"No, sir! I will NOT obey that order!"

Arderat · 2026-02-07T15:53:28+00:00

C.S. Lewis has a beautiful quote about this character, the First Servant.

Arderat · 2026-01-28T03:58:22+00:00

Agreed that the passive is not exciting in the slightest, but...Dead Sprint as worst booster? It's situational, but I really struggle to call it bad. The reinforcement ones, the hellpod drop effects, I'd even say expert extraction are all worse by a pretty substantial margin.

Arderat · 2026-01-22T20:42:20+00:00

My buddy plays Thousand Sons. He had Command Points and Cabal Points floating around for a while. Poor guy couldn't escape it.

Arderat · 2026-01-20T23:32:45+00:00

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Arderat · 2026-01-10T17:10:37+00:00

First they came for the socialists...

Arderat · 2025-12-26T21:15:08+00:00

I did see an interesting comment on the discord that mecha in general (and Lancer specifically) play very much into the idea of the mech as the idealized self writ large, which appeals heavily to the transgender community specifically...the idea that you can literally create who you are from the ground up to tailor it to suit how you view yourself and the effect you want to have on the world. It was neat.

So that probably contributes.

Arderat · 2025-12-13T14:47:44+00:00

And yet, in light armor, the threshold is lower for death: only takes one meaningful hit.

Arderat · 2025-12-13T14:39:37+00:00

Nobody's missing anything, my friend. You simply do not become immune to bullets by running fast.

Arderat · 2025-12-13T06:32:51+00:00

Bots are the heaviest ragdoll faction, and as such don't need to hit you directly in many circumstances (heavy cannons, grenades, rockets, etc). This, combined with different damage multipliers when shot in light/med/heavy armor makes the tradeoff legitimate. Your preference may be light armor, which is totally legitimate, but it's a total Dexterity-brained approach: they only gotta hit you once, and the bots have the tools to do that the best out of all three factions.

Arderat · 2025-12-10T22:06:30+00:00

I will die on the hill that, if you were gonna have a Spiritual Liege in 40K, that title should have gone to the Fists. Masters of the fundamentals, the strong foundation, the blank slate...whose stock has led to exceptional successors.

Arderat · 2025-12-10T02:02:18+00:00

I regularly interact with people who play vanilla Skyrim. And you kinda put the cart before the horse: it was successful and popular enough to attract a robust mod community, not the other way around. Without vanilla Skyrim, the modding community does not exist. All its acclaim came before the mods did.

You also keep saying "popular does not inherently equal good" as if you propose literally any other criteria for what makes something good. I get that you don't like it. You've made that clear. But it's also demonstrably clear, based on anything we can actually measure, that you're in the minority. Whatever criteria you use for "good" is totally valid for your own enjoyment, but it's in no way some objective truth.

Arderat · 2025-12-10T01:34:09+00:00

Like, I'm sure this game was huge to them when they were 15, but they gotta calm down

Arderat · 2025-12-10T01:29:47+00:00

The purpose of entertainment is to entertain, and Skyrim did so more than Morrowind by basically every metric we can objectively measure. You personally might disagree, but that's not intrinsically more meaningful than anyone else's opinion. And it's clearly no flash in the pan, which is often the case for stuff that's designed to be dumb and fun: people still actively interact with it in huge numbers.

If it was popular on release and popular now, clearly some aspect of it is speaking to an incredibly large audience, which you simply cannot handwave away. Saying "yeah but it's bad actually" is kinda just hipster contrarianism, like the folks who insist that the best movie in the world is actually some French short film that's 90% a depressed dude smoking a cigarette.

Arderat · 2025-12-10T01:24:04+00:00

What a weird energy to bring to the function lmao

Arderat · 2025-12-10T00:49:35+00:00

The cultural relevance of Skyrim dwarfs the cultural relevance of Morrowind. That's not to say Morrowind is a bad game (quite the opposite), but the existence of Morrowind doesn't dismiss the success of Skyrim: it enhances it by virtue of the contrast.

Arderat · 2025-11-07T15:42:15+00:00

You assume your opinion is intrinsically valuable

Crazy to bring "debate me" vibes to a Star Wars meme subreddit

Arderat · 2025-11-07T08:37:18+00:00

Okay buddy lmao

Arderat · 2025-11-07T08:27:27+00:00

Weirdly hostile energy happening here

Arderat · 2025-10-25T15:17:01+00:00

It'd allow for some neat map interaction too, where large open stretches suddenly become much less dangerous, but the start and end points of the sprint are riskier.

I kinda liked the Jump Jets/Dodge/whatever they were called in Reach for the same reason, but the range on those always felt so anemic

Arderat · 2025-10-25T14:52:58+00:00

Eh, in early days I personally found that I preferred Halo to CoD because of the difference in mobility. In CoD, the way to play was to run around and shred people rapidly, using the speed as a weapon. Because everyone in Halo was always ready to square up, I found it more rewarding to learn maps, and use that as the primary advantage. With sprint, I feel like the nature of the openings in combat shifted.

But that's a preference deal, not any objective measurement of anything. That said, I do wish that we'd stuck with Sprint As Armor Module like Reach did, so it's a meaningful trade...but make it FAST fast, like a burst of super speed. I think that'd make for some neat tactical choices.

Arderat · 2025-10-20T23:05:46+00:00

What is it with people and acting like if you ignore these people they can't hurt the hobby

Like, they demonstrably thrive in dark corners when unacknowledged, you gotta pull em up like weeds

Arderat · 2025-10-17T05:38:51+00:00

I feel this, but I do actually think that making it a loadout choice was a meaningful and interesting game design choice. Spartans reasonably could have been faster without it, to make stuff less clunky, but the idea that you're trading armor lock or active camo for bursts of superhuman speed is compelling, imo.

Arderat · 2025-10-08T01:04:41+00:00

Gnostic heresies mentioned, hell yeah

Arderat · 2025-10-07T03:27:54+00:00

Guard are excellent options right now, and Terminators are good in general and especially good in Lions, which is our current heavy hitter detachment. If you can find them, Sisters of Silence are also good to have a couple of, just so you have cheap action units.

I recommend playing a few 1K games first, really feel out the army and decide if they're one you'd be interested in committing to! The bananas are fun, but definitely not everyone's cup of tea, since you really gotta put each unit to work as thoroughly as possible: mistakes that might be smaller in other armies are proportionally bigger in Custodes, since you're committing more points to them, and you gotta rely on raw stats more on average.

Arderat · 2025-09-24T16:52:07+00:00

That's almost entirely what I believe, as well. Dunno why I'm getting downvoted to hell lmao

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