corey
coreydavis.bsky.social
corey
@coreydavis.bsky.social
Game Designer. Helped make Rocket League, doing something new!
It is funny to think of them as the Teen Choice Awards of games
December 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
looking forward to my kickstarter deck to try it out!
December 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
It rules! I know s2 meandered a bit, but what an ambitious ending.
December 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Proton drive / mail is pretty good, but I think Drive is paid

Private GitHub repo (until ms starts scraping those?)

Cryptomator or Veracrypt and put the encrypted container on any free service (Dropbox, gdrive, etc) and it can’t be scraped
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This is true but also those 00s unreal jrpgs never quite put all the pieces together like Clair Obscur does in some of the cutscenes/boss encounters. People remember those highs more than the rough edges. The act 2 bosses - music, combat cues, VO - are a lot stronger than anything in 00s unreal jrpg
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
love it. As a guilty party RE: ranking systems, I’d also love to find a better model.

Fun textures from real sports (underdog, favored but holding back, etc.) get lost too in the pursuit of progression.

Losses shouldn’t be so negative, but it’s hard for these systems to let them be anything else.
November 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
the new Beths album is so, so good
August 31, 2025 at 10:55 PM
upsetting how topical this is for me, a 40 year old man
August 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
That server is now quiet as they have sunset development on it, but whatever is born out of that will likely be pretty interesting too. Not that anything WoW-shaped might fit into your life anymore!
July 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
It's not the time machine required to "go back", but their recent Season of Discovery was a really interesting experiment. Classic world, new stuff to find (runes that give your class abilities), ways to play (warlock tanks, mage healers, etc.). Overall the closest I've felt to the 2006 vibe.
July 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Yeah I recall enjoying the sheer scope of the book but a lot of questionable choices along the way
June 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Seveneves?
June 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
And the recently cancelled Respawn game was a Titanfall Extraction Shooter.
June 7, 2025 at 6:34 AM
the remotely save plugin is pretty nice, should you wish to sync across devices. though absolutely the $5 tier is worth supporting them
May 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I don’t think players need to be in full tier in a month either, but if the raid is tuned for the avg player having it, it will take 2 months or more
April 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Napkin math based on 2/3/4 bosses for multiple weeks. That’s 2-6 tier pcs per week, the cumulative power gain will be slow. After a month you’d have avg 4 ppl with 4pc bonus. Not a lot.
I don’t think recruiting up to 40 suddenly is a realistic ask of most 20-30 player groups.
April 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
To be clear I don’t think the idea of a 2 month prog for less skilled groups is inherently flawed, only that it is a fundamental mismatch for how SoD has been operated and was not communicated in any way ahead of time to manage expectations of the big shift in intent. Which feels bad to me.
April 12, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I think they have trained the SoD playerbase that raids are generally accessible and clearable within a month, albeit not on the hardest difficulty available.
I think two months of partial clears due to tuning and difficulty isn’t a match for many SoD raids and will kill a fair number of groups.
April 12, 2025 at 2:13 AM
That's putting words in my mouth. I do not expect PUGs should full clear on release. But his stated rationale and tuning target ensures PUGs will struggle for weeks/months ahead, and not just to full clear it.
April 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Not to mention how problematic the bit about clearing "a couple bosses a week" to power up is for PUGs, alts, etc.
April 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Big fan of SoD, but your team keeps falling back into this trap. Pivoting from a successful series of opt-in difficulties to a single, "hardmode" raid with intentional friction really misunderstands the appeal for many players. Shades of PoE2's current issues.
April 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It was so good! I didn't know I needed Sherlock Holmes under threat of Kaiju invasion until I had it
March 27, 2025 at 2:59 AM
oh hell yea
February 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
how do I form a Homeowners Association
February 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
congrats! can't wait to dig into it
February 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM