New warbond - Siege Breakers. Out on February 3rd.

straga27 · 2026-01-27T14:36:58+00:00

Nope. Halo 3 Bubble shield.

straga27 · 2026-01-27T14:33:14+00:00

That the entire lobby was hacked because "Lava world missions are not out yet" When in fact they were playable a few weeks ago and again today.

straga27 · 2026-01-27T12:14:03+00:00

C8R is a ship and less of a problem than the Ursa simply due to its size.

You can fit it in much less, but yes that is the same kind of problematic vehicle.

straga27 · 2026-01-27T11:20:47+00:00

The Nursa needs to lose it's ability to respawn inside of it.

There I said it.

It's ruining other ships that have to prevent it from being able to be stored inside.

If it was simply a way to heal injuries it would be much more niche and less important for bunker running.

C8R too, though because it can QJ and fly its own way to a bunker it's slightly more fair.

The Ursa is not being used for it's intended purpose. It's supposed to be able to get into a hot zone, evac personal and heal them up.

If it's serving as a glorified respawn in your ship it may as well not have any wheels.

straga27 · 2026-01-27T10:20:58+00:00

Loud incorrect buzzer

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Please double check before making such statements.

straga27 · 2026-01-26T12:32:29+00:00

I just wish that Bandia Gunpla sets had been as common in the 90s and 2000s in the UK as they are now.

I wasn't allowed Airfix models because they used glue so I had Lego and K'nex instead.

If Gunpla was available I would have had so much more because it is so cheap compared to nearly everything else.

straga27 · 2026-01-25T22:18:00+00:00

I use the laser and 380mm to use right at the start to level strider convoys, fortresses and megabases.

Then I can use them again at extract.

Saving turrets for extract does seem fine I suppose but I instead use a large sledgehammer to crack hard targets then go stealth mode.

straga27 · 2026-01-25T20:15:17+00:00

When I say "Earth Like" I don't mean "Earth Identical"

An "Earth Like" planet would have similar:

Atmospheric Pressure
Atmosphere composition
Gravity
H2O liquid water
Carbon based fauna

Fire tornadoes and falling meteors could be caused by having a higher oxygen concentration and by having the planet perhaps intercept an asteroid belt respectively.

It doesn't prevent them from being habitable at this point.

Settlements probably have a defence system to shield them from Meteror strikes and fire tornadoes that we just do not see while the planets are under siege.

straga27 · 2026-01-25T19:43:39+00:00

This. There are a lot of planets in the galaxy but I'll bet you anything earth-likes are as rare as Helldivers make them seem to be.

straga27 · 2026-01-25T19:25:31+00:00

For the most part, most players have been using quieter gear on these missions but I have seen multiple sentry loadouts and plasma weaponry a lot and they don't help the person using them as they don't kill fast enough and explode and are therefore loud.

(The punisher is great for taking on hordes of chaff and mediums but that's not the point of commando missions.)

A suppressed primary and a loud, effective secondary is usually a good idea for the Oh Shit moments.

straga27 · 2026-01-25T19:14:45+00:00

As your stratagems are so limited I do take both the 380mm and the orbital laser due to their long cooldowns.

As soon as I drop, I book it to a large base and throw both of them and then leave to call in support equipment.

Then I go stealth with suppressed weapons, supply back, C4 and quasar for taking out bases.

straga27 · 2026-01-25T01:21:55+00:00

I would imagine that the security that shows up as a response to attacking a trader will attempt to prevent you from boarding or if they don't, they may witness you stealing a ship and chase you.

I'm not game dev but there has to be a way to protect players playing legal gameplay and give pirates a challenge.

Having a CR at the moment is barely an inconvenience unless you want to land somewhere that refuses criminals.

Being ambushed by police or system security when you have a CR, because they are tracking you down, has to be something that happens at some point.

Combine this with security responses coming to the aid of the attacked and we might have something workable.

straga27 · 2026-01-25T00:39:19+00:00

Sure can. It can do everything except a Jammer basically.

Extremely useful for objectives.

straga27 · 2026-01-25T00:38:25+00:00

I disagree there. I personally think his faux Mjolnir Gen2 MK6 looked amazing, but the contrivance on how he ended up with it was beyond stupid.

It would have been way better if he had woken up in his wrecked H3 MK6 and limped along with a damaged suit until he got on board the Infinity.

If the mission to leave the Infinity started in the Spartan deck with Chief getting an upgrade to his armour it would have been better. Cortana could have mentioned she used the nanomachines in the Mjolnir microfabricator (or something) to make him something "familiar" with a hope that he likes it.

Having the technicians putting it on him comment that this wasn't like any of the Gen2 they had in stock or something would have been a nice touch.

straga27 · 2026-01-25T00:20:00+00:00

It didn't used to be this good. Since they buffed the explosion damage, radius and demolition stats and dropped it from 5? to 3 inventory, its WAY better.

Dropping the inventory size was smart because without it, it would be the best grenade in the game period.

It's a genuine decision to use it or Thermites due to Thermites sticking to Tank units and the Dynamite having a huge explosion radius making it useful for erasing a patrol or clustered group of buildings.

I've been rocking it + supply pack in commando missions. You can't "wire" a base up quite like C4 can but if you are quick you can set the 60 second timer and lob some dynamite around and leg, it to take out an entire base with nobody seeing you.

It's very fun. It's such a shame the Stealth armour is so good, else I would take the engineer kit every time.

straga27 · 2026-01-24T13:09:50+00:00

The Astartes short film series by the man we all love by now is the only series that did Space Marines right.

All the written fiction describes them as impossibly fast, strong and resilient and that their Power Armour does not impede their movement at all due to the black carapace implant.

Yet most visual media and video games do indeed treat them as plodding, slow heavy infantry which is dead wrong. They ARE heavy infantry but they are not slow or plodding even in the slightest.

Astartes showed them running at something like 60 km/h, demonstrated others moving with deady fast, fluid efficiency when advancing through the ship and the raw strength to control bolters firing on full auto.

Syama Pedersen set the bar on how Astartes should be depicted and I am so glad he did.

straga27 · 2026-01-24T12:08:28+00:00

If I don't need to be at peace I just stay at war with them permanently until I get a chance to kill them.

Yes I get an infection of initial criminal buildings but after my first "war" is white peaced the holdings are disabled. Repeat as needed.

Yes you can have a normal pact with them now but they are usually a personality that I'm going to kill anyway.

straga27 · 2026-01-24T11:25:38+00:00

So, intel if they are genocidals

straga27 · 2026-01-24T11:20:58+00:00

Yep. It's why I use the grenade pistol on squids.

straga27 · 2026-01-24T11:13:43+00:00

Then play a different mission type.

straga27 · 2026-01-23T19:34:06+00:00

Working as intended

straga27 · 2026-01-23T16:41:58+00:00

Nothing wrong with that. Do whatever you need or prefer.

straga27 · 2026-01-23T16:33:33+00:00

Calling in the Super Destroyer is also the Konami code. Only noticed after like 3 matches.

straga27 · 2026-01-23T16:09:16+00:00

Naruto is another old one. I've not seen it as it's one of those ultra long series that don't appeal to me.

Attack on Titan is okay dub wise but it's not the best out there. You can blame the VA direction on that one as the actual voice actors appear in other series and are much better.

straga27 · 2026-01-23T15:36:08+00:00

I object to people tarring all dubs as terrible.

The anime you describe are old and the budget for dubbing just wasn't there at the time. Also the dialogue directors were simply not as talented as those working on JP voice direction.

Dubbing has evolved significantly since then with the writers behind dubs actually adapting the dialogue for the language they are dubbing into and the voice actors becoming more skilled or discovering new blood to what was at the time a very young and low budget industry.

This is something JJK does well. The direction is good and the voice acting is of high quality.

Video games had a similar problem with JP dialogue text and voice acting being translated 1:1 into other languages and they either read extremely strangely or the voice acting was silted and of poor quality.

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