🎮│game

[feral ferry]

I don't remember one for MGS or DS

[deft bloom]

you mean like the caution / alerted statuses?

[feral ferry]

MGSV or Death Stranding I do not remember one

Stealth isn't wanted

[deft bloom]

but anyway don't think it would give anything to a game if a chase worked like that a guy had to run down from having coffee at a police station to the roof's helipad and then lifting off from there and flying to the chase :E

[feral ferry]

I would appreciate realistic police in games like GTA

Helicopters updating your location on sight, peds calling cops to update your location that way

Not just magic, cops know exactly where you are

Like, come on, do it realistically

Cameras, civilians, air vehicles etc should actually have a purpose

[deft bloom]

well that's what they do in gta5? you can clearly see civilians calling the cops

[feral ferry]

Yeah but they don't really do anything other than give you 1 star level

The actual position of your character is always known to the cops in-game

I think a dynamic system where them knowing your last reported location actually matters would be rather fun, where you can actually outsmart the cops

[deft bloom]

that's not what it says in a wiki I'm reading but whatever

[fringe salmon]

you can escape the cops unless you are doing one of the heists in certain spots

but they do look at last known spot etc.

[deft bloom]

yeah they have a fov and search near the last known pos, also civilians report to them if you do anything weird and thus the last known pos updates

[fringe salmon]

it doesnt have pixel perfect searches so you cant do amzing tricks to behind a bush etc. but you can still hide sometimes just they are not super blind

[feral ferry]

Well in my experience GTA wanted level always felt arcadey

I wonder what they cooked up for GTA VI ngl, those leaked gameplay snippets looked really good

[deft bloom]

I've only seen the big butt woman shooting at random things so far

[feral ferry]

I had absolutely no intent in doing this but somehow I managed to recreate the damn annoying fan from Oblivion

[deft bloom]

lol

[orchid prism]

By Azura!

[feral ferry]

Well now it's going to be "By the Constellation!"

[feral ferry]

https://www.eurogamer.net/beware-baldurs-gate-3-has-a-save-preventing-bug

Interesting, cloud saves are bugging out

[orchid prism]

Hah

[feral ferry]

• Turn off the Cloud Sync to Baldur's Gate 3
• Remove the folder "C:\Users\myUser\AppData\Local\Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3"
• Start the game and not enable the Cloud Sync.
  Now you can save the game locally 🙂

[orchid prism]

I'm almost tempted to say Pirates win again.

[feral ferry]

When did they not win?

[orchid prism]

I mean... BG3 is DRM-Free, so for once I feel bad for the developer.

[feral ferry]

We already had our major win recently when PayDay 3 was announced to be always-online

So nobody will bother cracking that ass

[deft bloom]

haha I actually experienced that fucking bug last night when I started

quicksaved once and proceeded near the end of the starting area, all the while whacking f5 like I normally do, then my pc crashed and I had to restart from the start of the level

SYNCING SYNCING SYNCING fucker

[orchid prism]

I don't trust cloud syncing at all after losing hours of savegames from "this clearly empty cloud sync is the right now, we purged the older one which actually had savegames" on Steam.

Some games also sync graphical and other settings, which... is not amazing. My computers aren't identically specced, why would you assume this to be the case for the average user? 😄

[fringe salmon]

The assumption more likely is that they think you reinstall it and then keep your settings

But yeah, bad idea

[orchid prism]

I'd be down with that - But so far every time it just spreads it across all systems. You don't select a profile or anything.

[deft bloom]

I just enabled it because of crossplay, gonna play it later with my gf on ps5

well not crossplay, cross-save

[orchid prism]

Unless a service offers me to rollback syncing, I don't trust it to keep my savegames safe.

[deft bloom]

ahh work's done, let's play!

[feral drum]

that should actually be an option to choose when uninstalling a game or program in general. When i'm uninstalling stuff it doesn't mean i wanna keep the setting all the time. In fact keeping the settings by uninstalling a program tells me that they're applying shady methods. If i'm uninstalling something i'm well aware of the fact that my data might disappear and it should be like this all the time. Uninstall = Fuck off my PCs

i do get that keyboards and mice with built-in memory chips will keep the settings until these are changed and i'm totally fine with that. But a pure program or game should completely disappear from my drives if i decide to uninstall it. Not just every file of it, but also the flags it set in the registry

[fringe salmon]

I was on about cloud saves keeping that info instead of just save files of game states

[feral drum]

i'm fine with keeping it in a cloud for a specific amount of time before wiping that data

[fringe salmon]

huh

this is not privacy related at all

this was about a game having settings in the save files that steam backs up in cloud saves vs not having it in there so on different pcs you have the same config which isn't great since thats usualyl different hardware

[fading spade]

Wullf Den previously called out the touchpads on the Steam Deck as useless and shouldnt be there as wel as desktop mode being pointless

He just uploaded a video "I was wrong about the Deck touchpads" with the Nintedo Wii homescreen on the screen of the Deck

[feral ferry]

https://kotaku.com/death-stranding-2-ps5-pc-hideo-kojima-covid-pandemic-1850704196

Kojima will redefine the genre he himself invented?

[fading spade]

Kotaku constantly seem to be a joke of a site, right?

yeah :/

[orchid prism]

inb4 it's a game about beaches.

[feral ferry]

And a bunch of dead whales

And floating weird creatures in the sky

And babies in incubators?

Honestly idk what Kojimbo is doing anymore, seems he's into shock value nowadays

[timid iris]

Isn't that the walking simulator?

[orchid prism]

Amazon delivery in nepal simulator, yes.

[deft bloom]

*iceland

[orchid prism]

Eh... not green enough.

Faroe is too "flat"

Kyrat Ubereats!

https://tenor.com/view/vaas-farcry3-hello-insanity-chris-gif-13181187

[feral ferry]

https://twitter.com/Pokemon/status/1687449174021660672

Pokémon (@Pokemon)

The next #PokemonPresents arrives soon, Trainers!

Tune in to our official YouTube channel at 6:00 a.m. PDT on August 8 for 35 minutes of Pokémon news and updates! 🎊

https://t.co/Lxoud6kVxF

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[feral drum]

the same day i get proper high quality Gen 1-4 remasters

Hell, even a good Gen 3 remaster without the entire parallel universe bullshit would do. No X evolutions, no big bloated crap mode. Plain, simple Gen 3 remaster with new moves, the battle zone returning, new places to discover, etc.

[buoyant sinew]

any gd gamers in chat

[slim token]

they're bringing csgo to RoN let's go

[tough jay]

Nice, have been kind of out of the loop about payday3 but it seems good, quite enjoyed playing payday2 with a group back in it's early days but that group has long fallen apart

[trim rock]

I played that beta once, felt like someone just tried to remake it in UE4.. and it's kinda scuffed, but that's PD2 too

[slim token]

hoping this is implemented well

scroll and read

yes, lets give tact ops these boots

lol

lmao even

but who knows given the glove direction, they just might

they're certainly treading a line

although i suppose these are more tame

we'll see

i like teasing leave me be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd139Nin33M

gore warning

you're one to say

i was simply showing off the in game items 🤷

they've had multiplayer

get out from under your rock

[bleak pike]

reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

You need a login for payday

ffs

[slim token]

it's been planned since the beginning

🤷‍♂️

who tf is that

anyways seems some players are beating void to putting cs in the game

[bleak pike]

everything is micro transactions

in pd3

at least thats what i see in the menus

[slim token]

they are aiming to make ADS PIP

[slim token]

sound of a lifetime of trauma

[quiet vault]

https://clips.twitch.tv/TemperedAbstemiousPuddingYouWHY-zzE5s_drM_oTYbtk

bro is everywhere

[bleak pike]

the perf for payday 3 is soooooooo bad

47fps on 3080

high

EA

Also lul john cena

"I loved when Enigma said, “You can’t see me” and hid the Original PVE away"

[bleak pike]

@flat frostit seems you can buy premium currency

with in game... but its pretty bad

bhahahaah

@flat frost Payday 3 has already been modded

https://i.redd.it/v1p4o4pyu4gb1.png

scuse me?

i cant help but hear "kill the fucking jew"

[tired knoll]

Say less

[bleak pike]

xD

[still spire]

Ah the old Subnautica route

Advertise Co-op as a coming feature in Early Access then make a big post about how it's no longer planned and still universally praised

[slim token]

me when the

with night vision

when the

is not as bright

[tired knoll]

Is this on fitgirl

[slim token]

far

near

[tired knoll]

What is control about?

Haven’t heard of either of those

Show me some gameplay

No

Blanking

You need my Zelle?

Unless it’s on fitgirl

I haven’t been on my PC in a couple of days

Epic? I need to get that again then

[feral ferry]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/933110/Age_of_Empires_III_Definitive_Edition/

Steam

Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition

Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition offers players a trial of this historical single & multiplayer RTS experience. Enjoy diverse civilizations, co-op historical battles, stunning 4K Ultra HD graphics and modernized gameplay. For more ongoing fun, content unlocks will rotate monthly, which includes rotating civilizations, Hero Cosmetics an...

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Best AoE is free

[tired knoll]

Why is it free

[fallow bronze]

a trail is temp free right?

[orchid prism]

It's just a "free weekend" kind of deal.

It'll stop working.

[tired knoll]

But if I get it know I can keep it forever?

[orchid prism]

No?

Well you CAN, but Steam won't boot it up.

[feral ferry]

That's why CreamAPI was invented

[orchid prism]

[feral ferry]

Interesting

[tired knoll]

My game after pirating it without knowing anything about that

[feral ferry]

This game seems like one of those games where they are in the "actually worth the money" list

No mod support though, hm

[tired knoll]

Baldurs?

[quick spruce]

banana

[small comet]

thats the next mass effect

[feral ferry]

Although I have a bit of a gripe with games like Baldur's and I guess by extension Divinity

They are so damn slow

[orchid prism]

Uhh... what

[feral ferry]

BD supports mods?

[orchid prism]

We've had a mod manager for months and everything.

[feral ferry]

I'm interested

[orchid prism]

It's not official, but it works just fine. Hop on over to Nexusmods to see the beginnings of release version mods.

[feral ferry]

Ahh, it's the "edit" type of mods

[orchid prism]

Classic .pak approach, yes.

[feral ferry]

Not really additions but more like game content edits to achieve something else

Not the type of mods I like

[orchid prism]

The game has been out for less than 24 hours.

[small comet]

vex wants to make baldurs gate 3 into mass effect

[orchid prism]

Most mods made during EA didn't really have context for the full game 😛

[feral ferry]

Nah, Skyrim

[small comet]

ok im now against those mods

[feral ferry]

Or Xcom 2 actually, Xcom had pretty damn good solid mod support

[feral ferry]

Didn't ask

[small comet]

how would mods make baldurs into xcom

[orchid prism]

I wouldn't be surprised if they added an official SDK for it eventually.

[small comet]

that be one impressive conversion mod

[feral ferry]

It already plays somewhat like Xcom

Just add in some space guns and it's as good as xcom

Mojang's been doing some really questionable things lately

[orchid prism]

As I understand this is not new. They just rewrote existing terms to be more readable.

But terrible.

ALMOST accidentally made gnome hitler.

[feral ferry]

That was not a sentence I was ever expecting from you, Mansen

[orchid prism]

I was playing around with character generation, and when I looked at the final result...

Dark Urges, Gnome and the beard. It all fell into place TOO well

[feral ferry]

Dark urges was the only, what's the name of it, origin? I had available for a paladin

So I was like "ok idk what this does, can't change it anyways so whatever"

I regret not picking other classes cause this origin sucks

[orchid prism]

It's the only non-companion origin - Interesting concept imo.

But I'm still going to finish the game as Astarion first.

[feral ferry]

I nearly went and restarted the whole campaign yesterday

Something something dark urges and episodes of amnesiac ruthless slaughter

[woeful plume]

s

[willow quiver]

x

[feral ferry]

https://youtu.be/qBAZfTu7O_4

Some questionable writing

[fringe salmon]

There is lots more like this main translator is a big fan of dumb jokes when he can sneak them in

[feral ferry]

BD3 actually contains some of the most annoying game design I also hate

Nearly everything is time limited

So if you encounter some kind of area with something going on, if you don't do it right now, you will be severely punished

Like, that's not how I approach games, I tend to run around places looting

[vapid lintel]

More games should have this toggle

[feral ferry]

I also have this feeling that this game is really not meant for people that have never even seen a DnD board or player Baldur's Gate before

It's all so tightly knit to the tabletop that I have no clue what half of the stats are meant to do

wtf is 1d6?

[trim rock]

one six sided die

[feral ferry]

Okay but what does that mean

[trim rock]

that you can roll between 1-6

[feral ferry]

Yeah I have no clue

I have never seen anyone play DnD before let alone play it myself

[trim rock]

You know, rolling one of these

[feral ferry]

So, is this supposed to like, roll the dice 4 times?

[trim rock]

Yes

[feral ferry]

And it you land on something it hits?

[severe compass]

A 4 sided dice

[feral ferry]

But what's the target

Is it like a 25% chance?

[trim rock]

Think it's translated for you right above, 4~16 damage

[fringe salmon]

It’s the same as xcom just shown via dice rolls instead of 10-15 damage

[feral ferry]

Yeah but what's the target for dice rolls?

[fringe salmon]

Or rather it shows both here anyway

[trim rock]

It's just damage roll

[feral ferry]

So I roll 4 times get 1,2,3,4

What's the result of that?

[trim rock]

Add those together and there's your damage

[fringe salmon]

You deal 10 damage

[feral ferry]

Ah, that's how that works

It's just adding up

I thought it was a chance thing

[severe compass]

Also as for targeting it looks like the spells just does a tiny AOE

[feral ferry]

Where you have to get a specific number to hit

[fringe salmon]

Usually that is with a d20 and you just have to hit the number aka if you have to hit a 10 or higher you have a 50% chance to hit

[trim rock]

ROLL THY D20

[feral ferry]

Why would you have a 20 sided dice in anything?

[fringe salmon]

Because 5% increments work well

[severe compass]

Different spells will have differing effects. Some require your caster make a dex based check to hit, some require the target make a save using a corresponding ability check, some just deal aoe

[trim rock]

Clearly you've never heard anything about tabletop roleplaying

[feral ferry]

I have never really played anything tabletop in my life tbf

[trim rock]

Neither have I

[feral ferry]

Does Monopoly work?

I've played that a wee bit

[severe compass]

https://tenor.com/view/dnd-dice-roll-nat20-natural20-dungeons-and-dragons-gif-17212660

[fringe salmon]

Even Pokémon works in 5% steps for hit chances

D20 is just a physical version of it

[severe compass]

A d20 makes critical hits and failures rarer, but not impossible making them special

[fringe salmon]

You would be surprised how many game use a d20 system just don’t show it

Darkest dungeon does it too internally

[severe compass]

Soe games do use a d100 system, but usually I am not much of a fan

[feral ferry]

Ok but why not just rand() % 100 + 1

[trim rock]

Do such things even exist IRL?

[pure bear]

yes

[trim rock]

Well probably they do but that would look a bit silly to have 100 sides

[pure bear]

you can also make any dice by making it a cylinder

[fringe salmon]

You can do that too but for players it’s simpler to see a gif has a 55% chance than 67 and 39%

[fringe salmon]

Just adds extra unneeded levels

[trim rock]

Yeah see that's just a ball now

[pure bear]

or cursed shit like this

a d7

[fringe salmon]

Simpler to balance if you say 5% is the lowest change for something to happen vs 1%

[pure bear]

probably also feels better

failing by 5% vs by 1%

[fringe salmon]

That as well

Imagine Pokémon games had 99% hitchance moves lol

So many children turning violent from rage when missing lmao

[still spire]

https://www.vg247.com/baldurs-gate-3-steam-launch-record-second-biggest-2023

[small comet]

well the gen 1 games have a bug where you can miss 100percent moves and the nasterball can fail

[fading spade]

https://youtu.be/YKnkKMRYIh8

I forgot about this snapshot LOL

the april fools one that removed the inventory and hotbar

could only hold up to 2 items at a time

His FOV is too low and its giving me a headache

[feral ferry]

Lanaposting the most random shit also gives everyone else a headache, darling

[fading spade]

ths is the default FOV in the game

but I always use higher

so most people wont get a headache from it

since they probably play the game at default FOV anyway

snapshot shenanigans

[feral ferry]

https://twistedvoxel.com/kena-bridge-of-spirits-broke-even-month-after-launch-developer-next-project/

Kena was a really cool project

Art wise it was enchanting

[hot spire]

Finally got to act 2 in bg3

16 hours

[feral ferry]

Only?

I'm on 20 rn and I'm still in the creepy ass bog

[bleak pike]

Grand Turismo film genuinely looks alright

[feral ferry]

Hard to fuck up a film about cars

[willow quiver]

fast and furious

[young hill]

Some of the scenes are nice to look at

[nimble current]

shit ain't even about cars anymore

its about f a m i l y now

[still spire]

Wow I sold my Baldurs Gate 3 Collectors Edition dice skin for 375$ on ebay

The collectors edition was 270+30$ shipping, and the skin alone sold for more htan it's cost. I should've bought more of them lol. Shame.

[orchid prism]

[still spire]

For real some IDIOT paid 400$ for a fucking cosmetic

[orchid prism]

inb4 DLC in a couple of months

[still spire]

That is barely noticable

[orchid prism]

Or just a hacked mod.

[still spire]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1132092721864130591/1137397451079307323/Screenshot_20230805_105115_eBay.jpg

Hacked mod? You can already do that

Literally possible to just use you know "High seas" methods

To get that dice skin right now

This man put down 400$ to have it

lol

[orchid prism]

Most players are legitimate customers. I doubt you'll convince anyone who already bought the game to pirate it all over.

[static island]

true

plus 120gb

[still spire]

Just... I mean I'm happy for me, but this is nuts

I dunno if you even realize how small a cosmetic change this is

https://i0.wp.com/gamingrespawn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Proficiencies-Cropped.png?ssl=1

This

Changes to purple

That's about it

[static island]

thats it??

LMFAO

[still spire]

Also they talked about doing a re-run of CES...

https://preview.redd.it/collectors-edition-in-game-dice-v0-disv54b30gua1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=1f7d2aade903dec4ae9de78e17aa1006cc080c24

Yeah

This, but in game

That dice skin changes to this

400$

Gamers are lost theses man. Lost. We went from laughing at 2$ horse armor to peopl dropping this much on nothing

[trim rock]

Hell yeah

[still spire]

Like this isn't even a cool cosmetic!

I'd at least I dunno, be able to work it in my head somehow if this was an incredible cosmetic. It'd still be dumb, but at least I could process it

[pure bear]

its crazy how the game is praised for not having mtx

and at the same time

people crave mtx and throw money around

larian is taking a moral high road, but financially, they are leaving money on the table

sadly

[still spire]

Millions easily yeah

But they like their rep so

[bleak pike]

It's not

The market speaks

Shit wouldn't exist if it wasn't for consumers showing they want it.

Idk who it was but a dev described usual players as bottom feeders with micro transactions

They don't care

[pure bear]

ofc

[bleak pike]

It's the small select group of whales who we won't ever change

Ik you know already and it's obvious

But we keep going through this cycle

[pure bear]

Yeah, it's just said. I also do feel bad for the people that have poor financial control. It's exploitative. But it pays so it stays.

[fallow bronze]

That's why I'm a cheapskate, and only buy on sale and when the game received it's needed fixes

I've been burned by battlefield too many times :p

[trim rock]

Yep being a patient gamer has its benefits

[fading spade]

Longest lead ever :')

[tough jay]

While still tipping my toes into it I mostly gave up on battlefield when they released BF3, I know it was popular but to me it seemed like a mistake. While they did walk some of it back I still never really got back into it.

[tired knoll]

V with the horrendous take once again

[barren pewter]

…

I hate that you have a point

Personally though I don’t have an issue with it

If it’s done well

[bleak pike]

hot

[hot spire]

two tone

[hot spire]

32 hours to 3rd act

[fading spade]

[feral ferry]

You know, I was going to say that it feels rather refreshing to have a really stable game

Spoke too soon

[feral ferry]

I'm still on the first one lol, and it's been well over 20 hours

[tired knoll]

We’ll talk soon

Baldurs gate looks fun

Especially knowing you can kill children

[rancid hearth]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/292080027707768832/1124615511871860736/funnt-1.gif

[feral ferry]

... sure

[small comet]

thats not baldurs gate

[hot spire]

That's driver crash

[feral ferry]

Yeah I figured it was

RDNA 1 is a mess after all

Been a little while since the last time I had one though

[hot spire]

Also watch memory useage

Playing coop yesterday

Twice it got to 30gb

[willow quiver]

lol

[orchid prism]

Aaaaaaah. I keep starting over in BG3. I knew this would happen.

[fading spade]

https://youtu.be/sJWUcqO5a9Q

[feral ferry]

https://www.ign.com/articles/embracer-group-is-starting-to-close-studios-campfire-cabal/

[trim rock]

Ah crap

[feral ferry]

@magic storm I am hearing whispers

CS2 open beta launching today

ESL apparently confirmed that CS2 open beta is coming out on the 10th

So in 4 days

[fallow bronze]

Cities skylines has an esl competition?

[feral ferry]

It has a redbull one but nevermind that

[tough jay]

So basically they closed a new studio that has yet to ship it's first game, that does not seem too worrying.

[feral ferry]

https://gamescout.co.uk/2023/08/starfield-preload-date-has-leaked-via-amazon/

Rather early

Aug 9th

Time to crack is instant lol

Bethesda doesn't DRM

[orchid prism]

No, they online only.

[trim rock]

It just works

[pure bear]

It probably has 16 times the detail

err, disk space

[tough jay]

Well copy/pasting planets takes up a lot of space...

To be fair I have not been following the game at all and would be in no hurry to play it after release.

The size does not seem too unreasonable though for the type of game it is.

[bleak pike]

I bet it will be f4 all over again

With the decrypt bs

Taking longer than downloading, it was funny as in this community everyone was losing their mind wanting to play at 12am but it was taking forever.... I just downloaded it, launched, laughed and went to bed.

[tough jay]

as for download vs install size, could be something in the 150-200gb range which is not completely unreasonable for a modern title of this scale. Remember GTA 5 when it launched required 70GB and that was a long time ago.

[wide imp]

Anyone beenusing their wooting to play Balders Gate 3? Any tips for layout?

[still spire]

https://twitter.com/benjisales/status/1688227516106813441

Benji-Sales (@BenjiSales)

Update: Baldur's Gate III has now moved to the #1 Best Selling Pre-Order on PSN in the US

The stellar launch of the PC version is definitely having a big positive impact on the upcoming PlayStation 5 versions performance

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[wide imp]

Nice, it's a good game so far. I loved the old RPG's like Neverwinter Nights 2 and the original Baldurs Gate games

[tough jay]

Never played the original baldur's gate but I did enjoy neverwinter nights 2 a long time ago, I would probably enjoy the game but I will wait out on it for some time.

[feral ferry]

What layout

Just use the one the game came out with

You don't need rapid trigger or analog for a borderline point and click adventure

[trim rock]

Yes you do

[wide imp]

I mean any point for analog or fn layering lol

[feral ferry]

What's fn layering

I'm guessing it's for you 60% peasants?

[wide imp]

https://tenor.com/view/indeed-tealc-stargate-gif-4496552

Tbh I could have gotten full size but never use my numpad outside of work so I would have been happy with a TKL or smaller if they offered it but the space saved over the full size is nice for gaming especially in my fps games

[small comet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynAVoVZ18i8

i didnt know destiny could get worse

[wide imp]

https://tenor.com/view/safemoon-safemoonarmy-gif-22764284

[fading spade]

TMNT, my favorite gods

[fringe salmon]

just like fortnite is a naruto game

its character skins

[orchid prism]

Not in Smite?

They are actual characters, like in LOL?

[wide imp]

I think they're skins for champions

Like how the last airbender ones they had before

[fringe salmon]

its skins

for sun wukong etc.

[orchid prism]

How weird

[fringe salmon]

? pretty normal

you couldnt really make 4 turtles and make them somehow playable characters in a moba

[orchid prism]

Reskins of existing characters? Sure. Changing the character completely to something else.

Less so

[fringe salmon]

I mean it is just a reskin

same skeleton usually etc.

[orchid prism]

I'd argue changing a skin from a monkey god to a turtle is more than "Just a reskin". I'm talking themed skins like winter, pirate, steampunk et cetera. This is straight up "so we changed the character completely"

[fringe salmon]

they already do that with normal skins that arent crossovers

would argue the transfomers one is more extreme than a turtle heh

[orchid prism]

I don't play Smite. Or MOBAS 😄

But I would take offense to Blizzard changing a character like that with a skin in OW.

[fringe salmon]

for nearly all skins the skills are still distinct so you dont really get caught off guard and know what you play against

also first person view vs zoomed out 3rd person does change how in your face it is

[wide imp]

Like how they did Nova Widowmaker or One Punch Man Doomfist? XD

[wide imp]

True lol

I'm still sad we never got it

Ir gettubg a version of Eve: Dust 514 for PC

Better than the last 5 or so years tbh

Where everything had to be a BR

[tired knoll]

Where’s Half Life 3

[wide imp]

https://tenor.com/view/its-all-in-your-head-bea-smith-wentworth-this-is-all-in-your-mind-its-just-your-thoughts-gif-22822306

Guessing all of Valve's focus rn is on CS2

After that, who knows

[feral ferry]

I do feel a wee bit bad for leaving lae'zel for dead Maybe she would have been worth keeping in the camp at very least

I only need one gal, and that's shadowheart

May Shar's darkness be with ye

[barren pewter]

that...is dope

if it's anything like fallout

that just means more people who will take 120 caps

a pitiful amount of in game currency

[wide imp]

Lae'zel is Drax confirmed lol

[feral ferry]

What's a drax

The hollowed drill from terraria?

[wide imp]

https://tenor.com/view/metaphor-drax-guardians-of-the-galaxy-gif-14735434

[feral ferry]

No clue what that is

Who's james gunn

What trilogy

[wide imp]

Guardians of the Galaxy, its the character that I posted the gif of

[feral ferry]

Yeah no clue sorry

[wide imp]

Yeah, its a great series of movies

[feral ferry]

Seems it's some kind of marvel shit

Not interested in superhero stuff

[barren pewter]

just realized RE4R doesn't have a way to delete saves that isn't the good ol "disable cloud saves and delete your local data"

holy shit

WHY DO GAMES NOT SHIP WITH SOMETHING AS BASIC AS BEING ABLE TO DELETE SAVES IN THE LOAD MENU NOW

[hot spire]

tv rotted my brain

[hot spire]

bg3 is now the 9th highest all time peak player count on steam

within striking distance of hogwarts

[still spire]

Wonder how many peopel got it on GOG and EGS

likely over a million people playing

[feral ferry]

Must be a commercial success

I wonder if that'll just inspire more high quality games

[orchid prism]

https://youtu.be/6AwmczkO-ic?t=24

Streamers find out about bny bois.

[rancid hearth]

lol

[feral ferry]

https://twitter.com/xj0nathan/status/1688419206994305024

j0nathan (@xj0nathan)

@ACCentralYT @BPRGamingYT Ce sera ce genre de micro-transactions 😏

Twitter · Aug 7, 2023, 5:18 AM

Screw off

Mirage has MTXs

Also what does arabian themed game and "fire demons" have in common??

[novel umbra]

obv it will

[fringe salmon]

Jinn are like the only thing people know about arabian culture and those are quite often literal fire demons?

So it’s like asking why a Chinese game has dragons in them lol

[feral ferry]

That does not look like any creature I have ever seen from mythology

Fuckin Sauron and a devilspawn dog

[pure bear]

ubisoft

[deft bloom]

djinns are air, ifrit is fire

[small comet]

have you seen the previous assassins creeds

after syndicate

[feral ferry]

I played Valhalla

[small comet]

so how does it surprise you

you played ac with mtx

and now you say screw off to ac with mtx

[feral ferry]

Yeah but I don't remember fire demons as mtx

[small comet]

so your issue isnt MTX in SP games but whats for sale in the MTX

[feral ferry]

I mean the fact that mtx exists too

But the fact that the content they are selling is non-sensical as well is also insulting

[small comet]

i thought the egyptian one also had that

with some content from other games or such

[deft bloom]

what are you talking about here

it's sensical in the sense that they've had supernatural shit all over the place already, and like I said Ifrit is very much related to arabic stuff. also, especially in origins it was really prominent in the dlc's

is it what I want in an AC game? absolutely not, but it fits in what they've been doing for a while already

[feral ferry]

Wrong on that front, somewhat

Mirage is supposed to be a "return to the old roots"

[deft bloom]

why would you trust ubi X)

[feral ferry]

Which is the assassin order and templars fighting over the relics of a precursor civilization

Supernatural? Yes

But not mythological

That was the big distinguishing factor

[deft bloom]

adam & eve wasn't mythological?

[feral ferry]

Ubi with the reboots went all mythos and it was annoying

I just want the old formula to come back

[deft bloom]

same

[feral ferry]

Theological is the correct word

[deft bloom]

pssh you could say that anubis and shit are theological as well then

[feral ferry]

Nice, thanks

That +0 is going to help great

[deft bloom]

aura of nothing

[orchid prism]

[fringe salmon]

Yeah swimming was really missing in the first one smh

We had two designers from it do a talk at uni that was nice

[still spire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex1-qoYDe8w

[still spire]

Was pretty hype at the time I recall

N64 was good stuff though

Kinda true

https://youtu.be/1cpiMH28Z88

Nintendo got RDR before PC

It's over

Fucking Switch has RDR1 on it while PC doesn't due to sphagetti code

Amazing

https://www.gamesradar.com/red-dead-redemptions-switch-and-ps4-conversion-is-not-the-ps5-remake-fans-were-hoping-for/

FFXVI could've sold 20 million copies and they'd still be disappointed

Actually, what is it, 55M PS5s out there?

If they sold 55M copies

They'd still say it underperformed

Square enix is just a weird un

[halcyon maple]

Square enix mid

[novel umbra]

if switch gets it pc gets it

[still spire]

Yeah but I mean a native port

[feral ferry]

Not according to square enix themselves

The whole thing of "didn't meet expectations" was borderline debunked weeks ago

[novel umbra]

wdym was super good

seeing a swedish guy brick it on his switch permanently because he drank too much sprunk sure was an experience

[feral ferry]

I wonder who that was

[novel umbra]

FIVE THOUSAND CANS FOR FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS

[feral ferry]

Trilogy was exciting though, it's nice to revisit the old characters

Hell even hot coffee was a thing

[fringe salmon]

No that was about pre order numbers

[feral ferry]

Looking into this thing they themselves actually admitted it

So it was true eh?

I mean, logically speaking, PS5 is so damn expensive that the adoption of the platform is one of the main problems

[wide imp]

I've lost faith in Enix over the years, especially since they've both canceled one of my favorite franchise and put the other on indefinite hold between Sleeping Dogs and Deus Ex

[feral ferry]

Steep price the second

And the biggest nail on the head is the exclusivity factor

Fuck platform exclusivity

[fringe salmon]

They sold sub companies including the ones that could make deus ex games so that’s not in squares hand anymore

[wide imp]

Yeah, still on hiatus with that company too and from what I hear they're not doing g well after the IP purchase so I'm not holding my breath for a new Deus Ex game

Which is annoying since Mankind Divided ended on a cliffhanger

[fringe salmon]

Merely meant to show that not on square anymore

[wide imp]

I got you

They were still the ones to fist put the game on hiatus and canceled the other franchise

We need more fist person cyberpunk genre games

And more Open City RPG's

It's an underexplored style

[still spire]

The RDR Remaster is 30FPS

[wide imp]

Mega city open world

[feral ferry]

https://youtu.be/t5Nwgd_T1-4

[novel umbra]

lol

[feral ferry]

Ok but

[novel umbra]

ps4

[feral ferry]

PC when

Not big enough

Need more dislikes

[deft bloom]

lul

[hot spire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6slinvkF0Rs

talos principle was a trip

[feral ferry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITIcmA4Zwa8

Dunno who asked for it, but it's coming

[still spire]

Who asked for it? I mean it still is one of the best selling games, every year

So despite how trashy it is

Makes monei

https://www.chafgames.com/games/dark-and-darker

[feral drum]

@zealous rampart I don't want you to shut up. I just want you to explain the shit you posted and not just loosely, but accurately

[zealous rampart]

I did lol. It helps you saturate higher polling rates

[feral drum]

i doubt that a polling rate beyond 1k changes your game significantly

or your mouse reaction

i mean a 1k polling rate is a 1 ms reaction time

4k sounds nice on paper, but i highly doubt ANYONE can react in a fraction of a millisecond

[fringe salmon]

https://forums.blurbusters.com/viewtopic.php?t=9785

tldr, does something beneficial, obivously diminishing gains though

[zealous rampart]

I’m not trying to argue that anyone should use it or that it’s game changer

But it does make a difference. Even if we’re talking nanoseconds (I commented on other thread we were talking about nanoseconds also) lol

I personally think 4k polling/3200dpi/360hz is about as responsive as one could possible want. At the moment at least

[feral drum]

at this point i'm wondering when the first Wooting mouse comes

[fringe salmon]

never probably

[bleak pike]

When there's a reason to and when there's something unique that can be done.

All wooting products offer something new and different to the table.

[zealous rampart]

Yeah optical sensors and 4k- 8k polling and sub 60g mice. What more could you want

[bleak pike]

Right now the market is focused on weight etc

[zealous rampart]

Lekker mouse clicks?

Lol

Analog mouse buttons would be crazy

[bleak pike]

There's definitely room for improvement a lot of people don't think about.

[zealous rampart]

Optical basically already rapid trigger tho

[bleak pike]

As for an analog mouse, it was already done.

My main point is I wouldn't say never.

[still spire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg0bGUdJ9hg

[feral ferry]

What vid

Don't even know one exists

Actually, thanks

I forgot what day it was today

That's useful info since weekly manga comes out today

Happy days

Too many things

Monday is Nagatoro and Sono bisque doll
Tuesday is Kanojo okarishimasu
Wednesday is oshi no ko
Thursday is black clover occasionally

If a new one piece comes out, I check the chapter summaries

Idk if I forgot any, my memory is ass

[feral ferry]

So when do you enter a new act in Baldur's Gate 3?

I just reached 34 hours and just entered ||the shadow lands||

Is that still act 1?

[barren pewter]

[pure bear]

damn

must be one long game

[fading spade]

nice witcher wallpaper :D

(totally didnt steal it from the steam badges)

[hot spire]

Shadow is act 2

[still spire]

Game definitely needs better optimization

One good idea is to turn slow HDD mode on

It does not increase load times at all; it uses more RAM though and will reduce your hitching

Even if you're on a NVME

[orchid prism]

No issues here

[young crow]

still not sure why some games are so conservative about ram usage

like fucking hell, i have 64gb, just load everything you’d possibly need and forget about it

[small comet]

because they dont want to force all their players to buy 128gb of ram just so the game can be almost entirely in ram

and id imagine the engines arent necessarily build around maxing out ram

[young crow]

you do not have to force anyone to do anything if you have code that decides how to act based on the amount of free ram

miss the times when the solution to having bad developers was not keeping bad developers

[fallow bronze]

hollow best game developer

[deft bloom]

huh, I have a shitty ass old pc (i7-4790k @ 4.7ghz, gtx 1080) and I my fps hovers around 60-110. only hitching I really get is when I open the leveling menu or inventory or something

[fringe salmon]

Consoles

If you have it on console you don’t want to rewrite your entire game to be able to use more ram on pc then

It will happen already due to other factors but going further just takes a lot of extra work for not much gain

[bleak pike]

https://accounts.palia.com/sign-up?referral=e7fd9008-5bd0-4d67-a51a-ceefbce1aa5d

If anyone wants to play palia use my referral xo

Just realized how cute one of the rewards are

[feral ferry]

Why though

[bleak pike]

I want this

Lol

[feral ferry]

The game's in closed beta though

[bleak pike]

And?

I'm in it and progress carries over

But mainly I've been playing

[feral ferry]

Unless your referral code has closed beta access I'm not interested

[bleak pike]

Let's pretend it does

[bleak pike]

I don't think it's just dnd

I think people are just welcoming a not shit game

[orchid prism]

I FINALLY managed to get through the first area earlier today. So many restarts - And I'm still technically not done exploring all the content there is in the first area.

[bleak pike]

That's definitely enjoyable and not full of mtx

[orchid prism]

The pathfinder games are great - but they are VERY wordy.

BG3 offers fully voiced... well everything. And up close with facial animations.

Mhmm. I'm currently binging ioverse campaigns.

[novel umbra]

never looked at anyone else play dnd before

yea

idk I just started playing dnd myself

[deft bloom]

bebis

I'm 35 hours in and still in act1

[fallow bronze]

yikes... thats a lot of hours

[zealous rampart]

That’s a lot of playable game*

[feral ferry]

There is quite a bit to do ngl

[still spire]

I'm at the underdark right now, havign fun with my spore buddies

[feral ferry]

Although weirdly enough idk what I spent more time on, playing the game or reloading saves to retry dice rolls

[orchid prism]

Same - Saved that area for last, since those big hoRney bois seemed like a big challenge 😄

[deft bloom]

wrong way to play imo but you guys do you

[pure bear]

https://tenor.com/view/119ykh-barry-gif-21687486

[orchid prism]

Not really a wrong to play, since the game is so open ended.

[deft bloom]

I meant reloading saves to re-roll

cheating in my books

[orchid prism]

Given how strict the inspiration system is, and the utter bs of some dialogue options... I don't care 😛

I will absolutely savescum a roll I shouldn't be able to take.

Ever heard of taking 10, Larian?

The trouble with video game D&D is the lack of a DM. Things will appear very arbitrary, because they are. The game isn't set up for "what ifs" in the way it needs to be to allow for dice rolls to be truly final.

A great early example of utter WTF-ness, is that if you fail a very simple read thoughts roll at the druid camp, you make the entire area hostile to you. In a non-hostile conversation - no way out.

But on the flip side if you backstab a goblin boss, a guard will just go "oi! don't do that, please bribe me 50 gold and we'll call it even"

[deft bloom]

well you're the DM so you're allowed to save-scum

[novel umbra]

eh

that is not ideal though

you have no fine line between a situation that you fucked and have to deal with and a situation you should be able to still weasle out

[deft bloom]

but like I'm roleplaying a character, if I want to try something my character is not adept at, if I fail, then I'll just accept the outcome and move on with the thing that happened

[feral ferry]

It's a game, so who are you to tell me how to play a game

[deft bloom]

I'm not, you're the DM basically so you're allowed

[feral ferry]

Dice rolls make absolutely no sense sometimes

Give a master lockpicker a lock, and he won't have to roll a dice to see if he fails to open something

A lot of elements are infuriatingly RNG for no reason

[novel umbra]

I mean

[feral ferry]

But it's DnD so whatever

[novel umbra]

that is what you have stats for

[deft bloom]

you can even legit cheat and install mods to make your game play out how you want, I don't "care" about that. I was just saying that in my books it's cheating and not my preferred way to play for sure

[orchid prism]

At the end of the day it's a game - And some of the weird concessions they've made to turn a tabletop game into a video game are... not great.

I need to teleport to a camp constantly to rest up and pass time - which doesn't have any real effect in the game. So with that being the case, just let me rest anywhere in older games. Or just let me rest to full by sitting down for ten seconds.

[novel umbra]

as a master lockpicker you should have so many bonuses that it would be hard to fail outside a critical fail

[feral ferry]

"to rest up and pass time - which doesn't have any real effect in the game" It does actually

[orchid prism]

Also I have so many camp supplies now, that even the strongest character in my party can't pick up the bag of them, so I have to spend a ton of time juggling inventory space to use the supplies.

[novel umbra]

the resting mechanic is kinda weird yea

[feral ferry]

A lot of interesting story beats happen when you end the day, or reach your camp

I mean, not going to spoil anything but

[orchid prism]

I can go there any time anyway.

[novel umbra]

• inventory management is a bit tedious

[feral ferry]

You can unlock a whole new ability tree just through events in the camp

[orchid prism]

Resting by itself does not change that. An NPC could literally just go "lets camp up" like in other games as a prompt for the events.

[deft bloom]

yeah the inventory is not great, but workable

[orchid prism]

Don't be tempted by the liar.

[feral ferry]

The liar?

Volo you mean?

[deft bloom]

no spoil pls

[feral ferry]

Volo's chill, guy's great

[deft bloom]

btw you can just send your camp supply bag back to camp..

[orchid prism]

Everything has a price - And promising you great powers is always something to think hard about. This is a constant theme in the game, both for the main quest and side stuff.

Naive people keep getting fucked over, and you should take that as a major hint not to do the same every time.

[deft bloom]

no point in having that stuff on hand anyway

[feral ferry]

That's the really big story beat I love about this game

I have well over 10 mindflayer parasites just sitting in the inventory

And can unlock some insane powerups

[novel umbra]

Actions having consequences in a 2023 rpg?

No way

[feral ferry]

Logic says no, mysterious guardian says yes

So I have no clue what to think

[orchid prism]

Anyway - I've installed a mod that lets me long rest after every fight, so I don't have to watch loading screens constantly, and I just drop the metric tonnes of sausges, pork loins and fish everything contains 😄

[feral ferry]

I wouldn't actually do that ngl

[deft bloom]

in my head the guardian is my character's father who raped a woman and left them to rot, interesting to see how it'll pan out and if anything fucks up my head-canon

[feral ferry]

Resting is actually important

Again a lot of events happen upon entering or sleeping

I'd prolly remove the supply mechanic though

[orchid prism]

It really isn't. I can go to the camp manually every so often, when an NPC complains about needing rest.
Problem solved.

Not missing out on anything there.

(You know - How the two previous games handled it perfectly. Don't fix what works, Larian 😛 )

[feral ferry]

That guardian is damn annoying though

I have no clue how to perceive them

Evidently really not an enemy

But their advice is self-harm basically

[orchid prism]

I won't spoil that.

[feral ferry]

I've just been ignoring em

[orchid prism]

The rest change also lets me go full blast in all fights, instead of constantly worrying about some bs ambush two minutes from now I didn't account for, so I have constant fomo over using abilities I should be using much more... and scrolls... and potions.

Up the difficulty and it becomes an honestly much more enjoyable game - Gotta actually synergize. Like how Astarion and my Rogue/Monk tag team everything in melee to unlock sneak attacks (because those got weird changes... in 5e or BG3)

[feral ferry]

I do kinda like the challenge where I can't constantly spam tier 4 spells though

A lot of equipment has interesting boons just so you wouldn't have to go to sleep after each fight

[orchid prism]

When any random enemy will happily take me down to 10% HP in a single, lucky hit. They deserve the same 😄

[feral ferry]

Enemies do hit like a truck, but tbf when I can spam 4 fireballs then you can do the same

I'm trying to comprehend how are you able to get extra actions per turn with some characters, and not others

My Paladin moves twice per turn, others don't

[orchid prism]

The difference is that there's 16 of them, and four of me 😄

Goblins have way too much HP.

[feral ferry]

What difficulty are you even playing

[deft bloom]

crowd control stuff works

[orchid prism]

Hardest

[feral ferry]

Ah

[deft bloom]

I've found everything too easy so far, but I'm playing with the default difficulty

[orchid prism]

I don't have a lot of AoE or CC atm.

[feral ferry]

For me the camp was extremely easy cause I only went there once I finished underdark and grymforge

So basically already level 5 characters

With tons of buffing and AoE

[orchid prism]

I'm Multiclassing everyone except SH, because D&D and access to healing is so limited.

[deft bloom]

haven't tried yet, but I guess I gotta take a bit of rogue levels for my monk as well, since the backstory should work

[feral ferry]

He doesn't know

[orchid prism]

Something something one companion with it.

[feral ferry]

My Paladin also has 28HP heal on touch so technically I got 2

AoE spell

Pretty damn massive radius too

[orchid prism]

Astarion is a ranger, because it fits his backstory.
Flamegirl is multiclassed as Paladin, but the exp isn't there yet to make that pop off.
I'm Rogue/Monk assassin/shadow
Shadow is pure cleric for now, because I need the healing. Might multi her into fighter. (too many rogues already)
I don't use Gale, cause I find him obnoxious.
Wynn also off the table, cause too many duelist rogue types already 😄

[feral ferry]

Not to mention it scales with higher spell tiers

[feral ferry]

Shadow is actually a bit busted as a fighter

Something something spamming conjuration spells and spirit guardians

[orchid prism]

A resisting dark urges run, yes. That includes not indulging the worm.

-at all-

[feral ferry]

We are doing the same run then

[orchid prism]

I've had to hide all of the lootable worms away somewhere, since Astarion keeps pestering me to hand them over.

[feral ferry]

Ngl I killed that vampire off asap cause he seems ultra unreliable

[orchid prism]

I only picked Dark Urge, since Larian fucked up playable origins in general. If you're playing as the, you're mute - which is 90% of their charm and personality.

[feral ferry]

I made my own character and I don't find them that mute

[deft bloom]

I am the personality

[feral ferry]

Kind of the elder scrolls way of doing things

But they do react to world events

[orchid prism]

If you pick Astarion as your character, you get zero of his voice lines. And that is... that IS Astarion.

[deft bloom]

it's funny how people are divided to two camps there, I like playing origin characters yes, but not as much as crafting wholly my own thing

[feral ferry]

I would never pick a fuckin vampire as my character

Oh yeah I had that question during character creation and never got any answers

Why is Larian thinking that a sorcerer and a wizard are different things?

[orchid prism]

Because they are - always have been.

[feral ferry]

They are basically one and the same as far as definitions are concerned

[novel umbra]

not in dnd

[orchid prism]

Wizard magic is taught. Sorcerer/Bard is innate and by blood or some other source outside of your control.

[novel umbra]

difference is how they gained their power iirc

same with warlocks

[orchid prism]

Warlock fits in the Sorc/Bard camp as well.

It's sad that they didn't grab the Avatar bender class from WOTR* 😄

Loved playing Kineticist in both games - And it is basically ELEMENTbending of your choice.

[trim rock]

But are the brexits going to approve?

[fringe salmon]

they will, since the streaming part was the main complaint abk can work around that

it is quite over sadly

[feral ferry]

Back to reloading the game for the next 10 mins on a level 18 lock

[orchid prism]

[feral ferry]

Is that bald astarion?

Good lordy ho

[deft bloom]

lol

[feral ferry]

Okay I am getting tired of having to constantly reload in combat cause of missed 70-80% rolls

[orchid prism]

Meanwhile I coast at 50-60

[deft bloom]

lol can't you just accept that it missed and move on XD

[feral ferry]

No, fuck off

[deft bloom]

you might even find that more enjoyable just saying

[feral ferry]

Okay cleric is absolutely busted at level 7

Double conjuration on single turn, revive, spirit guardians and a fuck ton other spells

[fringe salmon]

yeah usually DnD and derived games are not meant to be be flawless victories xD

plan around it but it's a chance for a reason

[orchid prism]

You get tired of reloading after a part wipe though 😄

[feral ferry]

Don't remember any of my chars actually dying

[orchid prism]

Oh - JOY - An explosive mushroom puzzle.

[deft bloom]

wonder why

[feral ferry]

Most of the fun is to be had when winning

I don't enjoy the misery of losing

[deft bloom]

it's like you're doing hurdling but instead of jumping you knock each hurdle down and claim victory at the finish line

[feral ferry]

And that's good enough

[novel umbra]

just do spellcaster only and use aoe spells

[deft bloom]

haha sure

[feral ferry]

I don't like RNG fucking me out of good dialogue choices

[novel umbra]

then you only need to worry about enemies that can reduce damage to 0 with a dodge

[deft bloom]

I get that, but the game is made around it

[feral ferry]

Nor do I like the game trying to kill off certain characters

[feral ferry]

And I have the most fun saving everyone via savescumming

[novel umbra]

idk rng feels less bad than xcom 2 to me

xcom 2 rng was pure hell for me

[fringe salmon]

vexx would be the person to powergame in RP

[orchid prism]

17 reloads later.... I hate puzzles with a deadly end.

[deft bloom]

that's what I love about it, it feels like anything can actually happen and has consequences, and it makes me feel good that I can accept anything that happens and play around that

tbh I did reload once since I was going to disarm a trap and instead misclicked

[feral ferry]

Ok, that's how I like playing my games, you got a problem with how other people live their lives?

Playing god in games is fun

[deft bloom]

yeah yeah, I'm just expressing what I enjoy kinda

[novel umbra]

happened to me multiple times already

that I misclick on a busy area

and accidentally attack the wrong entity

[feral ferry]

Ally navigation system is really off

They somehow manage to always stumble into mines cause they try to stick into a formation behind you

Okay I think my game just bugged out

That was not supposed to succeed

[deft bloom]

natural 20 always succeeds

[feral ferry]

Not really how that works from my experience

If it's 21 or higher you have to match or higher

I am using multiple roll buffs so it's not limited to scale of 20 points

[novel umbra]

nat 20 always suceeds

that is how it is supposed to work

[deft bloom]

yeah

[feral ferry]

Why would 20 always succeed if that's not even the target

Also I just rolled a 20 on a 21 and it failed

So the game doesn't even know itself

[novel umbra]

because that is how nat 20 works

[novel umbra]

bet that was not a nat 20 but buffed to a 20 with bonuses

[feral ferry]

Could be

[deft bloom]

yeah

[feral ferry]

Man I don't like dice games

[orchid prism]

1's always fail, 20s always succeed.

[deft bloom]

critical success or critical fail can lead to some weird/fun/whatever consequences on tabletop, I guess 5e just dictates nowadays that 1 = fail, 20 = success no matter what

[novel umbra]

yep

• gives you inspiration

[orchid prism]

Yeah it sadly doesn't have fun consequences of either.

[novel umbra]

would be cool but I can get why they don't

people would be even more pissed about failing a roll

[hot spire]

it was always that

[deft bloom]

not a hard rule, gm trickery was encouraged

[feral ferry]

Ah fuck, not the sight I want to see when I turn the corner

Interesting that his HP bar and level are so damn high

Isn't he not the highest tier of ||devil|| anyways?

[hot spire]

not even close

Asmodeus could smoke him like a cigarette

[feral ferry]

I wonder if I can actually engage him in combat

[hot spire]

||you can fight him in his plane for a quest||

[feral ferry]

He's not playable right?

Nor a companion?

[hot spire]

not playable

[feral ferry]

Gave him his own unique little passives

[hot spire]

all playable peeps start level 1 so far

[feral ferry]

Not including ||Minthara or Halsin|| though

[hot spire]

last time i saw a stat block for pre-god asmodeus he had like 50 hit dice

[feral ferry]

That's the weird thing about this genre, the "gods" are actual entities that interact with the world

[hot spire]

that is just dnd

[feral ferry]

I wonder how evil is this lady Shar thing

Seems respectable

[hot spire]

very

[feral ferry]

I know virtually nothing about the franchise just to clarify

[hot spire]

she is literaly neutral evil

so Mystryl is god of magic, creater of the weave, which is were magic comes from

non clerical magic

[tired knoll]

Can’t wait to get that game

[hot spire]

Shar is creator of the shadow weave

[tired knoll]

Vex did you have to do anything specific or?

[hot spire]

which is where evil magic comes from

[feral ferry]

||The lady whom one of the characters in BG3 managed to sleep with?||

[feral ferry]

I will pretend to not know what you are hinting at

[tired knoll]

::)))

Dm me if you want

Just need to get a monitor

[deft bloom]

go play and just form an image what happens in your head

[hot spire]

who?

[feral ferry]

The wizard, Hale or whatever his name is

[hot spire]

Gale

[tired knoll]

Can’t

[hot spire]

Gale banged Mystra, not Mystryl

Mystra was slain

[tired knoll]

Nice spoilers guy

[hot spire]

this is pre this game

[feral ferry]

What's the difference

[hot spire]

wait

[feral ferry]

You peeps and your weird tabletop lores

[hot spire]

no gale banged Mystra namesake replacement before she replaced actual Mystra

she my issue is

i play adnd

so 90% of this shit in bg3 i dont know

bg1 and 2 sure

[feral ferry]

Is DnD one of those things like Games Workshop does where you have to buy a new set of playtoys every other year?

[hot spire]

nah

ive played adnd for 20 years

and the books where old then

[deft bloom]

you can just literally take a pen, some paper, buy dice and print rulebooks and go play

[hot spire]

adnd was released in late 70s

it gets mixed in with 2e which is basicly just post gary adnd

[deft bloom]

well in theory, in reality you need to find a group of people and someone who wants to DM, or even preferably someone who already knows how to be one. then you'll see each other like twice a year and the campaign never ends

[hot spire]

find more dedicated friends

[deft bloom]

when I had roommates we talked about starting a campaign for a year but never did it

[feral ferry]

@hot spire is this ||Ketheric Thorm||, that this game keeps hinting being a villain, is he an important guy in DnD lore?

[hot spire]

yes

it will be explained

[feral ferry]

Not the best of people I imagine

[hot spire]

you act 1 or 2?

[feral ferry]

Idk at all

Shadowlands rn

[deft bloom]

I found a fun anagram in a certain character's name in act1

I'm sure it'll be a fun reveal later

[hot spire]

shadow is act 2

[feral ferry]

Game doesn't specify where acts end or start

I just want to go to Baldur's Gate, big sprawling cities were always the most fun part in games

They keep teasing it with the game intro, but it seems that I have to complete the entire shadowlands thing before I get there

And judging by what the game keeps telling me, Baldur's Gate will be a bloodbath with the amount of brain-controller absolute

I am just trying to grasp the premise of the game, since I know nothing of the lore

So basically, there's this mind flayer empire that exists way before the game

It goes down to some kind of lizard warriors that they used to control

And now mind flayers modified their tools to control creatures and are trying to restore their empire?

[hot spire]

just keep playing

[feral ferry]

As far as I'm also getting, ||gods got involved, Shar seems to be on the absolute's side, as well as others||

Idk, really weird lore, but rather enjoyable

[hot spire]

||shar isnt really involved lol||

[small comet]

everyone dies

[deft bloom]

everyone lives

[feral ferry]

Prefered outcome

Other than goblins, I'll gobsmack every single one I come by

[feral ferry]

Some of the items in this game do not match their "rarity" level

I don't see how this is worth enough being a "very rare"

[rancid hearth]

Just because something is "rare" doesn't make it any more useful compared to a more common item
quite common game mechanic

[feral ferry]

Yeah especially with equipment it's pretty bad

Some of the rare items have less useful effects than uncommons

[hot spire]

1d10 extra damage is amazing

[feral ferry]

As a single use?

Not really

AoE items that are below that will do more damage

[hot spire]

aoe causes noise

a single sneak atack with oil/poison dosent.

[feral ferry]

In this game?

Sneak is barely relevant

[hot spire]

what?