I just don’t see a similarity between achieving a high level of artistic talent and playing a video game at any level, that idea seems way too much like competitive TV watching imho.
Sure dominance games are an integral and healthy part of masculinity but not everyone engages in them in the same place. For example not everyone that does MMA or plays sports does it for the dominance game aspect, similarly not everyone plays video games to simulate a dominance game. No shade on the people that do though; but for many, video games are just a social form of entertainment.
Bump that bro, good men must say, do, and say they do, all the same thing. No matter the feathers it ruffles.
played some vt2 the other day and was amazed at how every enemy you fight actually matters and how even small cultists you need to look at, read their animations and deal with it appropriately
then I played darktide and realized that a ton of enemies I kill don’t even enter my vision. i just know where they are and kill them through other enemies
this is probably the biggest sign that something is making darktide very very non interactive, i’m killing enemies i don’t even see. sometimes literally around corners when i play psyker and perilous combustion chains around them. it feels more like a vampire survivors games at times like those (this is a huge exaggeration but i just wanted to get a point across)
I’d love to see the “casuals need to be able to clear H40 every week” crowd try to do endgame raiding in an MMO. I made the analogy before, but FFXIV Savage Raids are for like the top 5% of the player base, and the Ultimate Raids are for like the top 0.5%, and everyone who can’t do them just accepts that that content is not designed for them.
really tickled my conan-boxes at the time.
anyways, was good, not “pro” but my conqueror didnt have any issues in pvp or clearing most content (except raids of course) solo.
off i went and applied myself to the biggest guild on the server for raiding t3+ (mind you this was before the “unchained” thingie so t4 etc wasnt around yet)
anyways, dude took me into an empty instance of the raid dungeon …
2 1/2 hours monologue of where each (trash) mob stood, what health/ankle/aggro range, what class moved where/when and what taunts etc my off tank should keep on seconds-notice cooldown.
more details for each boss of course.
respecting his time/effort/experience i didnt interrupt.
I will say in the Darktide community’s defence. Content being released that is not for you is a much less bitter pill to swallow when there’s plenty of other content being pumped out that, y’know, IS for you.
That’s an absolutely fair consideration to make. I just see it as “I can’t do Cataclysm solo, but that doesn’t make Legend solo less fun.”
H40 doesn’t do anything, as far as I’m aware, that requires you to beat it. So, if it’s too hard for you, just play H30, H20, or Auric Maelstrom (which is H16 equivalent or something?) There’s 0 reason, again as far as I’m aware, why everyone should be able to clear H40 easily
He didn’t say “I didn’t optimize for damage” he said “I didn’t optimize around DS”, he didn’t crit, it’s a random DS (implying no crafting), and it didn’t have Uncanny Strike. So, this “unoptimized” spec was 3-4 hitting crushers. Your counter was “Arbites with Mauler can do the same.” Which fails as a rebuttle because, sure Arbites with Mauler can do the same right now. But if they left DS as is and then buffed enemies to be stronger. The DS build can be optimized even further, slapping Uncanny on it, tweaking some talents, crafting the weapon for better stats, and still 3-4 shot the stronger Crushers while the Arbites is now killing them in 7-8 hits.
Jan can correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure that’s the point he was trying to make.
He used thrust of all things. Not optimized for damage my ass. Sure, not optimized for damage per second, optimized for a pointless internet argument instead to provide the least sensible cherripicked example.
You people either didn’t read his post or don’t use your head.
I will say it again: that reasoning is silly and in no way representative of weapons powerlevel.
late response but thanks for clarification i suppose that makes sense, i figured hes just calling out any disagreement as an AI but if not then i take my snobbiness back, cheers.
you can also nerf something and not make any compensation buff and see where things land and then adjust later if really necessary. inferno staff always meant to clear horde only, not tons of crushers and elites in nano seconds and doesn’t deserve any compensation buffs
