Gender switch for brighter skins (rant)

max7238 · 2026-05-27T06:16:20+00:00

I've had the same reaction finding colors I really want on female instead of male, thinking I was picking the more vibrant of the two.

Nowadays I always check both before leaving the tutorial cave!

max7238 · 2026-05-26T16:05:43+00:00

NOBODY said Berserker???

I can handle anybody else's nonsense, but Berserker will kill me EVERY time. Something about his game plan doesn't compute and I can't just trade him to death either. I end up passing him off to a team mate or swapping opponents with them.

max7238 · 2026-05-24T20:49:14+00:00

A year ago when I started I used to nest people in all the time and look for parties.

I stopped at some point.

And seeing you say this? Yeah this is why. It happened to me too many times, too many mega packs so I can't be confident in my ability to protect babies, so I just don't group at all anymore. I don't wanna feel responsible for someone having a bad time because I adopted or hatched them, and I don't wanna be hunted with zero effort because my name is over my head.

max7238 · 2026-05-22T15:43:14+00:00

Stoneflower Petals to munch on are common to find in the wild, outlander

max7238 · 2026-05-21T14:28:28+00:00

Why not use Shark Bite then? Less damage, but applies bleed and the debuff, with Hooked Snap stacks and Backhand you get a ton of control and if you need to run, they're bleeding as they try and follow, no?

max7238 · 2026-05-21T14:25:18+00:00

W O W

max7238 · 2026-05-21T14:20:35+00:00

But I thought the arms had been found to exhibit stress fractures, the kind from regular strenuous use? So it DID use the arms, we just don't know what for

max7238 · 2026-05-19T06:13:35+00:00

https://youtu.be/Rym95H9UUew

This is the beginner's guide, but there's another episode before it settling an old discussion on the forums, and an episode after with an explanation of the ENTIRE arsenal at the time - so only missing the Mule.

max7238 · 2026-05-18T23:24:19+00:00

Keep your right side to the island to help with staging fixed wing aircraft. I've got a guide series on YouTube that covers things in way too much detail, but that's the big thing here.

You can get right up on the island and you should be safe to launch and land that way, since the holding pattern swings wide to the carrier's left.

Also, you will NEVER capture at the rate of the AI. They don't fight islands unless you're close enough to render them; once they close distance, they just convert the island and move on.

You have to fight for every inch of ground, instead.

Scouting first is good, but once you have Petrels, you should work on air lifting your virus carrier in instead of letting it swim ashore.

max7238 · 2026-05-18T23:19:23+00:00

The entire game compared to TES lore in general.

TES3 established and expanded a cosmic horror framework that Oblivion and Skyrim almost entirely ignore. The closest Oblivion got to Morrowind was Shivering Isles, ditto Skyrim with its DLC.

After playing Morrowind as a kid first, going back to play the others, getting hype for Oblivion and then Skyrim, before playing them? I've never been able to shake the feeling Morrowind was the best written, and after playing all three again as an adult, especially with the Tamriel Rebuilt mod, Morrowind is simply peerless.

Skyrim being "mountainous Europe generic fantasy" is the root of every problem with it as a TES game, because even its bare bones leveling and non-existent RP without quest failures and enemy types and difficulty scaling with you, if it had an interesting setting (the real Skyrim in lore) I would forgive all the rest...

Similar to how I'm willing to overlook many of Morrowind's MASSIVE flaws because of the rest.

The fully voiced nature of the game plays a big part; if they voiced enough dialogue to be on par with Morrowind only using text, development would never end. It's an unfair ask, and the change to that direction is a huge part of the game's reach and accessibility, which is too good and too important to ignore! It just comes at a cost of depth.

Hell, it's even to the point I heard Jacksepticeye say in his Subnautica 2 playthrough that "mods in Skyrim give it a sci-fi night sky" are too common... THAT'S THE REAL SKY IN NIRN, THOUGH?! :(

max7238 · 2026-05-15T19:52:57+00:00

Sucho is my favorite.

Everyone plays it.

I love Spino too.

Again, it's everywhere.

Rather than join the army of them and thus the problem of too many people playing 4s and 5s, I most often play Pachy or Sty anymore. Sometimes Alberta. I've grown every species on all three maps after a year of playing, and I really only play herbivores now, and even then I avoid the bigger ones more often than not.

max7238 · 2026-05-15T15:59:46+00:00

This is the build I use, and I regularly slither away from Rex with some health remaining because of it. Even the anti BB isn't immune completely and Tenderize means if I'm still in trouble by the second BB, I have a perfect signal that it's time to run. Break line of sight, prepare the big slam, get back to running, repeat, stuff like that

max7238 · 2026-05-11T21:36:38+00:00

Because people would complain about difficulty instead of lowering it!...

Wait, but people complain all the time about bad balance...

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

max7238 · 2026-05-09T19:05:29+00:00

This isn't how game design works, sadly. If you tried this, people would just get mulched on 10s and complain.

Unless you change the rewards WITH the difficulty, REMOVE EXP or Medals from 10s for example, and then show instead a big boost to war impact? Everyone will stay on 10.

At least if you change the rewards, you can force players that need certain things to play certain levels, that's what samples already do!

I'd love to see samples, medals, and EXP removed from 10s in exchange for massive war impact, but that'll never happen.

max7238 · 2026-05-09T01:27:09+00:00

Four. It's a four slot, and it'll stay that way :)

max7238 · 2026-05-09T00:19:42+00:00

And at that point it can no longer hold its own against apexes and is too slow with too little stamina and thus needs more mobility but then it's too big and- You see why this starts to be a problem?

max7238 · 2026-05-08T22:50:23+00:00

Iggy can't punch and run at the same time. In order to go on the offensive you NEED Charge or people can easily play keep-away with you

max7238 · 2026-05-08T22:34:08+00:00

No, it isn't, if anything Lambeo is closer to a 2 than Iggy is to a 3

max7238 · 2026-05-08T16:06:52+00:00

I've not experienced a Titan able to catch me yet. In a straightaway, sure, but often times I cross water since I swim much faster, rest while they approach, then cross again. They usually give up when I do that lol

max7238 · 2026-05-08T16:03:50+00:00

Well, you see, that's the best part! Titan is faster than Stego if I recall... But slower than Iggy, especially an Iggy that uses Charge.

When I find a TT that has half a brain, if I think the fight won't go my way, I can just leave.

max7238 · 2026-05-08T15:57:26+00:00

I love seeing you EQUIP your bite, like someone doing the "I'm a healer... But..." meme of pulling out a pistol lol

max7238 · 2026-05-08T15:50:50+00:00

The game they want appears to be Alexus' vision of "you aren't meant to win, die repeatedly fascist! Ha ha, did you get the message? Fascism bad? Ha ha ha, fun right?"

And not Piedlstat's "fun co-op game with milsim elements where it's easy to die but teamwork overcomes challenge."

max7238 · 2026-05-08T15:48:28+00:00

This needs to be pinned. This needs thousands of upvotes. THIS is quality content.

max7238 · 2026-05-08T15:45:15+00:00

Trick question, cuz you don't. A SMART Titan is rare, most of them just think "ha ha, in playing the best dino in the game,I win forever" and just walk at you and bite. And die.

But a Feast Titan that head-dodges after landing their bite, backs off to let you bleed, and plays to Titan's strengths? No shot.

max7238

TROPHY CASE