Maybe it should do damage based on travel time or something instead.

skint's pov

Blyat.

True frag movie material.
What a game.

i think the orb should just disappear once it has done damage, would solve the telefrag issue and enable the enemy intentinally stepping in it counter a teleport. slight nerf to ranger but thats fine

when they were talking about character abilities i was hoping for stuff like tankjr getting 15% rocket damage or 10% increased acceleration while running. things that would cater around the player instead of this garbage invis or charge move

Ranger's Orb should only do like 50 damage, and Nyx should be hittable when she's invisible.

Dont be mad. Requires a good amount of skill and reflexes to telefrag someone with the dire orb. Next.

It also requires something to run the items all game... but that all gets taken away in a split second telefrag

And a huge amount of luck.... :D

luck is a skill on its own :D

That's exactly what luck isn't.

Lets agree to disagree then.

Luck is what you can't control or predict. It is the product of chance. It is by definition not skill.

If at any point you could create it or control it, it would cease to be luck.

But yeah, if you can't see that obvious fact, I'm not going to argue with you. It would be like butting my head off a brick wall.

You can attract luck, but i know youre a "only if i can prove it with current tools" common type of guy.

But you cant help posting a more long explanation of your view and trying to ridiculize me. I dont care.

Sorry, I don't believe in magic. :P

No problem man :D

"Richard Wiseman was born and raised in Luton. His mother a seamstress and his father an engineer, he learned his trade as a teenage magician working the crowds in Covent Garden."

Ironic.

Baka desu yo. LOL

If you could in any way manufacture luck, it wouldn't be luck anymore. So whatever your bullshit website says is irrelevant.

Making attempts and trying to psychologically change yourself is going to change your actions, which may result in better outcomes for you; it is not creating luck. It doesn't matter what some guy trying to sell a book says.

It is the equivalent of changing your play style to take more rail shots. Yeah, you'll hit more, but in each shot, there is an element of chance in whether it hits---because you don't have the capacity to control everything, even yourself.

Whether you were born rich or poor, that's luck, and none of your feel-good positive thinking would make any difference about it.

When I'm running around the corner on ztn, and a Dire Orb hits me in the face, none of that is going to help. I had no way to know it was coming. All the information I had indicated that the chances of something like that happening were very low, but nonetheless, it happened. It was unpredictable and uncontrollable. If I were to start taking actions to avoid such scenarios, I wouldn't be able to do anything, and I'd lose anyway.

Yeah man i know, everything is irrelevant for you when it doesnt fits your views... quotes, websites, anecdotes, etc :D

You can use the word "luck" to mean whatever you want it to mean.

In a game, luck is everything that affects the outcome that is beyond what the human players can be expected to control.

If you can control it, it is not luck in any sense of the word that I am using, and I'm pretty damn sure when people talk about luck in the game, they're not commenting on your masterful ability to control events.

They are using it as I am using it, or they are getting upset and calling things luck that are not luck.

This is just logic.

If luck is defined to be something you can't create or control, and you say I can create and control luck, you're creating a logical contradiction. If this is a "view", then there is no such thing as a fact.

But I see you have a different definition, in which case, you may as well be using a different word, and we're not contradicting each other anyway, just speaking different languages.

When you said "luck is a skill of its own", you weren't talking about the same thing I was talking about in my comment.

Next you'll be telling me the impossible is possible.

Contradiction of logic used by gstructor. Conclusion: GStructor is a real girl on the internet

Does ESR have girls? :D

More manpussies than actual girls.

I guess that will have to do. :D

its luck if you are doing it wrong but accidentally hit a move which leads to success. your strategy is not correct but you if you would have played it correctly then the move that you just did would be part of that correct play. therefor it was luck.

now you have the chance to learn something. starting from that successful move you may find more of moves of that correct play so that you are able to recreate that luck that you had, so that luck becomes skill.

If I hit 10 rails in a row, and my opponent is not doing anything special to make himself easier to hit than usual, then I just got lucky. My ordinary skill level is not high enough to pull that off every time, and it's not like I was suddenly 10x more skillful just for those shots before returning to normal skill level. It's the equivalent of flipping a coin and getting 10 heads in a row.

It doesn't matter whether I was making "correct" plays for that to happen. The correct play rewarded me more than it normally would through sheer luck.

It's the exact same thing as skillessly spamming a rocket to the other side of the map and just happening to hit someone in the face with it.

if luck is something that you cant control then you will never be able to hit 10 rails in a row. ;D

If I have a 1/2 chance for each rail, then I have a 1/1024 chance of hitting 10 rails in a row.

If I just happened to pull it off on my first attempt, yeah, I got pretty lucky, or my opponent was just being easier than usual to hit. No controlling of luck involved. :D

Now, you could say I could play in such a way that would force my opponent to be easier to hit, but then I wouldn't be controlling my shots better; I'd be controlling something else better, like my positioning or stack or whatever. There's always gonna be some luck that exists in the apparent randomness of shit you can't control.

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You don't believe in magic? Seriously? How boring.

I believe in mystery, not magic, and there is plenty of interest to be found there.

What vitamins do I eat for more luck?

gSTRUCTAMIN

Herezja knows

Not really when the dire orb hitbox is the size of a tree.

I like it

gstructor is trolling ;p.. or I sure do hope so.