, him
lament coyote
blonde blazer is probably weaker than phenomaman but stronger than him in the stats haha
little urchin
He's weird
lament coyote
mostly because he's a depressed kitten
odd parrot
blonde blazer is probably weaker than phenomaman but stronger than him in the st...
We only get Very Sad Phenomaman yeah
little urchin
The ||chase|| version
Feels like he's not as fast as he's portrayed in the running scene
vestal kestrel
Chase does have one glaring weakness tho
If you remove the necklace at this point presumably he would just
Instantly die
lament coyote
still they both basically tanked Shroud's death laser with barely a scratch
odd parrot
Feels like he's not as fast as he's portrayed in the running scene
My guess is he has to take it easy so the amulet can soak the aging
little urchin
If he was as consistently fast as he was in his running scene Robert wouldn't have to exit the suit since he can easily fly through Shroud
little urchin
My guess is he has to take it easy so the amulet can soak the aging
Yeah but that's conjecture
odd parrot
So he’s just “jogging” compared to what he can do
little urchin
So I kinda don't wanna take it into account
lament coyote
she had the presence of mind after being blasted with the death laser to put the amulet on chase to resucitate him
little urchin
Presence of mind OP, even let her tie her hair into a bun immediately after getting shitfaced
lament coyote
i get the impression though that Phenomaman is usually pretty much only using 5% of his power
because if he uses more he might obltierate everyone
it takes barely any effort from him to crack open a mech leg
or throw that mech into the stratosphere
rapid veldt
I dunno if I buy the idea that he's as strong as Superman. I get the impression he's more around the same level as Starfire at her peak. His personality at the very least is similar to hers, sans chronic depression.
lament coyote
true
odd parrot
I think he’s up there with some depictions of Superman
young vessel
God, Chase is great.
lament coyote
i think I put his power level at around Homelander's tbh?
odd parrot
But high end Superman is in a different dimension from low or mid end Superman
lament coyote
i love how inconsistent btw the depiction of superman powers are in My adventures with superman lmfao
little urchin
i think I put his power level at around Homelander's tbh?
Can Homelander escape the atmosphere?
lament coyote
on one hand he can basically instantly teleport to the other end of the city, resolve an incident, and be back within half a second
on the other hand he's not fast or strong enough to instantly wreck a few robots
rapid veldt
Can Homelander escape the atmosphere?
Given what we've seen so far in the tv show? Don't think so.
little urchin
Mmm
little urchin
Probably
little urchin
Yeah, likely
lament coyote
Does invincible also go to the moon to get blackout drunk
little urchin
Gods this just makes me wanna see Worm in Dispatch style
lament coyote
…actually how is Phenomaman drinking beer on the moon
Wouldn’t it just flash freeze
little urchin
Aura
rapid veldt
Aura
vestal kestrel
Man I can’t get over how fast track star is btw
Every time we see him run he just teleports
Like obviously the game is clear that he’s actually running
But whenever it’s from the perspective of another character he just fucking disappears
lament coyote
He also seems to have like some kind of inertial dampening effect as a side effect
Since, you know, he and things he carry doesn’t suddenly atomize from the sudden acceleration
lament coyote
Like how blonde blazer has flight but also ability to lift objects around her when she flies
So it’s actually a kind of telekinesis I think for her
odd parrot
Since, you know, he and things he carry doesn’t suddenly atomize from the sudden...
I mean
They might!
young vessel
||he wanted to join the Brave Brigade alongside Robbie, Mechaman 2, and constant...
Oh, I didn't see this in the LP I watched.
odd parrot
Blonde Blazer says him flying with you would kill you
Now, this is a pretext so you don’t go to break up dinner
rapid veldt
Since, you know, he and things he carry doesn’t suddenly atomize from the sudden...
Didn't Blazer say that Phenomaman couldn't also carry Robert because at the speed he needed to go to get to their destination it would kill Robert.
odd parrot
So it might not be completely true
lament coyote
I think phenomaman’s flight is different from blazers
Phenomaman is just super speed whereas blonde blazer probably extends some kind of psychic bubble around her for flight
vestal kestrel
To be fair I do actually think dispatch is the kinda setting where every powerset comes with the other stuff it would need
little urchin
Yeah
vestal kestrel
To work
The actually interesting part about track star that I think is unintentional
little urchin
Also Blazer's powers are straight up magic
vestal kestrel
Is that he doesn’t make a sonic boom iirc
little urchin
Track Star warps time is my guess
little urchin
He runs fast but also he warps time
vestal kestrel
Time warping is likely because if you pay attention in the keep up scene
You can watch him literally instantly move across town
On the tracker
little urchin
Yeah
Seems aside from the prerequisites for the powers to work the heroes all have some manner of physical enhancements
Considering how Prism, Coupe, and Flambae can eat shit from Shroud and walk away
rapid veldt
The amount of hits Toxic took and dude was still walking.
||Until Punch Up struck him in his "perfect dick" several times||
little urchin
Blunt force trauma isn't real unless it's comedic or a female character
vestal kestrel
rapid veldt
My favorite was Blazer saying those three dudes in the first episode were okay, even checking on the one she threw on top of a building. ...But I'm just staring at the guy she threw who struck the fire hydrant with his head directly. "Blazer...I don't think that dude is okay."
little urchin
Hah
rapid veldt
Like that man went fucking limp the moment he struck it
little urchin
Classic superhero brutalism
Yeah ultimately it's like still a pro-establishment story but ignoring that
vestal kestrel
Yeah it’s absolutely the kinda setting where you just shouldn’t really worry about it
I mean…. I guess but I also don’t
Necessarily think it’s about that
vestal kestrel
And it’s at least anti-police state since that’s the future shroud wants, and the Phoenix program largely implies a desire for rehabilitation
I would argue their establishment is so wildly different from reality as to make it kinda non-translatable personally
little urchin
Mmm, makes sense
vestal kestrel
Yeah SDN is really weird
little urchin
And who can forget the million Vanderstenk calls
vestal kestrel
Nah I did not do that shit
little urchin
Real ones deliver the coffee when the world is burning down
Does failing that mission do anything lmao
little urchin
Hah
vestal kestrel
It just makes phenoman sad
odd parrot
Does failing that mission do anything lmao
I think it can result in an injury maybe
rapid veldt
Real ones deliver the coffee when the world is burning down
Damn straight.
Coupe delivered that coffee like a pro
little urchin
Oh yeah, Coupe/Sonar are so fucking funny at the end
vestal kestrel
I do gotta admit that letting sonar back into the Z Team felt so unearned in my game lmao
But I still did it because it felt even weirder not to lmao
little urchin
The fuck you mean you're helping wreck the city because you got fired. It's rough but like, is that your only option?
odd parrot
I let Coupe back in
I figured she was entirely honest about just following the money and bringing her back on would go fine
vestal kestrel
Idk about Coupe but sonar also says that he ate a bunch of people under shroud
Which like… uhhhhhh
little urchin
And she probably shanked a few too, they're both killers
vestal kestrel
No I mean yeah
rapid veldt
I do gotta admit that letting sonar back into the Z Team felt so unearned in my ...
I mean it feels like going against the program, and what my version of Robert believes, for him to have gone "Nah, fuck you." When Z-Team and Blazer were asking if Sonar should be forgiven and brought back on.
vestal kestrel
Oh I mean absolutely
rapid veldt
Like tbf Sonar/Coupe get cut for very little, and primarily to send a message.
And Sonar was in basically AA, so cutting him causes him to spiral real real bad. Its why Malevola was so mad at Robert in that path.
vestal kestrel
I still think that choice is the worst part of the game tbh
odd parrot
It’s I think the worst part about SDN
vestal kestrel
It’s a real low point of “this is dumb”
odd parrot
That they cut low performers every so often
And we don’t get a… ton on why they’re at the bottom
vestal kestrel
Yeaaah
odd parrot
For Coupe it’s apparently a bunch of uncalled for stabbing
And Sonar is just like idk
Sonar
little urchin
Visi joined last week
rapid veldt
Coupe at the start is mostly treating this as a job, and a way for her to get some killing done. Whereas Sonar really does believe in the program, or at least treats it as such. Though Coupe does change as the story progresses.
odd parrot
Meanwhile Flambae is juicing his numbers with arsons lmao
little urchin
And yet she's already on the line
odd parrot
(#1 on the Z-team BTW)
rapid veldt
Meanwhile Flambae is juicing his numbers with arsons lmao
Yeah, Flambae is absolutely gaming the system.
odd parrot
Yeah, Flambae is absolutely gaming the system.
We stan a workplace grind aware king
vestal kestrel
That whole conflict feels so artificial
It’s the only time in the game I felt like I was being forced to do something
That didn’t make sense
It feels genuinely out of character for Robert that you can’t tell blazer no
Now, with the structure of the game, it makes sense
You need one of the two to be the third act villain
odd parrot
It feels genuinely out of character for Robert that you can’t tell blazer no
I agree
Even if you get overruled it’d be nice
vestal kestrel
The worst part of it is that like
If you tell blazer it’s a bad idea
She goes “well it’s up to you”
When it’s not!!! It’s not up to me!!!!!
little urchin
It feels genuinely out of character for Robert that you can’t tell blazer no
Imagine if Robert fought to keep everyone and so they all get a pay cut to keep both, and get low morale for the next two shifts
vestal kestrel
Yeah like
Something
Getting low morale for keeping visi on one of the hardest shifts in the game felt like a genuinely good gameplay consequence btw
rapid veldt
When it’s not!!! It’s not up to me!!!!!
Tbf, it is as you're the Dispatcher/leader of Z-Team and in charge of the program. Blazer is just over the SDN branch, not the program.
vestal kestrel
I really really like that they did that
odd parrot
Getting low morale for keeping visi on one of the hardest shifts in the game fel...
Def
vestal kestrel
Even if as I’ve mentioned
The dispatch gameplay is largely
I don’t wanna say vestigial
odd parrot
Tbf, it is as you're the Dispatcher/leader of Z-Team and in charge of the progra...
Blazer is also your direct report though
rapid veldt
Blazer is also your direct report though
Yeah, as the boss of the branch.
vestal kestrel
Although
Apperantly the dispatch gameplay has a large impact on visi’s final outcome
odd parrot
I described it as “ancillary”
It’s not tacked on but it’s clearly a vehicle for the story not a goal unto itself
rapid veldt
I opted to go with booting Visi out. Like Robert believes in the program, but he's not going to go against the team when they all voted, and the only two members who want to keep her aren't even really trying to put up a fight to convince the others to forgive and let her stay. Though my Robert still forgave Visi, he just felt defeated in the moment (on top of the stress and grief over Chase)
Yet the whole time he still trusted Visi.
vestal kestrel
Tbh
odd parrot
I opted to go with booting Visi out. Like Robert believes in the program, but he...
I was strongly considering it but Flambae made some good points
little urchin
Lmaooo
odd parrot
There’s some funny posting about swapping Cecil and Robert
Where Cecil is like “holy shit, they do stuff” and Robert is in the nightmare world of Immortal somehow dying on a coffee run
little urchin
Cecil would enter ep 8 shift with 3 heroes and stay at 3 heroes until Blazer appears to bail him out
vestal kestrel
I kept her because:
A - they don’t get a say in who stays in the program
B - the whole point is forgiveness
C - it makes chases sacrifice in vain
If you cut her I mean
IMO
I accurately predicted cutting her would push her to relapse
Although apperantly it doesn’t always
rapid veldt
Although apperantly it doesn’t always
Yeah it depends on how supportive of her Robert was throughout the story.
vestal kestrel
But yeah
To be clear despite all that it was a really hard choice
From a purely professional standpoint I think you have to cut her
But Robert didn’t get the position because he’s a professional lmao
little urchin
Z-Team more like Team HR Violations
lament coyote
Blonde blazer sheepishly admitting on call “…maybe it’s time to let HR know.”
odd parrot
From a purely professional standpoint I think you have to cut her
I wanted to send the whole team in
rapid veldt
I quite adored the Visi romance. Honestly expected Blonde Blazer's romance to be the more popular choice but seems I got that wrong
odd parrot
Shit would have been different if that got greenlit
odd parrot
(5x the mess and we probably don’t get the astral pulse, but hey we don’t gotta talk about that)
lament coyote
I do wonder what adhoc is working on next
vestal kestrel
I think even drunk the Z team would have fucked that mission up
rapid veldt
I do wonder what adhoc is working on next
Hopefully Dispatch season 2
vestal kestrel
Sorry to be clear
odd parrot
That’s gotta be in the cards… eventually
lament coyote
Don’t they have other games on the docket
vestal kestrel
Okay so here’s my take
little urchin
I think even drunk the Z team would have fucked that mission up
Feels like someone would have died if they did that op
vestal kestrel
Dispatch season 2 will absolutely not be a direct sequel
lament coyote
I thought they did t plan on making season 2 until like
They realized they smashed it out of the park
rapid veldt
Next game is gonna be a sports drama 
vestal kestrel
I think the game is impossible to follow up satisfyingly
Because of the wild state of things
little urchin
Considering how much of a mess it was and with Shroud's interference
rapid veldt
Dispatch season 2 will absolutely not be a direct sequel
given how this one ends, I fully expect Dispatch season 2 to be a direct sequel.
lament coyote
I think dispatch works as a self contained game
vestal kestrel
If it was a follow up on Robert’s story
I don’t think visi can be a main character
rapid veldt
We already know there's plans for an animated series, and that would probably be focused on another SDN branch.
lament coyote
And following a whole different team at SDN
odd parrot
You’d basically have to make 2 games for a direct sequel
vestal kestrel
Unless they make it not care about your choices
lament coyote
Only thing I expect is like cameo appearances
vestal kestrel
Yeah unfortunately logistically it would be very hard to make a direct follow up not suck ass
And feel like your choices got decanonized
lament coyote
Like invisigal appearing as either an antihero or a hero for a scene
vestal kestrel
Yeah
lament coyote
I can imagine her being like Red Hood or Nightwing
Depending on the path you chose
odd parrot
Call her something dorky like Silent Knight
lament coyote
Invisigal isn’t corny enough?
odd parrot
Gotta have a different name for your masked antihero arc
lament coyote
Invisi shroud
odd parrot
Shroud actually works real well for her
lament coyote
Oh yeah
Just Shroud
Are red rings augments even removable
Or are they just stuck with nonfunctioning augments now
lament coyote
Lmfao
vestal kestrel
Also can we talk about how “I don’t wanna cure cancer I wanna make dinosaurs” tier stupid shroud is
It works for his character 100%
odd parrot
Or are they just stuck with nonfunctioning augments now
My guess is they’re probably repairable
odd parrot
They’re seemingly slaved to Shroud’s power source but I think that’s a form of control
vestal kestrel
Okay but that’s his fault lmao
lament coyote
If he founded a corporation and sold his augments
vestal kestrel
Does visi just take the mask in her villain ending btw?
lament coyote
He’d basically be Tony stark levels of rich
lament coyote
Does visi just take the mask in her villain ending btw?
Ye
She gifts the astral pulse to Robert
vestal kestrel
Huh
vestal kestrel
I think the mask is the source of the prediction stuff
So
No wait it’s his implants
Cause he still does it with the mask off iirc
lament coyote
Yeah that’s his neural implant
Not sure what the mask is for
But it does display weird things
When he’s thinking about something
Or trying to see if Robert’s lying
rapid veldt
Not sure what the mask is for
From what I read the mask itself is probably where he housed the algorithm that does all the predictions for him.
lament coyote
He doesn’t seem to need it after the astral pulse
But he also starts developing weird bloodshot eyes
So maybe that’s just the astral pulse the
rapid veldt
The Astral pulse, and that implant seems to be more for empowering all the implants for him and his followers.
lament coyote
Yeah
Wonder why he can’t just build another astral pulse
Since that’s his own invention
rapid veldt
Maybe the specific resources needed to make it were only ever enough for one?
lament coyote
Does that mean if he was working with say, Royd, he could make another one?
odd parrot
That’d be my guess yeah
vestal kestrel
I kinda like that Robbie and Shroud’s backstories are kinda just implied
I’ve heard one of the comics expands on it but
I’m only considering what’s in the game itself
magic brook
Wonder why he can’t just build another astral pulse
Thematically, he probably could not make another one aftee he ||put the prediction implants on himself, stifling his own brilliance abd decision making||
magic brook
Oh, one dispatch mission has a woman who controls a bug swarm
little urchin
I'll take it as a Skitter cameo
rose cove
Thematically, he probably could not make another one aftee he ||put the predicti...
Yeah, he kinda ||fucked over his brain with the augments. Might be why he also went villain: Caught up a bit of frontal lobe in there.||
odd parrot
magic brook
Yeah, he kinda ||fucked over his brain with the augments. Might be why he also w...
Doesn't feel right to make that the reason
||He went villain because he's an insecure control freak||
rose cove
Doesn't feel right to make that the reason
||He went villain because he's an ins...
||And he installed them because of that insecurity, which could have exacerbated already existing problems||
main grove
Okay, Dispatch fighting game, who would you play?
I do love big bodies so Golem would be strong
I feel like Invisigal wouldn't actually have "invisibility" powers, it would use her animations but they'd be treated like parries or short range teleports
odd parrot
Blonde Blazer
main grove
What do you think? Shoto? Rushdown?
odd parrot
Honestly probably kind of like Guile
main grove
Ahhh, great protection and strong blonde blasts or whatever she calls them
odd parrot
Lmfao blonde blasts
But yeah
Kind of turtly with strong defensive options and projectiles
lunar thunder
i'd just cheat and unlock mascot and jank my way around
rose cove
Time to play as Toxic
main grove
Mr Whiskey
main grove
Sonar is definitely an install
magic brook
Coupé sounds real fun
Ballet assassin
main grove
Might be like a stance grappler, lots of knife stabs on the floor and if someone jumps they have a floating stance
Who would be the Joke character?
I vote Granny
There's also "broken arm Robert"
lunar thunder
mascot
lament coyote
Whiskey whiskers
main grove
Yeea he's called Mr Whiskey
magic brook
Thought he was a woman
lament coyote
malevola's reaction to being told to pick up the coffee order lives rent free in my brain
"bruh"
"People are dying, Robert."
"Bruh"
lament coyote
wubbie legitimately gets pissed if you send him
one of the few times he doesn't stutter lmfao
i sent invisigal
she said it felt like a punishment
Me: "hell yeah it is"
young vessel
One of the content creators i follow is going to war with his comment section cause he got the bad ending believing he has be nice to her.
lament coyote
nah
you have to actually send her out on dispatch
sending invisigal out to do hero stuff is where bulk of the points for the good ending are
and it has to be successful dispatch
little urchin
She's mobile, she travels faster on her own
Her unlocked skills let her get more exp or see calls before they happen
The boost applies to teamwide exp mission too, I think, so she's got that for the Brainteaser mission
I guess worst comes to worst she can still be synergy fodder for Golem, who's pretty good on his own
little urchin
Her unlocked skills let her get more exp or see calls before they happen
Okay so Wolf Pack doubles XP reward
Her initial stat specs seem to prep her to replace Coupe if she gets cut
lament coyote
yeah that's what you do with her
wide frost
i made her a generalist with wolfpack
had like 4 in everything
little urchin
Nice
main grove
Dispatch CRPG would be fun
Playing in Z-team 2
Or maybe being a solo that winds up accidentally rubbing up against the Z team
(not like that)
Criminal element starts moving in to take over from Shroud's alleged death and you wanna smash some bad guys in the face
main grove
Honestly I love for those sort of games if they just have weird powers. I don't want generic speed or strength. Grant upon me the strangeness.
uncut hearth
magic brook
Dispatch oc ideas
Mechanical wheelchair user. Speeds up the longer she traverses straight paths.
Character who gets buffs from injuries
Character who recovers from downed, but takes long to rest
magic brook
Dispatch oc ideas
Mechanical wheelchair user. Speeds up the longer she traverses...
Third is a regenerator, but has some chronic condition
Also trying to think of a gunner character
lament coyote
gunner who can only hit ricochet shots
magic brook
Lol
Could also be a gunner who redirects bullets by coating them in blood
Or makes bone bullets
Coukd just straight up grab the organic bone gun from double cross, that you can grow from the skin
lament coyote
gunner with a magic golden gun that causes bad things to happen to people shot by it
The gun literally doesn’t kill you, you just happen to get fucked up if you get shot by it
young vessel
Dispatch text rp when?
magic brook
If the gunner is fired ||shroud gives an upgrade to redirect bullets
"These bullets truly can hit anything I wish, as you said"||
main grove
Dispatch OC who takes a wound on a successful mission and can still act while down but wound penalties are inverted, meaning he's better while hurt
can be upgraded to gain more bonuses while downed instead of losing them, or to share their bonuses with everyone else in the same mission as them
magic brook
https://archiveofourown.org/works/74334066/chapters/194020806
"You're really convincing you know that? Maybe it's the voice. You sound like someone with authority, someone who knows what he's doing." Shakily, the guy stood up and promptly kneeled in front of Robert like he's royalty. Robert carefully pushed the chair back a little to preserve his personal space. "I would follow you, I think. You seem kind. I could break people into pieces if you ask."
A howl of laughter echoed in the voice chat. Seems like they caught the tails of that conversation with the close proximity. Just another thing Robert has to suffer through.
main grove
🍿
young vessel
main grove
It's so good isn't it?
main grove
Just a constant Dispatch mode where you send people out over and over and people just banter would be great. But it would require more lines recorded.
main grove
magic brook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cJgWfrxOSg
The stapler theory
vestal kestrel
lament coyote
Punch up cannot be killed
wide frost
punchup cannot be killed (coupe would be sad)
lament coyote
Lmao
Dispatch reached twice the three year sales goal in a month
Oh wait no wrong number
But they did sell two million copies
wide frost
another 20 trillion to adhoc
main grove
Okay so if they made another game, not dispatch 2 but another one, using as many assets as they already have from the last game, what type of game would you pick?
rotund valley
Okay so if they made another game, not dispatch 2 but another one, using as many...
Irony is that I think the current superhero genre and its reincorporation of slice of life elements suits them very well.
I think modern fantasy noir would work well, but that's literally just Wolf Amongst Us.
uncut hearth
I think modern fantasy noir would work well, but that's literally just Wolf Amon...
I wont be surprised if they are going to the owner and be like
"HEY, WE ARE THE TEAM THAT MADE THAT GAME WITH YOUR STUFF, I know the company went under but.... mind giving the rights to us?"
though I also think it was a boon for them not needing to pay royalties
and the reason why they broke even in telltale games
rose cove
An hospital drama in the same setting
Ayyyyy, yes! This is a great idea!
odd parrot
I know this sort of low effort fandom meme is basically an excuse to plug characters into things but I think this is like, stunningly wrong
wide frost
this is good bait
magic brook
Really funny tgat I thought of sonar and coupé doing that firefighter chronicles video of delivering a baby
And realizing they aren't from the woman's boyfriend
rose cove
Coop accidentally makes a kid cry and is stunningly awkward about it.
magic brook
Ayyyyy, yes! This is a great idea!
Could meet characters from dispatch
Bringing wounded or needing treatment themselves
uncut hearth
Ayyyyy, yes! This is a great idea!
@magic brook you guys are basically saying they should make Mighty Med
which granted, can work, but that is an actual idea disney actually made
lament coyote
i still love that they dn't give you the choice to be nice to Golem in the meeting
rose cove
Yes, but without it being a Disney show thank you.
lament coyote
you can either send him out the room or literally throw a chair at him
throwing a chair at him is even the better option
main grove
I was the nasty boi to golem and kicked him out of the room
I'm a big boss and trying to out muscle a fucking wall isn't going to work
main grove
yeah well he throws a wobbly if you do that
wide frost
he throws a wobbly but then he gets over it
lament coyote
yeah throwing the chair at him is the nastier option
sending him out the room is far more reasonable option
but i figured throwing a chair at him would be better for a group of supervillains
wide frost
they're not supervillains! they're heroes and we're at work
main grove
I do like the idea of a game where you're a doctor in a super world
or a first responder
magic brook
The avengers cartoon had thor be close to a first responder
lament coyote
would super doctors be slicing up people for money
wide frost
i really like the shockingly long bits of Worm with funny medics
and the hospital in Empowered is a really good bit
rotund valley
but i figured throwing a chair at him would be better for a group of supervillai...
We're wrestlers, not supervillains.
That's why it's called giving him the chair
vestal kestrel
A saw a bunch of people saying that they think the next game is gonna still star Robert and have a mass effect 2 style pick what you did thing
And they were talking about how like, visi being an antihero would be just minor dialogue differences
And that idea makes me genuinely kinda sad lmao
magic brook
Impossible
odd parrot
I have no idea what a dispatch 2 would look like
The choices feel like they diverge pretty far
Dispatch 2 separate sequels
rotund valley
A saw a bunch of people saying that they think the next game is gonna still star...
Considering that both Bioware and Telltale struggled massively with sequels that care about your prior choices, that sounds like hell to develop.
magic brook
Dispatch 2 separate sequels
Like pokemon versions
For each invisigal ending
wide frost
lmao
wide frost
Dispatch Invis and Dispatch Igal
unfortunately i think there are actually a few more major choices that would kinda have to be factored in
like whether or not shroud is alive
vestal kestrel
Dispatch Gal and Dispatch Bitch
wide frost
okay but a fire sequel for villain visi could be using shroud as hannibal lecter to get inside her prediction software
main grove
Dispatch: Zombies
odd parrot
main grove
Do people know Indie Cross?
It's an animated show on youtube where a bunch of indie characters have a crossover and fight enemies and everything
I think it'd be funny for Dispatch to show up in that
Cause honestly someone to just organize people would be an incredible boon in that animation
main grove
Prism doesn't even get a look in 
odd parrot
Hmm I wonder why
main grove
I'm a big fan of prism. Coupe I kicked out. However, I am right there with Punch Up
young vessel
Hmm I wonder why
...
I didn't want to say it...
Also it's Baalbuddy, so the vibes aren't great either way.
main grove
yeaaaaah
magic brook
Baalbuddy has that specific sort of style that's suspicious but he doesn't explicitly get controversial as far as I know
young vessel
Prism and Mal are like... better options ngl.
magic brook
And lends one about fairies to prism
Prism asks when the smut happens
It's slow burn
Coupé also avoids hurting the dog when it corners her
young vessel
While I enjoy Visi, her design gives me like... "punk" Asian girl vibes. You know, the character design trope that was prevalent for like a decade. Asian lady with a streak of dyed hair.
magic brook
Coupé gives a vibe of learning how to just be outside of her role of violence
young vessel
I need to watch a Coupé playthrough.
Hopefully someone understands what I mean with Visi.
main grove
Oh yeah I getcha croft
odd parrot
I didn't want to say it...
Yeahhh
I think there’s a sort of funny Malevola line where she talks about how she’s a lot of people’s fetish as well
Which colors a lot of shipping stuff
young vessel
I definitely think she's likeable.
But uhh...
I can't deny her design plays a lot into it.
main grove
I like that she's Australian
young vessel
I thought she was just like... wearing a t-shirt and shorts for the longest time.
young vessel
What... is this outfit, lol.
magic brook
I thought she was just like... wearing a t-shirt and shorts for the longest time...
Demon woman with a sword in a casual outfit is a good concept
main grove
I'm guessing she's pretty fire proof but the skirt isn't so leotard
young vessel
Demon woman with a sword in a casual outfit is a good concept
Yeah...
odd parrot
What... is this outfit, lol.
It’s a little bit of a disaster, which rules
main grove
I mean think about it, your skirt gets burnt off, she needs something to cover it, so why not have a leotard?
young vessel
I think it could work if it made a bit more sense.
lament coyote
leotard doesn't strike me as the most comfortable work clothes though
but then again superheroes wear skinsuits on the regular so
odd parrot
The dispatch cast is a pretty mixed bag for practicality
rose cove
Remember, Flambae designed his own outfit
odd parrot
Yeah that tracks
main grove
What would be your 'after bar brawl' meal? Like they got 3am tacos.
I suppose the trick is, what's open 3am?
rose cove
Pizza places
lament coyote
Shady villain bars
odd parrot
Honestly Not!Taco Bell makes a lot of sense
main grove
We don't really have taco bell around here, maybe a burger place
wide frost
not to shill the MCU here but man the shawarma bit in the first Avengers movie is peak for this
main grove
I mean it totally is
I do agree there needs to be like after fight food hang out where everyone just crashes
main grove
It's a beautiful line
odd parrot
was watching some random voice clips thing and saw this very strange build for punch up
young vessel
High int and defense Punch Up?
lament coyote
High charisma
rose cove
That's Vitality Charisma build, which Punch Up is very well set up to build into.
main grove
Considering flambae can spike into attack so easily and prism is the only person starting with strong charisma I can totally see this build on punch up
reef heron
sonar is good to spec into charisma but he doesn't even have it half the time so yeah give punch up the rizz
main grove
Oh yeah, and half the time he might not be there because of the cut
rose cove
Considering flambae can spike into attack so easily and prism is the only person...
This is the exact build I did on Punch-Up.
rose cove
My friend I am watching play Dispatch heeded my one piece of leaning on her to tell her what to do.
And that was choosing Waterboy over Phenomaman.
She also is making Waterboy her dedicated Int hero.
main grove
wooooo
It is weird to think of like... okay so these words are poison but the scaling in this is weird
Like you can make Waterboy a 10 intelligence if you pile it on
technically this is more than a harvard graduate when you start the game
Like, what do you DO to Waterboy's brain
I know it's meant to be over months but god damn
main grove
Weird question but what happens if you build him to be average all over? Because his ability gives a bonus to the skill he's best at, but what if they're all like five or something?
rose cove
Doesn't it give it to the highest skill for the mission?
vestal kestrel
was watching some random voice clips thing and saw this very strange build for p...
I did, I believe, high charisma high attack
odd parrot
Weird, I rounded people out to maximize the area of their polygons
rose cove
Hyper specializing helped when the auto-fails showed up.
rose cove
Replaying Dispatch, and I realized Robert only recognizes Flambae when he sees the cut-off fingers.
odd parrot
Curious what the exclusion of Flambae and Coupé implies
vestal kestrel
Hm
I kinda don’t like the “don’t have your combat too high” missions
Or rather it feels like they come too late in the game
odd parrot
Yeah they’re kind of an unpleasant surprise since they appear so late
vestal kestrel
At least for me it was a real “well fuck me” moment
odd parrot
And you might be like me and have very few people with low combat stats
vestal kestrel
Yeah I have everyone middling combat except my specialists
Because I was genuinely like “they’re superheroes I want them all to be able to fight a bit”
It also just kinda doesn’t make any sense IMO
wide frost
i liked it
if everyone is going in for a fight the problem is going to turn into a fight
lament coyote
i'm guessing Combat isn't just fighting power but also like
general combativeness?
being on edge, ready for a fight kinda deal
wide frost
that's how i read it yeah
lament coyote
like they are superheroes, they all know how to fight
but they don't all have killer instincts
wide frost
altho i'd definitely also say that you don't have to be a fighter to be a superhero
lament coyote
can't really explain phenomaman with that but he does tend to... trigger people's fight or flight instinct lmfao
i think i apprerciate that they made phenomaman's attitude be really bizarrely uncanny in a weird way
vestal kestrel
I really did think he was gonna be some kind of antagonist
rose cove
My autistic alien Dumpy
magic brook
being on edge, ready for a fight kinda deal
Very disco elysium
magic brook
Coupé always carries dog treats
Nimi: fucking blonde blazer is ruining everything. She doesn't know how to run my team, I know how to run my team! It's a mess, a mess!
main grove
Ha
magic brook
Nimi plays up her hatred of blonde blazer
rose cove
I am three for three on getting emotionally destroyed by the Start of Chapter 7.
rose cove
So, someone left their review of Dispatch in another channel, talked about how they don't like Visi. And I've noticed a pattern in the people I've talked to who don't like her.
Namely, they think it takes too much to support her.
Also they complain about getting her villain ending.
young vessel
I noticed that with a guy I followed as well.
Even though it isn't like... some super hard JRPG secret ending thing.
main grove
Yeah it's kinda weird. Specially when it feels like pretty basic giving support to someone struggling.
young vessel
Hell, you don't even have to be super nice to her, you just have to be good at picking where to send her.
main grove
I think some people didn't use her very often...
lament coyote
I didn’t have any favorites on the team
But I have good head for numbers game
So pretty much everyone was on call twice or thrice per day
wide frost
i had a favorite on the team and her name was invisigal
odd parrot
Objectively my favorite was Golem apparently
rose cove
Golem is so fucking good.
main grove
My favourite to use was punch up but the one I neglected the most was flambae
wide frost
i barely used flambae at all
i think there should've been an opportunity to fire him immediately shift 1!
odd parrot
Flambae is goated
wide frost
his stats are pretty good but I really think that mass arson on the clock should be like
yknow
disqualifying
odd parrot
Alleged!
rose cove
Flambae I loved in my second playthrough.
Because I had the realization I should have had in the first place.
wide frost
i watched him do it
rose cove
"Why would I invest any Combat or Mobility points into him? Let's up that vigor!"
And it's an entirely different ballgame when you do that.
wide frost
i watched him leave base, walk to a spot that was not on fire, and then walk away from a fire
odd parrot
what if that house just did that
I think it's funny if you send him back to it though
rose cove
Faulty wiring happens!
wide frost
don't remember who i sent to deal with it but they failed and people got put in very real danger
odd parrot
He IIRC has the intellect to do it with a hose but his unique "flambae clean up your mess" option autofails it
I believe this is the only time in the game the hero specific ones don't succeed
wide frost
if we can cut coupe or sonar from the team for 1 point of performance difference i feel like we can cut the obviously not reformed arsonist
odd parrot
it fails because it's not his mess
odd parrot
if we can cut coupe or sonar from the team for 1 point of performance difference...
I think it's funny that's he's actually number 1 on the team
rose cove
I believe this is the only time in the game the hero specific ones don't succeed
Incorrect! There's the flood with Waterboy.
Where you try to tell him to absorb the water.
odd parrot
Ahh, I took Phenomaman
rose cove
The caller calls back and goes "WHY IS THERE MORE WATER NOW?"
wide frost
lmao
odd parrot
lmao
wide frost
i feel like that one's on you the guy obviously cannot soak up water
he sits in a bucket
rose cove
To be fair, that one happens on Robert's worst day.
main grove
poor wubbie
magic brook
Phenomaman: Every attempt I have made to love a woman as one loves food has ended in disaster
Realized I swapped "food" and "a woman" around, but it's funny
Making love means hug for Phenomaman
jagged stratus
oh hey I'm late to the ball. also I've seen a bit of that here and there
main grove
Heyo juno!
young vessel
I think those two work.
jagged stratus
Yeah it's kinda weird. Specially when it feels like pretty basic giving support ...
also circling back to this almost two weeks later; Visi definitely has her flaws, but part of what gets me about this is that sometime within Ep. 6, you have a talk with Chase about how you pretty much lucked into being a hero. I think the framing of the conversation leans mostly towards referencing Robert's general upbringing, but your SDN job itself is also something you wound up with because Blazer took a shine to you, seemingly just because
rose cove
Yeah, Robert dies in a self-destructive sacrifice without the desk job.
main grove
Prism and Maleavola could work but I think it's mostly that Maleavola works with just about anyone.
And yeah... A world with powers has got to have weird hangups
jagged stratus
I’ve thought about writing up a vignette where Malevola and Sonar are Punch Up’s carpool after Coop gets cut lol
I’m not sure Punchy can drive, and Malevola is definitely one of the most chill out of the Z Team
main grove
They seem to team up to get Robert back after you cut Coupe
Do you think Robert has like... multiple outfits? Or does he just have one and two and trades them back and forth? because his shit be sad.
jagged stratus
They seem to team up to get Robert back after you cut Coupe
That and like, I mean, there's no way in hell Flambae would help carpool him, Prism's about 50-50, Golem can neither drive nor ride in a normal car. Visi's another "maybe" but there's a part of me that thinks she'd be a bit cagey about things she does outside of work hours
... now I'm curious how Golem just like. lives. what's the renter situation like for a dude made out of mud and loose rebar
main grove
Honestly that is one of my big questions that I'm worried about
Like I would not be surprised to learn Golem crashes in construction sites or other things he shouldn't do. Man needs actual support.
magic brook
Do you think Robert has like... multiple outfits? Or does he just have one and t...
Fem outfit buried in the closet
wide frost
I’m not sure Punchy can drive, and Malevola is definitely one of the most chill ...
i think malevola just portals to and from work
rose cove
Do you think Robert has like... multiple outfits? Or does he just have one and t...
He has exactly what we see in the closet in chapter one, and one work outfit.
Robert doesn't have anything in his life aside from being a hero.
And that includes the normal shit, like clothes or a job or friends or
Point is: Yes, Robert is sad.
main grove
WOrld's saddest soldier, love him for that
jagged stratus
Like I would not be surprised to learn Golem crashes in construction sites or ot...
There’s tangential evidence to suggest he has housing since he plays some kind of MMO with Visi after work
jagged stratus
i think malevola just portals to and from work
I had considered that, yeah. If I do ever write it, I’m going with “company policy says don’t do that”, I guess
main grove
There’s tangential evidence to suggest he has housing since he plays some kind o...
What if he can just... plug in to the wall socket?
jagged stratus
He also needs internet access
magic brook
Oh lol
During blackout
Coupé will be pissed she can't read whether one character returns another's feelings, and swears revenge
magic brook
She cuts her hand and pours her blood on her taco
Then sees Prism staring
lament coyote
Prism should mind her own effing business
magic brook
I only saw streams
But I feel like there are missing scenes about blazer and visi
Visi's insecurity towards her
Blazer's own frustration but also support, admitting she's biased towards her
jagged stratus
yeah no the way that they talk about each other definitely suggests a little more familiarity than "coworkers in the same building"
magic brook
Feels like there's a whole offscreen relationship
wheat estuary
They don't even show the kiss smh
main grove
Wubbie is good no matter what
magic brook
I saw a transfem watergirl fic
Also
No romance shiori
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIDHkfsU4iw
jagged stratus
Tumblr
magic brook
About a week in, a civilian on the scene used his height relative to Watergirl to unsubtly stare. Punch-up rounded on him to cheerfully point out what his height put him in range of, then punched him in the dick.
Points subtracted for him also remarking at one point that he should’ve punched Watergirl in the dick while he still had the chance. Still, A- for him.
Robert told him he won a sticker for effort, and nearly had his ear deafened as complaints about them not getting stickers rolled in from everyone else. A verbal scuffle ensued.
Situation normal.
main grove
Wubbie deserves all the love
upbeat glacier
finally finished
shroud will remember that
I think the fuck not
also now to write MAD poly fanfiction about Mandy/Visi/Robert
wheat estuary
'We have to fire the bottom of the barrel. Except Visi. She's always rude and steals my things and she's my favorite. Don't read into that.'
upbeat glacier
Lmaooo
Yeah mandy just has such a strong supportiveness for her, she only seems to throw cutting her out as a 'she's forcing us to'
My brain was doing loops when all three of them were smiling at each other while mandy and courtney held hands beside robert in the stretcher scene
wheat estuary
Yeah I think anyone would have been on the chopping block after 6
( even if i supported the idea )
upbeat glacier
Yeah I think anyone would have been on the chopping block after 6
Flambae AU?
Apoligising for nearly killing robert by soloing half the villains
wheat estuary
I can't believe that mf won me over
upbeat glacier
Same I was so ready to hate him
Z team are very well written as like, assholes who are not necessarily bad people
magic brook
Flambae: We can't keep avoiding the topic. What if he dies?
rose cove
Flambae is such a good character for basically changing minimally.
main grove
>shroud will remember that
I think the fuck not
You and me? We keep that shit locked tight and honest. The choice wasn't even passion any more it was reality.
jagged stratus
also now to write MAD poly fanfiction about Mandy/Visi/Robert
YEAHHHHHHH
magic brook
Saw a poker night at the inventory fanart with robert
jagged stratus
I've seen it mentioned elsewhere but it is interesting that Shroud's power/tech is about not having to make risky choices in a game about. yknow, making choices
There's definitely the seed of something very strong there, even if I think in practice the player's relationship to Shroud is very flat
magic brook
Shroud and rob 2nd had a very toxic relationship
jagged stratus
Sure, but AFAIK that's all in supplementary material
rose cove
To quote a friend who found out about Rob 2nd and Shroud:
"Ok see I looked into this more- c o m p l e t e l y valid crashout
Bro sabotaged the vote to get him on five times before he crashed tf out
Five times
There’s a point- Bruh you can only needle a superpowered asshole trying to do right despite themselves so many times before you deserve everything coming to you
While I’m not saying shroud was right I am saying that if there was a ‘get your teammate to shoot you’ handbook bro was following it page by page and step by step"
jagged stratus
so like, why did Rob II not want Shroud on the team? I’m actually not familiar
rose cove
How to put this delicately.
Rob II is what we call an asshole.
He didn't think Shroud deserved to be a hero. That's it.
upbeat glacier
You and me? We keep that shit locked tight and honest. The choice wasn't even pa...
even aside from like 'just tried to kill my dog and girlfriend', superheroes have a REALLY bad track record of keeping people in jail
rose cove
Now to be fair, he had been in there fifteen years the last time.
upbeat glacier
true, but there wasn't a season 2 of dispatch potentially
rose cove
Ye, fair.
upbeat glacier
I'm keeping this motherfucker out of the sequel
rose cove
I did not get to make the choice in my first playthrough.
upbeat glacier
Though, to be clear, that was like, straight up murder
I was surprised he got away with it
rose cove
Who's going to tell on him, Visi?
upbeat glacier
yeah I guess, if no one else saw what was happening
I liked that you had to choose cold though, rather than like a self-defence kinda deal
'are you going to commit murder Y/N'
rose cove
I will also point out that in the few months that Shroud had broken out of jail, he did burn LA to the ground.
upbeat glacier
oh for sure, but he's like....nearly unconscious and begging for mercy
rose cove
I'm happy with all the permutations of the ending.
Unlike some people, I did go "Oh, yeah, no, I didn't do nearly enough to stop this from happening"
upbeat glacier
I gotta get that ending now, though I've seen it
jagged stratus
I actually wasn't aware usage in the gameplay sections was factored into that. I'm glad it is, though
also, I mean... to some extent, I do think killing Shroud is a bit antithetical to Dispatch's bit about redemption
and I think the characters' reaction is... surprisingly glib, in a way that also undercuts those points
I dunno, it's complicated, right
wide frost
i feel decently strongly that killing shroud is extremely the wrong move
rose cove
I will say Robert killing Shroud is the wrong move.
rose cove
upbeat glacier
and I think the characters' reaction is... surprisingly glib, in a way that also...
that I was kinda surprised by
you can't turn this into a joke about jerking off robert
you just viscerally strangled a guy
you should probably be crying and throwing up
wheat estuary
Robert ||bit someones thumb off||, he understands the highs and lows of Funny Hero Business
jagged stratus
you can't turn this into a joke about jerking off robert
notably, I think the person who is like… least grave-dancing about it is Visi, ||even in her hero ending||
I do hope that kinda comes up in Season 2
generally just a bit more exploration of what Rob III has going on
upbeat glacier
Robert ||bit someones thumb off||, he understands the highs and lows of Funny He...
I do love how hard robby throws down
although what is up with his ear
I thought that was an injury but he has it as a kid too
(or is that an oversight perhaps?)