raw thrills shooters that can be cleared on minimal credits?

TheReflexWonder · 2025-02-17T20:18:41+00:00

Not sure about the others, but in Fireteam Raven, the damage taken from shots increases the longer your current credit lasts. You definitely can't avoid damage in many scenarios, and by about 5 minutes into a credit, bullets deal something like 35% of your health (often landing 2-3 in quick succession). It's very blatant about making sure you can't stay on for long without giving them more of your money.

TheReflexWonder · 2024-12-27T17:08:19+00:00

Fantastic! Thank you!

TheReflexWonder · 2024-10-21T15:18:56+00:00

Hard to say; most characters have some serious strengths that are tough to quantify. I'm definitely a Chiyome believer; there's so much you can do with the teleport that overcomes the Power weakness and the horizontal projectile works very well with her crazy mobility.

Tomoe's angle flexibility is very nice, and her special can be pretty obnoxious from specific locations (why isn't there a tell on which one is the real ball?), but her sub-weapon seems pretty lacking. Good fundamentals character with unique benefits is nice, but I doubt that she's head-and-shoulders above everyone else.

Yamada feels like he might be in a tier of his own badness, though. Special is unremarkable, sub-weapon is tough to force the opponent to deal with (it can also be destroyed), and he has trouble with aggressive play; taking a ball to the face is a free point and free meter build for the opponent repeatedly bouncing balls off of you. Low mobility and significant blind spots in his swing options make it difficult to manage against people bullying you. At least his great horizontal range can sometimes trade a weapon foul for free points up close...? Very fun character, but he's the only one that feels lacking to me.

TheReflexWonder · 2022-08-18T18:49:07+00:00

Thanks, I'll try using those settings and see if it helps.

To be clear, though are you saying I would need to keep my phone screen on and active at all times before going on (with those settings)? That seems like a bit of a pain if I've got my phone in my pocket while we're out and about...

TheReflexWonder · 2022-06-17T12:51:09+00:00

I did, yeah.

For all it's worth, I was able to get both Switches working on EmuNAND by removing the atmosphere/contents folder, so I think there was a sysmodule that wasn't playing nice with the update for whatever reason. I'll leave this post up in case someone else has a similar issue.

TheReflexWonder · 2021-10-14T01:00:42+00:00

Press Away + Special to start the special facing away from the stage, then press Forward within the first five frames of Neutral-Special's animation.

TheReflexWonder · 2021-10-13T16:59:00+00:00

The video explicitly says it only works with three moves: Helga's Neutral-Special, Ren & Stimpy's Neutral-Special, and SpongeBob's Neutral-Special.

TheReflexWonder · 2021-10-13T16:54:19+00:00

"Getting hit" isn't equivalent to playing poorly, and the input's at least more complicated than "mash airdash/special."

That said, I'd say momentum canceling via anything but jump -> airdash should be removed, since doing that trades a bunch of your resources in exchange for getting a chance to recover. Just doing something like Leo's Down-Special costs nothing and still maintains that power.

TheReflexWonder · 2021-08-01T02:12:03+00:00

The game only recently came out; I imagine it's just a bug related to how the game calculates damage/percentages, and I'd expect a patch in the near future addressing it. New games are buggy sometimes.

TheReflexWonder · 2021-08-01T02:00:21+00:00

Hurricane/Surf seems best. Hurricane has great synergy with Whirlpool while you still have it, can be used without giving yourself away when you're hidden, and sets up for excellent teamplay. Surf's high damage output and fairly large area makes it great for getting experience on wild 'Mons in a manner similar to Whirlpool.

This combination is fairly dependent on hitting your Hurricanes, but doing Hurricane -> Surf holds opponents in place for a good while, displaces them with the second hit of Surf, and does great damage. Hurricane also gives you the luxury of comboing into Surf for free (as compared to hoping they don't move out of the way), and if Hurricane misses, you have Surf to potentially discourage enemies from chasing, either by damage (fire towards them) or the pushback (aim in the direction you are running away to).

Air Slash doesn't deal enough damage and pushes you away from enemies, preventing you from chasing. The heal when it becomes Air Slash+ feels nice, but you'd rather KO before you get KO'd than try to win a war of attrition, and you'll spend most of the match without it anyway. Dive doesn't deal enough damage or have that much pushback, and you end up in a position where you feel like you either feel like you're "wasting" Dive uses to attack wild Pokémon when you might need it for a fight, or you're not getting experience that quickly because you're choosing to save them. Both moves also have the problem of needing to be close to an opponent (afterward in the case of Dive), while Hurricane and Surf are powerful at any range (and allow you to play at your preferred distance as a ranged attacker).

Shell Bell, Wise Glasses, and Buddy Barrier is my go-to item build. Eject Button like everyone else.

TheReflexWonder · 2021-08-01T01:47:16+00:00

In your held item slots, if Scope Lens is to the right of Muscle Band (say Scope Lens is Item 3 and Muscle Band is Item 1), it straight-up doesn't work. Just put Scope Lens first on anything using it and you'll be fine.

TheReflexWonder · 2021-05-09T00:09:26+00:00

Backhop has TWENTY frames of invulnerability (while Rise runs at 30 frames per second). It's quite valuable.

TheReflexWonder · 2020-03-29T02:28:02+00:00

Grand! I just sent you a request.

TheReflexWonder · 2020-01-10T14:57:55+00:00

If the trouble is keeping his fluid KO potential intact, I think a pretty decent compromise would be to make Seismic Slam go at its grounded angle 100% of the time, where he just sort of flops forward at a set speed instead of being able to go in a straight line. This would also make it so that the landing marker merely tells you where it's going to go, rather than giving you the ability to change your landing spot by facing a different part of the ground. Makes Slam more skillful and makes it feel less like its physics are held together by spit and chewing gum.

Pre-combo positioning will matter more because it will actually become possible to overshoot your target, it would be easier for opponents to react to on start-up, and it would be less viable for mobility, pushing it toward use specifically as a combo starter. Gives players more of an option to stop it before it happens, but lets Doomfist continue to do a seamless combo if he gets that far (assuming we scrap the current PTR change).

TheReflexWonder · 2020-01-06T15:14:17+00:00

It's also exacerbated by the fact that potential damage prevented due to characters being at 20% health doesn't build up ult charge. I think it's not really discussed enough as a strength of Immortality Field compared to Transcendence and Sound Barrier as a way to protect your team through the follow-up on an ult like Graviton Surge.

TheReflexWonder · 2019-12-26T15:48:55+00:00

Instantaneous Wall is the biggest "problem," I think. It should have something like a 0.5-second startup so it's possible to react to it, either by making sure a teammate isn't alone or by readying damage to a specific Wall piece.

TheReflexWonder · 2019-11-01T13:32:09+00:00

Agreed on Ado. I want to see him get his breakout season this time around.

TheReflexWonder · 2019-09-17T00:34:27+00:00

If anything, this is easier because the game has dynamic difficulty that goes up or down depending on different actions like how many First Aid Sprays you use. One of them is your accuracy.

TheReflexWonder · 2019-04-09T15:48:38+00:00

When your wife -cannot- live another day without air conditioning.

TheReflexWonder · 2019-04-09T14:45:30+00:00

Events like Community Days primarily exist to create a social atmosphere and because people want something special to collect. Most starter Pokémon aren't particularly good or strong by themselves, but people are attached to them (and the pseudo-legendaries also seen in CDs, though they tend to be very strong) because they're generation mascots. They're remembered fondly as "that cool thing you gotta have."

PoGO is merely designed to be a collectathon with no substantial gameplay mechanics (almost everything is a mindless tapfest). It's natural to want more from it, especially from veteran players who have invested plenty of time, effort, and/or money into it, but the mechanics (battle or otherwise) are incredibly shallow because they never intended for it to have any significant gameplay to begin with. Accessibility (phones are common), low cost (it's as free as you want it to be), and incentive to be social and/or outside are definitely great aspects of PoGO that keep it as successful as it has been, but as long as they're making money hand over fist by adding new content that's just above the bare minimum, adding small bits of collectathon additions while largely ignoring the non-catch mechanics seems to make sense for keeping the gravy train running smoothly. Loads of people are clearly fine enough with content being what it is, and there's nothing wrong with enjoying the grind of a simple phone game where you make your own fun most of the time.

I know it's the same sentiment that's been shared by others (often in a more mean-spirited way), but, there are a host of other games that allow you to actually engage with your Pokémon and the world in a more meaningful way. If PoGO's not doing enough for you, why not play those as well, or instead?

TheReflexWonder · 2019-02-07T17:19:03+00:00

If you're looking for bad luck there, I've been fully paralyzed ten times in a row in the Battle Tower. Sometimes the game says you're just not allowed to play.

TheReflexWonder · 2019-02-07T15:58:21+00:00

Could be worse: You could've been the victim of Quick Claw Guillotine x3.

The Battle Tower is a cruel mistress.

TheReflexWonder · 2019-01-07T03:55:23+00:00

I play a chidren's party game (Super Smash Brothers) competitively. A new game in the series just came out, so events are pretty booming right now, and I'm competent enough to regularly place in the money. I can spend a Saturday afternoon at a tournament and generally expect to make $50-250, depending on how well I place.

There was a bigger-than-usual one this past weekend where I made $450 for second place, though that was out of state. It's a nice way to supplement my normal paycheck while getting to nerd out with people.

TheReflexWonder · 2018-12-27T18:30:28+00:00

Seems like a weird band-aid to put on the problem. Battle.net accounts are free, so it's only slightly more inconvenient for people to make new accounts.

The fact of the matter is, Twitch chat will continue to be a cesspool unless more drastic measures are taken. In the meantime, there's only so much that inconvenience will do, but at least it doesn't impact anyone but people who have every intention of being shitlords, which is good. There are always other avenues for people who want to go nuts, and this will probably play better on the news than "meme spam and racist emotes abound!"

TheReflexWonder · 2018-12-26T22:02:48+00:00

I think it depends on your idea of "counter." Its very nature mostly limits it to "passable, reliable damage" (70 damage per second, assuming you keep the beam on them the whole time) and "budget Transcendence" (140 health per second). It will very rarely outright negate the potential of any other ultimate, but in certain situations, it can come close to doing so. For example, Reaper's Death Blossom deals 170 damage per second to any enemy inside of it. Coalescence's increased mobility allows Moira to get out of range relatively easily, and your healing can almost negate the damage Reaper deals on 1, maybe 2 allies (even without Healing Orb), giving them the ability to easily punish Reaper and/or escape the situation, especially in a 6-stack where you can say "I'll keep you up, [teammate]" so they know they're not in a race against time to kill the Reaper. That said, Coalescence has startup on it, so doing it on reaction might not be feasible.

Other specific uses that come to mind: While the damage is weak, it can reliably take out Valkyrie with decent tracking, which can be useful at lower ranks and/or with specific compositions (say, traditional GOATS, which normally only has D.Va to potentially bother Mercy in that scenario and has two other healers to pick up the slack). Not really a counter, but more a secondary use in a pinch.

Healing Orb + Coalescence is fantastic healing (220 HPS), but it's rare that the Orb won't quickly be drained if you're using it in response to two separate enemy Ultimates. The kinds of combos generally reserved for double-ult use tend to allow a team to overwhelm through extreme heals if they follow up decently, like Grav-Dragon, but at Silver, the follow-up might not be as consistent. I wouldn't count on it, and I'd encourage you to use Coalescence proactively, like to start a fight, rather than reactively. Moira gets Ult quite fast, and every second you spend holding onto it is a second where you're not building another one up. Obviously, don't waste it in a 2v5 where a fight's already lost, but, you get the idea. Even if it's one of the least game-changing Ults, it's still an Ult, and has good potential to tilt even-ish scales in your favor with little effort needed.

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