General Chat

[neon scroll]

That maybe helps with hitting the boss, but not with seeing whatever tf it's doing

Combine that with dying in 2 hits and there you go

People are calling it "Difficult, but not in a fun way, just in a frustrating way", basically

[glass knot]

Yeah it was an issue on base game too

Very big and very fast bosses

I liked the very fast relentless bosses on sekiro because of the parry but on elden ring they've always been kinda lame to me, you gotta roll a dumb fast sequence of attacks, then when you're gonna attack it they jump away or just start attacking again

[minor bolt]

theyve dialed that up to 11 here

even random street mobs are tanky and fast af

[cinder rivet]

i heard even base ng+ makes huge spike in dlc diff

[glass knot]

Yeah i noticed like on the first area lmao
The ||tall mobs w the butcher knifes of cleaves idk|| were fucking me up, pretty sure i just insta died to them if they used the 3 hit string?

And the hit where they lunge forward took away like 70-80% of my health

[minor bolt]

||the one with the disc blade things?||

those have been destroying me

i also got to the area where ||you get locked out of all the npc questlines without realizing its a point of no return ||

[cinder rivet]

mixed reviews dlc btw

[glass knot]

I was talking about like a very regular tall scout mob on the first zone (that's not super fast or anything, just hit me real hard) but that one fucks me up even more yep

[minor bolt]

i dont even remember which youre on about cause most are just absurd

[cinder rivet]

enemies are tankier
deal more damage
and its harder to break their poise

[glass knot]

Yeah I'm not sure what's their progression idea here
I thought finding items that would help with the scaling on this zone was a neat idea at first but after beating the first area I was just kinda confused

Feels like they overcompensated a bit

a bit

[minor bolt]

its one of those things where i cant tell if its overtuned, or just the classic fromsoft "dlc will always rock your shit" thing

elden ring was already easier than other games so im not sure

[glass knot]

Idk to me feels like it's overtuned but I'm also not really familiar w how they did stuff on dark souls

[cinder rivet]

maybe thats the problem?
base game was pretty easy
and dlc is on dark souls dlc level

[glass knot]

Aside from elden ring I only really finished bloodborne and sekiro

And bloodborne i played at a friend's house where i didn't play the dlc so

[rustic peak]

That one poor reviewer who gave the dlc a mid score cause it was too hard and got bullied for it lmao

[minor bolt]

ive only played bloodborne, demons souls remake, sekiro and ER, and for me difficulty goes
ER dlc >>> sekiro > bloodborne > demons souls >>>> ER base

[glass knot]

Love Sekiro

[minor bolt]

games journalists dont deserve benefit of doubt so meh

[rustic peak]

The worst part about elden ring boss design for me was the optional combos

Just a terrible design idea

[minor bolt]

sekiro just doesnt click with me for some reason

[glass knot]

Some of the elden ring bosses are like

The boss sure is having fun!

[cinder rivet]

my friend wants to have deal with me that hes gonna play elden ring if i finish sekiro
idk if i want to bc i already have parry ptsd from monsoon from mgrr

[rustic peak]

Like elden ring is obviously a great game but in some aspects its a step back for the series

[glass knot]

idk sekiro tickles something on my brain

it just works

[rustic peak]

Maybe one day fromsoft will be able to recreate ds1 level design

[glass knot]

maybe cause i like rhythm games

[rustic peak]

Also open world and fromsoft quest design is not a good idea

[minor bolt]

bloodborne still peak

[cinder rivet]

me checking if every single action locks me out of quest i want to finish for item

[glass knot]

ER open world suffers from the same pitfalls as like any other open world game
They just have a very interesting world to explore so it works

The amount of repeat content and boring side stuff is wild

If this dlc has a repeat dragon on it man

[cinder rivet]

like killing radahn pushes 2 quests forward but locks u out from like 5

[rustic peak]

I for one love fighting the crystal guardian triplets variant #6

Didnt they also put that one giant bug remembrance boss somewhere else?

[glass knot]

Yeah

[cinder rivet]

yeah

there are also 2 mohgs and 2 morgotts

[glass knot]

astel being repeated is wild

Such a crazy impressive boss visually when you get to it

[cinder rivet]

does 2nd astel even have boss hp bar?
i dont remember but i dont think so

[glass knot]

I think it does they're a boss at the end of a cave on the icy mountains

The repeat dungeons that have a 80% drop chance of a spell

Altho the 80% chance of a spell is for any reward ever

[placid otter]

biggest thing putting me off besides not liking to repeat things.
i am not gonna just wait there an hour till the boss does that single attack with long enough animation lagg so i can hit it once

fck that is not fun

[glass knot]

It's still a great game and my first playthrough was great, it's easier to be more critical of it in retrospect

[cinder rivet]

wait does doing volcano manor questline lock u out of smth?
i want blasphemous blade but i dont wanna lock any other quest 💀

i want to have as much stuff on ng done as possible

[glass knot]

I remember searching for that but i forgot about it completely

[cinder rivet]

oh nvm i cant even finish that bc i forgot 3rd volcano manor quest is on mountaintops of the giants area 💀

ig ill stick to uchigatana with bloodflame blade

[cinder rivet]

https://x.com/BandaiNamcoUS/status/1804630213562962043?t=qYron3D_KujdzOS1p1oBAg&s=19

Bandai Namco US (@BandaiNamcoUS) on X

This is a suggestion to level up your Scadutree Blessing

Twitter · Jun 22, 2024, 9:39 PM

LMFAO

[minor bolt]

just got up to what i think is the final boss and uh

yeah

getting my shit kicked in even harder than before

[cinder rivet]

most satisfying thing in elden ring

[warm pumice]

We lit 🔥

[slate thorn]

[glass knot]

Hi rogue

[fallow vessel]

Elden Ring DLC last boss moment

[placid otter]

https://x.com/Steam/status/1805299921853333557?s=19

Steam (@Steam) on X

Now that we're past the summer solstice, it's time for us to announce the Steam Summer Sale! Starting this Thursday at 10am Pacific, check out thousands of sunny discounts, a brand new set of (seagull!) stickers, new profile goodies, and the return of the cat.

See you Thursday!

Twitter · Jun 24, 2024, 6:00 PM

[slate thorn]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2869860/Monster_Prom_4_Monster_Con/

Steam

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Coming soon

▶ Play video

We're getting a clown :^)

[neon scroll]

No thanks

Clowns and mimes can't be trusted

[slate thorn]

Honk

[neon scroll]

https://fixupx.com/JamrockHobo/status/1804930273055789101

RIP

[slate thorn]

😔

No battlepass? No release for you

[neon scroll]

It's not like DE was successful or anything

[warm pumice]

https://tenor.com/view/shrek-shrek-rizz-rizz-gif-11157824601050747846

[minor bolt]

holy shit kai has been slamming his head at the wall against the final boss for like 50 hours straight

[placid otter]

yep lol

saw a pic of the hours

[placid otter]

https://x.com/EldenRingMedia/status/1805373145647661081 lmao

ELDEN RING Media (@EldenRingMedia) on X

Wiki has given up 💀

#EldenRing #ShadowoftheErdtree #エルデンリング

Twitter · Jun 24, 2024, 10:51 PM

[cinder rivet]

I only used mimic tear once

It was vs mohg during my first playthrough

I'm loyal to my jellyfish, tho I dont use her often

[placid otter]

used mimic tear alot but felt worse then the wolfs. clone always died in 1 hit within seconds of being spawned

[cinder rivet]

Jellyfish deals insanely garbage dmg but I only use her as aggro reset and to buy myself some time

Also she's cool lore wise

Jelly ❤️

[placid otter]

a ||2nd || wow

[cinder rivet]

There's a lot more
Tho u only have interaction with this one

It gives u talisman
Which I don't think is good but u can't get it without her

This one

[cinder rivet]

Mimic really wants levels
And it's also the most expensive to upgrade

[placid otter]

right i never upgraded summons. already struggled upgrading 2 weapons

heard er kinda bad there ans very punishing with changing builds

[cinder rivet]

Yeah u have limited access to resource that let u redistribute ur stats

Leveling weapons isn't problem in late/post game bc u can get bell bearings with weapon upgrades and just farm money in certain locations (tho to max them on highest level there's also limited resource)

[cinder rivet]

Idk why but somehow somber weapons are easier to upgrade than standard

Like even on my current playthrough I have 2 somber weapons 9/10 and my standard weapons are 18/25 and 14/25

[placid otter]

https://x.com/IGN/status/1805394752650584276?s=19

IGN (@IGN) on X

FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki has said the studio may consider including “beginning to end, total co-op” in future games. https://t.co/mZq0nVMUqt

Twitter · Jun 25, 2024, 12:17 AM

pls do and chance are high i will play another souls like lol

[cinder rivet]

elden ring has mod for it

if u play on pc

[placid otter]

we are using that

tons of dcs though

not fun

we played a total of just 30h of it then were done

[slate thorn]

I like the idea behind the current system, but having a more normal co-op system would be really nice

[neon scroll]

That's a dark road they absolutely should not go down to

[placid otter]

fck that we wanna play with friends

[slate thorn]

Why not? It's already basically in place except you get sent back to your own world after a boss etc

The only difference this would make is that you can play together without constantly having to rejoin etc

And having to do things twice since solo progression

[minor bolt]

yeah i dont see why end to end co-op would be bad

they already scale enemies accordingly

[placid otter]

coop only for boss meh. why cant we just explore discover quest etc all together

[neon scroll]

Because single player games at their base should remain single player games, mods don't really count in this equasion (and yes, I am aware summons are a thing)

[dusty imp]

i can see it working in a smaller game

[neon scroll]

And I said it's a dangerous road to travel on because it's what has lead us to the "single player games are dead, live service games only" bs world of nowadays

[dusty imp]

co op wont work for a 100+ hr timesink

[slate thorn]

But, it's multiplayer without mods?

wdym?

Elden Ring has been multiplayer since release, same for the Dark Souls games

[placid otter]

^

[slate thorn]

You don't need mods to play the game with friends

[cinder rivet]

one elden ring playthrough wont take as much unless u wanna explore and do a lot

and in this kind of coop u pretty much always have 1 person that knows what to do

[rustic peak]

Can you do coop in elden ring outside of the legacy dungeons?

[cinder rivet]

seamless coop mod

[rustic peak]

In elden ring?

[cinder rivet]

yeah

[rustic peak]

Oh a mod

[cinder rivet]

pc only tho

[rustic peak]

Talking about base game obviously

[cinder rivet]

then no

"Simply put, the mod allows you to play with friends throughout the entirety of the game with no restrictions. With this, it's theoretically possible to play the game from the tutorial up to the final boss completely in one co-op session."

[slate thorn]

Yes

You can do co-op almost anywhere. Your co-op partner however gets kicked back to their own world if you die, if they die, or if you defeat a boss

[dusty imp]

yeah probably

the draw of open world exploration is in opposition to coop experiences

[placid otter]

doing a boss 50x and reinviting every 90 seconds... slowing down gameplay etc

[dusty imp]

coop cuphead is a great idea (thats why its in the game), coop hollow knight doesnt really work

[cinder rivet]

u can count bosses u will get to 50 tries in coop on 1 hand

unless u r very underleveled

talking only about base game tho

and most of them are optional

like malenia and mohg

id count radagon+elden beast too before 1.12 but now since u can use horse in elden beast part its much easier

kai spent another 10h fighting final boss of dlc

100h in dlc total

60h on final boss

and he still havent beaten him

[slate thorn]

Unless you know, you're not really that much of a gamer etc

Plenty of people who just game a bit now and then in their little free time and are very much not that good at stuff like this

[cinder rivet]

i never played souls before and im not type of played who plays hard games and i dont think i had more than 50 tries on bosses other than malenia. mohg and final

[slate thorn]

I mean, 50 is just a number

Doing 10 tries on a boss and having like a minute or few minutes downtime because of the co-op system is kinda annoying

[cinder rivet]

||not my friend spending around 15h on final boss with holy dmg build not knowing final boss has 80% holy dmg res XDDD||

[slate thorn]

You'll easily spend like 15-20 minutes just inviting your friend etc instead of playing

[cinder rivet]

i havent used coop in elden ring outside seamless mod

[slate thorn]

I've done a lot of co-op in DS and a fair bit in ER

[rustic peak]

I feel like the biggest barrier to coop on these games is that the bosses are very much not designed to fight multiple enemies

Even the npc allies decrease the difficulty so much just by instantly grabbing aggro when they hit the boss

[dusty imp]

seeing a fromsoft boss designed to fight two player characters would be very cool

mmos havent figured that out yet though

[slate thorn]

Yeah, I feel like balancing a boss around player count is super difficult

[dusty imp]

and they had checks watch 30 ish years

[slate thorn]

Balance it around co-op and it'll be a giant pain solo. Balance around solo and it'll be unrewarding in co-op

Sounds like a challenge to figure out

Or have different bosses depending on the mode you're playing :P

[rustic peak]

Extreme behemoth in monster hunter world tho

[cinder rivet]

radagon changing target to my jellyfish in the middle of his attack

[pearl cobalt]

an mmo boss in a non-mmo game

[stable stratus]

https://fxtwitter.com/Dexerto/status/1805673916431745355

[cinder rivet]

[neon scroll]

https://youtu.be/-T7viiNWV6s?si=WKGRVZRQtK_-sT6y

[placid otter]

lmaoooo

[cinder rivet]

ready for dlc

[pearl cobalt]

scadutree fragment locations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MIKRQytDqs

spirit ash locations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQMHzBdTHAc

and because I've seen it on reddit and another discord:

[cinder rivet]

280h in elden ring and i still have ptsd from this enemy

[pearl cobalt]

yeah, either get hit by saws or grabbed into the iron maiden. think I usually killed them from a distance with cannon or bows

[cinder rivet]

my love

1% drop rate sword

[neon scroll]

Tfw your gacha game does the most out of pocket collaboration
https://x.com/NIKKE_en/status/1805908345427312795?t=RrFFpnF9BU_jrjBs1i0fNw&s=19

GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE (@NIKKE_en) on X

【Summer Version Rewards Summary】

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Twitter · Jun 26, 2024, 10:17 AM

[stable stratus]

lmao

why is dave doing there

[slate thorn]

Dave the diver is Nexon right? So I guess that probably helps

Also, you just know the game is Korean when they give the character crocs

[glass knot]

Yeah

[minor bolt]

scadutree level 14 and i still have no idea how the fuck to do the final boss

[cinder rivet]

6 more scadutree levels

[pearl cobalt]

#1022122099374051328 message

[cinder rivet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDhoDThUIHc

wtf is this video

its insane

[cinder rivet]

https://x.com/TsuboiKlein/status/1806149138632880481

Let me solo her (@TsuboiKlein) on X

I'm ready. https://t.co/CbIiH9X2mu

Twitter · Jun 27, 2024, 2:14 AM

[minor bolt]

gigachad

[minor bolt]

lol wtf jump is op

[pearl cobalt]

Miyazaki, laughing in the dark

[cinder rivet]

https://x.com/fs_resident/status/1805946603393389043

지하감옥 거주민 (@fs_resident) on X

돼지뱀

Twitter · Jun 26, 2024, 12:49 PM

[placid otter]

https://x.com/TsuboiKlein/status/1806149138632880481?s=19

Let me solo her (@TsuboiKlein) on X

I'm ready. https://t.co/CbIiH9X2mu

Twitter · Jun 27, 2024, 2:14 AM

their back

[slate thorn]

What about their back?

Already used from carrying people through the malenia fight so their back should be fine handling this carrying as well no?

[cinder rivet]

didnt know completing fia questline gives u these eyes

i thought only frenzied flame quest had eye color alteration

[minor bolt]

blasphemous blade crutch smh

(ive also been abusing it since realizing it has heal on kill)

[slate thorn]

You can turn off eye changes iirc

[cinder rivet]

im on my 3rd playthrough, i didnt play it before so im checking it rn

and jesus christ its broken af

ill legit forget how to play this game properly after using it

[cinder rivet]

i dont want to
i was just surprised this quests alterates eyes

[slate thorn]

I just use weapons I think look cool

[minor bolt]

i got to scadutree +14 and still getting my shit kicked in by final boss

not looking good for me

[cinder rivet]

me using lordsworn straight sword with impaling thrust for 2/3 of my first playthrough bc it thought it was simple and cool

[cinder rivet]

6 more levels

especially now when they slightly buffed it

i dont remember dmg taken

but dmg increase from 100% at lvl 20 pre patch

went to 105% at lvl 20 rn

[minor bolt]

might have to go scouting

only just got to the coast and havent done the righthand area yet

[cinder rivet]

would having cipher pata offhand make me cooler?

[minor bolt]

apparently theres a physick thing that massively buffs shields

so your parries dont suck anymore

[cinder rivet]

i heard shields are op in dlc

and parries in general

especially vs rellana

[minor bolt]

i found myself getting bodied

just too many combos

[cinder rivet]

iirc final boss has 1 attack that cannot be parried/blocked

[minor bolt]

yeah the ||charm||

[cinder rivet]

||HEART STOLEN||

[cinder rivet]

https://x.com/ELDENRING/status/1806326803276906929

ELDEN RING (@ELDENRING) on X

To the many who tread the path left by Kindly Miquella, we extend our heartfelt gratitude.
#ELDENRING

Twitter · Jun 27, 2024, 2:00 PM

1/5 of elden ring owners bought dlc

[placid otter]

https://youtu.be/H7azgLWgX38?si=6ZgyhCBjI5zAZ310

demo been received very well sso far

for astrobot atleast. horizon one he said is okay

[cinder rivet]

“I want to preface this by saying I absolutely suck at video games, so my approach or play style was to use everything I have at my disposal, all the assistance, every scrap of aid that the game offers, and also all the knowledge that I have as the architect of the game,” said Miyazaki. “The freedom and open-world nature of Elden Ring perhaps lowered the barrier to entry, and I might be the one who’s benefiting the most from that, as a player, more than anyone else.”

[pearl cobalt]

the original article
https://www.theguardian.com/games/article/2024/jun/26/pushing-buttons-meeting-hidetaka-miyazaki

[cinder rivet]

Miyazaki said:

[placid otter]

im so tempted to go back, but i am also kinda satisfied with the single boss i beat

[cinder rivet]

i mean u have seen like 0,1% of the game if not less

[cinder rivet]

finally

do i?

[stable stratus]

https://fxtwitter.com/OatmealDome/status/1806527226935959710?t=9Xno-hGmZjkHzlUSXSQZUQ&s=19

[neon scroll]

Dude in desperate need of touching grass (and gitting gud)

[placid otter]

https://x.com/SatisfactoryAF/status/1806704669076447379 if anyone still wanted it before price goes up

Satisfactory (@SatisfactoryAF) on X

Short little video today to let you all know that satisfactory is currently on sale on steam and humble bundle 💰 and that we're planning to increase the price of the game.

https://t.co/2QvvwQibPO

Twitter · Jun 28, 2024, 3:02 PM

[neon scroll]

... again?

[placid otter]

againg what? its been 30 since the start

going to 40 when 1.0 releases

[placid otter]

oh yeh summer sale is up too

[cinder rivet]

300h

[placid otter]

dlc been sold 5m times already

or well, 5m ppl joined the realm of shadows it said

[cinder rivet]

main game steam peak - 952k
peak after dlc dropped - 780k

yeah its huge af

[placid otter]

[placid otter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkO5uaPfS0s

this is new huh havent heard about it

[neon scroll]

Yeah, the Saudis bought this and now a selection of random esports are doing their worlds there at the same place instead of where they used to

[placid otter]

saudi prince do love gaming

yooo tyler1 hosting hahaha

stasss

pubg mobile more than pc one

[slate thorn]

Never heard of this until now lel

[placid otter]

found out by opening liriks stream 20mins ago lol

[neon scroll]

I only knew because sc2 worlds was moved from its usual tournament

[placid otter]

sc2 still has tournaments?

[neon scroll]

Plenty

People pretending it's dead in that regard just don't know shit

[dusty imp]

tournaments are alive

the prize pools on the other hand

havent seen one this high since wcs 2018/19

[neon scroll]

Ye, but like Katowice had a 500k price pool, which is quite decent for a dead game™️

Can't compete with Saudi money of course

[placid otter]

this trophy idea is cool

opening ceremony starting

[dry gale]

Rip me

[neon scroll]

[placid otter]

https://x.com/surgentstudios/status/1808216664145576284

Surgent Studios | ZAU OUT NOW (@surgentstudios) on X

Twitter · Jul 2, 2024, 7:10 PM

no idea who

[glass knot]

For eSports world cup, they have a huge prizing for the orgs themselves too iirc? For whoever does the best overall or something
So a bunch of orgs started scrapping for players on a bunch of these games in hopes of cashing in

But yeah a lot of saudi govt money

[minor bolt]

yeah there’s a separate prize pool for the org that performs the best across multiple games

there was also a separate “partner” org payout to incentivise picking up additional teams

[rustic peak]

all the biggest league co streamers declined so they had to ask other people, thats the extent of my knowledge about this

the people that accepted are pretty much the people you would expect tho

[glass knot]

yeah to my knowledge a bunch of people refused working the event because of the saudi gov being involved and stuff

[placid otter]

https://x.com/charlieINTEL/status/1808510564903113048?s=19

CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) on X

Microsoft reportedly had another round of layoffs this week with employees across all divisions, including Xbox, posting on social media about it. It’s not clear how many people were impacted.

Twitter · Jul 3, 2024, 2:38 PM

[minor bolt]

must deliver shareholder value

[minor bolt]

i dont really understand wtf is going on in zenless zone zero

feels like im just mashing keys with no repercussions or threat of getting hit

[placid otter]

https://x.com/Wario64/status/1808863906040885540?s=19

Wario64 (@Wario64) on X

PlayStation will attend Tokyo Game Show this September for the first time since 2019 https://t.co/iT0Uw5GFMN

Twitter · Jul 4, 2024, 2:02 PM

[placid otter]

ashes of creation going to have one singular realm and wow do i want that so badly in every other game

[neon scroll]

Ashes of Creation devs are making a loooooot of promises

Not gonna hold my breath for all of those

[glass knot]

Already expecting the game to have a bunch of players first month because they're following asmongold and other mmo creators around then completely dying off

mmos gotta be the among if not the hardest type of game to make and keep sustainable

[neon scroll]

The problem is, basically no one gets it right from the start. Like, look at FF14, they basically had to nuke the whole thing and reboot it and it still took years to be actually successful

And that's despite having the FF franchise to work with

It's a long winded process and one of its main issues is that most players who want to play an MMO already got one that they invested years of their life in

(which btw is also why WOW still has a huge playerbase despite getting worse with everey release and expansion)

[placid otter]

WoW currently is kinda dead as season 4 has no content. i know team liquid and echo are literally ddoing a world first race in Tarisland atm even

while i assume alot of others are either suffering in s4 or any of the classic WoW games

or just quit for now. there is also a bunch on beta

[neon scroll]

Wow is never dead dead though

Still got a larger playerbase than everyone else, even at dead times

[jovial wolf]

that's not also entirely true, it definitely got better going from shadowlands to dragonflight

[minor bolt]

ye i dont even keep up with wow and heard dragonflight was actually decent

[neon scroll]

I don't think a single good expansion does anything to redeem the game from the sorry state it's in

Starting with the fact that you need to install 50 add ons to even get anywhere in the game

[jovial wolf]

you can do anything with under 10

[neon scroll]

The number of addons you need should be 0, quite frankly

[jovial wolf]

the moment you allow addons there will be some that become "mandatory"

and I prefer that very much to a game without any

[neon scroll]

Nah man

I once looked at a Wow addons required guide and it looked like one of those "mod guide to make this game even remotely playable" for Bethesda games

[jovial wolf]

those guides are bs

all you need for top-tier raiding is two addons, weakauras and bigwigs/deadlybossmods

everything else is QoL or esthetics stuff

[placid otter]

needing those 2 esp weak aura is exactly what the community has been complaining about actually

blizzard has even been making moves againgst weak auras this entire expansion

[jovial wolf]

wa being too powerful is another issue though

[placid otter]

huh?

oh nvm

[jovial wolf]

needing too many addons and one of them being too powerful are two different issues

[placid otter]

i somehow read wa as we lol blind

yeah we dont need many those we do are indeed too strong. besides dbm, plater and WA i cant think of any other combat addon i have that helps.
then again WA is literally a thousand in one depending on how many u add

i do indeed play with like close to 40 addons, but most are QOL or collection related

[jovial wolf]

most people will just add one wa pack for raiding and one for dungeons each season anyway

half of them just got them linked in chat during the first raid

[slate thorn]

Having to pay like 40 for the brand new expansion on top of your monthly 10 subscription to even play the game is kinda gross

[placid otter]

https://x.com/Genki_JPN/status/1809161333998329876?s=19

Genki✨ (@Genki_JPN) on X

Final Fantasy XIV has reached its highest number of concurrent users in over 10 years with the release of Dawntrail, according to Yoshi-P! #FF14

• Record number of concurrent users since the release of A Realm Reborn in 2013

https://t.co/g6hXDeTMvB

Twitter · Jul 5, 2024, 9:44 AM

[placid otter]

https://youtu.be/febekpSoEbA?si=CgvIZ8HpFuhrmkkh

yay release date. so excited for 1.0

[fallow vessel]

Elden Ring DLC with no level ups and no scadutree upgrades

[fleet wave]

deaths: 1810

[cinder rivet]

no surprise
wo scadutree fragments u pretty much have to play hitless and u deal close to no dmg

[neon scroll]

Every single player game should have a pause button

[placid otter]

idk how a pause button would be bad when it doesn't effect anything at all besides helping players take breaks whenever. it has been such a stupid discussion past week.

[neon scroll]

That's not even a matter of difficulty

[placid otter]

yep

[neon scroll]

It's a matter of people have shit to do

[cinder rivet]

"it breaks pacing and flow of fight" XD

[glass knot]

yeah the solution to that is to not pause mid fight if you think it breaks the pacing

very silly

[glass knot]

https://youtu.be/4r9vkQ7i3Fg

[placid otter]

chained together 4 man is like the hardest thing ever

[dusty imp]

started a new cookie clicker game and my first sugar lump was a double

[stable stratus]

Chained Together is the new Only Up but with 4-players together gimmick

I saw playthrough of it and it seems to be ridiculously hard lmfao

Right after I saw a solo speedrun of it

Now that solo playthrough became Only Up all of sudden lol

[placid otter]

slowly getting there

[stable stratus]

👀

[stable stratus]

Congrats

[slate thorn]

https://youtu.be/Jujf5_mkbKw?si=TqEs6EBb_uPoYqO6

[stable stratus]

true definition of 420blazeit

[stable stratus]

https://fandomwire.com/the-first-descendant-compensation-controversial/

“We sorry, here compensation, but you cant use it because you have to buy it first”
-Nexon, probably

[slate thorn]

You do get some skins for free from the battlepass. But it's still a pretty silly compensation gift yeah

[minor bolt]

classic nexon

[neon scroll]

f2p more like free to be a useless ungly looking scrub in a p2w game

[glass knot]

nexon moment

[glass knot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEcGceXBQoE

[minor bolt]

add samira you cowards

perfect for it

[glass knot]

they definitely will eventually

[minor bolt]

gonna be interesting to see which fgc scenes migrate or whatever

i vaguely know a little about smash via the yard but that seems a bit too different to this

[glass knot]

mostly mvc people as this it the only big tag fighter coming up, there's that hunter x hunter tag game too (that's being made by the marvel vs capcom devs) but the budget for that game is like 2$ so it looks like ass

but the audience for tag games is generally pretty varied w people from a bunch of different games

i guess since the big tag games are all capcom games it'll be mostly street fighter and anime game players

like people from gg strive

recently a bunch of league/tft creators also got into fighting games so i'm expecting this game to do quite well bringing other ppl into it

[dusty imp]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UVur-2_mfs

[minor bolt]

is zenless login just completely broken right now

cant login with email as the captcha breaks, cant login with apple as the browser popup doesnt happen

[placid otter]

https://x.com/Wario64/status/1810803594280718554?s=19

Wario64 (@Wario64) on X

New Xbox Game Pass changes (updated some pricing info from the article): https://t.co/aUqyWoRzOI
-Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price increase to $19.99/month
-PC Game Pass price increase to $11.99
-Xbox Game Pass Core annual increase to $74.99
-Xbox Game Pass (console) will be

Twitter · Jul 9, 2024, 10:29 PM

[minor bolt]

https://x.com/iocmedia/status/1811720478697881848 it’s so over

IOC MEDIA (@iocmedia) on X

The IOC has partnered with the National Olympic Committee of Saudi Arabia to host the inaugural Olympic Esports Games 2025 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

This follows the IOC’s recent announcement to establish the Olympic Esports Games.

More: https://t.co/by155ZBxfn

Twitter · Jul 12, 2024, 11:13 AM

[glass knot]

Oh man

[neon scroll]

Yeah, that's.... one upping this year's Esports world cup by one degree of IOC corruption

[cinder rivet]

saudi arabia 💀

sportwashing not enough, time for esportwashing too

[neon scroll]

Well, again... they're already doing that this year with the esports world cup that is currently going on

This is just a cherry of IOC shittiness on top

[cinder rivet]

at least they allowed tl to have pride logo on their shirts

[fallow vessel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuhHfKFuhKQ

[rustic peak]

People have been wanting more nation based competition for years and this is how the monkeys paw curls

[neon scroll]

https://tenor.com/view/not-like-this-stare-no-nope-gif-16373672

[slate thorn]

Man, more exposure and large scale tournaments like this is insane for esports

But when it's funded by violating human rights and oil money it's a bit

[neon scroll]

https://fixupx.com/GiveMeBanHammer/status/1811995369573875860

lmao

Amazing

[stable stratus]

lmfao

lore accurate, indeed

[slate thorn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCp78bgSgNQ

Yo, they got Alex Moukala for some of the songs

[pearl cobalt]

https://www.nomanssky.com/worlds-part-i-update/

[placid otter]

https://x.com/IGN/status/1813572283971072160

IGN (@IGN) on X

No Man's Sky: Worlds Part I completely refreshes the universe and arrives with new creatures and biomes, solar ship crafting, a brand new flamethrower mech, a Starship Troopers-inspired Bug Hunt Expedition, and more.

Twitter · Jul 17, 2024, 1:51 PM

anyone asked for more nms updates? here u go

[neon scroll]

It's also on a 60% off sake on steam rn

[stable stratus]

https://fxtwitter.com/TAKTAK7095110/status/1813615874760470913?t=P7sdLmAGUzq7OzOSuR5vvQ&s=19

[stable stratus]

https://x.com/kitosan/status/1813795436555354533?t=3MNZDFIx18LneGrJ3KnL4w&s=19

Kit Ellis (@kitosan) on X

I don’t know why but I cannot stop laughing at this

Twitter · Jul 18, 2024, 4:38 AM

so true

[slate thorn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_LhITplUFU

[neon scroll]

https://fixupx.com/RGGStudio/status/1814722044644237473

[placid otter]

one day ill go back to the franchise

[glass knot]

https://fxtwitter.com/Play2XKO/status/1814789590462447672

[stable stratus]

https://youtu.be/BCpm9cVDNVg?si=kv4C92TNJsRR_7Mz

lol

[dusty imp]

devolver bootleg 2 when

i wanna play church of the goat and scribble

[stable stratus]

https://fxtwitter.com/ShitpostRock/status/1814774318443688338?t=5p-IhmN1EVCDi_-ChHfBWw&s=19

[slate thorn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Feny5bs2JCg

Actually insane

Basically Wooting on steroids

[smoky imp]

https://fixupx.com/tvfgc/status/1814434041770455543?t=GKUKDsEChsa6vGpFBCdxyA&s=19

[slate thorn]

[glass knot]

god gamer legend

oh damn arcsys leaked their season pass 4 reveal

for strive

new characters include ||Lucy from Cyberpunk Edgerunners|| lol

pretty sick

[dusty imp]

https://x.com/NoMansSky/status/1814730836865860076?t=fP9jhs7MfUT4rw2VsiWI0g&s=33

Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) on X

0.05% guys 🙏

it could happen

Twitter · Jul 20, 2024, 6:35 PM

[glass knot]

https://fxtwitter.com/GUILTYGEAR_PR/status/1815115951513477543

Officially out now

3v3 mode will get a free open beta for everyone on a couple days apparently

[neon scroll]

Ah yes, I love season passes

[glass knot]

Yep just the usual fighting game season passes

[glass knot]

https://fxtwitter.com/TEKKEN/status/1815166067871748407

dude's back

[oak ruin]

no no harada said he's dead lol

[glass knot]

Dude was resurrected because Harada lost to LilyPichu

Canon event

[oak ruin]

Real. fall character was supposed to be Marduk until yesterday

These tekken monks look so cool though

[glass knot]

True

[neon scroll]

What in the world

Dude was very dead, lmao

I guess it makes sense for the anniversary

[glass knot]

https://youtu.be/9LUExu3qU-o

Terry

Great EVO this year

Punk won EVO for SF too finally

[placid otter]

https://x.com/charlieINTEL/status/1815172582900973601

CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) on X

NEW: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III will reportedly join Xbox Game Pass on July 24, per a new report from Xbox leaker @eXtas1stv

Season 5 also launches July 24

Twitter · Jul 21, 2024, 11:50 PM

👀

[slate thorn]

Only in the most expensive game pass tier

Plus the price increase because they're adding cod to it

After they said that actibliz acquisition wouldn't affect pricing

[placid otter]

price increas was going to happen with or without, but the timing suggests alot atm
ftc also brought it to court already, but doubt anything will come out of it

[neon scroll]

Apparently the FTC is investigating the price hike already, lol

Cause there might be a teensy tinsy bit of monopoly going on

[slate thorn]

Yeah, I read about that as well the other day lol

[placid otter]

https://x.com/RocketLeague/status/1815386430710874530

Rocket League (@RocketLeague) on X

Drive the future.

CYBERTRUCK - TOMORROW!

Twitter · Jul 22, 2024, 2:00 PM

disgusting

[smoky imp]

Ewww

[neon scroll]

That looks like a car you'd find in the first Deus Ex game

[placid otter]

https://x.com/FortniteGame/status/1815386568263110908

Fortnite (@FortniteGame) on X

Pulls ♾️

Catch a ride in the @tesla Cybertruck in Fortnite tomorrow!

Twitter · Jul 22, 2024, 2:01 PM

also here

https://x.com/Wario64/status/1815432324789772607 btw

Wario64 (@Wario64) on X

AAAA title Skull and Bones comes to Steam on August 22nd https://t.co/Z2aL0Np8Vb

Twitter · Jul 22, 2024, 5:02 PM

[slate thorn]

Now more people can be in misery! Amazing!

[neon scroll]

Imagine paying for that drivel

Only reason anyone plays that game at all is game pass

[warm pumice]

It’s lit 🔥

[slate thorn]

Epic

[cinder rivet]

i think thats the closest i have ever been

[neon scroll]

Successfully slayed the spire and then the even deeper spire. Surely there is nothing after the heart, right

Worth the steam sale purchase (finally)

[neon scroll]

Man, Ubisoft really has gotten into hot waters over in Japan
https://fixupx.com/assassinscreed/status/1815674592444187116

And absolutely no one in Japan is having any of this apology, lmao

[slate thorn]

[dusty imp]

mhj-core statement

the term "external consultants" has been ruined for me

[neon scroll]

That just makes me think of the ADOR Cookie statement back in the day

[stable stratus]

https://twitter.com/JakeSucky/status/1815803245815853245?t=tozPSqqGXVYgovQICnio3g&s=19

Jake Lucky (@JakeSucky) on X

The International Olympic Committee have unanimously voted yes for the creation of the Olympic Esports Games

Twitter · Jul 23, 2024, 5:36 PM

aight send hyeju in

[fleet wave]

it's gonna be wii sports and mario kart

[placid otter]

sounds way too accurate sadly

[rustic peak]

Yea, in japan with lots of very japanese people

[glass knot]

Are japanese people really upset about it

All I see since they announced this game is everyone complaining about it for the dumbest reasons

And trying to make it about historical accuracy when it's clearly just thinly veiled racism

Game's too woke or whatever the fuck

[slate thorn]

Washed up fr fr

[dusty imp]

yes, theres plenty of stuff aside from yasuke too

like using chinese architecture and zoros sword

[glass knot]

oh yeah i saw the zoro sword stuff

that was very dumb

[dusty imp]

my favourite part is the hip hop beats in the trailer

for a game set in the 16th century

[glass knot]

i can imagine their thought process for that and it sucks

[dusty imp]

i dont really care about all the controversy

but its sad that they were competing with tsushima and this is how much effort they put in

zoro lmao

[glass knot]

I'm not that surprised as it's Ubisoft but yeah the controversy has been pretty silly since the beginning

and somehow it just keeps getting worse

[slate thorn]

They probably watched a little bit too much samurai champloo

[dusty imp]

https://fxtwitter.com/PlayHumbleGames/status/1815851182977425772?t=bPNKZaIopqzk-mY6oh7U1g&s=33

they laid off their entire staff

also they didnt notify their affiliated games based on their developers tweets

Bo devs had to clarify that they werent shutting down, unfortunately theyre in humbles username

[glass knot]

wonder if the recent issues the industry is facing and how well indie games are doing could impact things positively in general

game development is just very rough

[slate thorn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BBSLWp3r9U

Crazy

[placid otter]

oh new ep nice

[dusty imp]

[placid otter]

https://x.com/XboxGamePass/status/1816171497104252997?s=19

Xbox Game Pass (@XboxGamePass) on X

ok it’s OFFICIALLY GO TIME

Twitter · Jul 24, 2024, 6:00 PM

the first of many. hope bo3 and bo2 get added. id get gp againg for that

[slate thorn]

bo3 added will be kinda funky since no steam workshop

[placid otter]

idc about mods

[slate thorn]

That's the one huge thing bo3 has :v

Outside of the best zombies mode to begin with. But m0ds just add so much amazing content to the game

[stable stratus]

https://x.com/Cocoricoow/status/1816145642390962513

Cocoricoow (@Cocoricoow) on X

I can't believe those are getting recalled, even virtually 😂

Twitter · Jul 24, 2024, 4:17 PM

[glass knot]

Good think you can't believe it cause that's not real

Unless they deleted the tweet ig

[latent mantle]

I hope these new players are retained well into the already tryhard player pool lol.

it seems they were preparing early for it (an influx of more trash talkers) with xbox taking the reins since they monitor voice chats apparently as of the last in-game season or so

[slate thorn]

Monitoring voice chat in CoD? The past really did use to be better, how will I tell people I love spending time with their mom now 😔

[latent mantle]

In a haiku or poem perhaps

mayhaps a sonnet

[slate thorn]

I feel bad for kids nowadays not being able to experience mw2 lobbies

Truly a bad childhood for all of them

[latent mantle]

haveth thee a lute for barding sessions?

I type most the spiteful speech in the stupid and literal sense

[slate thorn]

Getting called 50 slurs in the span of 1 second in xbox 360 mw2 lobbies is peak gaming

Actual gaming perfection we'll never get to experience again 😔

[latent mantle]

[latent mantle]

I confess my love to your team because I've finished shagging every one of them

[cinder rivet]

its time

ill prob not even beat 1st boss bc im dogshit at parrying

[glass knot]

have fun

parry timing on sekiro is pretty lenient, you'll prob get used to it

[neon scroll]

Given that Sekiro usually gets called the hardest of the soulslike bunch "lenient" seems like it might be a stretch

[cinder rivet]

good that im borrowing it from friend so i wont lose money if it will not be for me

[neon scroll]

Borrowing games? What is this, the 90s?

[glass knot]

I mean the parry timing on sekiro is pretty lenient

People calling it hard don't call it hard simply bc the parry timing is hard

Iirc it's like a half a second timing so it's pretty generous

But if you keep spamming the button it reduces it

Also idk if it's the hardest of the fromsoft games but that might just be because it's exactly my type of game and it was so fun to me that I don't really remember it being hard

Definitely the most hype fromsoft game to actually get good at

[neon scroll]

Probably not the hardest for everyone, but it's the consensus hardest, ye

[glass knot]

Can't say much since I only really finished Bloodborne, Sekiro and Elden Ring (but didn't do dlc for any of these)
Bloodborne wasn't really hard after I started playing the game as it is instead of being cautious and stuff

They really want you to be attacking on that game

[slate thorn]

It's hard because unlike other souls games you can't just spam dodge the entire time and have to parry every single attack basically

Or shield everything etc

[glass knot]

That's what makes it the best

You're constantly engaging with the enemy

[slate thorn]

Sekiro is more rhythm game than souls game

[glass knot]

Instead of just rolling back and watching it do a long ass combo like in elden ring

[glass knot]

Also true

[slate thorn]

You can parry a lot of combo's :^)

[glass knot]

Think one of the most pleasant things in Sekiro is learning how to beat Genichiro consistently

[cinder rivet]

yes

[glass knot]

As he can be a pretty tough fight once you get to him for the first time

[glass knot]

Yeah but in Sekiro you'd be parrying Waterfowl Dance and feeling like a badass

[slate thorn]

You can parry that

Waterfowl is very much parryable

A lot of attacks and combo's in the game can be parried

[glass knot]

ain't that only if you're using a shield

[slate thorn]

Anything that can parry

[stable stratus]

speaking of dark souls

https://youtu.be/HJbYe6aYtPk

Jump King now has sequel and includes comabt fighting mechanics included

[cinder rivet]

first ragequit in sekiro: ✅

[slate thorn]

Weak

[slate thorn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxEa7k8j1Ro

[glass knot]

people finding out socd exists is wacky

cause it's also been a debate on fighting games for a while, there's even official tournament rules on socd settings

And recent fighting games also account for that on their design and how they read inputs

Iirc on SF6 ← + → read as neutral and ↓ + ↑ prioritize ↑ and even if you change socd settings on your controller or keyboard that still holds true

[slate thorn]

I mean, it's very new on keyboards

Since there barely are any optical keyboards to begin with and the support for it needs to be coded in as well

[glass knot]

Yeah that makes sense

I'm guessing games will end up just accounting for that on their design too

[slate thorn]

Like, as far as I'm aware only Wooting, Razer, and Keychron has them

I think Corsair also has optical switches but they are a bit different?

[glass knot]

Cause it can break a lot of stuff

[slate thorn]

Also Trackmania changing their entire ruleset purely due to Wirtual using a Wooting keyboard

[glass knot]

I think the wildest part of that was that other players w steering wheels and pads and did the same thing with their software to limit steering

[slate thorn]

Almost no one plays with steering wheels and controllers

[glass knot]

wym it's trackmania a lot of people play with pads and wheels

[slate thorn]

I think the only like high ranking wheel player is elconn no?

[glass knot]

Granady too

[slate thorn]

Doesnt granady use controller?

Most pro and high rank players use keyboard

[glass knot]

Pretty sure he uses a big ol wheel

[slate thorn]

I had a talk with a former pro and he used to play with keyboard but he switched to controller because he was having like health problems with his hands due to playing so much

But most people play with keyboard

Trackmania is one of the few racing games where playing with a keyboard is actually really good

If not the only

[jovial wolf]

granady is THE wheel player

[glass knot]

Unfortunately idt trackmania exchange has an option to sort by controller but I'm pretty sure a whole bunch of top players and WR holders are pad or wheel players

tm is still very keyboard friendly tho

[slate thorn]

I guess maybe I swapped granady and elconn around then?

[jovial wolf]

the "new" cars less so

[slate thorn]

Like, there was one pretty big controller player

[jovial wolf]

hence wirtual using flight stick for some of them

[glass knot]

Elconn is a keyboard player iirc yeah

Could be wrong

[cinder rivet]

🫡

[glass knot]

was it the ogre

[cinder rivet]

ye

[glass knot]

understandable

really frustrating enemy at first

[placid otter]

https://x.com/stephentotilo/status/1816556195655684566

Stephen Totilo (@stephentotilo) on X

BREAKING: SAG-AFTRA video game voice/performance actors are going on strike at midnight tonight. Basically over AI

"We’re not going to consent to a contract that allows companies to abuse A.I. to the detriment of our members. Enough is enough." - AG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher

Twitter · Jul 25, 2024, 7:28 PM

[glass knot]

Awesome

[neon scroll]

herewegoagain.gif

I will say though, this will really only affect some US based studios

[glass knot]

Most likely

And on top of that there's also companies who refuse to work with unionized VAs in general

Like iirc they replaced Ada's VA on RE4 Remake because she was unionized, same goes for Chloe's VA changing on Life is Strange Before the Storm
Can only imagine how many other companies do this kinda stuff

You can find a ton of VA horror stories going around, cause yeah, industry sucks

[neon scroll]

Ye

Imagine paying people a living wage or something

[neon scroll]

https://fixupx.com/Team17/status/1816587022816932273

This is definitely an idea for a game

[cinder rivet]

[slate thorn]

lol

[rustic peak]

Maybe there is something to that couch thing

[neon scroll]

Right?

[stable stratus]

Date the stairs

[neon scroll]

https://youtu.be/rahBCfRdVac?si=JSzfqH-PYtnknwdz

FO London is finally out

Comments be like

@low yarrow @ornate river

[ornate river]

hahahaa

[neon scroll]

The comment section is pure gold on this one

tfw you have to downgrade from Bethesda shitty game breaking "upgrade" first to play this, because playing anything related to FO can never be as easy as just install and start the game

[slate thorn]

I haven't even updated to the latest update yet lel

I have the updater disabled for fo4

[neon scroll]

Good decision

[placid otter]

yoo a yakuza tv series please be good. has so much freedom and potential

seems like stellar blades summer outfit also released 👀

[neon scroll]

Time limited outfits btw

[placid otter]

eh, not going back to the game anyways

[placid otter]

https://x.com/PelotudoJugando/status/1817203665284833499 this is amazing

RoloRolla | Un Pelotudo Jugando 🍅 (@PelotudoJugando) on X

I'm working on a mod that changes minions to Bloons from BTD6 and I need some help

Twitter · Jul 27, 2024, 2:21 PM

[slate thorn]

That new Marvel Overwatch clone is pretty fun

[neon scroll]

https://youtu.be/bgU5wAyp4WM?si=kdSFb9HzhcDe-axw

[stable stratus]

https://youtu.be/AHadoLyHcxU?si=9tdDhY8JbxkGd962

this hits nostalgia to me

[stable stratus]

Crazy event
https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1818078561778954592?t=L617zRIqxZm1h8NNWIWuSg&s=19

Dexerto (@Dexerto) on X

The creator of Skibidi Toilet has sent a DMCA notice to the creator of Garry's Mod

Twitter · Jul 30, 2024, 12:18 AM

[neon scroll]

Ah yes, the highly valuable property of skibidi toilet must be protected

[glass knot]

I'm sure it's pretty valuable

But that tweet has been deleted and I'm definitely not searching for news on it to know if it's true

[dusty imp]

it was a false dmca

nintendo style

[cinder rivet]

https://en.bandainamcoent.eu/elden-ring/news/elden-ring-patch-notes-version-113

spirit ashes (except mimic tear) buffed 👀

[slate thorn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjE7bUPXrJM

[stable stratus]

We're free

[neon scroll]

Good riddance

[slate thorn]

Who?

[stable stratus]

Creator of Skibidi Toilet

@slate thorn

He was asking the creator of Gmod on the discord server

[slate thorn]

I still have no clue what skibidi toilet is

[stable stratus]

same

i would rather not to learn about it

They sacrificed Sonic & Mario for this??
https://twitter.com/sonicstadium/status/1818301996551545057?t=SUWvIrNhZDakH9Rcs5oUyA&s=19

Sonic Stadium ✪ Sonic News & Community (@sonicstadium) on X

Update: According to a former producer for the #MarioAndSonic games, it was the International Olympic Committee's decision to pull away from the series, choosing to pursue NFTs and esports partners instead. #SonicNews

Full story in comments...

Twitter · Jul 30, 2024, 3:05 PM

[placid otter]

lol

[stable stratus]

The latter part makes sense

...but strongly against the nft one lmao

[placid otter]

https://x.com/Bungie/status/1818667682126086183?s=19

Bungie (@Bungie) on X

This morning, we shared an important update with the Bungie team on the difficult decision to eliminate 220 roles at Bungie.

You can read the full statement below.

https://t.co/FVkWNSWDtZ

Twitter · Jul 31, 2024, 3:18 PM

break time is over

[glass knot]

eliminate 220 roles

[warm pumice]

https://tenor.com/view/bleach-thousand-year-blood-war-tybw-cour-2-ironsilver-gif-428619392608468058

How I feel pulling up to Moonrise Towers as a Paladin ready to throw Smite’s everywhere

[placid otter]

https://x.com/TheRealLexuzi/status/1818699387809529898?s=19

kellybean (@TheRealLexuzi) on X

I've been impacted by the layoffs announced this morning. It's been a privilege working with everyone at Bungie for the past (almost) 5 years.

But it's just really bad timing b/c my maternity leave was supposed to start next Monday and I got laid off today.

Twitter · Jul 31, 2024, 5:24 PM

[neon scroll]

Surely that's just a coincidence

[placid otter]

https://x.com/jasonschreier/status/1819001447318474867?s=19

Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) on X

Jan 10, 2022: Take-Two buys Zynga for $12bn
Jan 18, 2022: Xbox buys Activision for $69bn
Feb 1, 2022: Sony buys Bungie for $3.6bn

Jan 15, 2024: Xbox/Activision lay off 1,900 people
April 17, 2024: Take-Two lays off 600 people
July 31, 2024: Bungie lays off 220 people

Twitter · Aug 1, 2024, 1:25 PM

[glass knot]

so dumb

[cinder rivet]

it always ends like this
and studios still keep selling themselves

[neon scroll]

To be fair: company mergers always come with "restructuring" (layoffs). The issue is that most of these companies pretty much explicitely promise this won't happen before the buyout of some reason.

[neon scroll]

And this is because the suits want a fat paycheck and gtfo

[slate thorn]

Most of the time these kind of layoffs are like the administrative jobs such as HR etc etc etc

Because the company already has those

They're only interested in the more specialized employees

[neon scroll]

ye

Hence why there's always gonna be layoffs, pretending otherwise is just silly

[slate thorn]

And a lot of these companies had scaled up massively during covid under the assumption that demand and such would stay the same afterwards, which very much was not the case, so the layoff numbers can be a bit inflated due to that as well

[placid otter]

covid layoffs had already been done last year though

saw an insider tweet where the expected layoffs was 350, but they gave many a diff location

[slate thorn]

Oh yeah but stuff always carries over still

[placid otter]

https://x.com/CallofDuty/status/1819055541034905793?s=19

Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) on X

Back from the dead 💀📺 #BlackOps6

Twitter · Aug 1, 2024, 5:00 PM

[placid otter]

https://x.com/jasonschreier/status/1819075149360185737?s=19

Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) on X

Just to clear up some rumors floating around, Destiny 3 was not canceled because it was never in development, per people familiar. Bungie did some very early work on a spinoff project called Payback, but they canceled that a while ago. I'll have a story tomorrow with more info

Twitter · Aug 1, 2024, 6:18 PM

[placid otter]

https://x.com/tomwarren/status/1819106303295606839 well

Tom Warren (@tomwarren) on X

Intel is laying off over 10,000 employees and will cut $10 billion in costs. Intel also reported a loss of $1.6 billion in Q2 2024 due to its Foundry business and investments https://t.co/jdwnmNFlDw

Twitter · Aug 1, 2024, 8:21 PM

[stable stratus]

https://fxtwitter.com/Harada_TEKKEN/status/1819191148050895066

lmao

[opal rock]

bruh, i'm playing tft and theres this new board. the cafe one, and the song has a snippet where it sounds like OEC - girl front

[pearl cobalt]

could be because it was part of a sample
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=28&v=3i3ImYBBxvY

[glass knot]

https://youtu.be/u1xubr1uGcM?t=276

yeah they use the sample

this song goes hard

kinda wish they had added the main girl front hook sample on combat lv7+ just because

[placid otter]

https://www.twitch.tv/oldschoolrs

crazyyyy stuff going on

[minor bolt]

lmao brutal

[neon scroll]

I mean..... they're not wrong

[placid otter]

lol

[dry gale]

Well he's right

We Asians buy mostly Sony Playstation or build a gaming PC

Xbox is non existent for us

Unless if you have a Gaming PC with PC Game Pass

They told the Campaign is short

[latent mantle]

yes the modern warfare 3 campaign is short

what it delivered was a complete version of MW2 with better, newer graphic capabilities

[dry gale]

Yes the graphics is so good

FSR 3 is so good

with the frame generation

I can play in High Quality Graphics with a good fps

[latent mantle]

frame gen is pretty neat

[dry gale]

Want more games to add this tech

It's actually good for old graphics cards

[latent mantle]

it's good if your build has enough to do over 120 in 1080p

[dry gale]

for that I need to lower to low graphics

[latent mantle]

depends on your build but the game is just fine on lower graphics and no upscaling

looks and plays much smoother in my experience

[dry gale]

because it doesn't need much resources

[latent mantle]

for the useless details yes

[slate thorn]

MW3 is a dlc released for full price after all

They only turned it into a full price game like last second instead of releasing it as a dlc

[latent mantle]

yes, like I was trying to say, it's what MW2 should've had in completeness. They rushed it and took their time to overcharge on that DLC the next year

what MW2 had in content was lacking for a pretty multiplayer-dependent game

[slate thorn]

The main thing that sucks with cod is that your like $80 dollar game can go into the bin like 1.5 years later because the new game drops

[dry gale]

Black Ops 6 is dropping this October

[placid otter]

hype

[slate thorn]

Not a fan of the movement and gunplay in mw2/3 so lets hope it's nice in this one

[placid otter]

mecha break seems fun

[stable stratus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrgSbteWMC8

[pearl cobalt]

I couldn't sleep

found these while I'm up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc57d8BTSpM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2h3Uxj7nNg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v3lnXyNFhI

[placid otter]

yeh, the focus mode must be nice for range classes

[smoky imp]

https://vxtwitter.com/Nintendeal/status/1820525691663941763?t=isv3HFY45grykqWpgZu2CQ&s=19

Wild

[stable stratus]

there was an exclusive Monster Hunter Wilds coverage on them

but sadly it was shortlived

[smoky imp]

and for the new Dragon Age

[placid otter]

||https://x.com/IGN/status/1820799758228717998?s=19|| bo6 leak

[slate thorn]

||Warzone is probably the last thing I care about for CoD anyways lmao||

[placid otter]

same lol

[slate thorn]

I just hope BO6 will have good gunplay and movement, because rn the movement and gunplay in CoD is so fucking garbage

[placid otter]

u can prob find clips of it. most have already been hit by copyright though

there was like straight 30min videos leaked too. prob cuz athletes got to play at the olympics

[slate thorn]

I'll just wait for the beta weekend or whatever they were doing so I can just try the game myself

[placid otter]

saw the official gameplay reveal is on august 28th for both mp and zombies

[slate thorn]

Did the same with the free MW2 testing thingy so I knew it was garbage I didn't need to spend my money on

[placid otter]

did the same with mw2 and vanguard

i did enjoy mw3 though esp outbreak zombies during free weekends

[slate thorn]

Since MW3 is identical to 2 in terms of gameplay, not my thing at all

[dry gale]

Ok nothing important

It feels illegal to have only the MWIII Campaign in Gamepass without MWII Campaign

[placid otter]

https://youtu.be/6Z0Ni2JIqzw?si=Su0KJwq9-7AnqSFn

hype

[placid otter]

https://x.com/BlackMythGame/status/1820649285450649680?s=19

Black Myth: Wukong (@BlackMythGame) on X

Dear Destined Ones,
Thank you for your patience! We're thrilled to announce that the full development of #BlackMythWukong is complete, and the game will be released as scheduled.😉
Right now, our entire team is working hard on the final stages of experiencing, testing, and

Twitter · Aug 6, 2024, 2:33 AM

hype

[stable stratus]

nice

[dry gale]

Additional 78 GB? 💀

[placid otter]

78gb for a full game today is good cool

[dry gale]

No but

It would be lying there with MWIII as well

so, totally 200+ GB

[placid otter]

that is ur choice not theirs

and u can just uninstall warzone too

[dry gale]

No wonder why System Requirements for Call of Duty HQ is 217 GB

[placid otter]

assuming we can also select if we even want campaign etc installed or not like prev games

[dry gale]

Yes

I like games which uses the same game for other games

[slate thorn]

Uncompressed files go brrr

Speaking of shooters, new Delta Force has keys available through twitch drops rn

tl;dr, basically BF

[pearl cobalt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcjGwUo8vjE

[glass knot]

Oh yeah they're doing these daily

game looks sick

Apparently it'll be playable at twitch con?

https://fxtwitter.com/Twitch/status/1820927909151879547

[pearl cobalt]

think Ryozo said it would be playable at Gamescom which is sooner

[glass knot]

Ooohhhh right the trailers they're posting are leading to Gamescom

[glass knot]

Seeing people lose their mind over Vanguard everytime a new Riot game gets it is getting pretty old

[minor bolt]

what happened now, they announce 2xko is getting it?

[glass knot]

Yep

[minor bolt]

people upset about the tencent ownership without realizing the client/s could farm all your data without ring0 lol

[glass knot]

https://fxtwitter.com/Play2XKO/status/1820852331581173793

[glass knot]

Yeah

Also isn't EAC and most anticheats kernel level these days

[minor bolt]

yeah lol

[glass knot]

I guess it's only a spyware when your company is owned by tencent

And as you said, they already got you to install the game

If they wanna get your info they will

Why would they need kernel access to steal your data and send it to the chinese government

[pearl cobalt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wV7lPVW8q4

[glass knot]

Sick

I love insect glaive

I'm movementpilled jumping around and hitting giant monsters is my shit

I hate that i started saying (thing)pilled as a meme and now it's unironic

Oh well

[slate thorn]

Vanguard is like the first one that openly "admitted" it whilst every other one had been for years already before that lel

[slate thorn]

It feels like they assume you already know all these characters?

I guess they're from Cold War?

[fleet wave]

vanguard is a lot more invasive than the others. no other anti cheat requires a restart of your computer and secure boot turned on

[slate thorn]

At least it works

The amount of cheaters that don't get banned in EAC games is just stupid

[dry gale]

Vanguard gets deeper into the kernel, other anticheats are surface level

[placid otter]

https://x.com/baldursgate3/status/1821186927779004770?s=19

Baldur's Gate 3 (@baldursgate3) on X

It’s been a year since Baldur’s Gate 3 was released, and you know what we’ve realised?

Over a quarter of you can’t be trusted to not pick a fight with a djinni, and a surprising amount of you enjoy bear sex and tentacles.

Who’d have thought?

Twitter · Aug 7, 2024, 2:09 PM

never finished act 2 and wow i missed alot lol

[smoky imp]

The last sentences

[glass knot]

Fair

But it does seem to be way more effective than the other ones lol

Valorant is very much the largest tac shooter game in the market and you'll barely ever see any complaints about cheating on it

[fleet wave]

obviously more surveillance is more effective. but at what point does it become too much

[glass knot]

I wouldn't really know where to draw the line there tbh

Cause as far as my knowledge of this goes, if they wanted to harvest your data they could do that already
Pretty much any software you install in your computer could do that if they wanted to, no? So to me it's just a question of "do you trust this company to not harvest and sell information about you?", and if the answer is no, you just shouldn't really install anything from them

Wether they have kernel access or not

[fleet wave]

There is also another issue aside from privacy: the possibility of there being a vulnerability or exploit in their anticheat driver and that being used as an attack vector for malware. because vanguard runs so early in the boot process this would be almost impossible to detect.

[glass knot]

I think i remember that happening to Genshin's anti cheat

At least I think it was genshin

[fleet wave]

yeah exactly

[glass knot]

And yeah, I'm not really trying to deny that anything you run on a kernel level will have a lot of risk associated with it
The vanguard stuff just bothers me because the discourse around it is usually centered around the spyware and data harvesting stuff

Which is very much influenced by a bunch of fear mongering because of Tencent

[neon scroll]

Anything that just runs on your system without the actual game running is a big fat no, fuck off. Much more so if it has that level of access. This shit is way too normalized because these multi-billion dollar companies are incapable of finding a serverside solution to their incompetence in dealing with cheaters.

[glass knot]

People will always find ways to get around those too, like on League the most common way of cheating is scripting
Which bypasses the server side solution

https://2xko.riotgames.com/en-us/news/announcement/whats-in-2xko-alpha-lab/

Lotta information as the alpha starts tomorrow

[placid otter]

https://x.com/Wario64/status/1821254522184015905

Wario64 (@Wario64) on X

Meta closes Ready at Dawn Studios https://t.co/3HKZM5kSH6

The studio developed Lone Echo, The Order 1886, God of War Chains of Olympus/Ghost of Sparta, Daxter

Twitter · Aug 7, 2024, 6:38 PM

[neon scroll]

They gotta focus all manpower on the Metaverse, right

[slate thorn]

Delta Force is very very very fun

[pearl cobalt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azn6r5wTd48

[placid otter]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1821535042935644592?s=19

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) on X

‘BORDERLANDS’ debuts with 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Read our review: https://t.co/NW2ENHErLG

Twitter · Aug 8, 2024, 1:12 PM

[glass knot]

damn 0%

[placid otter]

https://x.com/shinobi602/status/1821551877022011435?s=19

Shinobi602 (@shinobi602) on X

WB is now looking to license its franchises to other game studios:

“We have 11 studios here, and we have a lot of IP. And there’s also a lot of interest among others in coming to take advantage of some of that IP for gaming, which we’re looking at.”

➡️ https://t.co/VdBk7x72Eb

Twitter · Aug 8, 2024, 2:19 PM

many wanting insomniac to get batman. would be cool

https://x.com/ModernWarzone/status/1821220713400799304?s=19

ModernWarzone (@ModernWarzone) on X

People have modded Black Ops 6 by adding low gravity with the new omnimovement and it looks insane. 🤯

The beta isn’t even out yet and mfs already have cheats in the game 💀

Twitter · Aug 7, 2024, 4:23 PM

btw

mods out already lol

[slate thorn]

https://youtu.be/ZexnXA4mMEk?si=W7chJymagnPK3tLH

[placid otter]

we are so back am excited

funny how round based is now a point to addvertise though

[slate thorn]

That's because all the non round based stuff was garbage

They should've honestly just advertised it as Treyarch Zombies

[placid otter]

strongly disagree

[slate thorn]

Because calling it treyarch zombies, now that really gets people excited

That said, it looks promising

[placid otter]

also first one without david vonderhaar if i remember his name right

[slate thorn]

Lets hope they really triple down on the zombies mode like back in the early BO's

[placid otter]

or is it jason blundell im looking for or both

[slate thorn]

Jason Blundell is Zombies iirc

Not sure how much other guy was involved with zombies

[placid otter]

was the lead iirc

oh

[slate thorn]

I misclicked and sent message too fast

[placid otter]

made my message useless now

but yeah zombies looks hectic and fun

a good mix of old and new special weapons etc

must know if punching machine works like an actual zombie killer or not

[slate thorn]

If it's anything like BO2 and BO3 I'll be happy

But I'm not sure if I really want to pay 1000$ to buy the game

[placid otter]

i loved cold war, but i wont be satisfied with a 2nd one of its type before getting bo2 or 3 yeah

[slate thorn]

I downloaded Cold War the other day actually since it got cracked last year. I did play the open beta weekend or whatever it was back before it released but it didn't really grab me. Mostly just interested in playing the campaign as I'm not that big on playing zombies solo

[placid otter]

reminds me i did install cold war, but cant quit osrs to play it...

becoming a panzer in bo6 has me with mixed feelings. not sure what to think of it

really hope we just start with pistol and work our way up

no loadouts pls

[slate thorn]

That's the main thing about bocw zombies that really puts me off, there's like, no progression compared to the other games. You've already won before you even started the match

[placid otter]

kinda yeah it is very easy to get set up

ah a 17min vid of zombies just got out and pretty much shows everything

[placid otter]

https://x.com/Wario64/status/1821562664255971477?s=19

Wario64 (@Wario64) on X

God of War: Ragnarok PC specs revealed https://t.co/RacSDQlsvQ

Twitter · Aug 8, 2024, 3:02 PM

now that is alot of storage required

https://x.com/Wario64/status/1821578978462699748?s=19

Wario64 (@Wario64) on X

DOOM + DOOM II is getting newly enhanced versions (and now combines both games). New achievements coming as well. Listing up ahead of QuakeCon https://t.co/ICBV5KN2oJ

Developed by id Software, and originally released in 1993, DOOM pioneered and popularized the first-person

Twitter · Aug 8, 2024, 4:07 PM

https://x.com/Treyarch/status/1821565126950232534?s=19

Treyarch Studios (@Treyarch) on X

This is the most customizable HUD in Zombies history, featuring multiple presets at launch.

Choose the Legacy preset for a BO3-style layout. Toggle enemy health bars and damage numbers, or hide most of the HUD entirely. The choice is yours.

Twitter · Aug 8, 2024, 3:12 PM

yep we getting cold war zombies againg sad

https://youtu.be/bzyMLoSwYvk?si=xX5X_mv1rn3F15ed

final trailer for the game

[glass knot]

pog thanks riot

[placid otter]

https://www.callofduty.com/blog/2024/08/call-of-duty-black-ops-6-zombies-deep-dive-terminus-map-intel#:~:text=Creating and continuing to adapt,as a few important differences.

literally just cold war zombies yep

[placid otter]

https://x.com/IGN/status/1821588713622700043?s=19

IGN (@IGN) on X

Full episodes of Arcane Season 2 have appeared online just a day after Netflix appeared to suffer a major security breach. https://t.co/xOXI5gWXNp

Twitter · Aug 8, 2024, 4:46 PM

rip

[glass knot]

Yeah a bunch of shit got leaked

[placid otter]

from what im seeing it is the first 5 episodes at 360p

[glass knot]

damn

not worth

360p you can't appreciate the great animation

[neon scroll]

Yeah, easy skip

[placid otter]

loop hero free on prime, can recommend, but its on EPIC

[neon scroll]

[slate thorn]

At least they allow you to turn off the health bars and damage numbers

[stable stratus]

...wait, does that mean Squid Games got leaked too?

[neon scroll]

Do you ever bother to read the article instead of just the tagline?

[glass knot]

you know the answer to that

[glass knot]

Really fun game

11 day alpha too so I'll actually have some decent amount of time to get used to it

The autocombo feature they have is pretty nice as a learning tool

Also allow u to actually have fun while getting used to the game's mechanics and pacing overall

[pearl cobalt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gXz5-608Ns

DOOT DOOT MF!

[oak ruin]

pog echo bubbles

[slate thorn]

Apparently on steam they are matching the sale price of the whole borderlands collection to the rotten tomatoes score of the movie, as in, the missing percentage of the movie turns into the sale percentage

Meaning it has a 94% discount right now

Should reviews go down even more discount go up :P

[minor bolt]

3 is 90% off lol

[slate thorn]

Wew, Since I already have BL2 with all dlc the whole collection is only 19 euros

[minor bolt]

damn

[slate thorn]

If you click on it price goes down further if you already own some games

As compared to this :P

[minor bolt]

doesnt for me

still $36

[slate thorn]

😔

[minor bolt]

if i had some friends who wanted to play through it all again then id grab it

but i have 3 on epic and did a run through a few years ago

[slate thorn]

fren

[placid otter]

got it on release on epic, but also got it on steam for free a while ago from something

[minor bolt]

3 isnt very good either so

[placid otter]

gameplay was fun i liked it

[minor bolt]

story is way too tryhard compared to 2

[slate thorn]

From what I've heard the gameplay of 3 is good but the story is just... eh, not bad, but just... very disappointing after how good 2 was

[minor bolt]

yeah pretty much

gunplay is an improvement on 2, narrative is peak "how do you do fellow zoomer"

[slate thorn]

That reminds me, I have pre-sequel for like a hundred years now and I've never played it lol

Probably because I've only ever played bl2 co-op

[placid otter]

did prequel for like 5h, but solo just not the same yeh

[slate thorn]

I tried some borderlands solo, but it's just kinda... not it

[placid otter]

https://x.com/IGN/status/1821917122592649519

IGN (@IGN) on X

The cast of Like a Dragon: Yakuza were encouraged not to play the games before filming. https://t.co/tpvrepVADU

Twitter · Aug 9, 2024, 2:31 PM

why

[neon scroll]

Wouldn't want a Henry Cavill situation where actors love and identify with the source material

Just gets in the way of writers and directors completely ruining it

[pearl cobalt]

https://thegamepost.com/bungie-marathon-not-great-says-jason-schreier/

sorta not surprising

[neon scroll]

def a .shocked moment

[pearl cobalt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmP9QFeGbl4

[placid otter]

ahh, my friend told me not to play long sword when wilds comes out

[glass knot]

catch me jumping around like a maniac on the insect glaive

spinning through an exploding kinsect buff

[placid otter]

i never understood the kinsect in mhw. was my first weapon i used and was fun flying around for 30 seconds at a time

just always felt like i had 0 impact compared to the others

[pearl cobalt]

I use all the weapons. more partial to HH but I like variety

[glass knot]

insect glaive took me a while to understand and use properly but once i got it, it was super fun

getting the buffs and applying the aoe effects you can hit and explode into an effect and stuff

is really really satisfying

[placid otter]

reading this i def never used it right and just messed about instead in the air

[glass knot]

I liked applying a bunch of exploding ones and flying and spinning through them and exploding everything on the way

[pearl cobalt]

looks like they made IG more intuitive in Wilds. but then again, all the weapons (so far) look to be petty good this time around

[glass knot]

on mhw u need to use the insect to hit it on different parts of the monster to get buffs that changes the proprieties on your attacks
you also unlock different insect effects you can apply, like the exploding one i mentioned

The effect creates a zone you can hit and explode into different stuff, altho i only remember the electric and exploding ones

[glass knot]

yeah from the video it looks more intuitive already

[pearl cobalt]

ye and Wilds looks like you can attack and get extracts at the same time
Wilds was showing the Assist bug. unsure if some of what the bug was doing is specifically Assist or all bugs

[glass knot]

Yeah just by getting extracts by attacking it's already a pretty big help

reduces some of the downtime

[rustic peak]

Some of those ls moves remind me of frontier stuff

[placid otter]

https://x.com/TheGamingRevo3/status/1822176573794947312

TheGamingRevolution (@TheGamingRevo3) on X

All of the Black Ops 6 campaign cutscenes leaked. Jesus christ was COD HQ such a mistake.

Twitter · Aug 10, 2024, 7:42 AM

[minor bolt]

lol thats how they leaked?

[placid otter]

they put it in the beta database and somehow alot got leaked

[minor bolt]

ah yeah the link in the replies

they're real unfinished

[placid otter]

no music or animation for pack a punch in zombies anymore

[slate thorn]

So far zombies really is starting to look like once again another skip, sad to see such a cool gamemode die such a sad death 😔