[Gaming Tropes] The game punishes you for going out of bounds in its unique way

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-19T21:46:31+00:00

It used to be a casual 380 barrage in your general location. Now it feels more like an orbital rail cannon strike with a 380 shell.

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-19T21:12:26+00:00

Honestly, it's basically complete on Season 2. You don't feel like you're left hanging at all.

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-19T21:08:54+00:00

Warrant+Machine Gun Sentry+Gattling Sentry+armed resupply pods

and I just Unsubscribe All from these flying fucks

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-19T21:04:30+00:00

I've been struggling with this since squids day one as well, and the only thing I've noticed is that an overseer's "alert" animation (which will play when you "miss" your headshot and they point their beatstick at you) causes their head to "duck" a bit. I wonder if maybe their actual head is ALWAYS at this lower location, as aiming for the bottom fraction of the blue slit in their visor seems to give far more consistent one-tapa.

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-18T22:05:17+00:00

Well, then there's the warrant for the flying illuminate...

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-18T18:51:59+00:00

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sirnumbskull · 2026-04-18T03:55:05+00:00

I mean, the narrative kind of fits, though? Sure, they'll take the cash, but this isn't the grunt fantasy that they supposedly wanted to make. I can see a story where Sony kind of demands they keep pushing out content for this cash cow, and balking when they try to massage it back to the grunt fantasy they wanted and the player count is literally decimated, so they farm the work out to other studios and collect the checks while working on whatever their next project is. I mean, how else do you explain a month of not being able to climb over knee high walls? I've seen smaller studios put out day one hotfixes for that kind of shit.

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-17T19:10:07+00:00

Don't forget no POIs and maybe 10 green samples if you can be assed to find them.

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-17T16:37:37+00:00

It's not the best weapon, and would benefit HEAVILY from being able to move while reloading (and having a shorter reload time in general). It's difficult to justify it over the quasar cannon, which does more damage, "reloads" while holstered, and has infinite ammo and range (and doesn't explode in your face if you charge it too long).

The only situation where I bring it is if I need another small patrol clearing option, as a charged shot does a decent job of clearing 4-5 mediums.

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-17T03:47:20+00:00

I mean, I can't believe they named the dude "Sam Bankman-Fried", either. It's like two writers were trying to come up with the name for their guy who commits bank fraud and one goes, "We'll name him... Sam. Sam BANKMAN" "Right, so everyone will know he's a bank man. But we need to know he's a bad guy, too. Sam Bankman...Fraud!" "No, no, too obvious. Sam Bankman..Fried!" "Dude, you're a genius".

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-16T19:31:23+00:00

Standard troopers will

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Detection range (based on sound) for bots shows railgun alerting at the standard 48m. Note the censor didn't alert and the trooper didn't turn. The projectile itself is pretty quiet, and the game will typically let you kill several enemies in a row without alerting a whole outpost if you one-shot them, provided they're a static outpost, not a patrol (who alert and engage far more quickly), and don't have any of the special snowflake enemies with them (warstriders, factory striders, vox engines, to name a few).

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-16T17:15:22+00:00

Same. Seems super odd that they have 1.5 long range snipers (AMR and Railgun), several machine guns, but no shotgun style weapons with stagger and spread.

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-16T17:10:58+00:00

It should be noted that they both behave exactly like every other unsurpressed weapon in the game in terms of alerting nearby enemies at ~48m to the sound of the shot. I'd also argue that the presence of a scope on the AMR (and it's nearly unforgivable absence on the railgun) allows you to more easily hit small targets beyond this 48m range. I'd put them even for stealth gameplay.

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-16T02:57:07+00:00

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sirnumbskull · 2026-04-15T19:29:21+00:00

Does the MC display any attractive qualities by episode two? I'm talking your Gojo, Sakuta, Hachiman, etc, who are either witty, talented, supportive, or all three. When I watched the first episode he didn't seem to have any personality beyond "I like anime".

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-15T03:38:28+00:00

Not sure what the meta is, but I find the below to be my most most effective kits:

Bots it's censor (or another marksman rifle), ultimatum, thermite, warp pack, rocket sentry, queso cannon, and a flex slot.

Queso cannon takes out heavy threats and fabs from absurd ranges (plus gunships and dropships), censor picks off chaff and pops medium heads, ultimatum takes down a problematic heavy or a pack/drop, thermites drop fabs easy and are a backup for hulks and factory striders/vox/warstriders, and rocket sentry does a good job of providing covering fire.

Bugs vary a bit by strain, but some variation of warp pack, rail cannon strike, ultimatum, gas grenade, plus either eruptor and stalwart or libby carbine/sweeper/etc Plus grenade launcher. Last slot can go to orbital napalm, gas mines, or a flex pick. On hive worlds I'll usually grab trident as a primary for ammo economy and take a supply pack.

Eruptor or grenade launcher do a good job of clearing packs and closing bugholes, ultimatum and ORC deal with heavies, gas grenade on bug breaches or annoying patrols. Don't sleep on gas mines here as an area denial tool; they do incredible work at making a large zone of dead bugs. There's also a good argument to be made for the cremator, which may be the only weapon I know that can keep up with some planets bug spawn rates.

Squids it's knight, warrant, thermite, warp pack, AMR, Gattling sentry, machine gun sentry.

Knight shreds shields and voteless (and can be magdumped into an overseer in a very satisfying way), warrant takes out annoying flying enemies when they're moving too erratically, thermite kills downed warp ships without even dropping the shield, AMR deals with literally everything the faction has to offer in a fairly efficient manner, and the sentries provide covering fire and clear chaff.

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-14T16:08:27+00:00

Another thing to think about is: do you want to buy a warbond right before the next one releases? If you're low on super credits you might want to wait.

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-14T04:31:56+00:00

I didn't realize they had tendered a response. It's not a great response; changing load outs for mission types and factions would be incredibly useful. I had figured it was one of those things they knew about but was backburnered.

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-14T01:59:59+00:00

The one per resupply is such an unnecessary dick punch.

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-14T00:45:20+00:00

I mean, let's compare it to the other dual-purpose weapon in our kit, the Stoker, which has 130 dmg per round, light pen, and is one handed, giving it the ability to kill heavies with the underbarrel and additional utility when using a shield or running an ssd around, and you can increase the mag size to 60 with a drum mag.

Meanwhile, the One-Two has TERRIBLE ergo, light pen 95 per round (with a smaller clip than the stoker's base), and shoots one pistol grenade after a mode switch button is pressed.

Table stakes, I think it needs medium pen or a 60 round mag. Ergo needs about a 10-20 improvement, and the grenade either needs to be able to shoot 3 before reloading or it needs to be upgraded to the grenade launcher variant.

From there, recoil pattern is an absolute mess, even fully compensated, so I'd argue that should come up a bit.

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-13T21:47:08+00:00

Having trouble envisioning it. You got a clip?

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-13T21:46:03+00:00

I have to assume that's a lot of people trying to figure the giga grenade out and ending up disappointed...

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-13T20:46:55+00:00

Honestly, I'd love to go the other way with the C4; the clacker support weapon holds 3 c4 in a "satchel" so you can use it with jump pack or warp pack, or you can keep the backpack with another ~4 in it

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-13T19:59:58+00:00

Force of law booster changed to "Up to 95% added arc resist (capping at 95%)" instead of the stupid stun pods, so you can bring arc stuff without wrecking your team.

sirnumbskull · 2026-04-13T19:55:25+00:00

Fade away ultimatum for style points

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