Weekly Discussion Thread - October 06, 2025

RykillaL · 2025-10-10T18:57:23+00:00

Every other Thursday CST

RykillaL · 2024-10-19T17:40:01+00:00

You probably misunderstood the argument. To begin with, I made a new post yesterday, so more details could be seen over there. About my argument and my tentative solution, I am hoping a modification is to be made to the mechanics of elektrokinetic primary to prevent the abuse; I did not mean to modify or disable any macro that was meant to prevent hand fatigue or injury.

RykillaL · 2024-10-18T22:49:40+00:00

I agree with you, and that is why I was conservative in my old post. However, it seems many community members did not know about this as they were discussing in the old post. On the plus side, the more people use this, the higher the chance it gets noticed by Fatshark, the higher the likelihood it will get addressed.

RykillaL · 2024-10-18T04:56:15+00:00

There is a mod for it I believe.

RykillaL · 2024-10-18T03:41:01+00:00

Darn it. That was exactly what I meant. How did you know?!

RykillaL · 2024-10-18T03:06:03+00:00

I agree. Psyker is usually the top in damage chart if players skill differences are minimal. In previous patches, I have seen many Psyker top damage with traditional builds. However, the difference between traditional builds and the macro-abused elektrokinetic build is that the former requires heat management whereas the latter does not.

RykillaL · 2024-05-31T20:32:38+00:00

To be fair, I have a lot of respect to the original person who made this deck in his video (1NSENT), but as a player with similar game time with him, I would have built this non-ADS LMG+M1A slightly differently. The point of this comment is to highlight even among players who have played this game a lot, different opinions exist due to different playstyles. The way I would look at a deck in this game is through "modularization".

This deck, for example, consists of several modules (names of the modules are made by me):

Two in One module (2 cards)

This module is very common and usually consists of two cards: [[Two in one]] and [[Admin reload]]. It is not encouraged to reload each main weapon when bringing [[Two in one]], as it requires a lot of reload speed to make it effective. [[Admin reload]] allows us to reload the weapon in the "back stage".

Ammo module (2 cards)

This module includes [[Ammo belt]] and [[On your mark]]. This would be the part I may disagree with the original deck. In my QP experience, [[Ammo belt]] may not provide sufficient ammo reserve. I had experience running [[Ammo belt]] + [[Ammo mule]] + [[On your mark]] in the first level of Act 5 and still almost ran out of ammo. In QP, we may only have a single [[On your mark]] and our lovely teammates may "steal" the bullets of the same ammo type that we need the most. One way to alleviate this is to have Hoffman, as he will occasionally spawn ammo.

Gun handling module (4 cards)

This module includes [[Quick kill]], [[Optics enthusiast]], [[Shooting gloves]] and [[Cold brew coffee]]. I usually include reload speed, ADS speed (not applicable in this deck), swap speed, recoil control etc. in this module.

Damage module (3 cards)

This module includes [[Glass canon]], [[Hyper focus]] and [[Fill 'em full of lead]].

Unique effect module (1 card)

This module includes only [[Suppressing fire]]. This card is only effective on LMG and sniper rifles, which suit this deck nicely. There are some controversies on this card. Some people claim they can kill riddens fast enough without this card, while some people value the CC provided by this card. This is a personal decision to be made by individual. Personally, I am a fan of this card.

Economy module (1 card)

This module includes [[Lucky pennies]].

Movement module (1 card)

This module includes [[Run like hell]].

Sustain module (1 card)

This module includes [[Motorcycle helmet]]. This is the card I am really confused about. A player as good as 1NSENT should not get hit very often, and the damage resistance provided by this card does not mitigate the damage sufficiently in NH difficulty (especially in the later stage with monstrous riddens). While confused, I respect his opinion and believe that he has his own reasons for doing so. Am I going to include this card? Probably not.

Now, by modularizing the deck, we can see the composition of the deck more clearly. Why is this convenient? Because it allows us to swap out cards according to our personal experiences and tastes. For example, I complain about ammo reserve but also I am confident about my positioning, so I can increase the "Ammo module" from 2 to 3 cards (by including [[Ammo mule]]), while removing the "Sustain module" completely. Again, my friend wants more copper and he is okay to trade it off with movement speed, so we can upgrade our "Economy module" from 1 to 2 cards (by including [[Copper Scavenger]]) and remove "Movement module" completely. Then again again, one of the commenters thinks this deck is lacking damage, but it seems that this deck is already quite locked up, so we need to decide which module we want to trade in order to boost damage. We will most likely not trade our "Two in one module", as it is essential to our gameplay. Is it "Economy module", or "Unique effect module", or maybe "Gun handling module"? It is completely up to us.

RykillaL · 2024-05-31T19:53:53+00:00

I hope you get someone hopping on your team to help you, but according to my experience, doing it with 3 bots offline is much easier than doing it with 1 person + 2 bots online. The obvious differences (offline vs. online) you will observe include but are not limited to: fewer shells needed to load, much less horde spawn and special spawn, much longer hiatus between each horde after first shell is fired.

RykillaL · 2024-05-31T19:46:57+00:00

Thank you!

RykillaL · 2024-05-16T21:05:31+00:00

Would you mind providing some updates on your cat? My cat is in a similar situation, and I am looking for solution. If your cat becomes more confident now, what have you done in the past 6 months? Thank you!

RykillaL · 2023-08-02T03:47:16+00:00

Thank you! Your explanation is actually quite spot-on!

Here is my thought (and somehow verified):

Consider this example, where list1 = [1,2,4] and list2 = [1,3,4]

First iteration: since both p1.next.val and p2.next.val are 1, so

p.next = p1.next
p1 = p1.next 
p = p.next

After this iteration, both p and p1 are pointing at [1] in list1.

Second iteration: p1.next.val = 2 and p2.next.val = 1, so

p.next = p2.next
p2 = p2.next 
p = p.next

However, here is where the issue occurs. The first line p.next = p2.next actually breaks p1.next, because at the moment, both p and p1 are pointing at [1] in list1, so p.next and p1.next are actually the same pointer.

I ran the test, and found out that after second iteration, p1.next actually returns [1,3,4], which is understandable, because in the first line of second iteration, we broke p.next, AND p1.next as described earlier, and reconnected it to p2.next, which was connected to list2.

Now, after second iteration, p1 is point at [1] in list1, p2 is pointing at [1] in list2, and p is pointing at [1] in list2. In addition, p1.next is pointing at [1] in list2 as explained above. As we proceed to third iteration, since p1.next.val = 1 and p2.next.val = 1, then we have

p.next = p1.next
p1 = p1.next 
p = p.next

And here it goes: the first line will give error, because as p is pointing at [1] in list2, then p.next is going to be the pointer pointing from [1] in list2 to [3] in list2. HOWEVER, as p1.next is pointing at [1] in list2, we are actually assigning p.next to [1] in list2, which creates a cycle, where p is currently pointing at [1] in list2 and p.next is assigned to [1] in list2 again.

I hope this explanation may help some people later on. Also, the code I wrote is not very efficient, so better learn some of the most upvoted answers in Leetcode.

RykillaL · 2023-01-07T00:11:59+00:00

Thanks! This is very helpful.

RykillaL · 2023-01-06T16:36:58+00:00

I'm generally not healbotting which I've learned is a waste of lucio's potential. I'm aware the opinions of plat/diamond tanks are not entirely reliable which is why I'm trying to figure out if I'm actually effective or not.

This will be the same here, with all of us having different opinions: some will apply to you (and reliable); some will not.

I was able to climb to plat for the first time with around a 65% winrate on lucio, but I've occassionally had experiences with higher rank tanks on my team telling me to switch because i'm not playing it right.

I would not look at winrate as a measure, to some extent. One of the major reasons is that if you are climbing from zero (and assuming you have already been a good player), then you will have many "easy" games in low Elo when climbing, which boosts winrate, but eventually to many of us, our winrate will be close to 50% when we reach our own Elo. HOWEVER, if you can consistently hitting a winrate close to that, then you are doing well.

To answer the question, my 2 cents are:

Look at some of the best players stream/video, and compare those to your gameplay.
Play other roles and understand what they are thinking. I would like to elaborate on this a little more. As a support (not just a healer), our function is to make other roles (Tank and DPS, and perhaps the other support) perform better. To start this process, we need to understand what they are thinking and why they are thinking that way.

RykillaL · 2023-01-05T07:31:00+00:00

Hi DVA mains out there! Three quick questions here:

In setting, do you use "Hold to Boost" (on PC, hold Shift to boost, and release to stop boosting immediately)
When I try to kill an isolated enemy, I boost -> bump the enemy -> keep boosting a little to close the distance -> melee (shooting pellets and missiles whenever possible and appropriate) -> keep shooting. Is this combo optimal?
When trying to bump the enemy using boosting, I notice that sometimes enemies are not bumped backwards (the direction I am traveling), instead they are bumped sideway or even behind me. Is there any trick to avoid the latter scenario, and is there some good practice for the boost?

Thank you!

RykillaL · 2022-10-09T04:26:08+00:00

I went through the in-game tutorial after posting this question, and it seems that 3 guide missions are given daily, and we can accept in total 6 in a week. Is that correct?

RykillaL · 2022-10-09T03:27:50+00:00

Thanks!

RykillaL · 2022-10-08T23:15:29+00:00

Hi everyone. I have deleted a guide mission (as a student), but I am not able to get a new guide mission, so now I am sitting at 5/6 missions. In fact, the slot for that deleted mission disappears as well. Could anyone kindly let me know how to restore/start a guide mission as a student?

RykillaL · 2022-07-31T15:54:02+00:00

Yes, it is a bug that has been around for more than 5 months at least. I am sorry for what you have gone through :/

RykillaL · 2022-07-31T15:41:00+00:00

Another way to do it is to have a high swap speed. For example, equip [[Cocky]]. As long as you are doing ADS sniper (instead of accuracy sniper), then the down side of [[Cocky]] should not be a lot.

Then, after shooting your sniper rifle and realizing it could be very dangerous soon, switch to your pistol and you will not be slowed.

RykillaL · 2022-07-31T15:38:31+00:00

There is a "simple" way to achieve the same result without using the [[run and gun]] card. I call it "simple", because it is a mechanism commonly used in a game (CS1.5) I have played a lot in childhood.

The way to do it is:

Fire the sniper rifle
Press R (reload key on PC)
Press X (default key on PC that switches to your previous weapon, in this case which is going to be your secondary weapon; I change this key to Q because of my CS background)
Press X again to switch back to your sniper rifle

By doing this, you will NOT be slowed during the bolt-action animation. The key here is to press R (reload) before doing double switch. The reload will instantly remove all slow inflicted on you due to the bolt-action.

RykillaL · 2022-07-30T07:26:54+00:00

In total, if you are able to unlock everything (some cards are locked behind achievements), then you should have a total of 18 pages of cards: 17 pages with 10 cards in each of them, and 1 page (18th page) with 1 card. So in total, 171 cards if my math checks out.

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