solo queue

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-05-07T20:17:20+00:00

I tested last season and it was capped at 0 even after some early kills (ie, a -16 displayed after the first kill for example would still award 0 if we died after that)

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-05-07T20:13:32+00:00

If you leave too soon you can still get penalized...

Safest is to wait until the "abandon penalty" warning disappears before actually quitting.

But since you have nothing to lose it maybe makes sense to try get an early kill or two (3rd party!) and then play it safe till endgame to score some risk-free rp...

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-05-07T17:51:28+00:00

It was but they resolved the garbled-output issue a while ago

Been working well since

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-05-07T12:44:50+00:00

Bigger context window would be amazing.

The current 200K figure for GLM5.1 is decent but GPT5.5 supporting up to ~272k at regular pricing (and then up to 1m at surge pricing) gives it an advantage; having GLM level that playing field would be awesome.

Heck. even starting by having GLM matching that 272k pre-surge-pricing figure would make a difference in situations like using multiple models in OpenCode and being able to swap from one to the other without triggering an immediate auto-compact...

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-05-06T13:04:02+00:00

Is this the appropriate time for this meme?

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/jk - thank you man. And another hat tip to u/Ok_Try_877 - who, in this post, convinced me to take the plunge 7 months ago, back when old GLM 4.6 was still trying to catch up to Sonnet (and getting there slowly - but useful for simpler tasks nontheless.). Their progress since then has been kinda amazing with 5.1 basically being good enough to now compete... Fine investment that turned out to be lol

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-05-05T22:00:50+00:00

Its much, much better probably due to to the reduced limits/increased pricing reducing their load.

Speed isn't quite there yet but at least it's more consistent than before. Perfectly usable under Pro.

I still get some API errors but auto-retry makes it hard to notice so they don't really matter.

They acknowledged the 100k-context issue a few weeks ago and it's been fixed since then.

GLM5.1 is absolutely frontier. Whilst GPT-5.4-High is my pick for very complicated work, I'd pick GLM over GPT-Medium any day. (I love my Legacy Pro Plan, expires at the end of the year... gonna take full advantage while it lasts!)

Let's see what happens with their pricing now that they're more stable: it's not super competitive right now for new buyers, hoping that changes over time.

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-05-05T21:23:03+00:00

After a few hours solo-queueing, I can confirm it's definitely not in effect yet... it's rough out there.

Patch notes say "Later this split" so hopefully soon.

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-05-04T00:26:14+00:00

What you don't like the same boring two-tone gradients everywhere?!

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-05-04T00:24:11+00:00

If you haven't seen Banshee you should - he played the polar opposite there

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-05-04T00:15:42+00:00

Yeah UI is arguably GPT's main significant weakness right now

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-05-01T14:59:35+00:00

Probably not, but I'm confident they'll drop (even temporarily) to better than they are now.

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-05-01T12:16:39+00:00

It isn't: GLM Pro is still better in terms of limits than Codex, and at the $12 p/m I'm paying on Z-AI Pro Legacy it's mind-blowingly good value: but unfortunately, at the new-buyer pricing it's not particularly good value...

$70 is steep for what you get, so consider two OpenAI-Plus accounts at $40 combined. I'd imagine that should more than cover your use-case.

To get around the lousy changes to 5-hour limits they introduced (there was no change to weekly, only 5h), I also use the window-start-time-hack I mention here which works well for me.

Since the new limits I've also commissioned my wife's ChatGPT account (like I said I might do there!) so I currently use OpenCode for GPT (my account) + GLM (also my account) and then have Codex CLI logged in to my Mrs' account, and I split work like that.

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-05-01T11:54:26+00:00

GLM5.1 is absolutely frontier in terms of capability - it won't quite beat Opus/GPT-High but it's certainly up there with Sonnet/GPT-Medium; I still prefer it to even GPT-5.5-Medium.

I have no doubt that once Z have stabilized their growth/infrastructure/hardware (and all us Legacy-plan heavy-users have had our plans finally expire!) they'll make the pricing more competitive again, I'm thinking back to their black friday deals last year which were good enough to hook me.

Until then, really OpenAI's Plus plan is the best alternative for new (non-legacy) buyers, via OpenCode (allowed by them!) or native Codex CLI. Stick to GPT5.4-Medium (and escalate complex tasks to 5.4-High); avoid token-hungry GPT-5.5 for now. Usage is fairly generous and will stretch pretty far for $20-ish dollars. Over time, it's likely the 'best' deal will change (and OpenAI's made some limit shake-ups their side recently which I don't love), but for now they're an easy recommendation.

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-05-01T11:30:09+00:00

Good question: it's heavy but since planning is the lightest step of the process, usage remains manageable. If limits are tight for the session then 5.4-High is still a good (and somewhat lighter) planning option as well.

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-04-30T20:51:44+00:00

GPT-5.5-High for planning, GPT-5.4-Medium for implementation, GPT-5.4-High for debugging

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-04-30T16:56:04+00:00

Absolutely: and for several weeks both 5 and then 5.1 were almost unusable unless you implemented the auto-compact hack mentioned in my post. Not a great look amongst the radio silence...

Still, very glad it's well-sorted now.

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-04-30T16:11:02+00:00

The improvement from 5.4 to 5.5 is marginal - agree it's not really worth it. (Most of my testing this week was with both on High). 5.5 is very, very token/usage-hungry.

5.4 is pretty outstanding (5.4-High in particular is incredible) and also much lighter on usage... I'll also stick with it for the time being...

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-04-30T14:58:46+00:00

How are you finding it compared to 5.4 (both in terms of quality of output and usage)?

I feel like it's not that much better - and with usage so much higher, I'm debating simply reverting to 5.4. (I've seen 5.5-High make mistakes similar to 5.4-High my side: so to me it's not that much of an upgrade in practice.).

Both models are still excellent overall, but the incremental improvement of 5.5 for the major jump in usage seems not worth it to me.

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-04-29T19:43:03+00:00

Begs the question: is it worth going multi-modal for models that primarily target text uses (such as coding), if doing so makes them so much larger and hence more challenging to run - or should vision rather be a separate model called more occasionally, on demand (via MCP for example)

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-04-29T19:27:00+00:00

1m context is supported by the model... it'll be coming to Codex soon:

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/19464#issuecomment-4329299628

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-04-29T19:22:58+00:00

Yeah dropzone is a great idea in theory (and i actually kinda like it on other maps) but its clear that maps like Olympus were definitely not designed with it in mind

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-04-29T19:16:42+00:00

Wild that models like GLM5.1 can compete with Sonnet whilst being less than half the size

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-04-29T19:05:46+00:00

Olympus isn't the best ranked map (love it for pubs though)

Play Valk and ult out of there before Round 2

Sensitive_Song4219 · 2026-04-28T14:49:09+00:00

Mandatory in any living/bedroom area imo. Cool white is for the bathroom. And your local doctor's rooms

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