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I actually sorta like fall damage since it makes you feel good if you find ways to avoid it

As lon as it's actually for high falls and not just jumping off a ledge twice your height

pretzelcoatl posted...

That's a completely different type of video game, how is that comparable

Not really the point I was trying to make - Both games are made by Riot. Valorant has Vanguard and the cheater % is quite low. League does not have Vanguard and the cheater % is quite high. It clearly works quite well.

Tyranthraxus posted...

New players always get matched with new players and almost all cheaters get caught in the new player phase.

ranked games were like 5-10% to have cheaters and you need to be level 30 for that, which is not "new player". I wouldn't even be surprsied if most are caught early and there's just so many that even then, ranked still has a bunch

darkphoenix181 posted...

I find that unlikely. What cheats do they have?

client-side scripts that provide superhuman aim, reaction speed, inputs, etc

https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/dev-vanguard-x-lol/

They rebroadcast the game as an event stream and allow the end-user to create (or more likely, copy and paste) a selection of "scripts" that automate certain behaviors in response to these events. The end result is usually a frame-perfect Zeri kiting on what appears to be a near-lethal dose of caffeine or a god-touched Cassiopeia that, through the power of prayer, has been rendered untouchable by any skillshot.

When piloted optimally, scripter win rates hover around 80% in Ranked games, continually propelling their unyielding supply of accounts through the ladder.

Regular suspensions have stood up a saturated secondary account market, and the barrier to reentry is only the cost of a fresh level 30, which at the time of this article is about $1.99 with a side of large fries. This type of quantity-over-quality pricing strategy is made possible, becauseyou guessed itthe accounts themselves are leveled by scripting applications, resulting in a loop that allows cheaters to iterate against us indefinitely.

valorant, for comparison, is less than 1% of games having cheaters

KajeI posted...

Also, I don't think I've EVER encountered a cheater in LoL, and I played waaaay too much of it, so I don't buy the necessity of Vanguard in the slightest.

They put out stats recently and apparently it fluctuates a bit but is like 5-15% of LoL games have at least one cheater in them. and higher ranks have more

tbh I'm more sympathetic to the anti-cheat now after seeing some of the numbers. cheaters in 1/10th of games is actually insane

darkphoenix181 posted...

The Brickening Beings.

vanguard has been in valorant for years I sort of doubt it's just suddenly breaking everyone's computer the moment they add it to league

Trelve posted...

You'd think if any company was going to complain, it'd be Nintendo.

sony has actually been heavier on cesnoring of sexual related stuff for probably like 5+ years now. I think it's easy to forget since when most people think of nintendo they think of a lot of the big name and/or first party games which aren't going to have anything remotely like that in the first place

LinkDaLunatic posted...

is bound to come hand-in-hand with professional gaming. Once large sums of money start trading hands and reputations are on the line, it gets serious.

I agree with this in some sense but also... the vast vast majority of people playing league are not professional players and there is no money involved

P4wn4g3 posted...

What's the url for the cookie settings?

It's not a url, it brings up some sort of popup, except adblock seems to kill whatever javascript makes it function so it just does nothing

The yes vote is pulling way ahead suddenly

I can't deny there are some times when it would have been useful to have one, but for me at least I don't think those times are frequent enough to actually justify it.

Mine just looks like this and the cookie settings link only does anything if I have adblock turned off. I've never gotten any cookie popups either though

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/0e726230.png

Unity has a built-in function for comparing floats
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mathf.Approximately.html

Foppe posted...

...is cookie settings down below even clickable?

it was for me once I toggled my adblock off

IdiotMachine posted...

Meanwhile in the US, there arent even any public bathrooms

this reminds me of that public toilet in san fran that cost like $2 million to build over 2 years

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well, yeah, I guess. <_<

But I'm also hanging around here and I'm only at 12% blocked

MC_BatCommander posted...

Wow I've got almost 10 million

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/6c3428b2.jpg

that's an insane block%... 1/3 of the total page requests you've made are ads that were blocked

you must regularly visit a lot of really ad-infested pages

have you considered wearing a facemask when you go out? I have pollen allergies (though it sounds like not as bad as yours) and the whole mask thing during covid actually helped a lot with it

I was sort of thinking about this recently when renewing my passport. for some reason (actually now that I think about it the reason is pretty obvious), the demographic variety in the passport renewal office is way higher than anywhere else I've noticed in the city

Mr_Karate_II posted...

The devs would have been forced to alter the game so it's easier for people who refused to get better at it.

in all honesty, an easy mode would probably have been better at preserving the game experience for the people who want a difficult game.

compare to souls-adjacent games that don't have an easy mode like elden ring, AC6, lies of P, etc. which launched with difficult bosses but received nerfs in patches. maybe if there was an easy mode they could have quarantined the changes to there

Prestoff posted...

It's just another version of gatekeeping.

a certain amount of gatekeeping is good, actually

Is hardcore gamer vs casual gamer really a question of game difficulty

I always thought of it more as level of seriousness towards gaming as an activity. Casual gamers play games in their spare time, hardcore gamers create time to play games in

I don't know if I really hate the USA I just sort of laugh at them a little whenever I hear whatever nonsense they're up to next

Trumble posted...

Ban guns and cars combined.

they're called tanks

I'm kind of surprised horseshoe crabs aren't a type of these

good

movement feels nice with lots of nuance to it, level themeing is neat, sorta sucks how you always need all the same shines to beat the game rather than like with the other 3D marios where you have some freedom in which stars to get as long as you get enough

can't believe I'm the first 1 vote

I thought this topic was going to be about the embiggening of cars

I'm not sure I've ever quit a game just because it was too hard. it's gotta be some combination of too hard + too slow or too hard + uninteresting

The_Popo posted...

title theme to 4D Sports Boxing:

this one is really good, it's a bit aimlessly but it just sort of sounds cool so I don't even really mind

LoZ1

probably the battle theme from last armageddon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhmf3abCOuQ

not sure if it counts as obscure though considering the video title has VGM hall of fame in it

LonelyStoner posted...

The people posting packaged cookies need to broaden their palates.

definitely, homemade chocolate chip cookies are so much better than store ones

rather than the goombas being threatening, it looks like the real enemy is the lag they create

I didn't even realize it was a trilogy. neuromancer definitely gets far more attention than the others

I guess I should have specified that I meant a working printer

cool to see there's a decent split though, it's not just totally overwhelming to one option or the other

DrizztLink posted...

Humanity is largely represented by a specific coalition, and a massive chunk of the alien population doesn't realize that the coalition only represents like <10 countries.

this is the way I see it most likely going down. presenting a front of being unified under a single organization/entity/whatever when in actuality if anyone looks closer they'll immdiately realize that's not the case at all.

Like, in some sense there already is a "earth government" that would "represent all humans" in a galactic context. The united nations. nearly every country is part of it

I did either an IQ test or some other similar sort of test before grade1 and ended up in the gifted program because of it, no idea what actual number or anything that relates to, though

I can sorta see why since I tend to pick up the basics of pretty much anything faster than most people I know, but I also have basically 0 work ethic or concentration ability so it doesn't really help that much in the longrun

IronChef_Kirby posted...

How long would you say it takes to get things figured out?

It's been a long time since I played and I really don't remember + it depends a lot on your level of perceptiveness. I suspect it probably took me around 15 hours to beat the game? (there's multiple endings, by beating the game I just mean getting something that wasn't dying)

Thing is, even if you die a few times it's not so bad? Like, you start out the game as some dude, you research weird lore, find various things exploring the city, found a cult, meet some people... and probably eventually die (it's not impossible to win first playthrough but seems unlikely). But then when you start again, you're a different person, who has a different job, so the actions available to you are different, and while you eventually do all those things listed above the progession of the story is different, you probably end up founding a cult worshipping something other than last time, you have different acquaintances, etc etc. So you're not just getting beaten up with nothing to gain from it.

Personally, I think the game does a really good job making you feel like some cultist/conspiracy theorist as you accumulate more and more threads of knowledge while trying to figure out how they all come together. for example it's not even clear how you win the game at all until a decent ways in. but because of this style I'd caution away from directly looking up too much stuff since a lot of tthe game is about the discovery. Oh, and the writing, the game's also about the writing just being extremely satisfying to read on a moment-to-moment basis
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I came in here to suggest cultist simulator

I'm not sure if I'd call it super difficult. It's easy to die in unexpected ways your first few attempts but usually once you figure out an aspect of the gameplay that aspect will never trouble you again. Just gotta experiment with things and look for different solutions

I always felt like the gamecube pokemon games were really slowpaced. everything being a double-battle + everything having long drawn out animations means just a little gauntlet of 2-3 trainers feels like an endless slog

shadow pokemon are sort of lame too.

but otherwise I really like the variety of them from the main games. the limited team selection is a genius way to make you use weird pokemon

from this bundle, I very strongly recommend playing a monster's expedition. one of the best puzzle games I've ever played and probably THE best at hiding secret bonus solutions to puzzles right under your nose. basically every single puzzle in the game is actually two (or 3, or 4) puzzles at once

edit: in case this sounds too intimidating, I think the game is quite approachable for a basic clear and finding some of the bonus areas. 100%ing it will probably be 30+ hours though

good enough but not great

DrizztLink posted...

Also thank you, I couldn't find that fuckin' anywhere.

I dug out an ancient external archive drive for it since I knew I had it saved somewhere. last modified date was June 2009

DrizztLink posted...

I can't find the comic, but it's two guys playing Smash.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/1927b929.jpg

funny thing is that captain falcon probably has a higher skill floor than marth does

ZMythos posted...

You see this frequently in discussions on competitive games with different characters/classes.

I'm really curious what sorts of ways you see people misuse "skill ceiling". Since I basically never see anyone use it, correctly or not

definitely use the microwave far, far more. not quite daily but pretty close

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

I'm pretty sure that's all the games I've played from this decade, lol.

I had to go check dates and the first 3 I thought I might list were all 2019...

skyward sword
stellaris
balatro

CARRRNE_ASADA posted...

Its as if reviews are based upon the quality of the games design rather than the subject.

do you really think you're gonna have twice as much fun playing party babyz as god hand

Hayame_Zero posted...

I'll never understand the obsession over scores.

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