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but, again, large developers and studios since thelate 90s were expected to release games that were functional because they could not be patched. The studios by this time knew if they released it in a bad or buggy state they would not sell asnd make their money back
Yessss and noooo
A lot of games back then released multiple editions with updates
anyways, I find it incredibly amusing when kids these days complain and try to compare things today with "back then"
Arcade games were expected to grab peoples' attention more than anything
yeah and u are right in that sense
Arcades were a wild west of devs like Capcom and SNK trying to outdo one another with outlandish ideas
patches from the internet were a thing starting around 2000
before the mid 90's or so gaming was very different
most of the games themselves were not particularly functional
I miss arcades
or wouldn't stand up to scrutiny now
Yeah
I do too...
Every arcade around here is dead now
and dude, nobody was doing that be real
I miss going to an arcade with $10 in quarters and just spending a day playing different arcade games with friends
I used to go to fighting game events around here, but the fighting game community here literally did a Cadia
and now a region that was one of the powerhouses of fighting games in the USA (Southern California) just doesn't exist anymore
but that's a whole nother can of worms
there are still places that have arcades in europe idk about america
I haven't seen an arcade in the US in a really long time
the era of N64, PS1, gamecube, people were not patching their games from the internet. Maybe in the later stages of the PS2 lifetime and the start of 360 did that become an actual thing. Yes it was possible before this but rarely used
10 dollars wont get you far tho 
and i used to work as an arcade tech
Yeah they still exist here. They were just rare
entrance fee was like 20 euro in poland of all places
there is no money to be made from it generally
PC games were seeing developers publish patches in 2000
^
right
pc gamers
in the 2000's
I need help with the Psykers, Malleus Monstronum Penance which LFG would I post that in?
and again, arcade development (of which my father did for Sente and then Bally Sente) is very different from PC development
re: arcades, even the big devs like Capcom and SNK released updates for their games that required arcade owners to buy entirely new boards
that mass market
and those things are heavy + take up space
Sorry to interrupt
probably your regions LFG channel
pc gaming was/is a lot more 'agile' as the corporate types love to say
I love discussing gaming history
Thank you
A lot of expansion packs back then were literally just keys to unlock content that was unfinished from the first game
I keep meaning to see if I can get it up and running in MAME on my simpit setup
and bandai namco own like, every single machine
MAME is awesome but, you cant use it to run a business
No working ROM?
I have no desire to
Yeah people do custome MAME cabs but that's its own thing
no i know but im just expanding on why arcades are trash now
I think there's a working ROM of Steel Talons out there, somewhere
I haven't put in a lot of effort to look
you open the machine, you void the warranty and servicing
I have a phoenixed Shadow Over Mystara board that's been sitting in my closet for years
A friend sold it to me ages ago
every few years I do a search to see if anyone is selling a working Steel Talons cabinet
gotta call their operators to come take the machine away for 6 weeks to resolder a fucking wire
I honestly have no idea what goes into Phoenixing a board other than replacing the battery, since Capcom wanted those things to self-destruct over time
support was where the money was
kids will never know the pain of trying to play the capcom 32-in-1 cab with boardwalk sand jammed into the buttons
so you'd break your wrist just shooting/doing a combo
or going into an arcade and seeing a NeoGeo for the first time
with its selection of games
kids have no idea how good they have it today
with the expectation for any game they want to play that's available on their system of choice generally working
(and then the NeoGeo is actually bootlegged with a hacked version of KoF2k2 on it)
the golden age of gaming may have been mid-to-late 90s, but the golden age of game development is still happening right now
gaming hardware has never been better
And there's a massive canon of games to base your own game off of
and game development middleware has never been better, making it easier and easier for devs to get into making games
like the creative pool of ideas is very uh
fertile
right now
and it's more accessible too yeah
anyone can whip some shit up in blender
You don't have to dot matrix shit to sprite your game anymore
mobile gaming hides its true benefit for gaming in general - pure accessibility
you don't have to count scanlines and perform code in the time it takes for the projector return
coding games back in the early days of consoles for TVs was absolute lunacy
you had to be borderline genius to make it work well
when my father and I talk about programming, it's two totally different worlds
he talks about dealing with constrained hardware, counting CPU clock cycles for algorithms
Borderline wizardry
I talk about Agile development and layers on layers of abstraction
most of my game dev experience just comes from marketing and QA
and the art side of things, which is what my dad did for a bit before moving on to other clients
I don't have the brain for programming, but it's fascinating to hear about
just slap electron onto it 4Head
my outsider perspective gives me the impression that fatshark has a lot of great creatives on the team, and they'd make for a great production company
electron is a framework for developing desktop apps
chromium+nodejs bundle that every desktop app (including discord) uses
the actual workflow/management probably leaves something to be desired
idk what photon is
FatShark's art and sound people don't deserve the shit programmers they have
Yeah basically
the art and sound people are why we keep playing Darktide
but since it's chromium it is very ram expensive and the only thing you get out of it is that it any idiot with a keyboard can make your ui
Photon is a graphics abstraction library
Valve uses it to make games run on the Steam Deck
they have some of the best sound design in the industry
and FS melee combat is currently still the top dog
cant even enjoy the art and level design when i’m being swarmed by shit on auric all the time
a shame
Pretty much every melee system in an fps now pulls from VT/DT now, at least in terms of gamefeel
it's so weird having a sudden quiet moment in a match and looking around, thinking "Wow, I've never gotten to actually appreciate this area's design before"
I always play new maps on Malice for the first time
boss rush map modifier when 
so I can fuck around and play tourist for a bit
There's a ton of hidden detail in the newer maps
The Pit in VT2 had a ton of little side areas and fun details as well
which you wouldn't ever see in a regular playthrough
not an issue of fault at all
FS's art and sound folks get all the props for their ability to create the environments and ambience Darktide needs
their actual game designers get all the deserved hate for not being able to design their way out of a wet paper bag
There's a good chance whichever team they hired to do QA/playtesting is also not very good
Though
From my time doing QA/playtesting
I can say that usually those people are doing the best they can (for the little pay that they get) and their feedback often sits on a mountain of priorities that programmers, etc. just never get around to

In all seriousness, most studios hire third-party teams to do QA - even huge studios who you'd think would have internal teams
But ALSO in all seriousness
I wouldn't be surprised if it's just a few people at the FS offices doing a quick test
and then giving the work a pass when it shouldn't get a pass yet
I'm dead serious - I don't think FS has anybody whose job is to QA/test
It also helps that most of Fatshark's would-be competitors just keep shitting the bed.
"There is a special providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children, and Fatshark."
— Otto von Bismarck, definitely
I would have believed you if you had said Abraham Lincoln said it.
Oh yeah I don't think they have an actual department for it

We need to have a smite off now 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA this is my 10th ILLISI GIVE ME A GOOD VOID STAFF
The original quote was actually from Bismarck, talking about the USA
Most studios don't, but most studios also hire third parties to test
Whereas FS probably shifts the load to overworked people in other fields, at best
good to know
hmm yes sven this looks good to go
It definitely gives me Digital Extremes vibes, where their past as a production studio really stands out
Great sound design, great visuals, great gamefeel, can compress their game into a tin can every update to keep the system requirements compact...
But holy fuck Warframe is the definition of "this game has no direction and has been that way for over a decade"
the actual game isn't focused at all because Steve and Scott are probably great idea men who jump from one idea to the next
without devoting the time to polish those ideas
You will continue to roll the dice and you will enjoy it. Don't you know that you will stop having fun once you have the thing you want?
and yeah, dev in general is very funny
i just fucking need slaughterer 4 already if melk would get his shit together
All sarcasm aside, is the platitude "it's the journey that counts, not the destination" actually just cope for people who never reached the destination or were dissatisfied by it?
Warframe has never had any solid direction
My current workplace has a database bug where entries without specifications get labeled as something very goofy
And it's been that way for over a year because it doesn't actually impede work itself
it started with "Well, we're going bankrupt, let's just release this space ninja thing we've got and pray that we make enough to make payroll for a few months"
I remember I used to get crucified by WF fans when I said this back in 2014-15
Now it's common sentiment
I feel vindicated with time lol
I knew one of the lead devs at DE, but I think he left before Warframe released
most game studios are
Did he have beans to spill
it's called Survivorship Bias
I haven't talked to Ray in a couple decades at this point
😔
I'd have to track him down
we met in the Unreal modding community
I think he jumped to Epic at some point, but I don't remember right now
Ohh makes sense
That would be a reasonable jump, given DE's past working with Epic
yep
Probably had an in through the company, etc
mostly unrelated, but I also maintain that DRG is successful largely because they were smart enough to avoid these devtraps
and they kept their game very simple
they focused on what they knew they were good at: map generation, gunplay
and player interactions
their community is
something
(something I choose not to interact with)
DRG's mapgen is the key imo
at least from a gameplay perspective
wish they'd release more biomes, but it's probably a massive undertaking
especially working with that game's old spaghetti code at this point
my experience of the drg community was largely very positive
honestly better than every single darktide discord that isnt psyker chat
is psyker chat more civilized than the channels of the blunts?
lol, yes dude
i don't look at other channels
at least here people want to discuss game mechanics and share info
you can have a productive discussion where 2 people disagree
are the others something like "ooga booga me shoot gun"
its a positive oasis of rationality, ironically
big brains want to play with the warp
most of them are just a few people who decided that channel is their private chat server
big brains like understanding how things fundamentally work
what cant you parry with the devils claw
"i think 3rd person mod and HP bars are bad for the same reasons that people hate playing with assail psykers in malice and below"
and then people choose to play bubble smite psyker
"skill issue git gud" etc
The reason i despise those mods is very simple
It triggers the same part of my brain that the uncanny valley effect does
really? elaborate
i dont like them because they both make the game considerably easier for you, to the point where many mechanics are completely trivialised or redundant
which ruins the experience for other players
Very simple
I geniunelly don't notice the difference between healthbars on and off
It looks like it shouldn't be there
right, you think you dont
but look at it this way
I think healthbars is a gray area
every elite is marked, for free
without anyone pinging them
that makes the game easier.
completely unlike the mod that makes the symbol matching minigame super easy
on the other hand, you really can just spam ping if you wanted to
I'm usually in front, so they aren't really marked till I know they exist anyways.
And as I said, I noticed no difference.
which is enough to get you votekicked, rightfully so
i feel like no one marks enemies at all
most randos don't
its because everyone has hp bars 🙂
As for 3rd person, it's a meme, it's absolutely not easier outside of very few weapons.
its so obvious sometimes too
lol, again, it is
you can see behind you
if you're in a situation where it's hard to spot elites/specials and you really need to, then you probably won't get kicked for spamming it
well, I don't so it's kind of annoying
It's not "slightly" lmao
but having perfect 360 awareness at all times, even around corners, is broken
and idk dude if youve ever played any competetive 3rd person games its not that hard.
this isn't a competitive game where you can just get domed for peeking though
no
Imma elaborate further on what i said earlier
stealth sniper missing audio cues enters the chat
There's a pretty huge difference between a game built for 3rd person and a game not lmao.
but im just saying if you are used to 3rd person shooters beyond like, spyro, its still not hard
right dude
but if you are going to deny that seeing behind you isnt insanely strong idk what to tell you
There are advantages, but there's enough disadvantages that it honestly doesn't matter.
3rd person and enemy healthbars feels unnatural because my brain just screams at me like "THIS IS NOT NATURAL AND IS NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD"
and if you think having enemies marked for free is not also insanely strong, i again dont know what to tell you
i USE these mods
Because I play at 3600 DPI, and it's not like I ever really get surprised from behind?
i don't believe that it's "insanely" strong because the game gives you cues for backstabs
^
lol
half my play is responding to audio cues
yes i agree it's an advantage
broo atlas you're cracked, respect
but i disagree on the severity
look
Keep in mind, I'm 1st person like 99.927% of the time, I'm not defending myself for using 3rd person mods or something.
if you get 2 people using the mods, and 2 not, of the same skill level
yes that has been already established
the 2 using those mods will top the scoreboard every time
i just said that i agree that it's an advantage
and its ALSO why i hate people posting scoreboards as if they mean much
fellas help the cat is licking my face
but at the end of the day, Darktide isn't PvP
oh look i got top damage
it kinda hurts how do i use the empyrean to fix this
the other thing is that this is not a very reactive game
Healthbars function like training wheels, and as I said, 3rd person only has a select few weapons that work well with it.
anything that isn't obviously detracting from other players fun is basically fair game
So it's not just the same skill level, which high or low, that matters.
the reason why i don't consider them significant advantages is that the game is pretty lenient in giving you time to react
For most people it's for fun, but I agree that's cringe.
i dont think its bad for any reason
except it takes the experience away from other players
i went into a game earlier today
I mean being shit at the game takes away from other players too 
lol being shit and not using mods are just not the same
please go back to any other chat atlas
i went into a game earlier today
with a plasma vet obviously using hp bars
it was extremely unfun for everybody
no exe stance?
how do you know he was using hp bars?
I think bro was sniping every elite through walls or smth
because he is just killing every elite all the time in situations where its obvious
ah, without tagging?
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To be fair that could just be good target prioritization
like, i knock down 6 ragers and 20 pox with trauma, killing 2 ragers and a bunch of pox
he instantly headshots the remaining ragers in the pile of stuff that is literally just a mass of body parts then moves on
that is obvious hp bar useage
i do it too!
but when you look out for it it becomes obvious who is using it and who isnt
I've had generally terrible vets grab elites super fast too, I think that's a plasma problem.
random question
plasma is great for removing elites from the field
you ever play escape from tarkov?
it's literally what it's best at
None of my friends ever wanted to play 
in that game you ALSO get people gaslighting with "reasonable explanations" for what is obviously a different thing happening
Cost too much monies
in that game, its cheaters
Yeah, though in Tarkov there is that one dude that 100% proved that yes, they are far too prevalent
lol dude i could show you my playtime
i played that game for 5 years since alpha
i didnt need that video to know lol
good lord you're a masochist
i mean at least in this case we don't have a video to go off on to see if it's obvious
Unfortunately in Darktide there's no way to 100% prove that someone is running health bar mods short of bonking them with a shovel and going through their SSD
its really very obvious when someone is using certain mods. I dont have a problem with them, and i use them myself. But i do dislike them because they can make the game significantly easier than the other players are expecting
i legitimately have never felt a strong probability as to whether a player was using healthbars or not
especially when you can ping
"just" ping
the healthbars just let them be greedy and get the kills for themselves
and without revealing the enemy to other players
requires you to aim at the enemy and ping them
In short, we as Psyker chat wish all hp bar mod users a very nice whatever my cat is trying to do here
yes you can just ping
or just spam your ping button
i do it all the time by waving my mouse around and spamming my R key
i would instantly votekick you
sorry not you!
Bruh
yeah, I'll spam my ping key when I see a haze or a group of enemies coming in
he does not mean spam ping like
that's rude
repinging it
I don't understand, are elites that hard to see in groups? They are all super obvious.
enemies don't get unpinged if it's the same enemy
spam pinging doesnt imply that to me
if it's one enemy, spamming ping doesn't constantly reping them
yes indeed
yeah, I'll ping bosses just so I can see the damned things
Sometimes they're like 25 kilometers away and you need a ping to properly line up a shot
precisely, pinging is fine and is very useful
Running purg staff at high perils, I would appreciate pings.
Gets hard to hear through all the voices and see through the fire.
having everything pinged for free when others dont is making the game much easier for you, and consequently them
I have a very simple translation sheet for pings
but you will have twice their damage on the scoreboard
that you can then post on discord to show how big your epeen is
I'd venture having scoreboard on is responsible for that, not healthbars.
Other people just wanna win the round.
Single enemy ping: Enemy here
Multiple enemy pings: OH FUCK I WALKED INTO 8 CRUSHERS
Location ping: Go here to not alert the DH/Get in the karking elevator
Many location pings: Misinput while trying to tag a bomber through his fire/"Please votekick me"
oh for SURE dude
i have scoreboard to compare performance between different weapons on a talent build and such
truth
same reason I use healthbars 🤷♂️ , without them I would have never realized wildfire is actually useful 
I like having friends with the scoreboard because i get to see the truly ludicrous amount of crits i drop.
other people have scoreboard to show how they top score every game and that makes them a better person than you
I realized it's useful after i somehow dropped like 5 shotgunners at the same time with just soulblaze
no dude, dont you know?>
That's probably PC though
wildfire is utter trash ofc
not me saying the opposite 3 weeks ago and getting slated by you guys in here
Funnily enough, my friend who runs the scoreboard plays zealot, runs ahead, always goes "WHAT THE FUCK" when he dies
does dum dum go to 4?
And somehow runs face first into every DH.
To be fair, most of the people here stil hate wildfire.
Yes
yes
eh, I don't need a scoreboard to know I'm beter than most people I end up with in pubs. Having to res teams constantly solo tells me that well enough lol
i had the weirdest game yesterday, i changed my loadout as we loaded in
and got martyrdom and piety
Is Blazing Spirit on Trauma and Void the only tier 3 only blessing?
Man i need to re-learn how to meow.
Feels bad when my cat meows at me and the most i can reply with is what sounds like a broken whoopie cushion
for staves, I think so
In general
yeah, I immediately thought of Blaze Away for guns
hot or not from melky here
you think it would be great, but for some reason i had like no toughness or toughness dmg reduction and i kept getting pasted
god no, Sour Milk the opposite of "hot"
went down like 6 times in the one run, i was very embarassed
perfect strike
I would yoink the bloodthristy since you have plenty of melkies.
idk i would just buy and keep it
they might make blazing spirit on swords better one day, in which case this is a pretty sweet base no?

Yeah I guess.
I've started holding on to well-rolled weapons in the hopes of future patches making them worthwhile
I'm basically out of t4 blessings on weapons I care about
I mean I did buy a Trauma with Surge for the same reason, though now it's the most meta staff ever.
Is this why we're here? Just to suffer?
also, convince me why it would be bad to run a blazing/shred deimos with my blaze trauma
the irony
Double fire has to be good 
like yeah yeah blazing sucks, but im already doing a crit and burning build, i guess with +5 and shred the crit rate has gotta be pretty high
i guess you only really apply it to tanky elites...
hmm
Even with scrier's gaze, it honestly doesn't feel like it applies enough soul blaze.
Just feels kind of dookie
yeah, the problem is until you're applying soulblaze with every swing, it just doesn't feel good
and you have to invest so much to get anywhere near that, that you're hurting yourself in other ways
i guess its also like, im 1 shotting most enemies with force swords anyway
we should petition FartShack to revert Bloodthirsty on force swords
and the ones you arent dont really care about 4-8 burn stacks
put it back to how it was on release
Basically, yeah.
tbh my overall experience of blaze trauma has been, yeah its fun, but the fire is so much less damage than just going rend and flurry
this was my experience too
DoT vs impact
blaze trauma is good, it does alot of damage to everything
Speaking of healthbars, not having fire on trauma is kind of BM when you are knocking things everywhere.
Cause it's harder to tell what's still alive for you and your teammates
but i prefer rending because it kills individual targets faster
oh AGREED i hate trauma for this reason
Dead things can't be warpfired
Blaze Trauma is for flaming shriek spammers in my opinion, which I am.
completely agree and its why ive always disliked trauma, again cos it griefs the team
i want all 4 players to have fun when i go in, maybe im crazy
ALSO
it IS possible for dead things to burn and spread fire even
But warpfire helps both you and your team see what's alive.
And when someone perfectly headshots and executes a downed enemy 
i dont know what allows it to happen
this is why you also turn down number of ragdolls to minimum
but i have seen it
that way, if you still see a body, then it's still alive
but then my game is less fun
^
¯_(ツ)_/¯
less bodies and bodyparts and gore to get better score is peak soy behaviour
I used to have ragdolls cranked up
same as posting scoreboards

did everyone have fun? awesome mission successful.
then I got tired of enemies being knocked around and not knowing which were still alive without running around and swinging at everything on the ground
so you turned on health bars 😄
yeah im trollin dude
scoreboard, talent tree node switch one
and weapon customization
that's basically it
but its useful for that, no? strong, even? you could say, it makes the game easier, perhaps? 😄
i recently got into custom HuD
.. did you intentionally not capitalize the 'u'?
idk you just pointed it out and im at a loss
it's Heads Up Display
HUD
I have to assume that almost everything behind my teammates is alive. Not a game passes where my teammates don't just run ahead in search of the next big pack to pad their score and leave behind stray gunners and ragers for me to deal with as I guard the rear.
yeah dude i dont disagree lol
That makes me picture you saying HUD like Huuuud.
maybe he was thinking Heads Uwup Display
but yeah i just wanted custom for moving the ability icon and putting thrust next to the crosshair
definitely useful
ThrustMaxingᵗᵐ doesn't fit with your earlier argument 
idk i guess i just dont understand why mods are enabled in open public lobbies, its weird
because FartShack can't stop people from using mods
neither does me using HP bars and 3rd person
i can be a hypocrite, as long as i dont post scoreboards and brag about how much better than my non mod using teammates i am 😄
i think the second
Well no, it's not hypocritcal to say it's cheating, a cheater would know best after all.
Complaining about the plasma vet was weird though
dude, 4 players went into the game to play it
only the plasma vet got to play the game
That's a plasma problem though
plasma + hp bars problem
im feeling the first one but is the second one better?
but i agree
the second is better
but really mobility is the dump stat
Second is better yes
cool cool ty ty
check out this plasma vet i encountered yesterday. think he's in this server actually. @spice veldt this you? kinda cringe to blow yourself up at the starting elevator at relay station. bad at game
mankar put poison in my mutton
haha
what a noob
i can honestly say, hand on heart, i have never blown up from plasma
even if you shoot on 100% you dont blow up
I did the first time I used it
like, how do you do it lol
you go nuts with charged shots
ask @spice veldt
I blew myself up on purpose last week? I think
charging it 🤮
in the dropship
i help you and this is how you repay me?
i should've stayed alive just to blow a burster up onto you
I've seen that screenshot a couple times at this point 
maelstrom duo beginning from minute 3 (which is when arco blows a burster up on mankar and thus becomes content with life)
that's what it should've been
this is even funnier
that @spice veldt guy
literally did no damage
the whole game
so fucking bad lmao
i'm recording the next time i tbag you
manky boo
arco trash
very original (not)
never used a health station tho, truly a team player
to backtrack a bit
bloodthirsty on release?
i have my B helmets but i was noob at tide back then
what was different about it?
at release, Bloodthirsty was 5 seconds of guaranteed critical hits on special kill
on force swords
oh it lasted 5 seconds
it was changed in the patch that also added Illisi and Deimos fswords
instead of 1 hit
yep
thats insane
yeah, would have been amazing with Illisi
I dreamed of having Bloodthirsty + Blazing Spirit fsword
never got Bloodthirsty before the change
an old video i made to demo crit breakpoints with bloodthirsty https://streamable.com/r0ine0
Bloodthirsty currently is kinda... not completely terrible with Illisi
It's like power Cycler III at home
It's passable
there are much better options now
But if you've got a beginner's Illisi, and you're stuck with it because you need to change 2 of the other attributes more, it'll do
Oh yeah pfhoenix
Fun little blast from the past, building off the convo from earlier
my father used Deluxe Paint on the PC
Actually it’s a pretty long article
Deluxe Paint was the computer graphics tool for a good bit
I need to ask my dad what he used specifically
I’m sure he used it at some point. He did some key art for the original Dragon’s Lair (god how did I mix that up)
I grew up with photoshop back when that was new, in the early 90s
and the way artists used the nature of TV displays to get color smudging/fading was very clever
Photoshop released in 1990
Yeah I’m a 1993 baby
Honestly after King of Fighters 13, i don’t think we’re ever seeing the return of fighting games with sprites lol
well there's no reason to
It’s only for nostalgia and artistic purposes
the higher the expected base resolution, the more work it is to do sprites
From a dev standpoint, you spend tons of money and months of dev to create… one character
now, you could always render down models to sprites
but you're still generating potentially gigs of sprite data for high resolutions
That’s usually what happens now
It’s either that or small games will use them
But it’s just not feasible for big projects anymore
nope
And i think people are tired of sprites after the 2010s trend of 16bit-alikes
nah, I disagree with that entirely
People want chunky psx graphics now
a solid sprite art style works wonders, still
Terraria is still selling strong
Core Keeper is getting decent sales still
low resolution sprite style is still popular, and a lot less work than high resolution sprite work
True, people still love Stardew too
absolutely
Sprites in general are neat for giving small art lots of detail
frankly, people trying to appeal to PSX/1 style aesthetics don't really understand why people look fondly on that stuff
lots of people make still sprite art just to be sprite art
Ayup
PS1-era style wasn't particularly good at all
it was simply the best we had at the time
A lot of it is people who grew up late into its lifecycle
there's a false nostalgia associated with PS1 style graphics
it's the classic nature of the titles, not the graphics, that are remembered fondly
when I see an indie game advertize that art style, I immediately pass on it
ohhh, I had that magazine
it may look like ass, but real-time textured polygons was not a common thing then
What a time to be alive
Unreal 1 also had dynamic textures, which was poorly dressed-up automata modifying texture memory
Unreal was an amazing technical achievement
Late 90s?
It had to be around there with Street Fighter 3 on the cover
I still have my original Unreal CD in a binder somewhere in my office
@tulip kettle when were you an arcade technician?
ah okay, waaay after my father stopped making arcade games
and i spent more time fixing the 3 lane 10 pin skittles machine than anything else
skittles machine?
lol no
okay 🙂
its definitely a euro thing
that and cleaning gum/crisps/bodily fluids out of coin mechs
job was way less glamorous than youd expect
yeah, I won't ask about that
Late but yeah, psx/turn of the century graphics have a certain uncanny charm - however, that charm comes from the devs and artists adjusting awkwardly to new tech, trying to make higher quality textures with very crude tools, etc
it’s a very of-the-era thing that you can’t just turn into a dumb aesthetic
i did enjoy working on the older machines the arcade actually owned, we had some "big rig truckin" cabs from i can only guess the late 80's / early 90s that were always breaking
completely agree to an extent, but surely you could say the same about 8 bit?
Yeah for sure, though i think 2d sprite work gets more of a ‘pass’ since there’s an understanding that it’s more like a 2d illustration
I need to think about that one
lol i remember those Eighteen wheeler trucker cabs
WHY does melk always give me a prebricked version of any weapon i talk about here?
do not tempt me to use Obscurus
just.... dont buy it
no its just weird
ngl you only use melk for easy t4s to unlock on actual good gear
i talked about illisi yesterday and i got a bricked one in the store
You know melk is only useful for getting blessings you dont have
sometimes you get good stuff
melk tried to sell me 75 power stam curios nearly all week last week
for gunker is this shaping up to be decent? I had to swap blessings so I didn't accidentally get another dumdum on it
bonus points if you get the better melk mod so you're no longer needed to interact with him for bounties
okay, this can be good yes, see what else you get
i know nothing about zealot but this doesnt seem too bad
I just am not sure if I should be doing carapace of flak
because it had a crap blessing
you could have rolled dumdum on the second my dude?
yeah you're right haha
i would swap carapace for unyielding, personally
welp, lesson learned hah
then pray to get a good second blessing
llike, columnus is just not what you want to be using vs carapace enemies
use your sword or whatever
and with maniac, everything else except reapers, bulwarks and bosses will die very, bery fast
fair point - so maybe swap blessing back to something else, hope for dum dum or fire frenzy
on second blessing
as youve already done it
i would swap dumdum to whichever blessing you have unlocked that you DONT want
before i upgraded it
then upgrade, swap the blessing back to dumdum if i dont roll it, then swap carapace to unyielding
yeah agreed
put raking fire on it. This way at least there is a chance I get dumdum on it
build fully into crits on your tree and make sure you get true aim
yep I have the gunker build already - was using revolver and mkii caxe
if you get firefrenzy or deathspitter or dumdum you are onto a winner its look
looking like
ah ok so deathspitter is the other. I had a crap rolled gold with deathspitter and dum dum. Had to sacrifice it for dum dum blessing unlock
its a shame you can't reroll stats
yeah deathspitter stacks in the same way as firefrenzy, it just doesnt show it, i believe
and tbh you dont need to, dockets arent exactly hard to come by
yeah but the odds of getting solid stats and then all the other rolls you need are much lower than finding 2 good pairings of blessings and perks
on most weapons it doesnt matter that much
as long as you at least HAVE the blessings you want
right now a god tier weapon is stats + at least 2 perks or blessings, or 1 of each just like you want
yeah I'd agree, perks aren't exactly the end all be all
thats the axe im using
any caxe with BM is just... very good.
carapace I mostly take out with my revolver, if I switch to the columbus I might have to swap back to dueling sword?
precisely
and maybe take assail if you dont
I do take assail
perfect
helps not use all the ammo
precisely
it also means you can freely magdump your columnus at anything that isnt a crusher or trash and it will die super fast
So assail to start killing mob, then columnus while peril starts going down
well you can use gun on trash, but mainly use assail and the sword
between the 2 your horde clear is plenty fast even though DS isnt great on its own
makes sense
then the gun is for elites that arent crushers, specials, and monsters
ah gotcha
perfect
hard to put down the caxe haha. the DS is pretty sweet though
the mobility and dps vs crushers and 1 shots on mutants is very nice
I do enjoy the heavy stab to the face as they rush at you
which is literally what you want it for, as well as the odd bit of spamming to mop up hordes
makes sense and its really good at it
enjoy
thanks
hopium and yellow toughness
i assume yellow toughness since i don't think you can get the stats to survive a crusher overhead on psyker
though i didn't really test too much
Yeah id say it's the yellow toughness fooling people
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trajedy
You defo can't block them even with max blocking perks etc
yeah i suppose players just don't expect some attacks to be unblockable since it's not explained and most attacks are blockable
but you would hope that people would test stuff before saying it...
NOW try it again with deflector
Deflector doesn't affect melee attacks
The % block efficiency only applies to ranged
really?
Truly
i thought it added the range blocked and gave block efficiency
damn
eh its still nice
duelling swords also have a better block cost than force swords even if the deflector's block eff would apply to melee
force swords have a frontal block cost of 1 bar, and the mk2/4 duelling swords have a block cost of 0.5 bars
eh youre better off dodging than blocking most times
the mk5 has ~0.33 block cost at 80% defense
You can block reapers for ages though
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The true strength for the force sword block is actually the push attack
Not optimal, but amusing
the ranged block is really nice tho
The shove is strong enough to knock over literally anything that isn’t a boss, even crushers mid-overhead or ragers during their flurry
And it has good range for a shove, too
whats the effect range for the ranged block?
i dislike the push-attack on force swords nowadays though it's still nice
i'd prefer an offensive push-attack
like just your field of vision right?
I imagine this is why the shove used to cost peril lol
Yeah i understand the desire for an actual push attack
the old force sword push also had a larger range and other bells and whistles that i don't know about since i hadn't played psyker at that time
It’s less of an issue on the Deimos since you can follow up the shove with a heavy
But still
Psyker also used to be able to vent peril on block
oh yeah the push/attack chaining into h2 is nice for the deimos
So barring disablers and fire puddles, you could revive without worry if you took Kinetic Deflection
nah now you block push dodge and run away now the enemy is 50 meters away and you're hiding behind your ogryn like the emperor intended
oh kinetic deflection not stopping the passive quell
It was pretty funny
It was gold
Knife suddenly became an amazing defensive weapon
yeah 0.5 for the mk3 and probably for mk6
Yeah KD is still super clutch for revives in general
I just want Siennas dagger back in the form of a force dagger ;_;

But psyker can't even block a rager for 1s
force dagger but the alt attack is a throwing knife
I guess if you sprinted everywhere like a poopoostinky you too would despair when the stamina tax collector comes around the corner
The thing is that barely even matters, since our stam regen delay is so short we'll have stamina back between each hit
I think that's not true
Obviously not if you're getting attacked by a bunch of stuff
But with KD life is easy
Crutch implies you're relying on it when you shouldn't, right?
Damn, psyker is so awesome, i can't believe i used to be a zealot enjoyer
it will be my main character from now on
Yes
That man skilled some issues
omg kat
KD is a nice to have, I guess, but I mostly have it because I'm getting True Aim
i definitely get a feeling of "ah frick ah heck" on rager waves
that is to say, i used to
back when i ran SG
now there is only shriek :)
life is good
Shriek enjoyers
Ragers still don't scare me with SG, +3 stam helps with that. It's not necessary but boy do I enjoy it
+3 stam is wonderful QoL
The only weapon I don't run it with is trauma
gonna do warp battery tommorrow with a friend
no reason to get True Aim with trauma
I meant KD
I figured, and my statement still stands 🙂
works for bulwarks reapers and crushers to
I only ever have KD because I want True Aim
i just have bad memories of getting run over by rager waves as the last one standing
rather unpleasant
maulers are slow
Silent maulers >
Balanced loadout still seems to be key
ragers are fast
Silent bursters, actually >
the maulers only need the one hit tho
Been happening alot actually, so annoying
ragers take several
give me burster DR on curios tyvm
You only hear it as it's already rounding the corner why
Yeah and one burster does like half our health or more, because psyker has no universal damage reduction
i don't like the fear of being one hit if im slow on staggering a mauler
I’ll take no damage for 80% of an auric and then suddenly one sneaky burster puts me into the danger zone
true
Rager is scary on low stam, means on little hit is enough to slow you down into all the other bullshit
psyker can get okay toughness damage reduction
nowhere near what vet and zealot can get, though
Yea
yep
Deimos gang
that's what +maniac is for
i can't do that to maulers
If there's 3 or more you do push attack
its why they scare me
So good
they are slower
Maulers also die to push attack
yeah
Yeah if we had Iron Will instead of Ine with the Warp
Do that more
hoo boy
but they do way more dmg
ragers are spookier to me because they have an easy time encroaching your space and have attacks that can't be spot-dodged
No other class has base kit horde clear though 
you think someone else has a mauler aggroed then i got hit in the back by a mauler and was downed instantly
i was killing the crusher
then got hit
Or seven bajillion ways to regen toughness like we do
Ogryn has two main ways to regen massive amounts of toughness, but he needs to melee stuff (Inspiring Barrage aside)
"why didn't you dodgeee"
deimos will also knock maulers over on headshot heavy 2
Inspiring Barrage is great on ogryn, too bad it’s ripper-only
It’ll flatten crushers out of their overheads too
I assume it's a bug
trauma has good cc
it has to be a certain lvl of charge u[
up
to stagger tho
it won't stagger or knock over otherwise
you also have to time it if you want to fully stunlock things like crushers
i always fully charge it
then they fall over
and the 2nd hit kills sometimes not always
cause rending
i hope you get burstered by josho
oof
i think ima try to peril kill a rager
for my penance
seems fun
only thing is they got more health then most other elites
minus the ogs
im taking a break for a bit
josho did not commit burster crimes when exhil and i were there today
this is so sad
he only committed against himself, iirc
once or twice
dum bith
bih ahh mf
after playing DT since closed beta, finally got it. Repair missions just suck ass
cause i was tryna kill the approaching burtster
they ran up as soon as i popped it
and they flew off the map
they did keep trying to run ahead
so i didn't feel bad
but they brought it on themselves
Happens
New Lucceia pfp moment
Also barrels
I finally got that a couple weeks ago
and to think that there are people who have done all penances
Ehhh I got my mission improbable yesterday

wut
any advice on what to do with this? Low first target feelsbad but this seems like it's worth finishing craftin
i totally forgot I had this lmao
no precog or riposte
uncanny would be good to
shred ain't to bad
but unless your doing a sb build blazing won't help much
I'm thinking of just leaning into blazing spirit but havent played psyker properly in a while
yeah I figured I'd just use it for a SB build
im using a bb build with soul blaze
and trauma
if i do pop a bb with melee on deimos
it occasionally lights stuff on fire
if it pops the elite
but the bb popping is random on what it targets
I got one of those builds rn
using this w BB and warp siphon as my keystone (venting as ability)\
so if im keeping demios keep shred?
SB I mean
@dusk sierra I don't recommend soul blaze on the deimos or any other force sword, it's just very underwhelming. With the exception of Monstrosities, you won't be able to build enough soul blaze up to make a meaningful difference before the target is already dead
Thats a very nice trauma staff, though
I am having issues with the game crashing only when I am using the disrupt destiny psyker. all other builds and characters run smooth
Anyone had this happen to them? Is it one of the mods?
Weapon's custom mod causes memeory leak crashes for me
Only mod I know that might have issues, some people don't have this issue.
entering my inventory is a death sentence for my game
i am guaranteed to crash within 1-2 games if i dare to enter my inventory multiple times

I dont have it
my crashes are only happening during the mission and only on DD psyker
alright what news do we got
@severe folio
yeah my game also tends to crash midgame
entering my inventory increases the probability of that
how do I even enter the inventory midgame?
what is your best advice for someone playing assail psyker wanting to mainly use assail
interesting
i do not know about that bug
but that sound like a big blunder for someone like me
since i use DD a lot
I wanna try it but my game keeps crashing
play low difficulties
ive heard if you have a large inventory of items it can make it worse, whether thats a placebo or not i cannot say
cmon
I'm serious
i want real advice thank you
i dont want to fight joe and his 13 infected friends
i want hordes
you cant use assail as a main weapon in high difficulties
I understand there will be situations i will have to switch my weapons
I want more experienced advice than play low difficulties im not saying you play low difficulties but like i want more detailed advice than that
no i mean that i'm entering my inventory when i'm out of a game
and then that increases my probability of crashing as my game runs
