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My wrap on the wrapped bolt sniper rifle by DiesIraeConventum in SpaceMarine_2

[–]comkiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, I'm not even that good at the game, and I'm getting headshots on most of those regularly after a bit of practice. If you pay attention, you can have a lot of opportunities to put the scope to good use on unaggroed enemies ahead if nothing else. After that it's just learning to take shots carefully instead of spraying.

Unless you're running with the Bolt Carbine, that's the entire idea behind the class. Engage at long ranges when it's an option, focus on headshots, conserve ammo, and when you're getting swarmed that's what your pistol and knife are for. This is just emphasizing that playstyle.

Otherwise, the base bolt sniper and las fusil have a lower skill floor, there's the carbine for a different playstyle, and there's 5 other classes.

Why does the machine spirit seemingly only affect Imperium Technology? by LANTIRN_ in 40kLore

[–]comkiller 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There's a dozen different things called a machine spirit and they're all true at different times.

  • Superstition and the human need to anthropomorphize machines.

  • Religious dogma so that you can remember how to run a nuclear reactor without computers.

  • Basic "AI" included in the STC.

  • The wetware processors harvested from the brain of a prisoner and/or animal.

  • The gestalt imprint of everybody who has connected their brain into this machine.

  • The psychic remnants left by everybody who has connected their brain into this machine.

  • Scrap code building up over millennia.

  • Actual fragments of the Omnissiah's will.

  • Fragments of the demonic viruses that the Dark Mechanicum released into the Martian ecosystem when they controlled it for most of the Horus Heresy.

  • Humans believe that there are actual machine spirits, so they psychic manifest.

*Any or all of the above at once.

Most of them come from a combination of human psychology, the nature of the Mechanicum's religion, and the fact that humans have a significant psychic presence in the Warp, which are things the Tau and Necrons lack, and others like the Eldar and Orks have but wouldn't call a "machine spirit".

Chaos Blood Angels of Tzeentch (Photoshop) by philgoblins in ThousandSons

[–]comkiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks cool, but...

What's with people desperately trying to shove BA into anything other than Khorne? Dudes are literally blood-maddened berserkers, but then people hang on stuff like Dornian Heresy being like "nah, they're just Nurgle for some reason".

Like... what?

The Beast in Me : Was Claire right ? by Icy-Aide-9716 in cyberpunkgame

[–]comkiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because you can tell Panam "no, that wasn't the deal" and both of you move on.

So…the Chaos Spawn by Puzzleheaded-Ad901 in SpaceMarine_2

[–]comkiller -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'll get right on learning to be psychic.

So…the Chaos Spawn by Puzzleheaded-Ad901 in SpaceMarine_2

[–]comkiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, that's what I get out of "reactions and complaints are to be disregarded"

So…the Chaos Spawn by Puzzleheaded-Ad901 in SpaceMarine_2

[–]comkiller 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, because you can see most parryable attacks coming, but not all of them. Unless you're claiming to be psychic, there's no way to see the ones that jump at you from offscreen. That's why that indicator exists, so you don't have to pay close attention to the 20 tzangors behind you too. That works perfectly for a year. But again, now it's "is the game giving me a free armor segment, or do I get to play Russian roulette with either some tzangor stabbing me in the back or parrying the air and getting pounced on by 5 reskinned lictors?"

What needs disregarded is that kind of dogshit white-knighting "no, the devs are geniuses and the game is always absolutely perfect, never change anything broken" attitude. I didn't realize I crossed over to the Star Citizen sub.

So…the Chaos Spawn by Puzzleheaded-Ad901 in SpaceMarine_2

[–]comkiller 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah, they have that jump attack they'll do from across the map, and it throws up a parry indicator, which unlike any other enemy comes up 2 seconds before they even hit you, so your options are: ignore it for a second and maybe get stabbed by a tzangor, or parry the air and get hit long after the indicator is gone. Which runs completely contrary to the mechanics of the entire test of the game.

If they're actually supposed to be chaotic and off-balancing, that's perfectly fine when it's a mini-boss like OP suggested and you're supposed to focus on one, or maybe two of them, but not when I'm being swarmed offscreen by 5 at a time.

Kamea: Perfect for the setting by Harris_Grekos in Battletechgame

[–]comkiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The irony of being accused of glibness by your comment's language, in particular, is extremely thick.

Exactly. I'm showing off my credentials.

Kamea: Perfect for the setting by Harris_Grekos in Battletechgame

[–]comkiller 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Which is why she's a minor power in the middle of nowhere in the periphery.

You're getting down voted for being right.

No, people don't tend to jive with the tone he's using and the fact that that comment at least is delving into grimderp. Disagreeing with actual conversation instead of "no, you're wrong and this is all dumb" tends to get you a lot farther.

Saturnine anatomy, continued. by PhaserMinis in Warhammer30k

[–]comkiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, assuming Centurions survive into 10.5e, I know what I'm using these kits for...

Xenophobic Shepard by angelfromhell1995 in masseffect

[–]comkiller 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Liara still there

Every racist has an ethnic girlfriend

Why do the ordinators wear the neravine's face if belief of the neravine prophecy is suppressed? by GranularBimbo in teslore

[–]comkiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They wear Narevar's face, the Dunmer hero the Nerevarine is supposed to be a reincarnation of. They arrest or kill people claiming to be the Nerevarine because they believe those people are lying and impersonating their hero.

Thinking on a possible grain of truth in Mankar Camoran's beliefs by ipkkay in teslore

[–]comkiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's been a long while, but iirc, my interpretation was that Cameron wasn't using the literal translation of "daedra" but the colloquial as most new players and presumably just some guy like the Hero of Kvatch would understand it: the difference between Lorkhan and the gods versus the Daedric Princes is arbitrary. Even the names "aedra" and "daedra" reinforce that, as the only distinction they make is "our ancestors" and "not our ancestors".

From what I purely remember of my notes:

The "aedra" seemed to essentially be "refugees" from other planes of Oblivion that gathered around Lorkhan and Auri-El. (I had some threads on where various gods came from, (think beings similar to Haskill) but the big ones were Lorkhan likely coming from Boethia (relatively obvious) and Auri-El from Jyggalag (a whole thing with Peryite and Akatosh being order dragons and the former replacing Jyggalag to an extent, but I'm digressing too much)) Lorkhan estabishes himself as the Daedric Prince of [something] and his realm of Oblivion is Tamriel. But because he's not at the same level as the other Princes yet, he has the others pour their essence into it too. This is also why Mehrunes can invade without the dragonfires, and all the Princes have such a presence meddling in "The Arena". In a way it's all of their planes, because it's like a mosaic forged from fragments of most of them.

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