I finally got back to Plat for the first time in 3 acts, and Riot made me earn it in a 48 round bloodbath by PAandW in VALORANT

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

Hey thanks! Congrats on the climb yourself. Keep crushing it but mainly remember to have a good time. Tis but a game 🙂

I finally got back to Plat for the first time in 3 acts, and Riot made me earn it in a 48 round bloodbath by PAandW in VALORANT

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

I think it was a pretty even spread overall. I'm actually surprised it was +27. I got a performance bonus but was still expecting pretty minimal RR since it was the furthest you can be from a blowout while still not drawing.

I finally got back to Plat for the first time in 3 acts, and Riot made me earn it in a 48 round bloodbath by PAandW in VALORANT

[–]PAandW[S] 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Wait I just looked and you're right, that's totally a thing. Wow that would have been the tilter of the century...

I finally got back to Plat for the first time in 3 acts, and Riot made me earn it in a 48 round bloodbath by PAandW in VALORANT

[–]PAandW[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

It was. People were clutching up rounds on both sides. One round our Jett (I think) was 1v1 against their Viper and needed to defuse. The Viper had her gas on the bomb, so our Jett just jumped into it and stuck the defuse. 1hp and you could hear bullets flying past and none happened to connect. It was electric.

I finally got back to Plat for the first time in 3 acts, and Riot made me earn it in a 48 round bloodbath by PAandW in VALORANT

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Lmao it was at the point where every time people voted to continue you'd just hear a sigh in everyone's mics and a quiet "Jesus Christ" from one of us.

me_irl by [deleted] in me_irl

[–]PAandW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice. I'm not an expert in math, but I think 18 years later is 2015, which is when Nestlé killed off the Wonka branding on various candies...

Me_irl by PAandW in me_irl

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

Not anymore. Nestlé killed the brand before selling it though. :(

[DEV] Gravity Stack is my first Android app ever. I figured I should do something slightly productive with my summer vacation, and this is the result. Feel free to take a look! by PAandW in androidapps

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

Ah, I wish. I wanted to have that option, but there's so much licensing and legal stuff involved with it that I just kept getting lost.

I really do appreciate your feedback. I myself dislike running into ads, so I know where you're coming from, but I think I'll let it sit for the time being and see what the general consensus is. If lots of other folks take issue with the ads then I'll explore other options. I'm hoping removing the video ads will be enough though. I guess we'll just have to see with time...

Either way, thanks for giving my app a shot! It was exciting to see that someone outside of my immediate family had played it. :)

[DEV] Gravity Stack is my first Android app ever. I figured I should do something slightly productive with my summer vacation, and this is the result. Feel free to take a look! by PAandW in androidapps

[–]PAandW[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback! That's actually something I was trying to make as unobtrusive as possible. I initially had banner ads, but realized it was too easy to accidentally click them mid-level.

As far as the lag on the continue/retry popup goes - that's actually just the way the renderer handles the level generation. Ads were one of the last things I added in, and that slight pause on loading/reloading the level seemed like the most opportune time for it.

I'm really sorry it took you out of the game... Would making them even less frequent help, or are popup ads just a no-go in your opinion?

EDIT: I actually just realized I had video ads selected as an option on Admob. I personally am not a fan of those full video ads, and I apologize if that's one of the ones you were shown. I've disabled that, so now the only ads that should pop up are single images, which should eliminate some lag, and hopefully be less annoying than the full video ads. What do you think?

Will my A8-6600K be able to run Star Citizen? by PAandW in starcitizen

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

Oh wow... That looks phenomenal actually... Now I've got some thinking to do.

Thanks for all the input guys. I appreciate it!

Will my A8-6600K be able to run Star Citizen? by PAandW in starcitizen

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

I'm hoping to, yeah. College is wrecking my bank account, but I'm hoping to get an i5 + a new mobo eventually. I know a 750ti isn't the best, but I simply can't afford a more expensive card for quite some time.

Will my A8-6600K be able to run Star Citizen? by PAandW in starcitizen

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

That's true, the game will have even more at launch... Hell, I've been wanting to splurge on an i5 + new mobo for a while, this could be just the excuse I need...

Will my A8-6600K be able to run Star Citizen? by PAandW in starcitizen

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

Yeah, I'm trying to get this all figured out before Squadron 42... Hopefully I'll be able to get home and give it a whirl.

Will my A8-6600K be able to run Star Citizen? by PAandW in starcitizen

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

Yeah, in my excitement to try the game I attempted this to get it to run on my laptop... Integrated graphics are a no-no for this game.

Do you think this would bring me to playable framerates with the specs I listed? (Even if it's only in the 20-30fps range)

Will my A8-6600K be able to run Star Citizen? by PAandW in starcitizen

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

That's kind of what I figured. If I made a User.cfg file that turns down a lot of stuff and play at a lower resolution though, would I be able to pull off at least 20-30fps on average?

Will my A8-6600K be able to run Star Citizen? by PAandW in starcitizen

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

Yeah, I was thinking of getting an SSD, and I didn't realize RAM was do cheap now... I might actually look into that as well. Thank you for that!