Giant Bombcast 533: We've Got the Truck Stick!

Good to hear you back on the bombcast, @patrickklepek

@spice: I need to see the EU banner also.

Scoops!

calling it now, blops 4 is going to have trash servers

I was that guy that did everything possible in Dead Rising 1 and playing SoD feels like it fulfills a certain fan fantasy I would have playing that game. It honestly feels like it has the potential to be the definitive realization of this tired-ass genre. That jank/polish line is tough, though, so we'll see.

Scooops!!

Yay Patrick! Gonna have to watch this week. Good to see Pat still among the living. He's the reason I ever found the duders in the first place.

Dreams is easily my most anticipated game ever. It's also fully playable in PSVR, which will let us all make VR games.. That's what's needed for VR to shoot ahead. A bunch of people making themselves queezy on their path to success. I can't wait!

@kyledmclark: he's been doing it since the G4tv days. it was distracting for me at first but after a few times of listening to him it didn't really bother me.

I'm so glad to see Patrick back with everyone. Or is it Jonathan now?

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I'm a Wizard, and THAT looks fucked up.

@clapmaster: You can get a whole ton of both Patrick and Austin, raw and uncut over at Waypoint.

I have 9 of the 10 hours I've put into the game on PC but found that performance on the S is acceptable and nowhere near as bad as the SoD Year One Edition is on the base Xbox.

All the shit they say PUBG is, fortnite is too. I can creep around a map and make top 10 6/10 times. Its really not hard

Yeah I bet it was based on some Dreams....Guillermo DEL DOPER!

Truck stick is literally the opposite of a juke, thanks for the laugh sports fans.

Here is a tip for how to deal with GDPR. Don't track people who haven't consented to it. Done. Wasn't that easy?

I want Charles Martinet to voice more mysterious anime characters. He did a pretty good job as Homunculus in Shadow of Destiny.

Really nice seeing Patrick drop by! But that Call of Duty seems...bad

They are just tally marks.
I'd think 5 would like this

NO I WANT YOUR INFORMATION. Honestly info is money so most companies will chance it to get that dou otherwise guess what...we wouldnt need the GDPR.

So happy to hear Klepek back in the bombcast. Reminded me of 2011/2012 episodes!

Rugsack is the ostensibly of this episode

@lanechanger:

I'm assuming you mean rucksack. Boy, I hope you mean rucksack or I might've listened to a completely different podcast.

@cursethesemetalhands: I think it's fine to have favourite staff members and want the dream team, but doesn't it seem kinda shitty to directly say "Eh, just get rid of Jason and Ben"?

Jan during the Klingon/Namekian thing killed me :D

Jeff's tangent on scooters was so good (starts at around 1:48:20)

I hope somebody does an animation for it

I dislike Brad's assertion that "you're never going to get to the optimum way to do things" in State of Decay 2. Maybe he just means "it's unlikely you'll get your campaign to the point where all units and buildings are 100% fantastic" (though how could he possibly know that, maybe in the end game you do really stabilize all resources), or maybe he meant resources are so hard to come by and no base location is perfect and there's always trade offs. Either way, I still don't like the general assertion/tone that "this management sim will always be as stressful as I'm finding it to be right now at the 10-15 hour mark."

It's a statement I feel like I've heard GB staffers make on occasion when they're playing a game prerelease and have no idea how they should be upgrading/playing the long game/prioritizing resources. But even in a game with scarce resources like State of Decay 2/Frostpunk/This War of Mine/FTL, I guarantee that upon release, the strategy/management sim experts will pretty quickly find some things you can prioritize to be more consistently successful and minimize losses. It's not that I expect reviewers to be masters at prerelease games, but I wish they would acknowledge that their difficulties probably stem from their super blind playthrough without any aid from the Internet, and in most cases no resource-scarce game stays as some kind of unsolvable riddle after release.

People are going to discover and share helpful and efficient strategies post-release. Games get figured out. Assuming that a majority of players might at least consider googling these tips once or twice, those players will probably have an easier time making it through the game compared to however a prerelease reviewer had to blunder their way through a complicated management game.

@maxxcanti said:

@envane said:

something about using IIII for blackops 4 is irking me

should be IV .. or just a 4 ,, will be weird if they do 5 as IIIII

They are just tally marks.

I'd think 5 would like this

Eurogamer: We talked to the British Museum about the logo for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

Anyway, I dialled Greece and Rome. I requested the duty curator. Then, I asked him: What is it, IIII or IV? And he said he would get back to me.

And he did. And get this: IIII and IV are both legit, by the looks of it. Romans did apparently use both, and sometimes they even used both in the course of a single document. (I almost ended that sentence with an exclamation mark, such is the scandalous frisson of merely typing such a thought.)

Also, if you are boring like me, this stuff is actually quite interesting. Roman numerals are created by addition, subtraction and multiplication, I have been told by the British Museum duty curator for Greece and Rome. Often addition (IIII = 4) was preferred to subtraction (IV = 4). The subtraction notation - also called the subtractive notation, which is moderately cooler to say but I'll admit it's a squeaker - was not used exclusively until the 13th century, in fact - and it was not universally adopted in the Roman period. ('Exclusively' is not quite right either, of course - modern watchmakers in particular remain fond of IIII.)

"Still writing for Waypoint as long as Vice will let us."

Hmm.

wow, even the old fake joke feud with the Scoopses got revived :D

Up by 2 with a second to go in NBA Jam? Walk away from that cabinet, sparky cuz yo ass already lost!

Great having Patrick back on the bombcast

@rht992: It's definitely nice seeing young Patrick again. I missed him.

In a similar vein, I've found nothing hard/obtuse to understand about State of Decay 2.

Rap Snacks!!!

Patrick! Love hearing his thoughts, his insights from his industry connections, and the games he’s been playing

The game came out friday, I was on the SOD reddit saturday night reading a post on which base/layout/mods make your base self sufficient with almost no need to scavenge ever again. This isn't some impossible thing to solve.

Kick ass on the not smoking!! Enjoy the weird ass dreams! (This feels like a good use of my first premium comment.)

Wow

@bisonhero: I thought Jeff was right to ask him and Brad almost agreed that sure, someone will probably eventually figure it out. Ten minutes later he's back to saying it's an impossible puzzle. And as others have pointed out here - it was solved by Saturday.

Your scooter story was hilarious. Also saw a few pics of people destroying them and one pic where someone had smeared human feces on them. Maybe the city will come around with the recycle trucks and just collect any they see on the sidewalk lol