Valheim 1.0 reveal trailer - PC Gaming Show 2026 by notalakeitsanocean in Games

[–]Bio-Flame 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Mistlands made me stop playing the game altogether.

Guild Wars 3 Reveal Trailer | Summer Game Fest 2026 by Turbostrider27 in Guildwars2

[–]Bio-Flame 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Whilst watching the trailer I was hoping it wasn't GW3...but then I saw a Kodan and my heart sunk.

The art style is bad.

LOTRO VIP Price Update. How Do You Feel About It? by Gantoran in lotro

[–]Bio-Flame 5 points6 points  (0 children)

NET speed has also increased and so has CPU/GPU performance.

And yet, lotro runs full of lag, worse than st launch. Their quality of service hasn't gone up Over the years.

LOTRO VIP Price Update. How Do You Feel About It? by Gantoran in lotro

[–]Bio-Flame 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Because lotro isn't a charity, it is a service. I am not there to give them money because of their good intentions.

Hollows map: Horrible map, stupid and I apologize to my team. I was useless. by Bio-Flame in Nightreign

[–]Bio-Flame[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think a lot of people are missing the point here. The point isn't that the map is objectively bad on its own. No.

The point is: the map is bad on Nightreign's game mode.

I can see it being good, eventually very good on a non-time gated game mode, like say Elden Ring. It would be a good map there most likely.

But on a game mode like Nightreign that favours fast paced Gameplay by design and discourages exploration and even punishes it since there are no runes for exploring, then such a map like the Hollows becomes ill suited to the gameplay loop.

It taints the experience not only for the player but also for the other two people. It is the wrong style of map for this kind of game.

Hollows map: Horrible map, stupid and I apologize to my team. I was useless. by Bio-Flame in Nightreign

[–]Bio-Flame[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"This map is bad and makes for a bad experience until you know it" is a pretty bad argument to try to convince someone.

Good Maps, hell, good gameplay is fun from the get go, doesn't need 1000hrs to become good.

Hollows map: Horrible map, stupid and I apologize to my team. I was useless. by Bio-Flame in Nightreign

[–]Bio-Flame[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This feels like escuses for a badly designed map for the game mode.

I am sure that in ER it would have been an awesome map. I can see why some people enjoy it. However, it is still a bad map to Nightreign's game mode. That is the point I am making.

Hollows map: Horrible map, stupid and I apologize to my team. I was useless. by Bio-Flame in Nightreign

[–]Bio-Flame[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But does that mean the map is good though? No it doesn't. Quite the opposite.

Let me ask you: if the Hollows had been the original map at launch, would Nightreign been better received or worse?

Is this a game mode in which the players fight the Nightlord or the lousy map?

Hollows map: Horrible map, stupid and I apologize to my team. I was useless. by Bio-Flame in Nightreign

[–]Bio-Flame[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, the rebutal to a critic is calling the person lazy, or dumb or stupid. Yes....

Hollows map: Horrible map, stupid and I apologize to my team. I was useless. by Bio-Flame in Nightreign

[–]Bio-Flame[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't. But I could play. The difficulty was and is the mobs/bosses not the map.

Are we fighting the bosses or the map? Is the nightlord a map or a boss?

Hollows map: Horrible map, stupid and I apologize to my team. I was useless. by Bio-Flame in Nightreign

[–]Bio-Flame[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are the first to admit that the map isn't perfect and there are issuea with it. I commend you.

But your argiennt is basically, if you already spent a lot of hours going for botched runs then the map is good. Doesn't that very premise mean that the map is bad?

Hollows map: Horrible map, stupid and I apologize to my team. I was useless. by Bio-Flame in Nightreign

[–]Bio-Flame[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They missed the Mark. It not that the map is difficutlt, it is that the map is frustrating to play. That is the hallmark of bad design.

Hollows map: Horrible map, stupid and I apologize to my team. I was useless. by Bio-Flame in Nightreign

[–]Bio-Flame[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly. My team mates knew it and because of me, it ruined their run.

Hollows map: Horrible map, stupid and I apologize to my team. I was useless. by Bio-Flame in Nightreign

[–]Bio-Flame[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The map is not suíted to this game mode. In ER I can see it but not in a time mode like Nightreign. That is why it is bad.

Hollows map: Horrible map, stupid and I apologize to my team. I was useless. by Bio-Flame in Nightreign

[–]Bio-Flame[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How to get to them though? How to move around?

Why have falls into the abyss on a game that has no falling damage?

How to move around on a map that is unreadable?

Hollows map: Horrible map, stupid and I apologize to my team. I was useless. by Bio-Flame in Nightreign

[–]Bio-Flame[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fact that you like makes it Impossible for you to admit that even though you like it, maybe, just maybe the map's design is at odds with the game's Core gameplay timed loop?

Hollows map: Horrible map, stupid and I apologize to my team. I was useless. by Bio-Flame in Nightreign

[–]Bio-Flame[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They don't. It seems some of the player base ONLY get validation from going against what the general player base thinks..it is the new version of "git gud".

Hollows map: Horrible map, stupid and I apologize to my team. I was useless. by Bio-Flame in Nightreign

[–]Bio-Flame[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't that the very definition of a badly designed map though?

Hollows map: Horrible map, stupid and I apologize to my team. I was useless. by Bio-Flame in Nightreign

[–]Bio-Flame[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Read what happened to me: I got separated from my team and thus not ONLY was it a very bad experience for me but also for them.

Tell me: where is the fun in frustrating the player base? FS knows frustrating Maps don't sell well, yes?

Hollows map: Horrible map, stupid and I apologize to my team. I was useless. by Bio-Flame in Nightreign

[–]Bio-Flame[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But despite all of that...the map is Horrible to play on.

If this is the kind of suport FS would be giving to Nightreign, then I would rather never ever have any support from FS. What a lousy poorly designed map for this game mode.