Thaddeus Sasser

I wonder how I'd evolve the Blood Money game mode

@BrianD_STdigi I might be working on some shooty franchise. idk. maybe one that I've worked on before.

@dirtydeathdog What has the Dog been cooking lately?

it is I, the dirtiest of the dogs of death

@DANNYonPC lmao IF ONLY

@dirtydeathdog ''Why did you take a 24 year long sabbatical?'' xD

@DANNYonPC this actually explains a comment I got yesterday in a meeting, fascinating!

@dirtydeathdog needed a picture, and damn your imdb needs an update lmao

@DANNYonPC hahahaha

@dirtydeathdog Good dog!

@DANNYonPC Woof

@dirtydeathdog Woah

@SandyofCthulhu Empire was amazing.

How to balance a real time strategy game. There are basically four approaches. The first is to have both sides be identical, except perhaps for their starting areas. This was used in Command HQ and the original Warcraft. Obviously, the two sides are "balanced" in such a situation. These derived from turn-based wargames such as Empire and Civilization. (Anyone else remember Empire?) For obvious reasons, if the two sides are identical, the game is balanced. Of course, if their home areas aren't the same, then you'll need to adapt to circumstances. If you're playing Warcraft and an ocean encroaches more on your base than the enemy's, you'll want to build ships earlier to expand. This may lead at some point for your civilization to be more ship-focused, while he has better land units. But it's all dynamic. 1/4

@AndyZou @SandyofCthulhu *risk would be

@AndyZou @SandyofCthulhu The would be, I suppose, that you would polarize your audience with this kind of choice, as some players want the climb to mastery just once, and others are ok repeating the climb ad infinitum.

@SilverChambers it was way outside our scope hahaha

@dirtydeathdog If only hardline had bots like 2042 and bf6. I’d still be playing it. I loved that game so much.

learning moment for me - In BFH I made 8 game modes at launch. Eight. In retrospect this was a bit of a mistake. While I loved working on each of the modes and thought they each brought something, some of them got low playtime. Rescue and crosshair were <1%.

@DANNYonPC hahaha yeah it's true also yeah i enjoyed them too but in retrospect i would have used the time to polish other stuff

@dirtydeathdog BECAUSE 5 VEE 5 ISNT BATTLEFIELD THAD WE CAN ONLY HAVE BIG THINGS AND NOTHING ELSEE!!!!! - bf com tbh i did enjoy the modes!

@RockSteadyYeti yes!

@dirtydeathdog That was how we found and grew clans of gamers, I played BFBC2, BF3 with SOC Soldiers of Chaos, was some of the most fun I have ever had gaming and making friends. Sad younger gamers can't have that too.

I remember back when you could find a server community and a group of people you enjoyed playing with on a somewhat more permanent basis in shooters "dirtydeathdog remembers" any games doing a good job of this these days?

@skoffkruddle I wasn't feeling it either but thought it was just me. Seems to be enjoyed by the community!

@dirtydeathdog Tried BF6 on a free weekend. Was ok for a couple of days. Soon got bored though. BF4 was so much better. So was Hardline to be honest. BF6 just isn't fun.

@chopsticks88 @SteezeMcQueen1 🤣

@dirtydeathdog @SteezeMcQueen1

still the best youtu.be/7mJo1OLpM9Q?si…

@chopsticks88 @SteezeMcQueen1

@chopsticks88 @SteezeMcQueen1 loool