September 2020 – Page 3 – The Daily SPUF

Payday 2: On Perk Decks

September 10, 2020September 8, 2020 aabicus 0 Comments analysis, Filler, payday, payday 2, perk decks, skill

I wanted to write a quick article about perk decks in Payday 2, because I find them pretty fascinating as a concept. Not the fact that they exist (they’re identical in function to the level-up trees from Payday the Heist) but that they exist in conjunction to the standard character classes, each of which has a ton of random abilities and playstyles with different weapons, equippables, armors, and concealment levels. As someone who loves game design, I’ve spent way more time than I should trying to figure out what criteria Overkill put into deciding when an ability is worthy of a… [Continue Reading]

I should feel bad about this, but that Valkyr existed for literally a minute before getting 'vored'

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The Helminth System – Too Expensive to Experiment

September 9, 2020September 4, 2020 Medic 0 Comments heart of deimos, helminth, warframe, warframe subsume

So I finally got my Helminth component from Son, and I finally got the bastard installed. At first, I was actually pretty excited. There were all sorts of cool combinations to be had. But now that I have the Helminth ready to go in my ship, I realise it’s all just… a chore. And yet more grind. But not the fun sort of grind. The Entrati grind and the segment costs are fine. Getting to rank 3 is pretty easy with the Entrati, as is obtaining the segment. Sure, you need to do a ton of conservation, but it’s definitely… [Continue Reading]

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Fishing on the Cambion Drift is Rather Annoying

September 8, 2020September 1, 2020 Medic 0 Comments cambion drift, fish, fishing, heart of deimos, warframe

I am normally a big fan of fishing. Not just in Warframe, but in other games as well. Minecraft fishing has always been particularly strong. Heck, I spent way, way too long fishing for a Pokemon in Pixelmon. But there’s something… lacking when it comes to fishing in the Cambion Drift. I’m just not enjoying infested fishing as much as I should. Here’s why.
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The Covert Lethality mod with its modern day stats

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Covert Lethality – The Deadly Mod that Died a Horrible Death

September 7, 2020August 31, 2020 Medic 2 Comments finisher, mod, nerf, ramble, rant, warframe

Warframe isn’t really known for having scaling damage. Sure, there are abilities that scale to high levels in various ways. Some abilities, like Octavia’s Mallet, scale based on enemy damage, making them valuable for long survival missions. But most Warframes have some sort of limit. In fact, most frames lack endurance. But what if there was an item that could provide a way to kill any enemies, regardless of level? For a while, there was such a way to do just that. It was called Covert Lethality. Covert Lethality was a mod that could only be used on single Daggers.… [Continue Reading]

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Infested Doggos and Infested Kitties of the Cambion Drift

September 6, 2020September 2, 2020 Medic 0 Comments cambion drift, companion, heart of deimos, infested, kavat, kubrow, pet, warframe

The Heart of Deimos has brought us new companions! The last companion we got was the third type of Kavat, the vampire-like Vasca. The Vasca appeared in the Plains of Eidolon revamp update. Since then, companions have been pretty quiet. But now we have six new ones! SIX! Three Kavats and three Kubrows. Oh, sorry, they’re called Vulpaphyla and Predasites. Anyway, let’s have a look at them! Three cats that look like foxes, three dogs that look like sphinxes. For some reason, the appearances of these pets are reversed. We have infested fox-like creatures with long snouts that are actually… [Continue Reading]

A couple of Necramechs, about to wreck shit

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NECRAMECHS ARE SO COOL

September 5, 2020August 30, 2020 Medic 0 Comments deimos, heart of deimos, necramech, warframe

Oh my god, Necramechs are so damn cool. I never thought I needed a massive mech in Warframe, but here I am, loving a massive mech. The Necramech is a weirdly strange contraption and it is stupidly powerful. But you need to work hard to obtain one. The grind to get it is a pain. To obtain your own Necramech, you need to enter Isolation Vaults, scattered across the Cambion Drift. These are located deep underground, below fleshy tunnels, filled with Infested. There’s a ton of steps just to get to the bit where the Necramech parts drop. That mostly… [Continue Reading]

A point of interest that I submitted and was made into a Pokestop.

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Turning A Wasteland into an Oasis in Pokemon Go

September 4, 2020August 29, 2020 Medic 1 Comment ingress, niantic, pokemon go, pokestop, wayfarer

In March of 2020, I moved away from the city center towards the outskirts of the city. I use the term city quite loosely here, because where I live is still quite small and rural. But either way, Pokemon Go was not much of an option. From where my new apartment was, I could see one gym and four Pokestops (and one more just on the horizon). All of which were a ten minute walk away, but doable. The fact that we had a gym at all was incredibly impressive. But for a slightly-more-than-casual player, those Pokestops just weren’t enough.… [Continue Reading]

Mother, the leader of the Entrati family.

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The Token Standing System of the Entrati

September 3, 2020August 31, 2020 Medic 0 Comments entrati, heart of deimos, open world, standing, syndicate, waframe

The Entrati family are the syndicate system of the Heart of Deimos. They fulfill the same role as Solaris United and Cetus. Basically, all your fishing, all your floofs, all your items come from them. And, of course, there’s a family figure there to give you guidance and bounties. However, while the Entrati do use the syndicate system of leveling up, they do so somewhat differently. Everything is done with fancy tokens. When you do a bounty for Mother, you don’t get straight up standing. You get a bunch of Mother Tokens. You can then trade the Mother Tokens in… [Continue Reading]

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On Raiding and Pillaging Other People’s Bases

September 2, 2020August 27, 2020 Medic 0 Comments loot, looting, minecraft, multiplayer, ramble

A Minecraft server I play on is announcing that they’re wiping everything and having a fresh start. The catch is that you can transfer your items to the new server. There will also be two new, fresh servers, where everyone will start from scratch. But basically, we have a limited amount of time to strip everything down and move it to the ‘legacy’ server, before the six existing mini-servers all get nuked. The server owners have set up various processes and a timeline, so people know what they can do. Money and items can be ported over, no problem, albeit… [Continue Reading]

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Left 4 Dead 2 Announces First New Campaign in over 8 Years

September 1, 2020September 1, 2020 aabicus 0 Comments announcement, community, left 4 dead, Left 4 Dead 2, news, update

Well, this is certainly a surprise! Left 4 Dead 2 is getting a new campaign! The announcement came on Valve’s long-dead Left 4 Dead blog, and the full text is rather cryptic: It has been many years since the infection first hit. Radio silence, no sign of life, nothing but lingering hopes… CEDA is not going to save us. But there is hope! A few brave souls have continued the fight against all odds, and soon we can all benefit from their resilience. “The Last Stand” is an update for Left 4 Dead 2, created by the community, for the… [Continue Reading]