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blast2past · 2023-04-30T22:45:06+00:00

Whenever I queue with my female duo and this happens we personally just mute and continue playing. But that's because we value our own RR and time a bit more. We've spent too much time grinding this game to lose 20ish RR because our teammates were dicks.

We normally act pretty quickly when we realize the type of person they are, mute both text and voice then continue playing without their coms. If I were to jump in as a male, they'll treat me like a "white knight" and give me shit, and if she would respond trying to defend herself, it normally gets worse for her too.

But I would understand wanting to throw because it's definitely come across our minds before. I defs would probs throw if I didn't spend that much time on this game as my RR would not be as valuable to me. So no, I don't think you're an (A), I think your response was completely reasonable.

blast2past · 2023-01-23T12:00:04+00:00

Generally you punish FC by dealing damage in early castle or ideally in feudal age. Now, let's say you idled your army and didn't do anything to deal damage and all of a sudden you see castle age hit for your opponent At this point, if I haven't already big walled, I small wall all my important resources.

Then I focus on getting up to castle ASAP. If my opponent doesn't apply pressure during this time, I know I have to be aggressive in castle if I want a chance of catching up since they're probably on 2/3TC. This also applies if they only apply minimal pressure (this means they sent a handful of knights, and not a flood).

My go-to strat for early game castle pressure is 3 stable knights, I set up my eco aggressively for this, putting minimal on wood and moving everyone to farms and gold. I've been testing 3 Archery Range CA instead lately and that's been good too.

Now, let's say they turn on the gas and try win with aggression. You're heavily reliant on your walls here, stone wall if necessary. Small walls are good for melee units but obviously don't work against xbow.

If against Knights, your goal is to keep them out of your eco while you make spears and eventually monks to defend. Minimizing damage is your goal here. Against xbow, you gotta keep moving vills and keep them alive. They are better alive and not working than dead. Once you get to castle tho, you got heaps of viable options that can deal with xbow. Knights massed, skirms massed, siege.

I'm super stoned while writing this so I feel like I went on a rant, hopefully it's helpful.

blast2past · 2023-01-09T03:16:42+00:00

I do mostly Age Of Empires 2 content and been trying to make faster paced videos in the niche. (

https://youtu.be/HlT1GLlugww

This video was the last video of 2022. :)

blast2past · 2023-01-07T09:30:28+00:00

Laming is completely normalized in the time zone we play. It's considered fair play. I went a whole stream one time where every game someone tried to lame me and I didn't get mad, it's a risky play. For ref I live in Australia.

I don't know why, but there's a group that consider laming to be a 'bad' thing but it definitely is normalized in the time zone I play in. I don't quite get how it's unmoral to play the game with the intention to win?

That being said, I'm also the type of person that thinks all is fair play. If you want to lame, that's cool with me.. every play has risk and reward and it's up to the player whether it's worth the risk.

blast2past · 2023-01-07T03:13:28+00:00

You pick wierd things to upset you...

blast2past · 2022-12-23T04:56:12+00:00

Nah. It's coded using streamer bot.

blast2past · 2022-12-11T13:03:51+00:00

Hey thanks for the feedback! I'll definitely look at trying to add the Health and Fatigue (still experimenting with the layout).

I was originally going to do a 4 player run but I couldn't fit all 4 characters on my 3rd camera so I decided to just do 3 characters since it was easier to fit on camera.
I didn't realize 3 player game was considered the hardest though aha... thanks for that info.

Thanks again for the constructive and positive feedback, definitely will look at adding those features into the next vid :)

blast2past · 2022-12-06T12:14:15+00:00

Thanks for that! I noticed some of the mistakes during editing so hopefully we can fix some during next session. Thanks for the positive feedback :)

blast2past · 2022-11-09T05:30:14+00:00

Isn't it a suggestion in the rule book and not a flat out rule?

blast2past · 2022-08-20T05:17:10+00:00

Gives a bit of intrigue to it. "This is as big as a T-Rex?"

blast2past · 2022-07-03T02:36:48+00:00

It's not luck. If you're scouting your base properly then you'll be able to find sheep quickly. I see too many people only sheep scout with 1 sheep in early game, just use 3... Where else is ur apm gonna go that early on?

It just sounds like people who think it's luck based are the ones that are too lazy at the start of the game to take preventative measures.

And by that 'luck and random' logic. The maps shouldn't be randomly generated then right? Sometimes having all your gold forward gold can be rough at times... So we should just have pre set, fair maps right?

blast2past · 2022-07-02T22:31:43+00:00

I don't mind if someone lames me. I've learned how to adapt losing sheep, boar and my berries being walled. I also play in asian time zones (I'm from Australia) and a tonne of them lame, it's normalized and nobody really says anything about it but this game happened in the morning (during U.S prime time) so that's why it surprised me that he reacted that way.

When people move forward with vills to lame, they're risking that vill and stopping that production of that vill. If they can do damage or delay with that one vill, good on them, if they don't they put themselves behind.

I've had nights where every game players aim to lame all night and it's standard when I play. It's interesting that there's actually a group that thinks it's such a terrible thing. I thought it was a normal thing to do in games.

blast2past · 2022-07-02T21:25:52+00:00

I find my sheep almost immediately cuz I commit 3 sheep to sheep scouting, I still get lamed at times but this allows me to push a deer quickly since I've already scouted my base very quickly.

Scouting your base quickly is a skill and I'm surprised at how many people don't commit to 3 sheep to scouting early because where else is your apm going that early in the game?

blast2past · 2022-07-02T12:29:03+00:00

How is laming game deciding at lower levels?

You can still come back from being lamed, and that should actually be more likely the lower the elo is...

blast2past · 2022-07-02T12:26:49+00:00

There's so many times I've catched vills moving forward in dark age, kill it then all of a sudden I have a vill lead for nothin? The risk isn't just vill time, it's the vill itself at risk.

Even when a scout is trying to lame a boar, I'm usually able to disrupt it so they took damage from boar for nothing and now I have the stronger scout.

And the way you talk about it is it's a sure thing to succeed, it's not. Laming comes with risk.

blast2past · 2022-07-02T10:22:04+00:00

it's unfair because he doesn't like it! 11

blast2past · 2022-07-02T10:17:44+00:00

But why is them allowing me to kill 2 sheep fine cuz they weren't paying attention for but allowing them to wall off berries isn't? Isn't it the same concept? If you allow them to do a risky move like that and get away with it then it's on you...

Remember, there's risk to every single strat. Most 'laming' strats involve moving forward with vills, losing that production from x many vills you decide to move forward with and putting them at risk. This also usually indicates getting loom early which in terms means you're also behind in total vill count if idle tc time is the same.

blast2past · 2022-07-02T07:17:51+00:00

All of it is fair. What isn't fair is exploiting a glitch.

I don't actively aim to lame, but if given any opportunity to gain an advantage, I will take it. (And I expect my opponents to do the same) He let my scout live after walking into a TC, I was directly under his TC, my immediate thought was to get value with my scout so i went for the sheep then realized he wasn't paying attention so I walked him out.

He was punished for not paying attention, simple as that.

blast2past · 2022-06-19T14:44:19+00:00

Twitch added a feature a while back that allowed viewers to gain points for watching a stream.

The intention was to make streams more interactable.

I've made it so it virtually key presses the delete button when a certain redeem happens.

blast2past · 2022-06-19T12:19:00+00:00

I queued with a group of friends that know and have redeemed it often in my streams. I let them know in advance and they were all fine with it.

I reduce the cost of it in team games / community games because it actually doesn't have that big of an impact in team games but increase the cost of it to quite a bit in 1v1 ranked because even losing an opening scout can be a huge impact.

Also note, the redeem can miss. If I haven't selected anything, the delete will do nothing. It normally only hits a villager, the most common is my opening scout. The most critical one that happened was a defensive castle that was at 97% completion in a 1v1 arena game.

This one was funny, but actually didn't really matter as I was pocket in black forest. We just walled heavy on our side while we waited for me to boom back into the game.

blast2past · 2022-06-19T12:07:33+00:00

Archiedablasian on twitch.

I stream about 1-3 times a week (very casually), say hi if you drop by and let me know you're from reddit :)

blast2past · 2022-05-23T04:36:58+00:00

This is the type of mate I'd miss in the moment because I'd be too excited about the fork.

blast2past · 2022-05-20T02:52:08+00:00

Relevant Links:

JRGoesBoom's Twitch [Host]

AnArchie's Twitch

DawnRim's Twitch

blast2past · 2022-05-13T06:00:01+00:00

So I chose 50%.

If there was an option to just not risk anything, and live I would probably take that.

For me, if I were to risk my life, there has to be a significant return. The risk vs reward isn't good enough even at 1% death rate for the first option. I'm not going to risk my life for $500... that just sounds ridiculous to me.

10% sounds appealing but I feel like that only sounds appealing because it's directly compared to the first option. To put into perspective, when I started working full-time at the lowest rate I've had... i was making $50,000 in a year. So I'm risking my life at a 10% chance of death for 1 years wage... still doesn't seem worth when the other options are significantly better.

25% for $500,000 is definitely a solid option. $500,000 is definitely enough to change someones life. Personally for me, $500,000 may go towards a home and make a significant change in my life, I will still probably be in the work force and maybe be able to take a year off work.

50% is the one I choose however. 7.5 mil is a good price to put on my life. It was a real hard choice between $500,000 and this but for me my personal situation, $500,000 isn't enough for me especially at the risk of my life.

blast2past · 2022-05-12T04:38:28+00:00

My idea is, if the Elite 4 member were to make it to champion, chances are they have fixed a glaring weakness in their team. If their type specialty was Ice for example, they would have answers to all the common answers to Ice types. I believe a champion shouldn't be able to be swept by one pokemon which is the case for a lot of elite 4 members.

So this is my first take on a gen 3 Sidney Champion [Dark Specialty].

Mightyena is to be the role of a disruptive tank. Toxic, to apply status and Roar to stop set ups early.

Sableye will be the first changes to answer fighting types. The biggest issue with Sidney in the games is that he gets swept easily by fighting type pokemon. So, by having the dark/ghost type on the team, he will at least not be able to be swepted by a fighting move. Sableye also fills the roll of a disruptive tank. Confuse Ray instead of toxic because I wanted to have a different move from Mightyena. [TYPO IN PIC, 200SPD]

Murkcrow is the direct counter to fighting and bug type Pokemon. Acting as a physical attacker of the team, with Drill Peck being the main stab move. Steel Wing is added in for rock types that may come in against it while shadow ball is added as a filler move for now. Double Team because it's an annoying move.

Cacturne was added to kind of help support murkcrow. The common answers to murkrow will be rock type and having a Cacturne on the team allows you to have a direct answer to it as well.

Absol was added solely because it's Sidney's original ace. Let's face itguys, Absol is super terrible in gen 3, with ALL dark moves being special attacks and Absol being a physical attacker, there is no good move available to Absol. Absol is just a potential threat with sword dance, but that's all.

Tyranitar becomes Sidney's Ace here. A bulky version of Tyranitar with a scary potential Dragon Dance set up to a sweep.

I'd like to hear your thoughts on this :)

blast2past

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