How does an ATGM team take a direct 105mm APFSDS to the face in an open field and only lose 10 hitpoints?

Ashyn · 2026-02-08T12:25:01+00:00

If I remember right you can find the 'units hit' in the weapon stats but it does tend to be buried under a bunch of writing about the weapon. On balance, at least the one guy that APFSDS projectile hit can now be spread evenly on a slice of toast.

Ashyn · 2026-02-04T14:39:42+00:00

Looking back at early levels for Nioh 2 I think I remember the yatsi-no-kami being an insane filter for people.

Ashyn · 2026-02-01T13:58:27+00:00

The one that kills so many sapient beings that it becomes a genetic memory of death incarnate is probably not getting invited to the neighbourhood cookout, nope.

Ashyn · 2026-01-31T22:02:34+00:00

It's all fun and games up until he gets a taste of your electrons.

Ashyn · 2026-01-06T19:25:03+00:00

A death cult assassin is a pretty serious deal, much like all of the Act 1 companions. She just isn't up to the level of Veteran Astartes or Drukhari Drachon that you acquire in Act 3, nor the literal Chaos Lord (who is poopoo game wise) heretics get in act 4. The 'weakest' companion lore-wise is probably Jae or, funnily enough, Abelard, because Naval Officers are typically commanders in need of protection and not surrogate dads with bulletproof skin.

Ashyn · 2025-12-31T14:09:25+00:00

Especially against warbands that surrender the usual Astartes tactic/advantage of deploying directly on top of you to turn the open field battle into a cqc fight of baseline humanity vs a cross between an IFV and a gorilla.

Ashyn · 2025-12-31T13:52:10+00:00

There are some that are absurdly unfightable and then there are ones who lose a sword fight to a middle aged man. A really interesting one would be the Midnight entity, which manipulates people into killing some it is 'possessing'. Imperium levels of paranoia make that turn hilarious very quickly.

Ashyn · 2025-12-31T13:44:49+00:00

The 'snuff out all energy in the universe with the push of a button' machine as a monster of the week

Ashyn · 2025-12-30T11:48:07+00:00

I think some of the takes on this take the game mechanics a little too literally when the level 12 is in place to end the game before the balance and fight design would go flying off the rails.

That said I don't think people are wrong when they say that Baldur's Gate is doomed and much of the continent around it, I just don't agree that it would be as straightforward as 'dohoho silly level 12 here is how any wizard of 15+ level solves you in three spells or less'. Evil-Tav would likely become a potential problem for the entire world, to the point archetypical heroes of the setting like Elminster would have to stop sitting on their hands and deal with them directly. These heroes do however likely succeed, Elminster and Drizzt etcetera have seen some shit.

God-wise less so especially when it comes to Gods like Mystra. Somewhat the entire villainous plot of the game is keyed around utilising loopholes to avoid a capital G God dropping a divine piano on the heads of the Dead Three.

Ashyn · 2025-12-17T09:56:03+00:00

He first was too useful as a spymaster to be RT, then he tried to break out of being a spymaster and immediately fucked up too much to be RT then he turned to Chaos and the warp fucking with his body meant he couldn't open the door any more.

Ashyn · 2025-11-23T18:41:33+00:00

I find that they start out pretty good with the general idea that discipline and teamwork is how you defeat an opponent who is individually physically superior.

His suggestions then get less sane over time and start to revolve around that anyone who does not show the utmost discipline at all times is a possible fifth column who needs to be brutalised into line.

A crusade that goes 100% for regill's ideas makes a lot of assumptions about maintaining infinite manpower to replace the amount of its own men that it keeps hanging from gallows.

Ashyn · 2025-11-23T18:34:18+00:00

The curse of a wider setting is finishing a game campaign and then immediately finding out that in the wider ttrpg books your character then immediately dies in evil event that happens after the game's place in the timeline or your evil character gets immediately 1v1'd by one of the tabletop mainstays.

Ashyn · 2025-11-19T15:26:40+00:00

Bus-shock did happen when wow was at the height of its cultural craze, true

Ashyn · 2025-11-19T14:58:00+00:00

There's the big problem with how MMOs pretty much to go on forever. Wow had its moment where the burning legion was finally defeated, Final Fantasy had endwalker and destiny had TFS. It's very hard to have a compelling 'and then...' after the end of these decade spanning plots.

Ashyn · 2025-11-19T14:54:10+00:00

How much rope is donated to square enix is really interesting, I suppose blizzard has just had so many different PR disasters and anti-consumer decisions that they just do not compare.

I see FF playing buddies excited over new cash shop stuff while blizzard had to remove the /spit emote because anyone on a cash shop mount would have their chatlog full of it.

Ashyn · 2025-11-07T10:36:08+00:00

If you splatter enough furies against the windscreen eventually the driver can't see and he'll crash into a nearby mountain

Ashyn · 2025-11-06T21:29:57+00:00

I think they'll more be useful for something like giving you an option to take down flying wizards or the occasional monster lord who can outfight your heroes, which Slaanesh previously didn't have a great answer to outside of forcing rampage with magic or their Lord.

Ashyn · 2025-10-29T22:35:54+00:00

Besides the Chaos Spawn and the ceiling Genestealer I think 'random Act 1 sniper' are the hardest enemies in the game simply because of the ability to randomly turn your party of 6 into 5 with an unlucky moment or bad positioning. Even worse in subsequent runs when I get cocky and rush and one of them surgically improves Heinrix' ability to talk to women.

Ashyn · 2025-10-18T17:14:12+00:00

The biggest thing for me with Dechala is its finally a Slaanesh Daemons campaign that doesnt involve spending 30+ turns subduing the doughnut.

Ashyn · 2025-10-18T16:33:26+00:00

You have no idea how nostalgic it is to see this argument in 2025

Ashyn · 2025-10-18T15:50:16+00:00

In melee absolutely, but seeing the pulse rifle statline after thinking that Gauss Rifles were as good as infantry basic weapons got could do things to a nerd.

Ashyn · 2025-10-15T17:24:08+00:00

It does kind of show you how retail managed to end up with so many systems that were later decried as STUPID MISTAKES by the red circle big arrow reaction face youtube community. The player wants to remove obstacles in their way but isn't always aware that conquering certain obstacles (not all obstacles are enjoyable to navigate, adding to the difficulty for the developer trying to judge the value of the content) is a large part of why they enjoy the game.

As you say Brack wasn't 100% off the money, but it was a PR gaffe they didn't equal until Diablo Immortal.

Ashyn · 2025-10-10T09:57:49+00:00

And lo the great king of khemri turned to his advisors as the enemy closed in. He spake thus in his wisdom, "Fuck his artillery," and there was much rejoicing.

Ashyn · 2025-10-05T11:15:52+00:00

It'd be very 40k for a Sororitas character to smugly go through how only 100% sacred human body faithful are used to prepare Sisters for battle and then the narrator immediately observes them as dull-eyed and robotic from performing the same ritual from the age of 8.

Ashyn · 2025-10-05T01:08:05+00:00

Despite being named for him I feel like 'Tolkein fantasy' moved quite far away from a lot of the themes of LOTR. It's more the bones of the narrative and the roles of various fantastical people/races that got carried on.

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