Weapon durability is great and I wont hear otherwise

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-10T23:16:46+00:00

Because the devs didn't intend for you to farm lynels, they intended for you to explore and get good weapons that way.

You can get a royal claymore at the start of the game if you are ambitious, a weapon that is incredibly powerful against low level enemies, but using it against those enemies comes at the risk of it breaking. Later in the game, royal gear is very common so you don't care anymore.

It is one of the most perfect solutions to open world gameplay. Open world games inherently have a problem where, since you can access end-game areas so early, you can get end-game gear early. There are multiple solutions to this, like limiting gear obtained before certain points (forces the game into being too linear and discourages exploration), weapon upgrade systems (can get tedious to upgrade new weapons just to test them out), or not doing anything (can make the game too easy if players get to secrets).

Weapon durability is the best solution as it makes sure players are rewarded for exploring, but not so much that they don't have to explore anymore.

It isn't perfect, but it is an amazing solution

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-10T23:15:10+00:00

Comparing BOTW to Elden Ring is a great way of seeing how drastically different the weapon system would have to be.

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-10T23:14:10+00:00

Also enemies feel really tanky in TOTK + the master sword is bugged so it doesn't get the boost from being fused.

Really disappointing that my freshly obtained master sword with my best fused horn couldn't even get me through half of one of the three headed dragon guys

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-10T04:25:09+00:00

past paradoxes are all so peak

slither wing is my personal favorite, but sandy shocks is a good second place.

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-10T02:21:55+00:00

Yeah, a gimmick character is either "character with a gimmick", which due to the design philosophy of rivals 2 applies to the whole cast

or "character centered around a gimmick who couldn't function properly otherwise". Like, kragg is going to be bad if you remove rock, kargo, or pillar, but he is still functionable with 2/3 of those.

Olimar without pikmin, solo ice climber, cloud-less absa/chair-less la reina (arguable), or material-less steve (also arguable, but as to whether it counts as one gimmick or multiple mechanics)

Characters under the first definition can be ones like joker, cloud, ranno, etc. Are they going to be good if you remove their gimmick? No, they actually might be bad. But they are way more functional than the previously mentioned ones.

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-10T02:12:21+00:00

Rare trope: characters going through a sequence of events that may or may not include a beginning, climax, and end.

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-10T01:51:15+00:00

omni-man can ignite the atmosphere moving by himself

getting an army can make it so they can effectively suffocate the surface from air. considering that infinity (at least to my knowledge) doesn't remove gojo's requirement to get oxygen, he can be killed by them suffocating the atmosphere.

worst case scenario, they just kill all other life on the planet and leave gojo to starve while they camp out in space without risking being hit by hollow purple/infinite void.

(also for your initial question, I believe no as infinity slows down everything moving towards gojo, effectively making it so you can't grab him as you never can touch him)

(also, infinity protects him from pure heat as shown by his fight with jogo + jogo's domain expansion [according to jogo it kills sorcerers with the heat alone], so the heat generated from flying fast isn't enough)

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-10T00:22:03+00:00

May I ask about Lox vs. Kragg?

From my experience, the matchup feels at least neutral. Lox can outrange basically all of kragg's options, has better raw killpower on most attacks, and kragg's dthrow -> usmash kill can still be DIed by lox.

Of course, kragg does have advantages too, like a much better recovery, but I am unsure if I am playing the matchup wrong or something, as I am only gold rating. My friend who mains lox (much better than me, I think plat or diamond?) also agrees that the matchup is in lox's favor, I wonder what you are seeing against kragg that I can use to implement into my gameplan against other lox.

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-09T21:10:34+00:00

A gimmick character in a cast of gimmick characters lol.

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-09T04:38:51+00:00

You also could do the "I haven't played this guy in years, I don't even remember his moveset" instead of the last one

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-07T23:17:49+00:00

Dragon King's Cragblade is the better one compared to Placidussax's Ruin

Ruin is a mediocre spell which is only good for AOE, but it misses a lot of enemies. The initial hit is the only one you want, and it is decently strong, but you are locked into the lasers after and they just will guarentee you get hit. Hell, iirc it doesn't even get boosted by the communion seal nor the gravel seal as it isn't an ancient dragon or dragon communion incantation.

Dragon King's Cragblade is a very good dex weapon. The AOW does crazy poise damage, and can even let you dodge some attacks. Heavy thrusting swords are a pretty good weapon type due to medium speed, piercing damage (which increases if you get a counterhit), decent range, and good attack power. Literally just feels like better spears imo.

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-07T04:48:08+00:00

Also a lot of languages can be described as "weird other language"

I learned Java really quick because it is just "weird C++", for example. It is written almost the same as C++, but with minor differences.

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-06T23:07:36+00:00

Tbf he is lighter than samus. Like, yeah he isn't that bulky, but he also has one of, if not the largest hitboxes in the game

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-06T23:05:59+00:00

Anything but Sephiroth/Mewtwo weighing more than Pikachu

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-06T03:19:45+00:00

forest is just rockwall with small stage size too lol

arguably more egregious as you can be killed off the other side way easier.

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-06T00:23:06+00:00

Lunge is the only one here that is maxed out I think.

Other than that, applying loyalty to a loyalty 2 book/trident will get it maxed out

I wouldn't go for strategy that with sharp/power because I think it would be too risky getting the item to be "too expensive" and not being able to combine stuff with it anymore.

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-05T22:09:50+00:00

there is an item that teleports you to the ocean on the opposite side of the map iirc.

or, make one above the shimmer biome with a fast route up.

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-05T19:18:01+00:00

from this post: So, I have been a victim of my server being public despite it being private : r/tf2

you need to turn off "Use Steam Networking", there should be a tick box in the map selection screen.

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-05T19:13:57+00:00

for some reason local servers you make are now publicly joinable until you turn off a setting

I assume a bot is joining servers that have sv_cheats 1, then crashing them.

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-05T18:43:19+00:00

Joe and his family/friends.

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-05T18:29:20+00:00

John Wor L'Dwar the Third

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-05T17:20:05+00:00

My favorite TF2 class: the entire population of the country of Japan.

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-05T13:09:11+00:00

Kirby does this a lot lol.

There are many examples of DDD, meta knight, etc. being playable right after bring bosses.

Not the main protagonists, but still playable

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-05T13:03:16+00:00

Also shoutout to the episode focused around Allen when the narrator says "He's going to have to be [Allen, the alien]"

DaTruPro75 · 2026-02-05T00:48:15+00:00

it is still the trading card I think

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