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[God's Strongest Dragoon]

if casual people didn't know it's news to me my friend group has a few non comics consumers and even they knew about jason todd.

Yeah, Death in the Family is one of the most well known Batman stories like Red Hood, Killing Joke, Long Halloween, and Knightfall. While most people don't know the full details of the comics, they know the gist of the story developments: Jason dies, Jason comes back as a villain, Joker cripples Barbara, Harvey Dent becomes Two-Face, and Bane breaks Batman.

It would be nice if they just made a new character tied to the namesake of the Arkham series. It would've been interesting if a long distant descendant of Armadeus Arkham took on the identity for the purpose of restoring their family's tainted legacy and blaming Batman for supposedly desecrating it. But alas, I'm not a writer at WB. Just some dude who watches vtubers.

An Amadeus descendent would have been interesting. If they really wanted to go wild with it, they could have turned Amadeus into a Simon Hurt character where he's functionally immortal and he spent all that time in his own Asylum since being admitted but was forgotten about and lost among all the chaos that happened throughout Arkham's years. I recall in the comics he believed his family was haunted by an evil Bat spirit, so that would be solid motivation for going after Batman.

 

[shipmate_F]

About MHWilds:


Important part starts at 8min.
Who would've thought. DD2 bombing amidst fans made it stop selling as it should, Itsuno jumped ship (probably was politely let go) and they had to fulfill a retarded goal for YoY revenue, 80 billion yen, the only franchises achieving that would be Pokemon, Mario, Dragon Quest and, you guess it, Monster Hunter.
Thank god I held back and didn't lose to FOMO, fuck CAPCOM for going back to scamming their audience, the shit performance is one thing but incomplete product for SEVENTY DOLLARS is too much, go fuck yourself. I will get it for myself when the expansion comes around and the game is 75% off.
For now enjoy your empty bugged landscape (half the skills don't work properly, your cat eats your inputs, the game is baby easy for any brainlet to be able to finish, it railroads your progress instead of letting you kill the monsters as god intended, everything is given to you from the get go instead of letting you explore and chart the locations yourself, and so on). There's so many issues for longliving fans that I'd waste hours here pointing out everything wrong besides babysitting a muslim kid that tries to justify not killing a murderous predator that is Arkveld.
If you're interested in why MHWilds is so shit you can look around the modding communities that they will point out how baffling is their anti-tamper - they wasted more time coding a fucking DRM trojan than fixing the fucking game, and it was for nothing because the game is already full of cheats after one week, just look at NexusMods. I swear to Allah we need to start [fedposting] executives and investors, they serve zero purpose.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

Just play Rise~ Or world or 3Gen ult whatever it's name was. fun game but i cannot for the life of me remember its name.

 

[UberSoldat]

Civvie plays Jedi Knight 2


New Deep Dive episode from Nightdive

 

[John Vtuber👁️]

Another new patch for Monster Hunter: Wilds, coinciding a few days after the AMD Driver Update!

...It's crashing again within ~15 minutes. Back to endless settings adjustments and tuning. Thank you, Capcom, very cool.

 

[Koronesuki]

Speaking of franchises being molested, the Wizardry gacha has launched on steam (as of a few days ago)!

"The what-", you may ask, but it's exactly as it sounds: it's a Wizardry live-service game that updates with new content + dungeons every few weeks/months, where you pull for your party members via gacha, made on a shoe-string budget of...look, calling it "jank" doesn't do it justice, it's absolutely no-money all the way down, filled to the brim with microtransactions, it is strictly for the sickos who somehow don't have enough Wizardry and Wizardry-adjacent video games the last several decades. See: Boomers, the Japanese people, Japanese Boomers.

Trouble is, after a few hours of playing it, I can see myself running dungeons as more content is updated. Fair warning, it is a shoddy PC port at a fixed resolution, nProtect GameGuard Anti-Cheat, can't change voices to Japanese, and a whole slew of new bugs that come with making a barebones port. If you are, indeed, one of those Wizardry sickos, or have an insatiable curiosity, check it out below and do not spend big money on the gacha because the prices + rates are equally atrocious. You'll be showered with free units and pulls by playing the game over a prolonged period of time through the various events, to my current understanding, so keep true to Kronii's words of wisdom: #NoFOMONoHomo

I've been playing the mobile version for months. I haven't spent any money on it. It's a fun game.

 

[Punished Anime Discusser]

About MHWilds:


Important part starts at 8min.
Who would've thought. DD2 bombing amidst fans made it stop selling as it should, Itsuno jumped ship (probably was politely let go) and they had to fulfill a retarded goal for YoY revenue, 80 billion yen, the only franchises achieving that would be Pokemon, Mario, Dragon Quest and, you guess it, Monster Hunter.
Thank god I held back and didn't lose to FOMO, fuck CAPCOM for going back to scamming their audience, the shit performance is one thing but incomplete product for SEVENTY DOLLARS is too much, go fuck yourself. I will get it for myself when the expansion comes around and the game is 75% off.
For now enjoy your empty bugged landscape (half the skills don't work properly, your cat eats your inputs, the game is baby easy for any brainlet to be able to finish, it railroads your progress instead of letting you kill the monsters as god intended, everything is given to you from the get go instead of letting you explore and chart the locations yourself, and so on). There's so many issues for longliving fans that I'd waste hours here pointing out everything wrong besides babysitting a muslim kid that tries to justify not killing a murderous predator that is Arkveld.
If you're interested in why MHWilds is so shit you can look around the modding communities that they will point out how baffling is their anti-tamper - they wasted more time coding a fucking DRM trojan than fixing the fucking game, and it was for nothing because the game is already full of cheats after one week, just look at NexusMods. I swear to Allah we need to start [fedposting] executives and investors, they serve zero purpose.

Inshallah the portable team will deliver another banger like Rise and WorldWildsYamanbas will be confined to their browngray homonuculus of a game for another five years.

 

[Brosnan Pierce Brosnan]

Guys if I couldn't get into World and thought "these games ain't for me". What is all that different gameplay wise with the others?

I did play a bit of Tri on the Wii (U!?!?) and I vaguely remember it being snappier but that might just be neural degredation

 

[ValkyrieAce]

Guys if I couldn't get into World and thought "these games ain't for me". What is all that different gameplay wise with the others?

I did play a bit of Tri on the Wii (U!?!?) and I vaguely remember it being snappier but that might just be neural degredation

Rise is the one that has a more arcade-like feel. Wilds is more like Worlds, minus the fun grappling stuff they added in Iceborne.

Meanwhile I got over 50 hours out of Wilds with no issues on PS4. They should have just done what they did with the other recent games and put it out on console first and spent another year on the PC port.

 

[shipmate_F]

Inshallah the portable team will deliver another banger like Rise and WorldWildsYamanbas will be confined to their browngray homonuculus of a game for another five years.

Rise is garbage, is an half-assed attempt to fill the Frontier/GU demand with Wirebug skills that overshadow the weapons' capabilities (not that Valor was any better, but you did in fact focus more on the weapon than Valor Strikes or HS). The Qurio farm is one of the most retarded ideas for progression, challenging KRMMOs retarded RNG for upgrades and you coast through most of the game to get stuck at Sunbreak after Anomaly Lv200 because there's only mongoloids playing this game that a NPC is better.
Iceborne was a better game overall but they had to make you engage with the new mechanic, making clagger and wallbang so strong it's now a fundamental way to do damage because all the new monsters are full of meth and can't have openings for the less stupid weapons, they ruined Barioth fight compared to classic but I like Furious Rajang and B.Tigrex ones, they feel like endgame stuff.

I really hate some parts of modern monhun because they took the deliberate offense that made you consider positioning and hitzones above being Kirito never leaving the monster side because you're a force of nature now.

 

[Punished Anime Discusser]

Iceborne was a better game overall

It's OK being wrong, but I won't stand for it, mostly because there's nowhere to fucking stand in a World/Iceborne map that doesn't involve randomly sliding down a hill or jumping off an invisible ledge.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

Rise is garbage, is an half-assed attempt to fill the Frontier/GU demand with Wirebug skills that overshadow the weapons' capabilities (not that Valor was any better, but you did in fact focus more on the weapon than Valor Strikes or HS). The Qurio farm is one of the most retarded ideas for progression, challenging KRMMOs retarded RNG for upgrades and you coast through most of the game to get stuck at Sunbreak after Anomaly Lv200 because there's only mongoloids playing this game that a NPC is better.
Iceborne was a better game overall but they had to make you engage with the new mechanic, making clagger and wallbang so strong it's now a fundamental way to do damage because all the new monsters are full of meth and can't have openings for the less stupid weapons, they ruined Barioth fight compared to classic but I like Furious Rajang and B.Tigrex ones, they feel like endgame stuff.

I really hate some parts of modern monhun because they took the deliberate offense that made you consider positioning and hitzones above being Kirito never leaving the monster side because you're a force of nature now.

Quiros being retarded rng means nothing when your strong enough to do hunts without it if you are trying to roll the god quiro that's you being a stupid monkey not the game

though that would explain why your relying so heavy on wire bug skills mongoloid you didn't even get to special investigations/lvl300?

I can only assume your not upgrading your equipment or are literally face tanking hits.

 

[shipmate_F]

It's OK being wrong, but I won't stand for it, mostly because there's nowhere to fucking stand in a World/Iceborne map that doesn't involve randomly sliding down a hill or jumping off an invisible ledge.

While I agree slopes are arbitrary and not consistent at all (30 degrees that don't slide and 15 degrees that act like a skate park) you can at least control it by not running. That's the thing, while Iceborne have issues you can control most of it, the problem being CAPCOM common mistake od hamfisting new mechanics because they can't fathom people not using them because they suck (tenderizing a part for Weakness Exploit to work sure was a choice).

Quiros being retarded rng means nothing when your strong enough to do hunts without it if you are trying to roll the god quiro that's you being a stupid monkey not the game

though that would explain why your relying so heavy on wire bug skills mongoloid you didn't even get to special investigations/lvl300?

I can only assume your not upgrading your equipment or are literally face tanking hits.

I said starting Lv200. did Risen Valstrax, Orange Espinas and Risen Magnamalo and called it a day. Everyone having a parry is retarded and the monsters made to address it is even more stupid. I still don't get why they made monsters' vertical hitboxes infinite just to compensate the Spiderman jumps, what's the purpose of gimping the thing you yourself added?
I don't even need to point out how shit Rampage was as well and about Qurio, sure, you don't need it but it's part of the autism to minmax and dropping 150h for mediocre stuff wasn't in my book.

Not to mention how tragicomic it is to pick a weapon like Hammer or CB in Rise just for it to be shadowed by baby mode LS/DB (I don't even count bowguns because they will never not be broken, CAPCOM made it clear for 3 games already).

I really wish the next expansion/spinoff is more in line with 4U, but that's fairytale considering Wilds sold 10 millions already. Fuck "cinematic storytelling" and fuck normies for ruining a great franchise with their handholdy game design.

 

[UberSoldat]

Here's a game and genre I never thought I would get into in a hundred years


There's just something satisfying about pushing through kilometers of dirt and navigating around mud to finish that delivery mission. God bless Saber for making niche games like this.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

While I agree slopes are arbitrary and not consistent at all (30 degrees that don't slide and 15 degrees that act like a skate park) you can at least control it by not running. That's the thing, while Iceborne have issues you can control most of it, the problem being CAPCOM common mistake od hamfisting new mechanics because they can't fathom people not using them because they suck (tenderizing a part for Weakness Exploit to work sure was a choice).

I said starting Lv200. did Risen Valstrax, Orange Espinas and Risen Magnamalo and called it a day. Everyone having a parry is retarded and the monsters made to address it is even more stupid. I still don't get why they made monsters' vertical hitboxes infinite just to compensate the Spiderman jumps, what's the purpose of gimping the thing you yourself added?
I don't even need to point out how shit Rampage was as well and about Qurio, sure, you don't need it but it's part of the autism to minmax and dropping 150h for mediocre stuff wasn't in my book.

Not to mention how tragicomic it is to pick a weapon like Hammer or CB in Rise just for it to be shadowed by baby mode LS/DB (I don't even count bowguns because they will never not be broken, CAPCOM made it clear for 3 games already).

I really wish the next expansion/spinoff is more in line with 4U, but that's fairytale considering Wilds sold 10 millions already. Fuck "cinematic storytelling" and fuck normies for ruining a great franchise with their handholdy game design.

your gonna be mass crafting Quiro's while playing the game it's literally just an optional power boost and not difficult to manage. just find one with some general good skill throw it on and never bother with it again.

Rampage is a fun break and does reduce some of the grind which was the point just slaughter monsters en mass for the mat you need i mostly used it for Jaspers myself since apparently the way i fight does not break them off in normal zinogre hunts.

Everyone being broken as fuck was the "point" of Rise I can't speak for the hammer because i preferred the hunting horn but the charge blade was great DB and LS always have their damage "available" CB works their asses off for it and puts in far more work when the monster is downed. Also while i know your talking about late/endgame here Bowguns are trash early game and solo resource intense too that's their "balance" even if you don't like it

being real for a moment here it sounds like your just mad at MH in general and taking it out on a good game because it's the least like monster hunter you liked.

 

[shipmate_F]

being real for a moment here it sounds like your just mad at MH in general and taking it out on a good game because it's the least like monster hunter you liked.

The issue isn't not liking it, is the de-characterization of the franchise in favor of numbers or general appeal. I don't like Frontier too much as well but I can respect it for tuning it up to 11 and being one of the most ridiculous action games out there out of pure drive for challenge - Musou fights are spetacular and one of the most ballbusting experiences out there, but it also gave us beautiful things like Luscent Narga (it's based on Musou Narga).
When World came in changing almost everything I was happy with 80% of it but they also overtuned the Hunter to the point I didn't really feel any challenge until the Elder Dragons endgame, while in old monhun if you try to start the game through Guild Hunts without crafting at least a basic set you will explode in 3 or 4 hits.
The idea that you, the player, is the Hero and have all this support is very different from old monhun where you are a nobody but will put in the work to be respected and become the Hero if the opportunity arises. It is a very different portrayal that will change how you perceive the characters, the world itself and how our monkey brain engage with the game design drawn based on that central idea (to be vs. to become).

 

[Punished Anime Discusser]

The issue isn't not liking it, is the de-characterization of the franchise in favor of numbers or general appeal.

Utterly retarded thing to say seeing as how much shit Rise reverts to be closer to the old games after World.

Difficulty curve more similar to older games, maps designed to be good to fight in rather than look realistic, more than three colors, removal of mantles, the slinger, clutch claws, back to RNG talismans instead of decorations, the way Palico and Palamutes work, the game having blood and the ability to turn off damage numbers, more than four weapon models for each weapon, barely any monsters with the retarded MMO mechanics World decided to keep implementing after Behemoth. Or shit like retarded damage scaling fights being relegated to a thing you beat purely as a flex instead of being a progression or gear blocker.

Yes, LS and DB are retarded weapons in Rise. The same way the IG and GS were retarded in 4U, the same way the LS and Lance were in GU. The same way LS and jump cheese GS were in World, it never changes, there's always a retarded baby weapon, and there's always the Gunlance at the bottom of the dumpster, it's not a unique problem to Rise.

As for the other shit, I can choose to not spam counter moves or even unequip them for something else, I can choose to not equip a second switch skill set and just turn the UI element for it off like it doesn't exist. I can't choose to not engage with the Clutch Claw, slinger and to some extent mantles, I can't avoid fighting Tempered and Arch Temepered monsters if I want to actually beat the game, I can't choose to not fight Hypers in GU, I can't not engage with the monkey power buffs to fight Apex monsters in 4U.

Also I would take Rampages over any siege battle than isn't Jhen or Dahren in a heartbeat, because every other one sucks the fattest dick imaginable.

Still.
4U>3U>P3rd>Rise/Sunbreak>FU>GU>would put MH1 here but the season changed>fucking Dauntless from 5 years ago>Freedom Wars>God Eater>FFXIV's Rathalos fight>MGS Peace Walker's Rathalos and Tigrex fights>Being a prowler main in GU>World

 

[Smelliest007]

 

[Smelliest007]

When Pro Skater 3 + 4 is probably the safer bet?

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[God's Strongest Dragoon]

New Balance patch for Marvel Rivals on March 13th at 2 AM PDT - No server downtime

Marvel Rivals - The Super Hero Team-based PVP Shooter

Play for free Now! Get ready to Ignite the Battle with Marvel Rivals!

www.marvelrivals.com

Spoiler: Changes

DUELIST​

Human Torch
The fiery hero is getting a boost to his primary attack damage output and Ultimate Ability, enhancing his solo takedown potential.
- Increase Fire Cluster projectile speed from 120m/s to 150m/s and projectile count from 12 to 14.
- Increase the energy cost of Supernova (ultimate ability) from 3400 to 4000; Increase activation wave damage from 70 to 80 and Flame Tornado damage from 100 per/s to 120 per/s.

Iron Man
The Armored Avenger will see slight adjustments to his primary attack in both states, balancing his mid-range offensive capabilities.
- Decrease Repulsor Blast stage 1 and 2 direct hit damage from 55 to 40; Increase spell field damage from 35 to 50. Decrease stage 3 direct hit damage from 65 to 50; Increase spell field damage from 40 to 60.
- Decrease Repulsor Blast (Armor Overdrive) direct hit damage decreased from 55 to 50; Increase spell field damage from 55 to 65.

STRATEGIST​

Cloak & Dagger
The duality duo will see improvements in their healing abilities, making them more versatile for various team compositions.
- Increase the healing effect from Lightforce Dagger on hit allies from 10 to 16; Reduce the spell field healing amount generated by the hit from 18 to 16.

Thank God they're buffing that Human Torch primary fire, it's so fucking awful and even at close range, it's still pretty shit. Iron Man actually buffed as the damage remains the same (buffed on Armor Overdrive) for his Repulsor Blasts, they just got shifted over to the spell field damage so it isn't as punishing when you slightly miss.

That C&D change is pretty nice. They already have insane AoE with bubble and the veil, so that nerf to the spell field healing isn't that drastic. Meanwhile the single-target healing was always their weakest part as that heavily relied on cooldowns.