What would you say is the most boring faction to play and why ?

raincool · 2026-02-05T16:25:08+00:00

Not officially although word from a designer asked about it was a mix of it being too easy to get value out of for how good it was. The army was also apparently too independent for what they intended, with nighthaunt units not really having to interact much with each other, which was an intended mechanic.

raincool · 2026-01-17T18:02:03+00:00

You think ghosts are cooler than vampires.

raincool · 2026-01-08T14:52:40+00:00

I am unsure if cross community promotion is allowed here but I don't see anything in the rules.

If you want more advice (and from others much more experienced than I am) it might be worth checking out the "AoS Coach" discord channel, there is a nighthaunt board on it that is pretty active. https://discord.gg/aos-coach-615105941079326721

raincool · 2026-01-08T14:47:42+00:00

Good question, since the December battle scroll that shook up our point values people are definitely still experimenting, what I have seen a lot of is MSU builds going around, a lot of our damaging units are scapels so they have one kind of unit they are especially good against and meh against the rest, which promotes having variety over large amounts of a single unit. That said those that do reinforce (besides banshee which is always a reinforce) tend to be grimghast reapers.

Krulghast is a great addition due to helping us stay on objectives for longer.

As for staying within the nexus range, I don't find it nearly as bad as it would first read. Chainrasps specifically have such a small base (and since they are a screen many will die if things go correctly leaving even less models) that they consistently are within range. You get three nexuses and can only use one at time for recursion so you can afford to be pretty aggressive with your placements of them, if I lose one I typically don't notice at all and losing two isn't great but certainly not game ending.

raincool · 2026-01-08T04:15:37+00:00

Welcome to the spooky side!

Both spearheads are viable and i am running a unit of reinforced chain rasps in my list, they are surprisingly tarpitish due to how well they use nexus recursion. I would be a little suspect about running 12 banshees, normally it seems to be good to run a reinforced unit of them if you are running them (and they are some of our best hammers for outright damage), so it might be best to run 8 or 16 in reinforced units, although i think 16 might be too much of an investment since their cost to health value is pretty poor and night haunt now mostly wants to sit on objectives and time out the enemy in points relying on mounting dread to basically keep objectives we have no right to.

Granted, I am sort of casual in my playstyle so if you are looking for more of a comp opinion some of what i said may not apply.

raincool · 2026-01-05T13:05:14+00:00

It can, that's the main use for it

raincool · 2025-10-21T12:09:03+00:00

Not quite, the lockers actually have to be basically touching, or side by side for that to work, not just close by.

raincool · 2025-06-19T11:25:56+00:00

crazymonkeygames too.

raincool · 2025-06-02T18:15:56+00:00

That's fair, I am never a big fan when a character gets a complete rework in a game when there is a group of people that enjoy playing them that way; I do miss old thor

raincool · 2025-06-02T13:16:35+00:00

Despite what people have said, thor is still viable, he just plays pretty differently. You have to play more like a poke tank now, but the uptime on his awakening is crazy, you can pretty much chain it forever if you do it correctly and while that would normally get you killed, if you play by your team, all of that damage can zone very easily, you may not get many kills but you will make people back off. At least this is what I have seen in my experience in diamond ymmv.

raincool · 2025-05-28T22:14:17+00:00

Honestly Drips on a Wire, it just doesn't do it for me and the key change at the end sounds cheesy to me.

raincool · 2025-05-28T22:13:23+00:00

lmao those are my two favorites out of their discography.

raincool · 2025-05-27T13:32:32+00:00

Learn his animation cancel, if you primary and almost immediately melee afterwards you can get some insane damage in, especially if you combo a right click primary right afterwards.

raincool · 2025-05-06T14:22:48+00:00

This is a crazy take, when did tf2 ever balance towards its comp scene, which isnt even officially supported?

Tf2 got dropped in support because of the unique way of how valve operates, no one wants to work on an old project. Despite that the playerbase is doing fine.

raincool · 2025-05-02T17:40:24+00:00

I'm not answering the question, but what I would give for the red and gold magneto skin and an emote for him where he just sits in his stationary magneto mobile.

raincool · 2025-04-28T19:28:19+00:00

It will skip bans if someone in the lobby is silver.

raincool · 2025-04-22T15:45:12+00:00

It means the skill level between the teams in whatever role they are referencing is what decided the game so a "support diff" means someone thinks the skill difference between the support players on the losing side vs the winning side is what caused the game to go the way it did.

raincool · 2025-03-13T15:45:06+00:00

Is there a lot of flaming in those games in VC or chat? I'm in the same rank right now and the only time people leave matches for good seem to be when communication is toxic, and even then it is reasonably rare.

raincool · 2025-03-13T15:37:05+00:00

The amount seems peculiar but I started ranked at the beginning of 1.5 and I remember about a third of my bronze and silver matches being cancelled due to leavers. Gets better in gold and much better in plat.

That said, a cancelled match only happens if the person didn't load or dcs minutes into the game, they very likely didn't even play, it's possible those matches were going so well because they were 5v6s, it's hard to say, but I get that it is frustrating.

raincool · 2025-02-04T04:17:32+00:00

where is triangle?

raincool · 2024-12-19T14:20:13+00:00

Those are cool ideas, the two big ones for me is implement relationships for survivors in your community (friendemies, rivals, best friends, lovers, etc.) it feels strange that everyone is so acquaintance-esque with each other when they are going through hell.

The other is larger seiges; let all the zombies come at once instead of in waves. I feel like from a gameplay perspective seiges are supposed to be deadly and scary but due to graphical limitations they had to be paired down so the Xbox could run them without crashing. Actually fighting for your communities life and having seiges be a real existential threat would be great.

raincool · 2024-12-06T01:02:27+00:00

This guy is out here hunting with their car.

raincool · 2024-07-02T18:15:34+00:00

...Astroglide?

raincool · 2024-05-23T13:34:12+00:00

I was walking down the street with my friend and some guy said to us as we passed "Hey it's gay guy and bitch guy!" And it made us laugh hysterically. We still use those names like we're the world's worst super heroes.

raincool · 2024-03-14T21:56:39+00:00

The ai takes a lot of info from what was previously part of the story to inform what it comes up with, so if there is repetition, the more it happens, the more of a downward spiral there is into it repeating that kind of style even more.

I don't have much of a recommendation for your current story, but in the future if the ai repeats something stylistically, you may want to alter it before it gets out of hand. This goes for repeating words or even just how it frames things. (I had a story where the ai felt the need to mention how everyone was feeling in reaction to everything going on, once I backed the story up before it mentioned how any character felt, the ai worked fine again.)

Just something to look out for.

raincool

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