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remember when EA released titanfall 2 a week after battlefield 1 and a week before cod infinite warfare

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Demon's Souls update: 5-2+3 are very easy of you have a bow!
5-2 was a navigational nightmare, but beat the boss 1st time, have the Lava Bow with fire arrows and managed to find a snipe spot just inside the fog gate, I could hot the boss, he couldn't hit me, lovely stuff!
Onto 5-3 and died a couple of times to plague, then found a snipe spot that could reach Maiden Astraea, just needed loads of arrows and to keep firing even when she heals.

Died several times trying to reach the archstone to those horrific babies of murder.

I've done all Worlds 2 to 5, and onto 1-3 now.
I've enjoyed this game a lot and wil be replaying at some point, but think I'll pick up Resident Evil Village next week.

NERF THE BOW RESPAWN U COWARDS

man I wish wraith's Q worked like TF2 phase shift. it's so slow to wind up you're already half dead before you hit the phase. and then you leave a snail trail so they can just beam you on the other side. I'd personally tweak it so it was near instantaneous and it didn't have the crackle/sparkle animation as you exit phase. to balance that I'd remove the ability to see enemies in the phase and shorten the time you stay inside the phase. if shorter, you could maybe even remove the chemtrails you leave behind when inside the phase.

I started playing this time last year, they've tried a few of those things, wraith just dominates the win stats regardless so they will keep nerfing her to balance.

horizon came in and was instantly useful enough that a lot of wraith mains switched and so they nerfed the shit out of horizon too.

they're about as subtle as a brick when it comes to balancing.

fair fair. find her personally unplayable myself having come from TF2 where phase shift is instantaneous... still plenty of other legends I like tho

horizon Q is like ascending through mud now lol

Wraitj used to be like this.

Her Q was literally instant, but a bit slower and shorter.

They changed that on purpose. For reason, that when people started dying or the fight was too intense, they just Q’d instantly into safety.

Now it’s much more situational.

Bow needs HUGE nerf. Like complete rework. It doesn’t make sense.
It’s basically care package weapon.

I have started playing with Mirage at the end of Season 8.

Best decision I made. He’s my absolute favorite legend to play.

Had some insane plays with him for past 5 days.

And what I’m the most proud of - after 2 years of playing, the Wingman finally clicked with me. So. Fucking. Good.

One of my best wins in long time.
Dropped 2666dmg with only Wingman and bow.
Thought I’m dead to the last squad because of my gun setup, but somehow didn’t miss a shot.

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Demon's Souls update: I best the game yesterday (by beat I mean NG)
Penetrator, took 2 goes, first one try I missed judged a dodge and got beaten, then I got greedy with a flurry of hits.
False King, took 2 goes. 1st try he got me with the ground AoE attack, then I pinged him with arrows and out spaced him, his tracking in mid air was annoying but dealable.

Now on NG+ and Phallanx was actually difficult!

I loves me some Souls games.
Might go through the Dark series next

They've buffed the wingman so it's actually possible to kill people with now. I know the patch notes only mention an increase in head shot damage but it feels easier to hit people with now so idk what they've done.

Coming from your 4k experience of Demon's might be tough, Dark Souls 2 is the most dated, with Dark Souls Remastered having coming out after that I think. but if you move through them to DS3 you'll be wetting yourself at how significantly different DS3 is in terms of set design.

I've started Resident Evil 7 ahead of playing 8, as I never got around to playing the first one

Jesus it's scary!

man I hate hate HATE mirage - only because I'm terrible at sussing him out and get bamboozled ALL the time. in a game which is so intense and information based, his ultimate just fries my brain... I get information overload

I've started trying to play a little of wraith to see if I can suss her out. I'm just salty because the TF2 phase shift was so good

and agree they should stick the bow in the care package AND nerf it still a little (less ammo, slower fire rate, some indicator of where you're being shot from)

man I hate hate HATE mirage - only because I'm terrible at sussing him out and get bamboozled ALL the time. in a game which is so intense and information based, his ultimate just fries my brain... I get information overload

Same, playing against him it seems there's always 10 clones non of which are him and when I play as him people seem to pick me out instantly every time.

a headshot with the bow does over 100 damage, if you're playing against someone good they pop your shield off completely then swap to another gun before you can do anything about it. The only way of doing that previously was the Kraber or a Longbow with Skullpiercer but those are much harder to do at short/mid range.

the real mirage's little sensor things glow brighter than the others (or did at least)

bruh I have my FOV set at 1000 I can barely see the wee guy nevermind his beacon

it's funny because the TF2 holo pilot tactical (the basis for mirage's whole schtick) was absolutely tragic

mirages used to be even more mental, he'd go invisible for a couple of seconds while all his decoys ran around.

I'm playing RE8, it's really good. I didn't bother with RE7 but maybe I'll go back to it after to understand the story a bit better.

I saw Resi 8 was £40 in Tesco (with a clubcard) on the PS5.
Only noticed as I was leaving the store, so need to make a trip back as some point this week.

Anyone tried the Shadow PC virtual gaming PC in the cloud thing at all? Tempting if it's not crap

some ggs earlier with user dragunov on apex - didn't get totally embarassed this time in his sweatlord lobbies at least

Before I left in rush, forgot to say that you play really well (maybe said it throughout the matches).

You got really good aim, good coms and manage to stick with speedy team mates (me) :)

Is there a trick I'm missing with Apex? I feel like I often get the jump on people (as they're seemingly unaware of how loud their footsteps are) but it feels like I'm putting whole clips into people and they're not going down but then I die in seconds/hardly any shots landed!

I keep flicking back to it from WZ but then get frustrated with the pace & how long it take to kill people Vs me dying so just go back to what I know.

Not sure what advice to give on that.

I think main difference is, in Warzone, even if you never played it, but played previous COD or any other popular online a shooter, you can get kills pretty easily.
Mainly because of the almost non existant recoil and shorter time to kill an enemy.

It takes time to kill an enemy in Apex, even if they have basic white shield.
Even if you hitting most of your shots, it takes longer than WZ.

You just have to hit your shots I guess...

Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful.

Returnal update.
Cleared second boss on second attempt, and somehow the third on my first attempt, had more trouble with the trash on the way there and I was confused at how I was possibly surviving for the whole boss fight. The trick is defnitely to farm everything you can to give yourself survivability.
Now I'm aware that the game is separated into acts, and I wont have to restart level 1 to get to level 4 again I'm very relieved for the respite and would actually score the game higher as a result.
I don't want a save feature, I don't want to be tempted to save scum. But the idea of dying on boss 6 and having to restart a maybe 8 hr journey was giving me anxiety.