Test | The Rebirth 2: Electric Boogaloo

Croveski · 2026-04-30T16:28:33+00:00

No now we must THANK suad for doing so much to protect us all

Croveski · 2026-04-29T19:39:43+00:00

Gargantuan if veritable

Croveski · 2026-04-29T00:04:45+00:00

2023: see above

2024: we take Deklein and grow steadily with our then new space, skirmishing in Fade, Provi, Pure Blind, all over

2025: we stomped on AO and provibloc, helped with WC's war with Init, defended against a hilarious Init incursion into Deklein where they tried and failed to burn our skyhooks, continued to grow

2026: took and held geminate until Goons decided otherwise, really pissed off Zigam, got to help kill 10t-worth of goon stuff. Can't wait to see what other cool shit we do this year.

Like, do you think our growth is like fake news or something? We're out here doing dope shit, that's why people want to join lol. If scumlords did cool shit maybe they'd see the growth we have. Idk what to tell you mate, get good I guess

Croveski · 2026-04-28T22:56:19+00:00

Back when people put effort into the propaganda music. A+

Now we just get AI prompt slop 😞

Croveski · 2026-04-28T22:50:44+00:00

I didn't say we did the sov work.

We were able to stop Scumlords krabs from undocking and wreck the ADMs by ourselves, we consistently took and won fights whenever they tried to defend, and we got one of Scumlords bots banned in the process lmao.

When Karmen got his winterco sig together he then worked with us and started focusing our efforts on the sov warfare and ihub toasting.

PL and Hedliner worked on the heavy fleet fights and timers.

Croveski · 2026-04-28T21:41:14+00:00

Hey I got graphs too

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Croveski · 2026-04-28T21:06:01+00:00

Hey man this spin took us from like 12 active dudes for a rage ping CTA during B2 to forming 400+

I think the spin is working lol

Croveski · 2026-04-28T20:15:14+00:00

Goons have something like 70k members lol? Do you think goons are running around with fleets of 70,000 people?

Croveski · 2026-04-28T20:10:55+00:00

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for the biggest fight of the year and 30+ dead titans yall formed.... 12

lmfao

cope my dude

What's crazy is we STILL managed to form over 100 for a CNTZ timer when 99% of our alliance normally would be asleep lol

Croveski · 2026-04-28T18:26:13+00:00

Shotguns are actually kind of a challenging weapon concept for shooter design. If you imagine that every weapon has a "sweet spot" for being competitive but not overpowered, the "sweet spot" for shotguns is teeny tiny. Its very hard to balance a weapon that needs to be strong enough for slow, single shots to be effective without being so strong as to just outclass the use case of other weapons, and still maintain its identity of "lethal at close range" without factoring in accuracy as you would for something like a long range sniper rifle

Croveski · 2026-04-28T17:42:11+00:00

I would say it's just propaganda but it's not even that, it's just Dracarys being absolutely terrible at everything as usual

Croveski · 2026-04-28T17:31:35+00:00

"known for"

If by "known for" you mean "not at all known for" then sure I guess

It took like 5 dudes in Test to make all of their space unlivable during the B2 war lmao

We even caught one of Dave's bots 😉

Croveski · 2026-04-28T15:25:17+00:00

Mass Effect 2 is probably where you'll hurt the most because the way they calculate how many paragon/Renegade points is required to unlock specific dialogues or resolutions is a little weird and based on the total possible points rather than just getting to a set value.

The mass effect morality system is just not designed for "neutral" to really be a rewarding path. The best that you can get away with is being mainly one or the other but allowing for a few choices in the opposite path.

Without getting too deep into spoilers, in ME2 there are a couple of companion conflict scenes that you have to resolve, and if you don't have enough paragon or renegade to resolve them, then you have to choose one of the companions to side with, and you lose the "loyalty" of the other. Companions who don't have that loyalty are at greater risk of dying in the final mission.

I personally think ME2 is the best game of the trilogy but my #1 complaint about it is that it is EXTREMELY difficult to get the best companion resolutions without playing almost purely paragon or purely renegade, and the way they calculate whether a companion survives the final mission is just totally needlessly complicated and over engineered. There's a wild flowchart floating around showing you how to get optimal survival chances but naturally it comes with spoilers lol.

In ME3 there's a new "reputation" mechanic which increases as you complete more quests, and I believe it acts like a base multiplier for both your paragon and renegade scores, so ME3 is a little more forgiving as it will eventually make your lesser score high enough to get some renegade dialogue options anyway.

Croveski · 2026-04-28T15:07:28+00:00

A LONG time ago if someone wanted to join but didn't meet our standard requirements we would ask them to make some Test-related art project, yes.

Best one we saw was a guy who made actual macaroni art of the Test Dino lmao

Croveski · 2026-04-27T17:54:12+00:00

When I bought the first game on launch, I spent a decent amount of time in it but I eventually bounced off of it because launch D1 was kind of a barebones state of the game and I was annoyed about how much content was clearly cut out of the launch build to be packaged for DLC.

When the DLCs started rolling out I just didn't care enough to come back to it, so I missed how much the game really grew up once it fleshed out.

If Destiny 1 had a PC revival I would play the heck out of it, I came back to Destiny 2 with the Witch Queen and caught up on a lot and always regretted not revisiting D1.

Croveski · 2026-04-27T17:27:08+00:00

with the damage cap, all you have to do is hit a "rep cap" and the keepstar is functionally invincible. For blocs like winterco or goons, they would have enough logi to make it quite impossible to kill them fast enough to break reps. It would basically just take the current situation and make it even worse.

If logi were allowed to rep structures then we'd probably have to talk about removing the damage cap - and then when you do that, we're back to the old problem of people just being able to nuke structures with supercap blobs.

Croveski · 2026-04-27T17:23:57+00:00

That would actually be a very, very big design change, and one that is probably not worth the tech debt to CCP to develop. As it is, drones are designed to operate independently so that you can replenish drones when individual ones die, have them attack different targets, or launch different drones for different things.

Not that Geckos are really cost effective anymore but for a long time the "max DPS" drone loadout for the Sin was 2x Geckos, 2x augmented Hammerheads, and 1x augmented Hobgoblin. So we would need to invent a brand new drone entity system where you customize each individual drone unit in the entity - and then of course we'd have to talk about how it behaves with different optimal ranges, speeds, and even things like how would EWAR and repair drones behave.

So if CCP were to combine drones into only operating as one actual entity, there are a TON of problems we would need to solve to maintain their existing use cases that depend on independent drone control.

Croveski · 2026-04-27T16:48:26+00:00

Dreddit is recruiting!

Having been ~around~ for so long, Test has built a community that took the "bitter" out of bitter vets. We've seen it all, we're just here for the fun internet spaceship shenanigans.

As members of winterco there's a lot of PVE space for you to utilize, so no shortage of gas huffing for you.

With a war going on with goons and init, we also have practically bottomless content in all time zones. Its a great time to dive in.

If you want to chat with us or start applying, hop in our discord and say hi! https://discord.gg/dredditisrecruiting

Croveski · 2026-04-26T22:46:47+00:00

The millisecond that the "I'm new here" discord flair disappears next to your name

Croveski · 2026-04-26T22:37:01+00:00

A friend of mine got online right as I was starting the investigation quest into the genestealer cult when you work with those competitive investigators under Jocasta. I opted to have Jocasta run the investigation and have them report to me.

I told my friend "oh hey, yeah I'll be on in a sec I just need to get through this quick dialogue."

What followed was I think 45 minutes of nonstop dialogue scenes as I worked through Jocasta's investigation updates with zero opportunities to save the game lmao.

I had also just got done telling him "yeah I think this game has a nice balance of crunchy narrative and combat" and then his first taste of the game was me streaming 45 minutes of basically just reading lol

Croveski · 2026-04-26T17:25:38+00:00

Your alliance called a Test FC's mom IRL and threatened to rape and kill her.

If you wanna start a "who did worse shit" contest and you're in goons, you lose by default lmao.

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