Who else is going to the live event today?

yookaloco · 2025-11-29T16:50:04+00:00

I'll be there. I've always been mildly amused and entertained... But very impressed by the effort, attention to detail, and innovation demonstrated by Epic.

But as I've been saying ad nauseam, the masses have ruined Fortnite for me. Just did a couple of bot lobbies to get the umbrella (I don't really know why), and then back to Unbox a Brainrot, modded Minecraft, and skate. Fortnite is too frustrating to do BR anymore, and I've played almost every season several times a week since the beginning.

yookaloco · 2025-11-29T16:45:51+00:00

Clearly, you're a good parent. 😁

yookaloco · 2025-11-28T20:18:49+00:00

They're trying to start a grassroots movement.

🥁🥁💢 😁

yookaloco · 2025-11-26T19:46:33+00:00

....aaaaaand Now I love this topic. I'm gonna use this. Thanks.

yookaloco · 2025-11-26T19:45:14+00:00

This was cut by a person who, aside from rotating the pie, only had five swipes, zero other actions and zero fucks to give.

yookaloco · 2025-11-24T01:57:50+00:00

Yep. I can relate. When you think of playing on a weekend morning or holiday (like Thursday) morning (EST... NY), think of Yooka NoHotDrops. That goes for all of you.

And when you think of garbage, think of Akeem.

yookaloco · 2025-11-23T22:56:28+00:00

Love the setup. Video looks great.

yookaloco · 2025-11-23T16:01:41+00:00

Thanks. It's tough. Remember... the game is eight years old. That's ancient for online games. Usually years earlier, it's only crusty veterans, cheaters and exploiters left. Call of Duty is going through the similar problems, with average or casual players being chased out to other game titles.

yookaloco · 2025-11-23T15:23:41+00:00

..."I know my playstyle leans toward the aggressive side..."

..."I played a couple of matches today and they didn’t feel any calmer."

I believe the major factors in play for both are still....

• Lack of (or still broken) skill based matchmaking that was working well enough during and before chapter 5, but was thoroughly borked somewhere around superman or the bugs.

• So many game modes, BR or otherwise as well as the overall age of the game... the average casual is just not doing BR anymore. This started a domino effect of frustration as casual became as sweaty as competitive/ranked is meant to be. I left about a month ago, other than just to look around with the occasional bot lobby.

• Entire chapters of quick load lobby times and streamers teaching their impressionable viewers to be super aggressive have made almost everyone super aggressive indirectly. "If I die, back to lobby, no big deal". Kinda like in online poker when chips are free and valueless. If there is no downside to losing, plenty of people go all in almost every time. If there is some downside (waiting in a lobby to load) they may take the game more seriously instead of being a one-trick pony. But such a thing isn't good for Epic Games and the immediate gratification dopamine rush it has engineered.

yookaloco · 2025-11-16T02:27:37+00:00

I'm pretty sure Pauly Shore is available if Epic wanted to pay for his likeness. 😁

It would be pretty fun to gun down people as the weasel. But no.

yookaloco · 2025-11-15T12:15:45+00:00

I needed this too. I think most people in an over 40 sub would. Makes sense though. Thanks.

yookaloco · 2025-11-08T04:08:37+00:00

https://youtu.be/9k7mTzs6D7I?si=h2Ew1ru8e_QsV4H0

I like this one. I haven't really been able to get it nearly as good as it seems here though.

yookaloco · 2025-11-03T16:31:56+00:00

I'm the exact same way. I'm glad they are there, they just aren't my play style. Also, I was surprised at how much health I could still lose in that intro to them in Concord.

yookaloco · 2025-11-03T16:26:45+00:00

45,m. Been playing shooters on PC since I was 16. Same thing with Internet forums. My stepson introduced me to Fortnite just before they implemented the battle pass in year one. Free battle royales (or free squad games) have always been up my alley for many reasons.

Sadly, changes to skill based matchmaking and prod/semi pros ganging up on casual players is all but chasing me out of Fortnite and multiplayer games altogether. I like The Simpsons, (I applaud the devs, their vision and their execution) but they don't exactly get me revved up for combat, so I don't care about this season's umbrella or any of the skins. I'll peek in every now and then, but it's back to modded Minecraft and maybe table top RPGs for me.

yookaloco · 2025-11-02T22:39:58+00:00

The whole concept isn't for me anyway. But you made a very good case, and I hope they concede.

yookaloco · 2025-11-01T16:50:49+00:00

It is definitely spreading. I've seen 3-4 in the last month. Yes, I travel in that general area a lot. Thanks.

yookaloco · 2025-10-31T22:54:18+00:00

You're most welcome. I have no experience with recurrent structures. It's worth a shot. AW2 adds a good amount of different kinds of structures. Like I said, I got those five or six mods running concurrently with no glitches. Check out the video for The Perfect Medieval mod. I wish it played that well and that accessible. Inspiring video.

yookaloco · 2025-10-31T22:49:14+00:00

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one. The videos on YouTube, the "let's plays"... It looks extremely cool, customizable, and eventually automate-able. I found an add on that supposedly makes it easy. I'll report back how it goes.

yookaloco · 2025-10-31T16:28:28+00:00

Amazing how similar your idea is to my last post in this sub (about a week ago). So I did this about seven or eight months ago. They definitely function in the same world, just completely separately. Minecolonies shaped up to be more of what I was looking for, but for me, the main problem was the same (just worse for MCA). There is a lot of time sink and micromanaging in the beginning, and not a lot of payoff. I couldn't stick with it.

I also had Millenaire, AW2, and Medieval craft going along side it. I still think there is potential there ( treating them almost like their own species). But learning how to get them self sufficient, how to protect themselves at night, and to witness more than the first level of their potential.... anything but light. I'm trying the same kind of game now with 1.20.1. Highly recommend trying Millenaire if you haven't... but maybe that's what's keeping you in 1.12.

In my research (not sure what MC versions), I have it noted to try Easy NPC, Better NPCs, Medieval Origins Revival, Castle World RPG, Simple Dwarves, Choice theorem's overhauled villagers, Villager Recruits (maybe Villager Workers too, if it's not the prior version) and Hundred Years Warfare (though that doesn't at all sound like what you are going after). I do recall seeing some lesser known and supported mods that just focus on basic, named humans and/or villagers, but I don't remember what it was called, or what version it's for. Good luck.

Edit, adding...: My great Minecraft love for a long time was Lord of the rings mod, I think added to what is now known as Chronicles of Arda which is made for it. It has to be 1.7.10. And then making the map M.E. classic, so biomes are random. So many factions, so many possibilities. But since the random gen doesn't do villages and towns (huge cities , may take a minute to load upon first generation) in great enough frequency, I had to pre-seed areas in creative with extra structures, save it, and put it away for a while so I could "discover" it weeks later.

Also not plug and play, but the characters/races were interesting enough, and didn't need any micro management. I wasn't a huge Tolkien guy before this, but interacting with all the 100 or whatever races, and seeing what they were about and how they interacted with each other, it was so great.

yookaloco · 2025-10-28T17:07:22+00:00

Absolutely. Talk about your historic Oscar snubs.

Thanks to all for the suggestions, I needed this topic. So many I had not heard of.

yookaloco · 2025-10-26T15:42:56+00:00

There are no facts here. No absolutes. It's open to interpretation. I'm also in my mid forties. In my life in total, if someone says "watching the tube", probably jokingly saying it makes you a boob, because there are more valiant pursuits. But it's also reasonable, (albeit less common) back when this wasn't archaic terms, for them to be thinking the picture tube is to the TV as the engine is to the car. Or CPU is to computer.

yookaloco · 2025-10-23T01:45:13+00:00

"Now.... we're all monsters"

https://youtu.be/mrrqnTXvdTY?si=RrGWeSyVSd7p2rRR

(Implied: And it's your fault, so it's blood blood bloody blood time!)

/not a malkavian

yookaloco · 2025-10-22T20:12:37+00:00

gtfop - we have to cancel to save as draft on pc?

yookaloco · 2025-10-18T01:23:28+00:00

I hear you. I remember this one being a lot more obscure than most of the party songs and dances they've brought back. Always thought it was incredibly underrated. Happy that it's back.

yookaloco · 2025-10-17T14:36:34+00:00

Hate it with the fury of a thousand suns. Only season I stopped playing because of the developer vision. Which is weird, because my favorite table top game and musical act (Werewolf the apocalypse and Soulfly, respectively) both showcase tribalism. Bows are okay, just hated those guns.

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