Ravenzfire

I demo’d this at Pax East and the combat felt very off putting. I love a good souls style game so difficult combat doesn’t scare me away but I constantly felt like I was battling the controls on this one. I imagine part of the problem was the demo team did a poor job explaining the controls and then threw you into a boss fight, so that didn’t help.

The first problem was you have limited stamina which normally is fine, but the combat in the game is hyper fast and the bosses were very aggressive and relentless so you very quickly ran out of stamina and then never really got a chance to recover it as the boss’s attack patterns didn’t allow for it.

The next problem was none of your attacks seemed to stagger or slow the boss, so he would just counter attack through one of your own attacks and send you flying. Again this may be due to missing some of the combat nuances through lack of explanation but it just felt like there was never really a way to attack without being punished.

I loved the look of it but it just did not feel fun to play and felt like they had different combat systems that were in opposition to each other. If they want fast combat that you have to constantly be dodging that’s fine, but they need to drop the very limited stamina mechanic or change how much is consumed. I’ll be keeping an eye out to see if they make any changes but as it is now, I wouldn’t recommend it unfortunately.

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The key for me was using the pile bunker. The charge attack chunks the spider. And then I went with reverse joint legs. You want to stay right under it as much as possible in the first phase and those legs help greatly with that. Fit high stagger shoulder weapons and whatever you want for the other arm. Then in the second phase the legs allow you to stay in the air much longer and you want to focus on stying above it. Just keep pounding it with that pile bunker. Took me 2 or 3 tries after I figured out that setup

I think it’s important to remember that when you are interacting online, especially with an unknown person, there is no relational component. You are effectively just words or text to them, there isn’t a “person” behind what they are reading. It’s very easy to be obstinate or argumentative with just words because you can’t see the reaction or impact on the other person. So it’s nearly impossible to change someone’s mind in that format unless they are really being genuine and looking to have an exchange of ideas.

I’ve found the best way for myself to handle these types of situations is to realize nothing I say is going to impact them or change their mind. If I’m really wound up I might type a response out to get the frustration and energy out and then delete it. I usually feel better after that and can move on with my day but engaging further is just going to lead to further frustration because you can’t actually reach the person.

I honestly think this might be pretty close to the mark. My company just announced RTO today but interestingly was pro WFH even before Covid with many of their staff hired as remote workers. They recently had to lay off a number of people and aren’t projecting to be making their numbers this quarter. So I do wonder if this is an attempt to shed more staff without taking active action to lay off more people and the moral hit that comes with that.

Hah, this almost my exact same experience. Got into Digg only to watch it die shortly after. Went and checked out Reddit but didn’t really like the look and feel of it at the time. It wasn’t until the 2010s that I was bored at work and looking for something to read and stumbled on a Reddit thread that caught my attention. I was on Reddit after that until the API killed my 3rd party app and made the switch to Lemmy.