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Friday Fun Thread for October 11, 2024

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Starship Troopers Extermination came out of early access.

There is cross play with consoles.

A galactic war that everyone is a part of.

A new ice map.

It's been hella fun playing with a group of other players that have organized into a military structure.

Discord.gg/1stmi

I'm a corporal and usually I'm in charge of a squad.

There have been some growing pains and problems with the game, but from my experience in alpha I'm pretty confident they'll get ironed out.

I'm super interested in this. There's a lot of complaining about bugs on the steam reviews. Valid?

I'm confident things will get patched out eventually but wanted your thoughts.

I have a good computer.

There are a lot of minor bugs.

Some of them are even silly, like a problem where the melee weapon became affixed as a bayonet to all weapons, the Engineer class has a shovel melee weapon. The engineer whipping out their sidearm pistol has a shovel attached to the front that lengthens the weapon by about 80%.

There are major bugs. Matches being broken and kicking you out. Crashes to desktop in the middle of a match. Social settings being broken and making cross play difficult. Etc.

Overall I am having a lot of fun. And it doesn't feel like dribbles of fun that im constantly seeking out while being blue balled by bugs constantly. I can consistently get two hours of good experience for every game breaking type bug I encounter.

That kind of bug experience is just not acceptable for a lot of steam users. I don't really blame them for that opinion. Its just not my opinion.

You'd have to ask yourself how much you are bothered by problems in a game. If you feel you are easy going and might laugh off minor issues, and easily get past major issues then I'd say the game is great for you. If major bugs infuriate you, then definitely skip this game.

Company of Heroes 2- arguably top 5 games of all time, IMO - required you to restart the game every 2-3 matches or else you'd get a crash from a memory leak. Matches were sometimes an hour long, and down to the wire when they'd blow up. They didn't patch it for 6 years I think and I still played a ton.

So, hopefully I'll be able to join you guys for a game here.

I'm curious, why do you hold CoH2 in such esteem? Me and my friend group used to play both CoH1 and 2, but the main reason we switched was just that 2 had higher player numbers at the time (which is typical for newer games). At least it wasn't worse in gameplay, but imo it also wasn't better, either.

A lack of major bugs would be unfaithful to the source material.

How does it compare to Helldivers 2?

I like STE more, but that is going to be personal preference.

Helldivers is 4 people. Most of the STE matches are 16 (but they also have a single player campaign, and a 4 player game mode)

Lines of sight are much further in STE. Bug corpses can pile up.

Awesome stuff! Dang I would play with you today but my voice is toast I've been kinda sick.

Might hop on later or tmrw and just not talk much if you're playing.

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