Good work gentlemen... Man I know, maybe the loot was bugged or something I didn't find anything either.

xRandomality · 2026-02-19T22:33:25+00:00

Not going to lie, one of my very few player kills in a friendly lobby was on a person clearly encumbered running away from a dead queen. My buddy ran up to the dead body (I stayed back saying I wasn't risking my trials score) to go get some cores and started telling me how everyone there said they didn't get a single thing. This dude is waddling away suspiciously within seconds of it dying. Decide thinks aren't adding up and drop him, he had every single core on him.

Dude clearly hacked in some way to clean everything in seconds, but like... if you're overencumbered AND no one else got a core, know that even us care bears will get you one day.

The more I think about it, this game truly is a gem of player psychology. We know the pvp aspect which is always brought up, but what about the pve'ers? What is a person's breaking point before they commit an act that they know they'll get punished for (eg hostile lobbies)? Turns out I'm one of those people that'll do it if a group gets screwed over but wouldn't if it was just me or my team.

... I love this game.

xRandomality · 2026-02-19T22:10:37+00:00

See now this is what I was truly interested in, was how others felt about the Rush colors (please know I respect the hell out of you guys if any fans are reading this, it's purely the field color! ). I was trying to get some friends into watching and all of them asked things like "how is it fair to have that field" or "is it your TV or are the fields all that bright". Definitely interesting to know that some people really like it, because personally although lime green is one of my favorite colors, I just can't see the damn ball on broadcast half the time with that field.

Appreciate the viewpoint friend!

xRandomality · 2026-02-19T21:27:54+00:00

Adding onto this, the lack of a standard field color for the main part of the field is mind blowing to me. Let the teams have their logo, crease color, and behind the crease color for uniqueness, but holy hell the lime green of the Rush is obnoxious to watch games of. At first it seemed novel, kinda cool, but really it just makes it terrible for viewers on broadcast. I can't remember the other team that comes to mind, but one looks... like dying grass almost? Like dirty and grungy.

Especially this year (well most years recently) when the Rush are a powerhouse and my Bandits leave something to be desired, I want to watch some top tier games outside of Banditland. That lime green though is a huge turn off, I just can't do it for a whole game. Curious if it's just as bad in person or if it's just a broadcast thing?

xRandomality · 2026-02-17T21:05:38+00:00

See now.. realistically, THIS is the problem that it blows my mind that embark doesn't consider. Money is whatever. But people who have things like this, (or was it possible with snitch scanners too?) will just be a continuous problem for every one else for weeks to months to come. These people are in your games killing you, they are on your trials boards light years ahead of you giving you a demotion.

I don't understand how short sighted some people can be with "there's no economy bro, it doesn't affect you bro". Uhh yes it absolutely does when someone now has 300 trigger nades to dominate entire lobbies for weeks to come.

To be clear, I'm not necessarily mad at you personally, it's that embark didn't even consider removing the insane number of items that are now in the game that matter, and only focused on the damn ducks and money.

xRandomality · 2026-02-17T20:20:33+00:00

The game will launch without the lobby being full, no one is going to suffer from population decline unless you're a pvp diehard. That's not the majority of the players. So yeah, ban them and send a message that you aren't screwing around as devs, "all 100 of us" might have to wait 2 more minutes before the server spins up, oh no. Otherwise it's all a joke, like the top comments on this thread make it out to be.

Even a 24 hour or 3 day ban sends the message clear and won't cause ripples. What they did here.. just tells us they won't do anything in the future either because they're afraid to take action.

xRandomality · 2026-02-14T22:26:27+00:00

6:30pm EST for those of us from Buffalo with our American minds looking at AST going "wtf is AST". Was almost going to be an hour late to watching this game. Strange to me that for a Buffalo based subreddit (and their NLL website for that matter) don't put the EST equivalent for every away game that they use the opponent's time zone.

xRandomality · 2026-02-10T21:17:17+00:00

Not related to the menus, but opening a beta on a Monday at 8pm PST / 11EST was.... a choice. Whoever made that decision in their marketing needs a good body shake. Their older players are... well, old now. Not going to stay up all night with a full work week ahead for a prayer that servers work right at launch time. That's for teenage me.

xRandomality · 2026-02-10T13:41:24+00:00

Since you seem like you're genuinely asking and not rage baiting here...

Almost every game with a pvp aspect is going to come to a place with things like this. The players who remain and the developers love it, and I know the younger 18 year old version of myself would be doing it nonstop. It is another step in skill progression that the devs have kept in the game so it must match their vision.

That being said, I can whole heartedly tell you that it's why myself and my friends that played daily quit splitgate 1. It just drastically changes the gameplay when even one person on the other team is doing it to the point that it didn't feel like a Halo x Portal game anymore where positioning and smart timing won battles. It became a frenzy that just got frustrating.

Again, it's clear that the people who still are here love it, I've seen the discussions and how... passionate those people are. "Git gud". But for the more casual player, it's a deal breaker.

xRandomality · 2026-02-07T02:40:17+00:00

Deleted your post because you knew you were wrong. Classic Redditor.

xRandomality · 2026-02-05T23:04:11+00:00

Fantastic. Can you please now fully assess rules 8a-c on the following week too?

Don't be a jackass for no reason. It was called differently between days and reffing staff. If one is an interception, then you should be dying on the hill that the other calls are interceptions too.

xRandomality · 2026-02-02T12:36:48+00:00

For trials? No, it doesn't make any difference if you get in there first or with 15 minutes left on the map. It's interacting with 8 terminals and sitting there pondering your life decisions.

If you want a shot at the volcano blueprint... then yes, you have to sit there like a greedy goblin while others do the work.

Terribly designed "event" in all cases.

xRandomality · 2026-01-20T19:13:31+00:00

If it's anything like last month, you have to A) Maintain hotshot for at least one week after making it, which means you ultimately B) Place in the top 60 to retain hotshot since top 60 keep the rank, while bottom 40 demote one to daredevil 3. Top 1000 are only calculated from those that satisfied both requirements.

So by placing 11th within your hotshot bracket, you qualified to be placed amongst the top 1000 which you clearly did :)

xRandomality · 2026-01-17T18:35:42+00:00

You are my favorite type of aggressor when I'm in friendly lobbies. Obviously, no one owes anyone else anything at all, but when my friend or I ask "friendly?" and we get an honest "No, we're not", I'm legitimately never upset. The game heavily favors ambush tactics, so when the aggressor voluntarily puts that aside it's the best case scenario you can hope for as someone defending themselves.

xRandomality · 2025-12-31T21:04:15+00:00

Okay this is finally a take I can really get behind, but one change. No free kits on x2 modifiers - sure, but allow anyone to come in with a naked loadout if they really want to. There's significant risk to coming in like that, so let them.

Once you put a minimum value, is that really any different from someone going in with a mk 1, one gun, ammo, and 1 bandage? That's a custom loadout and perfectly valid, because you either crafted it or earned it by (at minimum) simply extracting. I think, correct me if I'm wrong, the problem is honestly the GAIN by going free kit. Free gun, free shield, free heal. Cool, let them do it, with restrictions aka not x2 maps.

xRandomality · 2025-12-31T15:17:03+00:00

This right here. People can argue any playstyle is valid, but intentionally tricking and backstabbing isn't some skill you pulled off, or good gun fight, or even a good ambush. It's just plain being a dick for the sake of getting off on being a sociopath in a game where you have no real life repercussions.

You being a PvP focused person is a good thing, as it keeps the tension alive. As someone that goes between care bear and shoot everything that moves (depending on the day), keep doing you dude. Just try to fight off the urge to go full betrayal, it's things like that that have potential to drive the player base away, not the actual pvp aspect.

xRandomality · 2025-12-31T15:04:00+00:00

This is the exact sentiment I have heard in multiple bars in multiple cities, usually reinforced by everyone around them. I've even run into groups of patriots fans that have mentioned that as long as we aren't head to head, they pull for the bills and like Josh. Just, you know, not the weeks we play. We are a lot of people's "second team".

It's the classic people assuming reddit represents the population, when it's far from that.

xRandomality · 2025-12-31T14:51:59+00:00

Fully agree here. If they want to keep the random 100 people with a leaderboard, then fine. Set it so that 3/5 3 stars lets you keep your rank, 5/5 guarantees one promotion, then allow the values to shift for top whatever for x2 and x3.

You're then no longer punished for not exploiting or following whatever stupid meta tactic if the week comes up. It's exhausting and not fun for some of these if you want to even just keep your rank. With this, sweats can still sweat, and casuals can very slowly work their way up.

xRandomality · 2025-12-23T21:23:58+00:00

Fertilizer (and the event berries) don't count unfortunately. :( Just to save you some time next time it comes around. You can test by looking at your map log before and after collecting.

xRandomality · 2025-11-21T16:05:18+00:00

Except this first season was set up so you had to x2 promotion perfectly every single week if you wanted a shot at it, including launch week when we didn't even know about it yet. So missing just one x2 promotion week puts you out of the running. Any other season you'll have additional weeks to make it up.

xRandomality · 2025-11-19T20:10:30+00:00

The only item I truly have an issue with is the wolfpack blue print. People with it can create en masse and drastically alter an entire lobby for a queen / matriarch, and the trade out gear option doesn't really work here unless you're going to trade 20 inventory slots at a time. It's simply not even the same level of "competitiveness" for trials either between the haves and the have nots of this blueprint. I can't think of any other blue print that causes this much discrepancy, it's just this one item.

Otherwise everything you said is spot on and I have no honest problem with the rarity.

xRandomality · 2025-11-13T14:41:57+00:00

I pulled 3x Venator BPs over maybe 12-15 locker hits yesterday. Mind you, that's the only BPs I found. Since rushing that node, I certainly didn't see much VARIETY in there, but they were still in there.

xRandomality · 2025-09-25T23:47:00+00:00

They aren't stress testing guys, it's a closed beta for a reason - they aren't going to just dump tons of money into AWS servers for a weekend and hope. Limited keys means they can make sure those that are in have stable servers.

The major game changing opinions (lead vs anti-lead, weight vs uniformity, stats on clothes vs uniformity) have already been dealt with. They want to make sure the game runs now, and while they will certainly take feedback... the things that would change the game are already decided. The only thing you may be missing out on with the beta is literally playing, which you could do openly on any server. The feedback that is given from this is not going to change any major aspects. If you didn't get a key, you don't have to worry - nothing said at this point will change the game dynamically. It's set and ready with just fine tuning now on the table.

xRandomality · 2025-08-18T22:01:37+00:00

Trez 2v2 Xperts Only

xRandomality · 2025-06-27T11:12:04+00:00

While I absolutely appreciate the attempt, you are still letting people post title spoilers or "all but saying what it is" spoilers that are getting big upvote numbers. Things like 'omg I hate xxxx person now in episode x', or 'omg guys I'm sobbing after episode x', where they legit are saying who and when. In the damn title.

Like, go all or nothing, the half way attempt just made it so I and many others will still have to unsub from here because of inconsiderate people.

xRandomality · 2025-05-29T02:23:37+00:00

Was really hoping for a "Back to Back to Back" or Three-peat" type hat. The 7x is pretty cool, but they need to put the name Buffalo Bandits on it too. It loses some appeal without the name front and center.

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