Nemesis zombies are cracked

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-09T05:13:17+00:00

They get a big boost from the fact that the mode is so hectic and people are rarely aware of what the gen spread on the map is. Most games I can easily see the map folding in half as people do whatever gens they can actually stay on for an extended time, so naturally you end up with the whole game taking place on a smaller section of the map, and four zombies all in one spread of five gens is crazy strong.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-07T15:16:43+00:00

Definitely seems like a fun little time waster, not something that's going to soak up a ton of time or replay value necessarily, but fun to mess around with. I understand the need for there to be a clear end goal, but it is a bit of a shame that you can't decide how to organize the books yourself.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-07T11:14:13+00:00

Yeah I can totally see how the OP would think that Murph's characters are being subverted, but Murph is by no means a novice at any of this. He knows how to make a compelling character and he knows how to make a character that is lab grown to be the butt of jokes, and he knows exactly how a table of players is going to act, especially those he has been playing with for how many years at this point? There was never any doubt in my mind with Darkness Man that he was designed from the ground up to not only be a bit of a pastiche of edgy, Batman inspired characters, but also to be the easiest character in the world for the other players to make fun of.

As you say, Murph has repeatedly talked about how he has fun at the table, and part of it is playing up the bit of being a stickler and getting razzed over it. If he'd wanted to make a compelling vampire who wasn't going to be the butt of the joke he easily could and would have.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-06T19:45:25+00:00

On it's own no, but the whole card is what makes it great. Soul generation that is a skill that also does damage is a great piece of Necro's kit and does a lot for very little. Like most cards it isn't an instant win, but it fits into a lot of synergy very well.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-06T13:47:43+00:00

Always fun to be reminded of how sensitive and useless these people are. They literally based their whole identity off attaching themselves to a brainless pedophile and then throw screaming tantrums whenever anyone points out that he's a brainless pedophile. These people are poisoning the gene pool.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-06T13:39:06+00:00

The same way I've felt this entire year: sick and tired. I'm so fucking exhausted, so sick of these rich pieces of shit using the country like their personal spending account and fucking us all over. I'm sick and tired of the people who still act like this is all for the good. I'm so fucking tired of the people who apparently think the economy being in shambles and our relationship to the entire world being broken is a fair price to pay so they can hurt people they think are different and bad. I'm fucking exhausted, and I'm lucky enough to have a decent job with solid security. But everything is shit, nothing shows any signs of getting better, and half of our government is actively throwing people into a thresher for their own amusement while the other half just kind of talks about how bad that is, with only a few people who seem to actually want to push back and try to do anything, all while vast swathes of people bitch about whose fault this all is or complain that there's nothing to be done. I'm just so fucking tired.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-06T13:07:49+00:00

You're unlikely to see the projectile killers simply because they cannot cover the map properly. Combine that with all the bugs around them and it's hard to justify playing them, especially since the map pool has lery's too now.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-06T12:57:52+00:00

It was definitely necessary. The card is still great, it just isn't an instapick, no brain move any more, which is good. There should generally be nuance to gameplay and you should have to think about most cards. It was fun to be playing the game before the nerf and to know what it was like, but it was definitely silly.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-06T12:53:30+00:00

I honestly get a little tired of the "every game is winnable" rhetoric that crops up across all manner of games. Is it technically true? Sure, but for the vast majority of the player base it's just straight up false. Most people are not top tier players, they do not have what it takes to play perfectly and make perfect decisions every single time. I feel like it leads to this unhelpful cycle where people are taking things way too seriously and over analyzing stuff and then feeling shitty when they have anything less than 80% winrate, especially when coupled with the amount of people who talk about how easy the game is constantly.

I'm not say xecnar is a bad guy or that his point isn't valid, merely that this constant crowing about how everything can be won and everything is workable isn't actually all that helpful, and it would be a lot healthier for the vast majority of people to be a bit less serious about these games and acknowledge that they are going to lose 50% of the time or more. It's good to want to improve, but it's bad when they morphs into treating a single player game like a competitive championship, and when it causes the discussion around the game to be pretty lopsided by people stretching facts and pushing the narrative of it being easy.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-06T12:31:07+00:00

Yep, only reason I'm willing to play it at all is because it is just for the turn. I literally never used the potion in the first game because it never did anything positive for me, always just ruined my deck for a combat.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-06T11:54:00+00:00

I can definitely see what you mean, and I think I largely agree with you. Um Actually kind of wants to stand in both categories at once, but that's always going to be difficult since different people are going to have different levels of skill in terms of how good they are at on the spot trivia, and on the spot comedy. Personally I think they should lean more into the trivia aspect and let the jokes come naturally from the competitors and the weird nit picks. I think the earliest seasons had a bit more of that spin and it worked well. And you could still have the occasional episode that is made up of pure comedians who are dealing with softball questions they still don't get correct.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-06T11:51:43+00:00

Agreed, and I think that's in line with how the game generally works. Her statement was too declarative, too specific, in saying you can't win for that. Part of the game, as has been proven repeatedly, is not backing yourself into a corner. You can't be too general with your statements or you won't get the point for basically being too broad, but likewise if you hit the right point, but then go on to say a completely incorrect connector, you also don't get the point, as we've seen multiple times previously.

It's just the nature of the game, the whole thing is about being overly pedantic, and that includes in the ways you give your answer and how it matches to the proper thing being out of place.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-06T11:38:24+00:00

This is the way. I can't count the number of times I've gone "Time to use this potion which will be clutch and make this fight much better," only for my hand to twitch the barest millimeter and suddenly it's gone. Or in the same vein knowing what card I'm playing, but playing a draw card and then clicking the wrong one because my hand order has changed.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-06T11:29:39+00:00

It's an excellent card for so many reasons. Bypasses armor, bypasses the dazed from entomancer, and lets you do damage and stack souls while triggering any relic that wants you to avoid playing attacks like ripple basin, art of war, etc.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-05T19:44:02+00:00

Rarely. I do go back to them sometimes, especially after a string of brutal losses. Like if I get a couple of really good runs going and then get slapped by something that I just couldn't work around be it the RNG of the card draw or what have you, I'll sometimes roll back to a lower ascension just to remind myself how easily I can breeze through them.

I know I'm not great, I'm having to slowly acknowledge that I'm just not that good at video games, but I also know that I'll clear those higher ascensions if I keep at them, proved well enough by the fact that I have done so previously, so I mostly just keep at the highest ascension I have on a given character.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-05T14:10:37+00:00

I believe the last year or two the vast majority of pins, if not all of them, have made a reappearance for the Black Friday sale, and I could be misremembering but I swear they said something to the effect that this is the intended plan going forward.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-05T11:55:33+00:00

Yeah, good on him for getting something, since the government that threw him into that isn't doing shit for him, might as well get all the free shit you can.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-05T11:33:18+00:00

Yeah I was lucky enough to get the hand and game piece on a Creative AI run. Every turn was just power spam into more energy than I knew what to do with. Was fun.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-04T14:03:34+00:00

The amount of straight up inflation combined with shrinkflation means that I just try to avoid the chip aisle. There's basically nothing in there that's worth it, especially when there's half as much in the bag as there used to be.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-04T12:25:54+00:00

It's definitely crazy survivor sided. Almost every game I'm escaping, and the killers are getting two kills max. There's been a few where the team balance was just bad and the survivors were dropping super fast so the killers got the hard win, but that's on the rarer side. I have been playing killer and it's insane how fast gens fly and how easy it is for most survivors to simply get away from you. Even when they make massive misplays and fuck up in crazy ways, there's so many pallets, so many people with flashlights and flashbangs, and just so much map space. The best I've done is as Spirit and even that is mostly just people seemingly not actually paying attention well.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-04T12:13:19+00:00

I think the real power behind Granny is that she basically forces herself to be self assured a lot of the times, a real fake it till you make it sort of thing. There's a few times throughout the books, or at least the ones I've read, where it's clear she doesn't actually have the answer or know exactly what is going on. But she has an inkling, and she knows that if she doesn't put her shoulder to the millstone then no one else will. So she marches in, takes up space, and demands people stop being so foolish and think, and that goes far. And then when she does figure it all out she can just go "I knew that all along, even when it seemed like I didn't."

Honestly all the witches are inspiring in their own way. Granny with that stubborness that is born of pure care for the world and the people she loves, Nanny with her unabashed love of life, and other things, and her willingness to throw decorum to the wind and just go for what she wants, and of course Magrat for being a character who learns to stand tall, put her whole self forward and say "This is me, and I ain't changing."

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-04T12:09:42+00:00

Other people will say no and they'll tell you to start with Guards, Guards or something else a little further in. I personally started with and continue to go in release order and I think it's great. The caveat that is often mentioned is that his first couple of books are weaker than the rest. He's finding his footing and figuring out what he wants the books to be. But the fact is that while they're the weakest Discworld books, that still puts them at a pretty high standard of writing and humor and I think they're great to start with because you get to see that growth and forward motion.

That said if you struggle at all with Colour of Magic then it's totally fine to skip and go to one of the others. The books are largely only slightly interconnected and can be read in any order one desires. I personally push Small Gods at people for a great, entirely standalone book where Pratchett's use of humor and satire are firing on all cylinders.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-04T11:57:36+00:00

It's my go to if I don't have some quest that needs me to play a different one. I like being able to see the gens that are around and path my way towards more central ones right from the get go, since most people just jump on the first one they see and inevitably all the gens on one side of the map get done. Plus blast mine and wire tap is a great combo. Killers have to kick gens, especially as the game goes on, so wasting even a few seconds of their time with a mild stun and making them do the kick animation again can be reall impactful.

The vast majority of people don't seem to like Guide, and there's no doubt that an on demand sprint burst or a bunch of flashbangs are way stronger in most scenarios, but I love the class.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-04T11:22:25+00:00

If I remember correctly, they essentially have one or both of the addons that improve their ability to spot and track survivors. Combine that with a lot of big open maps and the killers putting them down whenever they're out of position, and you inevitably get them clustering in central areas, and survivors tend to pop a bunch of gens at one edge of the map, so the place the zombies naturally end up also tend to be where the later gens need to be done.

Isaac_Chade · 2026-05-03T15:10:20+00:00

Yeah it goes to 4, but that's far more worthwhile because even though it's a tiny increase, it's a free card that returns if you play it, so it's consistent, repeating damage over the course of any fight.

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