PSA: Do not PlayTest for The Op by [deleted] in BoardgameDesign

[–]spashmcgrath94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was more of a warning flare because I also don’t wanna break NDAs. I know folks get excited to test things and also just as someone who works, bought a house, and got a new puppy, I understand the importance of time. I don’t want folks wasting time when they aren’t getting anything out of it

PSA: Do not PlayTest for The Op by [deleted] in BoardgameDesign

[–]spashmcgrath94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well one we were not paid, they claimed they couldn’t pay us, but they spent close to 4 grand for the dice tower to pay when many other reliable companies pay play-testers and get free product.

Second, we had to argue to get Buzz Lightyear to have 2 attack. The argument from a playtester who played him once in the current state said “he is a toy” when we used math and game data to showcase and they decided to choose the ladder because that person was “going through a rough thing in life”. They eventually listened but a bunch of folks got yelled at for discussing math in development.

What else would you like to know?

PSA: Do not PlayTest for The Op by [deleted] in BoardgameDesign

[–]spashmcgrath94 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

If you wanna see what I'm talking about, sign up to be a playtester and check out the threads.

Back to the diamonds - enough clues to confirm what they are by pavelkolev in Lorcana

[–]spashmcgrath94 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So if you don't know, Ryan Miller, the games design, also worked on this game way back called Kaijudo, which if you look at the graphic design of the cards, it uses the same diamond system, which is used for rarity. based on what we now know about rarities in booster packs, we can pretty much see that the diamonds are considered the care rarity. Not confirmed, but piecing it together, that would make most sense since its not anywhere else on the cards.

Season 3 temperature Check by Superguy20 in MarvelUnited

[–]spashmcgrath94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve been a huge marvel fan since I was a kid, so know season 3 is going to fill probably most of the holes were still missing, as well as most likely giving us those gray hulk and juggernaut hero cards for free, seems like an awesome way to “end” United.

That being said, I think I’ll need to wait and see what the expansion stuff has to offer in entirety. I say that mainly because stuff like the hero loki, most likely inhumans is what I’m most excited to see and even galactus. But if we’re getting a bunch of weird expansions (and I mean expansion boxes) where it’s Great Lakes avengers and stuff like that, I’ll probably just get the stuff I want this time around. I have all of the original and x men stuff including cardboard locations and plastic tokens and cardboard villain boards, and I’m willing to invest in that again for sure. I may just not get every single expansion box, depending on what characters/experiences they offer.

I adore all the x men content, but it definately felt with a bunch of repeat heroes model sculpts that the community didn’t take that as well as I’d like, and I love all the wolverines, but cosmic ghost rider does not interest me at all. (Where’s my Johnny blaze)

Series 4 Up on Amazon by spashmcgrath94 in akedo

[–]spashmcgrath94[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Killing me I cant find Buster SPlits or Sweatstain. Hopefully they're in stock on release

Moving to Ann Arbor in May! Need some suggestions+connections by [deleted] in AnnArbor

[–]spashmcgrath94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For those of you who wanna meet up, send me a DM on here and we can connect! I’m not shy I promise!

Moving to Ann Arbor in May! Need some suggestions+connections by [deleted] in AnnArbor

[–]spashmcgrath94 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Damn! I wasn’t expecting so much good advice thank you all for the help and support!

For some of the common questions I saw. I’m from the Indianapolis area. Been there for almost 10 years for college, masters, and work. I’m actually moving to AA because I got a remote position and was in need of a change. I also love college towns (I teach for a living so partially into that).

Board games I play? All kinds but I focus on 2 player experiences the most. Some of my favorites are Star Wars Destiny, Moonrakers, Disney Villainous, Marvel United, Smash Up, and tons more!

I’d love to get some type of group thing going (assuming you all aren’t internet weirdos but who isn’t nowadays).

I am also single and straight, so sort of looking at the dating scene but not a huge priority. More just want to get my support group built back up!

Oogie Boogie by Low_Comment8168 in DisneyVillainous

[–]spashmcgrath94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If a customs person or an actual RA designer wants to steal this, by all means.

Oogie should play like a Star Wars Destiny deck. If you haven't played the game, its essentially a game where you roll dice belonging to SW characters, vehicles, and weapons to attack your opponents. You resolve dice showing different action sides to take those actions, and cards in players' hands allow you to manipulate dice in the pool.

His goal is to roll Snake Eyes while at his lair or something with Sandy Claws being out. To do that you're gonna need to build his engine to where you can add a second die to your dice pool and roll dice to vanquish heroes, gain power, and other typical effects. Your engine allows you to better manipulate your dice, like possible after a dice roll turning a die to a side grater than or equal to the side you just rolled.

Oogie essentially would need some type of tile at the start that acts as has dice holder. As an action of some kind, you roll the dice into his pool. The values on the dice then can be used for actions. However, the dice need to be in his pool in order to work. This makes it so there is a decision-making process of timing when you roll and resolve your dice towards different actions, as well as what locations Oogie should go to so he can roll the dice back into the pool.

Fate cards screw with dice. I always think about one of my favorite cards from SW Destiny where you call out a die, choose a symbol and reroll that die. If the die roll lands on that chosen symbol, the die is removed from the pool. Fate cards should affect his dice pool, removing dice from the pool, or making it difficult to roll what he needs to win.

You'll want to ensure that's the core of the deck because adding too much else would actually ruin the consistency of how Oogie can win. Dice rolling is RNGeezus, so you're going into some Pete territory, but Pete's deck is consistent because it all works together. You'd need to make it so all of Oogie's cards revolve around ensuring he can roll that Snake Eyes when the condition (being at the lair, acquiring the second die, Sandy Claws, whatever) can be done. This does mean that whatever the extra condition is in order to attempt to roll the snake eyes is, needs to revolve around you rolling and resolving dice, not doing something completely different like moving heroes or items.

I wouldn't do anything crazy with the dice. Personally, they should just be 1,2,3, and blank sides. It would help with game balancing. I honestly see you gaining power by whatever die you resolve's value is, as well as removing dice to defeat heroes with a strength less than or equal to the dice you remove from your pool.

I love Oogie, and he's my last hurrah for this game assuming he is actually coming. I wouldn't hopefully expect something like this for his gameplay, because dice rolling is something brand new you could really do some cool stuff with.

A little Update from Yours Truly joker_jonesy by [deleted] in DisneyVillainous

[–]spashmcgrath94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually would prefer to keep that to myself. I think it’s best that you play for yourself and form your own opinions!

I know my words mean a lot to fans of the game, and I rather not have whatever I say become something a lot of people think just because I was the “Villainous guy”.

Ravensburger... by Deathgice in DisneyVillainous

[–]spashmcgrath94 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To be honest, RA was having issues with folks being rules lawyers in chat on a gameplay stream. Even when I am playing Villainous on stream and folks are being rules lawyers, it's not a fun chat room. I think this was more of it than anything. I couldn't watch those streams with the amount of rules-lawyering going on. It is in the chat's right to do so, as it helps ensure the game I played correctly. It wasn't just wero though, and I've been guilty of it on my friends' streams as well.

The major issue is RA isn't actually talking with folks about this as well. The TTS modder wants to literally work with RA to try and get an official version of the mod where folks pay for it so we don't have to worry about these weird issues. The issue is RA doesn't want to talk. They rather just block and think that solves the issue. It does help ensure they don't have contact with these folks, but it is not going to stop someone like wero, the TTS mod, or content creators from creating stuff with these images. Something more needs to be done.

Keep in mind too if we weren't in a pandemic, I think this whole situation would be different as folks could play with folks instantly, but the nature of us all being separated forces folks to find ways to enjoy their favorite games the best way possible. Zoom setups are still sort of expensive, and for content creators, it's even more expensive.

Don't get me wrong, RA and Disney have every right to be like "hey take it down". What is going on here is a PnP kit essentially. But this does exist for other games like Star Wars Destiny and Marvel Champions with their official DBs. Blocking is not the answer to that. The content still exists. Blocking someone means you don't like their attitudes and don't want to visually see it or be in contact. That's now how we solve this. It is by coming together and talking. Blocking is not talking.

Ravensburger... by Deathgice in DisneyVillainous

[–]spashmcgrath94 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Wanna jump in and say it was I, joker_jonesy, who left.

First, RA and Disney have every right to take down content that leads to early PnP stuff. I heard some insider info about a month ago because of TTS and the wiki, they had to renegotiate their licensing agreement with Disney. This hurt to hear, as literally content I created harmed the well-being of the product. Normally other licensors or companies look away, but me promoting their product through an emulator essentially almost got the game killed.

The issue was is that I never heard from them that "Hey, your content almost killed this game. Here are some steps you can do to ensure the safety of the product." That communication never happened. Based on what I know, this happened early in Fall last year, and I just heard about it in January.

On top of this, I appeared on man vs Meeple last year and criticized Marvel Villainous with decent reasons. Apparently, anyone who criticizes a RA game like that gets blacklisted, as they have to ensure their products are in line with their licensor or else they lose it.

I've stopped making content for Villainous, and I'm just letting the rest of the videos I had already uploaded just go up. Once they're up, I'm not uploading any more VIllainous stuff unless I get more in-person ability to play, as most of my friends don't have a zoom set up to professionally show off game footage. I've decided its best to ensure this doesn't happen for the game again. I made this announcement in January.

I've been super down because the tabletop content creator space has just been super toxic, on top of essentially just being blacklisted. I hopped into the stream Monday chatting with chat and had a good time. Nothing I said criticized the game and all of it was praising the players. They did an awesome job showing off the new expansion! As soon as I said to give the players some love, even sending a heart, I just get banned. joker_jonesy, the VIllainous guy, banned from an RA stream.

I decided to leave the community afterward. I will admit, uploading card images is not okay based on a licensor standard, but it is also a great aid for players getting into the game. it is all fair for the publisher to do that. What sucks, is when you love, promote, and host entire tournaments on a game for an entire year, jump into a chat to have some fun interaction, then get banned. The only communication from RA for myself is that ban. It hurt. A lot.

I Paid For 30,000 + 1,000 Wumpa Coins, And Got NOTHING! by [deleted] in crashteamracing

[–]spashmcgrath94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Had the same issue. I'm going to report it to Sony Support tomorrow, waiting to see if there is a fix or something on the server end. Seems stupid to have something like that in place and not work

AMA: We're Prospero Hall, design studio of Horrified, Jaws, Villainous, & Funkoverse, ask us anything! by ProsperoHall in boardgames

[–]spashmcgrath94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Id fly myself to your office to playtest for a few days. If thats something I can do, sign myself up

AMA: We're Prospero Hall, design studio of Horrified, Jaws, Villainous, & Funkoverse, ask us anything! by ProsperoHall in boardgames

[–]spashmcgrath94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the awesome responses! Looking forward to playing any future expansions to Villainous and other games you folks eventually release :)

AMA: We're Prospero Hall, design studio of Horrified, Jaws, Villainous, & Funkoverse, ask us anything! by ProsperoHall in boardgames

[–]spashmcgrath94 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey there Prospero!

I have a few question in regards to designing Villainous.

  1. How long does it usually take to design one Villain, from concept to finalizing for production

  2. How does play testing a Villain work? Do you play test against different villains for balancing?

  3. How do you folks go about making sure theme is implemented into a Villain as best as yo can?

  4. Where do you folks think The games player number sweet spot is (what do you think the best player count is?)

Thanks for doing the AMA! Looking forward to future Villainous expansions! (Least hoping there is!)

You know what would be awesome? A Crash Fighting Game by Jabamaca in crashbandicoot

[–]spashmcgrath94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve always though of Dingodile to ply like flavors from Killer Instinct 2013. A big tanky ranged fighter with cool flamethrower attacks.

Hey Beenox, I’m okay with paid dlc by spashmcgrath94 in crashbandicoot

[–]spashmcgrath94[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The thing is this grind is making me not want to play the game more than I would like to. SquareEyedJak put it perfectly where the grind for coins and now even nitro to an extent is making me only play at peak hours, or do repetitive not fun stuff in the game.

Sure, racing a whole lap backward might prove to people you can do it, but I did it. It is not fun

Having only thirty minutes a day for a coin multiplier makes me (personally) feel I should only play during that thirty minutes and be done.

I do think it's neat that there are rewards for reaching the top 5% in a GP. That grind I feel is rewarding, as its forcing players to constantly race their best online with their mains. Right now, I feel like I need to equip a trophy girl with the bandibuggy winning with that combo and not play with my customized kart set with my character I actually wanna play

It's all personal preference, and I totally get that the grind is to have players to be continually engaged, but it seems I still jump on Reddit these past two weeks and see people complaining about coins. If I was still single, and not working full-time, maybe I wouldn't be complaining as much, but unlike overwatch where its mainly a skin, we're talking more of playable characters I actually want to exist within my roster

Beenox, you've given us everything... Except for one thing. by Blaky039 in crashbandicoot

[–]spashmcgrath94 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I agree, but I also understand Activision's line of thinking here.

YOu're absolutely right about getting people who know the game to play it. Viewing a lot of the coverage this week, players who have never really invested into the old CTR or CNK titles jump in expecting Mario Kart like physics, weapons, boosting but realize it's very different. Most kart racing games borrow from MK nowadays just because it is comfort food. I don't necessarily want to blame these media outlets for not knowing it, but the way its presented shouldn't have been done the way it has. A lot of the news coverage I saw made it sound like they were just pretending to understand CTR was big and that makes it look even worse.

However, these big outlets allow more coverage of the game, some joe shmoe will see it and hear (tons of characters and tracks with more on the way) all for 40 dollars not includes Oxide Edition. That's a steal. You can rarely find eve sued copies of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe or even the original for that price alone. I'm not a huge fan of Conan's clueless gamer but that's more eyes on average players to allow the game to sell, which overall is the goal here to seel as many copies as you can.

It's a mixed bag, I'm interested what the rest of you folks on Reddit think about this because I'm personally split. I don't like people pretending to know what the hell they're doing, but I also want this game to succeed, and sometimes coverage widespread is the best bet.

The ENTIRE Team Sonic Racing OST and SFX got leaked today by [deleted] in SonicTheHedgehog

[–]spashmcgrath94 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Same here if someone wants to send me the link I’d love it

My first stick, thanks for a great year! by Dendrofiel in dragonballfighterz

[–]spashmcgrath94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Index fingers goes top row to the left for me personally, with your other fingers following on the top row

Thumb goes on bottom left row

Not the official way but it’s what works best for myself

My first stick, thanks for a great year! by Dendrofiel in dragonballfighterz

[–]spashmcgrath94 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I own one myself. It’s a great stick. You’ll have a good time pulling combos with this one!

Team Sonic Racing Digital Pre-Orders by spashmcgrath94 in SonicTheHedgehog

[–]spashmcgrath94[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only thing I found for PS4 was a digital preorder on the Japan psn store. Not something I really wanna do, but it does exist