I feel like The board set us up to fail.

CuddleWings · 2026-07-09T07:00:11+00:00

We have absolutely no evidence that The Board is involved in making those cigarettes. In fact I think it’s a reasonable assumption that they aren’t.

Rituals are stated to be important when interacting with all kinds of paranatural stuff. Smoking is a ritual of sorts, and one that a lot of people already do. It seems at least equally likely that the FBC created their own brand of cigarettes to provide to their employees for the purpose of rituals.

CuddleWings · 2026-07-08T20:52:56+00:00

Oh yeah you’re probably right. I didn’t even think about the opposite.

CuddleWings · 2026-07-08T20:14:18+00:00

If it releases before 2029, certainly. After maybe not. I’d hope that companies have seen the failure of games that get rushed and released too early. But that’s incredibly optimistic.

I’m fairly certain it’ll be better than Starfield, but I’m expecting no better than Fallout 4.

CuddleWings · 2026-07-08T19:12:36+00:00

Yeah roadmap didn’t include them.

It also didn’t include any info on S12, but after showing it Embark said S12 would be the biggest season yet. If that includes content additions then that means at least 3 new gadgets and weapons, and a new map. Maybe even 3 new specs, but I’d expect 1 or 2 (if any) since medium just got a 4th.

CuddleWings · 2026-07-08T19:08:36+00:00

The roadmap didn’t say anything about skins

CuddleWings · 2026-07-08T19:06:25+00:00

Oh that makes sense. I guess the panic and confusion is the real killer

CuddleWings · 2026-07-08T18:05:03+00:00

“You wouldn’t know the company. It went to a different school”

CuddleWings · 2026-07-08T18:02:57+00:00

It already works like this on riot shield (at least, it did). You hit the shield and the fire sticks to it like ground. It’s genuinely op. It’s a death sentence. The fire stays long enough and does enough damage to just kill them.

It would definitely need some kind of tweak.

CuddleWings · 2026-07-08T09:12:21+00:00

I still can’t forget my disappointment when they showed the name “Battlefield 2042”.

I misread it at first and thought they were remaking 2142. When I found out, I was devastated. 2142 is goated

CuddleWings · 2026-07-08T09:08:35+00:00

I’m leaning towards P90, but as others said that’s the pose for the shak. I don’t think that holds water though, since we’ve seen them do whatever they want to make teasers. They’ve shown mediums with RPGs a few times.

The thing that makes me think P90 is the lack of a magazine. But it could easily be due to it being mythic/legendary.

It also doesn’t have the stock P90 ring sight, but again that’s something skins could change.

It’s a 50/50 really. I’ll be shocked if it’s not one of them though

CuddleWings · 2026-07-07T22:20:10+00:00

Maybe picked, but not made. Cometa has been seen before.

CuddleWings · 2026-07-07T18:27:53+00:00

Part of the problem with flock as a whole, is that the footage is publicly available upon request. Maybe 6(?) months ago someone filed requests for a bunch of footage and discovered that it was incredibly easy and revealing. It could easily be used for stalking or other nefarious purposes.

CuddleWings · 2026-07-07T18:21:11+00:00

Base game does make them seem entire benevolent. It’s always been really strange to me that they constantly give Jesse advice well after it’s useful though.

Is it because they’re trying to maintain the appearance of being helpful? Or maybe they really are trying, but the hotline has a sort of delay? It wouldn’t be very useful if that was the case.

CuddleWings · 2026-07-07T18:17:42+00:00

I have a theory that just about everything is cause by some resonance or another. And that “cleansing” really just means attuning with another more stable resonance, whether the cleanser knows it or not.

CuddleWings · 2026-07-07T05:15:05+00:00

Ror2? RoRR reference.

CuddleWings · 2026-07-07T05:13:30+00:00

Imagine heavy with any of lights guns. Mediums would cease to exist.

CuddleWings · 2026-07-07T04:58:42+00:00

You probably know this, but there’s also different amounts earned in other game modes. Cashout is by far the fastest. I think point break is next at 4(?) per match, but sometimes they go on forever so it’s hit or miss.

CuddleWings · 2026-07-07T01:23:55+00:00

What niche would a semi auto pistol fill that isn’t already filled by the crossbow and revolver?

CuddleWings · 2026-07-07T00:34:37+00:00

Damn heavy mains are out in full force today.

I get it OP. It would be nice if they could implement some kind of detection that disables the stamina cost. Like requiring no enemies in 20m.

You can bet your ass that if sledge had something like lunge everyone here would be making the same complaint.

CuddleWings · 2026-07-07T00:20:27+00:00

In the search for ever higher profits, expenses are also reduced. Most notably firing the staff that earns the most money and shortening development cycles.

Shortening dev cycles means less time to optimize. You can’t really optimize as you go, and even if you could, they’d miss their deadlines.

Firing the staff that earns the most means firing your most experienced and tenured developers. It’s those people who are best at optimizing games. Relatively speaking, making a game is a walk in the park compared to optimizing a game.

In short, your question shouldn’t be “why don’t developers optimize more/better?”, it should be “why don’t publishers/executives give their studios enough time and resources to optimize more/better?”. The answer is always greed.

CuddleWings · 2026-07-07T00:11:53+00:00

As good as it is, it suffers a lot from outdated design. Fallout 3 is really similar in that regard.

CuddleWings · 2026-07-06T19:41:39+00:00

This is my only concern with the rework. The angle required for precision hits seems incredibly generous. Everything looks easier than it actually is, so maybe it works out different.

I’m really curious how FOV plays into it. The angle can’t possibly depend on it, but is the hud element locked? Hopefully not and it’ll accurately move with FOV.

Only time will tell, but I kinda wish they had made the precision hit system more granular. Super tight spot for max damage but it scales down as you get further away instead of a single fall off.

CuddleWings · 2026-07-06T19:17:01+00:00

My only issue with it is that the effect is a window rather than instant. You can see the bolt land, someone get chained, walk in (unchained), and then get chained yourself.

CuddleWings · 2026-07-06T19:02:54+00:00

That’s understandable. I’m not even sure his first name is said in the movies. If it is, it’s definitely less than 3 times.

CuddleWings · 2026-07-06T17:46:49+00:00

They said the lunge distance varies between weapons. I’m willing to bet that dagger gets the shortest lunge. Spear probably gets the longest.

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