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JBP posted:Can't wait to accidentally shoot my gamer buds in the back of the head and yell "you're blocking my shots" into the mic I am very much looking forward to dropping supply pods on all my friends. 
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Ciaphas posted:i assume "recoiless" is a severe misnomer The "recoiless" part only applies to the person firing it.
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GruntyThrst posted:Keep an eye out for supercredit pickups because they may only go to the person who picks them up, unlike every other currency. Which really sucks if true. Everyone in the game at the time gets super credits when collected. Played for several hours with friends without any major issues. Avoiding matchmaking entirely might have made a difference. Hopefully they are quick to patch out the problems some are having. Game is a hell of a lot of fun when it works.
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Sgt. Cosgrove posted:My understanding is that eagles have x amount of call ins, once they're depleted you need to rearm to get more Yep, you have X number of quick cooldown charges, and once they are depleted there's a longer rearm timer to replenish those initial X charges. Once you use a charge, my understanding is that Rearm stratagem pops in to let you prematurely kick off the rearm manually if you want.
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We had a particularly tense bug mission last night where we were getting overrun at the LZ right as the chopper was landing. The cannon on the Pelican killed two of us and then pinned our last surviving squad mate under the turret, so no one got out alive. Game is 10/10.Amuys posted:Huh, they have stuff like the bot's emplacement towers? Haven't seen it yet Some of the bot bases have tank turret towers too. First time we ran in to one we had no idea what was killing us because it just blends in to the structure.
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Feb 11, 2024 18:48
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:Dang, its just CTD now after the patch, and it looks like Im not the only one Looks like they are rolling back the client side patch because of CTD and FPS issues. The reward stream fixes are still in place, so they were probably server side I guess.
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Couple of things I've noticed I haven't seen posted yet. The Autocannon is amazing and never leaves my loadout, but the reload mechanic has some subtlety to it. It has a ten round capacity, but each mag you load into it only has five rounds. Loading it from empty you have to stop, slap in a mag, chamber a round, then load another mag, which takes forever. However, if you have five rounds or less in it, you can just kneel down and quickly slap 5 rounds in it at any time. Its always better to do this when you have a moment than ever let it get fully empty. Additionally, it won't let you load a partial mag. The SAM sites in the Automaton missions will shoot down dropships. I have no idea how far out they cover or if they run out of ammo, but its another really cool bit of attention to detail.
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Feb 13, 2024 06:50
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Ciaphas posted:it's a shame that the frog has been boiled so hard that it's acceptable at all in a full-price game; but yeah at least it's not p2w garbage I'm not sure what you consider a full price game, but the base price is only $40 when a lot of AAA games are $70 these days. The game is also extremely generous in giving you Supercredits if you look for them. Plus for the stuff in the premium Warbond you still have to play the game to get medals to unlock the items. Buying Supercredits is at most a mild shortcut.
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Feb 14, 2024 03:04
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Typical Pubbie posted:Doesn't hit hard enough to be worth the stratagem slot imho I gave the HMG emplacement a shot too, and it doesn't feel like it does more damage than the starter LMG. Also the turning speed is just painful. You'd be better off with the chaingun turret or several other options that don't tie you down. I'm not sure how the shared daily missions progression works. I ran a couple bot missions last night with people that already completed their strider kills, and it seemed like I wasn't getting shared progression anymore. Only got 8 towards the mission, and I'm pretty sure I personally shot more than 8. I suspect the shared progress is only shared if other people also have the mission active.
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GlyphGryph posted:Wish someone had told me before I returned the game that the intro screen lies to you and the "mandatory" captcha I couldn't pass isn't actually mandatory and you can just skip it. Automaton detected!
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Typical Pubbie posted:Is the Senator good? Its alright? Probably depends on your use case. I unlocked it early because it looked like a Destiny 2 hand cannon, but I like the auto pistol much better as my panic gun. The ammo economy on the revolver seems better, but the smg pistol just spews out damage when you need something up close to die quickly. The revolver has much better range and packs a punch per shot.
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Are Bile Spewers just not spawning for anyone else? I ran probably 20 different combinations of missions, difficulties, and planets through to at least one objective and not a single one spawned for me anywhere.
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Yeah, first mission we completed tonight: no rewards. Good thing its bonus 50% rewards weekend.
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quote:Another Message from Arrowhead @everyone Guess I will go do something else for a bit.
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Coolness Averted posted:The marksman rifle is semi auto and unlocks on page 2 iirc. It's a good workhorse AR that can take most stuff out with 2-3 body shots or 1-2 weakspot hits. If you combine it with a spray-and-pray secondary or a support good for hordes you've got a balanced kit. I was less impressed by the breaker than others in this thread. I absolutely love the marksman rifle. Its so good at popping robit heads. The auto shotty is really good too, but I don't like giving up the range and precision of the rifle.
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megane posted:I said nothing of the sort. I said that the gunplay is bland. There are, what, 10 primary guns in the game? Half of them are (weirdly subpar) variants of the others. And basically all of them are functionally interchangeable. Guess which gun I’m describing: spammable up close to deal with bugs in your face, pretty accurate at mid-range if you ADS, reloads quickly, useless against armor. In general, you should be minimizing the amount of time you are shooting trash mobs with primaries. Also, there's nothing bland about the Autocannon or most of the support guns. The gameplay is basically: work your way to an objective avoiding contact with patrols if at all possible, bomb the poo poo out the objective, complete it, and then move on to the next one. The game effectively punishes you for sitting still plinking at reinforcements. Just break contact and move on.
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I don't think primaries are meant to be strong, and even calling them primaries feels like a misnomer. They are usually your third best option for killing stuff. Unless you are carrying around one of the rocket launchers, you might have your support gun in your hands more than half the time. Primaries are more like your basic attack/resource builder in other genres, and as you get better skills/gear most builds use them less and less.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:
That's a pretty great idea. Have the ship go to red alert and you have to enter some long code like at the evac terminal to perform evasive maneuvers to avoid incoming fire. That might take more dev time than they can spare right now, but that would be an incredible way to implement an AFK timer in a way that stays in character.
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Everyone has the right to be frustrated at the game today, but it worked perfectly on launch day. The reward stream service got bogged down over that first weekend, but they were able to scale that pretty quick. I don't recall any issues during the week last week until Friday when it reached critical mass. I know nuance is non-existent on lesser forums, but to me there's a difference between giant studio AAAA title with massive game breaking client and server bugs and a small studio buckling under the weight of massive, unexpected popularity. I'm trying to be patient, and the only reason I'm annoyed is that this is the most fun I've had in a game in a very long time. Also I named my ship the Queen of Equality to troll any Space Republicans I might encounter.
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Crain posted:As much as the current server limitations suck, it's actually kinda giving me some hope for the games industry going forward. This is third major release in recent memory that's come out of nowhere, from very small teams, directly targeting long time AAA genres, and eating their lunch. Lethal Company is another one that came out of nowhere and blew up for a bit. Just a one person shop too. I didn't get to play it much, but it was 90% of my Youtube feed for a good month.
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veni veni veni posted:The term AAA means basically nothing outside of vibes. Pretty much. The game itself has as much or more polish as most "AAA" games, but 100 people is still a pretty small crew compared to the studios behind most big releases. Baggot posted:I get what you're saying, but let's not try to redefine what the devs themselves have labeled their own game as. They said it's AAA. It's AAA. The AAA thing is pretty nebulous in general and in my mind is somewhat analogous to budget. Ubisoft idiocy aside, there's no upper limit to AAA. If we are going by what the devs said, their wildest projection was only about 150k concurrent players.
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I mean, the game hasn't been out two weeks yet so maybe he could just rescind his notice and keep his day job.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I'll wager this is behind some of the weapon balance problems. Pretty sure this is referring to our own armor value not doing anything, making medium and heavy armor useless beyond the primary perks.
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Sat at the loading screen for almost an hour until I won the login lottery. Two friends were able to immediately join directly via Steam and we played a solid three hours with no issues. Never touched matchmaking, but overall the game seems pretty stable now once you get in and don't use quickplay.
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The regular Eagle Airstrike and the Cluster Bomb rarely leave my loadout. Airstrike will clear a light bot outpost easily and can take care of a medium most of the time with good placement. Plus its far faster than orbital barrages, and you've got to keep moving on higher difficulties.
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Hihohe posted:Honestly they should have places on the map that prevent certain strategems from being used so that it encourages different loadouts This is already a thing on higher level bot missions and probably what CodfishCartographer is referring to. Much like the stalker nests, when these specialized bases pop up they become a priority. The mortar bases are pretty brutal when they spot you.
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Typical Pubbie posted:The diligence is trash. Diligence is great against most rank and file bots other than the chainsaw bastards, and those guys just get a railgun to the dick. Breaker is obviously better close in and against bugs in general, but the rifle is great at quickly popping all the foot soldiers that call in dropships.
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I'm not a huge fan of the Breaker either, but I mostly just don't like that playstyle even though the game kinda demands it in some situations. Hoping to have the Slugger unlocked today to try it out.
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DarkDobe posted:Arc becomes wildly powerful if all 4 people are running it. I'm all for playing around and not just using the meta, but all four players needing to use gun or strategem for it to be "strong" probably means its not very strong. Two railgun shots and an Uzi mag to the same leg will kill a charger pretty quick. We'll probably see a big balance patch once the servers aren't constantly melting down, because there are several guns and call downs that need some help. Edit: \/\/\/ The autocannon is a great compliment to the railgun for sure. Its also great for popping Spore Mushrooms and illegal broadcast towers from a mile away. Bandire fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Feb 21, 2024 |
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DarkDobe posted:I'm just offering it as a fun and different option. For sure. It does sound like a fun option, and not everyone wants to min/max speedrun through all the available content. One of my buddies joined a little late and is resource constrained on the common samples, so we'll probably try a lot of weird poo poo on lower difficulties to farm them.
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edit: /\/\/\ good to know!thalweg posted:how do you one shot a titan with RR? I've been hitting them in the face / glowy underbelly and they dont die in one hit I'm not sure anything will one shot a full health Bile Titan. Pretty sure even the Spear needs some more chip damage to finish it off. And yeah, pre-saved loadout slots please. Requisition has a cap at 50k, so I'm just spending it on stuff I don't really use. That has the effect of cluttering up the loadout screen with a million nearly identical icons I have to sift through every time.
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LuiCypher posted:Alright, I do have a stratagem/weapon that sucks: Buddy was testing the shield out last night. He called in a supply drop or something, bounced the stratagem off a rock, and it ended up sticking to the shield on his back and almost killed him. Goddamn hilarious.
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Did we not get a daily 15 medal mission today or is it hugged again?
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Exodee posted:You have to finish an operation, so for hard when looking at the globe it's all three missions within the yellow border. This, but there is a known issue still I think where people get stuck unlocking the next difficulty. There's a huge thread in the official Arrowhead Discord support channel with a bunch of people having the problem.
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ninjewtsu posted:i very much dislike that the cannon towers don't get taken out by stratagems unless those stratagems also happen to directly hit the weakpoint on it. you'd think 2 eagle airstrikes and an orbital precision strike would be enough to turn a concrete tower into rubble regardless of weakpoint but i guess not Stuff that has some targeting AI like the Railcannon and Orbital Laser will hit them. Them being elevated high up on towers most likely puts them out of the explosion radius of almost everything that hits the ground nearby.
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I'd like to think a big reason why the defense order failed is that pretty much everyone made that same assumption at first. It could certainly have been worded more clearly.
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Nfcknblvbl posted:I think it failed because of how difficult the escort mission is. Escort quests/missions in games are bad all around imo. Sure, they were tuned poorly and they probably played as two or three ticks higher on the difficulty scale than other missions even after multiple adjustments. Plus the rewards were useless for people like me that have already played the game way too much. I also just think there were probably lots of people that don't spend time during their day jobs reading about video games that played a couple of these overly hard missions and got no feedback anything happened, and then moved on to more fun and less broken stuff to do. Arrowhead has been great with communication though, and I expect them to adjust and smooth out the global campaign stuff as things normalize a little. 100 hours in and the game has been a blast so far with lots of neat stuff on the horizon.
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hiddenriverninja posted:I know, getting swarmed means you messed up and the real solution is to call an orbital on top of yourself, but I hope we get better melee options in the future, maybe a variant of the automaton energy blade? The CEO mentioned they've had some internal discussions about adding melee weapons, so its a possibility. Its pretty hilarious to pistol whip bugs though.
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sushibandit posted:Visible "weakspots" like charger abdomens should be actually-weak to everything instead of being a big fat phoney bullet trap of bullshit. Then they can give explosives innate armor destruction so they still have a niche and every metaslave doesn't feel the need to always railgun for optimal gameplay. I think this stuff is only counterintuitive because games have trained us this just how things work. Arrowhead has tried to infuse some realism into how their systems work, like the whole partial mag reload thing. In general (not any kind of expert here), if you shoot a soft target with a hardened armor piecing round, it will just go right through, make a relatively small hole, and often not cause life threatening damage unless it hits something vital. Hollow point (expanding) rounds and explosive munitions make bigger holes and do a lot more soft tissue damage on unarmored targets. Just think of it as explosive attribute guns do 10 times the bonus damage that regular armor piercing rounds do to squishy bits rather than the kinda confusing way they worded that initial statement.
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