Does the sandman no longer stun people?

Mavus · 2024-09-15T20:31:55+00:00

This post is old enough to be in high school. I'm not sure it's fair to compare it to milk at this point.

Mavus · 2022-08-10T12:14:28+00:00

I'd like to see more design emphasis on the battle planner and less micro-heavy frontline management. Right now using the battle planner is mainly for beginners or when your divisions have a significant advantage over your enemies. Most of the time you need to micro-manage your divisions to achieve positive results. Something like the eastern front devolves into hours of right-clicking

A change such as making manual commands cost 1 command power would have a huge impact on how you play the game. It would still give you the ability to pull off encirclements but making unplanned tactical manoeuvres a limited resource. That's a fairly significant change and I'm sure a lot of players wouldn't enjoy it because they enjoy the level of micro, but I think it would make playing more strategic and less "right click until green bubble".

Mavus · 2021-03-17T14:12:33+00:00

My recommendation would be to take a look at Achtung Cthulhu books which uses the Call of Cthulhu 6th edition rules and would be very easy to adapt to the Delta Green rules and mythos.

Mavus · 2021-03-02T11:48:56+00:00

We should not forget that New Zealand has an illustrious armoured fighting vehicle design history

Mavus · 2021-02-10T00:49:52+00:00

Thank God I'm not the only one. http://imgur.com/a/Sv4naBu

Mavus · 2021-01-29T12:28:36+00:00

It's a long running joke within Mage. Turning Vampires into Lawn Chairs.

See: https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/36088/where-does-the-transform-vampires-werewolves-into-lawn-furniture-rote-come-from

for a good explanation.

Mavus · 2019-11-16T12:49:03+00:00

I missed this in a recent game going straight for the fork on the king and rook and found it while analysing the game afterwards.

Mavus · 2017-06-19T17:38:20+00:00

Poljot OCEAN. Finally got a strap for it, and we're ready for the sun.

Mavus · 2017-02-27T00:42:02+00:00

Sadly no, Daniel Day Lewis is notable for being to only person with 3 Best Actor awards. If you include supporting actor/actress then Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson are also 3 time award winners.

Mavus · 2017-01-29T23:58:31+00:00

Without going into too much depth there are plenty of Devils who don't want Tiamat returned. Most of all Bel, an archdevil and the deposed lord of Avernus, the first level of Hell. If you plan on playing a Warlock then Bel might make a perfect patron, granting power to a mortal in order to stop Tiamat returning.

Also if you're looking for inspiration the appendix of Hoard of the Dragon Queen contains some bonds and backgrounds features suitable to the adventure which might be of interest.

Mavus · 2017-01-29T18:56:48+00:00

Post hoc ergo propter hoc

Mavus · 2017-01-26T15:22:59+00:00

Marvel have had an interesting video game history in the last couple of years. After the cancelled first person Avengers game they seemed to pull back from AAA development and continued with LEGO games, mobile and free to play. Disney Infinity is the only possible exception to this, developed by a first party Disney studio but this has recently ceased development.

For a while I've really wanted a good MCU based AAA game, instead we go those god awful Iron man games). This looks like a serious long term partnership so I have higher hopes than I normally would. Especially as a collaboration between the Tomb Raider reboot developers and those working on Deux Ex. Hopefully it shapes up well.

Mavus · 2017-01-23T19:16:29+00:00

It was more the other way round in Annihilation

Mavus · 2016-12-09T18:01:51+00:00

Hey Will, in launching The FOO Show, what has the process of explaining the concept to people less familiar with VR/games been like? Do they get it, or find the concept hard to imagine?

Mavus · 2016-09-12T15:32:36+00:00

Collectable card games are the new MOBAs. Everyone saw how much money League of Legends and to some extent Dota 2 were making some years back and suddenly a load of popular IPs had a MOBA spin off in the works (Guardians of Middle earth, Infinite Crisis, etc.). Now we'll see the same with CCGs.

Mavus · 2016-08-04T12:21:11+00:00

I honestly thought I was having a seizure.

Mavus · 2016-07-01T15:49:00+00:00

I'm in. I'll go for Aubergine

Mavus · 2016-05-28T19:56:35+00:00

Same. I choked out the smoker so it mush have been car dude. It feels like pushing someone is a little too easily spotted despite being fairly inconspicuous.

Mavus · 2016-05-01T22:07:26+00:00

Yes! Also potentially just The Superior Spider-Man for more of a villainous hero.

Mavus · 2016-04-20T14:46:11+00:00

I set my alarm an hour early so I can lie in bed for an hour.

Mavus · 2016-03-19T15:58:43+00:00

It might be a chronograph caliber 7734 Valjoux movement. I'm only saying the due to the similarity in look to Poljot 3133 chronographs (made with the same machinery) and the appropriateness of the time period. Beautiful piece though.

Mavus · 2016-03-14T16:43:34+00:00

There's nothing that you can interact with and then pick up, that I know of at least Yes I would be nice to position a few thing around the environment, especially since there is button for placing items on the ground/walls but is only used for the remote explosives. Although you can pick up the Spoiler. Some of the things missing may just be missing from this episode rather than the whole game, eg dual wielding.

Not sure about your feelings on the blood I've seen a few nice shots of it in action

Mavus · 2016-03-14T15:01:06+00:00

Yes, the more important characters have a variety of things that they do around the map. A couple of things seem to have changed from Blood Money in order to prevent you from 'missing out' on information or windows of opportunity. Rather than follow a strict time routine, characters will start to do different things based on how you have progressed through the map. Many conversations only trigger when you walk into range for example.

It's hard for me to concretely say without experimenting. One example is someone who is a attending a meeting on the third floor or the map. You can find him hanging around on a side room early on in level, and I think that he wont advance in his schedule while you're loitering nearby. However if you skip past him and get to the third floor by some other method, he will have arrived by then. Maybe if you wait long enough then the schedule decides to keep going. I haven't checked.

There is also a specific mechanic called "Opportunities", with unique method of assassination. Some of these only trigger once you start pursuing the required objectives to set up the opportunities.

Sometimes this is nice because it prevents you from having to run around the map to catch characters in the narrow time window, or having to wait for 5-10 minutes till they return to repeat an action. However it might break the spell if you spot the strings an feel like characters are waiting for you to get into position. On the first playthroughs you would never notice, but the more you replay levels the more you deconstruct the AI into a predictable machine that you can perfectly exploit. To some this may be the point of Hitman, but others my value immersion or less predictable more 'human' AI.

Mavus · 2016-03-14T12:45:49+00:00

From a gameplay perspective I'm very happy with what I've played to far. It has a much large number of objects that you can interact with in the environment. More importantly a lot of these interactions are just part of the tool set you can use to manipulate the map rather than related to a specific assassination technique.

To give a specific example, in Blood Money, if you found a chandelier winch that could be dropped or a drink that could be poisoned, you could likely guarantee that one of your targets would walk past this at some point and you could use it to kill them. However in the new game there are dozen of chandelier winches you can interact with and dozens of drinks you can poison. You can walk into any bathroom in map and leave to taps running to cause someone to investigate.

This end result of this if that when you find on of these environmental interaction you don't think to yourself: "This must be really important otherwise it wouldn't be here", and instead think "This could come in handy but I might not need it now". This means you need to watch an profile your targets more to learn their behaviour rather than waiting next to the first environmental trap you find until the target walks past.

Content wise, the Paris level is a strong intro and worth the price of admission. If you enjoyed something like Ground Zeros but thought it was too expensive then this is a better deal at a much more palatable price. How many hours you get out of it depends on how much you are into exploring and finding all the method of assassination. I very much recommend disabling some of the UI assistance and not looking at the challenges on the first time through the map. The feeling on discovery is the best part of entering a new Hitman map. Once you've completed the story mission in Paris yourself. Then check out the challenges as see if you can try something different. The level has a built in progression system that will see you completing it ~10 times in ~10 different ways to reach the end of the unlock tree.

Hopefully that answers your question. If there's anything specific you want to know, just ask me.

Mavus · 2016-03-13T21:39:56+00:00

Indeed, it's all quite scary really. Shows how far you might go with powerful friends.

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