TechnicaUS
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Well, yeah. That's kinda his deal. It's why we like him as much as we do.
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SbF: Super Best Friends Play Thread: ReBoot
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NoblesseOblige
Banned
A sane Pat who is well thought out rather than abrasively outspoken is not a Pat I would mamoru.
From captain america plot twist thread
lies!!
"Breakfast is amazing"From captain america plot twist thread
Imperfected
Member
"Eggs 4 Lyfe"
skLaFarebear
Member
"I hate Naruto"
Imperfected
Member
I think it would have to be, "I was always back in." Then just put a Naruto headband on hm.
NoblesseOblige
Banned
Woolie the truther.
skLaFarebear
Member
Speaking of that, I'm catching up on podcasts and Woolie being like "Apparently the storm games are the best way to catch up" was the most "its about fucking time" thing I've heard in a while.
Seriously, if you dont wanna deal with the mostly terrible animation and horrible pacing and don't mind missing out on bits of character development, the Storm games are the best way to quickly catch up (besides maybe reading the manga tho idk)
Imperfected
Member
Yeah, and the Storm games aren't even that bad as games themselves. They aren't going to replace your SFs and KOFs if you're a hardcore fighting game player, but they're perfectly reasonable for setting up a Fisticuffs style romp with your friends.
MillionStabs
Banned
Did anyone actually have trouble with DS3 boss
or is Pat just bad?
I only died once to him, and I was using the Dragonslayer Spear, which he's apparently resistant to. He didn't see too hard if you just press O
Nameless King?
I only died once to him, and I was using the Dragonslayer Spear, which he's apparently resistant to. He didn't see too hard if you just press O
He was considered one of the hardest bosses in the game from what I've read in the various DS3 threads, but yeah, he's not too bad if you're good at dodging (then again, nothing is hard in those games if you're good at dodging).
Imperfected
Member
Most of the ratings I've seen among normal players put him as the hardest boss in the game, or at least in the top three (along with Swordpope and the final boss).
Among speedrunners doing All Bosses and people trying to do the 0 Hit run he isn't generally considered that bad, though. The sheer amount of health you have to blow through is punishing for normal players, but he doesn't have any moves that are super hard to dodge, and he doesn't have the tendency some bosses have to go into Infinite Nonstop Attack Mode when their AI gets triggered.
Edit: Pat's also still using the Bloodring, it looks like, which isn't actually super useful on that boss and causes him to take stupid huge amounts of damage from both the firebreath in Phase 1 and the lightning-charged hits in Phase 3.
Xux
Member
I'm at 10 or so attempts on him. I kinda burnt out after beating the final boss. l dunno when I'll go back.
NoblesseOblige
Banned
Do other Souls players completely ignore elemental resists for bosses or is that just a Pat thing?
Exactly this. He'll fuck your day up if you don't have a sense of his attacks' range (which I myself learned a few times), but once you have it down, you can roll circles around him and he really can't do shit about it.
MillionStabs
Banned
Yeah, his hugeness isn't compensating for how much raw damage he's taking with that thing.
I imagine the serious players test out various resins and buffs on bosses, but I usually just ignore it unless I actually start to struggle against something.
NoblesseOblige
Banned
I mean defensive gear. Like he's fighting a boss that clearly is lightning, and he doesn't even put on the lightning resist ring, or switch his armor to something a little more helpful.
I recall another streamer I watch (Demo) dying to him quite a few times, though I don't think nearly as much as he did to Champion Gundyr.
I've not really seen many people wear armor with better resist. Usually its fashion over function.
Imperfected
Member
I didn't use them too heavily on NG, but now that I'm up to NG+6 I'm pretty much in love with the Stoneplates. +20% damage resistance to a given element is just huge for fights like this one, Aldrich, etc.
TechnicaUS
Member
That's the way it is in pretty much anything you can change armor isn't it? Like, who's the wierdo who wears armor cause it's usefull?
NoblesseOblige
Banned
Suppose it's safe to assume there's no video for tonight given that they turned 2 on early afternoon.
Well in DS3, armor resistance, similar to poise or actual defense stat, is so negligible that it doesn't really matter to be honest. Even with great lightning resist it would only take out a fraction of the total damage. And Nameless can still wreck you with two hits if he so desires.
Armor in DS3 has a purely cosmetic role at this point. The stats matter so little it's baffling
Imperfected
Member
People get confused about this because of the way Resistances worked in previous games.
Absorption isn't a flat reduction. It's a percentage reduction. I can get >45% Slash Absorption if I wear Gundyr's set with a Ring of Steel Protection +2. That's not "negligible", that's nearly halving that damage, and the other physical damage types are still in the ~40% range with that setup.
That's the only thing that pops into my mind. It strikes me more as something Pat would do with Woolie, but Pat-Liam works, too.
DeadPhoenix
Member
After hearing Pat talking about pillars being LP poison with spy, i find more this to be very unlikely. God I hope it's true though.
Didn't Pat say something similar when he was playing through Baldur's Gate? Basically, that it's a terrific game that he could not imagine in a thousand years making for a successful LP? I know he said that about Nocturne, although that's a bird of a different feather.
That's pretty much why I'm stumped about Liam's teaser - my mind processes the clue one way (and one way only, honestly) and my gut tells me there's no chance, no matter how cool I think it would be.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Planescape is such a dialogue-filled game that I can't imagine an LP of it would be anything but a trainwreck. I dunno.
Only LPs that kinda work are ones doing VA and minimal to no other commentary.
Not something I could see them doing.
NoblesseOblige
Banned
I doubt they're doing Planescape for an LP. That would just be awful I feel.
I'd still watch it tho.
Edit: Also it says long-requested? Who has requested it?
I'd still watch it tho.
Edit: Also it says long-requested? Who has requested it?
MillionStabs
Banned
Imperfected
Member
Finally, a chance to wear my NeverNude shorts!
I do recall hearing at some point in the past that Planescape was highly requested for some reason. But maybe I'm just imagining it?
NoblesseOblige
Banned
It's possible, but I don't recall it. I just would have expected there be other more well-known cRPG requested before Planescape.
Glitchesarecool
Member
Uh, is the Dues Ex LP doing quests I've never seen before? I thought after finding the arm you go to the port to set the explosive on the desk, then get on the ship.
Also this week's Jojo was fucking good.
Also this week's Jojo was fucking good.
inked_illusion
Member
Who would've thought Woolie would be my favourite Overwatch character?
Matt mentions that this is from one of the DLC (the Tracer Tong side mission thing).
edit: Man, Pat is simply not good at hacking. It'd also probably help if he actually invested some points in the augs for hacking. I mean, 40% detection rate on level 1 nodes...
MillionStabs
Banned
Looks like Youtube ate the video for tonight...
This trip was truly fun, wasn't it?
Edit: Nvm, resurrected
This trip was truly fun, wasn't it?
Edit: Nvm, resurrected
MillionStabs
Banned
What the fuck there's another one?!
Yup. I actually thought it was due out like, next year though, but apparently it just came out yesterday.