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I just had someone on Reddit go onto a Solas hate post I made (on a literal hate subreddit, r/hatethissmug) and get offended that I hate Solas. Like okay sure maybe if I was on a DA sub I’d get it, but this is a sub literally just for hating. You gotta go out of your way to do this shit.
I don’t like CoryTect and I never have. Nobody asked, but sometimes I remember it exists and I’m filled with unquenchable rage.
“Wow I keep seeing stuff I don’t like!”
The humble blocked tags:
Alright, I said I wanted to go into more detail regarding the recent ‘balancing’ made for 1x. Honestly? The new changes feel like actively punishing players for actually playing 1x as a ranged killer… which is what their kit is meant to be… but also punishing players for getting up-close to a survivor. It feels like in an attempt to make 1x more balanced, the devs took it to the utmost extremes.
Entanglement is a complete joke on mobile and console, and now lasts a maximum of three seconds *and* gives the survivor speed 1 afterwards—not even counting the speed boost a survivor gets when hit if 1x actually gets close enough for an m1. They also recently increased the endlag of both Mass Infection and Entanglement, so if you’re using Entanglement from a distance, you’re probably shooting yourself in the foot by giving the survivor a free speed boost and being unable to catch up before they click out of it.
Oh, and don’t think of popping a Mass Infection afterwards, since that got slowed drastically and you have more endlag after Entanglement! The Entanglement + Mass Infection combo basically got gutted unless you’re standing on the survivors ass and they’re a new player. I don’t know exactly how much Mass Infection got slowed, but it’s enough where it’s very noticeable. Using it from any distance is essentially a waste of an ability now, as Mass Infection already had an extremely loud and predictable wind-up, so unless you play the game on mute or are hard-of-hearing, it was not difficult to simply… walk to the side; and now, with the nerfed speed, it’s even more of a joke to dodge. That isn’t even mentioning how Mass Infection is already super punishable by Shedletsky, Two Time, Chance, and hell even Guest 1337; as unlike John Doe, 1x HAS no (reliable) counter to being stunned during a MI windup or Entanglement endlag.
Then we have glitch… oh, poor glitch… glitch acted as both a visual effect and a sort-of weakness lite. Each consecutive hit from 1x would do slightly more damage than the last, and they already had passive poison in their m1 (and I think Mass Infection). Now, though, the ramping damage was completely removed, and the visual effects are a joke. Epilepsy mode gets rid of most of them (and honestly, good players usually know the maps good enough by then to not be too hindered), and the new effects on the health and stamina bar barely work since you can still see past it? You’re already most likely not getting a lot of m1 hits with 1x (since they’re the slowest killer, and they’re meant to be ranged), and removing the ramping damage guts the punishing part of their kit.
1x was NOT meant to be an up-close killer like Jason/Slasher, but the ramping damage allowed them to more reliably punish survivors who DID get close (such as a sentinel whiffing a stun) than an up-close Mass Infection (which also had a damage decrease). They already have extremely low base m1 damage (compared to the other killers at least, sitting at 20), meaning it takes five m1s to kill a survivor. For comparison, John Doe’s m1 does 28 damage.
Then we have unstable eye and rejuvenate the rotten. Unstable eye is now similar to observant, where you can’t use it at the start of a round. Unstable eye granted speed 1 and temporary X-ray, however I believe the duration was lowered? Rejuvenate the rotten also caps at speed 1 now, instead of speed 3.
Now, do I think EVERY nerf was bad? No. I also think most of them were unnecessary or extreme. Some people are probably gonna hit me with the “skill issue” (which is oh so very insightful), but genuinely these nerfs are basically completely wrecking 1x’s kit. They’re already a killer with a super steep learning curve, since you pretty much have to learn prediction to not get stomped on in good servers or sentinel-heavy servers, and these make that learning curve even more difficult. In trying to make 1x fairer, they basically made both aspects of their kit (the ranged and the high punishment if someone gets up-close) worse.
Like make a choice. If you want 1x to be ranged, stop slapping nerfs onto the ranged aspects of their kit. If you want 1x to be punishing up-close, stop gutting glitch.
Sorry I rambled without a lot of sense.
So a new patch for Forsaken came out like a few hours ago, and… well… the devs decided that 1x hadn’t been brutalized enough in the last few updates! No, they also needed to have their Mass Infection speed slowed!
Seriously, 1x got the John Doe treatment recently. The people who were begging for a nerf got it, but it’s literally a prime example of a monkeys paw.
Mass Infection? Slower than a paraplegic with arthritis. Entanglement? Fuck you, the survivor gets speed now, so don’t even think of using it from a distance. Unstable Eye? Can’t use that at the start of a round anymore. LMS? Speed 1 cap. Glitch? Got sent to a farm up north. Endlag? Aplenty.
I want to go into more depth on my opinions regarding the ‘balancing’ 1x1x1x1 got in the recent patches, but I’ll probably do that in another post so this one isn’t too long-winded.
I’m back. I still love Corypheus. I still hate Solas.
So uhm yeah Solas running off to the Fade in his ‘redeem’ ending doesn’t teach him jack shit about WHY his actions were bad. It’s barely a redeem ending, really, because he basically gets to go throw himself an eternal pity party with his “vhenan” (therapy dog) without understanding why he was in the wrong beyond the most basic, “killing people bad” argument. He learns nothing. He isn’t forced to face the harsh truth of his ignorant beliefs whatsoever.
He doesn’t learn why he can’t write modern people off as not being alive, or why his people aren’t inherently superior because they come from before the Veil. He doesn’t learn why destroying modern Thedas simply because he thinks his Thedas is better is wrong—which is really ironic, considering a huge part of Inquisition is about why Corypheus wanting to destroy modern Thedas because he thinks his Thedas is better is wrong. All he learns is that the Blight is bad (he already knew that) and that he has to take responsibility for creating the Veil by upholding it.
Like am I supposed to think this was the best ending? Like no, make him actually face the consequences of what he did. Make him live among the people he wrote off as being equivalent to tranquil. Make him help the people he was willing to sacrifice to soothe his own guilty conscience.
love it that people say that bioware didn't fully explain to the players that tearing down the veil is bad when you spend a full game sealing a giant green hole in the sky.
Comments are restricted but I 100% agree with this. We spend an entire game SEEING why tearing down the Veil is a bad thing, and the Breach was a FRAGMENT of the whole veil!
Plus Solas literally tells you everyone’s gonna fucking die when the veil goes bye-bye.
I know damn well that if it were literally any other character saying go tear down the veil, people wouldn’t be so eager to jump on the bandwagon.
if you have a Reddit account, pls use the Reddit wrapped thing. Its hilarious.
[ - Magisters Sidereals - ]
And each was promised Power and glory beyond all reckoning If they would only come to the feet of the gods and ask. And so they joined in secret, telling none Who were not of the temples of their designs. And in Minrathous, in the heart of the Archon a sliver of fear grew, Stabbing like a wound. Though he knew not why. —Silence 1:1-1:17, Dissonant Verse
They'll be featured in some Fade/flashback scenes later on in my fanfic 'Nothing but ambition where hearts once beat' so I decided to come up with some fun designs for these 7 bastards ♡
I was definitely going for that "you're playing with the big boys now" vibe from Prince of Egypt, lmao.
I don’t reblog a lot but these designs are peak fiction. So sassy, so dramatic, so overtly theatrical. It fits their goofy asses so much. They’re serving cunt and storming heaven ✨✨✨✨
Corypheus had a wife. Meaning he most likely had children, considering that House Amlaradis is still around.
What does this mean?
I can, legally,
call Corypheus a DILF.
My greatest duality is deep diving way too much into a character who just isn’t that deep, and then calling that same character my pathetic lil’ man who can’t do nothing right (affectionately).
OKAY. Okay.
I think Corypheus sees his younger self in the Inquisitor. I think he thinks they’re like him, in a way.
Why else would he go all, “let’s see who is truly worthy of godhood”? Because he thinks the Inquisitor aspires for that, just as he does. He has no reason to believe the Inquisitor wants godhood, but he projects himself onto them.
And in a way, the Inquisitor is like Corypheus: someone thrust into religious power and prestige, working under a God that never was. Someone who was believed to be chosen by this God, only to be deceived, and eventually discovering that this God was no more a God than they were a chosen one.
Of course Corypheus would possibly see himself in them, especially if the Inquisitor is a devout Andrastian; the Inquisitor is what he once was: someone who believed they were chosen, and truly wanted to better the world in the name of their God.
It’s probably why he also really emphasizes that the Maker isn’t real! He was absolutely shattered after finding out Dumat was false, so he’s trying to break the Inquisitor exactly as he was broken.
Just a reminder that being an ‘abuse victim’ doesn’t make a person infallible when they’re hurting people en masse.
Oh and here’s a list of horrible things Solas has done (completely unrelated trust me)
Helped Mythal essentially tranquilize the Titans, who were just scared and didn’t want people draining their blood from them to make themselves bodies.
Also basically helped commit a mental genocide of the dwarves, who he refers to as “severed arms imitating life” in Inquisition.
Destroyed Elvhenan by creating the Veil after Mythal bit the dust, condemning EVERY elf to being enslaved by the then-fledgling Imperium.
Killed Felassan because he gave two shits about the modern elves (I know Felassan definitely did bad shit, but really)
Stole the eluvians from Briala, ruining any chance for a modern slave rebellion (huh, it’s almost like he doesn’t care about modern elves AT ALL)
Gave Corypheus the orb and planned for him to die in the explosion so he could come and tear down the Veil.
Tried to tear down the Veil. Again. “Oh the events of Veilguard wouldn’t have happened if Solas succeeded” yeah the events of Veilguard wouldn’t have happened if Solas didn’t decide to try and tear down the Veil even after being “proven wrong” about modern people.
Doesnt. See. Modern. People. As. Alive.
Killed Flemythal for Mythal’s power.
Presumably had no plans to save the humans, dwarves, or Qunari. Funny how the ‘if Solas succeeded’ concept art exclusively shows elves, huh?
I think Veilguard would’ve won GOTY if I could kiss Ghilan’nain tbh. Or if the Architect came back and I could kiss him. Or if Corypheus came back (for the millionth time) and I could kiss him too.
If I see Halla Lavellan fanfiction again I’m gonna start shipping her with Ghilan’nain because Halla are Ghilly’s creation and it’d be really funny.
I beef with Veilguard a lot but Ghilan’nain’s movements are so goofy and exaggerated and I love them. Like okay girl go off, be a dramatic queen. They’re so theatrical and it’s peak.
Actually all the darkspawn villains have been really fucking cunty and it’s hilarious. The Architect is in a perpetual state of serving cunt, and Ghilan’nain is pretty much right behind him. Corypheus has his heels and dramatic monologues that’d put Robert Browning to shame, so he’s included.
Ghilanrook but they’re both girlfailures that try to do evil shit but somehow get thwarted comically every time. Like “let’s release the Blight on someone lol” and it accidentally reacts with the person’s immune system and cures the cancer they don’t even know they had.
