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I really wish game devs would stop balancing things towards the top x% of their player base. The majority of people just want to play and have fun. Shoot monsters, bash hunters.
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Stanley Pain posted:I really wish game devs would stop balancing things towards the top x% of their player base. The majority of people just want to play and have fun. Shoot monsters, bash hunters. Yeah its a pretty amazing way to completely gently caress over the average playerbase. Oddly enough though these dropship changes are clearly aimed at the low tier scrub players.
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Jul 27, 2016 22:25
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I feel like explaining how things work would do a lot more for scrubs than messing with balance right now. Things like how many hit points a thing has, or when regeneration perks kick in, or etc.
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Jul 27, 2016 22:41
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So glad I picked up Evolve on the last Playstation sale, I should have listened to the goons. I might actually try this tonight. Evolve was one of those games that I really wanted to be good but they massively hosed it up with their greed. Now it looks like it might not be wallowing in the mud anymore.
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Jul 27, 2016 22:50
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Stanley Pain posted:I really wish game devs would stop balancing things towards the top x% of their player base. The majority of people just want to play and have fun. Shoot monsters, bash hunters. Are they not making balance changes based on overall win rates? That's how the official forums suggested it was done the past. They even stated that early in stage 2 they want the game to favor the hunters a bit so it doesn't frustrate new people. Maybe they could tweak something to entice people into Ranked so that games are made using the ELO ranking. Ideally you want everyone to actually lose 50% of their games.
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Jul 27, 2016 23:03
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DreamShipWrecked posted:So glad I picked up Evolve on the last Playstation sale, I should have listened to the goons. Almost every night now a bunch of us have been piling into the discord to play as a group, its a lot of fun if you wanna try it out with non-pubs.
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Jul 27, 2016 23:11
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Mimic has gone from being a skill I considered the worst in the game to being my favourite after I actually spent a couple games giving it a go. I'm never going back to mindlessly making GBS threads out spiders. The damage on it is pretty insane even when you don't factor in that you can also land a heavy attack just before exploding it. It does burst damage and also applies a DoT and stacking it with your other two DoT's is a loving hilarious amount of damage. If you've been avoiding mimic I highly recommend giving it a go. I'm never skilling that loving spider ever again.
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Jul 27, 2016 23:33
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Liu posted:Mimic has gone from being a skill I considered the worst in the game to being my favourite after I actually spent a couple games giving it a go. I'm never going back to mindlessly making GBS threads out spiders. The damage on it is pretty insane even when you don't factor in that you can also land a heavy attack just before exploding it. It does burst damage and also applies a DoT and stacking it with your other two DoT's is a loving hilarious amount of damage. If you've been avoiding mimic I highly recommend giving it a go. Sounds like you play a fair bit of Gorgon - Is her bonus pounce damage from walls worth getting into? I know you can stack some gnarly perks that also increase pounce damage even more.
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Jul 28, 2016 00:32
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I still don't know how you're supposed to survive getting mimiced & puked on and hit with a heavy attack all at once. It'll take you from 100 to death's door all at once. Same with heavy DPS wraith builds with -% cooldown perks. Even with a sunny or hank and a good medic you just go down too fast.
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Jul 28, 2016 00:38
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Captain Beans posted:Sounds like you play a fair bit of Gorgon - Is her bonus pounce damage from walls worth getting into? I know you can stack some gnarly perks that also increase pounce damage even more. I don't rate it very highly, it does roughly a 1/6 of the hp bar. I gave it a try and it seems that perks don't actually increase the initial pounce damage at all, just the damage you deal while pouncing.
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Jul 28, 2016 01:46
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Booooo! I can't run this with a Geforce GTS 250 
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Jul 28, 2016 05:12
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FalloutGod posted:Booooo! I can't run this with a Geforce GTS 250 Well it was released in 2009...
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Jul 28, 2016 05:16
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Well it seems the game is drying up. It takes about 15-20 minutes to find a game where someone doesn't leave now.
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Jul 28, 2016 05:23
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Knifegrab posted:Well it seems the game is drying up. It takes about 15-20 minutes to find a game where someone doesn't leave now. I get the feeling that people just aren't all that interested in asymmetrical multiplayer. You can see the same stuff with dead by daylight and the survivor nerfs even though they were massively overpowered.
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Jul 28, 2016 07:11
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Knifegrab posted:Well it seems the game is drying up. It takes about 15-20 minutes to find a game where someone doesn't leave now. I think that's less about the game drying up and more about people being leaving shitheads. Also we had a hacker that was ending the games early. Surprise he's a youtuber and sounds like a little kid. Surprise again he has a VAC ban on record. Ularg fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Jul 28, 2016 |
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Jul 28, 2016 07:33
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So is anyone here a fan of Elder Kraken? Having now tried every monster and adaptation (save Behemoth) it's the only one I don't really get the appeal of. I thought I'd enjoy the Scream Corridor but it tended to do a lot worse than regular Vortex and losing the constant air bombardment made the whole experience less fun.
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Jul 28, 2016 10:52
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Knifegrab posted:Well it seems the game is drying up. It takes about 15-20 minutes to find a game where someone doesn't leave now. It's in the top 25 games played on steam so I highly, highly doubt that. It's just shitters leaving all the time. If it manages to keep around 10k people playing over the next couple of months it'll probably do ok.
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Jul 28, 2016 11:59
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Kraken is easily my favorite monster, shame I don't have the keys to unlock him though when I still have all of the hunters to unlock. Speaking of, I'm probably unlocking either Maggie or Bucket when he is no longer free.
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Jul 28, 2016 12:41
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HMS Boromir posted:So is anyone here a fan of Elder Kraken? Having now tried every monster and adaptation (save Behemoth) it's the only one I don't really get the appeal of. I thought I'd enjoy the Scream Corridor but it tended to do a lot worse than regular Vortex and losing the constant air bombardment made the whole experience less fun. I've literally never seen Elder Kraken lose, and when I play him I regularly kill all the hunters in the first confrontation. My record is under 2 minutes for a victory. Scream Corridor is basically only good for finishing fleeing hunters off - your bread and butter is to cycle between banshee missile and lightning bolt, while pressing the attack and meleeing your primary target, while spamming the AOE chain lightning as often as you can. Catching several hunters with the AOE does an absurd amount of damage, and people who are used to Kraken don't expect Elder to be able to dish out 250 damage punches and get really surprised when you start doing that. I should probably try regular Kraken at some point, since I enjoy raining red death down upon people.
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Jul 28, 2016 13:12
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Ularg posted:Speaking of, I'm probably unlocking either Maggie or Bucket when he is no longer free. Don't buy Bucket, he's the consecutive log-in reward on like day 4.
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Jul 28, 2016 14:38
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Doodmons posted:Scream Corridor is basically only good for finishing fleeing hunters off Doesn't death spiral go through walls? I like to use it as a zoning tool. Hunters will get hit in cover they thought was safe or will try to stay out of it and end up eating a lightning bolt instead.
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Jul 28, 2016 14:54
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Nechronic posted:Doesn't death spiral go through walls? I like to use it as a zoning tool. Hunters will get hit in cover they thought was safe or will try to stay out of it and end up eating a lightning bolt Yea they really love going all out on trying to avoid the spiral, even though you can just lazily walk out of it without taking too much damage. On the matchmaking - I think sometimes it gets 'stuck', and quitting out of the matchmaking queue and getting back in it will instantly place me in a game.
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Jul 28, 2016 15:17
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Stanley Pain posted:It's in the top 25 games played on steam so I highly, highly doubt that. It's just shitters leaving all the time. If it manages to keep around 10k people playing over the next couple of months it'll probably do ok. http://steamcharts.com/app/273350#1m I'm not saying its the end of the world but the disappearing playerbase seems to hardly be slowing down and for a f2p game that is kinda a shame.
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Jul 28, 2016 17:29
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Knifegrab posted:http://steamcharts.com/app/273350#1m It was never going to retain the levels of it's initial "hey dudes this game is free now" bump.
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Jul 28, 2016 17:34
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Voyager I posted:It was never going to retain the levels of it's initial "hey dudes this game is free now" bump. Yeah all games have a bleed off, free games included but its bleed rate is hardly slowing and if it maintains in two weeks there will be less than 3-4k players globally, perhaps even less.
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Jul 28, 2016 17:54
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It seems like it's been hitting a pretty good slow finally, it's been hovering in the about mid/high-teen thousands for a little now.
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Jul 28, 2016 17:58
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Knifegrab posted:Almost every night now a bunch of us have been piling into the discord to play as a group, its a lot of fun if you wanna try it out with non-pubs. I really need to do this as well. I've seen a few of you guys on, but haven't been able to cut out a chunk of time to actually jump in. Do you guys just run a 4 stack for hunters, or do you do a full group of guys switching off on the monster?
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Jul 28, 2016 21:23
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Kamikaze Raider posted:I really need to do this as well. I've seen a few of you guys on, but haven't been able to cut out a chunk of time to actually jump in. Do you guys just run a 4 stack for hunters, or do you do a full group of guys switching off on the monster? Though we've done the latter typically we like to just roll four hunters (we're still getting smoked because the meta is so monster biased).
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Jul 28, 2016 23:35
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so i think the recent update made it so that if you're quickplaying with a friend, neither of you can play monster. it sucks, because i was having a lot of fun playing as monster against my bud, but now even if one of us prefers monster, and everyone else in the game prefers their own, distinct role, neither of us ends up being monster
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ninjewtsu posted:so i think the recent update made it so that if you're quickplaying with a friend, neither of you can play monster. something funny must be up, because playing monster is my fifth choice on preference, and I was in a match with 4 others, 2 of which preferred monster....so I got it. Perhaps they were in a party with eachother, much like your scenario?
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Jul 29, 2016 05:31
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Man I'm enjoying Bucket waaaay too much.
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Jul 29, 2016 05:38
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turboraton posted:Man I'm enjoying Bucket waaaay too much. Perk tips? I am trying to figure out what works for him.
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ninjewtsu posted:so i think the recent update made it so that if you're quickplaying with a friend, neither of you can play monster. I played in a party of 3 recently and at one point switched my #1 preference to monster, which resulted in me getting the role select screen you get in training mode once picking started. It did let me pick monster at that point, but it felt like unintended behavior.
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Jul 29, 2016 07:28
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turboraton posted:Man I'm enjoying Bucket waaaay too much. The robits just have a fun feel even if they're not super top tier picks right now, I love me summa that EMET fingerbang rocket action 
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Jul 29, 2016 07:43
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Bucket is fun but picking him really depends on if his teammates benifit from his 3rd skill.
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Jul 29, 2016 17:56
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You also better have a drat good healer, because no shielding is a pretty big drawback. Basically, not having Hank on your team makes things way harder.
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Jul 29, 2016 18:10
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Always refresh the shield, time the shield with the other's abilities for more bang for your buck. *heal burst* -> *shield burst* ->*refresh*. Same with tracking or the assault shield depending on the situation. Shield is for after someone has taken hits and medic used his poo poo. Drop sentries everywhere, they drop fast and either distract the monster or punish him for not taking them down. Three sentries put out more than your main in DPS.
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Jul 29, 2016 18:15
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Here's the funnest Goliath build: 1. Hunger 2. Move Speed 3. Move Speed Plus Frostbite skin. Gotta go fast.
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Tried this at a friend on xbox, then gave it a go on PC when stage 2 came out. Oh my god it's so much better to control here. Having gotten used to the former, matchmaking at the start is hilarious these days, currently on a 12 streak with the last one being me (support tech hank) and the trapper somehow beating a Gorgon with 2 guys peacing out at character select and getting stuck with bots. Am I correct in prioritizing getting new characters first, or should I spend my keys early on on a perk in each tier? Don't know how matchmaking deals with me only having tier 1 perks so far.
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Patch coming on Tuesday: https://talk.turtlerockstudios.com/t/balance-update-for-2-04-expected-8-2-next-tuesday/95973
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