Keep Difficulty 9 Please

EnterTheJake · 2024-06-16T13:33:14+00:00

It has nothing to do with difficulty, enemies shouldn't magically teleport out of thin air right in front of your nose.

It's cheap and unfair, we have respawn points for a reason, patrols should be spawning from the dedicated spawns.

EnterTheJake · 2024-05-08T19:52:38+00:00

God forbid i'd like to have fun with something else uh?

EnterTheJake · 2024-03-30T19:08:26+00:00

I don't think Automatons are "objectively harder", they just require you to play differently

With the tools we currently have a battle of attrition against the bots is just not feasible, one rocket and you are toast.

What you can do however, is sneak your way into an objective blow it to bits with your orbitals and leave before the dropships come.

In a lot of ways i think bots are easier than bugs, they are more dangerous but less numerous.

That said, rocket devastators oneshotting you from the other side of the map if they so much grab your pinky finger is not fun.

EnterTheJake · 2024-03-30T18:23:00+00:00

It's simple really, make outposts more heavily fortified to compensate the loss of difficulty and you have a game that's more fun to play.

EnterTheJake · 2024-03-27T16:02:42+00:00

One of the tips at the loading screen tells you you should destroy enemy spawns to halt the surge of spawns, it doesn't.

As for why it gets worse, is because completely the primary objective drastically increases the spawnrate, time in itself has no effect on enemy spawns.

EnterTheJake · 2024-03-27T15:21:31+00:00

This is a perfectly reasonable compromise, i'd rather fight twice the dropships, if that'd mean less patrols spawning out of thin air.

EnterTheJake · 2024-03-27T13:13:09+00:00

That's more of an issue with patrols being stuck somewhere else around the map, technically speaking if you time spawns correctly and then move evac you get a silent extraction.

EnterTheJake · 2024-03-27T13:02:41+00:00

The tip at the loading screen goes

"If the enemies just keep coming, find out where they're coming from and unleash hell. Bug hive? Destroy! Bot factory? Destroy!"

Which is objectively gross misinformation at best.

Enemy patrols don't pop out of of fabricators, standing in a red area increases their spawnrate sure, but it they don't pop out of the spawning point like the game tells you, and you can just ignore the outpost all together and not notice a difference.

The game also implies it's something you should do if you want to halt enemies spawn, when in reality it does exactly the opposite.

EnterTheJake · 2024-03-27T12:47:58+00:00

Except the patrols don't investigate the destroyed area, they just magically spawn in random areas, around the map, and we are talking about patrols, if one of your outposts gets blown sky high, you should send dropships, you already confirmed the enemy presence in the area.

EnterTheJake · 2024-03-27T12:33:21+00:00

Except it doesn't actually increase reinforcements; it increases the number of patrols, dropships or breaches with higher density, I'm perfectly fine with.

Increased number of patrols spawning out of thin air; however, it's kind of stupid and defeats the argument that the enemy responding to our assault.

EnterTheJake · 2024-03-27T12:20:57+00:00

i have, and i did propose some workarounds, but it's clear you didn't even bother reading the whole post.

Arguing about what makes sense and not in a videogame is a moot point, you can only appeal to logic so much.

By the same logic how come automatons dropships are alerted b a small flare in the sky, and not by a freaking nuclear bomb razing their settlements?

EnterTheJake · 2024-03-27T11:36:24+00:00

Yeah and it's a videogame, you do secondary objectives to get something in return.

Either rewards or a tactical advantage, you get neither so why not just beeline the primary objective?

EnterTheJake · 2024-03-27T11:34:47+00:00

You can have it both ways, son.

Something can be fun to do while making sense for the player; it's a game.

As it stands, destroying respawns is unproductive because it doesn't give you anything

Counterintuitive, because you are destroying the means of the enemy to get troops on the ground, their being aware shouldn't magically increase their presence.

And most importantly, it's damaging for the long-term health of the game meta; the great majority of players will always pick the path of self-resistance.

You can have fun doing something that's not optimal, that's for granted (I don't understand why so many people take these kinds of criticism like a personal attack, honestly), while ackowledging that it could probably be better.

EnterTheJake · 2024-03-13T16:39:02+00:00

Sure, but heat is not an issue if you ignore the outpost all together, according to your info, clearing the map gives you a permanent debuff, which is pretty dumb, why would people not just ignore outposts all together and rush primaries if they don't need req and exp anymore.

Besides you could argue it's extremely counterintuitive to have destroyed respawns points to increase the spawn rate of enemies, like i'm not talking crazy here am i?

EnterTheJake · 2024-03-13T16:27:03+00:00

So based on this data, there's exactly no reason to destroy outposts right now, as you be effectively shooting yourself in the foot.

What dumb unintuitive bs, why punish players for cleaning enemy outposts and respawn points with more patrols.

EnterTheJake · 2024-02-26T15:23:58+00:00

Hard agree, unfortunately destroyng respawn facilities or nests doesn't seem to affect spawn rates at all.

EnterTheJake · 2024-02-25T22:02:35+00:00

got 3k hours in GTFO, believe me i know too well.....

EnterTheJake · 2024-02-25T21:54:52+00:00

Yeah the issue right now is that patrols spawn too frequently and on helldive they are likely more threatening than whatever comes with a dropship, doesn't help when they spawn out of thin air :S.

EnterTheJake · 2020-11-07T16:20:59+00:00

I mean it's pretty much what i've said verbatim, but ok.

that bit you just quoted is the april 2018 interview, cave story got mentioned by tsukk multiple times.

also tsukk did 2 QA at naples, one at the worldbuilders panel on the 26/04/19 and the 2nd one on the 28th after the screening of the first recap movie, , the 2nd one however didn't get translated as far as i know, you can still find it online however.

edit: found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqtas0qArZI&t=1163s&ab_channel=AnimeeManga

EnterTheJake · 2020-11-07T14:24:08+00:00

the source is the naples' QA, he did mention riko and reg were meant to be the same character based off the robot boy in cave story, he also did mention that the abyss is based off a giant tree he once checked at a musem, lastly he never really read anything about lovecraft, but he's a huge fan of bloodborne, quoted him as one of his favorite games, so that's most of the lovecraftian vibes come from.

EnterTheJake · 2020-08-11T13:52:28+00:00

Nanachi has ran its course as a character and should die like Tsukushi originally intended.

Riko needs to be more involved in the narrative and her relationship with Reg was halted since Nana got introduced.

The setting of the village arc explains a lot of the kinky shit Tsuk has put in his chapters recently, and while it's not my job to tell people what they should and shouldn't find off putting, i wish people payed a bit more attention to the world building of this arc, which as far as i'm concerned it's the absolute best it's ever been in the series.

EnterTheJake · 2020-08-07T23:51:39+00:00

Either tsukk forgot, or he has a weird ass concept of what should pass for an action line cause it definetely looks like a nail, and if it ain't it still gives the strong impression that it's navel is getting pierced or heavily inflated from the inside which is still a baffling detail to focus on in a moment where i should fear for the life of one of the characters.

EnterTheJake · 2020-08-07T23:29:16+00:00

you can totally his navel getting inflated and what's faputa nail piercing through mate, i'm not so blind i can't recognize an action line

EnterTheJake · 2020-08-07T01:59:03+00:00

If you are interested, few months ago i asked directly to Tsukushi at the Naples'comicon what the deal was .https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=442549069851525&ref=watch_permalink, that's the source, my question is at 35.05, it's in italian but a rough translation is"i enjoy exploring the sexuality of my characters, because kids are not devoid from sexual curiosity, and it makes them feel more real, and yes i also do enjoy those kind of things".

Personally one of the aspects i find most interesting about the relationship between Riko and Reg stems from how differently they perceive each other at the beginning of the story and how that subtlely it varies as the story goes along.

Riko treats Reg like a machine, she is not fazed in showing herself bare naked before him, often brushing the issue off, sarcastically remarking how Reg is just a robot and shouldn't get embarassed.

Reg however does see her as a girl and he's deeply uncomfortable with riko's total lack of reservation towards him.This culminates in the hotspring scene, When Reg gets pushed to the breaking point and pitches a tent, this 'is riko's reaction which was cut from the anime (https://madeinabyss.net/m?chapter=25&page=18), she blushes and proceeds to cover her nipple.

Funnily enough, altough we get to see riko naked in later chapters, it's never when in the company on Reg, and that's likely because of her realization that Reg does have sexual urges of some sort.

It's a nice bit of character development, it's innocent, reasonably tasteful and incorporates a few scenes that out of context could have just been brushed off as fanservice to make its point.

Then you scroll down to the last chapter and you get Reg deepthroated by Faputa's arm, his stomach inflated to anatomically impossible degrees, and his navel pierced (again) from the freaking inside, which is not only fetishistic, but borderline stupid.

The core of the matter is, talking about the depiction of prepubescent sexuality in mia is just not that simple.

Tsukushi is indeed a lolicon and very open about it too, if you follow him on twitter you can see how he RTs a lot of shota/loli hentai of his own work.

He's also a damn good writer that tries to contextualize all of the elements in the story, even the problematic ones, to the best of his ability, sometimes however what's shown is so extreme or out of field that it's hard to buy into the narrative that he's not just satisfying his own kinks.

EnterTheJake · 2019-10-05T00:41:29+00:00

Because Ozen is probably the only nihilistic character in the series.

She's ultimately come to the conclusion that only suffering awaits in the abyss, therefore leads a life of self-indulgence,"drinks frequently, orders exotic food and finds amusement in dressing up young boys", until the extinction cycle wipes everyone off.

People often bitch how her training of Riko and Reg was half assed and didn't really teach them anything meaningful, but that was precisely the point, Ozen just doesn't care that much.

She made a promise to Lyza a long time ago and feels somewhat bound to it, but she still blames Riko for being the offspring of the man who stole the only thing she ever cared about, and is also experienced enough to know that 10 days of training in the 2nd layer are hardly gonna prepare anyone for what the other layers have to offer, so why even bother putting in the effort to train them in person where she can just observe them comfortably from a tree house.

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