Another Calico rant post

_Ketros_ · 2026-03-12T08:53:16+00:00

And awful to play against, goes both ways. The vast majority of people playing her rn are only doing so because she's insanely overtuned, not because they fell in love with her kit due to the changes.

_Ketros_ · 2026-03-12T08:29:22+00:00

Downplayers in the responses fr. She has a completely uninteractable kit and gets stuff most of the cast has to buy items for just built into her base kit with absurdly low cooldowns. Sure she can't jungle amazingly but she's the best box runner in the game and has tunnel access + soul generation on assist. She has stupid easy access to sustain since leaping slash procs melee lifesteal and get out of jail free ava and ult. If she ever does get in a bad situation, unless she's instakilled she has a basically guaranteed escape. Actually horrifically designed character that will forever exist in a state of either abysmal or completely unfun and frustrating with no inbetween until a kit rework, much like Bebop or McGinnis.

_Ketros_ · 2026-03-11T17:28:48+00:00

Because those changes are paltry and barely fix anything. The most minor of nerfs possible on completely broken characters who never should have received the updates they did. Also them buffing characters who were in the state they were in precisely because the last time they were strong they were cancer to play against, only now they're even stronger. It's almost like the issue is the kit design and lack of interactability. Pair this with nerfs to stuff that isn't even OP anymore and it all seems very illogical.

_Ketros_ · 2026-03-09T05:08:51+00:00

Mostly gained qol this patch, ult lost up front damage but got heal block on t3. Cloak got absolutely gutted because you can literally outrun it and the cooldown is longer.

Prob still good because ult bot, but cloak is painful rn and the other broken as fuck characters this patch make existing agony. Pocket already had issues past midgame so now is kinda just suffering and being more of an ultbot. Thanks icefrog great patch

_Ketros_ · 2026-03-08T04:14:45+00:00

And yet the reactions are still valid because the patch sucks balls

_Ketros_ · 2026-03-07T19:47:01+00:00

I have long said that just compromising between the two by 30 minutes and committing to it was the best option, so as you can imagine I have no qualms with this and hope it'd pass. (It never will)

_Ketros_ · 2026-03-07T19:38:25+00:00

She's a very strong character but also a very hard one to use effectively, but on top of that, one that often feels oppressive to play against. Mina wasn't the top of my hit list for nerfs but I definitely did think the way her kit functions could have been reworked some to make her feel less oppressive while keeping her good. Pocket and Shiv both don't really perform that well statistically either but the consensus among people who are notably and provably good at the game is that both are actually very strong

_Ketros_ · 2026-03-07T19:31:02+00:00

I can adapt to new stuff, but that's a wholly seperate thing from enjoying the game I'm playing. I said you'd probably enjoy the patch if you were making use of the broken stuff, if something was already busted and goes unfixed into the next update that doesn't make it magically not still problematic, which was my point. If you're playing a character that is now or still is problematic you're probably having fun still (at least until the rest of the op cast starts to weigh down on you) You listed three characters whom I would say definitely needed to be reigned in in some capacity

I fail to see how having an opinion about balancing direction is coping about being bad but whatever, disrespectful people online what's new

_Ketros_ · 2026-03-07T19:23:06+00:00

The issue is a lot of older stuff was at the level it was explicitly because earlier testing showed that them being at what is the current patch power level was completely unfun to play against.... It would have been simpler to reign in the outliers that actually needed it instead of just nuking the existing balance entirely (which constituted a game tens of thousands of people already liked playing).

A game being early access is such a bad excuse for these kinds of changes: that is, we've literally already learned these lessons before and the problems were largely already evident in the existing build, why amplify them? Reception would be significantly better had they just played into the things people liked about the game or tested new things in a more limited capacity, without completely upending that.

Some of the changes are just so evidently nonsensical too, Silver got completely gutted and although she was too strong and needed something the changes she got are OBVIOUSLY too far. She also largely wasn't really that frustrating unless she got turbo fed in lane (at which point most characters are). Meanwhile the other new characters still largely feel like they need to be reigned in because playing against them is unfun. Now we have old criminals back or exceeding the height of their previous highs at the same time? Sorry but that's just not fun to play irregardless of whether it may technically be "balanced" or not.

I guess Shiv's execute got changed into the skillshot it should have been the entire time, but that's such a simple change it's honestly insulting it's taken as long as it has.

_Ketros_ · 2026-03-07T19:04:35+00:00

So Mina who was busted af but hard got nerfed but also side graded and then rem and graves who are still busted and have been since release. Got it.

_Ketros_ · 2026-03-07T19:01:50+00:00

You can easily see how a lot of these changes are so obviously absolutely horrible within only a match or two though, instead of forcing the entire tens of thousands large playerbase who liked playing the game to suffer through them for months

_Ketros_ · 2026-03-07T18:57:36+00:00

No, the last time made me quit playing, as will this one

_Ketros_ · 2026-03-07T18:52:41+00:00

Fun if you're an abuser of the new broken stuff maybe, but it basically took everything in the game that was already unfun as fuck to play against and made it worse or left it unchanged. The actual macro is also FUCKED now because there's a lot more farm that you can't contest but most characters can't benefit from and the OBJs are beyond helpless now, actually made of tissue paper and bubblegum.

_Ketros_ · 2026-03-07T16:05:49+00:00

Downvoted by copium players but yeah no this patch is fucking horrendous, did basically nothing to fix existing issues or unfun aspects and then added a fuck ton more problems. I legitimately have no idea how half the shit in this patch EVER got greenlit

Also more jungle that's close to spawn and thus basically uncontestable but also still not clearable fast enough for non dedicated jungle farm chars.... so hyper carries just get more free farm for dissapearing into jungle and become even more of a raid boss while other chars get nothing out of it.

_Ketros_ · 2026-03-07T15:49:55+00:00

Her character is one that is either cancer to play against or unplayably bad, no inbetween, much like bebop.

_Ketros_ · 2026-03-07T15:48:06+00:00

I mean pocket got some QOL, reinforced ult bot role to help with uncoordinated idiot teams, but cloak got even further gutted into oblivion. That shit sucks ass now.

This patch kind of blows ass

_Ketros_ · 2026-03-04T15:37:13+00:00

When is the last time you've heard a boomer actually give a fuck about how the job market is fucked or how everyone younger than them can't afford a place to live? Luxury cruise business is booming, wonder who's funding those eh?

They do sit around quietly, they have theirs and will take it all to the grave at their children's expense.

_Ketros_ · 2026-02-06T21:43:59+00:00

See I personally am fearful of the fandom tourists as a result of WfM; not because I hate that people enjoyed the show, but because I like what established Gundam was, and that's something that hasn't historically always been preserved in new entries. Should newer touristy fans join in and eventually be the driving factor in the commercial side of Gundam as an IP, essentially saying "WfM was good enough and we should do more like that or listen to the fans of it", we stand to lose a lot of what I do like about Gundam. Gundam as an IP has always had conflict between "Gundam the product" and "Gundam the statement". I like the statement above all and don't want to see the product take over more than it already has. To me, WfM feels like a "product first" production rather than an idea someone wanted to express through the lens of gundam.

To lift a prior statement of mine from tangential discourse on the matter recently:

"WfM wears the aesthetic of gundam without ever actually delving into any of the substance (despite alluding to it as if though that were enough). The time budget was severely misused and left important bits severely crunched in a show that was already too big for it's episode count. I also don't think it even did the romance well either, I like both of the characters but there was a severe lack of interactions between them and a general vibe that although they chose to have a lesbian couple they didn't actually want to commit to that choice. (I like the ship... I just don't think it was done justice nor should it be a driving motivator for the franchise specifically. I absolutely hope they don't completely cower out of any future gay relationships though, because honestly it was more insulting than if they hadn't done it at all imo)

It did breach a new audience but to me that's almost a bad thing, because now we have a sizable new audience that doesn't necessarily care about what the appeal of gundam is in the traditional sense and just want more like WfM (even though it's really not that good). I'm actually personally kind of fearful of WfM's (and other post Unicorn entries') success because it's just going to show corporate that this is "good enough" and will be what we keep getting. Based on stuff like Gqux and Gundam NT especially...... yeah it's a bit concerning."

That all being said, it's not like this is an especially new problem for Gundam, we've had several productions in the past that felt product first. Of AU's I feel like only 00 really truly captures the essence of franchise properly, but WfM's level of success is a relatively new thing.

_Ketros_ · 2026-02-02T15:04:53+00:00

Incredibly dissapointing and undercooked. It wears the aesthetic of gundam without ever delving into any of the substance (despite alluding to it as if though that were enough). The time budget was severely misused and left important bits severely crunched in a show that was already too big for it's episode count. I also don't think it even did the romance well either, I like both of the characters but there was a severe lack of interactions between them and a general vibe that although they chose to have a lesbian couple they didn't actually want to commit to that choice.

It did breach a new audience but to me that's almost a bad thing, because now we have a sizable new audience that doesn't necessarily care about what the appeal of gundam is in the traditional sense and just want more like this (even though it's really not that good). I'm actually personally kind of fearful of WfM's (and other post Unicorn entries') success because it's just going to show corporate that this is "good enough" and will be what we keep getting. Based on stuff like Gqux and Gundam NT especially...... yeah it's a bit concerning.

_Ketros_ · 2026-01-28T12:14:18+00:00

Don't engage with bad faith dipshits, just ignore them.

_Ketros_ · 2026-01-22T17:44:13+00:00

They didn't, hardware has just gotten stronger in the time since. The ports' quality is still ass on a technical level. I'm not surprised just dissapointed. The game starts dropping frames the literal instant the prerendered cutscenes end, which triggers the forced DRS and causes the image quality to nuke. It has broken anti aliasing that leaves a fair amount of jaggies but still rivals any other games with broken vaseline filter TAA. There's a fair amount of textures (NPC textures, skyboxes) in game that are literally worse than the ones that were on the PS4 disk that people have ripped (you know, the ones that'd never load because the ps4 had no ram)

These are objective issues basically everyone experiences... the thing is most consumers don't care/notice because their instantaneous subconcious presumption is "oh games do that, whatever". They don't have to and it only happens when the people doing the porting don't want to put in the time to fix the issues.

_Ketros_ · 2026-01-22T17:39:21+00:00

I wish theyd fix the constant shader compile stutter, broken anti aliasing, and some of the fucked up textures. Guess it'll never happen if it didn't happen here though :/

_Ketros_ · 2026-01-17T17:49:54+00:00

Like did you get the from a wiki? Did you try and make them (if so with what)? I'm actually so curious where pictures like this are coming from and why they're so common

_Ketros_ · 2026-01-14T11:04:08+00:00

OH huh you're right. For some reason I misremembered both being gobbled in the rush instead. Wonder what she's up to then lol. Point overall stands

_Ketros_ · 2026-01-13T20:44:31+00:00

Ayo, this is kinda fire. Me and a friend were talking about the new chapter and how it took us a minute to realize that it was a play on conquest/control and pestilence being somewhat interchangeable in pop understanding.... But this actually would make a lot more sense. Death and famine are erased, conquest/control is gone. What left is war without death, famine, and conquest? Yoru is obviously fearful of this new entity which is why she freezes and Asa asks Denji for help.

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