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- Comment on mercy merci 1 day ago:
*People of Earth, your attention, please. As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system. And regrettably, your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition.-
The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you.
- Comment on Hybrid Air Vehicles lands first military deal for Airlander 10 - AGN 2 days ago:
These are actually not very suceptible to small arms fire, they don’t need a perfect seal to stay aloft, there are cases of observation blimps being used in the US war in Afghanistan that would be taken down and they would find them full of holes from gunfire (I mean, I get it, especially in that region your roof is your private space…).
The other thing is that they can fly quite high, they would occupy spaces that traditional aircraft wouldn’t be ideal for, definitely but that is why you shouldn’t compare this ridiculous monstrosity directly to other aircraft, it is a different thing.
It really is unlike any other aircraft ever built, it is continually strange to me that this wasn’t just a vaporwave idea that never made it past planning.
- Comment on If you want to be classy and impress people 2 days ago:
You mean wicketh?
- Comment on If you want to be classy and impress people 2 days ago:
Isn’t a dicketh the name for a ten point run in Cricket?
- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 2 days ago:
Bigger changes like vehicles and destruction would turn the game into something else entirely and even if they were only available in a side mode, I reckon Valve has numbers showing that not enough people would care enough to actually play it (like the Battle Royal mode, which I’m still salty they removed).
This all falls prey to the self fulfilling prophecy of only listening to your toxic competitive though.
Call Of Duty has a DIZZYING number of fun modes but it still has competitive Search & Destroy lobbies too, the only conflict here is in an actively hostile competitive scene treating any change even if it doesn’t effect the competitive modes as a threat to be dogpiled on.
Ignoring all the monetisation, which is basically a pipeline into gambling addiction for kids.
Also, I refuse to ignore this in any conversation about Counter Strike, it is fucked up.
- Comment on #environmentalist 3 days ago:
Me a failed intellectual
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- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 4 days ago:
CS 2 is a free game, it is nearly a carbon copy of one of the first major popular competitive shooters and it has an intense amount of marketing around it for esports.
I think the game would have had to actively been sabotaged to not have a playerbase at this point.
Global Offensive was a paid game, Counter Strike 2 is a free game, I would obviously expect more people to play a free game than a paid one.
- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 4 days ago:
shrugs this is the self-fulfilling prophecy of this kind of game design, there are WAY more players that would have been interested in that kind of thing but they left a long time ago because they were ignored in favor of the toxic competitive playerbase.
- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 4 days ago:
Eeew they got rid of surfing/made it way slower?
I would be way more pissed about this if Xonotic didn’t exist, that was one of the few spontaneous aspects of CS that I found fun to explore.
- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 4 days ago:
No, CS needs to evolve, the core competitive mode can stay the same but the game will continue to lose players if it doesn’t add other content, if it refuses to actually grow in anyway other than its predatory monetization schemes…
- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 4 days ago:
CS core is so solid that we could even play the same unchaged maps for another 20 years and would gradually play them differently year over year. i know this, because we did.
Yeah, good for you and the narrow things you want out of the game! That sounds soul-crushingly boring to me given all of the fun new FPS games that have come out over that period that have been way more rewarding, dynamic and interesting to experience.
I am not saying your experience is invalid, I am saying it is boring in most people’s opinion. Competitive focused players who enjoy playing the same thing over and over and over again don’t understand they aren’t the entire playerbase or that they also aren’t enough to really sustain a game either.
A good counterpoint to this is Team Fortress 2, Team Fortress 2 has competitive elements but it is also just a fun game, it has lots of fun different modes and lots of different content. There isn’t just the core competitive game and some casino crap strapped on, TF2 is so much more than that and frankly CS2 isn’t.
- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 4 days ago:
You aren’t understanding my point, I specifically said I understand there being a competitive core that remains essentially unchanged.
What I am saying that is not nearly enough, it is lazy, you don’t have to change the core game to add more aspects to it, more modes and more content that compliments the competitive core.
cs itself evolved for a long time without any input by valve at all, the same way chess or modern soccer evolved without drastic changes.
Yeah and I played a bunch of chess when I was younger and got bored because it was the only good board game anyone would play with me. I stopped playing board games period for a decade or so and it took modern board games including modern abstracts to get me into board games again. Does that mean I saw absolutely everything there was to chess and that it needs to be updated now? No, but I am very much in the majority of people in feeling that chess is kind of boring after awhile, and if it was the only option to play with chess pieces and a chess board I just wouldn’t own a chess set which is why I don’t own a chess set…
I own Agricola, Concordia, Dominion, Spirit Island, Bonfire, 51st State and other complex modern strategy board games and enjoy them 1000x more than I ever would chess unless I was matched with someone precisely at my skill level.
Also… people do use soccer balls for all kinds of silly stuff? Soccer is surrounded by a vibrant culture of games, interaction and play, just because the core sport is a rigid form doesn’t mean the entirety of the scene is rigid like that…
- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 4 days ago:
I am not saying I don’t understand there being a core competitive game that is meant to stay relatively unchanged like a sport… but CS2 doesn’t have destructible environments, it doesn’t have vehicles, it doesn’t have any innovation at all other than being more like a slot machine than the last Counter Strike which was basically the same as the Counter Strike before it.
A game this big I expect to have a core competitive very minimal core that stays relatively unchanged yes, but I also expect a bunch of more fun and more varied and changing stuff surrounding it that most players actually engage in. No not skins and shit, it makes me want to vomit even looking up that stuff and how many results you get for how to “invest” in CS skins (eeeeewww wtf?) I mean actual different gameplay with novel experiences to sustain and compliment the competitive unchanging core….
- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 4 days ago:
Is Counter Strike ever going to innovate or just keep monetizing with empty fluff?
- Comment on Helpful guide 5 days ago:
I wake up to the screaming of tiny dinosaurs
- Comment on When Everything Is Fake, What’s the Point of Social Media? 1 week ago:
Wrong question.
The right question is “What is the societal and economic value of a community space where the human element has been rendered functionally invisible?” to which the answer is of course “There is none”.
The problem isn’t with social media, the problem is with letting billionaires and corporations completely ruin social media and push rightwing beliefs while we pretend this isn’t an existential issue.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 1 week ago:
- Comment on Inspirational 1 week ago:
If you need your arrows to land all at the same time so you can fool the enemy into thinking you are many archers fire like this.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
OP like just askin a question here
- Comment on Damaging report shows how Starmer chose Israel over British democratic rights 1 week ago:
ah yes, this week on “Who Can Be Shittier, The US Or UK?” we cover the Palestinian Genocide, as the show does seemingly every week.
- Comment on The crab housing market 2 weeks ago:
Wait are you telling me *restructuring our society to be as cruel as we incorrectly narrativize nature to
- Comment on What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture? 2 weeks ago:
Unionize
- Comment on Elon Musk’s xAI joins race to build ‘world models’ to power video games 2 weeks ago:
It genuinely impresses me how stupid these people are.
- Comment on I c it! 2 weeks ago:
why? They clearly have crab claws for hands, how else would that picture be possible.
- Comment on I c it! 2 weeks ago:
I think you need to turn on antialiasing in your settings
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 2 weeks ago:
Ok I am bitter, I loved playing the support class and building fortifications and that part of the gameplay felt like it was so ignored by the developers that players on your team would start getting toxic with you if you built them.
To be fair often there was no point, a smg rush player could spawn in with c4 and eliminate the whole fort within 30 seconds of spawning in. I wasn’t roleplaying it or anything, the fortifications I built were always practical but the way the basic gunplay was balanced severely penalized moving slow and carefully in basically every respect except having a smg and moving a tiny bit slower than the enemy who would also have an smg.
I say that to give context, I think Battlebit could definitely come back in popularity, the biggest issue in my opinion is the lack of focus on mod support and it makes me question the longterm goals of the developers here compared to say Easy Red 2 or Operation Harsh Doorstop. If Battlebit had focused on allowing easy modded community servers to pop up, their inability to balance the gameplay to support a variety of playstyles could have been mitigated by the community, but they just kept making the wrong decisions in my opinion.
The sniper nerfs were enraging too because yeah, everyone hates snipers in a battlefield game but it isn’t that people hate the sniper class it is that people hate when most of their team is roleplaying being a sniper 3000m from the battlefield occasionally making a crazy long shot. Because this is the easy meme to make fun of the battlefield sniper role, the developers nerfed that ability of the sniper class HARD with Halo sniper rifle like bullet trails and very obvious scope glint.
The facepalm thing about it for me was that when snipers would play this role… it was infuriating to be on their team BECAUSE they are contributing nothing to winning the objectives or really even to supporting the other players flanks and backing them up. So… why nerf it? Snipers are extremely important in a well balanced Battlefield game because they allow you to project power from an advantageous position over long distances or they allow you to project power into a space without physically having to be in it.
When a sniper “pushes” an objective their role isn’t to actually BE IN the circle capping the objective unless they are very close or there aren’t enough close range class players to capture the objective. Their role is to get a good angle on the objective and any relevant terrain around it, so that they can ensure their team is able to secure and hold the objective.
It was very clear that the developers didn’t seem to understand or value this role in the gameplay of their Battlefield-like, which ok that is one thing but they also clearly didn’t have a good system to get consistent feedback from a broad section of their playerbase so that they could correct course when they blundered like they kept doing.
It is a shame because what people really wanted was an approachable, low graphics requirement, large social Battlefield game and it isn’t like the game ever had to be perfectly balanced competitively to fit that role. The balance just went sooooo far out of whack it became less interesting and fun for a lot of the playerbase, and the core part that was being listened to didn’t notice until the lights were being turned out…
A community server with a mod that fixed these issues could have easily saved the community around this game even if the developers “abandoned” the game for awhile ughh.
I don’t think Battlebit is dead though, I would be surprised if development totally stopped as there just aren’t a lot of good alternatives. Well there is Easy Red 2. Yeah nevermind, just go play Easy Red 2 instead it is better in every single way basically.
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 2 weeks ago:
I think that is how people active on the discord perceived it from their perspective, but it was not at all how I experienced it die as an initial huge fan of the game.
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 2 weeks ago:
Well at least we got Motor Town Behind The Wheel, I am not sure review bombing that game would be possible.
