video-games

[short swift]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1416329778549624904/1421172465123594302/IMG_3797.jpg?ex=68d8117f&is=68d6bfff&hm=13798c4c1e7bf9991f40d66e0a2acc1bfa6dd9b3d708c77292349f15ab10ea7f&=&format=webp&width=1423&height=800

nkg was pretty easy actually

it was mostly me dying to stuff i could avoid cos i got angry after getting hit for two health

tbh what forced me to lock in fully was throwing on jonis blessing, which sounds counterintuitive but i feel like ive gotten a lot better at the game after i stopped relying on healing as a crutch

now that ive done nkg all i think i have left is godhome?

i think

hmm

99 percent

im assuming the last couple charms count for the last 1 percent there and then the last 12 is godhome?

oh wait journal entries too

[next patio]

Journal doesn't count for %

[short swift]

oh?

so is it just charms and godhome?

its kinda funny ik him and rad are on technically different levels but he took me way less tries, am i to assume he's meant to be fought before radiance?

[dense kindle]

bf6 has a campaign????

[dense kindle]

nkg is dlc

so prob after

[ocean iris]

yep lol

[austere wadi]

Absolutely wild to me that they're working on Hyper Light Breaker and this game at the same time.

[void zinc]

It's actually two teams

[short swift]

My 5 stages of grief in HK and HK: Silksong

1. Stay positive, give myself tips and keep trying
2. Take the L, keep trying the same thing until it works
3. Get angry, yell at myself about why im losing, get worse at the game
4. Depression and just keep playing til i find a miracle
5. Laugh at everything thats wrong cause i might as well make fun of things

[signal kayak]

Was looking forward to Hyper Light Breaker, but it didn't turn out too well

Hopefully they do better with Possessors

[austere wadi]

HLB isn't done yet.

But it's pretty skeletal, yeah.

[dense kindle]

is it on an upward trend?

I heard abysmal things on launch

[austere wadi]

I did not hate it at launch, and it's only gotten better.

The update 3 days ago has differentiated characters even more now.

[toxic crater]

||LOST LACE|| DOWN!

Took 6-8 tries. Fun as hell.

Now, the push to 100%, then Hades 2.

[glacial tide]

Rather fun fight once it clicks

[broken smelt]

godhome (pantheons 1 - 4 is 4%, pantheon 5 is not a %, godtuner is 1%)

[broken smelt]

kinda? depends on what you have already done

https://hollowknight.wiki.fextralife.com/Completion+Guide

[feral bobcat]

Hell yea man

[fathom juniper]

BRUH

i just logged in and the first thing i saw was...
this:
https://fixupx.com/Terak404/status/1971291555894796786

Terak (@Terak404)

Deus Ex Remaster being ugly abomination is not even the worst part
︀︀
︀︀The system requirements are insane compared to the original
︀︀
︀︀Original could run on the toaster. Requires 64MB (megabytes) of RAM and 16MB of VRAM
︀︀
︀︀Meanwhile for Remaster, 16GB and 2080 recommended? Are you nuts?

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FixupX · Sep 25, 2025, 7:11 PM

first of all - what?
a deus ex remaster?

second
A FREAKING RTX 2080!?

[green scaffold]

They announced it at TGA, yeah

Doesn't look good tho to be fair

Very..plastic

[fathom juniper]

It looks like garbage

[dense kindle]

TGS

[fathom juniper]

Im sorry - I like aspyrs remasters
But as a deus ex fan - this is trash

They dropped the ball on this one hard

[dense kindle]

they did the battlefront 1+2 remaster
actual trash

[fathom juniper]

Oh right

Forgot about that one

So it’s a second ball they dropped

A battlefront + Deus ex bundle should be called a sack

[dense kindle]

at least famously
idk how their others have been received

[fathom juniper]

Their tomb raider remasters are great

And soul reaver turned out pretty good too, apparently

Haven’t played that one

[short swift]

then what am i missing?

[dense kindle]

14 main bosses
36 charms
3 colosseum of fools
3 dreamers
3% for maxing out seer
7 core upgrades(14%)
4 masks
3 nail arts
4 nail upgrades
6 spells/upgrades
3 soul vessels
7 warrior dreams
4% for Grimm charms
Grimm + NKG
Hive Knight
Godtuner + 4 pantheons

[short swift]

i guess maybe a few warrior dreams maybe

[dense kindle]

go to the godroom and see if you're missing any statues

if there's a whole missing statue, then you missed a boss

[broken smelt]

idk, what have you completed?

like, how am i supposed to tell you what you're missing if I don't know what you've already done

[short swift]

i already explained what i was missing

of what i know

you know if that irritates you for me to ask so much you didnt need to respond

[dense kindle]

did u find it yet

[broken smelt]

all of what hk conisders a % is listed here in this link I provided to help you figure out what you were missing

because there's a fair few things in hk that have something tied to them (ie. an achievement, journal entry etc.) but don't have an in game %

the hunters hournal, path of pain and pantheon 5 are three notable ones

• hunter's journal has i think 2 achievements
• path of pain has the seal of binding journal entry
• pantheon 5 has an 2 endings (1 requires delievring the delicate flower to godseeker), and an achievement

[dense kindle]

didnt I just list them

[broken smelt]

you missed ascendsing seer

[dense kindle]

3% for maxing out seer

[broken smelt]

i didn't quite understand what you meant by 'maxing out seer' tbh

[dense kindle]

do all the seer stuff

[broken smelt]

as in get woke nail, or ascending seer

(because it's super easy to assume do all the seer stuff just means get awoken dream nail, when that in of itself isn't a %)

[short swift]

thx

also

the ragebaited by silksong

[boreal isle]

my gameplay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQBe0xmJ-xM

[toxic crater]

Got through Silksong’s ||Path of Papercuts||. It’s not bad, but I’m still glad that there’s ||an unlockable shortcut for later||.

[green scaffold]

Right right

[dense kindle]

yup

[hybrid jetty]

neat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFjJU5lf2K0

[dense kindle]

another blood remaster??

[hybrid jetty]

apparently

main feature is that its on consoles now and has new scenarios

(and is much cheaper if you have fresh supply)

not sure if that really justifies being an entirely new release but idk

[green scaffold]

Oooh, more Blood is always a good news

...unless it's Blood 2

[signal kayak]

@fathom juniper did you know that John Romero has been to the Comic Con in Málaga this weekend?

I could have been there, but didn't go because the yearly comic convention there has always been terribad, and apparently, this year's is not different

[short swift]

honestly dung defender has the voice of a jojo character

especially with they wait he repeats doma LMAO like the muda meme

[ocean iris]

I hope I get this for free if I already have Fresh Supply

[hybrid jetty]

66% discount
so 10 bucks

i believe

[ocean iris]

bruh

[fathom juniper]

oh yeah
he sure loves the spotlight

although he's more... wholesome about it nowadays

[signal kayak]

That was probably the one good thing about the Comic Con btw

Everything else was garBAJ

[fathom juniper]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1245902843345502342/1353820739244916796/endless-trash-absolute-garbage.gif

really?
i've never been to a comic con, but from what i've seen they seemed pretty cool

i'm going to a PGA next month tho

which is like a local pierogi-flavored gaming thing

[signal kayak]

Bro, there were lots of people that had already made their reservations and couldn't enter

[fathom juniper]

wait what

[signal kayak]

The lines to file complaints weren't exactly short

They've effectively scammed a ton of people that wanted to go in even though the capacity was already at full

[fathom juniper]

bruh don't jinx me

if it turns out me and my mate are gonna go halfway across the country just to turn back at the entrance i'm gonna be pissed

[signal kayak]

Good thing you're not going to Málaga, because event organization over to this exact place is dookie

We've had yearly comic (sort of) conventions like this and they were all really bad, but this one takes the cake

[fathom juniper]

lmao

out of curiosity i tried plotting the shortest route in google maps
and for some reason it defaulted to just...
walking

626 hours of non-stop walking
or 26 days

[signal kayak]

LOL!

[fathom juniper]

anyways
i didn't have much time for discording this weekend

or gaeming

but i did see this
https://youtu.be/ZufpF5Kfh9c?si=VTPVR8pfJ38CjSdJ

come on, aspyr
wha happun?

you were doing so well with tomb raiders and sour leavers

[signal kayak]

Pretty

[ocean iris]

John Romero was also at the EECC in Romania a few years back

wish I could have met him

[signal kayak]

Pretty bad, I mean 😂

[fathom juniper]

i mean - not only that
but there's also the fact that making a corporate cashgrab of a remaster full of what looks to be like ai-generated stuff missed not one but two points of the game in question

[fathom juniper]

wonder what are the chances of him showing up at PGA

[fathom juniper]

it's like the third blood re-relase

whatever
we've had all this cool stuff they showed there on pc for decades now and it's nice to see it finally hitting consoles

HOWEVER

1 - what is that thumbnail?
is someone re-rendering all cutscenes from scratch?
and if they're not, then...
2 - is it ai generated?

because that last picture they showed while pretty, makes no sense in the context of the game

there's no revolvers in blood
there's just a flare gun

and that's clearly a revolver
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1421957728661934242/image.png?ex=68daecd5&is=68d99b55&hm=ab349f3f572cb0de436fcb03d34e34c46ff4931ff71375150112daf59c8f1ee4&

it's the kind of mistake ai sure loves to make

[humble mason]

i got deus ex on steam recently, realized i can't really play it on steamdeck (obviously, in hindsight), and thought "aw wish they would update this game"

this is not what i was thinking of🥹

[fathom juniper]

BRUH

are you reading my mind?

literally yesterday i was thinking about setting up a steam deck config for deus ex and posting it on the

the thing

the one that has all the community made control schemes

[humble mason]

oh that would be cool if you figure out something that works

[fathom juniper]

although - now that i'm thinking about it

it wouldn't work
cause i would have to set it up for GMDX

[signal kayak]

And they got in hot water for using a voice actress' voice without permission

With a i ofc

[fathom juniper]

really?

i mean
the deus ex IP went through so many hands who knows who has the rights to anything anymore

[signal kayak]

Oh no, not in Deus Ex

In Tomb Raider 4-6

To be exact, the French voice actress of Lara Croft

[fathom juniper]

oh so it's not even shelly blond?

it's because of localisation?

wait
shelly blond was tr1

jonell elliott
totally didn't have to look it up right now

to be fair - lot of recent remakes and remaster do some voice acting mcguyvering

stiching up new lines out of cut out chunks of old recordings
like that recent MGS3 delta thing

[austere wadi]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ewh2K9XPEBM

Bilewater deserves so much worse, but I'll be visiting the electric place soon and getting my catharsis for this horrible area.

[fathom juniper]

well that was a fun...

47 minutes

[austere wadi]

What was 47 minutes?

[fathom juniper]

the silkposting break

[austere wadi]

[fathom juniper]

[austere wadi]

I'm not obsessive about it, I've barely talked about Bilkbong since Hades 2 hit 1.0.

But sorry to break the "streak".

[dense kindle]

I need another goty indie game release right now

[fathom juniper]

bruh hades 2 released like 3 days ago

[dense kindle]

yeah thats forever ago

[austere wadi]

Yeah, and it was in EA for a year and a half so only the real dweebs don't have credits yet (me, I'm one of those dweebs).

[feral bobcat]

If only i could fit the bilewater merchant title in my discord name...

[austere wadi]

Inflammatory comment: ||Bilewater's music isn't even as good as Greenpath's.||

[dense kindle]

dude this omega raid looks so freaking cool

[solar hound]

Coral tower is… idk

I guess it’s fine

I feel like silksong’s difficulty is all over the place sometimes

Beat my head on the 2nd lace fight for like 3 hours

First tried first sinner

[dense kindle]

I think everyone just responds to fights differently

[solar hound]

Yeah it’s definitely a me thing

[dense kindle]

I didn't really struggle with any boss fights except for Nyleth and Beastfly, iirc

[solar hound]

I was so over leveled for the second beastfly fight lol it was over in 2 seconds

[dense kindle]

the game definitely asks a stupid amount of you if you wanna get 100% though

[solar hound]

I’m just tired of the gauntlets tbh

[dense kindle]

like "you're really gonna make me do this ingredient fetch quest to get my nail upgrade? bruh"

[solar hound]

Finally found my groove with shaman crest only for the floor to go away in the third chamber

[dense kindle]

the worst of it was high halls, I think
the act 3 stuff ended up not being too bad, I think?

[solar hound]

The forum gauntlet was a lot yeah

[feral bobcat]

The gauntlet is quite ok on replays

[solar hound]

I’m not actually agitated by the tower gauntlet which I guess is a sign that somewhere subconsciously I know it’s fair

[feral bobcat]

Personally i reallt struggled on karm, more than any other boss

[solar hound]

I just wish it were… less long

[dense kindle]

I kinda liked the forum gauntlet because it was SO brutal, combined with the music, felt like the game pushing me to my limits
but the placement is kind of weird

[dense kindle]

dw you don't need to do the entire thing every time to rematch the boss

just think of it like an easier trial of the fool

[solar hound]

I enjoyed the forum especially in retrospect bc I was soo undergeared it was kind of funny

Alright I’ll lock in again

[dense kindle]

forum has taught me that I'm not suited for hunter crest in this game

[solar hound]

Hunter crest is generally great but the pogo is disabling in small arenas

[elder ivy]

Just be grateful you're not experiencing h2's ending

[solar hound]

Aw man I heard it was bad

I’m scared

[elder ivy]

IT WAS AWFUL

and misogynistic af too lol

[dense kindle]

especially against fliers, I'm so frequently right above a flying enemy that charged under me, and I need to pogo or else I'll take damage

[dense kindle]

oh I didn't feel that it was misogynistic, just very very not good and smelly

[solar hound]

My friend texted me out of the blue saying “heard the hades 2 ending was bad, pouring one out for you” and they don’t play video games

So it’s pretty dire isn’t it

[elder ivy]

well it wasn't misogynistic on purpose, but it ended up being like that accidentally or something

[elder ivy]

I genuinely can't think of a worse ending

[dense kindle]

I kind of figured that they'd tie him in heavily, because he's too well liked as a character

[solar hound]

Misogynistic, huh… did they m shaft mel?

[elder ivy]

chronos just randomly exploding and dying would be better lol...

[elder ivy]

yep!

[solar hound]

Oh god

Tell me they didn’t make it like a giga zagreus fanservice

[elder ivy]

THATS EXACTLYWHAT IT WAS

[solar hound]

I like him and want him back but not at Mel’s expense

[dense kindle]

(sorta)

[solar hound]

God damn

[dense kindle]

I don't even think he gets fanserviced though

no one wins here

[solar hound]

Wow so they shafted Mel and zagreus didn’t even benefit from it

🫩

[elder ivy]

Zagreus basically ||shows up and saves the day and makes Chronos a good guy||

[solar hound]

You’re Joe King

[elder ivy]

I really wish I was 😐

the execution of it was sooo bad too...

[solar hound]

So… wait

[dense kindle]

I personally would've preferred an ending where mel frees him, him and mel work together to gather resources for a spell and beat chronos or something

[solar hound]

So the goddess of nightmares thing didn’t pan out at all?

[elder ivy]

NOPE

[feral bobcat]

Hell yea migrated slander

[dense kindle]

LOL

[elder ivy]

Hypnos is a joke character that gets NOTHING too

[solar hound]

No eternal sleep? Just “we forgive gramps for eating hades”?

This is… interesting

[dense kindle]

he's turned a new leaf!

[solar hound]

And here I thought the solution was so obvious

[elder ivy]

everyone thought so too yeah

[solar hound]

Trap him in an eternal nightmare to justify the gameplay loop

Wow

[elder ivy]

the nightmare theory was pretty solid.....

[solar hound]

Wait so-

[elder ivy]

yeah

[dense kindle]

I didn't buy into the nightmare stuff tbh

[solar hound]

I mean it was one pretty valid theory

I wouldn’t have been surprised if it were something else

But it I guess it was something radically different

And also bad

Lose lose lose

[elder ivy]

Everything is awful all over the place yeah...

[dense kindle]

||My best guess for the ending, originally, was: You go into the House of Hades and rescue the residents of it one at a time, back to the crossroads. Together, you hatch a plan and a spell to end the war. You have to do the surface route, then the underworld, back to back, with the underworld tuned up to be harder.
Chronos would have a special phase with typhon at the end, and you, together with Zag and the rest of the family, manage to permanently cast a spell to cripple and contain Chronos so he could never rise to the same levels again

oh and for Typhon, my idea was "We use Olylmpus to be a magical prison for Typhon. He shall be doomed to permanently climb it, the olympians now forced to abandon their home and live on the surface with the mortals, learning to be better rulers with Prometheus helping."
Mel's new role would be to regularly run down and up to drive down typhon from his perch, or to crush chronos again regularly to make sure he doesn't get up to anything. His forces would still be causing chaos and havoc in the aftermath, so part of her job is cleanup as the world gradually recovers.

You can't kill Chronos because he is time, crucial for the function of the world, but you can diminish how much sway he has.||

I had this writeup with a friend who also saw the credits

[solar hound]

Don’t answer this yet, but I do wonder how the gameplay loop works after the epilogue

[dense kindle]

haha me too! (I've only seen credits 1)

[elder ivy]

it's some of the worst justifications for it i've seen

[solar hound]

[elder ivy]

[solar hound]

I guess that’ll be my project for tonight

[dense kindle]

those mel stickers feel weird now given how the ending happened lol

like "poor girl"

[elder ivy]

noooo keep playing silksong instead 💔

[solar hound]

I’ll set aside silksong since it’s making my head hurt anyway

[dense kindle]

I couldn't stop giggling and laughing at the ending

[elder ivy]

It's extra crazy because Mel actually directly tells ||Zagreus to go and kill chronos... because she has this perfect plan!!! and Zagreus straight up doesnt listen to her because uhhh idk he trusted his gut instinct instead and decides to talk to chronos instead.....||

[dense kindle]

I was even thinking that it was setting up for a ||Nier Automata style gameplay segment, where you swap between playing as Zag and Mel every room, fighting your way to vanquish Chronos at the same time, across time.|| that would've been ok as well, imo

[solar hound]

I’ll read the spoiler tagged stuff after I finish the main story

I’m scared 🙁 but maybe this’ll be a nice bit of levity

[elder ivy]

it's the thing I already told you, just a bit more elaboration

[solar hound]

I can laugh at the story even if it’s not emotionally engaging

[feral bobcat]

No its because zag is " da man " and the god of blood and relationships and hes just so epic gamer so he solves family issues no biggie ( only this family issue includes genocide )

[dense kindle]

I guess it's just trying to point out that ||Zag no likey broken family||

[solar hound]

Ok I read it and I’m screaming and throwing u

[dense kindle]

nah granddad did literally nothing wrong

[elder ivy]

yeah but think about the implication...
there is a woman that spent decades perfecting this plan and thinking it through very thoroughly, knowing that you CANT reason with Chronos, you HAVE to kill him. and then Zagreus is just like "nah i'll do my own thing instead because I know better"

[solar hound]

Does Mel grapple with this at all? Surely her deep seated resentment for chronos doesn’t disappear

[elder ivy]

not really at all

[solar hound]

Like he’s the reason she was raised in a war camp and her dads in chains in Tartarus I feel like I’d be experiencing whiplash if I were her

[dense kindle]

||Zag: "Have you tried chilling out and not solving all your issues with violence?"||

[solar hound]

Which brings me to hades

[elder ivy]

yep we get none of that!!!

everyone just accepts things and forgives chronos!!

[solar hound]

Is he like.. cool with all this? You know what I’ll just play and find out

This is wild

[elder ivy]

it's actually insane

it makes no sense AT ALL

[dense kindle]

I don't really buy into the "mel is a traumatized child soldier who only knows war" thing but this is a BIG leap

[solar hound]

Mel seems well adjusted but sheltered with a limited worldview

[dense kindle]

yeah she has normal relationships, she has some moms, she has a dad/uncle, she has a childhood love interest
she is not the "can never live in a normal family" person I've seen some people depict her as

[elder ivy]

I've been screaming into the pillow for the last 3 days because of how unbelievably bad this ending is...
like it's literally the worst fear that everyone had pre-1.0

[dense kindle]

I'm so sorry to be right...

[elder ivy]

👿

yeah well I had a thing they call HOPE

now I don't have that anymore

[solar hound]

…so what’s the point of collecting the sand and stuff?

Just crafting recipes?

[elder ivy]

yeah

nothing else really

[solar hound]

Well!

This has been an enlightening conversation

I’m gonna go and get the full disappointing experience now

[dense kindle]

normally you can mute dialogue in games if you really don't care
but this is Hades 2

[feral bobcat]

I guess theres the autoskip?

[elder ivy]

the silkposting is over ❤️

[dense kindle]

I mean everyone is over silksong

yawn, old news, only old people play that

[feral bobcat]

Until a dlc comes out

[next patio]

Finally made a backup to replay first sinner

Def in my top of silksong fights

[solar hound]

First sinner was soooo good

I might be saying that because I thought she was easy in a sea of impossible bosses

[next patio]

Oh she's def on the easier side lol

But is so fun to play

Especially with aggressive use of clawline

[solar hound]

But I fought her around the same time as lace pt 2 who I found genuinely impossible

[next patio]

Lace 2 was when I embraced tool spam

[solar hound]

Frustrating to tears level difficult

[next patio]

Did you know tacks absolutely bully her

[solar hound]

I still don’t have tacks 🤫

[next patio]

Rip 😔

[solar hound]

I must have missed them somewhere and I haven’t looked up where to find them

But I’ve been surviving

[next patio]

If you want the area is sinner's road

[solar hound]

Oh that explains it

[next patio]

Altho idk if you are in act 2 or 3

[solar hound]

I avoid sinner’s road and bilewater like the plague

Act 3 now

[next patio]

Hmmm

Idk how it works during act 3 lol

||you probably loot the corpse tho||

[solar hound]

Ah makes sense

That’s how I got the dice

[next patio]

That or the shop in blasted step will sell it

[solar hound]

I guess I’ll go hunting around for it

[solar hound]

The little triangular guy? He didn’t have it so I assume it’s still in SR

[next patio]

||is a bit up from where you fight the chef, same big room||

[solar hound]

Trobble..?

What was his name

[next patio]

Oh if you have done the cursed thing you should know the place

[solar hound]

The chef was also a lace-esque fight except it was more embarrassing because her moveset is very straightforward

I wanted to die

[next patio]

Her fight is kinda stinky thanks to the maggots

The ass attack is so funny tho

[solar hound]

I cheesed groal with the architect crest lmaoo the chef was my only taste of maggoty combat chambers

And she was how I knew I wouldn’t try fighting groal seriously

Anyway thank you for letting me know about the tacks I will backtrack now

Give the coral tower a break 🫩 I’ve used every single crest

[next patio]

Tacks will bully any boss that stays on the ground for too long

[next patio]

Ouch

I wonder if CT is easier with the drugs method lol

(Architect + certain tool)

[solar hound]

Ah the groal cheat lol

I’d say no because the issue isn’t healing windows

But maybe it works for others

[next patio]

Architect def seems like the best option anyways??

Charged attack good

[solar hound]

I’ve had luck with the shaman crest but fumbled at the last second twice in a row by using the wrong silk skill

[next patio]

Or run wanderer + voltfilment tread storm ig

[solar hound]

I’ve had decent luck! But I can’t pogo to save my life

[next patio]

Wait do you know of the voltfilment oops or whatever the name is

[solar hound]

At this point in the game it’s hard for me to adjust to new crests because the floor is so high

[next patio]

Also if you really hate CT just pull the poison cogflies

[solar hound]

Uh the lightning in a bottle that you chuck like a bomb?

[solar hound]

My goats…

[next patio]

No, is from an extra area in sands

Blue tool that works like shaman stone for skills

[solar hound]

..?.?.???

thank you for telling me about this oh my god

[next patio]

Should be where you open the shortcut on the way to raging conchflies iirc

[solar hound]

I’ve been avoiding googling things but I’m coming to realize I’m not skilled enough to ignore the best tools in the game

[next patio]

Look up for purple glow

[solar hound]

Nooby you’re such a pro

Mwah

[next patio]

(also funny enough you can reach this in act 2)

Act 3 just makes the spot more obvious I believe

[next patio]

Is called absorbing knowledge from others 🙂

[next patio]

Also this tool is so fun

I love the pillars of death

[spice fiber]

pure vessel is crazy man

[dense kindle]

oh yeah

you gotta play super aggro on him

my tip is basically to always jump when he's about to attack, every move can be responded to easily from there

[spice fiber]

hmm thanks very much dude

[dense kindle]

and don't dash unnecessarily, you gotta save your iframes for his attacks ideally

[spice fiber]

i understand

what about nkg

[dense kindle]

you want tips on him?

[spice fiber]

dealing with them in a row may be tough

[spice fiber]

yes please

[spice fiber]

and p5 in general

[dense kindle]

I mean nkg you ideally should be able to do damageless

[spice fiber]

😢

[dense kindle]

he's a simple but tedious boss. Every move has a single ideal response, allowing you to attack once or twice. No moves overlap.

Dive kick. Jump, pogo once when he lands.
Slash-uppercut. Stand next to where he stops, slash him once or twice, and stand still.
Flame pillars. Inch towards him. You can do lots of damage with this one.
Fire Bats. Jump once and airdash. You can hit him twice.
Spikes. Just find a safespot on the ground. No damage opportunity.
Pufferfish. Stand in corner, jump if necessary.

[spice fiber]

hmm

tysm

your wisdom is appreciated

[dense kindle]

its because no moves overlap that it's so consistent. As soon as a move is done, get ready to respond to the next.

You can't let your brain get caught up on the previous attack a second ago, that's irrelevant

[spice fiber]

yes sir

and although i havent fought him yet

absrad?

[dense kindle]

Absolute radiance is the opposite. Moves overlap all the time.
Deal with moves as fast as possible. This will give you more room to deal with the next.

those lightballs? ram them into the ground. If they're still flying in 3 seconds, you'll have to dodge it and some flying swords at the same time.

That pillar of light? You better have dashed through it before it got halfway across the screen

Huge secret tip, you can groundpound the spikes to make them go away, I believe

[weary skiff]

Ddark is just the most op move ever

[green scaffold]

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/electronic-arts-go-private-55-billion-deal-with-pif-silver-lake-2025-09-29/

[jagged grove]

I personally think the ninja turtle rouge like is made to compete with Hades 2

[signal kayak]

I think we can kiss Burnout goodbye for the foreseeable future? And many other actually good titles from studios under EA?

[ocean iris]

ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL

[spice sentinel]

I want to say cant really get worse, but looking at who's buying them it will get worse

[silk abyss]

https://imgur.com/a/yJWxY6v

Getting all 4 of these characters lorded took 4 days worth of play time

[green scaffold]

Unless they dip I guess

Please Motive run away I need that little glimpse of hope for more Dead Space Remakes

[short swift]

bro

||underworks|| is genuinely more sadistic than deepnest

[dense kindle]

and thematically resonant!

[short swift]

tbh tho the runback to ||last judge|| was worse than underworks especially if you're trying to use beast crest LOL

[hearty yarrow]

Just when you think EA cant get worse

They always prove you wrong

[feral bobcat]

Ita quite easy if you just avoid enemies and take advantage of dash harpoon maybe double jump

I could avoid all enemies without double jump

[toxic crater]

ONE HUNDRED AND SIX SECONDS.

WHEW.

[feral bobcat]

What that be

[toxic crater]

New Flea Dodge high.

[feral bobcat]

O HOLY

Triple digitssssss

[restive pulsar]

who has tips for groal the great heheh

[edgy echo]

Do you want to facetank or cheese?

[restive pulsar]

i like cheesing

i cheesed like 3 bosses so far

[feral bobcat]

Sryy i first tried him dont know his moveset :>

[restive pulsar]

widow mothwing and the high gauntlet

[edgy echo]

Alright

[restive pulsar]

damn wtf

[edgy echo]

Bring the poison tool along with the basic 3-fold pin and the dart pin

[feral bobcat]

I used cogflies and boomerang i think

Spam them

Easy peasy

[edgy echo]

In the boss arena, right after you clear the mobs go the bottom right section of the Arena

[restive pulsar]

is the three fold pin the one you throw and it stays in the air

[feral bobcat]

His hitbox is huge so boomerang goes crazy

[edgy echo]

No no the 3-direction tool one. The one you get in Greymoor's Craw area

[restive pulsar]

okie

[edgy echo]

Right after Groal takes the stage, immediately go under the platform of the rightmost section and take a dip in the maggot-infested water

All of his attacks won't reach you under there, except for when he Dives and Reemerges from the water

[restive pulsar]

nice

[edgy echo]

Even if he sucks you with his mouth you won't get caught since the platform in the middle of the water stops you from being dragged

[restive pulsar]

thats awesome lmao

[edgy echo]

So just keep throwing poisoned projectiles and groal and it should be done in a few minutes

[restive pulsar]

ill take architect crest so i can stack more tools

thank you

[edgy echo]

If you wanna face tank just go any other crest besides Witch and equip Flintslate. You can stay at the top right of the Arena to dodge projectiles and get purposely eaten by Groal

Before you do get eaten, activate Flintslate and attack him from the inside. Should go down in a couple of tries. And you get full silk after every time you're eaten and attacking so you'll get your health back.

[feral bobcat]

Also u can throw pimpillos inside his mouth

[restive pulsar]

oh wait i heard about this happening lmao

i didnt realize that was groal

[short swift]

about that

i dont have dash harpoon

nor double jump

still not sure where you get either

[feral bobcat]

Not even dash??

[short swift]

nope

ive been doing everything so idk how i could have missed it

[feral bobcat]

That is wild because you cant even fight first lace battle without it

[short swift]

uhh no it was p easy

[feral bobcat]

How far are you exactly? Or playtime hours-wise?

[short swift]

wait

Dash yea

but harpoon no

[feral bobcat]

Oh ok ok

[short swift]

like the harpoon that pulls you forward

if thats what u mean

[feral bobcat]

Harpoon is somewhere in the underworks

[short swift]

ohh okay

[feral bobcat]

Theres an area with an npc called architect

[short swift]

well i cant go back yet

cos i dont have double jump and its impossible to do the whole scale thing without it

[feral bobcat]

To the left kf that room is a bench, after that bench a wheel u can hit to activate some updraft

And if u go up and continue ull circle through some areas with lava and flying enemies

[feral bobcat]

Double jump is in a region called mount fay

[feral bobcat]

Harpoon is obtainable without db jump

[dense kindle]

omega is hard

[woven breach]

yep

fought it with my two other friends and we still barely made it

one dedicated healer, I was tank

our DPS carted twice

was like any other MMORPG raid

[fathom juniper]

morning

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[toxic crater]

Silksong done. At least a reasonable amount. All achievements except ||Twisted Child|| ending and anything to do with speedrunning (not really my jam) or Steel Soul (LOL NO).

Hades 2 is sweet so far.

[restive pulsar]

Those groal tips helped yesterday thanks yall

[edgy echo]

Happy to help hope you enjoy Act 3

[stray crown]

not this chat being silksong posting

the curse extends to all the videogames discussion channels i know

[dense kindle]

what other video games are there?

[fathom juniper]

Mmmmm

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/226831135802392577/1422821170356555796/IMG_8488.png?ex=68de10f9&is=68dcbf79&hm=0db547e87956e031ed881590a06773578face101efaaf1313e956fcc266aca66&

Bideo gaems

[stray crown]

uhhhh Hades 2 idk if youve heard of it

[fathom juniper]

Am I the only one getting those weird ass fake videogame ads on YouTube ?

[stray crown]

i swear they only appear in mobile devices

[fathom juniper]

Yeah cause I have a proper Adblock on my pc lol

[dense kindle]

nope never heard of it

[fathom juniper]

[pure kernel]

expedition 33 :3

[rustic falcon]

True

Can we talk about it

I want to talk about expedition 33

[ocean iris]

Playing exclusively these days VTMB, WoW Classic and Helldivers 2

I am a simple person

[dense kindle]

I'm playing mh wilds and borderlands 4 recently

and blood thief

[spice sentinel]

u must hate good fps

[dense kindle]

I run them on geforce now so its nvidias servers on fire, I guess

also unfortunately they're good games

[rustic falcon]

vtmb??

It’s excellent for the most part
I am truly excited for the upcoming second game and hoping so so much it will be good

[mystic wave]

||do you think if clea was kinder to her sister maelle wouldn't decide her life outside the painting is over||

[pure kernel]

||eh I think it's not just clea that makes maellicia want to stay in the canvas imo, it's also aline||

[mystic wave]

That too

[pure kernel]

||like let's not forget aline painted alicia with all her blights in verso's world||

[mystic wave]

||True aline is more outright about it, but clea's casual dismissive attitude about everyone else caught my eye more||

[pure kernel]

||clea just wanted to avenge verso I suppose||

||it's so funny that clea torments maelle across games as well||

||since clea is lae'zel and maelle is shart||

[mystic wave]

||It's so casual I wonder if she ever think of the damage it's doing||

[rose galleon]

Good morning afternoon evening
What are we talking about for the ungodly amount of spoilers

[mystic wave]

Expedition 33 ending spoilers

[rose galleon]

I see

Then I shall depart

[rustic falcon]

I never even considered such an angle and but I think there’s no way
|| 🤓 I’ve been thinking about Clea a lot and the conversation we actually watch her having with alicia, it’s clear to me that Clea loves her very much and actually sees her in this moment. With their parents gone for a while, Clea is really the only one left to take care of her. Which is something even I didn’t consider until right now||

||clea’s grief is as strong as everyone else’s but her motivation for getting alicia in the canvas are both to get renoir to lock in and help her (he does no such thing) and keep alicia from danger (Clea went into the canvas 16 years ago, to ask Verso to make sure she’s safe)||

[mystic wave]

||The conversation itself is not so fresh in my mind but the thoughts I got from it was "dude, your sister is already blaming herself" ||

[rustic falcon]

||she also has her unique take on her family and pantings. She is completely disillusioned with their parents and calls them by name. But she was very close to Verso, and just like everyone else, what she does in the canvas is what she thinks is best for him instead of what he would actually want/what he wants||
||its interesting… how important and real the paintings and canvases are to everyone else but not to her. She outgrew it as she outgrew the idealistic view of their parents. She is no-nonsense and she doesn’t sugarcoat anything and she did some evil things to her painted counterparts (let’s unpack that at another time)||
||also in the “life to love” ending Clea is the only one who even looks at Alicia and they smile at each other||

I rewatched it yesterday I feel like a nerd making a sentence-by-sentence breakdown of it but the point I think people get alarmed by is ||when she tells alicia “you can’t help, you’re too weak and will only be a liability” something something. It is absolutely very mean. But alicia is a newly somewhat recovered (in body, not in mind) burn victim who has a target on her back AND is also younger and significantly less skilled that Clea, who is said to be so powerful that she can paint over someone else’s creations||
||also just like Aline, she doesn’t care that Alicia wants to stay in the canvas, but I think she has more respect and understanding for Alicia than Aline(it is approaching zero)||

[mystic wave]

||I do get where she's coming from though, it's like "god, I'm not your keeper, you buncha babies!"||

[rustic falcon]

I could write an entire essay about how her absence from the story makes such a big impact, maybe even more than if she was there

[mystic wave]

||But I do like to explore more about the damage this disillusionment causes||

[rustic falcon]

||she says “I don’t have time to coddle Aline, and before Verso died, she would have said the same”||
||Im never sure which way that goes but I would think it means that Aline would tell Clea she has no time to coddle her. Ma’am that’s your firstborn||

this game makes me cry just thinking about it. I really love her… I love the characters in this game

also (expedition 33 spoilers and also it is an image I took) her power grows
||the reverse side of the standee, which is a little smaller than my index finger, is painted clea. It’s drawn by barbozari||

oh! It is unspoiled. Well. Enjoy this picture of my house

[mystic wave]

Hey this is so cool

[rustic falcon]

Wait what the hell I don’t even know if it spoilered or not
Anyway yes I think she is great and I have a lot to say about her. I wish a lot of other people didn’t dismiss her with that kneejerk reaction of “she’s mean, screw her”
I had this reaction to other characters in the game but I got better LOL it’s ok a dash of nuance fixed it

[mystic wave]

don't know if it's spoilered or not

That's me

In this other server

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/512790960816783363/1422904841587523685/Screenshot_2025-10-01-19-13-50-241_com.discord-edit.jpg?ex=68de5ee6&is=68dd0d66&hm=8e36c2ab7909b0007b9d6b2cced34a150e8a3fb4c7d98545635559a87f68c433&

[rustic falcon]

LOL I meant the image I sent, one moment I see it, then I don’t…

Haha post void

[spice sentinel]

||no matter what, aline is a truly terrible parent||

[rustic falcon]

To whom?

[spice sentinel]

all of them

[rustic falcon]

||you could say that about renoir as well, who had his favorite child, Aline, who had her favorite child, and clea, who grew up to be her parents’ parent||
||also? renoir was kinda messed up for how he painted the axons ngl is that how you see your family for realsies??||
Regardless I kinda disagree with “truly terrible”
||they’re parents. I saw someone point out today that all of their children live at home and are unmarried, so clearly it’s not so terrible there…||

||she’s grieving in her own way. She chooses total escapism that turns harmful. Renoir on the other hand, wants to “fix” everything, bring it all back together even if he doesn’t have the glue to fix it||

[spice sentinel]

rip

[rustic falcon]

||I mean… don’t forget that when renoir meets Verso, he only recognizes him as Aline’s work and offers to erase him. This character, that you spent so long with as a protagonist - no matter how you feel about his actions and beliefs||

[spice sentinel]

|| id agree he isnt much better.
aline abandons her kids during the worst time of their lives cause she cant deal with her own grief, and renoir does the same cause hes obsessed with "fixing" the family.||

[rustic falcon]

||painted renoir is ALSO a parent, which means he will never be capable of treating his family perfect because no one in the world is (for example, he isolates alicia because he does what he thinks is good for her which goes against what she actually wants) but everything he does is out of love.||

Oh you know what I was going to talk about sciel but then i started crying. Imagine a poignant paragraph here

[spice sentinel]

game is a masterpiece, but very sad indeed

actually made me shed a few tears which hasnt happened for a game in idk how many years

[rustic falcon]

Anyway sorry I totally sound like I’m dismissing you. It’s an entirely valid take/part of the game because like I said, the kneejerk reactions are strong especially when you relate to something personally

[rustic falcon]

I cry like a baby at video games or anything all the time
It made me shed tears a lot
But when credits rolled I had a couple of minutes of “wow that was a good ending. I liked that.” Before I burst into tears and cried so hard I didn’t even know why

it wasn’t at “the sad part”
I liked it, as a narrative conclusion to the game
Then it concluded and I guess I didn’t know what to do with the end of this journey

[mystic wave]

I was gonna make a comparison about family relationships in 1000xresist but I just remembered AD didn't play it 😔

[rustic falcon]

||I chose life to paint because I was playing with a friend and I knew he chose the other one so we watched it together. Honestly, I came to like it more as a conclusion to the story, but both really get me thinking||
People have some strong opinions about it there are genuinely people I cannot discuss the ending with

[rustic falcon]

I’m really sad I stopped playing and I don’t remember why I stopped. I got super into it but I guess I’m jsut cursed

[mystic wave]

Start fresh. Clean slate!

[spice sentinel]

i can see ppl choosing either ending even if I know which one is prefer

[rustic falcon]

Which one? I assume not mine 🥹

[spice sentinel]

||verso ending||

[rustic falcon]

mmhm

||its good! In some regards. But the looks you get from sciel and lune are so devastating its like nevermind take me back I wanna stay and play toys||

This games ending is so good ITS SO GOOOOD i think it will be seared into my mind forever. What is that acting!!!! Im sad as hell!!!!!!

Started crying again btw

[spice sentinel]

||during the moment I chose maelle ending too, but i did another playthrough after for the other one and i liked it more||

[rustic falcon]

||did you finish all the personal quests? My brother just played and didn’t realize you can even talk to anyone except esquie at camp…. :((||

[mystic wave]

I will be playing my other belle epoque game (after I get through silksong)

Which game you ask?

||Lies o P||

[rustic falcon]

People have been enjoying the crossover

I think the devs even did an interview/talk very recently

[mystic wave]

It's also about relationship with parents!

[rustic falcon]

Everything is when you think about it

So is 1000xRESIST ||bro she microwaved that aminal…….||

[mystic wave]

Ahem

[rustic falcon]

Straight up crisped it

and by it I mean

||the aminal||

[mystic wave]

AD have you considered

That this might end up being the only memory you have of aforementioned game.

[rustic falcon]

It really is not

I remembered a lot of what I played I was making a joke that is vaguely unrelated to the parents thing

But she did do that

[mystic wave]

[rustic falcon]

I think the last big story beat/reveal I saw was ||the hair-jiao||
That left a very big impact on me

… idk why I called her that surely there’s a better name

[mystic wave]

Oh... Oh no

[rustic falcon]

Also the friend I played with said my art reminds them of iris art (in a good way)
I think I already said that but you know what sure I’ll take the Compliment

[broken smelt]

glitches 👀

[mystic wave]

That just means bug reports!

[broken smelt]

oh

[rustic falcon]

a brief return to expedition 33
||its so funny. All of my most popular posts are Clea||

[mystic wave]

I might have a wild guess on who your favorite character is

[rustic falcon]

ha well I’d like to see you try

More expedition 33 spoilers I don’t remember if I linked it before but I think it turned out pretty impressive! And more painful than I expected! To my feelings.
||https://youtu.be/_bJA7NoMOlc||

[mystic wave]

~~Woah where do I go to get this scene ~~

[rustic falcon]

is that a genuine question or a jest?

[mystic wave]

||I know you did some modding but I never actually did the clea contents so...||

[rustic falcon]

ohh

||the genuine answer is in the flying manor. and this is the end of the fight cutscene, soooo.. if you end up doing it youll have an entirely different experience anyway!||

it is heavily modded lol

modding certain things became weirdly easy at some point, but that one still gave me trouble. it is shelved in favor of...
||CLune||

[pure kernel]

that feels a little cursed

[rustic falcon]

it works very well and was surprisingly easy

[pure kernel]

I kinda want to see what lune would look like with blue eyes

[rustic falcon]

it has a few issues i need to work out (hair appears on model replacements face when up close) and also she has lune's animations. so cutscenes may have weird faces. but it looks great

idk i can give you blonde lune

[pure kernel]

erm no I much prefer her with raven hair

[rustic falcon]

i think shes surprisingly cute

[pure kernel]

absolutely

[rustic falcon]

i warmed up to it quickly

oh that cropping. boooo

anyway shes cute

[rustic falcon]

i could probably do that but its also a scary thought for me LOL

[pure kernel]

ah with the pure(?) outfit blonde hair fits

[pure kernel]

yep I remember reading your troubles giving ||clea|| normal eyes

[rustic falcon]

yes :) i chose the ones that look the best

nah i got it down

thats bc i used UE directly

now i edit the names of the files which made it easier

[pure kernel]

also she kinda looks like Catherine with blonde hair?

[rustic falcon]

interesting

their face is very different to me but i think the combinations of the face and hair make all the difference

[rustic falcon]

||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIqPNaPPdZA|| see 😎

[pure kernel]

oh huh never got that cutscene

||mainly bc I never got curious enough to get to the barrier before deleting both axons||

[rustic falcon]

yeah i didnt know about it either

very funny to find out

[pure kernel]

also erm regarding this switcheroo

[rustic falcon]

shes so cuuuute shes cute i love lune

[pure kernel]

||I remember reading something that clea is lune underneath or something||

[rustic falcon]

huh

i dont know what youre referring to?

[pure kernel]

||as in clea's model is lune's||

||nothing related to lore 😅||

[rustic falcon]

OH yes sorry the spoiler tag tripped me

i think shes the base for other characters as well

[pure kernel]

or ||how mimes have a gestral model||

[rustic falcon]

as i found out recently, ||aline's legs are from a model of teenager girls from lumiere||

that i did not know but it probably makes sense

ok wait

[mystic wave]

Does this count as cursed knowledge

You knew them as people before and now you know them as swappable assets

[woven breach]

Sorry to interrupt the lovely E33 discussion

but I won against savage omega solo (with support hunter) with 2 mins to spare

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1291013478563446837/1422942390515273970/20251001_204144.jpg?ex=68de81de&is=68dd305e&hm=851b33a7b214af2deddcc135d22653671e3fc9376d21bc1a329aebf8ba81605f&=&format=webp&width=424&height=754

didn't screenshot cause I fear it would crash

[dense kindle]

niiiiiiice

I still havent tried savage yet

[spice sentinel]

yes, everything

||i want more bosses like simon||

[spice sentinel]

that wilds? if so how is performance these days

[mystic wave]

For me at launch, wilds runs 60fps with ray tracing turned off. I got Radeon 6700xt

[woven breach]

it's certainly better now. Got arc B580, Went from 30 fps dips at launch to 40 fps dips instead. Minimal crashing. Haven't tried new driver but they can be unstable sometimes lol

[mystic wave]

On 1080p ?

[rustic falcon]

do it again! ||and what about clea?||

[spice sentinel]

did her too ofc

[rustic falcon]

again!

send them to the torment nexus

||i love her so much, when i didnt realize i could just swap the models and i replaced her boss model, i didnt realize that it would be so distressing seeing it over and over again||

[spice sentinel]

im still hoping for a dlc to play the whole game again

[rustic falcon]

you can do that whenever :D my friend just collected all pictos and upgraded all weapons

and i think after that she started ng+

[pure kernel]

I got 100% so not really envying a new run...

b-but I can't get enough of Lune's voice 😭

[rustic falcon]

cutscnee

[green scaffold]

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/10/01/xbox-game-pass-ultimate-premium-essential-plans/ Microsoft apparently smoked some good stuff because what the Fu...frick is that price change

30 bucks a month for Ultimate? Are you out of your damn mind?

[dense kindle]

30 dollars for silksong? what a steal!

[pure kernel]

the answer is, and always has been, greed.

[silk abyss]

The website to cancel already crashed

I’ll probably just downgrade my subscription

I still play a lot of online games so

[green scaffold]

I will probably do the same thing, Premium sounds good enough at that moment but I will wait a bit, maybe after backlash they will revert the changes

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1973428293945983351?t=XaBc6iJTB501VqtCSA9rgw&s=19

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

The website to cancel Xbox Game Pass subscriptions has overloaded.

This is after the news that the Ultimate subscription would be increased to $29.99/month

X · Oct 1, 2025, 4:42 PM

[spice sentinel]

oh yeah i need to do that too

[fathom juniper]

guys

https://youtu.be/zWRjdWOLR44?si=hUlrUAjnvtj3XBLS

[golden whale]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D4FkNAmZy6M&pp=ygURTWVnYW1hbiBzdGFyZm9yY2XSBwkJ9gkBhyohjO8%3D

The extended trailer to the much anticipated series

[austere wadi]

I've held off playing that MMX mobile sequel thing they ported to PC.

I got a bunch of hours in 30XX (do highly recommend, it's not a MMX roguelite it's a MMX4 roguelite) but don't know if current Capcom is for me.

[woven breach]

yes, 27 inch monitor is too big for my room

[stable kindle]

capcoms been dead to me since they left sengoku basara to rot

[dense kindle]

thats uh, been a while

[stable kindle]

(:

dont i know it

[austere wadi]

The last Capcom game I bought was DMC5.

[dense kindle]

is makoto yamamoto still at capcom

he's like, the sengoku guy

I still basically buy all of Capcom's games lol, they do good work (except when it comes to live service for some reason)

Resident Evil 4 Remake was really really good

[stable kindle]

as far as im aware i think he is?

oh to go back ten years and tell myself sumeragi would be the last basara game id play

there was yukiden but even my diehard basara friend didnt enjoy that one much. i just remember they had been in talks for addition -den games and then yukiden dropped and uh. nothing about basara games was talked about ever again lol

mobile game doesnt count

[austere wadi]

Someone pointed out to me that by every metric (hard population count, money spent, and time spent playing) mobile gaming is the primary game market in the 2020s.

[dense kindle]

and the 2010s, I think

[austere wadi]

I've never been more wounded in my life.

[stable kindle]

i checked and deadass mine was monhun stories. and ive been looking at 2 for the past couple years but never bought it. otherwise i do not own anything more recent lol

[austere wadi]

Never got into Monster Hunter.

I bought World way back and I don't think I've opened it a single time.

[stable kindle]

thats been the case for a long while. north american mobile market is a whisper compared to the asian market. different lifestyles there

i want to like monster hunter, i like the monster designs, i just dont like the gameplay of the series. ive tried across multiple games but its just not remotely my thing. i clicked with stories bc its a monster collecter/battler lmao which IS frankly all i want out of the ip, thanks

[spice sentinel]

i loved World but wilds just felt off to me

[dense kindle]

world has been one of my favorite games ever after I got into Iceborne

base world is just ok

Wilds has been quite good, somewhere between World and Iceborne, but we still haven't even gotten the expansion yet

[woven breach]

once the expansion drop, it'll probably burn everyone's PCs again

[dense kindle]

it'll probably be worth it probably

they are 2 for 2 on their last expansions

iceborne and sunbreak were bangers

[ocean iris]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/s/KI3RJDTybJ

@fathom juniper PLN drives the global economy as the first comment says

[green scaffold]

Our games are second most expensive ones, only behind Switzerland

At least you have few based devs like Supergiant which adjusted the price for countries for Hades II so it can be equal

[fathom juniper]

yeah video game prices are kinda nuts in pierogi land

always have been

[ocean iris]

RAAAAAISE THE FLAAAAAGS

[fathom juniper]

i mean - it's not that bad, but...

it just made me really careful about what i'm buying

maybe that's the reason why i rant so much about prices and dlcs and all the different weird editions and preorders and what not

[humble mason]

is this a poland thing? just compared the prices of that game to what steam offers me (i'm from a eu country that has euros) and it's even more expensive here

[fathom juniper]

nah that's just the regional pricing thing

my point is that games here always have been expensive - even before steam got popular

[humble mason]

ah

[spice sentinel]

world includes iceborne ofc

[fathom juniper]

i mean - hell
I still remember the times when owning just a regular, basic, physical copy of a game felt like having a collector's edition does nowadays

with pc being our main platform and games being stupid expensive back then (comparing what average pole used to earn a month) piracy was common
as common as getting a game on a steam sale is nowadays

[echo hazel]

ghost of yotei is out!!

ordering my physical edition today 😋

[hardy saffron]

Zaz

A mimir

Uwu

[hardy saffron]

Oki

[vague pawn]

@deep hemlock sorry just putting this here because I didn't want to clog Hades chat talking about another game, but yeah I feel like Wyll's story is significantly less well written than Shart and Astarion? I think for me, companion arcs go Shart > Astarion > Lae'zel > Gale > Wyll > Karlach.

Halsin/Minty/milf who i forgot the name of and the hamster dude are 2ndary

[deep hemlock]

I do like Wyll cuz he's actually really refreshing as a cut away from cynicism, my first run of the game was Shadowheart, Wyll, and Astarion and Wyll was good at balancing the party cuz he was like "let's not do awful things" lol
but for me it's Lar'zel> Shart > Gale > Astarion > Wyll = Karlach

still really enjoy karlach and wyll but they could use more

[vague pawn]

I felt like Karlach was really lacking especially when it came to Act 3 (you can kill Gort without her there, she just needs to see the body) whereas with other characters you need to have them there for their Plot or else they get big mad (Gale/Shadowheart/Lae'zel, I think to a certain extent the druid milf and the hamster guy?)

But actually now that you say that, I guess Balduran's trials technically can be done without Wyll there huh. I just bring him every time.

I don't think I've done the sub without him either bc when Astarion ditched me, I was NOT abt to lose another one.

[deep hemlock]

but i did really love her breakdown at gortash cuz she really does realize that there's still no cure for her on the surface

[deep hemlock]

ngl for my honor mode run i was too scared to do the submarine and wyll had no dialogue about that

genuinely really sad

[vague pawn]

YEAH........ it makes her decision to become squiddy really bittersweet because on one hand it is her choice and it's a way for her to live, on the other hand, squiddies aren't even the original person anymore and it felt like she died either way...

[vague pawn]

like not rescuing his dad?????? wyll had nothing to say???

[deep hemlock]

right? it's really scary to wonder if it's ur friend in there, or merely a mindflayer borrowing his name

[deep hemlock]

yep absolutely nothing i finished the game and he still was blade of frontiers

i talked to mizora, told wyll to break the contract, and still nothing about his dad lmao

[vague pawn]

yeah. it's why minthy is the real one tho bc i was expecting her to dump me for being squiddy on the run where i was romancing her, and she's like GREAT U CAN BE MY SQUIDDY CONSORT AND WE SHALL RULE THE UNDERDARK and im like. i will sell my arms and legs for u.

[deep hemlock]

minthy and gale are the most loyal mfs in all of bg3

gale is like let's have a public wedding and minthy is straight up "zaamn you look so beautiful w/ those tentacles"

i wish i didn't break her ai in honor mode

[vague pawn]

ugh that sucks. that's really sad honestly??? that means that it's not really significant whether he's there or not. i wonder if that's in part of the devs expecting people to either kill wyll or karlach off if they went with that route in act 1, but that's still disappointing to hear. I think Wyll is really sweet and he brings a certain......................what's the word. Having actual morals to the camp where everyone is severely lacking lmao

[deep hemlock]

yeah i think he suffers a lot from the kaidan issue, where a character is morally righteous no matter what, but since most players play the good guy, they don't get to see how heroic wyll is

[vague pawn]

im too scared to do honor mode but im also a lil picky in that once i know where an item is at i NEED to collect it like bg3 technically is a game where u can't 100% it in every run but still

[deep hemlock]

u can do it!!! break the game trust

[vague pawn]

what do you mean by you broke her ai in honor mode?

[deep hemlock]

really run throwzerker and college of swords bard, along with maybe cleric and divination wizard

[deep hemlock]

i knocked her out, brought her too moonrise, and killed the guards in the cell, then left the cell to kill guards outside to make sure it was safe
but because i didn't talk to her, she would only show up as a cutscene for 2 seconds and have 0 dialogue options

[vague pawn]

my main gang is usually shart/lae'zel/karlach and then act 2 comes and i MUST have my wife so it becomes shart/minty and then lae'zel/karlach alternates. the boys just sit pretty at camp unless they have quest related stuff i need em for

[vague pawn]

lFKJLAKSDJFLKASJDFLKAS

is this prior to the update? i remember seeing a thing where people had to turn her into a sheep in order to get her

[deep hemlock]

the malewives at camp lmao

[deep hemlock]

i think it may be prior to the final update yah

[vague pawn]

i only got bg3 last december but seeing the sheep shenanigans killed me laughing. the things ppl do for hot evil women

[deep hemlock]

i tried turning undead rolan into a sheep to save him from dying at the hands of the creepy shadows and it did not work unfortunately he also turned into a corpse w 2 lines of dialogue

[deep hemlock]

supporting women's rights and wrongs

kinda wish we got the werewolf bard

[vague pawn]

i think the only companion i'd really complain abt is halsin who feels so out of place in act 3 unless u romance him. but yeah. i thought since wyll had to be there to rescue mizora in act 2 that it'd be the same situation where it's semi-mandatory for him to be there at the trials and the sub

[vague pawn]

what werewolf bard? or do u mean the tiefling gal?

[deep hemlock]

yeah halsin is just there because he's there

[vague pawn]

aksldfjalksdjflkajdlkajslkdfjlasdkfjalskdjfl

[deep hemlock]

nah i think they had plans for a halfling werewolf bard

but they scrapped it for some reason

[vague pawn]

dang that would have been so fun

[deep hemlock]

ong werewolves are peak

honestly halsin just being there is actually incredibly accurate to an actual dnd party lmao

[vague pawn]

I LOVE WEREWOLVES........ missed opportunity. maybe it would have clashed with astarion's existing storyline or something bc he's already a vampire

[deep hemlock]

the one guy that's just there cuz he's there lol

[deep hemlock]

twilight but in bg3 be like

[vague pawn]

BG3 is actually my first introduction to DnD. I tried playing with friends before but I was like ??? I don't get what rolling for perception means etc. so I never really committed but now I do

[deep hemlock]

im glad u enjoyed it, really hope u try finding a group of folks to play it with irl or online

dnd really is a special experience

[vague pawn]

He's there to be a hunk and to complain about the pollution in the city.... like dude I know you're here bc you want to [censored] me but come on

lol

[deep hemlock]

damn

but halsin loves spreading nature's seed

a bit too much ngl

[vague pawn]

i think there's kiddos in the server so that's prob why bot is here smacking ppl

[deep hemlock]

nah makes sense lol

[vague pawn]

I do like that polyam is a thing but I dislike how restrictive it is. Then again, writing the combination of dialogue/romance for Halsin x 3 NPCs are a ton of work enough. I can't think of the amount of effort it would have to go into all the different permutations if it had been a free for all. I appreciate the polyam rep nonetheless

I actually bought Divinity OG Sin 1 and 2 bc I missed BG3 but didn't want to replay it, but it doesn't quite hit the same.

[hybrid jetty]

I think it was a missed opportuntiy to have a halfling or dwarf companion

or gnome

Everyone is just Average Humanoid

[vague pawn]

I wonder if it's the mechanics? What's the right word. I always play either gnome or tiefling (except for the Lae'zel romance run bc she deserves a red dragonborn) and when people go to hug/hold you as a gnome it gets kind of buggy......

[hybrid jetty]

I know astarion will like crouch down but also like

I would sacrifice romance options for having a dwarf companion lol

[vague pawn]

Like Shart crying hugging main character in her post-temple scene was her holding thin air xD

[vague pawn]

it would have been really nice yeah. I think we had 3 humans, 1 half elf, 3 elves, a gith, and a tiefling?

oh wait and minthy sorry i forgot abt u

[hybrid jetty]

yeah i'm always surprised by just how many elves there are

[vague pawn]

the race perks are great ngl. It feels a little biased towards them but I just like the gnomes and tiefs because of the story/dialogue/rapport they get with the other gnomes and tiefs in the story

halfing/orc never got much when I played.

[hybrid jetty]

tiefling has a lot yeah

[vague pawn]

and then duergar is just You Are Evil.

[hybrid jetty]

I always pick dragonborn lol they're fun

and look cool

[vague pawn]

they're hella cool. i could never figure out how to use dragon breath but i think they're neat

[hybrid jetty]

dragon breath stays true to 5E by being kinda terrible but its okay racial traits don't matter much lol

and you get a lot of fun dialogue options

[vague pawn]

i think that's one of my favorite parts of the game and how it's so replayable. there's so much variation of dialogue for different classes/races + if you play as different origins. the combination is endless

[deep hemlock]

white dragonborn may be the coolest looking character in game

bro they're so fine

[hybrid jetty]

real

[silk abyss]

@stable kindle Idk if you care but kpop demon hunters is in Fortnite now

[stable kindle]

yes i saw lmao zoeys singing va rei ami is posting abt being on a plane rn instead of playing fortnite 😭😭😭

[stable kindle]

dos2 my beloved

[dense kindle]

dos 2 is ok

[stable kindle]

i mostly miss sebille and lohse more than the game itself

[short swift]

hey is it possible to take on the unravelled by third weapon upgrade or should i ideally be maxed out like damn near final boss before i take it on?
Im at 3/4 nail upgrades and im having a lot of trouble, granted its only been like 7 attempts maybe but im asking so i dont keep throwing myself at the walll

[next patio]

Is just tanky as hell mostly

I suggest abusing tacks

[woven breach]

https://x.com/Ramika30898/status/1973704196114546777

Ramika30898 (@Ramika30898)

shaw

X · Oct 2, 2025, 10:58 AM

[short swift]

ill probably come back to it later i think

rn its just not worth the rage

i dont think i need more upgrades but

couldnt hurt

[short swift]

||https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1340161347215691818/1423566339326345256/20251003-01K6ME4HD9Z9QHNV4005MHG7XV-70F6112D-137B-499C-8E96-68C038384985.mov?ex=68e0c6f7&is=68df7577&hm=f1951af5137667c4d1f3c719bd25ad3df05c0efb056ec28b2363dfdfa44b2d25& || missed by a hair
silksong slab boss spoiler

is this a bug

cos it touched her horns so i figured it should have killed me

[dense kindle]

no clue, idk the hitboxes

[short swift]

YOOOOO

just finished the game

tbh how come ||grandmother silk|| is easier than radiance

well im sure theres more anyway

[echo hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/how-do-we-tell-him-mr-krabs-spongebob-meme-spongebob-meme-gif-24063814

[next patio]

[short swift]

nah i know

i said im sure theres more sooo

even if this was actual final boss theres still groal LOL

[silk abyss]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ALTHRW/

[stable kindle]

😭

[signal kayak]

@fathom juniper Ace Combat has nothing on this lololol
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5dYcRvxF7k

[fathom juniper]

this reminds me

WHERE'S MY ACE COMBAT 8?

come on, guys

it's been like 6 years

[signal kayak]

Ask Bandaid Namco (good one autocorrect! )

[fathom juniper]

<< This is PooPoo2, standing by. >>

god i love that vid so much
makes me wanna play ac7 again

[dense kindle]

bandai namco will do anything except make new games

100 more dragonball games coming right up

[fathom juniper]

God I love doom modding

I just saw…
This:

https://youtu.be/aXYGIS5jzzI?si=Ms7aZAKvy8UN4EFc

https://tenor.com/view/macron-thick-walking-wide-macron-wide-macron-walking-gif-17545021

[dense kindle]

holy cow savage omega is hard

[woven breach]

yep

[scarlet steppe]

Just played the demo, holy hell, the visuals slap and the combat flow is buttery smooth! As someone who’s into soulslikes and roguelikes, I can’t deny the love and care put into this game. Co-op and matchmaking are the icing on the cake.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1913120/Tears_of_Metal/

Steam

Tears of Metal

Tears of Metal is a medieval hack-and-slash co-op roguelike. Carve through hordes of enemies to reclaim your island with the help of your formidable Scottish battalion. As you advance deeper into the trenches, uncover more about the mysterious Dragon Meteor and the treacherous enemy invasion.

RECONQUER YOUR ISLAND…

Release Date

2025

▶ Play video

[oak geyser]

does anyone know when i get the perms to share images here?

[fathom juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/hue-huehue-huehuehue-duck-laugh-gif-4916860

[hearty yarrow]

Tomorrow

[golden cairn]

I promised myself that I'd buy have a nice death after I beat h2, one hour in is there something that could streamline the meta progression early on?

I kinda assumed I can just ask this on here, same genre and allat

[vague pawn]

@final silo sorry just gonna take this here so it doesnt detract from the hades 2 convo but could u tell me what u mean by cazador's palace?

do u mean like the unused attic with nothing in it?

[final silo]

Ah sure

It's supposed to be a grand palace but you enter from a weird position, a wall in Lower City

And you arrived just in time before he performs the ritual

[vague pawn]

sorry not quite understanding (genuine). i thought the point was because you had to sneak in right? i guess i don't know much about the development since i only got the game after it was completely done. i did feel like there were parts in act 3 that they didn't finish but didnt think much of it cuz i thought maybe they just needed to get everybody's stories over with

[final silo]

It's weird because narratively Cazador was meant to be this celebrity noble in Baldur's Gate city

But not only nobody ever mention him outside of people related in Astarion quest, when we actually play Act 3

The entrance to his palace is weirdly placed, instead of you entering normally from the front gate, they justify that you somehow need to sneak to get in

Also when you did enter, it really feels like you're missing 2-3 quests with how some named NPCs exist or the ballroom is the way it is for some reason – as you arrive just in time before he perform the ascension

[vague pawn]

aaaah that makes a lot of sense. it felt like they rushed then

at least bg3 finished satisfyingly imo that i didn't notice/didn't mind those. but when you point it out, that makes a lot of sense

i was wondering what the heck that upper floor was for and was like ?? whose this girl that we're collecting diary entries of that isn't appearing??? am i missing something? lol

[final silo]

There's also Gortash

And it's easier to explain

Imagine if the president of USA is coronated in Pentagon instead of White House lol

And then he spend the rest of his day there

[final silo]

Yes that's an achievement by Larian themselves that people don't notice these

[vague pawn]

LKFJALKSDJFKLASDJFLAS

that's a hilarious comparison

[vague pawn]

well the entire act 3 just feels like sensory overload for me that i just do the plot necessitated quests and book it to the ending.

except for house of hope. that i did for fun

[dense kindle]

why do they keep making us get 2 gems for the armor sets

[woven breach]

just cause

I assume it's omega set?

[dense kindle]

yeah the bale set

I got my first gem on the 6th kill

let's take this out for a spin

[dense kindle]

2nd gem next kill LMAO

[woven breach]

I'm somewhat lucky with omega

3 of 4 fights on normal got me the gems

[short swift]

i feel like act 3 changed everything but idk where to go to interact with new content LOL

silksong btw

like obv follow the main story but like i wanna do all the side stuff i can before progressing but

the way i followed all the content i didnt do earlier was via places blacked out on my map

which leaves me feeling very lost now that its filled in (aside from new areas added in act 3)

[woven breach]

the latest intel arc driver update makes my GPU go zoom zoom

[steep stirrup]

Looking at a game on the steam store right now: "We will stay in Early Access for as long as needed" Friggin hate early access games taking the piss. Hades knew how to do early access well, thank god

[fathom juniper]

i mean - that sentence alone isn't enough to throw crap at a dev like that

not everyone has 15 years of experience as a studio and then some from other places, you know

like - i don't even know what game you're talking about, but come on
it's the classic "it's done when it's done" just phrased differently

[mystic wave]

a studio? yall have a studio?

[fathom juniper]

i wish

[dense kindle]

do the main quest

[dense kindle]

idk there's some games that do it right

or don't care at all like Dwarf Fortress

early access for 15+ years and wouldn't want it any other way

[steep stirrup]

Except early access is just another way to release an unfinished product and never release but take all your money anyway

Looking at you Godus as an example, though there’s tonnes

[signal kayak]

I have to agree, but if this early access takes more than a few years to end, is it really an early access?
Star Citizen immediately comes to mind, and I have no idea how that hasn't blown up to smithereens

[dense kindle]

it is true, most good games release in like, 2 years of early access

[austere wadi]

Hasn't Deltarune been in "EA" since 2018? Or do episodic games not count?

[dense kindle]

I think Deltarune counts? probably?

subnautica was 3 years, minecraft was 2 years, oxygen not included was 2 years, dead cells was 1 year

valheim is still in early access after 4 years

[dense kindle]

idk

what's the difference between an early access game and a live service game

a game like World of Warcraft will never be complete

[austere wadi]

So Voltnest is the Raging Conchfly runback and then some, huh?

[next patio]

not really?

[next patio]

did you reach the ||conch cutter/the bench there||

[austere wadi]

No.

[dense kindle]

no

[next patio]

oh did you enter VN before killing R.conchfly or

[austere wadi]

I'm at the final boss, wanted to do more exploring before beating my head against ||Lost Lace|| some more.

[next patio]

oh

||from where you enter the coral tower there's a bench to the right||

[austere wadi]

I got through ||the intial platforming, died against the miniboss, was too tired to make more attempts.||

[next patio]

so the runback is like, the last bit of R.conchfly in reverse

[austere wadi]

That's... Better than the other bench, I guess.

Thanks.

[next patio]

if you take it slow the miniboss is not thaaaat bad in my experience, or poison cogfly it

[austere wadi]

Yeah, I was just not fully put together when I tried it yesterday.

[next patio]

fair enough

rest buff is real

[dense kindle]

yeah it's like 1 room

[rustic falcon]

Free (and complete) game, “your turn to die” that came to steam with a promise on added content that hasn’t updated in 2 years- seriously. It had an update on how the development is going recently but that’s crazy to me

[silk abyss]

I beat dying light the beast

https://tenor.com/view/cinema-gif-5935759059195122434

[fathom juniper]

Already?
Damn that was fast

[woven breach]

Silent Hill f?
more like Silent Hill f-YUCK THE SCARECROWS!

[fathom juniper]

Why is it called silent hill f anyway ?

What does that f mean ?

[rustic falcon]

hey, you can put that in #self-promotion

[rustic falcon]

foulest high school experience ever

damn the girls are fighting let go of that 500yen the fog is coming

i wonder how much was yen in the 60s compared to like, dollars

[fathom juniper]

How does your pfp and name change every time I see you?

I just opened discord an it was some dude and your name in white font
Now it’s Mel

[rustic falcon]

for some godawful reason if you click the name it shows the original profile. then if you click the profile picture it shows the per server profile and then if you click the name it shows the per server profile now

[fathom juniper]

[rustic falcon]

idk if its a bug or a feature but i hope its a bug bc its stuuupid

[fathom juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/why-not-both-why-not-take-both-gif-11478682

[silk abyss]

It’s been out for 2 weeks

[echo hazel]

is the game any good? I'm a fan of resident evil and just survival horror stuff but never played a silent hill game

it's mighty expensive in my country rn

[ocean iris]

it means

silent hill female

because the protagonist is female

[echo hazel]

https://youtu.be/OyPg7a7BTJE?si=2USFwrG6HP1BKVXW

watch this to find out

[fathom juniper]

What about silent hill 3 then?

[ocean iris]

it means silent hill f3m4l3

[fathom juniper]

Just obtain classic sh2 and enjoy one of the best games ever made

[ocean iris]

cuz like 3 characters are women

[fathom juniper]

Actually

[ocean iris]

silent hill 3 women

[fathom juniper]

Wasn’t gog supposed to do like a silent hill 2 re-release a while back ?

I remember hearing some rumors about it

[echo hazel]

obtaining is easy but i cba to set up an emulator again smh my head

[fathom juniper]

Emulator ?

Sh2 has a perfectly fine pc port

[echo hazel]

oh interesting