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If You're Not Excited for this Wipe, You're Not Alone.
I hope I’m not the only one who has these feelings. Melancholy, disinterested. I mean don’t get me wrong, a wipe will get me back into Tarkov heavily for a while. But to be honest, it’s been so long since we had a really solid patch and wipe, that I have the mentality of I’ll believe it when I see it. I really hope that this wipe knocks it out of the park. The last one we had, was rough to say the least. Basically, a couple new guns and the lighthouse expansion, which I have never visited once because of my disdain for lighthouse as a map. But I’ve seen people over there and it seems like a decent little spot. But my biggest disappointment was lightkeeper not showing up. I mean, let’s be real for a moment; we knew this was going to happen. The first time he got delayed that was the major clue that something has gone wrong with him internally. My concern is that it’s so bad that he was maybe pushed to the side for other major features, like streets finally becoming a reality.
By Jirasu3 years ago in Gamers
Rating Tarkov Animations (Assault Rifles)
With the potential for a wipe looming on the horizon, this being reinforced by the man himself on social media, and Tarkov having some slower moments in raid, I figured it would be fun to take a step back from all the shooting and looting, and go over something that we all know to be true: the animations in Tarkov. I’ve made some shorts about them in the past just showing them off, but now I wanted to go over each weapon’s animations and kind of give them a rating. Now, I’ll be brutally honest, there are TOO many guns in the game to go over each and every single one. On top of that, many weapons share the exact same animations. The 5.45 AKs are a perfect example of this; it even translates to some of the other AK options in different calibers. So, the way I figured I'd do this without going insane and having this video an hour long, is to basically use ONE weapon for an entire caliber if the animations across that weapon platform at the same. So, one AK will cover every other AK with the same animations; this will be applicable to other calibers with the same weapon quirks. The animations that I will be taking into consideration are: the inspect, chamber out, chamber in, empty reload, and mag removal. You might ask what about a normal reload, and to that my answer is technically you see the reload through these animations. But it’s just separated into two different parts. It should give us all the necessary movement and handling with the gun for me to give an arbitrary number rating that doesn’t really matter, but should still be fun regardless. Also, I will be most likely doing this by weapon type. We’ll start with assault rifles and work our way around the other types; to make sure we don’t get too bogged down into the trenches of the weapon animations. So, with all of that out of the way, make sure to like and subscribe if you enjoy the video, and let’s begin with the first weapon category: the assault rifles.
By Jirasu3 years ago in Gamers
The function of game types and players
In each of the last two years, Covid-19 has upset predictions. As the pandemic raged on, 2020 was one of the most uncertain years ever. On the other side, gaming corporations, who had a record year, saw this as a blessing in disguise. People engaged in gaming to pass the time, stay alive, rebuild their social networks, and divert their attention at the same time.
By Johanna Wanjiru3 years ago in Gamers
The Savage Monk
The Testament of Blood was a time-honored tournament that drew warriors from all schools, and all disciplines. From the isolated mountaintops of the Yasurai, to the rushing river fighters of the Montak lands, champions came to test their skills and strength against one another. Every four years, the sands of the arena were spattered with sweat as the finest students of the established forms met, and battled.
By Neal Litherland3 years ago in Gamers
The 4 Most Common Holy Priest Mistakes
Whenever I write a post about being a healing priest, or more specifically a holy priest, I try really hard not to tell people what to do. I try not to make it seem as if there is only one right way to do things. Most of the advice that I give is meant to be taken as a suggestion or as something that I know has worked for me and that could possibly work for you. I have always been someone who is not afraid to try something new or break the mold when I can and I have always been really fortunate to be in guilds with great leadership that are as open minded as I am.
By Sid Mark3 years ago in Gamers
An Exploration of "Reverse Stereotype" Characters in RPGs
Stereotypes and tropes are a big part of storytelling traditions, so it's no wonder that they're also a big part of our RPGs. Whether we're talking about traditional high fantasy games, gritty modern horror settings, or post-apocalyptic romps, everything comes with its own symbolic language.
By Neal Litherland3 years ago in Gamers
First Impressions of Holy In the Mists of Pandaria Beta
The other day I was one of the lucky ones who received a Beta invite during the final wave of invites that Blizzard sent out. I had heard a lot about what was happening with discipline, but I wasn’t hearing too much about holy. This worried me a little bit. While most of what I’m curious about involves our level 90 talents (which we can’t try out at this time), I still managed to do some questing, heal the first available instance a couple of times, and do some playing around on my own with our new talents and abilities for a while. Here are a few things that stood out to me, in no particular order:
By Sid Mark3 years ago in Gamers
5 Classes To Pair With The Promethean Corruption
All power comes at a price. Corruptions are things that can twist the body, and taint the soul, but they also allow one to go beyond what they would normally be capable of. This option, put forth in Horror Adventures, is one that a lot of players have been hesitant to delve into. As such I thought I would put together a series of articles where I suggest some the best classes to pair with given corruptions, and to try to minimize the potential harm they can do while emphasizing the powers they offer.
By Neal Litherland3 years ago in Gamers
Rediscovering My Love for Pokémon
By Steven A. Clubb I still remember the rush of opening my present on Christmas day and seeing the yellow mouse known as Pikachu on the box of my new game: Pokémon Yellow. Collecting these creatures and going on adventures gave me an excitement I never had before. Who would have thought how easy it would be to become so attached to digital animals? I had to have every game that was released throughout my childhood. After the IV generation, I started to slowly lose interest in the Pokémon games and I was getting more into shooter games on other systems. Having no incentive to get the next-gen Nintendo console, Pokémon was officially out of my life sadly.
By All’s Fair in Love & Writing3 years ago in Gamers
The Unsettling Sorcerer
The man who entered the inn out of the darkness was a haint on two legs. His ragged black hair was shot through with lightning bolts of dirty white, a hitch in his stride gave him a strange, unnatural gait, and his heavy hands boar thick, hoary nails that were akin to claws. It was his face that was the most arresting, though. Every feature, taken on its own, was beautiful. When put together, though, they were disjointed and uncanny. The eyes were too intense, and slightly offset. The mouth was full, but too wide for the face, and the teeth were strong and white but a little too sharp. His voice, when he spoke, was too deep for the chest it came out of; it created the distinct impression of something speaking through him, the words echoing out of a deep, unseen well.
By Neal Litherland3 years ago in Gamers
Tarkov's Two Wipe Cycle is Unfortunate
As of the writing for this video, we are at just under 4 months (or 117 days I think), since the last time Tarkov has wiped. This isn’t a new story for the game. In fact, for a while now, it has been this way. Wipe cycles have become longer and longer with each major cycle; patches have become scarce as well; more so those patches that have a lot of incoming updates and content. We still get smaller patches that change things around us, but what we are looking for, are those patches that usually include a wipe. And those have become kind of a rare animal out in the world of Tarkov. With the direction of Tarkov changing over the years for a variety of reasons, so too have the days of wiping the game and starting fresh on a new patch every few months. The ambitions of what BSG want to do have gotten bigger, and more grandiose. But with that, comes more work; the time it takes to have those visions come to life and be injected into the game take longer. Even now, we are still waiting on Lightkeeper; our first in-game trader. Real world issues aside, there is a very strong argument to be made that they have hit a snag with that feature and getting him to function the way they want in the game. Alongside that, with Streets looming on the horizon for the end of year, which, let’s be real with ourselves for a moment, is most likely not going to happen anymore, which is fine but again, just a reality check. It makes sense that things have slowed down; a lot. And I think we can actually pinpoint the moment were things really changed for Tarkov, and we began the times of what I am referring to as the Two wipe cycle.
By Jirasu3 years ago in Gamers
Seamless Coop for Elden Ring is Supreme
I think most of us will agree that Elden Ring is truly something special. To take the Dark Souls’ formula and add the layer of open world to it, was something I think a lot of us had our doubts about. Would it even work? How big would the world be? Would size create issues with performance? And other than some hiccups on release day (at least speaking from personal experience on the PC version), the game went off without many issues. Balance aside, the game was gorgeous, was absolutely jam packed with content, and could easily fill anywhere from 80-100 hours for a single playthrough, which is bonkers to think about even today. However, there was one system that marred it from being a true masterpiece, like all other games by From Software: the online and coop functionality. If there is one system in these games that is grossly outdated and in desperate need of a complete fundamental rework from the ground up, it’s the online functionality of the Souls’ games. At this point, whether or not the systems make sense from a lore standpoint, I couldn’t really care less. I would like these systems to be simple, intuitive, and hassle free. And sadly, that’s not the case for any of the games. Again, Fromsoft ties the online features of these games to lore, and to have it make sense within the story they are trying to convey. Use a certain item, make sure you are in the area you want to explore, use a password, don’t die otherwise you gotta do the process all over again; it’s tedious. It really is. Luckily, for all you PC players out there (sorry console goers, this doesn’t apply to your situation, sorry), there is a remedy for this. And it honestly should be how all these games going forward work.
By Jirasu3 years ago in Gamers