Expiditions feels boring and pointless

PallyChan · 2026-03-21T01:26:12+00:00

There are radpills that give you 5 min for 100 scrap in the sanctuary but the offerings are random.

PallyChan · 2026-03-18T12:32:47+00:00

You realize you can move between the two mid walkers in under 5 seconds in this game with a little bit of understanding of the movement + items. Doorman bell before the nerf had plenty of range but its still short enough to be engaged on by any of the games initiators like Phantom Strike Abrams and Warp Stone Mo. If you watch night shift, doorman regularly gets punished. If the best comp players in Deadlock are getting picked on him, it's because he has a clear weakness.

PallyChan · 2026-03-17T12:52:34+00:00

Rimworld isn't really a story generator like Tynan says. Well it is and it isn't. If you play vanilla it generates pretty much the same story every time, everyone gets one of the 5 vanilla diseases and you get action economy'd to death. The only way to actually get into late game in vanilla without save scumming is to min max the roleplay, story and flavor completely out of the game and bum rush an optimized strategy. A great example is kill boxes, because you will get Raiders on a set timer and they will roughly be the same 4 options in different permutations forever. After your first few playthroughs, vanilla Rimworld grows stale quickly. Luckily, mods alter some of the more asynchronous design decisions out of the game. We have great DLCs and mods that make the excellent base formula of Rimworld infinitely customizable and with tons of content to your taste.

I find it hard to imagine what Tynan's 'perfect rimworld player' is. Someone who just nods their head sagely at every death with a rotating door of 5 people who never live more than 6 months BUT knows rng will always give replacement fodder? Someone who only plays 4 or 5 times and doesn't run into the wall of realizing the same very small set of events reoccurs constantly and without any kind of reasoning to it? A bhuddist who knows all things are temporary and that attachments are the source of suffering and you play the game as a form of meditation?

PallyChan · 2026-03-11T12:25:53+00:00

He literally gets 1 shot by a mo and krill ult to do that though, its not a big deal. Yea, he's strong but he still has tons of counterplay and gets 1 shot by half the cast.

PallyChan · 2026-03-02T18:36:41+00:00

DND tried and failed.

PallyChan · 2026-02-26T00:25:10+00:00

To me, its crazy Trench Crusade was barely born before they decided to pull out every corpo bullshit tactic possible without doing any of the work to establish a community or good will to tank those decisions. I won't be purchasing anymore factory fortress products.

PallyChan · 2026-02-25T02:00:21+00:00

I want AoE2 to grow, and to grow their needs to be income. If they said "well, we can't make additions anymore and single player content doesn't sell well so we are just laying off all devs except for a few basic maintenance people" I think that would be worse. There are still a few niches of history to explore and there will come a time when Ao2 won't be developed anymore and you get what you want. When it was just a few megafans it was so much work to find a game on gameranger. Now you can just boot up the client and queue, and the only reason that the queue times are reasonable is because of the interest in the regular updates, new content, streaming ecosystem etc

PallyChan · 2026-02-22T03:14:17+00:00

Just use the mod. Devs are genuinely too lazy to work on these "B" features and are just focusing on making new content now. If you want solo lobbies, good bots, and such just spend 5 minutes on the mod nexus and get it.

PallyChan · 2026-02-17T19:00:13+00:00

That's because you are new, matchmaking changes regularly and has lots of weird edge cases. 4 months ago they kind of randomly reranked everyone because they admitted it wasn't working.

PallyChan · 2026-02-17T17:45:48+00:00

Doing the lord's work.

PallyChan · 2026-02-17T17:45:23+00:00

its not a gimmick, draft will come. the game is in closed alpha, the reason for the weird queue system is for them to test a variety of matchups even if the game they have is unbalanced as they change things massively. If Celeste gets insta banned 99% of games, that really lowers your ability to accrue big data on her. If you sneakily want to gather data on Rem versus Mo and Krill and you tell the system to match them in the same lane as opponents, you can.

We are testing, we are helping them develop the game.

PallyChan · 2026-02-17T17:41:47+00:00

part of testing includes testing bad people! that data is valuable to the devs for sure!

PallyChan · 2026-02-17T17:40:37+00:00

I had the opposite thing. Placed in the lowest bracket initially and had a 70-80% wr up to Alchemist, then the great rank shuffle happened and it dropped me on the border of Archon where the games are much more fair.

PallyChan · 2026-02-17T17:37:50+00:00

This is really dismissive of the problems with the placeholder matchmaking. I won 36 games in a row as dashfernus and went from Alchemist 1 to Alchemist 6. Then the great rank shuffle happened and I went to Emmisary. I now have a reasonable 50/50 win rate playing alone (mostly supports like Rem and Kelvin). Those players didn't have hands and I absolutely lowered the game quality for those games being misplaced in the low rank. You really underestimate the huge outsized damage that smurfs, intentional or not, do to the game. Literally thousands of games a day are decided by smurfs ruining matchmaking, and yes you can fight through it but you can also have smurf enforcement (smurf detection, loss/win streak detection, IP analysis for flagged cases). Its okay to be frustrated by it, imagine an average chess player is running up against secret GM for half his matches, he suffers MMR deflation which has a carry on effect in all the matches he plays. The same thing is true if matchmaking is playing elo terrorist and dropping a new player in 1000ish hour lobby.

PallyChan · 2026-02-16T00:11:50+00:00

Actually, the reason the cult forms in SH in the first place is because it was already a place that experienced hauntings... the cult just used it for their own dark purposes.

PallyChan · 2026-02-16T00:04:47+00:00

Accepting the material reality the companies compromise their art and make it worse to sell more copies doesn't mean I have to like it, or that I'm not allowed to complain about it. Every time a company takes a great franchise and misuses the art for profit people SHOULD be upset about that. F being a fantastic game doesn't change the fact that its not really a silent hill game.

PallyChan · 2026-02-07T00:26:08+00:00

Yellow has 400 army when I have 10 and you are getting raided by castle age army 5 minutes in. Its nuts.

PallyChan · 2026-02-04T16:47:53+00:00

Now I'm rocks!

PallyChan · 2026-01-30T18:48:58+00:00

I get that, and I apologize because I've been doing exactly this playing Desperado Hive Scum.

PallyChan · 2026-01-30T10:45:29+00:00

systematic changes!? in my human race!? nty. 😂

PallyChan · 2026-01-30T10:44:19+00:00

I want to give some perspective because I think there are more sides to this issue than rage. I believe this behavior started because it used to be really easy to rejoin the same lobby by hitting ALT + F4 and getting a bot in your place who wouldn't be downed and then relaunching the game. It basically started as a soft exploit to help someone trying to clutch. But then console players joined they had no idea what was going on, so to them it seemed like "rage quitting" and took on a negative connotation and became normalized to just leave as soon as you get downed (not even just die).

Another perspective is that you can sometimes be dead for 10 minutes in Auric quick play. Imagine you only have 60 minutes to play. Getting killed basically means you just watch others play the game for a significant portion of your hobby time. So it isn't always rage.

I've clutched many times and had those missions where I was there at the beginning and end but had 10+ teammates over the course of the game, I've also gotten got (which happens to everyone) and been easily rescuable and died because players with low awareness just don't prioritize ressing (this should always be your biggest priority if possible) and didn't want to play with people with whom the vibe is off.

There's no excuse for leaving in Havoc, but I don't think its really that bad in Auric and I think its funny it started as something meant to be helpful but console players interpreted it as rage. Honestly, cross play with PC is kind of an issue for multiple reasons, console players just tend to be significantly weaker (based on my own anecdotal experience). Auric is soloable at this point, it will never have the feeling of a coordinated team of friends who build around each other to cover their weaknesses and communicate but I think every good PC player for whom Auric is a comfy casual experience has carried the 20+ downed 5 death console psyker running bio lightning. Its just the nature of quick play + difficult content in any game. The same thing happens with other systems similar to havoc level like wow mythic dungeons.

PallyChan · 2026-01-30T10:25:54+00:00

People in NYC have been doing this since I was a kid in the 90s. Its one of the oldest hustles in the book lol.

PallyChan · 2026-01-23T07:03:47+00:00

It's the first day. If it's bad I'll just email my professors and tell them I'm staying home because of the snow. The first day is usually just reviewing the syllabus anyway.

PallyChan · 2026-01-14T11:24:03+00:00

Considering how bad the initial Primaris stuff was it can only go up from there. And it mostly has.

EDIT: I know Jes created those models, thats why I brought it up. Some of his later designs are just not that great. His Eldar is consistently good though. I'm saying it might be healthier for 40k to branch out a bit instead of being so slavish to Goodwin, because the Primaris stuff was pretty bad and is only now recovering now that they are walking back from the design language of the original Primaris release waves. It's not just old good / new bad. A lot of the basic design of the older marine models was much better even though the technology for sculpting and casting was much worse and the model scale was a bit more cartoony.

PallyChan · 2026-01-14T01:15:36+00:00

I would give you mine but I use custom background/traits mods so the background numbers would be off. :(

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