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VulgarandStupid
Aug 5, 2003
I AM, AND ALWAYS WILL BE, UNFUCKABLE AND A TOTAL DISAPPOINTMENT TO EVERYONE. DAE WANNA CUM PLAY WITH ME!?




precision posted:

The best advice isn't "be aggressive" it's actually "never fight fair". Only engage squads that are fighting each other, etc. Works for me.

Do both. The sooner you are ready to fight, the easier it is to catch other squads unaware. So take your first fight early, even without optimal or nearly optimal gear. Then yeah, clean up other firefights when you can.

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Schneider Inside Her
Aug 6, 2009

Please bitches. If nothing else I am a gentleman
I think as soon as you get a non-Mozambique gun and armour you should be trying to kill the other squads

Bardeh
Dec 2, 2004

Fun Shoe

Schneider Inside Her posted:

I think as soon as you get a non-Mozambique gun and armour you should be trying to kill the other squads

I'm not leaving my whole landing zone unlooted because I found gray armor and a P2020. You can afford a few minutes of looting.

Schneider Inside Her
Aug 6, 2009

Please bitches. If nothing else I am a gentleman
No i mean kill the squads that landed with you

Bardeh
Dec 2, 2004

Fun Shoe

Schneider Inside Her posted:

No i mean kill the squads that landed with you

Oh in that case then yeah, even a Mozzie will do if it's a desperate scramble.

Verranicus
Aug 18, 2009

by VideoGames

I'm gonna keep calling them dude because I call everyone dude even the women and if people care what pronouns you use for a fictional battle royale character lol

Ashrik
Feb 9, 2009

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.

Rotten Red Rod posted:

My game crashes have no error message at all. Just *blip* suddenly I'm staring at the desktop. Sometimes I'll get a few seconds of freezing, during which I can still hear the sounds of the game, and then it'll go to desktop. But never an error message.

This is exactly the type of crash I'll have, even with Geforce driver 417.35, and the new patch that released.

Regarding Wraith as the default try-hard choice: I'd say it's a combination of many factors. Previously, I would have guessed Pathfinder would be that person due to the mobility of the grappling hook alone. But a combination of natural character mobility for all and relatively high TTK neutralizes that to some degree. If some aim-lord could grapple behind and, by virtue of seeing your teammates first, down your entire squad in 3 Wingman headshots- then I'd bet good money that Pathfinder would be the big baller legend.

But that won't work and your squad can't be eliminated that quickly by a single person. So it's Wraith. Her benefits have been mentioned already but one thing to add to the "smaller hitbox" part is that at some points while moving, the character will bend at the waist to almost a 90 degree angle to do anime-running. By far, the smallest hitbox when doing that.

cargo cult
Aug 28, 2008

by Reene
im not a fan of capitalism but just lamoa this guys is retarded in his braine

tote up a bags
Jun 8, 2006

die stoats die

I got the nurse skin for wraith so I have to pick her now

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

cargo cult posted:

im not a fan of capitalism but just lamoa this guys is retarded in his braine

I'm calling "poo poo that didn't happen" on him getting the heirloom exactly on the literal 500th crate.

Also, I legit don't even know what an heirloom is or why it's so desirable

Bohemian Nights
Jul 14, 2006

When I wake up,
I look into the mirror
I can see a clearer, vision
I should start living today
Clapping Larry

precision posted:

I'm calling "poo poo that didn't happen" on him getting the heirloom exactly on the literal 500th crate.

Also, I legit don't even know what an heirloom is or why it's so desirable

The only heirloom in the game right now is a knife for wraith when you holster your guns, and everyone knows you run faster with your knife out, so it's really a no brainer that you'd want one

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames
Do these tryhard dudes always pick Wraith because she reminds them of the hot goth girl in high school that rejected them orrrrrrrr

Morphix
May 21, 2003

by Reene

Pornographic Memory posted:

There also doesn't seem to be any way to report people from in-game so thats basically your only recourse against jackasses

I was wondering if I missed something

I played with my first cheater. I thought the guy was just being an assole and wanting to play Solo. He took out one squad out of the blue right before I was about to first say 'hey jerk how come you aren't playing with us'

I checked the map to see where he was and hes already running away from our group along the edge. 10 seconds later another squad goes down to our duder, and than another one. The squads must of been fighting. At this point I'm wondering 'wtf' and I try intercepting our teammate along the edge, and as we're running the guy's just perfectly intercepting squads and each one falling.

Before I ever ran half of the map we had won. I didn't fire a single shot. Anyway his name was truuuuuuummpppppppp or some hard to remember variation of that so if you run into him enjoy the free win i guess

orange sky
May 7, 2007

Morphix posted:

Anyway his name was truuuuuuummpppppppp

goon spotted

Verisimilidude
Dec 20, 2006

Strike quick and hurry at him,
not caring to hit or miss.
So that you dishonor him before the judges



went ham this game

lohli
Jun 30, 2008

precision posted:

I'm calling "poo poo that didn't happen" on him getting the heirloom exactly on the literal 500th crate.

Also, I legit don't even know what an heirloom is or why it's so desirable

They are desirable because they are shiny and there aren't many of them, and it happened exactly on the literal 500th crate because he had not gotten an heirloom before then. The game guarantees you loot of a certain rarity within a certain number of boxes opened, for example you can't go 30 boxes without a legendary, if you open 29 in a row and get none, then the 30th is guaranteed.

https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends/about/frequently-asked-questions#q3



Edit: It is rather telling that the threshold they've set for the heirlooms is as high as 500.

Ehud
Sep 19, 2003

football.

I’d like to see crafting materials rewarded for winning games.

Morphix
May 21, 2003

by Reene
new patch

orange sky
May 7, 2007

Morphix posted:

new patch



https://www.dexerto.com/apex-legends/apex-legends-february-19-full-patch-notes-378633

Asema
Oct 2, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

precision posted:

Do these tryhard dudes always pick Wraith because she reminds them of the hot goth girl in high school that rejected them orrrrrrrr

it's because she gets invulnerability every 20 seconds but you can continue to use whatever excuse you want to to make you sound just as edgy as her

Ehud
Sep 19, 2003

football.


This article also mentions in a linked tweet that somebody got 34 kills in a single match, beating Dizzy's old record of 33

good god

SettingSun
Aug 10, 2013

Got my first win last night. Felt really good but my team was extremely lucky. The circle converged onto the bunker, and my team was in there first and we dug in hard. It converged again to the west of it, and the only other remaining squad was on the wrong side of it, so they had to come through us. We had every advantage here. We stalled them until it started to close and they triggered our Caustic's traps, I threw some therms, and that was that.

Mindblast
Jun 28, 2006

Moving at the speed of death.


Asema posted:

it's because she gets invulnerability every 20 seconds but you can continue to use whatever excuse you want to to make you sound just as edgy as her

I'm sure good wraiths will own my poo poo but that invulnerability move doesn't seem to do a whole lot for mediocre/bad ones. They turn into an easily followed blue swirly, and while they're a swirly they can't see where anyone is since they get all those ghosts to weird them out. I know where they will pop out and they have to guess where I am.

Morphix
May 21, 2003

by Reene
New patch, brand new crash

and yesterday I thought I finally had the crashes/disconnecs figured out by lowering every setting to low AND playing in windowed borderless, also underclocking my GPU.

No other game would I put up with this much bullshit to get it working, I mean props to the team for making a great shooter. But I'm really starting to hit that tipping point where I'm tired of having a bunch of fun and only have it be hosed up by a crash. Like I'm starting to second guess starting the game up because 'meh most likely you'll have a fun game and than won't be able to see it through so whats the loving point'

i've completely given up on the idea of playing with goons because of the crashes, so I feel like im stuck in gaming purgatory

orange sky
May 7, 2007

Morphix posted:

New patch, brand new crash

and yesterday I thought I finally had the crashes/disconnecs figured out by lowering every setting to low AND playing in windowed borderless, also underclocking my GPU.

No other game would I put up with this much bullshit to get it working, I mean props to the team for making a great shooter. But I'm really starting to hit that tipping point where I'm tired of having a bunch of fun and only have it be hosed up by a crash. Like I'm starting to second guess starting the game up because 'meh most likely you'll have a fun game and than won't be able to see it through so whats the loving point'

i've completely given up on the idea of playing with goons because of the crashes, so I feel like im stuck in gaming purgatory

Did you install the patch and go straight to the game? Give the PC a restart and see if it gets better, there might be pending poo poo (I don't know, but by this moment you're probably willing to try anything)

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Ehud posted:

This article also mentions in a linked tweet that somebody got 34 kills in a single match, beating Dizzy's old record of 33

good god

Rushing to the sounds of fighting to try to kill everyone there before they have a chance to kill each other.

BR goals.

Black Griffon
Mar 12, 2005

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.

I know who you are. You are destiny.


For some reason my sudden, unexplained crashes usually happen when I've had a really good landing with a competent team and wiped one or two squads within the first minutes. It's very frustrating.

Asema
Oct 2, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Mindblast posted:

I'm sure good wraiths will own my poo poo but that invulnerability move doesn't seem to do a whole lot for mediocre/bad ones. They turn into an easily followed blue swirly, and while they're a swirly they can't see where anyone is since they get all those ghosts to weird them out. I know where they will pop out and they have to guess where I am.

the capability of the player does not come into any argument about why people play her, the invulnerability is extremely good. So good that it literally detracts from a locked character's ultimate as Mirage can be hurt while invisible while Wraith gets it as her Q.

Songbearer
Jul 12, 2007




Fuck you say?
Who is more perfect, chill man Gibraltar or lovely boy Pathfinder

Morphix
May 21, 2003

by Reene

orange sky posted:

Did you install the patch and go straight to the game? Give the PC a restart and see if it gets better, there might be pending poo poo (I don't know, but by this moment you're probably willing to try anything)

... :(



I tried restarting, and before the restart I hit 'repair' in origin just to make sure

this was my first match

gently caress

e- before this game I had never seen the bad_module_info crash. now, now it's the thing that haunts me

Dragongem
Nov 9, 2009

Heroes of the Storm
Goon Tournament Champion
I have 7 wins, and I have managed to get carried by pubbies in each one of them. I'm genuinely impressed with how this game is made, that someone like me who isn't really super great at shooters can still be a contributor and part of a winning squad.

PantsBandit
Oct 26, 2007

it is both a monkey and a boombox
My very first game as Caustic ended with the only remaining team hiding in a tiny little room, circle on one side and us on the other. I popped my ult but wasn't sure if it would go through the closed door between us and them, so I kept opening the door to let gas waft in and the other team would close it in a panic. It was really funny and I'm glad they were bad, because otherwise they could have just killed me while I was laughing at the scene.

Eventually my teammate and I just stood outside the door and poured Devotion rounds in for the win. Can't imagine a better start to my Caustic play.

zelah
Dec 1, 2004

Diabetes, you are not invited to my pizza party.
You can break the door with melee

PantsBandit
Oct 26, 2007

it is both a monkey and a boombox

zelah posted:

You can break the door with melee

I know, and we ended up doing that. But it was way funnier the other way.

henpod
Mar 7, 2008

Sir, we have located the Bioweapon.
College Slice
What the gently caress is the Heirloom that people are spending hundreds on trying to win. Are they just banners and skins? If so, that's retarded.

The Kingfish
Oct 21, 2015


henpod posted:

What the gently caress is the Heirloom that people are spending hundreds on trying to win. Are they just banners and skins? If so, that's retarded.

It’s a cosmetic knife that Wraith holds when she doesn’t have a gun equipped lol

PantsBandit
Oct 26, 2007

it is both a monkey and a boombox

The Kingfish posted:

It’s a cosmetic knife that Wraith holds when she doesn’t have a gun equipped lol

We've come a long way from horse-armor.

dogstile
May 1, 2012

fucking clocks
how do they work?

precision posted:

Do these tryhard dudes always pick Wraith because she reminds them of the hot goth girl in high school that rejected them orrrrrrrr

These posts always make me laugh.

Her hitbox is tiny and her ability's are good.

browsers castle
Dec 27, 2011
Why does anyone keep voice chat on when queuing with pubs? I like this game best solo queuing with music on and voice->text enabled.

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PantsBandit
Oct 26, 2007

it is both a monkey and a boombox

browsers castle posted:

Why does anyone keep voice chat on when queuing with pubs? I like this game best solo queuing with music on and voice->text enabled.

Because people like to win and even just having music on puts you at a significant disadvantage.

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