The timing window on the wall jump feels inconsistent at times. I know it’s not as I’ve seen my friend speedrun the game before which requires doing it perfectly multiple times, but it feels like bullshit sometimes.
The main problem is not the timing, but that you have to push the opposite arrow. In Mega Man X (best wall jump ever) you can keep the arrow pressing against the wall to slide down, and just jump off whenever. It’s very very forgiving. Of course, better timing will get you more height, but at least you won’t fall if you are suboptimal.
Possibly the best worst game of PUBG that Anteater Squad has ever had, in which I manage to ruin everything multiple times, Feat Wealthy, Linkigi, and Zergy. After that clip, we literally had to take a 5-10 minute break because we were laughing too hard to carry on.
Not included in the video - the moment after we landed where I’d popped a shot at Ard, and he spent real paranoid thinking we were being chased by some mysterious assailant.
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I’ll have to try and join you guys sometime when there’s a spot open. Too much stress when I play by myself 
Anteater Squad takes a Second chicken dinner:
(Not my screen, I had overlay turned off, which stopped me from taking a screenshot. BUT I WAS PRESENT AND MOSTLY USELESS.)
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The time I was with some friends and won I was dead for better than half the game but I was still hailed as the hero for saving my buddies because I was able to spot and point out the sniper just before I took a shot to the head.
Churba and I were dead for a lot of it. But I like to think our scouting helped.
Yep - Matatat got DC’ed on the drop, so I dropped after him to protect him. Which went about as well as expected when I died basically immediately, then Matatat reconnected, and died about as quick when he did. We spent the rest of the game just playing Casper the helpful ghost.
I got Darkest Dungeons on the iPad because I needed to purchase that game twice to validate my life. It’s about as fun as it was the first time: very. The game feels like it was made for iOS, despite the slightly off aspect ratio.
Darkest Dungeons on iPad you say? But I’m already reading the Torchbearer pdf!
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New Metroid is pretty awesome. I didn’t think I would have much nostalgia for Metroid 2 but some of the stuff is coming back to me. I don’t remember it well enough to tell how close the level design is to the original.
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I loved the original, and this is as close as we can get of an updated 2D Metroid. The controls are tight, the graphics look awesome in the small 3DS screen ( The 3D is also pretty cool), and the music is great. If you are lucky enough to get the Special Edition go an get it since it comes with the Soundtrack.
I stopped playing PUBG for a while and just got back in, and somehow something clicked and doing way better now. Still no chicken dinner, but I’ve gotten several top 10s and get 3+ kills almost half the time (6 kills my last game). I’m still not great at shooting, so I think I just figured out enough situational awareness to make sure I have the advantage in fights. Sometimes it’s seeing an enemy from a distance and stalking them, sometimes it’s dodging a flash bang and killing them when they run down stairs, sometimes it’s disengaging, running around the building and shooting them from behind, but I rarely get in real back-and-forth firefights (cause I’d lose).
PUBG is the first game in a loooong time that makes me wish I had a PC to play it on.
Hmmmm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU-zQdUVNWo
Maybe I just need to install bootcamp on my current macbook pro.
Finished XCOM2: War of the Chosen will probably start a new game later.
The game puts a lot more priority on edge case abilities in the core game. In my vanilla playthrough I was much more dependent on hacking MECs and turrets. Early game, you’re more worried about the Chosen kidnapping your units.
Once the Chosen are out of the game, you can pretty much steamroll it. The last room of the last mission was much easier this time around.
I don’t know if the ending is hinting at possibly more DLC or a XCOM3: Terror from the deep remake.
I’ve been playing Stellaris which got a new update. It’s not 100% perfect, but it’s a long way from where it first started.
I’ve been playing heat signature
Think Hotline Miami but in space and you’re stealing spaceships. So maybe Hotline Miami meets FTL?
It’s super good. Like good god have I put a full workday into it since it came out last week. It also has a really really good ui which I’ve grown to appreciate over the years.
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I bought Shenzhen I/O, the latest Zachtronics game. It’s cool, but I’m not loving it as much as I thought it would. The in-game microcontrollers are pretty similar to the TIS-100 cells (the conditionals are different in a cool way). It ends up feeling like I’m solving a lot of the problems, at least at a basic level. Maybe that’ll change a lot when I get to later levels, but I’ve unlocked most of the parts already and none of them seem to really shake things up. I’d kill for an analog relay right now.
What’s really frustrating though is their decisions about what does and doesn’t cause an error. Connecting a signal to two inputs on the same chip? No can do. Connecting an output to an input on the same chip? Also no. Directly connecting two outputs together? Sure, go for it, the trace will just take the higher value. I get that these games aren’t actually meant to be realistic but this just feels egregious.
Some of the Fast Karate discord have been playing regularly. If you’re on my steam friends list, look forward to getting a bunch of stupid, punny named retirement weapons.