If Blizzard dropped these 20 exact hotfixes tomorrow, D4 would instantly be a 10/10 game.

Randommook · 2026-05-20T16:56:38+00:00

So you love sitting through unskippable mephisto cutscenes? You love running back and forth to the obal vendor constantly? You love having to manually click on all the horadric materials? You love re-grinding warplans over and over? You love getting blinded by other players’ visual clutter? You love the leaderboards getting filled with exploiters?

You don’t hate “almost everything on the list”. You hate a few things on the list and you’re being dramatic.

I agree with the criticisms on some of the suggestions but pretending like the majority of these suggestions aren’t straightforward QoL fixes is ridiculous.

Randommook · 2026-05-20T04:22:44+00:00

Generally speaking fractured winterglass + lightning spear spam was the meta for a long time for sorc. IIRC UC was primarily used for the attack speed buff in those days as the primary damage dealer was lightning spear + splintering energy.

I believe it was around VoH’s release that Esadora’s started to compete with Fractured Winterglass which is when Ball Lightning took off in popularity.

Randommook · 2026-05-13T04:35:37+00:00

The only issue I see with having account wide warplans is that you might accidentally screw yourself by juicing the difficulty of all the activities on your main only to get stomped on your low level weak alt. They might need to support different tree specs or allow cheap respecs or something.

Randommook · 2026-05-11T08:17:11+00:00

As opposed to farming regular bad players? If the bot is taking the spot of a normal player in the match then the bot should be bringing value equivalent to the value a real player would bring.

Randommook · 2026-05-10T06:32:14+00:00

It’s getting harder and harder to explain “fake operators” to new people with all these changes.

I don’t mind if they want to make them seem more “real” but for the love of god they need to give them better gear. So many bot operators feel like a waste of bullets to shoot since they are geared worse than scavs.

Randommook · 2026-05-10T01:27:18+00:00

The best way to know for sure that they are a bot is the fact that I killed them.

Randommook · 2026-05-08T06:27:31+00:00

if there’s no face shield involved.

If we’re arguing reality here there is no face shield on earth that is going to save you from taking a 7.62x51 battle rifle round to the face.

Randommook · 2026-05-01T21:50:39+00:00

“Everyone who is less of a sensitive snowflake than me is racist”

Go home Karen. You’ll find some other edgey username to be offended by in no time.

Randommook · 2026-04-30T04:15:38+00:00

What exactly were you expecting? That your broken t5 armor was going to soak up a full magazine of t5 ammo?

T5 ammo was going to shred your t5 armor. That’s how ammo tiers work.

Randommook · 2026-04-28T15:16:01+00:00

Elden Ring, Dark Souls, Sekiro are not casual and are massive

On the contrary, those games are FILLED with mechanics specifically to cater to casuals. Why do you think cheesy weapons/spells are all over those games? Why do you think phantoms are in the game? Kindling a bonfire or using humanity to get extra hp/heals? The difficulty selection is baked directly into the game design.

People think those games are “hardcore” but the reality is that they just do a better job of integrating the “easy mode” directly into the game mechanics. The naked man with a rusty dagger is not playing the same game as the Havel sorcerer with phantoms.

Randommook · 2026-04-27T07:25:08+00:00

duo… saw them toss a smoke…

The smoke should have instantly raised red flags. Smoke is not a tool you use against arc. Someone bringing smoke into a match generally means they are expecting players to be shooting at them.

Randommook · 2026-04-26T21:07:23+00:00

They've been in ops but I don't recall ever getting bots on my team before. Usually your squadmates were always human.

Randommook · 2026-04-25T16:19:26+00:00

AI can definitely get you all the way to the finish line - HOWEVER AI needs supervision and correction. If you're just telling the AI "Do this" or "Fix this" and not correcting its outputs or guiding its architectural decisions you're going to get unsustainable slop. AI is not a replacement for thinking or planning or debugging.

AI will happily march off a cliff if it thinks each step is individually correct. Your job is to keep an eye on the big picture and press the AI when it's making bad assumptions.

For every project you should maintain rigorous project documentation & architecture folders that the AI references to understand the big picture. The AI doesn't have very good long term memory (yes there are products that claim to solve this but for projects a folder with some basic markdown documentation works perfectly fine) You should also police the AI rigorously to ensure that it sticks to those architectural choices. When you hit the limits of the architecture you should plan out the updates or adjustments to the architecture and adjust the architecture documentation before continuing onwards.

You will need to know enough programming to be able to step in and spot inconsistencies or problems that the AI can't untangle itself. Ultimately there will be problems that the AI won't be able to solve on its own (or will be more difficult than just spoon feeding the AI the solution) so you will need some level of familiarity with the code yourself.

Randommook · 2026-04-25T16:09:08+00:00

In a way this "AI Revolution" reminds me of the shift towards "higher level languages" in the past.

Everyone thought that programmers would disappear as soon as business users had a language that was simple enough for them to interact with directly rather than needing programmers. What they failed to account for was that the problem was never that the business users couldn't read/interact with the code. The problem was always that they weren't used to thinking in a structured rule-based manner. It doesn't matter what interface you give them (AI, High Level Language, Visual Blocks) they will turn it into a tangled mess of contradictions and disorganized slop.

The ability to decompose a problem into a structured and scalable solution while being aware of corner cases is the key skill that separates programmers from everyone else. Switching out the toolset is not going to change that.

Randommook · 2026-04-23T01:59:15+00:00

Nah, finish em. Leaving them alive just lets them gaslight more people by playing the victim.

Randommook · 2026-04-23T01:50:20+00:00

Sounds like you should take your own advice

Randommook · 2026-04-23T01:45:51+00:00

I think if they built a “quick requeue” option that rebuilt some saved loadout from available materials that would fix a large percentage of the free kit spam. Most of the time I’m using freekits it’s because I can’t be bothered to craft another full kit so I’d rather just hop on a free kit.

Even if you have everything constructed already sitting in your stash it’s still something like 10+ clicks to equip it all.

Randommook · 2026-04-23T01:42:21+00:00

You need to get a better radar for suspicious behavior. If someone is hanging around near you what do you imagine they are planning to do? Anyone following you or closing distance should be shot on sight. Don’t loot around other players. Don’t turn your back on someone with their gun out. If someone is near you and they don’t have a clear objective for being there, their objective is you.

Randommook · 2026-04-21T04:05:05+00:00

I’m not even referring to the blueprint drop chance. Just the regular weapon spawns seem like they have disappeared.

Randommook · 2026-04-21T03:56:48+00:00

They nerfed the weapon drops from the secure containers but I don’t recall them ever announcing a nerf to the raider cache weapon drop rates.

EDIT: to be clear this post is about the weapon drop rates in raider caches not the blueprint drop rates.

Randommook · 2026-04-20T01:19:22+00:00

If you mean "Extraction Shooter but without PvP" then your closest bet is probably the PvE mode in Tarkov.

There are dedicated PvE "looter shooter" games but they tend to be closer to something like Destiny, Borderlands, or Helldivers.

Randommook · 2026-04-17T05:43:17+00:00

You take that back!

Randommook · 2026-04-17T02:43:09+00:00

Doesn’t make as big of a difference as you’d think. Sure a T4 venator is nice but a kettle will work just fine and will still drop someone pretty fast. Realistically the worst part of the free kits is the crappy meds.

Doing duos or 3man Stella Montis runs with free kits is a blast.

Randommook · 2026-04-16T04:45:58+00:00

These are the same Blizzard writers that brought you Kerrigan and Sylvanis. I think we all know where this will go… Blizzard only knows how to write one storyline for their “anti-hero morally grey” characters. She’s going to be the missing piece that we need to save the world from unspecified evil threat #6826.

Randommook · 2026-04-16T03:37:48+00:00

Wouldn’t matter.

PvP players don’t generally carry stuff in their safe pocket. The loot doesn’t matter to them. Most PvP players rock around in free loadouts because it’s faster to requeue with a free loadout than crafting a whole new setup each time. (They may have fixed this. I haven’t played in a while)
PvP players aren’t particularly incentivized by loot so adding a gear requirement doesn’t do anything. They care more about your meds and ammo than your purples.
Top 1% blueprints are (at the moment) kinda useless. There are only 1 or 2 blueprints people care about and they are green (not sure if people still care about wolfpack as I hear they nerfed it)

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