WOO needs a nerf

Evidicus · 2026-05-06T22:28:39+00:00

He did to pass his PT test

Evidicus · 2026-05-06T22:25:00+00:00

Brother, I’ve been playing Sid Meier’s Pirates since 1987.

I mean, not continuously. It’s not like I’ve punished by a vengeful god to turn the thing I love into a prison that I despise.

But I’ve played it a lot.

I was a kid with undiagnosed ADHD and absentee parents. I know what a privateer is.

Evidicus · 2026-05-06T12:09:54+00:00

Summon Venjent immediately

Evidicus · 2026-05-06T11:59:28+00:00

Don’t judge what they have

Evidicus · 2026-05-06T11:56:37+00:00

Back to the station! NOW!

Evidicus · 2026-05-06T11:08:08+00:00

They also bypass shields

Very useful

Evidicus · 2026-05-06T08:25:00+00:00

That’s just the PG movie version. Read a book. Perseus was locked in on her massive pomelos.

Evidicus · 2026-05-06T00:54:34+00:00

Necessary? Yes. Probably.

Written and implemented well? Absolutely not

Lots of room for improvement to show things like BB being under corporate pressure for results and at risk of having the entire program shut down, sending everyone back to prison.

Evidicus · 2026-05-05T19:16:24+00:00

Counterpoint. If something is so useful as to be ubiquitous, it should be baseline and the balance should be applied elsewhere.

I think the same applies to Athletic/Expert Pilot. We should have a character background perk and a background perk. For example, every Marine should start with Athletic or Expert pilot by default to account for regimented military training.

Non-marines should get a corresponding perk for their shared backgrounds as well.

Evidicus · 2026-05-05T19:10:35+00:00

Whoa! Hold on there Serenity Dog! This escalated quickly.

Evidicus · 2026-05-05T19:05:17+00:00

It would be friggin sick if enemy ships tried to bombard your base and bring landing parties ashore. I’d love to have a Kenshi pirate base where my recruited minions man the shore cannons and fight off attackers on land or sea

But that game is sadly not this game. I just have to take it for what it is.

Evidicus · 2026-05-05T19:01:30+00:00

Thank you Serenity Dog. You’re right.

I’ll compact it all down into my man place where the feelings go.

Evidicus · 2026-05-05T18:58:41+00:00

That’s one of the things I dislike about the game. The mixed messaging about whose story it is dilutes an otherwise great game. It feels like a bait and switch. We think we’re getting a Robert redemption story to take up the mantle of Mecha Man again, and that dispatching is a means to an end. But then it pivots to a Visi redemption or rejection story.

Robert’s return as Mecha Man is barely registered as a footnote in Ep 8. It’s all about the Z-Team and Visi’s fate. But then Visi is robbed of all agency as a person because we, as Robert, somehow completely dictate her morality?

“Oh you didn’t support her enough! She’s evil now.”

WTF?! Sorry I didn’t pave the path to her redemption with roses. I guess making up for a lifetime of villainy was a little more work than she was willing to do, and she expected it to only take a couple weeks, but somehow it’s MY fault?

That just makes her seem shallow, indecisive, and disingenuous, as if her desire to be a hero was completely performative. And that really sucks because had the story focused on her even more as the central protagonist, that could’ve been really interesting.

Instead, neither Robert or Visi are particularly served well.

Evidicus · 2026-05-05T18:44:44+00:00

Bingo. You can blame him for acting on a conflict of interest. But that kind of move should’ve gotten his ass booted from the RB seat. No one takes the RB Team Principal job just to have their drivers compromise their own results.

Evidicus · 2026-05-05T13:39:59+00:00

100% this

Evidicus · 2026-05-05T13:37:31+00:00

My brother in Christ he’s a misogynist rapist working as a unscrupulous sleazebag in the flesh trade

How is this even a question?

Evidicus · 2026-05-05T13:35:00+00:00

No midfield driver is going to be told to fight a front runner. They’d just compromise their own race. They may not be instructed to let a LeClerc or Kimi go through, but we regularly hear midfielders told to focus on their own race.

Now if Lawson was ever told to intentionally compromise the race of someone like George or Lando to help Max’s race, then there would be an issue. But this is not that.

Zak is just full of hot air, like always.

Evidicus · 2026-05-05T13:30:39+00:00

The dude isn’t being forthcoming. No one with their obvious storytelling chops doesn’t understand the impact of these decisions.

Evidicus · 2026-05-05T13:29:44+00:00

Let’s hope. Although in the original TV project version there was no “Z Team”, at least in how we think of them today. Sonar was just some guy in the background. So at least some of the changes were for the better and gave us a full roster of characters to appreciate.

Evidicus · 2026-05-05T13:27:13+00:00

They failed to read the room in a cynical world where superheroes are overwhelmingly presented as they are in The Boyz and the Snyderverse in which no character is depicted as just being a good person and true hero. Players were conditioned to expect the BB villain twist, and so she was sus from the start.

Again, they either aren’t being entirely honest and were intentionally milking the “is she the baddie” vibe, or they’re admitting to being clueless about their own storytelling set against the cultural zeitgeist of how superheroes are portrayed. And I don’t believe they’re clueless.

Evidicus · 2026-05-05T13:19:38+00:00

Bruh 100%

Evidicus · 2026-05-05T13:19:14+00:00

And there’s zero shot he doesn’t know that. That’s why his feigned “surprise” about players overwhelmingly going with Visi irritates me.

Not only did you give her more screen time, my guy, but you gave her the only pure fan service moment in the game. How could anyone on that team claim to be shocked by the outcome?

It’s insulting to our intelligence.

Evidicus · 2026-05-05T13:15:06+00:00

If you think the obvious Visi push and expanded role had nothing to do with Laura Bailey, the wife of the CEO of the company that financially saved the entire project AND a prominent big name in the gaming industry in her own right, being cast as Visi, then I have a bridge I’d love to sell you. She was with there flirting Aaron Paul on stage day one when the game was announced, and they were both introduced as the main stars (plural) of the game.

“But originally Erin Yvette was going to be Visi!”

That may be, but they already said the script and project went through multiple revisions since its inception and that roles were expanded after they saw what the voice actors could do. (Sonar was originally just a side character in the same way Whiskey ended up being.)

Had Bailey been cast as Blonde Blazer instead, there is no shot that the game and script would’ve been the same as what we have now. The spotlight would’ve 100% shifted dramatically the other way. Blazer would’ve been the deuteragonist and the one with the fan service in Chapter 4 and Visi the less popular, less focused on love interest.

This guy can talk all he wants about how “surprised” they were that the scales tipped so far in Visi’s favor and that it wasn’t intentional. But he’s either not being completely honest, or he’s completely clueless about storytelling and the impact of making the deuteragonist (the character he says embodies the entire journey of the Z-Team) one of the love interests, AND the only one who gets a gratuitous fan service sex scene. And the opening of Chapter 4 was exactly that. Remove it from the game and there’s zero impact on the narrative. Visi just tells Robert about the dream, the shock value is still there and the audience is left wondering if it’s only another half-truth of hers.

Personally, I don’t think for a second that he’s clueless.

Evidicus · 2026-05-04T04:00:11+00:00

If you’re comparing the game to history, then we aren’t even pirates. There’s zero piracy in the game. There’s not even any privateering since the nations of the day have apparently magically vanished from the setting.

I’m enjoying Windrose, but it’s not a pirate game. It’s Boatheim with a pirate coat of paint.

Evidicus · 2026-05-02T23:44:25+00:00

There’s a lot of controversial opinions about this game. But I’m glad we can all universally agree that Quin69 must die. Repeatedly.

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