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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 23, 2014 11:36:47 GMT -5
Pretty sure there is no effect on matchmaking. The concept doesn't completely make sense to me intuitively from the description, but it's something to max out, so I'm sure I'll do it. wittyscorpion, if you think I wear ANY pants when playing Titanfall I may have some mildly disturbing news for you. Comfort is king.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 22, 2014 23:05:23 GMT -5
Also, looks like there will be populations numbers available in the new patch! www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=135461662&postcount=3519I totally pushed Rayme for that after kicking him around in 8v8 Pilot Skirmish a couple of months ago, so credit probably goes to me. Also, totally called the Horde thing, so hey Den, maybe clean up my tag. "Defender of the Frontier" would be acceptable. Just throwing that out there... I'm feeling like the Frontier is a safer place with me in it. Thx in advance bro <3
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 22, 2014 14:04:41 GMT -5
Releases tomorrow, I'd guess around 10am PDT given how they've rolled out other updates.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 22, 2014 13:26:42 GMT -5
Surely anyone with a lick of sense will be dropping Destiny and returning to Titanfall full-time tomorrow...
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 22, 2014 12:44:45 GMT -5
It wasn't that well explained... but it sounds like the ground gets electrified, so if you're not wallrunning, you're taking damage.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 22, 2014 12:33:58 GMT -5
Marked for Death round based no respawn version? Ground is lava mode? Yes yes, this will all do quite nicely.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 22, 2014 12:16:52 GMT -5
4 player horde mode confirmed.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 22, 2014 11:58:54 GMT -5
^OMG I always knew BO2 Peacekeeper was really a Titanfall gun I mean just look at the default camo. Stream delayed 15m btw.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 21, 2014 21:35:44 GMT -5
This is totally gonna be horde mode, right? Considering that some of the updates were considerable improvements, the fact that they are calling this the "biggest" has me hyped, bros.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 21, 2014 10:12:56 GMT -5
One of us... one of us... Gooble gobble gooble gobble. Prepare to have to spend well over 100 hours to get a whiff of where you need to be. I'm not too worried about it, if it doesn't grab my attention I'll have no problems dropping it. Especially with the fall blockbuster season upon us. Maybe it will be more fun now that I have a XIM4, or maybe mouse controls will just have me feeling that 30 fps even more. We'll see.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 21, 2014 3:58:36 GMT -5
wittyscorpion, you probably think I am trolling you. You're kind of right. Just like last year, Taco Bell is running a contest. And just like last year, if you apply a little intelligence to it, you have really great odds. And thus, just like last year... I won a PS4. And this year it happens to be the Destiny bundle plus an extra 2 Destiny digital codes. I'm just going to give the thing to my brother, but I suppose there's not much reason to not redeem one of the digital codes for myself. So there ya have it. Not sure how long it takes for them to ship, but I'll at least have to give the game another shot (beyond the alpha/beta stage). Can't beat free, right?
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 8, 2014 19:40:29 GMT -5
But, its hard to tell with how troll-y (let's all hate the games Dumien plays) you've been as of late. Trolling Destiny is too much fun. It's true. But really, I do actually like Hearthstone, I just don't like every aspect of it. And in the larger context of gaming trends I really dislike the business model. Well, I had reservations going into this game. I've had multiple people recommend Hearthstone to me despite knowing that. Even though the game is fun, it hasn't really changed my opinion on the concept for a collectible card game.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 8, 2014 19:23:20 GMT -5
It's not though because you can sell what you don't want and craft what you do want. 320 common cards = 1 legendary, 80 rare cards = 1 legendary 16 epic cards = 1 legendary, 4 legendaries you don't want = 1 legendary you do. You get what you want eventually. This is to make up for the fact that you can't trade cards between players in hearthstone. It's probably better because it drives the relative cost of the amazing cards down and drives the relative cost of the filler cards up. Well, it just kind of supports my position that the game could work as a flat-price retail game, if you can just remove one of the tenets of these sorts of games (card trading). Why was trading not implemented? It's not a technological limitation, they could have easily stayed true to the model and allowed players to trade with each other. Then people would get a duplicate legendary and just trade it one for one (instead of 4 for 1, lol) for a similar dupe in a friend's deck. Note, I'm not endorsing card trading, but that's another conversation altogether. The packs are the "I feel this is worth a lot" options. The option for people who don't think it's worth as much is to just pay to play Arena. You will eventually get all the cards in the game through Arena, and at a much lower cost than if you bought packs. That's where the flexibility in their pricing is. It's also the same path that people who refuse to pay a cent go, paying for arena entries is just to get around the limited number of Arenas you can do at the start. If you think the mode is fun and can afford the 2 dollars, why not pay? If you think it isn't worth it, okay. Don't start calling them greedy for having options to accommodate everyone. I googled it, it costs around $400 on average to unlock everything at the outset through packs. Theoretically that would be the option that accommodates me, but that price is ridiculous. I didn't say the pricing isn't flexible. I said it isn't comparable to a true 'pay what you feel it is worth' model and that it gives players who do pay money an advantage over those who don't. As for paying 2 bucks to play the arena, maybe I will do some of that, maybe not. But I am mindful of the fact that it is essentially gambling and thus distinct from something like going to an arcade and dropping some quarters into Pac Man.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 8, 2014 17:38:34 GMT -5
Guys... Guys... Guys... Hearthstone is an online CCG, which is based heavily on TCGs like magic. "collectible" and "trading" both imply that it is possible for equally skilled players to have an unequal footing due to lack of collection. Part of the fun at the casual level is having this sweet legendary that some other dude might not have. This doesn't matter at the very top where everyone has everything...and it shouldn't. That is a function of the TCG/CCG... else you couldn't call it a TCG/CCG. You want to play casually? You need to be able to take your lumps from someone with a superior collection. You need to get a sufficient high from beating them that lower percent of the time. Building a F2P deck and winning games you shouldn't have is pretty fun. If it isn't fun for you then you shouldn't even be looking to play a game like this. You want to play competitively? You fork over the dough or join a team to pay for you. No ifs, ands, or buts. You don't want to hear someone's opinion on a game? Well then, don't suggest to them that they play it, buddy. No ifs, ands, or buts I'm not sure why the fact that it's a collectible card game makes it immune to criticisms of CCGs in general. I made it a point to mention that I hadn't played one of these kinds of games before in the first place. So you can't be surprised that some of my criticisms can apply to its genre. More broadly it's a turn-based strategy game, and that's where its appeal lies with me. I do enjoy playing, but I'd probably enjoy it more if it took German-style board games as its inspiration. Sure, beating someone with 'better' cards is satisfying, but it doesn't balance out losing games at a higher rate than I otherwise would. And no, I don't get much satisfaction out of ROFLstomping a noob with the extra advantage of having better cards than him. I meant to stop viewing the free to play model as completely free. While that is an option, it has to be behind a lot of grinding. Otherwise nobody would pay them for anything. The argument that hobbyists release games for free doesn't apply to a game released by Blizzard. They certainty aren't here to give everyone an entire game for nothing. It's not that they are being greedy, they are just trying to sell their game. Well, the way you stated it came across as broad and condescending, as if a game couldn't possibly be worth playing unless made by people trying to profit. Arena is walled off behind the pay/grind though. I'd like this game better if there were an arena mode that you could play for free that didn't drop rewards for the normal game. Well yes, duh, I understand that they're a business trying to make money. And yes I understand that so-called F2P is a business model designed to make money. I'm not sure what gave you the impression that I'm that naive about these things. And nope, it's not "paying what you feel it is worth". That's an actual model that people have used. As in, "Hey, here's all the content, and if you like it I'd appreciate that you send me some money here". That's not what Blizzard is doing at all. And sorry, selling card packs filled with randomized shit is inherently exploitative and thus greedy. That's a trend I will frown on in any game whether it has its roots with CCGs or not. I'm looking at you, Battlefield 4.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 8, 2014 7:17:17 GMT -5
Stop viewing the game as free to play. What? It's the business model for this game. It's literally the first thing the Wikipedia entry has to say about it. Plenty of really good games have been made and released by hobbyists with no expectation of payment. I don't have a problem with paying for a retail game. Hell, it's probably my preference. If you can't see why locking strategic options behind a pay/grind-wall in a competitive game is problematic, I don't know what to tell you. The grinding isn't a problem because you can use any class you want to get from rank 25 to rank 1 to legend. If you don't know what legend is, I don't think you can an informed and well reasoned opinion on all things hearthstone, especially because there are MANY decks and classes you can play and do well with. All the expensive cards are situational and well priced in terms of game mechanics. Control match ups with expensive cards can very easily get overrun by cheaper aggressive decks or out valued with shrewd midrange deck play. Ok, so high-level play doesn't require expensive cards. Look, that's great. But what's not-so-great is at newbie-low level play, where I'm at now, it's clear there are games that I lose simply because I don't have access to some of the same cards as my opponent. It's a bad first impression. At least in StarCraft 2 when I lose, I know I got out-played, and I had the same opportunities as my opponent.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 8, 2014 3:30:05 GMT -5
Well, when you just start the game is basically grinding to get all classes to level 10. After that point the full game is really opened. Naxx is worth it to get, but I wouldn't waste gold on it. I would just buy the bundle in the shop tab. It's the best money to in game gold price in the game aside from the arena. Well apparently the first episode used to be free, but now costs 700 gold or $4.99. Based on that added inefficiency I guess I will consider buying it. But it seems like maybe 10-15 dollars worth of game, with the rest being F2P collectibles taxation. Still not a fan of that. Tried Arena out, since they give you one freebie. Went 3-3. Got like 45 gold... a pack of cards and a single card or something? I guess that seems better than outright buying a pack. Also, it leveled up my Mage to 10 without having to grind out the basic deck so that was a nice bonus. I don't really want to watch good players, at least not yet. Part of the fun is figuring out my own strategies. Once I have a better understanding of the game, I'm sure I'll take a look at how other people play. So looks like you only get one new quest a day. Had I known that I probably would have gotten a little more gold at the start, oh well. I have re-rolled as much as it will let me, I still haven't gotten a quest larger than 40g though. You don't need a lot of expensive cards to be competitive either, playing a zoo deck does not require a single naxx expansion pack or more than like 4-5 rares. You do not need to grind imo because there are really cheap decks that are legend viable ie, Shaman, zoo, a few others. I don't know wtf 'legend viable' means. Just because some decks don't require much grinding doesn't make it not a problem. Maybe I don't want to play from a limited set of viable decks. I'm still walled-off from using other strategies, and gimped trying to come up with my own. That aspect of this game will never appeal to me.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 5, 2014 4:59:50 GMT -5
So finally gave this game a try a couple of days ago for the first time. I skimmed this thread a bit, and most of it is still flying over my head. Never really played a collectible card game. Except for the minigame in Final Fantasy VIII I suppose. Which I admit was more fun than the rest of that game...
Don't know if I like the whole collectible angle for pretty much the same reason I don't like Destiny. I don't want to grind for stuff. And I certainly don't like being at a tactical disadvantage against people who have grinded out better stuff than me. At least it's sort of justified in Hearthstone by their business model. Free2Play = Pay2Win. Fair enough. Not my preference, but hey, at least the game won't ever cost me a dime.
Another annoying parallel between Destiny and Hearthstone. It's just... so lame. The lore. The characters. The art. Whatever. Just goes to show you how badly WoW ruined the Warcraft universe. It's all so cringe-worthy, just like Destiny with its Minotaurs and Wizards. Just... stop. Make something cool for god's sake.
Is there a 'fair' game mode anywhere? As far as I can tell you can use whatever cards you'd like in all the game modes? I haven't tried Arena yet as I'm not willing to part with any gold until I understand my options. My first thought is that I probably want to save it to unlock the single player expansion stuff.
Speaking of gold... the quests reset at 1am Pacific? Of course they do. I just finished all three of my quests in that 1:30-2:30am range. I was kind of hoping it would give me 3 more once per day no matter what time during the day I finished. I get it, they want to annoy you into playing every single day for a pittance until it's just frustrating enough to start spending real money. But still annoying.
Got my Hunter class up to level 10, finally tried making a custom deck after getting frustrated with just how easily I was getting beaten by people who had better cards. I mean, I realize the opening decks are supposed to not be amazing... but I think they could have at least been competent. It would be nice if the casual mode was just opening decks so I'd get a better feel for basic strategies. I think in my very first game against a person they played a card that did like 4 damage to all my minions. Definitely didn't have anything close to that. Maybe I should have grinded all my characters to level 10 in the single player first.
Anyway, after customizing my hunter deck a bit, which involved grabbing a bunch of cards classified 'beast' along with various beast friendly bonus cards... and the all too important "make an enemy 1 health" cards I won my last couple of games and felt pretty good about it. Both very close, one where I needed to draw one of my taunt cards on my second to last turn to survive long enough to win, and another where I had a big comeback against someone with a ton of 'golden' cards, which if I understand correctly means they leveled up quite a bit past level 10 and thus are nowhere near as new to the game as me. I have 12/20 cards unlocked with the other classes, aside from Paladin which is at 14/20, just to illustrate how much of a noob I still am.
I considered hopping onto this game when it went into beta a year or so ago, and I kind of regret not having done it. It's really fun even if I don't appreciate the 'collectibles' aspect of these things.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 30, 2014 22:32:48 GMT -5
Original COD w/ United Offensive is still best COD.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 30, 2014 15:27:42 GMT -5
Well, I just upgraded my pre-order to the collector's edition. Bronies being able to express themselves through art is kinda COD's raison d'être.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 27, 2014 2:35:35 GMT -5
Well, I only played the alpha/beta for a few hours. My thoughts on the game... it sucks. It just... wasn't fun. I didn't even get to the point where I tried to 'grind' a mission more than once. The missions weren't very fun the first time. I wouldn't expect them to be any more fun after playing them 10 times!
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 26, 2014 14:48:31 GMT -5
It took 11-12 hours for Microsoft to fix the issue with the Store. In the meantime Respawn specifically told people not to buy it for $10, but then today Microsoft says that the people who did are being refunded. So insult to injury for people who would have been fine waiting a day for a refund instead of waiting an extra day to play the maps.
Population seemed ok on PC, but hard to say.. that was release day for a new map pack, so you'd hope at least a few people would be playing. Still wish they'd give a player count per playlist.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 25, 2014 21:42:49 GMT -5
The maps are pretty cool for the most part. I'm still not sure on Backwater, but maybe I just have to learn it. The other two are instantly agreeable. Played on PC. Xbox One Season Pass still has the issue where it tries to charge you. Pretty massive screw-up.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 25, 2014 13:21:57 GMT -5
600+mb patch but no patch notes yet... so maybe just changes to support Wingman LTS and the new maps. Or they are just late with the notes.
Xbox One rollout is a bit of a shit-show. Season Pass holders are getting prompted to pony up $10 to download. Very frustrating. @titanfallgame blames Microsoft, still no fix 80 minutes after the maps went live.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 24, 2014 17:53:04 GMT -5
The algorithm has spoken! You must pick up Destiny (Sci-fi, post-apocalyptic, and sort of Single Player), it's your Destiny If I wanted Destiny it would be more like:
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 24, 2014 17:41:06 GMT -5
Well. They're not wrong.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 24, 2014 16:33:23 GMT -5
Wingman LTS is apparently replacing Pilot Skirmish when this hits... don't let the door hit you on the way out, you garbage game mode
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 24, 2014 10:39:03 GMT -5
They're suspiciously silent on a title update. Hopefully we get patch notes soon.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 24, 2014 0:21:37 GMT -5
Lol, Destiny fan making fun of PvZ... Good one.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 23, 2014 21:06:25 GMT -5
Are you sure? Let me check first if there's a way to get Xbox to accept Food Stamps.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 23, 2014 20:42:47 GMT -5
Trailer's out:
Map pack is out Thursday.
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