Gaming thread

[The Quartermaster]

Gamers are more toxic than a McDonald's hamburger, but more satisfying to watch than just about anything on earth. In game chat is always hilarious, I don't care what game we're talking about. More salt than Carthage.

Countless times I have seen in chat someone asking sarcastically why we gave them our tank, or helicopter. Or someone is in a support vehicle using the gun to slam at the other team and an idiot drives it to their dooms with nothing achieved and the other team recovers from that former beating to destroy us even more...and then the chat comes alive with flying insults.

 

[AWP]

I haven't played D4 since it came out. That said, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on hatred once you get some reps in. It just looks so good and the changes they've made to the classes seem really solid.

I only have about...an hour(?) in it so far, all of it in the new campaign and up to a level 15 or so. The skill tree is bonkers now, some of the sub-skills or enhancements won't unlock until you reach a certain level and there are more of them. The skills like a core or basic or whatever can soak up to 15 points and the cap is now 70 points. I'll chip away at the campaign until it is finished before going back into the main game.

The warlock is unsurprisingly looking strong, but a lot of builds are probably nuts right now.

 

[AWP]

Countless times I have seen in chat someone asking sarcastically why we gave them our tank, or helicopter. Or someone is in a support vehicle using the gun to slam at the other team and an idiot drives it to their dooms with nothing achieved and the other team recovers from that former beating to destroy us even more...and then the chat comes alive with flying insults.

In game stuff, IRL stuff, politics, history, whatever...all of it wrong. Random racism or misogyny, personal insults, right fighters trying to "fix" the chat...Some people forget this is a game and treat it like their soul is being attacked.

 

[The Quartermaster]

In game stuff, IRL stuff, politics, history, whatever...all of it wrong. Random racism or misogyny, personal insults, right fighters trying to "fix" the chat...Some people forget this is a game and treat it like their soul is being attacked.

That's social media, where nearly everyone is so easily offended or mad because people think different from them. The chat's I see are people mad at each other because they are playing differently than them and got big mad.

I had a guy take it too personally because I baited him in my tank, his lame MO was to take an unarmored vehicle, put on mines, and ram it into for a kill. I watched him do it a few times so the team stopped using the tank and the IFV. So as an engineer, I put a few mines out in front and made it look like I was an easy kill in the tank I was in and pretending to tank snipe...not. Rage in the game chat afterwards, lol. The non toxic gamers will compliment a good kill, not this guy. He was insulting my entire family's DNA chain. His death was very glorious to watch with a smile though. man to have seen the look on his face afterwards, haha.

 

[757]

Update: Paladin is broken. Want crazy passive stats, solid damage, insane wave clear, and a butt-ton of mobility...go with the angels chosen.

 

[AWP]

Just leveled a Sorc to 70 thanks to the broken as hell static blizzard build.

 

[The Quartermaster]

Just leveled a Sorc to 70 thanks to the broken as hell static blizzard build.

I got on for D4 since forever, and all my stuffs was gone, same for special attacks and all I could do was swing. I was like...WTF? Okay, I'll be back.

 

[AWP]

Warlock is clunky. Static blizzard Sorc is a beast. I might chip away at a Rogue this week. I think Druid has a new build or two since the rework.

 

[AWP]

@The Quartermaster @757

TLDR: Go to Temis, ride northeast to Seer's Reach dungeon. A T1 clear is netting 3 royal gems per run. Enter the dungeon and go "up" to the boss fight. My runs are taking about 1-2 minutes. Exit, reset the dungeons via your map, repeat.

 

[AWP]

With a warlock and sorcerer to 70, now a rogue to 25 or so...they are squishy. I thought it was just the warlock and while the sorc and rogue aren't known to be tanks, they are really soft now. I love the new skill tree, but hate that any effects are tied to specific skills unlike the old system. I need to work with the cube more, but I'm currently not a fan.

The new campaign was good but too long or at least had some meaningless stuff in there. My journey up the mountain and in the scribe world...why?

Thew new loot system and target farming aspects...swing and a miss for me. I strongly dislike these "features."

A good expansion but with some questionable game changes. Bring back target farming!