r/Outside

Alright, last thing for tonight, but hopefully you folks get a chuckle out of this.

For those of you who don't know, Reddit (the so-called "front page of the Internet", a semi-democratized link aggregator) has subs for just about every topic, from vexillology (the study of flags) to a sub entirely devoted to writing prompts based on ridiculous things Donald Trump has said to a subreddit called DucksInTheWay which is entirely devoted to pornographic pictures which are censored by the presence of conveniently placed rubber ducks. Yes, the sub is NSFW, so no link. No, they aren't photoshopped images; apparently people produce these images often enough on their own for them to be a thing.

There is even a sub devoted to ridiculous reddit subs.

But today, I found the ultimate sub: r/outside, devoted to the hit MMO Outside.

The top thread on it right now is entitled Why Does San Francisco have such a low draw distance?

Screenshot of Outside in San Francisco

Fortunately, akjax was there to explain:

As with most large cities, the extreme amount of objects, buildings, vehicles, and other players forces the draw distance to drop for performance sake. It's better to be able to cross a busy street without lag trying to kill you than being able to see stuff that's 20 blocks away.

This quickly lead to a conversation:

Spoonsforeggs
player xXX_m0SEs_xXx used console commands to change weather conditions once in order to get his clan away quicker with less lag, too overpowered so the creators stopped it.

SmashMetal
Did people actually perform mods such as this? I thought it was just legend.

spoonsforeggs
It was pretty much in beta at the time, hard to tell what happened back then.

PossiblyAsian
Alot more shit going down back then, now it's a stagnant metagame

spoonsforeggs
Tell that to clan: [ISIS]

bk15dcx
Before the draw distance was reduced, it resulted in a bug that burned down the entire city. A patch was implemented to avoid this from happening on a regular basis. So far it works ok.

_____D34DP00L_____
All those players on the London server would have been so pissed by that fire

MirRelevant
It happened before, on the Rome server, but the devs ignored it.

IPman0128
I thought the Roman's one was caused by a highly ranked player?

The Internet is a wonderful place.

Comments

[livinthelife]

Holy shit, that is beautiful, and you are a beautiful man for bringing it to us.

[shortskirtsandexplosions]

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[Yalwin Khales]

Why Does San Francisco have such a low draw distance?

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[Titanium Dragon]

3619769
Other threads in the sub are complaining about PK griefers in the Middle East servers, other people complaining about PvP being so heavily punished (why do they even let you PK if you're just going to get banned for it?), and then the thread about the NASA guild, which contains this gem:

I heard that the only players on the Mars server are actually bots, so I wouldn't really want to go there. And the Moon is just a way smaller server than the Earth server, the only official guild there is the USA guild :/

[Titanium Dragon]

3619770
I'm afraid so. D:

[Titanium Dragon]

Can we please move the PvP zone from the Middle East to Antarctica?

Yes, I know the vast majority of players are totally cool with the Middle East being a giant PvP zone. And yes, it has added some excitement to the game. But there are several problems with this.

The PvP zone is HUGE, and a large number of new players are still selected to randomly spawn there. Due to the size of the game, this means that the entire expanse of their character's existence may be within the PvP zone. That's ridiculously difficult. There are so many skillers and casual players that are stuck at ridiculously low levels despite grinding simply because they're stuck in the PvP zone.

The idea of a PvP zone with dramatic bonuses to male characters was initially enticing, I'll admit. But ONLY because the devs also promised we would get a different PvP zone with similar bonuses for female characters in another region. But as far as I'm aware, this still hasn't been released. In fact, male characters still have more initial bonuses on the vast majority of the map.

Antarctica would be WAY preferable because that way, all the PvP players could CHOOSE to go there. Right now, the Middle East is a mix of happy PvPers, and skillers that wish they had spawned somewhere else. Plus PvPers from American servers keep going into the PvP zone in the Middle East without having gone through ANY regional tutorials or anything. They're seriously pissing off the Middle East community and for good reason.

[FanOfMostEverything]

That is marvelous.

That said, the devs really need to rethink this "El Niño" event in the weather system. It's more than slightly ridiculous.

[Titanium Dragon]

What's the game's hardest boss battle, in your opinion?

Top response:
The leader of the USA guild is almost impossible to physically harm at this point. The last successful raid was in patch 11.22.63 and it's gotten like ten times harder at least since then.

[Steel Resolve]

3620027 There was an attempt in patch 3.30.81 that nearly succeeded.

[cleverpun]

Related. I'm too lazy to look up which came first, though, or if they both sprung from the same tired joke to begin with.

[Honeycomb]

HAHAHAHAHAHA REDDIT HUMOR SO FUNNY

REEEEEEEEE

[huor]

Ugh. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that r/Outside is not actually about an MMO.