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Agh people confusing deformable terrain with voxels :<

I know it's not like "oh noooo the world is ending" but then they try and argue instead of say, looking it up, and that's the part that frustrates me.

Bit late, but a couple pages back someone was asking about Diablo 3 vs. Path of Exile?

PoE feels much more faithful to D2 than D3 is, oddly enough. I haven't played as much of PoE as I have of D3, because it lags more, but I can tell already that it's a game I'm going to spend a lot of time in.

Looking at the website, the devs seem really cool; they either know their stuff, or are not afraid to learn it, rather than sticking with tried-and-true. A great example is the bartering system. By cutting gold out of some transactions, they've created a new sort of economy for their game, and reading their articles on it was very cool.

Don't worry about kdr's. Not only are they horribly bugged, they really don't matter.

If you're a knight it's not entirely about killing people. Sometimes you need to protect archers, or just hold off enemies for a few seconds.

If you're a builder, you should be repairing structures as well as making new ones; the builders that sit in the back mining all game are as good as afk, even if they have a huge score.

If you're an archer, sometimes you can make a huge difference by climbing onto an enemy structure. From there you can shoot builders, unprotected workshops/outposts/catas, and even unprotected knights or other archers. Don't be afraid to run away, though; agility is a great asset.

Edit: extra builder stuff

In the beginning of the game builder is extremely important, especially in maps with a middle hill. By capturing that, your team benefits greatly. In one game with a hill I ran out into the middle and place two stone blocks, which gave my team time to get up the hill while their team floundered at the bottom.

ANYWAYS, epic finish on a 1-hour game just now. We had gradually pushed the Reds back farther and farther, until it came to a small canyon with towers on both sides. The bloodshed was absurd; if we hadn't had Unlimited lives, the game would have ended right there. Eventually we shattered Red's tower; all that was left was hastily erected defenses overlooking the canyon, and a small courtyard between that and their spawn building. Still, they fought valiantly, and the battle raged as we tried to blow apart the tower, and dig under their base. I got several bombs and blew a hole through the bottom of the courtyard just as someone bombjumped in through a hole in their building's roof, and took the flag. The blue with the flag jumped through the now gaping hole and ran like hell; we had 2 minutes to get the flag back to the base. Red sallied forth one last time, hoping beyond hope to stop the ringbearer's flagbearer's inexorable march towards Mt. Doom the spawn tent. And the Blue Army met them on the battlefield, and much blood was shed. We captured the flag with around 30 seconds left on the clock.

And this was a public server :p the server was not without its idiots, but there was little they could do to detract from the moment.

Edit: Re: what I build/what my team builds

I think he's just pointing out that at least lately, there's been a large influx of new builders, who are struggling to understand that you're supposed to build to last for more than ten seconds, if you have any time at all. Structures do degenerate over time, but often no one bothers to repair them. I find myself taking up the hammer to fix gaping holes in our defenses quite often. However, I never bother gathering resources by mining/chopping wood. If you're sort of brave, you can run in the battlefield; oftentimes, stone and wood litter the ground, with gold scattered in between. All in all, people could do more to help out; as a knight, I always pick up everything and give building supplies to builders who look like they know what they're doing, and arrows to archers with good aim.

From Transformice earlier tonight:

Ochita: We really are soulmates, Leafsnail
Ochita: B-but it's not like I like you, B-Baka!
Leafsnail: Suddenly Tsunderechita?

Was a good time y'all. We should do it again. Max was pretty handy with his Ratapults, and I was a pretty masterful planker.

EDIT: It's a long video, but the unedited footage is here. Complete with all the best worst music I could dredge up from my hard drive.

Well damn, somehow I didn't hear about that! It's been forever since I played Transformice, but I used to quite a lot. In fact, last time I got on everyone I had ever friended was gone. I left a goodbye note and haven't touched it since... well, what can you do? *shrug*

I'm in as well, I guess. The last giveaway interested me enough to get the demo, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

This is very generous of you (and the developer).

Notch tweeted about this saying how great it looked, fyi.

Ugh. Anytime Notch tweets about a game, the rabid fan part of the MC community jumps all over it, whether to tear it apart or just make the community worse via their presence.

clearly you are all living up to the thread name

That was the plan all along