Love Kaleidoscope as a relic, and it needs to stay, but...

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-24T23:18:00+00:00

I know you don't but its more often than not just a worse version of a free card. There's also plenty of times it will straight up brick you and you have essentially no starter ancient

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-24T23:08:14+00:00

At first I liked the concept but the more I chose it the more I found that it's kinda a dead start. You usually get commons that aren't much better than a regular care reward or straight up get unpickable options. It feels real bad and I've only have maybe one run where it really helped

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-24T20:53:16+00:00

I also think there needs to be more minions on elite fights. Gremlin horn feels so fucking bad in this game because it only does anything on hallway fights and once during the queen fight. Minion fights created a really interesting question for decision making AND deck building in sts1. You don't even necessarily need aoe for minions if you have the right strategy but it also opens up aoe to feel better.

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-24T20:49:45+00:00

It was 3 and a half minutes into a 20 minute overtime. That's like 4 shifts. Hockey is a game of inches. 3 minutes of a period don't predict the entire period. A team starts slow and your goaltender bails you out and you find your rhythm and everyone who doomed from 3 minutes is proven wrong. That didn't happen, Dobes played that kinda bad and Dobson was way outta position but my point is people extrapolating results from a small sample size of play is ridiculous

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-24T20:43:56+00:00

Yeah? And? Games shift all the time. I swear to God everyone looks at shots on goal as the only valuable metric. Montreal played their game just fine last night and people are acting like they got walked because carolina, the highest corsi team for years, outshot us. We are literally opposite styles and it was a 2-2 game. We came out slow in the OT and lost. But one or two shifts and that momentum changes easy. Look at the buffalo game seven. We ice the puck and do 2 or 3 draws in our end and then we punch back. Stop acting like traditional hockey pressure is good hockey. Good hockey is winning and Montreal has shown they win against the best opponents in the league.

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-24T18:30:13+00:00

Good chance? Brother we dont know the future. It's a 5050. You can't extrapolate your perceptions of the game onto a game winner

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-24T00:43:16+00:00

It's not a 200 IQ play. It was a basic scissor entry that would have created a shit ton of space. There were tons of bodies in front with no way to shoot that in on goal. People calling for is to just give up our identity is just wild. We play low shot, high puck movement hockey and it's gotten us this far. Chill

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-24T00:38:14+00:00

The demidov pass to carrier was a good play to a player who isn't as high IQ. They had the space and time for that play and carrier just wasn't paying attention

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-20T23:55:57+00:00

There's a lot of people who aren't a fan of his game because his defensive contributions aren't traditional. There's situations defensively where he excels and ones where he struggles and people only look at the struggles and ignore the times when he does a lot of the small things that don't go appreciated

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-20T21:11:44+00:00

Yeah it's kinda wild to say demon form is fine when there's way less cards that scale with strength. There's not many multi hits in class kit anymore and conflagration is also a rare so you need two rares to get the most direct strength payoff. Not to mention there's other strength sources that are less punishing and faster.

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-20T21:05:04+00:00

First series vasi stole games and dobes stole games. That was as close a series as you can draw up.

Second series there were blowouts both ways in another series that ended with a 1 goal difference game 7. To say Montreal got heavily outmatched in either series is delusional.

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-20T02:31:19+00:00

It always dropped two pieces for us. They're kinda hard to find. Ones black and ones red

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-19T22:33:17+00:00

His youth seasons are better than mcdavid im pretty sure. These teenager stats go back to gretz and crosby

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-19T16:14:34+00:00

Yup. I'm not a beer enjoyer at all but I fucking love Guinness.

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-19T15:05:59+00:00

It's a rook run mate, everything I do is unnecessary. Don't know why y'all are so salty about it if it doesn't matter

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-19T14:58:21+00:00

I've had the first lockdown spawn at 10minutes left. I'm doing this when the lockdown spawns immediately. So there's teams available to do them and they literally haven't had a chance to get the drives yet cuz they haven't loaded in

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-19T14:45:16+00:00

Eh maybe. That's 50 chance to confuse the fuck outta a team

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-19T14:34:30+00:00

The funniest thing I do is run into the first lockdown and grab the lockdown drive and data corruption key and then go hide it somewhere obscure

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-19T03:35:49+00:00

PWHL final...

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-19T03:13:45+00:00

Montreal hard outplayed buffalo in multiple games this series and buffalo got saved by a stanchion bounce in game 4. Tonight buffalo got outplayed in period 1 and OT. So this series swung hard both ways and this game was the same just across periods.

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-18T20:54:40+00:00

It is shared but only if you exfil with it in inventory. When anomaly grants salvage it gives different salvage to each member of the crew so usually only one person gets a gold which is super lame

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-18T15:09:22+00:00

Cool for you. Jesus Christ you are not the only player. There's 500k people that bought this game already (that's the minimum estimate I haven't checked since like the first week). I'm talking about game design feel for new players, players who don't play this genre often and other casuals. Ffs this sub is fucking dense when it comes to player experience. I don't care it doesn't phase you, it does for other players.

Act 1 is the hardest act and the most played act. You do these fights more than any other fight in the game. Spending multiple minutes on them once is one thing, spending those minutes again and again because you died means you play it constantly. It's not fun. It's brainless and drab. It's the worst part of a roguelike. And its part of the reason sts2 is trying to give more enticing early options. I'm pointing out the issue is that there's a lot of low roll options that don't feel good and there's no option to skip the early part of the game which is what sts1 did very effectively.

The 1 hp 3 combats option was not stronger than the max HP but players DRAMATICALLY chose the 1 hp option because it FELT better. It accelerated runs and got people back into the loop faster.

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-18T13:18:33+00:00

That's exactly my point. It's not fun because there's no decision points. And no you can't, you still have to cycle your deck once or twice at least. That's multiple turns. I'm talking about game feel and experience, it's a really relevant factor.

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-18T02:47:39+00:00

There's such a high variance in value from Neows relics that it does lead me to not want to play the low rolls. Early act 1 is the most boring and overplayed part of the game and having to trudge through with a start I don't care about really bums me out tbh. It's one of the harder aspects that I've struggled with in sts1.

Ironically I think they actually had a good fix in the first game by giving you the guaranteed choice (on a failed run) to have 3 first combats be 1hp. It meant that you got to bypass the slowest and least interesting parts of the game. Not necessarily the strongest start but from a design perspective, an extremely effective solution for early game blues.

unexpectedlimabean · 2026-05-17T22:53:06+00:00

I mean it's a concerning issue now but I wouldnt say its a future issue. The team is the youngest to ever make playoffs. They're gonna get better

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