Hello, this is Jerry Holkins of Penny Arcade and Acquisitions Incorporated, the C -Team.
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on today what's going to be our gristle let's see let's take a look at the usual suspects video games video games oh you were saying that there's a new a tasty new character oh yeah paladins has a new patch coming out you know You know what's funny?
We got into Paladins through Realm Royale, and we loved Realm Royale, but we haven't been back.
Yeah. When we go back there, like in a month or something, that game is going to be kick -ass.
Oh, yeah. It's going to be way more polished.
Yeah, I mean, when we played, it was raw.
Yeah. It was dough in the middle.
Yeah, it was. But the ideas were still there, right?
It was still fun. Yeah.
Yeah, this morning, I mean, so Gabe is a teenager.
He wakes up during the summer around 10.
Oh, yeah. He just sleeps in.
Dude, it's the same with Elliot.
Yeah, this morning, we had to get up early because there were some people coming out to do some work.
And I come downstairs at like 7, and he's down there.
And I'm like, what are you doing?
Yeah, who's this beast?
What kind of, like, it's cordyceps or something.
I learned all about the new Fortnite season before 7 .30.
Oh, he had gotten up because he wanted to feast on that season 5 info.
Yes. Yeah, it seems like some hot shit.
Yeah, I guess so. If you want to build that stuff.
They got a golf cart in there.
Well, yeah, they got that cart.
Yeah. Real nice. Yeah.
They got basically these rifts that toss you back up in the air.
Yeah, I saw that. That's cool.
That's going to be fun as hell.
That's going to be very, very different.
I mean, he was on with four other teenagers by 8 in the morning.
These kids are fucking obsessed.
Oh, they were already in there playing?
Yeah, he was in a party.
dude that kicks ass that brings me joy yeah i just something about the phenomenon they just don't shut up about it yeah it's it's 24 7 and your your larva i mean they never even got into pub g was never for them at all right no it never really happened uh -oh yeah i mean it's more mature i guess i mean mature in quotes yeah insofar as there's blood well and it's kind of it's kind of like it looks boring mil spec yeah it looks like you know an adult would like it i i guess yeah yeah yeah that's what i mean when i say mature i mean like mature in like what the term means is a marketing lure yeah
right well yeah it's yeah kiko and i were playing the new pub g map last week on the show oh yeah it's much smaller right oh man oh yeah it's really really fun yeah yeah i mean i i like pub g anyway i love to play well playing any game with kiko is fun fun sure most mostly the show is just about like making kiko laugh which is a fun yeah that's a fun challenge i like when you guys open your crates and get new pants right but uh i was really uh the smaller scale is actually i think really good for the game yeah and that'll be what lets them i think they'll be able to get at like uh an esports aspiration much easier
with the small map.
Yeah. And they also changed how some of the circles work, just in terms of how fast it goes.
Oh, really? It's a doof.
Oh, yeah. It's... Do you jump out of a bus now?
No, there's no bus.
There's no battle bus.
Yeah, the next map, I guess they're adding...
Treasure chests. Building.
Building. No, I was...
Just slowly morphs.
Yeah, piece by piece.
Piece by piece. Yeah, I mean, Realm Royale is mostly there.
Yeah. But they'll leave the building out.
Well, yeah, and it looks like Fortnite eventually is going to strip out some building.
At least make it not as big a deal.
Well, exactly. At any rate, they want to place hard caps on what type of bizarre wizard maze you can make.
Yeah, I mean, at this point, that game at the end is ridiculous.
Wizard maze. Yeah, wizard maze.
All right, let's see.
So that's going on over there.
Let's see what they have at IGN.
I always forget they're still around.
Oh, yeah. yeah yeah lots of people like lots of people take full advantage of them i think that the the forums are really meaningful for like like their community is strong but what's interesting is that now they're changing that big map like one of the things i liked about the realm royale map was how like diverse it is now the whole southeastern corner of the fortnight map is like a whole desert thing it looks like well yeah and there's a bunch of fantasy stuff like Like, there's, like, a Viking section now.
Oh, so it's a full -on theme park.
Yeah, which is good.
I think that, I mean, obviously, they had to have had this stuff in the works before Realm Royale.
Yeah. But Realm Royale, I think, showed that that map needs to be a lot more fun, right?
Well, yeah, there has to be different types of...
A lot more interesting.
Different types of ideas.
Yeah. Right? Oh, man.
Comic -Con's coming up.
So, of course, they're going to extend out into that realm, right?
On the IGN tip, that's like pop culture in general.
So they have, they're like, don't miss these exclusive collectibles, and it's like the new Turtles.
And I just, for a second, I just shuddered because I just remembered.
Yeah. Like my memories, like I only have a couple memories.
We haven't been back to San Diego Comic -Con for a while.
I only have a few memories, and they're all, like I met so many cool people and had a lot of really neat experiences, but all I remember, like when I think about this show, is how cold it is.
How fucking cold it is.
How cold it is in the morning.
And those lights. And the lights.
The life stealing. Oh yeah, that let you see just the darkening blood pooling beneath people's skin.
Beneath your own skin.
And those mad rushes.
Yeah, there was the Hasbro line, I remember, going over there, and it's like, hey, the line stops here.
You can't wait in line here.
So there's just like a crowd of people waiting around the back of the line, but they weren't in line anymore.
No, no, it's yeah, it's tough.
It's like to one to a certain extent.
It's like, OK, is it a is it a young man's game?
No, I don't think so.
Not exactly. But I don't care as much as they do.
Yeah. You know what I mean?
Like, I don't think it's about age.
It's just like that's not like comics and pop culture.
That's not my I don't like it as much as they do.
That's not my bailiwick.
wick well i don't think it's possible to yeah so they win they but i like video games way more than they do they can have that yeah and every now and then you see some video game stuff but it's like we never wanted to be away from the booth for more than 15 minutes in case somebody's 15 minutes yeah they want to come see us exactly right but so it's like you'd spend that time and it's like you used to be able to get to the other wall yeah from the comic section no you can't you can't get Well, you can't get to the wall and back.
It's like, now it's difficult.
It's so packed. It smells so bad.
Everybody in front of you will stop to take a picture of somebody.
It's very apocalyptic.
So I did see that Hasbro is showing off, down there, their WotC's new Transformers card game.
What? Yeah, did you see this?
No. Apparently, it's a new...
Engine? Yeah, it's a new card game.
You choose a Transformer and then build a deck of like power cards to accompany them into battle.
Oh, so the Transformer is your character.
Yeah, but the Transformer can turn into a robot or a vehicle.
And their card is really big, I guess.
I haven't seen. Oh, yeah.
So their card is more like a Commander -style card, like one of the big ones?
Like a tarot card, I think.
Oh, you mean the Tolerant Shape?
Yeah. Oof, a doof. Here's the two -player starter set.
that I can't endure a world where Optimus Prime tries to kill Bumblebee.
Maybe in my head canon it can just be like a training session.
It has to be, yeah.
But yeah, I'm totally down for a new Transformers card game.
Oh, yeah. And especially with their pushing into Arena and stuff like that.
I mean, I hope that that means that they've got a digital story for that, too.
Each booster pack. Oh, interesting.
Each booster pack contains one Transformer character card. So, each time you get a booster, there's a character in there.
Okay. And then you have 7 battle cards from a pool of 40 characters in 81 battles.
Now, that's weird. That's a lot of Transformers.
It's a lot of Transformers, but placing that much weight on the character side of it, especially since you choose...
Like, that's 40 deck archetypes?
Yeah, I mean, there must be a lot of gameplay in each of those Transformers, right?
Like, whether you're...
Yeah, yeah, or not much. I mean, it's...
Or it's a shitty game!
Yeah. Yeah, I guess we don't know.
We'll see. That seems like a rough...
that seems like a rough ride the best part is they can go whole hog and it's like all these cards are also playable in drop mix well the cards should transform yeah you should be able to do little origami yeah fold them fold them and then um and then the whole time you're folding them you can sing yeah yeah yeah yeah you can sing the the transformer song that's i mean that's what i would do yeah so here in terms of content uh a transformers card game i mean there might Because that's what we are.
In that. We're content creators.
We're creatives. We're creatives who create content.
We were talking about influencers on Twitter.
There's something weird about that word. Yeah.
I don't even think we're in the category of – I mean, functionally speaking, there's overlaps.
But I think when marketing places are thinking about influencers, They really mean like 100 % digital native types that work primarily in video, at least right now, or Instagram.
I think the influencer...
Yeah, probably. Influencer, it's like in order to have the influence that they want, I think that you have to be on the channels that they perceive as the most...
Yeah. What I think that there are people...
As the most valuable.
I think that there are people whose sole job is to influence.
They're naturally influenced.
Well, I mean, I think there are people like on Instagram or whatever who are influencers.
Yeah. Look at me with the things I have on and the place I am.
Don't you want to have this and be here?
Yes. Yes I do. So I think that we have a job if we happen to influence people while in the persecution of our normal duties.
It does happen from time to time.
It does happen from time to time.
We haven't had the time to do much traditional influencing.
seeing we have our sponsored streams but we haven't had the time to do like um custom creative stuff like we just started do using that time to make our own things for a while yeah and it's good and you'll sample the fruits the fruits the fruit of that uh come september i got new glasses and you did not you did not notice that's how it is like you've been together for you know they just 25 years They still look just black Are they a different style?
If I have to explain it I don't see faces I don't see people I don't see people at all Are you a person?
Are you a person? Let's see Yeah, Transformers We had a chance to mess around with it We know a couple people over there It might not be With SCC coming out so quick They may have some kind of thing we can check out At least Oh I usually pull some strings and see if we can get a Yeah I mean Chris Perkins is coming today I should have got a hold of him before Bring up some shit Yeah God damn it don't just come in here Rummage through my fridge Yeah so there could be Some transformation I'm playing crew I'm playing Overwatch watch oh I actually I like Symmetra now I'm figuring her out well here
then that's what we have to do because we've had two strips about you yeah I watched a really good video of Seagull um oh yeah Seagull's a beast yesterday yeah and uh he broke her her new kit down in a way that I hadn't seen before so tell me about it so her main weapon now that locks on or used to lock on now it's just that beam the beam yeah it's not great but you shouldn't be using that to her people Yeah, her projectile is...
Oh, the ball. Yeah, like the best projectile in the game.
And it has an AoE. So he's using her like Pharah.
Where he's shooting it, thinking of it like a rocket.
Where you're trying to get direct hits on people.
Because it hits like a Pharah rocket.
Wow. And if you can hit the ground, you get splash damage.
So he's shooting like I would shoot Pharah's rocket at the ground to catch people and splash.
Oh, I was just going to say, but does it still pass through shields?
And it still passes through shields.
Well, if it passes through shields and you can hit the person holding the shield, that's amazing by itself, but everybody loves to hang out back there.
That's kind of dope.
The other thing is to really think about her in terms of playing her like Reaper, in terms of using her teleporter to get you and people who shouldn't be in these weird places into weird places.
Oh, because it's launchable.
I can get an Orisa up onto the top of the Anubis, that bridge, yeah like you can get people into weird spots or have a reinhardt come from behind them like thinking about thinking about that teleporter as movement for me to get me into weird places but also movement for my group yeah this is almost this is almost like um like a the way that a support i know that tech they don't consider her a support anymore yeah but that's almost the way that a like a lol support a lot of times in those contexts they act as shock collars as well yeah So the ability to guide the architecture concept is still there.
Yeah, so like last night, we're on Anubis.
Oh, there's all kinds of horse shit in Anubis.
I can throw that teleporter in there from the front door, from safety.
Now the teleporter's in there.
I can throw my turrets through my teleporter, and now there's three turrets behind them.
And then we're coming in from the front.
So how far out does that teleporter go?
go so it's really far like you know on could you put it in there in that little space behind the point uh not from the front door okay but you know in volskaya uh you can go around the left if you can fly yeah there's that little area around the left yeah it can reach over there i can get the whole team over there and we can all come in from behind them like we did it yesterday eek yeah it was fun but even like diva's about to throw her bomb in her you know she's about to explode i put the teleporter up high kara goes through it she's arisa she goes through it she's safe blows up comes back still
back on the point like oh weird yeah okay so it's just big ideas yeah no i i feel like there's probably there's a case to be made that now you get it what's interesting is he played her like you know did this video this is how you should play her she's fun now he says she's still not pro like she still probably won't get played why i guess he he says that she's still too um circumstantial like she's just not oh oh she's she's still too um it's like for specific instances yeah oh too specialized too specialized he thinks that um there that there might be some play for her if a pro team wants to
but it would be because the entire team can work together with that symmetry to do some cool stuff oh it's like too what it enables is too vast yeah you oh putting her into what a weird new problem yeah putting her into quick play where i can't coordinate like hey diva i need you to go through this because i'm going to put it out here right like yeah but if you're but if you're playing as a team you're playing as a team and you've got strategies worked out ahead of time you can do some really weird shit with her interesting well that i can map all that onto my understanding of symmetrius personality
yeah yeah um but but yeah so but the idea that you get it now it seems to me like there might there might be something there yeah especially since basically this would be like the third time right this would be the charm the charm according to the classic nomenclature yeah because you pass through a sort of dark phase where songs were being written right so when are you even playing overwatch like when is that happening since i get home not before the eventide yeah okay it could be it could be the thing where tyco's like hey listen i know things were i've been rocky with you for things were rough
but uh you i've seen you putting the time in and working on it i you know i think that's where you guys at now i think we're in a good place i'm in a really good place right now actually you know i think i understand her better i think she understands me better where does the punch come from yeah i don't know right but the hook seems it seems right but when i think about it nothing fills the space well you could have so let's say it's this it's just it's just gabe You just see Gabe.
He's like, Symmetra and I, you know, I know I've been talking about this for a while.
Symmetra and I were in a rough place.
Things were bad. But, you know, I did what you said.
I put the time in. And I feel like I understand her a lot better now.
I think we're good.
And then it zooms out.
And you can see that he's talking to a therapist. And she's like, this is the video game character?
Yeah. There might be a punch in there.
Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, just, like, seated on the couch. Yeah.
Are we still talking about the video game?
Are we still talking about the video game character?
I don't know. I feel like I really love her again.
Like I can. I feel like our love is back.
Yeah, I don't know where the punch is.
No, are we still talking about the video game character is the punch?
Oh, you think so? Oh, yeah.
That is the punch. When you switch, it's just like.
Yeah. Because that's confusion.
Are we still talking about the video game character?
Oh, yeah, definitely.
Yeah, definitely. No, just totally.
Totally. You know, I did.
Yeah, Sumitra and I had a rough patch. Patch. No, a rough patch there for a bit.
It's true. It's true.
And then that middle panel, then it's like, you know, but I did what you said.
I invested in the relationship.
I did the work. I put myself in the arena.
I invested in the relationship.
I did the work. I put myself back in the arena.
I hate all that shit so much. Oh, yeah.
Now, I feel like the love is back.
I feel like the love is back, you know?
Now, I feel like the love is back, you know?
Are we still talking about the video game character?
Totally. No, thou or A.
Are we still talking about A, the video game character?
I love it. Okay. Hello.
This is Jerry Hawkins of Penny Arcade Infamy.
You may have noticed that we are doing a lot of different stuff on Twitch these days.
I really like it. I think it's a lot of fun.
I think it's a very, very inviting channel.
Listen, if you're interested in terrifying games played by our design team, we have that live brewing on Tuesdays, board game play, live art streams. Of course, on Wednesdays, we've got Acquisitions Incorporated, the C -team run by myself, incorporating a bunch of my good friends.
We've got PUBG with Kiko on Wednesdays, and then Fridays, we've got PA Plays, where Mike Rahulik and myself just check out whatever we feel like checking out that afternoon.
In any case, if you're listening to this podcast, the Twitch stream is definitely something that that you would probably enjoy.
That's just twitch .tv forward slash Penny Arcade.
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