Best part of a new patch? Third party tools not working.

[Hanaya]

I think that's a totally different issue. I have friends who do savages regularly, and they will often die if they get the *normal* version of the raid they're progging in roulette because they keep expecting the savage mechanics.

this is genuinely so true. I don't use 3rd party tools (like cactbot or w/e) and I cleared the last savage tier. and then I got p7n in my raid roulette and died like 4 times because I couldn't remember any of the normal mechs lmao. I've seen static members rack up like 6 vuln stacks in raids we cleared the savage versions of because we spend so much time in savage we forget how to play the game outside of it lol.

also I'm genuinely convinced that equipping an ultimate title makes you play worse. I have to keep taking mine off mid duty because it's embarrassing messing up easy mechs while flexing your ultimate clear

[Pratini]

And they are working again.

Cry me a River.

[Zebraoracle]

What was I trying to gain with this post? To answer the conversation surrounding "should third party tools be allowed?" - by third party tools i simply mean additions or add-ons that are not native to the game (this excludes voice chat protocols). Programs that were not intended by the developers to be used, specifically ; Parsers, "Triggers", etc - when someone gets on the game on a PS4 its not ethical or fair any of you have these advantages. Their is simply no argument against that. If you find that your own human intelligence needs to be supplemented by AI or plugins then you are not playing the game as intended. it is indeed obvious that during every patch 3rd party tools rarely work, and I am simply giving kudos to players who continue to clear content without them. Peace out.

Actual clown hours lmao. Kinda cements the idea that you only post to troll. Surprise surprise.

[Midareyukki]

Third party tools appear to be working again given what other people have been saying.

Alas, poor Saranade. She'll become the Mariah Carrey of anti-3rd Party Tools, entering suspended animation until whenever they cease to function.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

[…]also I'm genuinely convinced that equipping an ultimate title makes you play worse. I have to keep taking mine off mid duty because it's embarrassing messing up easy mechs while flexing your ultimate clear

In a perfect world, people would recognize what those title meant: the player have cleared & very likely to be great at that specific duty. Yes, there are cloned mechanics, yes there are recycled mechanics. But there’s only so much a person can remember when there are hundreds of duties in the entire game. Considering the general time investment required to get a clear from high ends, I wouldn’t be surprised if suddenly being shoved to random, lower lv duties will bamboozle them.

Messing up gameplay fundamentals (i.e. ABC) consistently is however a different story.

[Packetdancer]

this is genuinely so true. I don't use 3rd party tools (like cactbot or w/e) and I cleared the last savage tier. and then I got p7n in my raid roulette and died like 4 times because I couldn't remember any of the normal mechs lmao. I've seen static members rack up like 6 vuln stacks in raids we cleared the savage versions of because we spend so much time in savage we forget how to play the game outside of it lol.

To be fair, there's really only a few normal duties that will trip you up enough to kill you if you're used to savage/extreme versions; most might leave you confused, but usually reacting to something that doesn't happen at all instead of stepping into something deadly. Having gotten P8N for the first time in ages last night, I kept trying to prep for knockback or "get out of the hitbox" whenever he started the snakes or centaur/dog/hippo/whatever portions, and then feeling like a doofus for reacting to something that didn't even happen.

But the ones that do have a mechanic different enough to kill you in normal, they are doozies. The "wait, the horses happen during what?" during Thunderstorm in E5N, the knockback in Emerald normal that doesn't happen in Emerald EX, etc.

[ChrisRedfield2]

did i say this was new?

then why mention it?