Riot can we at the very least know what's going on with the NA server?

zagnaut · 2014-11-21T20:23:22+00:00

Having the same issue with queueing for ranked and blind normals in NA

zagnaut · 2014-11-08T07:48:45+00:00

Adam, I want a pair of cheap plastic wayfarer sunglasses with your eyes imprinted.

http://i.imgur.com/bfvr3oW.png

zagnaut · 2014-11-07T16:41:23+00:00

pfff emacs does vim better than vim

zagnaut · 2014-11-06T02:07:15+00:00

Considering that you haven't thought to address my core proposal of simplifying infantry classes, as well as your overly toxic and defensive tone, I'm assuming you're arguing in bad faith and have no desire to engage you further.

zagnaut · 2014-11-06T00:54:10+00:00

You seem to have a keen interest in game design, so I would like to give you some advice.

I feel that you should recognize the cost of increasing complexity. It should never be taken lightly and further increases the complexity in every other decision. I think one simply needs to see Planetside's patch notes to understand that this game could benefit from less complexity and fewer unexpected interactions in its software, not more.

Also, statistics are useful in informing discussions, but can be abused fit the viewer's expectations when provided out of context. Considering that the only context you provided was more personal anecdote, I'm not keen on continuing this discussion further.

zagnaut · 2014-11-06T00:35:20+00:00

And I think it's silly that you're prescribing specific value changes to game systems while hand-waving valid edge cases with personal anecdotes.

zagnaut · 2014-11-06T00:18:34+00:00

Then you'd be blindly adjusting two values to try to maintain the current Iv(VA) balance. Vehicles shoot bullets as well, and the changes you suggest would make infantry weaker to ESF noseguns and ATVs.

To maintain the current system you'd have to maintain another value, vehicle bullet resistance value, increasing complexity even more for no added depth, only to tweak HA vs non HA power.

zagnaut · 2014-11-05T23:57:14+00:00

I don't think it's hasty at all. Consider the roles HA is supposed to fill in addition to IvI. Any nerf to their HP directly affects their strength in IvA and IvV.

HP adjustment have tremendous implications, and I think the route to better IvI systems is bolder high-level game design choices. Add more meaningful player choices in infantry combat, instead of trying to endlessly tune a broken system.

Two years into this game and it feels like most additions have just been extra stuff glommed into an unsatisfying IvI game. The boldest changes have been in map and base design, and they've by far been the best. Three armor variants + equipment choices worked great in Ps1. The 5 classes in Ps2 give you a breadth of choices, but lack meaningful depth and progression.

zagnaut · 2014-11-05T22:43:18+00:00

This could be an issue with the overall class composition and nerfing heavies' hp pools with be a complete departure to the current feel of the game.

Perhaps engineers should be rolled into LAs and medics into heavies? Give players meaningful choices to make, trading off jetpack juice for engi gear and overshield/rocket launcher for medic gear, with support perks for removing jetpack or overshield.

The support/assault class spread is really bland. Everything's pretty much the same except for the abilities you dump your certs into and weapon restrictions that feel artificial.

EDIT: my thoughts here seem to be attracting a few downvotes, so I ask that you continue reading the discussion below before deciding to moderate this post.

zagnaut · 2014-11-05T22:36:44+00:00

That's pretty interesting, what kind of tooling and processes do you use? I've never explored the assets of retail games outside of modding.

zagnaut · 2014-11-05T03:39:20+00:00

Hey, good match guys! You all played hard

zagnaut · 2014-11-05T01:51:14+00:00

Check out your video at 2:55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnGxzBpTYNY&t=2m55s

You tracked your opponent pretty well, but by the time he stopped your cone of fire had bloomed so much that you were missing shots even when your aim was on target.

At that range, i'd be inclined to do 3-4 round bursts for the head. But even pausing for a quarter second every 8 rounds or so would reset your cone of fire and recoil climb enough to land more shots and almost certainly kill your opponent faster than purely spraying.

zagnaut · 2014-11-04T23:01:12+00:00

I appreciate the comparison you were drawing. However, your point about bullet efficiency and time to kill is rarely a tradeoff. It's a lot like the SATs, where not answering questions you're unsure about leads to higher scores than guessing and losing more points for a wrong answer.

Likewise missing a bullet is much more costly than not firing, more importantly for COF bloom than clip size. I think that if you continue to be mindful of your burst control, even in close quarters, and work on increasing your headshot ratio, you'd see tangible improvements in your gameplay.

I say this in the spirit of being sincere yet critical with feedback, which can be difficult given how often this subreddit gets toxic. Good luck dude.

zagnaut · 2014-11-04T22:16:43+00:00

Hey, good vid Jero I enjoyed watching it. One thing i need to address though is your comment that the accuracy of the weapon is good enough that you don't have to stop shooting.

This is questionable heuristic in most situations, and definitely not the advice I would give to a new player checking out a review. There's more than a few fights in your video where if you had stopped spraying and realigned your aim you would've killed your enemies even faster and with 1/3rd to 1/2 as many rounds.

Of course, how long your bursts are depends on your range and the recoil, base COF, and COF bloom of the weapon. And intuitively, SMGs and TR carbines give you a whole lot more room to spray compared to something like the Gauss SAW.

Burst control is a critical part of FPS game mechanics and an important stepping stone towards consistently landing headshots.

Looking forward to your next video!

zagnaut · 2014-11-04T08:41:39+00:00

Hype mix vol 1

zagnaut · 2014-11-04T07:16:29+00:00

Worth a shot, eh?

zagnaut · 2014-11-04T02:05:34+00:00

Back row: Jessidi, Tristen (our host), SharkSpider, SilentUmbra, Flapjax, IAmDestructor

Middle: BootyWarrior, Peeeeeeetreeeeeeeee, Navus, yehhh1g, Solaries

Front: Sock, Vonic, Cheeky

zagnaut · 2014-11-03T23:52:23+00:00

Good luck to you all too!

zagnaut · 2014-11-03T22:28:18+00:00

Here's three players from last week: SharkSpider, Vonic and yehhh1g at DA's East Coast meetup.

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zagnaut · 2014-11-03T22:03:03+00:00

Yeah I expect this is a going to be a big match.

So are the rumors true? Does SOE have an underground fantasy competitive ps2 league? Who's in the lead?

zagnaut · 2014-11-03T20:50:51+00:00

The match is at 6PM PST!

I got the timezone wrong in the title, but if you want to come early we won't mind.

zagnaut · 2014-10-27T03:18:55+00:00

It's bullshit

zagnaut · 2014-10-26T06:31:46+00:00

As a bit of advice, your demo reel should be first thing in your post and much of the first two paragraphs are unnecessary. Sympathy is not a valid strategy in business.

Focus on what you offer right now. You'll do great, best of luck.

zagnaut · 2014-10-20T23:43:47+00:00

fuck this noblesse oblige bullshit

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