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I’m not here to brag about new Vegas or fallout 3 or even say the original 2 games had better combat I’m specifically talking about things unique to fallout 4 that make its gunplay awful

>inconsistent staggering and locational damage
In shooters made by experienced developers that don’t constantly cut corners during production actors with zero armour typically stagger upon being hit by a barrage of bullets or any form of heavy ammunition capable of penetrating whatever protection they’re wearing especially based off location. In fallout 4 where you aim at NPCs doesn’t matter at all if it’s not the head coupled with the fact that most enemies just straight up tank bullets outright make most shootouts feel similar to bethesdas other open world titles where combat just comes down to a whack festively of brainlessly mashing the attack key until someone dies. And no don’t apply this same rule of stagger to the player just restrict movement somewhat similar to someone caught in stagger to make getting hit feel impactful

>too many popups and camera effects
This is self explanatory the amount of camera shake and effects on screen do more to make combat feel worse. Simply sticking to the games hp bar and a red indicator for where you’re being shot at would be enough

>bullet sponges. So many bullet sponges
I can register that this game is a post apocalyptic rpg(which is weird to think about lore wise being the world should actually be healing itself significantly) but enemy design in shooters is different from hack and slash games. You can’t have enemies just casually tanking dozens of rounds until death it doesn’t work for a game like borderlands or destiny it’s not gonna work for fallout either. Simply just making certain creatures like the gator claws immune to certain forms of ammunition that can be killed easily by high calibre rounds from a AT rifle or some gimmick that causes enemies to take a massive amount of damage like in DOOM would be more than enough to make certain enemies feel like they take on a reasonable amount of hits without needing to create a reliance on making weapon damage differences extreme to the point where certain builds become inviable

>bad movement bad level design
Stamina being attached to sprinting is stupid and just flat out shouldn’t even be a statistic in post tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

anymore weird ass games with clapped ass graphics and funny characters like cryptworlds and haunted.cities? also anyone got advicee on how to actually advance in cryptworlds

Anyone into vehicle building games such as KSP, Space Engineers, SimplePlanes, Sprocket (picrel), etc?

Share your thoughts, building tips and post your designs!

I just finished this game and it was a bit of a let down tbh. It had been hyped up as a really difficult game but I breezed through it and first time'd every boss in the game after the first, including the final boss which I beat no hit first try. The gameplay was alright but nothing special. The story is such a mess, the whole thing is made up in Selene's mind because she felt guilty over driving off a bridge with her child even though it was an accident… all the worldbuilding is thrown out for a shit and cliche 'psychological' story. Visually it looked very same-y and the camera had too low FOV for you to take things in, and the visual storytelling sucked, all the worldbuilding was done through text (and again it doesn't matter in the end). The only standout part of the game was the 4th boss which plays a song that's significant to the MC on an organ and its really badass with a great buildup, but this is the only time where story and gameplay work together (I guess the final boss also has like a astronaut face in its final phase but it was so easy and I killed it so quick I didn't notice until I watched a video on it). Most overrated game I've played in recent years.

the ray tracing mod for Half Life 1 has been released! Not gonna post a link because it's gonna look like spam(?), but you can find it easily. i'm really enjoying playing the game again with a new coat of paint

Is metal gear solid a leftwing series of games?

I ask this question because there are multiple videos made by the Kavernacle that say that this game series is socialist

I played mgs2 and mgs3 and mgrr, but I was getting mixed messages from the games, and I think that they were not fully leftist games.

For example, Inside of Revengeance when during the final fight with Armstrong, the "Standing Here" song plays, it essentially equivocates an ancap fascist with raiden, and tries to say that the two would both agree when their guard is down.

That is essentially the game saying that "both sides bad", which is a centrist idea.

Maybe Kojima is a left leaning liberal, but I have doubts about him being a socialist.

https://ifcomp.org/ballot
Also IF General I suppose

So how bad are they going to butcher this?

What I’m gonna say isn’t actually restricted to the show itself but something really fucking dumb about movies and visual entertainment that got me to quit watching it.
<Cinematic bullshittery
What it is is basically when any form of film sets up an event to provoke a mood in the audience but then follows up that even with something contrived so that the story can continue. This just ends up in the story itself feeling less tense knowing how little impact certain events can actually have on the plot.


An example of this show wise is that bloater scene where the dudes with guns stood there watching a massive fucking truck getting consumed by infected while those same infected were literally fucking screaming at them. They then proceeded to waste their time for several seconds continuing to stand idly than do something like throw a bomb, or get in their fucking trucks and gtfo with Ellie. Unsurprisingly they all died there like the disposable side characters there and this bullshittery is fucking everywhere in the show, which is why I refused to watch past the first 2 episodes. Also fuck hbo max for what they did to cn

I hate this mechanic
I hate seeing it in souls games
I hate seeing it in kh games
I hate seeing it in ARPGs in general and it’s existence is only partially justified in monster hunter where it makes sense

Everywhere else in the genre it’s fucking stupid and the only way to make it as a mechanic not fuck over offensive play is to make weapons that basically kill anything in 1-4 hits. Unsurprisingly this makes trying to make low level builds in games that aren’t called kingdom hearts viable in endgame content fucking atrocious because every enemy in these games basically can just wake up immediately after getting hit and landing a successful hit feels horrible since you might as well be slashing at a wall. Not to mention how much pvp content gets fucked over knowing that in games like elden ring pvp just devolves into projectile, bloodhound step and roll spamming because people are gonna lose immediately after like one whiff punish or a parry. Better off poise as a mechanic in action games only affects the stun actors and players receive after being directly hit without blocking not if they’ll even be put into hitstun at all