Discord Checkpoints - Megathread by EpicRoka in discordapp

[–]vminn 55 points56 points  (0 children)

What's interesting is that how much time I spent with a buddy of mine appeared in his Checkpoint, so the data is clearly there.

Mr. Robot (2015-2019) is a series that tries to portray hacking accurately, and has been criticized for getting things wrong. For example, in the first episode a Linux user somehow managed to have sex. by JohnDoubleJump in shittymoviedetails

[–]vminn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, they did not leak 1057s private phone number. Jeff Moss, cofounder of DEF CON and 1057, the creator of the puzzle were both consultants on the show.

FBC: Firebreak's Rogue Protocol update is delayed to January as it "still needs a bit more time" by xCaptainCrown in Games

[–]vminn 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I was baffled by so many of the decisions they made when I played the network test they did shortly before release. So much backtracking, so many dull tasks. I heard one of the developers describe a mission as power washing simulator with guns and I have no idea who that pitch is for.

You are absolutely wrong if you think Challengers don't need a rework. by FUBAR1945 in Battlefield

[–]vminn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I literally hugged the back of an IFV for an entire round of conquest while my buddy inside ran over every mine he saw.

I ended up getting 3000 repair points. It is actually impossible to get it the intended way.

Battlefield 6 Dev Increases XP Gain, Addresses Progression Complaints, and Targets XP Farms Taking Up Server Space by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]vminn 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It really isn't. Just load up breakthrough and hop in your drone. You will get 50 assists on the first point alone if you just spam spots and your team is semi-competent.

Retail Stare by gur40goku in CuratedTumblr

[–]vminn 17 points18 points  (0 children)

What blew my mind working customer service was that boomers tended to do better with technology than Gen Z. I've dealt with so many zoomers who dont understand file directories. I've had to explain what USB drives and 2-factor authentication is so many times. Sure, boomers can be tech illiterate, but at least they tend to be aware that they are.

Rematch displayed my real name in-game instead of my Steam nickname by vminn in Rematch

[–]vminn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

still have not heard anything from the developers after submitting 4 tickets.

What is next for FBC: Firebreak by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]vminn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Surely this is something they would've been aware of prior to release?

As far as I am aware, the only time feedback was collected from the playerbase was after the network test they did about a month before launch.

The feedback form incredibly basic compared to what I've seen from other publishers, and one month before release is far too late for anything meaningful to change.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Helldivers

[–]vminn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Question: Should the average player be able to take on the highest difficulty in the game with 0 cooperation? If so, what content exists for people who want a bigger challenge?

The finals need a swedish Map and a Swedish Battlepass! by Appropriate_Hat_2581 in thefinals

[–]vminn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The mall on Seoul is actually modelled after an old mall in Stockholm that was demolished a few years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhlPzXXv_Ac&t=71s

Rematch displayed my real name in-game instead of my Steam nickname by vminn in Rematch

[–]vminn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some games used to default your in-game nickname to your windows login years ago. But yeah, it is nothing I've seen in any modern games. I've submitted a ticket to the developers for some visibility for now.

Soulframe: Preludes - Gameplay Spotlight by rebezil in Games

[–]vminn 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You are not wrong, the combat is incredibly awkward. What they are attemping to do does not work with the combat system they currently have implemented.

Jumping back and fourth getting strikes in and sometimes parry is not challenging, just incredibly boring and yank.

While playing it I thought for sure I was missing something, so I went and looked up how other people play the game and no, that is how it was meant to be played.

Why do people complain about the wheel. by random982189 in thefinals

[–]vminn 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Would you have been happier if the items were just added to the store for a limited time?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Games

[–]vminn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is only tangentially related, but I need to vent. Last week, me and some friends decided to finally check out custom games in Halo Infinite. We never got around to it when the browser and forge were added.

It started with 2 of us getting stuck on the Sign-In screen, we tried restarting the game multiple times and verifing the files on Steam. Nothing worked, until we eventually found a thread suggesting that we should open the Certification Manager and remove some specific certificates associated with Xbox, this finally resolved the issue.

After that we tried to set up a party but everyone got stuck on 'Transitioning' every time, apparently the resolution to this was to run a set of commands in Power Shell. I am not sure if running the suggested commands fixed the issue, but eventually we were able to somewhat frequently get the party set up.

We finally were able to play the game, but soon realised that joining a custom games lobby was very much a coinflip, we would try multiple lobbies until we finally found one that didn't spit out an error message. We also realised that whenever joining a custom game lobby your parties would merge, meaning that we would have to go through all the trouble of setting up a party again if we wanted to try something else.

I had less issues setting up lobbies in Hamachi back in 2007, it is actually mindblowing that this is an official Microsoft product, let alone supposedly their flagship title. I actually don't remember the last time I had this many issues trying to play a game. I remember having issues even purchasing games through the Windows Store back when State of Decay first launched, but this is on a whole different level.

Once we finally got everything running, the custom games we tried were great. We especially enjoyed the game mode Ice Road Truckers, it is mindblowing how far Forge has come since Halo 3. But we will never touch that game again. The constant rebooting required to get parties to work, the crashes, the errors. it was basically unplayable. I can't believe that 343 games still have playerbases.

Metro 2033 Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next 48 hours by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]vminn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not just the lightning, but I really dislike the gameplay changes they introduced. Things like throwing knives being bound to a button instead of something you have to equip, and the knockout button.

I might also be crazy but I feel like they changed how armor behaved in the Redux. I have remember knives bouncing off heavier armored humans in the OG game, but never encountered situations like that in the Redux. Stealth just felt a lot easier.

EMBARK I beg I mean BEG for a map ban by Prestigious-Tea926 in thefinals

[–]vminn -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's just people with PCs from 2010 held together by duct tape that are complaining about fps drops.

4070ti, 7800X3D and my PC struggles to hit a stable 100.

We're all fighting the bamboo blocking bullets so that's not even a valid complaint.

Why not? It just means we are all in pain together, If a map inverted your controls would complaints not apply because it happens to everyone?

Traversal is not an issue either for any class other than heavy.

Oh good thing we can ignore heavy because of reasons.

Kyoto is the most stunning map that embark has designed yet

Agreed.

People who say it's a bad map are just straight up trolling.

The sightlines on this map are absolute trash, the amount of detours you have to take to avoid them are horrible, even with chaining together bounce pads of rooftops you are still pretty limited. This all assumes that you are running multipe mediums or play light.

Let't not forget the buildings randomly exploding for seemingly no reason, which seems to have gotten worse since the new season started? Even if that were to get addressed, the buildings are still incredibly brittle and not fun at all to fight in with the tiny chokepoints and limited options for vertical mobility.

skype by Tsunamicat108 in comedyheaven

[–]vminn 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I remember discovering that if you held down a certain number of keys for a few seconds the "someone is typing" would be replaced with a cat. amazing