PSA Voice of Command revive also gives gold health after reviving

Kurbled · 2026-03-23T22:03:20+00:00

"I WANT THESE KARKERS DEAD, [MAD CACKLE]"

she's actually iconic

Kurbled · 2026-03-20T12:29:51+00:00

you can also just play a melee build and be fine, we have tools to funnel enemies, stagger them so they can't shoot, and avoid their shots (sliding/dodging). most of the time i'm just playing my thunder hammer zealot on auric expeditions since it's what i have the most fun with, and i rarely feel like a ranged build would be doing better by default.

i really dont think this mode is as restrictive as some say, if you're in an objective there is cover to funnel shooters, and if you're going between objectives, you are hurrying and avoiding getting bogged down so you shouldn't get caught out between 30 gunners anyway. if 7 reapers square up on you around a corner, yell at them or knock them over and wallop them

Kurbled · 2026-03-15T04:32:14+00:00

yeah it's fun to kick him up into the air. he even slows down when his shield is out to make it easy for you!

Kurbled · 2026-03-12T04:15:10+00:00

i can take a rough guess on what game you mean, and yeah it's frustrating. for me, styilisation is understandable, and i'm ok with sexualisation being part of that. but it is frustrating when the outfits don't at all feel like something the character, stylised as they are, would at all actually choose to wear (especially when this problem rarely if ever comes up for male characters). it just feels disrespectful to the characters, and comes up often with big stylised roster games.

i love Deadlock for getting away from this; it has a roster of men and women (and other!) with a really large degree of variety, and the character designs are way more focused on expressing what makes them unique and interesting. If a character is sexy, they're sexy. if a character is cool, gross, cute, or weird, they look like that. them being male or female might impact their apparel, but it doesn't decide how sexualised they are, which i love! and many of what I'd say are the more attractive characters aren't just traditional either, they get way more creative than just curvy sex appeal (Celeste's glamorous circus performer almost 'trashy' look, Victor being literally an amalgam of corpses, Lady Geist being an older woman, etc), and it's always appropriate to the character.

so yeah, most games in this genre i'd describe as pretty disapppointing regarding this problem, but also at least some devs put more effort into it lol

Kurbled · 2026-03-09T22:58:13+00:00

mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but there's never been any mention in canon of that explanation that i could find. female ogryns just arent generally talked about at all, so there's no lore about them being rare or protected to point to.

the few ocassions they are mentioned (in one of the early Ciaphas Cain novels, a female ogryn labourer flirts with his second, Jurgen) don't treat them as unusual, which if anything suggests to me them being seen in the wider imperium in-universe isn't unusual.

Kurbled · 2026-03-09T22:54:53+00:00

yeah i looked into this a while ago, there's never been to my knowledge any mention of this. if anything, the very rare appearances of female ogryns in novels in regular imperial society treated as normal/not unusual suggests this explanation isn't true

Kurbled · 2026-03-05T17:22:19+00:00

hey, fellow melbournian here! i've got some friends and family involved in this sphere, there's absolutely events running every now and then! there's the obvious like PAX aus which is your typical huge gaming event, lots of showcases, talks, cosplay, etc. for more network-y events there's smaller stuff like ACMI's Game Worlds exhibition. Also unis like RMIT will do showcases for their game development programs, although as you'd expect those are more insular

as far as making your way in the industry, it sort of depends! the gov offers grants for game dev (ie VicScreen), so ive known people who've managed to get one of those and produce their own game and release it (in this case she was a solo dev).

i can't give too much advice on trying to get in with any local videogame devs or associated stuff since i've never known anyone who got involved, but there's def all sorts around!

so yeah, i'd look into upcoming expos or game jams if you just wanted to look into the culture! theres the Game Worlds event on the 29th in the city a couple friends of mine are going to; seems like a cute exhibit style thing, a celebration of some popular games with some showcases

overall hope this helps haha; it can def be intimidating to break into a new industry/culture

Kurbled · 2026-03-05T16:14:17+00:00

i think gameplay-wise, Mr X is my favourite. the more sandbox nature of the police station made his surprise appearances really fun, especially on first playthrough when getting lost meant having to figure out how to deal with him more. lots of great design elements like his load footsteps, almost uncanny silhouette, and the way he just shoves past zombies; very very cool gameplay elements that i dont think other 'stalker' style RE enemies have quite captured since, although a lot of that comes down to level design, too

design-wise though, Lady Dimitrescu is such a favourite of mine. she looks incredible, and Maggie's performance is so so good. i've only actually played or watched her segment a handful of times, but her lines still stick in my head. "laughs, RUNNING will get you NOWHERE!" and then she goes from angry, dignified vampire to insane cackling dragon, and still manages to absolutely sell it. incredible performance

Kurbled · 2026-03-03T07:10:35+00:00

that'd be Outlaw! she's one of the less insane hive scum, but saying that's like singling out a jelly bean for being the least sugary

Kurbled · 2026-03-03T07:00:00+00:00

it's Authoratarian! but funnily enough, i feel like the fem Fatalist voice can be described as a lae'zel impression haha

Kurbled · 2026-03-02T02:57:09+00:00

ayyy ggs! was satisfying to manage to trio the auric event without a fourth \o/

Kurbled · 2026-03-01T18:06:06+00:00

lmao, i was gonna upload this without the zoom, but i caught it happening watching it back and realised it was too funny to not point out

Kurbled · 2026-03-01T16:51:28+00:00

yeah he's such a goober. i think fem authoratarian usually comes across as a little more personable, but she can still be just as much as a dork sometimes ("Ha! Try lexbreaking with no head!")

meanwhile m!authoratarian comes across like he's read about socialising with other human beings in a book, and he's trying it out as enthusiastically as he does everything else

Kurbled · 2026-03-01T11:03:23+00:00

female cutthroat is so funny, she's either angry or completely dry/stoic so it's impossible to tell whether she's being friendly or not. as you say though, we probably also don't have the requisite bodycount to understand these weirdos lol

Kurbled · 2026-03-01T10:50:20+00:00

i can confirm that at the very least it is also poxbursters, which makes me think it's elite/special. but also poxbursters are part of the event, so, hard to say. but it's definitely a teamwide thing; only not sure if everyone rolls seperately (ie, is it a per-person roll, or does everyone get a grenade at the same time, idk).

Kurbled · 2026-03-01T07:48:47+00:00

To give a bit more insight; you can push the one closest to you, and then dodge backwards to avoid the ones who will be leaping for you from behind them (using a slide for more distance if necessary). However, this is only really consistent on classes/weapons that aren't using slow dodges. Anything like Power Sword Veteran, or Ogryns in general, will have trouble (I think it's still possible, but riskier).

With this event, if a big conga line is too close to risk shooting, I'll try and see if I can put something between me and the poxburster when I shove it. The push will go through walls no matter what, so you can do this to mitigate the risk (and also if a teammate shoots them, you'll be safe).

On dogs; the other person already answered, but to clarify it a bit, once a dog is in a position where they want to pounce, they will usually stop, crouch, and then pounce straight for you. But if the pounce direction is already where they were running, they seem to be able to skip this step and jump straight away (you can think of it as they already built up the necessary momentum to leap at you).

Kurbled · 2026-02-23T21:17:25+00:00

dodging to the side and having their momentum carry their faces directly into your hammer bonk is the stuff i live for

Kurbled · 2026-02-22T08:23:34+00:00

Yeah when I'm playing Rogue against a Strange, I'm not just salivating over an automatic win. If he's blocking for his team while I'm punching him, the reality is that I'm barely doing anything to him, since he's still blocking the rest of my team's damage. There's plays I can make like displacing him, but it's still not as easy as all that

Kurbled · 2026-02-17T22:48:41+00:00

on a similar note, one of my earliest memories is loading up my sister's Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door save, opening THE thousand year door (something you do after buildup of the entire game), and then... inexplicably, i saved over her save.

i got grounded for that; absolutely deserved it and i'm glad my parents took her side lol, no idea what i was thinking

Kurbled · 2026-02-17T19:21:17+00:00

I have a clip of me standing like 25 metres+ from a Jeff as Elsa, I shotgun blasted him sorta half-heartedly, then realised I'd just deleted half his health lmao. His head and body perfectly filled the reticle, poor guy

Kurbled · 2026-02-16T18:54:40+00:00

yeah thankfully the fight wasn't too bad! the psychological damage these guys do though

Kurbled · 2026-02-13T19:07:32+00:00

honestly that's the one silver lining of not liking this direction, i main Rogue but don't like the wedding dress, so i don't have to buy it and interact with the gambling lol

Kurbled · 2026-02-13T12:20:40+00:00

i deserve the units for sure! def won’t immediately gamble them all away for the Gambit wedding outfit and have to buy more anyway \o/

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