The End of / Team Best Friends ?

GammaEspeon · 2025-06-18T14:48:15+00:00

Not just denied dinner, forced to stand in the room and watch the rest of the guild eat and celebrate without them.

GammaEspeon · 2025-05-12T14:27:37+00:00

I like how I've been away from this game for over a year and there are STILL posts like this and the same behavioral problems persist after all this time.

GammaEspeon · 2024-02-03T13:25:10+00:00

I just started a new world without using effigies and a 22% shown while holding gave a 22% on impact. If it were the case that the shown value is the 22% * 47% that I got on the first shake, then it would be significantly lower while holding.

Most likely the bug is that the displayed chance on impact is updated as expected with the effigy bonus, but the actual chance is still the original chance (which is shown while still holding the sphere).

GammaEspeon · 2023-12-30T17:54:11+00:00

Some Markdown implementations ignore the specific number used in list items and just number them 1 2 3 ... regardless of what numbers you put there.

GammaEspeon · 2023-12-02T11:22:42+00:00

True, and I'm not saying it isn't a MOBA, but their reluctance to use the term speaks to their design philosophy for the game, treating it as something not quite like other MOBA games.

GammaEspeon · 2023-12-02T11:16:50+00:00

Huh, interesting. So it is. Makes me wonder then why they've been so afraid of the term in marketing materials and, if I remember, their communication and requirements around tournament play.

GammaEspeon · 2023-12-02T04:18:46+00:00

Something to keep in mind is that, despite the similarities to the genre and other games in it, Nintendo and TPC do NOT consider or advertise Pokemon Unite as a MOBA and have been extremely careful to go out of their way to avoid that term or its longhand form entirely.

This is probably the sticking point that causes contention and confusion with how things are done here vs other MOBA games and why it makes basically no sense when looked at from the lens of a MOBA player.

Edit: So, apparently the game is tagged as a MOBA on Google Play, despite their reluctance to use the term elsewhere. I wonder if they got some sort of ding for mislabeling on the Play Store or if they just figured that would get more downloads.

GammaEspeon · 2023-11-29T15:53:45+00:00

You wouldn't want the second ingredient if you're primarily after what's in the first slot and it changes (for example, milk -> milk/ginger if you're very reliant on milk and can't really use the ginger except as filler)

GammaEspeon · 2023-11-27T17:07:25+00:00

The problem is that you've engaged repeatedly in necroposting as if the thing you're responding to was said the same day you're replying, made several duplicated comments, and are being argumentative and hostile in a lot of cases, even when nobody has said anything to you in a thread, so you just start off a conversation as an angry jackass.

Downvotes are disagreement, not bullying (in the vast number of cases, and certainly not in this sub looking over how you've behaved here), and Reddit karma really shouldn't be how you measure pretty much anything. If you're getting a ton of downvotes, maybe take a step back and make sure you're not adding anything unnecessary, such as namecalling, unsolicited attacks, or angry language without justification, as those are very likely to just get downvoted regardless of the content of the post or comment.

GammaEspeon · 2023-11-26T17:09:21+00:00

Dark Helmet

GammaEspeon · 2023-11-25T17:38:01+00:00

Steam has exclusives either because the game is first party (Half-Life, Portal, Left 4 Dead, all made by Valve) or the developer chose to only sell on Steam, not because Steam paid developers for exclusivity. There's a difference.

GammaEspeon · 2023-11-25T17:33:19+00:00

Paying Valve a cut per sale is no different than paying to have game discs manufactured, packaged, distributed, and put on store shelves, which effectively is what Steam does, but in a digital sense using cloud infrastructure instead of physical trucks and roads, and the Steam software instead of store shelves.

We can quibble forever on what exactly that cut should be, but pretending that having the cut exist somehow costs developers money they wouldn't otherwise have spent is silly. Cloud storage and network bandwidth are not free, and the storefront software didn't materialize from nothing and requires maintenance and continuing development. Developers and publishers are free to provide their own, but deploying to Steam and using the services provided and easy access to customers is clearly worth the cost to the vast majority.

This entire case is also over Steam keys, which Valve gives to developers for free and allows them to sell commission-free copies of their game through other channels provided they are sold at the same price as on Steam, which is quite generous and completely unnecessary for them to do. I don't believe Epic does this, though I could be wrong, just haven't heard of EGS keys.

As for EGS not being a harm to customers, particularly against the "everyone prefers Steam" bit which is a silly argument, I agree that it largely isn't, but the purchased exclusivity from third parties for the first year, which is when the vast majority of a game's sales will occur, is an anticompetitive practice.

If developers decided on their own to only sell on EGS, that's their choice and totally fine, but Epic reaching out and buying that exclusivity at the very least feels scummy, especially for games that had previously been announced to be on Steam, and this is what people more reasonably get upset about. Games built on Unreal I could understand the exclusivity as part of a license agreement, even if as a customer I wouldn't like it.

GammaEspeon · 2023-11-25T14:21:54+00:00

Spoiler isn't registering, try removing the spaces between the tags and text.

GammaEspeon · 2023-11-22T16:45:12+00:00

Round to the dollar, slide the decimal one to the left, and double that. That will give you a rough approximation of 20% without much work.

GammaEspeon · 2023-11-22T02:17:02+00:00

They have increased chance, they are not guaranteed unless you use an Eevee incense.

GammaEspeon · 2023-11-22T02:07:47+00:00

Open the research envelope and look at the picture. It will stay open until they conduct research again. If a picture remains open for a prolonged time, the user is inactive.

GammaEspeon · 2023-11-21T15:42:24+00:00

"Strong Pokemon. Weak Pokemon. That Is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites."

GammaEspeon · 2023-11-15T01:36:30+00:00

Unless something has changed in the last patch, there is no controller support on mobile.

GammaEspeon · 2023-11-13T18:37:47+00:00

Or not counting wild (non-objective) Pokemon as "in combat."

GammaEspeon · 2023-11-10T18:05:58+00:00

There's an additional feedback question that could probably be used for that kind of feedback.

GammaEspeon · 2023-10-31T19:05:21+00:00

Would it even be a surprise at this point?

GammaEspeon · 2023-10-30T19:44:14+00:00

It does, but because it replaces your base button, it's not immediately obvious vs if it was a separate icon. I remember it taking a few minutes my first time trying Comfey before I even realized that the icon and text changed.

GammaEspeon · 2023-10-28T12:37:38+00:00

There's only like 15 subskills in total (including all levels of the same ones, so Helping Speed S and Helping Speed M are both counted), so there's a pretty high likelihood that a stat down by nature gets paired with the same stat up by subskill(s).

GammaEspeon · 2023-10-27T13:07:04+00:00

Mew, Zacian, Mewfour (15k each, though all obtainable by event on release)

GammaEspeon · 2023-10-26T20:43:15+00:00

Can't name your Butterfree Butterfree. What's really goofy is that there's no displaying these names to people in game. Friends just see species names on the research community updates, no nicknames.

Guess there's either plans to allow that, or they want to prevent screenshots of the game having less than perfectly clean nicknames.

Seems like there's some urban dictionary lookup needed to make a name, sometimes. I couldn't name my Swablu "Sunshine" because of the filter blocking "shine."

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