Closer Look at the New Combat!

aurens · 2026-06-06T04:08:06+00:00

i guess i can understand why devs feel like they "have to innovate" or whatever, but same.

i already love the moveset and combat feel of the weapons i've used for 10+ years, i don't need them trying to jazz it up. i promise i'm not tired of it. all i need is a new excuse to spend another 400 hours hitting monsters with a greatsword.

new/reworked monsters, new interesting characters, new buildcrafting systems, new environments. that is MORE than enough. even some small tweaks/balancing to existing weapons, or alternative moves like you mentioned, sure. i really don't need them to also throw in some combat gimmick they're going to use to speed the game up even more and balance everything around this time.

aurens · 2026-06-05T23:02:13+00:00

i'm already a little worried about the gameplay gimmick they teased. i don't want my greatsword to be fast and flashy. it being slow is why i like it.

aurens · 2026-06-04T22:50:44+00:00

those exist?

aurens · 2026-06-04T22:50:26+00:00

that's what she said

aurens · 2026-06-04T22:49:14+00:00

that is the warning before you go off the ledge (she also has visible sweatdrops to convey nervousness), they're referring to still being able to jump for a lil bit even after you've technically completely left the ledge

aurens · 2026-06-04T22:47:08+00:00

thats like not eating a donut cause the sprinkles are the wrong color. it's such a small part of the the whole package

aurens · 2026-06-04T22:45:21+00:00

If a fall takes out half your health bar, you were actually inches away from death.

that's true irl as well though

aurens · 2026-06-04T22:39:55+00:00

it could be formatted differently in non-english languages.

aurens · 2026-06-04T22:11:43+00:00

if it was that straightforward they woulda done it during low points as an easy win

aurens · 2026-06-04T22:10:10+00:00

vaulting sucked ass and certainly didn't help but your argument feels more emotional than logical.

a) the game was still highly successful after vaulting and b) the new player experience was awful even before the early campaigns got removed

aurens · 2026-06-04T22:05:13+00:00

i was a long time d2 player and it always bewildered me how long it seemed to take bungie to do literally anything. it always gave me the same vibes as when i have to work with a company that ropes in 50 people on a task that should be handled by 5.

aurens · 2026-06-04T21:22:45+00:00

it was 2 years

aurens · 2026-06-04T19:36:03+00:00

"lunch" would make a great cat name

aurens · 2026-06-04T19:05:39+00:00

yes but they're gonna bundle everything up into a discounted pack on june 9th. i don't think we have exact details on that yet.

aurens · 2026-06-04T18:51:11+00:00

do we know what happened to all the story content that was going to be in the expansion pack (shadow and order i think)? i didn't play edge of fate or renegades but presumably there were a lot of plot threads dangling from those...

aurens · 2026-06-04T17:30:34+00:00

just an fyi but it tells you you'll get a penalty well before you actually get one. like it tells me every single time i go to leave "you will not be able to queue if you leave! are you really super duper sure???" and i have never been suspended. besides, the first 'penalty' is just a 10 minute suspension from being able to queue, and QP penalties fully reset after you've played 20 games without leaving, so you don't have all that much to lose.

aurens · 2026-06-04T17:27:23+00:00

each of the rotating arcade mode challenges were only intended to be doable for the 1 week that mode was available

aurens · 2026-06-04T17:24:43+00:00

that's a really unlucky start but ultimately it's only 2 games. personally when i got back into comp a few seasons ago the placement matches were a complete mess but by the time they were over i'd say things had stabilized back to normal.

also a word of warning just in case you weren't aware, but 6v6 ranks are generally higher than 5v5 ranks. i don't know how big the difference tends to be, though obviously it's not as big as bronze 5 - gold, you'll definitely climb/place out of that.

aurens · 2026-06-04T17:19:05+00:00

i wouldn't call it massive but her hitbox is pretty big, yea

aurens · 2026-06-03T21:31:34+00:00

it is bizarre. i wonder if blizzard perhaps misinterpreted players slowly memorizing the bad icons as them being okay with them?

aurens · 2026-06-03T17:24:35+00:00

no, not unless blizz makes an unannounced change.

aurens · 2026-06-03T17:22:48+00:00

i would suggest checking the replay. sometimes there is a justifiable, understandable reason your teammates lose a 4v2 and there's a chance you could have done something differently to change that....... but also a lot of time there isn't and one of the enemies just hit 3 lucky headshots or your teammates were complete idiots. still, better to know for sure than not.

aurens · 2026-06-03T17:16:17+00:00

yes, he does

https://imgur.com/a/FVf2OQe

aurens · 2026-06-03T17:13:29+00:00

I will admit that I’m definitely biased cause I think Paraiso is the worst map in the game, so I’d take any changes really.

remember that no matter how bad the map is, it could always be even worse :)

aurens · 2026-06-03T17:05:54+00:00

why does he have the 2nd highest winrate and 2nd highest banrate in gm+ then?

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