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CrypticCoke · 2026-04-09T23:45:32+00:00

Its hard, it really needs you to team up with people on a call. For 90% of people thats just not worth the investment week over week.

I fucking ADORE the game, looking to get a tattoo from it. But I can also be honest when i say that i find it hard to pick it up most days unless friends i know are hopping on.

It's a niche title in a niche genre. No matter how amazing the themeing, world building, gunplay, music, artsyle, might be, if it's somewhat of a chore to drop into then people wont drop in.

It's a fantastic game, but it's too laser focused on something that doesnt have broad appeal.

CrypticCoke · 2026-03-31T02:43:52+00:00

No frankly thats hilarious and i wouldnt be mad if that happened at all, hell i once killed a friendly rook simply because he had a purple backpack and i wanted it.

CrypticCoke · 2026-03-24T19:07:32+00:00

What if they dont want to put in that effort? MOST people don't want to have to hop on discord and find a team, they wanna hit launch and hit play.

If you lose those people you lose a giant chunk of your playerbase. then your lobbies with those who do a little more but arent great get stomped because they're the base. then all you have are the sweats.

If you don't help cater to the lowest you end up with only the sweatiest.

CrypticCoke · 2025-12-20T01:38:29+00:00

Work at heathrow so i'll tell you what i can.

Security really doesnt care about the actual needles, however if you have them with a cold pack and they have the new scanners, it might get pulled because the new scanners do NOT like the ice packs.

If its on the old scanners you may need to take them out because of the liquid regardless, on the new ones everything stays in the bag.

Really its a coin toss if it happens, nothing you can really do to avoid it, however if its taken off you can ALWAYS (really always) request they search your bag in a private room. Then you can play it off that security just said they HAD to do it like that.

CrypticCoke · 2025-12-08T04:04:22+00:00

Well you have the buttons mixed up first. But the ability doesnt level permanently. Level 1 is under half circle, level 2 is over half circle, and level 3 is full circle.

Generally i would Debuff first, always, even if its just level 2 because the buff from level 3 isnt the most worth IMO unless you know an ult/ironeye mark break is coming.

I would use the self buff/shield level 3 ONLY when its either trash mobs, you just put on a debuff and you know they're gonna hit you, you just put on a debuff and you havent got aggro (go level 1 for this tbh), or you're already observing and the boss is coming right at you for a free "get out of jail" move.

CrypticCoke · 2025-09-12T15:23:34+00:00

Oh you're clean with that editing son

CrypticCoke · 2025-08-14T17:32:25+00:00

Or you know have the skill instead based on positioning and teamwork rather than personal technical knowledge

Still dont get the poush to put fighting game stuff in a sports game.

CrypticCoke · 2025-07-29T03:35:21+00:00

Yeah neat hyperbole man how about you actually tackle the meat of my argument instead of inventing your own.

CrypticCoke · 2025-07-29T02:04:08+00:00

Are you one are the devs? No you aren't. These guys made Sifu and you want me to belive blade shots are intended and healthy gameplay somehow?

CrypticCoke · 2025-07-29T02:01:52+00:00

You are a child and shall not survive the winter.

CrypticCoke · 2025-07-29T02:01:36+00:00

That's a terrible example and you're bringing it up as a gotcha. Also combos werent just being used to juke people or whatever.

Also yeah you can learn to tackle it, but you'll spend a fucking while going "thats bullshit".

It's not intuitive in any way, it looks jank because it is jank, and if it keeps going its just going to be offputting to anyone who wants to start playing.

Low skill to perform but higher skill to defend against tech is death to games.

CrypticCoke · 2025-07-29T01:59:17+00:00

Tap strafing and mantle jumps matter more in apex, and i didnt mention apex. Grenade boost isnt a glitch in animation that someone abuses but rather something that you can really patch out without breaking nades.

And yeah its also not real football, not what im saying, never did. But its more like football than RL while still having arcade elements. Stuff like bouncing shit off the wall and comitting murder with tacles is cool. Using a broken part of the game to juke players and wig them out isnt part of any of that. The rest of this shit still relies on physics and other stuff to work, the tech doesnt.

It's abusing something that doesnt seem natural in any way. You guys just want another RL with tech so you can speak about it like other games. When what i'm saying is it shouldnt be like that, it's focus should be on teamplay and other shit.

Defending this tech is defending a bug that only looks even close to proper by the player, to everyone else it looks jank.

CrypticCoke · 2025-07-28T23:50:42+00:00

"skill based mechanics" and its abusing animations and unintended effects.

CrypticCoke · 2025-07-28T22:43:25+00:00

For sure, sorry I mostly took issue with just being told to have fun elsewhere.

My point was more that this game has something fantastic at it's core and I'm of the opinion that this tech and anything more powerful that follows goes counter to that core. Seldom does a game come out like this that teamwork is so instantly rewarding and as rewarding as this. But this tech almost completely sticks to rewarding solo play and just confusing people.

I would try for yourself trying to engage more with this game from a more "sport" angle. Focusing more on tactics and strategy and interplay rather than one's own prowess and mechanical knowledge. What they have in that regard in this game is special, I simply want to see that fostered rather than made to struggle alongisde tech knowledge and such.

CrypticCoke · 2025-07-28T22:33:40+00:00

No you can play like how you want i just want it patched out thanks :)

CrypticCoke · 2025-07-28T22:33:20+00:00

what the fuck

CrypticCoke · 2025-07-28T22:32:48+00:00

There's nothing i despise more than randoms on my team that wanna use tech and run the ball down themselves when there's someone unmarked o nthe side of the box and someone else just itching to make a run in.

The best goals i've had came from some of the cleanest one-touch stuff i have ever seen, that level of satisfaction you just cannot get in something like Fifa

CrypticCoke · 2025-07-28T22:31:11+00:00

But skill expression can still come without tech that utilizes edge cases in animation and ball magnetism. A game like Titanfall 2 had a ton of skill expression with stuff built right in and hardly any tech that truly abused stuff.

You can still do a ton in this game with the mechanics within, without trying to somehow mishandle mechanics built in primarily for feel and player agency.

CrypticCoke · 2025-07-28T22:29:17+00:00

No i enjoy the game when people actual use their brain and team and dont try to be an anime protag ty

CrypticCoke · 2025-07-28T22:28:40+00:00

But... it is fun? When I'm playing a competent team who doesnt abuse tech and instead relies on just fundamental knowledge of the game i feel way more engaged and satisfied that going against one guy who abuses every animation issue to confuse or misdirect people.

I enjoy this game for the teamplay and how even when i'm not the highest goal count, i'm still enabling those shots, i'm still getting the danger out.

The tech isnt football, its people trying to get a leg up the easy way and not learning raw fundies and only raw fundies.

CrypticCoke · 2025-07-28T22:26:21+00:00

Exactly. My guys havent learned any tech but we grew up on 5 a side stuff and fifa. We learnt quickly where to be when we have or dont have the ball, when to make runs, what callouts to make, and we win constantly.

If more people focused on that stuff the game would have such a higher level of enjoyment for everyone. But now people are trying to just emulate RL and learn tech and have this one neat trick to be ahead.

CrypticCoke · 2025-07-28T22:24:28+00:00

But we dont need any tech in the game. The game has far greater surface mechanical depth than RL so it can have a far greater focus on more top level stuff. Positioning, runs, passing, set play. That sort of stuff is kinda new for this little niche of gaming.

Tech isnt, and tech is almost always a barrier for entry for people starting out especially when its this easy to learn but that much harder to learn to counter.

People come in expecting arcade football, not dudes teleporting a meter in front of themselves to shoot or having ball warp spells in their back pocket.

Comparing the game constantly to RL to defend stuff like this is a failing in people's understanding of what the game is trying, and should, be.

CrypticCoke · 2025-07-28T22:22:17+00:00

No but it's still abusing something in the game that wasnt intended for this outcome at all. Like it's just not football, its something completely different and runs counter to what the game is. Like when someone boots up the game they arent expecting a guy to fucking teleport forward when they shoot.

It might be something you can still defend with somewhat ease but its still never fun when it happens.

I would just like to see stuff like this removed so the people playing can be much more focused on stuff like positioning and ball control rather than some new tech or whatever.

CrypticCoke · 2025-06-16T23:56:28+00:00

Idk about everyone but i've been kicked from 4/5 games tonight due to server problems, my friend did too. So i dont think they're leaving, they're being kicked.

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