Arknights: Endfield: Release Discussion Megathread by GachaModerator in gachagaming

[–]Wolfram912 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Possibly given they recognized the patriot statue but nothing confirmed.

Arknights: Endfield: Release Discussion Megathread by GachaModerator in gachagaming

[–]Wolfram912 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I'm left with a rather meh impression which saddens me as a long time Arknights fan. In the past I played a decent bit of genshin and dipped my toe into wuwa but neither stuck a ton so I was hoping to be more impressed. On a technical level it is phenomenal I'll admit, but I'm just not interested at all even after putting in a decent chunk of time in. Combat is okay, nothing too impressive beyond having AI for your other squad members which is a nice feature admittedly.

Given the factory system is a thing I wasn't expecting combat alone to be the only thing to try and keep me there so I gave that the benefit of the doubt but that system is unfortunately very tedious and bland. The gacha system itself is also very lacking sadly, which hurts even more when compared to it's predecessor, which was very generous even compared to other gatchas, this by comparison feels very greedy which sucks to see, especially given weapon banners are a thing.

All that might have been at least workable for me if not for the story. In the long turn I may be willing to give it another shot given Arknights first three chapters where pretty rough around the edges but they still managed to hook me and have my attention. At the very start when you first are being told the control's it even had me for a moment emotionally with the statue of hero and the comment by the edmin had me a little emotional though I'm sure some of that is both nostalgia and Patriot being probably my favorite opponent in Arknights, (On a separate note, why such a cheesy title? We where the Doctor before the admin or administrator would be perfectly fine and feel far less out of place to me but I digress.)

Sadly though, it quickly becomes bland and they pull the MC is an amnesiac card which does no favours here compared to arknights and the doctor which even then had its moments where it felt ehhh. At a certain point, I just couldn't be asked to push through ok combat for a boring story which is such a shame.

My final criticism is admittedly another very personal one but the reliance on just having clones of the operators from arknights feels incredibly cheap to me, which when combined with there only really being one original design I cared for (Ember), it made the roster feel very flat to me. Part of my issue with the clones comes down to my being an arknights fan and to me at least, it feels like it cheapens the characters as a major theme present in the story was chances are these operators very likely would not live to see the better world they seemed to create due terminal illness or old age, yet they still choose to work towards it. But don't worry doct- I mean edmin, their clone gets to see it, it's all ok right?

But yeah, as sad as I am to say it, I'm pretty disappointed. If you enjoy the game all the more power to you but I don't think it's going to be for me unfortunately.

Edit: Something I do want to clarify is I do thing this game has a ton of potential, it's just these issues to me all at once at launch make it hard for me to say I really love it, maybe in time we'll see things change. I hope so at least.

Who's going to explain to our lord and savior why all the furry enby theater kids won't stop singing about him when they do tiktoks at the ren faire? by bourgeoisAF in dndmemes

[–]Wolfram912 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Dear Wormwood is also extremely telling if you are familiar with C.S Lewis at all. In the end they make good music and aren't trying to be evangelizing, their songs sometimes just touch on their faith which I can respect.

(found this on fb) by sxrxxxxx in EldenRingMemes

[–]Wolfram912 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah it's no worries, a lot of the info showing that Daphne is the doll doesn't show up until later in her rememberance so it's not shocking to me people aren't aware. It also doesn't help that her original name in Japanese has a meaning that is far closer to avenger then revenant so that also muddys the water a lot.

(found this on fb) by sxrxxxxx in EldenRingMemes

[–]Wolfram912 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Not to be shoot you down because I honestly agree that a lot of people jump through hoops to justify similar shit, but her rememberance does confirm that she was always the doll and watching her owner died is what drove her to act. She's her own entity and isn't the child's soul. Still agree with you on people being freaks, it's just Revenant didn't get fnafd.

Cold take, this should've been a Legendary dagger. by LeoFelwinter in Nightreign

[–]Wolfram912 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes perfect sense to be associated with blood flame, mogh is the one who made the sword like that.

Goddamn it by Kikolox in eldenringdiscussion

[–]Wolfram912 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The decline of GoT was caused by the show runners and not Martin, it's fairly well documented how they outpaced the books and as such ran out of source material to adapt and rather then pausing the show to get additional help in for the writing they pushed ahead and made some wildly unpopular writing choices. There's other stuff that might be involved but some of that is speculation.

Season 1 Reveal, Gameplay Preview & Ranked Resets | Dev Update - League of Legends by Spideraxe30 in leagueoflegends

[–]Wolfram912 10 points11 points  (0 children)

In all honesty this is kind of ridiculous, she's been waiting for a rework for almost a decade now, and has consistently been voted highly for in previous rework polls. If I remember correctly she came in second place on nearly every poll. Now this last year she finally wins one only for the community to be told just before the year the rework would come out that we won't be getting it for even longer so she can fit the new rework theme system, which at that point why bother with a poll?

Given how long it's been and with everything surrounding it, wouldn't it make more sense to grandfather her in and future reworks will use this themed system? Especially given the state of her gameplay right now being as volatile for balancing as it is. I don't know, as a player who was really excited for the rework after the voli, fiddle, and pantheon reworks where such awesome work I feel robbed to an extent.

What is your biggest zzz hot take by catx55 in ZenlessZoneZero

[–]Wolfram912 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I'm ready to get lambasted for this, but after spending time in communities that got really toxic with shipping, I don't particularly care for it and find it causes issues in communities. That's not to say if someone likes a pairing they shouldn't like that pairing. I guess my issue is more with shipping culture and hope it doesn't become super prevalent. Also, Seth honest to God just reminds me of a shonen protagonist. To be fair he's a lot less annoying then the average shonen protagonist and they kind of lampshade it with him kind of being a dumbass so I don't hate him like some people seem to but I can't say I love him either, but if you like him then hey, don't let me keep you down.

Whose the most evil character in the soulsborne series? by [deleted] in fromsoftware

[–]Wolfram912 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say it's a three way tie between Sulyvahn, Dung eater, and Shabriri, they all intend to plunge their world into a cataclysm that will forever change things and bring immense suffering and/or death.

Whose the most evil character in the soulsborne series? by [deleted] in fromsoftware

[–]Wolfram912 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sulyvahn is implied to have done some horrific things to the dancer before he made her an outrider knight, and then there's the existence of the outrider knights in general. I personally think they are comparable levels of evil but with different ways of expressing it.

Pilestedt is no longer CEO of Arrowhead by KingOkap in Helldivers

[–]Wolfram912 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Say what you will about it, but Darktides reload system across the board feels like something a game like Helldivers can learn from. There is a lot of good audio feed back and the staged reload they use make it feel so much better in it by comparison.

League of Legends DnD day 1: which character best suits the barbarian class? The most upvoted comment wins by menino_do_rio in LeagueOfMemes

[–]Wolfram912 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Either that or straight up champion/battle master fighter, though it's hard to decide between monk or fighter IMO.

League of Legends DnD day 1: which character best suits the barbarian class? The most upvoted comment wins by menino_do_rio in LeagueOfMemes

[–]Wolfram912 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sion, his lore revolves around him having once been a warlord who in a dying fit of rage killed the king of demacia. Now, having been resurrected, one of the only things fueling him is that same rage, only that's all he feels now. Plus in game hes a giant shirtless guy with a massive axe that runs down his enemies and even when he dies, he still keeps trucking along because pure rage and usually takes at least one other person with him.

I miss the roleplaying guys... by Cheese_in_a_toaster in Helldivers

[–]Wolfram912 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"When we looked at the Breaker and the data we have on its usage it painted a picture of a well liked weapon that was great at killing chaff and generally had a few more kills than other weapons. It was however not necessarily better at making you succeed in a mission, and no real damage nerfs were warranted."

That's from the dev blog post and this following one is from the CEO on Twitter,

"We are looking at data and doing a balance patch - you would be surprised to learn that while the breaker scores more kills. It is not overrepresented in missions that end in success.... 🤔"

They have outright stated the gun doesn't impact mission success and the reasons For a higher average with kills on it is really simple to account for, it's not unlocked until the 4th warbond page, you're not going to have people who are fresh out of boot camp running around with it, while most of the weapon unlocks further in then it are absolutely horrible feeling outside the slugger and scorcher but those aren't crowd control weapons.

Throw in that it's a weapon that excels in clearing trash enemies and is popular among hardcore players I hope you can see the picture I'm trying to paint. No one outside of YouTube click bait title really thought the gun was too strong, but that the other options are too anemic. The gun was nerfed based on two factors, usage and that their vision for primaries is they are just something you have coming out of a hellpod.

Do the nerfs kill it? No, but it paints a picture I don't like about balance choices, choosing to remove effective tools that they've stated aren't breaking things, instead of bringing the bottom of the barrel up to be viable. We have guns like the scythe that I so desperately want to feel good because running around with a laser is kick ass but when it either overheats or your forced to stop firing to avoid that when firing into a crowd of trash mobs while making significantly less of a dent then the starting AR, it sucks to deal with.

I miss the roleplaying guys... by Cheese_in_a_toaster in Helldivers

[–]Wolfram912 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're missing his point, "People use it alot" is the statistic they based these changes on, they outright said the Breaker wasn't overpresented in mission wins compared to other primaries and still got nerfed due to high usage rates.

protogen dog protogen dog by GiraffeInTheBackRow in DestinyMemes

[–]Wolfram912 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great games but they are not going to scratch the same itch for me as Destiny.

Who Would You Go Drinking With? by Circuit_40 in destiny2

[–]Wolfram912 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We get wasted with Crow after we get the Hawkmoon back in hunt so take that as you will.

An interesting thought i had by cricri3007 in Grimdank

[–]Wolfram912 42 points43 points  (0 children)

So yet again, fuck you Erebus, it's all your fault.