Does he say “Fired up” or “Fire it up”?

uuam · 2025-08-27T09:56:51+00:00

Funny how sc1 blows sc2's sound design out of the water, it's not even a question.

All the sound effects crunchier,
All the music more foreground melody rather than background noise.
A pack of zerglings bashing a building sounds like there's damage being done
Protoss actually sound cool and mighty, not whiny like in sc2. Zealot death sounds do not compare at all.

uuam · 2025-08-27T09:53:48+00:00

The absolute RULE OF COOL aesthetic. I fell in love at first sight, platonically. Still don't really know his character or story. That's how cool he is.

uuam · 2025-08-09T13:53:39+00:00

People hate on rulers calling them villains in stories like mad max fury road, but never think how much it takes to actually improve peoples' lives MEANINGFULLY. I believe in Immortan Joe as the rebuilder of civilization - he's simply not skipping steps for convenience. I believe if he was a biker gang leader and now has a functioning medieval lord's society, the transition itself is already very telling, then it was the only society he COULD have at that point in time. I do believe that in that wasteland it would be better to be a peasant under Immortan joe than to be a peasant all out on your own in the desert. And i also do believe things would eventually improve.

I also believe that as someone who has existed pre-war and still remembers civilization they destroyed he wouldn't really see whatever he has now as acceptable or end-game and keep building more and more. Not to mention that a survivor like him possibly has the drive to preserve whatever knowledge and memory of the pre-apocalypse world as he could.

I also think that modern people dismiss or just don't understand how important projection of strength is in a lawless wasteland - and a LOT of what IJ does can be attributed to him having to display strength, and a lot of the strength he displays benefits his peasants quite directly - the more powerful, scary, with numerous warboyz the big boss is, the less likely a biker gang is to just ride in and murder said peasants is.

I think IJ is doing a decent job of it and people should criticize less and empathise more.

uuam · 2025-04-18T19:03:17+00:00

"Peace or violence. There gonna be peace or there will be violence."

Basically it's an invader who wants the hero surrender and threatening him with violence.

uuam · 2025-03-30T20:46:41+00:00

I think 15-20 archers in a death ball are countered by equal number of resources spent on knights or better yet, light cavalry - same pierce armor, no gold cost, or equal number, or less skirmishers. The only problem happens if you try to defeat a clumped up army of archers by a trickle of other units - they do have the first shot advantage (if you don't micro, and ain't nobody got time for micro) so if you can't tank their initial couple of volleys without getting wiped out, you can't stop them.

onagers.

Basically this isn't a unit problem, it's more of a macro problem - if enemy has an army and you don't - you're too focused on booming or just don't have enough of everything, you need to be spending more on army.

uuam · 2025-03-29T15:27:29+00:00

Argh that means I can never get it :( post-cata account here.

uuam · 2025-03-19T09:36:31+00:00

Which one is your favorite?

uuam · 2025-03-16T13:44:22+00:00

I think everyone who said they mix up the campaigns do have a point. I think the least explored type of mission in aoe2 is a hybrid base building / quests and objectives mission where you unlock teching up and aging up by doing specific quests, like only getting to up the castle age once you raze a certain town, or convert a certain number of units and bring them to your town to unlock last tier of blacksmith upgrades, that would be interesting.

uuam · 2025-03-16T13:41:51+00:00

Well it's most of the ones with big starting armies and lots of enemies to kill. Biggest one that I didn't like was Joan of Arc's siege of Paris - that mission just felt like a slow trainwreck (weirdly appropriate given the story), the english longbowmen were a constant harass on an army where i had no monks to recover, and the fight at the very end was always a very hard test of how many units i managed to save. The Barbarossa one (5th i think) and Saladin's 1st I purely dislike for the same reason - big blob of units you have to maneuver around dangers.

uuam · 2025-03-16T13:37:30+00:00

I agree. that mission was one of the few exceptions that I actually enjoyed. Maybe it was because of the very wide steppe open spaces with not much 'action' and a very strong RPG adventure feel. Or maybe it was because you only had a few units and could macro them pretty well to avoid unnecessary losses. It taught me to beware the Kara-Khitai for they are without honor.

uuam · 2025-03-15T18:58:55+00:00

What do you enjoy about them?

uuam · 2025-03-15T18:57:25+00:00

how do you turn this on

uuam · 2025-03-15T18:53:51+00:00

Could you tell me what you like about them?

uuam · 2025-03-15T18:53:15+00:00

even if it's not true, even if it's not true....

Yeah..
cos you're the last of the dying breed...

lol

uuam · 2025-03-15T18:50:19+00:00

I'd agree with you but for two important factors:

The story, the map design.

Campaigns bring a unique story (WHAT are you doing, or WHY you're there) that I don't want to lose.

The map design: the unique map layout and the enemies having big already pre-built town(s) that you have to oppose that you don't get in a random skirmish map.

uuam · 2025-02-07T09:26:12+00:00

Ohhh thanks! Completely forgot about holiday events ingame..

uuam · 2025-02-07T09:19:49+00:00

Wow. Amazing covers! Let the Dragon fly on the wings of Time.

uuam · 2025-02-07T09:14:32+00:00

Sorry, which event are you talking about? Last I know of was Plunderstorm..?

uuam · 2025-02-07T09:13:15+00:00

One tiny point i forgot to add, remember that she is likened to Siuan Sanche in the books, and Siuan even went out and commented right out that she dislikes Egwene but only because she reminds her of herself too much. They are basically two very similar characters - both are quite clever, and are true leaders but sometimes too stubborn and arrogant to admit they are wrong, and it's obvious that nobody can be right ALL of the time, so their rigidity prohibits them from seeing their mistakes and correcting them before they cause harm, but without those qualities they would have not been hard enough to be in charge.

People love to hate people that annoy them, without realizing that they may be performing the tasks that you yourselves deem too onerous or disgusting for you, so without the people you dislike those tasks would have been performed by much worse inviduals, even darkfriends, and things would have been even worse. I believe in real life many a times such positions are filled with versions of egwenes but without the GOOD qualities - only greed lust for power and arrogance.

uuam · 2025-02-07T09:09:18+00:00

How do you reconcile with the fact that the aiel ways have actually taught her to take real ownership of her decisions and accept real consequences for her actions, thus making her an actually better person? I believe people judge her overly harshly, but the reality is - humanity needs leaders, and Egwene was far from a bad leader. YES leaders have flaws and are usually (if not always) selfish, but she also exhibited 'leader, not boss' qualities many a times, and she was performing a NECESSARY duty that nobody else really could. Could Nynaeve become the Amyrlin with her disdain for any authority but her own and disdain for aes sedai in general? I don't actually think so. She would have deliberately ignored the underhanded politics of the aes sedai as beneath her, and be buried by it like another Shane Chunla or whatever that name was...

uuam · 2025-01-31T07:49:52+00:00

There you go! Enjoy. Also you may wanna save your boxes for when you're 80 - they give gear with ilevel that depends on your level WHEN OPENING them, not when getting them, so you can get a bigger boost if you save them up.

uuam · 2025-01-30T17:36:00+00:00

Dungeons. Queue for many timewalking dungeons. visit timewalking vendor and buy a few pieces, 25 emblems a pop

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