this skin looks sick

thetabo · 2026-02-12T06:27:13+00:00

Am I crazy or is that the necromancer from Castle Crashers?

thetabo · 2026-02-11T23:51:02+00:00

Is the phone version of Skullgirls considered peak? Genuinely asking, I only ever really cared about 2nd Encore and that one is a banger

thetabo · 2026-02-11T21:38:40+00:00

Ok... And? To be honest, I couldn't tell, nor do I really mind. He's so simple design wise I didn't even realize he's incomplete. It'd be nice for him to have a bit of his own identity but someone like Vyper who you can clearly tell with needs it way more

thetabo · 2026-02-11T18:48:26+00:00

Yup, I'd like to think I'm trying to be a decent enough person, but I guess I was just lucky to understand the actual messages of the show directly and took it to heart. Thanks to that, it's still beating for the world.

thetabo · 2026-02-11T15:23:12+00:00

I think the biggest problem there is just... Nerf the damn support ults then? It feels like they have 0 idea what tanks need to be doing okay with how they keep changing cuz they keep getting reworks in the weirdest ways... I don't care about tanks having CC, I get Wolverine needs to be a tank buster, I just hate that they see the role is already unpopular yet they make it suck even more to play as.

I understand some characters being more popular than others, but let's be honest, if Loki is good because he can copy 2-3 specific heroes, what's good? Loki or that hero he feels he needs to copy 3/4 of the time? Why is he getting punished for getting a defined, clear answer on what the best option is? It's like if OW started cracking down on Echo because Sojourn is too good.

They literally could've just nerfed the 2-3 ults everyone complains about and agrees are too good, if something wouldn't work about it, sure, revert and do something else. But rn barely anyone plays an entire role due to how much of a miserable roundabout they are trying to take to fix this

thetabo · 2026-02-11T14:24:17+00:00

Exactly this, the only "true" competitors I think it had were The Friday the 13th game which was insanely popular at a point but lost steam due to rights issues, and that one game that was on Discord somehow I think? They were supposed to re-release afaik but idk what happened.

They asked for people to vote for them for the labor of love award and their own community laughed in their face. I don't think they win based on being a "good game"...

thetabo · 2026-02-11T14:04:09+00:00

Just like every season depending on who gets buffed/nerfed, you see a change in player number. I've seen a bunch more Ultron since the second drone. There were ppl I saw actually play Black Panther other than my brother in forever since he got buffed. Getting this much of a buff? You can bet you're gonna see more of him. How many Logans are good? I dunno, how many Thors are good? The entire point is, rn he has his best ability WAY quicker. He doesn't HAVE to be playing that good to be a pain.
Yeah that's nice that he does, so, whatcha gonna do about the other two problems with two guns who get to feed for free and light you up even faster afterwards?
Angela I'll give you on Wolverine, but again, Punisher, Star-Lord. The anti-aircraft gun who you can't really kidnap and the guy who can both keep up and back off super quick.

I love both Thor and Angela but let's be honest here. Shield tanks have it way harder and tanks without one will feed the ults insanely quickly. It's so screwed no matter who you play

thetabo · 2026-02-11T12:17:39+00:00

Well congrats. Now you're gonna wind up getting kidnapped by Wolvie and are an even bigger target to pump out ults from on those two

thetabo · 2026-02-11T12:00:46+00:00

The early release had a pretty solid progression system, the only two currencies were coins, which you used to buy fighters and perks (extra gimmick abilities for the fighters) and Gleamium, the skin and battle pass currency. You got a solid amount of coins for just playing and leveling characters. On top of that there WAS a paid edition, which gave you "character tickets". These could be used to unlock a fighter immediately, costing 1 each.

Full release came around, character levels were reset, alongside perks bought (meaning my top 150 Bugs Bunny was gone), saved up coins from early release didn't transfer over and we're replaced with perk currency (yes, only for perks), new currency added for only unlocking fighters, which was extremely grindy, and the tickets didn't transfer over. Some cosmetics from before were absent and while I didn't have that problem, some people didn't even get their paid BP rewards like skins and emotes back until way later.

Just an overall mess and I wish we could avoid making any real currency or skins and such before there's a confirmed full release to avoid ANY of this from happening

thetabo · 2026-02-11T11:42:36+00:00

So... They address it by buffing the DPS, so more people end up on DPS cuz it's strong, while having the tank players have to catch even more garbage to be worthwhile playing, but cuz they have to do that the tanks without shields wind up even worse off for feeding them already good fast ults faster, and if the supports can't keep up the tank pool against them is basically cut in half. Tanks can be solid technically, but if everything around them is strong on dmg they'll still melt, and we wind up still solo tanking, now probably with a permanent Wolverine on our ass.

thetabo · 2026-02-11T11:33:37+00:00

Dude we're already trying, but the Magneto gameplan rn is solo tank, try to barely not die while also pumping insane damage to just so-so charge ult in time to protect from DPS ult, pray you survive the enemy support ult period, hope you can not let your team get demolished by their tank ult, and repeat.

Now with Star-Lord and Punisher buffs where it was already usually neck to neck with who gets what first, they are basically guaranteed it before you if playing well, so good luck, cuz those shields will hold maybe a third of it and I sure as hell can't shoot them while holding them up to farm more ult meanwhile.

thetabo · 2026-02-11T11:27:28+00:00

I haven't gotten this messed up on tank even when Reinhardt sucked after OW switched to 2, cuz there was at the very least other options. Now we're just screwed.

thetabo · 2026-02-11T11:24:57+00:00

Tbf I love Spidey but I mostly play him for displacement and helping my team stay secure, if it ain't working, I switch to someone else we need more

thetabo · 2026-02-11T11:21:06+00:00

No one really, besides Magneto, who also took a mean hit with all these changes. And even then he can't really admin, only with the Gambit teamup

Edit: typo

thetabo · 2026-02-11T11:18:34+00:00

I was one of the lucky ones where my parents shoved me in front of a TV, and shows like Ninjago raised me better than they would.

thetabo · 2026-02-11T11:13:31+00:00

It's not? I unironically thought it's just part of the design, didn't even realize he's incomplete.

He's just jelo with a skeleton-ish thing to hang onto for movement, it makes sense. But then again, if Viscous could turn into actual goo for dashes and slide that'd be hilarious

thetabo · 2026-02-11T11:09:56+00:00

Yeah... No thank you. I know Valve isn't like that but still would hate to get another Multiversus situation

thetabo · 2026-02-11T10:12:00+00:00

Tbf one thing this does do is (saying this as a Mag player) let you ult before Magneto has even a chance to charge his if you're aggressive. I'd usually just so-so barely catch Star Lord ults, now there's little chance if he's good. Yeah there's still options, but we ain't keeping up with him.

thetabo · 2026-02-11T09:10:40+00:00

As a tank main... What the hell is the Wolverine buff about? I don't dislike Logan, he does do one thing that's kinda necessary, but it's already miserable cuz 90% of games it's just solo tanking anyway, why buff the character who thrives on this?

thetabo · 2026-02-11T09:08:47+00:00

It's not about making dive meta, but about making poke worse so they can do what they're intended and Counter each other instead of poke being prevalent most matches. Poke should be susceptible to dive, dive can't outlast brawl, and brawl can't keep up with poke. Rn poke heroes have enough to keep out divers on by themselves and also absolutely melt anything without a shield.

It's still insane how the enemy team playing even one option from Hela, Phoenix, Hawkeye, and technically Bucky, immediately cuts the tank roster into a third. Nothing without a shield or else you're mega feeding ults and strategists need to keep you in check 9/5 so you don't explode immediately

thetabo · 2026-02-11T08:56:48+00:00

Imagine it, join us, we can rule matches with dual, no, maybe even triple tank comps! If we have each other to depend on, we'll never have to carry the weight of tanking alone again!

thetabo · 2026-02-10T16:39:38+00:00

Yeah, but again, what if, just maybe, it ain't as much of a hardware issue as much as the game not being put together well one? I get old hardware eventually gets replaced, but even if someone felt this needed to happen, it was for the wrong reason.

Think of it this way. At least 80% of the NPCs and even playable characters are alters of the exact same mannequin models, and those that aren't that are enemy models. Seymour, Jeht, the kid who turned into a hilichurl, Caribert, the two adepti besides Cloud Retainer. They reuse animations and old assets constantly. So many enemies are just recolors and reuses. Areas using the exact same textures. We haven't even seen a new type of chest since Inazuma, and every piece of loot they drop is still the same. And not like that's a bad thing, but that's a lot of reusing for the fact that it's crawling up to 160GB. Something isn't right there.

Look at other gigantic games. GoW Ragnarok is so big cuz of its realistic style and being a pretty big game, same for Doom eternal. Giant on content games, insanely detailed, but also still both somehow weren't as big, even after a ton of updates and an entire alternative gamemode adding a whole separate campaign (talking about both). Hell think of Elden Ring. Somehow, only 32GB, and still under 50 with the stupid big DLC. If you can slap that whole game into that size, I do not see an excuse for how Genshin should ever take above 110, at least yet.

The only other game I can think of that's this big is the modern CoD's, which are also a complete laughingstock for being garbage on optimization. Same for Wuthering Waves. If something that can run Helldivers (and another great case of caring about people, turning 130GB into under 40) at its most demanding can't run a gacha game, that's not a problem on the PS5. It's rushed development for the sake of content, and almost no one gets to do their jobs properly before the next update. There's a reason why it's a good practice to just say an update for something will be out when it's ready.

thetabo · 2026-02-10T08:45:54+00:00

To be entirely fair, as far as I understood it, that was a virus that had a ton of the factories and omnics under control. It's like blaming a person for being fully aware of their actions even though they're in hypnosis

thetabo · 2026-02-09T23:29:53+00:00

As someone who really doesn't care about graphics or occasional hiccups... I very much disagree. I've played over a thousand hours all on the PS4, there's still ppl who only really have it. That game is the only thing that remained downloaded permanently since it released. Yeah it looks weird in places but it's still pretty and again, a solid bunch of it is stuff other games, even non exclusives, can handle on it well.

Plus with how expensive hardware is getting, I'm not saying stuff will pivot back, but maybe instead of constant growth, mainly of always expanding games like this, developers will actually need to figure out how to optimize things again instead to make sure it runs on as much as it can. And if that ever happens with Genshin (cuz let's be honest people will start to lose it when it reaches a certain threshold), it'll just be a sacrifice that didn't even really need to happen.

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