I think everyone is aware that the economy is in a bad place right now. And, if the stock market is anything to go by, things’ll be getting worse before they get better. So to a certain extent, I get why Nintendo has priced their console the way they have. $450? Sure that’s a big ask, but I’m willing to look past it depending on the games that they have.

The fact that I’m expected to cough up $80 for Mario Kart World is absurd enough. I’m not the biggest Mario Kart fan, so I can avoid it.

If, however, I want to pick up the remastered version of Breath of the Wild, a game that released eight years ago and NEVER goes on sale on the e-shop, I have to pay SEVENTY DOLLARS? That’s insane. From the footage we’ve seen so far, the most they’ve done is improve the frame rate and resolution (as well as maybe the texture quality?). Does that deserve an $80 dollar price tag? While I may love that game, I genuinely don’t think so.

So my …

And here I was, laughing at the $100 GTA VI memes. That might not even be the upper limit anymore if customers buy this in the millions right now.

We are proud to announce that our game The Way of The Tray is finally launching our first playtest!

Steam link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3373830/The_Way_of_the_Tray_Japanese_Restaurant_Simulator/ 

PLAYTEST INFORMATION

Start: 03.04.2025 07:00 GMT

End: 07.04.2025 06:00 GMT

You can send your request via the steam page. When the playtest is out we will process your request and send invitations. 

Once you receive a message you will get access to the playtest. We have a limited amount of them so keep your eye on your email!

ABOUT OUR GAME

The Way Of The Tray is a simulator where you will play as a waiter in a Japanese restaurant filled with odd customers – spirits and yokai.

Here you can:

HURRY UP AND DELIVER ORDERS! – Every customer has its own taste and these tastes become more specific every day. take their order, wait for the kitchen to make it and deliver it quickly. Nobody likes to wait!

REACH YOUR OWN BALANCE – Your customers need a lot of food but you only have …

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I’ve been playing hard support recently after playing off for a while, and it’s actually crazy how the game result is aligned with how well my carry performs.

Some games you will have carries that:

• Buy their own regen instead of treating me like a walking fountain
• Last hit properly so we can actually have lane control
• Understand when to trade and when to back off
• Don’t autopilot push the wave under enemy tower

Other games you will get carries that:

• Take all my tangos, but still die to random harass
• Miss half the creeps in a free lane and blame me for no farm
• Dive under tower at level 3 and ping me for not dying with them
• AFK hit creeps while I’m getting run down by enemy support and core

The variance between pos 1 skill level is ridiculous to the point where one game you feel like you have an immortal and the next a herald who just discovered the attack button.

I honestly believe a great deal of 1’s just pick a late-game hero like Spectre, Medusa, or …

I’ve been spectating some games recently after playing for a while, and it’s actually crazy how the game result is aligned with how well my lane creeps perform.

Some games you will have creeps that:

Aggro onto the enemy when they attack you

Evenly attack the enemy wave evenly so we have lane control

Understand when to get pulled to the small camp and the big camp

Hit the tower when they are in its range

Other games you will get creep waves that:

Don’t get aggroes onto the pull camps and get dragged by the enemy

Steal last hits on enemy creeps that I was going for

Get lost in the woods after a pull and run on some random path instead of meeting the enemy wave.

AFK hit creeps while I’m getting run down by enemy support and core and don’t aggro onto them.

The variance between creep wave skill level is ridiculous to the point where one game you feel like you someone actively microing them and the next if feels like they were programmed by someone …

I AM ON MY KNEES RN,also wouldn’t mind if they added obama in the game ngl

As an example,

Let’s say you’re going up against a Lash and a Dynamo on the enemy team. They use both their abilities to win a team fight.

Your team respawns.

One of the best things you can do, after losing this team fight, is to take an objective/fight right away.

The reason why these abilities have such long cooldowns is because they’re so powerful. When they aren’t available, that is the perfect opportunity to push an objective as a team.

So many times I see teams lose a team fight and simply respawn, farm, push lanes, which is allowing the enemy team to do the exact same thing again when their long CD’s are available again! That’s what they want you to do! They want you to wait for their own CD’s to be up to use them again!

Dota 2 has the same situation happen all the time in competitive play. Enemy Silencer uses Ult? Push a tower. Enemy Enigma doesn’t have black hole? Push a tower. Force a fight.

“but mr. covert ops 47, …

Might be alone on this but I feel like knockups are wayy to strong. Arguably stronger than stuns imo.

Getting hit by a knock up means completely losing control of your movement and getting stuck in place for a whole second at least (which can often be the difference between life and death).

Not to mention the fact that unlike full stuns, abilities with knockups often have either short cooldowns (diving strike) or have charges (Dynamo’s stomp and Holliday’s barrels).

Finally, unlike all other forms of CC (expect Dynamo’s ult) knockups can not be countered by debuff reducer/remover which makes them even stronger in many situations. Sure there are other counters (like warp stone) but all of those counters have way longer cooldowns than knockups themselves, so you may get hit by a shockwave, warp away and get hit by another one ~2 seconds later. Even full stuns are not as annoying because at least you can play around cooldowns to counter them.

It just doesn’t …

calico feels so insanely overtuned in every aspect. three initiation/exiting tools, one lifesteals, one makes her hitbox microscopic, one makes her immune to quite literally everything in the game.

then i get in a game where calico decides to tower dive me all game, so i can’t even play. i can’t outdamage her as seven, i can’t stun her because her ult just stops it from going off, if i try to ult her she can get away from it incredibly easily or just outheal it by shooting me because everyone and their mom is building lifesteal.

i genuinely need to know, WHAT do you do against her? her early game feels too insane for the fact that she can just keep farming the same lane she spends the whole game draining of souls from the other team. i’m underfed because i’m spending so much time in the fountain, and she has a ton of money from one shot comboing me with no real counterplay.