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Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Particle effects seem to always cause massive FPS drops when very close to the camera, and I'm not sure any game engine has figured out how to make that not happen. Also the massive nerfs to Caustic just demonstrate that they don't know how to balance this game and would prefer to have watered down abilities so people coming in from CSGO or whatever don't complain.

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Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Apex doesn't seem like a particularly well optimized game, I had to upgrade my PC just to get a good framerate on just HD resolution, so not sure why they thought the Switch version was going to be a good idea.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Actually, I think you'll find that my DRM platform is superior to your DRM platform because

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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They should just remove abilities altogether, way too hard to balance, right? Just make it into a generic BR shooter. We can't have people using gamer words when guns aren't the only thing worth using after all.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Friend of mine spend like 250$ on this game, his account got hacked and they refused to un-ban him.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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I stopped playing with pub teams because they always rush in to a group of 10 people, die immediately getting 0 knockdowns, and then use gamer words when I hang back and attempt to get their corpses, and then disconnect before I can even do so. Because clearly one more person rushing in and we would have killed the other three squads right

Consequently, playing with a pre-made team is an exercise in frustration because you always get matched up with other pre-made teams who have, sometimes, highly conspicuous awareness and aim.

Mercury_Storm fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Apr 20, 2021

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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I know people who use a controller to play on PC, do they get the auto-aim too like on console?

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Hackan Slash posted:

Yes., but it's not as strong as on console.

A dev explained that the auto-aim function goes from 0 (nothing) to 1 (aimbot). M+KB is a 0, pc controller is a 0.4, and console controller is 0.6.

What is the justification for the disparity when they have console and PC crossplay now?

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Ah ok, so if you're playing with your friends on PC does the aim assist drop off to only .4, or are you better off just switching to console and playing with your friends if you're going to be using a controller since you'll get .6?

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Seriously there was nothing satisfying or compelling about picking up white junk and being like "oh good, now I have the absolute bare minimum", and especially opening crates inundated with the stuff. Though this might change the balance a bit since everyone will have a helmet no matter what now.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Wow that is pretty lame, the game already had super restrictive, watered down abilities (compared to other similar games) with very long cooldowns. And you can use them once per round in arenas huh?

Mercury_Storm fucked around with this message at 13:07 on May 5, 2021

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Yep, middle of the next day and I still can't even log in. Funcom would be proud of this botched launch.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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If the bow were also a care package weapon it'd probably be OK.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Revitalized posted:

Do teammates who aren't skydiving get the highlighting information too? Like if you solo launch on your ult, do your teammates see enemies light up?

Yeah they do.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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There are still white helmets and white knockdown shields spawning on the ground lol

To the guy below me, no they are actually spawning with the map for sure, seen them in areas where we were there first thing.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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tildes posted:

wtf why does punching someone deal 3x as much as a bullet respawn pls


(I am somehow so terrible with the bow it didn’t feel OP to me before but I realize it’s probably very different when you hit more than 1 in 10 shots)

Yeah sneaking up on someone and meleeing them should just be an instant neck crack finisher. :keke:

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Simone Magus posted:

This unironically

Hell, Adam Jensen should just be the next legend and they gotta add breakable wall points for the punch through wall neck crack too.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Kalko posted:

The very good final match of a streamer tourney earlier today where the teams were tied going into it :

https://twitch.tv/videos/1021474586?t=15289s

Today was Arena, and tomorrow is a BR event.

I don't know, but something about this whole match just made it seem completely joyless, like no one actually wanted to be playing. The whole thing was just kind of stale honestly.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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cool now they can take all the wattson-wraith lesbian fan-fiction and make that canon too

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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maybe they should just change the text since "squad eliminated" doesn't even make sense for arenas lol

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Norn mesmer first character :)

NOTE: Discord-hosted image links (like this one) expire approximately 24hrs after they were copied from Discord.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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So not only do we apparently not need any characters with meaningful stealth abilities, we needed a guy that just knows where everyone is at all times. :rolleyes:

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Is there a "Seer has scanned you/detected heartbeat" warning yet, or did they nerf him bad enough that it doesn't matter? How much worse is the passive now?

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Control is really good and I'd rather just play this and shoot guys rather than going through the whole long process in the regular game.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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How are they still screwing this up where a Arenas matches starts and it's 2 vs 3 the entire way? You'd think they would just kick someone on the other team or re-do the match, but nope. Happened twice today out of like 10 games.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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They should bring back Control and make it permanent, it was the only chill game mode where you could just practice shooting at a lot of people constantly. :(

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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People still hot drop in high level ranked? :wtf:

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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They just seem to be tossing anyone and everyone into the unranked queues lately, at least if you have a pre-made squad. Champion squad will have thousands of kills and level 500, and you'll still run into people that just stand still while shooting at you, never even get blue armor more halfway through the match, etc.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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How do people generally play the situation that develops in the final few rings where there's only 3-4 teams left, and you know the moment you get into a fight the other teams are going to run in and dogpile you?

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Yeah the Kraber changes are pretty lame, who asked for it to be watered down? Its pretty rare to get one as it is anyways.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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The wingman did technically get nerfed this patch against non-fortified legends, it depends a lot on headshots and now everyone gets the extra 15% protection against headshots with a purple helmet.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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The train was still the only good thing about that map

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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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.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Hackers can still see if someone is spectating them, and can just not activate their hacks if so. And yes aim assist is practically cheating and shouldn't be in a competitive game. I tried it out just on PC with a controller and then on console and it's crazy how good it is, helps with target identification too since the view will just start panning around an enemy a mile away, only line of sight is required. There's also people who have wall hacks and can see you coming around corners, etc., not all necessarily snap to your head aimbots.

Mercury_Storm fucked around with this message at 19:39 on May 23, 2022

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Maggie is maybe OK for Arenas, but I cannot see a good use-case for her otherwise. I haven't even noticed the "1 second see behind walls after damaging the enemy" passive working in BR at all, and I don't know what they were thinking with that wrecking ball ultimate or how that could be salvaged.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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If you play unranked with a pre-made full group you get put into a different queue of other pre-made squads and people take it a little bit more seriously, but a lot still drop in one spot for the punch-a-thon. Maybe people stopped doing that in ranked at least because they get de-leveled now?

Also World's Edge is a bad map and no one wants to sprint across the giant wasteland with no cars, trains, jump pads, etc. and the jump towers are too few even then.

Mercury_Storm fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Jun 8, 2022

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Skins are targeted at the credit cards of children with rich parents, not regular people, hence the bullshit prices.

The lootboxes are targeted at regular people with gambling problems, which are at least banned in some countries.

Mercury_Storm fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Jun 16, 2022

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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Really don't get why I would want my character to be eating ramen or looking at pictures of his fictional family as part of a weapon in an FPS , it just comes off as really bizarre. If it were just a regular emote that would make more sense I guess, but attached to a weapon skin?

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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yo mamma a Horus posted:

lol Those skins look like poo poo.


Seriously all these skins are terrible, and make it easier for me to shoot at people

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Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

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It's weird that the US, which almost immediately cracked down and banned online gambling hasn't done the same for what is essentially gambling but for children. I guess they just needed that fig leaf that you can't easily get money back out like how Pachinko parlors and slots work in Japan (you get 'prizes' for winning, but there's often an "unaffiliated" shop nearby where you can just sell those prizes).

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