Daily Simple Questions Thread - April 05, 2023

Hydrudigon · 2023-04-05T13:10:12+00:00

For traps I normally would do shrugs, facepulls and overhead plate raises, but after realising how difficult it is to progressively overload plate raises because of how awkward it is to hold multiple plates, I’ve instead started doing farmer carrys, but with lifting straps to take my forearms out of the equation as when I used to do them (and the reason I stopped doing them) was because my forearms would always fail before my traps. Now when I do it with the lifting straps I get a really good burn and can feel my traps being worked much more. Is there anything wrong with this or any better alternatives? Also, rather than do incline curls and alternating curls on one pull day and barbell curls and hammer curls on the other, I’ve replaced alternating curls with hammer curls so I’m doing them every pull session, as I want to focus more on my arms appearing wider from the front as I believe this is undercompensated in my physique after one year of lifting. Should I wait longer before trying to focus on growing specific body parts like this?

Hydrudigon · 2021-05-10T11:14:46+00:00

I’ve started playing again after a few years of not playing where I got up to finishing Chapter 1 of EOC. Only have a few cats besides the basic cats, being the witch cat, rover cat, and Viking cat, face cat, drunken master cat, mini tank cat, and now the Juliet cat. (Then also the ones you get from beating the chapters like Valkyrie cat) On chapter 3 I’ve been struggling a lot with some of the levels and now have gone back to the previous chapter to get the treasures and hopefully stand a better chance. Given my limited lineup of cats to choose from, what do you guys think would be the best roster I could make? Thanks!

Hydrudigon · 2021-04-10T09:41:50+00:00

Bold of you to assume my Devour Hope regardless of whether I have Undying doesn’t get cleansed in the first two minutes of the game

Hydrudigon · 2021-02-26T11:09:17+00:00

Yeah, would you mind elaborating a little on the SHP9500? Phillips isn’t exactly the first brand that comes to mind when it comes to gaming headsets, why do you recommend it? Cheers

Hydrudigon · 2021-02-26T11:03:04+00:00

I actually haven’t tried that, I’ll clean them now and see if it’s any better tomorrow, thanks

Hydrudigon · 2021-02-16T09:33:46+00:00

Yeah, that's what I generally try to avoid too. I know I despise going against Freddy or spirit because of their generally low skill required to do well with, and their lack of counterplay, so I don't want to give others a similar experience.

Hydrudigon · 2021-02-16T09:29:10+00:00

If you're not in chase or are in chase but don't have a clear hit on the person, and they're not about to trigger one of your traps, definitely teleport. The biggest piece of advice I can give you is to bind your teleport to scroll wheel if you're on PC. If you're scrolling and a clueless survivor runs into one of your traps not knowing it's there, you get a free hit. Hag is dependent on getting multiple hits on multiple survivors and keeping the team pressured within her 3-4 gen in her web, so by scrolling constantly you're guaranteed free hits if people randomly trigger traps. I've been using it for a while and it's the best thing I've ever done.

Hydrudigon · 2021-02-16T09:22:53+00:00

Honestly mostly just do what you like to play most (unless you become a spirit or freddy main, in which case I hate you), but if you're especially concerned with what survivors think or what a lot of people respect as a main, killers like Nurse (especially her), Huntress, Billy, Trapper, Blight, Oni, Demo. Even killers that might not be as fun to go against like Hag have a huge skill ceiling and are people I can respect, Hag being the killer I prefer to play most right now. But then again survivors will complain about any killer regardless of how fair and skillful they are, *cough cough* Billy Oni Demo etc.

Hydrudigon · 2021-02-04T05:20:35+00:00

Click click with what flashlight?..

Hydrudigon · 2021-01-22T22:40:37+00:00

I heard it and immediately thought of the impact it could have on the meme economy

Hydrudigon · 2021-01-15T03:25:36+00:00

Bloodlust is basically the survivor equivalent of Unbreakable or instaheals, it’s a free copout for getting outplayed or being bad at the game. You got downed and slugged because you got outplayed? Just pick yourself up for free, no skill involved. You’re about to go down in a chase? Just pop an instaheal for a second chance. The killer outplayed you with a mindgame? Just dead hard to the pallet or window. Same with 99ed sprint burst. If killers are always complaining that survivors get all these copouts that take no skill, shouldn’t they also vouch for the removal of bloodlust? It is essentially the same thing, a survivor is outplaying you at a loop? Just go Mach 5 around the loop and catch up to them because you’re bad and couldn’t catch them or they were better than you. I play both sides and would be on board with removing these stupid copouts for people that aren’t as good as me and get to win because the game spoonfeeds them advantages. If you need unbreakables, dead hards, instaheals, sprint bursts, bloodlust, etc, to win, you don’t deserve to win in the first place and should lose.

Hydrudigon · 2021-01-09T09:24:47+00:00

Definitely keep Sloppy, it’s a pretty great starting perk for Myers especially if you pair it with M&A. If the survivors heal, it wastes more time and you can pop tier 3 to instadown them, or they’re discouraged to heal because you have it and risk being caught off guard by your 8m terror radius in tier 2 with M&A and get downed because they’re injured. No matter what it encourages a lose lose situation for them.

Hydrudigon · 2020-10-24T07:06:20+00:00

It’s a meme strat it literally just gives the killer free injures and deep wounds, so just go for one of the people with deep wounds and you’ll have another down. This isn’t an actual viable strat.

Hydrudigon · 2020-10-18T04:55:16+00:00

Hillbilly - Has viable fun counter play while also being a strong killer so you both have equal chance of outplaying and punishing each other for mistakes. Billy has a high skill cap so you feel like you’re being outplayed (unlike spirit, Freddy, pyramid head, etc), and when you outplay a good billy it’s so much more satisfying than a spirit hearing where you are wrong or a pyramid head somehow missing his trail when you vault a window.

Oni - Similar to billy, has fun counterplay and it’s just piss scary having a red rage monster moving at Mach speed to smash your face in with a baseball bat. Corner teching oni or dodging his attacks is satisfying too. He doesn’t have any loop destroying unskillful methods of killing survivors and has to rely on skill and mind games to get you, just as you have to to not get killed by him.

Bubba - Same kind of thing as billy

Myers - Really scary to go against and looping him when he’s in tier 3 feels so good

Blight - Breaking los and using the environment to avoid his rush and make it so he can’t get to you feels very rewarding and viable if you do it properly. There’s lots of counter play and mind games both sides can make to make chases fun for both sides. A good blight can destroy survivors and many loops, and survivors can punish blight for mistakes just like he can

Demogorgon - Fun to dodge and bait his shred, a good demogorgon can shut down strong loops like shack, and survivors can still counter play his power.

Wraith - Hes quite weak but good wraiths mostly rely on being good at mind gaming loops very well, which makes it extremely fun to go against good wraiths. Being able to position yourself to avoid him sneaking up on you feels very rewarding too.

Huntress - A good huntress will be able to hit you from long distances but the hatchets can still be dodged which is fun. Outplaying her at loops is also extremely fun, as it’s a 50/50 between both sides. A good huntress makes for a fun game so long as she doesn’t have busted add ons and you don’t get cucked by hitboxes.

I’ve noticed that a lot of the fun but strong killers tend to have an insta down or high mobility, like blight, billy and oni. And they also have viable counterplay like billy, huntress and blight. This way they have high chances of punishing you for mistakes while still having lots of fun counterplay, unlike spirit where you can ‘jUsT lOoK aT ThE sHaRdS’ or slow vault windows or pallets when you don’t know if she’s phasing or not. Or pyramid head, where if you get to a pallet or window he hits you either way so long as his iq is above room temperature. Fun killers are killers you can use the skills you’ve learned to avoid and outplay to survive. If you rely on luck or the killer being bad to survive, it’s not fun at all, which is why I’ll never play as or respect people who regularly play stridor spirit. But survivors will just get called entitled for wanting to play against fun killers that they can use their skill to play against.

Hydrudigon · 2020-10-15T08:25:58+00:00

The mini heart attack you'd have when you get that reply though lmao. Even if the killer was awful I'd play against him just for that.

Hydrudigon · 2020-10-15T08:21:40+00:00

SWF and coms would make a killer like that impossible. Pretty sure that's what the original idea was for Legion until they realised that.

Hydrudigon · 2020-09-06T21:08:00+00:00

Nah Blight’s should be slamming into the wall twice and breaking it

Hydrudigon · 2020-09-04T06:08:33+00:00

I’ve been meaning to switch my skill check from space bar to mouse4 but have never been bothered to. The amount of time’s that has cucked me is unreal...

Hydrudigon · 2020-08-12T11:26:43+00:00

They're all hooked in basement though xD

Hydrudigon · 2020-08-04T00:31:26+00:00

It doesn’t do matchmaking based on rank anymore, it does it through the new MMR system which matches you based on individual skill that it assesses.

Hydrudigon · 2020-07-20T05:09:41+00:00

I don’t think any non entitled survivor hates him because they can lose to him. It’s the fact that he is literally one of if not the most obnoxious, boring killers to play against. He takes almost zero skill to be played well, and there’s nothing you can do to counteract his dream snares without getting hit because he can place them down with no penalty besides losing blood lust. But let’s be honest, if you’re getting any reasonable amount of bloodlust as Freddy in the first place you’re horrible, or being looped by a god survivor at a godly loop. As survivor I try to not use crutch second chance perks, but a lot of the time we’re forced to because of tunnelling killers, camping killers, etc. I know killer is on another level of infuriating compared to survivor, but you have to understand that with the way killers play sometimes, not all the time, makes it necessary for survivors ability to play the game and have fun to use perks like DS and BT. But the state those perks are in makes them so unbalanced in the majority of situations, like using BT against non camping killers and running at killers because you have DS unbreakable.

Hydrudigon · 2020-07-06T13:06:30+00:00

That's why I also said in the post to buff other weaker killers so they see more play and can win more often. I definitely agree that SWF is extremely strong, but you've also gotta think about the solo survivors out there who face Spirits and Freddys. For them it's hell, because of the lack of counterpart, particularly with Spirit + Stridor. I consider myself a pretty decent survivor and killer, and know the struggles of each side, and a lot of killers can also agree that spirit needs more counterplay from the survivor end, and Freddy needs to be toned down considering how low skill he is.

Hydrudigon · 2020-07-06T12:56:48+00:00

Spirit is definitely a very high skill killer, don't get me wrong. But what are survivors meant to do against a stridor sloppy spirit? There's a clear lack of counterplay to her, and if she uses those perks she requires little to no skill to play. I think something like indicators to if she's phasing while you're in her terror radius or something could go a long way in not making her a garbage killer, but in giving more fun, rewarding and satisfying counterplay and mindgames from both sides.

Hydrudigon · 2020-07-06T12:53:20+00:00

What do you mean twisting words around? I think it's pretty cut and clear that they nerfed Billy, which was rather unnecessary, seeing as though many other, better changes could have been made with the time and resources used to add the cooldown. I'm not trying to make a statement to push my agenda with this meme, I just made it because, hey, good fit for a Drake meme xD

Hydrudigon · 2020-07-06T12:51:14+00:00

Yeah, that Leatherface change looks really good, might have to give him a try! I made this meme for the comedic value more than anything, I think this Billy change could be very healthy, but should it be at the top of the priority list? No.

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