Recent reviews by apuppydeer

A minimalist, beautiful, non-euclidean world with a gravity-warping non-euclidean puzzles littered for you to solve. Manifold Garden kept my full attention for the three hours of rushing through the puzzles without stopping to see the sights. I'd really recommend you take a long look around you as you solve these puzzles. Take your time to explore the architecture around you and appreciate the art of the world, the ending will pay off a lot better!

Manifold Garden left me stumped because I was over-engineering several puzzles-- which is crazy to think you can do that with a non-euclidean puzzle game! Puzzle solutions are a lot easier to figure out as you learn the rules of the world, how gravity manipulates the environments.

TL;DR A great puzzle game which deserves your devoted attention to the detail and love of the world.

Worth full price off-sale for puzzle game enthusiasts, a must buy for anybody on sale.

Performance problems that cause:
1. Disconnection of any bluetooth/2.4ghz devices connected to your computer (bluetooth headphones? mouse? keyboard? yeah all of them stop working) at random interverals.
2. Flickering lights, large emissive structures with bloom that whitens 50% of your screen that gets worse when you ADS.
3. Corrupted icons for damage, abilities, etc.
4. Corrupted lightmaps/light probes which cause areas to be encased in pure #000000 darkness, including player models.

Additionally, balance that insentivizes:
1. Dashing around players as a light in a circle on controller, using the aim assist to hit them with the heavy attack of the sword which hitbox extends at least a full three meters further than it should
2. Winch clawing enemies and holding M1 with a flamethrower, sledgehammer, or spear.
3. Constant heal-beam chaining and defib chaining, creating a fight that lasts forever.
4. Permanent third-partying if the cashouts are staggered at ALL in world tour (Start your cashout a minute later than the other team? Good luck having three teams attacking you for your cashout in that last minute!)

Fixes I'd implement:
1. Increase ability cooldowns when in active combat. This will prevent sword dash-chaining and make them much easier to deal with, rather than them having an instant free escape if you can't track them faster due to controller, or low sensitivity.
2. Allow players to shoot when winch clawed. No reason for it to be a stun and allow a Heavy to get free damage in the way that it does, especially if you play as a team and already have two other people shooting at you while you're clawed. Also prevents the claw at 0 distance that stuns you so they win a fight, considering they can claw you a second time in one fight if it lasts long enough which is TWO periods of free stun and damage. If they need two stuns to win, they shouldn't be given two stuns. It's not "outplaying" if I can't do anything to counter it other than "just don't get hit" by something that extends at as far of a range that it is.
3. Make heal beam heat up faster if the target is being shot at while you heal them. Make defibs either only recharge out of combat OR when the player that was defibbed has died. This makes it to where defib -> death before you can move doesn't mean you've wasted a defib, but only time.
4. Make cashouts further spread out and re-increase the wipe penalty from 10% -> 33%. 10% doesn't hurt enough, you can do whatever you want and still get away with it as 3 wipes in a row is still less than wiping originally.

Sidenote, but the MMR system needs heavy tweaks. I know those are coming soon, but I'd love to see the MMR of this game not be a stomp or a wipe.

I've spent a lot of money on this game, I love this game, but these issues are only getting worse as they continue and the performance problems that were introduced with S2/S3 haven't been patched or even glanced at. The bluetooth disconnect issue has been in the game since SEASON ONE! And they haven't fixed it! I cannot believe this.

(and yes, my graphics drivers are always updated. It's the first thing I check.)

EDIT: If you disagree with my proposed changes or think they would bring up different issues, please comment! I'd love to brainstorm actual solutions.

new patch!
redownload 17 gigs for these 5 bug fixes!
patch the game in a process that takes 3 hours despite your SSD read/write speeds!
EVERY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ WEEK!

Creation is beautiful. It can have meaning, it can show worlds previously unimaginable to people. Ideas, thoughts, concepts, and so much more. These ideas so forward, conveyed to the people viewing the medium, can shape how people view both the world and the creator.

But what does it mean to create? Are all things designed meant to be seen, are there things that are made to feel, to develop and experience yourself? Are things capable of being created to just exist? Is meaning always attached to those creations?

What does it mean to create?

They spit in creator's faces with absolutely no thought on the fact that they are the reason the game is thriving.

Thanks for EAC, it totally stopped all the crashing that happens in publics. Totally.

After several months of deliberation, I can say that Destiny is not a good game to get into. The Light and Dark saga finished with a huge bang, a wonderful cap on the experience and was overall received like one of the best Destiny DLCs to date-- only to be met with MORE layoffs than what followed Lightfall.

This game is going to die, slowly, slowly, slowly. Don't watch it bleed out, find something else to play.