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Jack Trades posted:broke: quicksaves I made up a little script to quicksave via console commands
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oh yeah well i superglued my foot to my oven door
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Sep 26, 2022 21:23
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The truest option: making tape crosshairs on your monitor
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Sep 26, 2022 21:25
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deep dish peat moss posted:The truest option: making tape crosshairs on your monitor My monitor has a setting to enable this and it is complete garbage.
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Sep 26, 2022 21:27
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Tiny Timbs posted:It's really frustrating when games implement swingy matchmaking though, for sure. It's like there are two ways to get a 50/50 win/loss ratio and they pick the one that follows lopsided matches on your side with lopsided matches on the other side because it's easy. despite all the tinfoil hat whining by lol/overwatch players who are just sure that every loss is some kind of conspiracy against them by the matchmaker, no game dev has ever implemented this stupid nonsensical algorithm where it gives intentionally unbalanced matches you're "supposed to lose/win"
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https://twitter.com/IFeelFineGame/status/1574241167155539968 here
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When League first came out (like, back in beta) Riot told people that matchmaking was designed to "keep everyone at a 50% winrate" or something like that, which started those rumors. But it was just poorly worded and what they meant was it's designed to create matches where each team has an estimated 50% chance to win (which they now say in the faq that i just looked up: https://support-leagueoflegends.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/201752954-Matchmaking-and-Autofill ). People just got all conspiratorial about the wording
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:despite all the tinfoil hat whining by lol/overwatch players who are just sure that every loss is some kind of conspiracy against them by the matchmaker, no game dev has ever implemented this stupid nonsensical algorithm where it gives intentionally unbalanced matches you're "supposed to lose/win" they have
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Sep 26, 2022 21:47
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:despite all the tinfoil hat whining by lol/overwatch players who are just sure that every loss is some kind of conspiracy against them by the matchmaker, no game dev has ever implemented this stupid nonsensical algorithm where it gives intentionally unbalanced matches you're "supposed to lose/win" I don't see how a weighted matchmaker would even work for team based games, but it's a thing in some 1v1 games. Blood Bowl 2 is notorious for it, and it has the opposite of its intended effect since certain matchups favor the underdog.
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Sep 26, 2022 22:10
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omega strikers................ is good.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:despite all the tinfoil hat whining by lol/overwatch players who are just sure that every loss is some kind of conspiracy against them by the matchmaker, no game dev has ever implemented this stupid nonsensical algorithm where it gives intentionally unbalanced matches you're "supposed to lose/win" I don’t play lol or overwatch but this is a pretty typical experience with SBMM in CoD so if that isn’t literally how the matchmaking is implemented the result is the same
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Look at this janky rear end poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yymbQwwzZgI I need it now!
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Jack Trades posted:broke: quicksaves bespoke: hex editing I'll be honest, I am fully in favour of games not having quick save if they have: -Metaprogression and short playtimes; -Good stealth games because otherwise people will reload the fun out of the game every time they're found by an enemy; -Horror games because that just kills the tension; -Constant autosaves and you just roll with it.
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There was a really good interview on gamasutra with the Alien Isolation devs on how they considered the save system as part of the game design iirc, that's one that had specific save points which works really well in horror games
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Feels Villeneuve posted:There was a really good interview on gamasutra with the Alien Isolation devs on how they considered the save system as part of the game design iirc, that's one that had specific save points which works really well in horror games It worked well for me until a crash and I lost progress. Just speaking for myself, but losing progress and having to replay anything more than a minute or two is one of the few things that will make me drop a game immediately. Like, Fallout 4's survival mode -- no quicksaves in a Bethesda product, are you out of your loving mind?
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Eason the Fifth posted:It worked well for me until a crash and I lost progress. Just speaking for myself, but losing progress and having to replay anything more than a minute or two is one of the few things that will make me drop a game immediately. Like, Fallout 4's survival mode -- no quicksaves in a Bethesda product, are you out of your loving mind? Especially in Fallout 4 where the physics for abandoned vehicles are partially programmed through black magic so they carry a surprisingly high chance of killing you instantly for simply brushing up against them.
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Nova Drift just got another big update, with a Draft mode where you start at wave 120 / level 35, new bosses in the Nemesis challenge mode, reworked mine & drone mods, and all sorts of other new stuff.
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Eason the Fifth posted:losing progress and having to replay anything more than a minute or two is one of the few things that will make me drop a game immediately. This was what debuffed the game from an 8/10 to a 7/10 for me. I loved the art style, sound design, and general ambiance, but I got hard-rear end stuck on the very first combat encounters in the game (the one with the four humans coming through the door behind you, and that long-rear end sneaking poo poo with the goddamn Working Joes). I probably spent 2+ hours to finish 25 minutes of content, and that experience alone frustrated me so loving much that I shifted from slowly taking in the atmosphere to rushing through it as quickly as possible, because 2-3 blind suicide runs through each new area were often much faster than trying to do it skillfully. I enjoyed a lot of it but in retrospect I should've stopped playing after the Infirmary, because the game peaked in that sequence.
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deep dish peat moss posted:I was indoctrinated by the Sega Genesis's Shadowrun's cheat code of a.b.b.A.C.A.B. Lone Star can suck an egg
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Omi no Kami posted:This was what debuffed the game from an 8/10 to a 7/10 for me. I loved the art style, sound design, and general ambiance, but I got hard-rear end stuck on the very first combat encounters in the game (the one with the four humans coming through the door behind you, and that long-rear end sneaking poo poo with the goddamn Working Joes). I probably spent 2+ hours to finish 25 minutes of content, and that experience alone frustrated me so loving much that I shifted from slowly taking in the atmosphere to rushing through it as quickly as possible, because 2-3 blind suicide runs through each new area were often much faster than trying to do it skillfully. i appreciate your good description of exactly what about the game rubbed you the wrong way and all but please don't describe it as it having "debuffed" your rating of the game, thank you
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yea it should be "leveled down", debuffs are temporary
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it really nerfed my yum
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:yea it should be "leveled down", debuffs are temporary Level drained
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Imagine if you were going to go on a really hot date but then you got level drained by a mummy or some poo poo and when you showed up your date just laughs at you ☹️
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imagine if you were going to go on a really hot date and your date turned out to be super attractive and cool and really liked you
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Cowcaster posted:imagine if you were going to go on a really hot date and your date turned out to be super attractive and cool and really liked you This happens every time I buff up before a date 
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Cowcaster posted:imagine if you were going to go on a really hot date and your date turned out to be super attractive and cool and really liked you what is this easy mode poo poo, i only play hardcore games for hardcore gamers give me a dinner reservation with someone who wants to murder me with a rock
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:what is this easy mode poo poo, i only play hardcore games for hardcore gamers i don't think this is mutually exclusive with what i said
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:what is this easy mode poo poo, i only play hardcore games for hardcore gamers You get this but you have to suffer through 38 years of loving and fulfilling marriage before they bash your brains all over the davenport
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:what is this easy mode poo poo, i only play hardcore games for hardcore gamers
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lmao if you don't respec for every date to maximise your date per second.
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loving hipster restaurants
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Ghostlight posted:lmao if you don't respec for every date to maximise your date per second. I do some niche stuff at awful dates done quick
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:despite all the tinfoil hat whining by lol/overwatch players who are just sure that every loss is some kind of conspiracy against them by the matchmaker, no game dev has ever implemented this stupid nonsensical algorithm where it gives intentionally unbalanced matches you're "supposed to lose/win"
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the thing to consider with any algorithmic matchmaking is at the end of the day it's based on metrics determined by a bunch of coders crunching a bunch of data that may, or may not, actually have any actual bearing on how good someone is at a videogame
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The Kins posted:I wanna say one of the Gears of War games was confirmed back in the day to try and give players favorable matchups for their first couple of online games ever, so they didn't immediately get stomped into the dirt and run away screaming, but I can't find the tweet where that was talked about so... Starwars Battlefront 2 nefariously had designated "Marquee Players" in each match - specifically players with a lot of mtx cosmetics - and matched them against players of vastly lower skill levels. The thought process, as explained by DICE in internal documents, was that those players would show up on so many killcams touting all their cosmetics that the new players would go "whoa I wanna look like them" and spend money
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is that also the one where players could be randomly assigned darth vader or luke skywalker and just loving steamroll (or maybe just immediately eat poo poo because it wasn't that good?)
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Cowcaster posted:is that also the one where players could be randomly assigned darth vader or luke skywalker and just loving steamroll (or maybe just immediately eat poo poo because it wasn't that good?) That's all six Battlefront games except the very first one
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Cowcaster posted:is that also the one where players could be randomly assigned darth vader or luke skywalker and just loving steamroll (or maybe just immediately eat poo poo because it wasn't that good?) Yes, kind of. IIRC it went to the Marquee Players like 90% of the time - the players who spent the most money. Also had to pay real money to unlock them too, on top of having them randomly assigned in matches. Without paying I think your 'hero' characters were just like, generic Alliance/Empire generals and stuff? (I only played it for like a day, cool game outside of all of the mtx stuff) EA's defense of the game's monetization (specifically their defense of why it takes an unbelievably long time to unlock them without paying) is the most downvoted comment of all time on Reddit, by a significantly huge margin (600k downvotes, vs #2 most downvoted comment with about 80,000) https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/7cff0b/comment/dppum98/?context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/ListOfComments/wiki/downvoted/ EA posted:The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Sep 27, 2022 |
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