/tg/Station 13

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1.5 hit. It was a massive balance change that... well... put the game in its most balanced and fun state it has ever been for both sides. The changes were: 1: Sabotage now only takes 15 seconds, down from 20. This means a lot if you use toolkits and the perk together, allowing you to potentially sab...

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Just hearing about the trap mechanic has convinced me to not buy this game, and I was considering it because I like dead by daylight a lot with strong killers. The idea of knowing with 100% certainty that there is a trap, something that is meant to be a surprise, and being unable to do anything abou...

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It appears this is quite the dangerous area of the hive, with by an early count a ratio of 4 house gangs to 3 outlander gangs. Of course Ratskin renegades are a bit more respectable, but it is still a lot of outlaws with nothing to lose. I recommend my fellow house gangs not concentrate too many cre...

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A few general strategic tips: You should make sure to keep your ganger population high. Only gangers can work your turf, and you may want spares to work the market. It is vital to start with at least 4 gangers, and it is common to start with more. If you drop too low in gangers, it is considered an ...

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Everyone should roll together for their starting turf before we start building. It is a critical part of your strategy to know what you have before you start building.

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I will roll a Van Saar gang.

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The game is better balanced if you remember it is also political. Dedicated hits against powerful gangs are a big part of play, as are campaigns to get really huge gangs outlawed. It is 100% correct you shouldn't just gangfight over and over, part of the meta strategy is trying to build alliances an...

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It depends. Jason should have the advantage, but there is a point where the game just isn't interesting due to too extreme an asymmetric experience. It was a large part of why Evolve never caught on. Sure, evolve had a shitty payment scheme, but at its core the interplay between Monster and Hunters ...

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The problem is that Kenny was clearly a dangerous violent person and there is no indication he would change during the story. In fact, during the point where you have to make that choice you are really choosing to allow him to commit one of his more vile acts in the story or not. Jane meanwhile, de...

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Roadhog is highly meta even though he isn't played as a tank.

Zenyatta sees play vs the current triple tank but the sheer dominance of Ana-Lucio makes it hard for him and Mercy to get serious play rates.

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I don't need to tell anyone this game's music is sick as hell. I especially like the song from the trailer.

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I haven't played much, but I like Ky simply because he reminds me a lot of Jin from Blazblue in terms of being a flexible defensive fighter.

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It may make everything more complex but talents are very easy for a viewer to intuitively understand and for a caster to explain, and they can easily just be another rotation on the bar where the caster goes "Oh X Y and Z got talents 1 2 and 3, and here is why I think that is interesting."...

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The HOTS talent trees are way better designed for what you want the talent trees to actually do. These talents are not really going to be interesting or appreciated, because they don't do much besides add invisible power. Issue is HOTS had the luxury of designing every character with talents, so the...

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Talent trees do three major things: They make it so that a smaller portion of a hero's overall power is in items, meaning that the team in the lead is less dominant, which has a lot of really big snowball mechanics that hurt the tourny-scene a lot. They make it so that there are now specific levels ...

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It would have to be like the Wraith where it totally prevents you from preforming offensive action right away.

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Ace seems extremely potent actually, or at least extremely good for helping out with farming. Luck is also just a generally useful stat, on top of its ability to synergize with you ability to find item upgrades. And increased aura reading range is insane. Shutting down aura reading isn't that great ...

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Fate, time, matter, force, and space all play very well with firearms. The fact that Fate and Time are on the Acanthus path, combined with the fact that Acanthus don't really have anything that plays nice with close quarters fighting nor gross attack spells for the most part, means that most Acanthu...

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TL;DR: Always make sure your troops have good scripts and formations because that makes them amazingly more efficient. Your national, recruit at any fort troops are the backbone of your strategy, and good players plan around supporting them with magic rather than having magic do everything. Don't ne...

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10 was good but suffered from bad voice direction and the fact that you were supposed to not really like Tidus as he grew out of being a self important jackass. The issue is that they sorta stretched that part of the story out for a pretty long time before he gets his shit together and acts with any...

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Point is to make it so there isn't a time nor place. Just email games.

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That is political science 101, literally one of the first things you learn: A first past the post voting system creates an inevitable two party system where moderates and the apathetic are courted by fear.

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Good healers can carry. Ana is obvious, as her burst heal literally outheals most DPS characters right now and combined with smart ulti use you can help keep the team alive even pushed up, and she isn't bad in a scrap. Even if your allies wake up a sleeping target it is still about on par with a fla...

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There is actually a reason to tactically overpush, but it generally is done when you notice the enemy is trickling or if you notice people staging their group up shortly outside the point. Basically if you know there are only 3 enemies right outside the objective it is a very good idea to rush out a...

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I think that may just be personal lag man. You can and should always be landing headshots. If the pros can do it consistently that means it isn't luck. You should be able to win a 1v1 roadhog fight 100% of the time as long as you don't screw up your inputs even without animation canceling the first ...

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Yeah basically in Hog Vs Hog it is about understanding your right click and landing headshots. Headshots always deal double damage and are not RNG, but the damage of your gun is. So you always want to land a right click first, and honestly you should be learning to combo your hook with a right click...

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Both hogs just dealt equal damage to each other in that scenario, as long as the hooking roadhog was able to shoot correctly. Remember the shot after the hook is free, so if your opponent roadhog fires into you before they hook, you just did two shots to their head plus a hook. Basically, the first ...

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She doesn't actually hard counter that. He isn't even a strong counter to that unless she has ultimate. Hack doesn't disable nanoboost, rein's swings, or his massive armor pool. While Sombra counters Rein shielding the entire team, she can't easily pull it off and she doesn't disable nanoboost with ...

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Indeed, she is a moderatley strong junkrat counter. Overwatch mostly lacks hard counters, there are few scenarios with no outplay potential and most involve roadhog.

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I am really interested in the trial now, simply because literally every potential outcome is going to make things more complicated and worse.

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Sombra can in fact stop Junkrat from detonating his bomb, which reduces a lot of his alpha.

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The EU doesn't lose legitimacy by locking the UK out if it doesn't play by its rules. Quite the opposite. The idea that being forced to obey local market regulations is tyrannical is insane. Canada does not get to ignore the FDA if it wants to export food that violates our standards, and can't claim...

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Symm is getting a confirmed rework and may be getting a temporary buff, as leaving her so bad isn't healthy on maps where Symm is required. That said she is also like one of the highest winrate hero when she is picked because the situations she is good in, generally first point defense, are situatio...

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She is at most slightly overtuned. I suspect she will always be meta though simply due to her nature as a hard counter to very meta heroes right now. I suspect that she will have her intended effect of making it so Rein and Lucio are not autolocks because teams that depend too much on their ilk will...

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It also makes it so you have to basically actively let him get Evil within 3, as the charge time for each stage goes up. It is also ultra rare, so even though it lets stupid people charge Mike and ruin it for everyone you don't generally have to worry about it.

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Mike is indeed a hard counter to people who just run all game and play in a really crass manner. He is really easy to juke because he is directly encouraged to tunnel vision at tier 3. I have had Mikes literally miss me turning into a ruin because they were just panicking themselves trying to use th...

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Some advice from someone who has beaten it a few times: You honestly should explore even if you are going to have a lot of unpowered rooms. If you manage your shit properly it is easy to survive the onslaught. Most people are just very timid early on with their resources and it screws them later whe...

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Sounds like you went up against a rookie who didn't really get that the tanks were doing more damage to the enemy than they were ever worth, and didn't realize they needed to move their mech out of their turret arc Vehicles basically are support units providing extra firepower at a dirt cheap cost b...

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ITT: People who know nothing about overwatch complain about it. McCree and Reaper do entirely different things, McCree is actually considered far more situational because almost everyone he is terrible against, which is most of the cast, Reaper is good against. McCree focuses on taking out soft targ...

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CK2 earns a lot of points by essentially being an RPG, which means the goals of the AI are different than just defeating you and they instead are more your enviroment. Programming AI for macro level strategy in an X4 is notoriously hard which is why almost every X4 cheats and just gives the AI more ...

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Heat became a complete joke of a mechanic as time went on though. I think that is why early sphere wars are so popular, you don't have every mech loaded with an XXXL Supersized bigmac engine with octupple heatsinks that literally can't overheat ever, which makes having mechs with a bunch of differen...

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It isn't even a grand strategy game at all in my opinion. Like none of the features push it in that direction. It is just a bad X4 with features missing or done poorly in order to support future grand strategy stuff.

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Sorry. Emphasis on the 'if we.' The idea of a living B-tech campaign sounds delightful. Can you link to the site that lists out the tournaments rules?

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If we do a B-tech campaign we could easily do combined arms and custom mechs. You could also do the Mech Warrior RPG, and Mechwarrior handles stuff like each player controlling a small company and slowly growing and wheeling and dealing and backstabbign each other really well. MegaMek does do combin...

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I would contend that Endless space's combat pretty much distills tactical combat in games like MoO2 down to near perfection. Yeah, MoO2's overall better and more interesting tech does mean that the weird tools on ships that often decided fights like tractor beams or whatever are gone, but in the bas...

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Security riggers were always a thing, it was building riggers that were dumb, and all of their functionality is gone from the game or part of mainstream hacking and rigging. Also for the last few editions the control rig was getting less and less important. In 4e it was all about your programs, and ...

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Streetwise is going to be a popular 4th perk for when people swap out for upgraded item builds. Combined with charge extenders it may outright let you repair kit all the generators. And with the flashlight buff incoming we may find it also works well for cheeky sprint boost rescue build. There are t...

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Imperial assault is great and we should do a campaign on TTS.

Dead of Winter is also good. It is like Battlestar Galactica but with more uncertainty and with players able to be a bit more independent.

I remember playing Dark Tower and liking it. But I was also tiny.

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The idiot in the digg thread wasn't online. Though there in fact may be no MP, it still is hard to play MP without an internet connection

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They could have ditched the whole hunger and thirst thing and just focused around the drug. For example, once you take the drug enough you're addicted and start going through withdrawals if you don't take it, which start off minor but can become lethal if you go too long without them (like your cha...

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I think it is justified to at least buff a monster's ability to escape, even if the current round of balance changes is stupid and focuses on making the monster just stronger rather than more able to avoid losing minute 1.

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