Vidya Games Thread

[CalciumAnimal]

When you say Regional Variants, does that mean they made their own Regional Variants or is it the real ones from the games placed onto Sevii Islands?

they made their own. Good ones from all accounts (including my own). off the top of my head Doduo and Teddyursa both got one making them actually usable.


Edit:Might as well leave a reminder. Relic Castle is now Eevee Expo great site for downloading fangames and ROMs and there's also Pokecommunity use these sites for minimum sketchy downloads.

 

[Awoogers]

Oh they announced Hogwarts 2?

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

Oh they announced Hogwarts 2?

It was announced back in like September that the game is being developed because WB decided "wow, all our games sucked huge ass and lost money, making our shareholders upset with us. However Hogwarts printed massive amounts of money and sold 34 million copies, we should expediate the development of that." That standalone Quidditch game, MultiVersus, and Suicide Squad all flopping is probably making them dedicate all their resources to the money printer.

The only recent news I heard was that they're supposedly coordinating between Hogwarts 2 and the HBO series, which has made all the pedosky freaks lose their shit and start preparing for a second harassment campaign because they know the second game is coming in a few years, potentially 2026-2027 depending on how much shit they reuse from the first game.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

It was announced back in like September that the game is being developed because WB decided "wow, all our games sucked huge ass and lost money, making our shareholders upset with us. However Hogwarts printed massive amounts of money and sold 34 million copies, we should expediate the development of that."

The only recent news I heard was that they're supposedly coordinating between Hogwarts 2 and the HBO series, which has made all the pedosky freaks lose their shit and start preparing for a second harassment campaign because they know the second game is coming in a few years, potentially 2026-2027 depending on how much shit they reuse from the first game.

twitter assholes aside the game was not terrible. if they fix the gear found in the open world being shit problem id say its a fine game and fix the spells too.
Like you don't even need to make it strong just make it do something weird. A wand that makes all your spells home in but fire at a 75 degree angle.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

twitter assholes aside the game was not terrible. if they fix the gear found in the open world being shit problem id say its a fine game and fix the spells too.
Like you don't even need to make it strong just make it do something weird. A wand that makes all your spells home in but fire at a 75 degree angle.

The sequel could get the Majora's Mask/New Vegas treatment where the framework of the game is all set while they just go through and fuck around with some of the systems to make them interesting. This is one of the few series where it's perfectly acceptable to reuse the locale because it was the same setting for the books. That's going to save them a bunch on development time.

 

[Kazuma]

 

[RestlessRain]

Going to recommend a game called "Nubby's Number Factory". Jelly played this on stream yesterday, it's about $5 USD, there's a free demo, and it's pretty fun. You have a bunch of balls with numbers on the screen, and you launch your own ball to see how many of thse numbers you can hit, and what score you can get. Seems simple enough, but the magic is in getting different items that are triggered based on what's happening on the screen, which affect all sorts of things, and racking up ridiculous combos when you get it all right. The game looks like it came straight from 1998, which might be a turnoff for some, but I don't mind it, and it's easy to forget when you're in the zone. Very addicting game, recommended.

 

[UberSoldat]

Warhammer Skulls Showcase 2025 just happened.

Notable announcements:

• Rogue Trader DLC
• Dark Heresy, a new CRPG from Owlcat
• Boltgun 2 and a Typing of the Dead-style DLC for Boltgun 1
• Space Marine 1 and Dawn of War 1 remasters
• Another Mechanicus 2 trailer but still no release date

Good stuff all around

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Gman looks at the Crackdown series

 

[PemAloeKenzoku]

Big fan of both more content for Rogue Trader as well as another Owlcat 40k game. Can't wait to get stuck in, even though I know it'll be a total mess initially and require a solid number of patches

 

[UberSoldat]

Civvie plays Doom Dark Ages

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

Marvel Rivals Season 2.5 Info (May 30th)​

Ultron - Strategist​

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Spoiler: Info

-275 HP (had 275 in reveal trailer but 250 in practice range during dev vision)
-Flying
-Abilities:

• Primary Fire: Looks to be a raylike Cloak/Wanda but has 6 burst shots that do about 60 damage. I guess it charges up into those burst shots.
• Shift: gives 50 bonus health, dashes, and then gives 8 seconds of enhanced movement speed. Can dash backwards.
• E: Puts a drone on someone and heals them and a lesser amount to nearby allies. Tooltip shows the character you're droning and how many people. No CD.
• Right-Click: A radius around Ultron and his droned target receive bonus health. Ultron receives 85 bonus HP at the start of animation and allies receive 75 bonus HP at the end of the animation. 8 second cooldown.
• Q: 4 Ultrons appear next to him and they all start bombarding where you aim, healing allies and damaging enemies. 8 second duration but firing starts after 1 second animation. Leaves a spell field (3m?), not sure on damage falloff. Fires very fast.

-Team-up: Looks to have Iron Man team up
Looks to not have substantial healing but is a strong counter-dive

Spoiler: Old leaked character info page, lots of different info

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Dev Vision​

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Patch Notes​

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

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Team-Ups: 6 New, 4 Removed, 1 Adjusted (Anchors Heroes in Yellow)​

Spoiler

• New:
  • Stark Protocol: Iron Man= Vision
    • Ultron gets a unibeam that damages enemies and heals allies which pierces everything. 30 sec cooldown. Looks to last 5 seconds.
  • Rocket Network: Rocket= Peni
    • Peni gets a second Spider-Nest, which spawns a web and shoots out armor packs and spider-drones. Peni can have both Spider-Nests out at once.
    • Rocket's beacon will also spawn a web while also shooting out spider-drones and arancho-mines.
  • Chilling Assault: Luna= Hawkeye
    • Hawkeye gets an ice arrow that goes through terrain and does more damage the further it travels. It freezes enemies after a certain distance. 20sec cooldown. It can hit multiple enemies close enough and does ~100-130 damage at 35 meters.
  • Symbiote Serum: Venom= Jeff
    • Jeff can use Venom's tether ability to link with Allies and heal them. Does healing over time while tethered and then gives bonus HP at the end. 20sec cooldown.
  • Operation: Microchip: Punisher= Black Widow
    • Black Widow gets a new firing mode that fires a pulse beam that goes through enemies while aiming. Does somewhere around 100 damage.
  • Jeff-Nado: Jeff = Storm
    • Jeff's ult can buff Storm's ult like Human Torch. Unlike Human Torch, Jeff gets sucked up into Storm's ult like a Sharknado. Storm's ult duration goes to 8 seconds and pulls enemies towards it, ends with Jeff devouring them. No clue if it increases Storm's ult damage.
• Adjusted:
  • Gamma Charge: Iron Man removed from Team-Up with Hulk and the team-up being renamed to Gamma Monstro.
• Removed:
  • Symbiote Bond: Venom = Spider-Man + Peni
  • Ammo Overload: Rocket = Punisher
  • Chilling Charisma: Luna = Jeff
  • Allied Agents: Hawkeye = Black Widow

Balance Adjustments​

Spoiler

Vanguards​

Captain America

• Base HP nerfed to 575 from 600 (675 after team-up)
• Increased delay of shield recovery from 2s to 4s after using it. Basically this means the shield health will take longer before it starts regenerating again
• Ult cost nerfed from 2800 to 3100

Doctor Strange

• Damage falloff for primary fire buffed from 62.5% at 20m to now 80% at 20m
• No more damage falloff for Maelstrom of Madness

Emma Frost

• Range of primary fire buffed from 15.5m to 18m
• Shield nerfed from 500 to 400
• Carbon Crush (chokeslam) cooldown nerfed from 5s to 6s
• Damage from Crystal Kick nerfed from 50 to 40, wallbang damage nerfed from 100 to 90

Groot

• Primary fire damage nerfed from 70 to 65
• Cooldown on Ironwood Wall (big wall) nerfed from 8s to 12s

Magneto

• Charging speed of rings buffed from 4s/level to 3s/level

Thor

• No more Thorforce cost for Hammer Throw and it is off the universal cooldown but cooldown is now 6 seconds
• Hammer Throw gives 1 Thorforce for each enemy hit
• Hammer Throw damage nerfed from 70 to 45 and the return damage nerfed from 30 to 20.
• Bonus health gained from consuming Thorforce nerfed from 100 to 75 and the maximum bonus health nerfed from 200 to 150.

Duelists​

Hawkeye

• Base damage of arrow buffed from 32 to 34
• Projectile damage of Blast Arrow nerfed from 15 to 16 while spell field is buffed from 32 to 34
• Maximum focus damage bonus buffed from 70 to 75. Charging speed buffed from 100/s to 108/s. Charge falloff nerfed from 30/s to 32/s.
• Loses his 15% damage buff from being a team-up anchor

Hela

• Primary fire ammo capacity buffed from 8 to 10

Human Torch

• Damage of Primary Fire nerfed from 7 per hit to 6 per hit (it's a shotgun)
• Charging speed of Blazing Blast (right-click) nerfed from 2s to 3s
• Shield gained from Flaming Meteor nerfed from 75 HP to 50 HP and cooldown nerfed from 15s to 20s

Iron Fist

• Dragon's Defense/Right-click conversion ratio of damage blocked to bonus health from 1.5 to 1.3. Maximum bonus health nerfed from 200 HP to 175.
• Dash distance of Yat Jee Chung Kuen (bullet punches) in the Z-axis slightly nerfed when there is no target
• Dragon's Defense cooldown reduction from primary fire hits nerfed from 1.5s to 1s.
• Damage boost from being a team-up anchor nerfed from 15% to 10%

Iron Man

• Projectile damage of third Repulsor Blast nerfed from 50 to 45 and spell field nerfed from 60 to 55
• Bonus HP from Armor Overdrive nerfed from 100 to 50
• Now gains a 5% damage boost because he's an anchor for the Ultron team-up

Namor

• Cooldown of bubble nerfed from 15s to 20s
• Ult's inner circle radius buffed from 3m to 3.5m while outer circle radius buffed from 8m to 9m. Outer circle radius damage nerfed from 200 to 180, will still 1-shot with damage buff from Luna ult for 252 instead of 280.
• Monstro Spawn damage fall off buffed from 30% at 40m to 50% at 40m

Psylocke

• Wing Shurikens/Right-click return damage nerfed from 14 per hit to 12 per hit
• Invisibility duration nerfed from 3s to 2s

Squirrel Girl

• Primary fire ammo capacity buffed from 10 to 12
• Cooldown of Mammal Bond/Reset ability buffed from 12s to 10s
• Adjusted ability release for right-click, tail bounce, and ult

Star-Lord

• Ult cost nerfed from 3100 to 3400. Maximum targeting range buffed from 30m to 40m. Damage falloff buffed from 60% at 40m to 75% at 40m.

Storm

• Ult damage buffed from 150/s to 160/s

Punisher

• Movement slow during ult buffed from 20% to 10% when not firing and from 40% to 30% while firing.
• Primary fire (rifle) magazine buffed from 30 to 40. Damage per hit buffed from 18 to 19 and spread reduced.
• Gains 25 HP (300 HP total) and 5% damage buff because they are now an anchor for the Black Widow team-up

Strategists​

Jeff

• Joyful Splash (primary fire) now also damages for 70/s and can heal through multiple allies but not through enemies. Damage fall off starts at 20m to 65% at 40m. Healing reduced from 150/s to 100/s.
• Aqua Burst (right-click) now has 3 charges that recharge every 3 sec. Spell field damage buffed from 40 to 45 and now also launches up enemies on direct hit
• Healing Bubbles changed from burst healing to healing over time. Now 120 over 4 sec instead of a burst of 85. Now 3 charges instead of 6 charges. No more enemy launch-up effect.
• Hide and Seek (dive) now has an energy cost of 20/s. Max energy of 120 while restoring 15/s when not submerged. Healing while submerged nerfed from 35/s to 15/s.
• Passive damage reduction to headshots buffed from 50% to 70%.

Luna Snow

• Primary Fire healing and damage buffed from 20 per round to 22 per round.
• Absolute Zero/Snowball now grants 50 bonus HP per enemy hit
• Ult cost nerfed from 4500 to 5000

Rocket Raccoon

• Healing from orbs directly hitting allies nerfed from 55 to 50

Team-Up Nerfs​

• Fantastic 4
  • Cooldown nerfed from 20s to 25s
• Hulk = Namor
  • Gamma Monstro cooldown nerfed from 15s to 20s
• Emma Frost = Magneto Psylocke
  • Damage caused by illusions nerfed from 30% to 20%

New Experimental Mode: Ultron's Battle Matrix Protocol (June 6th) [Auto-Chess Battler]​

Spoiler

-Limited time
-Auto-chess battler where you place your heroes on a 4x6 grid
-Choose a roster of 6 heroes
-Unique builds where you choose different cards to augment
-Card Examples:

• Increase DUELIST Primary Weapon fire rate and ammo by 8%
• Strategist: Max HP increased by 30
• For Each Unique Roll, increase Ally Heroes' Damage Reduction by 1%
• Increase Strategist Primary Weapon fire rate and ammo by 8%

-Cards have multiple ranks to buy. Each card costs points and you can spend 1 point to refresh your card shop selection of 4 cards
-Strategist ultimates now also damage in addition to healing
-Characters were changing like Hela firing multiple projectiles in an arc and Venom growing massive

Proficiency Avatars, Mood, and Emoji Systems​

Spoiler

-Lord icons will now appear on the hero select wheel
-New Mood and Emoji systems

• Can place chibi icons on nameplate that will appear on friends list
• Can communicate with emojis in game, uses a comic book speech bubble like how Jeff communicates after missing his ult in game

New map is Arakko. No info on whether it's a domination, convoy, or convergence. None of the footage showed any progress meters, convoys, or anything.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

Warhammer Skulls Showcase 2025 just happened.

Notable announcements:

• Rogue Trader DLC
• Dark Heresy, a new CRPG from Owlcat
• Boltgun 2 and a Typing of the Dead-style DLC for Boltgun 1
• Space Marine 1 and Dawn of War 1 remasters
• Another Mechanicus 2 trailer but still no release date

Good stuff all around

Actually concerned they chose to do Dark Heresy.

as it's name implies it's the grimdark part of the warhammer TTRPG. And while i suspect it will play at least as good as RT Owlcat is not the best when it comes to being overly dark and grim if you played their games some of their best writing comes from MOMENTS of darkness but prolonged stuff tends to drag and wear people down

Hope they either Balance it with some Levity (making it weird they didin't just call it RT2 or one of the other setting names) or hired some black library vet to even it out.

 

[Zizara]

Warhammer Skulls Showcase 2025 just happened.

Notable announcements:

• Rogue Trader DLC
• Dark Heresy, a new CRPG from Owlcat
• Boltgun 2 and a Typing of the Dead-style DLC for Boltgun 1
• Space Marine 1 and Dawn of War 1 remasters
• Another Mechanicus 2 trailer but still no release date

Good stuff all around

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Gman looks at the Crackdown series

Very happy to see Dawn of War remastered, I sunk stupid amounts of hours into that game back in the day & its expansions/mods. Looking forward to Mechanicus 2 & more Owlcat 40k cRPGs too.
Darktide is a game that's just my kind of jank so it's kept bringing me back in with all its updates. Basically the whole game has been overhauled at this point so it's honestly about fucking time they finally introduced a 5th class. Also a pet-focused Arbites with dog to match what they're doing in Rogue Trader. Wonder if GW wants us to read into that? Playing as Judge Dredd & Cuddles the Nanny Dog will make for a whole new dynamic to freshen up the game but I hope the AI is on point because Darktide is a lot more fluid than Vermintide was.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

Very happy to see Dawn of War remastered, I sunk stupid amounts of hours into that game back in the day & its expansions/mods. Looking forward to Mechanicus 2 & more Owlcat 40k cRPGs too.
Darktide is a game that's just my kind of jank so it's kept bringing me back in with all its updates. Basically the whole game has been overhauled at this point so it's honestly about fucking time they finally introduced a 5th class. Also a pet-focused Arbites with dog to match what they're doing in Rogue Trader. Wonder if GW wants us to read into that? Playing as Judge Dredd & Cuddles the Nanny Dog will make for a whole new dynamic to freshen up the game but I hope the AI is on point because Darktide is a lot more fluid than Vermintide was.

Suspect it will operate on understood rules rather then having an actual decision making brain. something like attacks the guy your targeting unless X. We have had good companions in games for a decent few years now so I'm not too worried maybe a few kinks to work out on launch.

 

[Helkar]

It happened...it actually happened.
I am CAUTIOUSLY optimistic. On one hand, getting any content at all is a blessing as i was near-certain in the winter that this game will be moved to End of Life support cycle.
But on the other hand, the Siege endgame system worked wonderfully. The Atlas tree was an incredible feat in game design and whatever upgrades or changes are happening to the endgame system in this one better be fucking good, because it's probably the last endgame update Path of Exile will ever receive.

 

[MrProcessor]

Warhammer Skulls Showcase 2025 just happened.

Notable announcements:

• Rogue Trader DLC
• Dark Heresy, a new CRPG from Owlcat
• Boltgun 2 and a Typing of the Dead-style DLC for Boltgun 1
• Space Marine 1 and Dawn of War 1 remasters
• Another Mechanicus 2 trailer but still no release date

Good stuff all around

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Gman looks at the Crackdown series

" Dawn of War 1 remasters"

Do I dare to dream? Surely they can't mess this up.

 

[UberSoldat]

" Dawn of War 1 remasters"

Do I dare to dream? Surely they can't mess this up.

This is Relic proper and not some crappy third party studio handling it, I have faith

 

[Superduper Samurai]

This is Relic proper and not some crappy third party studio handling it, I have faith

Who made DoW3 again

 

[Smelliest007]

Who made DoW3 again

And CoH3.

 

[UberSoldat]

Who made DoW3 again

And CoH3.

Difference here is that this is an existing game, it would take A LOT to screw this one up.