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Castlevaina: SOTN

>The whole leveling up makes you way too OP and it makes the game super fucking easy

>Alcuard is way too fucking slow

I still love the game don't get me wrong but man these are some shit aspects

>>16868973

>Kingdom Come: Deliverance

>Counter attack

You can also abuse the fact that enemies can't block attacks if they started before you target them, since the combat works in a fake turn based combat system, if you start your attack before the combat starts, the AI don't know what to do and just takes it.

You can look away from them, start an attack and instantly look at them for a 100% hit chance on every attack. This does not require waiting for the character to learn any skill, you can do this from the start of the game and can be used to kill everything before the horse escape sequence.

One day I will fucking manage to kill all horse niggers and use a bandage during the horse sequence, but that requires some fucking good archery skills and plenty of luck, if they don't spawn infinitely, that is

X3: (all versions)

Ship AI is the same for all ships, this means fast, light ships don't change their vector fast enough to avoid colliding with things. This meant most M5 scout class ships with all speed upgrades would kamikaze on larger ships, killing entire wings of fighers instantly.

In order for the entire galaxy to be simulated in real time, all the ships not in your system run on a fixed stat system. This made certain events (AI migrations) devastating to the sectors they roamed through unless you personally showed up to force the game back to in-sector rules .

The controls have sliding inputs, which have a fixed value of thrust. This means, you can slide capital class ships faster than straight forward thrust. Faster than some fighter ships when you triple chord.

>>16868973

>All unique (and therefore interesting) items are subject to the infamous level-scaling as well

Not all of them in Skyrim. Oblivion was a lot worse in that regard.

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Leveled_Items

Almost every game: The AI is retarded and you can easily break most games that give you enough freedom or strategy games if you played it like a game instead of trying to immerse yourself in them.

>>16869112

not chess tho

>Total Warhammer 2

<every faction has a total of 3 units that are worth using and some only have 1

<once you start spamming that one unit you can't lose anymore

I still like the game but I just wish that they'd implement a unit cap for powerful units.

Every sports manager: let me trade those 9 below average players that I can replace instantly for your once in a generation superstar.

>>16868979

I was going to suggest Total War Attila does this, but then I noticed you mentioned pirate-themed

>>16869127

>every faction has a total of 3 units that are worth using and some only have 1

Hi Legend.

>I still like the game but I just wish that they'd implement a unit cap for powerful units.

No Anon. All Strategy Games have to be arcadey as fuck. We can't have stuff like population, nobles and monsters living in your provinces not being abstracted.

>>16869150

Yeah, they do that too. It's funny how naval battles aren't even the focus in total war, but their engine is better for naval battles than dedicated pirate games.

>>16868973

XCOM EU/EW/LW

>AI can't actually do anything when it discovers you so even if it gets free positioning you still get a free turn to kill them

>pods teleport between a few waypoints when you can't directly see them

>you can see through the fog of war with your movement cursor

>Explosives exist

Fairy Bloom Freesia

>good comboing and thoughtful skill planning, how about projectile spam and guard cancelling instead

not even kidding even the last boss and secret boss can't do shit against that and there's not that much skill involved into doing it

Bayonetta

>Abusing the fuck out of enraged state

>Abusing the ability that kilgore has to hitstun on enraged enemies

>Abusing the extra amount of magic you get when dealing with enraged enemies to spam torture attacks

>Abusing the fuck out of angelic arms which are guaranteed to drop with some exception if you kill with a torture attack, angelic arms that in turn give a fuckton of magic

>Parrying accessory having a buffer so you can just spam the command and any hail of projectile is free magic and maybe a counter if you're a bit lucky,

even more busted on the WiiU it doesn't take an equip slot to have that when using the Link costume, so you can have the time bracelet + perma enraged enemies accessories along with parrying and literally rape everything effortlessly outside of Joys because fuck Joys

Starsector

>Drover spam = AFK battles

>Longbow + Kopesh + Perdition + Cobra on said Drovers = AFK flawless victory against basically any fleet that won't out CR you

>ECM if high enough breaks the AI completely, coupled with 1000+ range weapons + ITU + AO and some built-ins like ATC on the Paragon means you're basically doing target practice

>>16869152

>Hi Legend.

You joke but even the AI is building doomstacks nowadays.

>We can't have stuff like population, nobles and monsters living in your provinces not being abstracted.

God I hate the city management in Warhammer, probably the worst in the series.

>>16868973

>Rebels can be easily defeated with a certain amount of base defence

>factions literally don't give a fuck about your ideology or actions anymore, only if you praise them and do tasks for them

Just like in the real world.

>>16868979

How about Ass is Red: Black Flag?

>>16869188

It's a decent game, but do you really not notice that during boarding your ship gets left alone by all other ships?

>>16869197

I always end up quitting my playthroughs around after Hong Kong to. Paris isn't nearly as fleshed out as New York or Hong Kong. Command center and the Cathedral are the only 2 parts I really enjoyed. Ocean lab always kills my playthroughs and I haven't played area 51 in so long I can't remember if it's good or bad.

>>16869214

That's a cute Banette. I want to smooch him

>>16869165

At least bayonetta 1 lets you cheese enemies to death any way you want, parry included. In bayo 2 if you aren't hoarding magic so you can enter umbran climax and spam wicked/infernal weaves, or dodging perfectly so you enter witch time you ain't gonna be doing any sort of meaningful damage, i'm sure you've heard this before but the developers balanced the game around witch time, some enemies are way too fast for normal bayonetta to deal with and some outright ignore hits/hitstun from her if they aren't wicked weaves OR you're in witch time, shit's so bad speedrunners opted towards using gun extends (hold P or K after attack) to deal damage and farming halos in a certain stage to be able to afford the 10 million mecha "early" and literally stomp everything to death.

>>16869246

1 million mecha i meant, fuck.

>>16869246

>build the game around witch time

But then how does NSIC work? Do you just rely on the witch time accessory?

>>16869253

>But then how does NSIC work?

Evil harvest rosary, if you can't slow them might as well blow the fuck out of them.

XCOM 2012 and the pod system. Realizing how it works leads you to the correct way of playing - putting your soldiers in a blob, moving the furthest one ahead, and scooting everyone together (even with no cover) and activating overwatch on every soldier. Enemies who aren't activated cannot harm you, and playing aggressively causes you to activate extra enemies with almost no reward.

>>16868973

>Pathfinder Kingmaker

The worst part is that it's based on the shit design that most modern CRPGs go with - making saves, checks, and stats so high that fights become coin flips to see if you win. Failing that coin flip means you have to endure the inconvenience of loading a save file from 10 seconds ago. Considering the fact that the overwhelming majority of "difficulty" with that game is determined at the character creator (the game on the hardest mode is still too easy if you build great characters instead of a variety of fun characters), it's just bad design. The level-up screen is infinitely more fun than the combat, and their characters aren't interesting or well-written, so you have no reason to not just hire a band of custom mercs.

For as much as creators talk about disliking 3.5 for the wizard/cleric/druid dominance, they sure do like making games, systems, and extensions that continue to encourage you to do nothing but make large roving parties of clerics, wizards, and druids.

>>16869169

I want an extension for OpenRCT2 where guests get "fatigue" of certain ride qualities, so you have to build variety.

Fallout New Vegas

>selling pre-war clothes you're currently wearing to the Sierra Madre Vending Machines turns Agility into a dump stat

MGSV

>Enemies can't go outside their leash range so nobody chases you during an alert

>Shooting enemies into a bleedout state mid "!" AND allowing them to die counts as a non-lethal kill that doesn't void "perfect stealth no kills", you do get bad boy points but every non-lethal kill requires rescuing half a prisoner with fulton.

>>16869435

Vermintide 2

>It's made by swedish cuckolds who added gachashit and literal spyware

>>16869435

>>16869503

swedes seem to have a habit of ruining games over time with updates and gameplay changes. smash rats 2 is such a shame because the devs are terrible at their own game and every gameplay change they make narrows the viable builds to where there are maybe 2 classes that can only be built 1 way to be viable on legend and above. the changes to ranged and melee combat along with the retarded stagger system on top of nerfing temp health has removed any willingness to play the game.

>>16869503

>literal spyware

what did they do i havent been paying attention

>>16869513

Easy AntiCheat, I'd assume.

>>16869528

EAC and Redshell.io

>>16869190

Makes me wonder how that shitty For Honor With Boats game will deal with boarding in a multiplayer environment. They'll have to add some mechanic that separates the two ships in the middle of boarding actions from the rest of the players on the map, otherwise you'll just have gankers blasting the shit of the two ships while they're preoccupied.

Galactic Civilizations

>The best way by far to use your starting treasury is to lean your economy completely towards development, since buying buildings or ships means you pay 5 times the price. >From there alternate between building and researching better buildings, ignoring money generation completely if possible, and your output will be astronomical compared to anyone else.

>Planet invasion is an expensive tech no AI has until the midgame, meaning you can leave planets completely undefended in good faith. The only consequence from no military at all is that the AI will try to extort you.

>Both tech and economy will far outstrip any military strategy factions so you already have an advantage if war happens. But if you trade with them they get income based on your economy. They become totally dependent on that income and can't declare war no matter what if you want to go that route.

>Because of above, grabbing as many planets and resources as possible is the only deciding factor in the game. Everything that follows is just a victory dance.

>>16869107

Oblivion really fucked the series up bad, didn't it? I get the feeling Todd and co. when making it got really excited and thought they could implement all these different mechanics that would never be properly realized:

>everyone has unique schedules

>faces can bend and twist to show emotion

>NPCs interact and have dynamic conversations

>game levels with the player so that combat is never boring

Somehow they fucked up all the cool concepts in the game to the point of them all becoming detrimental to it

>>16868973

>The Unfair Mode in Pathfinder Kingmaker

>(a better difficulty setting would have been to just double the amount of enemies in the game, this just skews the game and gives you a false impression of the pathfinder ruleset)

at the fundamental level, the difficulty settings are what pisses me off the most about not only Pathfinder, but other recent CRPGs; they always feel so condescending whether easy or hard, and no setting ever feels like it's how you were intended to play it

how I would have done PF:Kingmaker difficulties is how the P&PRPG does them: select how many points you want to make your character, select your XP track, and maybe toggle a couple houserules which should count for both players and enemies (like nat 20s always confirm or rolled defense (instead of adding 10 to your armor class bonuses, add a d20 roll each time. Can catch a tanky fucker in a moment of weakness or give a vulnerable mage a fortuitous dodge)

these alone would create a significant amount of granularity in playstyles

>>16869669

>game levels with the player so that combat is never boring

That's exactly why the combat is boring. You can never wander into a crypt that's way over your head and get your ass beat only to return 10 levels higher for revenge. Everything is the same. Once you start fighting bandits in glass and daedric armor it just gets stupid.

>>16869435

>in a lot of modern games playing aggressively or flashy is inferior to just playing like a massive faggot and waiting in corners or sitting on a roof farming kills

as shit as destiny 2 is you could still push when you knew when and how, especially when the rest of your team plays like you mentioned. at least you could back when I was playing (around forsaken launch)

>>16869557

EAC is ok tho, and definitely beats launching without one. redshell is outright telemetry for information gathering on the level of asian "anticheat" rootkits.

which is pretty retarded when you think about it, plenty of people would probably be fine with transmitting some info if it would be done like steam surveys what you see what gets send you can opt out, redshell is usually snuck in in a later updater.

>>16869149

It's so stupid but it works in every fucken game

>>16869214

>>16869618

When I learned about this, I lost all interest in ever playing Pokemon again.

This puts such a huge emphasis on autistic activities outside of catching, training and fighting.

If it was breeding newer species of pokemon instead, then it might be interesting, but it's just stats. And Pokemon doesn't work that way.

Less any individual mechanic and more the realization that WoW's shitty rebalances were intentional and meant to keep players relearning the same mechanics over and over with no intention of fixing the fucking game. Just shitty social engineering to encourage player distribution. At that point there is no reason to get good at a class because the rules are just going to change next month.

>>16869856

>not silent assassin

>>16869165

>not cancelling lightning legs into bazooka to shoot millions of rockets everywhere

>>16869856

Hitman stealth in general is broken in every single game in the series

Actually is there a single stealth game that isn't fucking broken in half once you kinda knows how it works under the hood?

>>16869865

That's a glitch, what I'm using are actual intended mechanics and they already break all the systems in place.

Granted there's a few things you can't cheese the way I described, Arguably Balder, Jeanne and Rodin all will actually become a lot more dangerous and less predictable if enraged , Balder less so since you can still kinda parry everything he throws with some skill and knowledge of his weird attack hitboxes but Jeanne will just throw extremely random and fast attacks so you have to play very defensively and preemptively dodge a lot while Rodin just becomes the fucking Souldozer and wrecks your face in seconds if he ever goes into that state

>>16869889

>Actually is there a single stealth game that isn't fucking broken in half once you kinda knows how it works under the hood?

It annoys me that shadow-based stealth games like Thief and The Dark Mod don't have a functioning cover system.

You can only rely on shadows. Some barrels are just invisible.

There was a daylight farm mission for TDM and the lady of the house stared fucking straight at me, when I looked at her behind a few crates.

>>16869890

Maybe one person out there will realize that's a problem you can actually somewhat resolve with raytracing

>>16869856

>>suit is the strongest disguise since you can't get a cover blown in it

I have never had my cover blown once in blood money. I didn't even know it was possible. I thought you're basically invisible with it.

>>16869890

>You can only rely on shadows. Some barrels are just invisible.

I can't speak for the Dark Mod but in Thief 1 & 2 this is bull. I hide behind shit all the time.

>>16869892

>Raytracing

Have you ever tried hiding behind shit IRL? It works like 1/10th of the time. And you want to bring that to games? That sounds awful especially for first person. Imagine hiding behind something but your foot sticks out because of how the model is animated so you get seen. That shit would only work in vr or something.

>>16869874

This shit pisses me off, it makes mission 10 a pain in the dick to S rank.

>>16869993

No way, you'd just have separate geometry for raytraced collisions, like a cylinder the covers your torso and head.

>Ever tried hiding behind something IRL

Hiding in real life depends on brightness, movement, and whether they're looking for you or expecting you, or if they're distracted.

Europa Universalis III

>stability, infamy, legitimacy etc basically don't matter as long as you have a large enough military to quell the revolts

>there are a few personal unions at the start of the game which are guaranteed to break at some point, letting you swoop in and claim the throne (lithuania, sweden, norway, brandenburg, etc)

>inheriting provinces from a personal union is literally just a rng check when your monarch dies, so you can just load a save until you get lucky

>inheriting provinces in the same culture group as you instantly cores them which is insanely powerful in the right circumstances (inheriting lithuania as muscovy, brandenburg as austria, etc)

>vassal states will never ever betray you as long as you keep their relation up, which is not hard as unlike personal unions they won't insult you even if they're 100x larger than you

>the more provinces you have, the slower your technology develops

>therefore if you give all but one of your provinces to a vassal your tech will develop at a lightning fast pace and you will steamroll everyone else

>the best possible outcome of the game is to have one province and 9001 vassals that also only have one province

>colonisation is basically never worth it because overseas provinces give tariffs not taxes, very few new world provinces aren't poor as fuck, and it costs a fucktonne just to set them up

>the only ones that aren't poor are in the caribbean so there's only ever one place to aim for

>still not worth it compared to just vassalising your neighbours back home

>AI is completely retarded and will conquer provinces it can't possibly hold, inevitably end up with mad inflation, train more units in a province that's under siege guaranteeing they'll be killed instantly upon completion, etc

>playing on very hard mode actually makes the game way easier as it multiplies the AI's money massively so winning wars is like winning the lottery

>>16869669

They didn't "fuck up all these cool concepts" they invented these cool concepts during PR interviews and never had any intention of implimenting them or any idea how to if they were so inclined.

At least with the first one. Face's showing emotion is just spin for "facial animations" which wasn't anything mindblowing. The game leveling with you they implimented fine, but it's a terrible idea that will haunt that game like the spectre of death, always necessitating a mod on any playthrough to make it worthwhile.

The shedule thing was proven complete BS. The example they showed in whatever video or interview it came up in was found to be entirely scripted. I think they left it in the game files on the release version or something. It's been a while so my memory is foggy.

>>16869993

> Imagine hiding behind something but your foot sticks out because of how the model is animated so you get seen.

Stealth in real life regardless of how it's done rarely works unless you're using full camo gear in a natural environment and have very good breathing control

Obviously there's way to balance that shit out you don't have to go full retard and alert if one single ray intersect with the edge of your model, raytracing is just the easy way to actually properly check if you're hiding behind something withoutbig limitations like say MGS

>>16870022

>Stealth in real life regardless of how it's done rarely works unless you're using full camo gear in a natural environment and have very good breathing control

What? WHAAT? Like I'm sneaking around upstairs because my kids are asleep and you think it fails every time because I'm not in a ghillie suit holding my breath for 20 mins straight?

I know what you are trying to say. But stealth is not the word you are looking for. When I came home at 4am in the morning after spending the night out drinking and had to sneak past my parents I managed it. All I did was crawl in through the window. No 4 years of special ops training required.

>>16868973

Kingdom Come recently rebalanced combat, good opponents will become more passive and wait to counter you if you never try to strike first, and will start trying to close distance and clinch you. Most noticably they nerfed clinching so that 1) You don't win every clinch even with max strength and 2) the ai can counter your follow up strikes after you win a clinch if you spam them.

Overall I think it's better balanced and forces you to mix up attack angles, counters and clinch fighting.

>>16869043

Interesting exploit but an extremely counterintuitive and unfun way to play. Based on how it sounds, seems like this would leave you extremely vulnerable in any of the various 1 vs 2/3/4 engagements since you can't block properly without being locked on either, and there will be multiple opponents swinging at you at once.

But anyway, since it's so counterintuitive it's hardly "game ruining", if anything how hugely effective bows are at high level and how poorly enemies deal with you firing at them is worse. Also if this exploit is from an earlier build it might be patched.

>>16870005

>>stability, infamy, legitimacy etc basically don't matter as long as you have a large enough military to quell the revolts

That's not fun.

>>16870010

Banjo feels like the worst DLC character so far. He's boring.

>>16869669

The only good thing that happened after Morrowind was nerfing enchanted items.

Is anyone besides me going to point out that OP keeps posting pics of that bitch everywhere, and not just in this thread? She’s everywhere and it’s definitely not multiple people. The cancer is real and it’s here (with other crossposters)

>>16870091

Yep. Fans generally don't know what they want.

>my initial reaction to Byleth was tepid

>playing as him is a blast of wrecking fuckers with single powerful moves like my other favorite Ganondorf

>>16870031

Both of those case have people unaware that you might even be here, and in both case it's a familiar person and moving through a familiar environment, that does impact the result quite a bit for various reason

Trying to stay concealed from stranger looking for someone in a neutral or unfamiliar environment is a very different thing and most people would tell you that's it's much simpler to look like you belong or completely avoid any possible contact than trying to conceal yourself entirely from a nearby person.

Granted "looking like you belong" is sorta under the stealth umbrella now that I think about it.

>>16870096

>The barrels in the Thieves Guild, before you climb down to the lower levels don't let you hide behind them. I was caught by the servant.

<The objectively worst level in the entire series that everyone universally hates and complains about

That entire level is plagued with bugs. Did you ever notice the shadows don't match up with were you can hide? I know 1 or 2 other levels in the first 2 games might have issues like that, but in 99% of cases you can get away with hiding behind objects.

>>16870132

>That entire level is plagued with bugs. Did you ever notice the shadows don't match up with were you can hide? I know 1 or 2 other levels in the first 2 games might have issues like that, but in 99% of cases you can get away with hiding behind objects.

But only, if you are completly covered. My point is that if you aren't completly covered, it will not give you the hidden status. While in other games the devs coded certain objects to make you hidden, even if there is a small hole in there, where you can observe the enemy from.

>>16870189

I have never experienced a problem with hiding behind objects in Thief ever. I highly doubt the game requires the processing power to nitpick small holes and shit. If anything it's probably super forgiving.

>>16869165

>Starsector

Every sandbox game has a point at which you break the game. Half the fun is finding which one is the MOST dominant, if there is one. And that's not even mentioning

>Start a colony and put an alpha AI in charge

>Every single time Hegemony comes over to do their "audit," just bribe them

>The cost of bribery never even fucking increases even though your colony gets richer and richer with a sapient AI managing it

>Eventually the 100k CR bribe becomes a pittance and you destroy what was left of their failed empire because you have that much resources

If the cost of bribery increased this would actually make sense. A higher profile colony is also a higher risk to bullshit about in their audit report, after all.

>>16870189

>>16870211

The only thing I can think of is you're leaning/peeking around the object (the AI can see you while leaning this isn't Dishonored) or you're going through the level finding crates and trying to build a wall to hide behind.

>>16870212

Wait the bribe increasing isn't vanilla?

I haven't played vanilla in a very very long time

It actually makes using AI free colonies a very good alternative, what with the luddic path not giving enough of a shit to disrupt anything on top of no bribing, it's also almost worth not going freeport just so you don't get as much stupid expeditions from a bunch of factions every so often

>>16870212

>do quests for pirates and LP to get to -50

>colony generally is never raided except for expeditions

>two or three wolves with mining blasters is enough to deter most pirate fleets

>can just grab 2 or 3 big trader ships and do bar and fulfilllment quests

>or marine raid a pirate base as soon as you start and kill its infrastructure and then fill in $200k+ trade contracts 4 months later and get $2m+ in under a year and catapult into colony mode

Pokemon EVs and IVs

>>16870249

How could I fucking forget

>find system with derelict Legion XIV

>guaranteed to have one in each star of that nebula

>guaranteed one free of Dmods

>sometimes two nebula with a set of Legion XIV

>2-6 Legion XIV for basically free if you can live with Dmods

>Not much outside of Remnant deathfleet can fuck with you once fitted properly

>>16870096

>Ok Save Scummer,

Save scumming even being possible is a failure of the game designer.

So much shit in Paradox games is purely RNG based, it's insane. The worst run of your life could also be the best run of your life if you save scummed every major decision.

>>16869043

You can arrive at full health, no injury, all the horsearchers dead and you'll still arrive limping being chased by the horde. Only thing you can change in the prologue is If you ignored/distracted/killed the mongols attacking Theresa. Runt's also immortal and killing his lackeys does nothing.

>>16870408

Anon, playing the games in ironman mode is fun. Do it!

>>16870225

Pretty sure it isn't. I must have not even had it in my mods because I seem to remember I did exactly this just a few months ago.

>Free port

Degeneracy.

>>16869414

>For as much as creators talk about disliking 3.5 for the wizard/cleric/druid dominance, they sure do like making games, systems, and extensions that continue to encourage you to do nothing but make large roving parties of clerics, wizards, and druids.

I couldn't have worded it better. The mentality sometimes seems to be "Well, that's what people want," but I wouldn't have expected anything mold-breaking from Paizo anyway. As far as I can tell the rules team is unironic mage worshipping faggots who seem to be genuinely making what they enjoy, so more power to them I guess.

This is why I am rooting for Larian to get better and release something that is truly memorable. They're the only ones who seem to have an underlying motivation that involves bucking those traditions and rethinking it from the perspective of a computer interface. You don't need a grid because you aren't trying to move pieces with your ape hands. Fights should take place three dimensionally because again, not a table. Too often CRPG designers just bring in tabletop adventure authors that don't change anything about their methods and so you get games which take place entirely in 2D with respect to positioning. Not to mention most CRPG studios don't even really seem to care about good interface design to begin with, although they have plenty of art to go with it.

>>16870343

>IVs were retarded as the "balance changes".

Both IVs and EVs existed in a simpler and much more abusable form as far back as gen 1.

>faggy meta ruined by manchildren pedo-autists

The state of the meta is 100% due to gamefreak being shit and have zero idea of how to balance anything or even how the mechanics of thier own games work. Smogon may be up its own ass a fair bit but a shitshow was inevitable when the numbers are decided by people who don't understand how multiplers work.

>>16868979

Holdfast is technically a Napoleonic Wars game, not a pirate game, but it features actual naval combat and boarding mechanics.

>>16870506

I don't think IVs can be something actually abusable, isn't it literally that G1-2 IVs are a couple bits smaller.

DVs were pretty bad though, while EVs are done badly; having an general stat boost and not much else to it was a bad idea inherently.

Neither system was truly abusable though.

>The state of the meta is 100% due to gamefreak

Technically the only format that actually specifically has smogon working on it has their stench affecting it.

Gamefreak doesn't try to force a "pillar of a format" by leaving in one meta warping mon. Nor do they consider variety the devil.

Smogons shite formats definitely ain't just gamefreaks fault, even if pokemon was designed well; smogon formats would still feature this very crap.

And this extra crap format is constantly fucking pushed by heaps of autists.

>>16868973

>Oblivion & Skyrim

Download not_leveled_unique_items.esp. Done.

Unles you're filthy consolefag of course. Then youre supposed to suffer.

Also best items are made with smithing anyway.

>>16869856

>>you can literally kill every single non target as long as it's an "accident kill" and still get SA

>Not aiming for Terrorist in every single level.

>Not crashing the Mardigras Level with over 1000 kills.

>>16870846

>wotc

it was Paizo who removed the weapon strap in the second printing of, I think it was Adventurers Armory

the fuckhead mistook a weapon strap for a 3 foot long cord instead of the equivalent of a wiimote strap and declared it impossible to use when his uncoordinated ass couldn't catch his mouse, which has neither the heft nor form factor of a weapon

never minding that a decent swordsman can work with the 3 foot cord

>>16870967

how did they handle it in 2e? and did they can that retard?

>>16871047

Back in 2nd edition, DMs handled calls like that.

>>16870967

It wasn't removed and nerfed because the designer is an uncoordinated manlet, that was merely the justification they gave. A crappy one at that considering that even fighters in 3, 3.5 and Pathfinder are capable of some pretty unrealistic feats even within the first 5 levels.

It was worse than that, it was done specifically to nerf Gunslingers because, once again, they couldn't abide a non-magic option being able to accomplish anything.

>>16870056

It's true to life though.

Chess. At high level it is pure memorization.

>>16871394

openings and end game theories maybe but mid game you have to actually know what you're doing. There's just too many combinations to memorize them.

Any Fire Emblem game after you realize that using only 3 or 4 strong characters is more effective than using the maximum amount allowed on any map, especially if you don't care about treasure or recruiting even more weak, useless characters into your army. The enemies will charge at you blindly and impale themselves on your characters' weapons without doing any damage.

>>16872049

if this is what I think it is and if you know what Im talking about could you please post anything from the old /x/ thread that was in, a story in which some goofy phone poster gets killed by this guy for dating his daughter. I have been trying to find that again for a laugh for a while now with no luck

>>16870645

>Gamefreak doesn't try to force a "pillar of a format" by leaving in one meta warping mon.

>gen 5 weather wars, where only 2 of the 4 were viable

>gen 6 megas, where some were stupidly broken, some were somehow worse than the base forms and they even added an extra technically-not-a-mega-but-it-totally-is shillmon that doesn't count against your 1 mega limit

>gen 7 tapus being pseudo-weather but on good pokemon

Gamefreak has stated that they try to make each gen feel different by making these dumb broken format warping gimmicks and throwing them in without any regard for balance. Smogons influence is if they somehow limit or ban this op gimmick, which thankfully for this gen they did.

>>16872109

Broken insane gimmicks are still better than trying to make the meta hyper stale, which is my point.

I'd rather have the absolute shitshow that battlespot type things have than smogon.

>Smogons influence is if they somehow limit or ban this OP gimmick

I hope you realize, any player you actually play with that would follow smogon isn't going to be playing only with such a simple ban right.

More likely they're just not a tard and came up with a blatant solution to a really terrible mechanic; disallowing use.

Smogons influence will be as per usual, so a bunch of bans that aren't just the gimmick. You don't get "pieces of smogon", you get the full package.

The full terrible autistic package, my point is that smogon is a shitheap itself with its own flaws. Its not just gamefreak that blights the """competitive""" pokemon community.

Not that gamefreak were suddenly good for no reason.

>>16871591

True but has been remedied somewhat in three houses maddening difficulty. Gambits are really useful to delay enemies even for low damage units, and 9 tile boss monsters are way overpowered and will wreck even high level units eventually if you don't take down their barrier with gambits (which regenerates every other turn). And not importing a clear save into maddening basically forces you to totally optimize your strategy and gambits (even your best units can't tank average mobs early on).

But even with max stat totals (which I don't know if it's possible to have for 4+ units, definitely pushing it) I don't think most units would be invulnerable against high damage end-game units and bosses. Even turning Felix into a perfect dodge tank would limit you to only counter-attacking high hit % bosses (since you have to wait to activate alert stance).

>>16872109

Gen 2 UU and gen 3 OU are the best pokemon competitive will ever be. They don't care about balance anymore and megas/faries should have made that obvious.

>>16873095

>gen2 UU

I've never played this , what exactly makes this good exactly?

Gen 2 isn't generally the paragon of balance and fun. UU is also a big banlist on a game, you could pretty much achieve it on any game with enough autism; so counting it as the "best it'll ever be" isn't logically flawless.

Gen 3 is pretty fun though. I don't think the game really handled the split amazingly, and gen 4 shat the bed repeatedly with terrible choices like stealth rock distribution and a couple of other things.

Later gens just bedshat even harder with terrible choices.

>faries

Despite how shit they are, they are pretty much the only sign they give a shit in contrast really. And random things like the burn nerf in gen 7.

They try sometimes and buff mons with SpD other times.

>>16873427

>gen2 UU

>I've never played this , what exactly makes this good exactly?

Gen 2 OU is stall: the meta. UU lacks all of that bullshit and is literal perfection. I think gen 3 OU is great because phys/spec split just made weak pokemon weaker and strong pokemon stronger.

Instead of a split they should have made certain moves "hybrid" so they can scale off attack or special attack depending on which one is higher. Imagine the elemental punches working that way.

Fairies are just stupid. They were created to balance dragon out, but they could have done that simply by buffing the garbage ice type, the type that exists to keep dragons in check in the first place. Now 99% of ice pokemon are total garbage because all of their weaknesses and because all water pokemon learn the best ice type moves.

>>16873459

I don't think being a ban list for one of the worse metas automatically makes it good.

>UU lacks all of that bullshit and is literal perfection

I somehow doubt it totally lacks that. I suppose it would be hard to really convey what makes something good past a base level.

>Instead of a split they should have made certain moves "hybrid"

Or you know, they could have just fixed movesets instead of making moves questionable as shit.

Punch=special was always logically dumb. Its a lazy option.

Also crap movesets existed in gen 1 without anything like a split so they aren't even related.

Mons with crap movesets are worse than mons with decent movesets; who could have guessed.

Once again i really do not mean that gamefreak make intelligent decisions, just that fairy was definitely an attempt.

I still have no idea what the hell they were on with ice types, a late game type that lacks resistances to be not even better than the average in an offensive sense statistically.

Its only sheer luck that it has any upside, i suppose the other end is fucking steel which is a midgame type that is better than the late game dragon typing.

>>16870343

My meta is whatever the Autists ban. Saves me time researching what's good and makes the autists rage at me.

>>16872109

>gen 6 megas, where some were stupidly broken, some were somehow worse than the base forms and they even added an extra technically-not-a-mega-but-it-totally-is shillmon that doesn't count against your 1 mega limit

<gen 6 did primals, and mega rayquaza (which still counts for the mega limit)

it was gen 7 that added ash-greninja, Zygarde 100% and Ultra Necrozma, which all fit your description better

>>16872142

This, smogon fucks the game up pretty hard, gen 6 and 7 were handled horribly.

Game is best when you play with no banlist at all or gamefreak's basic banlist (no mythical pokemon or box legends, no more than one of each pokemon and item), even after all of the times gamefreak has messed up. One of the reasons megas seemed so broken was because of how poorly smogon handled gen 6. They banned pokemon (some as soon as day 1) based on established gen 5 standards rather than letting the meta settle, which in turn further warped the game by the time gen 7 rolled around.

>>16873490

>Smogon: Wah i don't like my moves missing!

>Regular people: Use moves that don't miss like swift or accuracy boosting items/moves

>Smogon: NO I CAN"T HANDLE IT, BANNED!!

>>16869214

>Have to grind natures, IV's, and EV's.

>Before you can even grind levels.

I'd rather be made to play a Korean MMO. I have no words to express how trash is "You must grind before you can grind."

>>16873531

>Fat stall teams bad

Enjoy playing the game with half the things banned you fucking baby.

>>16873650

>>16873531

You could also, haze, roar/whirlwind. Put down spikes so passing buffs rapes their health. Fucking git gud.

Dungeons of Dredmor

>melee is fucking bad, you have to pump up your dodge, counter and/or block to 100, Lord Dredmor's is not only tanky but has spells that fuck you over even if you do try to confront him directly

>The way to beat him is magic, otherwise use bolts or throwable items.

>apart from some enemies, most enemies can't kill you without overwhelming you because sometimes they randomly drop their hostility towards you if you move around enough

>mobs you spawn if they don't fuck up their pathing and targeting can aggro up to 4 enemies

>stone wand / stone walls btfos everything

>stealing from brax is dumb with burglary, instead you grab the item, move with an ability outside of brax's shop and go to the pocket dimension

a rather bullshit game if you ask me

Sword and Sandals redux editions in general

>Dev decides to remake sword and sandals 2 & 5, nerf a lot of things and complete make the mana costs of every fucking thing busted, almost every action requires mana

>magicka stat is the only way to increase max mp and magic damage, but it increases mana costs for magic spells making them more fucking worthless

>strenght stat increases melee damage but also increases mana cost of any warrior-related skill and attacks in general

>accuracy is determined by attack and defense, but can be overriden by successfully landing physical attacks and maxing out your rage meter and makes all your hits land 100%, rage is reduced by taking any physical damage

>each rank of any skill or magic fucking raises the cost in a retarded way, by maxing out the skill you pretty much fucked yourself and made it drain almost all your mana

>only one skill that doesn't scale in mana cost, which is a lion leap move, you can only leap when the enemy is a bit far away

>heavy attack or some warrior skills pushes enemies away

>you can leap, attack and repeat this until you get to the boundary of the stage, then you can just flip positions and repeat

>weapon also scales mana costs of any physical attack

>stamina increases mana regen (most important)

so you end up gating your strength stat and boosting the crap out of the magicka and stamina stat so you can deal with enemies without tiring yourself, it's really shit

>>16873935

Have you seen Elite mod?