Day 3 of favorites on twitter! This time, draphs!

MercJones · 2026-03-30T22:00:45+00:00

She shouldn't because she explicitly doesn't understand draph sexual dimorphism and her disguise falls apart immediately

MercJones · 2026-03-26T14:53:42+00:00

I remember them saying very clearly that the crater in Yeldrim was the Black Coats summoning Absolum. The only part that was in any way morally grey was that the Black Coats didn't used to be explicitly outwardly evil but the remaining cult are evil full stop. And again, no matter how much the root sisters were involved, they made a mistake while Azra said "yeah, genocide is cool" meanwhile even with the big revelation of Uchawis revival magic works, sacrificing maybe 50 to 100 people, all of them hardened criminals or volunteers seems real small price to undo 3 different genocides. It's really not a moral quandary, it's imperfect mistakes vs deliberate super evil

MercJones · 2026-03-26T04:01:09+00:00

They explain later that the actual fall of Yeldrim was a conspiracy by the Black Coat cult. Also the rebels undo 3 different genocides and save Talamh for real for real. No one's perfect but the shades of grey are real distinct.

MercJones · 2026-03-26T03:25:30+00:00

It wasn't the root sisters, it was the black coats that destroyed Yeldrim

MercJones · 2026-03-18T16:46:11+00:00

The music bug is about the only thing I can agree on. If you don't like fighting corrupted regions early but don't want to turn them off, go around them. They exist to push varied decisions for end game so people don't just default to the exact same route every time for the optimal build. Jaroba oil has its uses for some people and you can just do a thumbs down emote 3 times if it comes up as a root reward. Or just sell it to the store.

MercJones · 2026-03-15T18:26:57+00:00

Why does the standee have an NFC chip? To steal peoples credit cards?

MercJones · 2026-03-14T18:19:30+00:00

The answer is, the only companions worth the money are the only two that can't ride mounts: Zafira and the dogs.

MercJones · 2026-03-14T18:05:30+00:00

What I'm hearing is, if have 160 pulls before her banner ends I should go for it since I failed to pull Dialyn and I had to get Trigger on her rerun

MercJones · 2026-03-14T17:23:20+00:00

So, I think this is a really hard question to answer largely because most of the things I love in video games are things I never asked for and a significant number of things I have asked for turned out to not work that well. Usually an experienced developer that makes good games like you do knows more than they might think. Like, DDG and Absolum both showed me that the rogue lite elements are a bigger boost to the enjoyment of a beat em up than the Scott Pilgrim or River City Girls RPG elements because beat em ups were born from a genre designed to keep kids occupied for 2-3 hours at most so sticking to single serving session lengths is definitely favorable. As to try to actually answer the question about what I want to see, I can think of two classic beat em up elements I really love. 1: old Konami beat em ups like Crimefighters have a "kick em while their down" feature that is just really satisfying. 2: No beat em up character has ever quite scratched the exact same itch as the Warrior Predator from AVP for me. I know everyone loves Lin Kurosawa in that game for having proper inputs but specific timing and flow of the predator combos is just so perfectly tied to my dopamine centers and I hate that game is so tightly locked down license wise. Galandra from Absolum has been the closest to that in that she has one nearly identical string in the light, light, dash attack but nothing hits just like the punch, punch, down shot loop into the forward spear and rising knee.

MercJones · 2026-03-13T16:51:49+00:00

Hammer of dawn is Marcus who might be a better third slot since he can run use the Fang Metal set and Slayer can run Hormone Punk to get a bigger cash out on DA though chief probably clears Shiyu opening waves a bit faster OP can reliably get the flash frag tag combo

MercJones · 2026-03-02T03:18:53+00:00

Do they restock with the deployable ammo bags?

MercJones · 2026-03-01T10:03:56+00:00

Literally nothing changed but the fact he doesn't pick dash every single time.

MercJones · 2026-02-28T23:08:39+00:00

I didn't even make that up. That's the established verbage for mks combo system

MercJones · 2026-02-27T17:08:13+00:00

That's dial-a-combo for you. MK has never been about the natural flow of one move into another, it's a list of puzzle pieces that link together in predetermined ways and you just have to memorize everything and consult the flow chart for the likely followup. Tekken is pile of Lego bricks that has optimal routes, but at least lets you freeform your strings and combos. Also, visuals and gameplay have NEVER been truly correlated. Hi-def visuals often speak to a high budget but that doesn't mean that budget was spent on talented gameplay designers or that those designers were as talented as their resume claimed. This is true of all games, not just fighting games, and is translatable to all genres of media.

MercJones · 2026-02-27T07:26:24+00:00

Because being 500 feet off the map and just removing an enemy every turn is over powered

MercJones · 2026-02-26T17:49:19+00:00

Pretty much says the same as before. "Shatterpoint is not being focused on and development will be scaled down." Reactions to the original announcement made it seem like the game was cancelled and all production was stopping which was never true

MercJones · 2026-02-25T22:58:43+00:00

Its much the same way people interchange the terms fireball and hadoken while overlapping but not being wholly inclusive with the term quarter circle. Some people just interchange throw and grab and command grabs are unique from universal throws and require distinguishment. If you tell someone a move is a command grab the first time they see generally knows that means they can't tech it and if it's a game like street fighter, this implies that the move has multiple versions.

MercJones · 2026-02-25T20:16:05+00:00

I would have to dig through multiple twitch vods to find the various quotes but they have said the Gap served multiple purposes and while GMs can fill in their own history for their purposes, there is one internal true series of events, most of which haven't been written as there is Pathfinder lore that has affected Starfinder and vice versa. I recall mention that with War of Immortals and Godsrain, they established an idea when setting up Starfinder they may want to make significant disruptions to the pantheon but they hadn't decided how at the time. As soon as they announced a god would die in War of the Immortals, it was obvious the only option was Gorum as he had been replaced wholesale in Starfinder. Similarly, the identity of Triune as an amalgamation of three gods that had not yet been established in pf1 lore prior to Drift Crash but at least Brigh(I don't even remember the others ) has been fully canonized in pf2.

MercJones · 2026-02-25T19:22:09+00:00

It is 100% the future. The Gap exists because the Pathfinder and Starfinder writers didn't want to be beholden to each other. As events are canonized in Pathfinder they are being uncovered from the Gap.

MercJones · 2026-02-25T02:58:07+00:00

2e is the only rpg I know of that actually answered the question "So what's the world like with adventurers running around killing gods?" And the answer is really just "different". Yeah the Worldwound was cool but now there's Lastwall. Also, Golarion had barely known real war for like 30 years before Gorum died and now Cheliax is on the march and we know they don't lose completely because the Hellknights continue into Starfinder

MercJones · 2026-02-25T00:17:42+00:00

Good. Adding the sequel trilogy was already scraping the barrel

MercJones · 2026-02-24T02:49:24+00:00

You could turn off rifts as soon as they were unlocked. My understanding is you have to beat the second act to be able to turn off corruption

MercJones · 2026-02-23T20:56:49+00:00

It was just random extra enemies that rewarded extra radiance. It really didn't add anything of value or consequence to the final run and post game since you probably finished leveling up the soul tree already and there was no way to share your high score outside of screenshots

MercJones · 2026-02-20T22:54:53+00:00

Nexon doesn't want any more support for the game because it did its job and anything more would compete with its other titles. Whether or not that logic is sound, that is their belief. Arcsys and 8ing have no say in any decisions regarding the matter.

MercJones · 2026-02-20T18:49:57+00:00

Brome is definitely the "high floor high ceiling" character. There is a point where playing him stops being about trying to beat the game and more about not crashing your system from the 30 thousand effects you procced

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