PVP offtopic

[iruinedyourday]

I dont want to post this on the regular off topic cus its PVP specific.. but it IS off topic.

This weekend I tried a game I have been kinda keeping an eye on for the last year called SMITE.

Im only posting becuse I think that some of ya'll might like it, if you havent heard of it!

I know that when you love EQ that you bleed EQ and only EQ.. but some of yall like PVP and I dnot think that smite will get in the way of your EQage since its such a streamlined pvp experiance.

Anywho, its a lot like a simplified version of EQ/WOW pvp in an eSports game. Its pretty fun, lots of characters and abilities and many many YT feels.

Check it out if you're interested, its free to play!

http://www.smitegame.com/

some gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulvebkxkxmE

Oh also, on that note Cliffy B has shown off some footage of his new game at Pax and it looks pretty awesome. It is not like EQ pvp but is still cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ4S5G4nsUI

http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/lawbreakers-artwork-635x318.jpg

Anyway I wanted to share some of that with you all cus I think its p cool.

[Vanquisher]

cringe

[iruinedyourday]

lal

[Eslade]

so Dota in third person? no thx.

[Swish]

You know why these used Greek/Roman gods and shit? Low creative requirement + you can't copyright that stuff.

I tried it a couple of years back and couldn't get into it :/

[TacoSmasher]

mhoram on hots.

you are on smite.

play dota, u fucken plebs

[AzzarTheGod]

cringe

[iruinedyourday]

mhoram on hots.

you are on smite.

play dota, u fucken plebs

Thing I never liked about dota was it still felt like an RTS to me.. Its stupid I should prob play dota cus Im sure Id like it.. Soo Ill give it a shot.

I like smite cus it felt a little bit more like playing EQ than an RTS.. but its by no means a ''great'' game.. it is however a fun one for some meh's

wtf is hots is that the card game sektors is all about?

http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal05/2012/3/9/16/anigif_enhanced-buzz-24252-1331327230-31.gif

[AzzarTheGod]

Hearthstone is a card game like Magic the Gathering.

HOTS is heroes of the swarm it's a MOBA like Smite.

Your welcome I was just going to cringe again.

[Shjade]

Heroes of the Storm*

Not to be confused with Blizzard's other identical acronym, Heart of the Swarm, a Starcraft 2 expansion.

[Tassador]

Read the whole thing good theory on why you died 200 more times than kills you got.

[iruinedyourday]

Read your whole post good theory on why you have no friends around here.

[Tassador]

Yep I go to the park to play ball and come to eq to kill 1-89 players. Friends is what I do outside of this world, keep grabbing on to something that's really nothing kid.

[iruinedyourday]

keep telling yourself those things, just sharing some game info with friendly players yikes.

http://lovelace-media.imgix.net/uploads/191/d9ed3920-f952-0131-6dc0-0aa0f90d87b4.gif?

[Tassador]

Yikes is correct.

[iruinedyourday]

cringing

[Loke]

Regardless of any redeeming qualities smite may have as a game, I'd encourage people not to play it simply because Hi-Rez (the company who made it) has a history of making promises to their player base that they have no intention of keeping and abandoning games. They did it with global agenda, and more recently with Tribes:Ascend. They took one of the greatest FPS franchises ever, released a half-finished product, promised more updates and content, and then moved every developer to smite without fixing bugs from day 1 of release. Even worse, theyre now talking about global agenda 2 and a sequel to tribes:ascend, as if anyone from either of those communities is going to support their bullshit pump and dump development strategy.

They also threatened members of the tribes community who started trying to make custom content with legal action after they announced they would no longer be supporting the game. Then tried to appease the community by releasing screen shots of unreleased maps stating they would be released, but two years later and still no new maps, even though they are supposedly complete. So they have content, wont release it, and wont let the community make their own content, even though theyve declared the game dead.

Theyre basically the type of company that would have cease and desisted Project 1999 on day 1 so they could sit on the games IP rights and do absolutely nothing with them, just like theyre currently doing with Tribes.

[iruinedyourday]

Regardless of any redeeming qualities smite may have as a game, I'd encourage people not to play it simply because Hi-Rez (the company who made it) has a history of making promises to their player base that they have no intention of keeping and abandoning games. They did it with global agenda, and more recently with Tribes:Ascend. They took one of the greatest FPS franchises ever, released a half-finished product, promised more updates and content, and then moved every developer to smite without fixing bugs from day 1 of release. Even worse, theyre now talking about global agenda 2 and a sequel to tribes:ascend, as if anyone from either of those communities is going to support their bullshit pump and dump development strategy.

They also threatened members of the tribes community who started trying to make custom content with legal action after they announced they would no longer be supporting the game. Then tried to appease the community by releasing screen shots of unreleased maps stating they would be released, but two years later and still no new maps, even though they are supposedly complete. So they have content, wont release it, and wont let the community make their own content, even though theyve declared the game dead.

Theyre basically the type of company that would have cease and desisted Project 1999 on day 1 so they could sit on the games IP rights and do absolutely nothing with them, just like theyre currently doing with Tribes.

The game does feel dishonest haha, like half the time im like, /say RU GUYS REAL? IS THIS REAL OR RU AI PRETENDING TO BE REAL?!

Its crappy but the ganera has no other like it so far! a more up close and single character oriented fantasy pvp game :(

[Gardur]

Tried smite like a year or two ago. Thought it was terrible/unimaginative. Uninstalled

[iruinedyourday]

come on guys its not THAT bad haha

[Bazia]

u mite like smite better than dota 'cuz dota takes hundreds of hours to even figure out how to do anything effectively

i swear to god it's the best game i've ever played but it's the most complicated simple game to ever exist

tldr: dota takes a long time to even be decent

[iruinedyourday]

u mite like smite better than dota 'cuz dota takes hundreds of hours to even figure out how to do anything effectively

i swear to god it's the best game i've ever played but it's the most complicated simple game to ever exist

tldr: dota takes a long time to even be decent

Valve made a conscious choice to focus on all the things under the hood more so than the commercial viability of the game, because it was already such a success story.

While all that was happening LOL came out and a lot of folks thought that valve was gonna take its first major loss.. when they released dota it fell upon a lot of def ears since LOL was rolling at full steam.. but that didnt stop valve, they kept dumping money into it, marketing it as if it was a smash success right out of the gate and it payed off.. over time people realized that Dota is the serous version of the 3 games (origional dota inclued) and that really gave them the upper edge as a long term member of the esports community.

I always think of Dota as like the BMW M3 of gaming, its marketable to a large audience and is a precision racing machine at the same time.

[iruinedyourday]

Everquest is like this tho guys

https://chivethethrottle.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/mad-max-interceptor-920-14.jpg

[Sixpence]

Everquest is like this tho guys

https://chivethethrottle.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/mad-max-interceptor-920-14.jpg

A rare thing of beauty?

[iruinedyourday]

A rare thing of beauty?

fuck yea

[iruinedyourday]

Asusual DanielSL makes day z better... you guys should try pvp in day z I wont ever again, but you guys should.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qsX-9JZsS8

[Sixpence]

That was pretty disturbing. Does he have a Cult following?

[iruinedyourday]

Yea we all had a good chortle at his stream a while back. He made a bunch of second life videos that are just amazing.