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robotsprinkles · 6 months

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hm.

so for some reason fromsoft decided a bunch of the high-damage high stagger weapons that can chunk half your health or more in a single hit should be attacker-sided.

which means if the latency is ass then your opponent will hit you with attacks that completely miss you on your screen — and when I say completely miss I mean their laser/bazooka shell/etc is straight up at least a full fifteen to twenty to a full hundred metres away from your ac

(not an exaggeration)

and you'll still eat all that damage and impact because while fromsoft are amazing at game design and art direction and all that their netcode is hot garbage

like I still love the game but god is it frustrating dying to someone because they shoot at a point a hundred metres away from you in the sky while you're standing on the ground and instantly stagger you and delete half your ap

#if they really want to have attacker-sided ranged weapons I'd expect it'd be better if it was only for the low damage/stagger weapons #I might be wrong of course but since the common stance seems to be that the only things that should be attacker-sided are melee weapons #I think I'm not being too unreasonable there #random robot rambles #armored core 6 #also I should note: I can and have dodged lcbs and bazookas. I beat someone using dual lcbs without much issue #it's just annoying as hell #because the only two ways to semi-reliably dodge high damage+Stagger A-S weapons is to spam qb or spam side-dodge while ab'ing #because if the latency is crap (and/or you're not sure if it is) you just have to kind of guess when the opponent is going to fire #and qb out of the way something like 300-600ms before they actually begin the firing animation/pull or release the trigger

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