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- Wed Jul 20, 2016 7:59 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k16 /pol/
- Replies: 1531
- Views: 304632
Re: 2k16 /pol/
The difference being the ferengi for the most part are peaceful and competent within very strict criteria of what their species considers valuable. Haha.... No. The Ferengi are pretty violent, ruthless, and attempt to take anything anyone considers valuable if they can use it against them, up until...
- Fri Jul 08, 2016 4:36 am
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Evolve evolving from P2P to F2P
- Replies: 74
- Views: 18032
Re: Evolve evolving from P2P to F2P
You can firebreath while attacking, and its Goliath's highest damage ability anyway. I use leap to get in on the medic, and then firebreath while attacking normally to take them down. Also, the second level of leap smash is a very insignificant increase to your damage, and it mostly serves to increa...
- Fri Jul 08, 2016 4:26 am
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Evolve evolving from P2P to F2P
- Replies: 74
- Views: 18032
Re: Evolve evolving from P2P to F2P
I go for smash 1, fire 2, rock 1 personally when I think there will be early agro. The fire at rank 2 really catches a lot of people off guard and is shockingly lethal.
- Fri Jul 08, 2016 3:46 am
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Evolve evolving from P2P to F2P
- Replies: 74
- Views: 18032
Re: Evolve evolving from P2P to F2P
Stage 1 beatdowns are really fun to pull off. The hunters are often overconfident and don't use their defensive abilities enough allowing you to shred them if you leveled fire twice.
- Fri Jul 08, 2016 3:28 am
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Evolve evolving from P2P to F2P
- Replies: 74
- Views: 18032
Re: Evolve evolving from P2P to F2P
Yeah by that logic all shooters aren't fun because once you see your opponent all strategy is gone and you are stuck with boring old tactics and skill and what loser cares about that? Like I said, its in a good place as a free to play, it never really was a full game, its a nice experience and it is...
- Thu Jul 07, 2016 9:40 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Evolve evolving from P2P to F2P
- Replies: 74
- Views: 18032
Re: Evolve evolving from P2P to F2P
Still pretty fun. You can earn everything through in game currency. Seems fine as F2P.
- Thu Jul 07, 2016 5:21 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: The Ship: Remasted - CAN'T STUMP THE TRUMP ($6!!!)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2210
Re: The Ship: Remasted - CAN'T STUMP THE TRUMP ($6!!!)
The ship is basically a better version of ss13 solely because they design it so that you are forced to move around like a real human being.
- Sun Jul 03, 2016 1:54 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k16 /pol/
- Replies: 1531
- Views: 304632
Re: 2k16 /pol/
Anyone who bitches that democracy doesn't work needs to retroactively be flunked out of highschool for failing history. The fact you are not the property of some asshat by virtue of absolutely needing to work during all your waking hours on their land to feed yourself is a pretty fucking solid chec...
- Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:37 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k16 /pol/
- Replies: 1531
- Views: 304632
Re: 2k16 /pol/
Anyone who bitches that democracy doesn't work needs to retroactively be flunked out of highschool for failing history. The fact you are not the property of some asshat by virtue of absolutely needing to work during all your waking hours on their land to feed yourself is a pretty fucking solid check...
- Thu Jun 30, 2016 1:46 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Payday 2
- Replies: 546
- Views: 138402
Re: Payday 2
Counterpoint: Crook is a team oriented build when you constantly are picking your bros up off the ground because they keep hitting the floor like they are slipping slipping on banana peels every 5 seconds. That said Grandad with an RPG is like the most legit thing ever, he pushes any soloist deck up...
- Tue Jun 28, 2016 2:27 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: cataclysm dark days ahead- You just cant win
- Replies: 1220
- Views: 318634
Re: cataclysm dark days ahead- You just cant win
i mean yeah, it was clear DDA's development was stupid as hell when they added in static spawn without any real way to support it. Thankfully now there are alternate jobs that change your loadout for your playstyle, now houses can hold pretty much anything that can be found in a store (It was fuckin...
- Tue Jun 28, 2016 2:20 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k16 /pol/
- Replies: 1531
- Views: 304632
Re: 2k16 /pol/
Basically it is funny because Brexiters thought that the EU would be totally fine with this and would give them everything they want, but in reality absolutely no one should have thought that because its fucking stupid and ignores the EU's history of playing hardball with instability in the UK, such...
- Fri Jun 24, 2016 8:41 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k16 /pol/
- Replies: 1531
- Views: 304632
Re: 2k16 /pol/
What does the UK make that we want pounds to buy? That is the real question now, because the UK is no longer a good entry point to the Eurozone which is what people used it for. I think their steel industry is crashing too, so the pound will only be worth something if it gets devalued to the point ...
- Fri Jun 24, 2016 9:33 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k16 /pol/
- Replies: 1531
- Views: 304632
Re: 2k16 /pol/
It wasn't pointless.
If the UK gets downgraded to an AA credit rating they will officially have a debt spiral and plunge into a massive depression.
So it was less than pointless!
If the UK gets downgraded to an AA credit rating they will officially have a debt spiral and plunge into a massive depression.
So it was less than pointless!
- Fri Jun 24, 2016 9:28 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k16 /pol/
- Replies: 1531
- Views: 304632
Re: 2k16 /pol/
It may in all seriousness may make immigration worse, because the UK absolutely needs free trade to survive and already has way more concessions than the other member states. It may be forced to participate in Schengen, to pay EU dues, or give up the pound. And its companys will still have to follow...
- Fri Jun 24, 2016 6:21 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k16 /pol/
- Replies: 1531
- Views: 304632
Re: 2k16 /pol/
Yeah, but the Pound is dropping faster, fast enough that its a scenario where you have a market panic. Just as Britain was pretty much utterly economically dependent on the EU, seriously its fucking funny you guys literally set yourselves up to be attractive HQs for EU companies due to control over ...
- Fri Jun 24, 2016 6:12 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k16 /pol/
- Replies: 1531
- Views: 304632
Re: 2k16 /pol/
That's assuming they have any interest in becoming a German citizen rather than just staying a Syrian that is currently staying in Germany, which are two very different things. Also they're nearly all uneducated and would need INTENSE governmental investment to be brought up to a decent working for...
- Fri Jun 24, 2016 6:02 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k16 /pol/
- Replies: 1531
- Views: 304632
Re: 2k16 /pol/
Definitely are missing stuff. It ain't awful, for one. Teach 'em German, put 'em to work. Lotsa very educated people, some at the uni I work at. Of course you have to silence both the troublesome ones and the right-wing populists. Yeah a lot of people forget most of the refugees are Syrian, which m...
- Fri Jun 24, 2016 5:55 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k16 /pol/
- Replies: 1531
- Views: 304632
Re: 2k16 /pol/
Again, you were never part of the Schengen area and thus leaving the EU changes fucking nothing in regards to the migrant crisis, because it was never the UK's problem. That isn't even getting into the migrant debate, it just was never a fucking issue involved in the UK's relationship to the EU, so ...
- Fri Jun 24, 2016 5:45 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k16 /pol/
- Replies: 1531
- Views: 304632
Re: 2k16 /pol/
Economics 101 time because they apparently don't teach this shit in Britain: 10 fucking percent of your savings were wiped out because investors wisely realize that your country is destroying its export and likely import market, because the EU is your biggest trading partner and there is no chance i...
- Fri Jun 24, 2016 5:34 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k16 /pol/
- Replies: 1531
- Views: 304632
Re: 2k16 /pol/
All the fear-mongering was done by people wanting to stay, and now that they didn't get what they wanted all hell is breaking loose as people stupid enough to believe them are flipping shit. Now would really be the time for some world leaders to step up and tell everyone to chill the fuck out befor...
- Fri Jun 24, 2016 5:27 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k16 /pol/
- Replies: 1531
- Views: 304632
Re: 2k16 /pol/
As someone who has a basic understanding of economics, I am now laughing at all of the people who thought that deliberately creating a market panic was a good idea. British citizens just lost 1/10th of their savings in a few hours. Index funds are crashing. The pound just had the largest drop in val...
- Fri Jun 24, 2016 4:05 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Tabletop General
- Replies: 1005
- Views: 213456
Re: Tabletop General
Ceres has the bonus of being Anarcho Capitalist which means we would likely be freelance police, and the Extropan movement is on pretty ok terms with everyone, even if there is some bad blood between them and the anarchist movements. It isn't like the Jove where a Mercurial Uplift literally couldn't...
- Wed Jun 22, 2016 4:43 am
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Paradox Grand Strat meets Sci-Fi 4X; Boners Explode
- Replies: 1582
- Views: 372311
Re: Paradox Grand Strat meets Sci-Fi 4X; Boners Explode
Lets be honest. This would have been a badass game if it was CK2 in space with a bit of Twilight Imperium to give the international relations structure. You would have more complicated empires, but the fact that you are firmly a state would allow you to avoid bickering vassals to deal more with mode...
- Wed Jun 22, 2016 4:37 am
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Paradox Grand Strat meets Sci-Fi 4X; Boners Explode
- Replies: 1582
- Views: 372311
Re: Paradox Grand Strat meets Sci-Fi 4X; Boners Explode
They need victory conditions because this is much more an X4 than a Grand Strategy game. There isn't actually a lot of intrigue happening, its very bare bones and thus the game's focus is very much on conquest. Unlike CK2, literally nothing happens if you don't play with aspirations to conquer. Ther...
- Wed Jun 22, 2016 2:31 am
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Paradox Grand Strat meets Sci-Fi 4X; Boners Explode
- Replies: 1582
- Views: 372311
Re: Paradox Grand Strat meets Sci-Fi 4X; Boners Explode
Yes but unless they can gain actual control of planets they can't actually ever 'win.'
Which is fine in a grand strategy game, but this is also an X4.
Which is fine in a grand strategy game, but this is also an X4.
- Wed Jun 22, 2016 12:16 am
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Paradox Grand Strat meets Sci-Fi 4X; Boners Explode
- Replies: 1582
- Views: 372311
Re: Paradox Grand Strat meets Sci-Fi 4X; Boners Explode
Fanatic pacifists are only going to be viable if it is possible to gain vassals diplomatically now, because it sure as hell wasn't before.
- Sun Jun 19, 2016 9:57 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Dead By Daylight
- Replies: 503
- Views: 200818
Re: Dead By Daylight - Chefs revenge
My issue with wraith is that he has nothing in his item that allows you to win chases. Finding survivors is nice but ultimately trapper does what you need your item to do, where as the Wraith has no recourse against a good survivor.
- Sun Jun 19, 2016 6:40 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Dead By Daylight
- Replies: 503
- Views: 200818
Re: Dead By Daylight - Chefs revenge
Billy is much better than the wraith because of the movement aspect of the saw. He is also hard to escape from. Its hard for killers to realize how fundamentally annoying the saw is because it requires you to change your movement patterns and 'settle' during escapes because you no longer have as muc...
- Sun Jun 19, 2016 2:01 am
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Dead By Daylight
- Replies: 503
- Views: 200818
Re: Dead By Daylight - Chefs revenge
All the time. In the sense every player should be making offerings every match. It allows good players to control the environment in ways to their benefit, but most are minor. The good ones are level selectors, they make it more likely you go to a level good for your character. The beat to death ite...
- Sun Jun 19, 2016 12:06 am
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Dead By Daylight
- Replies: 503
- Views: 200818
Re: Dead By Daylight - Chefs revenge
I am glad they are ignoring the baby tier scrubs crying about Wraith as well.
- Wed Jun 15, 2016 4:21 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Payday 2
- Replies: 546
- Views: 138402
Re: Payday 2
I main dodge builds.
They are no longer totally immortal. They are now just quasi immortal and making a mistake will put you down.
They are no longer totally immortal. They are now just quasi immortal and making a mistake will put you down.
- Wed Jun 15, 2016 5:37 am
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Payday 2
- Replies: 546
- Views: 138402
Re: Payday 2
Tightest crew ever! Let no one claim that deathwish is hard!
- Tue Jun 14, 2016 3:00 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Dead By Daylight
- Replies: 503
- Views: 200818
Re: Dead By Daylight - Chefs revenge
I am quietly hype. The endless blood web and multiple killers (Specifically the difference between the Wraith and the Trapper) seem like they will add a ton to the game.
- Tue Jun 14, 2016 5:25 am
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Payday 2
- Replies: 546
- Views: 138402
Re: Payday 2
Dodge builds, at least crook builds, love the shit out of grandad, because they care a lot about both sides of the buff and the damage reduction on top! They are basically the grandkids running around being little scamps and bringing gifts (read: Hostages) back to grandad while his coffee kicks in f...
- Mon Jun 13, 2016 10:11 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Warhammer Total War
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2073
Re: Warhammer Total War
Makes sense. VC in the tabletop are the most topheavy army in the game. They have literally the strongest commanders possible and if your main leader dies you lose the game.
- Mon Jun 13, 2016 5:24 am
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Payday 2
- Replies: 546
- Views: 138402
Re: Payday 2
Its because its a character pack, which is always 4.99 and has a deck, two weapons, and the character, and a mission pack, which has mask drops and one or two weapons and is generally 6.99. If it was one more expensive pack then they would lose out on the people who are more casual and just want the...
- Sat Jun 11, 2016 6:51 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Tabletop Simulator
- Replies: 118
- Views: 29280
Re: Tabletop Simulator
My body is ready! How we doing this?
- Sat Jun 11, 2016 1:13 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Hulkamania runs wild on Gawker Media (THE RIDE NEVER ENDS)
- Replies: 75
- Views: 18721
Re: Hulkamania runs wild on Gawker Media (THE RIDE NEVER END
Trust me, contempt of court is basically the best way to put a judge in full triggered mode. Every judge, regardless of political leanings, has a vested interest in making sure people respect the legitimacy of the US court system. No judge would ignore anyone violating a court order. Once the order ...
- Sat Jun 11, 2016 1:10 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Hulkamania runs wild on Gawker Media (THE RIDE NEVER ENDS)
- Replies: 75
- Views: 18721
Re: Hulkamania runs wild on Gawker Media (THE RIDE NEVER END
As a former law student I find it especially funny that Gawker decided to violate a court order. That is pretty much on par with logging out when an admin bwoops you, judges can do pretty much anything they want to you if they find you in contempt of court. Like it would have been completely legal f...
- Fri Jun 10, 2016 7:52 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Dead By Daylight
- Replies: 503
- Views: 200818
Re: Dead By Daylight - Chefs revenge
Its a fun bug.
And I don't think it will go the way of Evolve for multiple reasons. Mainly the lack of a clear attempt to fleece us.
And I don't think it will go the way of Evolve for multiple reasons. Mainly the lack of a clear attempt to fleece us.
- Fri Jun 10, 2016 7:28 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: TF3
- Replies: 906
- Views: 213132
Re: Overwatch
I have. Quite often actually. While the objective is very close to the defender's spawn at the end, it has very little room for the defenders to do anything fancy, while the final location is actually extremely porous if you know about the upper balcony and two side doors. The issue is that the balc...
- Fri Jun 10, 2016 7:19 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: TF3
- Replies: 906
- Views: 213132
Re: Overwatch
There are flanking positions on Hollywood for every part of the final push... The big doorway is flanked by two smaller doorways and an entire side-stage section the attackers are allowed to control. The rear of the set has the scaffolding which the attackers control by the time they get there. And ...
- Fri Jun 10, 2016 7:17 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Payday 2
- Replies: 546
- Views: 138402
Re: Payday 2
I am glad I could contribute by suicide.
It really highlights the strengths of your design when the optimal strategy is for, after doing a ton of hard work and repeatedly resetting the level, half the team needs to kill themselves via jumping off high buildings over and over.
It really highlights the strengths of your design when the optimal strategy is for, after doing a ton of hard work and repeatedly resetting the level, half the team needs to kill themselves via jumping off high buildings over and over.
- Fri Jun 10, 2016 3:25 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Payday 2
- Replies: 546
- Views: 138402
Re: Payday 2
Actually we only didnt bring you in because it took us like 20 tries to get to just that point and we didn't have it in us to get you up to speed.
Seriously fuck that heist.
Seriously fuck that heist.
- Fri Jun 10, 2016 12:49 am
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Payday 2
- Replies: 546
- Views: 138402
Re: Payday 2
Although isn't the meta basically just CAR-4 and Loco/Judge and nothing else? There are plenty of builds that use neither of those weapons. I almost always go with a handgun build myself. It is very effective at all ranges and with the ability to easily hit 80 damage you can oneshot tans for days. ...
- Thu Jun 09, 2016 9:34 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Paradox Grand Strat meets Sci-Fi 4X; Boners Explode
- Replies: 1582
- Views: 372311
Re: Paradox Grand Strat meets Sci-Fi 4X; Boners Explode
That is called the endgame. Preventing fanatic pacifists from being allowed to participate at all is amazingly stupid. You get locked out insanely early if you can't take over planets. The only way to make what they are doing work is to make it so that it is easier to vassalize through diplomacy. It...
- Thu Jun 09, 2016 9:28 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Paradox Grand Strat meets Sci-Fi 4X; Boners Explode
- Replies: 1582
- Views: 372311
Re: Paradox Grand Strat meets Sci-Fi 4X; Boners Explode
I think they don't understand their own design, by making pacifists literally unable to conquer they make it so pacifists literally can't ever win. Old pacifists were able to partake in war, they just benefited from really short wars. Good pacifist play was about gobbling people up quickly rather th...
- Thu Jun 09, 2016 8:49 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Payday 2
- Replies: 546
- Views: 138402
Re: Payday 2
It sorta was. You would crouch during really narrow chokepoints or when doing an objective, but the Crook in my eyes is all about weaving in and out of fights, which the crouch boost wasn't amazing for. Now crooks are way tougher in a short engagement, and can sustain themselves for a bit with heads...
- Thu Jun 09, 2016 8:41 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Tabletop Simulator
- Replies: 118
- Views: 29280
Re: Tabletop Simulator
I will be out to lunch at 12 PM EST for probably an hour or three on saturday so we should definitely lean towards early evening rather than early afternoon.