JcDent

Coworkers said that they fixed the classes, so I took it to man that the game was fixed (I also hard forgotten what the class thing was about).

So here I am, completely alone in the tutorial mission, the closest thing to enemy presence being the frozen helicopter (the blades aren't spinning) and the locked trooper next to it.

I did destroy the helo, but the trooper is untouchable.

AAA gaming!

If you're making a tactics game with a map campaign that involves a lot of random battles,

• make sure to have enough maps for the length of the campaign
• make sure you have enough variety of battles for those random missions

This was an issue with HBS Battletech (and even more of an issue with MW5), and it is very much an issue in Phantom Brigade

All would benefit from mechanics where enemies run away instead of fighting to the last man and the last drop of blood.

• In campaign games, this would take off the pressure off PCs since they're the ones suffering permanent loses; the enemies they face don't care about their own survival* at all. That's why crits and damage effect tables aren't the best idea in TTRPGs: it punishes PCs more than the NPCs.
• In video games, it would allow us to:

1. Have faster battles where you don't have to chase every last wounded tank limping somewhere behind a mountain.
2. Create more fun/realistic balancing than, say, the HBS Battletech approach of "sure, you're outnumbered, but they have shitty mechs!!!"

Of course, this would necessitate a discussion of how likely individuals are to break vs. formations, but at least we'd be moving somewhere.

The most recent patch brought with it some great improvements, but when it comes to the crafting system? Like, the thing that was supposed to drive long-term replay value? It just shifts the RNG around into other places.

As soon as the patch went live I logged on and ground up some of my weapons, thinking I could apply the blessings I had earned to other weapons. But it doesn't work like that, not exactly. If you got a great buff on an Accatran recon lasgun you cannot place it on a Kantrael lasgun, even if both guns can take the exact same blessing and it's calculated in the same way! I have to find that blessing again through pure shit assed luck before I can stick it onto something else.

this game respects my time more than it did at the start of the year. but Darktide has turned into such a case study on live service model greed killing something that should have been a slam dunk of a video game.

I already finished every mission in the game once, there's nothing left in the game for me to experience.