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Just seems like R* would just avoid the controversy instead of presenting it for the player to decide. That feels like an old school PS2 era GTA decision. They already removed some references to LGBT in GTA V due to cultural sensitivity.

They'll end up patching this out or patching in auto-death if you engage violently with any rainbow clad NPCs. All it will take are a few chud highlight reels of barreling through parades or crashing planes into them, etc.

The screeching about hate and bad optics will result in some form of action being taken.

Did the smoke assist challenge earlier this morning. Not exactly the most refined method but I played breakthrough and spammed the objective with smoke. Really worked well on defensive positions.

Getting enough damage at 75 meters to unlock the first challenge with that peashooter dmr was godawful. At least the second phase lets you transition to a sniper rifle.

I only had one left to get last night. It took FOREVER to trigger. I was blind firing into mobs and it finally gave it to me. :lol:

I had 9 suppressions prior to that, through just random gameplay. I was so relieved to see 9/10 on that counter, post-nerf. I cannot imagine having to get 300 of those cocksuckers.

Eh, I don’t want to spend 15 games mag dumping lmg rounds into a bunker five inches away from actual kills. Just give me the god damned LMG.

Also, maybe this will incentivize people to actually play the objective/game type instead of chasing x of 5000 arbitrary bullshite.

Seems like it could be a fun game for Halloween. Picked it up.

I went for one of the high health handicaps thinking I was hot shite. Got greedy for the extra ninjacoin.

Got it eventually, but god damn. Those frickers can throw hands in purgatory.

I guess my larger point is that I have very little faith in loot boxes and in game currency/items as a unit of exchange. I wouldn’t be playing in the casino and I damn sure wouldn’t be holding anything long term.

I’m happy for those that got a little money out of that system, but it seems like it was always going to play out this way. Feels odd seeing someone go out due to getting burned on a knife cosmetic, but here we are.

I played ninja gaiden and beat it way back when it was new during the Xbox era. I have kept up on action games/rpgs mostly via soulslikes but that combat is much more stiff. This is a different animal and I’m sure my reflexes are worse off since 2004.

I decided to give this a go. It is definitely unforgiving and chunks your arse in the deep end. The first few purgatory chambers were humbling until I started to get my head around the mechanics. Admittedly, I was self imposing handicaps for larger payouts but I probably still look pitiful compared to someone who knows what they’re doing. :lol:

I’ve done one or two evenings playing on pc with Xbox players in the party.

I didn’t notice any arbitrary drops or broken parties, but I haven’t had a huge sample size of lobbies yet.

Im sure server stability fluctuates on a nightly basis, as well.

They haven’t had decent market share for over ten years. Game pass is failing. Their purchased studios are going multi platform. Retailers are starting to drop Xbox.

They are in “throw shite against the wall and pray” mode.