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  • goodeye8@fedia.iotoPC Gaming@lemmy.ca•RuneScape studio Jagex confirms layoffs 'to reduce complexity, increase agility, and ensure we are fully focused on the areas that matter most'
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    3 days ago

    A company can become more agile with layoffs if you have a bunch of useless middle managers who exist only to justify their existence and you lay them off.

    I don’t remember who but someone made a good example with the “this is fine” meme in Clair Obscur. Someone on the development team came up with the idea and it probably took a day or two to set up. So they took a day or two and it’s in the game. Had the game been made by Ubisoft that meme would’ve never ended up in the game because the idea would’ve gone through 5 different managers who need to give their blessing (because none of them want to take the full responsibility in case it sucks), then it goes through legal to make sure there’s no infringement, then through pr to make sure it’s not somehow offensive. Eventually a week has passed and management is still deciding if it should be implemented. Finally it gets canned because the time spent on making the decision had already made it too costly to implement. Something that could’ve been done in a day took a week and nothing got done.

    But I’d be surprised if that kind of downsizing is what Jagex had in mind.

  • goodeye8@fedia.iotoGames@lemmy.world•My highest achievement in Expedition 33 (yet)
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    4 days ago

    I loved Lune. I enjoyed her skills and gimmick the most and I think she’s probably the one character that takes the least amount of investment to make a decent build for, so she can and will absolutely carry you to the final act. But then she pretty quickly drops off as other characters get their builds together and end up dishing out far more damage than Lune.

    If you want some build tips

    early game

    I made her into a free aim sniper and used Trebuchim to collect 4 stains that then got used for Mayhem or, if I got lucky, Elemental Genesis. Obviously you stack free aim buffs and some starter energy and dead energy to pick off the weakest enemy to regain AP while getting the necessary stains for the payout. You get 4 spell slots as flex slots if you need them but I personally didn’t need them.

    mid/late game

    I recommend swapping to Kralim (minimum level 10) and focus on setting up Elemental genesis. For spells you want to make sure you don’t consume the stains that you got for free, so either Crippling tsunami, fire rage and terraquake to set up the correct stains and then elemental genesis on the next turn. If you get unlucky and get two of the same type of stain you should set up for Lightning dance. Last spell slot is essentially a flex slot. Either add some buffs or Mayhem to clear up your stains (if you have 4 but can’t cant Lightning dance). For Lumina/pictos cheater (obviously) gives the biggest power boost to your build but you need to make sure you start with at least 5 AP to cast the set up spells and then make sure you gain at least 4 AP for your next turn to cast genesis.

    Maybe there’s some ultra late game build that works, but I found a build that I enjoyed and when it stopped working I felt I’d rather remember her as she was than try to make her into something I might not enjoy.

  • goodeye8@fedia.iotoGames@sh.itjust.works•Parrying Is The Worst Thing In Video Games
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    10 days ago

    I haven’t played Mordhau but based on what I’ve seen of gameplay it has a different issue I have with first person melee, which is that you have no perception of reach. If you can’t identify how far you or your opponents can attack then the gameplay turns into sticking your face in your opponents face and I find that pretty annoying. I guess I’m kinda picky about my melee combat.

  • goodeye8@fedia.iotoGames@sh.itjust.works•Parrying Is The Worst Thing In Video Games
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    10 days ago

    After giving it some thought I kinda agree with the author. Not in the hyperbolic sense that it’s the worst thing ever, nor in the sense that I don’t like parrying because I suck at it, but I agree on the point where he’s talking about fencing.

    There’s so much more creative freedom and depth in actual martial arts, HEMA, fencing etc. that is just completely missing from most games. You don’t get the contact feel of your opponent, you can’t physically feel what your opponent will do. You can’t really gauge how far your attack will reach or, more importantly, how much range your opponents have. You can’t choose your angle of attack and, again more importantly especially in the context of parrying, choose how you defend. Your attacks are generally just a button click at which point the character does whatever attack has been programmed. Your defense is just a button click that generally blocks all attacks in front of you. Your parry is also just a button click that if timed right just parries (and sometimes automatically ripostes as well). All the nuance of melee combat is simplified to “one button for blocking/parrying and one button for attacking”.

    So yeah, parrying does suck until we can turn it into something more engaging than just timing a button press.

  • goodeye8@fedia.iotoGames@lemmy.world•What are some good cooperative shooters? Hidden gems?
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    11 days ago

    Are you sure it’s all negative? Because on my steam the base game is “Mostly positive”. The DLCs are “Mixed” and outside of the The awakened king I can’t say much about the DLCs.

    As for my short review. I’m not sure what those people think Remnant 1 was about but for me it was unique worlds, unique builds and unique enemies. Those things together give you an unique gameplay experience and Remnant 2 expands on all of those things.

    The aesthetic was excellent in Remnant and Remnant 2 continues that by making those worlds even more detailed. There were multiple times where I just looked in awe at what the artists had concocted together. The only time where I felt the artistic vision wearing thin was literally the end of the game. I have vivid memories of all the worlds that are available in adventure mode, the final area ended up being unremarkable compared to everything that had come before it.

    The builds in Remnant were pretty unique but I personally felt like the game didn’t give you enough tools early game to mid game to really build something out. You had guns, armor, trinkets, traits and mods but it all felt kinda constrained. Remnant 2 expands that by additionally giving you class archetypes, weapon mutators and you can modify the relic (the heart thingy that heals you in Remnant 1) and add relic fragments. All all those things individually are also expanded. Compared to the first game you’re going to get more guns, more armors, more rings, more amulets, just more of everything necessary to make a build.

    The enemies in Remnant were great, an excellent mix of small enemies, minibosses and big bosses. Remnant 2 expands all of them with an even greater mix of small enemies, minibosses and big bosses. I’m not going to spoil any bosses but I definitely found them fun and memorable. The final boss is the only exception that comes to mind as I remember that being a frustrating fight.

    The only objectively negative thing I can say about Remnant 2 was the performance. I don’t know if they’ve released some patches for it, but when I played around the launch of the awakened king it was borderline unplayable without upscaling.

  • goodeye8@fedia.iotoGames@sh.itjust.works•DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies
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    12 days ago

    I’m pretty sure the game is enjoyable, but is it really $70 (Or in case of EU 80€ which to be crystal clear is a fucking joke of a price) enjoyable? I thought about buying Doom TDA but when I saw the price tag I decided to buy V Rising instead. I’m pretty sure for more than half the price I’m getting as much enjoyment out of V Rising as I would out of Doom TDA.

    My issue with the increase of premium pricing is mainly pragmatic. There’s no reason to pay that price when you could get just as good or better games cheaper.