Guess who's back
FOR A LIMITED TIME THROWBACK 'EVENT' FOMOFOMOFOMOFOMOFOMOPLAYNOW
>What is / was Gigantic
A Cult Classic Hero Shooter that was years ahead of it's time, that died in the crib for every other reason that wasn't the game being fun as frick.
>How do I play it
Guaranteed invites: https://www.arcgames.com/en/gigantic
ArcGames Launcher to run
>How long do I have to play it
Live until the 7th, 4am UTC+0
>Anything else
Classic mode disabled in favor of a new faster-paced one for the test, some server issues because so many people are trying to play. Unlocks are quick as frick,don't sweat em. Two 'new' heroes in the practice range to try out, but not in matchmaking.
Datamine indicates a possible intended rerelease.
Hop in, frickers. We're going giant slaying.
I dont want it to go, not again...
It may eventually come back, i never heard of a game at revives from the dead for only 2 days and on invitation (heh) only, and would have no intentions of a revival
If only I could actually play it instead of sitting in queues forever.
Try restarting the game if youre sitting in the queue for a few minutes
1) Go to the following link: https://www.arcgames.com/en/gigantic
2) Either log in with your old account details or register with a new email. The site doesn't seem to differentiate and you don't need an invite. Everyone gets approved, and it seems you can use a burner email (but be careful to actually write it down, just in case). They'll likely send a two-step authentication code to the same email for when you first log in. "Tempbanned for too many registrations" = Just wait.
3) Download the Arc launcher and install Gigantic. The game should install without issue, but you might get some delay (auth-error) for it to register that "Throwback Event" is live and your account has the go-ahead.
BONUS
-) Easy AntiCheat is what it is (shit). No Linuxcucks as a result. Works on 'eck. A later relaunch for PC (+Steam) / PS4-5 / XB1-SX appears intended
-) By default, the only multiplayer for the test is the new Rush (moron brawl). Clash (classic strategy) is only available for a tutorial at Lv10
-) If you're having matchmaking issues (10+ minute queue etc), it's a known server bug (since it's not supposed to be full-public), turn the game off and on again; should do the trick. Select "All Heroes" when you queue, for faster times if you just want to play
-) The two 'new' / released-unreleased heroes; Roland (cowboy) & Jeriko (cat pirate) are only available in Practice. Apparently they're the 'unfinished' end of unreleased, and use a few animations ripped from other characters as placeholder; but are otherwise original. Bolga (zerker ogress) is also datamined
-) The reason why clips aren't being posted is because of the "NDA". Oh no, not the "NDA". I sure do hope everybody respects the "NDA"
-) Rutger (le digger Black person) has a bug on his Q which lets him stay perma-underground, granting him immunity and a massive shield. Respect it, you have been warned
-) Tripp (lightning ninja) is still a warcrime
-) Everyone is "viable enough" to have fun otherwise
Glad to see the old tier list still holds up somewhat
>NDA
is that why no one seems to stream it? Where can I read it?
>only rush is available
Yeah nah, seeing the two gigantic duke it out is one of the main reason why I adore this game
it's kind of cute they assumed the game was so dead that everyone they invited wouldn't say anything
someone's probably getting shit on hard in their office tho
Doesn't help that the link to sign up is generic and literally anyone with an Arc account can join in.
>YOU IDIOT, THE GAME WAS TOO SUCCESSFUL AND NOW THE 3 SERVERS WE SPENT 5 YEARS BEGGING FOR ARE GOING UP IN FLAMES
>HOW THE FRICK AM I SUPPOSED TO EXPLAIN THIS TO MICROSHART-ACTI-BLIZZ MANAGEMENT WHEN THEY BOUGHT OUT THAT OVERWATCH CRAP FOR OVER 1 BILLION
>treat playtest as if it's private
>zero protection from anyone signing up and getting access
>playtest is now unplayable because way too many people are trying to get in
absolutely moronic move that will ruin the last time we'll ever get to play this game
I must assume they wouldn't be so moronic to see hopefully 10,000 plus people and think "hmmm this isn't worth it" and then just POOF
but this is literally gigantic we're talking about.
Moreso too that people will be annoyed, but I think a lot of people will have a high enough tolerance given the circumstance.
you have to have SOME prior knowledge to even play it, though there are likely stragglers
you are assuming a game publisher or executive will EVER make the right decision
do not trust them
do not believe them
the only time you should let yourself breathe around these people is when they lose their jobs
As if I wasn't aware
what this guy said
it's literally just over 24 hours in length anyway
People will call someone a naysayer or doomposter until they're proven right and everyone huffing copium gets assmad
how can I get assmad when I already expect this to be nothing more than what it is
I'm just wondering. My expectations are still VERY low.
There is a time a place for doomBlack persontry, and a time for copium; kinda like the bear and the bull of Ganker. The big question is who is more dissociated with reality at any given time.
Quick reminder that this was supposed to be a completely secret closed off temperature-test that had no advertising aside from a few emails to a few people and none of us even being aware of it; and an NDA that was supposed to disencourage not just clips, but even any discussion of what's happening. The servers seem to be intended to support less IPs than the amount in this thread; and I'd put good money on there already being more success behind this Gigantic throwback event, than SEGA or Marvel had when they trialed their literal billion dollar multiplayer games and quietly killed them before release so they would never ever see the light of day in absolute shame (Hyenas and Avengers).
Projecting the worst possible outcome, when the intended scenario combined with the current scenario is like this, is just delusion.
>ruin the last time we'll ever get to play this game
>players will stop playing due to that
Black this is a 1.5 day long closed access event that was probably expecting 70-100 players total, tops, for a game that has been dead (literally dead, as in a worse state you're b***h-level 'prediction is, as in unfrickingplayable) for over half a decade
stop being such depressive doomBlack folk. if you're both the same homosexual, rope yourself already.
they won't even notice who will have 'left' because they're kicking everyone out in less than 24 hours anyways
>no streaming
>no screencaps
>no recording
>NO DISCUSSING
lmao who do they think they're fooling?
Frick, I was going to stream this but nah, not gonna risk it if clash is only available against bot
Just gonna go shill this to my friend though, thanks for the info anon
Some anon yesterday said he got a warning email from posting screens in the thread, so they at least sort of care.
I think the only way they can ID you is if you just post your account name in clear view, because I haven't gotten shit despite posting multiple pics of large portions of the screen.
> Plz keep it secret guyz
Genuinely confusing.
Do they not want more people to become aware of their game?
It's because it's presently unfinished and that could reflect badly on the final product.
this was supposed to be an invite only test, they're not trying to drum up publicity. unless you think they're just 200 IQ masterminds that released a buggy, crashy game with no advertising for 2 days as some kind of mind game to get people to FOMO in
I think Uncle Sven is cracked as frick. I do shit as every other hero but I win my games easily if I pick him and just follow the frontliners.
>Getting ganked by a pesky assassin? Throw blue goop down at their face and watch as they bounce back debuffed and you jump a thousand miles away into the air off the screen somewhere else.
>Tank is about to die? Throw heal potion puddle down.
>Are they defending/attacking the giant? Just turn them into helpless snails with your ult.
>Allies are focus firing someone? Toss pink potion and watch them die.
Considering him and Zando (ignoring the diggerBlack person bug) are basically the only two who can get initiated on by a Tripp and be able to reliably turn it around, he'll always be good.
Shill as much as you want, wagie.
I aint playing your goyslop even for free.
They didn't change the balance at all for this? Not even worth installing.
That chart is from when the game died.
>Q is bugged for throwback event
Sure seems like it
It was literally made + posted for the first time this thread you whinging c**t.
>From when it died
>It was made now
???
If trip isn't changed, the game is not worth playing at all. Fact.
I saw this tier list before the event even started
stop trying to lie moron
>didn't even expand the thumbnail
Yeah, some prophet predicted the game's revival and that Rutger's Q would be broken in the pre-re-release test event.
>some prophet
You could test before the event, we knew Rutger's Q was bugged
Is Tripp not still best tier? I suck with all other characters but I can stomp with Tripp
As an Orugay I've been shutting Trippshits out way harder than I remember doing in the old versions. There's definitely some kind of nerf.
She's definitely been hit with some kind of damage nerf that a lot of people can feel, but the way she's designed she'll always be either top or bottom tier, feast or famine.
Either she is able to blow up any of your teammates at the worst time possible, shut down pushes and pick off the sidelines at her leisure; and is thus an omnipresent threat everyone needs to play around. Or she can't and you'd rather have a handjob granny on your team. She might not be able to solo a Margrave any more, and the Mozu might have more time to react to her eventually killing her to bring her down lower; but as long as she can threaten, she's the most dangerous enemy on any team, aside from a HK sat in your base uncontested, waiting for a wound to open up.
I think she'll definitely feel whatever nerf she's got much harder once the game is out of Rush and back into Clash, where her counterplay begins to shine more. She's fine playing into this deathmatch scenario; but if she needs to snowball her levelling and play around Cerbs & Cyclops, then she might drop her down tier at least. Either ways, Tyto is what Tripp-but-cant-kill looks like.
Anons were able to launch the game yesterday prior to the event going live. It's how we knew Kajir and Roland had been implemented in some fashion, as well as the Roland bug.
*Rutger bug.
You wanna be an autistic homosexual, fine, lets play autistic homosexual.
This
image posted is a completely original image with no hash in the archives https://arch.b4k.co/v/search/image/YL85OZwObiq7lOY5LWQzUw/
This is a small edit to acknowledge the main balance changes people can feel from the short time they've played of the mini-event (as you can see in the difference in font) based off of
https://arch.b4k.co/v/search/image/xCDaz0bXxsAcpbqK1spyTw/ , which was posted a few days back, loosely based off of
https://arch.b4k.co/v/search/image/WyL-FTRphLYUPnQMas54RA/ using one Anon's opinion; which was at one point years ago was crossposted to leddit https://www.reddit.com/r/gigantic/comments/6pdclv/vs_tier_list/ and was the 'default' one for a while.
You are just a stupid lying c**t that is making shit up as you go along, because you don't like the game for whatever reason and want to shit on people who are just trying to have fun talking+playing an old videogame on Ganker. Noose yourself.
It's an edit of an old image to have some changes for what we've seen in the event. It's clearly missing some stuff (Tripp still being hilariously high up, E tier being too low in general with the buffs those two have gotten)
We have no numbers, but Knossos is definitely stronger and TMat is definitely not Tripp level damage from 500units away.
This is edited from the original 2017 tier list, which had a few changes.
Knossos used to be unplayable, and they really didn't have the time to iron out T-Mat
Eh, i've been fine when Tripp or Ramsay shows up if I'm using the support deck on Aisling.
Just send dad out and let him take a swing at her, usually a teammate will jump in and save me. That is, if they haven't forgotten about me as well.
Nice thread and info for a neat game :3
>pyromancy lizard is bad
Guess im throwing games then
It'll take a lot to convince me not to love Charnok. He's fun as frick and has a voice that sounds like Tony Jay.
>Tripp is still a war crime
>Aimbotter sniper nigress still a war crime
Why bother coming back when the game's been solved?
>filtered by Imani
I mean, every time I queue up, some b***h on Adderall is just camping me exclusively. I'm not good enough to improve, so I'll happily sit in spawn and watch chat become a flame war. As long as I'm not banned ingame yet, I'll stay being a problem as long as the law of me not being allowed to bother is confirmed via single minded targeting. I lost the battle, I've lost the mental, I'm playing something else on another monitor til the match ends.
I think I've only seen the sniper character once over 20 or so games and didn't really notice their impact at all
hoodie lady is in every single game though, which I guess is unsurprising. everyone wants to be the nothin personel kid assassin in every game, except maybe in TF2.
>Filtered by Imani of all characters
>IMANI
it's not, that tier list is shit
saying pakko has bad disengage is honestly hilarious
alright, I'm going to give the queue one more chance otherwise I'm going to bed.
maybe there'll be some australian anons playing and I can get a couple matches in the morning before work. if not I'll have to hope I can catch a round before it ends.
Still as I remember mozu
I must have stopped playing before these weird split builds. Didn't we used to have HotS style leveling before? Pick talents as you play?
The split builds are new and exist to give you a premade level 10 build since that's what everyone starts at in the new Rush mode. HotS leveling is still in Clash mode. Make sure you disable auto-skilling in the options menu too.
You do for Clash, but Rush is the only mode available because it's a short test.
You can customize your talents in the hero menu, but this stupid rush mode starts everyone at level 10 so there's nothing to pick.
Is this seriously only til Friday??? I thought we had Saturday, too.
>first day is rife with server problems
>out of a 2-day playtest
>level 10 gives you a playable tutorial for clash only to cuck you with clash "coming soon :)" and you're just stuck with Rush which isn't even the original game mode people played Gigantic for
I just want this game to succeed
why do the people in charge do everything in their power to make sure it doesn't
The public literally weren't supposed to play this build, give them a break. It's a *closed invite* throwback to begin with, everyone is just jumping on because of the hype.
Just a shame because this is likely the last time we'll ever get to play this game and it is ONCE AGAIN marred by stupid bullshit
this game was and always will be doomed
Anon, I think there's a reason why they're doing this and it's not just because of giving folks one last hurrah
I'd like to hope anon, but I can't get my heart broken again. I'll just look at is as some sort of anomaly being ran til today, and won't expect anything else in the future. Even if there's PS5/Xbox controller prompts and work being done, I'd rather overdose on doomium.
when is it ending, should I stay up late squeezing in a few more games
are you moronic? why the frick do you reply to threads without looking at the OP
My language settings reset after each restart..
How do I play Aisling
How do I actually summon the sword and not watch it get stuck in the ground
she's pretty much useless
Literally play with daddy, making him come in and out of the sword to protect you from your enemy's burst or finish them, note that some of the skills that generate an AoE around you and your dad does apply twice if the enemy is in the range of both.
If you've played White Lion in Warhammer online, it's pretty similar, using your pet smartly will help you a lot.
So what's the copium consensus? Is the game actually coming back after this or not?
There's too much work here for it to be a one-off meme, but of course, intent to release doesn't always mean a release. They will try but time will tell if it sticks.
Well if they can fix the issues and keep players interested, why not?
It has an awful lot of infrastructure reworks for a one-time event.
The only reason this being a one-time thing is on the table is because Gigantic is just that fricking unlucky.
it had a chance but they fricked it with the playtest queue issues + no clash
100% guarantee players will stop playing due to that and publishers will use that as an excuse to never touch the game again
nooooooooooooo ;_;
It has playtest issues due to going way above expectations for interest, though
It's not that bad
the game needed a faster paced mode, so putting that in and testing it is a good idea for new players
just doesn't make sense why they're doing this for only "vets" like it's a throwback like they say
then again, they didn't TRY to make it closed either. thinly veiled.
So I presume it's on purpose
>So I presume it's on purpose
Would be the smartest marketing gearbox ever did
So i won't give them that credit i'll assume incompetence.
>the game needed a faster paced mode
I feel like there's got to be a better means of doing it, though.
I like the skill loadouts feeding into auto-leveling, but I think they should have given Rush mode a 4x EXP boost and kept the creatures instead. Removing creatures just turns it into deathball simulator.
Clash is kind of a shit gamemode, ngl
>confusing as frick for many people as evidenced by so many people in games just running around deathmatching when the game was live
>people that "know" just spamming backcaps like the dick ass thieves they are for free power
>vulnerable timings being confusing for many players until they put in the timer that took them like years to actually implement (lol)
>feeling like damage doesn't matter unless your team is coordinated enough to dive them near creatures
>ease of running away and hiding means every action you do feels less meaningful especially against characters that can disengage extremely quickly but that's the case for most heroes especially if they can make it back to their creatures
>rotations are slow sometimes because of the map size depending on map
>after you attack a wound your opponent can get immediate power advantage by just killing you especially if you're a melee character so it can be an immediate comeback mechanic for both teams that could result in a snowball to kill multiple creatures
some of this is not specific to clash though obviously
In that sense the forced Rush mode which has only some of the mechanics, and the forced tutorial, are benificial to people knowing what the frick is going on. Get them to understand half the game, then later introduce the other half.
Did Gigantic ever had this option in the game?
Nope. Players were split between the Windows 10 Store/Xbox and ARC (later included Steam).
they did, xbox one and w10 players crossplay
More of a chance than Dawngate
pretty sure they're just gauging interest to sell it to the chinese or something
Gearbox brought out perfect world and so they now own the IP, but more or less. They need something to sell their launcher that isnt borderlands.
Not entirely sure. It's been a while but more or less all the Guildwars 1 oldheads are there https://www.mana.works/
>bought out Perfect World
Wait what, no fukken way
My bad, apparently some mob called Embracer Group brought them both out and is renaming Perfect World to just Gearbox publishing.
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/perfect-world-rebrands-as-gearbox-publishing-after-embracer-purchase
That's a lot more understandable. Perfect World still seemed like chinkshit that'd live forever, just as one of those things that makes it sad, but Embracer has been buying fukken everything
>some mod
It's the holdings arm of THQ Nordic. Pretty wild they've come this far from just releasing updated versions of Darksiders 2 and Titan Quest
Well it's possible they can still buy up their own crap. If it was actually Gearbox themselves, it'd be shocking.
>It's THQ Nordic
That actually gives me some hope! They brought back Destroy All Humans.
Note that THQ Nordic's whole strategy is to do literally nothing. Allegedly, that's why the Saints Row reboot failed: because Deep Silver called all the shots and Volition had zero talent left. At the end of the day, it depends on who specifically controls Gigantic within Embracer, and Embracer might occasionally poke em with a stick and go
>hey
>hey mate
>you should probably make a game for that mate
>yeah you should do that
>alright?
>ok, I'm gonna go back to making more Spongebob
>have a good'un mate
I don't even care, they made de blob and did a Q&A acknowledging the existence of Anon; they'll always have some time of my day lent an ear if they're doing something that I just happen to bump into. They're one of an extremely small number of names I have a shred of respect for, respect that's been earnt, not demanded.
If their strategy is to do nothing and trust the plan, then it means it's not to just frick everything up; as has been the entire industry's modus operandi for the last fricking decade.
>Saints Row
Wasn't that out of THQ hands after it got sold off?
>wasn't that out of THQ hands after it got sold off
The original THQ dissolves
Saints Row is sold to Deep Silver at the estate auction
Nordic Games gets the THQ name in the divorce, becomes THQ Nordic
THQ Nordic buys out the Koch Media Group, which contains Deep Silver, which contains Volition, which contains Saints Row
Volition and Saints Row are back at "THQ," but THQ Nordic is hands off, so Saints Row is entirely Deep Silver + Volition
>THQ Nordic
If anyone can do it, they could. This is a possibly deadly level of hopium you're administering right now, you are aware of that?
Embracer buy out everything they can get their hands on.
If they do this subhuman needs to stay as far away from balance as possible
Man Ramsay is so fricking fun, even when we lose im just happy to be able to frick around and top frag as him.
Glad I was able to play this again, hope that something comes out of whatever the hell this event is supposed to be.
I know nothing about this game but I just wanted to say that I think the owl mask dude has a really cool design.
How's the robot? I only want to play and no one else.
I love her so much
Nothing more nostalgic about Gigantic than waiting absurdly long times in queue for a single game... (worth it tho)
I s2g I never really feel any other games get queue issues like this, but that's probably because I don't look for them
i get games much faster dropping queue and requeuing/restarting rather than waiting, could be luck though
Yeah so do i, but then cant play anyway because of the ''player declined'' only have been able to play 2 games in 3 hours
it isn't gigantic if it doesnt have technical issues
i've played since alpha and it's always had technical issues in some shape or form which is really funny but also really sad
pretty fun game but
1. how restore sprint stamina?
2. are builds purposely stunted for this trial? how do they work
>how to restore sprint stamina
stop sprinting and attacking for a few seconds
>builds
you can make custom builds in the heroes tab, remember to push the activate build button. Leveling isn't a part of rush mode, everyone starts at level 10.
It's an execution ult. It does more damage if they're below half health.
>It does more damage if they're below half health.
Even at below half it seems like it's shit.
I just save it to pick off fleeing enemies, or surprise people that chase me too far. To be fair a lot of focus skills feel "underwhelming," in normal clash mode you could spend them on creatures instead if you didn't like them. I always did that on Margrave.
NO LINUX SUPPORT
DEAD GAME
gigandick
I didn't think I'd see my favorite owl person again, but here we are.
Need an edit of that one meme with Tyto throwing the mouse
Am I moronic or is Oru's focus skill fricking terrible
Shit won't launch, yo
Have fun without me boys
>only learn about this at the end of day 1 of 2
>Barely have any time tomorrow
Sad
just do it bro
just do it
better than learning about this at the end of day 2 of 2, have fun lil man
T-Mat is pretty fun.
had a weird bug where my mouse would like, stick? so if I tried to turn 90 degrees, nothing would happen for half a sec and then it would instantly snap to that position. at first I thought it was just dropping a lot of frames, but it didn't happen if I just ran forward or turned really slowly. then after the match it still did that in menus and would just snap to my positioning with a delay, it was really weird
happened to me when i pressed control to look at my stuff
>Supposedly get hero vouncher in the tutorial.
>Finish tutorial
>Have none
You have to restart the game. The gold/voucher counters don't update right.
i stole it
give it back
>oleaut32.dll error when i try to launch
WHY
Neve mind my firewall was fighting the anti-cheat software
Yeah easy anti cheat is some shonky frickin business.
Okay, so I did some reading. Apparently Perfect World sold off some of their subsidiaries as a package under the name "Perfect World Entertainment", and Embracer bought that in 2021 and immediately rebranded it as "Gearbox Publishing". So nothing to do with Randy.
oh man I'm super rusty, been a long time, but i'm still loving it.
playing with kbm is alot different than using a controller like I did on xbone
initial reaction was "playing this with a controlller wtf" but then I realized how similar this is to Smite on console. had fun playing that one too but this game doesn't have item builds, for the better(?)
>install it through arc, not steam
>can't see any texts
thanks
https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/653234446/#q653241029
Holy frick this is fun. While downloading, I was thinking to myself like
>well, I only played this a little bit ages ago
>might've just remembered it as liking it more than I did
but man, just playing for a bit, I've had more moments of actually having fun and letting out the occasional genuine cheer than I've had with multiplayer games for a while. So glad I didn't have to go through all the steps like downloading dev builds and all the other shit listed for that private server in order to try it again.
When someone steals ramsay from me I just want to kill myself. I don't know if having long queue times or not playing Ramsay is worse
how do u play him
you gotta be an alphabro, you wouldn't get it
Spam dodge and be a huge annoying homosexual
First you spell "you" right, gay.
I got to play the spinny bird boy(?) again for the first time in years. Sometimes everything works out.
how do you charge your F? it's never available or is it always available and I don't use it
It's functionally your Ult charge, but you also spend it on the point-pets to upgrade them. Deal more damage, get more charge; decide how you use that charge. A triple-Ult isn't an instakill (unless your name is Tripp), but at the same time investing into a bad pet or one that's only going to be taken in a few seconds is just a waste of resource.
Client settings I think.
hit things
>wanna play aisling cause she was my favorite in terms of design
>subconsciously inspired my lalafell in xiv
>frickin suck
You abusing the summon or keeping him close? The stun fricks you over, and she's the least survivable support-tank; you need to play careful with her, but at the same time playing too careful means you're a discount of a discount.
been sending out ser knight a bit too far and keep getting stunned when it matters
did play a match with her support deck and felt I did a bit better, but was still very squishy.
Hi Note :^)
HOW DO I CHANGE MY LANGUAGE SETTINGS, WHY CAN'T I SEE TEXT
this has been solved
so, for any non anglo speaking PC having anons, set your windows language display settings as english
wait, it can only run in a window?
playing in borderless fullscreen right now and posting between matches
>matchmaking suddenly fast as frick and reliable
>have work early
Take me back to my college days of beta Gigantic play. Please.
am living those days right now. maybe this comes out full release?
>got home from work early
>spent most my time at home sitting in a depressive haze and dying of heatstroke
>still have a bit of time to play late at night and queues are still popping
mixed bag
wishing all rutBlack folk a very have a nice day
Not gonna lie, I am getting kind of frustrated compared to back then when I was playing. It feels like I cannot do shit. Stamina management is so crucial otherwise you're fricked when your teammates inevitably die or leave you straggling behind.
Its because its all team death match.
You used to be able to burn stamina to kill a backline creature or retreat to a creature which could properly defend you.
Now the only purpose of stamina is dodging
You know, I understand why a fast paced game where you kill each other is fun, but I don't think every game needs to feel death matchy. This game will be miserable if fast assassin types just get to run around wherever they want to. They'll attack, and then flee to their giant or other adds; low mobility heroes will just be muscled out.
What's with the fascination of mobility, anyway? Does every game need to be hyper mobile?
I think there's some misconception that faster = more skillful = better game that's been floating around for a few years now.
I played against a team that was basically all assassin-type characters and the whole match was 'chase people as they run back to their creature at mach 1' simulator.
Factor of the new mode really. Things like tank and support were better since you could have your backline pets be things like Cyclops, which gave you a safe retreat point without just being outright faster than your opponent
That's why I only play Oru. Even if my teammates throw their lives away I get to have fun chucking cards at the stragglers.
nice, my high score from years ago is 33
i dont even know whats going in this game with all the effects and puddles happening, i feel like everyone is just mashing buttons
didnt play the game much back then but i remember it being less visually cluttered
>team fights when the other team has a poison cloud and a smoke grenade ability
The maps are made smaller for this version of the game. Probably the main factor.
check out my score
>Margrave
god I missed this fat bastard. He's so much fun
>EAC means it won't run on win7
I am beyond mad
while you're probably fricked for the 'event', you could figure out how to run w10 on a virtual machine if the game does rerelease
OK I think I'm getting the hang of Aisling
although it probably doesn't help now that i'm trying to do her challenge of setting people on fire with Da'
no
game was stillborn because its garbage
pick your trash up and leave
Maybe they're just gauging the interest.
I mean imagine paying for the servers and then no one is playing it
That is my cope too, considering that you can just register with a new account and then join the event easily
My fear is that they're gauging interest for games like gigantic, and they'll make something similar to gigantic but not exactly as fun as gigantic
That would make absolutely no sense. Why would they have newer character being added, and even give the chance to play it again, even if for a small amount of time. This is absolutely a gauge of interest which could get it ported to Steam, probably without the Arc launcher. I don't expect a massive revival unless it suddenly explodes in popularity but from how the rest of their (former) competition is floundering I could see it getting a sizeable niche.
>how the rest of their (former) competition is floundering
What sucks is that that that really only means Overwatch, and Overwatch isn't even in the same genre. People just see free movement and hero characters and BAM, it's a hero shooter apparently. Like otherwise, its closest competition is actually something like Battlerite or SMITE, but people can recognize they're ultimately very different and aren't competing (and also Battlerite's dead as shit)
I don't think so, developing a whole new game is gonna be way expensive compared to server costs and a little splash of marketing for a game that already exists.
so is Conquest/Rush the same thing as in Smite? One is a longer, more dynamic gamemode while the other is a close-quarters deathmatch?
>One is a longer, more dynamic gamemode while the other is a close-quarters deathmatch
More or less
Conquest had a few more gimmicks to it; most notably, you didnt have to manually collect energy. You could place creatures to collect it for you (like the Bloomers). A big part of the strategy is defending these creatures, choosing the right ones to bring, and choosing when to upgrade them (Which costs your Ult)
Especially since in conquest you couldn't switch characters, so if the team is loaded with assassins? You could spam Cerberus, which gave you a radar, telling you exactly where they were. Full of range blasters? Cyclops had one-way walls that only your team could use, making easy escapes. Full of tanks? Drakes fired AoE blasts from far away.
>just realized Phantasmal Force for Aisling doesn't have you APPLY burning damage three times in a match
>you have to do 2K damage with it in a match
>50 hp/tick
fuuuuuuuuuuck
zenoBlack folk should be raped by hitler
actually imaniBlack folk should be raped twice by hitler
Rush was good for a couple hours, but holy frick now I'm really really really wanting to play some longer matches
>Be Beckett
>Margrave decides i'm designated for stun correction this match
Hope you like grenades and cracked armor bro
Frick Imani
In all meanings of the phrase
How do you do the tyto dash attack that shoots you across the fricking map
I cant believe i still have the some old webms
>tfw deleted my old webms thinking the day would never come after the fan servers project got shut down
I deleted most of the old memes too, which is a shame
iktf
I knew ramsays flurry was a frontal cone before, when did they change it?
Why would I play any healer other than Uncle Sven. Guy's like demo man if he was made out of rubber.
so how long do we have till the event is over?
19 hours from now
tomorrow, 6 pacific (PM, going by that anon that just replied, I guess)
not gonna matter much to me cause I've gotta get back in the wage cage tomorrow afternoon for a closing shift
*9pm pacific
ah, got the numbers mixed up.
It's 5AM on the East Coast, why the frick am I still finding matches within 5 seconds
Yuros probably.
don't look a gift horse in the mouth anon
morons on the west coast who should be asleep like me are up playing
I was getting 20 minute queues six hours ago.
The population is swinging back again.
Why am I always level 1? I don't get to pick any upgrades no matter how long the match is.
Rush mode actually has you automatically at level 10. You don't level up and pick upgrades, you just choose from pre-arranged builds. The idea is that Rush is a more streamlined version of the traditional Clash mode, making it closer to a death match kind of affair.
Everyone is automatically level 10, so you get all your upgrades immediately based on your build you bring.
I don't know what this game is but be glad it died, if it was still running today it'd have a cash shop, battlepass, ranked mode, daily and weekly challenges, and skill based matchmaking
I'm already trying to brace myself for those inevitable announcements.
Game is dead because it went through development hell because of microsoft promising funding for windows 10 exclusivity then turning around and burning their entire games division to the ground. Perfect world picked them up but then they had to scramble to get it working on windows 7 and delayed the game for a year which led to it coming out after overwatch. If it had been out a year earlier and without the windows 10 bullshit it would be doing fine to this day.
Imagine if it wasn't a GAAS piece of shit?
>hey, bros want sum GIGANTIC?
>Heck yeah! Serb when?
>Already running!
Dedicated servers really need to come back.
Who the hell has 9 friends that want to play Gigantic, even without the piece of shit Arc launcher
If this board wasn't dogshit we'd run game nights like 8 Ganker did
That said
>who the hell has 9 friends
feels like the bigger problem for a lot of people too these days.
There is the Gankeran, but waiting a week for a chance to play the one vidya you like with a bunch of crippled autists is torture. Plus it feels like a lot of people give less of a shit about dead yet hostable vidya than they would lead on: Tribes Ascend with OOTB-reverted is playable right fukken now with minimal setup, but nobody even cares to take a second look at it despite all the threads.
This board sometimes manages to fill a 31 players server of a Mario Kart-like mod of a Sonic mod of Doom during weekends so it's not like it would be impossible for a Gigantic game to be filled.
Well for SRB2K there's additional factors like
1) It's still pretty damn alive
2) You can host it on a shitty arm64box perfectly (some services even offer that for free)
3) The thread is full of terminal autists who will crawl through a river of shit, to play on a machine that's powered by repeatedly stabbing their sides, and control it with an Atari 2600 joystick covered in lead and asbestos paint (now in extra flaky flavors), all if it meant sticking it to Kart Krew by playing on their own custom client for just a couple seconds (usually a bretty good custom client though)
holy frick uncle sven is the best as ever
So is this just another ASShomosexualS clone?
no. There's no lanes. Its closer to Overwatch, with objectives from HotS. There's no down time
Are they likely to get the original devs back? Manaworks are doing jack shit these days by the looks of it so it shouldn't be too hard.
Didn't they disband after >game journos falsely reported that they disbanded and never gave a shit to rescind the literal legal libel / slander, which then tanked what little stock they had left, killed the struggling company and became a self-fulfilling prophecy that they couldn't even to afford to sue over?
hope this beta test isn't a nothingburger
gn anons
also aisling's fun, she's like a better FFXIV pvp scholar
how should i play tyto? He clearly doesn't have the damage to single handedly delete one person like tripp
He does, you just need to close the gap as quick as possible, while also being on the offensive
He's kinda like Imani in that the map / location can make or break him. Like an owl, if you can't divebomb your prey and get the jump on them, you'll spend most of the time aimlessly hopping around.
Tyto is a cleaner due to bleed stacking and the insane mobility the character has.
Overall, Tyto is a worse Tripp, but you want to swooce right in on a weakened enemy or structure, and then swooce right out because no one can actually prevent you from escaping.
So yeah, you're relying more on your team than not when you play as him.
>FOR A LIMITED TIME
What? Why?
No one knows. It's presumed to be a stress/bug test for their current build of the game, pending a relaunch.
I mained Beckett and tracer because I enjoy being a massive annoying prick or useless
So is this like an interest test or something? Are they gonna revive the game?
What's going on here?
>Are they gonna revive the game?
That's the assumption, yeah. I can't think of any other reason to hold a secret-but-not-really playtest of a formerly dead game that they've added more content to that doesn't require some impressive leaps of logic.
>So is this like an interest test or something?
It was supposed to be a secret get-together for old fans to get to play the game again for a day or so.
>Are they gonna revive the game?
It came out of nowhere, but datamining indicates there's a button layout for XBSX/PS5 that couldn't have existed when it was originally canned.
>What's going on here?
We have no fricking clue, but we're enjoying it while we can and we're not supposed to.
>secret get-together for old fans
this makes literally no sense from the corporate standpoint. that sort of thing just doesn't happen unless fans make it happen, like for BF2142.
Once again /v gets hyped for dogwater. Many such cases. The <80 nerds in this thread will be the only autists playing this on full "release", guaranteed.
>inb4 git gud, play more, etc.
Not wasting any more of my time on this. Had to play (and win) my first game against real people using some random, slow robot b***h (of which I will be drawing porn of later) since tutorial Tracer was already picked. Pic unrelated
You had better not be talking shit about my boy
I played a bot match last night and holy hell, I can see why this game is loved ao much. OW is a fricking slog fest compared to this. How the frick did this game fail while OW continues to live?
More or less outlined here
The devs worked on the game out of their own pockets after they got dogged by microsoft and people played private servers for ages and even tried to make their own game based off it so the interest is there. Things have been a shitshow for everything around it though.
God I fricking missed Zandora and Ramsay like you wouldn't believe. And holy frick, you literally shouldn't be playing Zandora without her skating passive, it makes her actually able to tank and spank so much easier when you can stick on squishies or retreat back onto a specific teammate. She feels like total dead weight otherwise unless you just wanna turtle I guess.
I swear to god I have memories of there being a character like Charnok but blue and amphibious with poison bubble abilities, like if he was fused with Ranno from Rivals of Aether but much more of a darker blue with purple spots. The more I think about him, the less real he is, but goddamnit I feel like I'm going insane.
And it's not because of Wu either. It'd be a dark blue
Voden skin?
Gigantic is very different to Paladins. If you were to think of Overwatch as a starting point that gets the shooting-part down, then Gigantic and Paladins split off in different directions, doing their own things better in their own way. Gigantic has more of a focus on Ult meter and playing around objectives, along with dedicated melee combat with stamina and dodging.
- Overwatch nails the 'shooter' part of 'hero shooter', with the most polished gameplay and gunplay, even if the abilities are sorely lacking
- Paladins refines the 'hero shooter' concept with better kits, more varied abilities and a better emphasis on teamplay than OW, at the cost of worst gunplay (le pillboxes vs CoD-advised mechanics). And also having double / quadruple the roster of it's counterparts + talent loodouts
- Gigantic refines the 'hero' with a lot more depth on basically everything that isn't the guns, at the cost of almost no gunplay. You don't have talents / loadouts, but you do customise / perk your gameplay abilities mid-match based on your upgrade path.
>Voden skin
Nah, it was definitely Charnok's body, just a different blue lizard wizard. Like I said, the more I think about it, the more I know it's my memory being psycho, and yet I swear there must be a blue froggish quadruped lizard wizard in fiction that I'm conflating with Charnok, since it is a pretty unique body type.
https://gigantic.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Unreleased_heroes ?
Nah nah, don't worry about it. Like I said, it's definitely schizo ramblings. At most, there's another character out there that's of the same body type, but I'm just remembering them instead for some reason. I still otherwise remember everything as Charnok, when I actually think back to the gameplay of way back then and his ability, and it's not like I would've had any skins either. It's just some wires that got crossed with another IP, probably
But I will now jerk offd to Bolga, and I'll be thanking you for sharing her while I do it
>- Paladins refines the 'hero shooter' concept with better kits, more varied abilities and
"Pepper!"
Assuming it does come back later, will they let us keep our progress made from this event or nah?
What exactly does this have over Paladins? Seems very similiar.
It's more like if a MOBA was a third person shooter, but for real. Like I wouldn't call hero shooters MOBA-esque at all, as they very much still are shooters first and foremost. Gigantic is a proper fusion of MOBA and Shooter
God damnit, I made plans for later this evening thinking it'd be a good day to go out. Now I can't play video games as late as I want, pass out, and then wake up in time to play more video games in the evening.
I lasted as long as I could. It's almost 7AM and I've been playing for hours on end. Hopefully some of us crossed paths during this, and hopefully it was enough people to make it seem worth it to continue. Fun game, would frick the living shit out of Mozu, Zandora, and Leiran.
>Zandora
>Leiran
Unfathomably based
Best Girl
Frick that over-sized chicken and her laser beam bullshit; Grell is the coolest dude who literally spits on his enemies.
Sir, please. That's my wife you're talking about.
Here, anon. I grabbed these earlier.
The only person allowed to fill Leiran's holes is Grenn, either your lying, Grenn, or being cheated on.
So are there sexy anthro babes?
Does Voden count?
You'll have to post pictures.
Mozu is about the best you get if you're into goblin monkeys.
We don't know what Tyto is, if you're into featherhomosexualry.
Tyto's just got a theme going, like Batman or something.
the cool thing about gigantic is that you can become good at it without having good aim. Is not just an hero "shooter" but also an hero brawler with how strong and deep melee fighters are, they are similar to fighting games characters with advanced movement, meter management, combos, cancels etc. So you can have fun with the genre even if you don't like fps or don't wanna be relegated as the heal b***h. I don't like fps and I love this game for the melee classes
tytobros.... I give up...
tripp just feels so much stronger
I know the feeling man. Feels like tyto lives or dies depending if you hit your swoop but its by far the hardest skill to hit in the game
>never played Gigantic before
>keep getting shit on
>switch to Lord Knossos and just unga bunga W+M1 people
>start going positive
Fun game, hope it comes back for real after this.
>trying out some Charnok
>plays like the backline mage of my dreams
>all his skins are cool as hell
please let this game come back
I want to main this sexy dragon man
Chamok's fun, but I think his main issue is that he chunks like a motherfricker but struggles to confirm anything. If you could build a team around him in the back taking potshots while some Cerb-assisted Assassins finish the rest (especially Wu, powercombo right there); he'd be a real force to reckon with.
He'd probably be amazing with a friend Tripp or something zipping around and ready to confirm anyone you set up.
So who the frick is going to be directing this game from now on if it's actually coming back? Do we have any idea if the original creators are involved in any capacity?
Because as hype as I am to be playing the game again, it's going to suck dick if it goes off into a completely different direction because some dumbfrick is leading it. The hero kits are all fantastic and I'd hate to see that fricked up design-wise or just in balancing.
Hopefully they don't do something stupid like have new account be locked in Rush until lv 10 on the release, right now this isn't even a proper playtest, and not even some marketing stunt, seems like something the team just kind of did for reasons? so hopefully things will change.
>Do we have any idea if the original creators are involved in any capacity?
like every motiga dev joined the playtest discord and said they weren't contacted by gearbox, so definitely not, but it would be nice if they could get some back for a full release
>like every motiga dev joined the playtest discord and said they weren't contacted by gearbox,
post screencaps
Is hand granny still terrible?
Considering the only current game mode is effectively point capture, no.
She's not terrible, she's just too niche for a scenario you don't really need. She wants to lock down an area like a TF2 engie, but you still have to play her to invade a space. So she's good at defending a space you've already taken, but you struggle at actually taking those spaces - meanwhile someone like HK does both equally well (sure, less good at defending) but can also piss on the Guardian when it's wound time.
voden has zero impact on a match. Completely useless character. Not enough damage to justify it
He's so fricking cool with his puddle jump.
are dodges bugged in the game at the moment?
I kept dodging without meaning to and realized dodge and sprint were both on shift so I changed the binding for dodge but I still sometimes end up dodging without pressing the dodge button, wtf is up with that
Think double tapping anything other than forward also dodges, and if you're sprinting and try to sprint directly sideways to strafe you'll immediately dodge instead.
Dodging is on Shift+A/D/S but also on doubletapping A/D/S. I don't know if you can change it to be doubletap-only but I hope you can.
You can unbind dodge, as well as toggle double tap dodge, so yes.
Also everyone should probably turn this on under interface.
anyone know how to get the EAC to let me play? it loads slowly then exits.
are you getting some pretty atrocious fps drop too?
I did for one match, but it went away after.
No idea what happened.
i'm not having fun. This mode is too chaotic, i can't make a dent. What now?
Have you tried the whole cast?
How long was this game even alive before they scrapped it? I remember being excited from the trailers, forgetting about it and then the next thing I heard about it was that it's dead already.
Two or so years, I think. It spent a long time in open beta, so it depends what you count.
About one year.
>Playing Aisling
>Switch to Sven
>Character model is Sven but abilities and attacks are Aisling's
nice game
>A Cult Classic
have a nice day.
>large influx of 'totally natural' people all b***hing and whining about the game, when for the most part for the last day or so, it's just been people checking in or being surprised that it's happening
>IP count not rising
In a nutshell.
I don't like any of these new art assets. They're all subtly off.
>Just finding out about this
You fricks I wanted to finally find out what this game after it got shut down however many years ago.
brawler ramsay or finisher ramsay
i forgot how i played this hero
Brawler imo; if you want to play glass cannon finisher you may as well play Tyto, Wu or Tripp. A bit of bulk to Ramsay and he essentially becomes a Bruiser-finisher anyways, where you can chase up kills in more dangerous positions than the other Assassins can; while still being able to influence a teamfight with you AoEs. You're nowhere near a tank, but you are a bulky assassin.
forgot image
> 2-day event for a dead game
>Chinese are involved
>Need to install launcher I never heard of
> needs to restart your PC
Hmmm....
> needs to restart your PC
I didn't have to do that.
in that picture you’re uninstalling the launcher bro
meds
I'm about to Q full dmg melee aisling I'll let you know how it goes
got 0 kills died like 10 times and we lost in 5 minutes
don't play full dmg aisling
>almost 40 efficiency
>still no S rank
What the frick do they want from me?
I didn't even know there was an S rank until a fortune card said I had to get it eight times.
I got S+ on my first Oru match just flinging shit at the other team
didn’t even know what half my abilities did, but I only died once, so maybe survival has something to do with it?
I didn't die at all in that match though.
I hope the game comes back and has the old vlelleving system and mode.
So is this just a sort of test to see if they can bring back a failed game to take a slice of a dead market?
I might just try it because I don'tm remember shit but I don't have high hopes
Nobody knows because as far as I can tell Gearbox has been silent beyond the initial invite email. It could be an event to gauge interest, a server test, a feedback-seeking event on the new mode/features, or some rogue dev bringing the game back for a couple days for the hell of it.
They’ve clearly put some work into it, so I’m hoping they’re bringing it back, but it’s just up in the air right now.
>They’ve clearly put some work into it
In what way? It's identical to the steam release build. It was on Arc already back then too.
I don't remember the tutorials or emotes or launch trail cosmetics at all.
Aren’t some of the skins new too? I was looking through them and don’t remember some of these.
>It's identical to the steam release build
Black person the rush mode is completely new and so are the modified maps it uses
I'm afraid that the character designs are simply inadequate for the current market sensibilities. We could very well see it's death yet again because of it's frankly mediocre designs.
what does a good character design for current market sensibilities look like?
>frankly mediocre designs.
Nah, frick you, the designs are great. Devon Cady-Lee's got a lovely artstyle.
I was actually thinking about this; I think a problem Gigantic’s characters have is they’re all too “quirky.” In most hero shooters there’s a few generic characters that serve as the mascots. They’re inoffensive, have broad appeal, and serve as good introductions to the game and world. Then you can have the weirder characters for players to get invested in once they’ve bought into the game.
In contrast, almost all of Gigantic’s characters are weird and none are really individually presented as a “mascot.” There’s nobody for new players/viewers to latch onto. If Gearbox plans to relaunch, I’d say they should develop an everyman character to be the face of it.
The "faces" were Tyto, Knossos and (at a distant third) Tripp.
Which is funny, because Beckett already fits as a fairly generic character.
>plain human
>just guns and grenades
>has a jetpack and theme so she isn't CoD 2.0
But they don’t really work as generic, broad appeal characters.
>Tyto is a mute bird-masked assassin
>Knossos is likeable but a minotaur dude
>Tripp is unlikably cold and mean
Beckett’s probably the closest we have right now like
said, but I’d say a problem with her is she’s not overly representative of the world. Gigantic’s pretty fantastical, so having generic gun lady as the face of it doesn’t work like it does for a game like Overwatch.
Tyto worked well enough to spark interest back in the day. It's a very striking design.
>I’d say a problem with her is she’s not overly representative of the world.
>Both teams fly in on giant airships.
>Bird team's home city was a steampunk flying trade city iirc
She's absolutely representative of the world.
I agree. But she's also superficially too similar to Tracer.
>too similar
If she's too similar to Tracer then Tracer was too similar to the Scout.
Too similar only matters as far as legal issues anyway, otherwise it's a pretty pointless argument because even if she were literally Tracer, playing her in a completely different context (i.e. game) would still be reason to differentiate the two.
It's more of a marketing thing, they're both orangish spunky women with maneuverability, like how Zariya and Zandora are both purplish strong women with a Za in the front of their name.
just slap tyto on everything, best design in gigantic
Also dual pistols and being characterised as a "speed" sort of character. Look, I personally don't think they're too similar at all, but you can bet your ass some dimwit's going to take one look and shriek "THAT'S JUST RIPPING OFF OVERWATCH" and not bother to engage their brain.
Knossus was the "monstrous" face. Similar to how Winston and Reinhardt are prominent for Overwatch without strictly being the spotlight characters.
>but you can bet your ass some dimwit's going to take one look and shriek "THAT'S JUST RIPPING OFF OVERWATCH" and not bother to engage their brain
Already happened once, and it wasn't even because of any specific character.
Idiots will do that regardless, so why bend over backwards to avoid the inevitable?
The designs are already good, let idiots be idiots.
She’s representative of the world in a lore sense, but not a gameplay sense. If I’ve never played Gigantic before and I see a poster of a pistol-wielding jetpack gal, I’ll probably assume the game is a fast-paced high-mobility shooter. To then look into it and see it’s a moderately-paced MOBA might be a bit jarring.
The most "normal" one is Beckett, but making her the mascot would just invite Overwatch comparisons all over again
It's going to die again
Arc is a shitty program and im not installing it
frick china
all the devs would've moved on to other shit by now
RIP gigantic, you were my homie, but I wasn't born yeserday
>all the devs would've moved on to other shit by now
NTA But just because they showed up to support their baby doesn't mean they've not moved on to other things professionally. They've scattered to the winds.
>But just because they showed up to support their baby doesn't mean they've not moved on to other things professionally.
Are you actually moronic?
You're going to respond to this post in a way that proves my point by the way.
Is that YanDev?
>it's a 'enemy runs away with a sliver of health and there's nothing you can do about it' episode
I'm kinda enjoying this game but goddamn confirming kills is extremely frustrating to do half the time.
Gotta have enough resources to chase and still escape their team afterward, or play someone with nasty dots so they misjudge their life expectancy and die before they can retreat to healing.
one of the more subtle reasons why the game wasn't popular, tbh
it's one thing to get outplayed by someone and have them escape, it's another thing completely when they just turn and sprint and cut a corner and escape, especially to their creature (in the regular game mode)
This can't be overstated.
I honestly think the game needs to be made a bit faster, stamina needs to be buffed in some subtle ways, and maybe even dmg.
I don't want instagibs, but confirming kills, chasing, all that is really frustrating to some extent, especially for new players with how stamina works.
Game needs to keep the fun and depth of those mechanics, but tighten up the action.
not acknowledging that might make the game kind of a sleeper.
I want to see who's motigan too
screencap
I want to know their thoughts really
Use a jump attack from behind if you're melee to cripple enemies.
>Gearbox
I'll pass
the characters I like playing seem to the the ones that also don't do a lot to win games
feels like the melee run up and push people's shit in type characters are the ones that get shit done.
beckett is so fricking fun, nice little 66k dmg match
To add to the mascot discussion I think Mozu might be the best choice
Kinda like Pikachu or Kirby type mascot
I think having a "core" cast of characters that interacts is also key, with Tracer whose the face,Soldier 76 a generic gun man, but can afford to be old due to not being the face, and Winston who can be the monstrous/quirky one.
So I could see a working Mozu as the monstrous one, but having a generic face and generic gameplay type characters is still pretty important.
Breckett and Zandora might've been good for those roles, or at least close enough, but both are too similar to overwatch characters.
Needs more sex appeal.
Pakko would make good plushes
I always thought they should make Pakko backpacks.
pakko sucks shitty design shitty va
>Mascot discussion
>not picking the obvious choices
Seriously though making Leiran and Grenn the mascots makes perfect sense. As one of the big differences between Gigantic and stuff like Overwatch or Dota is that your base/payload is this massive fricking creature.
I mean I get why Pakko and Mozu feel like "good" choices, not saying they're not, but it feels like you'd want to make the game's main mechanic front and center and that would be the guardians.
I'd put Tyto on the cover and have Leiran looming behind them to keep a throughline of bird imagery going while also showing off the massive Guardian.
You're probably right. It's also a shame that the game never remained healthy enough to add a full pantheon of these things, as originally intended.
Mascots aren’t just funky little guys to advertise the game with, though, they’re what shape consumers’ expectations.
Tracer is the mascot of Overwatch because she’s a fun-looking character that new players can hope to play when they play the game. Pikachu is the mascot of Pokémon because it’s a representative of what creatures players can hope to catch and befriend.
The guardians are good designs, but just seeing them doesn’t tell prospective players anything. They aren't playable, and really aren’t that big a part of the gameplay, so a new player might be disappointed to see the cool snake guy is functionally window dressing in the actual game.
>make a burn focused build for Charnok
>melting b***hes left and right
>don't even see half my kills when burn to death around corners
>armor ignoring flamethrower shreds Margraves when they try to hold their stupid deflection shield in my face
I had another AoE explosion focused build to try and I'm not even sure I care anymore.
>build
There's builds in this?
Have I been playing this wrong?
Heroes > The one you play > Builds
There's three custom tabs so you don't have to play with the preset garbage.
Care to share the build?
I'll probably frick with the order once it starts mattering, but this is what I've got.
Whats the build?
who should i pick if i don't wanna be a team player and do my own thing? Besides tripp
Mozu and Wu can generally get away with fricking around by themselves
The two robots are pretty self-sufficient. As is Ramsay.
>no mech character
boo
>rutger suddenly locked
>try to buy him again
>error
>try again
>game crashes
>restart
>he's fricking gone
Holy shit, deleted right from under our noses
holy shit I thought anon was joking
they straight up deleted Rutger, lel
>25 efficiency
>do like half the Guardian damage myself
>B- on grade
Is this shit completely random? Does grade even do anything?
>too busy and stressed with work during the day
>have to pack and leave for an early trip at night/buttcrack of dawn
Enjoy this revival without me bros
I hope it's everything we dreamed of and more
is this game running like ass for anyone else?
Yes.
It’s not low fps but it does feel choppy for some reason
yeah its like its the wrong refresh rate, not letting me play at 144 despite that being my monitors base refresh and the game being set to borderless windowed
Had one or two hiccups on the Ember Forest map, but besides that my matches have all ran smooth.
not having fun. On the contrary i'm quite bored. Maybe I just idealized the game all this years and it's actually not that good. Maybe i'm just a sad c**t
Keep in mind it's a different mode we're playing that makes it into more of a team deathmatch. So it's different from the original in that there's no upgrading on the fly, area capture or creature management.
Did they ever get the matchmaking problems sorted? I’m debating leaving work early to play more before the event’s over.
I've been getting matches in under 15 seconds pretty reliably for the last five hours.
>"WE HAVE KILLED THEM ALL."
Unexpectedly hype.
>FOR A LIMITED TIME
So, it's still dead?
It's coming back.
Or else they wasted dev time and money making a new game mode and unreleased skins/characters for zero profit.
I'll believe in a company doing something like that out of pure benevolence after Musk admits he's a fricking clown and removes the blue checkmark.
got more games in the last hour than I did for all of last night
on the flip side I've lost every single game I've played today so I guess people are figuring shit out
Which characters are new? I don't remember the original roster that well
None are new past the game's previous death. I think people have datamined cosmetics for two previously unfinished characters though.
This.
There's data for things that didn't exist when the game shutdown before, including what the devs showed off during the sunset period.
>Finally get a queue
>Get stomped to oblivion
Jesus
anyone else getting a no-audio glitch that lasts for the entire match then audio comes back in the title screen?
I had some weird audio issues, disabling my voice chat seemed to fix it
I wasn't gonna use voice chat anyway but hopefully its fixed for full release
I'm losing every other match and I don't even care. Frick, do I miss this game.
>First game
>Pick Xenobia
>Enemy team has a Tripp
>Render her completely useless all match
God I missed this.
how do you render Tripp useless, idk what Xenobia does
Disable
Xenobia is a debuffer support, who in practice is a massive anti-carry and dueling machine. She doesn't actually do very high damage, but that doesn't matter when the person she singles out has literally every debuff in the game, and can do nothing at all, even run away. She also has fairly strong lifesteal. She's practically unkillable 1v1, but fold like wet paper to 1vx.
>want to use Tyto's Swoop in a way that isn't the non-attack version to just frick off
>miss with it every time
I guess I could just take the version that refreshes spin cd.
Weren’t there rumors Gearbox was working on a Risk of Rain hero shooter? Maybe that didn’t work out so they’re moving the devs to reviving this instead.
Somebody else speculated Gearbox is testing out gigantic to see if it's viable to bring back some old cancelled IPs which would be relatively cheap to finish production on.
It's certainly possible with the costs of making games from scratch, nostolgia over Gigantic and Battleborn, with the kids who played it on Xbox gold now being in their 15s~20s.
>currently spending longer waiting for match acceptance screens to time out than being in queue
THE QUEUE TIMES ARE NOT THIS LONG STOP GOING AFK AGGGHHHH
it fluctuates. went from being okay to presumably something on their end going bad to good and now I'm experiencing declines again
>hit accept
>alt tab while I wait the 35 seconds once again
>read this
>game finally goes through
I blame you, thanks.
>Download game
>Start it up
>Get to main menu
>Hit play
>Instantly closes
Help.
who should i main if wanna shoot but be a bit more tricky and deep than simply standing around pressing m1? I don't like beckett that much, too straightforward
Have you tried Oru?
nope and never saw one in a fight. Qrd?
You pepper enemies with card projectiles which in addition to damage inflict status effects, but the status only trigger when you use an AoE skill over the enemy. He's also got good area denial in his default build, but he's also a little on the slow side.
His ult is doing much the same thing as his regular attack, but moreso. Machine-guns a load of cards that bring about massive damage only at the end of the ult; also if the target is below a certain percentage when Oru's ult hits them with the status they just die on the spot.
Hopefully that's a decent rundown?
beckett is probably one of the least "boring" shooters. iirc hk, voden, and imani are more standard shooters. hk is a machine gunner and voden is a long range bow shooter. imani is a sniper
beckett is is good because of mobility and burst damage. hop in, burst an enemy by exhausting your kit, then escape. she's great at finishing off enemies that are low and retreating or alone to secure power.
sven has a lot of cc and utility but he lobs projectiles, so not exactly a straight shooter. great in team fights.
mozu has a few tricks, but you'd also be holding lmb the whole game. shes very popular and fun character and has a gimmicks like dmg buffs and teleportation
oru has a bag of tricks and has cc, great dps if you use his kit effectively. he has slight homing, so again not exactly a straight shooter
aisling is a support-ish but can be upgraded to shoot short range projectiles from her sword
charnok is high dps but has slower projectiles
tldr: i would recommend oru or sven if you're looking for unconventional shooters. mozu maybe if youre looking for fun
wat do?
Leave and rejoin queue, hope for no idiots next time
Dino mage Charnok is the best. Looks like a cool action figure from a toy line that never existed.
I’m so close to having enough coins to unlock it, definitely the best skin in the game
Why are you grinding for a cosmetic in a game that will be gone in less than a day?
Did they actually disable Rutger outright because of that glitch? Holy hell, maybe Gearbox actually are listening.
queue is broken
I literally can't play this game and it's already over by tomorrow
that's what happens with no linux support
the only reason I'm interested in this game is because of the lizard taur character
the only characters I can tell I'm doing good with are the melee w+m1 ones
maybe it's just a case of not knowing any of the maps but with the ranged dudes I always feel like people can too easily get out of line of sight. and if you get too close to try and keep them in sight you get bulldozed. it's also hard for me to tell why my team is winning or losing or what exactly I'm doing wrong or right. I kind of wish the game was a bit slower so I could actually evaluate what the frick is going on at any one moment, but it feels like if I take any amount of time to figure out what's happening then 3 people on my team die and whoops you lost the game.
that's probably because of this turbo mode so it's not the games fault but goddamn I wouldn't even know where to start trying to git gud, except maybe learning how to fricking aim at any character that isn't a slow fatass.
Working on your aim tracking will always be a plus. More hits means you'll just kill people who'd otherwise slip around a corner with low HP.
That said, you don't have to chase down every enemy. Even if you're bullying them away from the fight while keeping yourself safe, you're turning a 5 v 5 into a 5 v 4. Of course, this assumes your teammates aren't split up all over the place and getting picked off, at which point there's only so much you can do.
Never playing a game whose character's designs make me physically cringe
This is someone's "balance manifesto" from the event discord- presumably they are from gigantic heaven and have been playing Core_DE and comp/matches there too.
what's the thread take?
https://files.catbox.moe/f4l8dk.pdf
>powercreep: the document
I know it's unavoidable in this genre, but I hope gearbox avoids accidentally creating pubstompers for sake of "competitive viability."
>Gigantic is back
>First impressions as a new player were being put up against the biggest team stack pre-made, like the lot of them being ranked 4th through 9th in the game's total listing of players. Blasted so hard I couldn't learn the game.
I could see if Dawngate was coming back. It'd be cause for celebration...
>Lol, arc launcher
Why do I always see Dawngate get mentioned with this game so often? I get they were both shut down moba-type games, but I looked up Dawngate and that shit looks generic and trite. Gigantic at least had actual style and soul
Similar cult following alongside being essentially murdered in the crib by their publisher
Dawngate didn't look the best but it was willing to innovate on MOBA's sacred cows in a way that no game really matched until Heroes of the Storm
fair enough, I just looked at screenshots
how is the aim assist on pad? I can't aim for shit and need a crutch
game won't ever take off because the porn won't be very good
unless you like furries I guess
If Hollow Knight can get off-model porn, so can the cast of Gigantic.
>unless you like furries I guess
I don't but if you somehow think this means there won't be NSFW content, it makes me question how long you have been on the internet
I will single-handedly commission enough Grenn porn to keep this game alive
>no wet slimey squeezing full body tentaclejob art/animation of Xenobia
Yet
Bros, there's only one character I feel good at and I can play and it's Griselma, how fricked am I?
Get really good at her and when the devs cave to the compgays and buff her you'll be golden
12
Will do, unironically I haven't lost a single out of 7 games I had with her. She just clicks with me and if you guys wouldn't have told me she's C-E tiered, I'd think she's an A tier.
Mind you I've played Oru and Voden, but Voden feels like has no damage and Oru has no escape. Meanwhile I'm getting assists and kills left and right with Gris, she's like a perfect marriage of Engineer and Symmetra to me, but in a good way. Also frick all the OWgays that didn't realize how many games in the genre (even tho it's not even the same genre) is a good thing.
I wouldn't be too surprised if Gris is better than before.
I can't imagine either the 2017 or the mildly updated one is completely accurate to the current playtest.
>on a business trip since yesterday
>have work until 5 today
>cant stay up late due to early morning training for a certificate tomorrow
Why the frick couldnt they do this on the weekend frick arcsystems and frick queerbox
Rush needs to get rid of the multiple points activating at once if it wants to be a truly fast mode. It could be a proper teamfight simulator but the multiple points divide the teams and reduce the kills, so the games take longer.
>Gianticgays having a gay ol' time
>Rumors of a possible revival
>Meanwhile Dawngate being dead in EA's graveyard for 8 years now
Enjoy it lads, you don't know how good something is until you lose it...
Surely if Gigantic’s revival succeeds EA will see it as a sign to reopen the Dawngate, right bros…?
I've seen crazier shit happen, so who knows. So many shitty fricking games in the last few years that had million dollar budgets and failed spectacularly... Yet Dawngate and the bastardization of C&C General 2 are dead and rotting deep beneath the earth.
I'm not even mad anymore, just disappointed.
Wasn''t there a project to revive the game with EA's blessing?
IIRC there was a fan Kickstarter (or some other crowdfunding thing) to straight-up buy the Dawngate rights from EA, but when they got to negotiations EA wanted way more money than they had raised so those fans decided to make a spiritual successor instead. But development on that stalled and I don’t think there have been updates in a while, so that’s probably dead in the water, too.
The only moba where the base was a giant fricking raid boss. Shit man, the game was way ahead of its time.
I still have the og launcher on my desktop. I could never forget Dawngate.
My wishlist for revivals of games that deserved better is
>Dawngate
>Wildstar
>Gigantic
in that order.
In Wildstar's case I'd welcome a change in developer, because the management in Carbine was trash.
The other two I wish could receive their old devs because they didn't even deserve the axe when they got it.
So this isn't quite what I was hoping for, but it's still more than I ever expected to get.
How many hours until the game ends?
>tfw six game losing streak because teammates keep deathmatching/feeding during the Clash
Last team I faced won in a single Clash. Somehow drained our guardian from 100-0 in like 10 seconds, feels fricking terrible man.
Game is fun, but good lord my patience for this genre has waned over the years. Really hoping it sticks around after the pesudo-secret closed beta runs its course. It's a blast when you aren't being completely steamrolled, even if I'm not sure what 80% of the cast does yet.
How often should I be using my Dodges? Tend to just burn through my stamina by sprinting everywhere, but that's left me high and dry more often than I'd like, outside of screwing around pretending I'm useful as Tripp (usually getting someone to 20-5% HP, then having them slip away unless they're even more braindead than me).
Also not sure if it's best to build Xenobia as a pure sustain/life-leach pain in the ass, or go full debuffs to act as more of a true support. Trying to run support with uncoordinated randoms is probably a bad idea, I'm guessing.
>It's a blast when you're not being steamrolled.
The same can be said of all multiplayer games. This is not unique. If you're being rolled, you're not playing the game. At that point, what is the damn point?
turning and sprinting (and jumping) is better than dodging away and dont forget tripp has stealth to be able to recover her stamina
managing stamina is one of the hardest parts of the game
i forgot how smooth the abilities and movement feel in this game, it's kind of like smite if it wasn't dogshit
>Put on Devaedra
>But our Guardians are backwards
>Defending Leiran while Grenn encourages me to kill Grenn
>Kill Genn
>Devaedra victory
wait so you can switch champs now mid game?
or was that just a tutorial thing
It's a rush mode thing
>Decide to play Ramsay
>Figure him out
>Dodge tanking EVERYTHING
>Gigantic's back
is Mozu still the bestest gobbo?
she'll always be the best gobbo
>Have to pretty much suicide rush guardian because morons are too pussy to engage when its down
>Got award for highest damage on guardian
God I hate this mode. morons just love playing it safe and getting dicked because of it. Empty power point? Nah lets just defend ours from the one guy attacking it.
So am I crazy to think Wu is broken?
Wu's been regarded as top tier for a long time.
Why has Tripp been allowed to be disgusting broken for the game's entire lifespan? When the game recorded stats she was always #1 pickrate and winrate.
rogue characters must always be OP or their target audience will cry
>edgy goth assassin character with electric powers, high damage, and a stealth ability
shocking!
CARLOS!
how do you gain levels? I'm doing alright but it still shows that I'm level 1 and I don't think I'm gaining skill points to use.
You start at max level in Rush.
Wish they could just make the original mode available...
Rush Mode automatically has all characters at max level, it's just glitched to say 1 instead. You don't level up so you don't pick your upgrades as they come, instead you choose select a preset build. Though you can make your own builds in a sub-menu.
>it's a Siren's Strand moshpit episode
How do I try out Roland and the cat snake in Practice?
launch game from command line with this option:
Gigantic.exe LV_Grassland
they might have patched it since last night
>perfect world got their hands on it
>needs yet another launcher
looks fun but im used refuse to play games for less than that
This has nothing to do with the gameplay, but I like when one of the Giants is flying over to attack the other one. Its such a cool thing to see in a moba-like game, and I'm surprised other games haven't stolen the idea.
Also, when one Giant is moving, I think the stationary Giant is just kinda standing around and that's funny to me. You'd think they'd be bracing for the confrontation, but no.
The game has a lot of soul, even something like each team having a uniquely designed airship is really flavorful.
If the game gets revived I hope they add the Tesserus guardian, having a big robot flying around and announcing stuff would be dope.
>just want all the Tesserus guardian designs I've seen to be playable
We already have two robots but all these concepts are cool
The game has so much flavor packed into it it's great. Characters will even comment on specific teammates with unique voice lines for every character.
>Game just crashes on launch with no error
>Reinstalling does nothing
Guess it wasn't meant to be.
Such an obvious shill thread.
How much did you pay Hiromoot to keep this up?
You could've just bumped like a normal person
the OP smells like a shill but im surprised gearbox even did this, it's like throwing money away
This game looks like it wants to talk to me about how awesome feminism is. Pass.
Are you ill?
Hot steamy smelly Mozu sexo Y/N?
Perhaps
Voices aren't working for me, all heroes are mute now
You know what, I never noticed until now because I was having too much fun, but now that you mention it I haven't heard any voice lines in game either. My hero will say one line when they spawn in but besides that it's just the music and SFX.
how do i get good with aisling?
send dad out. watch his health.
if it gets too low, use E to call him back to the sword.
if you're using the preset healer deck, keep behind your teammates to get dps in on enemies they're attacking while also occasionally hitting your teammates to buff their shields.
anyone comes after you, you can always just hit E and run away before they have a chance to get any real damage in.
I usually save my ult for when the rampage is active, although I also toss it down for team fights.
Also the m2 placement is busted on some maps cause Cador will just clip through the floor and die causing you to waste your CD
i'm already unapologetically quitting left and right if i'm in moronic comps. Oh how i missed this
Describe a good comp so I know what to look out for (outside of obvious throw-picks like Oops All Assassins, or something).
I SWEAR TO FRICK IF THEY RERELEASE ON THE ARC LAUNCHER AGAIN AND THE GAME DIES IM GONNA LOSE IT
Hopefully it's a lesson learned. If the datamine is to be believed it'll be crossplay with PC as well as both current and last gen MS and Sony consoles.
>gamedevs
>lessons learned
mhm
>game dies because publishers frick it over and keep it w10 exclusive
>rerelease it 6 years later only to have it be exclusive to a shitty launcher I only heard about because of the rerelease
still cant believe it took gigantic to die for MS to realize how fricking moronic "w10 exclusive" is + how fricking shitgarbage their storefront was
How to play exren ghal
>my old teammates are playing together and no one invited me
i know i was a toxic butthole but not this bad
Servers you right