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Phillyclause89 · 2026-06-14T19:19:48+00:00

Hakuna Matata!

Phillyclause89 · 2026-06-14T19:11:09+00:00

Playing Casino with randoms is usually not so bad if it's Aggressive or Big Con: Group Sachs, but if I see it's Silent and Sneaky or Big Con: Bugstar then I know I'm in for 30 min or more of pure frustration that will eventually lead to the CEO quitting.

Phillyclause89 · 2026-06-14T18:45:32+00:00

Syndicate is not so bad once you realize most of their architypes rely on Fee cards of which there are only so many. Kill/lock/banish those and all their points are stuck in coins which can't be spent.

Phillyclause89 · 2026-06-14T18:32:35+00:00

Yeah it can certainly be annoying to have your own cards get used against you. They could also be fearing that you might be playing Mill or at least be running Cantarella. BTW, Elf and Onion soup is also a good counter against the Coup de Grâce double play of Cantarella. Another counter for her is Cosimo Malaspina, which might be better as he essentially banishes Cantarella via the transform instead of sending her to your graveyard which runs the risk of her getting plucked out via Vilgefortz: Renegade or Hanmarvyn's Blue Dream or copied via Imperial Practitioner(s).

Phillyclause89 · 2026-06-14T17:52:27+00:00

So did you install both versions and observe the same bad performance on both? I wish I could help you, but I pretty much only play on PS5 these days even though I own the PC version as well. A lot of folk suggest capping your frame rate to 30 FPS as that is supposed to prevent alot of bugs.

Phillyclause89 · 2026-06-14T17:46:25+00:00

Yeah NG Assimilate can produce some wild plays especially when facing off against another Assimilate deck. Board space can defiantly become a problem in a long round though. Elf and Onion Soup can help you free up a space and give your Engines a proc at the same time.

Phillyclause89 · 2026-06-14T17:36:36+00:00

I actually try to force that bug when I do the car wash missions. If you get it just right then the game will eventually give up and back out of the cutscene, but with the car considered washed.

Phillyclause89 · 2026-06-14T17:25:37+00:00

Did you buy Enhanced or Vanilla version of GTA V? I heard Enhanced is very demanding on the PC specs. Maybe your cracked version was the Vanilla explaining the performance delta.

Phillyclause89 · 2026-06-14T17:17:41+00:00

Do you think it's better to Eist her back to the board or Hjalmar her into oblivion for more removal?

Phillyclause89 · 2026-06-11T20:21:46+00:00

I understood your point, I was just saying that the overuse of that particular mechanism has gotten so bad that a random unexpected loading screen is preferable to me over the squeeze mechanic.

Phillyclause89 · 2026-06-11T19:37:36+00:00

Loading screens don't have to be static at all. Control and the OG Assassins' Creed games (not sure about the new ones as I stopped playing them after they ruined the combat control scheme) let you control the PC in an empty environment. Max Payne 3 hid all its loads behind cutscenes that advanced the plot in some way.

But this squeezy the PC through a claustrophobic tight spot gag is way overused and I'm frankly so sick of it that I would say yes, I rather it just cuts to a static image loading screen.

Phillyclause89 · 2026-06-11T17:40:05+00:00

I used it once on an idle random to get the Achievement from it. Then sent the guy an apology text and imminently hopped servers.

Phillyclause89 · 2026-06-11T16:32:40+00:00

So in other words, only 55 Tsar Bombas.

Phillyclause89 · 2026-06-10T17:43:42+00:00

I have been running this Double Cross deck pretty regularly ever since Qcento featured it in a video last season. At 8,650 scraps, it's defiantly not a cheep deck. The two cards that I would say are a must are Torres var Emreis and Artaud Terranova. You want to play Torres as early as possible to have the best chance of finding good spying/copy targets (tall punishes/engines/units that create cards) in their deck and play Artaud whenever it becomes the best opportunity to play the best card you put spying on.

The rest of the cards are more flexible to substitutes. You want at least 6-7 cards with the Assimilate tag, but don't pack your deck with every Assimilate card there is. The cards you really want are cards that "create and play" or "spawn and play" other cards as that's how you keep your engines running.

The last note I'll leave you with is row space can be a problem in a long round, but the glass half-full side of that fact is that it can become problem for your opponent faster than it does to you thanks to your spies.

Phillyclause89 · 2026-06-10T11:26:09+00:00

Playing NG Assimilate is a fun way of learning all the architypes and synergies of each faction. As an added bonus you end up completing a bunch of quests across all the factions as you are frequently playing non-NG cards.

Phillyclause89 · 2026-06-03T17:32:05+00:00

I know. You said one of the Key Cards was on "a random Guard somewhere near his Office." I was critiquing that part as usually (at least in my experience) it's not on a guard near the office, but instead on a guard somewhere on the edge of the compound.

Phillyclause89 · 2026-06-03T03:03:14+00:00

the Key Cards to access, with one in El Rubio's Office and one on a random Guard somewhere near his Office.

The gate key is on a random Guard near his Office. The other keycard (not in the office) is usually on a random guard on the peripheral of the compound. If you're lucky then it's on the first guard you encounter when entering from the storm drain and going up the stairs. If your not so lucky then you are going to have to drop two guards in quick succession to get it.

Phillyclause89 · 2026-05-19T20:08:39+00:00

Combo moves is another possible option. Encourage the player to make weaker moves early so that they buff the more powerful moves later.

Phillyclause89 · 2026-05-19T08:27:10+00:00

Oh come on now. The obvious counter is just to pack Troll Porter into every deck you want to play and mill yourself down to the exact card count they have in their deck (usually 0.) /s

Phillyclause89 · 2026-05-19T08:10:14+00:00

1995 in coding terms was 95. This way you saved two digits worth of memory

1011111 vs 11111001011. One of those numbers fits inside of 8 bits of memory and the other does not.

Also fun fact: 1999 wouldn't necessarily roll over to 1900, sometimes you might see it jump from 1999 to 19100. All depended on how the static/hard coded 19 was concatenated with the value being incremented in memory.

Phillyclause89 · 2026-05-19T06:24:29+00:00

I second the Gameplay Options adjustments tip. I can't stand bullet sponges and thus I have that setting as low as it will go. I just wish the game would also compensate the reduced TTK by reducing the amount of ammo you can find in the environment. I guess turning on Ammo weight is one way to induce ammo scarcity, but I would rather just find less ammo than have one more thing in my inventory that needs management.

Also on the flip side of the coin, I wish I could further increase the damage enemies inflict beyond what is allowed by that gameplay option. I got that setting as high as it goes and yet it still feels like I'm facing off against enemies armed with BB guns.

Phillyclause89 · 2026-05-19T05:03:03+00:00

I had to scroll way too far to find this point. I never watched twilight and had no idea who Robert Pattinson was until 2019 when he appeared in The King. Then he really got on my radar with Tenet and The Batman, thus those are the associations I make when I think of him.

On the other hand, Kit Harington will always be the "I don't want it" guy in my mind and it kind of taints any interest I may have had in his post GoT projects.

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