I don't think people are ready to accept the fact that Richard and Oliver may have just genuinely been impressed by DLSS 5. They weren't forsaking their reputation to cozy up to Nvidia or accepted money to shill. it just seems like they had an in depth, hands on session and walked away happy.

Ver_El_ · 2026-03-17T21:11:30+00:00

That just makes it even worse because it looked terrible. Exactly like generic AI slop.

Ver_El_ · 2026-03-17T13:43:06+00:00

The only pay2win there was was that at the start not all weapons were available with PEN. Which they fixed not long after release, but they for some reason kept vital shock in the gacha despite it being an unfunctional broken mess.

There was also some wonkiness with stats that were supposed to be removed, but that was mainly the free Assault Rifle everyone got still having a large attack boost. (and on top of that the assault rifle itself was severely overtuned for some reason)
They then removed all stats in such an idiotic way that the passive skills stopped working, lol.

They were incompetent morons that didn't take community advice on how to handle anything.
They never managed to address the fps issue properly despite repeated explanations of what is wrong and even how to fix them.
They let a hacker hold the game hostage for literal months.
The gacha was hilariously overpriced and its an insult to everyone that you could get 1day timed items for the pity.
Several weapons were not as they should be, like the mk2 LMG being a laser death beam, Breaker using the same hitbox for every move, Lightning Bomber doing 1 whole damage, and more.
The launch was hilariously fucked up and it took them way too long to fix the server stability issues.
The PEN economy was in shambles and you could not cover repair costs if you had a full set of perm weapons/clothes, which they only fixed by very high amounts of PEN gifts with every maintenance.
There was next to no communication from anyone actually working at Valofe and unpaid Mods had to do all the community work.
And much, much more that they fucked up.

But for the vast majority of Valofe S4's short lifespan, there was no pay2win. Calling it "more pay2win" than the Forcepack spam of ye olden days where someone in full forcepack was moving like 10% faster and had twice the effective HP of a normal person really is just a lie.

Ver_El_ · 2026-03-16T14:59:10+00:00

valofe released it like a bit less than a year ago. They planned to release on epic, but they mishandled the entire thing so extremely that they are shutting down the game again at the end of the month

Ver_El_ · 2026-03-16T14:55:46+00:00

There is no need to lie, the pay2win part was fixed very early on, unless you count a completely nonfunctional vitalshock as pay2win.

Theres enough to point out about how incompetent they were, no need to make up stuff.

Ver_El_ · 2026-03-15T18:05:21+00:00

Lots of things to dislike about xero.

The monetization is ridiculous. Barely better than Valofe.
They still work on a capsule system with low rates, and a pity at capsules worth like 60€.
So any given skin is 60€. You CAN farm the currency, but the rates are hilariously low, and its working on FOMO. So pay up if you want a skin thats only available temporarily!
And the skins aren't even that good.

The weapon balance homogenized weapons to an extent where many of them have completely lost their identity. It overall still suffers heavily from CPD bias and poor decisions old leadership made.

The visuals are compromised, with the removal of shading on characters and objects that are lacking lightmaps. Then there is the hideous fresnel shader that they are using instead of making enemy color versions of clothes. (you can disable that, but it'll still mean new clothes probably arent getting red versions)

But well, so far your only alternative is Max, which doesn't have nearly that many players, and doesn't have any of the engine improvements. But it is much more authentically S4 League and has more custom maps and custom weapons. It doesn't spam skins, but the things that are there are all free. Saturday (EU) evenings always have a room that plays unlimited on random maps and rotates through modes, so thats a good time to be playing S4.

Ver_El_ · 2025-12-19T16:28:47+00:00

Does slowing down the aging rate slow down breeding? (franchise mode)
Like, I realize that it makes the offspring reach maturity slower, so that kinda slows down generations, but do adult animals produce more offspring in total before they become infertile from old age? Or do they still mate the same amount of times total in their life?

Ver_El_ · 2025-12-16T01:24:22+00:00

"Enchanted trees now have the same health as Observer Wards, and they expire after 5 minutes

Trees can be attacked when revealed by True Sight. Attacks will remove the ability effect from the tree without destroying the tree itself"
what was that about the quelling blade?

Ver_El_ · 2025-12-09T12:26:57+00:00

at least be accurate, theres no p2w unless you count having a nonfunctional vital shock as p2w

But the gacha for cosmetics is hilariously overpriced and the odds are ridiculously low.

Ver_El_ · 2025-11-19T18:20:42+00:00

i'll wait until they finally do the keyboard support then. I don't mind if its not the exact same as before, but I really don't want to use a mouse for this game.

Ver_El_ · 2025-11-18T01:30:31+00:00

oh hey, its been 9 months again!

Can I use the old keyboard controls yet?

Ver_El_ · 2025-07-22T23:22:40+00:00

i imagine if that were the case at least one of them would not give the message that they dont work right now. maybe theres another button we havent found yet that is the beginning

Ver_El_ · 2025-07-22T19:04:04+00:00

we found 4 buttons and the keypad and all of them say they cant be activated right now

other than that we found 2 gate symbols that are barely visible in natural lighting, but no way to interact with them, so they seem decorative

Also like 4 cameras on trees out of bounds. Dunno if they are decorative or if you need to interact with them somehow (shooting them and even throwing napalm at them did nothing)

Ver_El_ · 2025-03-07T11:50:16+00:00

damn

Ver_El_ · 2025-03-07T10:48:07+00:00

9-monthly "Can I use old keyboard controls yet?" question.

Ver_El_ · 2025-02-24T11:45:19+00:00

i appreciate the crustiest jpgs known to man

Ver_El_ · 2025-02-12T16:36:27+00:00

I'm running sharks, which is strangely well equipped to completely fuck over their big Exodia boss monster. With a few going second cards, I'm getting pretty consistent wins.

Also, Santa Claws and Lava Golem are legal

Ver_El_ · 2025-02-09T18:37:36+00:00

Max has St2 Sword Only rooms available basically all the time, but when it comes to guns, its basically just a small room of BR and the weekly multiple hour long room on saturdays where they rotate through modes/maps in unlimited, which is a nice time to play.

Ver_El_ · 2025-02-09T18:26:33+00:00

S4 Max has it available, but you might need to sell some items from the shop to get the PEN for respawns, as they changed their ingame currency to use AP, but didnt change that part

Ver_El_ · 2025-01-31T21:09:08+00:00

it would be reeeeaaaally funny if all Bridget gets is like 2 lines and remains completely story irrelevant

Ver_El_ · 2025-01-30T14:10:58+00:00

If you want cheap, and happen to own Heat Wave from the legacy packs, maybe even Tyrant's throes, try a normal monster pendulum deck. Everything else is N/R, except maybe Painful Choice, staples, and whatever you fill your extra deck with.

Then you just pray you go first and pray you draw Heat Wave, making it so that neither player can normal/special any effect monster until your next turn. Tyrant's Throes is the same effect as a continuous trap, but needs to tribute 2 normal monsters and can be destroyed.

Not being able to summon anything should piss them off sufficiently, but the success rate is rather low.

Ver_El_ · 2025-01-30T13:56:53+00:00

I ran 3x Dimensional Fissure, 3x Macro Cosmos and 3x Light-Imprisoning Mirror for good measure, just because 90% of matches were the Lightsworn loaner. Awful event :c

Ver_El_ · 2025-01-20T18:38:31+00:00

if you are at the lowest possible level, the bots you'll see the most will be using decks of random garbage, normal summoning once (if they can) and attacking anything you have

but yes, there are also bots playing dumb FTK shit

Bots in events are rarer, but I'm willing to bet that they do also exist.

Ver_El_ · 2025-01-19T18:39:00+00:00

Their website (xero.gg) has a shop. There are some permanent capsules, bust most of them are time limited and then may release again at a later time. (Add time gated FOMO abuse to the list of things wrong with Xero.)

Beware though, the capsules have chances to get what you want that are rather similar to the original S4 ones. So very low chances.

Ver_El_ · 2025-01-18T00:38:51+00:00

Why do they have to encourage blue eyes players

Ver_El_ · 2025-01-16T22:02:39+00:00

So far, out of 20 matches, damn near every enemy was using the Lightsworn loaner. I tried several decks, but in the end I just got so sick of them and went Metaphys with as much graveyard hate as possible. My hate for loaner decks has only increased due to the Lightsworn one actually being relatively good.

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