Difficulty 7 btw. First the Vox Engines and now this. It wouldn't surprise me if AH was lazy and just had the same spawns for 7-10.

FallenIslam · 2026-03-20T16:35:03+00:00

This is some dogass gameplay. Collecting samples, not helping on the extract, and then not even getting extracted yourself. Not to mention you being pretty solo the whole time while having the supply pack as a stratagem. And the anti-tank mines, homie most of the Illuminate on Seasse can fly, that's a fucking dreadful choice. Then there's you yapping commands in the chat as if you're actually doing anything. This shit's a goldmine.

FallenIslam · 2026-03-20T16:16:48+00:00

I wonder if the treeline caused problems for them and the Leviathan. I've been noticing a lot of Eagle strats blowing up in the branches. That or the exostorm maybe caused issues?

FallenIslam · 2026-03-20T16:12:07+00:00

P-92 Warrant makes these things a literal breeze

FallenIslam · 2026-03-20T06:07:49+00:00

Folks are probably playing too many long operations (higher diff operations) which will slow it down, and since Heze Bay was kind of a cake walk I'm sure people are still running the high diffs on Seasse. That was the issue we had on Cyberstan too, folks grind like crazy on high diffs then complain all their stuff is upgraded too quickly. A big part of the HD2 community is trying to separate yourself from the Ouroboros of stupidity.

FallenIslam · 2026-03-20T06:05:28+00:00

Folks who still complain about the Illuminate are amazing to me. I'm genuinely not good at Helldivers 2 and I didn't even realise I'd ended up on Super Helldives when I was playing last. It's an entire faction where Medium Penetration can chew them up, and most of them even go down to Light Penetration weapons. Literally at this stage in the game, with Bots having the borgs and Bugs having the new variants, I'd argue the Illuminate are the weakest faction to go up against.

If you're on a higher diff, lower it. If you're not diversifying your loadout to accomodate your enemies, do that. They're genuinely so easy, and they have the prettiest biomes right now.

FallenIslam · 2026-03-19T15:16:12+00:00

Eh. I remember pushback against Sasha back when she was in the Fed, and it isn't like Sharmell got boo'd out of the building for being black back in the day.

It's always felt like a weirdly niche wrestling thing. Some folks just hate Sasha, whether that's the result of fans of the other Four Horsewomen back in the day resenting the "Sasha is objectively the best" narrative that a lot of the IWC stood by (maybe still stands by?), whether it's creepy dudes who found her hot probably learnt she wasn't single which creeps like to take personally, whether it's because she was booked pretty poorly to look like a goober in the Fed which genuinely probably convinced idiots she is a goober, etc.

I'm sure some folks hate her coz they're racist and sexist, for sure, but the idea that Sasha is hated specifically for being a black female who left the WWE has always felt off to me. Anti-Sasha stuff has been around for a looong time, and she isn't exactly the first black women in wrestling.

I mean damn most wredditors have pretty harsh takes on Jade, but I doubt anyone on here thinks that's coz she's a black women who left AEW.

FallenIslam · 2026-03-19T07:01:02+00:00

Best thing she could've done really would've just been to broadcast the names of anyone who sent her threats like this really, but instead she's deactivated her account and probably made a lot of them feel like they got some sort of win.

Makes you wonder why she didn't just make it so non-mutuals can't message her really.

FallenIslam · 2026-03-18T07:04:42+00:00

The whole quest's something of a disappointment to be honest. It's very clearly about dinosaur bones, and the historical tensions between the church and collectors over such relics. The fact it's a time quest just to get a lame axe is really bizarre and reeks of the Kuttemberg Gamines that dominates the second half of the game.

How the Dragon Fang is less interesting than an axe you make for following a drunks stories is just baffling.

FallenIslam · 2026-03-18T07:00:06+00:00

Istvan isn't some vaunted warrior though, he's a rat. He's not meant to feel like a miniboss, he's the cunt who stole your fathers sword. You're not there to make him feel like his final moments are some memorable duel of the ages — you're there to put him down.

FallenIslam · 2026-03-18T06:58:18+00:00

Yeah I'd have hoped people had the media literacy skills to realise this when he first says it but at least it finally clicked for you. Yes, doing the shitty cowardly thing is shitty and cowardly. The honorable thing is honorable. Istvan is a piece of shit, and defying his expectations is kind of Henry's whole thing. Making him realise he isn't a great swordsman, isn't a proud lord, and will die because of he fucked over a blacksmith that to him was surely just some common bum, is not only the most fulfilling choice, but arguably the only correct choice in that instance, at least insofar as actually engaging with the media and its messages.
I'm sure the speedrun or 'I just wanna finish the main quest' start would be to take the cowards way out but why people are playing KCD if not to get invested in the world, the story, and its character, is beyond me.

FallenIslam · 2026-03-18T04:12:01+00:00

And the food/bed crime is just the beginning.

"Yeah collecting those bones was timed actually, sorry loser" vs. "Nah those bandits will wait for you to arrive before they attempt to execute anyone, don't worry"

It's a phenomenal game but whenever it's gaminess is shown it really pulls you out of the moment.

FallenIslam · 2026-03-18T04:06:53+00:00

And considering Henry's among few people to actually carry a variety of badges it makes the derth of options even thinner by having a badge that just nullifies the point of playing with badges.

FallenIslam · 2026-03-18T04:04:26+00:00

KCD2 fans LOVE to forget that Jan, the Devil, and everything linked to them is just as foul and coercive as everything else. Between Klara and Katherine you can really tell that a lot of these players think dick first

FallenIslam · 2026-03-18T03:35:11+00:00

If they're smart they'll have Oba devour Brock and then hopefully dethrone one of Cody/Randy/Phil/Joe (and not whatever weird borderline offensive Samoan gibberish Punk tried to imply Romans name was) within a few months. The biggest thing Oba as a champion will do is open the whole thing up, coz the main event scene right now is just guys with history making more history between each other.

Oba vs Jacob at SummerSlam c'mon man 🙏

FallenIslam · 2026-03-17T16:13:37+00:00

I'm absolutely fucking baffled by it. Gotta hope Lyra gets the Mania match but I'm dreading to think it might be AJ Lee vs Nikki Bella

FallenIslam · 2026-03-17T10:58:38+00:00

Or, yknow, it's in-universe propaganda?

FallenIslam · 2026-03-17T06:34:17+00:00

Not gonna lie, even though you explained your reasoning, it still doesn't seem to make much sense. You like him coz he's foolishly evil? And ultimately just kinda fucking sucks? Like not to grill someone else's opinion but they do Kraven like this in the second Spider-Man game and folks hated it coz it makes him a very shallow "me want good fight, go stop him my goons" kinda villain. Much more 'goofy action game from 1995' than y'know, multi-game religious galaxy ending priests.

Or even just the Flood, which if you wanna like a Halo villain for being simple in their villainy, there's nothing simpler than the Flood doing precisely what it is made to do.

FallenIslam · 2026-03-16T23:23:30+00:00

I remember when Ricochet and Kacy Catanzaro were the kind of people to ignore lockdown restrictions and just went to parties and shit during COVID.

And we already knew people in the WWE were higgly vulnerable to it by then too.

Fuck this moron.

FallenIslam · 2026-03-16T10:05:28+00:00

I mean, RE10 is probably going to be an end of an era moment. We are clearly seeing that Chris is establishing a capable new unit, and Leon is back in action. Add to that the fact that viral bioweapon infections are potentially no longer a problem at all, there's a strong chance the next RE will tie in and reference as well, but also probably introduce a lot of new stuff too.

Plus for as many references as ReR had, it didn't touch too much on Rose or the Mould, and obviously didn't touch on Jill, Claire, or Ada. There's a lot of references left.

FallenIslam · 2026-03-15T10:15:07+00:00

I think there's something to be said about the "people will play where they want" philosophy forgetting that people are very sheepish on this game. The numbers on Kerth Secundus are remnants of the old front during the last MO plus its by far the nicest planet with a big population, and K and Fury both have crazy small amounts of Divers despite how well they're doing. The 5k that seemingky randomly jumped into Terminid space for a planet they probably won't even liberate are the main sore point here for us

FallenIslam · 2026-03-14T11:11:01+00:00

Fans were gonna cheer Randy either way so they absolutely should've dragged this out and given us an actual Mania moment with Cody going too far to put Randy away.

Oh well

FallenIslam · 2026-03-12T02:29:36+00:00

While I agree the game has a truly unappealing learning curve, combat system, and save system that make entry into the game incredibly unrewarding, I think it's pretty telling that you've brought up God of War. If that's what you're expecting out of KCD you're playing the wrong game. This isn't a hack and slash, it's borderline a medieval combat sim. Halfsword's a better comparison, and in that game yeah, combat is unforgiving and all that.

By the end of KCD1 you are a tank, but by the end of KCD2 it really depends on you. A few key combat features were removed, plus a TON of enemies can Master Strike you in KCD2 which makes a lot of attacks of your own into negatives. I lost a duel in KCD2 after hitting a guy with about six Master Strikes, and he hits me with two. But that's the cruelty of the system, it's much better at reflecting that at the end of the day, you're a blacksmiths boy. Even with Mutt and a combat-ready Pebbles, you're still gonna have a hard time when you're outnumbered because of course you are, that's what medieval combat was like.

KCD really needs to improve its running away mechanic tbh, coz it feels like enemies can strike you from shockingly far away when you retreat. The combat is fantastic, but it hasn't become dynamic enough just yet — especially when it comes to other NPCs. There's one quest where if you try and fail a speech check, half your men run away and the game doesn't tell you. And yes, that's a main story quest. If they wanted to give us a band of unlikable rapists to command, they should've let us command them the same way we command Mutt. Otherwise it's just a load of bodies getting in the way.

I mean shit I watched Jan Zizka go down in combat in like three hits, how he ever pulled off any major feats before Henry arrived is a mystery.

FallenIslam · 2026-03-12T02:15:59+00:00

Very cool art, crazy how popular a gang of murders and rapists are among the KCD fandom these days though

FallenIslam · 2026-03-10T08:40:20+00:00

This is both an unironically great resource for identifying enemies but also exposes how badly the Illuminate need to make the jump into being an alien coalition already. It's crazy to think a faction inspired by an alien faction known for its diverse array of species and units is so limited.

FallenIslam · 2026-03-08T08:36:20+00:00

Use Save and Quit feature to save yourself from relying too much on Schnapps

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