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There's a new eternal league single player mode where you travel around a map entering comps etc.
NoNotTheMindProbe fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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Sep 6, 2017 07:58
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I wish there was a way to speed up the AI turns like in the first bb game from cyanide. Single player matches take way too long without that.
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Sep 6, 2017 08:11
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:There's a new eternal league single player mode where you travel around a map entering comps etc. poo poo, really? I might actually have to get this now...
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Sep 6, 2017 09:30
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There isn't much to the travelling part, mind you. You can basically enter seasonal comps and if you're in the top 2 or whatever you get a ticket to one of the big cups like the Chaos Cup and Spike Magazine Trophy. Eventually if you win one of the big cups you get to go to the Blood Bowl qualifiers. There are also resurrection leagues where I think your guys will come back if they get killed and a comp where you play against mixed teams.
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Sep 6, 2017 10:12
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Yeah that's worth picking it up for. I don't have the patience to play against people and their 3 minute moves all the time and its nice when i'm firing up BB1 that I can just blitz through a game in a few minutes.
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Sep 6, 2017 10:17
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But isn't the AI really lovely and teaches you bad habits?
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Sep 6, 2017 11:25
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Drone posted:But isn't the AI really lovely and teaches you bad habits? Yeah, but there's something appealing though about effortlessly stomping through several 2000+ TV AI teams with your own 2000+ Halfling team  How's BB2 now? I gave up because of the stupid match making system from release, is that still going? I'm tempted to pick up LE because Kislevs with a Bear.
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Sep 6, 2017 11:46
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On the other hand, the AI won't call you a fag and drop the game when they get two players KOed on the second turn.
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Sep 6, 2017 16:44
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After 20 years of playing I have long sincecome to terms with the fact that I will never be good at it. Making people ragequit is all I have to play for.
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Sep 6, 2017 16:52
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the AI teaching you bad habits is kind of an academic notion if you do not intend to play online - and a lot of folks don't. private leagues require a fair bit of time investment and communication with others which can be hard either logistically or because goons, and public perpetual leagues quite frankly are fundamentally flawed because they don't acknowledge half of the assumptions in the rulebook (such as weeks of play being a factor in a team's trajectory - a loss doesn't matter in public perpetual, only deaths do.
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Sep 6, 2017 17:25
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Personally I already had had habits from playing in essentially open eternal league of the board game when I was a teenager, against other teenagers, where we misinterpreted a few rules and almost no-one bothered to do stuff like game TV.
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Sep 6, 2017 17:49
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Coolguye posted:the AI teaching you bad habits is kind of an academic notion if you do not intend to play online - and a lot of folks don't. private leagues require a fair bit of time investment and communication with others which can be hard either logistically or because goons, and public perpetual leagues quite frankly are fundamentally flawed because they don't acknowledge half of the assumptions in the rulebook (such as weeks of play being a factor in a team's trajectory - a loss doesn't matter in public perpetual, only deaths do. I will admit that a lot of the dumbest behaviors in the game stem from the fact that was never meant to be played in perpetual leagues. They did gently caress up the new inducement rules though. Unless they've changed it from beta, the way it works now is that the higher TV team buys inducements first and anything they spend out of their treasury gets added to their TV / the opponent's petty cash. Then the lower TV team buys inducements, and if they decide to go into their treasury there is no compensation for the higher TV team, which is liable to lead to stupid poo poo like a team being a 10k underdog and scumbagging a Wizard in a playoff game.
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Sep 6, 2017 18:54
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Yeah there's two ways to deal with perpetuals in my mind. Either just let people make teams and level them up at the push of a button to make both time AND deaths worthless and reduce it to playing the game for the game's sake, or match based on number of times the team has played in order to make time matter. If you grind up some horribly minmaxed murder chaos over the course of 250 games, well, you won't have anyone that senior to play except other dillweeds doing the same thing. Cyanide of course will do neither of these
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Sep 6, 2017 20:10
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hey I think I bought this a long time ago and I kinda want to learn do I need all the millions of dlcs or whatever
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Sep 6, 2017 20:52
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well what exactly did you buy, is it 1 or 2
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Sep 6, 2017 20:58
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http://store.steampowered.com/app/236690/Blood_Bowl_2/ it came out in 2015 right? i figured this is the one everyone played
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Sep 6, 2017 21:02
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yeah, there's still some action in the old chaos edition from blood bowl 1 though which is why i asked so you don't need the DLCs in this game until you want to play as the teams in them. all the quintessential teams are in the base game; orcs are probably the easiest to pick up for a newcomer, humans are the most flexible and can do a fair bit of both running the ball around, passing it, and punching dudes in the face. orcs are more bashy but still maintain a dude who's good at throwing the ball. so the one-sentence reply is to start with them and play around a little bit. start against the AI, yes we just finished saying it will teach you bad habits if you play against it forever because it's bad at the game but when you're learning what does what it's fine. as you get more used to the game you might say to yourself "hey! playing as a bunch of zombies sounds cool" or "man i want to play as a bunch of short dudes in awesome hats" and at that point you'd go back and get the necromantic DLC or the Chaos Dwarves DLC respectively
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Sep 6, 2017 21:08
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I finally got to try this game and everything is just so much in the way of actually playing the game. Menus, interface, animations, the annoying commentators. Playing is a chore. As far as playing a multiplayer board game vs a brain dead AI, yes, there are plenty of campaign options so you can pretend it is meaningful.
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Sep 6, 2017 21:58
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Why do gobbos get matched at 150 bonus TV? Cyanide made this a "feature" apparently. A couple bribes is nowhere near seeing more MB block and tackle on enemy teams in value.
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Sep 7, 2017 01:12
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I'm dumb and bad at this game but I am enjoying the new solo eternal mode with my team of rats named after US Presidents. A troll punched W. so hard he died and I had to bring him back with an apothecary.
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Sep 7, 2017 01:19
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Mahasamatman posted:Why do gobbos get matched at 150 bonus TV? Cyanide made this a "feature" apparently. A couple bribes is nowhere near seeing more MB block and tackle on enemy teams in value. You're gonna love what they did with Halflings. The same thing, but 300k 
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Sep 7, 2017 03:01
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Bob James posted:I'm dumb and bad at this game but I am enjoying the new solo eternal mode with my team of rats named after US Presidents. Why is Trump not a rat ogre?
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Sep 7, 2017 03:28
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Lunethex posted:Why is Trump not a rat ogre? Taft is going to be the rat ogre.
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Sep 7, 2017 03:29
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Mahasamatman posted:Why do gobbos get matched at 150 bonus TV? Cyanide made this a "feature" apparently. A couple bribes is nowhere near seeing more MB block and tackle on enemy teams in value. CKnoor and the_sage are to thank for that wonderful idea.
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Sep 7, 2017 16:12
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Gobs are meant to play with bribes but forcing it seems inadvisable rather than having sliding scales for match-up tolerance.
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Sep 7, 2017 20:24
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If you want your players to match up evenly with your opponent's players, maybe try a different team? Goblins NEED bribes and star players.
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Sep 8, 2017 00:21
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I've been sitting and waiting to get Blood Bowl 2 until it was cheap enough to be acceptable, and 44 bucks for the legendary edition is just right for me. Do the goons here still hang out in IRC, or have you moved to Discord like most people?
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Sep 8, 2017 03:31
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Is the IRC still vaguely active? I'm starting a new LP tomorrow and I was going to make a discord room and post it in that thread. I'm not dealing with IRC anymore given that discord exists. I don't know if people want to migrate over to discord or what, but I was just curious if people still used the IRC. Not quite an edit: yah same thing as the guy above. I'm making an LP/general bloodbowl discord in the morning.
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Sep 8, 2017 04:53
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Here is the link to the new LP https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3833533&pagenumber=1 And also the discord channel I made for bowling the blood: https://discord.gg/CrYDjqd Jump in or don't
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Sep 8, 2017 15:58
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I'll head over to r/mlp to let Furril know.
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Sep 8, 2017 23:27
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Didn't gnuorder already make a discord that nobody bothers to use? I hope yours goes better agent. Also you should play passing ogres for your LP.
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Sep 9, 2017 02:44
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Antlerhill posted:Didn't gnuorder already make a discord that nobody bothers to use? I hope yours goes better agent. Got almost 20 people in it at the moment and there's been constant chatter all day. Should at least stay fun and active through the LP, even had some people finding pick up games with each other for the first time in years so thats all super great!
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Sep 9, 2017 06:12
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First match w/Legendary Edition: My new team is a 290k underdog in their first match, game froze to "internal server error" when I tried to view my opponent's roster, eating up most of my inducement selection time. And I rolled a 1 twice for winnings. But that one is just Blood Bowl. Victor Vermis fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Sep 9, 2017 |
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Sep 9, 2017 17:28
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What is the disadvantage of union teams?
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Sep 12, 2017 05:31
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Mixed teams? They tend to be gimmicky and aren't allowed in a lot of leagues I guess. They've only been available for a week so it will take a while for the meta to shake out.
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Sep 12, 2017 08:00
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Mixed teams? They tend to be gimmicky and aren't allowed in a lot of leagues I guess. They've only been available for a week so it will take a while for the meta to shake out. My Chaos Pact now have a cow and a rogre with block. They are now the best pact team possible. The troll is useless, as is standard.
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Sep 13, 2017 04:12
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Gaghskull posted:My Chaos Pact now have a cow and a rogre with block. They are now the best pact team possible. The troll is useless, as is standard. Trolls are always just big piles of tackle zones. That's their lot in life.
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Sep 13, 2017 16:28
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Once again I'm playing to win the tournament with my Skaven team. Got paired on my first match against a Wood Elves team with a starting tree and ZERO rerolls. He, for some reason, gave me advice on building my team and I destroyed him 4-0 and 5 cas on him. This game is beautiful, the only thing that would have make this better is if this clown was a goon.
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Sep 13, 2017 21:16
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I picked up the Legendary Edition so I guess it's time to play Blood Bowl again. I'm having trouble deciding what team to make. I love chaos, but I already have a highly developed chaos team and I've played a ton of games with them so I'm looking for something different. What I like about chaos is that i don't have to try and keep them in a low TV bracket because they basically just get better and better, and that they aren't all that squishy. So what team should I play?
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Sep 13, 2017 21:23
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Have we thrown up a discord for the new game?
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Sep 13, 2017 21:28
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