Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0

[Someone With Mass]

To be fair, I like the idea, but I don't expect them to implement it well. I suspect it will be less the subtle satire of FC3, or the twist of the secret ending of FC4, and more outright derision.

Yeah, I think that theme will get old really fast. Especially if they'll follow the same formula as in past games. Find tower, climb tower, uncover parts of the map and do all the side stuff.

[Vol]

Well it doesn't help that Outlast 2 literally just came out, but it's more that I can picture the entire game in my head based solely off the cover art. If it has new mechanics, or otherwise improves the formula, it might be worth playing.

[Vol]

Jesus Christ. Decided to not bother trying to push for Diamond rank before the season ends, because every team I get is toxic as shit, and after getting some real winners in placements, not worth the stress. Doing a few QP between working on my own projects and reading things, and my aim hit an absolute bottom just now. Last round of the night, as Widow, and I literally couldn't land bodyshots. On a triple tank team. For some fucky reason, all my shots went wide, like I was twitching too hard, but without even intending to. Went from landing flick headshots earlier to being unable to touch a Winston at medium range.

Gettin' mad at video games. It was a little sobering to have 10+ years of FPS skill disappear for no apparent reason. Swapped to 76 for the final push, and we kept overtime going a good long while, but the other team was triple bitch tank with 2 healers and their Mercy was rezzing every fight, so attrition wore us down.

[Dragaros]

Want to know how the battle between the Tyranid Hive Fleet Leviathan and the Blood Angels went?

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[TheodoricFriede]

Anyone here play the Persona games?

I'm going to give Persona 5 a try, and I'm wondering if there's anything I should know before I start.

[Someone With Mass]

Jesus Christ. Decided to not bother trying to push for Diamond rank before the season ends, because every team I get is toxic as shit, and after getting some real winners in placements, not worth the stress. Doing a few QP between working on my own projects and reading things, and my aim hit an absolute bottom just now. Last round of the night, as Widow, and I literally couldn't land bodyshots. On a triple tank team. For some fucky reason, all my shots went wide, like I was twitching too hard, but without even intending to. Went from landing flick headshots earlier to being unable to touch a Winston at medium range.

Gettin' mad at video games. It was a little sobering to have 10+ years of FPS skill disappear for no apparent reason. Swapped to 76 for the final push, and we kept overtime going a good long while, but the other team was triple bitch tank with 2 healers and their Mercy was rezzing every fight, so attrition wore us down.

This is one of the bigger reasons why I don't bother with rankings and competitive matches in video games anymore. They only make me mad when I'm surrounded by clueless idiots and disappointed when toxic assholes question everything I do. Very few moments brings me something that feels satisfying and I just don't think that investing that amount of time in it is worth it. Especially in Overwatch where a higher rank degrades during inactivity. I'd rather have a good experience in a singleplayer game, a co-op mode or something that isn't blatantly pandering to e-sport dorks. Speaking of which, I think e-sports is more boring to watch than regular sports, so it's a real eye-roller when every change in the game is meant to attract that kind of crowd.

Not to mention that I already did all of that hyper-competitive bullshit ten years ago in Call of Duty and even that got old.

In other news, Everspace has officially launched and this is how my first run ended.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRo4gSRJwm0

I think it's a really entertaining game otherwise. It has VR support and is going to get joystick support in the future. This is the kind of game I've really missed. Games like Ace Combat, Freespace or Rogue Squadron.

[Alienmorph]

Want to know how the battle between the Tyranid Hive Fleet Leviathan and the Blood Angels went?

► Show Spoiler

Waitwaitwaaaaaaaait....

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I thought the 'Nids were impervious to Warp energy, given the whole "shadow over the Warp" skill, since when an hive fleet can be randomly swallowed up in the Warp and die off?! Sure a greater Bloodthirster might buchter millions of 'nids, but to exterminate an whole hive fleet single-handedly you'd need Khorne himself, ffs...

[Alienmorph]

Also, speaking of 40k...



Apparently some of the characters from the Dawn of War games are getting their own miniatures... too bad thei're gonna be based on the new game, but hey... I was always gonna make me a Blood Ravens army if I were to get some Speesh Muurines, so I'll take it.

[Someone With Mass]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MucpCiDbMpE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ1eEQQZQHM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrF6QPQUoeM

Man, that's some really good CG.

[Dragaros]

Waitwaitwaaaaaaaait....

► Show Spoiler

I thought the 'Nids were impervious to Warp energy, given the whole "shadow over the Warp" skill, since when an hive fleet can be randomly swallowed up in the Warp and die off?! Sure a greater Bloodthirster might buchter millions of 'nids, but to exterminate an whole hive fleet single-handedly you'd need Khorne himself, ffs...

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The "shadow over the warp" effect makes it difficult for non-Tyranids in the area to use psychic abilities, as well as complicating warp travel and astropathic communication, but it doesn't make it impossible. It does make it so daemons of the warp can't manifest in the Materium and remain stuck in the warp, but if Leviathan was suddenly pulled into the warp, their on the daemon's home turf, and their "shadow" can't repel them, since they're no longer in the Materium.

Also, maybe being suddenly engulfed in the warptides of a giant, galaxy spanning warpstorm sent a shock to the Hive Mind, temporarly severing the fleet from its connection? Or the formation of the Great Rift gave Chaos a temporary OVER 9000! power-boost? Countless daemons working under Ka'Bandha’s generalship could do the deed under such circumstances without it being an asspull.

I do enjoy the idea of Chaos coming in to save them in a “IF ANYBODY IS GOING TO KILL THESE GUYS ITS US!” fashion, like a bunch of spoiled kids protecting a toy they were planning to break just a few seconds ago, or Vegeta saving Goku from Android 19 so he can fight him later.

Anyway, Leviathan was just a scouting force in terms of size and power. The real Tyranid armada hasn’t even shown up yet. This isn’t even a real loss to them. The 'Nids haven’t even begun to fight seriously!

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

[Vol]

Anyone here play the Persona games?

I'm going to give Persona 5 a try, and I'm wondering if there's anything I should know before I start.

I played Persona 4 Golden through twice, and a bit of Persona 3. They're basically "Japanese High School Simulator" with a grown-up take on Pokemon tacked on. I really want P5, but I'm not buying a PS4.

[Alienmorph]

Want to know how the battle between the Tyranid Hive Fleet Leviathan and the Blood Angels went?

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Update on this this!

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Apparently the whole "Hivefleet Leviathan is lost in the Warp" wasn't just a convenient deus ex machina...





... but actually a way to reinforce the forces of chaos with some space roaches. That's right... CHAOS TYRANIDS!

[Vol]

Getting one shot by the same fucking Hanzo 4 times in a row is some next-level salt generation. Just out of nowhere, instant death. No reaction, no counterplay, no prediction, just dead.

I tried Hanzo earlier, just to see what it's like. Immediately started shitting out gold medals, headshots, one shots, fast ults, it was obscene. With practice in prediction and aim, no wonder he ruins pubs.

Though after that salt round, I went Roadhog solely to kill that Hanzo, followed by teabagging him wildly. He got real mad. Mission: Accomplished.

[Dragaros]

Update on this this!

► Show Spoiler

Apparently the whole "Hivefleet Leviathan is lost in the Warp" wasn't just a convenient deus ex machina...





... but actually a way to reinforce the forces of chaos with some space roaches. That's right... CHAOS TYRANIDS!

Well, damn!

I imagine more than a few Imperial Guardsmen are having this reaction right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdqyG3CcoLM

[Someone With Mass]

Bleh. I don't mind that much when it's warm, but when it's closing in on 30 C, I'm staying inside.

[TheodoricFriede]

I really want P5, but I'm not buying a PS4.

Pretty sure its also on the Playstation 3.

[Dragaros]

[[ "Here is a list of everything for E3 2017.

USA Conference + Times:

EA - Saturday, June 10 @ 12 PM PT / 3 PM EST
Microsoft - Sunday, June 11 @ 2 PM PT / 5 PM EST
Bethesda - Sunday, June 11 @ 7 PM PT / 10 PM EST
PC Gaming - Monday, June 12 @ 10 AM PT / 1 PM EST
Ubisoft - Monday, June 12 @ 1 PM PT / 4 PM EST
Sony - Monday, June 12 @ 6 PM PT / 9 PM
Nintendo - Tuesday, June 13th @ 9 AM PT / 11 PM EST

UK Conference + Times:

EA - Saturday, June 10 @ 8 PM BST
Microsoft - Sunday, June 11 @ 10 PM BST
Bethesda - Sunday, June 11 @ 3 AM BST
PC Gaming - Monday, June 11/12 @ 6 PM BST
Ubisoft - Monday, June 12 @ 9 PM BST
Sony - Monday, June 12 @ 2 AM BST
Nintendo - Tuesday, June 13th @ 5 PM BST

AU/NZ Conference + Times:

EA - Saturday, June 11 @ 5 AM AEST / 7 AM NZST
Microsoft - Sunday, June 12 @ 7 AM AEST / 9 AM NZST
Bethesda - Sunday, June 12 @ 12 PM AEST / 2 PM NZST
PC Gaming - Monday, June 12/13 @ 3 AM AEST / 5 AM NZST
Ubisoft - Monday, June 13 @ 6 AM AEST / 8 AM NZST
Sony - Monday, June 13 @ 11 AM AEST / 1 PM NZST
Nintendo - Tuesday, June 14th @ 2 AM AEST / 4 AM NZST

https://www.youtube.com/user/E3

https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/E3

https://www.facebook.com/E3Expo/

E3 2017 Information.'" ]]

[Alienmorph]

Nintendo gets to wrap up E3 this year eh? Hope it's a "saving the best for last" situation, I want Nintendo to really shine this year, they need to demonstrate that the Switch launch and Breath of the Wild weren't just a couple luckly shots, and I really hope they manage to.

[Vol]

We're due for a strong year. Been kinda limp the last few.

[Dragaros]

Nintendo gets to wrap up E3 this year eh? Hope it's a "saving the best for last" situation, I want Nintendo to really shine this year, they need to demonstrate that the Switch launch and Breath of the Wild weren't just a couple luckly shots, and I really hope they manage to.

#ANewMetroidThatDoesn'tSuck

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1J8IDDX9_c

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo8ZfxIOGi0

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E415aFoSDcY

Khorne, Tzeentch, and Slannesh have been busy making preparations for this new page of galactic history. Now it’s Nurgle’s turn.

ARISE… DAEMON PRIMARCH OF DECAY.
ARISE… MORTARION.

Be careful, Abaddon. Your bosses might be looking for a new Warmaster.

[Dragaros]

To my fellow Americans, have a safe Memorial Day if you're traveling.

[Vol]

Have a happy Memorial Day, my fellow Americans. Without soldiers willing to die for their country, we have no state, no peace. That must always be respected.

[Vol]

Now that I've played a bit since picking the game back up, I'm getting a good feel for the state of balance. Since that quickscope/damage nerf after launch, Widow is still, sadly, largely useless. Unless you're a god of aim, in which case you'd have been better spent playing literally any other hitscan hero instead. A shame, since she's obviously my favorite, and I put the most time in her.

McCree is in a weird place. It appears he was massively nerfed since I last played, since his damage falloff is intense. Doesn't seem worth taking mid to long range shots most of the time since they'll just feed the enemy healers, and even multiple headshots won't kill. Up close, he's a beast, but flashbang is finicky as fuck. Had over a half dozen times today alone it failed to register on a Genji or Tracer.

Getting into a groove of fighting Genjus at least. They're very predictable, if annoying and hard to kill. But I'm dying less to them, outside Super Saiyan mode, wherein his hitbox becomes a suggestion more than an actual thing. There's a golden spot between him standing dead still in front of you with reflect up and the inevitable dash through you. Which is some faggotry, since it's outright an "I-win" button if you're within range and less than 100 hp, but I digress. There's a brief window where you can pop him, and it's inconsistent as hell, had more than one killcam where his reflect was _active_ during the dash still. But if you can hit it, boy do they go down hard. It's nice.

I'm finding that certain heroes will shut down most pubs. Winston, Torb, Tracer, Sym, they seem to baffle the average QP person. That and shooting barriers. Though Orisa's buff to an 8 second cooldown on her shield is not helping matters, need a better barrier buster than Bastion or Sombra, badly.

Fun tho. Season 5, might push for some real ranking. Gave up trying to get up to Diamond the last week, too many toxic players throwing or being assholes.

[TheodoricFriede]

There is literally a fail state in Persona 5 that occurs because they tell you you have 1 less day to do something than you actually have.

I just lost 12 hours of progress because of that.

Who wants to buy this game, because i will sell it to you for half the retail price. I am fucking furious.

Amazon, thankfully, has some level of customer service and will give me a refund.

[Alienmorph]

Just rumors, but seems pretty plausible...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juxx8jqXiy4

They'll better make Raven a premium skin for Enchantress at the very least, tho, if she's not getting in as a fully standalone character...

[Someone With Mass]

There is literally a fail state in Persona 5 that occurs because they tell you you have 1 less day to do something than you actually have.

I just lost 12 hours of progress because of that.

Who wants to buy this game, because i will sell it to you for half the retail price. I am fucking furious.

Amazon, thankfully, has some level of customer service and will give me a refund.

That's one of the reasons why I have never really gotten into the Persona games. Having to manage my activities throughout the days in the game just sucks the fun out of it for me.

[TTTX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTTPwBPbe7Q&index=12&list=WL

[Raga]

Yea, basically as soon as I find out a game has a timer for *anything* other than like a stupid racing minigame or a "diffuse the bomb in 2 minutes" mission, I'm done. I don't do timers. I also don't do punitive save systems. I"m here to have fun, not prove my hardcore gamer creds.

Also, I am starting Siege of Dragonspear over and am liking it much better the second time for some reason. I didn't finish it the first time I tried it.

[Mazder]

Yea, basically as soon as I find out a game has a timer for *anything* other than like a stupid racing minigame or a "diffuse the bomb in 2 minutes" mission, I'm done. I don't do timers. I also don't do punitive save systems. I"m here to have fun, not prove my hardcore gamer creds.

You know what I really hate?
Core mechanics locked behind bloody busy-body tasks.
I'm looking at you Just Cause 3!
I shouldn't NEED to go through literal hoops to get my wingsuit upgrades....that help me do the hoop flying thing better!!!

[TheodoricFriede]

That's one of the reasons why I have never really gotten into the Persona games. Having to manage my activities throughout the days in the game just sucks the fun out of it for me.

The most infuriating think is that this all happened as I was actually starting to get into it.

[Someone With Mass]

Yea, basically as soon as I find out a game has a timer for *anything* other than like a stupid racing minigame or a "diffuse the bomb in 2 minutes" mission, I'm done. I don't do timers. I also don't do punitive save systems. I"m here to have fun, not prove my hardcore gamer creds.

That said, I understand why games like Dead Rising have overall timers. Without them, the players would just run around in a sandbox and exhaust everything with little challenge. Same thing in games like Everspace and FTL, where hostile forces are pursuing the player from system to system. There, it adds the need of prioritization. Should I go to the system that makes it easier for the enemy to track me down so I can possibly get my hands on that sweet loot or should I go through the line of systems that have environmental hazards like a nebula to throw my pursuers off course for a little while? It makes me think more about what I need rather than want and I find that to be rather thrilling. In games like Far Cry 3 or GTA V, there's nothing besides the narrative that stops me from completing and unlocking everything so I can then steam roll the story and have nothing to do afterwards.

What I don't like is when that time limit is arbitrary and simply shows up out of nowhere to add fake tension. Same thing with a score system, for that matter. I've quit games that gave me the illusion of being able to play however I want and then punished me for not following specific, unwritten rules.

[TheodoricFriede]

What I don't like is when that time limit is arbitrary and simply shows up out of nowhere to add fake tension. Same thing with a score system, for that matter. I've quit games that gave me the illusion of being able to play however I want and then punished me for not following specific, unwritten rules.

I hate the kind of shit that i got, which is basically,

"You have 10 days. you have 10 days, you have ten days...."

On day 9.

"You actually only have 9 days, because we take one of those days away from you, GAME OVER. FAIL STATE. RESTART FROM 10 HOURS AGO."

[Raga]

Yea, basically as soon as I find out a game has a timer for *anything* other than like a stupid racing minigame or a "diffuse the bomb in 2 minutes" mission, I'm done. I don't do timers. I also don't do punitive save systems. I"m here to have fun, not prove my hardcore gamer creds.

That said, I understand why games like Dead Rising have overall timers. Without them, the players would just run around in a sandbox and exhaust everything with little challenge. Same thing in games like Everspace and FTL, where hostile forces are pursuing the player from system to system. There, it adds the need of prioritization. Should I go to the system that makes it easier for the enemy to track me down so I can possibly get my hands on that sweet loot or should I go through the line of systems that have environmental hazards like a nebula to throw my pursuers off course for a little while? It makes me think more about what I need rather than want and I find that to be rather thrilling. In games like Far Cry 3 or GTA V, there's nothing besides the narrative that stops me from completing and unlocking everything so I can then steam roll the story and have nothing to do afterwards.

What I don't like is when that time limit is arbitrary and simply shows up out of nowhere to add fake tension. Same thing with a score system, for that matter. I've quit games that gave me the illusion of being able to play however I want and then punished me for not following specific, unwritten rules.

See, I had rather such "timers" be presented as choice rather than "you have 15 minutes before permafail." More like "you have enough time to chose only 1 of 3 things, so chose wisely." For me, that creates the feeling of prioritization and consequence without the awful feeling that I'm going to be late for work curdling the whole experience.

[Dragaros]

What I don't like is when that time limit is arbitrary and simply shows up out of nowhere to add fake tension. Same thing with a score system, for that matter. I've quit games that gave me the illusion of being able to play however I want and then punished me for not following specific, unwritten rules.

I hate the kind of shit that i got, which is basically,

"You have 10 days. you have 10 days, you have ten days...."

On day 9.

"You actually only have 9 days, because we take one of those days away from you, GAME OVER. FAIL STATE. RESTART FROM 10 HOURS AGO."

That's definitely some grade-A bullshit.

One of the best usage of time mechanics is a video game is still Majora's Mask, if you ask me. That game is a gem.

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D05Uhk-xB8

[Dragaros]

"Kyoei Toshi" Action-Survival PS4 Game Reveals Godzilla, King Ghidorah, Evangelion Unit-01, Gamera."
"City Shrouded in Shadow, the Bandai-Namco survival horror game with kaiju, is now looking at a Fall 2017 release date."

http://knst.bn-ent.net

http://gematsu.com/2017/05/city-shroude ... fall-japan

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... ch/.116767

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lovdnOUCqg

[Vol]

Ah, Persona 4 was like that too. Each day was divided into sections, some days were scripted, others you could wander freely and do X number of things. It was possible to 100% every Social Link and activity, but the timing was super strict.

And at some point, you get a timer, you have X days before A Thing happens. So you keep on, doing dungeons, chatting up people, doing whatever.

Then you lose like 3 fucking months of time apropos of nothing. Just a big ole' time skip, hope you were ready for the main event, asshole!

[Alienmorph]

"Kyoei Toshi" Action-Survival PS4 Game Reveals Godzilla, King Ghidorah, Evangelion Unit-01, Gamera."
"City Shrouded in Shadow, the Bandai-Namco survival horror game with kaiju, is now looking at a Fall 2017 release date."

http://knst.bn-ent.net

http://gematsu.com/2017/05/city-shroude ... fall-japan

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... ch/.116767

Ohh, this is interesting, I fully support the idea of a "survive a kaiju attack!" game, it could be a very fun thing, although probably not with much replay value, I'd imagine. Too bad that it's a game extremely unlikely to come to the West (although the last crappy Godzilla game did, so never say never...) and that one of the playable scenario is a fucking Evangelion one. I would have gladly took a Super Sentai battle instead of Anno's stuff pouring into my kaiju goodness. Again. Or hell, ask permission to Legendary to do a Pacific Rim scenario!

[TTTX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyAfm6KvM9c&list=WL&index=12

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxV2bHH8_Zk

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4fp3h67-vM

[Dragaros]

Report: More Of Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite’s Roster May Have Leaked

[Alienmorph]

Welp here we go, I'm officially 30 years old. Oh well, time passes for everyone.

[TTTX]

Welp here we go, I'm officially 30 years old. Oh well, time passes for everyone.

happy birthday.