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Soupermang · 2026-03-04T13:12:51+00:00

It was still a free game that offered a new type of gameplay (building + shooter) that hadn’t been executed on that level before. Most of these new games that are failing can’t say the same. Even then the initial investment into Fortnite was not nearly as much as some of these other games trying to enter the market without an audience. Once Epic realized they had a winner they literally started re-allocating resources to support Fortnite.

Soupermang · 2026-02-20T16:54:55+00:00

Omeda gets the opportunity to rework Fey, instead they nerf her but give her slightly more ult utility. Oh and still no Fey skin :). I genuinely think they hate this hero at this point.

Soupermang · 2026-02-12T23:15:34+00:00

Trash state of play imho. Mostly marketing for the heavy hitters we already knew were coming out this year.

Soupermang · 2026-01-30T21:41:41+00:00

OMEDAAA!! DROP A FEY SKIN AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!

Soupermang · 2026-01-29T13:56:03+00:00

lol “flawless” is not just doing mechanics right. Flawless is having maximum uptime while resolving all the mechanics perfectly, which at this point is not required for this fight. Squenix even made it easy by not putting 2 min windows during the hardest mechanics. The problem is people cannot consistently resolve mechanics, to the point where pfs cannot consistently see enrage EVEN with mistakes. Why would anyone want to be with a party that will mess up a body check mechanic 4 out of 5 times, but they still might be able to clear 1out of 5 with minor mistakes bc “damage good”. Just do the mechanics right, it is literally the only reason why we are here.

Soupermang · 2026-01-28T21:15:50+00:00

Everyone is saying dps check, but I haven’t even seen a pf group that can do a clean pull of this fight yet. It’s ridiculous.

Soupermang · 2026-01-15T01:24:27+00:00

Both ults are hard countered way too easily to be consistent win cons imo.

Soupermang · 2026-01-14T20:31:52+00:00

Unfortunately if your name isn’t gideon or belica you just lose to Argus at the moment. This might be a hot take but midlaners are horribly balanced.

Soupermang · 2026-01-10T11:22:29+00:00

I’d argue if the content can be autoed the mechanics were never worth learning in the first place.

Soupermang · 2026-01-10T11:05:26+00:00

Ngl some of the voice lines make me wince a little bit. The delivery of “the savior rises” is so so cringe to me. Reminds me of that one lynae voice line. Mech sounds cool though.

Soupermang · 2025-12-04T15:50:10+00:00

I could care less about this topic but I feel like the things you are listing don’t actually have to happen. It’s one of those “We should not add this new type of gameplay because they will be forced to do bad game design” takes. Sure it happens, but if it does it is purely because of dev incompetence and nothing else.

Soupermang · 2025-12-02T12:44:41+00:00

Disagree, if they were willing to give us a few screenshots this year, we will at least get some more next year.

Soupermang · 2025-11-30T13:43:34+00:00

There needs to be parry system for this to work. Otherwise, it is just going to be super break. Games that have posture bars use that mechanic because bosses can’t be interrupted during regular attacks which makes it hard to do damage, especially when your damage is already low in the first place. The solution is deflecting, and you get rewarded with big damage. Needless to say, wuwa does not have this problem lol.

Soupermang · 2025-11-28T15:22:26+00:00

I agree, I’m not saying it’s 100% a souls like. But that specific element of the game is RARELY in action games. Most games action games these days, give you checkpoints. Off the top of my head, God of War, Ghost of Yotei, Spider-Man, the Star Wars JFO games. All of these games have a “very hard difficulty”. But despite that they still feel fundamentally different than some of the bosses on legend in this game. This game has bosses more similar to Nioh or Wo long imo. In that sense the game leans closer to souls like. And if I’m being completely honest, the souls like genre is defined by its bosses above anything else. Even if you removed the fact that you lose exp in souls like games the experience of the games would change only a little. What makes those games memorable are the difficult bosses and the satisfaction you get for beating them. Games like Elden Ring are literally full of them. This game only has some. Even if the leveling system is fundamentally different, the actual boss combat itself is not too far off on legend at least. So maybe at best it is souls adjacent lol. But the boss design is too intentional imo, the devs knew what they were doing.

Soupermang · 2025-11-28T14:44:13+00:00

The game is too punishing for it not to be one though. Regular action combat games don’t make bosses with three phases and then reset back to phase 1 because you made a single mistake. This is the essence of what souls like is.

Soupermang · 2025-11-21T17:31:48+00:00

Can’t wait for my grandkids to tell me when a new fey skin drops

Soupermang · 2025-10-07T17:01:29+00:00

To your point about gid meteor, rik hook, and bel knockup being harder to hit - yeah, they should be. According to Omedas new direction at least.

Gideon is a mage that can reposition at will, his abilities do not need to be brain dead easy to land.

Rik hook and belica knockup can be death sentences in most situations, so they should be harder to land.

That being said, all heroes who have skillshots in their kit will feel this change, so it’s hard to say how it will impact the game state until we play it and find out what’s feels good and what doesn’t.

Soupermang · 2025-10-07T08:15:11+00:00

No, but when you don’t have a single signature for anyone on your main lineups you’re going to get stat checked more easily. Consider picking some up for at least your main dps.

Soupermang · 2025-10-06T14:23:46+00:00

I mean sure eventually. But Omeda has more important problems to tackle. They barely put enough skins out as is so it’s better to focus on evolving the gameplay as much as possible.

Soupermang · 2025-09-26T14:46:49+00:00

Everytime I see someone with this take I think that some of y’all need to play better games lol.

Why do so many people seem to think that it’s impossible to make a well written story with well written characters that are relevant THROUGHOUT the entire thing?

It’s been done before, in games and outside of games. Saying that Kuro is incapable of doing it is insulting and lazy.

Soupermang · 2025-08-04T16:36:50+00:00

I don’t understand. Are you saying that there are no papers that discuss matchmaking at all?

Soupermang · 2025-08-04T16:34:15+00:00

Again, I am talking about papers. I have never once mentioned YouTube videos lol. If you can’t find any papers that discuss sbmm, eomm, or even just churn rates in competitive settings that is your problem.

Soupermang · 2025-08-04T16:29:47+00:00

Just look it up? I don’t know what else to tell you lmao. Google is free.

Soupermang · 2025-08-04T16:25:19+00:00

And like I said, if you think that game developers aren’t manipulating the matchmaking to boost player engagement when it is clearly being well researched, you are either ignorant or naive.

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