The Electric Afterparty to the 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 Threads>>1576540>>1681403
>>2076757How so?
>>2076742"Please, let me die...no NOOOOOOO!!!"
Breeding Io and fathering endless litters of fox kits...
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/paladins_gamepedia/images/8/82/Lazarus_SP_AbilityUltimate_Friendly.ogg
You see SubzWoo don't blink or stareEvieFraud got head tapped and she had to shave her hair
Scrubz: virgin with a vengeance.
>>2078406
Do i catbox my paladongs slop porn folder?
>>2080560yes
>>2080560Please do!
>>2080560
>>2080560VVY
Get ready to be disappointed if you expected anything less from me...https://litter.catbox.moe/zhw3s3r6czh50sa8.zip
>>2081529what is wrong with her hands?
>>2081529>shota Ash fucking normal Ash.>not making her a futa.
>>2076859Anon, its VERY hard to impregnate a goddess
>>2081529>no kitten maeve
>>2081529>No Ying>No Io>No FuriaSuportbros...Great work, the world's been in a palaporn drought.
>>2081529I've always been disappointed in you.
Only kitten Maeve smut will keep the game's IV bag filled. It must be kitten Maeve, no canonical proportions shit.
>>2081793Big gay>>2082122>>2083266Sorry, but Ash and Evie are the only 2 paladongs girls that still make me hard...
>>2081529Need more pics of Evie and Ash getting knotted in the butt.
>>2084006Me when anons reply the obvious humiliation fetishist.
>>2086285Even with an aimbot, Mopsy lost.
Aimbotters fighting each other over dominance in a game with autoaim toon heroes.
Paladins: knotsluts of the realm!
>>2086285Why would you brag about being GM in a game with such a low player count?
>>2089807Built for bbc
>>2086285Honestly watching two faggots argue who the best aimbot abuser in a dead game is so sad it's peak comedy. Find Christ.
I DON'T CARE ABOUT SUBZSTANCEI DONT CARE ABOUT ARTSHITTERI DONT CARE ABOUT SMITE GEN PEOPLEI DONT CARE ABOUT MOPZYSI DONT CARE ABOUT INCELBOLTMAKE THREAD MOJI FEETPOST MOJI FEET NOWWWW
>>2092015Built for BWC
>>2091811
VII.I genuinely miss VII. VII was my favorite video game character of all time. He just worked for me. It was like his kit was designed specifically for me. I was the best. Then they changed him. I will never be able to play og VII again. ever. like for the rest of my fucking life. Unforgivable. The worst part is that they didnt even make him better. they made him worse. No, the two can't even be compared really. VII is no longer VII anymore. He's just some fucking guy with guns now. There is no mobility happening here. Its over. Its all over.
>>2093431Yeah yeah, calm down mopsy you spastic
>>2093431Mopsy… what’s going on big guy…
>>2092015>>2092584OOHH FUCK YEAHHH BABYYY
Dallas.I genuinely miss Dallas. Dallas was my favorite video game character of all time. He just worked for me. It was like his kit was designed specifically for me. I was the best. Then they changed him. I will never be able to play og Dallas again. ever. like for the rest of my fucking life. Unforgivable. The worst part is that they didnt even make him better. they made him worse. No, the two can't even be compared really. Dallas is no longer Dallas anymore. He's just some fucking guy with token toon reveals now. There is no tracking, resetting, or glitches happening here. Its over. Its all over.
I think it's pretty telling that anons never talked about Rogue Company or made a general for it, honestly, at least not when I was around. Even Realm Royale had more discussion and OC made.
heard yall talkin sum sh*t
>>2094436Because it got put into maintenance mode halfway into year 2, and people went in knowing it was a lo-rez game.
>>2094436Paladins had sexy girl toons.Smite had sexy girl toons.Realm had Hilda for the hmofa guys.All the women in Roco were kinda boring looking. Also they were all flat and had no curves.
>>2095558wow. you werent kidding, over half the female rocotoons look like lesbians or non-binary.
>want to do my daily quick play to grind for gems>cant go pass pic relatedanyone else? are the servers officially dead?
>>2095686>>2095558Reminder that they nerfed the sex appeal of the three rocotoons that didn't look like grandmas, and then out of nowhere they added an actual grandma as a toon.
>>2076758The internet is too fast, inhospitable, and void of trust and fun now, for that kind of energy to exist. We're living in the dystopian era of d*scords, AI generated everything, and steam boyfriends.
>>2097125Are there before and after pictures of them anywhere?
>>2096753>try again today>still cant go pass this loading screenwait...is it over for real this time? am i finally free?!
>>2099016I'm pretty sure that was a bug that never got fixed. Sometimes accounts will just become unable to log in, stuck on an endless loading screen no matter what they do.
>>2099126It was caused by having too large a friends list I recall
>>2099016>>2096753>try for the 3rd day in a row>not its stuck hereit certainly wasnt my friend list before, i think the server have officialy shat themselves, its over, either that or something weird is going on with my game
I can tell you how to fix it but I need a big gift in return.
>>2102364>>2099518I can hop on just fine, if I remember correctly this particular bug started showing up not long before Evil Mojo was dissolved, some people on twitter and reddit were complaining about it. Unfortunately they never got the chance to implement a fix.
>>2102401Here.
Now that the dust has finally settled, can we all agree that paladins was fun?
>>2105375>Started playing Paladins after friend introduced me back in 2018/2019.>Never that good, but I enjoyed Mal'damba>Covid happens, come home from school>Can't go out, most games I own were single player.>Play paladins more, find the general>Sheer level of shitpostery is funny.>Nando-Anon, Psycho Evie Poster, guy who really wanted to marry Ying.>Eventually customs start. First lobby, first time we hit a full 10 player lobby.>Some weekends were so busy we had two lobbies going. >One time get an extremely scuffed 10v0 because of a bug.>Shit posters come and go, lots of fun videos and anons. >Eventually Covid ends, weekends are less free. Everyone has to move on, and the game is shitting itself worse then OB64.Honestly, those 1-2 years were probably the peak of Paladins for me, and the reason I've never tried getting into another online shooter. It was a Hi-rez game, it was never going to last forever, but I loved that general while it existed.TLDR: Yeah, it was funAlso I refuse to believe the cat is still here. It must be some kind of copy cat.
>>2105375Io... My beautiful wife...
Post skin ideas you wish they made
>>2107161Pretty much this. This is one of the most fun and magical communities I've ever been a part of to the point it was surreal and brings you back at neck break speed reminding you all good things eventually come to an end. The games, the legends, the faces, the memes and jokes, the entire way everything played out like a movie you're a part of. But it all wouldn't have been a thing if it weren't for this community, clearly the only great thing about this game. Without that, this would have just been another below mediocre hero shooter destined for the inevitable Lo-rez trash pile.You guys were all some of the good ones and I'm happy I got to play and shitpost with you all.
>>2107378What a weird looking Maeve
>>2107378>The chaos of trying to find a schedule that worked for every single person in the thread, when there was someone on every single timezone>Playing against randoms on quick queue and fighting streamers/grandmasters>The sheer level of shitpostery that the thread would devolve into between patches/slow days>Crashing leading everyone to find out how to literally swap teams mid match.>The times every hirez game tried to separate into it's own thread, then the Gacha menace made the board move too fast.>TerminusTruly, it was the worst of times. And it was the best of times.
>>2102401Whatever you say Sabiya
>>2108151I used to put on Tough Boy whenever I randomed into the incredible television stacks.
>>2107330Fat Vora.
>>2108151Imagine the shitposting we'd be having right now if everyone hadn't left beforehand. Terminus-induced instantly
I remember I ran into Rey while solo queuing for matches once and we both did a double take lmao
>>2108731>Terminus flying off into the sunset.png
>>2108937
Merry Christmas /palg/
Crazy how we never got a trans champ. Rei would've so much hotter if she had a big dih
>>2113634Merry fuckin Christmas.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85CvbBsjhv0
>>2113634Merry Christmas Anon! To this and many more!
>>2115797>not futa.
>was able to log in into the game yesterday>"oh neat, i can play again">start the game today>stuck once again in the loading screenhmmm.....
>>2116360Terminus is watching over your shoulder, anon.
They finally made a sequel to Paladins/Realm Royale/Rogue Company! We are so back, bros!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh6Pi6h_css
*tink* *tink* *tink*I will be announcing my new career. I will be playing highguard™ professionally.
>>2121832Well after aimjunkies release a bot for it anyway
>>2121832I’ll play it after it inevitably goes F2P
>>2120236Dragon arena vibes at 1:25. Will the game have an Io function?
>>2107330Street Style Furia!
How many blue plates does mopsy need to earn before he'll feel even 1% of the joy he used to get from paladins?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3513100/Knights_In_A_Different_SpaceTime/Is this a spiritual successor to paladins' character design?
I don't fuck with chumps (yeah)For those that been to jailThat's the cat with the Kool-Aid on his lips and pumps (uh)I don't fuck with niggas that think they broadsOnly know how to be one way, that's the subz (woo)I know how to get down, know how to bite (bite)
>>2115797You literally have a trans kinasa skin, its the gen lock one
Post the gen lock pass theme, that was actually stolen from some random youtuber.
https://paladins.fandom.com/wiki/Gen:LOCK_Crossover_PassProofs?
>>2141926>>2141948I'm actually the one who stumbled on that. I accidentally found it on Youtube used as someone's background music in their video and the video predated the Event Pass. The track in question is Riding the Storm by Deaf Election and they even have a Spotify page.https://open.spotify.com/album/66IeTbMtJrFNe0YL1q9NXkNotice the copyright date on there. 2012. This fucking album is not only copyrighted, it existed long before Paladins even existed and I'm fairly certain Epidemic Sound knew nothing about Lo-rez using it in a literal cross promotion Event Pass which could have been court room rape for Both Lo-rez and Rooster Teeth. This is different from past Battle Passes where they credited artists like Code Taco because this band wasn't credited at all. This company's comical Jewishness really needs to be studied in a lab.
When I wake up Christmas morning I wanna see Sugar Plum Willo waiting for me under the tree. Ass up, arched back, wearing nothing but a bow around her hips. I want her to smugly wiggling her petite ass, inviting me to pound her tight pussy. She would be like "a present just for you!" I would plap her cunny(?) like a dog in heat. I'll cum so fucking hard and fast in that unravaged uterus, it will overflow with my semen. I guess you could say Christmas came early heh heh
>game finally let me go through the loading screenjust, out of nowhere.after a couple of weeks of not playing, i can feel the jank and lag stronger than ever
>>2146292This, but with star sister Io.
maeve2
>Maeveposting will cease in your lifetime
Merry Christmas /palg/!
>Remember I used to get emails from Lo-rez about when I haven't logged into Paladins for a while>Used to get them all the time every few months>Realize I haven't gotten them since the dev team was gutted and USAID dried up>mfw this game is the equivalence of an unmanned space station just drifting in the ether and will probably have an untouched state much like the fate of Tribes>Terminus will finally have rest but not like we thought>Just drifting waiting for someone to access the server to wake him up or somehow AI is stupid enough to make a connection and Terminus shares his gifts with whatever connectsThey really did create a cosmic horror.
>>2152014I don't get them for Smite anymore either. Lo-rez has been gutted top to bottom. The only people left are the skeleton crew trying to keep shite 2 afloat, and they're only barely scraping by. Even the old boys club of executives/Erez's friends were all laid off.The Roman god of boundaries, Terminus, often depicted as a statue, is added to Smite 2. The wheel turns. The curtain rises on the second act of the great drama.Somewhere, the fallen stagalla smiles.
>>2152093There's allegedly two people maintaining the old games, in addition to the skeleton crew, and some slaves churning out the smite 2 vlogs.All it took to bring the house down was orange man getting voted into power.
>>2152014>the year is 2035.>paladins still maintains triple digit daily users.>in-game crash report tool still sending fresh complaints to the dusty paladins email account on a daily basis.
>>2153165>All it took to bring the house down was orange man getting voted into power
>>2153258Imagine being so reliant on the absolute state of welfare politics that your entire multi-million dollar company, with hundreds of employees, instantly collapsed when the welfare spigot was turned off.
>>2153267>we could be playing paladins 3 right now if kamala didnt brick it
>>2153280The third attempt at a spinoff, maybe.
>>2153267More likely in this country than you think when your industries are all owned by Kabbalic crypto Boomers who already sold off all the country's worth decades ago for momentary profit. The whole "you will own nothing" thing is more than a meme in in terms of Lo-rez, "You will play nothing" is a reality. You can't really OWN anything if you don't have the means to MAKE it and in the case of this country we have a lot of cleaning up to do with our own industries.Lo-rez is just a more interesting ripple in several companies biting the big one because of those self defeating Boomer ass business practices. Huge companies left and right are tanking and taking all their trash plague rat employees with them. It's almost cathartic because finance, business, politically, morally and logically wise it proves we were right all along. Now lets make another prediction we'll probably get right and guess who's gonna fix all this shit.
>>2153258>>2153267As funny as this would been if it was true, lorez's failures come down to hilariously blatant incompetence, internal politics, and general mismanagement. They were making enough of a profit from their games to keep the lights on. Key word "were".You probably won't believe me, but paladins was absolutely a profitable game, at least up until and during 2022-early 2023, even after lorez had clearly put it on the backburner and gone all in on making new games that were costing them millions of dollars and didn't make a profit, like roco, which was only barely keeping itself out of the red, and dko, which was an outright failure in every way. smite was an incredibly profitable game. I don't know what the game's revenue looked like after early 2023, but I do know that paladins and the people who worked on it were constantly getting fucked over by lorez, no matter how well the game was doing at a given time or how productive and efficient evil mojito was. Internally, they outdid the smite team in certain aspects. smite was the big moneymaker that funded everything else, but it was also the personal favorite among the execs, and it was obvious.What happened is they (especially management,) spent the better part of over a decade betraying, belittling, and burning the people who played and loved their games. I don't need to tell you how dedicated and passionate the paladins community was, but a big chunk of whatever the game made was invested into new games, many of which never saw the light of day, or funding tournaments for smite and roco, instead of being reinvested into paladins. smite was also screwed over badly, but not quite as hard, it was kept afloat by the whales.Turns out, customers don't forget when you shit in their burgers, and lorez is now on life support, because, to the surprise of no one but the now former management, people don't like it when you run the games they loved into the ground.
>>2153564It doesn't help that the now former ceo decided to kill off their only two profitable games wtithout so much as sunset patches for an alpha that is, in the best case scenario, years away from full release, because "it'll be the first moba on unreal engine 5" and "players want a good looking 3rd person moba".Yeah.Now the company has laid off almost its entire workforce and is desperately pumping out smite 2 content as fast as it can, because they're only barely keeping their heads above water. Last I heard they've become profitable enough to hire two new guys, but they're still very unstable and probably always will be in the current gaming market. Even if they somehow become stable, they're probably not going to make another new game.Erez is the ceo again, but he's got his other billionaire vanity project, prophecy, and I wouldn't be surprised if the hi-rez name and ips are considered too damaged now.You're not getting Paladins 2. Sorry.There's a reason why they laid off almost all of the former executives.I know because I used to work at lorez.
>>2153280I'LL NEVER FORGIVE HIREZ
>>2153582Romanova?
>>2153564Trust me, /palg/ knew most of what you noted five years ago. In terms of Lo-rez's patterns of business practices I could've told you this almost 15 years ago. We've seen the GlassDoor reviews too. Things were rough in 2020 but 2021 was the biggest cock slap to the community that took it to the point of no return. The fall off was something Lo-rez couldn't have done to reverse. We've had tons of content producers here mainly VideoAnon who were everything from performance artists to prophets when you consider how much of this they saw coming down the tube. The difference here is we have freedom to say whatever we wanted about the game and its community whereas Redit would ban you (the actual community got hijacked mobster style by Romanova), the official forums would censor you and Twitter was a trash fire infested with deviants and pedos (one of which Lo-rez actually ignored even after showing them the proof of him grooming kids). There are posters here who nailed on the head events that would occur within Evil Mojo years ahead simply by virtue of having common sense and pattern recognition which the people you worked for lacked. Trust me, you don't need to explain it to us, we already know the score but it's still refreshing to see a former employee be so honest.
>>2154412There were, and are, a ton of passionate, talented people working at lorez who genuinely loved the games they made.Virtually no one has anything kind to say about lorez or especially management. There are a lot of people they worked with who they screwed over. There was a lot they didn't follow through on. There are a lot of people who worked with them at one point who no longer wish to be associated with them. Some of the worst management I've ever seen. The internal culture was pretty bad too, like a drunken frat, especially in the older days. There were a lot of cliques, management only listened to a handful of people who kissed enough ass.That said, most people were great, despite it all.There was a lot the thread got right, and a lot it got wrong.Still, it's kinda sad seeing how lo (heh) the ship has sunk, even if everyone knew it was going to end up like this eventually.
>>2154695Any insight on how exactly Thunderbrush got so much creative sway in that company despite being only an Art Director?
>>2154865Most of the decisions attributed to him were things the team as a whole agreed on or encouraged by stakeholders/both.
Once smite 2 leaves beta, everything will be alright.
>>2154695Out of curiosity what did we get wrong about internal things there? It's honestly nice hearing it from a person who was on the inside.And a few other questions. How did Romanova end up staying there so long when she was in constant fights with people on Twitter and would go out of her way to personally attack them and use her business account for questionable issues to talk about? If people were on board with Thunder's changes does that mean other devs/higher ups were also on board with all the demon, furry and borderline copyright court cases with characters like Yagorath? If true, grim.We know they had an epic battle against Syberbolt. Were they also critical or even acknowledged other content creators or people critical of Hi-rez like Raventric, VideoAnon and /palg/ in general?
>>2155252I don't want to risk identifying myself and getting blacklisted if anybody from lorez is poking around here, so I won't really comment on the specifics of the internal studio politics, sorry.As for your questions:>A lot of things were attributed to malice that were, in retrospect, mostly just the results of the dev team not understanding what the playerbase wanted, or plain bad luck.>That's a question for the marketing department.>They sold well. The concepts for champions were decided on by the team and and then approved by stakeholders. There were a lot of whimsical and cartoony concepts that got shot down. "A human, with a gun/an edgy demon, with a gun" was what sold. Boobs sold. The things people online were the most vocal about liking/disliking didn't reflect what people actually bought and played. Pepper sold extremely well. So did the demon Maeve skin. Paladins lost millions of dollars in it's first years. OB64 was a failed attempt to make the game profitable. It only started turning a profit in 2018 after they introduced battlepasses and changed the art direction.>Some of them, yeah.
>>2155442To clarify, I wasn't involved with the art side of things, so I can't speak to the specific details about how things worked there/who did what, but I did pick up some details here and there.
>>2155442>A lot of things were attributed to malice that were, in retrospect, mostly just the results of the dev team not understanding what the playerbase wanted, or plain bad luck.That part I have trouble believing because people were literally screaming into their ears what they wanted 24/7 for years on end. If it was the Community Manager who didn't bring it to their attention then whatever. She sucked.>You want more fantasy themed characters? >Screw all you potential customers, we're only going to cater to what we're already selling regardless of the demand even if you were here first>Stick to the lore? Nah, we're going to just do whatever because we're bored and want to be a parody of already existing franchises>Hire a competent Art Director who doesn't need to trace models?>Sorry, best we can do is years of him hijacking the entire aesthetic of the game and turning it edgy and grungy>mfw even furries were telling them during the Dark Depths Event Pass they didn't want it>Not attributed to malice>Thunderbrush literally shoved as much furry shit into the game just to spite people and even admitted to such several times>Salt literally exists because of malice>You don't want Payload to return>Actually the servers can't handle Payload anymore>It's too difficult to bring back Payload now it just wouldn't work>A single mentally deranged furry modder who literally lived in a mental institution brought it back by himself and was fully playable>Lo-rez devs later take credit for itI respect your need to stay incognito because we have had several incidents of people from Evil Mojo here and even sending their AoC goons to shake things up to so I completely understand it but It's hard for me to believe a lot of what they did wasn't completely intentional especially considering the fact that players only began to get what they asked for years prior after all these key assholes were booted from the company and it was down to a skeleton crew.
>>2155442If pepper sold well then why did we stop getting furry skins and champions? We had years of mostly humanoid champions with the same handful of themes and personalities and those didn't bring in many new players, so you'd think adding the occasional whimsical lizardman or frog creature or something would at least get people to look into the game.
>>2155478The intent wasn't malicious, but they were pretty stupid sometimes.
>>2156481The same could be said about 99% of the people who have posted in palg.
99% of all malicious posts in palg can factually be attributed to scrubz.
>>2156955Fact.
If evieposter had 46 chromosomes her averages would go up
Uh oh, melty. Hey Hi-rez guy, is there any reason Subzstance never got a permanent ban in Paladins? He's easily one of the most toxic players in the game and he's a proven cheater who has been reported on several occasions.
>>2156764subz can we not
>>2156481Pretty much>>2157297No clue, not my department
I am gonna take Subz's virginity.
>game wouldnt let me log in for almost 2 months now>still, try every single day, just in case i could get lucky>today>was about to give up, but decided to still give it a try>actually managed to log in>pic related>no matter what server i join, its all the sameits officially over, calling today, january 2nd 2026 as the official death of this game....Time to finally uninstall and be free
>>2165447It works for most people, but this issue is likely gonna spread if it's not looked into.
This is your Waterloo!
https://streamable.com/d5qd5chttps://streamable.com/7bvnhwhttps://streamable.com/64qosfsomeone is recreating champs in deadlock
>>2171030That's actually pretty rad, but they should probably stop before they clone Terminus since we all know what happens once he gets into your game.
>>2171220We already have a Terminus, he's Victor
>>2171447no? viktor is viktor. term is a different champion. are you stupid?
>>2172112viktor is not champion, victor is toon. are you retard?
What Paladongs girl can take on a horsecock?
Checking back on /palg/ to see how things are going. I hope everyone had a good holiday season. Still miss the game. Going to give Deadlock a try as a 'shooter but MOBA.'>>2153564Could be easily bait. But still inflicted emotional damage reading this shit.I had the idea to compare Paladins and Smite 1 & 2 on Steam charts. I know its not a complete census of player counts.>Paladins has a higher all time peak than Smite 1 and 2 COMBINED>Paladins drop off was gentler than Smite 1 and 2.>Paladins and Smite 1 currently close in player counts.>Smite 2 currently only a couple thousand more than Paladins.>Smite 1 peaked during covid.>Paladins peaked in 2016 and slowly declined, smaller bump during covid.>Smite 2 peaked with their F2P update, which is closer in shape to Paladins player curve.There's vindication seeing that the games Paladins was sacrificed for are nearly as dead as Paladins is now. It literally was all for nothing.There's pain in seeing that the Paladins playerbase had the potential to be just as, if not more, profitable than Smite. It's not even like Metroid/F-Zero/Earthbound fans having to accept their interests are too niche for Nintendo to cater towards. This would be like Zelda getting gutted to fund the next Mario Kart.>>2171030Can Deadlock host community servers with mods that alter gameplay?
>>2173256paladins had a bigger playerbase and more mainstream reach than smite did, but smite was the game that brought in the money, and they always assumed they'd have smite to fall back on. A big chunk of paladins players came from countries like latam and russia and didn't spend money on the game. Smite was a moba which meant it had moba whales. At the end of the day these games were running on ancient engines that nobody knew how to work with anymore, but the people in charge went chasing pots of gold at the end of every new rainbow instead of investing in their only successful IPs, then the smite cash cow starting making less milk, and now we're here.Personally, as much love as I have for paladins, I can't help but have my doubts about a theoretical paladins 2 being able to survive in a hero shooter market currently dominated by ow2 and marvel rivals, two games with infinitely more polish and budget than lorez could ever put together. Maybe someday if/when space opens up for a third.
>>2172633Cassie, Evie, and Vivian. Io, Furia, and Maeve are exclusively to be bred by dogs.
As bad as it is right now, at least we're not Highguard.
The new scaly abyss skins will save smite 2.
>>2174888What's wrong with highguard?
>>2153564I'm still amazed at the sheer amount of money and time out into lawbreakers for absolutely no return. If that was put into ANY of Hirez's other games they probably would still be in business.The Dr. Disrespect skin coming out almost the exact time as the allegations was an error in judgement.
>>2174930>Almost unanimous ridicule for a game that was supposed to be the "big reveal" of the game awards.>Already being compared to games like Concord, Lawbreakers, and other flops>despite releasing this month, the game has been almost radio silent. No teasers, nothing.I don't actually know how bad/good the game will be, but the people making it evidently didn't expect such a negative reception and seem kinda lost on what to do.>>2171220Terminus shall spread yet again.
Speculation: How have you guys handled the complexity of Paladins and its alternatives in shooters/mobas?For me, part of what's difficult about other mobas/shooters is when there's 50 champs with different kits and match-ups to memorize, plus an item shop with numerous trinkets with stat buffs you don't fully know the significance of, and the autobuyer builds might be shit.LoL, Smite, Marvel Rivals, Deadlock, etc.By comparison, Paladins felt much easier to get used to.However, towards the end of the game, I kinda stopped learning the newer champs and only vaguely knew how to fight them. I mainly stuck to my older champs. This started with Tiberius, and after him, the only exceptions where I gave a shit about a new character was Yag, Rei, and Betty.Proposed explanations:>Aging.>Less time to play.>Some of Paladins complexity was in the loadout builder you used before a match, allowing you to take your time learning.>Overlapping roles and kits naturally make newer champs redundant. Like, what does Omen give me to learn him that the game's first 5 or 10 damage champions don't already offer?>Every layer of complexity was simple enough to fit on 1 screen at a time. At any time, the choices you had to make were always all on screen to streamline decision making.>Every card in the builder fit on 1 screen. >The character selection menu fit on 1 screen. >All 3-4 talents fit on 1 screen. >Your 6 loadout slots fit on 1 screen.>The item shop fit on 1 screen.>Paladins was the last game that made me unlock champs with currency, which may have forced players to take more time learning individual champions and restricted information overload. The industry may have quietly dropped this mechanic after Overwatch 2's battlepass controversy. So newer games give you everything from the start which is overwhelming.>TTK impacting how much time you have to react to unknown enemy abilities.
>>2174585I'll buy one. And then when people ask wtf I'm wearing, I'll drop the 2 hour lorez lore dump on how they fucked up Paladins.>>2155442If the 'lorez employee' anon is still here, is there any sense of how long servers will be provided. And after servers shut down, what will be the end state of the game?Best case scenario: The entire source code / UE3 project folder for the client and server are open-sourced.
>>2176067I think you might just be dogshit
Reunion when?
10-year reunion 5v5 customs hosted by htninasimdiw with guest appearances by subzstance and evieposter when
>>2180392Evieposter has standards.
>>2181095No, she absolutely doesn't.
I am gonna fuck Io.
>>2180392Threads kinda stopped on /vg/ 2-3 years ago, so presumably in 7-8 years.I'm not against one last hurrah, but I think everyone has already said their goodbye to the game.
