Recent content by Mao

The trick with extraction shooters is not to use your best gear for normal work. Its counter intuitive, especially if you are coming out of the MMO space. Purples are always better, right? Not in extraction shooters. Its about economy and only taking what you need for your mission so you...

Specifically referring to positional audio? The Cycle: Frontier, which was exceptional. The Battlefield games gave me more positional audio information than Arc Raiders. My most common squad partner says he prefers Counterstrike and Hunt: Showdowns, though I do not play either. Again, I am...

Did some audio testing with a friend of mine who is way more into audio engineering than I am and he told me they do 'panning' but not 'phasing.'. IE, they do direction and volume, but they do not do a 'time' of arrival variation. There are small audio clues that people pick up on in real life...

Extraction shooters are very niche and rarely last long before hitting end of service because of this. People either hate losing their stuff and quit, or they finish grinding out the quests and upgrades and there is nothing to do other than kill other players. Which.... pushes more players to...

So I find this interesting. Couple things real quick to help clarify. You talk about picking out loud noises like the elevators, caches, and tagging things for your team, as well as PTT prox chat. First the Prox chat and tagging. Both of these have existed for a long time. Tagging has been...

The game paradoxically seems very technically polished but also very mid for me. The graphics look decent. Not amazing, but I'm not playing on a high end machine atm either so it might be better with better hardware. Character customization is pretty bad, almost laughably so. Its not super...

I would actually bet there is a fair few elements of truth in it. I don't know how many of you grew up in sorta poor, white trash towns but this 100% fits with all the stupid townie drama I had growing up in highschool and shit. Small insular community that is kinda shitty and incestuous...

I have been semi casually looking for a program or app that takes real maps or images and converts them to old D&D style hexmaps? Something like taking a satellite image and converting it to the Mystara style maps. I don't think its possible, given that terrain and satellite maps do not show...

So Tectone did a rather interesting video some time ago on view botting and how prevalent it is and some bits of how it works, actually pulling up his and other stream metrics and stuff to show it. A lot of botting (not all) but a lot of it is not being done by the streamer. Using his and...

Kate Cynwar is directly quoted as saying the pixies were her creation and she was proud of getting the 'they/them' aspect in there. She is more than just a 'localizer'. She was part of the writing team, though not the head or lead. She did side quests and other stuff and was taking on more...

So I have a question that has popped up in a few different people's reviews of the MSQ and I am interested in what you all think. Who do you think the target audience for the MSQ is? What age/demographic? FFXIV is now over 10 years old, and even if you were 13 at the start you are now 23 and...

If the 4th is the 'Cowboy Western' zone than yeah. I enjoyed it cause your tagalong chatterbox is gone, but not much really happens. The story there has very minor relevance as they talk about Eren's history a little bit, but its all pretty much repeated again later so you can skip it. I did...

I didn't bother trying to remember her whole sequence. Just focused on 2 or 3 spots and watched those so I could just step back and forth between them. You should be able to see an order in a much more local spot like that. Move to this one, than this one, and if needed either back or to a...

I thought the raids weren't bad. There were some new mechanics introduced that hadn't been seen in any other raids that were interesting, but they weren't particularly difficult to figure out if you paid attention (That latter part is important). Overall mechanics I would say were enjoyable...

Is there any server us old folks are gathering on, since we can't move around easily and I'd rather play shitty survival games with friends than solo.