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I have yet to see a modern Korean MMO of note that isn't p2w, so I suspect we will see more of the same: Beautiful graphics, really solid gameplay....and some p2w bullshit that "encourages" you to swipe.

They used SBMM in WZ1, so they probably use it here. The biggest thing I notice when you presumably move to a higher SBMM is the pre-game lobby gets spammed by people on mic using "gamer words" and other dipshit stuff. Those games on average seem to be a bit sweatier than normal. The quiet...

Ya, the bots start to get deadly. I was in just a regular area and some armored bot beamed me and downed me in less than a second and they start to throw flashbangs and shit

The first few matches you get more bots than humans. After you play enough DMZ, you get more human squads and you definitely feel it Also, if you try to do the higher risk stuff like weapon case or strongholds, you get a pretty good challenge

It's 100% something to do with money and/or access to their proprietary data/coding/etc. ActiBliz wouldn't give a shit otherwise

Andor and Strange New Worlds are great, wtf are you smoking? (Discovery and Picard are doodoo, though)

I've been queuing solo and it has been manageable. Self-revive is a must and watching the map for vanishing missions or activated stuff is key to avoid getting squad owned. From my experience thus far, it seems like most people are trying to speed run weapons cache and most of the lobby...

Haircut would fit with a synthetic. They did the samething with Winona Ryder

Aka 1) I want to kill bots mining an oracalcum node...which will go extinct because the profits wont be there 2) I want to gank unsuspecting people where I am given a massive advantage because I attacked first

Not sure what difference a forced PVP server would make, beyond having a shitty population.

Starship still hasn’t launched yet, so this is still cool to see

We know Andor lives, so I suspect they will create tension by dangling the fate of people like Bix in the finale. She looked pretty rough this episode after what we can assume are multiple torture sessions

Looks cool, but curious to see how it actually plays. When your demo that only shows a single person is already chugging frames wise, makes you concerned lol

They honestly need to show the first 3, not 2. Pacing on the first 2 is fairly slow and you only get the payoff in the 3rd. If you just show the first 2, you’re probably not going to build your audience very much

Arcane will probably win out, even though Cyberpunk was amazing Game awards are always about the $$$$$

With many myths/legends, there is frequently a small kernel of truth to them that is embellished and expanded. Take for instance the story of Noah's flood. Unto itself, pretty bullshit. But lots of cultures had "mega flood" myths. At a casual level, it could be an exaggeration of normal...

In Brimstone anyways, I am also pretty sure AGS loosened up the "if there are too many people, the bosses won't drop anything" rule. I've been on multiple chest runs there and the bosses have been dropping loot pretty regularly.

This video has a pretty good angle on it. Literally slices the B17 in half from the impact

Sandboxes don't really work in the MMO space anymore unless you give the playerbase a robust enough set of tools to actually make something of it AND you have a passionate enough playerbase that actually uses those tools to their full potential.

Spartacus: Gods of the Arena was great. S3 and onward was good, but not fantastic. That just shows that other good supporting actors and good story can buoy the loss of a main actor/character if needed But Spartacus was still a historical drama (even if it played fast and loose with...

It's a fantasy show, so they could use magic or some shit to change him I guess.

Unless they plan to pull 'A Realm Reborn" revamp and have the resources for it, I suspect it may end up like Anthem.

Real question is how do they handle the actor change?

I’ll still watch if I like season 3 because I’m not going to prematurely make a decision on show season’s quality years before it comes out

The best compliment I can give this show is you could strip away all the Star Wars stuff and it would still be a good show. It uses the IP to enhance, not as a crutch

I think the bigger problem is they focus less on an overall narrative arc beyond a single season. Now I can understand the pitfalls of that: If your story arc is too broad, and you don't get renewed, then there is no satisfying payoff for the fans. But unless you have some really strong...

Movie profits will live or die on how WTF amazing the 3D is. They’ve had 13 years to improve

Pretty much everyone forgot about this show, but they just confirmed season 2 will start 2/17/23. Looks like 10 episodes with them dropping 2 per week. Also confirmed to be the final season

On the topic of bots, they have been somewhat absent from the Brimstone zone, which is interesting. And nice. I've actually been able to harvest high end materials. Of even greater interest, I have noticed the gold farmers returning to the old ways: Actual humans playing shared accounts...

Depends on what you mean by new? Brimstone Sands is well done - they have a much more cohesive story/quest experience there, a lot of interesting POI that you can either run solo or in groups, time specific spawns (ie, they only spawn at night or daytime), chest runs that take a bit more...

It would have been cool to go that route, but I am not 100% sure it would have been as successful. Avatar played well with a large demographic (domestically and internationally) because you had the action pieces, but you also had the love story stuff.

I recall that Nintendo picture from an old Nintendo Power magazine - I think it was a concept "World of Nintendo" mini-store, although you never actually saw shit like that in the wild

Not surprised

Didn’t a chunk of engineers from that project go to Blue Origin?

They plan to milk this out for another couple movies, so unless they delve into prequel territory, they presumably have a story arc planned I am guessing they will at some point a) address the world tree can make you functionally immortal so long as you have a vessel to transfer your mind...

That about sums up S8: they went style over substance. There were a lot of cool set pieces that had trash logic or out of character characters

They waited too long. I see a few main factors that might help them 1) That Disney area (Animal Kingdom) I think that is Pandora based might get some kids interested…maybe 2) People remember it actually did 3D really well and that alone was fun to experience, so people will actually go to...

The biggest problem with a MMO BR is at a certain point, you’ve already lost the game before it has ended. Think about a fps BR. Everyone tries to loot up early and you see lots of deaths at the start. Then you get into that mid game where you hope to find better stuff and an advantageous...