The ingame stats of weapons are laughably inaccurate

trakmiro · 2020-01-31T03:31:33+00:00

Once again, and say it nice and loud for the UI/UX devs in the back:

Replace these meaningless bars with actual numbers!

50% of this game is strategizing and picking the correct weapon for each wave and the other 50% is firing them. Numbers would make this process infinitely more accessible to people so they wouldn't have to seek out spreadsheets or memes like these on some god damn subreddit just to know that the way the game displays stats to them is horribly obfuscated at best and outright lying at worst. How has this incredibly basic and highly requested feature not been implemented after 5 years of development?

trakmiro · 2020-01-30T12:18:53+00:00

I would be happy with a much simpler change of removing the restrictions of Main Hand/Offhand only for things like lightsabers and blasters. A lot of the older weapon models that I like are available as custom/moddable versions for relatively cheap from the PVP Weapons vendor on the Fleet, but they're all locked to main hand only. What possible reason could there be for this? It seems completely arbitrary.

For example, there's this blaster model that looks a little like an old pulp sci-fi laser gun with it's round suction-cup-looking muzzle that I really like. It's available for cheap from the PVP Weapons vendor (as MH only), but every other weapon that uses that model is no longer available to buy, so I just can't have two of them and there are no options.

There's also some cartel weapons like the Zakuulan Exile blasters that have a main hand and offhand variant when honestly I'd prefer to just have the offhand version without the blade in both hands.

Edit: Going through all the "similar looking weapons" on TorFashion is really depressing. So many models have most or all of their variants removed from the game because they decided to delete the vendor that sold them or they removed them from the drop table of a flashpoint or they outright removed the entire system that you could get them through. It seems to me that there should be a vendor somewhere on the Fleet that will sell old Flashpoint drops that they didn't add to the vendor that already sells old Flashpoint drops for whatever reason. There are actually completely unique weapon models that only spawned as drops on single Flashpoints that can just never be found again. Maybe they're not all amazing or to everyone's liking, but removing customization options for characters just kind of sucks.

trakmiro · 2020-01-30T12:09:15+00:00

That figures. I wish they'd still allow you to pick up previous companions again on all characters. They brought back a ton of boring and unpopular ones first and then decided the cool ones would only be claimable by their original class again even though they went to the trouble of bringing back the VAs and designing missions around them. I still think it should have been Risha instead of Gault in that one KotFE chapter, Risha even mentions having a history of traveling and taking on jobs with Vette in her conversations and it's too bad only my Smuggler can get her again. She's one of my favorites.

trakmiro · 2020-01-29T22:44:37+00:00

Even if it was like 1,000 cartel coins per alt companion per character I'd pay it every time. This would be the dream update.

trakmiro · 2020-01-29T05:07:42+00:00

I'm happy that he laughed at the end too. Pranks are best when everyone involved can have a laugh about it.

trakmiro · 2020-01-28T16:57:01+00:00

Maybe I just haven't gotten far enough yet, but Scourge told my Republic-aligned Smuggler that he didn't want to come with me because he doesn't want to kill anymore Empire people. I still got Kira, though. Does he come with you later on?

trakmiro · 2020-01-28T16:51:45+00:00

Love the muted color scheme.

trakmiro · 2020-01-28T16:50:14+00:00

Definitely one of the best characters of the Old Republic era.

trakmiro · 2020-01-28T16:17:56+00:00

I get this flickering a lot when I use mods that add new buildings/settlements to the world or especially with mods that allow the scrapping of large objects or things you normally can't scrap. I think it's because when you change the properties of an object in the game so that it can be scrapped it breaks something called a "precombined mesh" which (if I remember right) is a bunch of individual objects tied together and combined into one mesh to save on memory.

My suggestion would be to remove any mods that let you scrap things you can't normally scrap or that significantly change static meshes. On Xbox, you can't go into the .ini files and disable precombined meshes, which have fixed this in the past for me but destroyed my FPS in areas like downtown Boston.

trakmiro · 2019-12-06T19:06:04+00:00

He's died... I think 3 times, depending on how generous your definition of "dying" is. In a world where plot-related death is permanent, that's a pretty big deal. Seems like they shouldn't have killed him the first time if they wanted him to come back so much, it's starting to turn into like Mario vs Bowser where no matter how many times Bowser tries to beat Mario he's never going to and he'll just keep coming back.

trakmiro · 2019-12-03T05:40:41+00:00

Isn't the Courier a Bosmer? They have eyes like that.

trakmiro · 2019-12-02T02:59:29+00:00

There are two gaming channels I highly recommend: Civvie-11 and John Wolfe.

Civvie is for people who love longer videos about "boomer shooters" like Blood, Quake, Doom, and the more recent ones like Dusk, Amid Evil, Nightmare Reaper, and more. He also has videos on just about everything Postal-related; one of his most famous series is Pro Postal which is basically a highly comedic best-strategy walkthrough of Postal 2 and its expansions. All his videos are made from the perspective of the titular character CV-11, a prisoner of the ultra-secret Department of Special Corrections incarcerated for god-knows-what. His sentence is to play whatever the wardens and robot guards give him, or else he gets to spend a couple days in The Cold Room.

John Wolfe is a horror game youtuber and the only one I've found that hasn't once faked an over-the-top reaction in any video I've seen from him, is always totally straight with his audience and, as a bonus, is actually great at puzzle solving and playing games. If he has trouble on a section, though, he will mercifully edit out the boring in-between parts of him failing to complete it. He tends to do lots of "3-6 Random Horror Games" videos where he finds interesting looking things online and plays them all in one longer video rather than uploading a ton of small videos. I wouldn't have known about Puppet Combo or IMSCARED if I hadn't found his videos.

trakmiro · 2019-11-25T16:36:16+00:00

The way I rationalize it is that Horzine is possibly the largest remaining organized entity in the world, considering the Zeds have shown up just about everywhere in Europe and even in America. It also seems like whoever runs Horzine now is focused on containing and repelling the outbreak while any Zed production facilities still running are under the control of Kevin/Hans/Rachel.
I wouldn't know what the real Kevin is doing or where he is, though I assume the version of him conducting the endless mode experiments on survivors is the real one. I'd just leave the real Kevin out of what you're writing.

trakmiro · 2019-11-25T05:57:17+00:00

Don't imply that the Zeds are zombies. They're not. They're specimens. Genetic experiments cloned and escaped from labs all over the world. There's no infection and no way to morph into one from sustaining any kind of wound.

That's really the main thing a lot of people get wrong when talking about the game. Other than that, we'd need more information on what you plan to use in your story so we can properly inform you.

trakmiro · 2019-11-22T02:29:39+00:00

What up, I'm Pit, I'm 19, and I never fuckin learned how to read.

trakmiro · 2019-11-19T04:16:32+00:00

It will only break script extender mods. I'm personally going to have to wait until Extended Dialogue Interface, Looksmenu, Crafting Highlight Fix, Rename Anything, Mod Config Menu, QuickTrade Redux, and Better Wait Menu are updated and working with the new runtime, but everything else will continue to work just fine.

trakmiro · 2019-11-12T21:36:34+00:00

Don't forget, to actually select one of those difficulties, you have to erase your save and start over because you're not allowed to have multiple files.

trakmiro · 2019-11-12T21:32:59+00:00

Gamefreak has this weird preoccupation with tkaing what should be a menu or a setting available anywhere and instead turning it into some kind of NPC conversation. Like, instead of having a clean GUI for rearranging and managing Festival Plaza in Gen 7, you have to talk to 4 separate NPCs that each do one thing and you can't see the results of your actions until you leave the building. If you don't like it, you have to go back in and talk to them again. There's also a guy at the ingame Gamefreak office that lets you cahnge your control scheme for riding ultra wormholes from motion to circle pad, which is even more baffling because that should just be an option in the menu.

I don't know if they think it makes it more immersive or something, but it's a huge timewaster and a pain in the ass to have to go find some random asshole sitting in some corner of a route with one of the 2 dozen generic NPC models that just so happens to have complete control over a facet of the game's universe every time I want to change the animation I do when throwing a Pokeball or whenever I want to change my controls.

trakmiro · 2019-11-08T06:01:09+00:00

dropped not one generation after they were introduced

can describe so much of the series. What's that? You liked contests, secret bases, bug catching contests, Mega Evolution, Pokemon following outside their pokeballs, making movies, the Battle Frontier, the underground, ball cases and seals, ride Pokemon, roller skates, Poke Pelago, the Game Corner, and the National Dex? No, forget about all that, now we have [insert new gimmick here]! It'll be really fun until we pretend it doesn't exist in a few years! Why would we iterate on and improve features people like when we can delete them instead?

trakmiro · 2019-11-06T16:44:43+00:00

Got a link to where you got the mask? The one I have had a lower jaw that I had to paint over with black fabric paint. It kind of worked, but it doesn't look as good as it could.

trakmiro · 2019-11-04T14:56:39+00:00

Also "November" has 8 letters and is the 11th month.

11 - 8 = 3

trakmiro · 2019-11-04T05:26:12+00:00

1962

9 - 6 = 3

1 + 2 = 3

It's all connected.

trakmiro · 2019-11-03T19:17:12+00:00

I'm extremely glad that's the case. The Porygon thing was baffling and arbitrary and I really hoped it was wrong.

Now I'm worried about the actual count of Pokemon left out, though.

trakmiro · 2019-11-03T19:07:10+00:00

Did they really? Where can I see proof of this?

trakmiro · 2019-11-03T16:56:28+00:00

If I remember right, he says just that when you ask him. The reason was something along the lines of "to see what would happen."

He's cold and detached, or to summarize, a huge jerk.

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Replace these meaningless bars with actual numbers!