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Hey everyone, just another quick update! Turtle and I have been trying to connect with one another over the holiday season, to no avail. That being the case, I'm tentatively looking to have the new episode out the Wednesday following the next, which is January 3, 2018. Hope everyone is having a fun, safe time as our year draws to a close!
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I died and had to come back, much like harry potter.
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Dec 29, 2017 08:04
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Turtlicious posted:I died and had to come back, much like harry potter. I guess that's better than Jon Snow, where you die, come back, and then gently caress your own aunt...
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Dec 29, 2017 08:40
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nine-gear crow posted:I guess that's better than Jon Snow, where you die, come back, and then gently caress your own aunt... The night's still young.
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Dec 29, 2017 08:44
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    New Cars    Body Count  It's been a long time coming. We've finally reached the Canyon, the final track in the game and probably the toughest overall. It's narrow and there's lots of stuff to blow up, so it's always a good time, and I'm relieved that I'm finally able to show it off to you. As a nice bonus, it also has, in my humble opinion, the coolest Level 2 Power Play in the game. There are a couple solo events to balance things out, but this itinerary's given us four races to work with, and that means lots of wrecks. We shattered our previous record in Hit the Skids and racked up 72 (!!!) kills by the end of the episode. For all the trouble, we've also unlocked three great new cars. We got familiar with the Ryback Cyclone RS, the raciest of the three, in the Detonator event in the Mid-Season Spectacular (and beat the dev time with it), but the Cyclone RS, along with the Cobretti 530 GTS, is our gateway to the endgame. It really, really doesn't like drifting, but it doesn't have to, because it grips even better than the 530 GTS does. It's a lot lighter than the 530 GTS is, though, and it's rear-wheel-drive, so its drift is more responsive. It'll punish you if you don't know how to modulate your throttle and cut corners, though, especially on inclines and hills, where its poor ground clearance can create unwanted excitement when adjusting. Which is why we've also unlocked the Ryback Titan, the bigger, more futuristic-looking cousin of the Ryback Thunder trophy truck. The best way I can describe this car is to say it breaks loose much in the way that the newbie Rybacks, the Brawler and Mohawk, do. It's about as fast as them, too, unfortunately, but it does have a wonderfully growly exhaust note. It'll also stand up to near anything in the game. Except maybe the Elite Goliath. This is Rigg's truck, and even though it's only Titan fast, it's actually pretty awesome. Its drift is more responsive and more predictable than the Titan's or any of the other trucks', and piloting it's sort of like piloting a nice four-door luxury car. You don't really feel like you're wrestling three tons of blubber like you do in the other land whales. I'd recommend taking a crack at winning the Episode 10 Elite Race, because this truck is worth it. Also it looks like a cross between a Jeep Grand Cherokee and a VW Touareg raid truck, so that's cool too.
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Jan 4, 2018 03:45
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Were you thinking about Kate Winslet, or Michelle Rodriguez for Vixen?
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Jan 4, 2018 04:41
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berryjon posted:Were you thinking about Kate Winslet, or Michelle Rodriguez for Vixen?
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Jan 4, 2018 05:00
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Michelle Rodriguez for sure, I remember her from those awesome Resident Evil movies. Aren't they making another one of those? I just google'd it and they're rebooting the entire series.
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Jan 4, 2018 05:17
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Turtlicious posted:Michelle Rodriguez for sure, I remember her from those awesome Resident Evil movies. Are they making another one of those? No. They're done... for now. Although now Capcom is making CGI RE films staring the actual characters from the game, though they're just as garbo as the live action ones so 
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Jan 4, 2018 05:20
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nine-gear crow posted:No. They're done... for now. Although now Capcom is making CGI RE films staring the actual characters from the game, though they're just as garbo as the live action ones so Oh my god you take that back. Resident Evil is like... The diehard of video game movies, it's awesome.
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Jan 4, 2018 05:21
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For some reason I always envisioned Vixen and Raptor as Boomer McTwist and Wex from Wild 9.
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Jan 4, 2018 06:39
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Wow, at 14:03 on the Survival course you got two of the luckiest exploding barrel bounces I have ever seen. Turtle also made an excellent observations (and I continue to be awed at how he was able to identify things on billboards at the speeds you travel in this game) about the location of the Power Plant. I don't think it is adjacent to the Downtown track as the faux-Space Needle doesn't seem to be in sight, but I'm pretty sure the rail bridge on the right side of the last stretch of the Power Plant is identical to the one used on the Downtown track. I should also point out that while it doesn't happen to you terribly often, it is great to see your Pursuit get split in half by Power Plays. It reminds me of Ace Combat Assault Horizon, though that game came out much later and makes me think that some of its visual design could have been inspired by this. Also, my preferred method of seeing a Split/Second property come back would be in the form of a movie directed by Michael Bay where he cameos as a producer of the TV show, ranting about needing to meet a regular quota of explosions.
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Jan 4, 2018 07:25
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nine-gear crow posted:No. They're done... for now. Although now Capcom is making CGI RE films staring the actual characters from the game, though they're just as garbo as the live action ones so Turtlicious posted:Oh my god you take that back. Resident Evil is like... The diehard of video game movies, it's awesome. It's amazing, you two have inversely wrong opinions!
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Jan 4, 2018 17:15
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 New Cars  Body Count  Let's wind down the season championship and secure our spot in the final with two Survival events and a trip back to the world's most dangerous Airport Terminal! Lots of fun and explosions are to be had, especially when we pile into the biggest, baddest truck in the game to tangle with the Elites. Our new getaway car is the Hanzo FX350, the last vehicle we're going to take ownership of in the season proper. The FX350 doesn't handle like anything else in the game. The blurb in the Vehicle Select screen says it's all about drift control. It can drift alright, but it has the tightest drift of any drivable vehicle, and once it starts drifting, it doesn't really stop until it feels like it. It also scrubs speed if you so much as nudge it in either direction, so overall it's set up for quick direction changes, like in Downtown Central. This makes it a great time-trial car where you have the full width of the road to work with, so it's great at Detonators and Air Revenge events, but its poor Strength and finicky handling mean it's a bad choice overall for explosion-heavy Race and Elimination events, where you don't always have the luxury of planning out your assault on the course.
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Jan 15, 2018 08:21
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Hey diacorn, maybe I've already asked this I dunno, but do you play with a racing wheel or a controller?
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Jan 15, 2018 08:49
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Turtlicious posted:Hey diacorn, maybe I've already asked this I dunno, but do you play with a racing wheel or a controller? Wait, I thought he was in the actual car!
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Jan 15, 2018 15:53
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Despite not being a car person, I'll rise to your call. The VW Touareg was named after the Touareg people. Berber nomads who mostly live in the Sahara desert. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuareg_people According to this article, Touareg is Arabic, meaning "abandoned by God". https://www.pri.org/stories/2012-04-02/tuareg-versus-touareg-whats-name
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Jan 15, 2018 19:50
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As we're closing in on the end I have in fact gotten around to playing this again and assuming the date/time works and everything gets connected I'm in for seeing what the multiplayer is like. Never played the online when it was still around so 'm really curious to see if the multiplayer changes anything.
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Jan 15, 2018 23:27
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That elite race sure was something. You're like the NFL player vs. the kid's team.
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Jan 16, 2018 02:44
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Yeah Diacorn has snapped this game in half and it's awesome.
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Jan 16, 2018 02:53
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azren posted:Wait, I thought he was in the actual car! Pea posted:Despite not being a car person, I'll rise to your call. The name makes a lot of sense, because the Race Touareg was originally developed for the Dakar Rally, a particularly brutal cross-desert rally race through the Sahara. Kibayasu posted:As we're closing in on the end I have in fact gotten around to playing this again and assuming the date/time works and everything gets connected I'm in for seeing what the multiplayer is like. Never played the online when it was still around so 'm really curious to see if the multiplayer changes anything. bbcisdabomb posted:That elite race sure was something. You're like the NFL player vs. the kid's team. diacorn fucked around with this message at 08:32 on Jan 18, 2018 |
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Jan 18, 2018 08:14
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 New Cars   Body Count  This is the last chance we're going to get to wreck out Raptor and cement our legacy on the show, so let's make it count. We're going to hit every event type we've seen till now and mix it up with cars big and small, and we'll even visit our first Survival track. Now that we've finished the season, the game doesn't have a lot left to offer that we haven't seen already, but we've got a couple new toys to play with in the post-game. The first car, the Ryback Firestorm, is billed by the game as "the ultimate drift car", and the game is right. This car flies. It's like the Pursuit, but it links drifts easily thanks to its improved power, and it can stand a hit to boot. It's well-balanced, has an awesome paint job, and is in general a total monster. I have pretty much nothing bad to say about it, except that I wish it could have come into our possession before we got the 3600 points required. We also unlocked Live Wire and Torpedo's Le Mans car, the Elite GT12. It has 10/10 in Speed and Acceleration, and a 1/10 in Strength, so if you drive it, don't get near explosions. Even with its 6/10 Drift, though, you'll be hard pressed to drive it. This car is so light, and has so much wheelspin, it actually burns out in first gear. Moreover, this car doesn't drift like anything else we've seen. If you need to put it into a corner at an angle, it takes its time before it actually responds. Until it decides to play ball, it almost feels like it's driving on ice. Fortunately it doesn't really lose speed once you've got it drifting, but like the Cyclone RS, you're looking for shallow, controlled drifts. Since it's so good at linking these drifts back to back, it handles Air Revenge like no other car if you can compensate for its handling characteristic.
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Jan 25, 2018 08:00
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That bonus cutscene is sure something.
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Jan 25, 2018 09:10
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Goddamit, who do I have to shoot to get Split/Second a sequel?! loving hell, only 86k copies sold?! I AM LEGITIMATELY ANGRY CommissarMega fucked around with this message at 12:56 on Jan 25, 2018 |
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Jan 25, 2018 12:53
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Thank you for showing off this gem. I also appreciate that you went into the final elite Race with a white paintjob.
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Jan 25, 2018 19:51
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Fun note: Split/Second is going to be free for XBox Live subscribers Feb 1st-15th.
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Jan 26, 2018 02:50
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At the time the SUDDENLY PLOT secret cutscene was perhaps one of the most bizarre endings to a video game I'd ever seen. I'm also of half the mind that Downtown Central is the final elite race because they timed the mix of the Elite music that plays after the tower drops to go with the jumps and landings of the rooftop section. I'll try to actually remember to go into the Discord at some point to see what can happen with the player racing 
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Jan 27, 2018 07:17
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Magnificent work, and thanks Diacorn for showing it off. Thanks also to Turtle for being the collective voice of our shock and awe at what has just transpired. I maintain though, that Diacorn's greatest luck is in how the red barrels on Survival courses seem to bounce away from him consistently. In the end, I can only say that as we reach the end of the road, maybe, just maybe, the real friends were the explosions we made along the way. ...or something like that.
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Jan 28, 2018 00:52
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Last Transmission posted:Thank you for showing off this gem. Polaron posted:Fun note: Split/Second is going to be free for XBox Live subscribers Feb 1st-15th.  I'd encourage all of you to at least try this game! Kibayasu posted:At the time the SUDDENLY PLOT secret cutscene was perhaps one of the most bizarre endings to a video game I'd ever seen. ModeWondershot posted:I maintain though, that Diacorn's greatest luck is in how the red barrels on Survival courses seem to bounce away from him consistently.
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Jan 30, 2018 07:02
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 Body Count  Let's polish off the rest of Split/Second by showing off our post-game cars, the Ryback Firestorm and Elite GT12, and revisit some old tracks we haven't seen in a long time. Since there aren't any cutscenes to speak of in this video, both playlists are getting the Uncut commentary. Thanks to everyone who followed along with the LP, and thanks to Turtle for joining me for this season!
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Feb 4, 2018 21:18
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Congrats on a great LP! Comprehensive as hell, even with all the time I put into this back on 360 I still learned a lot, finally got to see the end too!
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Feb 4, 2018 22:52
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That was a pretty great game, and a great LP. Thanks!
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Feb 5, 2018 00:43
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Good show (ahaha) diacorn! Man, this is such a good game, wish there were more like it.
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Kudos to what may well be the most  LP ever!
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