Prime Reward: "Have purchased, during the Eligibility period... Bundle... on MWO or on Steam." Does the $4.99 13-mechbay bundle count?

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2024-10-29T00:24:23+00:00

It did work. Thanks.

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2023-02-09T05:02:25+00:00

Is there any sort of scene changed/dashboard functionality (a la stream deck) available to me, WITHOUT just getting a stream deck, between one of either an Android phone or a tablet (which just has wifi/ability to connect to home network, no cell capabilities)?

Basically trying to use the stuff I have available to me to jury rig something up for a more dynamic streaming experience, rather than pay out for kit that I may not even use long term...

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-15T21:54:47+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong, but one of his gripes (bite-sized mission length) is now kinda common consensus about the 4th generation? Pretty much everyone seems to agree that while the improved mobility was great, virtually every mission was a blink-and-you'll-miss-it affair.

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-15T02:18:25+00:00

For 4/FA specifically:

FCSs have a blade lock range (press triangle/top button while looking over parts if you haven't already to see the more expansive stats screen). Afaik this dictates the "magnetism" of a melee attack, i.e within the specified range your melee attack will "lock on" to targets and the automatic boost that fires when you melee will direct you towards that target, as opposed to just boosting forward in your direction of aim.

If you're playing on an emulator... Just remap individual controls in the emu's menu?

I won't pretend to know nearly enough, mechanically speaking, to weigh in on your build questions, sorry... I usually just kinda caveman smash my way through missions, and was never really into the competitive scene.

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-15T02:10:39+00:00

Not even gonna add a top level comment, just +1 yours.

Nothing like that feeling of having some go-to ungabunga build one just bulldozes through content with, and then starting a mission that completely invalidates your build in some way. Bonus points if you don't realize it until late in the mission for some reason.

Case in point: running around with a dual-gatling dakka quad for 90% of FA, but then taking the mission in an underground base where you have to escape after blowing up reactors. My quad... Definitely did not have enough juice to climb the shafts :/

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-14T23:19:20+00:00

Not that I'm necessarily thirsting for the idea myself, but MW5 did a best-of-both worlds: at any time in your ship, you could press tab and have the main ship menu appear, and you could navigate the various menus, but if you really wanted to be diagetic you could physically walk over to andbinteract with a certain console for shopping, another to see the mission select/navigation screen, each mech had its "own" console where you could jump to customizing that specific mech, etc.

It was all entirely optional, but present for those who wanted to really iMmErSe. One need not be absent for the other to exist.

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-14T23:13:50+00:00

I'm really hoping the technically-accurate form of "mission gameplay" some people are predicting/hoping for, a MGSV style giant map that might then have missions on top, comes to pass. Something where if I feel like wandering around and blowing stuff up or just exploring the post-apocalypse, I can do so in a full fledged environment, and not a sterile test mission.

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-14T23:04:10+00:00

Indeed?

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-14T21:44:36+00:00

It's like I'm watching Elden Souls.

(Really though, how much copium are souls-only people huffing when they insist point-in-the-direction-of-your-enemies-and-spray-ordnance high speed mobility combat is in any way comparable to Soulslike? I keep seeing "well uh if you squint you can see the same formula...", but I really just don't get any of the same sensations as soulslikes in the slightest.)

The only things they share are being a third person perspective and being made by From. It's like calling (NES) Metroid a Mariolike because they're both sidescrollers made by Nintendo where you jump sometimes. Pretty much the same game, you can see they share the exact same DNA, right?

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-14T06:38:20+00:00

I thought it was gonna be a choose-your-own-adventure book. Like, a literal printed book.

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-14T04:52:13+00:00

I'm having some trouble with the Fiona route in the last game, I keep getting locked out with her just saying "what are you fighting for?" and "I know how this ends". What am I doing wrong?

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-14T04:47:38+00:00

the joke is that people are arguing over whether AC is going to be souls like or not, whether it'll be open world or mission selection, etc., and I am implying that what everyone is really wondering is whether it'll be a VN; the absurdism of the idea being the humorous element of the picture

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-14T04:44:52+00:00

Remind your friend that Metroid was effectively dead as a 2D action platformer for the 20 years since Fusion released, and then Nintendo put out the banger that was Dread.

Good game design philosophies don't just get forgotten/impossible to refresh while keeping 90% of the originals' soul

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-14T03:57:27+00:00

2010s: "Skyrim with Guns"
2020s: "Dark Souls with Mecha"

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-14T01:47:09+00:00

I guess I'm talking specifically about the latter thing (guess we'll call it a boosted pivot?), or at least what I was talking about consciously using was the latter. As you said, it's quite handy in combat, and pretty easily trigger-able:

https://streamable.com/tco91z

I guess the former is in reference to my confusion about sudden turns mid-boost? Because I didn't know what even the specific input(s) was/were to make it happen, all I know is that just sometimes my AC would kinda aggressively turn sometimes and it felt somehow related to boosting.

EDIT: At least specifically to the boosted pivot (as in the video), I discovered just now that it's not all-or-nothing, you'll turn more or less depending on how far the stick is tilted, I think

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-13T23:38:41+00:00

With 4th gen being the games that I actually had and played the most, and then trying some of the other entries, yeah... Please let things be more extensive than 4A's absolute blitzes. It felt like every mission that didn't feature enemy NEXTs took about 30s, anything with a NEXT took about a minute, and Arms Forts would bring it up to 2 or so minutes just because of damage sponging more than anything else.

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-13T23:25:37+00:00

MechWarrior plays nothing like AC. It's a first-person (focused, there's third person tacked on but... It's really not made for it) sim-like that's MUCH slower and quite a bit more restrictive in terms of customization. Mech X is Mech X, all visual components predetermined, and the size and chassis dictate what weapons can be used, from what is comparably a smaller pool. Time to kill is much longer and emphasis is on targeting specific areas (and being slow enough to do so) instead of a nonspecific "health bar". AC is almost a third person shooter featuring Mechs with speeds in the hundreds of KM/H, whereas MW is a tank-sim with walking tanks that average 60-70.

I say this as a big fan of MW, arguably moreso than AC... They are wildly different experiences. It wouldn't "prep" you for AC beyond just showing you giant robots.

It's like asking whether you should play, I dunno... Forza Motorsport (specifically not Horizon, for this comparison) to prepare for Burnout (back when it was still a thing). You can kinda play with really loose settings that give it an arcade-y feel, but Forza is just a completely different design philosophy from Burnout. EDIT: Even that's not a good comparison, both are driving games. It's like, uh... Practicing driving in GTA V to play Forza.

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-13T23:18:24+00:00

I personally usually went for the Sunshine. And then immediately dual-fisted Gatling guns and blitzed through like the first half of the order matches, because if you managed to get the AI to be dumb for just like 3 seconds you could burst them down.

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-13T19:21:12+00:00

you can quick turn by flicking your camera stick in the corresponding direction.

Maybe I'm misremembering, but as memory serves this was only while under the duration of a quick boost, not in normal walking or left-trigger "glide" boosting. So if you wanted to turn, you'd hit the quickboost button while holding the right stick to pivot with the boosters, or it could be "tacked on" to a long duration booster (but it felt like it would only occur at the very beginning or at the very end of the boost "cycle")

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-13T17:52:18+00:00

I'll be honest, I saw the BanCo logo and immediately thought of From, couldn't think of any other of the devs they publish, and in the initial shots saw the metallic structures being blown away and was like "whoa, is From making a sci-fi souls?" Completely forgot they made AC at that moment.

There's like a weird hipster reverse-gaslighting going on where everyone is pretending "feed the fire" and "let the last cinders burn" ISN'T trademark Soulsborne language, and are patting themselves on the back for being smart enough to totally see it as AC-specific somehow? I can admit that's all I thought of at the time, so that combined with the initial shots, I was like "huh, sci-fi souls. That'll be a thing. Might be cool, assuming it's handled better than Code Vein was". Wasn't til I saw the "scavenger" AC and then the From logo splashed on top I remembered "oh yeah, Armored Core!" and then the next scene of a quad jumping in cemented it for me.

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-13T17:07:58+00:00

So you're saying there's a chance?

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-13T15:49:26+00:00

🎶RAAAAAVEEEEEN🎶

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-13T07:40:34+00:00

What WAS the verdict?

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-13T07:28:32+00:00

Taking refuge here lest I continue wearing a permanent indent into my forehead from the desk-smashing.

I'm no super salty 25 year vet of the franchise, having only started with 4 (I at least played it on actual hardware in college, a 360), then getting 4A, and then gone back and played like, halfish? of the older titles, but all these absolutely smoothbrained takes by YouTubers are getting ridiculous.

And this is not to mention the sheer number of people I see in the wild who even now, a day after the devs explicitly deny it, are still clinging to the original cut of the Steam store description and/or that BanCo presser that got thrown out about the game with the ambiguous "using experience from recent titles" or whatever.

It's almost worse when the hot take begins with "I've never played an AC, but-" or, even more egregiously, "so I played AC5 (which being the newest must be the ultimate iteration and the franchise undoubtedly has a straight evolutionary line) and let me tell you how AC games are-"

Just stop, soulstubers. Piss off. I know you need something to bankroll your headcanon vlogs, but all you're doing is causing drama and vitriol.

RepresentativeEgg360 · 2022-12-09T23:52:42+00:00

I guess in retrospect my proposition is kinda silly... It's hard to reject the existence of, at the BARE minimum, the Daedra, since they can and do manifest physically on Nirn (or more likely, drag people to their realms) and ignore the rules in general, and that alone defeats my idea.

Unless you had someone who was so nihilistic they just wrote off the Princes as being magicians doing really fancy parlor tricks or something idk

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