I break it down by roles.What do I want this weapon to be for? Crowd control? Single target annihilation? Support? And then I go from there and tweak as I try it.

For example, I like to use the flamethrower when I'm playing with friends and we have to deal with big waves of fodder. To make it really good at that, I go for Sticky Flames so I can make barriers; I also maximize ammo capacity because I know I'm gonna be shooting this a lot, often preemptively, and high damage will be wasted on grunts anyway.

(granted, I would imagine that this is probably a common build for this weapon, but the logic still stands)

also, don't be afraid to try the more quirky overclocks and try to make them work! IMO this helps with the creativity part

laughing in scout

a fraction of our powder

Is this Nermal's first appearance?

Sweet, thanks!

That's a neat reticle. What weapon skin is this?

Thank you! And I can see it, yeah!

I'm actually in the process of making the actual art assets this week so it won't look quite the same, but the general style should be similar, or at least it should be between classic pixel art and this.

Hi! I'm the main person behind this game. Currently I'm doing all the coding and art, and I will most likely do the music too.

So, as it turns out, no it's fine, I just happened to do it all wrong. It has been resolved now!

Awesome, thank you! I'll do this right away.

Oh, yeah that makes sense; I guess if I had created it with this account instead of making a dedicated account it would have seemed less suspicious, now that I think about it (Also, I linked to an outside blog because I couldn't figure out what the issue was with the image uploads so I hoped it would at least use that offsite thumbnail (which it didn't) but I can see how that makes it even worse hah).

And yeah restoring it sounds great! I'd be happy to be involved, my goal is to have a community I can interact with here in addition to other socials, not to simply barge in and direct people out (if anything, if I can get more people to join Lemmy, that's even better).

That said, it would probably be better if I used this account here for it instead of the one I created yesterday, right?

Yeah I get it too, and looking at the full community list, I don't see a single company-related community, so it's probably the reason.

If that is indeed the reason though, I think it should be more explicit in the ToS so that people don't do the same thing; no need to give mods more work than necessary

Not sure what I'm supposed to judge here. Is it the crossed pipelines?

Pick Up Group. It comes from older MMOs, and it means any group that you randomly found in the game, as opposed to a friend that you had partied with beforehand.

A more modern word would be a rando

For driller: Sticky flames for sure, especially on swarmaggedon warnings

Unstable Containment Field is fun too, though hard to master

Also the shotgun effect on the goo cannon. Helps a lot with range.

For scout: Focused shot, even though it's dangerous on higher haz

The no recoil one on the submachine gun

And yeah Special Powder of course

I like them! They're a nice change of pace. Plus, it's probably a good way to get some early training for Rogue Core.

Honestly, even the Stalker is pretty cool; it's very satisfying to ping.

The one I hate is the sceptic spreader. This one is so dangerous.

If you want a fun rabbit hole to fall into, look up the Hollywood side of this

Like for example how we have to use tiger sounds for lion roars now because it was used once for effect and it worked really well but now people expect that sound out of a lion.

Somewhere in the 40s iirc. I could probably go higher but I get bored pretty quickly 🤷‍♀️

I do love the music though. Makes me wish there was a 2D spinoff of DRG, maybe in a Metal Slug kind of way. That would be sick.

Very interesting dimensions on that thing

Man, forget about culture, this thing's got a straight up society in there.