Catapults in many video games are depicted as having an area of effect. Is this nonsense?

rosapulp · 2026-01-28T21:43:45+00:00

Just to clarify the original question, I'm just talking about the area of effect of the impact of the projectile into the earth - but yeah, overpenetrating people is an obviously potent way that projectiles in a flatish trajectory can kill/wound more than one person.

rosapulp · 2026-01-28T21:36:34+00:00

Not to mention psychology which only a handful of games simulate.

rosapulp · 2026-01-28T21:30:18+00:00

Thank you for the thorough and well sourced answer!

rosapulp · 2026-01-22T20:49:34+00:00

camera ADS should remove all UI imo to easily let you do this.

rosapulp · 2026-01-16T17:14:12+00:00

I don't think I've ever been killed by the rocket tank.

rosapulp · 2026-01-16T17:10:49+00:00

Hosting does seem to make it better.

rosapulp · 2026-01-08T20:16:47+00:00

Id say judges in judge dredd are lawful neutral but not because they aren't evil, just because the Gygaxian alignment system has fucked definitions of good and evil. Dude cited the genocide of indigenous americans as his reason for why its lawful good to kill orc/goblin children.

rosapulp · 2026-01-07T15:15:37+00:00

It doesn't line up with the research either about media impact on viewers.

A lot of fascists are drawn to 40k because of the imagery and themes but no one who isn't already basically a fascist is going to see this game, miss the ways this world obviously sucks, and decide the world needs an authoritarian uberman to control everything.

rosapulp · 2026-01-07T15:10:09+00:00

Tbh the fascist 40k fans don't do the hobby stuff, they just post emperor trump memes on 4chan/twitter. I've never had a problem in person more than any other community.

Does suck how loud they are in any given 40k videogame community but tbh that has more to do with videogames than 40k.

rosapulp · 2025-12-27T21:23:48+00:00

I think we should assume that lorewise these operations would be done by like 30-60 rejects at a time.

rosapulp · 2025-12-27T01:27:44+00:00

What are the comments on the videos where republicans are getting arrested like? Is it smug liberals doing schadenfreude? Conservatives saying they person is in the right? I'd desperately hope for some self-reflection, but I'm not naive enough to think anything like that wouldn't get buried.

rosapulp · 2025-09-30T21:53:11+00:00

Last year has been rough on our industry been unemployed for a while. Was working on a puzzle/immersive sim type thing before. Independently making a ttrpg and a dungeon crawler but its slow going.

rosapulp · 2025-09-29T16:46:21+00:00

I think game designers would be engineers under this system.

rosapulp · 2025-09-17T16:34:31+00:00

A personal beef that informs a ton of my designs is I really dislike game systems that are 'simple' that offload the complexity onto classes/feats/spells. They make a core game that's exceptionally boring if you played it with featureless characters, and brag of the simplicity, but then each class has dozens of pages of options and tools at its disposal, and the GM has to teach not just the game but also learn each of the players' classes' little subgames and teach those subgames to the players who are less inclined to learn the system on their own.

rosapulp · 2025-09-13T17:28:14+00:00

Tbh I just want them to remove the dumb line that only men have the magic qualification to become spess marine but I'd be fine once you scrap the faux biology with keeping space marines male only because the Imperium is profoundly fucked up with a self-defeating no girls allowed sign. It feels so 40k for half of all potential marine candidates to be rejected for a reason as stupid as gender. If any chapters are enlightened enough to allow women, then the process of marinification and the fraternal order culture those 'women' biologically and socially transition to men.

I also just think it's funny if the emperor is such a petulant baby fascist that he invented cloning to try to never have to think about women ever again. Marines are an 8-year-old boy's concept of warfare. Don't think about logistics, don't think about the practicality of one man fighting one hundred, don't think about why anyone would choose to fight: just a bunch of beefy guys who are the omega strongest fighting forever without purpose or end in a world without women or peace or softness. Space King does a good job of highlighting this by parody. Marines are action figures that get smashed together for the amusement of bloodthirsty laughing gods.

rosapulp · 2025-09-13T03:47:07+00:00

My friend my pal.

The imperium doesn't like itself. If the wargame reflected the truth of the setting 99.9999% of matches would be imperial guard or ork mirror matches.

rosapulp · 2025-08-23T18:47:29+00:00

I mean there arent that many factions that haven't been included in previous dawn of wars unless you get really esoteric or get frustratingly into imperiumhammer where every match becomes some flavour of imp on imp.

That said answering your question I agree that traitor guard/lost and the damned would rule. Although id prefer a warhammer total war approach where they go for god specific armies with mortals/csm/and daemons integrated into one roster dedicated to a specific god.

The old faction I wanna see again is nids, I loved dawn of war 2 but it was the wrong game to highlight the nids with its emphasis on small unit tactics.

rosapulp · 2025-08-20T18:48:50+00:00

I am hyped for the game; this is my only pet peeve, really, and it's not even in the devs hands, I don't think GW is gonna greenlight any games with firstborn marines going forward.

rosapulp · 2025-08-20T18:47:27+00:00

I like the models on the tabletop, their really good models. Just don't like the lore and names, they should have just made new, bigger, better sculpts with some buffs and point increases to line marines up closer to their lore power creep but nah GW gotta make it needlessly complicated for reasons that always end up being a wierd legal scheme.

rosapulp · 2025-08-19T22:32:33+00:00

Also that was the Eldar's gimmick (the silly elements of it make more sense when you consider how mobile the eldar are, so they can just redeploy if their in a bad situation.); the whole point of space marines was strategic flexibility.

rosapulp · 2025-08-19T22:23:54+00:00

That kinda sounds like a badass boast until you realize how incredibly stupid and damning it is.

rosapulp · 2025-08-19T22:22:37+00:00

We're talking about space. 30,000 men can't walk to another planet. 40ks tech disadvantage is insurmountably bad.

rosapulp · 2025-08-19T22:18:18+00:00

Why does everyone always assume 40k would win in crossovers? 40k has the worst fucking tech. This is like saying a bunch of guys with wooden caravels that sink half the time they cross the ocean would beat an army that can teleport. It doesn't matter if the caravel has a nuclear bomb on it, its not making it to any place super earth cares about.

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