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>Changelog:
>Removed [fun mechanic]
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>we decided to nerf every single fun build and fan favorite character in out singleplayer game because fuck you
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>>722486368
Melty Blood's moon styles and MAX Mode
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>>722486368
>removed a fun mechanic
>nerfed abilities and builds
>it's a single player game
Fucking Terraria
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>>722486368
FUCK YOU ZIGGY
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>>722486415
>no we won't make the other options more appealing
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>>722486368
>when devs balance offline single player games as if they were competitive pvp
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>patchnotes
>removed the game
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Dota 2 and Reverse1999 approach is the best by far
rather than making everyone weak, they just buff weak units so everyone would be strong and FUN to play as.
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>>722486368
>singleplayer game gets an update out of nowhere 15 years after release
>it ruins it
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>>722486415
>we have decided to go back on what we said prior to early access because fuck you that's why
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>Removed a fun and harmless glitch because we can't have players "cheating" in a single player game
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>>722486368
>patches out radio songs from your game
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>>722486706
prototype? bioshock?
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>>722486706
>San Andreas, GTA IV (music removed)
>Prototype (recent update bricking it)
>Civ V several times (shitty, pointless launcher added just so they could force Civ VI ads on you before you play the game, and fucking ingame victory screens being given an ad for Civilization: Beyond Earth)
Anything else get this treatment?
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>changelog: nerfed the shit character because some top % pro player was too good with it
>buffed the obnoxious op character because he has too many hard counters in top competitive rank games
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>>722486809
>we have decided to cuck out to record labels because we love money too much
Forza is the same with record small hats being replaced with car jews. There was a time when they used to hire local talent and make all of their tracks in-house before T2 started getting greedy.
>https://youtu.be/zBZImLV0Iu0
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>>722486847
Bannerlord every other week kek
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>>722486847
>Dark Souls Prepare to Die edition being removed from Steam, servers taken down
>forced to play the shitty "remaster"
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>>722486368
>release game
>gets streamer grifted to hell and back
>completely change roadmap
>actually do nothing because overnight millionaires
>do more nothing
>people complain about no updates
>an update rolls around
>it removes content
fucking Valheim lmao
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>Changelog:
>Nerfed a boss redditors were complaing about
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>>722486368
When they lowered max framerate in Elsword, resulting in every class getting slower attack animations (how fast the game ran was tied to fps).
I quit the game the same evening. My class which relied on spamming lots of attacks to trigger stronger attacks, became unplayable overnight.
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>>722487221
>streamernigs and youtubefags fucking the trajectory because their voices scream louder than the masses
>their demands get fasttracked while the reminder are told to go suck lemons and kick rocks
>pointing this out in the forums gets you pinged for hurting the unofficial marketing department
Every time
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>>722486650
thank god its over.
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>Patched Chinese boss characters being able to die.
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>>722486368
>Changelog: various game optimisations
>game now runs worse
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>Changelog:
>Removed fun
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>>722486368
>we have nerfed this fun mechanic due to the complaints from the competitive scene (they make up at most 0.5% of the entire playerbase)
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>Changelog:
>Added fag flags
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>removed "sensitive content" that could already be toggled off because you deserve better
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>>722486368
>[Fun mechanic that only counters sweatlord meta strategy] nerfed massively and is now bugged to not work at all
>[sweatlord meta strategy] given tiny nerf that does not change the meta
Thanks devs..
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>games community doesn't understand the game
>screams for the dev to remove soulful interactions and immersive features
>devs luckily don't give a shit
I'm talking about Kunitsugami, where people want the running around villages to be removed and replaced with a menu because it's le heckin faster
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>>722488371
Those are the same people who think Stardew Valley and other farm games are 'stress simulators' because they are minmaxing autistic losers.
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>>722488060
>we have nerfed this fun mechanic due to complaints from the bottom 51% of the playerbase
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>>722486368
name 60 examples
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>>722488598
>bottom 51%
That is called the majority.
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>>722488598
If that many people are complaining, it's probably not actually a fun mechanic and you're just mad that you can't abuse your cheese anymore.
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>devs have constant battles with their players when it comes to character/build balance

Just fucking leave them be
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>>722488073
>adds fag flags
>a bunch of people stop playing
>removes fag flags
>all the trannies stop playing
>now nobody is playing

my favorite thing about fag flags is that it just makes people more likely to target you, and then those people start complaining about how the game devs are troonsphobic
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>devs whiplash on balance every month based on whatever the reddit/discord/streamer meta is at the time without any thought or regard to the average player that just plays the fucking game

looking at you, PoE
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>Devs vision for the game is the antithesis of why players play the game
>The devs don't even play their own game
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>>722489028
>>The devs don't even play their own game
Happens more often than you'd want. What's worse is when the Dev DOES play their game and are bad at it. Looking at you, Warframe.
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>>722489028
>spoiler
What is every company and their game on the market today.
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>>722489028
every time i see anyone complain about hd2, its some youtuber faggot whining he can't solo diff 10 bexause x or y
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>>722486847
Skyrim, and more recently Fallout 4 because of the Amazon series.
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>>722489212
>buy game centered on the theme of cooperation and teamwork
>play with a 'solo self found' mentality
These people are truly worse than Hitler.
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>>722486368
>compfags keep moaning directly into devs ear
>devs adjust the game to appease them
>everyone but the sweaty grongnards who play it for 14 hours a day remain
>game dies
many, MANY such cases
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>>722488060
Fucking Call to Arms and mortars.
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>>722489028
>devs play their own game
>game gets adjusted to a few female devs, who barely know how to hold a controller
My actual experience as a dev in a small studio.
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>>722488060
Total War in a nutshell. There are maybe a few dozen people at most that actually play competitive MP in those games, yet the entire SP experience is balanced around their childish tantrums on the forums.
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>>722489074
There's nothing wrong with a dev not being a top player in their own game, that's pretty much guaranteed to be the case.
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>Changelog:
>Made OP straight
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>>722489028
15 years of LoL only to conclude that out of the thousands of employees Riot has, only an actual handful play the game and they are all bronze with 15 aram games per season
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>>722489406
Oh no no no. That is not the complaint at all. I have no problem with the dev NOT being in the top 1% of the playerbase, but when they are the bottom 1% of the playerbase I am concerned.
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>>722489329
kek, what studio anon?
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>>722489274
fuck, meant leave
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>>722489074
or
>dev(s) do play their game
>their favorite class gets special treatment and avoids nerfs
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>>722486415
>for balance reasons, we are nerfing all of the top builds not because they are overpowered or use an exploit, but because the are the top builds
>we will also not be buffing all the bottom tier horrendous dogshit stats and abilities because in our minds 'balanced' means useless and 'overpowered' means usable :)
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>>722488002
This has been every PS3 and 360 system update for like the past 10 years.

Except for that one PS3 update that disabled vita connectivity for no reason because I guess they thought it could be exploited to hack two consoles that have already been blown the fuck open for years at this point anyway so ???
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>>722489514
If we are still talking about warframe then you are just not following in the nepo footsteps which you are encouraged to do. It's not a competitive game and you should be buying frame slots with your platinum anyway. Fashionframe is endgame. Always has been, always will be.
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>>722489028
>That time the dbd developers were forced to play against a flashlight squad.
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>>722489252
>people type 2000 word essays about how they can't solo [clearly an encounter not designed for soloing]
>in a fucking mmo

It's amazing how many retards like this exist in WoW
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>dev playtesters get very good at the game after playing it for years
>newly released high end content becomes too hard even for veteran players
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>Changelog:
>Removed player choice, you vill eat predefined slop from the trough and you vill be happy
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>>722489316
what did they change with them and when?
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>>722489852
Been years now, but basically bunch of MP fags complained how mortars are too overpowered because they're so accurate, so devs nerfed them. Too bad this change meant that the mortars now have higher chance of killing themselves with the shells rather than landing anywhere near the designated target, so they're fucking trash.
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>>722490006
Oh, and this change doesn't affect AI mortars - they're retardedly pinpoint accurate.
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>>722489028
am still laughing at the dev saying "git gud" while he couldn't clear the other half of the difficulty
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>>722489028
>spoiler
wow, they are literally us fr
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>>722486368
>a weapon that we buffed from bad, niche, but fun to brokenly good in the previous patch has been reworked into a weapon that is neither good, niche, nor fun. sorry if you liked the old one
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>>722490061
honestly thinking about it the amount of fun i have on ostfront can be measured in how many mortars the AI decides to spawn in
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>>722489028
>>722486368
>Be Swede
>Release online pve coop extraction shooter about fighting bots and bugs in space
>Completely floored when people like it and want to play, so much so that the servers can't handle the player count and have to buy in more capacity
>Now, how can we maintain this popularity and keep the game fun?
>Oh look, people are having a lot of fun with the railgun...
>Nerf
>Oh look, a large portion of the players fighting bugs are using a particular shotgun while ignoring the other primary weapons
>The other primarys aren't up to the task you say? We should buff them to allow for more than one or two viable builds?
>Nerfs shotgun while leaving other weapons as shit
>Oh look, they are using a fire shotgun now instead to fight the bugs, isn't that nice...
>Nerf
>In a rare show of fun, buff fire damage so flamethrower is now viable
>Announce new fire based weapon and equipment pack full of fun things to kill with
>Nerf fire damage into the ground two days before release, and also change fire animation to look shittier for some reason
>Hemorrhage players consistently until boss finally addresses problems
>"Sorry, the guy in charge of this did it without consulting me first so we will fix it. Why didn't he ask? I was on a vacation, which was necessary to recover from my last vacation lol. I will get to work on it as soon as I'm back from my next vacation. Please understand, being Swede is hard."

This isn't even half the bullshit they pulled, and it's still broken all to hell at times. Still haven't forgiven them for raping the eruptor. They've given it counselling and promised that they won't touch it in its special no no place again, but they can't unrape it.
Still fun to play though, and they let us drop into a certain country nextdoor to Egypt dressed as commissars equipped with fire and gas weapons which was something.
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>>722490848
northern yuros can only balance with spreadsheets; in their fun-hating minds something which is used a lot must be nerfed. And just like fatshart it is physically impossible for them to admit an error
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i usually see these complaints as just people whining, when i see people bitching about SP balance, devs not playing their game, or "muh discordfag balance" when i actually play the game and it turns out perfectly fine. But holy fuck, this game over here is fucked up

>Most of the devs that have a say in the balance/mechanics dont even play a proper playthrough anymore
They just give themselves what they want with console commands and test it in some specific circumstance. And they have played exclusively their own game and not anything else for so long that they dont see how much they are jobbing at compared to competitors
>They are in such a rushed dev hell where the actual nuances of the gameplay have been put on the backpedal
almost everything is like an unit test tried out in isolation, and at this point zero weapon/enchant additions are considering the existence of any other existing tool in the game. You can genuinely look at the patchnotes, go "wow this looks fucking retarded" and turns out your sole judgment was more accurate than literally the entire dev team's
>99% the feedback currently comes from discordfags
The reason this is so bad is because the only people that still give enough of a shit about such a shallow, lacking game to continuously post in such a discord are generally a combination of
a. Very low standards/few experiences with action games
b. They are shallow enough that they think a game where almost everything ends up playing the same actually has lots of build variety
c. Their iq is so low they will take anything devs say at absolute face value and are unable to think of anything further than one step ahead
d. Fanboyish enough that they will see no problem with anything and say shit like "wow everyone is just skill issued in our hardcore game!"(shallower version of souls) even when the game reaches a 30% recent review score
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>reworked /spit
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>>722487237
>Nerfed a boss redditors were complaing about
Radahn when Elden Ring first came out. He was hard but not unfair. Then he got nerfed into the ground.
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>>722489716
>It's amazing how many retards like this exist in WoW
>in a fucking MMO
I think MMORPG players have just changed though. Like instead of wanting to cooperate with others, they just prefer to solo stuff but be in a world surrounded by real people. Just an unfortunate outcome of having to work 9 hours a day. You don't want idiots getting in your way or progress.
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>>722491267
I still ain't support and buying games from these freaks.
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>>722486415
>>722486368
Basically this
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>>722491267
>they reworked /spit because players were using an addon which automatically spat on the pathetic, spineless faggots who were using the first microtransaction mount added to Classic
Kind of a funny way for it to go after nearly two decades.
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>>722489716
>>722491416
Hard to blame them given how anti-social WoW is and always was. If it's not current content no one will want to run anything with you, and you can do it without a group no one will group just to share loot with you.
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>Update: Added tiny new pointless bloat feature
>Breaks every single mod
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>>722486368
>hey man I know my game technically still isn’t even remotely completed and that I still need to add FUCKLOADS of content and bug fixes but like I wanna make nerfs to stuff first
>Also it’s really important I add fishing even though food is the least of people’s worries in the second game
The only thing more baffling is still the fact the game hasn’t been updated in like almost 3 FUCKING years now
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>>722491582
Dealing with other players isn't novel anymore. this isn't 2005. Other people are a nuisance more than something fun
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>MMOs packed to the brim with sociopathic losers who exploit subterfuge to obtain anything and everything they can in the safe-space called On-Line
>WHY ARE MMOS DEAD?
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>character with exactly 50/50 winrate nerfed because he's too good at countering the lead dev's pet character
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>>722491191
>No Rest For The Wicked
i want to have faith in them but
>resource gathering with an animation
unless a mod removes that shit, i won't even bother pirating, much less paying for it
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>>722491904
Every league character that hard counters Tryndamere
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>>722491904
>overpowered class buffed again and again because developers like to play the class
Basically necromancer in Diablo IV
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>>722488073
>changelog
>added pronouns
fucking lunacid man...
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>>722488935
>removes fag flags
never happened
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>>722486368
>game only gets minor bugfixes but never major updates
it's been years
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>>722492075
runescape
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>>722492118
Mod NORF, as one of his first official acts, cancelled the upcoming Gay Pride Eventâ„¢ right before it happened, but I don't think he removed the pride items already in the game (pride flag themed scarves).
That was a fun shitstorm anyway, boy did that get Reddit upset and OSRS got a lot of negative press for a few weeks. Then OSRS went on to reach all-time highest playercounts shortly after.
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>new game gives fans what they wanted
>not what they needed
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>>722486473
>spend 30 minutes fishing for Reaver Shark to skip 40% of the progression
>use cheap nurse to get rid of any actual gameplay in boss fights
>call this a "fun build"
They gave you Aether, now stop bitching about decade+ old cheese mechanics being patched out. Having an obvious meta that effortlessly blows everything else out of the water makes the game 1-dimensional, it's a design flaw
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>>722492647
>meta
>cheese mechanics
>"Nooo you're playing it wrong!!"
Anon it's a singleplayer game, do you hear yourself
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>>722491904
>niche character with a funky non-traditional play style, low player count but winrate still balanced for those that mesh with the vibe
>dev re-hauls the entire character to be bland, generic and inoffensive for the masses. removing absolutely everything interesting amount them so retards can enjoy playing it.
>no one plays them after the re-haul anyway, nuked out the game for literally no reason.
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>game literally lacks ending
>it's still getting updates like DLC costume packs or minor bug fixes
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>>722492746
Let me guess, you support trans rights?
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>first EA build is fun
>every.single. update after is awful changes no one likes
>1.0 might as well be a different game
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>>722493384
>"Video games."
>TRANNIES TRANNIES TRANNIES TRANNIES TRANNIES TRANNIES TRANNIES TR--
Meds
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>>722493573
I will take that as a yes
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>>722491267
now show me HOTS devs
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>print floodgates
>ban floodgates
>print floodgates on effect monsters
>still at 3
Yugioh boils my fucking blood so much ED cards are boring bitch shit and watching you solitaire for 5 minutes is gay. Get locked out and man up pussy we are boomer yugioh playing now.
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>>722492647
>caring about progression in a SINGLE PLAYER game
>>722493384
Also IDC what the other nigger says toons can fuck themselves and so can you.
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>>722492746
Not everyone treats games as worthless timewaster toys like you do. Some of us actually do care about games being self-imposed challenges with intrinsic value, not that the intended terraria progression is particularly fun or well-designed.
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>>722488060
>tf2 base jumper nerf
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>>722492084
rather that than devs doing a super minor patch to remove the "EA last updated 16months ago" like the ferret fucker did
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>>722486368
>Favorite food:
>Turtle Soup
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>devs make something overpowered
>instead of toning it down, devs absolutely destroy it with nerfs so it's garbage
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>>722493932
If progression didn't matter in a single player game, do you think terraria would be just as good if it had 3 bosses and required hundreds of hours to get a single tree block? You don't. Progression matters and you're a fucking retard.
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>>722494769
It wouldn't make a difference to me how many bosses there are because the game is about making a comfy base and dicking about, not being a pseudo MMO.
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>>722486415
Oh, hello Red Hook
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>>722486368
>Changelog: Decreased fun
>Fun is actually increased
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>>722486706
I just want to play Magika
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>>722489716
This never happens and the fact that you're creating and inventing a strawman of this kind makes it look like you lost an argument online earlier and are now venting. Get a hold of yourself, you are acting like a woman.
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>4channers exist when you are a gcj retard
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>>722486368
>terrible game breaking bug plaguing the game for weeks
>someone find an infinite money glitch
>they update the game a few hours later
>money glitch is gone but not the game breaking one
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>>722491730
Precisely why I stopped playing these kind of games. When seeing another player on the same area I'd just wonder how long it will take until he fucks off rather than hitting up a friendly conversation.
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>>722490848
They didn't nerf the eruptor, they just fixed a retarded bug where shrapnel shot out in a specific cardinal direction.
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>>722486415
Thank you Binding of Isaac: Repentance. Very cool.
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>>722487083
The remaster is about as old as the original was when the remaster came out by the way.
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>>722486415
The Binding of Isaac
>>722487237
The Knight fight from Deltarune
>>722488060
TF2 with all the guns that were originally fun (for example the Cow Mangler 5000)
>>722488073
All the nu-Call of Duty games for some fucking reason
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>>722497047
Shut up, the remaster only came out like 2 years ago

>May 2018
N-no, 2 years ago..
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>>722489559
That's because of feature bloat. Why bother perfectly balancing all 500 different builds when you can nerf 490 into the ground and focus on balancing the remaining 10. Then you can flip the table on the meta every season and keep things "fresh".
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>>722486368
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>>722497271
Are there any games that have done this?
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>>722493573
Dilate
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>>722491336
Didn't he use to have DS2-tier hitboxes? Bleh.
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>>722497386
Overwatch, battlebit, helldivers 2
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I remember when Bloodstained nerfed the spinning books because people thought they were too good. Haven't touched it since.
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>>722486415
Songs of Conquest
Anytime someone comes up with a fun strat they patch it out
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>>722486650
The Crew, Overwatch 1, most gacha
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>>722486847
Capcom putting that shitty drm into their old games
Far cry 4(?) removing the tits for a few weeks before reverting it
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>no patch notes for years
>patch notes all of a sudden
>it's just the dev removing music
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>>722497415
sneed
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>changelog is just a list of things a streamer complained about
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>>722497386
Replace the soldier with bugs Nd the tank with players and thats basically helldivers 2 balancing.
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>Are there any games that have done this?
TF2 the second there was a fun or interesting mechanic added that made people switch off soldier/demo.
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I remember when Tripwire removed reload animation cancelling in KF2 and there was such an uproar they reverted it. Vindictive cunts made it almost non-existent on the guns added after that though.
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>>722489663
>tfw when you’ll never get to bully the head of a game studio so hard they do a complete overhaul of the mechanics
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>>722490848
>>Oh look, people are having a lot of fun with the railgun...
>>Nerf

This whole scenario with the railgun nerf is even more retarded than simply "people are using a gun too much, so we nerfed it."

The railgun at the time was the only reliable anti armor weapon. The Recoilless and EAT couldn't oneshot a charger. So of course the railgun was used extensively. Not only that, but hitting a charger's leg with the Recoilless or EAT and finishing the charger off with your primary wasn't intended by the devs. So the utility of the Recoiless and EAT was actually grester than what the devs initially wanted, and they were still kind of crap compared to the railgun. It was really lucky they didn't decide to "fix" legging chargers with rockets.

I think overall the balance is a lot less obnoxious than it used to be, but there are still guns that were previously nerfed into the dirt and only got a pity buff that did nothing to improve its ruined popularity.
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>>722489028
>devs actually play own game
>they are better than top-1% of the playerbase
>and balance single player based on own definition of "hard and challenging"
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>>722487083
PTDE was an abysmal fucking port, lets not kid ourselves here
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>>722488060
Ullapool caber my beloved
I will never forgive the TF2 comp trannies
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>>722491267
>troll mage(?) named SpitCannon
>uses a macro to auto target and /spit any player that comes within 15 feet of himself
>never said anything, just goes about his business in town while /spitting on everyone
>Blizz removes /spit to protect whales' feelings
>never see SpitCannon ever again

Fuck you Blizzard, seeing that guy in town was funny and improved my day. You ruined his whole character gimmick and probably lost his sub as a result.
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>>722497137
The Cow Mangler is objectively better than it used to be
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>>722489397
I cannot fathom why CA continues to listen to MP fags. Not even the biggest TW jewtubers play MP.
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>>722489028
>people are bitching about War Striders
>instead of bringing Medium AP and AT on the bot front as one should, they complain endlessly that they're OP despite dying in one RR shot to the groin
I genuinely fucking hate everyone involved in the balancing process for this game
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>>722500207
Any examples of that? I wanted to say fighting games since most of them have pro players on the design team, but with how they are balanced I cannot find a single positive example.
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>>722489274
Mordhau and Chivalry
Amazingly fun games completely ruined by their own communities
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>>722500510
Worked for me :)
anyway, it's still better than the new remaster. They should've just fixed PTDE instead of making that
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>>722486368
>Extremely niche playstyle that literally only a small pocket of people use in casual singleplayer gameplay gets its knees broken
>Extremely niche playstyle that saw use in one tournament that beat the reigning all-consuming top-tier meta roster gets its knees broken
>Pointlessly overpowered strategy that literally every chimp and their geriatric ancestors use in every single competitive match is untouched, and periodically gets buffs
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>>722500930
Half the playerbase is brown console users that think their one specific loadout should be usable in any and all situations. This was true even before xbox got the game, but even moreso now.
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>>722496959
>>722497137
So if I buy Binding of Isaac I should only buy DLC up to afterbirth+?
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>>722500972
1) Picrel, pathfinder wrath of the righteous, that had super annoying optional fights and special achievements for beating literally so hard it's unfun combat encounters
2) One of VR games, diabloid-soulslike, filtered majority of players that were asking for boss nerfs
Devs responded with no hit videos using three different builds, and no nerfs
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>>722501092
>Devs should have fixed a broken mess instead of charging you again for the same game
Anon...
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>>722501246
don't buy anything after the original remaster
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>>722501236
They also live in a fantasy world where they believe that all weapons should be equally effective against every faction. God forbid you bring light AP vs squids and medium vs bots, nope gotta act like a troglodyte and then complain that light AP should be buffed because it doesn't nuke armored bot enemies.
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>>722486809
>also patches out fun glitches and exploits in your single player game because fuck you no fun allowed besides what we tell you to have
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>>722494326
You're not actually arguing in favor of the game's challenge and intentions for the player's progression. You're arguing that sequence breaking or level skips or whatever need to be removed because you yourself can't control yourself and simply not cheese the game if the option is available.
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>>722486368
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ah yes, the Blizzard special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFuBmkVvUTQ
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The virgin method
>remove or nerf feature people complain about
The chad method
>make it worse on purpose
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>>722501031
I've played Chiv 2 for like the last year and I enjoy it/am pretty good. What have devs done? The only balance stuff I dislike is Knights/one handers. Also third person view just shouldn't exist.
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>>722501479
Half the fun is trying out different loadouts and coordinating with friends. Why would you want to homogenize it all?
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Modern devs would remove shit like rocket jumping instead of leaning into it
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>>722496959
>Wild card Diplo
>Golden battery Mantle
>D7 Wide room
Just say you're a nigger bro
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>Changelog
>changed core systems and general feel for no reason
>it keeps happening
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>>722497632
Did overwatch 2 kill your achievements like CS2 did?
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>removed 15 fps
th-thanks
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Back in the day in Half-Life 2 there was a bug with the pistol where holding RMB and LMB let you "charge" the gun at about 2 or 3 rounds a second. When you let go of RMB it would fire the entire mag or however many rounds you "charged" at once as a single bullet. It was basically a poor man's revolver, it could one shot a lot of enemies, but of course was unwieldy and ammo expensive. It made the pistol actually useful past the first couple chapters of the game.

So of course Valve fixed it.
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>>722503219
I feel like every gun in an FPS should have a fun alt-fire. ADS doesn't count.
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>>722493507
Starbound
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>>722486473
Spin2Win in Witcher 3
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>>722486368
>Changelog:
>undid half of the changes made in the previous patch, chosen at random
>these weapons/skills/classes are strong and used by 90% of the playerbase already, better buff them some more
>some people are trying to use these non-meta picks and sort of making it work, better nerf them into the ground
>people fucking hate the ranged meta that has existed since the game launched? better believe that means ranged weapons are getting buffed again
I hate Korea so damn much.
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>>722486415
Redhook
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>>722502454
I'm not trying to homogonize it you idiot, but certain weapons and weapon types are objectively better against certain factions and trying to make them all good against every faction just opens the door to unnecessary nerfs
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>Changelog
>We heard people complaining about how the game has too many mechanics
>So we added four more and they're all based
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>patchnotes
>mechanic is now automated and requires no player input
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>>722487237
i was actually amused when this happened for armored core 6 because it means I was good enough to beat pre-nerf Ibis, spider and balteus despite it being my first AC game
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>>722500972
Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers is made almost entirely based on the tastes of the 15 or so autists making it and it's the best kart racing game in years as a result
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>>722489028
The difference between this and DRG's balance makes it painfully obvious that arrowhead are just bad at their jobs. The DRG devs exclusively play Hazard 3 but the game is still balanced all the way up to 5+. Once you're good at the game, anything below H4 usually feels boring but H5+ isn't ass-rapingly difficult because your guns are bad, it's because you're bad.
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>>722501574
coptering was funny but parkour ended up being faster most of the time
it was also nice to be able to use a weapon that wasn't the tipedo
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>>722486702
Dota 2's approach is the best but lets not forget great memes that come from it like
>lowered CM's movespeed by 5
or
>buffed Ogre Magi's armor by 1
Ice Frog was at times hilariou
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>>722486368
>S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 devs removed cheeky jump glitch to get diamond exosuit early
>instead of fixing the innumerable bugs, glitches, crashes, and save corruptions
very cool, gopnik-chan
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>>722486368
Shits why i quit war thunder.
>removed the HVAP belt from the flak truck that's only ever useful if you sneak on a tanks side because it's not historically accurate despite this round existing for the gun
>here's this soviet ground attacker with 8 45mm antitank guns that fire full auto with pinpoint laser accuracy no spread lmao
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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>Cubeworld
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>>722506750
No E.
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>>722488978
>massive sweeping nerfs across multiple skills
>call it a buff and gaslight players
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>Changelog:
>Fixed all the annoying bugs and glitches nobody liked
> Added cool new things that everyone likes
:)
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>>722486368
>devs remove a fun bug and then introduce it in a later patch as a feature
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>x is a known bug (game breaking)
>2023
>hasn't been patched but 4 paid dlc have come out since
really cool paradox
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>>722506625
>TWO (2) chicken related bugs in the same game
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>>722488978
GGG stopped listening to reddit years ago, what are you on about
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>>722486368
>Removed [fun mechanic]
Armor-ignoring cleave in Dota 2

Fuck the braindead reddit interns responsible for nu-dota.
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>>722486368
>Changelog:
>Made character's ability less finicky and easier to use
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>Character once created an unfun playstyle, but was mid
>Character now nerfed, measures made against that playstyle that nerfs everyone

>Nerfed character is now the weakest character in the game
>Playerbase are still traumatized by initial character
>Character gets nerfed again twice
>Planned rework makes them more like the strongest overpowered character, who has not been changed since and nerfs are at best miniscule

I hate that this can easily apply to four killers.
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>>722505427
Has this ever happened?
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>>722487083
But it wasn't?
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>game lets you get every character for free, except crossover collab characters that cost real money
>said collab characters are always overpowered and are extremely difficult to counter in pvp
>later collab characters are straight up just instant win buttons
>pvp is dominated and ruined by the same handful of people and you cannot win unless you were one of these people who bought the characters in the very limited window they were available
FUCK MMOS
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>>722507524
Go to the store page :^)
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>item gets nerfed
>the game ages, years pass, power creep has reared its ugly head
>the nerfed item is still a pile of shit
>it would be perfectly usable and balanced in the new power crept meta but the devs refuse to touch it with a 10 foot pole
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>>722486368
>Update 1
>Buffed thing
>Update 2
>Buffed thing again
>Update 3
>Fixed thing, it was apparently broken (secretly nerfed thing)
>Update 4
>Due to popular demand, buffed thing (still worse than Update 1)
>Update 5
>Reworked thing (still worse than Update 1)
>Update 6-999
>No mention of thing
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>>722502586
Both Valve and id tried to remove strafe jumping and rocket jumping multiple times across multiple games, let's not forget about that.
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>removed jump attack
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>>722507491
https://www.kartkrew.org/news/2025-09-11_dr-robotniks-ring-racers-version-24-release-candidate.html
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>>722486368
The TRIBES franchise will only be saved when they remove that bug that let players abuse jump to surf over plain ground at high speed.
It completely ruined the tactical aspect and the need for vehicles.

more seriously, making skiing into a meme did ruin the franchise, literally the only point of deployable or turrets is to block capper.
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>>722507524
it was removed from the store, retard nigger
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>>722507310
Wasn't cleave already determined off of damage dealt from the target's armor? Seems rather retarded to let armor double dip on cleave
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>>722486640
>>when devs balance offline single player games as if they were competitive pvp
AC6 had PvP and the balance needed for MP did seriously damage the gameplay.

Instead of having distinct design that offer a wide variety of gameplay, encouraging players to use multiple or replay the game with another.
...instead they are all "pvp balanced" with as few differences as possible in gameplay ...but everyone will default to the META build anyway.
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>>722491730
>>722496065
You sound like the kind of people who hate being around other people but still go out to bars or other public venues just sulk in a corner.
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>game updates everyone's avatar into a homunculus



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