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A randomly created character in Sea of Thieves

The Weirdest Character Creation Screen

May 9, 2022May 1, 2022 Medic 0 Comments customization, random, sea of thieves, sot

Even if you don’t play a lot of games, it’s quite common for you to be able to change how you look. As someone starts up a new game, one of the first things they do is create a character, an avatar to represent oneself. However, there’s no standard way to make a character creation screen. Depending on the game, character creation screens can be incredibly basic or incredibly complicated, with a whole plethora of methods in order to make a character a player wants. Because there are no standards though, character creation is a minefield. No sliders, no buttons… [Continue Reading]

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MORE CUSTOMIZATION!

March 23, 2022March 16, 2022 Medic 0 Comments colour, customization, warframe

The upcoming Warframe update, Angels of the Zariman, will bring a lot of new stuff to customize. We’ll get another home to decorate, and, after years of asking, we’ll be able to put different textures on parts of our Warframes. The ability to apply textures as well as colours has been simmering in the background for years. And soon, with a bit of grinding, we’ll finally have it… Only for special skins though, as it would take forever to update all other skins. However, Warframe isn’t quite at peak customization yet. There are still plenty of things that need to… [Continue Reading]

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Customizing The Most Confusing Things

February 8, 2022February 3, 2022 Medic 0 Comments colours, cosmetics, customization, warframe

When it comes to customization, Warframe really lets you create gorgeous things. With a myriad of not just colour schemes, but also armour, capes and more, decorating a Warframe is an enjoyable experience. Not only can you decorate a ton of things, but you can decorate things on a budget, and there are plenty of free customization options too. Bow and Arrows and Dangly things You can decorate a lot of things on and around your Warframe, to the point that one can forget stuff. Bows for example can be coloured and there are several skins for them. What’s interesting… [Continue Reading]

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An Odd Interaction Between TF2 Weapon Sheens and Decorations

August 30, 2020April 14, 2021 aabicus 0 Comments analysis, CSGO, customization, decorated, icons, killstreak, Team Fortress 2

I noticed something unusual (pardon the pun) after I added a violet killstreak sheen to my Totally Boned Scotsman’s Skullcutter. And before we continue, I shamelessly admit this is one of the most minor observations I’ve probably ever made in TF2. It’s not quite on the level of 500 characters on the wind you can only notice during a single taunt, but it would fit comfortably into that list of nitpick articles in the final paragraph. Anyway, after a couple different times visiting my Demoman loadout page, I realized the Skullcutter’s inventory icon was occasionally showcasing the purple sheen. It’d… [Continue Reading]

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5 Ways to Farm Weapon Parts in Payday 2

July 18, 2018July 16, 2018 aabicus 0 Comments customization, guide, payday, payday 2, The SPUF of Legend, weapons

Every heister remembers the early days, so many awesome-looking weapon mods like laser sights and specific scopes that you’d totally use if the game would just drop them already. You’ll unlock everything eventually, but if you ever want to get serious about farming out weapon mods, there are a few ways to speed the process up a bit. Here are 5 Ways to Farm Weapon Mods Quickly! 1 – Before you start farming cards, strip any attachments from weapons you own and don’t care about. The game will stop dropping any specific mod after you already have two unused in… [Continue Reading]

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The cost of customizability

June 8, 2018June 4, 2018 Medicinal Warlock 0 Comments customization

Consider it a follow-up to my series of articles on customizability in video games. While I was writing an article about Paladins and Overwatch, I realize that introducing the basics of Paladins’s gameplay is a lot more difficult than Overwatch’s. And the main reason for that is the customization options in Paladins. The Talent system (formerly known as Legendary Cards), the card loadout system, and the item system adds a lot of complexity, and understanding them is vital to progress in the game. Compared to that, Overwatch is much easier to talk about since there is less you need to know… [Continue Reading]

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PALADINS IS BACK

March 5, 2018March 4, 2018 Medicinal Warlock 0 Comments customization, loadout, paladins

Long ago, Paladins had a rather fantastic customization system, which I talked about here. It is somewhat similar to Call of Duty’s Pick Ten System. You have 5 card slots, which you can fill the slots with a choice of 16 cards. The cards each boost a specific attribute of the champion. Each card can also be boosted up to 4 points, and the total point limit per loadout is 12. You need all five slots filled, and all cards must have at least one point allocated to it, making point allocation and prioritization something worthy of study. And in… [Continue Reading]

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Cards Unbound, Game Uninstalled

December 9, 2017December 6, 2017 Medicinal Warlock 1 Comment cards, complaint, confusing, customization, paladins, rant

Every player likes card customization. Thus, the first thing to go is meaningful card customization. Bravo. Implementing this five-points per card, twenty-five-points per loadout system, aside from causing hilariously broken and unbalanced cards that allows characters to deal around 23k burst damage when the maximum possible effective champion health is 5500 demolishes any meaningful customization. Now, just select the highest-leveled cards you have and you’re set for the next round. And once every card you own (or just those you cared about) is level 5, or you’re playing Ranked where every card is level 3, card customization is now almost as… [Continue Reading]