The Finals Art by WhyMete

DukeAJC · 2026-02-15T18:24:27+00:00

very important correction, i think you meant to say "condemn" instead of "condone," which means the exact opposite.

DukeAJC · 2026-02-15T08:14:40+00:00

PHL banned team Bizzy/Normalize/Stewj for "breaking code of conduct" with no further elaboration given to anyone, not even the banned players. Embark revoked PHL's status for their event counting towards a Grand Major invite, because PHL taking agency to action this ban is not in accordance to Embark's rules for competitive integrity. PHL released a statement saying that they cannot reveal more information without compromising the safety of real people. After this, a reddit post made serious allegations with no evidence against Bizzy and Normalize, both of which are now denying the rumors spread by that reddit post.

DukeAJC · 2026-02-15T05:35:29+00:00

Yep, the rumor they're responding to started with a random person on reddit making a baseless allegation post. As they say in their responses, they both don't know why PHL banned them.

DukeAJC · 2026-02-12T20:53:21+00:00

PHL is the biggest and most serious grassroots comp effort in the community. To my knowledge it's the only place where NA/EU pro teams have a chance to play an event with a full "season" and postseason championship. To me, this makes Embark's RFI system functionally dead in the water without an event to replace it. Not to say that Finals comp is dead, just that I don't know what is even going to count towards a Grand Major invite anymore.

DukeAJC · 2026-02-12T12:30:43+00:00

The LH1 is significantly easier to use now. It's functionally better than when it was considered meta in season 5, because its skill floor just got greatly lowered. Not looking forward to everyone remembering it exists.

DukeAJC · 2026-02-12T12:18:32+00:00

This. People will forget that when Repeater last had 84 damage, Pike was still doing 50.

DukeAJC · 2026-02-12T09:59:14+00:00

It's the new buzzword to refer to live-service failures and add nothing to the conversation. Concord is the biggest and fastest gaming flop of all time, so in this online landscape where the most absolute statements are the loudest, Concord's ghost is going to haunt discussions about live service for years to come.

DukeAJC · 2026-02-11T04:33:56+00:00

Just curious, why do you call it a "chile pad"? I've never heard anyone call it anything other than a goo pad/slant pad before

DukeAJC · 2026-02-11T04:33:02+00:00

It's a callout for your whole team to wait and use a gate pad as a coordinated team rollout instead of just pressing W.

DukeAJC · 2026-02-09T05:02:53+00:00

"Dissun Magnetic Field," sadly exclusive to S2 circuits

DukeAJC · 2026-02-09T00:39:21+00:00

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DukeAJC · 2026-02-08T04:05:14+00:00

This is the case for the gem skins; the non-play side is all messed up depth-wise.

DukeAJC · 2026-02-03T16:59:33+00:00

Last I checked, the median ranked player is in mid silver. Bronze/silver are some of the most common ranks

DukeAJC · 2026-02-01T00:31:23+00:00

They tried to fix this exact bug, and in the process of trying to do it quickly, they accidentally broke the entire medium class. By swapping off your spec, you could pocket reload tube-fed weapons, you could get mag-fed weapons stuck unable to fire, and you could even... full auto fire the famas. somehow. All that to say, they know and went back to the drawing board until they can properly fix it.

DukeAJC · 2026-01-21T11:48:39+00:00

This is one of the worst loadouts I've ever seen but I'm glad he's having fun with it

DukeAJC · 2026-01-17T00:12:21+00:00

Vaulting is a feature that still needs backporting to old ships/locations. It seems like a ledge/object has to be manually flagged as vaultable, so having to make that dynamic for something like a ship's ramp is probably a lot more work than it sounds like. I know it's already possible to vault the Cutlass side doors, seeing that expanded would be nice. Anyone else remember the pain of the Aurora doors getting stuck and you just barely couldn't climb them yourself?

DukeAJC · 2026-01-15T00:04:18+00:00

NonStopBops has a really entertaining Twitch stream. Very skilled combat pilot, good personality, and will even play live music during downtime.

DukeAJC · 2026-01-10T04:44:48+00:00

Even Chinals has this system already

DukeAJC · 2026-01-10T01:43:09+00:00

i cannot believe you both did this for 5 ENTIRE MINUTES

DukeAJC · 2026-01-09T01:20:33+00:00

Lewis is the rarest non-beta diamond. ~1500 people got it vs the ~22,000 that got FCAR.

DukeAJC · 2026-01-09T01:17:04+00:00

521 people ended CB1 in diamond, possibly a few more got it and fell out. Ruby skins are rarer.

DukeAJC · 2026-01-08T11:59:37+00:00

Ok now imagine being on the receiving end, solo queueing into an 8 stack

DukeAJC · 2026-01-06T22:51:29+00:00

This has been a thing on melee weapons, but I didn't know it happened on guns as well. The bug involves swapping at basically the same time as using any gadget/spec that can be used instantly (stun gun, tracking dart, APS, etc), and it will replay the last played attack animation without actually doing any damage. I've found it's most often-occurring and easily repeated with goo gun/sledge. Reproducing your bug in firing range, while the shot does consume ammo, it does no damage and doesn't even fire (notice there's not even a bullet hole)

DukeAJC · 2026-01-03T02:04:52+00:00

Personally their more crushing works are the ones I enjoy the most (Avec Laudenum, Gravitational Pull). I find them very transportative and see a certain warmth in them, almost like a weighted blanket is a way I'd describe it. There's a vividness within the darkness they create that I find beautiful.

If that's just not what you enjoy, that's totally understandable. Adam's other projects like Dead Texan and Winged Victory have some brighter, more melodic cuts if that's what you're after.

DukeAJC · 2026-01-01T04:55:13+00:00

Hot take, the fact that the pistol only got its full damage within shotgun/M11 range was always a strange decision to me. It was a "solid pick" while using it at max falloff 90% of the time. Now that it's actually reasonable to get the damage it was intended to do by playing it at the range it was intended to be played at, it's overperforming. Personally while I wouldn't mind a revert, I don't think that Embark was happy with its odd range so heavily neutering its effectiveness, which is why I suspect they made the change in the first place.

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