The Electric Funeral for the one and only Terminus, Lord of the Glitch>Free Downloadhttps://www.paladins.com/download>Latest Newshttps://www.paladins.com/news>Account Statisticshttps://paladins.guru>Wikihttps://paladins.gamepedia.com/Paladins_Wiki>Original Content Links, Movies & Guideshttps://rentry.org/palg_07-02-23>Paladins: The Ballad of Subzstancehttps://old.bitchute.com/video/1Gf8mIdXWtQU/https://mega.nz/file/mmIxlRoQ#HCPesiWXRLQfGwHV64EqU1ZbICXqi3Qeq1AKdDD4K_E>Previous Thread>>1576540
>>1681403how long do you think it will last in this "maintenance mode" before they completely pull the plug?
>>1681407As long as realm royale did.
>>1681407Global Agenda servers are still online.
Wait, Paladins is saved!
>>1675177Post 'em
>>1675177
>>1681587Smiggas
>>1681587VVGH
>>1681587We were robbed of what could have been
>>1681587An elf using protection?
>>1681587Inspector Io
>>1681587GIOvanna
>>1681587That other fanfic
>>1681587Epilogue
>>1681587Vora Lingerie
>>1681587Io Lingerie
And now for a special storm approaching
>>1681587I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROOOOOOOOOAAAAAACHINGPROVOOOOOOOKINGBLACK CLOUDS IN IIIIISOLATIOOOOOONI AM RECLAIMER OF MY NAAAAAAAAAAAMEBORN IN FLAMESI HAVE BEEN BLESSEDMY FAMILY CREST IS A DEMON OF DEATH!
palababs.... my stummy don't feel too good...
rest in piss
>>1681631aww.. feel better soon, subz!
What is going on with the private server thing? Who besides the shizomrl is working on it?
>>1681585https://streamable.com/pmy014https://streamable.com/sd3t1rhttps://streamable.com/x5eccuhttps://streamable.com/mwoh6bhttps://streamable.com/72gf69https://streamable.com/sbq5oq (VII is perfectly balanced)https://streamable.com/r943xuhttps://streamable.com/t3vuc2https://streamable.com/o7d79shttps://streamable.com/7dupn9https://streamable.com/cer4vnhttps://streamable.com/930k6ghttps://streamable.com/xdys7chttps://streamable.com/tyni1nhttps://streamable.com/bs5wk5https://streamable.com/nvr6x7https://streamable.com/qi9e2khttps://streamable.com/mre9vyhttps://streamable.com/whmavdhttps://streamable.com/d2i2rphttps://streamable.com/dc8ueqhttps://streamable.com/4tw07ohttps://streamable.com/liqcq3https://streamable.com/fk9vq1https://streamable.com/3xr46ohttps://streamable.com/nq05y9
>new thread for dead gameFor what purpose?
>>1681950We said we'd be here till the end, and the servers are still up.
>>1682096>servers are still upBased on this and the previous thread it doesn't look like any of you are still playing it though.
>>1681813One of my personal faveshttps://streamable.com/su2b2k
>>1682135
>>1682148https://streamable.com/grhw85https://streamable.com/liqadnhttps://streamable.com/2r4ze8I'm gonaa miss the all American past time of shitting on Scrubz with you guys.
>>1682195>second clipDamn... And I thought I was bad at the game.
schisam twitter is back. all posts gone. only following a pedo
one of the only videos i ever held onto. the rest were taken from me by streamable.
>>1682302Wasn't that the parody account?
>>1682351you can check all the old tweets tagging him. its official
https://streamable.com/wv9u93Nearly all of my clips are gone now, but this is probably my favourite.
>>1682347They're like little lemmings, running off the cliff into the void...>>1682464lol yoink
>>1682464https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSVDZ0MySk8
>>1682302>It's real>Don't confront me with my failures, I already know them.>Responds to his parody accountEither someone bought his old account or he continues to be a walking subhuman. Either way, what an actual cunt
>>1683350If it's another parody account then that would be the funniest thing ever
Bar none the worst community everRest in piss and shit
>>1683568I think furries are worse, personally.
they should ask the chinese to redesign every character in paladins 2
maeve 2
I... I think Cassie's voice actress is the new character Ela in the Studio FOW game...
>>1687567Based if true
>>1687567Just checked, they have different voice actresses
>>1687654Wow, they sounded similar too
>>1685103Paladins Strike 2 is the answer.
Paladins Strike 2 will save Paladins.
A 2h Paladins porn parody will save Paladins.
>>1681800errrm... 1 answer please!
>>1691122We don't know, there's no information aside from what Cub said.
>>1681403I havent played it since they took victor's "fuck everything on the map" fun airstrikeWhy the fuck does it look like some fantasy shit now?
>>1691174i think the issue in this case is the time it is happening
>>1689318If we build it, they will cum.
>>1692013
>>1692684I said cum, not monster saliva(tm)
No one knows what its like... to be the bad man
>>1692978HENSHIN NO SUPER PARADINS SENTAI
>>1693118
>>1687337https://streamable.com/jp20m1https://streamable.com/0iukoo
>>1695112>That hit detection almost a second laterQuality clips of Preo as always
>there was nothing EM could have done to prevent this. absolutely nothing at all!did kryptek suck his dick or something?
>>1695835The problem is he's not wrong and solutions you're thinking of aren't tenable.
>>1695949Such as? Not him but please, elaborate.
>>1695835>I don't think there's a single thing that the fine (Citation needed) folks at Evil Mojo could've done to fix this>Literally one sentence later>Years of mismanagement and neglect by Hi-RezYou just said it right there you fat fucking golem of onions. You make everyone involved with the New Direction and onward do a fusion dance with the unemployment line. That's ALWAYS how you fix this. Isn't it funny how players only STARTED to get what they asked for years ago when they gutted everyone and it was down to a skeleton crew? No, it isn't funny because these people should've been fired the moment the New Direction and all the stupid shit that came after got instant backlash. At the very least demote them into oblivion so they can't touch what makes the game tick.>Years of skins for content.>Years of no events or new game modes.>Years of bloat and time sink.>Years of never thinking up new ways to improve game quality of life.>Years banning literally everyone but hackers and abusive players.>Years of nepotism in the brass trickling down to everyone below them.>Years of an untamed manchild shoving his fetishes into the game while telling the customers to pound sand while he makes the game his fanfic.>Years of a fat man in a frog custom who doesn't know how to balance the game.>Years of the glorified popularity contest known as the AoC treating the game as a get shit for free club.>Years of a mentally disabled drunken cat mom throwing weekly tantrums on Twitter and turning the Community Manager account into a socio political circus.>Years of asking for a game mode back only to gaslight players to the point a single deranged Furry child predator to bring it back singlehandedly>Years without perma banning ScrubzAnd so much fucking more. The answer is this COULD have been fixed and I've said this before and I'll say it again. Hi-rez and this game in particular is going to live on as a cautionary tale for the entire industry.
mock him if you canhate him if you mustyou will miss subz when he's gone
>>1697390I'll miss that cunt like the Covid lockdowns. Best way to avoid your dumbass is never play F2P shooters and make sure whatever game I'm looking for isn't featured on AimJunkies. Have fun getting clowned on by the Apex Legend General bozo.
>>1697390ur mom
>>1697390The only time I'll miss him is if I shoot the cunt and miss, because unlike that faggot, I don't use an aim bot.
Why don't EM just turn this into a game where people can host lobbies like back in the day with cs. Sell it for 20 bucks. You get to kill it but still keep a good relationship with the community.
>>1697390“No!”
>>1697390>I'm higher tanked than hardstuck GM scrubz in Marvel Rivalslol rip bozo>>1699303There could be many answers. Could be the spaghetti code that prevents them from implementing convenient community browsing quality of life features, probably was never a priority for them since they cut down their own playerbase over the years and most likely that they quite literally don't have any staff or manpower outside of a handful of people keeping the servers on and pushing out the most skeletal, minimal maintenance mode updatesThey've shit the bed so much that we just don't know for certain, but could probably be all of the above
>>1699415I was celestial a week into the season chomo. You could hit eternity with how long this season has been running now.
>>1699492Everyone knows it's easier to rank up early in seasons homo>You could hit eternity with how long this season has been runningAnd yet you haven't, hardstuck
>>1699492Post current profile and rank. Now.
>>1699556
>>1699808Shorty finally caught up to the big boys
>>1699492Yeah cool, but you see, I've been farming bot matches, you're fucking dead kiddo.
>>1699808>Hela lollmao
>>1700482Hela is the hardest character in the game and requires the most aim
>>1700622This is bait
wake up, its a new dayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FVicq8sIKw
>>1699808Not impressive or notable.
blizzard stole the star sisters...
>>1702060And that's a good thing!
>>1702060Damn that isn't even subtle.
>>1699415If I remember correctly Evil Mojo has been completely dissolved. The only person left on Paladins is a single person from Hi-Rez keeping tabs on the servers as far as I know.
>>1700421Underrated post.
>>1703738I honestly hope all the people who fucked up this game never get employed and if they do they wind up at dead end joke companies like Thunderbrush and Romanova did. I don't even want these people flipping my burgers because they'll probably find a way to fuck that up too.
>>1703970>Vodkanova joins the Dragonball FighterZ team team>The game declines in players, communication between the players and devs gradually ceases to happen and their esports scene fucking dies>Artshitter joins Predecessor>No tangible improvements to their cosmetics>They release one of the most edgy darkness abyss characters with spikes that was probably an skin idea for Omen>Now doing a Shadow Ops cosmetics line that looks as unimpressive as you'd expect>Playerbase continues to declineCoincidence? I'd think not!
So how come this has had a steady decline on steam charts but last month it had a 9k players peak? And even right now the game is only at around 1.5k players. Did they just randomly bot the game?
>>1704634That seems to be the case
>>1704418You forgot the part where Romanova is basically working for a fiver and a bucket a chicken all while being harassed by feral BRs and not fake harassment like during her stay with Evil Mojo but real actual people hating her. Gotta love the bitch that cried wolf and now that she has real unhinged people hating her nobody cares.
I miss when Paladins was alive and so was /palg/ and we liked the game and had stuff to talk about
BROS!!
You see Subz Woo don't blink or stareEvieFraud got head tapped and she had to shave her hair
>>1708541>Fraud
>It's been nearly 10 years>Game is literally finally in maintenance mode>General is dead has been kicked off /vg/>Cat faggot is STILL here fellating himself
>>1708541>Impostor
>>1708751meant for >>1708541
>>1708541Yeah you wouldn't want people to stare. They might see thirty straight minutes of you being a fraud.https://old.bitchute.com/video/1Gf8mIdXWtQU/
>>1708241my hot elf wife lives on
>>1708541now this is some sus ahhh shit
>>1708241I'm more of a Maeve kind of man
>>1708541What kind of third world shit skin plays this game on minimum stings when a potato can run it at 4k 120+ fps
>>1708541This you?
>>1709863Nah, this is me. Subz Demonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1j8ZJHmM48&thttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wENkY-gSQQQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS_LcI1aPzo&thttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN1g-ZscyQU&thttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKr8e7wccZQ&thttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG-ECsC4Vpw
>>1709927This you?
>>1709927Whos bitch is this?https://streamable.com/2r4ze8
How are these players even finding matches? Who is even left playing this game?
>>1719155i exclusively play bots to do my daily rewards stuff so i can grind for chests since im not spending any more money on this
>>1719161For what purpose?
>>1719155LATAM is all that is left.
>>1720301subz...
>>1719366honestly? just to pass the time, i have many other games to play but my mind just refuses to play them until im "finished" with a game.its either get all the skins i can or until the servers are off for me.its not like it takes a lot of time tho, my account is already 999 and doing the minimum requiered amount of daily tasks takes 2 maybe 3 games tops, im done in 30 minutes
>>1720301You would know
>>1720301You would know.
>paladins dies>switch to deadlock, another dying game>the youtube career you spent nearly a decade creating dies tooRIP andrew chicken, i had many fond memories of streamsniping him
>>1721255>Misses the most obvious alley oop by refusing to transfer to the flavor of the month gameHe brought it on himself
>>1721255>i had many fond memories of streamsniping himAs did many of us. He like all the other streamers we trolled shall live on. In our memes
It was really nice of hi-rez to kill every single game they had in the exact same 3 month period.
>>1719155My bf and I still play because I have an autistic love for this game that I can't move on from until its truly dead.
>>1719155You can get into matches easily on NA, but the servers have become noticeably worse.
>>1722493Feburary of 2025 will go down in history as the month of Terminus' revenge, when he executed his vengeance upon those who cursed him with the dread of artifical life.
>>1702060I hate Blizzard but I almost exclusively play Mercy and Juno (I'm an Io main) so I will buy these.
>>1723227Heal slut?capcha: paypig
>>1721255I will forever hold a grudge against these irl basedjak retards like andrewchicken, kirbz, and kreepers for being partly responsible for the moji rework. These apes went out of their fucking way to make it look like she was Z-tier even though her winrate has always been consistently average. Imagine saying soldier from tf2 is bad while actively refusing to rocket jump and confusing every wall in front of you for the enemy. Why even do all this? Did Moji fuck their moms or something? There has always been multiple champions that have objectively worse designs that every player was complaining about.>But OH NOO SHE IS SOMEWHAT SITUATIONAL AND HAS COUNTERS!!You mean like what every champion SHOULD have? So the game doesn't get stale because you see the same handful of champions every fucking match?Kreepers in particular encouraged the rework right after straight up saying she should be deleted. They only backtracked on this when they saw the inevitable backlash it got because no shit it was going to piss people off.Fuck these faggots
>>1723288I guess if you want to call me that, sure. I only play supports and healers in games.
>>1722493>>1723212There's something poetic about Terminus bringing down the hammer on Lorez during Black History Month after all of the crap they pulled trying to be champions for [insert minority] over the years
/palg/ is back in business baby!Let's discuss all the things that happened with our beloved game during the downtime!
>>1723432damn, that was a long discussion, im exhausted
>>1723300It's no surprise that streamerfags are insecure and only want to nerf things they can't beat. The AoC proved this constantly to the point that Adanas told Z1 to shut up. They are as you said retards who don't mind a stale repetitive experience because they are room temperature IQ children who don't want a rich gaming experience with new things, they simply want a dopamine boost of winning and only that.Streamers have always been hated in this community for a good reason. Any game that bows to their demands is always destined to die because they don't play video games because they like them, they play them because it gives them attention.
Just a Reminder.They broke up in 4chan thread here for no reason. I can't remember what was the reason. But I think It's because of ReySegador being busy and EviePoster missed him. They couldn't play Paladins together anymore since ReySegador's always busy.Sadly, Paladins is dead now. It's confirmed dead now.
fucking lmao
>>1728440We stopped giving him (you)s and he started shitting himself on twitter. Sad!
>>1725367Normally I would tell you to fuck off but Evie and Rey posting has always been funny.
Poor little supports like Io and Rei are always getting flanked and used like fleshlights by big rough frontlines <3
i'll learn my lesson this timethis is the third mp game that i've put a lot of hours into that's died. i'll just stick to normie shit for mp from now onthat said, this game was always better than both ow and tf2 even with all the crazy bugs and blizzard know it (they implemented perks shortly after paladins' death knell)
>>1731279>better than OWsome people my say the opposite, but i would agree>better than TF2woah, hold on there pal...
Lol, looks like Scrubz' go to shit fest is next on the chopping block. Read somewhere that all the Codemasters staff and the Respawn staff working on Apex are getting outsourced to Colombia which is par for the course for Scrubz. Paladins may have eaten shit and just flat out died but at least it didn't die in foreign lands.>>1731279>was always better than both ow and tf2Better in what way? I'm actually curious of your reasoning.
>>1729365
>>1723300I miss old Moji, I was playing her a lot before they fucked her up
>>1725367It's because you got blacked by King Scryza by literally taking a black cock up your asshole, RetardMRL
>>1733036>Better in what way?NTA but I would generally agree Paladins at it's best scratched the itch these games aim for better than TF2 did a lot of the time. TF2 is very good, no doubt, but mostly at casual gameplay of doing your own thing of exploring the map in minor scuffles while relying on uncoordinated pushes that are mostly a diceroll as to whether your 11 other teammates are going to do well enough to get you all across the finish line. That's all good and fun, but I feel like Paladins was actually the peak of the "strategic", "competitive" form of the hero shooter, far more than Overwatch or ranked TF2 got anyways. Paladins with all it's flaws was enraging and soul destroying at times, but when you experienced it's heights, and got high on the potential, man, was it something. I don't think any game will ever compare.
>>1734156You're still Pedo if you watched that porn videos.Btw, MRL was venting about the pasts that He wish He could undo everything.https://x.com/M_MRL_Paladins/status/1918540340971139293
Are doughnuts good for you?
Deadzone: rogue is actually performing really well.
At its peak, /palg/ could have been compared to that of the Roman Empire. But much like the comparison, it had a similar downfall. Through betrayal and lust.
>>1741918
…and SMITE!!!
I mean this as no disrespect but I genuinely feel bad for you guys. I remember seeing your general full and lively in /vg/ all of those years ago. Makes me sad seeing a game and community end up like this.
>>1743791It was inevitable.
>>1743814I will never play Smite for you guys
>>1743791We all saw the writing on the wall years ago full well knowing that this game's death spiral was out of the community's control and the devs and Lo-rez (as always) would eventually allahu akbar their game. We just decided to stick around to watch the slow motion demolition and stick it out to the end. We always knew it would come to this and honestly the show was worth the wait to watch the entire company implode once DEI funding and free welfare gibs died. Even better watching all the devs and big figures who fucked this game and antagonized the community for years end up eating shit in the most humiliating fashion. You can't tell me Thunderbrush ending up at Rocksteady Studios, a place with even shadier background and practices than Lo-rez, a company ending up being the MOST HATED vidya company in the industry during his stay which produced some of the biggest bombs and ended up costing Warner Bros over 200 million dollars and Romanova ending up working for a DBZ Fighterz stream where she actually gets death threats from jenkem huffing BRs and hated by the entire community while getting paid with a bucket of fried chicken and a five dollar bill isn't some kind of cosmic level of justice. This is the kind of cinema I stayed around for and I am not disappointed.
>>1743791This is why you should never, ever spend money on a Hi-Rez game, they all end up like this.
Can we please just have one more customs lobby
>>1751582Yes nina will host a lobby this Saturday and 3(three) people will show up.
>>1725367>>1734247
https://streamable.com/5i2ibkhttps://streamable.com/6sb3wphttps://streamable.com/h2jb64
>https://streamable.com/xnaijqhttps://streamable.com/bpofh3https://streamable.com/fjunwz
>>1756500>>1756077preo has made a fan in me!
Hello /palg/ I am going into video editing, and I need only your strongest clips if I am to succeed.
>>1762748my clips are too old for you young one
>>1763657/palg/adin, enough of these games, I'm going to make a video, and I want only your strongest clips.
>>1762748Considering who is actually left the streamable links in this thread is probably the best we've got right now.
Posting some ancient Paladins images.
>>1765310
oh fuck they actually delivered
>>1770124>Kana: We fix bugs every day>Actually means itFucking Hell.
will we ever get paladins....2?
>>1765307>1 gay tank>1 Dps>3 flanksLore accurate team comp
>lay of 80% of the workforce.>end up being laid off himself.Ironic.
>>1770145
>>1777332
https://www.dexerto.com/smite/smite-paladins-dev-hi-rez-hit-with-more-layoffs-but-it-may-not-be-bad-news-3207455/
>>1777700>but it may not be bad news>And that's a good thing!™>Bends the knee to Leftist style rhetoric for years>People talking about their exit from the industry hit them with the likeness of such in its headlineThis is a South African tier shit show. I always knew Lo-rez was bottom of the barrel but this is divine punishment.
>>1777700>Lo-rez lays off executives only when they literally cannot afford to lay off any more developers>"They chose devs over execs!"How much did lorez pay them for this article?
Here's that failed pitch they complained about. >aw trust me bro this would've been sick! It would have been all about my OCs no one cares about
>>1778572Playing devil's advocate, but I think there really is something to be said about lorez effectively abandoning the only non-smite game to be fairly successful back around 2020 for games with glaring fundamental gameplay flaws that never really took off. They kept trying to make new IPs instead of cultivating the games they had.
>>1778572>we were gonna do this terrible game.>but then Stew said 'no,' and gave the money to two equally bad projects.Yeah, I'm thinking Thundercuck's pitch was really, really horrible if DKO made a better impression.
>>1777700>“Essentially, the board’s rationale was that the company had a lot of senior management in relation to our current size,”Yeah that tends to happen when you have already previously fired 80% of your devs
>>1778572Just listening to this idea kind of makes me glad it didn't happen. Considering the sheer amount of Abyss/Darkness fatigue the game already had you don't need more than a few brain cells to see why they gave his vision a hard pass.>>1778634Considering this is mister Dungeon Master we're talking about, has he ever had a "good" idea?
>>1779225The wild west battlepass was great. Everything after that, not so much.
>>1779266Had no idea that was his idea but considering the characters were comical yet the event title was edgy I guess this was at a point before he had free reign. That and the fact that this is the same BP that had the editing tool in the background of the final product art.
>>1779469He complained about his more whimsical or silly ideas being shot down by stakeholders because the edgy/sexy champions sold better, Artshitter's to blame for a lot of Paladins' missteps in the art department, but I don't think he's responsible for all of it.
>>1779469He came up with gundam Andro and Furia, too, and drew the art for the whole gundam pass.>gundam battlepass was 6 years ago.It's so fucking over.
>>1779597What whimsical ideas? He posted a bunch of unused champion concepts and most of them was the same shit he usually makes. Minus the crocodile and lightning God concepts his unused ideas were either coomerslop, edgy, or just plain boring. Games like league have a bunch of cutesy champs so I doubt it would've hurt to add at least 1 more champion like moji
>>1779746Considering we're talking about Thunderbrush his ideas of "Comical" and "Whimsical" were probably more around the gist of Johnny The Homicidal Maniac seeing how much of an edge lord he is.
>>1765309were they any lorez expo paladins cosplays? i've seen all the SMITE ones but I've never seen any for paladins
>>1783503https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt1MDHAeoxA&list=LL&index=171This video makes me mad because I deserve this, not him
You can buy boosters? LETS GOOOOO!!!
how many active players are left in this game anyway? cant imagine its over 3k
>>1806170>3KLol. Lmao.
>>1789011wowiee exp boosters for a dead game?
oh i didnt know you guys moved i thought the thread just died>3 month old thread>200 postsfuck...
>>1806170>over 3Knice joke
>>1810013Game's literally dead.
>been playing daily against bots just to farm crystals because i have nothing else to do>can no longer find matchesis it finally over for real?
>>1828207Have you tried getting a job?
It was fun the memories we had. It's time to move on.
>>1830320where do you think im playing?
I was planning on posting here, saying I will buy this DLC if I get 10 wins in a row but when I was attempting to warm up to the challenge this happened
>>1831673There is no dlc and if there was why would you buy dlc for a game that is literally dead.
>>1832309https://streamable.com/lf5ais
>>1832380Ah the final form of mental illness.
>>1832380I'd clap him.
>>1832380
>>1681403i wish i didn't spent so many hours in this game but ripip
>>1832424>>1832918>>1833538Taking this as consernt
Thread bgm:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyhJ69mD7xIhttps://streamable.com/3ouwkkhttps://streamable.com/xcz10lhttps://streamable.com/h77zyr!/38
https://streamable.com/68uyb8-100/0https://streamable.com/82r61m3/0https://streamable.com/3166si4/0 revenge gameplay
Ancient https://streamable.com/9ljs16
https://streamable.com/119rmiNeed a break from mediocrety(mediocrity)
i posted gay porn plz respond :_:
this piece of shit game is the only hero shooter that runs on my piece of shit 2015 laptop.
>>1842303>>1842326>>1842341>>1842351
>>1843708 Baylandolando bay lando?had to use rare vpn to post
Paladins might outlive both smites, which is just sad.
>>1851867>buy this fucking thing...i did...
God I wish Raum would gr**m me.
>>1851909I wish I did. It was the one piece of paladins merchandise not butt ugly but of course when it was on sale I was taking a break from the game and didn't have a chance to even see it. Now the game is all but dead and there won't ever be a merch run again. I'd buy one second-hand but the only one available is some guy selling for 250 as a collector's item, so I guess I just won't have anything physical from a game I invested hours into
I'm still using the Andro mousepad I bought all those years ago.
>>1856203Is that an asscheek one?
>>1851867>>1852412I don't think I ever posted the sequel to this image>>1852525The worst part is, there was going to be a Yagorath makeship plushie too, at least one prototype was made, and it was so close to release that when the news that development was being stopped broke there was a moment of uncertainty over whether or not it would still be released. Unfortunately, it was scrapped. Although those Smite makeship plushies never came out either, so maybe something happened behind the scenes for all I know. There was also going to be an Io and Luna plushie later, since they were the other poll winner, but don't ask me how I know that.
>>1857863Picrel, from Kryptek's twitter
>>1857863>The worst part is, there was going to be a Yagorath makeship plushie tooI wouldn't have bought that desu. Gay ass nu-paladins champI honestly wish they would just rerelease the Maeve plushie. A campaign like that would have surely worked out as people rush to get the last memento they could from the game before it really dies.but until then, if any of you got a Maeve plushie you want to get rid of... lmk
>>1857863>Io plushieI wish. It's still maddening how they somehow managed to drop the ball with Io when she was basicly made as the perfect waifu bait.
>>1857962Lorez has never been very good at marketing
>>1856684No, just a normal steelseries one with Andro on it. It was 90% discounted when I grabbed it.
>>1860206I should've stocked up on defunct Hi-Rez merch.
>>1857863>nu slop and then nu slop>not pip or moji, who already have plushie proportions and would translate perfectlyI'm sick of every game I care about having the most shit taste communities
>>1864149Holy shit that's sad.
Paladins characters get saved but Blizzard buys the rights and move them all to Overwatch Would you still play?
>>1864702Pip and Moji were both in the poll, but they didn't get picked. Moji would've come with Po-Li if she won.
>>1865654Yes, I would.
I like that lo-rez added talents and hybrid toongodheroes to smite 2. It won't be long before paladin herotoons are added as skins, too.
>>1865654>Paladins porn explodes in popularity
>>1866146Unfortunately they've said this won't be happening because the Fernando skin in Smite 1 didn't sell well and also because the Paladins and Smite playerbases hate each other.They did add some of Amerikhan's voicelines as exploitable sound clips though
>>1866517Fernando was a paladins founder pack crossover exclusive, and he sold a metric shitton.
>>1868866He was also available as direct purchase.
>>1868866>>1869267But how many of those founder's pack buyers also actively played Smite? I remember someone asking the Paladins devs why they didn't add Smite crossover skins and they replied that it was because there was so little overlap between the playerbases, because someone who played Paladins probably wouldn't be interested in the type of game Smite was and vice versa. Recently, the Smite devs gave a similar answer.
>>1869271A large portion of the initial smite playerbase owned all the lo-rez games, which is why they bothered making the crossover bundles in the first place. 10+ years on, of course the people who have Fernando in smite, and Ares in paladins, will be almost all gone.
>>1869527I wonder how much of lo-rez's inital playerbase is still around 10 years later?
>>1869271When I used to play on goystation I had the ares fernando skin.
>>1875010Subz can we not
Torvald.
>>1879186
What happened in May 2025?
>>1884279bots
>>1884279
>>1886360>>1888504But why....
You're given unlimited budget and total creative freedom to make an animated Paladins show. What do you make?
>>1893100I make a Furia porno.
>look for some information for some unrelated stuff im working on>find some answers on reddit of all places>"last browsed" boards show up in my recommended>realm royale board is there>remember i visited that place a couple of times looking for info on bugs or general information>click because curious>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ8_otKEmpkwhat the fuck?! since when is this a thing? am i going to have to join a discord for this?
>>1893100Warning: autism incomingI would make a serial action/comedy series with fairly low stakes but with an overarching plot that sees the characters and their relationships grow over time and the setting change fairly often too. It would be a lot like Avatar: The Last Airbender, in that way, although it wouldn't be in the anime style and probably have less of the anime-inspired quirks in the writing or story. I imagine it would be animated closer to something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q0QGtk_AM0The story would be nothing like the weird gun control metaphor that they tried to write with the paladins and the magistrate or whatever. The whole realm-wide war with rebels and imperials and demons and catholics and whoever the fuck else is all but entirely gone. Most of the alpha lore is reinstated, too. The story begins by introducing Drogoz, a small, lowly wyrin, wingless and bound to servitude to a powerful and cruel dragon. Even as a malnourished youngling he is forced to slave away in gold mines to increase his master's hoard, cleaning and polishing treasures he could never afford, his body amassing scars and burns from all the times he was tormented by his superiors for not even having wings to fly let alone an inner hearth with which to spew fire. His torment ends when one day the dragon's subterranean lair is racked by explosions; boulders fall all around him, screams and roars echo from all parts of the cave, until total darkness falls and he is trapped in a tiny crawlspace. He tries to spark a flame to be able to see, but he can't, and he falls to the ground in defeat. Suddenly, a light shines upon him; the boulder above him is pushed to the side with ease by a tall woman made of stone. The light is from the torch of a elvish woman in silver armor; she's looking for her allies that went missing during the disastrous battle with the dragon.
>>1893803The paladins pull Drogoz from the rubble, and taking pity on the fragile, tortured wyrin, a young dwarf takes him into his care. He gets the group's healer to mend the young wyrm's body, feeds him, and most importantly introduces him to the latest experiments he has been working on in crystal technology; incendiary devices. Drogoz is fascinated by the inventions, overcome with excitement at every sort of bomb, flamethrower, and lava-spitting blunderbuss the dwarf shows off, most of all by the rocket launcher that is the shining jewel of the dwarf's arsenal. But one evening, the dwarf shows him a secret prototype he'd been working on before they made the expedition to liberate the surrounding area from the tyrant dragon; a jetpack, capable of turning crystal power into jet propulsion so that even the densest dwarf can forgo stairs to reach the ceiling of a mineshaft. Drogoz realizes that all the gems the dragon had hoarded and the crystals lining the lair's walls were his way to become a full-fledged dragon this whole time. Later that night, he sneaks out of his tent in the paladins' camp outside what used to be the dragon's cave; he sneaks into the dwarf's supplies, and steals the rocket launcher and the jetpack, and a small pack with crystals to power them and some food to keep him. He hikes to the top of the mountain in the dark, and when he reaches the peak, he takes one last look at the camp, and the dwarf's tent, before flying off into the night. We see him next as he is in the game; greedy, psychopathic, and deranged. Now he's a wandering vagrant, making enemies wherever he goes, no closer to amassing a hoard than when he was a boy. People typically underestimate him, and laugh him off as an insane wyrin; he meets this with fire and fury.
>>1893806And although he's more than capable of terrorizing a small village or destroying a bandit camp and stealing whatever remains, this typically only gets him as far as the next village; he's incapable of putting up a fight against any organized guard or fort, so he sticks to the outskirts, where he makes a name for himself. His story moves and evolves in a game of telephone until in the minds of some he goes from aimless brute to wandering hero, a warrior of fire putting an end to evil wherever he finds it. He first comes into contact with this version of himself when he's flying towards yet another village to rampage when he sees a child fleeing. He lands to see if the kid has any spare change he can nick, when he is caught off guard by the boy recognizing him and hailing him as a hero. Before Drogoz can clear things up, the boy explains that his village has been taken over and all the townspeople have been made to serve a vile sorceress that has covered everything in ice, stolen all their wealth and taxed all their resources, and eventually just make all the people do demeaning shit just to amuse her. Something stirs inside Drogoz; maybe it's the idea of people hailing him as a savior, maybe it's the memory of the paladins that saved him from servitude, maybe it's that he flew all this way just for all the shit he was gonna steal to get stolen by somebody else. He wordlessly walks past the boy towards the village, caked in snow and sprinkled with icy shards, and makes his way to the town square where what looks like a young woman sits on a throne of ice; Evie, the winter witch. She's in the middle of ordering the village elderly to fight to the death as everyone is made to watch, when Drogoz loudly interrupts and challenges her. She's instantly outraged by the disrespect of the interloper, but quickly warms up to the idea, admitting that taking over this village was incredibly boring for her, and this fight might actually be fun.
>>1893809Drogoz starts by doing the same things he does to attack unarmed villagers or dagger wielding highwaymen, but he's quickly put in his place by Evie's ice magic that sends him barreling into a snow bank. Initially embarrassed, eventually the heat of his jetpack and the fire caused by his explosions prove effective against the icy environment and Evie begins to lose some of her steam, letting Drogoz knock her off her groove with a couple rockets that almost hit. She gets her footing back and again proves herself the more capable fighter, launching Drogoz into a huge pile of ice and snow that makes his jetpack and rocket launcher lose functionality; she's just about to permanently bury him in ice when he overworks his jetpack causing it to rocket upward out of his control, but he catches her with a mighty punch; she's just barely able to shield herself in a block of ice as it carries her through a couple walls and outside the village, where the both of them fall down a cliffside until they reach the bottom of a ravine. Evie slowly picks herself up, at first groaning in immense pain but eventually laughing hard and giggling at how fun it was. She looks around herself until she sees Drogoz, kneeling down on the floor of the basin. It's his jetpack; it was damaged in the fall and doesn't work anymore. Evie starts to laugh at how pathetic Drogoz's situation is, eventually settling down before getting on her broom and preparing to fly away, but she stops when Drogoz lets out a loud, hideous roar that transforms into sobbing. The curiosity gets the better of her and she gets a bit closer; asking him if he's really such a sore loser, but Drogoz ignores her and keeps crying. Something pulls on her; she hasn't felt empathy for another living creature in a long time, but something about this situation doesn't sit right with her.
>>1893810Eventually, she decides if he wants to fly so much, she'll help him. She looks at her spellbook and before he knows it, he begins to float. She made his body lighter than air and he's now rising uncontrollably, writhing wildly as he tries to claw his way back to earth. She realizes her mistake and undoes the spell, to which he crashes back into the ground, and she gives a meager apology. Drogoz gets up, dusts himself off, gives her a stern look, and then sits back down, staring off into space. He's decided he'll sit here until he dies, his only means of becoming a true dragon dashed. Evie is flabbergasted by her formidable opponent's total lack of resolve, but when she tries to leave him to his death, she once again cant handle it and stops. She tells him she knows someone that can repair his jetpack, a weaponsmith in a nearby city, but that he'll have to act as her bodyguard/meatshield because she is NOT welcome in that city anymore ever since she crossed the leader of an underground criminal syndicate. They shake hands, and begin the journey together to get his jetpack back. After they do this, inevitably getting into trouble with Zhin and probably Lex too, they become fugitives on the run, travelling the world together and encountering fantastic trouble wherever they go, which involves other familiar faces we see in the game. End of season sees a lot of these figures all in one place; The king of most powerful kingdom in the realm is holding a tournament to find the strongest warriors, and have them compete in challenges of capturing points and pushing carts to find the most qualified to be his own personal guard, and have whatever they please as reward. Drogoz and Evie, now close partners with a friendly rivalry of fire vs ice going on, compete in the tournament with and against lots of other wacky matchups from the game and other characters from their adventures, hoping to finally get what they truly wanted all along; immense power and lots of wealth.
>>1893815Very interesting, it's pretty close to the mood of the alpha/early beta versions of Paladins
Because they killed Paladins and then Smite 1 I haven't and never will spend another penny on low-rez games.
>>1893637Bigtor once again comes to save the day.
>>1893637>Paladins and Realm Royale both have private server projects>Smite and its spinoffs have nothingGenuinely a little surprised, Smite's always been the more popular/profitable/stable game so you'd think there would be more fan projects and such surrounding it.
I was gonna sell my smite account with the weiss skin, my retirement fund up in flames
>>1893857Thanks. Actually, the inspiration for the last plot point introduced there, where a king holds a tournament with a grand prize that attracts all the champions of the realm, was inspired/copied from something somebody posted on 4chan(or it might have been a reddit or youtube comment) back when Paladins was just making waves during it's steam release. I remember it being the first explanation I heard of the "lore" behind Paladins, that the king of Crosswind hold is holding a tournament to see who shall become a Paladins and have the king's ear for whatever they desire. This was long before the whole paladins/magistrate crystals war became the official story, when the classic character's alpha lore was still all we had to go off of, and while that lore for each individual character is archived on the wiki, I've never seen that story about the king of Crosswind Hold again(It honestly might have just been some random anon's fanon). But I like it as a premise for WHY all the characters are fighting in all these set-pieces by controlling points and pushing carts. I always preferred it over the Hi-Rez lore of some big global war between all these factions and these world-ending catastrophes, I think it's neater to have all these individual characters just be fighting for themselves.Maybe the later seasons of the show could introduce the abyssal/darkness characters through a big global catastrophe that makes all our characters have to fight for the greater good, though. For old time's sake.
>>1895310There was a lot of fanon and speculation going off of the Alpha bios back in 2016-2017 or so when they first started to trickle out some hints at lore, so that probably was fanon, but it still fits well with what was available back then, when the closest thing we had to lore was an implication that all of the champions were adventurers who made their way to Crosswind Hold in search of treasure. (Why is why early game modes and maps were all about raiding vaults).It all seemed so simple back then.
dead threaddead gamedead company
>>1896171Finally... Free...
>>1896171There's a private server being readied, though.
>>1865654if thats what it takes to get more talus art
Plapping Maeve!
>>1865654No. Overwatch has no soul.
>>1896171Death is just the beginning.
...And REALM ROYALE!
...and ROGUE COMPANY!!!
...and SMITE!
...and BOT SMASHERS!!!
...and JETPACK FIGHTER!!!!
...and DIVINE KNOCKOUT!!!
...and SMITE! ...2!!
damn lorez was really just a company that spammed out shitty games that died within a year. it was a miracle that smite and paladins lasted so long
>>1905543It really all comes back to Erez and his uncanny ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of success every single time
>>1905518Need smite 2 hats for future use.
It's crazy to me that hi-rez killed all their games, fired 90% of their employees, nuked half their managers, kicked out their CEO, and deleted all the n*gg*r propaganda from their websites, all in two surgical sweeps.
>>1914292are there ANY chances of Hi-rez making it back? or are they completely and irreparably fucked?
>>1914300Erez is still loaded, so they could downscale even further and keep making games like deadzone rogue forever, if he wanted to. He clearly thinks smite 2 has the potential to salvage the company, but I just don't see it, or hi-rez ever running multiple live service games simultaneously again.
>>1914300>>1914314Erez seems to be trying and failing to make tons of slop games puppeteering the corpse of Tribes that are launched and die within about a week before he tries again. Surely ai-generated weapon skins will save Tribes this time for sure!
>>1914622What even is the relationship between lorez and prophecy at this point? I've done some digging around but can't find a straight answer aside from Erez owning both.
>>1914314He doesn't give a fuck about the company he said it's just a hobby for him.
>>1914300Last I checked Erez, Stew, and the rest seem to have shifted their focus to the AI industry.
One more 5v5 customs....please...
>>1914753FACT: There is only enough of palg left for a 2v2.
>>1914753*coughs blood*
>>1914753Customs were never good, dumb palabab.
>>1916768Never good for you just like your sex life.
>>1915341Sis I think you mean a 1v1.
>>1916768To be fair they always put you on the shitty team with bots or bronze players, every single time.
Scrubz is so godlike that he carried 4 bots to grandmaster. He should not be losing to literal silvers and bronzes running triple supports and dual flanks when he has four real players on his own team.
>>1918222>Scrubz gets put on a team with bots once as a joke>Literally gets carried in Onslaught by a bot Grover who just never left the point while everyone just goofed around>This is ironically the same match where a Maeve forced Scrubz to turn on his aimbot>He still bitches five years laterLike literally the first or second Customs match he ever played with us and he's still complaining.
Even in the heat death of Paladins.Scrubs still turns up and still gets shit on.
>customs were 7 years ago.
Oh boy! I've been in a coma since early 2023! I can't wait to see all the new champions and content added to Paladins: Champions of the Realm, my favorite video game!
I miss the energy this place used to have.
I miss when these games felt like they had soul. Now it's not even fun to shit on lorez anymore. It's just kinda sad.
>>1931428Realistically the general and energy of this place died when the eviewhore and reyfagador made a secret discord for this place. It killed discussion in the Gen in exchange for their fragile egos to be fed.
>>1934442Dude you were literally creeping on MRL and secretly trying to get Bryan banned in a Discord server long before people decided to create a Discord to get away from the drama you and your goons brought to destroy this place.
>>1934442Nigga you still mad about me?
>>1934442>Calls Rey a fag despite he himself being in a discord trying to get up in MasterESL's crust>Calls Evieposter a whore despite ditching ESL when things got too zesty publicly and jumped over to whoring himself to Mopsy since it benefited himThe cat always projects.
>>1934442Subz can we not
>>1934442Mopsy can we not
i disagree, the energy died when nina moved on. the general died when the layoffs happened.
>>1935914This is only 95% true.
>>1936151and only 95% of the time
>>1935914Besides the content creators Nina was the life blood of Customs which kept this General worth visiting at least once a week and I used to join every week for that.
>>1935914From what I noticed, Paladins in general started dying around mid-late 2021, and just kept slowly bleeding out from there. 2022 being such a bad year and almost no new champions coming out in 2023 made it clear the game was on the way out, and most posters jumped ship to other generals and games. That said I did only start playing in 2020, and people were already saying it was a dead game back then. As this was happening the game itself was being bled dry for RoCo and DKO, neither of which achieved anything close to what Paladins did. As much as we shit on them, I really don't envy the people who were working on Paladins, they got screwed over by lorez, and it's a real shame how badly Erez and his buddies handled Paladins. Looking at all the ex-dev stories it sounds like no matter what the game achieved, or how much it earned, lorez had just lost all faith in it after the OW comparisons and OB64, so they went on their usual spree of abandoning all their old games and making new ones to try and breed a new golden goose to replace Smite with, screwing over all their old employees who they hired to work on those titles and the players who loved those games in the process. It looks like their decade+ of screwups is finally coming back to bite them in the ass though, we'll see how things play out..
>>1935914nina was the glue, when he was gone it all turned into shitposting about discord drama. i miss when /palg/ was fun. i miss when paladins and hirez were fun.
>>1937460>Paladins in general started dying around mid-late 2021Pretty much this. The Hunt, The New Direction was all just the appetizer all the shit that happened in between was the main course and Dark Depths was the end of the line. That Event Pass was quintessentially the perfect storm of a middle finger that Lo-rez could've given. A tone def battle pass which was like the 4th Ocean themed pass within a year, a pay for less battle pass scheme that was actually worse than before, fatigue of nothing but skins for content a community managed by people who clearly had so much disdain for people they did the exact opposite just to spite them while gaslighting them and speaking of spite, SALT to top it all off. It was like a master class in watching a company write its own suicide note. Everything that came after was just the after party.
>>1937326Well Nina was the only person hosting the customs that held enough trust.
>>1937504I think the endless demon skins were worse than the 4 ocean passes in 2 years, personally.
>>1937694Demon fatigue is real.
>>1937460>>1937504>>1937694The funny thing about all these posts is that looking back at the posts made at the time you realize these points only scratch the surface of what was going on back then and it's actually worse than people remember.
NuVGS was the beginning of the end.
>>1938122Smite had/has the same problem, but also has more whales, a bigger team, and more budget, so they ended up with more variety than Paladins did. The justification both teams gave is that apparently edgy/demon skins sell really well and are one of/the only skin themes that consistently sell no matter what.
Post your favorite Champion!
>>1942513
>>1942513Lian
>damageteehee
>>1942513Too bad he's stuck in a dead game.
>>1942513VII
>>1681592its not unheard of
>>1947916Really? Post some examples.
This thread is half a year old.
>>1949434Even in death it dies slowly.
>>1949578It mirrors the game.
am i missing anything?
>>1954273I feel like you could include the handling of cauterize and anti-heal.
>>1954312dont forget the splitting of crowd controls and damage reductions either
It would've been nice if Nina, eviewhore, and fagador died before paladins. I would say they played a role in the death of the game but their aim usually resulted in 0 kills.
>>1954273Defensive items and CC getting split into multiple pieces.CC itself being extremely convoluted, to the point even most nolifers don't fully understand the system.Legacy smite mechanics.When they lied and said they had no resources for anything, then magically dumped an entirely new version of the item shop on people.When they used that lie the second time, and dumped siege ultra HD remix on people.>we can't bring back payload because uhh, it just wasn't popular, okay? Oh, no, wait, here, just take it.Fucking with every single M1 godtoon, simultaneously shafting whales and new players.Constantly fucking with godtoon weapon behaviors.Arbitrarily deciding that some lowtier godtoons are allowed to be obnoxious and literally broken when built in certain ways (Maeve, Lex, Lian, Bigtor, etc), while kneecapping other lowtier godtoons because 'they're obnoxious and literally broken when built in certain ways' (Vivian, Tiberius, Dredge, Moji, etc), satisfying no one, and leading to more monobuildtoons and throwpicks.The horrible low-effort animated trailers for events, back when they still made those.Experiments and tests always becoming permanent changes to champtoongods. Tiberius' nerfed combat stance RoF is a good example.Their war against mobility and speed. Not even high mobility and sonic speed, just mobility and speed in general.Devs not playing or understanding their own game.The new player experience.
>>1954400>The fag who got giggle stomped by actual bot farmers and couldn't hitscan a Willo talking trash on anyone>Shitting on NinaAnd you wonder why nobody likes you. It's like you go out of your way to be the most unlikable person possible.
>>1954273To be fair there were some parts of the lore and characters that were pretty cool or interesting, but they never got the chance to really expand on any of it
Post the end times fanfic.
remember horsepower
>>1955017They had like, what, 10 years to give us any lore for andro? when we eventually got the chronicles it mostly focused on champions like azaan and furia, who are pretty boring characters. grohk was gentrified and made bland as shit. nando, pip, torv, etc didnt have their personalities expressed at all. there were multiple chronicles where a big battle happens and everyone just shoots at each other and runs off, accomplishing absolutely nothing. despite yagorath and the crystal wars being major conflicts, no one ever dies. they were too pussy to even kill off lore-exclusive characters like karn, who is somehow still alive and is sowwy for hurting da goblins.
>>1955773I appreciate what they were trying to do with chronicles, I liked the Vora one, but, yeah, they tended to miss more than they hit. That said, to play devil's advocate, they only had some 12 or so people left at Evil Mojo when they were written, and it was mentioned once or twice that they decided against killing off playable characters to avoid confusion about someone being dead in the lore, but alive in the game.It would've been nice if we had something like chronicles back when the people who actually came up with the personalities and lore for the champions were still at hirez, but even then lore was always pretty heavily tied to champion releases and the decisions of the marketing department.Also, the end times story and the smite stories weren't very good either. Lore and story have never been hirez's strong suit.
>>1955770Remember the ppr wars.
>>1905295And Skye!
>>1954273Sorry to say this in a vigil for a dead game but Moji is cancer and should never have been added to the roster.This game was on a death spiral much sooner than any of those poorly designed champions were added too, it started with the consolisation of champions so faster projectiles for older champinos and auto aim mechanics in newer champions namely after Lex was released so back in Q2 of 2017; you can see it on steamcharts, it's a linear decline in player numbers after players catch on to what lorez was trying to do.
>>1954273>of only the devs had more resources they would've uhhAnon don't be so nieve. They would have given nyx another pair of wings. Yknow, the important stuff
>>1954273I mean, to be fair, lorez was constantly slashing the game's budget and team size for roco and dko. It's not hard to imagine that fucked up development.
>>1957795Make one where Pepper punches the screen.
I just want more Io.
>Come back to Paladins after years.>Every new character they added is black.
>>1962166It's a tragedy that she wasn't in a better game
whos gonna get off their ass and make a fan continuation project? for fucks sake multiversus has 2 of them and that game sucks dick
>>1962534Some people are working on custom private servers IIRC
>>1962207It's a western developer, why are you surprised?
>>1962514The best waifus are always stuck in dead games.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1354180/Divine_Tactics/Hi-rez will never ever ever EVER stop shitting out smite spinoffs. The Prophecy Games name is tainted, so now they're operating under the Quantum Flux name.Can't keep paladins supplied with new content, but making an all new game is perfectly doable.
>>1964772Why was Prophecy tainted?
Anybody still left who plays this game? Would you want to queue around this time for an hour once a week?
>>1964772>>1965032Apparently it's a remake/revival of the old Prophecy game from members of Erez's spinoff company, the same one that originally was formed to make Prophecy but then struck out on their own and split from Hi-Rez to desecrate the grave of the Tribes IP.TL;DR: It's not a Hi-Rez game, even if it uses assets from a Hi-Rez game, it's from Erez's other gaming-themed billionaire vanity project
>>1965032They made starsiege: deadzone, which looked like it'd be a successful game, but then got cancelled and delisted in favor of tribes 3, which bombed, and became a meme when they stuffed it to the gills with AI generated skins, but that's okay, because assets from it and starsiege: deadzone were gonna be recycled into their new guaranteed hit game, ultrastrikers, but that got cancelled before it even entered beta, and then they pretended none of that had happened, and released deadzone rogue - which is actually a very fun game. People are still very mad at them, and don't want to give them any money.Also tribes rivals and starsiege raiders never ended up getting made, and before all of this took place, they churned out Prophecy, which is just Divine Tactics with a different name.tl;dr devs quickly became infamous for cancelling games and shafting paying customers.
>asynchronous multiplayer. Oh Christ. The game I've played with this just have you verse 100% optimize builds constantly.Everyone just re-rolls until the perfect start so you only go against the best strats that hit all their rolls.
>>1965110>to desecrate the grave of the Tribes IPActually impressive when you think about it since they killed it in the first place. It's like murdering a person and then saying you can still do more damage by pissing on their grave stone.>>1965132>mfw reading all that shitI'm just making it easy on myself by filtering out any games attached to Erez's name or his associates from now on. There's a reason he's trying to hide his involvement as best he can and refuses to produce these under his other studios and it's because he knows both his names and his studio's names are poison to the industry so he's trying to sell his snake oil under a different name. Very Hebraic indeed.
To my knowledge, Prophecy was spun-off from Hi-Rez under Erez to pursue Prophecy (The Smite spinoff,) because it was a top-down game as opposed to Hi-Rez's usual 3rd/1st person output, then it went dormant for a while before reappearing with Starsiege: Deadzone. (It's worth noting that Starsiege is part of the greater Tribes IP.)Then that didn't work out, so they made Tribes 3, then that didn't work out, so they made Ultra Strikers, then that flopped hardest of all, so they made Deadzone Rogue, which as far as I know is the 3rd or 4th rebrand/evolution of the Starsiege: Deadzone thing, this time as a singleplayer roguelike. If I ever play it I'll report back here for shits and giggles.And now, we're looking at Divine Tactics, which is a revival of the original Prophecy game they spun off to make in the first place, same assets and all. This version apparently plays a bit differently according to Killgoon, the current head of Titan Forge (and, effectively, Hi-Rez as a whole, since TF is their only surviving studio, and, despite being listed as CEO, Erez seems to be hands-off this time, unusually,) and, aside from reusing licensed assets and designs, isn't being advertised with the Smite IP. It also might've just been something some employees slapped together, based on the wording here >>1965110But who knows?
>>19651324th try's a charm!
>>1965036That would be like 4am my time....so no.
How have you guys been holding up since the /palg/ days?
>>1967734Went back to playing TF2 full stop after the bot purge and basically targeting people with duels and stomping them if they have "TTV" in their name. Also been playing Genshin and random indie games as well. Things improve greatly when you start ignoring all the mainstream and AAA slop. Indie games are pretty much the last bastion of actual solid gameplay. Probably gonna jump into Lunacid soon.
>>1967734Playing indie games mostly, I've completely stopped playing multiplayer games now.
>>1967734I'm finally catching up on my huge singleplayer backlog, keeping an eye on Smite 2 and Lo-rez's latest misadventures from a distance, and trying to rework the things I liked about Paladins lore and characters into legally distinct versions I can hopefully use for original writing projects someday. It's over now, but /palg/ and Paladins fill me with a warm nostalgia. That said, in retrospect, I regret letting myself get upset over Lorez, the devs, and the direction the game was going in instead of just enjoying the game and the world and characters I feel in love with. I miss you guys. See you all in Paladins 2: Terminus' Revenge.
>>1967734still playing paladins, just doing whatever daily challenges i can in 2 matches against bots before i go back to playing TF2 or some other random game from my steam library (currently got into Nikke)
>>1967734Good. Quit all videogames that aren't fighting games, got a life, got my health in order, got a steady gf, work full weeks, and quit all my cope habits.
>>1962534It won't happen because this game cultivated an audience of gooners who don't have the mental capacity to make such a thing. This is not the tf2 community, who is passionate about every minute detail and is willing fix every bug you never knew existed. The fact that seris had the highest pick rate for ages should make this evident. Most paladins players just want more tasteless skins for mediocre girls. They can't even make good porn.
I miss the RC days.
I miss the tribes days.
I miss the global agenda days.
I miss the paladins forums days.
"That's too bad!"
>>1967734I basically quit online gaming all together, most i play is some Ready or Not and Forza Horizon 4 from time to time.Right now i am mainly getting thru my backlog on my pc hooked up to my new 144hz 4k oled TV i manged to get on a 50% off sale a few months ago and messing with my Steam Deck at work.
>>1977959>messing with my Steam Deck at work.Based.
Don't mind me.
We never minded you jackass
Need more Io lewds, bros.
>>1980392Download a rendering software and do the work yourself
>>1980392Just download SD reforged and pick a illustrious model
I'm going to elope with Maeve and Vivian.
>>1723288kek
Oh, you guys are here now. It's been a while. How's the game these days?
>>1984629In its end of life saga.
>>1984649It's been in that phase since long before the official announcement. Tell me something I don't know.
>>1984650Nothing has been able to happen except the official announcement.No new skins, no events, no champions, no balancing. Nobody talks in game and when they do its in taco speak. not even VGS gets used, if one wants to see signs of life in game its best they play a bot match, for atleast they use VGS. None of the anon's around play together anymore, there are no customs. The game is now legitimately in it's undeath, a shuffling corpse wearing the skin of a once beloved game. the death we spoke about in years past were brimming with life in comparison to this hollow empty place where the average player numbers are a fraction of previous years.These empty days lack even the stupidity of devs and hostile interactions between to community and lo-rez because even the dev's have abandoned this ruined wreck of a game. We are but the last musicians on a sunken ship, playing on in the depths of the bugs, where there is no hope because there is no where left to go.A thread that was once active, able to finish a full thread in a matter of days now taking more thank half a year, full of anon's making memes, posting clips of dumb things we saw in game, Namefags making full length movies and high production clip showcases, hosting custom matches, bickering like school children or married couples.The era of Paladins and by extension /palg/ is over, those that remain here are the skeletons picked clean still hanging on to the railings of the decrepit ship.
>>1984900Pretty accurate besides,>the dev's have abandoned this ruined wreck of a gameThey didn't abandon it, they were either let go or fired in mass amounts.
>>1985151There's two (2) devs left that maintain the servers, and presumably monitor ranked and the other game modes, so the whole thing doesn't glitch out.
>>1984900So you don't even get matches anymore? What a shame. I felt like reinstalling.
>>1984900When you see a block of text like this you unironically start appreciating reddit spacing.
>>1985250You can still get into matches pretty reliably in NA servers, at least in my experience
What did (you) like about Paladins Anon?
>>1990901The character variety.Very easy to get into.Many toon champs are memorable.Runs on all machines made after 2010.Siege is a great game mode.Low time commitment.Not much dexterity required, unless you specifically pick more high skill toon heroes.Playing paladins is about as frictionless as playing an unreal tournament game, which is why I stuck with it, but stopped playing its competitors.
>>1990901The flexibility in how you used to play champions, the light moba elements with the item store and cards meant you could build certain sometimes broken ways.Mostly it was the Anons here that made it best to play for me.Also the Champion design and magitech setting was interesting and different than alot of other games.
Biggtor!
