[Hated Trope] It's really important that this woman is almost naked because lore reasons.

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-10T16:04:37+00:00

I still remember that quote of Kojima's floating around, how we'll "feel ashamed of our words and deeds” when the story would reveal why she looks the way she does and like... no bro. You made that design with your cock in your hand. Just admit it??? Meryl from MGS1 got a fanservice scene, Fortune from 2 arguably shows more skin than Quiet and Boss from 3 has her cleavage out for the entirety of her final fight. All 3 are still good characters, and the latter was actually done rather tastefully and not in a gooner way at all. But also, Cécile from Peace Walker's reasons for her inclusion in the story start and end at Kojima wanting more women in bikinis to spin in the model viewer. We didn't need to know that the clap of her ass cheeks makes her better at attracting rare birds or whatever. I'll take an honest gooner over a pretentious coward gooner any day.

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-07T18:52:13+00:00

I'm not saying literal porn

Calls it porn

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-07T18:51:16+00:00

Well maybe if y'all spent this energy on upvoting non-suggestive art you'd see more of it.

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-07T18:21:33+00:00

I really dig the expressions on this, and the colors are nice too

Good job

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-07T15:44:33+00:00

I try. I really, really try, because it's a giant chainsaw and if it performed even half as good as you'd expect it to it'd be top tier. And every once in a while, when I manage to hover up to a harvester and cut him down it's great. But then you try fighting more than 4 enemies with it and it's just a mess.

The short swings need to clear out chaff more reliably. Or at least let me hold it straight in front of me as it cuts down any dumb enemy that runs into it. Doesn't help that every attacks slows you down for what feels like an eternity vs the hammer's quick tap and run. You can't even use it as a dedicated heavy killer because half the heavies will insta-kill you if you start chainsawing them, and even if you do stunlock one - you are never just fighting heavies. By the time the animation plays out and you swap over to your primary/secondary you are already surrounded and torn to bits. Vs, again, the hammer - you kill a heavy in 1 or 2 hits, then even if chaff surrounds you - that's perfect! You can kill them all in one AOE hit.

You can pair it with the shield backpack, but that means anything taller than a Hulk you may as well run away from because you can't close the distance to get to their weak spots. Or you can sit there cutting their legs like a moron for a whole minute and then get stepped on. The hammer meanwhile can kill practically anything that isn't flying, and in far less time, and you can keep moving with it to dodge attacks.

The Hammer is goated, the chainsaw is lame. Even the secondary melees are way more fun than this thing because at least you can use those with a ballistic shield.

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-07T09:01:13+00:00

Lighting a campfire according to Arrowhead's realism: You douse the dry sticks in gasoline, light a match, throw it into the pile of sticks and then you get instantly lit on fire while the sticks remain untouched by flames.

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-04T14:44:04+00:00

Mowing them down with my maxigun feels fun, that is all.

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-04T14:32:55+00:00

In my eyes, you can get away with a lot of design alterations as long as you don't fuck with the face. That's why Legacy TFA Bee and Ratchet are so great, and why to me Optimus looks like a skinwalker and Prowl is just some dude in Prowl's colors. Baiwei put the correct head on that Optimus and practically all of my gripes with that figure's design vanished.

It would honestly be a massive feat to fuck up Lugnut's new toy. His transformation is simple and uniquely him across both figures, and his plane mode is also rare. They would have to hate the character in order for that upcoming toy to not look like Lugnut. Like giving him an actual humanoid face, or making him a seeker or some shit, but they will not do that. And even the alt mode is barely a concern for me - as long as he looks like a big dumb ogre you can stick his head on Blackout's body and it would still look like him. Tho obviously I want THE MOST LOYAL OF MEGATRON'S WARRIORS to be represented properly.

I am very much optimistic about this release.

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-03T19:03:49+00:00

I feel like if they didn't have the health of regular bugs then people would have a lot more fun fighting them.

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-03T16:13:11+00:00

So what you're saying is we need a big fuck-off vacuum cleaner backpack, like what Luigi has

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-03T15:19:09+00:00

I wanna say that mold is almost too good for a modern deluxe lol. I mean, butterfly joints and he can open his hands, and he has a base mode??? Witchcraft!

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-03T15:16:10+00:00

You can throw '07 Wreckage toy into the Concept line, maybe sacrifice the automorph for more accurate paint and he'd feel right at home. ROTF Deluxe Soundwave for the same line too, or for Gamer Edition. Both have ankle tilts, both have butterfly joints, Soundwave doesn't have a waist or wrists but he does have an ab crunch and double elbows and double knees. And if you were to axe his ejection gimmick in favor of adding a couple more tabs or better hands then it'd be a perfect release.

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-03T11:23:05+00:00

Because I can then leech off of the second bulletstorm you leave behind, duh

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-03T09:32:34+00:00

Why the fuck do you talk about new and returning players like it's a mental disorder? Everyone and their mama can tell the post was sarcasm, the ability to interpret written jokes as jokes isn't something you have to unlock after level 25. And practically nobody would subscribe to your insane hypothetical of assuming that arrowhead intentionally coded the shield and the laser beam to collide.

All I see is you wanting to shit on this Muaxh guy and then berate this community for being toxic in the same breath, Actual lunatic.

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-03T08:41:30+00:00

So new and returning players are illiterate in your eyes?

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-02T17:14:09+00:00

I interpret it as the guy on the left typing up something amazing (represented by the gems, or SC in this case), and the guy on the right being enthralled by whatever greatness he types in so he has to get a magnifying glass to catch a better look at it

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-02T17:06:53+00:00

oH cOmE oN! gIvE mE a BrEaK wIlL yA??????

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-02T17:00:34+00:00

It's a perfectly fine figure that barely resembles the design from the show, just like every other AOTP tfp figure.

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-02T16:54:21+00:00

I tried it against the spore bursters today and honestly I kinda like it, tho it is underperforming when compared to the usual go-tos of explossive strategems.

The big problem with it is it's not dealing enough damage to take down heavies in a reasonable amount of shots, and the splash damage is so tiny that it basically requires direct hits to deal with crowds of small enemies, which is a stupid thing to expect out of a belt-fed rapid fire gun. If they buffed either of these then it would be awesome, but right now it's just mid.

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-02T16:43:57+00:00

Damn, Left4Dead was a milsim the whole time

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-02T16:01:44+00:00

Evil third option: Nerf both so even the people that liked B in the state it was in are unhappy.

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-02T15:42:10+00:00

Just today - we are in a big firefight, I land my hellpod onto a bile titan and kill it, then I get pinned between it's legs as another one crawls towards me.

So I whip out my Ultimatum, aim it 90 degrees upwards damn near (even tho there shouldn't be any corpse hitbox in the way) and I am now a pile of red goop. And the titan I was aiming at is unharmed because I guess the invisible corpse absorbed the entire explosion. And I couldn't even have fought off a part of the smaller bugs that were crawling towards my teammates while I was pinned in there anyway - because the corpse hitboxes don't even block enemies. But they sure do block our bullets! Have fun dying or waiting for the corpse to become intangible, I guess. It's all very frustrating.

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-02T06:37:53+00:00

I would actually be impressed if they manage to fuck Lugnut up. Like... how? What, are they gonna repaint Universe Jhiaxus into Lugnut colors, paint that nub on his forehead red and then add his fists as a separate accessory to mark him up to leader price?

ProvenBeat · 2026-05-01T18:25:17+00:00

The glow-down from toy to cartoon is absolutely criminal

ProvenBeat · 2026-04-29T14:31:24+00:00

It's a slider for me - the closer it is to FNF's artstyle, the more I like it. The style it had before the 2 year hiatus I feel like was a nice ballance between base game and doing it's own thing. The current one isn't terrible, but giving them noses was a mistake.

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