Wrath of the cringefinder compilation thread

[Shrimp]

post all that you can find

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Who exactly is the target audience for this

 

[DeepOcean]

Man, I gave up on the release thread, it is the "Git gud, retard fanboyism 101." that is pretty much on every thread with some strange and creepy circle jerk cult around Desiderious or something, I mean the "Git gud, retard." that I already expected, every release thread has that nonsense since 2005 that isnt what is annoying me but the autism is reaching singularity levels and it is getting creepy, Pink Eye even reads like he is a depressed fugitive from a death cult or something and he is even talking like that monk autism disease left him, seems like the exorcism worked well, welcome to be a normal codexian again dude. Hope Kotc 2 work for you.

I mean, I stopped following the Pre release thread a long ago but what the fuck happened? Was mass possession or something?

It's just amazing levels of cope, I see now that the fanboy thread has reached new levels of copium when even the barebones HoMM system "is actually you know pretty decent if you think about it". Oh, if you do finish the game and don't end up liking it overall prepare some screenshots of your journey because the retards won't believe you. It's basically the Q-anon group of codex at this point.

Lost my patience when autists claimed I was lying when I said I killed the tutorial boss with three attacks of opportunity while playing really sub-optimally when I criticized the tutorial for being overlong and pointless. I also didnt see the point of fights where the NPCs do the dirty work for you but supposedly that is super advanced hardcore DnD.

When I pointed out that the game isnt that complex and you can brute force your way through on many situations, they pivoted to claim that was good and they never claimed otherwise. So, I was lying by saying the game wasnt that challenging on Core at same time I was right saying the game wasnt super challenging on Core. Go figure. Talking with doors is more productive.

Also the problem is that you hate the game because you cant understand cant understand such complex concepts like:
AC go big, fighta strong.
DC go big, wizarda go strong.

It isnt like this wasnt already true since Icewind Dale 2 and was a new scientific discovery. DnD ripoff require pro skills now, I thought as I got older I wouldnt see new jokes anymore.

 

[Zeriel]

Actually arguably fighter weak, all the "top" builds in Pathfinder are basically naked AC cheesing. It's ironically the case that fighter/heavy armor sucks across the board, you are better off going barbarian type classes for DR stacking or skyhigh AC with dex builds.

Frankly I've never been a fan of the way D&D evolved in/after 3e myself, 2e is the last time it "makes sense" to what those concepts are supposed to represent.

 

[Humanophage]

Wokesters think forcing people to witness their cringe will force us to like them and not hating them even more.

Exactly, and there's good proof for that: https://www.pnas.org/content/115/37/9216

Social media sites are often blamed for exacerbating political polarization by creating “echo chambers” that prevent people from being exposed to information that contradicts their preexisting beliefs. We conducted a field experiment that offered a large group of Democrats and Republicans financial compensation to follow bots that retweeted messages by elected officials and opinion leaders with opposing political views. Republican participants expressed substantially more conservative views after following a liberal Twitter bot, whereas Democrats’ attitudes became slightly more liberal after following a conservative Twitter bot—although this effect was not statistically significant.

Inserting forced wokeness will turn people away from it, not reduce polarisation. Feeding the public woke agendas in mass media only worked well when it was done slowly, one step at a time, and through hegemonic media like the TV. Lots of normie folks are gaslit and keep saying, "oh you're just seeing woke agendas everywhere", so it is quite useful when they really have their nose rubbed into it. Preferably in some personal area which they thought was harmless and inexplicably exempt from political agendas, like dating or games or going to the pub.

 

[Shadenuat]

This is what a good encounter looks like in Chalice 2

For a moment thought it was music from the game, would be cool if it was, kinda catchy for killing spiders.

 

[Pink Eye]

I wish it was. Sometimes I like listening to my own music when playing Chalice 2.

 

[DeepOcean]

skyhigh AC with dex builds.

Sawyer was right of breaking armor from an AC style to hit protection and introducing DR to armors. Epic games always end with +10 dexterity sources everywhere so armor lose the AC war fast, dex builds can have high AC AND high Damage, now if you have to deal with DR from armor, now that is another layer to it.

 

[Shadenuat]

I wish it was. Sometimes I like listening to my own music when playing Chalice 2.

What other improvements aside from grafix? Is world building a set of encounters or more interesting?

 

[Pink Eye]

I wish it was. Sometimes I like listening to my own music when playing Chalice 2.

What other improvements aside from grafix? Is world building a set of encounters or more interesting?

He's still adding quests and stuff. Plus Pierre is working on reactivity with skill checks depending on party comp/classes/races. So content is being fleshed out. Besides that. Augury of Chaos is mostly combat.

 

[Zeriel]

skyhigh AC with dex builds.

Sawyer was right of breaking armor from an AC style to hit protection and introducing DR to armors. Epic games always end with +10 dexterity sources everywhere so armor lose the AC war fast, dex builds can have high AC AND high Damage, now if you have to deal with DR from armor, now that is another layer to it.

You can have DR from armor in D&D/Pathfinder. They do even have that--3DR natively from heavy armor with adamantium. There just needs to be more sources of it/higher amounts on heavy armor and maybe locked to classes tied thematically to that archetype. Certainly wouldn't be a balance problem in a game like NWN where you can just put in new heavy armors with lots of DR if you want. Ultimately it's just a mistake of the designer/DM.

Hilarious if you think about it. Barbarians get more DR from their skin than high level fighters get from adamantium armor. Of course Lich gets a bunch of it too and you could do a Lich fighter... but you'd still have less DR than a barbarian with the same Lich path.

 

[dacencora]

I wish it was. Sometimes I like listening to my own music when playing Chalice 2.

What other improvements aside from grafix? Is world building a set of encounters or more interesting?

He's still adding quests and stuff. Plus Pierre is working on reactivity with skill checks depending on party comp/classes/races. So content is being fleshed out. Besides that. Augury of Chaos is mostly combat.

Despite Augury of Chaos being a big combat module, it actually has great role playing. If you play as a Psionicist you have tons of options to make fights (slightly) easier, or trick people, or what have you. Pierre did a great job. The only negative thing about KOTC2 is the extremely brutal difficulty with very limited rests. I’m not nearly as knowledgeable as others on this site when it comes to 3.x builds, so it was an extremely difficult module. Chalice 1 was not nearly as brutal. I hope the next modules are less “munchkin”-based.

 

[Ol' Willy]

"Well the main target audience is Westerners so they had to do it"

This is kinda true since game was written in English and doesn't even have Russian voice acting.

As of "they had to do it", Moscow is full of liberals, probably most of them in the entire country. They will pick any Western trend and will follow it in the cargo cult style. Ask them why they do it and the answer would be some incomprehensible mumbling about "diversity", "progressive values" or "they do it and so we should!"

I don't know why are you people so surprised. First game was already suspicious but it was successful so they went all in with this one

 

[whydoibother]

Get woke, go br- ooops, I mean get redpilled, lose the ability to enjoy your favorite genre.

 

[dacencora]

Lmao. Apparently Pathfinder/Paizo is on the chopping block now: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1437545371245424640.html

Not woke enough for the woke crowd, and way too woke for normal people. Whoops!

 

[whydoibother]

Lmao. Apparently Pathfinder/Paizo is on the chopping block now: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1437545371245424640.html

Not woke enough for the woke crowd, and way too woke for normal people. Whoops!

Firstly, does Paizo even have anything to do with the video game, other than renting the brand name?
Secondly, do you legit for real consider yourself "normal people"? The minority getting mad there aren't enough blax latinx barbarians, and the minority getting mad about brown characters, are both not at all what the average person buying this on Steam is.

 

[RNGsus]

The average person on Steam is undoubtedly playing poz of the fabulous for the autistic furry romance. I remember being 14 as well.

 

[dacencora]

Lmao. Apparently Pathfinder/Paizo is on the chopping block now: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1437545371245424640.html

Not woke enough for the woke crowd, and way too woke for normal people. Whoops!

Firstly, does Paizo even have anything to do with the video game, other than renting the brand name?
Secondly, do you legit for real consider yourself "normal people"? The minority getting mad there aren't enough blax latinx barbarians, and the minority getting mad about brown characters, are both not at all what the average person buying this on Steam is.

Do you mean how Paizo created the module "Wrath of the Righteous", lol.

"Minority getting mad about brown characters". Lol, go back to Reddit.

 

[LannTheStupid]

He's still adding quests and stuff. Plus Pierre is working on reactivity with skill checks depending on party comp/classes/races. So content is being fleshed out.

So it's not even chess which had been settled about 200 years ago. This not-a-game is even not-a-done-not-a-game.

I will check it when it is finished, because I trust your opinion and appreciate it. However, if it is in this stage... come on.

 

[Serus]

"Well the main target audience is Westerners so they had to do it"

This is kinda true since game was written in English and doesn't even have Russian voice acting.

As of "they had to do it", Moscow is full of liberals, probably most of them in the entire country. They will pick any Western trend and will follow it in the cargo cult style. Ask them why they do it and the answer would be some incomprehensible mumbling about "diversity", "progressive values" or "they do it and so we should!"

I don't know why are you people so surprised. First game was already suspicious but it was successful so they went all in with this one

It only reinforces the notion that Russia is not impregnable to globhomo, is only late by a few more years than western and southern Slavs. Other things are the same everywhere, big cities against the the rest.

Thanks for the thread. I wasn't following Wrath (despite liking TB combat in Kingmaker) so i wasn't sure how bad it would be. Looking at those screenshots i laughed hard but there is only so much dialogues you can skip when playing. And it's not only the woke stuff but overall bad quality - and the excessive amounts if judged by Kingmaker standards.

 

[Shadenuat]

The average person on Steam is undoubtedly playing poz of the fabulous for the autistic furry romance. I remember being 14 as well.

If kitsune was romanceable your choices as straight male wouldn't be so bad.

 

[dacencora]

"Well the main target audience is Westerners so they had to do it"

This is kinda true since game was written in English and doesn't even have Russian voice acting.

As of "they had to do it", Moscow is full of liberals, probably most of them in the entire country. They will pick any Western trend and will follow it in the cargo cult style. Ask them why they do it and the answer would be some incomprehensible mumbling about "diversity", "progressive values" or "they do it and so we should!"

I don't know why are you people so surprised. First game was already suspicious but it was successful so they went all in with this one

It only reinforces the notion that Russia is not impregnable to globhomo, is only late by a few more years than western and southern Slavs. Other things are the same everywhere, big cities against the the rest.

Thanks for the thread. I wasn't following Wrath (despite liking TB combat in Kingmaker) so i wasn't sure how bad it would be. Looking at those screenshots i laughed hard but there is only so much dialogues you can skip when playing. And it's not only the woke stuff but overall bad quality - and the excessive amounts if judged by Kingmaker standards.

I agree. The woke stuff is annoying but it’s the very poor quality and cringey writing that’s much worse.

 

[Ol' Willy]

It only reinforces the notion that Russia is not impregnable to globhomo

Someone still believes that it is?

 

[Pink Eye]

He's still adding quests and stuff. Plus Pierre is working on reactivity with skill checks depending on party comp/classes/races. So content is being fleshed out.

So it's not even chess which had been settled about 200 years ago. This not-a-game is even not-a-done-not-a-game.

I will check it when it is finished, because I trust your opinion and appreciate it. However, if it is in this stage... come on.

It's a one man project. There's only so much he can do. Comparing him to Owlcat who has ten times the manpower and two million dollars of funding from fans, is foolish. He also has other modules planned:

 

[Alex]

I think I've found something even more cringe than dialogue could even hope to be:

I almost agree, except Rowdy has bad saves. One level of Rowdy with anything else with two high saves that gets sneak is fantastic.

That wildly depends on Mythic path. Trickster can replace will saves with Athletics skill checks, Aeon gains immunities, Azata gains less direct immunities but shares anti-compulsion one on whole party.
Can't say about other mythic paths but there is lot of cool workarounds to bad Will saves.
And Rowdy gets last tier Vital Strike earlier than anyone else due to bypassing 16 BAB prereq.

Replacing will saves with athletics skill checks...

 

[Latro]

A lot of the retarded SJW shit is straight from the original adventure path.

cope

Forget all the woke stuff around this for a moment. What is fun and exciting, in a fairly limitless fantasy world, about a quest to get a beardless dwarf a potion to turn into a woman? Why would my adventurer give a shit? This is just lack of imagination.

When I think of beardless Dwarf I think of Arcanum and the find the boy plotline. That’s an example of interesting writing and a quest in a fantasy world.

Too bad, soon you’ll be helping elves dilate for easy XP