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Nico's card that does that is the best reason to bring her anywhere. She's a great enabler for any heroism hungry heroes. Speaking of, I found portal junkie Magik to be a good enabler for Iron Man since she can easily push enemies into Tony to trigger card draws and clear chaff. Iirc one of her cards also gets redraws on upgrade which further boosts his selfish rear end.
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Disco Pope posted:My favourite most recent bug is Storm showing up to wish Hunter well before storming the Sanctum even though they've never met as I haven't finished her intro mission yet. I once got Venom starting a Superlink thread despite not having started his recruitment mission yet. "WTF, how did you get this number?"
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May 17, 2023 15:03
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AceOfFlames posted:I once got Venom starting a Superlink thread despite not having started his recruitment mission yet. Obviously Peter gave it to him, trying to save his frenemy from his bloodlust through the power of Nico's banter and Magik's white clowning. It's not a bad plan.
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May 17, 2023 17:22
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Codependent Poster posted:What the gently caress the dialogue is fine for what it is. it's not Disco Elysium "actually a work of literature via game medium" tier, but Matt Mercer being a bit of a dick is amusing enough that i don't skip most of it the actual mechanics are kinda crap. there is nothing fun about grinding missions in hopes that the hero you're trying to rank up with randomly shows up after for a hangout, or that RNG deigns to give you something they like in the gift dispenser. liked gifts, enjoyed activities, and positive dialogue choices don't feel intuitive, and iirc there's not even so much as a UI hint to say "hey, Blade loving hated this activity last time, maybe try something else" the only fun i got out of the actual gameplay system aspect was recognizing that Carol reliably hated dark responses, so i established a headcanon where my hunter just loved making GBS threads on her ideals and torpedoing their relationship. i didn't care much to level her up anyway (sorry Carol, you're bottom tier after early game, and your legendary skill is pretty mediocre)
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May 17, 2023 18:15
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If I could excise any character from this game it’d be Captain Marvel. I don’t like her dialog and I hate her gameplay. I find I’m not too keen on most legendary abilities. I did get a Hellstorm, Goddess’s Blessing, and Storm’s stun card (can’t remember the name, but it gives you +offense) last night though…that plus Utility Belt on Storm led to a very dead Nest Mother’s guardian on turn 1.
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May 17, 2023 18:45
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The Legendaries run the gamut. Off the top of my head, Annihilation, Bladestorm, Assimilation, and Darkchylde are the best. Most of the rest are big, expensive damage abilities of varying usefulness. Some are good, others mediocre. No More and Summon Charlie are the only two that I think are legit bad.
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May 17, 2023 19:09
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It has been a bit since I played. Did they clean up the inventory UI at all? Part of the gift system I hated was that it just kind of lists everything and I don't think you can really discard or sell any of the junk you end up with. In NG+ I only bought legendary gifts specifically to manage that bloat.
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May 17, 2023 20:27
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I googled this game today - I can't remember why, I think I wanted to see some more of how it was received by critics and ended up reading the one-star user reviews. These people presumably also open bottles of bleach while thirsty and exclaim "well, if it will kill me, why is it liquid?!"
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May 17, 2023 21:41
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bobtheconqueror posted:It has been a bit since I played. Did they clean up the inventory UI at all? Part of the gift system I hated was that it just kind of lists everything and I don't think you can really discard or sell any of the junk you end up with. In NG+ I only bought legendary gifts specifically to manage that bloat. i dont think there have been any QoL improvements, unfortunately also yeah, most of the legendaries are kinda eh, with Crack The Sky and Midnight Special being decent "expend all heroism to gently caress poo poo up" finishers after a build up, but Darkchylde is a guaranteed "you lose! you get NOTHING!" rescue that solves basically any misstep for a turn bladestorm is arguably the worse of the hunter skills, but AoE knockback is too hilarious to not use.
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May 17, 2023 22:16
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Are you kidding? Bladestorm is excellent and if you can get a Marked in, it's almost guaranteed to refund itself and draw a shitload of cards between the on-kill and knockback into a hero. Even without, it's maybe the highest damaging card in the game.
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I know I'm late to the game but holy poo poo is Magik busted.
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The Midniter posted:If I could excise any character from this game it’d be Captain Marvel. I don’t like her dialog and I hate her gameplay. I love her character. Don’t use her much beyond the early game, though with her legendary she’s marginally OK. The problem is you have to play her cards and you probably don’t want to focus that much in the later game. But the great thing about the team is you’re bound to love some characters and dislike others. The game is mostly designed so you can spend more time with the ones you like, and Marvel drops out of the main storyline early. I believe they did redesign the card inventory system, but it’s not really an improvement.
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May 18, 2023 04:06
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Narsham posted:I love her character. Don’t use her much beyond the early game, though with her legendary she’s marginally OK. The problem is you have to play her cards and you probably don’t want to focus that much in the later game. But the great thing about the team is you’re bound to love some characters and dislike others. The game is mostly designed so you can spend more time with the ones you like, and Marvel drops out of the main storyline early. She really thrives in a team with Doctor Spooky, who can make her re-draw her Quick cards for faster Binary as well as boost the base damage of her cards (which is then doubled by Binary). Not the best/most exploitative Strange matchup (I believe that honor fittingly belongs to Scarlet Witch), but deffo a good one. In other news, man, Dracula does NOT gently caress around. I... have no idea how to tackle him even with crazy Dark Hunter damage spikes, there's just not enough Cure in the world and his attacks plow right through Resist (though I guess it doesn't help that neither Parker nor Brock have good decks, in general or on my save)
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May 18, 2023 04:55
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Strange is great with anyone. Ironman is ridiculous at the best of times but he and Strange just ruin everything in the game.
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Infinite Karma posted:Are you kidding? Bladestorm is excellent and if you can get a Marked in, it's almost guaranteed to refund itself and draw a shitload of cards between the on-kill and knockback into a hero. Even without, it's maybe the highest damaging card in the game. Bladestorm is excellent; it's just not as good as Annihilation. 4 Heroism for 100% Offence + Forceful Knockback just can't beat 75% Offence per Heroism. Even at equal Heroism cost Annihilation is killing Bladestorm on damage with 300% Offense, and at max, it's 750% Offense. Far and away the highest damage AoE card in the game, and that's before considering you can make it free with Inspire. Kobal2 posted:She really thrives in a team with Doctor Spooky. "Good with Dr. Strange" is a label that applies to every hero in the game. I like Storm okay, but they appear to have made an effort to curb the burst potential of all the DLC heroes. Deadpool and Venom have ramp mechanics, Storm the Next Turn gimmick, and Morbin' Time is another Bleed hero. None of them are bad, but the deliberate lack of frontload means they don't really pop off the way some of the classic cast do. Except for Venom, but that's entirely off the back of his ludicrous Legendary.
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Skippy McPants posted:Morbin' Time is another Bleed hero. Considering they hate each other, it's kinda funny that Morbs and Blade are basically the best team-up they have (above Strange, even !). They enable each other to go ham to a silly degree. I like what they did with Storm - her Next Turn gimmick is a little annoying before you have access to massive card draw, but I like that it's coupled with an incentive to keep the cards in hand some of the time. I wish they'd leaned harder on that. That said, there is no excuse for the existence of Overload. It's like they had a dev challenge to design something worse than Dark Blessing or Immolate somehow.
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Kobal2 posted:That said, there is no excuse for the existence of Overload. It's like they had a dev challenge to design something worse than Dark Blessing or Immolate somehow. They seriously could have just made the card say "Gain 1 Strengthen on Redraw," cause that's all anyone ever gonna use it for. Same as that Scarlet Witch card Detonate. Both it and Overload should work on any environmental object, rather than a specific one. Edit: the deeper I get into the main story again, the happier I am to be reminded that this game writes Tony and Strange as an old married couple. Skippy McPants fucked around with this message at 15:08 on May 18, 2023 |
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May 18, 2023 13:48
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Kobal2 posted:That said, there is no excuse for the existence of Overload. It's like they had a dev challenge to design something worse than Dark Blessing or Immolate somehow. Overload is terrible but I actually rather like Immolate. Since Ghost Rider hits like a truck and does a lot of knockback, it’s not too hard to kill something and have it blow up next to some other baddies and knock some health off the top, especially on harder difficulties where non-minions are a lot more spongy.
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The Midniter posted:Overload is terrible but I actually rather like Immolate. Since Ghost Rider hits like a truck and does a lot of knockback, it’s not too hard to kill something and have it blow up next to some other baddies and knock some health off the top, especially on harder difficulties where non-minions are a lot more spongy. Yeah, but back when I used it (in my first playthrough, for lack of better GR cards) I always forgot I played it the turn before and ended up blowing myself up 99% of the time. Which, granted, isn't *technically* the card's fault, but it's absolutely the card's entire fault. It also nonbos with the "push guys into your friends for damage and cards" mechanic later in the game.
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Petting Charlie 15 days in a row is a rare achievement. What the gently caress is wrong with people?
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Lammasu posted:Petting Charlie 15 days in a row is a rare achievement. What the gently caress is wrong with people?
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I just forget to spend time finding the dog to press a button so I've never done that cheevo and never will.
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JBP posted:I just forget to spend time finding the dog You monster.
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I did get it, but nowadays I only pat Charlie if I happen to come across her, I don't go out of my way to find her. I also just tread a path between the forge, the training yard, and the mission board.
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Really stupid question. If you take Deadpool on a mission with Morbius does he say, "It's morbin time"?
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Lammasu posted:Really stupid question. If you take Deadpool on a mission with Morbius does he say, "It's morbin time"? If he does I haven’t had the RNG to hear it. If anything I actually appreciated that the Morbius DLC seems to be entirely meme-free.
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Chairchucker posted:I did get it, but nowadays I only pat Charlie if I happen to come across her, I don't go out of my way to find her. I also just tread a path between the forge, the training yard, and the mission board. Yeah I hunt down the dog and search for the cat to engage in petting until I max out my arcane knowledge and levels, which can happen pretty quick. It's less of a priority then, but I still pet the dog when I encounter her. Same with the cat when the opportunity arises.
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I'm on a second play through, and cannot remember the trigger for getting more spells to open up the Abbey grounds - is it based on plot events or do I need to trigger it?
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it's some plot trigger, eventually you'll get the "need to talk to strange after he finishes x" or smth to that device and when the trigger clears you'll get it in the abbey
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Disco Pope posted:I'm on a second play through, and cannot remember the trigger for getting more spells to open up the Abbey grounds - is it based on plot events or do I need to trigger it? You need to find the Moon Seals and do combat challenges, they are gated to story progress.
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Disco Pope posted:I'm on a second play through, and cannot remember the trigger for getting more spells to open up the Abbey grounds - is it based on plot events or do I need to trigger it? You can do the first two whenever, but the third will only unlock after dealing with Venom once and for all
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You can do everything right up until there's a cave you can't get into cause of a magic barrier. That's blocked by a specific story point, after which you can do all of the remaining Abbey exploration without issue. Edit: Spoiler commentary on this, it's kind of annoying that's a red herring though. The game stops your exploration dead in its tracks cause you need to get into the cave, but then the cave doesn't have the seal you were looking for and the clues you need to find it are in the church. The cave itself is just a bit of exposition about how your mom turned evil. bobtheconqueror fucked around with this message at 12:02 on May 20, 2023 |
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Game: Hey, this hero has a request for you to join a hangout that they love with them! Me: Okay, cool, be happy to. Also Game: There's nobody who's free to hangout tonight/there are people who want to hangout with you, but none of them are the one needed to fulfill the request. I'm pretty sure I'm approaching double digits on how many times this request has expired because I haven't been able to hangout with the person who made the request. I'm fairly certain the AI is doing this to spite me at this point.  On an unrelated note, (DLC story stuff): I'm endlessly amused by Eddie's investigation into Dracula and the new breed vampyres and all the insane conspiracy poo poo he keeps coming up with, to the point where I'm continuing to encourage it just to see what else he comes up with. 
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Lammasu posted:Really stupid question. If you take Deadpool on a mission with Morbius does he say, "It's morbin time"? Not that I've heard, but the last mission has everybody lined up by the portal, and if you talk to him, Hunter makes a comment along the lines of, "What's your catchphrase? It's time to Morb?"
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This game was fun. Flawed, but fun and landed in a very specific niche. Now that all the DLC is out I went to get it but daaaamn is that a steep price tag.
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Old Doggy Bastard posted:This game was fun. Flawed, but fun and landed in a very specific niche. Now that all the DLC is out I went to get it but daaaamn is that a steep price tag. I was actually going to buy it this week and it looks like the legendary edition includes the season pass. which seems to be the best deal
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Huh. I just now noticed that Hunter cards have different variants for male and female. That's a nice little detail.
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I have like 250 hours in the Series X version and saw they just released one for the Xbone - annoyingly you don’t get access to the Xbone version automatically, you have to buy it separately. I have an Xbox One in our bedroom for general downtime play, if I bought that version for Midnight Suns, does anyone know if my X saves could be loaded on there or would I have to start over?
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What's the general feeling on the DLC? I got the season pass, and I guess and some point I really should reinstall and give it a go. I just read this article in PCGamer though where the guy really hated them all tho: https://www.pcgamer.com/marvels-midnight-suns-deserved-better-than-its-terrible-dlcs/ I frequently disagree with reviewers, so I'm wondering what people here think. I was looking forwards to playing with storm too, do you have to play far through to get to her? Gerblyn fucked around with this message at 16:38 on May 21, 2023 |
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Gerblyn posted:What's the general feeling on the DLC? I got the season pass, and I guess and some point I really should reinstall and give it a go. I just read this article in PCGamer though where the guy really hated them all tho: I played the first two and liked them both. Deadpool was just a bit too silly but is also Deadpool so that's to be expected. Venom seemed like a pretty decent character. Their card sets were fine, and added a bit of variety to the game. In particular, I liked the similarities between Venom and Spider-Man's decks. Not exactly the same, but some definite similarities in terms of how they're very burst-ey characters. Each DLC character also adds some neat Abbey upgrades. Deadpool's food truck lets you discard a card to refund a movement once per combat, which is really good, and Venom's computer thing lets you adjust the mission rewards a bit, which is cool. Stopped playing a bit after Venom came out, so haven't had the change to mess around with Morbius or Storm, but honestly I haven't heard anything bad about either.
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