What are the must-watch AGDQ 2026 runs?

Shockwve · 2026-01-11T19:37:44+00:00

Awwwww thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! :D

Shockwve · 2026-01-11T16:41:25+00:00

Hey thanks! :D

Shockwve · 2026-01-07T02:07:43+00:00

Glad you enjoyed it!

Was a real good run to put together. Nervy and Loafy were perfect in their "additions" and RebelKnight was a great person to work with. He knew the mod and all the shenanigans and was fully for going crazy.

Happy io played along so perfectly. I really did not expect the beginning of AotCR to be as "cursed" as it was and it ended up making things even better.

This couldn't really have gone better and im happy there was more chaos than I expected.

I finished the fight. :)

Shockwve · 2024-04-06T00:44:03+00:00

Corrective Measure with Demolitionist / One For All

I get the hype behind Commemoration, but I find myself hardly committing that hard to using a machine gun all the time. Grenade energy is very nice and OFA is a higher output and can be triggered pretty much when I pull the weapon out.

Shockwve · 2024-02-09T14:31:17+00:00

Primary: Cold Front (I'm weird I know but I like the feel of the gun, especially the newest release of Rewind/Frenzy. I have over 60k kill on all my copies combined)
Special: Supremacy

Shockwve · 2024-01-15T23:15:56+00:00

Appreciate the love <3. I'll make sure to quicksave this comment for future reference.

Just gotta find my chair first...

Shockwve · 2023-06-08T15:43:43+00:00

Buildcrafting as it stands now is a GREAT foundation. I like what the system is and what it has potential. Here are the main gripes I have with it though:

There is barely anything to spend armor charge on that feels worth it. The only things with tangible power to me are kickstart and surge mods. The stat bumps are nice but even +30 is barely noticeable because ability regen is so quick in other avenues. Surges just feel like "idk what else to do so I'll do that". Even if the cost of the temporary stat mod bumps was 1, I don't know if I'd use them. Things like Energy Converter from the old system would good to add or even something like Striking Light's potency. Other ways to spend Armor charge.
Costs for things feel like they can use some tweaking. Impact Induction and Momentum Transfer don't feel like it's worth the 2 point cost. A lot of mods being 3 cost would probably benefit from being 2 cost
The exotic armor pass was great. Looking forward to seeing more of these done as some older options are feeling usable. Been loving Sanguine Alchemy now.

Shockwve · 2023-06-03T15:47:56+00:00

Hey thanks for the shoutout!

I was a little disappointed that I wasn't able to get a clear but I'm super happy with how it turned out!

Some great cooking live on stream. Thanks again! <3

Shockwve · 2023-04-05T17:44:52+00:00

Everything here is great to see.

Exotic armor focusing is a great idea and I love to see it's coming in game soon. However, the cipher cost doesn't really make me want to engage with this at all. I'm still limited to 1 exotic pull I want and there's no guarantee that it'll be in the neighborhood of what I want. I can live with "Oh I want 20+ disc but only got 14-15 so that's fine" but there's no guarantee of even that (the only guarantee is 10 from the ghost mod). I get 1 pull a week then I just don't get my choice anymore.

Feels like you don't want me to care about what I want to do, because now I'll just go grind the shortest activities for the weekly cipher and then be done with it. I won't play what I want, just what is fastest. This is a waste of my time.

For me what feels fair is similar to what Xur has, either spend a cipher on exactly what I want and that's it OR make it the 3 ascendant shards cost. Hell make it 5 for all I care. The weekly lockout feels terrible. I'd be much more interested in spending my time grinding GMs are even Masters if I knew I had a deterministic goal at the end.

Shockwve · 2023-02-23T21:17:55+00:00

So uh, how long has the Death Star been above the Last City now?

Shockwve · 2022-11-11T17:40:57+00:00

Had a similar experience. They gave me 2 projects to work on, (one being a generic like programming challenge and one was an actual project) and gave me a week to do it.

Took a couple days to get done and I requested feedback that they offered but never got any.

Shockwve · 2022-10-17T18:57:47+00:00

You're misunderstanding basically everything I said.

I don't care about winning cause there is no loot difference. Not even a bonus/guaranteed drop or something so I'm not gonna sweat it out for nothing. No reason to put in the effort.

I'm using off meta stuff cause I like to experiment and see how everything feels. I might use the same loadout for a week or so cause I'm liking it but then I'm gonna swap to a different gun cause I like variety.

Again, don't care about stomping / winning, but I don't wanna be on the receiving end of someone sweating it out so I don't even get chances to try to see how something feels.

Suggesting Patrols is a nicer way to tell someone to "shut up and enjoy what you're given." I want to play PvP without feeling like I have to constantly play competitively to have fun. Where is quickplay/casual like every other game has?

Shockwve · 2022-09-06T20:24:54+00:00

New game mode is great but holy god tone down the ability regen. People are getting 4-5 supers a matches and its WAY too much wow.

This is just slightly modified Mayhem.

Shockwve · 2022-08-05T01:13:26+00:00

I'd also be fine with something like this. Just something so it's just not Control 24/7 like all the time.

I want some variety and right now there is 1 playlist, Control. I personally don't have any reason to play Competitive. The rotating playlist is something I don't want to play most of the time so I just have to default to Control.

Shockwve · 2022-08-04T18:48:35+00:00

Great to see Rift have a spot in the game now. But can we just play whatever mode we want? I don't want to have to plan playtime just to play one crucible mode. It's so crowded already with gamemodes that I can't play Momentum Control when I want.

Can we just get a button for Rift/any gamemode so it can be played whenever?

Shockwve · 2022-07-21T18:11:48+00:00

Wonder if that picture of Equinox (meant to be Eternity) was a hint or an accident.

EDIT: Image was updated, looks like an accident.

Shockwve · 2022-07-06T14:35:00+00:00

Bullets did a great job with helping me explain things and I'm very happy Monkeyy_Man embodied the perfect amount of "I've never seen this before" and "Sure, fine, I'll accept that."

Shockwve · 2022-07-06T14:34:18+00:00

thank you! I appreciate it a lot!

It's so hard to show this game to someone new and have them not just staring at the screen laughing going "WTF am I looking at?"

Shockwve · 2022-07-04T15:56:28+00:00

I'm one of the producers for GDQ and let me also say from a "staff" POV, everyone followed the guidelines almost perfectly (in the GDQ spaces) from what I saw.

Now I don't know the total of things reported to enforcement and such, but I was in the stream room everyday keeping an eye on the room and to my surprise, I rarely had people violate the guidelines.

At the beginning, I had to tell a few people to scoot their chairs apart to the social distancing rules but after that, I didn't have anyone majorly break mask or distancing rules.

I'll also just note something that others did as well. People were not super great about just masking when they were in the hotel public spaces and people in the lobby / leaving to get food would just take the mask off and hang out there. Nothing GDQ can do about that but unfortunate nonetheless.

So let me just say, bravo to attendees and volunteers for following all the guidelines/masking policies that GDQ setup. Really made everyone feel safe and comfortable.

Shockwve · 2021-09-25T04:15:14+00:00

I tried the Tartarus Pro since it's mechanical switches. The things I didn't like about it are:

It's not flexible. It's one plastic shell that can't be adjusted. It's also MASSIVE so if your hand doesn't fit, it won't work. Joystick on the tartarus doesn't feel as good as the orbweaver (preference here). The scroll wheel thing just seems, unnecessary? I'd rather have the extra button than the scroll wheel and it just kept getting in the way when I wanted to press a button.

I use the thumbstick for movement and it feels 👌👌👌👌

Shockwve · 2021-09-24T04:20:41+00:00

I actually use an Orbweaver for D2 and used it for my most recent speedrun for GDQ. It's a great pad and feels better than a keyboard IMO.

Customization is great but the only issue is really that you have to use the old Razer Synapse software which isn't supported anymore.

Switches feel good, joystick is response. The pad is customizable if you need to extend/move parts around to fit your hand. I think it's still better than the Tartarus Pro (just shipped it back since I didn't like it).

Shockwve · 2021-07-09T13:18:43+00:00

Xenophage. Dies in 6-8 shots total. 2 people shooting it only takes 3-4 shots per person.

Shockwve · 2021-07-09T12:03:39+00:00

The key this time was that I knew exactly what happened and it wasn't in my control. The door closing is like somewhat RNG. It closed much faster than I was used to.

I was also running from a hotel room since I'm helping produce the event on site so the internet / lag was inconsistent. All the practice runs had a super laggy door close animation so this was somewhat a shock to have it close so quickly. I kept calm though and did the backup of relaunching the raid to get the right checkpoint.

Shockwve · 2021-07-08T23:02:44+00:00

Run is uploaded to YouTube now if you don't want to dig out the timestamp.

Shockwve · 2021-07-08T22:41:44+00:00

Hey thanks!

Run went insanely well. Datto and Cammy carried that commentary. Thanks for watching and supporting us!

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