Good for them the videos always seemed solid to me.
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Good for them the videos always seemed solid to me.
I want to go back.
For those of you who are GFL2 players and looking for a platoon, I formed one. So if you're interested, in a casual(just do the daily guild thing and attempt the boss when its up) here's my pitch.
Me and a group of my allies control certain areas of the yellow zone in order to run our illegitimate private military company. We possess unregistered tdolls, surplus WW3 vehicles, mind-altering inhibitors and only use sardis gold for financial purchases. We have been voted most likely to cause a collapse fluid incident two years running. If this sounds like something you would like to take part in the platoon id is: 100643
Thank you for your time.
Me and a group of my allies control certain areas of the yellow zone in order to run our illegitimate private military company. We possess unregistered tdolls, surplus WW3 vehicles, mind-altering inhibitors and only use sardis gold for financial purchases. We have been voted most likely to cause a collapse fluid incident two years running. If this sounds like something you would like to take part in the platoon id is: 100643
Thank you for your time.
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So I finally finished Path of Exile 1. Got to the end of Act 10 and skipped the Epilogue after a couple of minutes. I ignored the masters because I just wanted to experience the story.
Game was 10/10 until after Act 5. Having to go back to Wraeclast (even though it was a much more interesting setting than Oriath) made the acts feel less special and more filler content considering you are retreading old ground 80% of the time. Especially with Shavronne, Doedre, and Maligaro showing up multiple times as bosses. The game progressively got more fedora tipping with the god killing and "muh citizen vanguard" dross, but I did like that Innocence was redeemed. The problem is that I find the fantasy Roman ruins setting with its world building and historical characters like the gemlings, Emperor Chitis, Purity Rebellion, Izaro's awesome voice so much more interesting than the present day events of a slave revolt going apeshit and causing Maori Khorne to rise up to eat everyone....
With that said, I am very burnt out on ARPGs so I think I'm going to be taking a couple of months off.
Game was 10/10 until after Act 5. Having to go back to Wraeclast (even though it was a much more interesting setting than Oriath) made the acts feel less special and more filler content considering you are retreading old ground 80% of the time. Especially with Shavronne, Doedre, and Maligaro showing up multiple times as bosses. The game progressively got more fedora tipping with the god killing and "muh citizen vanguard" dross, but I did like that Innocence was redeemed. The problem is that I find the fantasy Roman ruins setting with its world building and historical characters like the gemlings, Emperor Chitis, Purity Rebellion, Izaro's awesome voice so much more interesting than the present day events of a slave revolt going apeshit and causing Maori Khorne to rise up to eat everyone....
With that said, I am very burnt out on ARPGs so I think I'm going to be taking a couple of months off.
Rivals trip report 3 weeks out from release. Still having fun. The tanks/vanguards are way more fun to play than in Overwatch. Being a menace on maps with chokes with Peni Parker or playing hyper aggressive dive Thor is amazing. Only 1-2 of the characters overall feel like they need adjusting. Still largely enjoying myself with few exceptions (I'm looking at you Winter Soldier who complained about heals last night while going 1-8-1).
As someone who stopped playing Overwatch about 20 or so hours after the first few months of its launch; what does Rivals do right that Overwatch has gotten wrong at this point?
1. Tanks and supports don't do DPS level damage neither immortalize your own team but they're still essential for counterplay/stratagems.
2. Rivals doesn't have Jeff Kaplan and healsluts ruining the gameplay.
Granted it's super early in the life cycle of this game, but I can rattle off a couple of points off the top of my head.
1) DPS can actually do damage. Overwatch feels like it has turned into a game of bullet sponges and the most effective people to do damage are tanks. Hell, before forced role queue the meta teams were 3 tanks 3 healers. DPS just weren't worthwhile. Meanwhile, a well played flanker in Rivals will absolutely decimate you. Right now people seem to be figuring out how much of a menace Spider-Man is, but last week it felt like more Psylockes and Wolverines.
2) Speaking of Role Queue, the Dev's have outright said they are never adding role queue. As we discussed back here - https://thevirtualasylum.com/threads/vidya-games-thread.35/post-525497 - the leads of Rivals have said if people want to be retarded and have a 6 DPS team, that's on them to be retarded. Role queue is one of the biggest reasons Overwatch died because it's a symptom of the real problem with Overwatch, which is Blizzard's shitty balancing.
3) Speaking of - balancing. We're still in pre-season right now, but it feels like their approach is "If everyone is busted, no one is busted". There's few characters that don't feel TOO weak (Storm and Squirrel Girl could probably use some buffs) but otherwise balance feels in a good spot.
4) Monetization isn't too bad. It's all cosmetics. The battlepass per season is only 5 bucks so far. The only bad thing is the tokens you accrue to unlock the battle pass contents will reset each season - or at least the tokens you F2P earned. The paid ones will be maintained. This is all still up in the air, and modifications were already made after some outcry.
5) This part is mainly funny, but a game lives and dies by maintaining a player count. And most players are just bad. APPARENTLY, and I need to look I to this more, if you go on a massive losing streak in Quick Play it will covertly match you with bots so you can stomp them and feel better. People have figured this out because you can't view their player profiles. I need to go check it tonight. I just find this hilarious.
I'll use Thor as a point since I've been playing him a lot. His most impactful ability is his Mjolnir Charge which he can use to fly 10/20 meters wherever he points depending on how much her charges up. The charge grants him 200 personal shield, is on a 2 second CD as long as her has the energy, and can refund the cost of the charge via one melee hit afterwards. You can also hit people with the charge and carry them with you. So he's great for chasing dying people trying to retreat, cutting teams in half, taking a enemy player out of position to single them out, or flank and chase down a squishy to eat them alive. And that's only one part of his kit. He still has 3 other major abilities including his Ult.
Sir that's the very start of the game, you've finished the tutorial.
Also the endgame story/lore is better than the second part of the campaign
Yet. Kaplan will be healslutting it up in Rivals eventually, I'm sure
Might actually give the game a try after all the Doki streams about it if this is the balance. It's what I liked about Valve's games a decade ago.
Rivals also has tons of characters in the pipeline according to datamining. I'll be interested in seeing their release pace.
>MODOK
He needs to be a floating weird head talking shit constantly. Wouldn't have it any other way.
A friend and I talked about that a week or two ago when he was starting to play the game. I'm a fan of Mr. Fantastic and would love to see how rubber man plays. Loki already interests me because he sounds like Rubick from Dota 2, in fact just put more Rubick characters like Taskmaster or Rogue.
Hit Monkey and Modok are such based choices
He sounds mostly complete, and they've found kit descriptions for him, Human Torch, and Ultron in the game files. Mr. Fantastic will be tank
Here's the model and here he is when he bulks up via his passive
Human Torch's kit -
And Ultron (who appears to be a damage oriented healer) -
It's such a hilarious joke that it takes fucking chinks to make probably the most successful marvel videogame after pretty much everyone was done with cape shit. I ain't playing it but it looks fun, the designs are chinese slop but even chinese slop blows away anything made in the last decade which is also fucking hilarious and embarrassing. Congrats china, you may never directly conquer america but sure as shit conquered their entertainment. GG 
I'm amazed that OW never implemented hero bans, it just seems like a sensible stopgap solution for bad metas - especially when the experience between average and highly skilled players is so different. For example Hawkeye is really oppressive in high rank lobbies but he gets banned like 40% of the time. I've noticed that people have started to ban Luna and Mantis as well (their ults are really crazy for healing output). I'm expecting some nerfs whenever they do their next balance patch but probably nothing too crazy. (I should add that my experience of high rank lobbies is solely from watching streams, I haven't even touched comp in Rivals yet)
Also Squirrel Girl has to have the worst ult in the game, the Steam achievement for getting 3 KOs using it is extremely optimistic.
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