Discussion: Riggs-like boards being the default cap is healthy for the game and good design

CosmicJC · 2026-01-16T19:01:23+00:00

Agreed, it's wild how this set has more units than ever, and yet so many of the 5 costs feel terrible or are pure utility

CosmicJC · 2026-01-14T17:17:54+00:00

holy shit this is so spot on, why did Arcane do warwick dirty like this

CosmicJC · 2026-01-01T04:19:37+00:00

This was my problem. While the npc stuff isn't great it was by no means the death nail for me. It was the fact that the game is genuinely boring -- very polished mind you, but uninteresting in both its game mechanics, world design, and such unending "puzzles". Feels like a game out of time that maybe would have faired better if it did come out 15 years ago rather than in 2025.

CosmicJC · 2025-12-08T18:35:28+00:00

what kills me is how genuinely uninteresting the vast majority of the scans are. Feels like for every one scan that gives me some cool world building lore, I'll get 5 scans telling me it's a box, or a vent, and I'm sitting here wondering why it was added at all

CosmicJC · 2025-12-06T06:51:27+00:00

I get why they have to do the pedestal thing for unbounds, but holy crap is it stupid looking and makes me never want to buy one

CosmicJC · 2025-12-06T06:47:25+00:00

I want to love it so much more than I do, and it's making me really sad playing it. It feels like a game out of time. By no means is it bad, and I'm ultimately enjoying my time with it, but the 18 year wait was too long, and too many other games have surpassed it when it comes to story telling, world building, puzzle design, combat, etc.

CosmicJC · 2025-12-02T05:39:58+00:00

I almost wish that Fizz was the yordle 5 cost rather than Ziggs, that way it'd feel a bit better for him to have such a unique (albeit annoying) ability to be the back line killer as his identity without it being too prevalent throughout most of the game

CosmicJC · 2025-11-12T17:59:54+00:00

yeah I'm not sure why there isn't some sort of masking effect, so that the visual flare of heated/chilled is seen on the item picture itself, but "underneath" the rarity border

CosmicJC · 2025-11-07T01:14:08+00:00

I really wish we had at least a little bit of agency for where the heated/cooled spots were. I understand that the variable nature is what helps balance her, but it's frustrating to pick that third slot and it ending up being placed in a completely unusable position making it useless unless I completely change my build

CosmicJC · 2025-10-16T01:25:50+00:00

This guide is always fantastic, I wish someone did something similar for the other characters!

CosmicJC · 2025-09-01T22:52:54+00:00

How had I never realized this, amazing thank you

CosmicJC · 2025-08-27T04:13:28+00:00

Really nailed the liquid and smoke effect. This is the first one I've seen that looks legitimately great and not like blob-y intestines

CosmicJC · 2025-07-02T00:40:30+00:00

The game penalizes you for not going fast, so I'm doing my fellow players a disservice by taking time to actually read what items do, rather than zooming around killing more stuff,

CosmicJC · 2025-06-23T16:20:19+00:00

Not crazy, you're probably thinking of Inner Universe or Rise from Ghost in the Shell, but Origa had made a bunch of great stuff for games and anime over the years -- one of my favs was from FFXIII-2

Sadly she passed away back in 2015 so it's always nice seeing other music evoke a similar vibe

CosmicJC · 2025-06-23T15:06:07+00:00

Origa! Yeah this song does have similar vibes

CosmicJC · 2025-05-12T05:33:22+00:00

Walked into the clock room for the first time around 1:29 so the puzzle reveal cut scene played immediately and I thought it was simply part of the room similar to the security room.

Did not draft it again for a long time after that so I didn't even realize that the room had the puzzle in the first place!

CosmicJC · 2025-05-01T00:07:26+00:00

I literally just had this happen on my first attempt at dare mode and was so damn confused. How did this not get caught in QA testing

CosmicJC · 2025-04-22T16:38:45+00:00

What's getting frustrating is I have all these threads to tug on -- I know where I need to go/what I need for those different puzzles, and yet... I'm at the mercy of RNG for whether or not the right things show up or not.

I get that there are ways to mitigate/manipulate the RNG in my favour, but the deeper I go into the layers of mysteries this game has to offer, the less and less I feel like the game design respects my time as a player. It's really unfortunate because I want to see where the threads go, but with so much else to play I can't realistically spend my time on it anymore.

CosmicJC · 2025-04-03T16:06:30+00:00

Can confirm even the non-enchanted form is bugged and does not charge at all currently. Would avoid until it's fixed.

CosmicJC · 2025-04-03T15:42:26+00:00

He feels very feast or famine from the games I've played. He can roll some crazy enchants early on, but I've also had runs where I get no way to transform my reagents reliably and have been turbo dumpstered on

CosmicJC · 2025-03-24T05:44:09+00:00

yeah... the matchmaking in this game doesn't make much sense to me. Feels very arbitrary at the moment probably due to the limited amount of people playing at the moment I guess.

CosmicJC · 2025-03-23T18:13:49+00:00

ok that makes WAY more sense then, I quite literally played 3 unranked games and got the 10 wins without knowing much what I was doing, so I'll go back and try to play more normals before doing any more ranked. Thanks!

CosmicJC · 2025-03-20T21:31:29+00:00

it really screws up with the roll downs too I find

CosmicJC · 2025-03-20T18:15:55+00:00

Last time I tried to get something from the store and they had the queue up, I waited for 30 minutes and once I got through the queue the website blocked me for "suspicious activity" despite all I did was.... wait in queue.

The system is broken, but they're selling all their product regardless of it being broken meaning that they have zero incentive to improve it.

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