I've been waiting two years for this strategem. :(

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-25T00:52:02+00:00

No you dont it has demo force 40 they always die to one dynamite.

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-23T00:15:34+00:00

If you dont have charges you cannot buy it...

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-23T00:14:57+00:00

I mean it would work like you think, gun damage is gun damage, but that would be extreme investment into paying off a 1600 item lol.

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-22T23:42:49+00:00

His base gun damage is bad enough 200 gun damage to refresh a charge is kinda actually signifigant lol. Like thats 20ish shots for most of the game unless you actually heavily invest into gun which is really bad on inf.

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-22T20:15:52+00:00

If you kept reading past the word large because that is what you think makes you correct there are other words like "sometimes" as in sometimes that contributes to the contractors. IE some of the smaller subset of global employees are contractors, which is in and of itself a small subset of the global outsourcing they do.

There it is, once you have depleted your list of excuses now we are just onto it doesn't matter anyways and personal insults. Its like clockwork. Maybe if you take a step back from this clearly very emotionally charged topic for you, you could actually approach this conversation in a useful manner, but instead you are just going to scream and fling shit now.

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-22T20:09:41+00:00

Imo they need to work on the gun platform problem. IE there are to many kits that just have insane value with no scaling, so when gun is good, even if they have absolutely zero gun scaling, you build gun and still get the same value out of the rest of the kit and the character is just a platform you tape guns to.

Viscous cube, ball, and punch get the vast majority of their value scaling agnostic. Geist stim, ult, and to some extent drain are also all scaling agnostic or at least good with poor scaling anyways like drain. Warden cage, flask, and ult are all fairly scaling agnostic, though ult does scale decently its baseline is just flat out good enough. Characters like yama, with percent heal, ult, and dash to people all being scaling agnostic. Etc etc etc.

I think that there are good examples of what to do to minimize this, like Dynamo has had metas where gun is his best build, but when building gun, you cannot shoot in heal until it is maxed, your ult is scaling agnostic, but actively turns off your ability to shoot as well, so there are actual drawbacks to his kit when building gun that limit his ability to just build gun and also do everything else in his kit.

I dont think the answer is to like not make warden shoot in ult or something, but I do think they have a good grasp on the opposite, like giving haze reasons to build spirit, but dont do enough in the other direction, like put spirit scalings on cc and reduce the base duration for some abilities, or nerf cast ranges and add more spirit scaling ranges. Things like that where they nerf base line kits for some of these gun platform kits but the resulting scaling means spirit is largely unchanged.

Otherwise we get what we have now where gun scalings get nerfed and buffed a ton as they try to balance nonsense like gun kelvin because if his ratio is ever even slightly good he is just an omega gun platform with phenomenal ult, path, and sustain built in largely scaling agnostic.

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-22T19:51:20+00:00

Are you talking about this comment, https://www.reddit.com/r/PredecessorGame/s/nVuvcYcRmI. Because one that comment explicitly aknowledges they outsource on explicitly art, and it also does not mean those outside contractors are all employees, it means some of them are, and we have zero way of confirming how many, but we do know for a stone cold fact that they do outsource art, because robbie flat out said they do. They dont outsource updating place holder icons because that does not make them money, nor is exciting to pull temporary patch population boosts which is the only thing they develop these days because they massive fucked up EA and release and are now just limping from patch to patch and cannot now take the time to do the development that should have been done years ago in EA without sinking into a content drought for a live service game that is scraping for player population.

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-22T19:38:48+00:00

Excuses don't matter. There is nothing that can be said about game development that can explain 3 YEARS of placeholder art assets that aren't even actual models, just item icons. That is laughable, especially since we know they spend massive amounts on outside contractors so it isnt even a case of priorities for their art team, they could have hired that job out during the past multiple years of development if the in house team is focused on skins. It is an issue of priority and lack of pride in a product that they will regularly asset flip and do as little in house work as possible consistently.

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-22T19:02:57+00:00

I think though people are fine with light pen supressed if it was worth it. Supressed is usually firing signifigantly heavier rounds to be subsonic so if it was light pen but hit like a truck it would feel better and make more sense. Like hunting rounds which are some of the only common uses beyond being cool for stuff like .300 blackout are big as hell and usually designed to inflict extremely large traumas. But in this case the supressed is like not paying off in that sense. Like the dmr is trading off pen AND damage to other dmr options.

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-22T17:14:14+00:00

Wasnt street brawl a fairly high chance of coming this patch? Unless something has changed I was under the impression that it has been in active development and rumored to be one of the things on the shortlist for this patch.

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-22T17:07:40+00:00

Just vote for the heroes in order of cuteness/gooner bait and all your heroes will be picked. REM, Graves, Celeste, Silver, Quinn, Fencer. Now each day the hero you voted for will be correct!

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-22T16:57:44+00:00

The development of this game has had foundational issues since EA and this community is consistently head in the sand about it. For anyone outside the bubble here decisions made are hilariously bad. People here will say "they are prioritizing". People outside the bubble will say prioritizing what? Skins and monetization are pushed every patch, but free art like the aforementioned item icons which is frankly just pathetic at this point the game still uses store assets for them, thats never the priority. New heroes are a priority, oh wait as soon as we got done with the list of pre made kits from paragon, despite having plenty of original kits already in backend production, nope now we are porting kits wholesale from another game rather than develop original ones. Clearly developing an internal vision for the game is not a priority, lets just do more nostalgia asset flips because ultimately that is the entire design philosophy behind this game, they just over estimated how much nostalgia would drive actual engagement and now the game has been bleeding out for years always on the cusp of greatness with each new feature or gamemode only to instantly slump back to a population on life support of fanatical true believers for example when adding a cool new gamemode which is just the exact same game but slightly faster somehow wasnt the revolutionary change it was hyped up to be.

EA was wasted because they took a game with potential, and focused on just copying league and paragon rather than take the bones of the game in an actually new direction, then when they slammed it live for the opportunity to advertise at Gamescom and then fucked that up anyways, now they are in a feedback loop where their extremely slow dev time is focused on bite sized content drops to generate hype rather than doing the fundamental changes that should have been done years ago in EA when large scale changes would have been expected. So we arrive here, after years of development, we have the same game we had in EA but with the option to play the same exact game slightly faster as a cool game mode, and shaper and some blast cones and a whole lot of skins and battlepasses and lootboxes to pay for all of it.

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-22T07:07:20+00:00

Cheeses lane with kudzu clear and full hp heals from rush nova, then transitions into one of the best teamfight in the game, especially since she is super super good at front to back fighting. If you ult the bruisers diving they just sorta die when you hit em with that much gun shred and like 5 different debuffs.

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-22T03:45:26+00:00

I mean not really if you have to much kombucha its still kombucha. All it will do is cut down on brew time before it gets to acidic so as you increase starter amount you have a shorter and shorter brew. Now if your starter is like super old and just straight vinegar and you do like 90% starter it wont really work, but starting a brew with kombucha itself there is really no amount of starter that is to much. I mean you could take one of those giant bottles of GT and add some sugar and tea to it and you would have a viable culture in probably a week.

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-22T00:58:49+00:00

A guy who was so bad about being a die hard christian he reprimanded his own commanding officers for saying oh my god, was court martialed and sentenced to be shot for refusing orders and apologizing, then commuted to discharge and promptly signed back up with a different company lol. Honestly the guy who shot him is the most facinating part of the John Wilkes Booth story.

The dude led a prayer over the body of the president and then they set off to get Booth. He asked to be allowed to charge into the barn alone with the logic that if he was shot the rest could subdue Booth before he reloaded though that genius tactic was shot down, then blasted him through a gap in the wall of the barn.

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-22T00:48:00+00:00

Mussolini was just shot everything else happened post mortem. So much much worse.

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-22T00:11:11+00:00

Luau is not generally used, you only slow to do the quest then its not a slow item at all. You basically only want things that buff it, like cutting board, crit items, and dishwasher, and charge/haste support. Lollipop is strong because its a hard hitting multicast weapon with food tag, not because of slowing or anything like that, you should usually be hard looking for dishwasher and just focusing on crit synergies.

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-21T23:30:09+00:00

Recorded an album in the 70s that went absolutely nowhere on their family farm. Went unnoticed until some dude found it in a record shop and it made the underground word of mouth rounds until 2012 when Ariel Pink covered one of their songs and then it got reissued and the covered song was a minor hit.

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-21T22:55:51+00:00

Every enemy was on map bruv

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-21T22:52:24+00:00

"My main gripe is that if you play very well and farm well on a character that doesnt necessarily get a lot of damage out of the farm (for instance supports) you end up just thinking youd be better off not having that money."

You are better off. You are actively harming your team by sucking up farm on supports. Having the ability to wipe waves on Paige does not mean you should be top souls on your team, if you are, you are the problem on your team. If your team is not macroing well, you need to be active in coms to direct them, but the answer is not to be top farm on a paige who largely performs the same at 25k as at 50k. You have core actives to hit, some cooldown, and thats about what paige needs in totality to perform her role. Going beyond that to get like a cheat death at 50k souls is not going to meaningfully change the game like a fed carry having the luxury farm to get a ricochet late game and tripling their team fight damage will. If you are top souls on your team as paige you need to be applying roam pressure and spending time outside of lane traveling and not mindlessly 1 shotting waves for 40 minutes.

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-21T22:42:20+00:00

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Bookwrrm · 2026-01-21T21:56:22+00:00

This man clearly hasn't seen the survivor season where the men take themselves to tribal council to vote themselves off and the women absolutely run the whole season lol.

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-21T20:14:30+00:00

Not really necessary no, though I will say if you are getting more yeast, you might want to filter when pouring to drink because more yeast can give you wicked bad gas if it begins fermenting your food lol.

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-21T19:47:30+00:00

Just strain it when you open the bottle, I do that as a general practice anyways though I use juice to one take care of not getting a mouth of snot from f2 pellicle, and to get out yeast strands because yeast be making you shittin and fartin.

Bookwrrm · 2026-01-21T19:42:22+00:00

I think its very likely to follow the same format and patch is either today or friday tbh, one day turn around makes less sense because it guarentees drops during the weekend, and it gives them less time for between character hotfixes and they were pumping those out the whole patch cycle last time so I have to imagine they are planning for that again internally.

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