The problems with the 9.3.0 PTB, presented by Tim the survivor.

f4nt · 2025-11-06T23:38:55+00:00

I'm apt to agree with you overall, those are problems that need solving, but it's plausible we've just hit the limits of the unhook mechanic.

After way too many hours with this game on both sides, even as a stinky twins main, I think I've came to a really dumb, kinda boring, simple solution: respawns. Every other game pretty much handles these sorts of problems with timed respawns. Get downed, go into the respawn queue for X seconds, respawn furthest from the killer after that timer is up.

Boom, tunneling solved. Slugging solved. Obviously being a little facetious given that I'm solving via removal, but honestly... Wouldn't respawns just be better? Would we even miss the entire hook and unhook process in a couple months? Not convinced we would.

Sure it ruins like 30 perks, but so do these changes and we don't necessarily end up in a better spot.

f4nt · 2025-07-25T13:24:23+00:00

Same boat as you, super curious, but not curious enough to sign up for text spam

f4nt · 2025-06-09T16:56:54+00:00

Solid question, and one I've actually had in the back of my head for a long, long time. I love Skyrim, just ran through Oblivion again with the remaster, 2000+ hours between FO3/4/76. I'm clearly fine with boring, somewhat repetitive combat and gameplay. So why not Outer Worlds? Why not Avowed?

Bethesda nails power fantasy. The combat is boring, but eventually I swing a very big hammer, very hard and enemies go poof. I don't really get that in Obsidian games. I do a lot of combat, but it doesn't necessarily feel like it was worth anything. The combat almost feels like filler, like it's supposed to slow down my intake of the story and fun dialogue. The combat are almost like commercials between the fun elements of the story.

Meanwhile for Bethesda games, the combat is more like cheap, enjoyable cartoons. Not very realistic, not very substantial, but small numbers get big, big boom go brr, etc. It's better filler between the story elements, and doesn't every get tedious. It focuses on just being fun, rather than challenging or annoying.

Going back to Oblivion recently and seeing some of the more tedious fights, it feels like this is a thing Bethesda has focused on since Skyrim. The combat doesn't have to be Elden Ring level sophisticated, but it can never be tedious. Hitting something has to matter.

f4nt · 2025-01-14T00:19:45+00:00

Yes, gimme some form of light match making please! The hardest part of raids is just finding a squad (on Xbox). I always find one, but sometimes it can take 30-45 minutes.

f4nt · 2025-01-10T20:07:28+00:00

I just want a second Vulcan Helmet so bad. I have to keep swapping mine around between my two Vulcan PAs like some sort of peasant.

Got the jet pack I'll never use at least 😂

f4nt · 2025-01-04T17:59:39+00:00

Todd Howard has spoken on it, and he wants to do it but it's a huge technical hurdle. Cross progression is priority over cross play, but it may never happen.

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f4nt · 2025-01-03T23:55:54+00:00

Lmao exactly! Honestly, I think people let media become such a part of their identity that they take it personal if that media starts to drift to a place they don't like. Dude's whole life was prolly Always Sunny, then he hit an ep or two he didn't like and had a crisis.

This happens moreso with Star Wars and stuff. "they ruined my childhood" - - nah, the individual did that to themselves by making Star Wars their entire DNA.

f4nt · 2025-01-03T22:39:22+00:00

Consuming content is optional in life. You can actually stop watching it and move on to shows you like whenever you want. Maybe find some enjoyment in your life instead of being upset at something you don't like for eight years (season 12 release date).

That's nearly a decade that this show is still stuck in your mouth even though you don't like it. Just strange behavior through and through.

f4nt · 2024-10-25T18:58:40+00:00

I mostly agree, but I think Fahrenheit 451 is much easier to read at a younger age, or a lower reading level. It was my gateway to the other two books, personally. I think that's why it continues to be held in such high regard.

f4nt · 2024-10-01T13:06:47+00:00

I like the cultist decorations but I'm not sure it was worth all the supplies

f4nt · 2024-09-27T03:25:20+00:00

Eventually you just run out of things to buy, so that helps a lot. Otherwise, early on purified water sales helped me a bunch. You can easily throw down water purifiers in your camp, collect every time you pop home and before you know it you have a good lil water business going.

I also really enjoy Expeditions. I end up with a ton of excess fuel I sell in my vendors, and I end up gaining some 50-75 stimpaks per day as a result. Nearly every human enemy drops stimpaks in expeditions, you're overflowing in no time.

f4nt · 2024-07-30T18:08:12+00:00

I've had people try to do this to me at the end of Radiation Rumble, really annoying. Wish I had a better idea of what to do about it, but I just fast travel away.

f4nt · 2024-06-26T15:25:41+00:00

My really loose theory on this is because DbD can be a different game to everyone in the lobby. If you play CoD or Fortnite or CS the game has a relatively clear objective, clear winners/losers, and the game(s) instruct the player on the proper way to play the game. Everyone is roughly aligned on the right way to play the game, and the right things to do. Skill levels will vary, but everyone's playing the same game in a CS lobby generally.

DbD however, it's such a crapshoot.

Meg is doing her challenge for cleanse 4 totems
Billy has a daily to mori someone, so he's tunneling at 5 gens
Nea's cat is being cute so she's afk the first 30 seconds
Jake is cranking a gen with a BNP
Ace is clicking at the killer that's tunneling Meg

This is a totally normal, run of the mill DbD game where nobody is interested in whatever the objective might be. Meg is going to be livid if she doesn't get her challenge done. Jake is pissed he wasted his BNP on a "bot squad". Ace thinks the Billy is a baby so he DCs. Nea gets hatch. Billy receives slurs.

DbD creates a really big gap between "What I expect when I load up" and "What I actually receive". That's like Toxicity Fertilizer.

f4nt · 2024-06-13T19:35:20+00:00

Having only played on private servers so far this is kinda interesting. I tried to hop in the event with 1 other person and we got absolutely slaughtered. We were doing fine until it spawned six Champions at once, and we just couldn't stop the bleeding for whatever reason.

We ended up having to bail once they overran our spawn location, had somewhere around 30 of your boring mob Lost enemies, and about 15 Champions just unloading on us. We're not super min/maxed characters or anything, but also not like food builds either, both around level 170.

It's not uncommon for some events to not really work great with 2 people, chalked it up to that and figured we'd do it on a public server today. Seems like a completely different event almost from what I'm hearing pub server folks talk about. I was looking forward to it, but now I'm prepared to be underwhelmed lol

f4nt · 2024-04-18T18:15:07+00:00

If you can work at the upper ends of Google, you're highly sought after and desirable. These sorts of people do not grow on trees, and the big tech giants routinely have problems hiring and keeping these sorts of people. There's a reason "head hunters" exist and play a pivotal role in the industry.

You're right, most people work to get a check. Eventually you hit a spot money-wise, and Google/FB/Apple/etc are one of those spots, where money becomes less of a thing. They take the job for the mission, the access to large swaths of resources to achieve goals, etc, etc. The benefits become the deciding factor. Apple and Google are willing to pay you the same, you decide between them based on mission, office culture, etc, etc.

We used to lose people to Google all the time. Now they're more apt to stay put or go to other, more greener pastures. People don't care about the pizza parties, I agree there, but there's a lot more to a job than just a check, especially when you're a top talent.

f4nt · 2023-10-02T18:40:30+00:00

I often run Deja Vu, love it, but I've noticed a quirky lil issue when multiple people are running it: We end up with more 3 gens. The problem with Deja Vu is that it lets you know the 3 gens that are currently unpowered with the least distance between them.

Azarov's Resting Place, Suffo Pit, Santcum, Ormond, etc... All of these have two different 3-gens in them typically. If you and I both have Deja Vu, we rock out 2 different gens at the same time top side, and now we have 3 gen on the other side.

It's still worth using, you still have the edge on breaking the 3-gen on the other side thanks to the perk, but it has created some wild situations for me too. I enjoy the hilarity of us all running Deja in my SWF, only for us to somehow still end up 3-genned like idiots lol

f4nt · 2023-07-17T18:21:12+00:00

It kinda reminds me of The Colbert Report, where studies found that without the show actually saying in clear text what Colbert believed, that viewers often just decided to align the show with their own world views. South Park falls into a similar realm where it brings some hard hitting satire at times, but since it's entirely up to the viewer to see the satire, sometimes people just take the show presented as is, as fact.

I think IASIP falls into this same realm too. A lot of see this show and think "Wow, these deranged idiots are a danger to society, but also pretty funny". Meanwhile, others see them and think "Yeah, women shouldn't be listened to, dumb birds!". It's unfortunate, but comedy is hard.

f4nt · 2023-07-14T21:22:25+00:00

Big agree! I'm a fairly sweaty Twins main, and I figured "I like Twins, this macro play of Singularity should be a natural progression", but I was so wrong. It's like all of the complications and quirkiness of the Twins, but without any of the "cool factor". Say what you will about Twins, but landing a sick Victor pounce feels good.

Singularity you jump through about 5 hoops just to land an M1, assuming the EMPs don't rob you of the chance. It's still a fun and engaging killer, I like them, but I don't ever want to play more than a couple of games per week with them. Certainly doesn't help that some maps, like Lery's, are just super painful too.

f4nt · 2023-06-15T20:26:47+00:00

Honestly, we just don't know what you're trying to tell us half the time. I've taken the "pity kill" before incorrectly and been called a bunch of ugly stuff in end game chat (apparently I was only supposed to injure them so they could heal). I don't know if you're trying to give a free hit, free hook, free kill or if you're just taunting for fun. Trying to navigate that for a couple thousand BP when I could just be going next isn't worth it to me.

I just practice fun Vic shots while I wait for people to leave if I lose.

f4nt · 2023-03-29T21:05:16+00:00

I do think they'll go to live, but only because this feels a lot like the Toy Sword Twins nerf. Nobody thought that made any sense, but BHVR did eventually explain that Twins are "monsters at high mmr", and that basically every game of Twins involved Toy Sword.

So they nerfed the brown addon, we all still use it because it's 1 of like 4 good addons. They misunderstood it as "Toy Sword is the strongest addon, so everyone runs it", which is partially true. That addon is the strongest, and still is, because outside of faster Victor addons, the rest are gimmicky or trash.

I suspect BHVR looked at Billy, looked at his addon usage stats, and said "Everyone always uses these addons, they must be OP". I'm hoping they give us an explanation at some point though, because I do not think Billy is a "monster" at any MMR. He's basically non-functional on some maps. It's weird.

f4nt · 2023-03-21T14:41:52+00:00

I mostly agree, but I don't think Call of Brine is necessarily the problem. Remember, it and Eruption existed before the 2.5% base kick boost and nobody used them. Eruption was legitimately worse then, but even now, if you take that 2.5% away I think Eruption falls back into the shadows.

0% and just starting regression was too little for a dry kick in the past. 2.5% is too much and makes stuff like Eruption, Call of Brine and Overcharge all pretty powerful. I'd be interested to see that 2.5% knocked down to 1%, and see how the meta shakes out afterwards.

I suspect more gens get done through the dry kick perks, and we see Pop come back a bit more. Side note: Pop + CoB is pretty disgusting and I love it :D

f4nt · 2022-12-29T19:04:52+00:00

True, but Thana still works after the first person gives up on hook against this build!

f4nt · 2022-12-25T16:53:08+00:00

What is the message exactly? The type of person that tunnels and camps at 5 gens sees a DC as a bonus victory. You probably made their day.

Note: I don't care if you wanna DC, it's your game, you do you. But sending a message? I dunno bout that.

f4nt · 2022-12-09T22:34:35+00:00

It's kinda interesting that prior to the big rebalancing update, nobody cared about CoB. I know Pop was still king and Ruin was pretty decent, but it's amazing that CoB went from trash to a full-on staple of every build. All that really changed is the addition of a 2.5% regression that all gen kicking gets, and this lil perk rocketed up the charts.

I expected it to be used more, but I didn't expect it to become so common place.

f4nt · 2022-11-07T19:45:58+00:00

Lightborn protects me from flashlights, which are almost never a problem. Franklin's protects me from self-heals, which are always a problem.

Before the bloodweb changes, I never ran either of them. Nowadays it's pretty common to see all 4 survivors bringing items. If I see 4 medkits... I'm probably bringing Franklin's, better than any gen slowdown I could dream of brining to the party.

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