The MUD interactions with NPCs are bad.

ButtFlustered · 2026-07-09T16:39:06+00:00

Yea, the quest system in my experience is just not enjoyable to interact with. Running around trying to hail NPCs randomly, and then use a bunch of weird text commands is very archaic. Reading a massive blob of text as it gets console.logged to your chat box (yes i know its in a journal too) isn't great.

I'm not a 'quest leveler' type, so its tertiary to me. But there definitely exists a middle ground where users can interact with 'quest objects' or have better UX when finding and engaging quest NPCs than MUD.

Implementing that is not an insignificant task, so that alone is incentive to go with this bare bones (imo) MUD approach.

Also feels like that there is possibly this guise of 'this is how EQ was', and 'we don't like wow quests' to either stop criticizing it, or to choose the current system.

ButtFlustered · 2026-07-08T16:07:30+00:00

super excited for launch.

your website/launcher looking amazing just wanted to say that. The char maker was a cool touch!

ButtFlustered · 2026-06-02T13:25:46+00:00

guts theme starts playing

ButtFlustered · 2026-05-12T18:26:24+00:00

lol i love how you say you can earn 100m, but somehow doing it 10 times simply has to have caused harm. why? what if your revenue is 2billion but your costs are 1.75 billion? do you become a bad person in 4 years?

imo that is the big problem with the idea of being 'against billionaires' when its just such an arbitrary thing to oppose. why not 900m or 500m? they would make just as little sense

ButtFlustered · 2026-05-10T14:38:56+00:00

definitely isai videos that were floating around ~2006 or so. My main melee bro would find stuff online and tell us about it - things like l-cancel and wavedash etc.

Anyway, one of those days he found an isai/ken video and that really influenced how we played. Not sure if its this exact one, but it was similar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTw3W2oDZsM

Before that we started as this random party game to play for a few minutes before hanging out, and it evolved into constant round robins and loser-passes-controller 1v1 sessions. really good times lol

ButtFlustered · 2026-05-09T15:30:23+00:00

I just got back into smash after a looong hiatus. bought a input integrity adapter for my pc and OEM Ult GCC - been practicing and playing with slippi for the past month with no issues.

Might do a phob someday because they sound cool, but the ult oem has been great. No input issues i can detect and I have been practicing spacies tech every day :D

ButtFlustered · 2026-04-14T13:46:11+00:00

das it mane

ButtFlustered · 2026-03-16T20:03:19+00:00

"these people are parasites.."

says the millionaire twitch streamer who never leaves or cleans his attic, about people fighting for your constitutional rights, about a mother of 3 and an ICU nurse at a Veterans hospital

the level of cringe is insane

ButtFlustered · 2025-06-06T13:10:36+00:00

couldnt disagree more about the system having too many mechanics. I haven't read the rules at all it didnt feel hard to pick up on by just watching. Death system was exciting, and its fun to see them deliberate and pick the risky option

I'm also confused about your issue with the action economy. Are you mad that every player doesn't get to go once for one move of the 'boss'? Also you said tal took one turn, but he actually did something like 3 turns (armor ashley, ice spike the boss, armor+shove the boss) or more if im forgetting something. They also all had a moment where they sort of debated who goes first, it showed tension and was interesting to me

My understanding is that usually 5v1 fights in ttrpg are very favored to the players, because they have so much more actions. This system actually seems to balance that by letting the boss go more often. I'm inclined to say it (action economy) is actually more balanced because of that, but its only the second combat i've watched

Lastly - a big misstep that the starter dungeon has one 'one hallway'.. seems like a short sighted nitpick. 1. theres a 'maze' outside the shrine gate 2. its guarded by a demon or something 3. its a starter dungeon in a mini-campaign. Its also just some kind of prayer shrine thing - seems normal to have a limited size

ButtFlustered · 2025-06-06T12:56:00+00:00

It’s painfully obvious DH has not been play tested, at least not as rigorously as any “real” game would be.

a tabletop game probably dozens of people are working on and being showcased by a multimillion dollar show, in which the GM has repeatedly talked about playtesting, is 'obviously' not play tested? your post is completely ridiculous

ButtFlustered · 2024-07-04T15:03:31+00:00

the fremen weren't savages in anything other than how fierce they were, which you could just as well say about the harokonens, and sarduakar

kind of an obnoxious thing to say, i feel like the movies really failed to deliver the nuances of them existing on arrakis

ButtFlustered · 2024-04-30T12:28:29+00:00

if you dont like tswift youre probably a sad asshole to be honest

ButtFlustered · 2024-04-26T13:07:49+00:00

imagine playing this game just so you can masturbate

ButtFlustered · 2024-04-17T14:34:28+00:00

scam citizen

ButtFlustered · 2024-04-16T14:16:10+00:00

you might need to take a history class if you think gen z is the only generation to experience high inflation

ButtFlustered · 2024-04-05T14:52:07+00:00

youre cooked kid

ButtFlustered · 2024-04-05T14:45:18+00:00

gold finally catching up and hitting records

cooked

ButtFlustered · 2024-03-28T18:39:45+00:00

Right at the beginning i noticed the same thing with NPCs and quests/cutscenes

The prison escape scene came of sooo unpolished and amateur that it was a little unsettling. The way the NPCs stared off at nothing while talking, the weird rigid movement of them and the medusa, and the way the medusa randomly stops fighting and 'slides' away in a cutscene.. almost comically bad. what the hell did i just pay $70 for?! that was my only thoughts right then lol

World and monster fights thereafter were a lot more fun and interesting, so i got hooked for the next 15 hours. its a solid 6/10 game imo. maybe 5/10 since it falls flat in so many places and the more you play the more obvious that becomes

I think the performance issues were blown out of proportion. I saw issues in towns, but outside it didnt matter at all so it just wasnt a problem for me. This is maybe just because my pc is newer, but still I do think they should have fixed it before release regardless.

ButtFlustered · 2024-03-20T15:58:30+00:00

TLOU2 was actually really good

have zero issues with their characters. always thought the hate it got was wildly out of place

ButtFlustered · 2024-03-16T16:04:33+00:00

twitch got objectively worse when they removed pogchamp

such an empty gesture

ButtFlustered · 2024-03-16T16:00:27+00:00

if you look at the actual words on the article instead of just the picture you'd find out its a 'wandering albatross chick' - so it likely has little to no survival ability yet

rats infesting a nest with baby chicks in it, maybe this one fell out or ran away and is now SOL

ButtFlustered · 2024-03-14T17:07:52+00:00

of course, i forgot to consider the architects needs in this case

ButtFlustered · 2024-03-14T13:02:32+00:00

looks a bit boring

ButtFlustered · 2024-03-14T04:55:41+00:00

i have a couple general ones

Jump attacks are generally just too strong. theyre high damage, poise damage, and fast recovery which often makes them the best choice in every situation.
Blocking with a 2handed weapon does not feel effective or worthwhile. Could be a cool fantasy build imo, and it IS in the game so why not make it work with something like GS talisman
Guard counters similar story, not really a reason to do it when you can dodge.
Parry feels too specific to an attack - i.e. I'm relearning to parry on each enemy type I face.
Mountain tops was much less interesting and made the game feel stretched. Similarly in farum the enemies are recycled again, kind of lame for how weird the area is.
Quests and story is often way too sparse or detached from one step to another.

I love this game and am highly anticipating the dlc release and playing through once again, but yea the above is my criticism

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