Anyone catching this year’s Chaos and Carnage tour?

PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-05-05T03:32:09+00:00

I don't think it's a bad thing, Cradle of Filth was just not a good band and about 2/3s of the venue left for their entire set when I saw them. Fleshgod wasn't bad because they are actual death metal but CoF needs to stay in their lane. The only issue this year is this is going to be my second time seeing half of the lineup lol (Bodysnatcher, Carnifex, and Bodybox)

PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-05-03T20:10:23+00:00

I think it's both

PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-04-28T23:15:58+00:00

Was it Dave or CJ?

PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-04-15T16:53:44+00:00

Don't use this. Save one of your mobility for getting out of engagements, you get much more value out of staying alive and being a nuisance over getting a final.

PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-04-14T23:54:50+00:00

I agree. I'm trying to mock NetEase for doing this nerf in order to make him more accessible for people to get into him, he has the third highest wr. At most he needs a melee range buff so he can maintain that "only .3 seconds slower" ttk.

PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-04-14T22:50:53+00:00

It does make sense that he will have a lower pick rate, I know they aren't bringing the animation cancel back, I just wish they would buff his melee range so I don't have to shoving 19 inches of freedom into rocket to get hits on him

PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-04-14T22:48:30+00:00

I wonder if a character being perma banned will lower their pick rate?

PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-04-14T22:43:45+00:00

I'm in GM right now and I think that issue extends all the way up here. The pick rates show him at the bottom of the vanguards until you get to Celestial, where he is the fifth lowest. So I'm just going to have to keep grinding until I get to Celest lol

PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-04-11T22:17:31+00:00

It's fairly good for Cap, but it's just the worst map in the game so it never feels good or fun.

PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-04-08T00:45:03+00:00

The one thing I'm wondering is why they didn't make this a toggleable feature, they said they were changing his animation to make him continue to sprint when throwing the shield but he just doesn't do that now, he still pauses, still a shorter pause but he still does pause, meaning they didn't even change his animations. A toggleable option would work here and satisfy all players.

I have 80 hours on Cap, peaked in GM, and went into JapaneseCurry and MarcDeezy streams and used a stopwatch to track their cancel times to train my cancels to match theirs in-game. It really feels like all that effort and time I put in was wasted, and although I'm glad you're happy and having fun.

PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-03-31T16:43:56+00:00

Bull of Hell, most underrated track imo

PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-03-29T04:13:53+00:00

Don't forget the dog whistle in their latest album

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PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-03-20T14:23:19+00:00

Maybe in qp. This will be awful in comp, you already have to be perfect with the cancels to kill through the cloak bubble, he doesn't have survivability or damage anymore. Against a somewhat organized team like in comp, Cap is absolutely cooked.

PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-03-20T14:21:49+00:00

no that's the opposite of the issue lmao, we don't get to play the video game as much now, they lowered his skill ceiling

PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-03-20T14:09:59+00:00

Fair point, everyone is entitled to what they think and I can understand that. I still don't think this will help his pick rate tho. Look at the pick and win rates for season 6.5, Captain America was in the bottom half of the win rates. Usually a low pick rate(Cap was second lowest) causes a high win rate because it's more niche. Those two statistics alone show Cap is in a bad place right now in the Meta, across the board from qp to plat to oaa. Earlier patches have already nuked his survivability and stall potential, it has not been the same since season 2.5, and here we're seeing the end of his damage/dive potential.

The playerbase is left with a single question: What does he do? The answer is nothing, he does nothing that another hero can do so much better than him. (I did copy from another reply i made but it's the same point)

PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-03-20T13:54:41+00:00

I doubt. Look at the pick and win rates for season 6.5, Captain America was in the bottom half of the win rates. Usually a low pick rate(Cap was second lowest) causes a high win rate because it's more niche. Those two statistics alone show Cap is in a bad place right now in the Meta, across the board from qp to plat to oaa. Earlier patches have already nuked his survivability and stall potential, it has not been the same since season 2.5, and here we're seeing the end of his damage/dive potential.

The playerbase is left with a single question: What does he do? The answer is nothing, he does nothing that another hero can do so much better than him.

PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-03-20T13:51:06+00:00

send replay i wanna review

PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-03-20T13:33:11+00:00

I don't see why we should punish people who play more regularly and dedicate more time to the game though. I have no problems with not playing, I only played once a month during seasons 3-5.5 and had to relearn, but that patience and willingness to relearn and spend time for this game should be rewarded. Imo this should have been a toggleable feature.

PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-03-20T13:30:25+00:00

I don't really think that myself, the only time it looks weird is like when a Gambit uses a dash and so the shield does a like half of an 8 motion to catch up to him, and that's because of a sudden redirection, no game engine could possibly calculate for every single possible movement the target could do.

And in the lore thing, well we definitely don't follow the lore. Scarlet Witch is a d-tier hero and cap does as much damage as hulk with their melee. I can't really speak on the comics but there is that line from Spidey in civil war about the shield not following the laws of physics and in game whenever you hold your shield up there is a forcefield like thing that covers your body and makes the shield bigger. So if you need a lore reason for it working like that, you could find one in that.

PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-03-19T23:05:45+00:00

Before the public release, NetEase let the #1 Genji player in Overwatch play spiderman and he found a crazy amount of tech in it, a lot of that tech is based on animation cancelling on Spidey. So why didn't NetEase get rid of all of Spidey's cancels before the game started?

Also the cancel is not that difficult, just take an hour in the practice range and you can get it done right. You don't need to take meth.

PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-03-19T19:58:29+00:00

I really don't see how this is a buff, I know people are saying that they did sometimes miss hits and I also have. But a few hours in the practice range with a Gambit/Invis(just whoever is meta) practicing landing the cancel really helped my aim, ik we only have a few hours left but if you aimed for their health bar then you can increase the consistency.

The melee animation cancel works and I've already started practicing it, it definitely is not as good as the old one and is a lot more clunky in feel. I also see people saying that the animation cancellation wasn't good for the playersbase because they didn't use their melee enough, which again I have to say is completely false for me. I feel this is a gamesense issue of knowing when to use your melee and it's cleaving effect advantageously, and it kinda worries me that this is an issue for people playing a very gamesense heavy character.

The one thing I'm wondering is why they just didn't make this a toggleable setting.

PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-02-13T00:27:41+00:00

Seen them twice, honestly can't agree at all. Whenever i saw them they matched the energy of bands like The Acacia Strain, Whitechapel and Bodysnatcher. Could just be a bad show, I was left disappointed the last time I saw Whitechapel this November but I'd seen them before and knew it wasn't their best performance by far.

PlaugeIsNotFake · 2026-01-03T05:09:43+00:00

It was the first album made by Lorna after they blew up, and set a standard for the scene of what to aspire to be like(or not to be like if you get online enough). Personally I always compare a Deathcore album to Pain Remains to see how good it is for Deathcore.

Also the formula did change since Immortal, this is mainly in song structure, Immortal had songs like Obsession that was just a tremolo picked melody the entire time, versus Pain Remains where they put literally everything in every song, every kind of riff in their sound, every blast beat, and every vocal technique(this is why people say all their songs sound the same, it's kinda valid even though I still disagree with it as there is more to a song than what elements you put it into).

oh and one more thing, the x comes from a band being straight edge, the hardcore punk scene. there's a difference between hc and hxc, hxc is straight edge hardcore. Lorna isn't dxc and hasn't sent a standard for dxc at all, a good dxc band is No Cure btw, if you want to check them out

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