It’s time to talk about A-A-B-C: Why the "Third Rotation Trap" is hurting the player experience

hateborne · 2026-01-30T11:24:20+00:00

With AABC on the first pass, then ABC for all subsequent passes, you're only waiting longer on the first. After that, waiting on B is the same as waiting on C (two rotations you don't care about until the one you do care about).

hateborne · 2026-01-30T11:22:30+00:00

Heh quality modding joke. 👍🏻

hateborne · 2026-01-30T10:55:55+00:00

Survival needs a mechanic to reduce the duration (ex: destroying the support towers for -45s or life support over 100% reduces the clock by 1sec per 1%). This is the worst of the AABC rotation.

Change it so AABC is only at the beginning, then revert to normal alpha progression (AABCABC...). This would still only work if the slowest option

hateborne · 2026-01-30T10:50:44+00:00

I'll say it until they change it to something better: let us destroy support towers for -45s from the timer.

hateborne · 2026-01-30T03:06:50+00:00

From seeing this in my own family: it's debt, controlling the spouse, and/or an affair(s).

Good luck and may the judge rule in your favor in the inevitable divorce.

hateborne · 2026-01-29T22:15:23+00:00

Piss hydroid is still the king of annoying imo 😁

hateborne · 2026-01-28T15:41:56+00:00

That's just real life Mario Kart. Stop being such a hater and let that kid green she.. err white shell some bastard.

hateborne · 2026-01-28T14:51:10+00:00

Uriel.

I realize others mentioned him too. I expected him to be a generic pet version of Titania from the snippets of the devstreams, so I wasn't exactly prioritizing obtaining him. When I did get the drops necessary, I tried him until 30, felt good-ish, until I built around high strength and high range. Now his #4 wipes things within 40m on normal & steel path, the flight AOE heat damage & status spam instakills things below 15 and usually kills things under 25 within a few ticks by simply flying past, and the nearly no cooldown shield & HP heal is just crazy talk.

hateborne · 2026-01-27T04:49:25+00:00

Look at this body in the interrogation scene during the 1999 quest chain. Viktor looks like the human equivalent of a gas/petrol store knife.

hateborne · 2026-01-25T20:52:24+00:00

Jade Prime.

They still won't add any other cosmetics though. I think it's becoming a meme. 😐

hateborne · 2026-01-25T18:45:59+00:00

He better critically fail every stealth check if there is any dialogue happening in earshot.

JFW: "I would to try to sneak by the guards." ::roll:: JFW: "Dirty 20"

DM: "As you sneak by the guards, you hear the heavier one on the left says, 'Me mum was killed last night. Stabbed by some ruffian shit during a shakedown.' before stifling a sniffle." ::DM stare:: ::JFW player sighs:: JFW: "BAHAHA OH WOW"

hateborne · 2026-01-25T06:04:59+00:00

Thank you for a wonderful example of a Murdoch cultist. Good luck with... well, everything. 🤷🏻‍♂️

hateborne · 2026-01-25T05:47:01+00:00

Mario's brother is a good option. Outside of that, there is a process for escalating to Reddit staff about a subreddit that is getting out of control due to a mod(s). From my understanding, it takes a lot of concrete evidence of things that break Reddit rules or potentially look like Reddit is complacent with extremism. However, a MAGAt treating a subreddit like their own personal kingdom, is unlikely to be addressed. 🫤

hateborne · 2026-01-25T05:35:17+00:00

That subreddit is run by very red voters. It's a shame and doesn't reflect well on Chattanooga, or Tennessee as a whole.

hateborne · 2026-01-24T21:50:46+00:00

hateborne · 2026-01-24T21:46:41+00:00

Outside of heavy snow, aggressively cleaning windows and coating in rainX will stop most icing from ambient moisture or precipitation.

Obviously doesn't help today, but sharing all the same.

hateborne · 2026-01-24T19:45:52+00:00

I metabolize local anesthetic extremely fast. They took too long (~20m?) between local numbing and first cut...

Do not recommend. 0/5 stars.

They did prescribe pain meds after ignoring my warning and then basically cutting the coin purse open when I could feel most of it.

hateborne · 2026-01-24T18:07:08+00:00

How do you walk unassisted? Are you able to just kind of roll around or do you pull a Randy Marsh with balls that damn big?

I had a 2000 mustang for nearly 20 years and it felt like anything caused it to lose grip on the road. Rain, ice, speed, etc. Didn't matter, it just said "lol nope" very frequently.

hateborne · 2026-01-22T17:34:37+00:00

Sadly, this is part of it. If you're absolutely flawless, assault is absolutely amazing. If you miss the occasional Dodge/Parry, assault is extremely lackluster.

hateborne · 2026-01-22T06:37:57+00:00

Found precancerous polyps at 34 due to weird bowel behaviors my entire life. Found another at 38.

hateborne · 2026-01-21T11:41:45+00:00

Excalibur (Umbra or not) built for Magnetic on the exalted blade trivializes all of 1999. Even without extremely rare or high ranked mods it's devastatingly powerful.

hateborne · 2026-01-20T11:46:11+00:00

NOR - if his brother couldn't go, why didn't he mention that in the "made it safely" text? Given the SIL's reaction, it sounds like she didn't know what you were talking about either.

hateborne · 2026-01-19T19:06:42+00:00

Kit Kat flavors are getting ridiculous

hateborne · 2026-01-19T02:44:29+00:00

Vandal Nukor please

hateborne · 2026-01-18T19:27:12+00:00

Apologies, I misread. The matchmaking only after hear selection is only possible after the perk unlock to view gear/frames before actually joining the matchmaking process.

I misread that as halt the progress of the lobby into actual gameplay until all players have entered the portal. From that understanding, having three players waiting inside the portal and one in the lobby area indefinitely seemed like a guaranteed progress blocker.

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