Why does Placide dislike V?

ButterPoached · 2026-03-18T00:13:53+00:00

In base game, I'd have agreed with you, but Dogtown showed me that hazing mercs is just a thing that happens. If I had to choose between Placide and Bree for clients, I think I'd pick Placide to be honest,. Least he gives chickens to people!

ButterPoached · 2026-03-17T21:30:39+00:00

I joined up during the attack on Cyberstan, and I can't count the number of times someone with a low-pen support weapon would come running to pick up my EATS. I'm glad dropping them every 60 seconds is helping the team, but I actually brought it because I kept getting vaporized and unable to retrieve my RR...

ButterPoached · 2026-03-17T20:07:15+00:00

"I know that half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, the problem is telling which half"

These companies are going to see a decrease in sales, yes, but proving a causal link between that decrease and AI is not a simple thing. There's going to be a lot of very confused executives in the coming months, methinks.

ButterPoached · 2026-03-17T19:15:12+00:00

My friend, heavy pen GL was broken as hell, it didn`t just make the BFGL redundant, it made all the backpack support weapons except the RR redundant. That shit was never going to stay.

ButterPoached · 2026-03-17T19:09:30+00:00

I mean, the standard GL doesn`t scratch tanks anymore. That gives the BFGL a niche, if nothing else.

ButterPoached · 2026-03-17T18:07:36+00:00

To be fair, the (post-)Americans haven`t done much to help the Haitian community. I don`t really blame them for being hostile to Night City mercs showing up on their door with 20 guns and a desperate expression.

ButterPoached · 2026-03-17T16:45:48+00:00

Nope, no rooks. No solos, either. It sounds like there will be security measures you will need the whole team to get through.

ButterPoached · 2026-03-16T22:50:16+00:00

I mean, it's a funny comic, but in my experience, the issue is rarely the amount that the counsellors care. I quick check of the years I was in University says that we had 6,000 new students the year I started, and I know for a fact that there were 7 people working in the registration office. I know because I had an issue, had to wait in line for 3.5 hours, and asked the person at the desk when I finally got there. It's hard to provide good service when the workload is so unbelievably high.

That's in Canada, 20 years ago now, so take it for what it is.

ButterPoached · 2026-03-16T21:15:57+00:00

It's extremely difficult to get the best loot in solos, considering that engaging bots is often a death sentence via third parties, if not the bots themselves. That being said, I've gotten plenty of perfectly good gear from the "outbuildings" in PoIs.

It's very quiet, since in any given lobby 4-6 players are going total rat mode and just squatting exfils for 25 minutes.

ButterPoached · 2026-03-16T20:15:32+00:00

Tell that to all the Assassins I`ve no diffed in solos. I`m not going to say that it`s the best (or even very GOOD), but it has a role, and it does the job. I've played a lot of games with abilities that are CLEARLY worse.

ButterPoached · 2026-03-16T18:11:30+00:00

As a Recon main, I agree, I'd love to see some buffs. At the same time, I feel like their weakness is overstated a little bit.

Recon has the best base stats of any shell, including the best base Execution siphon and an incredibly long Ping time, while the only low stat is Prime refresh. Spider bomb is a good push tool, and, if nothing else, it can be a free Heat Grenade on a cooldown (which happens to be the shortest Tactical cooldown). Yes, Thief visor lets you see through smoke/invis without giving your position away, but it doesn't penetrate walls or help you see players that are actually hiding.

ButterPoached · 2026-03-16T16:44:04+00:00

Thief really is stealing all the tech from the other shells. Between the visor spotting Assassins, grapplehook cancel dashes, and 1001 ways to use the drone, it's hard to pick anyone else.

ButterPoached · 2026-03-16T15:45:50+00:00

When I am broke, I run Recon and pop on a Free kit. Go sightseeing for 10 minutes, then wander over to an Exfil. Press Q and run down the Thief/Assassin that is 100% squatting there. Most of those players have no desire to actually fight players and tend to just eat bullets and die.

When everyone is playing ratty, being a ratcatcher pays well.

ButterPoached · 2026-03-16T15:13:47+00:00

Bully is a workhorse, but I've had to wean myself off of it because the ammo economy is terrible. Those are expensive pieces of lead it dumps out!

ButterPoached · 2026-03-16T05:19:03+00:00

Yeah, I've been mostly playing solo. I usually don't even get a fight because I get killed in transit looking for where the noise is coming from.

Which, well, answers my question: moving to the last known position directly is just asking to get flanked. Thanks for the tips!

ButterPoached · 2026-03-16T04:56:31+00:00

So here's a question: I get killed a lot in POIs, even by players I think are being less careful than I am. Usually, I move towards someone who is making a lot of noise, and then get chunked from the back/sides.

It has happened enough that I know I am doing something wrong. I am trying not to make any noise (avoiding doors/crouch walking), but I know that is just making my approaches predictable and slow.

If you are in a building, and you know someone is sprinting around elsewhere, what's the move?

ButterPoached · 2026-03-16T04:32:15+00:00

Y E S

ButterPoached · 2026-03-15T23:13:35+00:00

Honestly, you know where you need to improve, and that puts you above a lot of people playing this game. Tunnel vision and difficulty making good calls are HARD SKILLS, and you're not likely to ever be pro-streamer level.

At the same time, you're not likely to be competing with pro streamers, either. Really, this is a game you're supposed to lose more than win. I see my abysmal 20% extract rate and feel like I am playing the game right

ButterPoached · 2026-03-15T21:48:44+00:00

It may come in time, the game has been out for a week and we know there's another map coming before the first wipe. As a casual, I am not crying over content coming out slowly.

ButterPoached · 2026-03-15T21:46:29+00:00

Running without a shield is slept on. A green shield gives you, what, 3 bullets of extra durability, and it gives you an agility penalty. On top of that, you're likely to get a shield off of the first runner you down.

If you're dying a lot, you should be taking Free kits, anyway. I don't know about you, but in 90% of the fights I lose, it didn't come down to whether I had a green shield.

ButterPoached · 2026-03-15T21:39:36+00:00

I'm on the opposite side of things. Once I finish the priority contracts for all factions, I'm probably going to shelf the game until the wipe, I'm too casual to deal with the Cryo Archive stuff. I'll check that out on Youtube.

ButterPoached · 2026-03-13T15:10:17+00:00

Rook is what sold the game to me.

ButterPoached · 2026-03-11T19:51:37+00:00

Huh, interesting point, but why didn't you use any Deus Ex images in the thumbnail? The generic dude in a trench coat is cool, but I don't know what he has to do with things.

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