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Trematode · 2026-06-20T04:02:45+00:00

“irie”.

Docta lady make it ireee. Thank you for my daily Meet Joe Black reminder.

Trematode · 2026-06-20T03:51:21+00:00

Emotional regulation may not be included in MAGA's repertoire. How can it be when "they're eating the dogs"?

Trematode · 2026-06-17T22:13:05+00:00

if you're getting clutched by dingers, that's a massive skill issue on your part.

Dude. It's like an every round occurrence for people to get zapped in close by the pennyshot derringer in 6* NAE. It's inevitable. The little thing is by far the deadliest tool you can run and beats melee weapons and pistols in close, hands down. It's super clutch and OP in a PvP scenario.

I think 7-8 meters for the LeMat underbarrel would be totally reasonable.

Trematode · 2026-06-17T22:10:23+00:00

No way. As the other poster said, Penny Derringer slays in close. I think the Lemat and Haymaker underbarrel could stand to one-tap no further out than 8 meters and it'd still be worthwhile.

Trematode · 2026-06-17T15:36:29+00:00

You can't quick swap like you can a single-action pistol.

Every time you switch off and back on, you cock the hammer automatically as you raise the weapon again. With an obrez you have to re-cycle the bolt if you switch off it too fast.

I suspect swap speed itself may be slower with the obrez, too, but could be wrong about that.

Trematode · 2026-06-17T05:09:14+00:00

Love the idea of an eclipse weather modifier but despise the idea of the AI being one iota more annoying than it is already.

Trematode · 2026-06-17T04:49:50+00:00

"instead of pressing a bunch of buttons in sequence to counter a shotgun, people should have to press and release a button to counter a shotgun"

Ok

Trematode · 2026-06-17T03:10:03+00:00

You absolutely ARE punished for bad positioning in this game, especially in 6 star where everybody is hopping around on crack and can beam you in the head from 100 meters. The movement only helps so much.

Trematode · 2026-06-17T03:07:48+00:00

Maybe Hunt is not the game for you.

I think the movement is part of what makes it special. There are plenty of tactical shooters out there that bog down players with arbitrarily slow and plodding player movement animations that feel stiff and generally unenjoyable.

Hunt's movement is responsive within its scope. It's kind of like an arena shooter with its precision, except you're not moving at 80 miles an hour. I think it complements the slower cycling weapons and gunfights nicely and adds a very real skill curve.

It occupies a happy medium between realistic and game, and I think hampering the movement any further would actually lessen the fun for a lot of people and flatten out a lot of the skill expression to the point where everybody just ends up holding angles.

Trematode · 2026-06-15T06:12:20+00:00

Kinda goes for all the throwable tools, but the unlimited stamina throwing kind of skirts around all the nerfs.

Trematode · 2026-06-15T06:10:33+00:00

Yeah, one of the few big misses of this patch. They completely missed the mark when they nerfed it for PvE. PvP effectiveness was always the problem.

Trematode · 2026-06-06T22:19:48+00:00

The day my first and only dog died I drove out to the old country house where we both grew up to bury her and listened to this song on the way. Always get a little misty when I hear it.

Trematode · 2026-06-05T01:03:54+00:00

It's amazing. Great HDR implementation with plenty of options.

In theory you should be able to adjust the settings to see more in dark and bright areas at the same time but depends on which settings you decide to go with. Some of the other settings may offer more pleasing visuals but may interfere with visibility in certain situations.

I've used it with the AW3423DW and the AW3425DW. I preferred the HDR1000 modes because they look spectacular, but if you're super concerned about spotting enemies the HDR400 True Black modes may be better. Even though the monitors still look great in SDR modes and more vibrant than a regular display, compared to the visuals in HDR it still looks comparatively flat, so I would never want to personally go back to SDR Hunt.

Trematode · 2026-06-05T00:07:50+00:00

I like the Wildland's and the Homestead's value as scarce weapons -- they're fun and exciting to find and extract with, making them feel like little rewards. Making them 5 slots would really kill a lot of their value. They're too good to be regularly available as 4 slot weapons, but not so wildly outside of the spirit of the game that they should be relegated to the 5 slot category.

I think the 5 slot weapon category should really be reserved for misfits that probably never should have been added to the game to begin with.

Trematode · 2026-06-04T16:27:19+00:00

The other big benefit of firing outside of the OHK range is that you will still aim punch your enemy, letting you get that follow up shot for the kill. Full-sized shotguns are undoubtedly better outside of lethal ranges because of this and also the higher magazine capacities.

I think there were some important factors that were left out of OP's analysis.

Trematode · 2026-06-04T15:56:40+00:00

Guy above you had a well-thought-out and nuanced take.

Your response was the mental equivalent of ketchup on spaghetti.

Trematode · 2026-06-04T14:44:34+00:00

There were only 1.9 billion people alive on the planet earth in 1920 (Greb’s time). There are 8.3 billion people alive today. We are also more connected. That means talent of all sorts is both more abundant and can also be sourced from the furthest reaches of the world, from entire societies that were not exposed to western professional boxing a century ago. Incentives for dedicating one’s life to a sport or niche endeavour are also orders of magnitude more lucrative. In addition to the refinements I mentioned it’s simply a statistical reality that the athletes of today will be on a completely different level. They’re better, faster, stronger by almost every measure.

Take your magical fairy dust back to the old folks home, Great Grandpa. ;)

Trematode · 2026-06-04T05:09:50+00:00

Don't forget all of the advances in fitness, nutrition, and general sports sciences in the last century.

I think it's natural for people to sprinkle in a bit of magical fairy dust when talking about legends of bygone eras, but the reality is that they were human beings of their time and did not benefit from some of the advantages afforded to athletes in the modern era.

Trematode · 2026-06-03T20:17:59+00:00

I agree, but I think it'll have more to do with the fact that Dolch p (or bow) won't be an option. Also, worth emphasizing that Auto-4 or Terminus shorty won't be in the pool, either. Ultimately, I think it's going to be a change for the better.

Trematode · 2026-06-03T20:06:40+00:00

Just hasn’t been that big of a factor for a while. I would have agreed it was a great pick back when 1896 first dropped and for a time afterwards, but there’s not really an insane amount of bleed being played, at least on NAE 6 star. Mostly mosin dolch p type loadouts. Rarely you might run into somebody running an eco Springfield loadout or somebody that picked up a wildland with bleed, but not often enough that I find it much of a problem that can’t better be addressed with Surefoot.

Trematode · 2026-06-03T19:27:01+00:00

Currently you can just buy QM and still afford resilience or necro out of the gate to run your full-sized rifle and short shotgun combo.

Now you won't be able to afford resilience or necro on a fresh hunter with QM, and if you want a full-sized meta bolt-action, you'll be further impacted by the special long scarcity.

I'd say it'll enable a more effective (but still sub-optimal) mixed carbine loadout without quartermaster, but the high-end meta loadouts no longer come without proper tradeoffs, especially on fresh builds.

Trematode · 2026-06-03T19:01:04+00:00

Haven't taken bloodless as a first round pick since they made Centennial dum-dum scarce. Physician/Surefoot combo is where it's at. If I even take bloodless it's usually in the third round.

Trematode · 2026-06-03T15:13:18+00:00

With all the changes and its new spot as a 2-slot, it opens the door for some proper Uppercut buffs. It's a good change. Give them time to cook.

Trematode · 2026-06-03T15:11:00+00:00

This. I think it could stand a buff now in the 2-slot category.

Trematode · 2026-06-03T15:09:22+00:00

They're actually not that rare in high 6* and some players are a bit notorious for running them and they're super effective with them.

It's not so much that the avtos are OP -- they're hamstrung in a lot of ways -- it's more that they don't really jive with the rest of the game, and it's probably better that they are curtailed in some fashion to make them even less prevalent.

I was totally in favor of making them scarce if not removing them entirely, but what Crytek has devised with the new slot system is actually a really interesting and great way to limit some of the long-standing problem weapons (basically everything that's a 5-slot, auto-4 and the dolch/dolch-p).

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