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  • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyztoGaming@beehaw.orgthoughts on arpgs?
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    3 months ago

    Just a preface that I don’t like PoE.

    Season 4 is a lot more fun, but I still think D3 is a better game. But if you compare D4 to what D3 was like at after release, D4 is in much better shape. It’s definitely heading in the right direction, and I suspect that the expansion in August will make it much better, similar to how D2 and D3 did.

    Back to season 4, I leveled to max level, maxed out the battle pass, and experienced all of the content and that was good enough for me. I want really interested in sticking around to switch to better build and get the best gear.











  • I’m not trying to sell anyone on anything. I’m just giving honest information about the game to someone who has already said they don’t intend on playing it. I was addressing what is a common complaint about the game.

    For context, I absolutely devoured that lackluster early game back in 2011. It’s just that as the game has gotten content over the years, it’s mostly been added to the latter half (probably like 2/3rds really) of the game. And also, games and peoples’ tastes have changed a lot since 2011 when the game came out.

    So for me, today, the early game is a slog. And it’s something I’ve seen many others complain about. I understand the “it gets better” is often used to try to sell lackluster games, but I don’t think Terraria fits that bill. But the game legitimately gets better after the first few bosses for most peoples’ tastes.



  • Big O is a useful tool, but it doesn’t directly translate to performance. Understanding how systems work is a lot more useful and important if you really care about optimization and performance.

    This is something I learned pretty early on as a professional developer. I got a computer science degree and was taught data structures, algorithms, and big O. In my first job, I came across a small piece of Java code that was being run a lot that had a small list being searched each time. I figured converting to a HashSet would be faster, but in testing it was actually slower. I forget the exact details, but I learned to test my assumptions about performance and not to just blindly change things.

    My degree, for the most part, did not prepare me for working with large, interconnected systems. The only course that came close was an elective called “concurrent programming” which was really just “algorithms, but parallel”.