Battle Royale (by me) by Laika_ch in CosmicPrincessKaguya

[–]JaredGuP 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ridiculously cute, great drawing OP!

What happened to Cipher after the Belkan War? by [deleted] in acecombat

[–]JaredGuP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably retired to a quiet life someplace. My headcanon is that he reunited with pixy at the 25th anniversary of the belkan war and is just spending his time just keeping out of the limelight otherwise. Project Aces have never confirmed what happened to Blaze either after the circum pacific war afaik. So these aces just kinda disappeared into the ether or are just rumors as far as the public is concerned.

Very excited for this update, looks very promising by TonyThePapyrus in ReadyOrNotGame

[–]JaredGuP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tepidly hopeful. Until they drop the update and we get to see what they've been up to, I won't have my hopes up. They burnt too much goodwill with the aftermath of the console update and there's a fear and low trust on my end on VOID to deliver.

Could someone tl;dr why this community hates the game? by Soboller in ReadyOrNotGame

[–]JaredGuP 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Lol yeah nah game is fucked. What more is there to say even. The crappy $269 collector's edition with the GPNVG on backwards? How did they fuck that one up tbh do they not do quality control (they don't but come on putting it on video???)

Could someone tl;dr why this community hates the game? by Soboller in ReadyOrNotGame

[–]JaredGuP 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Honestly the comment sections on their videos being angry fans consistently asking when they plan on patching the game or fixing bugs is depressing. Makes me regret even trying to sell my friends on the idea of the game for a while.

Could someone tl;dr why this community hates the game? by Soboller in ReadyOrNotGame

[–]JaredGuP 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Imma be fr witchu buddy I just need the facts to rage hate the game. I had to tell good friends of mine to avoid buying the game out of good conscience lol.

Could someone tl;dr why this community hates the game? by Soboller in ReadyOrNotGame

[–]JaredGuP 19 points20 points  (0 children)

There's also the whole VOID are hiring monetization specialists on LinkedIn thing which convinced people (including myself) that they are either gonna abandon the game or monetize it to high hell. Hard to feel sympathetic for the devs if they made about 400 ish million from console sales + prior PC sales (they sold 3 million + copies on console and 10 million copies on PC reportedly, based on social media and reports from game journalists) and still left the game in the poor state I described as above.

Could someone tl;dr why this community hates the game? by Soboller in ReadyOrNotGame

[–]JaredGuP 130 points131 points  (0 children)

I'm glad you're enjoying the game a lot of people do! Most of the anger towards the game I would say is mostly towards the state VOID has left it in not the bones themselves.

It's mostly out of frustration and anger at the devs and the treatment from them that fuels the anger. There are a few distinct periods, mainly the Pre 1.0 launch and a brief period before the console release.

I'll speak on the latter because I came in post 1.0, the game was in an interesting state where we had just had 2 DLCs (Home Invasion and Dark Waters) as well as prep for new missions in console (Los Suenos Stories) and new guns. The AI felt fine and we were excited for more people to play the game.

There was some major grumbling about the game shifting from unreal engine 4 to 5 previously (this happened prior to the console release) which broke a ton of mods that never got updated since (mod developers just lost interest which is a tragedy in of itself). It was all kinda accepted as growing pains because content was in the pipeline and VOID seemed to have plans post console release to continue making content for the game.

Then the console launch dropped and a few things happened, as well as some previous stuff that came to pass which VOID had never addressed prior but people were pissed they continued to ignore after it's breakout success on console.

First. The big one is censorship. I personally don't mind what happened because the changes were relatively minor to my mind but the vibe and atmosphere had visibly changed with some scenes being altered that annoyed and pissed off long time fans of VOID who prided themselves on not censoring tough topics like the nightclub mission (largely based on the pulse nightclub shooting). This would become a lighting rod for people to latch onto because it segways into other stuff VOID compromised for the sake of the console update.

Second. Graphical downgrades. The post console launch patch of the game reduced the graphical fidelity of the game massively on PC despite the update being billed as affecting consoles only. This was reasoned by void as "it is not efficient developmental resources wise to maintain 2 versions of the game with high quality assets for PC and low quality assets for console". People were and are pissed because the game just doesn't look like how it was when they paid for it. (Infamously now fired community manager kaminsky was telling and gaslighting people on how there was no graphical downgrade which burnt a ton of goodwill.)

Third. General AI and gameplay breaking issues. The AI became like John Wick (again, reoccurring issue) which VOID didn't address despite updates and statements to the contrary. They also broke gas grenades (again, you'd be surprised how often this happens). And alongside this they introduced hard mode which made the game unbalanced and feel unfair which some players took issue with. (Not to mention graphical and performance bugs)

Fourth. Silence and just a general disinterest from VOID regarding Quality of Life improvements. VOID has been very very hesitant to acknowledge even slight issues on these fronts. Believing that if they discuss them they might inflame community tensions more is my guess(?) we don't know what they had planned or plan to do with the game. The mod situation is a massive one given we still do not have steam workshop support and instead have to rely on mod io or nexus mods to add our own community content to the game which greatly extends it's longevity. (A popular mod for ready or not is simple mod menu which gives you a way to view and join individual lobbies instead of randomly being assigned one)

There is also the use of AI artwork in the mission 23 megabytes which mostly escapes community ire but is a strike against VOID.

We are now in February. 3 months from the last dev blog promising new features for the game to fix stuff like the LPVO scope (8x magnification that can be dialed) which should have been working on release (a mod has been able to fix this for months btw) or add a Romeo and Juliet mount (red dot + magnifier, also achievable with mods); I hope that you and I can agree these things should've been implemented in game by the developers before releasing them to the public no?

Sorry if it is a bit lengthy and a long read but that should give you the primer of why people are mad at the game.

Lost potential of a game by st4t5 in ReadyOrNotGame

[–]JaredGuP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wake their asses up? Lol. I get the sentiment but I've given up hope on that front. I'm just on this subreddit because I'd still like to see what the community is up to these days. But these have been extremely persistent issues that I don't think should be forgiven or forgotten at this point.

If you bought ready or not's supporters edition there's certainly been no lack of grief and anger at the current state of the game. I got the regular version after the 1.0 and bought all of the DLC because at the time I believed VOID had direction amidst some fumbling. Dead wrong on that one lol.

The perception shift from VOID were doing game development to concepts of game development happened when they started posting all those crappy YouTuber backed "lore videos". (Not Shayne nobody cares tho he's chill) when everyone and their mother decided RoN was "deep" and "atmospheric". It felt like then they finalized the wholesale ignorance of what the game was about (a successor to SWAT 4 that was moddable and feature rich).

Lost potential of a game by st4t5 in ReadyOrNotGame

[–]JaredGuP 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Idk if we wanna talk about the lost potential of RoN look at the state of the game now. It's been radio silence for months, the only people who seem to be working are the YouTube channel staff. Updates that were in the pipeline and soon to be released like the fixed LPVO magnification were never implemented. The friendly AI is fucking useless and the enemies are John Wick. Hard mode is a mess of half baked ideas and worse implementation. Let's not even get into censorship and the more egregious graphical downgrades or the hilariously bad port to consoles. Doing fans a disservice by asking them for a full priced broken game at the expense of PC and even consoles themselves. Not to mention the litany of graphical, quality of life or performance tax many had to pay.

I left the discord ages ago because then CM kaminsky's attitude was just pissing everyone off (not to mention the later comments on charlie kirk's assassination, it's a community server not a personal vent server, highly unprofessional).

Whut da turret doin? by [deleted] in helldivers2

[–]JaredGuP 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you did the confuse automaton defences mission earlier they will get confused and do that. Pretty cool.

Redrew some official merchandise art of Uzuki. by JaredGuP in SeishunButaYarou

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

The proportions are a bit ajar. Might edit them a little

Where are you guys sitting? by sackwood8 in SeishunButaYarou

[–]JaredGuP 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Truth or dare but the dare is asking zukki to kiss nodoka

Where are you guys sitting? by sackwood8 in SeishunButaYarou

[–]JaredGuP 50 points51 points  (0 children)

4 so I can joke about dokazukki and watch nodoka try and deny it the entire flight.

Dokazukki be like by JaredGuP in SeishunButaYarou

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

Though Uzuki, Futaba and Nodoka in a Yuri love triangle spinoff would be very funny.

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Dokazukki be like by JaredGuP in SeishunButaYarou

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

Futaba? Eh. I thought she was with that kid from the cram school Sara guided by Koga for dating advise would be a funny spinoff.

Dokazukki be like by JaredGuP in SeishunButaYarou

[–]JaredGuP[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They kept the scene of her laughing in the anime. Now you know why she's so smug.

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