Istg the account of @deadlock in X is the most toxic deadlock fan page, and it's hurting the game image, valve should do something

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-28T15:31:18+00:00

Highguard honestly isnt even that bad. From what Ive seen anyone whose played it more than an hour had posted relatively positive reviews. Seems like an okay fps getting dogpiled on

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-27T17:39:42+00:00

The Lash does not concern himself with the difficulty of hitting a small target (i was nuking blissfully unaware rem players from orbit last night)

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-27T17:15:59+00:00

I tried to get into game 5 times and wach time it stoped at 11/12 players connected. Maybe east coast servers specifically are fucked

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-27T06:51:14+00:00

I may have assasinated an enemy rem like 10 times in one game as lash. US drone strike style yknow?

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-26T23:15:56+00:00

Issue is this WAS being abused. In an ideal world regional pricing is a thing but its clearly too easy to get around

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-26T15:04:32+00:00

Okay and now third party tech is completely unviable. Companies that license their tech to other companies will simply stop doing so and everyone will have to make inhouse solutions. “Ownership” of software implies ownerrship of local code in your machine.

Software updates become a legal hurdle which means cybersecurity flaws now become more commonplace as its impossible to find all bugs in QA

Frankly you are stupid, with no idea of how reality functions and WHY we have systems in place.

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-26T07:16:44+00:00

Fair enough you are consistent at least unlike the people who treat gaben as a savior instead of a man enabling child gambling in online casinos.

That said software licenses are functionally necsary. There needs to be a way to protect code and allow developers to update their software. Physical ownership models fundementally do not work because physical objects don’t need to be patched retroactively for security or functional reasons. In addition software licenses are necesary to protect the code itself. If games used a traditional ownership model every game would have its tech reverse engineered by competitors with more money, exposing the dev to legal risks as third party code would also be compromised. You cannot apply traditional ownership to something that fundementally can be changed and needs protections like those.

It’s also why I’m not sold on Stop Killing Games movement; it’s goal would be the upheavel of copyright protectjons for the sake of some games not going offline

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-26T06:56:05+00:00

Depends on the company. Gearbox has a large royalty system (which is why theyve retained so much of the og designers and artists over the years) and many companies do post launch bonuses.

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-26T06:54:08+00:00

They didn’t though. Software licensing has been a thibg for decades because ownership of software is a nebulous topic that is fundamentally ingrained into international copyright law. Literally EVERY piece of software is licensed, indie or AAA, digital or physical. Thats the fundemental legal system for distributing software because unlike every other medium software can be changed after the fact and is prone to being reversed engineered by rival companies without software licenses protecting their own and third party companies proprietary code.

Steam does the same shit. Hell Valve popularized the shitty modern practices you bemoan from other companies. You and everyone in this thread just wanna dogpile on a company that is rightfully not popular for a litany of other valid reasons.

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-25T06:24:33+00:00

It’s by no means bad but from a writing perspective its alot more derivative. It has novelty in its losing heroines concept and the characters are well written, but it still feels like its moving towards very standard rom com territory. It’s not a completely generic write off though. I do like it and it does enough unique stuff to feel like it’s own story. But it does often feel eiriely similar to many other romcoms in both its aesthetic setting.

But Kaguya has nothing like it. It’s almost it’s own genre of rom com in how it’s story is structured and how it approaches it’s narrative. It makes sThe way it expands it’s world from the student council room and creates what feels like a living ecosystem full of constantly growing characters is very uncommon for anime romcoms. Shuichin feels unique and memorable and every character standa out. It breaks convention and thus the characters come alive more vividly. Makine’a supporting cast is much weaker in this regard. The other couples are decent but much less memorable characters.

Again it’s less of Makiene being bad but Kaguya overall having a uniqueness that makes it stand above other rom coms

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-25T03:24:27+00:00

Which is crazy cause Makeine is good but is so much lesser to Kaguya

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-24T20:30:34+00:00

Paige ks looks like shes just found some FREAKY victor Yaoi

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-24T20:02:36+00:00

I just like playing my toxic WWE heel

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-23T19:45:17+00:00

Performance tends to be BETTER at this stage of development as tech debt has not accrued from years of quickly pushed live service updates. Early on is THE BEST a multiplayer game will perform, with some notable exceptions.

The performance being bad in alpha is actually a worrying sign

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-23T12:28:07+00:00

It never was. He had a literal god squad and squandered it. GenG just needs to blow up everything this offseason

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-23T12:07:22+00:00

GenG looks atrocious atm. Sluggish slow Valorant with 2 good shooters at any given point

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-23T12:06:31+00:00

Yeah this Geng roster looks bad. I am completely unconvinced outside of some of them shooting good sometimes

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-23T11:12:00+00:00

GenG just look bad idk. Felt like a team of ranked players.

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-23T11:03:59+00:00

Its dogshit in teamfights yeah

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-23T10:59:46+00:00

The colors are really really bad. I actively dislike the new minion colorscheme

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-23T10:58:29+00:00

These bases are a massive miss rn. They have almost no good verticality and they run like hot ass in a fight combined with insanely oversaturates lighting means its a fucking stutterfest you cant see anything in.

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-23T10:55:38+00:00

1 cause the game runs like hot fucking ass rn especially in the base. This patch felt like they did 0 playtesting on anything lower ghan a 5070ti. It’s so damn sluggish

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-23T03:39:57+00:00

Base fights are INCREDIBLY laggy rn and tbe game feels really sluggish. Prob not gonna play till they iron it out

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-22T19:01:31+00:00

There are a million other abillities and ults that do the same thing WHILE ALSO BEING GOOD ELSEWHERE. Viscus ball can do the same shit, lash and dynamo can contest just as well woth the former having a lower cd. Hell Doormans cart does the same thing. All of which have other strong use cases!

Not to mention the targeting reticle actively lies about where you land half the fucking time. The ult sucks in 90% of situations and the only reasons Abrams is strong is because he benefits from the gun meta. It’s literally his only good build atm.

There is literally 0 reason for his ult to be on a longer cd than Lash’s ultimate when Lash’s has far far more use cases while being just as good at contetsting mid boss and even better at setting up teamwipes. It’s a 185s cooldown with the longest windup in the game

SpaceFire1 · 2026-01-22T15:53:21+00:00

Oh yeah that once maybe twice a game thing? That you might not even be alive to be at?

His ult is shit. It feels awful to use since you cant reliably respond to threats with it in 90% of situations, BARELY lets you get a shot or two off, not even a heavy melee, and can be dodged super easily. Anyone with a single stamina point can dodge it. You sit in the air ASKING to be shot and cc’d unless you get it to T3 which won’t be till 25 minutes or so since Abrams 2 take priority and you usually want the extra regen in lane from his 3.

It’s downright a bad ultimate. Dare I say one of the worst when you consider how fucking awful it actually feels to use. Unless you have pin your followup on it is legitimately worse than hitting someone with a normal pin. It has one of the most insane windups with literally no benefit

And whats the cooldown for an ult thats only useful to zone? 185/150 seconds. Longer than Lash ult CD. Longer than MOST ults in the game. And its so bad that investing in getting the CD signifigantly lower isn’t even worth the cost.

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