Why I Am Curious About Tennocon 2023

Tennocon is Warframe’s biggest event. It’s a real-life get-together, where players and developers get to meet up. There’s panels, art shows, cosplay and merchandise to be bought. Tennocon also hosts TennoLive, a massive devstream revealing all the cool stuff we have to look forward to. It’s the showstopper. TennoLive is where Fortuna was announced, where we first discovered liches and Raoljack, where the Sacrifice was teased and how we got the Duviri Paradox. It’s massive. But this year, I am more curious than ever. This year, I feel Tennocon is going to be different. And I’m not just thinking that… [Continue Reading]

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On Powering Up Shadow Pokemon

I think we’ve all heard it, how Shadow Pokemon are stronger than normal Pokemon. We had an event over Shadow Mewtwo, one that was so highly rated that my entire Pokemon GO group decided to meet up and play. In fact, Shadow Mewtwo is probably the most powerful Pokemon in Pokemon GO, not including things like Mega Pokemon and Primal Reversion. If you’re a hardcore player, then you’ve probably got a maxed out team of Shadow Mewtwos, all pimped out with Psystrike, all ready to go. But is that even really feasible? Is that going too far? Probably. The question… [Continue Reading]

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I Forgot How Fun MvM Was

It’s been ages since I last played Team Fortress 2. But after a shorter-than-normal Sea of Thieves session, my great friend Bacxaber suggested that we play a round of Mann VS Machine, because why not? So I loaded up Team Fortress 2, reset all my key binds because they had all reverted to default settings, then joined Bacxaber and Metz. Together, we played a game of Mann VS Machine, on the Manhattan map. We were only playing on intermediate in boot camp, no Mann Up or anything, but damn, from the moment we started, it was all so much fun.… [Continue Reading]

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The Dark Flames Event Sucked

At the end of June, there was a small event called the Dark Flames event. It featured Pokemon that were fire type or dark type (or both) and introduced a new Pokemon, Turtonator. But this event also had a timed research task, and it was genuinely pretty crappy. But why was this event so bad? Let’s start with the spawns. Of course, we had dark types and fire types. But not that many. Houndour, Vulpix and Poochyena were among the most common, and we also saw Numel and Stunky. Stunky had been around in the previous Team Rocket takeover event,… [Continue Reading]

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Squirtle Classic Community Day

Classic Community Days are always fun. They bring back a popular Pokemon that has a special move and then pretend it’s a normal community day. But often, the popular Pokemon has been missing for a long time (or at least, its special move has been missing), so it’s a great opportunity to go out and catch some Pokemon. Squirtle Classic Community Day was basically one of those, with a tiny twist. So the catching of these Squirtles was pretty normal. None of them had party hats on, that had been disabled prior to the event. There were enough spawns and… [Continue Reading]

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How I’d Fix Defense Missions in Warframe

Defense missions are the worst. Well, OK, they’re not the worst, that reward goes to the likes of Defection missions. But Defense missions are all-round not particularly enjoyable. They’re also way more common than missions like Defection and Infested Salvage. Defense is so bad that people will intentionally leave Circuit missions to avoid doing them, especially on the Steel Path. These missions are terrible, so how do we fix them? Well, I’ve got some ideas. No more operatives The first and most basic idea is to not have an operative as a defense target. Their AI is absolutely stupid and… [Continue Reading]

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Three Of My Favourite Activities in the Sea of Thieves

The Sea of Thieves has a huge amount to do. There are islands everywhere, there are world events and there are creatures in the water that want you dead. From finding sunken ships to killing Ashen Lords, there is plenty to do. Here are my favourite things to do on the Sea of Thieves. Sea Forts I have always liked Sea Forts. They’re a nice, simple activity that is normally always available, unless someone has recently completed the fort just before you get there. Generally, the best time to do a sea fort is just before you set off on… [Continue Reading]

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I Had No Idea That You Could Have More than Four Players in Risk of Rain 2

I’m not very good at Risk of Rain 2, but it is definitely a game I play sometimes, often with friends. However, I was always of the impression that you could only have 4 players at most in a single run. That was until I sat in on voice chat in Kaiga’s Discord server. A nice fellow by the name of Cheezbeargur explained that, in fact, you can actually play with more than four players. All it took was a handful of console commands, and we’d be able to play with five people. Without using any mods or anything like… [Continue Reading]

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Pokemon GO and Me

I have a habit about ranting about Pokemon GO. It’s a very simple game that has made a ton of money, but the company behind the game, Niantic, constantly make weird decisions about various game features. As of late, they have been constantly changing the item bundles in the store, and they’ve reduced remote raid usage by limiting remote raids to five per day. Niantic’s relationship with its players and customers is all over the place, and a lot of its Quality of Life changes have been slowly disappearing. Even right now, I could make an argument about how remote… [Continue Reading]

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Eternalism And Everyone Being The Main Character

Most MMOs have the same problem. There’s technically only one protagonist, despite hundreds or thousands of players all being that one single protagonist. This is normally hand-waved away, because MMOs need a protagonist to do their main quests and storylines. It’s the singular hero (or team of heroes) who struggles though the plot of a game, while everyone else might as well be an NPC. It’s always bothered me a little bit, because it basically makes no sense. Either we all do these story quests or no one does. Warframe is no stranger to this problem. After all, it’s only… [Continue Reading]

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