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Oddly, you have found the secret sauce but I don't think you realize it yet. Extraction shooters, imo, are all about risk management and kitting out for the mission. It feels counter intuitive to not use your best gear all the time cause 'well, if I get in a fight I want my best stuff.' For...

Also. I have 2x Anvil BPs, 3x Bettina BPs, and a Torrente BP as spares if anyone wants them. Most all my friend group has them now and they're just sitting in my inventory cause I feel like selling them is wasteful if someone needs them.

Synduality had issues. A lot of them actually. The game was released in a weird state. They had the game 'finished' but chose to slow roll maps and quests in stages to try and time gate content and gear with monthly unlocks or some shit. However the game economy was balanced around the full...

My favorite for this was Synduality. It is an anime mecha extraction shooter from Bandai based on some franchise that had a tv show, books, models, etc, and they finally released the game. One of the big draws of the game is your copilot is an anime waifu (or husbando if thats your thing) that...

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.

Sorry, think I wasn't clear enough. EX Roulette, or EXDR is what we call the expert duty roulette in my FC. The end game dungeons. Yeah, the extremes won't be on the roulette for the common person, but the expert dungeons will be. And that is what I question about. When we start seeing more...

I realize I should have been more concise, and my 3am ramblings prolly should have waited till I slept. She does say she is proud of him, but in a more oblique passive way. People have commented that they hate her character, and I wanted to get at that and how different she is in the other...

So I will not claim she is the overall director of the story path. I think there are other issues underneath, but I do think Kate is a part of the problem. I understand that there is a bit of a collaborative approach as they want the story to be relevant to all languages so the EN localization...

This has nothing to do with Grummz, and until you mentioned it I was unaware he was trying to insert himself into the conversation. This is poor writing and I am going to guess a self insert or at least a character she identifies with. She /is/ a writer, despite being a 'localization team' on...

Maybe...

Wuk's VA isn't good. She's prolly bad, but we've had other bad VAs and stuff before. What we haven't had is a bad VA who speaks more than twice any other VA and is the sole focus of the entire MSQ. Even conversations between other characters, she butts in and is sucking all the air out of the...

I don't really think this game is, technically speaking, good. However, I am having a lot of fun with it. Story and itemization etc are all just kinda meh, but I can't help but have fun grappling around and killing stuff. Its... fulfilling.

So I've given this some thought as I keep logging out to take breaks cause holy fuck this game, but. I'll try to give you a short version here. I'll do a long version later if you all want to explore it further. This story is written by technicians, not artists. These are people who have...

Question, do you learn weapons proficiencies by type, or do you learn them by individual weapon? Cause I thought it was the former, but it looks like its the latter...

So apparently a newer Asus motherboard and a a 4070ti super is a bad combo. Updated graphics drivers and motherboard, and I still can't get this thing to make it past compiling shaders. Nevermind. Asus and other motherboard manufacturers keep overclocking their shit past Intel's specs...

Any hints or suggestions on starting this? Any money traps or shit they have set to make you waste your starting BS to encourage you to buy more, or can I just jump in shoot people and be fine?

Ok. I just hit the cooking challenge. I can't. The fact that fucking fat ass two head isn't in chains facing a special two headed guillotine after trying to unleash literal fucking armageddon is too much for me at the moment. "Nah dude. You did crimes against humanity, veritable war crimes...

Yeah. Not saying the FF community isn't a disaster, least the EN side of it. I'm in an FC that took a really interesting social turn. Its a huge FC where there has been a slow creep towards heavy social justice. Originally there were a bunch of people that were kicked out for making really...

Yeah. Apparently if you stick your head into the dark corners of FFXIV, it gets /really/ degenerate. I hear tales of housing that is turned into... questionable clubs with some pretty wild themes and goings on. To say the ERP community in 14 is alive and well is apparently a large...

Stick with it. Just swap voices or whatever. Mechanically, the game is extremely enjoyable. I am just going to pop this one up to mid story doldrums. It really feels like the whole first part is super forced just to move us into a position for the rest of the story. I am not a fan of it...

Suddenly I have a guess why one VA isn't up to par and might have been hired. Sigh.

I have very much been a EN holdout amongst my friends and thought Emet was wonderful. The Endwalker set of Ascian VAs were all good. FF14 has been one of the few games or shows where I have felt the EN voice cast has been stellar pretty much across the board. I didn't actually dislike Lyse...

Comparing Wuk Lamat to ARR Alphie is interesting. ARR Alphi was annoying as shit, but at least had competence to back him up. His comeuppance though was like honey. The reason the voice acting bugs me, and perhaps this is a me thing, is it keeps ruining the suspension of disbelief. Every...

I appreciate the complaint that the first couple zones are more visual novel than MMO game. Only like two fights? in total for the zones and its a long rather slog. Swapping over to the JP voice for Wuk Lamat was a game changer though. I actually feel like she is a good hearted, compassionate...

I finally broke down and switched over to the Japanese voices. I no longer want Wuk Lamat brained to death with a soup spoon. The difference is night and day. No, I don't speak Japanese but just something in the 'holy fuck I'm a retarded child' of her English mien reminds me of talking with...

I don't think its really bad so far, though I am just at the beginning. It just feels, out of place and like it is aimed at a different audience. I expect we'll eventually get into something more meaty that requires us to come together with the power of friendship to save the world, just like...