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I feel like playing an XCOM style game, but I've already played basically every game in the genre. I'm considering Long War but the primary characteristic, long-ness, doesn't really appeal to me. Some of the changes seem fun though. The devs are making their own game Terra Invicta which looks cool, hopefully it's out soon.

Anyway, anyone got any ideas/thoughts?

What problematic or progressive things have you noticed in games?

I've been thinking about Morrowind. Morrowind is actually a surprisingly progressive game considering its age, with comparatively few restrictions on character creation, allowing you to create more or less whichever character you'd like without being pigeon holed by stereotypes or caught out by the developer's assumptions about what kind of person you are, but one small unfortunate element that has stood out to me for a while is that Ahnassi's questline is cut off if your character is a woman, which is a shame because it's a really good questline with some nice rewards and Ahnassi is a highly appealing character. There's no reason for this to be the case - opening it up would be a great way to make Morrowind more inclusive to players with sapphic characters. It's an odd decision because Bethesda clearly weren't afraid to include LGBTQ+ characters at the time, with Crassius Curio (a problematic figure, but one recognised as such in text) attracted to players of either gender.

You know how I fucking know this games gonna be the equivalent of the shockingly mediocre game that was infinite

Because literally nothing not a single ioda of actual shit to do beyond run around while static animations play for the entire god damb video play on an empty map while the word design is boring as shit at the same fucking time.

>short answer
Creation engine and bethesdas laziness
<long answer the one you likely want

Bethesda games have terrible gunplay due to three major reasons. The limitations of the creation engine means bullet and collision physics aren’t accounted for during combat that well resulting in a level of inaccuracy during firefights that both breed a reliance on the deadeye mechanic and constant guesses where bullets should be vs where they’re present and how they affect a target. The poor animation laced in with even worse AI not only make the gunplay feel static but also boring and trivial. And finally the level design of each zone in these games encourage no sense of exploration, or variety in combat. We’ll see these flaws being realized first in how unrealistic the combat is and how it fundamentally affects everything else in game.

Because the physics and collisions within most Bethesda games is notoriously bad due to the creation engines limitations(it was developed from another engine used to make MMO games not single player RPGs so you can expect the reasons as to why it’s so awful) which frequently causes rag dolls moving and clipping through ingame assets, precision errors causing projectiles to load in places where they shouldn’t and the core design of the players arsenal fundamentally being subpar as the fault of Bethesda development directly all result in feelings of cartoonishness if not confusion as to how the guns of fallout are even supposed to work. Examples of this are in how snipers when scoped will block out the view of the players FOV when in real life there’s just a lense that zooms in on the target while everything else is visible, this causes a blinding effect where the player can’t use snipers in closed spaces regardless of how large as their vision gets clouded. another is how theirs very little if not no recoil or even sense of weight felt when firing guns like assault rifles or shotguns, this causes not only an imbalance in weapons that can confuse players as to how they’re supposed to work but also can make the player preform worse in combat due to not knowing when firing too much or too little is effective. How suppressors can sometimes prevent feelings of recoil felt altogether even though their real life purpose is simply to cover the sound of fire, further enhancing feelings of confusion over the mechanics of your arsenal. All ofPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Does what it says on the tin.

I have never bought a game on any online platform and I have pirated games for 20+ years. I hope to be among equals.

It was really original for its time but players started leaving the reasons where getting noticeable with

Idk how to describe it, just how goofy the game was getting with its events and skins, like think of it this way initially, you have a really popular game that’s one of the first of its kind known for essentially being a milsim with BR elements that’s a paid game.

Than suddenly for no fucking reason the devs start shoving in paid skins in an already P2P game and people start leaving, a new map drops that’s complete shit and while people are furious new skins release and they start looking more and more out of place for what a milsim would be like, then after that fiasco you add in a fucking battle pass, loot boxes more dumb fuck maps, more dumbass looking paid skins, a god awful mobile port with zero cross platform play, random bugs and try making the game f2p while players leave as an attempt to fix the damage only to spit in the face of people that bought the fucking thing in the first place while the UI is still as overcluttered as it started off as if not more.

Fuck

If you remove the left firing button, and the minimal, and the logo on the bottom left side of the screen, and disable auto-aim, and disable ADS, and set the opacity of all menu buttons to 10% so you can barely see them on screen(it’s even better on PC because they straight up aren’t there), and ignore all reward screens, and modify the games files so hitmarkers, HP bars, nametags on teammates and killcams don’t play, and only ever play ranked where the difficulty is acceptable, and ignore the battle royal mode this game is actually quite fun

Because with these settings and options of playing reduce all the games features to just the gunplay, which is literally the only enjoyable component of the game. Everything else including zombies is shit

Does it hold up in the action genre? The first thing I noticed is that enemies take more than a single hit to defeat, and I kind of liked the sense of pacing that gave the original games. The game so far doesn't feel like anything special. Like a worse DMC or Bayonetta. Am I correct in thinking thus?

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