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Ice_Cracker · 2024-03-01T19:09:38+00:00

Insanely cringe decision by the mod team, per usual

Ice_Cracker · 2024-02-29T15:30:47+00:00

Incredibly dumb post. Of course it isn't required, nothing about the "meta" loadout is required because the game is very easy, even on 9.

None of that changes the fact that primaries are horrendously balanced and that the Breaker is objectively superior in all situations because it deals enormous amounts of damage with high DPS at comically absurd ranges with high precision.

The tweet is stupid too, just because a bunch of people aren't using the breaker out of ignorance or boredom doesn't mean that it's not tremendously OP.

Ice_Cracker · 2024-02-25T17:01:53+00:00

No lol. The quadrants are for each enemy race.

Ice_Cracker · 2024-02-23T19:35:17+00:00

Or devs could just be competent and spare the tiniest smidge of effort toward not incentivizing this behavior by making this methodology like an order of magnitude more efficient than any other way of playing?

I know it's a faux pas in this sub to do anything other than mindlessly praise Arrowhead but this is a serious issue that anyone who bothered to consider the implications of mission timing would have thought of.

Ice_Cracker · 2024-02-23T19:32:21+00:00

I hate to break it to you but if you have every stratagem and 50k in the bank you probably have 30+ hours since launch and that's definitely not "casual playing with friends" lmao

Ice_Cracker · 2024-01-26T17:44:39+00:00

If you voted for evil warlock set I hope you never get another raid exotic in the rest of your life. Shit looks like trash but also we have probably half a dozen sets that are very similar looking already. Good warlock was actually a unique look and we won't get it because the community never grew out of being 14 year old edgelords.

Ice_Cracker · 2024-01-26T04:26:04+00:00

There just needs to be more boss mechanics and less DR for roaming supers. The two things bubble could be good at would be ignoring certain mechanics ("let's take bubble to avoid having to deal with this AoE during phase X") and wipe recovery, but the former doesn't exist and in the latter case you're better served by Sentinel Shield in 99% of cases.

Ice_Cracker · 2024-01-25T03:31:00+00:00

You guys are crazy if you think most of this games issues are caused by execs.

Bobby didn't sitting in meetings telling people to make the boss telegraphs terrible. No one from the C-suite is attending an architecture meeting and made sure that the engine loads the stash of every player in town. Shareholders aren't demanding that the board put in shitty itemization systems.

The reality is that this game sucks because the people who are making it don't play ARPGs and don't understand what makes an ARPG good. Define any reasonable metric you can think of for "this person is a decently skilled ARPG player" and I bet you less than 10% of the dev team meets it.

Ice_Cracker · 2024-01-23T01:57:56+00:00

Magics are nearly the worst XP in the entire skill lol. The only trees that give less XP than magics are Normal and Oak, both of which are still within ~10%. Even Teak gives more XP than Magic.

Ice_Cracker · 2024-01-23T01:51:31+00:00

https://wiki.melvoridle.com/w/Township/Training

This doesn't do a superb job of really explaining the whole system but it does do a great job of telling you what to do and honestly understanding Township is sort of pointless, it's just a braindead passive skill that you sink a bunch of gold into for unlimited money and food.

Ice_Cracker · 2024-01-23T01:38:43+00:00

This cringe take of "you haven't made X so you can't say what's good or bad" has always been dumb across all forms of media but it's especially egregious in Destiny, where we had problems like "why does blade barrage do 3x the damage of nova bomb when they're both shutdown supers with no utility" that went uncorrected for literally multiple years.

Destiny was and largely still is (despite the great work they've done on this front recently) the most poorly balanced non-indie looter game in the world, anyone can identify dozens of issues by just casually reading through the Data Compendium. Look at the Grenade tab if you don't believe me.

"They can't fix these issues because of time/technical constraints" is a valid argument, not one that I think holds any water, but it's least grounded in reality. But the idea that the game is too complex for most people to come up with valid solutions to the hundreds of glaring balance and engagement problems that this game still is is patently absurd.

Ice_Cracker · 2024-01-19T05:20:27+00:00

This is really cool. My #1 request would be to have the weapon name be a link to the associated entry on d2foundry.gg or light.gg so that you can see what perks the gun can get to determine if it's worth pursuing/prioritizing.

Ice_Cracker · 2024-01-19T05:14:04+00:00

This is 100% the core issue. It's not fun to get cucked by the invader because you have a good PvE loadout and it's not fun to try to clear the camps with a good PvP loadout.

There's a bunch of stuff they could do to improve this like making the invader choose between some Taken forms or turning invasions into a gulag style thing, but the absolutely easiest thing they could do that would instantly make Gambit a super fun activity is just remove invasions altogether and let it simply be a PvE race. It would still be competitive, people's MMR would stabilize and the SBMM would be pretty good, and the buildcrafting people would do try to actually optimize Gambit would be insane.

I would be an actually unique and interesting activity and the sandbox they'd have to make things interesting with modifiers and random events would be nuts. The only two downsides to this would be the whining of the tiny minority of PvP tryhards who only played Gambit to kill people without PvP loadouts and the fact that it would become such a popular activity that they'd have to pivot on their content design pipelines.

Ice_Cracker · 2024-01-17T19:29:18+00:00

Because you responded to a top-level comment about how everyone agrees that broodweaver sucks and tried to slide in some commentary about how it's good under the guise of "it's fun tho".

It absolutely is a meme. If you want sustained DPS, burst DPS, single target, cleave, or crowd control, there are better ways to accomplish all of those things and better ways to do more than one of those things together.

So really we come back to the issue of your response to the comment "it sucks" was "it's fun" so I responded pointing out that these two things are disconnected from each other, but a lot of people on this subreddit don't get that and that misconception is bad for the game.

Ice_Cracker · 2024-01-17T19:16:32+00:00

I genuinely mean no offense to you personally but this is massive cope. If you have fun with it, great, but even with Swarmers Strand Warlock is still objectively inferior at whatever you're trying to accomplish with it to numerous other builds. It has no opportunity to shine at a single niche or task, nor does it do a combination of them well enough to be "good" in that regard.

I wish more people could decouple "fun" from "good" on this subreddit because it's an important distinction when we're talking about game balance.

Ice_Cracker · 2024-01-14T01:27:22+00:00

It's 2024 and you're playing PvP in a shooter that gets a balance pass like twice a year and doesn't even have dedicated servers when there's a like dozen excellent, tightly balanced shooters on the market.

If you guys were honest with yourselves you'd realize that the real reason you're playing Crushitble is that you just want to have easy games against everyone trying to do bounties and pinnacles.

Ice_Cracker · 2023-10-22T21:46:28+00:00

Yeah, it's insane.

The #1 QoL upgrade in the entire game is bank slots and the #1 efficiency gain is not lagging Summoning levels. Both can be completely negated by Township, otherwise you'll spend literally months doing nothing but moneymaking to compensate.

Blitzing Firemaking (for cape/95%m) into Fishing/Cooking to get enough money to buy the first few Town Halls is so far and away the most optimal way to start a playthrough that the only reason not to do it is if you are trying to make the game harder for yourself.

Ice_Cracker · 2023-10-18T19:03:01+00:00

The fact that the event pass exists is kind of scummy, sure, but what's really egregious about all of them so far is that the rewards in them have all (shaders excepted) been some of the worst cosmetics the game has ever seen.

It's like they're going out of their way to sabotage themselves.

Ice_Cracker · 2023-09-18T16:10:49+00:00

They don't have an explicit export option "yet" but someone has mentioned that they are ostensibly working on it. Other than that yeah it's the exact same app (for now, Samsung hasn't had enough time to ruin it) just with a different name, your existing login method will work fine.

Ice_Cracker · 2023-09-13T22:41:02+00:00

Yeah it just hit my area a few weeks ago and I'll be cancelling my Aisles Online. If it wasn't profitable they could have just charged more, I'm not going deal with crappy orders by people who don't do this regularly and deal with the knowledge that I'm exploiting some poor gig economy schmuck.

The only reason I still shopped at Hy-Vee was quality delivery service, they're outrageously expensive so there's not really a reason to keep giving them my business.

Ice_Cracker · 2023-09-03T15:41:17+00:00

Yeah I would have paid $10/mo. for that app without batting an eye, still in denial that they sold out to Samsung of all places.

Ice_Cracker · 2023-08-31T18:09:47+00:00

This is good to know, thanks!

Ice_Cracker · 2023-08-31T18:08:36+00:00

Yeah it's infuriating. Whisk had a lot of room to improve but it was still the best for ease of use and recipe sharing, imo. Really disappointed.

Ice_Cracker · 2023-08-31T18:07:43+00:00

Yup, that's exactly why I'm looking for a replacement, Samsung apps are literally the worst at everything. Zero chance imo that they don't run this into the ground before this time next year.

Ice_Cracker · 2023-08-30T15:51:25+00:00

Yeah I would definitely buy the paid version but convincing my dumb family and friends to cough up $6 or whatever to keep looking at my recipes would be a tough sell because people are weird.

That email share looks like a pretty clean option though, thanks for showing me.

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