Comments by "josh fritz" (@joshfritz5345) on "Upper Echelon" channel.

  1. I'm okay with the idea of difficult games having an easy mode, but respect the dev's right to not include one if they feel it doesn't fit their artistic vision or if it would take a lot of development time away from improving the game for the core audience.
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  2. If the show is still good, I'll go with it. The only time I really care if it is claiming to portray a historical setting, then changing details based on some agenda.
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  3. Hey man, I get that it's not really my place to criticize what you choose to cover, but... I kind of miss when you covered video games more. That's kind of what your channel is meant to be about. Maybe you don't get as many views on that stuff, I don't know.
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  4. This game's mechanics are deep, but it has a very good set of tutorials which will walk you through them. The movement controls were a little weird for me at first, but I got the hang of them fairly quickly, and within a few hours, I was slinging blind missile salvos around asteroids and landing hits. It's a lot of fun, and I'd recommend it if you're a fan of strategy games.
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  5. Fallout 76 is an impressive display of failure that will be remembered for many years to come, and for all of the wrong reasons.
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  6. Well, there was a conspiracy. China tried to cover up the existence of this virus. As for where the virus came from, it's possible that it was from a laboratory, but it's genetic makeup suggests it is a mutated strain that usually attacks animals. China's unsanitary open air food markets seem like a more likely source than research labs, although considering notoriously lax safety standards, both are possible.
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  7. It has more depth than homeworld. You control less units at once, but you have far greater control over individual units, and can even design custom ships. Even the missiles are able to be modified to suit your tastes. As a matter or fact, there is more depth in the missile customization in this game than there is in the ship building mechanics of many other space games.
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  8. I'll wait for reviews from sources I trust. Maybe it'll be good, maybe not.
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  9.  @jakefromstatefarm9171  History shouldn't be about race at all, unless major events took place specifically because of race. I'm sick of people trying to divide history into different types based on the race of those involved. That's not constructive or helpful.
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  10. He's a politician. Liberal, conservative, or anything in between, I wouldn't trust any of them to not stab us in the back for profit if they think they can get away with it. If they are on your side, it is because they have something to gain from being on your side. Politicians are not your friend, and never will be.
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  11. Honestly, I'm kind of tired of seeing video after video ripping on dumb PC news controversies. It's kind of beating a dead horse at this point. I'm not saying you should stop, but could you maybe diversify your content a bit while sticking with a core theme of video games and related media? On the chance you happen to read this, thanks for taking the time to do so, keep up the good work.
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  12. The skill ceiling for missile gameplay is somewhere in the stratosphere, but a skilled missile missile player can hit an enemy gunship squadron with enough ordinance to level a continent from across the map without ever being detected.
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  13. I went hard on missiles right from the start and never looked back. With the missile update, I've been designing custom missiles which are far more capable than the stock designs while remaining relatively cheap. They have remain viable even with the advent of hybrid missiles and with the release of the OSP.
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  14. I agree with you on the secret encounters, I didn't enjoy those. But I think the game plays very well on Ultra Violence. Ammo was somewhat scarce, but that feels intentional, and it forces you to adapt on the fly. If there are several powerful enemies in a room, you'll have a better time using the proper weapons against each, unloading on them before falling back to chainsaw/ glory kill a couple of weaker enemies to continue the ramage. It's a very smooth pattern, and a lot of fun. I did notice in your background gameplay that you weren't really as mobile as you should be in doom, and you'll get punished for that, especially on Ultra Violence difficulty, my preferred difficulty setting. I think this game benefits a LOT from mouse and keyboard, you don't have nearly the level of speed and precision on controller you need to play this game properly.
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  15. It's so good. If you like strategy games, get it. Also, play the tutorial, even if you have played a lot of strategy games.
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  16. I could see my playthrough taking 30-40 hours, since I like to do a lot of side quests in these kinds of games. Yeah, it has a smaller scope than other RPGs, but it's a quality vs. quantity dynamic, and they chose quality.
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  17. I'm not one of the "best" players, but I've gotten really, really good at slinging missiles. You don't have to master every part of this game to be good at it.
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  18. Most of the maps have some kind of cover such as asteroids, but a few are in open space. The asteroids add a lot to the gameplay, as do objectives if you are playing a game mode that has them. But yeah, you're free to play annihilation games in open space if you want. Currently the game is focused on multi-player content, but since the release of the second faction (the announcement trailer for which dropped yesterday), the devs will start shifting their effort towards creating single player content like campaign and conquest modes.
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  19. I play on Ultra Violence, and I think based on his criticism, he hasn't quite gotten the 'flow' of combat down properly. It is possible to run out of ammo or health, but the game gives you the tools to avoid this, but balancing all of the tools at your disposal can be challenging, and takes time to learn. One example is that the chainsaw slowly recharges it's fuel over time, and the game occasionally spawns in weaker enemies for you to chainsaw/ glory kill in case you run low on health or ammo. I played the marauder fight, and actually really enjoyed it. I died several times (this game is challenging), but it never felt cheap, it was always because of a genuine mistake I made. It was always fun, and I once I learned the pattern of that fight, figured out a strategy and executed it with few mistakes, I ended the fight with a huge smile on my face and a feeling of satisfaction for overcoming a challenge. I love facing challenges in video games, and overcoming them.
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  20.  @YourFriendlyKebab  I almost can't believe you found 2016's doom easy on nightmare, I felt very challenged on Ultra Violence, at times frustratingly so. But then, maybe I got better as a player, because while Doom Eternal feels like it should have been harder, I 'got' it very quickly and fell into this intense pattern or kill kill murder death chainsaw and glory kill murder death while always being on the move both tactically to avoid attacks and strategically to position myself better. Maybe Doom Eternal really is a ton harder, but I just became very comfortable with it very quickly. In any case, I feel very comfortable with Doom Eternal on Ultra Violence, and maybe I could go back and beat Doom 2016 on Nightmare if I wanted to. Either way, Doom Eternal feels even more intense, even more awesome than Doom 2016. I was caught off guard by the platforming, but I surprisingly was pretty okay with it, it always felt good, like when your girlfriend convinces you to let her peg you. Wait what was I talking about? Oh! Right, Doom Eternal is awesome. The combat is hectic yet stylish. It feels good and is super satisfying. That is also exactly how I describe space combat in Starsector despite the two games having little in common aside from a steep learning curve and some extremely polished combat mechanics.
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  21.  @YourFriendlyKebab  Yeah, I guess that makes sense. I did actually struggle a bit until I got the dash. But then it just clicked, and I was ripping and tearing.
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  22. I sort of agree, but not totally. I think the damage control is a bit too Mico heavy, I'd prefer that to be largely automated. The game takes place at a slower pace which allows you to exploit most of the mechanics, but you need to be fairly good at micro to get the most out of it. I was overwhelmed at first, but I'm starting to come around mostly by forcing myself to partake in multi-player games and surprisingly not only winning my first few battles, but actually contributing heavily towards my team's win.
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  23. Hell yeah. I love both franchises, and Nebulous is totally my jam.
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  24. A bit, but you control fewer units and have a far greater amount of control over those fewer units.
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  25. IGN won't take down clearly stolen content and DMCA claims are ignored? Fuckin take it down yourself and DDoS their site.
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  26. http://www.bafta.org/media-centre/press-releases/games-awards-2021-entry-opens-diversity-standards-pilot It's the first link on this page if you're interested in reading it yourself.
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  27. Woah, really? I need to see that.
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  28. Jesus christ, I thought the title of this video was exaggerating.
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  29.  @personman1132  several. China Uncensored (a YouTube channel) has a video on the topic. There are a few articles on news sites that cite evidence of China attempting to silence early claims by doctors of a new illness spreading. They refer to it as "rumormongering", and often punish those attempting to share information about the outbreak.
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  30. Demonotized if you don't self censor. Marked for kids and sued if you do. Wow.
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  31. The missile knows where it is
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  32. I have perfected the art of missile spam. It remains effective since I use one of the less common (and harder to counter) missile types, so the kind of countermeasures the enemy is likely to bring tend to be less effective against my specific type of missile.
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  33. Some idiot wrote a poorly crafted article bashing gamers for being gay hating, Trump worshipping misogynistic troglodytes, what else is new?
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  34. Imagine if BLM adopted orphaned black children. Now imagine they euthanize over 70% of the children they adopt. Now imagine they abduct some of those children from the families they belong to to be murdered. That is Peta.
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  35. It's kind of its own thing. There aren't many other games like it. Basically, you design a fleet of custom ships using a wide variety of weapons and modules, take them into battle against other players (or AI) and make adjustments to your fleet depending on how they perform.
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  36. The missile knows where it is
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  37. You're describing Battlefleet Gothic. It's a pretty good game, but I like Nebulous more for the gameplay depth.
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  38. Most gamers are men. I actually wish there were more women who were gamers, but mostly there aren't. Mobile free to play games aimed at casual audiences are not real games, they're time wasters. There are a handful of decent mobile games, but they're buried under a mountain of time and cash grabbing garbage. When you say that 40% of gamers are women, you can't then say that it's men's fault for gatekeeping because 90% of Mechwarrior 5 or Dirt 3 players are men, because you're using different definitions. These are AAA titles made and marketed with a very different demographic in mind than a match 3 mobile game. I WANT there to be more women who enjoy the kinds of games I enjoy, nobody is gatekeeping anything. At most, you might have some fans being wary of their hobbies being watered down to appeal to a wider audience, but that isn't exclusive to race, gender, etc. But can also include simplifying game mechanics and such.
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  39. I heard that part and said out loud "what the fuck?" That is fucking scary, man...
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  40.  @rexnas8150  Sounds like we went to the same school system. They were so focused on covering black history, they kind of forgot about... The rest of history.
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  41.  @johni0018  Blame the system if you like. Give a person power and tell them they have to sacrifice their ideals to keep that power, and they will. Even a well meaning person can become crooked if they are threatened with losing the only thing that lets them make a difference. But they never really could make a difference, because in order to make a decision that would matter, they would have to displease those who gave them the power in the first place. Being a good politician is not compatible with having rigid morals.
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  42.  @johni0018  Having ideals means there are things you aren't willing to do. A good politician does anything to stay in power. Their morals are based not on what the believe to be right or wrong, but rather, what will keep them in power. A democrat believes in abortion because it wins the votes, not because they care about the rights of women. A republican is against abortion not because they care about the lives of babies, but because they want to appeal to those who do care about them. The same is true of immigration, gun control, and every other issue you can imagine. A politician's own ideals are almost never a factor in their decisions, but rather, they pander to the public for votes, and to the wealthy for funding.
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  43. Go on, review this piece of shit, I'll watch it
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  44. Raid: Clash of Cyber Legends
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  45. "We, a large multi national corporation interested only in taking your money, will say a slogan used by a cause that allegedly supports a minority group but is also being used to justify rampant criminal acts across the country because we believe it will make our brand more popular with the masses."
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  46. I'd say it takes inspiration from it, but the game mechanics are way deeper. The playstyles are also much more diverse.
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  47. A bit, yeah. COADE always had a really un-intuitive control scheme which made it hard to perform basic tasks imo. Setting an intercept for example was unnecessarily complex. In Nebulous, the controls are only as complex as they need to be. Yes, the game lacks orbital mechanics, but it has just as much if not more detail in the missile warfare. It's a little like a modern naval combat sim where you try to spot the enemy first, then destroy them with overwhelming salvos of missiles before they can respond in kind. Fleets with strong PD coverage can weather missile salvos and close in for close range gunnery duels.
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  48. Drm also fucked my copy of Driver San Fransisco. I can't play it anymore, and any attempt to fix it was blocked by DRM.
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  49. I'm not one of the "best" players, but I've basically perfected one specific strategy about as good as it is possible to get. I can defeat many of the top players it they are unprepared for my signature tactic which is to fire huge salvos of very cheap but effective missiles. While skill is a huge factor in this game, using the right tactics can allow you to beat a "better" player if you catch them by surprise with a strategy they weren't prepared for.
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  50. I give it a month before microtransactions are added.
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