So my steam account have literally just been hacked (yes I play gw2 through steam), I was able to contact steam support and thankfully I was able to get back my account the same day. I took some time to play gw2 after getting it back completed dragon end's meta then logged off. fast forward to today I came home wanting to chill on gw2 and I got an error saying that I've been "blocked" for security purposes Please contact customer support for assistance. I went to AreaNet official page to sign in and create a ticket for my issue but I cannot sign in I even change my password incase I forgot it and after that io tried again and still cant log in. I need help. what should I do to Unblock my account. and thank you.

I recently downloaded the last of us on steam unblocked i saw a reddit post saying it wasn't proton compatible because it wasn't on steam now it is and i wanna try the game out i us lutris only for the games i have in my epic games but dont know what to do from there like ik people install different launchers different roms bu thats it as far as i know

Hi !
My name is Oleg, I'm CEO of 4tale game development studio. We are indie game dev studio from Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia.
I want to give you a sneak peek into the development of our another project - Everwayne. Closed Beta is coming soon late May, beginning of June.
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Short description
The game offers an exhilarating adventure where deck-building mechanics intertwine with role-playing elements. Characters traverse the lands of Everwane solo or gather an entire squad to stand against the forces of evil.
We've inpired STS, Heroes Might and Magic 3, Hollow knight to prepare for you trully something special.
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Actual gameplay trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slbLN1gPQVI _________________________________________________
What different?
Squad - we offer players to choose style to go through a flexible campaign. Each run with a different comp.
Interactive environment - explore each location and find a new way, unblock new trails, metroidvania experience.
Characters - each charcter has their own style and detailed background
Main campaing - we prepare multiple endigns for a campaing
Lucky - interesting system, you've to manage luck to pass a quests or events or spend it in your camp.
Style - we put an exrtra ultra huge efforts in our style and visual
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Links
I've just started announcements about our games, it's completely new game as well. Add to wish list, follow up our social media, join our discord server. Be a part of our community
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2498600/Everwayne/
Social media: https://linktr.ee/4Tale_Production
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/5ZWfcQMda9
Thank you! I appreciate your time and attention

Hey. I wanna share my story because it's just eating me up from the inside. Maybe someone has experienced something similar and could give some advice on what to do and what not to do. Sorry if the story is long. My head is a mess, I've been crying every day for over a week. Just a heads up, both of us haven't had much relationship experience (we are both adults though, started when I was in my late 20s and he's quite a bit older than me)
At first it was so great, he was the man of my dreams. He love mombed me, made me feel special, had constant communication. No one has ever talked to me as much as he did. He said I am the best gf he's ever had in every single way and he is super scared to lose me. We had the absolute best time together, like from a fairytale. First month of us together he was already talking about getting married. But of course after some time his love bombing phase slowly stopped. I got so used to the constant attention and loving messages that to me it was a shock that it all suddenly went away. He said it's just because he's not an affectionate person and doesn't like to give compliments and lovey dovey messages. Like, if he's with me, it already means that he thinks im pretty and loves me, there's no need to say it out loud. When I dress up nice and do makeup, or when I would send him pics of myself, there would be no reaction. I was fully abandoned in that way, even though we still talked a lot every day, but there was no romantic aspect, as if we're just friends. Then I started noticing the little lies he would always tell me. Also I saw a dating app on his phone where me and him met, which he claimed he deleted long ago, and my trust for him sort of started shattering from here. I became paranoid and insecure and needy and would always ask for attention and reassurance. I didn't realise that I was doing something wrong until it was too late. I became controlling and anxious, I loved him so much and was so scared to lose him that I smothered him with my love and neediness and paranoia as I kept on stumbling upon more and more of his little (and big) lies, which he claimed he was telling me to avoid hurting my feelings.
On month 5 of our relationship he started trying to break up with me quite a lot. Any small disagreement or argument that we had, or even just something I said that he didn't like, he would tell me to leave him, that he's a horrible person, doesn't want to be with me and he wants to break up. I would beg and plead for him not to leave, and it would happen more and more often, but in the end we would always reconcile and get back together within like a day or two of separating. Most times he would message me first and apologise for his behaviour. Once I even agreed to breakup and he very quickly changed his mind and reached out first.
Sooner I realised that all of these "break ups" were not serious back then because he would never actually block or delete me. But around 3-4 months ago the breakups became constant and very severe. He would delete me from everywhere and block me, while still leaving me little pathways to contact him, like email or imessage or steam, while blocking me everywhere else. Of course I would come begging and pleading and crying and saying sorry for whatever I did to upset and angry him. I thought I was doing the right thing by showing him how terrified I am of losing him and how much he means to me, now I understand how badly I messed everything up. During breakups he would treat me so so so bad and tell me so many awful awful things. He admitted to being a pathological liar and that he will never change, he told me he was texting other girls (idk a lie or not), he would say the most vicious things to me, like he never loved me, doesnt want me, doesnt care if i cry, or suffer, or die etc, that we don't match and we will never be good together, told me to go meet other guys, but whenever we made up he would always say he didn't mean any of it. He told me that when I catch him in a lie I should just ignore it and not say it to his face. I would always tell him that I love him no matter what and will accept him with his flaws, that I will work on my insecurities and will try to do my best to make him feel comfortable and I will accept the fact that he's a liar if he agrees to work on it and not freak out whenever I catch him. He agreed to work on things, but whenever any small disagreement would come up, he would immediately flip and break up again.
Two months ago he started an argument with me out of nothing and blocked me one day before I was going on a one week trip with my mum. He said "cry while going on a plane and during your trip", then fully ghosted me. No amount of crying and pleading helped. I was so confused because literally nothing happened for him to act this way. Then he unblocked me right the next day. It made me so mad that he did something like this right before the trip that I was stressed about and preparing for for so long, that I didn't contact him for two weeks, it was our first ever big "break" from the relationship. He didn't contact me either. Not even to ask how the trip went. Of course I ended up giving in and contacted him first. He said that he didn't even think we broke up because he didn't delete me from anywhere. For some reason instead of feeling mad I felt happy... We made up that time. But after this, any smallest tiny thing would set him off and he would get mad and block me and disappear. Deleting and blocking wasnt a big deal anymore and i even got used to it at some point. And of course whenever this happened he wouldnt text me first, I would always come to him apologising even when I didn't do anything wrong. The stress all of that caused me is immeasurable. I'm an anxiously attached person with childhood traumas and every time he would break up and punish me it would just destroy me.
9 days ago I caught him in another lie and instead of admitting to it and talking about it like adults would, he said "fuck you", dropped the call, blocked me and deleted me from EVERYWHERE this time. For the first time he even removed our matching steam profile pics and names which totally devastated me. No secret pathways left to contact him except email. I emailed him a lot apologising and begging and pleading, but all he said was "im never coming back, goodbye". I got myself together and wrote him one last email saying that I'm sad he's leaving but I wish him all the best, that he was the love of my life and that I'm sorry for everything. Two days later he responded to my email saying "im sorry for hurting you, I'm just too selfish. Hope you can get over it soon. If we are meant to be maybe we will meet again someday. Stay safe". I have no idea what this meant but I took it as a goodbye. I started grieving. But then, the next day, first he unblocked me on one messenger. Then the next day, another messanger. On fourth day he unblocked me pretty much everywhere except steam. It's been one week since then. What does it mean? Why unblock me? I can't continue the process of moving on because I'm so so confused. I can't sleep, I can't eat, every morning I wake up at like 4 am feeling nauseous with awful panic and anxiety and can't go back to sleep.
He also subbed to my patreon using a fake account today. I know it's him because his username is a special word that we used to use when talking to each other and he told me that even if we break up, he would still want to support me in my passions.
I understand that I ruined this relationship with my constant need for affection, insecurities and paranoia, I know I smothered him with my presence, I know I am largely at fault for the way he treated me and how he ghosted and hurt me, but I still love him and want him back. I know everyone says keep NC, but what if he never reaches out because he's actually moving on? Or because he's scared? This is the first time that I'm trying to show strength to him and not begging and pleading, but I'm so close to breaking and just reaching out. Today is our anniversaty. I know I put him on a pedestal and he's too stubborn/prideful/scared to contact me first. He told me numerous times that he doesn't deal well with rejection. I still don't want to lose him. What should I do?

Years ago, end of 2020 and very early 2021, I (at the time 19M) became friends with a guy (at the time 26M) through an online server we were in together. After chatting a little, we eventually formed a rapport where we’d text daily and throw jokes at each other. After some time, I started forming a crush on him, which I didn’t entertain because I felt like there was no chance it would come to anything good - he’d constantly make jokes sexualizing me and talking about my (very lacking) sex life, but he clarified once that it was all jokes. He was, in general, much more “active” than I am and would always toss around comments about how many guys he slept with and how good he was at laying pipe or whatever.
He still continued to make jokes sexualizing me, and in-between our dynamic, we had a lot of moments of genuine connection. We texted daily for a really long time and most nights a week, we would send each other “good morning” and “goodnight” messages. He’d ask for me to stream video games for him because he liked watching me play them, he even started buying and gifting me scary video games for me to play since he knew I was a fan of the horror genre. We would watch movies and shows together and have long, long phonecalls into the morning hours since we had a few hours timezone difference. I gave him ideas for planning for his friend’s Vegas bachelors party, and my recommendation actually made it in. I draw for fun and he’d always ask about what I was making and he’d practically beg me to show him if I ever let on that I was working on something. When I was going through the grief of a passed family member, he was there for me and made it clear that he wanted to keep me company so I could feel better.
He worked out and he would sometimes send me photos of him shirtless in the mirror, or sweaty after a session. I’d never really know what to say so I just tried to be supportive.
At the start of summer 2022, I confessed my feelings to him out of a desperate attempt to get the weight that was crushing me off of my chest. I wasn’t expecting anything and I made sure to clarify it - he was kind in his response but something I keep remembering is that he never actually said that he didn’t like me back or not. I don’t know why that stuck out to me.
A month later, he “admitted” to me on a late night phone call that he “didn’t think he was actually gay” and that I was the first person he ever admitted it to. I silently stared at the ceiling and cried. He had only ever told me stories and jokes and comments about how he’d have sex with men. He’d never told me a single moment about having sex or real interest in a woman. He told me that he didn’t feel any emotional connection with any man. His jokes sexualizing me on and off continued. Part of these jokes were how my want for a romantic relationship and my want for safety and affection were somehow more “explicit” than him having sex with people.
We got closer that summer than we had before. We called each other more, we watched movies more often, and he insisted on us marathoning Cowboy Bebop together because it was his favorite anime. I caught COVID for the first time in August due to my fuckhead relatives not telling me that someone had it during a wedding, and I was bedridden for a week. He kept me company for so much time - nearly streaming video games for me every night. I’d hobble downstairs after everyone had left the area so we could play Fall Guys together, and even when he teased me he was kind because every time I tried speaking more than a sentence I would break into nonstop bouts of coughing. He’d wanted to do a DND campaign for me where I would be the only player, and that we’d have fun together where I could play in a sandbox world he’d create for me himself.
After that summer there was suddenly this distance. I’d reach out to ask to watch movies but he was more busy. The streams stopped being regular and he stopped asking for them. The good morning and goodnight messages stopped and the conversations dried up into five-message exchanges where I’d try to engage him but they’d eventually peter out from his end. He started just sending me Twitter memes without any real comments, or the comments he did send were bland and basic jokes.
My father was admitted to the hospital for sudden complications that nearly killed him and I realized I didn’t tell my friend. That was the first nail in the coffin for some reason. Even though he was kind, he wasn’t good at using comforting words - he knew how to comfort me through trying to make me smile and laugh. I didnt tell him and I still don’t fully know why. The distance became more apparent when summer 2023 came and went because I was excited for it. I was hoping we would be able to do stuff and more, but we didn’t. I could have asked him but for some reason I felt like I couldn’t - he was the one that usually asked in the first place. Our text conversations were reduced to him sending me memes on Twitter and he’d turn down my requests to watch movies, even if I asked because I needed the company after a bad day. Out of the blue, one day, he texted me that one of his dogs died. I’d seen photos of his dogs near-daily for years and this sudden revelation shocked me because of how it was just dropped on me out of nowhere - months of this emotional distance suddenly precluding this bombshell announcement. It really upset me and I tried offering comfort but he just brushed it off again when I tried.
At one point I stopped answering his messages because I wanted to see what would happen if I ignored them. The guilt went away for some reason - it vanished and I felt like I was free from the shackles of the situation and like I could breathe in the fresh air. I accidentally messed up though, and after five days of not answering him he chirped and asked how was I, and I broke down. I blocked him before unblocking him a few hours later to confess to him that I was completely melting and that I couldn’t be his friend anymore. I blamed my reaction on myself and my inability to tackle my own emotions, but everyone I’ve explained this to and shown conversations to say that he was emotionally toying with me, even if he didn’t actively realize it.
I explained everything as best as I could through my tears and then told him goodbye. After a few months I wrote a detailed Google doc explaining everything as best as I could and I sent it to him through a social media profile of his that I suspect is dead and inactive now.
I miss him. I miss him so fucking much. I miss his nose and his laugh and his stupid stiff awkward smile and I hate that I ever loved him and that I think I still love him now. Being around him wasn’t good for me but I want him back so badly - I want to go running back to him begging for his forgiveness because I still feel like all of this is my fault. I feel like I pushed through a boundary but the more I look at the big picture I wonder if that boundary was ever really there. He’d make jokes about having sex with me to mutual friends but never having a relationship - hed joke that my need for comfort and emotional vulnerability was because I was a “bottom” and it’s just normal “bottom things”. I miss him so much and I want to contact him again even though everything in me is screaming that that is not the right direction. I see when he’s on Steam sometimes because we’re still friends on that platform and I can’t bring myself to unfriended him even though I unmerged our game libraries.
I miss him. I miss him so so much and I wish he could tell me that everything’s going to be ok, but I think him shoving himself back into the closet broke something so deeply about how I see him that I can’t trust his words anymore.

Do you think this is perminant or are they messing with their blocking methods?

Hi, I need some help with Apex legends
I am new to the game, and wasn't really planning on continuing playing, but my friend needed my help, so my friend gifted me the battle pass and I really started to like it 😊 So the battle pass just gone (Season 20) I unlocked skins Valkyrie, Rampart, Loba etc etc and I competed all the tasks to unlock them permanently and I managed to do the whole battle pass in a week, then I realised I had too many accounts to keep up with and I wanted my epic, EA, PS4, twitch, steam etc all in the same place ( it was getting confusing) and like a fool I regrettably and unfortunately unlinked my steam account and lost EVERYTHING in apex 😭 ( I'm too scared to check my other games) 😔I am of course gutted.
So... I have to start again.. so what I really want to know is... Was the unlocking of the skins last battle pass a one off?, if I start again, with this season's battle pass ( may, season 21) will I unlock the skins again for me to permanently unblock via the challenges?, because I really want the skins back 😔 I put in a lot of hours, and now I feel bad for my friend gifting me the pass too, because honestly if they don't unlock again I won't buy the battle pass there's no point, n it's such a shame because I really started to like the game 😭

Friend has been blocked by accident just at the time the social media started going wrong. During the process of trying to fix it, I have accidentally blocked him by spamming an invite. We’ve been having to land on planets to play together as I couldn’t unblock as the Blocked Players list showed no blocked players.
Now the new patch is out we can now see blocked players. We can both still join on a planet but neither of us can unblock - there is no unblock option on our menus, this also applies to legitimately blocked players which I was trying to test this on.
I am in PC (Steam) with a linked PS5 account. My friend is on PS5.
Any ideas?

🛠️ PATCH 01.000.302 ⚙️

🌍 Overview

For this patch, we have made improvements and changes to the following areas:

• Some weapon and enemy balancing
• Crash fixes
• Social Menu issues
• DoT damage fix
• Misaligned scopes fix
• General fixes and improvements

⚖️ Balancing

Primary, Secondary, & Support Weapons

• R-9 Eruptor
  • Increased explosion damage by 40 and removed shrapnel from the explosion
  • This is to avoid cases in which players would randomly one-shot themselves or their teammates in a huge radius around the explosion

Enemies

• Increased Shrieker sight and hearing range slightly.
• Increased Gunship hearing range slightly.

🔧 Fixes

Gameplay

• We have fixed issues with the way Damage-over-time effects were being applied. This should fix issues where only the network session owner could apply them, and other cases where they would be applied inconsistently.
• Firing the Punisher Plasma while wearing a shield backpack no longer damages the Helldiver
• Fixed issues with some weapon scopes not being aligned in First-Person-View.
• The sound when stimming no longer plays while being interrupted
• Major orders with the “Kill task” now track score correctly. Previously it counted the entire squad’s kills once for each player, meaning it would multiply the score by the number of people on the mission; this is now amended.
• Helldivers can no longer land on tall rocks in the “Horde Defend Missions”
• Helldivers can no longer land on top of bug pillars in Deactivate Terminid Control System missions
• Fix for the reinforce stratagem not being present if a Helldiver leaves the session before readying up and then hot joining the active session

Crashes

• Fixed a crash that could occur when all players were dead on the “Deactivate Terminid Control System” mission
• Fixed a crash that could occur on game shutdown
• Fixed a crash that could occur when leaving the mission and rejoining
• Fixed a crash that could occur at the end of cutscenes
• Fixed a crash that could occur when diving into missions
• Fixed a tutorial crash that could occur on PC when ALT+Tabbing
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur when using beam weapons
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur for players on startup when using VPN
• Fixed a soft lock that could occur if the player would open the text chat while having the stratagem menu open
• Other general crash fixes

Social Menu fixes

• PC players adding friends through friend codes can no longer show up as “Unknown”
• Fixed overlapping footers inside menus
• Steam friends should now be visible in Social Menu, even though Friends List is not set to Public in Steam Privacy Settings
• Recent Players list will now include hot-joining players
• Players are now able to unblock players that were not in their friends list beforehand
• Fixed issue with empty friend-names in Social Menu
• Lobby privacy mode text updates immediately when changed
• Player names longer than 26 characters should now update properly in the Social Menu
• Fixed issue where non-host players could kick others indiscriminately including the host

Other

• Total purchased counter on the right side of the Robotics Workshop section no longer displays 7 / 8 despite all stratagems being purchased
• Resolved some edge cases related to Steam AppId related errors on login

🧠 Known Issues

These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed.

• Players may not have the option to send, accept or decline friend requests.
• Blocked players are not added to the Blocked Players list and are not prevented from joining games.
• Reinforcement may not be available for some players who join a game in progress.
• Helldiver may be unable to stand up from crouching when surrounded by enemies.
• Game may crash if the player changes the text language while on a mission.
• Players may experience delays in Medals and Super Credits payouts.
• Enemies that bleed out do not progress Personal Orders and Eradicate missions.
• Arc weapons sometimes behave inconsistently and sometimes misfire.
• Spear’s targeting is inconsistent, making it hard to lock-on to larger enemies.
• Stratagem beam might attach itself to an enemy but it will deploy to its original location.
• Explosions do not break your limbs (except for when you fly into a rock).
• Area around Automaton Detector Tower makes blue stratagems such as the Hellbomb bounce and be repelled when trying to call them down close to the tower.
• Planet liberation reaches 100% at the end of every Defend mission.
• Some weapons in the tutorial have missing parts presenting as question marks in some cases.

Sony may be defeated but Steam is still blocking purchases of the game in those countries. Do not celebrate too early.

Installed the latest Kat software. Each time I open SteamVR I recieve tis error. Then I have to unblock KatVR and restart SteamVR. Then it does it all over again. Not even trying to start a game yet.

Greetings PVZH subreddit!
Today I wanted to present my take on the tier list. Note that I am not like some super competitive tournament player, but mostly a casual player who has garnered some opinions on the game I'd like to share.
Tiers will be divided into S Tier, A Tier, B Tier, C Tier and D Tier. Also, I will not be placing Beta-Carrotina and Super Brainz on the tier list, as they are usually worse versions of Citron and HG, which are more worth discussing.
- D TIER heroes have some redeeming combos and strategies, but are overall lacking meta qualities.
Neptuna - I think she is probably the worst hero in the game. She's quite similar to Brain Freeze, who I'll discuss later, but her synergies are just very wonky. Stuff like MUG doesn't quite synergize well with Going Viral and if you go full Pogo, MUG, Yeti, there are certain plant heroes that will get stomped by that but most meta plant heroes can completely counter with a single Blockbuster (a very relevant card) to the extent she will not be able to make it back into the game. Her super is a very very good control tool though.
Spudow - I feel like the burst 3-nut decks have fallen a little out of the limelight - and even then, Spudow is probably the worst user of that archetype of deck. Guardian package is good, but any other class compliments it better than Kabloom, which is a class that doesn't really hold a lot of versatile cards when the competition are brainy teleports that can outvalue easily or Crazy class combo decks that can overwhelm Kabloom's aggro or control. Spudow's super is actually not bad. It can be filled into any lane and take down a powerful zombie + front a valueble plant, but still.. this hero is quite weak to me.
Nightcap - This is very difficult to place on a tier list. However, his only viable strategy being cyclecap is very easy to counter. Nightcap is a hero that is very high-risk, high reward and can completely steamroll a match with certain combos but can also be countered by 2-3 bad turns and fall behind infinitely. The saving grace is that bean synergy and kabloom is a combo that can decide games quite quickly when against an unlucky opponent with no answers but still - pretty awful superpowers, pretty random class synergy with a weak class and the smarty class only being strong when supporting a very good class. Let me know what you think of this placement :)
The Smash - against the right type of deck, The Smash can run a player out of cards and outvalue immensely. He is often seen as the worst hero because of hearty/beasty being two support classes but when you have cards like cyborg, bounty hunter, extinction event + cards like black hole, flick, weedspray, there is a certain strength to The Smash where he can completely cripple and slowly bleed dry an opponent. It's just very matchup dependent so I can't place it higher. Plus, the hero is generally very slow and relies on out-valuing in a long game instead of making proactive plays with high damage combos. Struggles against too many good plant heroes to place it higher.
Solar Flare - Kabloom is not good lmfao. But Solar is amazing. Solar Flare is super fun to play, I have a blast playing her with molekale, pear paradise decks, etc. Competitive viability is not super high though, she really struggles against gravestones and cannot run metal heal combo decks well because of Kabloom limitations. Many players think Solar Flare is amazing and this might be a hot take, but I honestly don't find any consistent strategy with her. There's the often recommended Aggro Flare deck, but every single meta zombie hero can make it run out of steam and outvalue. Still though, I don't think she is the very bottom of the barrel because she is still a solar hero either way.
- C TIER decent heroes that have a few solid strategies but lie outside the most prominent meta.
Brain Freeze - BF has 3 quite underwhelming powers (Galvanize is pretty good though), but I think the selection of cards he has is a bit stronger than Neptuna. Area 22 naturally works better with graves and the cowboy + graveyard strategy is a bit better aided by the Beastly class. I think he just has more frightening combos than Neptuna so he'll be slightly above her. Additionally, when comparing the two's most meta decks, I believe BF's fair a bit better against most plant matchups. Even though not very high tier, Brain Freeze has a lot of suffocating strategies that can lock an opponent out of options while setting up massive threats. Pretty overhated hero tbh.
Captain Combustible - CC is a hero that can establish very powerful tempo and create win conditions. There are strong strategies with Lily and Veg Mutation, and of the dino roar cards naturally give you free tempo. However, he has very very little tools to answer opponent's threats. Kabloom does not have very good cards to remove stuff later into the game and megagrow isnt a class which has lots of solutions to meta zombie decks with teleports. Of course, I have to discuss the Re-Peat moss strategy with CC's super and Time to Shine. This combo is very strong of course, you can finish someone off with zero interaction from them in a turn or two. I argue though that this is wildly inconsistent as it requires you not only draw the exact combo, but also need your opponent to be clueless enough to rotate through your block meter to find the combo. Honestly, I just don't see the consistency.
Electric Boogaloo - A hero that can establish tempo while (to some degree) control enemy threats thanks to having double bolt supers. Beastly/Crazy's main strength is the ability to make positive trades and stall for high damage combos - namely stuff like Binary + A22 or plays involving Secret Agent. You have a very solid selection of cheap cards such as Conman, Cheese Cutter, Dog WalkeCyborg and Aerobics. You also have fruitcake, final mission, etc to unblock lanes to hit face. These cards, and also Area 22 are often Boog's centerpiece in decks to remain competitive. The issue lies in its inconsistency in combating heal mid plant decks.
Z-Mech - The other "double bolt" hero is in my opinion, equal with Boog. Just with slightly different strengths. Similar to Boog, Zmech is great at playing cards on a well-rounded curve but he excels more using rock wall and hearty treat to keep key zombies alive - these key zombies being either Teacher, Flag Zombie or Gargologist. These cost reduction cards are what makes Z-Mech good as he can "manipulate his curve" and accelerate a game plan to play threats before turns where opponent's answers are in the picture. Despite having control tools with hearty's flick, rolling stone, weedspray etc and crazy's fruitcake, final mission, etc, Z-mech's game plan is very much one of playing threats and removing enemy threats or buffing your own guys to keep them alive until you overwhelm the enemy. Solid hero as well, but struggles against heal as well.
Grass Knuckles - Guardian package plus stuff like Black Eyed Pea and Bananasaurus makes GK the king of tempo. Plus he has possibly the strongest superpower in the game - Time To Shine, and Rumble is actually a very potent superpower when used correctly (not on turn 1 lmao). You also have quite a strong finisher in Gatling Pea. This hero is overall strong, but lacks the extreme cheaply powerful mechanics of Solar class, which defines the meta in a monumental way. Also, certain zombie heroes are really adept at answering any tempo move GK can attempt, which makes him shy of being higher tier. The issue here is just that despite being pretty annoying at times with guardian package, Citron and Wall-Knight are way more obnoxious with that same package of cards - and most of the time, GK's game plans come off more honest and direct and easier to play around. Still a very solid hero, but must be seperate tiers from the afformentioned two guardian heroes
- B TIER will be heroes that are strong and overall viable, but have slightly clearer weaknesses.
Huge-Gigantacus - This hero is not as strong as the other brainy heroes to me, but still has a ton of viability namely using that one deck, Telimps - which has a game plan of teleporting toxic waste and other imps to control the field until it is favorable for you to end the game with blob or cowboy. You also have Ice Moon and HG Sig. The former is extremely strong because it not only auto wins you a trade, but allows you to potentially get a huge shot at face, and the latter while less valuable later on, can singlehandedly put you on the driver's seat for the first few turns if its your starting super. Overall very, very solid hero with some seriously unfair and game-changing combos, but a bit less consistent. The lack of deck viability also makes me question placing him higher.
Green Shadow - The most underrated hero in the game because almost everyone is playing her wrong. Going full aggro is not the way with GS. Green Shadow is very strong because you have the ability to both outscale and make good trades while controlling the board for mega combos to win. Additionally, you have b a n a n a s, why is this strong? Half bananas give you free insurance to outvalue while also trading and answering certain threats. For example, a Banana Split with only one half banana buff can win a trade with Cowboy, that's something to note because graveyard cowboy is often very hard to deal with. Furthermore, playing boosted B-Rexs on turn 4 is extremely scary for the opponent as for example, bolt will no no longer be an answer to it. You have cards like banana peel, violet and jelly bean to unblock lanes for a huge hit. These are options that make your game plan very unpredictable and sometimes even hard to play around. Overall, easy value + the ability to unblock lanes and make decisive plays make GS very underrated. This is my main right now, and I really enjoy this hero!
Immorticia - Immorticia is a very strong hero that excels at control and high damage combos. You are able to both generate momentum and outvalue or make near one-shots to end games in a single turn with A22 and Trickster. This gives her a certain advantage against heroes that may take longer to get lethal, as heal becomes less of a threat to her. Being a brainy hero, Immorticia naturally belongs in the upper echelon of the game. However, she has two weaknesses. First, she does not outvalue Solar (I don't think anything does lmfao), she may have difficulty against Pepper + Lil Buddy and you will not have enough Rockets to answer everything. Second, unlike Rustbolt, she does not have an easy way to deal with ForgetMeNuts or Black Eyed Pea. Both these cards make it difficult for her to assume her game plan. Still though, very very strong hero that is often overlooked. My favorite zombie hero, I like vampires and witches and spooky shit :)
Citron - Citron is a strong hero with a very complete and rounded out class of Guardian as well as the added Smarty cards which gives him a unique arsenal of cards that can counter just about anything thrown at you. Citron is strong to me because you have the ability to swarm the board and play very proactively, but you also have efficient answers to threats. As a result, its easier to finish the opponent off quickly before you run out of steam. It's also easier to focus on your own win condition instead of being suddenly overwhelmed by 1-2 bad turns. Also, Citron is the best user of 3-Nut burst, a deck that has seen less competitive viability but remains at utmost potential when partnered with bean synergy. Lastly, it is worth noting that Peel Shield is actually one of the best supers in the game - you can completely swing games to your favor with a 1 sun cost and a single card. The only weakness I can think of is that Citron needs to stay ahead or at least stay even. In a losing situation, Citron does not have Solar cards such as Cob or mass healing to bring you back into the game.
- A TIER are heroes that are meta and very strong.
Chompzilla - A competitively strong hero due to possession of the Solar class plus Mega Grow's combo potential. You basically have a hero who can not only stall by making favorable trades and healing, but also have strong late game cards with Megagrow such as Gatling or Potatosaurus on top of Solar's already powerful late game too, making it worth to opt for ramp cards. AND Chompzilla also is able to establish some form of tempo with for example, Muscle Sprout and cheap cards like Kernel-Pult and Lil Buddy. Overall, this hero may not be the absolute strongest, but I find Chompzilla a very balanced and versatile hero who can opt for a variety of game plans in a single deck. This is the quality that makes her very strong, as it is harder to completely counter her.
Professor Brainstorm - A hero I have never been really good at playing, but a hero with frankly, some of the most unfair mechanics in the game with trickster in combination with crazy package as well as mustache waxer. Brainstorm also has that infamous teleport garg-throwing-imp to punish team-ups with 2 free gargs - although with the lessened viability of 3-Nut, that specific interaction is a tad less relevant. Anyhow, I am convinced the brainy/crazy combination lends to some of the most potent card combos. Brainstorm does it all with good control tools, good finishers and a potent ability to overwhelm and swarm the board too. A very strong jack of all trades hero that always remains viable.
Rustbolt - In my humble opinion, Rustbolt is the best zombie control hero in the game as he is most suited to combat heal mid decks with his tools. Furthermore, he has an easier time dealing with anti-trick cards with weedspray, flick, etc than Immorticia can with nibble or extinction. The hearty brainy interactions also mean you can not only play strings of tricks with Teacher, but teleport in a Teacher to make it unanswerable which of course, lends to some really strong Trickster tech. What also makes Rustbolt shine is he is not limited to Trickster as much. He can run hybrid swarm decks mixing in trick-centric game plans to generate an overwhelming board similar to how Z-Mech would, but even stronger as you can teleport your minions in. Very strong hero as the hearty/brainy combination gives you very strong mid and late game. Although his early game is a bit less reliable, the combo potential brings him to S tier.
- S TIER. These are the best heroes in the game.
Impfinity - Commonly agreed to be S tier. This hero is absolutely absurd with the combos, even without card draw and teleports. There is no other zombie hero that can play fast and burst down an opponent, and surprisingly gets even more dangerous with mid game combos. You have a host of ways to find answers and generate steam with graveboy, spacetime+quazard, binary stars, smoke bombs to hit face, rapidly scaling raptors, etc. There are many ways to find lethal with Impfinity, but also a sense of consistency in finding that lethal even amid potential threats to your game plan. I put Impfinity a little higher than Rustbolt and PB because with this hero, you arnt even playing control. Most of the time, you are completely in the drivers seat dictating the game to set up lethal. You are able to reach lethal faster too.
Wall-Knight - Super annoying hero who controls the best 2 plant classes. Wallknight's key strength is neutralizing the board and stalling for late game with heals, removal (including grave removal) and combos that punish attempts to aggro you early. There's not too much to say here as the guardian and solar are the strongest plant classes, so having both really presents the argument on its own as you command the two most nuanced and complete classes gaining full benefit from both. Wall-Knight has the tools to neutralize almost any threat, and is probably the best control hero in the game for that reason. He sits in S tier for his highly consistent game plan and arsenal of many of the best cards in the game.
Rose - The best plant hero in the game, and maybe the best overall. Rose's synergies make it super difficult to punish her. For example, you have unique interactions with Rescue Radish to play active abilities a second time. Both aggro and late game trick-centric zombie decks suffer against Rose with pepper + lil buddy and cards like brainana and dragon respectively. There's just so little that can work around and outplay a good Rose deck. It's also worth noting her selection of supers are really good in conjunction, and that gives her a very very powerful kit. While Mog isnt a super strong power. Having both Mog AND Goat means you can answer a big threat for almost no cost not once, but TWICE. Weed Whack also answers some threats and Freeze can win you trades and cycle your deck. With Rose, you have tools to halt early threats, strong mid game combos and an unstoppable late game as well. She has almost every possible strength available to her. Fuck Rose.
Wow that was a lot of yapping, I am sick today though so I guess this was a nice way to spend my time. Let me know what you think, and thank you if you read the whole thing <3

Put simply, for the last few months Im unable to purchase games on steam using my revolut card. Steam asks me to verify in the revolut app, I open the app and confirm, revolut says it's confimed while steam says my credit card information was declined by my credit card company. What gives?
Now, eventually after several tries and going through the "Unblock CVV" it does work, but the CVV has no business being blocked in the first place and quite frankly it should be mentioned to me during the confirmation progress that it is. How could it possibly be a good idea to tell me that the payment is confirmed, only to block it?

Went into NC again yesterday, after a week of it.. ex girlfriend and I were together for 10 years, the first 7 years was amazing, she became my best friend in the world, we supported each other, and hardly ever got into fights, we broke up after the 7 years, cause she started pulling away a lot, she started having some health issues, she was having to take care of her parents more than before, and she was entering into a bad state of depression. Me sensing her pulling away, got scared and kept trying to work things out with her, to help ,talk and spend time together, which of course made her pull back more.
She ended up breaking up with me in the middle of the night via a text message while I slept, when I woke up my heart was broken , she had already blocked me and I tried to contact her, she didn't speak to me for awhile and I just left her be, a couple months later she reached out, wanting to talk and started to talk again as friends, I still gave her space, and a couple months later again, she came back wanting to be together again. Nothing made me happier cause of how much I missed her.
Now, roughly a month ago, her and I were still together, but it felt the same again.. she had pulled away a lot, she had been back in her depression and I tried to help bring her out of it, even to the point she realized she was in the rut, but didn't want help, she started being real snappy at me and passive aggressive at times, there was some days we wouldn't even talk at all cause of how she felt, or she was just angry and in a bad mood.
About 4 weeks ago today, I messaged her good morning and she made a passive aggressive comment to me again... and to be honest, I lost it.. I got so angry at her, and spewed a lot of pent up hurt and pain I had pent up over all that time, I said some hurtful things to her, that I knew would hurt her, and used some personnel things as well, I hated what I did as soon as I did it and tried to remove the text but she saw it, and lashed back, we went back and forth for a little while, and she told me she was breaking up with me. I tried to tell her to stop that I was sorry, and she did.. she had me blocked on everything but discord.. she said she was so hurt, and in pain and angry she didn't know what to do yet so she left me on there, the next day we talked, and she expressed to me how hurt she was, and I felt so horrible for it all, I apologized over and over again, but she said she needed space. I told her I understood... my confusion after that sky rocketed.. she talked to me the next day, a bit, and then the next day .. a lot, back and forth talking for hours, games, shows, anime, even some light hearted banter and jabbing... then.. next two days, silence.. completely ignored, I asked a few days later if she was ok, and she said "yes, but just cause we talked a bit didn't mean we were buddies again" I told her I understood and left it.. few days later, she was chatty again, then.. nothing.. it was hot and cold, hot and cold, over and over again.
Now one week ago, I asked if she wanted to watch a show with me at some point in the future, she said just cause we talk some didn't mean she wanted to do anything with me yet or ever. It hurt and confused me again.. I told her I understood but (and this is what made her angry) I told her "I know you are also a smart woman (name) it doesn't take you 3 weeks to know if you want me in your life or not.. I know you like to punish me for what I did, and I hate what I said and did, and I regret it everyday, wishing I could take it back, But hell has no fury like a (name) scorn, so I know you probably won't talk to me normally for awhile, as much as that hurts to know."
I thought what I was saying was gonna help in some way, to show her that I know I fucked up and wish I could take it back, that I accepted she wouldn't talk to me normally for awhile and I would wait to she felt better.. or something like that.. the scorn thing was just to be a slight banter joke at her, like we had done before but .. she wasn't in the mood, and soon after she was raging mad at me, telling me how that's the shit that pisses her off, that I would think she was mad for no reason and just wanting to punish me, that I thought of her as some spiteful scorn woman, and that I just helped her make up her mind, that she didn't want anything to do with me anymore, she was over it all. And with that, she blocked me and removed me from everything.
I was completely crushed and heart broken, I didn't mean to insult her, I just was trying to help and I wanted nothing more to take it back, or tell her I didn't me it that way at all.. but it was too late, I tried making a second discord account real quick with the same name, so she would know it was me, and tried adding her, she blocked it, and I tried sending her an email apologizing, blocked as well. So NC started.
Last part of the story, a couple days ago, 5 days into NC, I admit.. curiously, late at night I tried adding her to discord.. I wasn't blocked anymore, and then I removed the request. I assumed it was a mistake, so I tried again.. still was able to add but I removed it. I tried it on the 2nd account I made, to try and talk to her a week ago, it was unblocked as well... I checked steam, I was unblocked.. I didn't understand what was going on, I was still blocked on the phone however. I didn't know what to do, I talked to friends about it, both gave different ideas of what to do, but I thought I should try reaching out, maybe she wanted to talk but just wanted to open the door to me, I was the one that messed up after all.. I thought.. So I sent her an email yesterday, explaining to her it was an old work email I had and that I admitted that I saw I wasn't blocked anymore, and I told her I wasn't gonna ask her to talk to me again, or beg her, that I knew she needed time, I just wanted to tell her sorry for what I did and what I said, and that I didn't mean it the way it sounded.. and that I hope one day she'd talk to me and forgive me, and that I'll always care about her.
30mins or so after sending it, no reply, and I was re-blocked on discord on both accounts, steam, and she changed her discord name slightly.. I know I shouldn't have sent her the email, I just was so confused and wanted her to talk to me, but back to NC I go.. and to work on myself, whenever I can get myself up out of feeling depressed.. I just hope I didn't mess up too much.. and that she will talk to me at some point.

This is part six and the finale of my posts about Sticker Star's design where I will be going in depth in the design of each level in the game. I played in Japanese so some text nuance is lost and I didn't use thing stickers, but I will still be talking about them design wise. Everyone always says how this world is the worst one in the entire game and I went in expecting to have an awful time and sure there were some issues that could have been ironed out before release, but other than that I was pleasantly surprised by just how well designed these two levels were.
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Level 6-1:

I will not be ranking this as it's literally just a boat with a cutscene. It serves what it needs to well, not to mention that it's really easy to figure out what to do afterwards as Kersti asks if you have any friends that could help and the only person you've befriended the entire game is Wiggler.
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Level 6-2

This level is very good and it provides a decent challenge. The puzzles are simple but nice and make sense, and the enemies as well as the area give strong stickers that can be used against the boss to make it very interesting and enjoyable as well as acting as a tutorial for the tail sticker. At first I thought that Bowser Jr was a little too difficult but that was because I beat him without using the tail as I didn't understand what it could do due to playing in Japanese.
I give this level a 9.5/10 for all in all being very enjoyable and well designed with a nice boss to cap it off, but it's lowered just a little bit by having some annoying enemy spam here and there.
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Level 6-3 & Boss GiraGiraBowser:

I will be combining the level and boss since it's so short and really serves as an area for the boss with little to no anything other than Kamek. Speaking of Kamek, contrary to popular belief his battle actually IS different than the 2-2 one, in that one when Kamek used his magic you could still see rarities, but in the 6-3 one they all look common as well as him duplicating of course. Too bad he is just as weak as the first one though, but at least it's easy and doesn't waste your stickers. The little platforming section is barely anything to write home about and just serves to get your brain running for the boss.
Now we are on to the final ranking, GiraGiraBowser. I beat him legit without thing stickers or infinijumps and I had a very fun time with it, and obviously it isn't perfect but I'll explain why it's actually very well designed. This boss actually got the use of thing stickers PERFECT compared to the rest of the game, instead of destroying the bosses health bar making them a joke they instead remove the boss's gimmick in an interesting way. Sure you can staple the wall to stop reinforcements, sure you can instantly cut up the whomp, sure you can freeze the fire, these are all things you CAN do but they don't make the boss a joke, they instead make the boss weaker in an organic way by removing the extra variable. They are also pretty self explanatory and multiple thing stickers can solve them making it not as hard to figure out as people say. It's absolutely incredible how good it was designed and I wish every boss had that philosophy but oh well.
In the first phase Bowser summons 3 of his lackeys every turn and if the space is already full he just won't summon that one, you can take advantage of that using pow blocks and hammers to weaken the enemies than take them out the next turn in one hit freeing up the second and third hit for bowser. You can also abuse crumple if you want but it isn't necessary.
After about 100 damage bowser will go into the second phase which is easily the best phase. You hit the whomp 3 times to knock him over and then you can wail on his back to get him off the field for good which makes him only a threat if you aren't fast enough to defeat him before he attacks. He also very clearly displays his weakness so you can capitalize on it if you are able.
The third phase is easy as Bowser starts attacking with fireballs. You don't have to worry about crumple or anything like that and the fireballs are pretty weak, but I swear you can't block any after the first one so it's just annoying.
The fourth phase is simple just use the tail sticker and instantly win y knocking the Chain Chomp into Bowser, which is easily the worst designed one because if you don't have the sticker than good luck getting past the annoying invincible Chain Chomp. Edit: You can occasionally get tail stickers from getting hit in this phase and you can also use a slap hammer for the chain chomp.
The fifth phase is pretty cool, but most people will run out of steam at this point due to just how long the boss fight is and run out of stickers. It's imperative that you use jumps ANY time you are able in the first four phases such as with crumple because once the first two hands one phase 5 are gone jumps WILL NOT WORK anymore. This is not very good design and he 100% shouldn't be immune to jumps in the final phase as if you run out of hammer stickers and any extra stickers such as shells then you have to restart the entire boss fight.
I give this boss and level combo a 8.5/10, I may have been complaining at the end and that, as well as the unblockable fire and too easy Kamek are why it isn't a 10, but everything else about this boss is designed so perfectly in almost every way that it's a shame the end phase causing such an easy sticker run out causes people to dislike it so adamantly. The sticker run out only happens if you don't have enough hammers however and if you have a lot of them you should have absolutely no issues. The only other issue is bowser calling reinforcements every turn in phase 1 and it really should have been every other turn.
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Final Result:

Overall based on my rankings I give Sticker Star Chapter 6
9/10
which would put Chapter 5 in S Rank!!! on a tier list
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Bonus "How many times did I run out of stickers" Segment:

I ran out of stickers or got close to running out of stickers a whole 1 times this chapter. I would have beaten him but bowser's fire burned my shell stickers and I ran out of hammers. I just changed my strategy a little and used jumps instead of hammers whenever I got the change and it was easy.
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How many times total did I run out of stickers?

I ran out of stickers a total of 3 times in the entire 20 hour game and I fought EVERY ENEMY which means that it's a very rare occurrence and there is absolutely no issue of running out of stickers. If people say they ran out constantly then they are lying or they weren't playing the game properly and were just hitting every enemy individually instead of trying to hit them all together.
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My Overall Rating

It terms of design there was one Chapter in B rank, four chapters in A rank, and one Chapter in S rank. thus, the overall rating for Sticker Star's level design is an A rank!
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Check out my previous post on how Chapter 5 is one of the best chapters in the game but one level ruins it

Here is my Hardest Bully Boss / Faction Clique fight in the game even in free roam (using mods)

1. Russel, I'm not understand why he is the first boss? I mean yes his boss mode is easy to counter using only 2 moves. But man in the free roam he is the scariest amongs all. I remember my old ps 2 play on 2006 that u was failed once because of russel smackdown attack when he is on low health
   
2. Johnny Vincent, he is the second hardest in my opinion, why? He got Attack that unblockable also that overhead axe kick that takes your half of your health, also the bike pipe stage make the game harder because of Soda limit for refill health. But if you have all hobos move he is very quick to defeat, just dont fight him too long. But i always enjoying fight him for long time because he has a very cool theme among all the boss.
   
3. Norton, he cannot be defeated easily with melee attacks, i tried once and it took me 2 tries to defeat him only using melee attack. But he is weak to firecrackers and super sling shot especially the bow super sling shot rapid rapid.
   
4. Edgar, if you don't know the pattern yet about blocking his attack you will lose so many health because his pipe can snoop out your health. But after you know the pattern he is very easy boss to defeat
   
5. Earnest, the breaking down the door is so hard. Especially on aniversary edition when you are using gamepad. The aiming is so bad that you need mouse or touch screen, also some nerds firing rocket launcher at you at the same time.
   
6. Bull Mascot, he got russel move but can be avoided, his bully attack move is very constant. Also he got headbutt and gut kick that can stun you.
   
7. Garry Smith, he got some unblockable combo attacks when he become the last boss of the game, also his long range throwing and all the traps he set can set your health very low and very dangerous to fight when you first time encounter him as a last boss
   
8. Derby Harrington, he is the coolest second boss that i love enjoying it for a long time. Why i said he is easy even tough he got evade move, 8 hit in a row, and absolute blocking? Because he spawn his minions. His minions drop soda that can refill health, i can defeat 50 or 100 preps on Dishonored fight quest. The fighting song make the fight very enjoyable.
   
9. Ted, he is the weakest boss i ever fight. I always got sleepy while fighting him, he is the most boring boss compared to all bossess in the game. I mean you just need to pick up some rugby balls with firecracker and throw it. After that you just 1 hit ko ted like what? Even when the task said i need to tackle ted, i was enjoying defeating all the jocks that come at me first. Usually i defeat 5 to 10 jocks and then i go after tex. I tought he was the captain but he is so weak and have small screen time. Even in free roam he is very weak.
   

I hope bully 2 can be released soon with some great story and cool boss fights. If there is a remake for bully 1 i will defenitely buy it on steam or consoles. This game is still gold after i played from ps 2 consoles to pc port to android port.

I am on ps5 and my buddy is on steam. I accidentally blocked my friend and he’s not showing up in my blocked players list to unblock him. I try to search his friend code and his name is just greyed out. He is able to send me friend requests but I am unable to accept them. When he was on my recent players list I was able to send him friend requests but none were accepted. This is crazy! I’m considering buying it on steam to be able to play with my friends. Please fix this devs I know it’s been an issue for some time now.