Vidya Games Thread

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

Double-post, but GTA6 delayed til 2026.

Grand Theft Auto VI is Now Coming May 26, 2026 - Rockstar Games

Hi everyone, Grand Theft Auto VI is now set to release on May 26, 2026. We are very sorry that this is later than you expected. The interest and excitement surrounding a new Grand Theft Auto has been truly humbling for our entire team. We want to...

www.rockstargames.com

Well, I guess Expedition 33 has no worries about getting GOTY now.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

Well, I guess Expedition 33 has no worries about getting GOTY now.

Rockstar legit scare of competition since its gone unchallenged so long.

 

[Helkar]

So is quickplay playerbase just completely gone in Marvel Rivals? I'm getting into bot matches after every single loss.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

So is quickplay playerbase just completely gone in Marvel Rivals? I'm getting into bot matches after every single loss.

played 2 rounds quick just to check it's just you.

that being said whatever the fuck they did in the backround I'm getting massive performance issues all of a sudden.

 

[Helkar]

played 2 rounds quick just to check it's just you.

that being said whatever the fuck they did in the backround I'm getting massive performance issues all of a sudden.

Yeah my quickplays are stuck in a completely negative feedback loop, where i first get a game against people who are clearly substantially better than me, quickly get stomped, and then get a game against bots as a consolation prize.
It sucks lol.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

Yeah my quickplays are stuck in a completely negative feedback loop, where i first get a game against people who are clearly substantially better than me, quickly get stomped, and then get a game against bots as a consolation prize.
It sucks lol.

might be a retarded regional thing they are testing because i agree something is fucked.

have you tried changing what data centers your playing on?

 

[Superduper Samurai]

It sucks that mahvel rivals is so chinky that all it takes is one or two games where you get mouth-breathers as teammates or a 6 stack of shitbuckets as opponents for you to be placed in the chink bot mines so your mental doesnt get Yamanbaed by the loss screen

 

[Punished Anime Discusser]

Yeah my quickplays are stuck in a completely negative feedback loop, where i first get a game against people who are clearly substantially better than me, quickly get stomped, and then get a game against bots as a consolation prize.
It sucks lol.

My Fortnite career in a nutshell. SBMM and its consequences have been a disaster for people with two hands and a brain trying to play videogames, but great for everyone else apparently, even though I've never met a person that likes SBMM in casual matches outside of reddit. In 1v1 games and MOBAs it's fine I guess, but everyhwere else, not so much.

 

[Superduper Samurai]

My Fortnite career in a nutshell. SBMM and its consequences have been a disaster for people with two hands and a brain trying to play videogames, but great for everyone else apparently, even though I've never met a person that likes SBMM outside of reddit.

SBMM is interesting when the game is fucking dead, For Honor would trap you in a retarded limbo where you either stomp retards who cant figure out how to dodge unblockables or animation cancelling sweatlords with 600 combined levels on all characters
And by interesting i mean that i got what i fucking deserved for even playing For Honor

 

[Helkar]

have you tried changing what data centers your playing on?

Hmm nope but i'll try that next.

My Fortnite career in a nutshell. SBMM and its consequences have been a disaster for people with two hands and a brain trying to play videogames, but great for everyone else apparently, even though I've never met a person that likes SBMM in casual matches outside of reddit. In 1v1 games and MOBAs it's fine I guess, but everyhwere else, not so much.

I would absolutely rather get stomped 5-10 times in a row than have these empty fucking bot games where opponents don't know how to use their abilities and nothing is learned as a result of winning them.

 

[Punished Anime Discusser]

SBMM is interesting when the game is fucking dead, For Honor would trap you in a retarded limbo where you either stomp retards who cant figure out how to dodge unblockables or animation cancelling sweatlords with 600 combined levels on all characters
And by interesting i mean that i got what i fucking deserved for even playing For Honor

My favorite is when a game hits a content drought or slow period and the population shrinks somewhat. Being slightly above average you're too good to play in shitter leagues, and not good enough to play with the crackheads. But the game will never let you feast on shitters, so it keeps giving you 20 minute queues so you can go get raped by fiends until you quit or lose enough games in a row to get a single snack in the shitter league as to not kill yourself.

 

[Smelliest007]

This looks fun if you can coordinate with your group.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

never had a issue with SBMM im not a normie right no it's the devs who are wrong.

 

[Kazuma]

GTA 6 is coming out before Silksong

Edit: nvm I'm illiterate. I thought it said 2025.
Edit 2: It might still come out before Silksong.

 

[Smelliest007]

Edit: nvm I'm illiterate. I thought it said 2025.

Wait, I thought the same thing. I'm losing my mind from this lack of sleep.

 

[PleaseCheckYourReceipts]

The most expensive media project in history gets a bit more expensive, hehe.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

So is quickplay playerbase just completely gone in Marvel Rivals? I'm getting into bot matches after every single loss.

If you're getting into bot matches after every loss, then your MMR is in the gutter. It's not surprising because the team balancing is hilariously dogshit in quickplay. I've often had more difficult matches in quickplay than I did in ranked. The main issue is that you're getting people that hit their goal and then fucking off for a while from ranked. So someone will hit GM3 and then play quickplay for a few days, proceeding to dumpster the random bronze player in quickplay.

It doesn't help there's a lot of people not giving a fuck about the game and handing good players on their teams free losses, tanking their MMR. People are either farming dailies/missions or they are spamming characters into a team of hard counters just because they are farming the Lord icon. Quickplay also doesn't give a fuck about disconnects/leavers, so you'll get games where 1 strategist fucks off, someone else joins, and then your other strategist fucks off before the new guy got to the frontline. This happened to me like 6 times last night. This becomes even more of a shitshow when you have high rank people spamming quickplay on a new alt account to level it up enough to play ranked.

The new Gala event also guarantees you're getting tard supports because everyone needs to heal 50k, so random duelist shitters are spamming strategist to get it done but have no idea how to play support. So they are dying so often that they barely heal that much, resulting in them clogging up more games with their dogshit strategist play. 50k can be done in like 2-3 games but some of these monkeys are healing like 6k in games.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

If you're getting into bot matches after every loss, then your MMR is in the gutter. It's not surprising because the team balancing is hilariously dogshit in quickplay. I've often had more difficult matches in quickplay than I did in ranked. The main issue is that you're getting people that hit their goal and then fucking off for a while from ranked. So someone will hit GM3 and then play quickplay for a few days, proceeding to dumpster the random bronze player in quickplay.

It doesn't help there's a lot of people not giving a fuck about the game and handing good players on their teams free losses, tanking their MMR. People are either farming dailies/missions or they are spamming characters into a team of hard counters just because they are farming the Lord icon. Quickplay also doesn't give a fuck about disconnects/leavers, so you'll get games where 1 strategist fucks off, someone else joins, and then your other strategist fucks off before the new guy got to the frontline. This happened to me like 6 times last night. This becomes even more of a shitshow when you have high rank people spamming quickplay on a new alt account to level it up enough to play ranked.

The new Gala event also guarantees you're getting tard supports because everyone needs to heal 50k, so random duelist shitters are spamming strategist to get it done but have no idea how to play support. So they are dying so often that they barely heal that much, resulting in them clogging up more games with their dogshit strategist play. 50k can be done in like 2-3 games but some of these monkeys are healing like 6k in games.

I can play Loki focus on killing idiots who don't know how Loki works and still heal 10k.


People are legitimately retarded in this game yes I swear it's overwatches fault too no one actually talks about team composition they just default 2 tank 2 dps 2 healer and act like that's enough.

If we have Reed we do not need 2 more tanks Rocket brings up your damage potential much more with the BRB and his Ult doubly so if punisher is around 3 healers make that team comp nearly unstoppable.

but with these people there's no nuance.

 

[Thomas Talus]

Price fixing kicks ass, in this new world there is no competition only cooperation in screwing over the consumers

I will begrudgingly give the frogs who made Expedition 33 some respect for only charging $50 for it, instead of trying to claim "$60 is the new $50" or something.

 

[agility_]

Reject 8BitDo, Embrace GameSir Cyclone 2.

https://www.amazon.com/PC-Controller-Wireless-Triggers-Charging-Mac/dp/B0DBLMZJRJ

For real though, this is one of the single best controllers I've ever purchased. I bought an 8BitDo for my Steam Deck streaming to living TV, and the Cyclone 2 for my actual PC, and I'm considering snagging a second Cyclone 2 for the Steam Deck because its so good.

56 bucks is fine. It's the asymetric thumbstick layout that triggers me. I'd like to find nice alternatives like these, just to spite the massive 8bitdo dicksucking.