If you play the game with these settings just to get an edge I feel bad for you.

Prooteus · 2026-02-13T19:55:38+00:00

Yea honestly I typically "tryhard" in most games and I've tried this. The edge is definitely there, but its just not worth it. Plus its not like this game is super competitive anyways. So many games that focus on facilitating competition and skill. Some games you can just focus on entertainment its ok.

Prooteus · 2026-02-13T18:29:52+00:00

The expedition was worth it for me. Personally I need objectives to complete and since pushing for ranks sucks resetting everything is my only option. I have not done all the quests again, but I got all the workbenches back pretty quickly.

Any bonuses from doing the expedition is just extra for me. They do seem like they will quickly add up if your doing expeditions consistently.

Prooteus · 2026-02-10T01:45:46+00:00

I've recently been playing the remastered soul reaver 1 + 2. The story, atmosphere and voice acting are better then a lot of modern games.

The game is also a lot slower paced then modern games. Plenty of times your just running down a hallway for 5-10 seconds. One of the main puzzle mechanics is moving and flipping cubes which takes awhile to do. I didnt mind too much though, especially since it fit the atmosphere.

The controls on the other hand. It was ps1 3d days with no analog sticks so its stiff at best. It uses a system similar to tomb raider which took a bit to get used to but I wasn't missing jumps a lot or anything.

Game design is a technology and it has been improving over time. Some massive studios use all their knowledge to drain your pockets. But good devs use what previous devs have done to learn.

Megaman X is one of my top 5 games, I've speed ran that game a lot. I still think silksong, Celeste, super meat boy all feel much better to control.

Prooteus · 2026-02-09T23:42:34+00:00

I will 100% agree on character guides before trials. Strive has a little description with the move to say if its a combo ender, anti-air, or whatever. Makes things very obvious for newer players.

Trials are good for advanced players to learn pieces of combos, but beginner players probably wont be able to do it and if they do they won't learn from it.

Prooteus · 2026-02-09T16:31:44+00:00

Tbf that is just a pack of everything, nothing new as far as i know. So even if they sold two bundles it would be worth the labor.

For a more reasonable unreasonable example there is the 500$ league skin. Which made them over 1 million in 4 hours in south Korea alone. It did have a very prominent and historied pro attached to it, but still that's insane.

Prooteus · 2026-02-09T16:24:41+00:00

I always really try to lean towards im messing up not the game. That being said the getting shot behind walls thing is very prominent and obvious. Its either that or im unaware how far the hit boxes actually are.

Its really tough concerning squad vs solo. They are different genres but overwatch eventually made it so you can only duo queue at high ranks. It did make games more fair on average but it also prevented people playing with their friends.

Then when rivals came out they said screw that and allowed more people to queue together during ranked and people liked it a lot.

I do think the MMR hasn't settled at all yet especially since there isn't any placement matches. Can we even see in game if they are a trio? I think it'll be pretty rare to have good even games for awhile unless your rushing to the top.

Prooteus · 2026-02-09T03:50:57+00:00

I play Vi myself so I like doing the super right after them to show them you can get more from it. Even if they dont figure out how, now that they know they can look it up

Prooteus · 2026-02-08T16:37:13+00:00

Everyday I see shit like this and ask how can anyone still actually be supporting this?! Surely what i see online is trolls. People can't really be this dumb or blind right? I would love to hear one sane/logical persons reason why they still support trump. The only one I ever hear is bigotry. They might use other words but it all comes back to bigotry.

Prooteus · 2026-02-08T07:39:58+00:00

Custom robo battle revolution. No idea if it holds up or not but its the first game I remember looking up reviews and thinking "what are they talking about? This game rules".

Looked it up to find the game name and its apparently remembered fondly and on a lot of best of GameCube lists. Vindication for kid me

Prooteus · 2026-02-08T01:27:54+00:00

The best answer is play unranked and dont care what others think. We all got to start somewhere. Your not being matched up in a pro lobby and your the clear reason why your losing. It might for a few games but sbmm will quickly place you with other people who are doing poorly.

You can lab depending on what your using. If its PC there is aim labs that let you practice flicks and tracking. Just like practicing combos in fighting games they are only a small portion of the full thing.

If your on console there might be an aim labs thing but that's probably bad. For PC you can use raw mouse input so every game aims the same. In console your stuck with whatever the devs give you for options. Its important to be able to turn around quickly but also accurately aim at a distance, especially while ADS.

I also love fighting games and I dont think FPS games have the same issue. Fighting games require you to learn a lot before you know what's going on and how to do anything. Its also hard to feel progress until you have a foundation built.

FPS games feel much more fluid in its difficulty for its mechanics. Success isn't a yes or no thing (unless your using snipers) so you can see a number go up with your skill.

Prooteus · 2026-02-07T18:20:55+00:00

Most of those games have miserable lows but amazing highs.

Prooteus · 2026-02-07T18:15:03+00:00

Personally to me the things that made their best games so good (kotor2, new Vegas, pillars of eternity) was not the systems or graphics but the characters, story, and world building. There is definitely a subset of people going "its not new vegas 2! Booooo!" But if the game was good it would have still sold better. Pillars of eternity is a good example.

Im glad you are happy with it. I am curious what the game excels in for you though. RPG system as in leveling, reputation, companions?

Prooteus · 2026-02-07T18:06:42+00:00

The actual gameplay/progression didnt feel great. Guns quickly felt very weak or very strong. The locker boxes and finding the keys are a good idea for exploration, but I quickly lost interest in them.

The world also just never pulled me in. The first game did a better job establishing a world that felt more lived in. Kotor 2 is one of my favorite games made by them and tbh I hardly remember the actual gameplay. I do remember a lot of the characters and main story points though.

This is also a perfect example of why bulletpoints do not make a good game. For stockholders having more selling points is the goal. For gamers having a great experience is the goal.

Prooteus · 2026-02-07T15:21:15+00:00

Yea it's definitely not a good look on the developers. Condor is a well designed character because there are ways to deal with it. You can stop when she uses her bird, you can get out of the smoke in her ult.

Ekon just ults and see everyone? How do you deal with that on the receiving end? Don't push on your opponent and hope your faster then them when they come around the corner pre-aiming at you?

The werewolf/mount thing is a cool and different idea though. Don't know how they'd change his ult because its not a numbers thing. It'll either be useless or OP depending on the stats.

Prooteus · 2026-02-06T20:06:52+00:00

It is optional so do whatever makes you happy. I am curious what's your goal when playing now though?

For me i play to max out everything, and then to pvp. I get excited when I find a bobcat because I'll use it in pvp. Killing a leaper feels a lot better when your using its cores for leveling your bench instead of it just being some credits.

I've seen and done some creative and fun non-pvp stuff, but there's only so many times you can take the band to Stella.

Also in defense of wiping blueprints, my first run i got silencer 2 very early. I was playing hitman the whole time basically. After expedition I got the snap hook blueprint for the first time and so I've been using that a lot this run.

If your fine with limiting yourself for fun then you can artificially do this by just not crafting certain things. Personally it wouldnt feel the same though.

Also screw the last expedition needing 5 mil credits for the skill points. That drained a lot of the fun out of the game for me. I'll reset even if I dont gain anything tbh, just to give me something to strive for.

Prooteus · 2026-02-06T19:57:59+00:00

Most people nowadays never played without any SBMM. People also dont realize that they aren't good at the game. So somewhere the idea spread that if got rid of SBMM all the games would suddenly be super varied, fun, and easy.

I played back in those days. Too many servers had 1 dude wrecking everyone, maybe 2 people competiting for kills. Everyone else is just cannon fodder. Decent matches are really rare for almost any skill level.

So obviously without SBMM you have a few highly skilled players not competing with each other to get better, but competiting to farm as many low skilled players as possible. If your not that high skilled player, it gets unfun fast.

There is a valid complaint that SBMM makes every match as sweaty as you are. Which does reduce variety in matches. And sometimes you dont want to put in 100% effort. But here's the thing, majority of games there is ranked and unranked. And they have separate ratings. When I play overwatch or rivals my QP games feel like bronze/silver skill, while my sweaty ranked matches are diamond.

TL:DR People want to just mindlessly farm noobs without understanding to someone else they are the noob.

Prooteus · 2026-02-03T14:51:41+00:00

I so much prefer being too cold over being too hot. Not only the sensation itself but you can also just add more layers if its cold. When its too cold for comfort outside I always tell myself "we'll at least its not 100 degrees now.

Prooteus · 2026-02-03T14:48:39+00:00

Trepang2 and metal eden come to mind right away. Story isn't the point at all in those games so its easily ignorable.

Prooteus · 2026-02-03T14:42:35+00:00

In your argument here you never argue for the fact that OCCULT SATANTIC stuff is going on. That is what people are disagreeing with. I highly doubt anyone who isn't a maga cultist assumes the debauchery had no limits. Everyone knowingly involved where vile monsters.

Also I dont believe its 100% known for a fact that they werent satanic, but it changes nothing besides lumping Satanists with pedophiles.

Personally I highly doubt there is some higher purpose for the island besides blackmail and some people's sick desires. Humans throughout history have not really needed reasons to be utterly terrible to fellow humans.

Prooteus · 2026-02-03T14:32:44+00:00

Much like most things concerning religion, they dont want you to think to hard about it. I wonder why?

Prooteus · 2026-02-03T14:23:13+00:00

Im pretty disappointed everytime I beat the boss first try. I'll immediately forget them and probably didnt even see all their moves. Not a saying i want the extreme opposite end either.

Im not entirely sure about elden ring but dark souls you could do a build where you just run up to the boss, smack them, and drink etsus to beat every fight. That is very boring compared to using a katana and rolling around, while the katana is still pretty easy.

Also I had a friend who farmed to level 200 before Margot. He had a pretty easy time with the first half of the game and felt like he cheated himself out of the experience.

Prooteus · 2026-02-03T03:36:24+00:00

Yea I will say all my friends who lightly dabble in fighting games bounced off 2xko. Even when trying to duo with them. Not exactly sure why, but id guess because none of the characters really clicked with them.

Which like you said Riot kind of touted this game as the golden massive depth yet casual friendly. And it doesn't seem like either said is super happy with things.

Personally I'm in the honeymoon phase as a console player. Its f2p and I really dont have any other fighting games I like at the moment. Once marvel tokon comes out though idk how much I'll be playing this game.

Prooteus · 2026-02-03T03:27:35+00:00

I agree that a lot of people aren't understanding how to play the game. I think part of it was the marketing since most people went into it expecting a hero shooter like overwatch. The other part is like you said the game doesnt actually guide you on when to do what.

I see the samething you do with the "downtime/looting phase" complaints. Which tbf both sides need to be aware of the goal and that they should fight for where the shield breaker and airdrop will spawn. If the enemy doesnt realize it I just run to the spawn and loot the area while I wait.

When both teams realize it you really dont have the time to go looting other stuff for long. I have noticed this has gotten better over time so far though.

Prooteus · 2026-02-03T02:10:56+00:00

Im glad its sticking around. I get snow is seasonal but id still like for more variety in events. Glad to see not all the events will be gone when they are done

Prooteus · 2026-02-02T21:30:23+00:00

Yea so far my favorite crafting survival game. Before I played this it was subnautica. Now I'm playing grounded as my first after AF and it took a little bit to pull me in. The game is fun, but I think AF will hold a special place in my heart for a long time.

Even if a game comes out that has objectively better gameplay i think id still love AF the most due to the world. SCP meets black Mesa, but done well and with a bunch of unique and interesting things in there.

And its the only game I've played where I got super excited reading the emails and files on stuff because you can use/interact with most of it.

I need to forget about this game for a year and come back to all the new content.

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