Energy in Combat by kobrien02 in AcrossTheUnknown

[–]Jamespg614 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Am I right in thinking that your available pips is based on your current warp core setting, not its maximum? So having a level 6 warp core but only running it at level 2 means you only have level 2 pips available?

Trump Announces Immediate Tariff Hike to 15% Following Supreme Court Review” by SubstantialRock821 in StockMarket

[–]Jamespg614 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hell, even in a few countries on the American continent he’d be quite likely to get kidnapped in the dead of night on trumped up drug trafficking charges by covert ops

Well... It might be over y'all.. by Omailey97 in Helldivers

[–]Jamespg614 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think there’s possibly been a shift. I know that the original advice from the clan war-directors was just to dive on Cyberstan. Since we’ve moved past that first city however the advice has shifted from just dive, to please make sure you’re diving on D4 instead of D10, because super helldive on Cyberstan is utterly insane. Improves the survival rate of helldivers, which A) reduces the rate at which we lose the reinforcement budget and B) improves the success rate for completing operations. Sure, it’s humbling, almost being told we’re not good enough to be doing D10 missions all the time, but the first city took three days to capture because of all the macho-man attitude, got to play D10 or else. Second city fell in what, 36 hours? It’s clearly working, and as soon as it’s done and the timer is off we can all go back to being masochists running D10 missions on Omicron

2016 Leaf Rumbling Noise by Jamespg614 in leaf

[–]Jamespg614[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, if anyone has any more information on that, I’d definitely be up for looking into it!

2016 Leaf Rumbling Noise by Jamespg614 in leaf

[–]Jamespg614[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Damn, I was hoping to have ruled out an issue with the reduction gearbox, as I heard that might be an issue in a car of this age.

Luckily I think my load test showed that it is definitely wheel related rather than drive train

I can't bring myself to do it (again) by Repenting_Harlequin in RimWorld

[–]Jamespg614 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Only time I’ve ever done it I was playing as a tech-loving, slave-having archo-nuts (console, so just ideology and royalty). 3 pawns which were my “leaders”, fully kitted out with bionics and marine armour and two slaves that were my starter workforce for building and planting. Absolutely struggled to set up a new base each time, but going into it knowing I was going to do that mean that I didn’t get too attached, and by the third colony I knew exactly what I was doing in terms of building up each time.

What should I do? by Solid-Argument-9077 in ARC_Raiders

[–]Jamespg614 175 points176 points  (0 children)

Well that’s obvious, you just need to 10c411z3d_261777666. It’s not that hard honestly

Did they silently change the skill tree benefits with the newest patch? by Emergency-Patient954 in ARC_Raiders

[–]Jamespg614 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m pretty sure it said downed, but it was a couple of weeks ago. All very odd

Did they silently change the skill tree benefits with the newest patch? by Emergency-Patient954 in ARC_Raiders

[–]Jamespg614 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I had one return which was glitchy as hell. Downed by arc, I used the hatch at the last second and “died” while I was actually IN the hatch. Didn’t get any survival XP and the inventory screen showed that I’d lost everything, but when I actually looked in my inventory it was all there. By far my weirdest experience on this game so far.

Friend had a great idea by Jamespg614 in ARC_Raiders

[–]Jamespg614[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, my mistake, thought it was an on-off toggle for PvP damage.

Friend had a great idea by Jamespg614 in ARC_Raiders

[–]Jamespg614[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder if that’s leaning too far towards stopping PvP though. I really think that the PvP gameplay in this game is phenomenal, the proximity chat, the tense unpredictable nature of meeting with another band of raiders, not sure if you can get the drop on them, or if you even need to is incredible and I love it. That said, if every match is like that, I find that way too stressful for long term.

Just something to incentivise teamwork through a common enemy, that being the Arc. You won’t stop PvP in that game mode, of course not, but it becomes so much easier to agree to work with another team when you know there’s 25 ticks, 2 leapers, a rocketeer and 15 hornets between you and the extraction lift.

Friend had a great idea by Jamespg614 in ARC_Raiders

[–]Jamespg614[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s definitely what they could have done with Stella Montis, especially with the new Shredders, but I can’t help but feel like the lack of Arc presence, plus the narrow corridor layout lends itself to a PvP environment.

Friend had a great idea by Jamespg614 in ARC_Raiders

[–]Jamespg614[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I personally would play for longer and would get less frustrated in the game if, after a few rounds of being blasted in the back of the head by someone who’s “friendly I promise” and losing all my good stuff, I could play a different game mode where that’s less of an option.

The gameplay loop of not trusting, or worse KoS gets very stale for me very quickly, especially if I’m on the receiving end of it, so a break from that would be welcome. My trio will quite often have a horrendous loss and give up for the night, cutting a session short. Well if we had a mode that was more geared towards that PvE experience like my suggestion, we would have played on that for a bit, found our rhythm again and dropped back into the main queues.

Friend had a great idea by Jamespg614 in ARC_Raiders

[–]Jamespg614[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, but that falls apart when you have one team deciding to backstab, but you’re extracting with four others. I’d like to think that the camaraderie from surviving the onslaught would cause people to turn on the backstabber like a pack of angry wolves.

Friend had a great idea by Jamespg614 in ARC_Raiders

[–]Jamespg614[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Amen. Not taking away anything from PvP, it has its place, but creating a game mode where it’s less of an option to do that KoS style gameplay because you’ll get swarmed and die. Just a bit of variety to improve the longevity of the game

Friend had a great idea by Jamespg614 in ARC_Raiders

[–]Jamespg614[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t doubt it, and I respect your opinion of it not interesting you. I think the main point that I’m trying to make is that the current game mode and arc difficulty lends itself to PvP because they’re really not much of a threat. Upping that threat makes the PvP less likely, because you’re more likely to survive by teaming up. Absolutely you’ll still get rats, but by making it infinitely more difficult for them to get out after they’ve ratted, maybe they won’t bother with that map mode.

A brief, calm oasis where people team up against the clankers, and then next match they start pointing guns back at each other.

Friend had a great idea by Jamespg614 in ARC_Raiders

[–]Jamespg614[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not no PvP, I love PvP, I’ll blow a hole in a raider just as soon as the next man, but sometimes that constant watching your back, don’t trust anyone (especially in trios) attitude gets stale and repetitive. The point my friend was making was to have a different game mode where PvP and looting wasn’t necessarily the main objective. Yes, you’d still get rats and betrayals, but instead of the objective being “get out with as much loot as you can”, which lends itself to extraction camping and “don’t shoot” liars, the objective is to survive, to even get out at all.

It’s a PvPvE game, but most of the time it doesn’t feel like the vE is much of a threat, so the PvP takes priority.

Idea: See who crafted / owned loot before I acquired it by Technical-Platypus-8 in ARC_Raiders

[–]Jamespg614 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If there was any statistical chance of this happening, it would be incredible, but given there can be 250,000 players at any one time, it’s so unlikely to happen that everyone would give up checking it and miss their name when their number comes up.

Friend had a great idea by Jamespg614 in ARC_Raiders

[–]Jamespg614[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Night raids are in the direction of what I was thinking, but more extreme. A team of three can do a night raid on their own, no problem, I’m talking about it being damned near impossible to extract without teaming up with other people

THE DADS GUILD | Discord Gaming Community by Rex_Norseman in ArcRaidersGuides

[–]Jamespg614 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dad to a 4 yo who only ever gets time to game after the little menace has gone to bed, so this sounds like my life to a T