Final Baldur's Gate 3 Thoughts + Armored Core VI Impressions! | Dropped Frames Episode 362

[@boredinibiza]

always nice to see Dan on the show, more of that

[@Dracobyte]

He should be a regular!

[@Choteron3]

Dan should be a permanent member of dropped frames.

[@marcusuno5205]

I agree. I love Dan. Almost time for horror month!

[@Guitarman5705]

+1 for Dan the man

[@justindibe8543]

For sure! Man I miss court of swords dearly, hope Adam is doing well!

[@Nathanael_Forlorn]

I'd seriously need to consider whether I'd stop watching. No hate against the man, I wish him all the best! Just not up my alley.

[@marcusuno5205]

@@Nathanael_Forlorn please, expound

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Here are some tips for Armored Core newcomers: - AC6 has a lot of replay value due to the decisions made in the campaign (that includes multiple endings), as well as the unlockables of New Game + and beyond! - You DO NOT need to have played the previous AC games to get into this one, very similar on how Final Fantasy dev teams create its titles. - The series different from Souls. - The movement speed in AC6 is between AC3 and AC5 - There is a heavy focus on customization: do not get attached to a single build and be flexible. - There are plenty of custom paint jobs and the posibility of downloading weapons for making decals. - Legs are one of the most important parts of your mech, because they determine how much weight your vehicle can carry. - Your power engine / energy source is on other one as it modifies the amount of energy available, as well as how slow or fast your energy bar will recharge, when its depleted.

[@Dracobyte]

I hope Ace Combat 6 sells a lot!

[@PerpetuallyTiredMusician]

This episode was extra great since it had two of my favorite guests on the show. Been watching since the e-sports days where you could have Artosis and Slasher argue over wether SC2 or Q3 had the highest skill cap (actually happened once). You have come a long way since then and here is to a even longer road ahead. Peace and take care

[@aceofspades3018]

Love this Show! watch it every week!

[@Dracobyte]

I try to watch it when I can, but it is always a good time with JP, Cohh, Strippin, Dan, Zeke and all of thr guests.

[@TwistdTrip]

Always love seeing Dan on Dropped Frames

[@Dracobyte]

Yes!

[@RhapsodyBD]

Act 1 here, but so far companions don't really give much input during convos. but probably choices I've made I need to be better at inventory managment, although some things could be better on that point.

[@LoconStratos]

Armored Core is hard but dying at the tutorial boss and quitting is crazy

[@emzdanowicz2775]

BioWare isn't Bioware we remember anymore. All the best writers left or were fired. And the writing was what made ME or DA great or good (depending on game). So really, to be honest, I wouldn't care if the studio was closed. Ofc it sucks for the people affected, but as a gamer I just don't feel like Bioware can deliver anything great.

[@Dracobyte]

It is kind of sad to see that.

[@KagedWhizDumb]

Can't wait to play that new hyped game, Cyberpunk 2080!

[@Dracobyte]

After 10 years of waiting, a new mainline Armored Core is here and it is really good!

[@tropicata]

1:37:36 "BG3's really good yall" that delivery had me howling

[@woozie3241]

dan is a national treasure

[@masterofzero1]

Anytime I see strippin I am so hyped

[@Dracobyte]

He is really cool!

[@markcruise]

I don’t think Strippin realises that in the US lemonade isn’t a carbonated drink, and in the UK always is.

[@VornameNachname-e2n]

Great show, nice to see Strippin and Dan!

[@kennethgilbert6658]

Black myth wukong is a very small team and I believe they're hoping by putting out all these videos they will get more developers interested in helping them complete this game.

[@Dracobyte]

Do you know how many employees those that studios has?

[@Mrjacharles]

Man 2023 is such a good year for games :D

[@miinyoo]

Armored Core 6 was an absolute blast. NG+ and NG++ are treasures each. The gameplay is legendary level. The mech building isn't as complex as previous titles and I'm not doing that much justice. It's severely less complex even though it still looks complex to a newcomer. I don't think that's a bad thing because due to the phenomenal gameplay, you can take one build and play it several different ways. That's the part that made it so awesome. Yes, there are a few weapons which are grossly overpowered. Zimmermans being top of the list.

[@docnoximus]

So, that Armored Core fight clip... he's struggling because he didn't use the 'Stagger System' in the game at all. His build was fine, he never attacked the mech when it was in red mode. The systems overload state where you deal massive crit damage. Every enemy in the game can get overloaded, a good stat to track on weapons is their Impact rating, which triggers overload faster. Then a follow up weapon with a high Direct Hit bonus. So, shotguns are decent in both, hence their popularity. Alternatively, Grenade launchers have even higher impact, while melee and bazookas have big Direct Hit bonus. A rapid fire weapon maintains the stagger bar while you fight for positioning. Some fights involve a lot of cover, making weapons like missiles great. Other fights have very narrow attack opportunities, requiring a sniper styled approach. Same dynamic works the other way, some bosses put out massive AOE system shocks, having a light frame will mean youll get two shot. while others have a giant lazer beams that you're better off dodging, so a quick build. There's a great variety.

[@Scrumbumbler]

Nice! Have you heard of Lancer the RPG? The boys showed it to me and I think it has a interesting system, like Stars Without Number; and combat takes place in giant mechs! Would love to see you play a session or two

[@MrTripleAgamer]

This was a great episode, well done to all involved 😁

[@Dracobyte]

Yeah!

[@bobbob-cd9yl]

The main quest thing with starfield is really intresting bc in BGS games a lot of people just ignore the main quest, so SHOULD we go straight for the main quest? It's crazy to think about

[@NF_Redux]

i usually get through the opening chapter/make my character, then pick a random direction and go explore. hearing Pete say the game opens up and really gets going once the main questline concludes has me very intrigued...

[@bobbob-cd9yl]

@@NF_Redux Man so much of the conversation around this game has been confusing both good and bad. 3 days left but Bethesda and Xbox seem so confident in this game that it gives me pause. No one forced xbox to market this as their most important game yet they did

[@szabolcssajben702]

I mean you didn't get dragons spawning in Skyrim until you did a main mission, in FO4 a faction also only showed up when you progressed the main story or reached high enough level.

[@Dracobyte]

A reviewer from my country recommended me to do as much as sidequest as possible.

[@l8rn3rds]

about armored core, there is a *fully* fleshed out story. you just need to do all 3 endings to see it.

[@WookieWarriorz]

Even if there wasn't, who actually gives a fuck. Good game is good game regardless of story

[@alexkirnie9347]

Don’t really understand the no story commentary on AC 6. I guess I am the type to search find and read everything . I like the abstract where I’m still puzzling together stuff as I’m approaching the end of my first run. It’s story telling seems similar to they way they did when I first played the souls franchise but mission based instead of open world.

[@Antonio.S]

Black myth wukong devs actually announced 7 months or so ago that the game will come out in summer 2024.

[@Justin-ee1mv]

Can’t wait to see after all 5 years of waiting for starfield all the reactions

[@KasiresHK47]

1:42:00 a great laugh out moment in this podcast, loved the discussion throughout

[@TwistdTrip]

I refused to play Cyberpunk based on the release state and the general feeback and reviews. So this is like my second chance, looking forward to playing Cyberpunk for the first time!

[@NF_Redux]

i bought it day one on Series X, and although it's had a lotta patch fixes, there's still so many bugs, glitches, broken & missing elements in the open world outside scripted sequences, so i put it down (yet again) after the last "big patch". hopefully this new one addresses the worst of the issues for PC & console users alike. i feel like they might have got it right this time.

[@aduboo29]

The game was honestly perfectly playable on PC (for most people) at launch, but I think you've probably done yourself a favour waiting for this version of the game to be your first time playing it.

[@sillylittlesheepjax6009]

@@NF_Redux i finished it on series x after edgerunners patch and had no problems, small bugs like in every open world but nothing big. Maybe u didnt start a new game ? i heard that game breaks if u start old save instead of new game after big patches

[@house1406]

dumb sheep missed a great game wcyd

[@crit-c4637]

I'm pretty sure Bungie has switched a significant amount of there dev team to the Marathon reboot with the release of this latest Destiny expansion. This one seems to be bringing the story towards an ending and answering a lot of question that have been hinted at for a while now. The last expansion started doing this, too.

[@dsagent]

Armored Core Main story took me 20 hours. Then I learned NG+ has more content and NG++ even more.

[@simplynoah5034]

Anyone else not a super fan of them connecting Alan Wake and Control? Setting Alan Wake in a world where weird stuff like this happens all the time kind of takes away the intrigue and mystery of the game. At least for me.

[@Canucks4us]

I really hope Starfield lives up to it for you all.

[@chaseyork3131]

I was incredibly disappointed when I found out that my Barbarian wasn't ever going to find a Belt of Hill Giant Strength. I got to Act 3 and it just never came up. I also was bummed when i couldn't find a legendary great-axe anywhere. My Half-Orc Barb felt incomplete without those two particular items.

[@nicholasg.5441]

Clear lemonade just sounds like water

[@oplawlz]

wait, when did strippin become a hobo?

[@shadow12k]

One kid ago.

[@impotenceaura]

😂

[@NF_Redux]

@@shadow12k

[@VideogamesAsArt]

I like how at the end you basically cut off Dan :D

[@sumireravenclaw8034]

I find it hilarious when Cohh is talking about Fallout 5 Bro we ain't getting Fallout 5 till at LEAST 2030+ remember they already said they think es6 will be out around 2027-2029. so no way fallout 5 will be out before 2030.

[@oplawlz]

Kinda hard to get excited for it after fallout 4 and 76 too (imo). 76 was much worse than 4 and done by a diff studio, but man compared to new vegas or even 3 fallout 4 just wasn't very good.

[@catsleeze]

I need to see zeke throwing his steering wheel. Somebody help me out with a link please!

[@FlexxibleFree]

Stripping needs to pull in Crendor for Rogue Trader

[@crit-c4637]

Cohh still needs to do a playthrough of Alan Wake.

[@olsongc8422]

Whenever Cohh was talking about Control and the different stories they could do....I just thought of SCP Foundation.

[@VampireNoblesse]

Phil: "11/10 game won't make a difference".., 3 months later "we need BG3, a 11/10 game, let's drop parity"..., lol Phil (can we ever take him seriously?? xD)

[@bdivinebeing]

Where is the clip of zeke and the steering wheel

[@Mrthedragonkiller]

What is the new snow/mud Runner game?

[@kephalai]

hell yea Dan S Gaming !! :D

[@VampireNoblesse]

this could be the beginning of "Series S is no longer holding back this gen!"

[@Dracobyte]

Indeed!

[@FlexxibleFree]

PoE and Warframe for me are sister games, they even had some advertising events together

[@cohomologygroup]

To think that could happen to Westwood? To think that could happen to Origin?

[@kaladinstormblessed9626]

I love Strippin 😂

[@pilot7350]

no Poe 2 druid play. looked awesome at gamescom.

[@nived3211]

Solid state acceleromators.

[@lootruenstig79]

Haven´t seen Strippin since some Co-optional Podcast when he was a slick young dude. He appears to be living under a bridge nowadays. Great show as always, guys

[@ЄвгенКорякін]

I mean, he's always either streaming or doing family stuff. Not much time to maintain the slick looks, and not much reason to - the guy's on top at adult life now, albeit with a "weird" job.

[@jonnyarachnid]

He's a Wild Man of the Woods now. He frolics with pigs.

[@vazzaroth]

The AC6 story is 3rd person omniscient like Dune, lol.

[@GD2X]

They sound really surprised by just having 3 companions in camp. That's normal on an evil play through...

[@boredinibiza]

Strippin was right everybody

[@dasutin]

Prediction: We're never gonna see the new Dragon Age or the new Mass Effect.

[@traviscofer2519]

skull and bones has been in dev for 7 years, ill be damned if a single line of code in it is older then 4.

[@Matt-ki5so]

1:44:58 Cohh: Least buggiest Starfield game. 🤣 Obv meant Bethesda game but still was funny.

[@pafoffwof]

only recently started watching the show and like it quite a bit! i wanted to briefly say, on the topic of crimson desert/BDO, that BDO used to be very heavily p2w in it's first few years. twoish years ago, the studio developing the game got rid of their NA/EU publisher and the p2w aspect has changed quite significantly since then. several QoL updates, a number of f2p friendly overhauls and changes, as well as general 'just make the game fun to play' updates have come out since then. the current f2p experience is largely identical to the semi p2w experience, and this was no where near true in the past.

[@Jhakri_]

JP is right, Warhammer nerds and Kingdom Hearts nerds are the same with their lore. Once you open that door to let them talk you'll be stuck in that conversation for a few hours

[@davidracek3051]

its so sad that bioware went to hell :(

[@luuxii]

Starfield will be 78 on Metacritic

[@KliffUndersnIII]

1:58:57 I was thinking, recently Bioware / EA sold/moved/pawned off SWTOR to Broadsword, under the guise of needing to focus on DA. Some developers signed on with Broadsword in the process. Then / Now Bioware laid off employees. It does look like EA maybe shutting the doors to Bioware. I maybe thinking into to much.

[@pilot7350]

Wasnt hugely excited for Starfield but from what i heard on the podcaaszt hyped me up more with no bugs modded planets etc

[@drakhoon]

I wonder if any of them have had pink lemonade?

[@Dracobyte]

How do you prepare that?

[@drakhoon]

@@Dracobyte i think its a north eastern/new england thing. Its a premade mix like any lemonade mix its just pink and more sour than Sweet. Where as in the us "cloudy" lemonade is more sweet than sour ^.^

[@Dracobyte]

@@drakhoon I see, thank you for answering.

[@TamerBayouq]

Good show guys.

[@itmeJP]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@TamerBayouq]

@@itmeJP I do, at first I thought, man these shows are so long I'm not going to watch them all right? Years later here I am waiting every Sunday night for the next show. Hah, whoda thought.

[@nicholasg.5441]

First thing to come to mind with warframe 99 is unreal tournament 99, which had heavy digital extremes involvement as well. Maybe we are getting a spiritual sequel to unreal tournament?

[@sumireravenclaw8034]

Not really understanding what strippin meant by crimson desert looks a little on rails? like I mean it's literally the embodiment of an OPEN WORLD RPG. lol

[@sumireravenclaw8034]

Funny cohh said that skull and bones combat kinda seemed meh yet it's the same ship combat as ac4. lol

[@gzzuss]

Imagine if EA never bought Bioware! 🤔

[@AntBur-r1s]

Skull and Bones is such a joke, I really hope ubisoft starts to eat dirt soon.

[@pilot7350]

i was looking foward to it 7 years ago but now its just a shame to see what it is.

[@CaseyYam]

BDO is no longer pay 2 win otherwise I agree with the assessment that Crimson Desert will be the gateway drug for BDO.

[@bobbob-cd9yl]

Heard a guy that played stalker 2 at gamescom criticise the game where: The game feels like a tech demo I was running around and all of a sudden I died and there were no bullet indicators where enemies were, enemies also had AI they were not running and were taking cover and not moving a lot, my gun was missing a lot. Like dude... that sounds like Stalker which is amazing lmao Just got heated when I heard that from the guy because of how unimformed it was and just wanted to rant 🤪

[@nocturna76]

They killed everyone at camp because they kept bugging them? That killed me. I mean, how dare they try to inject content and dialogue and story into a game all about content and dialogue and story? LOL.

[@sethchapman1425]

So this circles back around with the Pirate game being poop and devs saying everything is fine. When it's just Okay. And only a few games reach expectations.

[@DarkScreamGames]

After 2 playthrus, BG3 Act3 still feels like it's actually 2 acts. Act 3 is good but Act 4 is garbo. Because Act 4 got dissolved into a thin layer of frosting and squirted on top of Act 3. I define Act 4 as starting when you've exhausted the general sidequests and only have the Big 2 bads left. Everything from that point feels like they threw it together in the last few weeks of development. But damn if I'm not ready to do another origin run.

[@0Pinger]

and we wonder at the intelligence of our cousin's over the pond, no JP he said it Looks like 7up, lemonade and 7up are different drinks

[@thedarkness125]

Again. Since before season 1 launched they have been pushing diablo 4 season 2 and telling everyone season one was going to be a small filler season while they worked on QOL and story. Is it a good thing? We dont know. It could very well not be. Is it surprising? No.

[@jeffisnot2826]

u r fin w me

[@richardrussel4567]

Armored core has one of the easiest plots in all of fromsoft to follow. Dont get how anyone can walk away from this game thinking theres no story.

[@otockian]

These fantasy people that don't like sci-fi blow my mind. I like both, and I don't understand how they don't like sci-fi, really perplexing to me. Also Skyrim and Oblivion got a 94 on Metacritic. This game got like x2 the passion, time, dedication and they are thinking it will get lower than that? Really? Just because of Fallout 76?

[@Justin-ee1mv]

Pog Pog

[@Lethoras]

I personally liked that Cyperpunk committed to there being no real happy ending. Cyperpunk stories just should always end bittersweet.

[@duman173]

Imagine still trusting cdpr, cohh liking some director that pretends to be super passionate what could be diffrent, cus the last ones only loved the witcher that why they became corpo shills when cyberpunk came around, it was their passion

[@foreignuser_]

clear lemonade has got to be the dumbest slang for lemon-lime soda i have ever heard. "cloudy" lemonade is just lemonade and lemon-lime soda is not lemonade at all. thanks for the show lmao

[@zephron28]

Gal drenit Cohh, there is no d in weaponry!!!!! Gaaaaaaaa!