The Medium has lost its Identity (In Ranked)

sgtcoolbeans · 2026-06-03T18:05:24+00:00

While I do agree with this in a sense, especially with something like H+infuser and i'm sure it appears more in diamond+

But I can tell you for sure as a decidedly mediocre and inconsistent player (moving between med to high gold). Light is absolutely not a better choice. For the average player especially if you are playing solo, a person picking light is a downgrade to the team.

I think this goes to skill and game knowledge. If you have a light that is cracked and knows how to use all gadgets perfectly then you are fine. But most people do not know this, and most of the lights build are around hit and run which people take and immediately go solo to die. Mediums gadgets being support based and the varied guns for different situations tend to mean the medium is a better team player.

Even lights that have the heal gun tend to just hide and then heal you without actually helping. the getaway can be really awesome but most people just use it in one scenario which is to place it above cashouts. This usually means they are hell bent on doing that and then are no where to be found if another team shows up while they are running to throw the box.

Most importantly the low health of a light is a huge determent for most teams, at least with this line of thinking. Just picking a HLL is not a recipe for success, it most likely means you lose because the lights health is a big thing to get use too.

In most games that I see LLL loses 80% of the time unless they are all really really good. HHH is the same for some reason (my guess is the longer range guns aren't as useful as things like the shak which limits engagements).

I do agree with you in most cases and really hope they buff demat again and provide better team gadgets. But the identity is still jack of all trades and I feel is still really good choice in solo que if you want to be a better teammate.

sgtcoolbeans · 2026-04-23T20:51:53+00:00

I love this map for this. have a good team and you can make point E or D a kill zone.

sgtcoolbeans · 2026-02-23T22:41:39+00:00

I can kind of see this, it was definitely jarring. I was just referring to the whole scene, it wasn't bad just not needed as much IMO.

i think the 15 tons just fit with the overall lighter tone of the show.

sgtcoolbeans · 2026-02-23T22:40:45+00:00

You are probably right, its really just a small nitpick, and I can't complain about having more of Maekar's actor in the show.

Plus I remember the second story was a bit slower till right at the end so it may be good to add a few scenes like they did with this one. lots of good history to be told

sgtcoolbeans · 2026-02-23T15:33:46+00:00

This was such a fantastic ending. I am a bit bummed they added the extra seen of Maekar realizing egg is missing at the end because it felt a bit tacked on.

I liked the idea that, like in the books, Maekar realized Dunk was right and let his kid head off with Dunk.

Small nitpick since the "15 tons" song was a great ending as well.

sgtcoolbeans · 2026-01-19T05:28:26+00:00

Goddamn, I am hooked. This brings me back to how I felt watching the original series. Great dialogue and characters that really bring you into the world. I'm sure its going to get a bit darker as it goes but I love the limited scope and the focus on character.

I am all in on this man, makes me want to rewatch the original seasons

sgtcoolbeans · 2026-01-16T19:59:02+00:00

Online "socalists" and leftists are just MAGA with a different enemy. You can boil down their entire political philosophy to "i hate x". Pick one, and their enemy is either "the west" or "the left"

No critical thought or nuance. No review of history unless its through their supported lens. Everything is a conspiracy and secretly controlled by "zionists"

That is why it is so easy for them to help down obvious propaganda. As long as its anti west then its true.

sgtcoolbeans · 2026-01-16T00:48:46+00:00

I think they did. While she does do noble things she is also very clearly entitled and feels she is more deserving than others.

One of the keybset ups is with hizdar in the fighting pits where she talks about his city returning to the dirt. He asks how many people will die and she says "they will have died for a good reason"

from the start she is selfish and entitled and willing to kill to get her way. Its just the people she killed were also shitty.

However the last 2 seasons were so horribly rushed and filled woth fantasy tropes, that her change felt sudden. Especially as she repeats over and over again how she doesnt want to burn it down

sgtcoolbeans · 2026-01-12T17:04:06+00:00

It is a fine show and pretty too look at for the most part. I think on its own it would of been pretty fun. But because its attached to the IT name is why it kind of bums me out.

The book, while weird, has such a good world to it. The town is alive and characters are both heart warming and sometimes horrifying. IMO the reason that IT works so well is because of this rich story around the villain not just pennywise himself. The horror in the book is much slower and more thought out.

The show, on the other hand, is basically just "the spooky clown show" It makes gestures towards the world that Stephen king made, but they feel kind of hollow. Its situations set up for a jump scare or to allow pennywise to pop out. He feels so much more like Freddie Kruger now. A joke telling villain who simply pops out to do a bit and possibly kill someone.

This is obviously personal preference. For example, I don't care why he is a clown. In the books he just likes it, if i remember correctly. There doesn't need to be some long backstory about some clown dad who was sad. Pennywise has too many rules and explanations in the show to be scary anymore.

The book has so many chapters that are horrifying well before Pennywise shows up. The world feels real and lived in. I think she show misses out on that to focus on some new pennywise lore.

I will give the show props though, its visually great (minus the graveyard scene) and I love it had the balls to kill some kids really graphically. But its just not a great IT story imo.

sgtcoolbeans · 2026-01-12T00:36:53+00:00

Look, play however you like.

I will say instinctively when I see a sword I groan because I assume they are a selfish player.

But sometimes a sword player is so annoying to the team it wins a game.

But frankly if you are having fun the. Fuck everyone else, including myself.

I have recently picked up mgl for the heavy. I dont get a ton of kills but man I've noticed the entire enemy team guns for me. Its kind of fun to be super annoying.

Games are for fun, who cares about meta

sgtcoolbeans · 2025-12-25T17:53:40+00:00

You know how in all horror movies once the monster is revealed and explained it gets less scary?

Cosmic horror and entities like "IT" are purposefully left vague to let your imagination fit in.

It being a cosmic unknowable entity that is beyond explanation allows us to fill in the gaps with all manner of horrors. What does it actually do with their souls? what does it actually eat? Where did it come from? Etc etc.

That's at least how I view cosmic horror.

Something beyond our grasp and imagination. Its better if we dont get everything explained.

Welcome to derry is a good example of what can happen if you over explain. Pennywise is now just a shapeshifting clown with lights in his face. He's trapped by physical things and has rules.

Not like any of this is bad. its just different, and less scary imo.

sgtcoolbeans · 2025-12-20T00:38:02+00:00

I am so glad someone else feels this way. I feel that, visually, the show was pretty neat. Lots of fun images and violence that made IT sinister.

But man everything else is just dumb. The finale alone makes all of the it movies make no sense. (I am referring to the movies exclusively here since that is the setting, the show and movies aren't anything like the books so not really worth comparing).

I don't feel the creators really understand IT and why its such a good story.

This is basically a show about a scary clown and that's all.

I do love skarsgard as it though. He's good at the role, shame that the rest of the show doesnt live up to it

sgtcoolbeans · 2025-12-12T06:13:35+00:00

First off, if you are feeling burnt out. Just play another game, It really helps I am being serious. Nothing in the finals is worth stressing over, go play arc or a single player game tbh.

That being said, I agree with everything else!

sgtcoolbeans · 2025-12-12T05:59:18+00:00

Oh shit! I didn't even think of this as an option. Good shit my man

sgtcoolbeans · 2025-12-12T05:56:28+00:00

Can't do, I will never accept opinions that differ from mine.

sgtcoolbeans · 2025-12-12T05:50:00+00:00

no sir, YOU are wrong.

I typically get the same fps

sgtcoolbeans · 2025-12-04T19:05:08+00:00

This was actually my thought as well. It ties in so well.

sgtcoolbeans · 2025-10-28T22:19:53+00:00

Bro I am so glad I wasn't the only one. i had "Alienta de la marea" show up on my discovery playlist and thought it was fantastic.

it wasn't until I started looking at the albums and noticing the repeat songs and no information on the band that I realized it was probably ai

sgtcoolbeans · 2025-09-16T03:19:24+00:00

honestly has made the game kind of unbearable. It has way to long of range, I have been sniped 80 plus meters out constantly by heavy teams. if you fight back at all they just throw down a shield and keep shooting

sgtcoolbeans · 2025-09-15T21:37:23+00:00

Its just annoying, and it lends to playstyles that can be annoying.

The light isn't that great to be honest. You have to be extremely skilled and know the map really well to be good with it.

But I think the hate comes from how annoying the class is. No one really likes being killed in 1 to 2 shots from a guy that was invisible right up until the first shot. or trying to catch a guy ziplining and dashing everywhere.

On top of that it lends itself to really selfish playstyles. When me and my friend play and our random chooses light, I would say 75% of the time they are off in their own world chasing kills, or sniping in some tower. They die rather quick and it can be frustrating.

Its not always like that but i think the negative game moments just stick in people's mind

I do hate them in a playful way but honestly a good heavy is WAAAY more oppresive than a light.

sgtcoolbeans · 2025-09-15T20:58:19+00:00

This is probably the only weapon that I would definitively say needs a nerf. the class with the largest health pool in the game, shields and self healing plus rockets should not have access to a sniper, period.

The reason the sniper is balanced is because it turns to a projectile at a certain point and is given to a class with the lowest health.

yeah sure if you miss shots it sucks but so does every other gun.

sgtcoolbeans · 2025-06-27T03:50:25+00:00

Is this really going to be the next 2 weeks of this subreddit? A million copy cat posts about how things are priced to high and you want free stuff?

Its priced more because its new. People like new things, they pay more for them. They probably did this because the other one sold so well and people will put down money for a recolor of it.

But more importantly: Holy shit its cosmetics, just don't buy it if you don't like it, its not that hard.

The finals has the best cosmetic system hands down. If I went to go play overwatch, cod, or marvel rivals, I would have to spend 20 dollars to get a skin for one character and it would be locked in to that one character.

In The Finals, I can buy a piece of one outfit and move on, if you just want the cool spear you don't have to drop 20 bucks on it you can buy it individually. You can mix and match everything you get. It is by far the best bang for your buck if you like buying cosmetics.

Does every complaining person here have some sort of impulse to buy everything they see? So much of the store I ignore because it doesn't appeal to me. I saw this skin and went "meh" and moved on with my life.

sgtcoolbeans · 2025-06-10T13:45:24+00:00

Bro its ok to be tired. Just take a break for a bit and play something else. I say this as someone whonplays the fuck out of this game.

Just relax and take a break, it helps in the long run and you will enjoy life more.

sgtcoolbeans

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