u/WarMom_II

These guys are interesting, I think they give you a neat challenge / decision: 'raw DPS to body or leg, or a small amount of heavy pen to helmet then finish off the head' Problem for me is that's pretty easy to do on 1-2 of them. Problem is when a bunch of them appear or have shuffled up over time. I see this a lot at just difficulty 6 and they're also really pervasive on extraction. It gets worse if they have the modifier where you also have the pool of standard Illuminate enemies, because some of the best tools for dealing with these guys aren't applicable to Fleshmobs or the Harvester or the Manta (although thankfully Mantas are pretty rare).

I kind of would prefer to avoid the Reset Button stratagems (orbital napalm, laser, 500KG) because these are a fleeting solution to an ongoing problem, are worse on extract when we're trying to hold the space, and can take out the SEAF which are helpful even if just as meat shields. I also can't really justify jumping forward to the 40K Warbond but if I wanted to be cynical I couldn't shake the feeling that between Support Weapon Reload Speed and the Bolter Pistol it was selling a solution to These Specific Guys. So what's the play? Just be so proactive that they can never gather in the first place?

So here's what I've tried:

Eruptor: Reliable insofar as being a primary you spawn with it, can take out in ~5-6 crotch shots, but that's too slow without a long sight line or if you have multiple

Senator: 3 shots pops the helmet. Half the ammo, long reload even from 0, too slow for multiple but always on me at least

Laser Cannon: Too slow, heatsink can't take multiple

Quasar: windup, cooldown, good luck if you miss bozo

Grenade Launcher: one of the better ones and also applicable to most other enemy types, but reloads feel brutal

Autocannon: Very much the same as the GL, with the added benefit of being able to pop the helmet with a couple APHETs

Antimaterial Rifle: good for popping helmets (2 shots), not great for other enemies

Railgun: similar to AMR, one safe shot can pop the helmet. This feels like the most consistent option for helmet pops but then you have to dink the tiny head or try to make everyone else get the memo that you're on hat-popping duty. Absolutely dismal against fleshmobs.

So there's a few things you have to take as true here:

1. Sharma deliberately puts eight asterisks as a true reflection of how many letters are in the subtitle
2. the BGS account does the same
3. Kirkbride, who only works with Bethesda on a freelancer or consulting basis post-Oblivion, both has this insider info and decided he can leak it, attached to his name, without consequence.
4. He's actually leaking ('yep, that's it') and not just cosigning speculation ('Yep, I think that's most likely')

Bear in mind that when people speculated Redfall was the subtitle because of its trademark, Kirkbride showed up to say it was not the case, so he does credibly know people on the inside.

TSIA, for the most part?

I'm intrigued by the idea of the roguelite mode but I have to wonder about the set dressing for it. If the perks / upgrades are all going to be very Rock Band 'grounded / realistic' like 'you upgraded your amplifiers!' or if we'll see something more bonkers further down the line. Like, a very otherworldly final boss. Think of the direction GH3 went at the eleventh hour, or definitely the Warriors of Rock story.

I'm very much on team Fight Badass Demons In Skeleton Hell but where do you sit?

I picked this up while it was free recently, had been on and off my radar for a while, and I feel it's one of those games with an infectious 'I gotta talk about this with someone RIGHT NOW' energy as you're playing it, same as Disco. You can see, well, not so much the same DNA in places as approaching similar solutions to the same problems; the actual text takes up one half of an onscreen book to create an off-centre portrait scroll like the Feld tape. Sound cues as punctuation. Only Brante is a work in translation, but its English localisation seems to have taken the route of being a little unfurnished, even if it's still effective. You won't find anything like Shivers lavishly recounting a world you've lived in but you'll get the vibes.

Both games are 'my life is ruined' downers that sometimes loop all the way back around to being comical, with a side of cold political intrigue, sometimes drowning in proper nouns and the names of side characters.

I feel like together they say something about the idea of 'RPG' as opposed to 'CYOA' ('create your own adventure'), but then, what makes Disco a CRPG? Is it...the addition of graphics? The isometric perspective of the games it hails from? The free exploration? It's not like there's a set of combat systems? Because Brante most definitely feels like an RPG to me in ways similar to Disco. It's heavily driven by stats, to the point where it shows explicitly where breakpoints are. Some of the criticisms that come up are that you can't just pick what you want because you don't meet the stat requirements. And, like...yeah? It's an RPG? I do get the frustration of 'oh, I made my choices towards this route, but this stat is one point off' but...that's RPGs. The equivalent in Disco is failing an 80% roll. It happens.

But then again, at least Disco both has a 'fail forward' attitude and lets you savescum while rewinding in Brante is decidedly weaker, even if there is one mechanic that feels very fail-forward (plus in most cases your 'failure' to achieve an extra point was a couple hours ago).

I dunno, they feel pretty interlinked to me. Both still route back to tabletop narrative playing even if Brante wouldn't have featured dice. Even if the language in Brante doesn't hold a candle to how Disco was written it's still got some very well-realised characters.

I feel there's also something to be said for, well, it made me ask 'why' would anyone play a fascist run in DE, and I have done, but the 'why' mostly seems to have just been 'why not'? There's...not really any fascist characters that make it seem appealing. Measurehead is a weird larper and Gary is sniveling and pathetic. I had a similar experience in Brante in that while the most staunch traditionalists are broadly unpleasant to be around (and it knows), there's at least some characters who will tug on your heartstrings towards maintaining the present order.

Anyone else try it, or other text-based RPGs to scratch the Disco itch?

Put the seal back on the hopium tanks.

For those unaware, Blizzcon is / was Blizzard's annual convention which shut down for a while. In previous years, if you had a ticket (including a Virtual Ticket), you got a bunch of stuff across all of Blizzard's games. This year the Virtual Ticket is not available and panels are streamed for free instead, so as a result they look to be separating all the Blizzcon goodies off from each other in each game.

I've never heard John or noclip's Danny O' Dwyer mention this, even though I'd known they'd played the game (with Danny giving it some time on the noClip crewcast) and I thought that if it was in, they'd have definitely noticed it.

I remember when the trailer came out, it was probably not long after Derry Girls finished airing, and...look, nothing in it feels like a smoking gun, but you put all these things in front of me in rapid succession, and...

• Ah a bombed out street could be anywhere
• Sure look it, lads in balaclavas is normal for insurgents
• Anyone could be saying 'our day will come', it's not like they're bona fide chuckies
• Alright why is it a tricolor and why is it those three colours

I feel like I've been going nuts with seemingly nobody mentioning it but everyone I showed it to thought 'yeah, I think you're on to something'. The only other places I'm seeing people make the connections on a google are someone on this very sub noticing the same things and more in the trailer, and then me asking an Irish sub at release time. When the demo came out none of this was present (save for, at most, the Absolutely Not the UN Peacekeeper helmets), but the first NPC you meet does lay out very explicitly there's sectarian conflict at the heart of it all.

Did anyone pick it up and was this stuff excised?

"[Fandom is] only going to get worse from here" Caine said, blissfully unaware.

Yes the result is cringe. The method is kinda fun though.

Want to kill a couple weeks to distract yourself from the crying? Figure out making ice of various colours. From premade drinks is good, from actual fruit is better (for the thinking, not for the result you get).

With drinks it's just pour and freeze. With fruit you gotta blend and strain it and skim off the foam, might get a better result from simmering the diced fruit in water to extract everything and lose the solids entirely. Watermelon just has a great yield by itself of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beHSggFRsmk

Original sources are episode 7 and this clip