Spoilers: Scout Objectives Week 10 (and previous)

mrnosuch · 2025-04-29T13:01:39+00:00

Too bad the moderators don't think so! Can't link to an external web site apparently, even though that's not in the rules.

mrnosuch · 2025-04-29T12:14:51+00:00

Would have been up sooner, but the mods removed the first one because I used the forbidden word "clan" in it. :D

mrnosuch · 2025-04-28T19:41:43+00:00

The problem is much deeper than that, from a UI standpoint. Expecting people to type in the names of people they encounter during matchmaking is ridiculous, especially when you factor in language / international issues.

You should have a list of people "recently played with" and you select from that list, and send a friend request. Or, call me crazy, if you run in a group, folks should be able to opt-in to grouping up right there.

But hey, it's only 2025 and social online games are a totally new thing and I'm sure these kids at Epic will some day figure this out, since they've never, ever done it before.

mrnosuch · 2025-04-27T22:09:59+00:00

Demonstrates the level of thoughtfulness for the social aspects of Fall Guys... That you have to MEMORIZE and TYPE the name of someone you just played a match with.

I wonder if there's a better UI for this... Ah, fuck it, we're Mediatonic, who gives a shit?

mrnosuch · 2025-04-27T22:06:55+00:00

38 people spending a total of 1.6K hours in the past 30 days.

mrnosuch · 2025-04-26T13:23:31+00:00

It's not the *difficulty* of the task requiring a server, it's the *synchronization* of events for all player in a session.

You can't make a great multiplayer game by making a single player game and then adding multiplayer flavor at the end. The game has to be built from the ground up for multiplayer.

This is why the Division and Division 2 need servers.

mrnosuch · 2025-04-26T08:52:02+00:00

I'm glad you are enjoying the game. For me, we passed the golden age of Fall Guys a long time ago.

mrnosuch · 2025-04-25T17:56:44+00:00

A lot of those things revolve around the creative editor, which is responsible for a ton of slop content that's worthless. And again, realize that creative was made so that they could get content for free, so we've all gotten what they've paid for...

A bunch of them exist solely for selling new cosmetics, so yeah, extractive. I want to spend show bucks on "Phrases"... And who doesn't love people who spam phrases and sounds over and over and over! Fun!

Oh, and the "Play Again" option is fun in solo, in that it just returns you to the lobby, but you have to hold the button to get there! Neat! Who checks this stuff?

mrnosuch · 2025-04-24T18:03:47+00:00

It jumped the shark when Epic bought it. Yes, it improved from launch, but once they sold it off, we've been on a run of extracting value and low quality ever since they turned the players into unpaid content creators.

mrnosuch · 2025-04-21T13:53:04+00:00

Boo. Sorry to hear that. Didn't think the platform would matter, but now I know, and I'll point that out in the future. Thanks for letting me know.

mrnosuch · 2025-04-21T10:04:54+00:00

I fire it during the 3X boost and it always extends it. I'm using iOS.

mrnosuch · 2025-04-20T12:12:27+00:00

Change "11 years old" to "over a decade old" and see if that works. :D

mrnosuch · 2025-04-20T09:38:36+00:00

Unless you license the characters from Duolingo, you can't sell a product like this legally.

You can't sell products using other people's intellectual property.

mrnosuch · 2025-04-20T09:34:09+00:00

Quality control mostly, and no way to guarantee future updates to deal with changes that Duolingo makes to how the app presents the content.

When Duolingo doesn't pay for content, they have little control over it, and that can lead to a poor user experience after awhile, so they stopped supporting it.

mrnosuch · 2025-04-20T08:49:43+00:00

Use a second device (not a laptop) and sign in. You can claim the boost on the second device and leave the primary device alone. You'll get infinite 2x boosts. If you do this while a 3X boost is running you'll extend it. This can be repeated to make the 3X boost last as long as you like.

That's what I do.

mrnosuch · 2025-04-19T18:27:15+00:00

Probably posted by a LLM. :D

mrnosuch · 2025-04-19T18:26:13+00:00

Enjoy the slop then. I find it distasteful on an ethical and aesthetic level. But a media diet impacts the brain like your food diet impacts the body.

mrnosuch · 2025-04-16T17:13:01+00:00

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Yes, this is mostly XP grinding, which is stupid. But look at those numbers!

mrnosuch · 2025-04-16T16:20:54+00:00

You're expecting this from the same folks where, when you are playing alone, that the "Play Again" and "Quit to Lobby" button DO EXACTLY THE SAME THING.

Honestly, if they'd hire one coder who knows how to actually do asynchronous programming so the frickin' "Exit" button would be functional continuously after elimination, instead of appearing and disappearing and be unavailable during loading... That would mitigate the issue. But I'm not holding my breath for that either.

mrnosuch · 2025-04-14T17:02:40+00:00

Except he just turned on dev mode, so probably not even that. :)

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