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StrixNebulosa posted:As the someone with the "really dumb take" I'll respond: a chud writer writing a setting that is specifically the Middle East has a significantly non-zero chance of being racist about it. That's why I said what I said. It's going to be obnoxiously chuddy. gently caress off.
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Neither should you tbh
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The writer has a Bush era fixation on "Islam". Its going to be loving ugly short of him writing fanfic of how he thinks Muslims should be. Even then that would probably be awful in other ways. I'm not giving anyone the benefit of the doubt, because they have one writer and three staff and in a studio that size you must assume that they are on the same page regarding content. I want more battle brothers, I want it to be a better experience and I want it to be able to stand the test of time. The unrelenting shittiness of the writing stands in the way.
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Southpaugh posted:The writer has a Bush era fixation on "Islam". Its going to be loving ugly short of him writing fanfic of how he thinks Muslims should be. Even then that would probably be awful in other ways. Do you have any proof of this? Does this show up anywhere in the game's writing or in any other works by the author?
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Weebus posted:Do you have any proof of this? Does this show up anywhere in the game's writing or in any other works by the author? Please refer to the post on the previous page about the author's posts on rpgcodex.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Please refer to the post on the previous page about the author's posts on rpgcodex. Oh thanks, I didn't bother looking at the screenshots earlier and yeah that looks really bad. Is the parrot thing supposed to be postcount? Does the guy really have almost 2 million posts on this rpgcodex place? 
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Weebus posted:Do you have any proof of this? Does this show up anywhere in the game's writing or in any other works by the author? Lmao
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Asking for proof is fine, and they immediately understood once they were given proof. Don't be lovely, dudeWeebus posted:Oh thanks, I didn't bother looking at the screenshots earlier and yeah that looks really bad. Is the parrot thing supposed to be postcount? Does the guy really have almost 2 million posts on this rpgcodex place? It can't be, that'd be like 500 posts a day, every single day, for 9 straight years. I think they have some kind of weird system where you can artificially inflate your post count; I've seen a few accounts with 1.8 mil+ posts. Sort of like how it used to be possible on SA to pay to set your regdate to 9/11 lol Babe Magnet fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Aug 5, 2020 |
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I wonder, just out of curiosity, how difficult it is to replace text in this game. Is it possible for some enterprising modder to change all the generally lovely tone in the text into something still fairly glum, but less chuddy? Like most of the time I play the legends mod and use some of the added starts. I haven't noticed any egregious examples in their specific parts. They mostly lean on dark humor more than anything. ((Though feel free to point out instances where I am incorrect. I'd rather be informed.))
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Babe Magnet posted:Asking for proof is fine, and they immediately understood once they were given proof. Don't be lovely, dude I just found the urgency of the post followed by an immediate "oh OK" funny.
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That's fair, I just didn't read any urgency in the initial post, on my end. Just asking for more info lol
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Southpaugh posted:I just found the urgency of the post followed by an immediate "oh OK" funny. I don't know what urgency you saw in my post, I was genuinely asking for proof. For the record, I'm not american, white or a supporter of US president Donald J. Trump.
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It was just the tone of the post guys it's all good.
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Whatever, I'm moving on to a turn-based tactical strategy game that reflects my particular brand of *traditional* morals and values: https://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/alex-jones-announces-infowars-tactics/
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StrixNebulosa posted:Anyone know what the price for the new DLC is gonna be? It's probably going to be my problematic purchase of the year. I'm expecting 15-20 but knowing for sure would be helpful. $14,99 according to their latest blog post here: http://battlebrothersgame.com/ I'm also among the people who only recently found out that their writer is a shitler, which is problematic. Not all the writing in the game is bad, there is good stuff there, like the flashbacks to the time of the ancient dead, the witch hut event and sometimes simple stuff like saving a kid, or having the craftsmen in your company help build a house. And funny poo poo like the eunuchs "skills" or the bard events. Unfortunately there is cringe worthy stuff too, like the refugee description and the original ideas for the South. I will still play the game and buy the DLC since this is among the best tactical rpgs available. If I'm correctly informed their writer is an external contractor and I don't want to punish a small studio for his brainworms. If I decided to only play games made by good people I would have to slash my gaming stash in half and delete any of the rpgs that Avellone had a hand in, anything related to Ubisoft and countless other games because the whole industry is so rotten. Hammerstein fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Aug 6, 2020 |
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Why can you turn off footprints? I spent like five minutes trying to do one of those tracking missions, and felt like I was losing my mind
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I realize we stopped the gimmick posts to take things seriously, but... Death dealers Fighty force War warriors Knighty knaves
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Oh come on. Fighting Fraternity
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Jay Rust posted:Fraternal Fighters
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Oh drat. I searched previous pages for fraternity but not for the descriptor Curse you, Jay Rust. Curse you!
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Put down the stick and step away from the horse carcass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe3naup4pkQ New preview vid showing off the gunpowder stuff and southern army units
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gently caress yeah that looks awesome! I wonder if smoke pots will be prohibitively expensive - if not, maybe keeping a few on hand can mean freeing up rotation/footwork, which I basically have on every single brother, for another perk. Maybe just keep rotation on dedicated tanks and use smoke pots to disengage on a spot basis? Right now, rotation is too valuable for saving lives, but it's not like I need it on every brother every fight. Having a consumable tool that could help would be rad. Looking forward to proccing daze and shredding packs of orc youths/beserkers with my firearms
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Based on how the video mentioned firearms work best on low/no-armor enemies and on packs of enemies, my initial thoughts on enemies that they would be especially good vs were: orc youth, a decent chunk of orc beserkers, weidergangers, and spider/direwolf packs. Of course they would work well against base raiders and nomads but who knows if we'll have our hands on them that early on in the game. Also re-plugging the map seed wiki for the new page: https://bb.frukso.se/ The site was built before multiple origins so please specify which origin you used. You can attach maps and tag certain points (i.e. villages with hunter cabins or legendary locations) and log up to three brothers' starting traits
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The gunpowder stuff would probably own goblins pretty hard since they're pretty squishy overall. E: oh wow, the smoke bombs kinda sound like they'd be really nice for Black Monolith Fabricated fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Aug 7, 2020 |
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Hell yeah. I can't wait to head south with the rowdy rangers and get hand cannons.
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From reddit, but any thoughts on these changes?quote:•Indom now costs 5 AP instead of 3.
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ccubed posted:From reddit, but any thoughts on these changes? I enjoy all of those and they sync with my preferred play style. 9 Lives in particular should have worked that way from the get go.
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Will you still use Indom at 5 ap? I feel like I was already moving away from it before.
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ccubed posted:From reddit, but any thoughts on these changes? Liking the tweaks to fast adaptation and headhunter. Fearsome seems meh - it's not a perk I take on everyone but it seemed to be perfectly effective on the hammer specialists I did grab it on. Nothing too crazy but I really wish they had brought the other perks *up* to these perks' power, not nerfed the good picks. Nine lives still looks useless and they're breaking the indom/adrenaline+recover cycle which has massive repercussions for people who like long campaigns/playing on expert. Typically I dip out of my campaigns before the indom/adrenaline cycle becomes necessary but it's been pretty much set that you need at least one or two brothers doing that cycle in any challenging fight
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rideANDxORdie posted:Nothing too crazy but I really wish they had brought the other perks *up* to these perks' power, not nerfed the good picks. Nine lives still looks useless and they're breaking the indom/adrenaline+recover cycle which has massive repercussions for people who like long campaigns/playing on expert. Typically I dip out of my campaigns before the indom/adrenaline cycle becomes necessary but it's been pretty much set that you need at least one or two brothers doing that cycle in any challenging fight I took an expert Ironman game to day 750 without relying on Indom/Adrenaline/Recover, but I focused on bros that could hit 90/40+ MA/MD w/o shields and gave them all two handers to dish out a lot of damage early and often. It basically means cherry picking 2+ star MA/MD bros forever, which mods like tryout talents makes a good bit easier. It’s a lot of luck of the draw too; I’ve had game with 4 hunters in party with 105 RA by day 300 and games with not a single decent ranged bro in the first 90 days. Mazz fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Aug 9, 2020 |
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Jay Rust posted:I still don't know when I would use 9 lives Worth remembering that bros aren't the only ones with perks. Buffing 9 lives will make bandit leaders and vampires harder to kill.
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vyelkin posted:Worth remembering that bros aren't the only ones with perks. Buffing 9 lives will make bandit leaders and vampires harder to kill. drat good point, and one that probably applies to Fearsome too, though I don't know off the top of my head which enemies have it and what their morale scores are like
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