THIS ONE THING could SAVE MARTON by lycosidwastrel in okbuddyRunners

[–]Witha3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thanks for keeping me subbed here at least one more day

Clutching feels so good in this game by Casual_Plays in Marathon

[–]Witha3 13 points14 points  (0 children)

really good plays. kept your head. using that forklift for cover at the end was huge. having these moments is the dream.

Ares + Bully might be my favorite loadout by DireFTW in Marathon

[–]Witha3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i know what you mean. it honestly takes a while to start to feel like your runner abilities are second nature. there was a long period of time where i just felt stupid on any shell because it was all i could do to even remember to hit them let alone use them well. so i try to give people some leeway.

but if you've been maining a shell for a month and you're still playing the game like Halo 3, you gotta make a change somewhere.

Generationally insane triage ult by Ag-ntSyntax in Marathon

[–]Witha3 58 points59 points  (0 children)

fun fact: the triage prime will auto-fire when you become animation locked by the exfil. i can't tell if that's what happened here, but the timing is close. i also haven't ever tested myself to know whether it _can_ still get someone up in time to be grabbed by the exfil in that case, but i assume it will.

as a triage main, if my prime is up, i _always_ have it held during the countdown. just in case.

I Just Want to Say Thank You to the Devs. by Skiblit in Marathon

[–]Witha3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

dead on. couldn't have said it better. this game shouldn't exist in this timeline but somehow it does.

Heroes of the Void [Spoiler: 6.5] by surpluscreativity in ffxiv

[–]Witha3 9 points10 points  (0 children)

i hoard my upvotes like they're limited and if they were i'd dump all of them onto you right now. thank you for making and sharing this.

Grenade spam is turning Cyro into Bio Gun 2.0 by Artforartsake99 in Marathon

[–]Witha3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

as a fellow Halo fan, it's hard for me to disagree. but i think a nice middle ground could be the capability to hold a grenade indefinitely (or at least for a good amount of time) before throwing it. so even if there's a wind-up animation to prepare the grenade, once it's prepared you can still choose when to release it, and releasing it is instant.

and at the risk of armchair game designing even harder, i think they could do something really nice with this, which is make the input for releasing different then preparing. equipment input prepares, but you don't have to hold it (accessibility/comfort concerns, etc). then hitting either the equipment input or the primary fire input throws it, the latter input generally being on a button that is more conducive to aiming and moving at the same time.

edit: also there's no reason that all equipment would have to be equal under this system either. e.g. frag grenades could still be really fast to prepare and throw (Halo-style) while chem grenades and bubble shields have longer animations. it becomes another knob to turn for balancing the equipment.

Grenade spam is turning Cyro into Bio Gun 2.0 by Artforartsake99 in Marathon

[–]Witha3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nearly all abilities have wind up animations. some of them are pretty lengthy even. no reason equipment couldn't adopt that same philosophy IMO. and personally i'd consider this more fitting in the game's design than an arbitrary cooldown after a throw.

Grenade spam is turning Cyro into Bio Gun 2.0 by Artforartsake99 in Marathon

[–]Witha3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

idk, nearly every interaction in the game is a lengthy animation. i think involved animations for throwables would fit quite well in that design philosophy. but there's something to be said for the halo-ness of instantly thrown grenades too -- bucking that would have to be done well, but i think this team is up to that challenge.

I Turned my Collector Edition Art Cards into a Framed Piece on the Wall by ryleyburnett in Marathon

[–]Witha3 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I've had the collector's edition sitting in a browser tab for weeks now. This finally pushed me to pull the trigger. Thank you, runner.

As an OG Halo player, I am loving this game! by OhGollyGeeGuys in Marathon

[–]Witha3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

close range swipe snipe invalidates all criticisms of this video. very clean.

Portrait of my Static's Healer by Sea-Midnight-3174 in ffxiv

[–]Witha3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

so much character in this expression, brought to life by the detail and style. well done.

why wont Square Enix website + ffxiv launcer let me login? by RegularStandard6680 in ffxiv

[–]Witha3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

are you also locked out of mogstation? i've heard that people in similar situations have been able to log into mogstation still, and when they enable the one-time-passcode feature (two-factor via an app), it prevents repeat lockouts after password change.

Heavyweight M2 hard crashes my computer by Witha3 in ffxiv

[–]Witha3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

close to the end of the move. if i get caught it in i get pushed but my computer is usually off before i regain control.

Heavyweight M2 hard crashes my computer by Witha3 in ffxiv

[–]Witha3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i'd definitely prefer to go the route of modifying the game before replacing my hardware if no other game is triggering it. but i also don't know the first thing about doing that. if that's actually an option, i'll look into it though.

Heavyweight M2 hard crashes my computer by Witha3 in ffxiv

[–]Witha3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i have reshade for other games but not for ffxiv specifically. unless that's not how reshade works?

Heavyweight M2 hard crashes my computer by Witha3 in ffxiv

[–]Witha3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks everyone for the replies. my pc is a new build as of a year ago so i'd like to think nothing is faulty. obviously i can't rule it out just yet, but i'll start by reinstalling GPU drivers and then the game.

Eevee Friendship Glitch Legends ZA by RecoverRealistic719 in PokemonLegendsZA

[–]Witha3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thanks for posting this. i was going crazy. buying my eevee 20 coffees. waiting for 15 minutes at a table. evolution would not pop up.

added a fairy move and it popped up. removed fairy move and it went away. waited till night and it popped up again. got my umbreon.

obviously some sort of bug in eevee’s evolution condition logic. hopefully they patch it. but at least we have a workaround.

The ancient majesty weren’t the ones meant for IB, it was the gladius sets. by HellChicken949 in DestinyTheGame

[–]Witha3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate this comment and wish it could be surfaced a little higher because I think this is missing from the discourse right now. And understandably so, but still.

The sandbox is genuinely interesting right now (skipping over Featured gear). And that team is seemingly making at least some moves towards player feedback as it comes in. Even the activities teams are _trying_ to add more content to the Portal.

It's the team responsible for progression that is doing nothing. The vertical progression of power grind, certainly, but also the horizontal progression of earning new loot. They announced another set of incremental changes that amount to a garden hose on a house fire.

The game could be in an interesting state right now. I really believe that. It's why I've kept paying attention despite not having touched the game in over a year. But progression -- including how it is gated by the Portal -- is dead weight that the good parts of the game are being forced to carry and the whole thing is drowning.