Combat

But, you know, you could play that game for hours and hours and hours, not interact with the story and just have fun.

And it was, you know, once again, bring back combat, like Halo Combat Fold.

It was that idea that if you just... experimenting and playing around in the world and the world playing back with you at that time was something that was relatively new to us as gamers.

Or making your own fun within these worlds.

But to get that intelligence advantage that adversarial militaries are always seeking is, you need that expertise inside the headquarters.

So the relationship between industry, in this case tech, and the armed forces has changed, and the relationship between civilian technicians and operational actual people Combat, you know, it's not necessarily they're not down at the level of the actual in the trenches, but in the headquarters.

But those headquarters are operational headquarters.

They are actually commanding and conducting operations.

you know what else is good though uh they'll give you fairies uh one that drops hearts and the drops coins and more importantly one that just attacks shit

yep heart fairy combat fairy and money fairy

okay uh heart fairy is very good because heart fairy just keeps you alive combat fairy though Combat fairy just fucks shit up.

And with the way that the skills work, when you get pips, your skill automatically activates.

If you have, let's say, five combat fairies, and you're just running through a level tearing shit up, you get those pips back real quick.

Then I got into karate and then boxing and was fairly decent at it.

In 1993, I saw an ad in Black Belt Magazine for this Ultimate Fighting Championship pay-per-view.

I think it was like 15 or 18 bucks or something.

And my dad said, I don't want to watch that wrestling stuff.

amazing you know i i mean i'm definitely here for it um so there's so like kind of talking about a little bit of the combat is a mixture of like stealth sections and i would say stealth is probably akin it's not as clunky i would say is like skyrim stealth not by not by a long shot but it would be somewhere i would say in between skyrim stealth and like dishonored Where, like, if one is zero and one is 100, this is a solid 50.

So take that with it, as you will.

Combat-wise is a mixture of the...

It is a mixture of, like, Resident Evil 7.

I would say probably Resident Evil 7 is a great...

You probably know the name offhand, but that Special Forces Field Manual, which I have.

I also have the, uh, Marine Corps, uh, Combat Manual, and those are, army field manuals and Marine manuals are really handy if times get bad.

Absolutely they are.

They could be a matter of life and death to have those books in your library, couldn't they?

which is the next table.

So how do you get injured, though? Combat.

Combat is very much, it's all player-facing roles.

So players are using their stats to roll.

Usually it gets everybody 12.

I guess it was only a matter of time before they figured it out, given how many eyes and ears they have among the local populace.

The only thing I can't work out is how they figured it was him Combat operations permitting, we tried to stop and talk with as many locals as we could, and we were relatively cozy with most of the surrounding village elders by the end of our tour.

It could have been anyone feeding us that intel, so how in God's name did they figure out that it was the kid? It's something I've never been able to figure out and ruminating on it just makes the guilt eat away at me even harder.

But, and this next part is going to make me sound like a total jerk, it's not the kid's death that makes me feel guilty.