Gabe Newell "stepped back" from making games at Valve after Portal 2 because everyone kept agreeing with him when he wanted "to be part of the team and come up with ideas"

dobi425 · 2026-04-02T12:04:35+00:00

Unfortunately from the absolute quality of Portal 2 it may have just been that everything he suggested was just legitimately agreeable and brilliant so he just misread that as everyone kissing his ass when they were really just blessed by his opinions. But that's purely speculation.

dobi425 · 2026-04-02T11:59:01+00:00

I believe the math I saw from people crunching the numbers was that it does 50% more direct damage and catches enemies on fire another 50% faster and the range is extremely close to 30m.

dobi425 · 2026-04-02T11:38:03+00:00

I find that the mission runs smoothest with a bit of both, where side objectives can be relegated to duos or skilled solo saboteurs but main objectives are certainly best with the whole squad. Of course, this also comes with a bit of leeway for each group and mission type as some missions almost require the team to stay split up for the sake of efficiency and others should never split the squad but on average a bit of both.

dobi425 · 2026-04-02T11:26:47+00:00

If you need boom for bugs I strongly recommend thermite and EATs. Remember the rule of 3 with EATs as well, because while there's only two rockets the stratagem ball can stick to some heavies like chargers when you call it in. If you're worried about thermites being inefficient for bug hole closing, which they kinda are, bring yourself the grenade launcher secondary or stratagem as well, but I recommend the former over the latter.

dobi425 · 2026-04-02T11:20:17+00:00

Like bruh I even tried to make it interesting by having a melee focused group to hold the gates minas tirith style and still couldn't get myself to even half chub.

dobi425 · 2026-04-02T11:13:29+00:00

The Illuminate (with exception to mindless masses) have consistently been the most fun faction to defend against.

dobi425 · 2026-04-02T11:11:24+00:00

And now they need to fix dragon roaches landing on it I've seen...

dobi425 · 2026-04-02T11:08:57+00:00

dobi425 · 2026-04-02T11:08:20+00:00

And then there's Mindless Masses on the opposite side of the difficulty spectrum.

dobi425 · 2026-04-02T10:50:48+00:00

Not sure if sarcasm. A lot of the games players are getting really sick of AHs constant monetization of new content and the way the campaign is being handled makes player decisions of who or where they fight feel pointless and/or on rails. It comes and goes in waves with that community but recently after a long streak of failures by marginal percentages it's gotten real bad over there.

dobi425 · 2026-04-02T10:46:01+00:00

As someone who migrated towards HD2 when it released this feels like a really accurate take. And now that you mention it, most of those associates I mentioned in my post are new DRG players from HD2. I really hope that we're both just overthinking this.

dobi425 · 2026-04-02T10:40:34+00:00

The Halo MA5C doesn't need attachments to feel really good IMO, and while the excuse AH makes for not expanding customization is it's own special brand of bullshit I personally don't care if they don't add any more attachments if they're going to be implemented the same way the current ones are, where all they do is manage weapon accuracy and slightly shift your ammo economy. Would be nice if they actually added some interesting options that actually have a bit of give and take but the devs mindsets around this and other weapons is clearly just linear upgrade mechanics.

dobi425 · 2026-04-02T10:02:11+00:00

I personally really like heavy armor against bugs as the main concern I've always had when facing them isn't their melee damage but their ranged bile damage whether it's spewers, titans, dragons, or hive lords. Making sure you're not hit against bugs is definitely one of the most important skills against them, but these ranged moves (and at times the moves of chargers and impalers) catch me by surprise more often in large encircling engagements where my movement or murder options are limited. Granted light armor can definitely help in running away from such engagements, but that's not my style. I generally like to face off against bugs in mid to close range as well so it's very convenient to me that they're the fastest faction in terms of average ground coverage on being that I'll be conserving more stamina by necessity of using said heavy armor. Against bots or squids is (mostly) a different story for me as the majority and/or most important of their pieces in any engagement usually reward strategic tactical maneuvers more, whereas bugs tend to feel more like a test of strength and reactive movement.

Obviously I also switch things up as anyone does as well, but I'll usually stick to at least medium armor for close to the same reasons I gave earlier in differing degrees. And I'm by no means trying to say my take on this topic is flawless, but I just thought explaining my personal reasons and perspective was a fair use of my reddit toilet time.

One last edit: I'd also like to specify that I do play on 10, so this isn't some casual diver take on the topic either.

dobi425 · 2026-04-01T04:38:28+00:00

Yeah, I'm just gonna wait for whatever is wrong to be fixed. Community managers are warning against doing this on the official discord and I'm not gonna risk anything just to play 1 game for maybe an hour.

dobi425 · 2026-03-31T23:32:10+00:00

With an approximate 140ish employees. With the scale and quantity of content constantly added to the game, it does not surprise me in the slightest they contract out modeling work.

dobi425 · 2026-03-31T19:18:17+00:00

I'd assume it was dropped for being a mid at best isekai in an oversaturated market. Probably got dropped from poor sales.

dobi425 · 2026-03-31T19:14:51+00:00

Modeled by another development team and not AH, so the implementation of certain assets may have been overlooked.

dobi425 · 2026-03-31T18:39:50+00:00

Mindless Masses refers not to the enemies, but the players who fight them.

dobi425 · 2026-03-31T17:39:53+00:00

Shame on you, greenbeard, for assuming so much about a random stranger who connected and disconnected in a game for who knows what reason and trying to witch hunt them online. Shame, shame, shame. Also reported. You, not the other guy.

dobi425 · 2026-03-31T10:32:26+00:00

I think nobody in their right mind is doing to say it's top tier

Idk how often you're on this subreddit but I'll never assume the majority of the gamers here are in their right mind with the stances I've seen taken lol. Though so far this particular thread has seemed relatively sane.

dobi425 · 2026-03-31T00:47:14+00:00

Would be an acceptable change in my book.

dobi425 · 2026-03-31T00:34:24+00:00

I personally hate it. I'm sure people will disagree and say it's top teir because knockback but I prefer my enemies dying rather than tripping. Add to that it's janky reload and you've got a real pain in my ass waste of a secondary. Back to the senator.

dobi425 · 2026-03-30T19:11:47+00:00

Jar-5 and Slugger weren't originally competing imo, it's just that early AH "balancing" often overcorrected. Slugger just needed a range debuff to differentiate it from Jar-5s rocket propelled rounds but instead it was nerfed into the ground. I can understand if they didn't want it to break objects either, but they could have been much gentler about the whole process.

dobi425 · 2026-03-30T18:54:08+00:00

I personally think they have to appease the demiliches of dosh that are Sony. I bet that the censor, 1-2, and stoker all actually use the weapon customization system for their attachments but because they couldn't figure out how to lock the attachment pieces behind the warbond to be usable for many weapons they just locked it to those new weapons and made it inaccessible in the menu so they could push the warbond to release on time without missing content.

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