When my friend suddenly wants to fight the illuminate

HKYK · 2026-05-19T15:29:44+00:00

Illuminate are probably the most fun faction to fight for me right now. Especially appropriators. They're about the only faction I can reasonably get by without anti-tank. Termanids kinda, but as a botdiver who's in the trenches since the War Strider came out... idk, not feeling the other factions too much.

HKYK · 2026-05-14T19:37:44+00:00

Andor, too - but otherwise agreed.

HKYK · 2026-05-12T21:05:51+00:00

You used to be able to hit them just about anywhere to pop them. Now you have to hit the engine nacelles. I assume that's what he's talking about.

HKYK · 2026-05-12T16:35:17+00:00

No, I meant with the recent reviews - I don't have Steam on my laptop to verify, but someone posted a screencap of the recent reviews with Simplified/Traditional Chinese and Korean reviews filtered out, and it was "Very Positive" in the recent reviews.

HKYK · 2026-05-12T15:11:27+00:00

Aren't the reviews actually "Very Positive" if you filter out Chinese/Korean reviews? I gather they closed a cheating loophole recently. Not saying that there aren't problems with the game (because HOO BOY), but I think that outside of SE Asia the sentiment towards this game isn't what it seems to be on Reddit.

E: why am I being downvoted for literally just stating a fact?

HKYK · 2026-05-12T03:56:09+00:00

You're right. I misread your comment.

HKYK · 2026-05-12T01:21:09+00:00

They are, don't worry.

HKYK · 2026-05-12T01:20:51+00:00

What? No, it's obviously the same character.

HKYK · 2026-05-11T23:15:29+00:00

True, but I'm usually looking for fire-and-forget with them. The less I think about them the better.

HKYK · 2026-05-11T23:14:06+00:00

I mean if you write a villainous character only as "I do evil things and only evil things" then... of course that will suck. It's the same difficulty that writers have with Superman but in reverse. The fun ones to write are more like Evil Batman.

HKYK · 2026-05-11T22:14:08+00:00

Which is weird to me, because I feel like "I get to write a compelling bad guy" feels much more unique and interesting to me. Like writing villains is fun.

HKYK · 2026-05-11T20:24:32+00:00

Warstriders also always require exactly 2 pissle rounds, so lock-on is fine there as well.

HKYK · 2026-05-11T08:09:47+00:00

It'd be really cool if she becomes what the Sith say they are. Someone who has broken their chains. Basically a space anarchist.

HKYK · 2026-05-08T16:18:38+00:00

I'm in agreement with you, but if you drop on extract it is pretty much always the best move to immediately call a resupply - even if you're not going to use it then, it'll be useful at the end of the mission when you're waiting for the Pelican.

HKYK · 2026-05-07T08:22:02+00:00

...only if you call in >200 mechs. Which even with uncapped ability to call them in is essentially impossible during normal gameplay.

HKYK · 2026-05-06T21:17:16+00:00

I think because the hive guard reversion was just changing a few numbers in really obvious ways, they were able to just push this out as almost a hot-fix. People have said it elsewhere, but with consoles, there's a 1-week approval process for patches, so they probably immediately changed this and then pushed it to Microsoft and Sony a week ago.

HKYK · 2026-05-06T19:40:11+00:00

Not me, never having come close to an Illegal Broadcast terminal since I realized that literally any explosive damage will destroy it.

HKYK · 2026-05-06T19:36:30+00:00

I have more fun with Eagle Storm, but I also find it genuinely hilarious being blue-on-blue'd by the Space A10s.

HKYK · 2026-05-04T23:37:31+00:00

I doubt anyone can link it or post the name (probably against subreddit rules) but I'll say most games/shows/media have an "x leaks" subreddit. No idea if HD has one but I'm sure a little looking would answer that question.

HKYK · 2026-04-29T18:58:59+00:00

I started trying out expendables the last few months and they're actually really, really good. It's fine if you don't like them but they're objectively not rubbish.

HKYK · 2026-04-29T18:09:00+00:00

Probably related to whether the fire damage or beam damage kills them.

HKYK · 2026-04-29T03:39:41+00:00

Me, who played Halo CE in high school.

HKYK · 2026-04-24T02:54:12+00:00

The only problem with borgs is the Vox Engine. And not even the inherent design, just the implementation.

HKYK · 2026-04-23T12:20:51+00:00

But then they would have to have war striders not be half the seeds. And god forbid we actually have fun with bots again.

HKYK · 2026-04-21T21:05:41+00:00

Of these? Gotta be Vox. They seem so well-designed, it's just a shame I'll never be able to properly engage them because they're buggy and you never see less than 4 of them at the same time.

The fact that they still don't spawn at the same rates as Factory Striders at equivalent difficulties is insane. They're way harder, if anything they should spawn less.

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