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tote up a bags
Jun 8, 2006

die stoats die

Hope we get some good posts about how they're just friends like when Valk dropped and r/Apex subtext experts were posting "No she just means she's good FRIENDS with girls!"

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shut up blegum
Dec 17, 2008


--->Plastic Lawn<---

Carillon posted:

So are Loba and Valk a thing now or something? I don't generally pay a ton of attention to the lore and comics, but their in-game interaction is super flirty.

Revenant also has specific voice lines for Valk. Something about : "Thanks, what would Loba think about this?"

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


tote up a bags posted:

Hope we get some good posts about how they're just friends like when Valk dropped and r/Apex subtext experts were posting "No she just means she's good FRIENDS with girls!"

No post about the lore of a multiplayer battle royale is good.

Jack B Nimble
Dec 25, 2007


Soiled Meat
They've got this all messed up, here:

Groovelord Neato posted:

No, post about the lore of a multiplayer battle royale. Is good!

Are the three grenades still frag, arclightarcstar, and flare thermite?

Edit: wiki says yes, but have they had any major changes since the season that introduced PvE missions?

Jack B Nimble fucked around with this message at 13:44 on May 19, 2022

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


Random question but does anyone know why shadowplay wouldn't capture my mic? It's the only game that doesn't otherwise I'd figure I had mic set not to record. It's been a thing on two different PCs now.

Cowslips Warren
Oct 29, 2005

What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Grimey Drawer

shut up blegum posted:

Revenant also has specific voice lines for Valk. Something about : "Thanks, what would Loba think about this?"

And Bang could have joined in but she was gonna retire. Could have had a Mirage A Tra.

runchild
May 26, 2010

420 smoke 🎨artisanal🍑 melange erryday

https://twitter.com/playapex/status/1527323127310495745

tildes
Nov 16, 2018
It seems like if you take the TP into the IMC Armory (i.e. join it after your team has started), you lose the ability to mantle for the rest of the game. So I guess try to avoid doing that. I was so confused how I suddenly became utterly incompetent until I realized.

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


tildes posted:

It seems like if you take the TP into the IMC Armory (i.e. join it after your team has started), you lose the ability to mantle for the rest of the game. So I guess try to avoid doing that. I was so confused how I suddenly became utterly incompetent until I realized.

So that's what that bug is! I thought it might've been character specific since I couldn't reproduce it on later games.

yo mamma a Horus
Apr 7, 2008

Nap Ghost
What is mantle?

CoolCab
Apr 17, 2005

glem
that was my reaction too, climb up. be on the cusp of something.

resistentialism
Aug 13, 2007

yo mamma a Horus posted:

What is mantle?

Pulling your body up over a ledge.

yo mamma a Horus
Apr 7, 2008

Nap Ghost
gently caress, that has happened to me once and i had no idea what was happening

Evil Kit
May 29, 2013

I'm viable ladies.

I had that issue but I never went in an IMC armory that game AND it was only on the trench walls. Could mantle other objects, v weird.

Ra Ra Rasputin
Apr 2, 2011
Fun fact, if you have a octane or horizon you can drive a trident on top of the robot box and prevent the team from using the jump pad to fly out because they will just bonk their heads.

Chemmy
Feb 4, 2001

Evil Kit posted:

I had that issue but I never went in an IMC armory that game AND it was only on the trench walls. Could mantle other objects, v weird.

I think we’re gonna find out other stuff triggers it. I was playing last night and could climb walls but not mantle over the top. I failed like four times trying to climb a low railing and my teammates were laughing watching it.

I didn’t go in the imc thing at all.

CoolCab
Apr 17, 2005

glem

Ra Ra Rasputin posted:

Fun fact, if you have a octane or horizon you can drive a trident on top of the robot box and prevent the team from using the jump pad to fly out because they will just bonk their heads.

don't need a boost actually, every single current imc vault has a nearby rock formation you can jump off

dragon enthusiast
Jan 1, 2010

Evil Kit posted:

I had that issue but I never went in an IMC armory that game AND it was only on the trench walls. Could mantle other objects, v weird.

This happened to me too once, didn't know what triggered it though.

dogstile
May 1, 2012

fucking clocks
how do they work?

Groovelord Neato posted:

Random question but does anyone know why shadowplay wouldn't capture my mic? It's the only game that doesn't otherwise I'd figure I had mic set not to record. It's been a thing on two different PCs now.

Have you got a headset that has a separate output from input? I had the same problem because i have a "game audio" and a "chat audio", which the headset has a volume dial on so i can adjust mid fight if someone jumps into discord and won't stfu while i'm fighting. Setting them to the same thing disables that ability, but records my voice.

Also on that note goons, if you're on the discord and you jump into a channel, check if people are fighting before you start talking about random poo poo. I'm polite if i don't know who you are and won't tell you to shut up (If I know you, you'll hear it, you loud fucks :v:), but I do actually like hearing footsteps mid fight, thanks :P

Jack B Nimble
Dec 25, 2007


Soiled Meat
How dangerous is rampart at close quarters with her mini gun? If I'm holding a peacemaker peacekeeper is it still a bad match up for me in an interior? I got absolutely melted by her twice last night. One of the times I failed to notice or properly consider the "one way" shield she makes, so there's that, but in the other instance she just encountered me around a boulder and killed me very, very quickly.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

*chomp chomp chomp*

Jack B Nimble posted:

How dangerous is rampart at close quarters with her mini gun? If I'm holding a peacemaker peacekeeper is it still a bad match up for me in an interior? I got absolutely melted by her twice last night. One of the times I failed to notice or properly consider the "one way" shield she makes, so there's that, but in the other instance she just encountered me around a boulder and killed me very, very quickly.

The minigun has the highest damage per second in the game if she can get the spin up going for it before she sees you, and its even higher when she's shooting through her amped shield walls of course.

Ra Ra Rasputin
Apr 2, 2011
It's incredibly inaccurate without firing for a few seconds and she is a sitting duck if you are able to just shoot at a nearly immobile target, especially if she has to rev up first.

If you are running straight into her mini gun behind a amped shield then you kinda deserve to die though.

Jack B Nimble
Dec 25, 2007


Soiled Meat

Ra Ra Rasputin posted:

If you are running straight into her mini gun behind a amped shield then you kinda deserve to die though.

I deserve every death I die, and also many deaths I avoid.

It's genuinely funny to be playing Apex with a friend who's more or less as mechanically competent at FPSing as I am, but who has never stopped playing tons of Apex since it came out; the game sense gap is enormous. For example, I always play Blood hunter and essentially just make my Q scan available for his call outs, it's more his power than mine.

Did play some Gibraltar last night and dropping the dome and the mortar together is still fantastic.

egg tats
Apr 3, 2010

Jack B Nimble posted:

How dangerous is rampart at close quarters with her mini gun? If I'm holding a peacemaker peacekeeper is it still a bad match up for me in an interior? I got absolutely melted by her twice last night. One of the times I failed to notice or properly consider the "one way" shield she makes, so there's that, but in the other instance she just encountered me around a boulder and killed me very, very quickly.

if you allow a rampart holding sheila to start firing at close range you're going to get melted.

please don't forget that sheila can shoot through doors (actually, as someone who likes to play rampart, please DO forget that)

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


dogstile posted:

Have you got a headset that has a separate output from input? I had the same problem because i have a "game audio" and a "chat audio", which the headset has a volume dial on so i can adjust mid fight if someone jumps into discord and won't stfu while i'm fighting. Setting them to the same thing disables that ability, but records my voice.

I use a desk mic on my new PC but I did have that setup on my old one. The other games I've clipped don't have in-game voice chat so that must be it.

Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 14:17 on May 20, 2022

Jack B Nimble
Dec 25, 2007


Soiled Meat

egg tats posted:

if you allow a rampart holding sheila to start firing at close range you're going to get melted.

please don't forget that sheila can shoot through doors (actually, as someone who likes to play rampart, please DO forget that)

Hue, my buddies advice was "when you hear the mini gun, don't let her see you", but then when I asked "what, is it on a timer?", he said no :negative:

Edit: poo poo maybe he meant "if you hear its spun up, break contact and try again", I'd assumed he meant, like, an Overwatch style call-out for the power activating.

Jack B Nimble fucked around with this message at 14:17 on May 20, 2022

egg tats
Apr 3, 2010

Jack B Nimble posted:

Hue, my buddies advice was "when you hear the mini gun, don't let her see you", but then when I asked "what, is it on a timer?", he said no :negative:

Edit: poo poo maybe he meant "if you hear its spun up, break contact and try again", I'd assumed he meant, like, an Overwatch style call-out for the power activating.

I mean, it IS on a cooldown

it's just that once the cooldown is up (same ult timer as valk) she can take it out and put it away until it's either out of ammo or she puts it down on the ground for someone else.

and there's a couple of bullets in there so don't count on them all being gone.

repiv
Aug 13, 2009

Groovelord Neato posted:

Random question but does anyone know why shadowplay wouldn't capture my mic? It's the only game that doesn't otherwise I'd figure I had mic set not to record. It's been a thing on two different PCs now.

Shadowplay has the option to record game audio and mic audio to separate audio tracks, do you have that enabled?

If you do the mic audio might be in there after all, but your player is just defaulting to the game audio track

dogstile
May 1, 2012

fucking clocks
how do they work?

Jack B Nimble posted:

Hue, my buddies advice was "when you hear the mini gun, don't let her see you", but then when I asked "what, is it on a timer?", he said no :negative:

Edit: poo poo maybe he meant "if you hear its spun up, break contact and try again", I'd assumed he meant, like, an Overwatch style call-out for the power activating.

Yeah, its basically "don't front push it. You can also PK peek if your aim is good because your burst should beat the spin up time, so long as she isn't actively firing when you peek.

Rampart is still basically trash tier but that means she's played so little that she catches a lot of people out. Castles wall's stop her pretty handily now too.

Ra Ra Rasputin
Apr 2, 2011
The minigun can rip apart a castle if they place it right in front of her walls.

dogstile
May 1, 2012

fucking clocks
how do they work?
It's 750hp per segment so it's gonna take a ton of time of her being out in the open not moving very fast to do so.

See this fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4NSK3xUzws&t=228s

Tetrabor
Oct 14, 2018

Eight points of contact at all times!

dogstile posted:

It's 750hp per segment so it's gonna take a ton of time of her being out in the open not moving very fast to do so.

See this fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4NSK3xUzws&t=228s

I dunno, I caught a squad that was behind a Newcastle ult while I was behind an amp barrier: chewed through two of the segments and wiped the squad with a single magazine.

That was a best case scenario though, with teammates applying pressure.

Boxman
Sep 27, 2004

Big fan of :frog:


Carillon posted:

So are Loba and Valk a thing now or something? I don't generally pay a ton of attention to the lore and comics, but their in-game interaction is super flirty.

this article covers it in excruciating detail and also notes some of the fun little changes in their in game lines I definitely missed.

Cowslips Warren
Oct 29, 2005

What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Grimey Drawer
I see goons in the discord but so few of them stream so I can't watch the fun plays.

Regrettable
Jan 5, 2010



Cowslips Warren posted:

I see goons in the discord but so few of them stream so I can't watch the fun plays.

Have you tried asking them to stream? I'm sure a lot of them would oblige.

ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

almost any group will stream if you hop in and ask

Cowslips Warren
Oct 29, 2005

What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Grimey Drawer
Good point, I just didn't want to bother a group, but no harm in asking!

I am so glad worlds end is back.

Evil Kit
May 29, 2013

I'm viable ladies.

I am already sick and tired of 3/4ths of the server dropping Fragment or Fragment adjacent. Unless the dropship is on the literal other side of the map, and countdown or skyhook is right there I guess. Lava Siphon as an option too.

DrunkPanda
Apr 24, 2005
I am trolling you, CineD

28 Days Later is actually a great movie

fuck starcraft

wtf, I played against a full hacker team of 3 in bronze.... They were so stupid that 2 of them somehow managed to get downed even though they were aimbotting. The third also almost died because he decided to run straight through a gibby ult. It's amazing how stupid and bad some players can be.

edit: I was spectating them and they ended up losing the game in 6th place... they died to the zone... one guy died to zone. Wraith went in to get his banner, was too stupid to think about using her ult. Just ran into zone and died, tried to heal up with a med kit but it was too late

DrunkPanda fucked around with this message at 04:35 on May 21, 2022

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Jack B Nimble
Dec 25, 2007


Soiled Meat

DrunkPanda posted:

wtf, I played against a full hacker team of 3 in bronze....

I guess hacks can't keep you from being a moron, rip.

I played some Arena last night and I think PK and TT are my go to load out now.

Also, while my DPS on the bow isn't actually any good, it's pretty satisfying to Hanzo out some arrows at extreme range, not so much at an enemy as towards the general likely terrain features they're peeking, and occasionally see some 60 damage pop ups. And, since you spend so little time exposed because you're not stopping to aim, you can come out ahead (against bad players that aren't going to snipe you as you keep repeaking)

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