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For me, heroes completely ruin the battlefront games. Any time one pops up, it goes from a reasonably fun shooter to “now everyone else gets to eat poo poo for a while”
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chglcu posted:For me, heroes completely ruin the battlefront games. Any time one pops up, it goes from a reasonably fun shooter to “now everyone else gets to eat poo poo for a while” Same except it's me picking the hero and I die instantly
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Jan 7, 2021 22:36
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chglcu posted:For me, heroes completely ruin the battlefront games. Any time one pops up, it goes from a reasonably fun shooter to “now everyone else gets to eat poo poo for a while” I only played a bit but I managed to wreck most hero runs on hoth by riding on one of those abominable snow monster things and *pew* *pew* them to death. They take it seriously.
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Jan 7, 2021 22:49
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elf help book posted:I think I understand, I don't play games like that, thank you both Basically instead of spending your points earned throughout a match on a tank or an air vehicle, you spend them on being darth vader.
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Jan 7, 2021 22:53
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Funny enough, BB-8 was the hero I hated running into the most. Tiny, fast, hard to hit, and he has a special ability where he goes into a "spin it to win it" state, flailing everywhere with cables. Most other heroes run into issues with walkers, flamethrowers, and, on certain maps, air support.
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Jan 7, 2021 22:54
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Kly posted:Jeez i just bought this during the steam sale Same. I already had it the non-complete edition on Origin, but I was willing to pay $14 or whatever for the extra content and to not have to use pissing Origin.
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Jan 8, 2021 01:50
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Kly posted:Jeez i just bought this during the steam sale 
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Jan 8, 2021 02:21
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If you hook your steam waitlist through isthereanydeal.com, they've had a breach and you need to change your steam password. I use it to check for freebies and deals. I haven' heard anything from them, but saw a post in the Steam thread.
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Jan 8, 2021 19:00
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OgNar posted:If you hook your steam waitlist through isthereanydeal.com, they've had a breach and you need to change your steam password. Heres the email they sent out 
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Jan 8, 2021 19:06
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OgNar posted:If you hook your steam waitlist through isthereanydeal.com, they've had a breach and you need to change your steam password. And frankly, given how people reuse passwords this is a good example of why steam sign on is useful. itad messed up the implementation so only they are affected, if they messed that up they're also capable of messing up direct sign in, which would be more likely to expose a password.
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Jan 8, 2021 19:13
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Well good, just misread then.
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elf help book posted:I think I understand, I don't play games like that, thank you both I'm pretty sure that description is wrong. It's just skins - when you are playing a match you get points from doing things (kills, revenge, captures, dying, etc). When you respawn you can either be one of the four main classes or you can spend those points and play as a specialty unit like a rocket trooper, tie fighter, or Bossk. Bossk, Vader, Yoda etc all cost the most to use and there can only one active at a time (and limits on how many total). There's also a mode where everyone plays as hero units so you can enjoy zapping people with lighting bolts. There's nothing to buy in real money that impacts the game. You might be able to accelerate leveling up characters with real money but I'm not sure, and just playing the game will eventually unlock all abilities,
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Zachack posted:I'm pretty sure that description is wrong. It's just skins - when you are playing a match you get points from doing things (kills, revenge, captures, dying, etc). When you respawn you can either be one of the four main classes or you can spend those points and play as a specialty unit like a rocket trooper, tie fighter, or Bossk. Bossk, Vader, Yoda etc all cost the most to use and there can only one active at a time (and limits on how many total). There's also a mode where everyone plays as hero units so you can enjoy zapping people with lighting bolts. At Battlefront 2's release, you had to unlock each of the individual hero units like vader/yoda/etc. Either by grinding for credits in game (apparently taking 40 hours to earn enough credits for the most expensive ones like Vader), or by buying real-money lootboxes. At some point they must've patched the game to rework the lovely unlock system.
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kirbysuperstar posted:Same except it's me picking the hero and I die instantly Yeah, I never played battlefront 2 but I played enough battlefront 1 that I thought I was okay at the game, whichever team I was on didn't have a worse chance of winning from me being there, but everyone who grabbed a hero thingie seemed to kill a poo poo ton of people unless I did it and died like twenty seconds in.
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Skwirl posted:Yeah, I never played battlefront 2 but I played enough battlefront 1 that I thought I was okay at the game, whichever team I was on didn't have a worse chance of winning from me being there, but everyone who grabbed a hero thingie seemed to kill a poo poo ton of people unless I did it and died like twenty seconds in. It's been a while since I played, but usually this just comes down to map knowledge (like a lot of FPS games). Heroes can get killed fast when caught with their pants down out in the open (or by an opposing vehicle or something). Once you know the map, you know the places where you can jump out and get a few kills and then jump back into cover. Having said that, even when I knew the maps this happened to me as Darth Vader every single time I picked him. Also, a lot of people just collect kills and never really help their side take any objectives and pushing an objective can often get you killed quick if your team doesn't have your back.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:At Battlefront 2's release, you had to unlock each of the individual hero units like vader/yoda/etc. Either by grinding for credits in game (apparently taking 40 hours to earn enough credits for the most expensive ones like Vader), or by buying real-money lootboxes. It was pretty quick - they removed the unlock system when the removed loot boxes. I think that was less than a month after release? All characters and vehicles are accessible from the start, but there’s still a leveling system where you unlock weapons and minor ability modifiers as you play. I found the ground combat a bit too janky for my tastes, but the starship modes were my go-too chill multiplayer for the better part of a year. Once you get into a grove it’s immensely satisfying to pop target after target and weave through debris. The maps can be extremely unbalanced, so you have to be okay with never winning certain maps and just seeing how far you can get.
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Jan 8, 2021 22:24
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The Vancouver Titans are giving out free copies of Overwatch along with 200 OWL tokens. Offer appears to be valid for Canadian residents only, but I'm sure there are ways around. https://contests.vancouvertitans.gg/
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Stickman posted:It was pretty quick - they removed the unlock system when the removed loot boxes. I think that was less than a month after release? They changed from lootboxes to XP around a year after launch. The 1-month change was getting rid of the ability to buy lootboxes.
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Jan 8, 2021 23:28
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New free game code for casual/hidden object games from Big Fish Games: FREEGAME294489 Reddit thread with some links to recommendations. There's also a couple new IndieGala Freebies that I don't think have been posted: Desert Child Scrap Garden Super Trench Attack Corrosion: Cold Winter Waiting ...plus some terrible looking stuff TheAnomaly posted:They changed from lootboxes to XP around a year after launch. The 1-month change was getting rid of the ability to buy lootboxes. I guess I got in late enough that I misremembered! It's good that it's fixed now, though - it sounds like it would have been absolutely obnoxious before that.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:At Battlefront 2's release, you had to unlock each of the individual hero units like vader/yoda/etc. Either by grinding for credits in game (apparently taking 40 hours to earn enough credits for the most expensive ones like Vader), or by buying real-money lootboxes. The official EA response defending the lootbox grind system is still the all-time most downvoted comment on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/7cff0b/seriously_i_paid_80_to_have_vader_locked/dppum98/?context=3
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webmeister posted:The official EA response defending the lootbox grind system is still the all-time most downvoted comment on Reddit: 2800 comments to that and I assume the majority of them are some version of "gently caress you."
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Jan 9, 2021 02:04
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paying for a game and then paying to skip to the end boss god what a complete lame-rear end generation of kids coming up
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TheAnomaly posted:They changed from lootboxes to XP around a year after launch. The 1-month change was getting rid of the ability to buy lootboxes. Whoa there. They’re not lootboxes, they’re  ~SuRpRiSe MeChAnIcS~
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Kerbtree posted:Whoa there. They’re not lootboxes, they’re Here's a brand new article, in case anyone expected them to stop peddling that unbelievable bullshit; https://cogconnected.com/2021/01/fifa-ultimate-team-gambling-peter-moore/
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I just found this out, but for anyone else wondering, Crying Suns is a fancier i.e. better FTL. It's definitely worth the pickup IMO, but I know some people just aren't into that kind of game.
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Crying suns is weird so far for me. Played through the first 2 chapters and its pretty easy so far even though im playing on normal. Enemies are all gimmicks so they get predictable as you go through the chapter.
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Little Nightmares, a neat puzzle horror game, is free (Steam key) for EU people (or for anyone who fakes an EU address) at Namco's website.
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Buller posted:Crying suns is weird so far for me. Played through the first 2 chapters and its pretty easy so far even though im playing on normal. Enemies are all gimmicks so they get predictable as you go through the chapter. The balance seems off to me. Normal squadrons do like 3-7 dps, with some unspecified bonus against one of the other rock-paper-scissors ship types (fighter/drone/frigate). But sometimes you randomly find as loot (or buy for ~150 scrap in a shop), a cruiser that does between 23 and 30 damage per shot, with a 2 or 3 tile attack range when every other ship can only attack 1 tile away.  They can't hit stuff that's directly in melee range but just a single lovely mk1 ship can run interference to stop enemies getting close while they keep firing the artillery for 3x more damage than anything else in the game. Or just send out 2-4 at once and have them shoot each others' blind spots. The most fun battleship to play as so far was the scrapper one that starts with squadrons of nothing but suicide-bomber drones, though.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:The balance seems off to me. Normal squadrons do like 3-7 dps, with some unspecified bonus against one of the other rock-paper-scissors ship types (fighter/drone/frigate). But sometimes you randomly find as loot (or buy for ~150 scrap in a shop), a cruiser that does between 23 and 30 damage per shot, with a 2 or 3 tile attack range when every other ship can only attack 1 tile away. Played crying suns and finished it. The scrapper ship is definitely awesome, but drops off sharply after act 3-4. The quality of enemy ships just outstrips your ability to replace suicide bombers. The artillery cruisers are legit incredible. They only start to get hard countered by the last two acts, where capital ship class weapons easily pick them off.
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Saoshyant posted:Little Nightmares, a neat puzzle horror game, is free (Steam key) for EU people (or for anyone who fakes an EU address) at Namco's website. Well, I imagined this was for a limited time, but it's not even been 24 hours. It's gone now. Hope whoever wanted it got it. vvvvvv ah, I missed that, just saw the out of stock sign. Saoshyant fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Jan 13, 2021 |
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Saoshyant posted:Well, I imagined this was for a limited time, but it's not even been 24 hours. It's gone now. Hope whoever wanted it got it. They're showing this notice on the site: quote:The promotion "FREE Little Nightmares” has fallen victim to its success!
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Tomorrow is Battlefront on Epic
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Indiegala has added a couple new free games, don't know how recent these are as I haven't checked the site recently: Super Trench Attack https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/2033458/movie480.webm?t=1447362735 Desert Child https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256737989/movie480.webm?t=1544490872 Corrosion: Cold Winter Waiting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzHClXB45tg Also, there are some other games that weren't on the list the last time I checked, but all seem to be games that were previously available like Xmas Shooting Scramble, Theatre of War, BorderZone, etc.
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I love how everybody in that first game dies with their pants down and here's an entertaining review for Corrosion. Seems like an okay game that might really sour people with some awful puzzles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGUysB0Bszg
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Jan 13, 2021 19:08
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Why is that bad man shooting monkeys in sailor hats?
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By far the best part of Crying Suns has been the story. Makes me want to dig out some old grand science fiction books.
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Snail Information posted:By far the best part of Crying Suns has been the story. Makes me want to dig out some old grand science fiction books. Elon Musk is currently trying to remake The Moon is a Harsh Mistress except on Mars.
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Remember when space fiction was a genre? DOris Lessing owned.
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Saoshyant posted:Little Nightmares, a neat puzzle horror game, is free (Steam key) for EU people (or for anyone who fakes an EU address) at Namco's website. They've put the second batch of keys up now
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