general-chat

[amber delta]

[analog marsh]

We had Hedge forever and now we get a new CM roughly every 6 to 12 months.

[nocturne flicker]

hedge resigned, sister sept had a family issue that forced her to resign, catfish got transferred elsewhere in fatshark, strawhat got offered a better job as a CM elsewhere, kitefin went to uni. that's what i know

oh i knew how good we had it. i cried when she left. and she knows as much! i've been a tide player since vt1 in 2016, i'm used to how fatshark operates and strawhat's efforts of going above and beyond were recognised.

[wooden creek]

Aqshy also went to work on her master's

[nocturne flicker]

aqshy went to uni too? okay nice. i never found her reason for leaving, thanks for completing my compendium

[quick pendant]

there was another one with an orange icon 🤔

or no she wasnt a CM she just posted here some times

[nocturne flicker]

that was catfish or aqshy probably?

[quick pendant]

ye aqshy

[nocturne flicker]

oh i'm not sure then

[nocturne flicker]

yeah there we go

[quick pendant]

she was a cm? i thought she did something else

[obtuse oak]

aqshy was a CM, yes

[nocturne flicker]

i think she was? i might be getting the roles mixed up tho. there's community managers, community support, devs, media team, etc

[nocturne flicker]

ah perfect. i was second guessing meself for a sec

[obtuse oak]

and then she did something else for a while behind the scenes

[quick pendant]

so we were both right

[nocturne flicker]

jiggle physics update, told me herself

[obtuse oak]

she fully left fatshark about... uhhhh... two years ago, maybe? but she still helps out as a forum mod

[little marten]

Aqshy was cool af

All CMs were cool af that I ever had the pleasure of interacting with

[obtuse oak]

yeah same.

Hedge, in fact, was fucking based

[quick pendant]

ye CMs and mods are alright

[obtuse oak]

talking to him made me realize just how many of the memes he gets clowned on for were pulled out of context or whatever lol

[little marten]

Nah that mods are terrible

[nocturne flicker]

quickpaw's a little reserved but i've never had a NEGATIVE experience

[quick pendant]

not like other companies where they actually tell us to move discussion from(general) to general(lore) if we talk about game lore

[nocturne flicker]

immeasurably complex tm

[little marten]

Seems I’m certainly someone who’s opinion was purely based on community clowning 😔

[obtuse oak]

but hedge, aqshy, catfish, sister septemicia, strawhat and kitefin were always lovely

[wooden creek]

Aqshy was doing two jobs wasn't she, freelance contract as CM for FS and then some tech sector job in user experience or something

[tacit geode]

"Fatshark could give everyone $1000 and people would complain it isn't $2000" - Hedge

Greatest truth nuke of our time

[nocturne flicker]

helldivers lost its strawhat when twinbeard left

[peak falcon]

There's a general lore tab?

[obtuse oak]

US gov job

[little marten]

That’s actually a bit based

[obtuse oak]

actually I don't remember. could be you're right. but yes, two jobs

[ocean widget]

these were also CMs for VT2 right?

[quick pendant]

🚬 her birthday is coming up

[nocturne flicker]

i work for the government too

[obtuse oak]

yeah hedge and aqshy were VT CMs at the time DT was released

they covered for catfish for a while because she couldn't start straight away

[peak falcon]

Considering I'm still pissed PC players didn't get the free aquilla the xbox players did, yeah. That checks out.

[ocean widget]

christ 4-5 CMs in 2-3 years

[tacit geode]

Becoming a CM must be strange because it's like
"Welcome to this game community here's all the in jokes you're never allowed to say the words 'pearl clutching' ever again."

[nocturne flicker]

unfortunately i can't send her another happy birthday DM bc her forums acc is deactivated and she forgot to accept my fren request

[quick pendant]

(i dont remember for creep reasons we just have the same one)

[obtuse oak]

quickpaw was originally support staff, I believe? he got promoted to VT CM once hedge and aqshy were gone? not sure

[little marten]

That still hurts

[quick pendant]

tbh i've seen the cosmetics im not bothered by it much

[wooden creek]

Aqshy mentioned that Quickpaw filled her shoes

[ocean widget]

"stop pearl clutching"

[obtuse oak]

not unusual, turnover rate is very high for the position across the industry

[tacit geode]

You know when a game goes on sale I get really mad because I paid full price for it... why should others get it at a discount?

[nocturne flicker]

BUUUT fortunately i can still send them to julia. we have the same birthday so i never forget 😉

[obtuse oak]

hedge was a CM for 7 years

imagine facetanking the tide community for SEVEN

YEARS

[peak falcon]

"No."

[ocean widget]

i mean given the game communities ive seen im not surprised but bloody hell

[quick pendant]

im sure microsoft flipped the cost for the aquilas anyways

[little marten]

It’s time for me to take the mantle of CM

I’ll just turn my phone off it’s easy

[nocturne flicker]

i remember this year she said "i saw the DM notfication and thought it would be an abusive message asking me about the next hotfix"

[obtuse oak]

the recent rapid turnover is just bad luck, all of the CMs have left for different reasons

[peak falcon]

I mean, is going to uni bad luck?

[little marten]

Every company seems to have the that one role that never quite can get filled for long

[tacit geode]

Oh 100% it insentivised purchases over gamepass

[nocturne flicker]

yeah none of it actually seems to be like burnout or anything. just life circumstances twisting the knives on their ability to work at fatshark

[blissful kiln]

the end times for darktide discord

[fading otter]

Bad luck for FS lol

[obtuse oak]

sister sept was gonna move to stockholm for the job but had to bow out for personal reasons, catfish moved into a different position at fatshark, strawhat was offered the opportunity to rejoin a beloved former employer and kitefin is going to uni

[tacit geode]

This is all for kitefin to reappear in 3 years time as lead game designer

[peak falcon]

I wonder what former employer?

[tacit geode]

Remember this epic lore.

[little marten]

Such beautiful bees never truly gone from the hive

[obtuse oak]

she didn't say

[peak falcon]

Dang. Can't keep up with where she went then. Oh well.

[little marten]

Would be cool if they posted the blog tho 🤷‍♂️

[ocean widget]

better not be obsidian

[obtuse oak]

heheh yeah all the playtesters were like "you know where to find us 👀"

[quick pendant]

nothing good left in that company

[tacit geode]

Starbreeze LMFAO

[nocturne flicker]

idk never went. i planned to attend a university where i did work experience, but then the cost of living crisis hit me like a truck when... well, there was a big life event that i dislike talking about but i had to move back in with mamma. but basically i didn't want to go into debt just to get a degree that'll be useless in 5 years so i just started working

[obtuse oak]

bad luck for FS, not the CMs

[peak falcon]

Could always go to a trade school. Those never go bad.

[nocturne flicker]

maybe some day i'll go back to uni, but good lord did "bad luck" smack my uni ambitions in the face! 😂

[tacit geode]

Uni was alright for me. Did it during covid so that sucked

When we were back in literally noone talked

Very isolated experience for myself personally

[nocturne flicker]

i worked for my uncle as an arborist for a bit. wasn't my style. i'm happy where i am now, i was lucky enough to get a government job

[obtuse oak]

I feel for everyone who went to school or uni during covid

[nocturne flicker]

i was in the army during covid

[obtuse oak]

absolutely ruined an important live event

[little marten]

£1 pints when I went to uni

[tacit geode]

Oh yeah I made 0 friends from uni knew noone did nothing and have literally no memories from it.

[obtuse oak]

plus it was bad for socialization. my girlfriend was a high school teacher but she quit in 2022 because the teens had turned into little psychopaths

[nocturne flicker]

there were some close calls where i was almost sent out for riot control actually. thankfully the riots over here weren't as bad as america's

[tacit geode]

I got a degree in computer science though!

[tepid cape]

Did the shop not update? Has the time changed when it does?

[tacit geode]

(Works as an electrical engineer)

[obtuse oak]

patch next week so they delayed the rotation

[little marten]

We should probably purge them zoomer generation otherwise when we’re old they’re smother us in our sleep

[peak falcon]

And this is why giving your kids access to screens before age 10 is bad.

[tacit geode]

Tuesday

[nocturne flicker]

gen alpha ipad kids will be uni students one day. think on that, hank

[tepid cape]

ooooh, thanks for the info!

[obtuse oak]

different issues

the problem was forced remote learning

[grave plaza]

I am so close finish relic blade custom weapon in different game

[obtuse oak]

my daughter is 5 and she gets to use my phone sometimes but she also plays outside and goes to school so she gets the appropriate amount of socialization

(pre)teens being deprived of that during covid is what really messed them up

[tacit geode]

Socialising is very important when I was unemployed for a year I didn't realise that

My job sucks or whatever but I see people every day

[obtuse oak]

yeah big time

[peak falcon]

Alright, Time for work, goodbye everyone.

[tacit geode]

Doesn't make me feel like shit every day

[nocturne flicker]

i've been there brother

[nocturne flicker]

have a good one mate. hope your coworkers or whatever are good to ya 😉

[obtuse oak]

I work from home 2 days a week but I wouldnt want any more. the 3 days in the office are super good for my mental health. my coworkers and I yap a lot and it's good

[tacit geode]

Same

I got promoted to head of my department in 7 months (the other people left)

That's fun.

[nocturne flicker]

if i didn't have those two days off a week my coworkers would be found in different dumps cut into tiiiiny little pieces

[obtuse oak]

some people are built different and dont need that much interaction

depends on how introverted you are

but i need it lol

[little marten]

2 days in office enough for me

[nocturne flicker]

actually i've been getting 3 days off, but i need a minimum of 2.

[obtuse oak]

you mean

the weekend?

[nocturne flicker]

yeah. if i wasn't allowed the weekend i'd snap

[obtuse oak]

well no shit

[little marten]

lol

[somber stream]

I've been working from home since last year, every day. It's not looking good fellas

[peak falcon]

I work the stock rack in a metal shop. It's kindof eh. But people are nice save for one older guy that's just a jerk in general.

[obtuse oak]

that's why our predecessors in the labor market were willing to fight and die for worker protections

✊

[nocturne flicker]

hell yeah brother. paid rec and sick leave 😤

[obtuse oak]

8h workday and 2 day weekend are two big ones that were paid for in blood also

[nocturne flicker]

oh i also have 32 hours of... sexual reproductive leave? weird

idek what that entails but i'm glad to have it

[amber delta]

who thought 8h workday is good enough I'd lik to talk to them

[nocturne flicker]

yeah for a bit i had 9-hour workday and 2 day weekend but i got changed to the morning shift so i don't have to deal with certain patients

[little marten]

I need a big strong man to come over and open the tin of sardines for me

[obtuse oak]

lol gotta contextualize it

[nocturne flicker]

does it have a loop or do you need a can opener?

[obtuse oak]

they were coming from 12h+ workdays

[little marten]

It has a loop but it’s stuck and the edges are sharp and I’m not dressed appropriately to cover myself in fish juice

[obtuse oak]

that's easily resolved. simply disrobe

[amber delta]

yeah ik manufactories were hellscapes

[nocturne flicker]

16-hour shift in the sicilian sulphur mines for you, carusu

[little marten]

Good point

[nocturne flicker]

i'll get freaky

[amber delta]

they don't call em adeptus ass-tartes for no reason

[tacit geode]

Just heard my 60 year old co-worker say the words skibidi toilet unprovoked

[somber stream]

Kill them

[hasty sky]

time for a retirement home

[obtuse oak]

https://tenor.com/view/matrix-neo-upgrades-agent-sunglasses-gif-17921941

[amber delta]

old boomer gonna rizz up some 6/7 gyatts with that skibidi mog no cap

[obtuse oak]

they're just stimming. leave britney alone

[nocturne flicker]

the future is now

[tacit geode]

Lmfao I'm trying

Just made me laugh

[nocturne flicker]

this is my 13th reason

[tacit geode]

"One of my grandkids started saying it do you know what it is?"
20 year old Coworker "YeaH?!"

[nocturne flicker]

two glasses of milk please ✌️🤓

[nocturne flicker]

their bloodline is OVER 😭

[obtuse oak]

the fastest way to get kids to stop saying something is for adults to start copying it

[ocean widget]

wut

[nocturne flicker]

guys really quick let's de-brainrot the kids

[ocean widget]

we should make kids watch shrek again

[wintry hemlock]

How much rating has to be for +3stamina?

[nocturne flicker]

valid

@ocean widget two renaissance wraps, no mayo 🗣️🔥

[tacit geode]

410+

[hasty sky]

it's true

[astral terrace]

Still no blog :((

[little marten]

Let’s write one together

[zealous viper]

my entire lobby on the mourning star just shouted for the emperor for some reason lol

[tacit geode]

The blog was the friends we made along the way

[tacit geode]

Rare dialogue pretty cool!

[zealous viper]

ohh funky

[orchid skiff]

bored

[little marten]

It was a brisk autumnal morning on Friday, the 19th of September. I was awoken by the painful chirping of my smartphones alarm. Groggily, I wiped crusted sleep from my eyes and as realisation hit me, I sat up with such a force that the bed slats underneath me came loose, and the mattress beneath my buttocks plummeted downwards through the now gaping hole in the my bed.

“Oh god!” I cried, wedged in the hole in my bed slats. “It’s been a week and I’ve still not run spellcheck on my Darktide blog!”

[orchid skiff]

https://tenor.com/view/headpatsforklee-jane-doe-shut-up-zenless-zone-zero-zzz-gif-16826228625363506158

[little marten]

I can see what side of the bed you woke up on

[orchid skiff]

not yours 💔

[tacit geode]

There's another one about Rations being cut and a random ogryn in the lobby will yell
"Cut Rations?! Grut me!"

[nocturne flicker]

gooning to ts rn

[halcyon glen]

Down on my knees in suburbia

I am ill 🤒

[noble sinew]

Hello fellow gamers, my name is Keanu Reeves and I was hired to shill this game, am I in the right chat lmao

[quick pendant]

thank u Mr Reeves i love this game and wanna see it do well

[noble sinew]

I'm legally changing my name to Karkin' Reeves

[nocturne flicker]

omg hi johnny silverhand hi :3

guys look it's johnny silverhand!

[nocturne flicker]

too busy sleeping on my floor fr

[orchid skiff]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1261392752546156606/1418488396606738513/1670472500747516.gif

[thick coyote]

Bro thinks he's Neo

[timber marten]

is it today? the update details

i just wanna know if the vet is getting a power falchion/saber

[thick coyote]

Nuh uh

[ocean widget]

the fact your pfp is mister sinister makes this even better

[ocean widget]

23rd

[timber marten]

details and update the same day? they usually release the details around 4 days before

[ocean widget]

bro we got the details

[ocean widget]

#🐦tweets-sermons

the "more details" bit is either never or it'll come soon

dont forget thats a fatshark soon and not an actual soon btw

[obtuse oak]

unknown

[tacit geode]

Vets definately getting the falchion

[wooden creek]

How neat are the neat things in the update you're not allowed to talk about

are they like nice-neat or cool-neat

[timber marten]

I really wish for a vet tree remake, but i dont think so

[little marten]

Hank knows what’s in the update and he’ll tell you if you PayPal me $30

[obtuse oak]

yes

[wooden creek]

uh huh uh huh alright

noting this down

[obtuse oak]

i mean both. i suspect the notes will have a lot of players going like

[tacit geode]

Is there content within the update

[obtuse oak]

https://tenor.com/view/vince-mcmahon-intrigued-gif-27408103

https://tenor.com/view/vince-mcmahon-excited-gif-27408104

[little marten]

Ahhh I was worried with the first Vince

Given that Vince is dialed up to 1000% especially during oiled up orgys in the locker room

[quick pendant]

vet removed
thammer buffs
ogryn power fist
smite is now SINGLE TARGET

[little marten]

Will dueling sword babies have big poo poo in their diapers?!?!

[thick coyote]

Clad thinks hammer will be buffed

[quick pendant]

imma be real ive never seen anyone do well with ds

[thick coyote]

[tacit geode]

Vet NERFS?!

[obtuse oak]

https://tenor.com/view/okay-ok-gif-20523899

etc.

[quick pendant]

i yelled at one dev in game to buff thammer i will continue to do so until its buffed

🚬 they just have to play the game more

[thick coyote]

I respect the hustle

[tacit geode]

Heard buffing troll hammer!

[quick pendant]

unironically tho many weapons still have stamina bases for patch 13

new melee weapons have like double the stamina older weapons have

[tacit geode]

Goofin

But hank is a playtester

But he can't talk about the update until the offical reveal

[outer bough]

we actually lost the tech to write patch notes

please understand

[sullen robin]

and youll like nothin

[amber delta]

how many pages of patch notes

[abstract fiber]

it's been compressed to 1 character

[tacit geode]

2...

[amber delta]

...hundred?

[plucky forum]

1. Pog 2) Champ

[outer bough]

1 its a webpage

[white vale]

I wish

[outer bough]

are you all printing it out to read like an a4 book

/j

[tacit geode]

... enty

[thick coyote]

Actually kinda funny

[amber delta]

removed loose cannon's massive bulge (his balls are still humongous but the bulge was distracting other players)

[obtuse oak]

yeah p much. im trying to give a vague impression but nda lol. still waiting for fs to post something official

[thick coyote]

Strawhat used to say that the formatting was funky or something like that

[sullen robin]

sorry it was me

[orchid skiff]

lost stl

[thick coyote]

So without Strawhat and Kitefin Fatshark decided not to write

[outer bough]

that sounds lame glad i dont have something like that holding me back :)

[orchid skiff]

you also know nothing

[outer bough]

[white vale]

Psychic premonitions

[orchid skiff]

beloved

[quick pendant]

strawhat lose her life getting us ⚙️

🧊

[white vale]

I'll be happy because it'd mean that I can find randoms for Mortis Trials again

[amber delta]

as disappointing as those clues turned out to be, it was kinda fun

[sharp lantern]

Hopefully Error 2014 will be fixed for the 8th time

[obtuse oak]

https://tenor.com/view/confused-what-really-no-words-huh-gif-4487358

[outer bough]

what do you not like mortis trials that should tide you over till christmas surely

[amber delta]

Sefoni goes rogue, mortis trials spill into reality, mortis maps are now in the hive city

[obtuse oak]

it's not just mortis trial stuff.

[outer bough]

gdi hank

[obtuse oak]

https://tenor.com/view/oops-gif-10031223162004539162

[obtuse oak]

that's the absolute last i'll say on it

[tacit geode]

This isn't a dig at you hank but like a lot of time it feels like you guys gotta pick up the slack for fatshark when it comes to hyping and discussing updates

[sullen robin]

going the way of telepots now

[tacit geode]

For example like that awful arbites gameplay video

[obtuse oak]

that made me so mad

LOL

[orchid skiff]

get barktided bozo

[obtuse oak]

i spent so much time in here going "the class has way more going for it than this, please trust the process"

[quick pendant]

@obtuse oak 🤔 can we at least know when the embargo for this update is over?

[tacit geode]

But like the barktide blog is whatever its more the content itself

[obtuse oak]

no idea

[outer bough]

the assassinorium has been informed

[tacit geode]

It was absurd

[amber delta]

Hank doing unpaid promotional campaign because FS fumbles

[obtuse oak]

i wasnt the only one that was upset lmfao

[sharp lantern]

There's a shop rotation too

[quick pendant]

"Ogryn rework is more of a nerf than a buff"

[obtuse oak]

arbites wasnt even something i had extensively playtested or contributed to myself, i felt mostly bad for the others who worked some absolute miracles and then that video made the class look so BORING

idk what they were thinking.

[outer bough]

ive saw you play ogryn you needed the buff buddy

:3

[tacit geode]

People going frame by frame on a 7 minute gameplay video on sedation where they kill 5 total enemies

[quick pendant]

thank u

[thick coyote]

The right thing

Arby's gameplay

🛌

[outer bough]

did it for you clad!!!!

[quick pendant]

im so happy fatshark buffed ogryn and arby to match my skill level

[outer bough]

[quick pendant]

my clutch rate went up to 70% from 10%

now lets do zealot

[white vale]

Delete Loner

[amber delta]

arby gameplay is dope but I fear that a lot of the fun comes from being mostly unstoppable

[obtuse oak]

yea the balance was a miss

[thick coyote]

So like every class

[white vale]

Arbitrator has a lot of idiotproof toughness regen early in the tree

[tacit geode]

So the big question is what are they gonna do about it

[elder merlin]

Clutch claw? Hell yeah

[obtuse oak]

but having seen enough of those update tests from the inside, i can tell you it is not easy to make new gameplay mechanics and get the balance right at the same time

unfortunately fatshark is very slow with rebalance

[amber delta]

I like going down in 2 groaner hits as psyker thats hype gameplay

[thick coyote]

Ah yes
Getting hit

Skill issue

[outer bough]

instead of 3 sandwiches at lunch time he will only get 2

[thick coyote]

Sorry to tell you that

[outer bough]

the food decrease will make him move slower

[plucky forum]

The most op arbs thing is the dog, it basically deletes 1 of 2 disablers from the game

[thick coyote]

Yeah the dog is busted

[abstract fiber]

not to mention the dog just prevents chaos spawn from ever feeding on an arb

[plucky forum]

Like, you literally only fear trappers as arb, that's it

[plucky forum]

this too

[thick coyote]

The CSpawn doing 360° because of the dog is hilarious

[tacit geode]

It do spin tho

[sharp lantern]

Or bursters, since they can still bounce it into you

[white vale]

I feel like its crowd control is too strong. Maulers shouldn't be fully disabled when a dog lathches onto them, and crushers shouldn't flinch as hard

[plucky forum]

oh yeah, lmao, i saw that a few times, payment for nuking the hound

[white vale]

The dog is just too good against armor

[abstract fiber]

well we can at least look forward to no more companion classes thanks nintendo

[obtuse oak]

lol ye it's tough though, because the dog is a big usp for the class so you dont want it to be useless or low impact, but you also dont want to make it tedious to command or utilize since it ideally slots seamlessly into the existing gameplay loop, so you establish a baseline behavior to it and then you also want talents that interact with it otherwise it feels so detached from the rest of the class and then you need to establish mechanics and values for the talents and also keep talentless dog behavior somewhat valuable but also establish a value proposition for getting rid of the dog and--

crazy how much goes into it.

[amber delta]

talentless dog behavior is a phrase I did not expect to read

[thick coyote]

Lone Wolf is griefing

[white vale]

Will I get banned for getting political if I comment on the amount of nuclear weapons used by the US in ol' '45

[thick coyote]

[sharp lantern]

Poxhounds can disable a healthy ogryn, but our pup just goomba stomps it.

Feelsbadman

[plucky forum]

I will buy the entire slop shop if they release mechanicus class that let's me play as a fat engineer meme from tf2

[thick coyote]

This is a dog only area
Lone Wolves will be shot on sight

[white vale]

Ogryns should be able to release themselves from a poxhound's pounce tbh

[thick coyote]

[floral ermine]

i think the part people have a problem with is that u can have a really good dog that is constantly doing good things while also being a character that deals billion dmg lol

arbeetus is very fun but yeah he's cracked

[sharp lantern]

Only on FNP, but who runs that shit lol

[abstract fiber]

like the no dog talent combines like 5 veteran talents for what can be a side-track option in the arb tree

[thick coyote]

Unvaccinated dog is able to pin ogryns
Cyber mastiff can't pin ogryns

What Fatshark meant by this

[white vale]

The flesh is strong

[abstract fiber]

chaos knows how to cook their dogs

[floral ermine]

chaos STRONK

[abstract fiber]

chaos 1 imperium 0 and this is why cadia fell

[tacit geode]

Grandfather protects

[plucky forum]

that papa nurgle is superior god

[white vale]

13th time's the charm

[obtuse oak]

Oh for sure. His dmg output is juiced and his tankiness is juiced and his cc is juiced

Something needs to give

[floral ermine]

I enjoy playing tf out of the class but yeah this wont last long me thinks

[sharp lantern]

Nerf incoming

[floral ermine]

wouldnt be undeserved

[tacit geode]

And that something is veteran who's with me

[plucky forum]

I wonder if ds nerf will cause ps level of meltdown

[abstract fiber]

nothingll top PS

[amber delta]

what's gonna give is steam reviews when angry playrs bomb the game again for nerfing p2p class

[abstract fiber]

that produced appreciable percentages in the review score, nothing really else has come close

[floral ermine]

if ds gets nerfed and people cry they're just being exposed as severely skill issued

[tacit geode]

Mostly positive was good while it lasted.

[sharp lantern]

Yes, I want to run only knife again! Or to run le epic chainsword so I can die instantly!!

[amber delta]

I member very positive

[thick coyote]

They'll nerf his impact nodes and nothing will change

[outer bough]

ahem

get a grip

[plucky forum]

it's a crutch for sure, i myself can admit that it's doing some insane numbers on h40 and saved my ass

[outer bough]

?

[thick coyote]

Because at least 5 out of 7 weapons already have good cc by default

[orchid skiff]

not in public

[outer bough]

NOT LIKE THAT

[amber delta]

I'm not gonna grip you

[floral ermine]

i mean ideally any heavy changes to "meta" will come in a package that buff bunch of other options

[outer bough]

i need an adult

[floral ermine]

they already buffed like 10 weapons last balance patch

[outer bough]

chat bumpy

[orchid skiff]

I am an adult.

[floral ermine]

maybe people should play one of the weapons they made better haha

[outer bough]

darktide only has 4 weapons dont lie

[floral ermine]

it has 2 actually

ds4 and plasma

everything else is fake

[abstract fiber]

did any of the VT2 dlc class nerfs produce any large huffs

[amber delta]

rock

[tacit geode]

Agripnna shotgun and tacaxe are soso good now

[tacit geode]

Yes actually when they nerfed all the boss killers

So BH, Shade and GK

[sharp lantern]

I just want the bad shit to be on par without making a whole build to make it usable

[floral ermine]

making everything on par is just powercreeping again

[thick coyote]

Yeah just do it

[floral ermine]

might as well not nerf

[thick coyote]

For the funny

Reap the consequences of power creep later

Then blame on the community for getting all the buffs they wanted

[abstract fiber]

could go the SM2 approach of nerfing all the meta stuff, and then buffing an underused bolter's damage by 3%

[outer bough]

"that sign cant stop me, i cant read" - darktide community

[orchid skiff]

Don't even start

[floral ermine]

sm2 is a bad example cause they been doing nothing but buffs for months now

and major ones at that

[white vale]

A certain weapon is useless? Give it a unique variant that turns it into a completely different weapon, problem solved

[thick coyote]

The nerfdivers way

[floral ermine]

heroic bolt pistol my beloved

[sharp lantern]

Why is the laspistol better than the infantry lasrifle 🙁 they need to update the shit from beta

[thick coyote]

[floral ermine]

infantry las is just one of the weapons that get no love lmao

they could honestly do some small buffs to bunch of weapons no one palys and it owuld breath life into the game

[outer bough]

we lost all the tech priests

hadron hid them

[amber delta]

I ate them

[white vale]

Coming soon (2027) in a 20 dollar DLC

[thick coyote]

They should just remove the getting suppressed mechanic

Like no class really cares about getting suppressed

Nor the meta weapons

[elder merlin]

Been dreamin alot lately, its weird

[thick coyote]

Ogryn is already immune to suppression because fear is for little people

Zealot will just melee everything

Shotguns are immune to suppression

Staves are immune

Recon doesn't care

[white vale]

Yea suppression exists solely to fuck over the vet

[thick coyote]

Helbore doesn't care

Plasma is immune

Laspistol is immune

[floral ermine]

supression itself as a mechanic is just kinda a nothing burger

[orchid skiff]

Fuck vet

[obtuse oak]

vet gonna be paying forever for being op in year 1

[orchid skiff]

Truth nuke

[tacit geode]

We as a community must make sure that happens

[outer bough]

I think i deserve old camouflage back cause it pissed off @hidden trout alot

[elder merlin]

Fatshark just beatin him with a crowbar

[thick coyote]

He doesn't care

Gold Toughness, Son!

[abstract fiber]

DARCY WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG PSWORD NEEDS 12 POWERED SWINGS

[thick coyote]

Hardens with every hit

[tacit geode]

VoC nerf it has 1 gold toughness now.
VoC still s tier

[thick coyote]

Survivalist wastes ammo now
S+ tier

[elder merlin]

Make sure what happens? We cant even agree on anything as a community, let alone come together to actually make real change

[thick coyote]

[orchid skiff]

That's lamia

[tacit geode]

Exactly. For that reason we are asking fatshark as a community to nerf the veteran class in bound by duty

[elder merlin]

Nerf it? I thought ya'll fuckers wanted a rework?

[thick coyote]

Ok hear me out

[tacit geode]

We want him gone

[elder merlin]

Kill this guy

[thick coyote]

BbD has Psword nerf

[white vale]

Actually yeah just give me an auric modifier that turns your aura into an evil aura

[thick coyote]

So Falchion can exists

[shy sandal]

Oh boy, down i go again

[thick coyote]

Just like how FS nerfed BM so Pickaxe could compete with Shovel

[elder merlin]

Thought falchion was gonna be like relic sword? Why would you nerf a already shit weapon?

[tacit geode]

Truth nuke

[thick coyote]

I don't think I understand

Are you calling Psword a shit weapon?

💀

[elder merlin]

Yeah

[thick coyote]

💀

[elder merlin]

I barely ever see it on any vets i see in game

[thick coyote]

Best generalist melee in the game but sure

[tacit geode]

I thought he was saying relic blade was shit

[thick coyote]

Go on

[elder merlin]

Actually

[thick coyote]

🗣️

[floral ermine]

power sword is one of the strongest weapons in the entire game

its just annoying to use

[elder merlin]

Cant even remember the last time i saw anyone use a power sword

[obtuse oak]

that's not the reason

[shy sandal]

Tac axe better

[floral ermine]

cause vets are brainrotted with ds4

[elder merlin]

I see axes and chainaxes more

[thick coyote]

I know it's probably something more akin to

Can't have 1 shot 4 crusher

But still

[obtuse oak]

yeah it was just me going "this is actually a bit much, don't you think?" and fs went "yeah okay."

[thick coyote]

Nerfed BM so Pickaxe could compete against BM shovel

[floral ermine]

HANK EXPOSED AS BALANCE KILLER?????

[obtuse oak]

the exact nerf, make enemy ogryns immune to bm splash dmg, was also my idea.

nobody nerfs ogryn like i do

[lilac crag]

what's BM ? I forget

[floral ermine]

brutal momentum

[lilac crag]

ah okay

[floral ermine]

the funny blessing that turns rashad into a lownmower

[thick coyote]

The timing on the nerf and the release of pickaxe lines up pretty well for my joke

[obtuse oak]

you can still multikill several ragers and maulers at once which i feel is underutilized

but i guess they're made of paper in general

like most elites

(triple all elite hp)

[shy sandal]

Shred + brutal momentum = low brain activity

I love it

[thick coyote]

Started dropping BM on most weapons that have it

[elder merlin]

I kept seeing "BM" and all i could think was "Bowel Movement", and i just went "Yeah, thats probably right"

[thick coyote]

Bowel Movement Rashad, making 4 enemies shit themselves with every swing

[tired inlet]

constantly scores own-goals, kills the referees

[elder merlin]

Feel like a Ogryn bowel movement would kill someone

[thick coyote]

Anyways still betting on nothing happening

[elder merlin]

You'll get a falchion and thats it

Im just hopin there is something worth a fuck in commodores

[thick coyote]

It'll probably be worse than Psword so nothing ever changes

[shy sandal]

Slop shop enthusiasts ✊

[surreal ermine]

sittin on the ogryn sized toilet and falling in

[thick coyote]

Free pool

[shy sandal]

Ogryn dework, reverts him back

[elder merlin]

Listen, man, i just wanna look cool. I dont have time for Fatshark to some day change how commodores works, they sure as fuck didnt before it came to console. Do i realize im perpetuating the cycle of them probably never changing how it functions and part of the problem? Yeah

But they didnt change it before me and they aint gonna change it after me

[tacit geode]

It will be but if its havoc 40 viable and fun who cares

[shy sandal]

No slop shop enthusiast? ✊🥺

[thick coyote]

Ok maybe I used nothing ever happens too much

But also

Everything is viable on havoc if you have the skills to do so

So

[elder merlin]

I buy the shit i want when it shows up, simple as

[thick coyote]

Nothing ever changes

🗣️

[fair bridge]

shoutout to all my sloppers out there

[orchid skiff]

Nothing ever happens. I'm all in...

[thick coyote]

I hate the premium slop

Some stuff looks cool

[fair bridge]

get in these arms

[lilac crag]

my 2 wishes for this game are vet zelly rework and a proper fucking chainsword

[thick coyote]

But I don't want to perpetuate this fomo shop bs

[tacit geode]

I said "I will purchase Vostroyan firstborn" they made them I bought it.

We have made the transaction

[fair bridge]

😨

all i want is the krieg stuff

[thick coyote]

So I don't buy shit from it

[orchid skiff]

Will they make me feel safe

[fair bridge]

i love fatshark!!! i should be forced to wait for months to get the cosmetic i want!!!!

[fair bridge]

ya sure

[shy sandal]

My main wish is... They get better at the community management part and communications

[thick coyote]

I love darktide but darktide doesn't love me back

[fair bridge]

my wish is for a better game director

[elder merlin]

I just lack willpower

[fair bridge]

what moron could possibly think it's a good idea to give every map a nonsense name that no one remembers

[elder merlin]

[white vale]

You should lack money instead

[floral ermine]

i took yet another break cause this game is somehow more unstable than a fromsoft game

[white vale]

Embrace the humble (broke) life

[elder merlin]

You should lack a mouth so i dont have to hear your shit

[floral ermine]

im tired of being DC;ed

[shy sandal]

Reminds me of when i was playing vermintide and got dced right before the end of the mission

[fair bridge]

yeah p2p matchmaking was way worse

[thick coyote]

I'm in the trenches 😭
Playing gun zealot so I can feel something

[fair bridge]

host could just alt+f4 the game and kick everyone out

[floral ermine]

i have less issues in nightreign, a game by a studio known for dogshit netcode than this game

[tacit geode]

That's more a helldivers bug

[floral ermine]

game just fucking hates my guts i get 70-100 ping on EU servers which is absurd and i dc the moment there's a spike

[shy sandal]

Me seeing the host kick everyone out from a Payday 2 lobby as if he knows me and the Joker had a plan to kill him and take the money

[fair bridge]

did you play vt2 at all

[shy sandal]

Why did people do that? 😭

[tacit geode]

I did I just put the dots together lmfao

[fair bridge]

[shy sandal]

Me and a friend are gonna play later on tonight. I am very happy i dragged someome into my nerdy hobby by their own free will

[orchid skiff]

On god

I'd love to be a fly on the wall at these meetings

[ocean widget]

thats why we give them proper names like "jesus fuck why are there barrels here"

the fact a map hasnt been given a community vote to name it sucks though

let us name a map mappy mcmapface

[fierce cave]

Gun city

[shy sandal]

Hi spaghet

Are you better?

[fierce cave]

Hi person that is slowly becoming frend

[fierce cave]

No :(

Running a constant temperature

I'm boiling like a lobster

[shy sandal]

Are you inhaling copious amounts of cough syrup?

[fierce cave]

Maybe

[shy sandal]

[elder merlin]

Unfortunately still a poozer, it sounds like

[fierce cave]

I'm dying

[elder merlin]

Get better soon

[shy sandal]

I feel like an old ass man

My friend wake up as 12 pm and I'm here getting up at 5

[fierce cave]

Not as old as @elder merlin

[shy sandal]

Immediately goes to play league with his bf btw

Bro is dedicated to the grind

[fierce cave]

Gay?

[orchid skiff]

Silver hardstuck

[orchid skiff]

If I had to guess

[little marten]

Hey x

[shy sandal]

Most of my friends are funnily enough. Just a lot of LGBT in ttrpgs spaces and communities nowadays

[fierce cave]

So am i

[fierce cave]

[shy sandal]

The Lex is the Lex

[wooden creek]

The hound won't trouble us now.

The hound won't trouble us now!

[little marten]

rips off shirt and barks in all fours

[orchid skiff]

https://tenor.com/view/gachimuchi-gif-20116037

[shy sandal]

They're emerald i think, i don't remember

[orchid skiff]

If you don't know his rank you don't really love him

[fierce cave]

[little marten]

Nice to see FatShark posting a blog on this warm Friday afternoon

[shy sandal]

I'm just new to the game. 🥹

[little marten]

What game

[shy sandal]

League of Legends

[orchid skiff]

I'm out right now

[little marten]

Play bard exclusively

[shy sandal]

They are trying to get me into it

[fierce cave]

Give me your load

[shy sandal]

I did the worst choice for a new player

[little marten]

Electrocute bard with ignite and become an assassin

[shy sandal]

For character

[little marten]

Draven?

[shy sandal]

Hwei

[fierce cave]

[little marten]

Oh that’s dudes cool

It’ll pay off to learn him early I guess

[orchid skiff]

The demand has exceeded the supply

[little marten]

Don’t be a coward and just main Riven

[fierce cave]

WAG

[shy sandal]

I should prolly play more though, since the last time i played was... Last month

[little marten]

Ehh.. it’s a fun game for about 5% of the time and the rest is just an utter cesspool

[somber stream]

Good god, League talk, in the Darktide discord server??

[obtuse oak]

dont play moba games. it corrodes the soul

[somber stream]

Same goes for War Thunder

[shy sandal]

I just wanna play something with my friends that isn't the anime girl horse game

[obtuse oak]

unless you can always play in a premade full team with friends, then it's fun

yeah ok that's fine then.

[little marten]

Sometimes you just gotta pick Lee sin, fail the first gank, type “forgive me for I have Lee sinned” and then whenever someone flames you remind them that you’re blind

[fierce cave]

Ew

[somber stream]

Don't do ranked though

That shit destroy friendship

[little marten]

Why play anything but ranked

[fierce cave]

I've never played league

I never plan to

[shy sandal]

That's what i mostly do

[hasty sky]

to have fun

[obtuse oak]

i played dota 2 instead of league but the same principle applies. unranked shithousery with friends is where it's at

[thick fog]

Love the characters, never play the game

[little marten]

They’d eat you alive queen

[thick fog]

Deadlock:

[fierce cave]

I do like being eaten

[somber stream]

[little marten]

🙄

[fierce cave]

Deadlock is the robot game right?

[surreal ermine]

i only like hots
all other mobas stinky poopy

[somber stream]

Heroes of the Storm?

[shy sandal]

It has been the place where i've seen my friend crashout the most

[thick fog]

No? MOBA game by valve

[surreal ermine]

yeah

[somber stream]

Haven't heard of the thing in years

[little marten]

Heroes of the storm lmaoooo

[shy sandal]

Played for the genji skin and then never ever again

[somber stream]

i played for a bit because there were Raynor

[surreal ermine]

hasn't gotten any content in years either
still i do enjoy it quite a bit

[somber stream]

lmao

[little marten]

How’s your hollow knight coming along HANK?

[obtuse oak]

the crazy thing is that i last played in 2022 but it forever altered my brain chemistry

[fierce cave]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/566335499946426379/1418595176859041852/RDT_20250919_094210.mp4?ex=68ceb136&is=68cd5fb6&hm=bad321cf13b802688d9c3067a67747e759580429f00c5cfbd4bdfb3f62599966&

They killed the snake

[obtuse oak]

so now whenever i dream about videogames, it takes the shape of dota 2. i still gank lanes and farm creeps at night

[woven steeple]

It's either that or listening to me bitch about them not having a content preview for a release coming in 4 days

[somber stream]

Option 3: Go touch grass

[woven steeple]

I touch grass all damn day, I just want new Darktide 🙁

[somber stream]

TUESDAY

[obtuse oak]

i need to be responsible and finish my bg3 playthrough first

[somber stream]

Soon

[woven steeple]

I'm tired of grass. I yearn for the Emperor's touch

[somber stream]

[little marten]

Yeah.. I never finished act 3 on bg3 imma have to reinstall it maybe this weekend since I’m home alone

My old pc died as soon as I got to the city

[obtuse oak]

i finished it once before but that was before the epilogue even existed and i skipped a bunch of shit like ansur and cazador

so i owe it to myself to do the whole thing properly

at least once

[obtuse oak]

oh rip

[little marten]

I played paladin and after half the game realise that smite spamming isn’t actually than fun, I’m thinking warlock maybe or elements monk since the animations look awesome on the fire monk attack

[obtuse oak]

why not both. become pallock

paladin is my favourite but thats for rp reasons. the main character energy is extreme

all of the dialogue options are various flavours of "nah, i'd win" and it's just so fucking based

[little marten]

The angry paladin order had some great dialogue

Barbarian too tbf lol

[sharp lantern]

@obtuse oak Is all this activity a subtle hint towards some activity today?

[somber stream]

Such a positive view on life

[little marten]

Unrelated since Hank fired shots at FatShark this morning

[ocean widget]

Warlock is just doing paladin but at range btw

[little marten]

Oh..

[ocean widget]

Instead of spamming smite its spamming EB

[obtuse oak]

deploy hunger of hadar
spam eldritch blast w/ knockback to keep enemies inside of it
win

[ocean widget]

Not even hoh is needed

[obtuse oak]

i think you would enjoy bard @little marten

chaotic dialogue options and lots of options with spells and e.g. flourishes from swords bard

[ocean widget]

Get spellsniper and hex then rail them with EBs

[little marten]

It may have to be sword bard yeah

[ocean widget]

The bound weapons you can find are much better on eldritch knights btw

[ocean widget]

Swords bard is best class for getting the hardest achievement in bg3 btw

[obtuse oak]

complete nonsense.

[ocean widget]

Ok but does pretending work

[ocean widget]

Plus never piss off akabi

Greatest two weapons you can get from him

A throwable trident and firebolt?

[obtuse oak]

you need to piss him off to get the trident

[ocean widget]

Well yeah

[obtuse oak]

otherwise he doesn't ||banish your ass to dino land||

[ocean widget]

But u can't get firebolt? If you do

So get firebolt? First

If i remember correctly its a 90% chance to be a firebolt that can never miss

The 10% is something that definitely wont miss

Make sure anything that can sculpt spells uses it tho

[acoustic pawn]

any idea how to open a bug report except the forum?

[ocean widget]

You use the forum or you dont

[obtuse oak]

rofl i didnt even know that staff existed

[acoustic pawn]

I did used the forum, it is in ACKNOWLEDGED status but has no reply

[obtuse oak]

that's expected

[ocean widget]

Theyre not required to reply

[obtuse oak]

it has been seen and added to their bug tracker. you'll get a reply if and when they have something to say about it

[ocean widget]

Plus its probably a bug they've seen already

[ocean widget]

Its a great staff

Staff of mumbling pretty sure

[acoustic pawn]

I want to provide additional information, so no other way except the forum?

[obtuse oak]

just add a reply to your thread

[acoustic pawn]

will do tnx

[ocean widget]

Level 12 evocation gale with markus' salt shaker or whatever its called in the fire element and mumbling staff
Great fucking shit

[obtuse oak]

markus' what?

that gives no google results lol

[ocean widget]

The gold staff you get from the wizard dude who wants the nightsong

Well get is an overstatement

Beat the shit out of and steal it from him

[obtuse oak]

oh yeah that twerp

[ocean widget]

The one u gotta use see invisibility to see the lever that removes the forcefield its behind

I dont fucking know what its called because its got a shit name

[orchid skiff]

Markoheshkir iirc

[ocean widget]

Thats the fucker

Shit name

[obtuse oak]

oh wtf i never found that

[ocean widget]

Just call it good staff like a normal person

[obtuse oak]

[ocean widget]

Its a great fucking staff

Check the wiki

You get buffs for all elements if u select em so it makes storm sorcerers even stronger

Well the element you select

Except necrotic

I think

[little marten]

lol I shouldn’t have found the fart part so funny…

[obtuse oak]

shiieeet nice.

[ocean widget]

Btw dont rely on vicious mockery

It sucks unfortunately

Just use a crossbow

[little marten]

Can’t I just take a rogue with performance

Really wanted to use pocket sand on everything

[ocean widget]

Not for bard specific lines

For the hardest achievement you can though provided you get a specific perk from a feat or talk to a character in act 1

[obtuse oak]

I looked at the wiki and am only just now realizing how many more legendary weapons exist than I knew about

[obtuse oak]

you can do swashbuckler rogue

it's fun

[ocean widget]

Some guy did a video about collecting every legendary item

[little marten]

Does swashbuckler get any charisma boosts?

[ocean widget]

No

Because its a rogue

[little marten]

Sure sure but I thought maybe like a silver tongued swashbuckler of sorts

Don’t say sword bard

[ocean widget]

Thats jack sparrow

[little marten]

Even worse

[ocean widget]

So yes you will need to become a swords bard

[little marten]

SO BE IT

[ocean widget]

College of knowledge is shit btw

You get other classes spells earlier

Which you can do by just playing that class

[little marten]

Ehh nah I’ll leave the spells for the nerds

[ocean widget]

As a bard you will be using spells

Even as a swords bard

[little marten]

I’ll be playing the supporter pack tunes in the backlines

[ocean widget]

Dont play swords bard then

Or swashbuckler

Swashbuckler is frontline

[little marten]

Without spells tho

[ocean widget]

Support bard is backline

[little marten]

But then I also liked the idea of elements monk since there seems to be a shit tonne of monk gear in the game

[ocean widget]

Does he know

[ocean widget]

elements monk is kinda ass btw

and by kinda i mean fucking abysmal

[blissful kiln]

it's ok

[ocean widget]

compared to the other monks

[blissful kiln]

bg3 is not a hard game and monk is strong on its own

what does comparison matter

it's worse, not bad

very different things

[ocean widget]

probably the fact that you'd do better as an alcoholic at a pub fight than you would some magic summoning dickhead

element monks consume ki real fucking fast

[blissful kiln]

so what

[little marten]

But the animations look so cool 🙁

[blissful kiln]

fights last 3 turns

[ocean widget]

ki points are the entire basis of an element monks build

[ocean widget]

debatable given the difficulty

[blissful kiln]

no debate

fights last 3 turns on any vanilla difficulty

[ocean widget]

i think you've only played act one or you minmax to high hell and back

[orchid skiff]

Lore bard for support sword bard for dps

[blissful kiln]

exceptions being: self imposed challenge, mods and\or beefy boss fights like ralphy or dragon etc.

[ocean widget]

nah glamour bard is defo the better bard support

[orchid skiff]

Yall making me want to play bg3

[blissful kiln]

I have beaten the game on honor mode with self imposed rules, no tb, no elixir of str, no haste pots, and much more, 40% extra health

[ocean widget]

mhmm

[blissful kiln]

fights last 3 turns

[ocean widget]

mhmm

[ocean widget]

lore bard is unfortunately the arcane trickster of the bards

neglected and shit

[orchid skiff]

No

[blissful kiln]

the game is absurdly easy if you just play by the rules

[orchid skiff]

What's ur fav class under this

[blissful kiln]

giant barb, simply because of how fun it is to kick and throw people around

[ocean widget]

arcane trickster at least gets something special at level 9

[blissful kiln]

and it's probably one of the strongest too

[ocean widget]

lore bards last special feature happens at level 6

and its 2 level 3 spells or lower

[blissful kiln]

2 stars druid\10 death cleric - my shart for last playthrough

[ocean widget]

putting money on you taking tavern brawler

[blissful kiln]

turned her into a strong damage dealer as well

[blissful kiln]

I do not take tavern brawler

fuck larian's tavern brawler

[ocean widget]

https://tenor.com/view/sips-tea-hmm-interesting-thebidofficial-gif-26130044

[blissful kiln]

it breaks the game more than it already is

you do not need tb to hit stuff in this game

bless\heroism, 10billion ways to get advantage

[ocean widget]

who said it was to hit stuff

[blissful kiln]

and no, I don't use STR elixirs either

giant barb already does a fuckload of damage

as does everything else

[ocean widget]

yeah no shit
its literally built around throwing

you get the returning pike and you can beat grym in a couple turns

[blissful kiln]

I don't use the returning pike

[ocean widget]

awful

[blissful kiln]

grym can be beaten by throwing any +1 hammers

[ocean widget]

you use the throwing class but not the act 1 throwing weapon

[blissful kiln]

maybe even just normal throwing hammers, idr if he has resistance to normal weapons in lava

[ocean widget]

mainly does damage because of fall damage

[blissful kiln]

I don't use it because it's a bullshit weapon

[ocean widget]

explain

[blissful kiln]

costs 100 gold, breaks the game

[ocean widget]

dont worry
level 6 giant barb is free

[blissful kiln]

what is the point in getting class features to return weapons, what is the point in throwable weapons, when you get a returning weapon in the first hour of the game for free

[ocean widget]

they get better plus returning applies to all weapons

plus giant barb didnt exist before patch 8

[blissful kiln]

again, I used normal throwing weapons just fine

that's what they are for

[ocean widget]

this is like saying the boots of slinging breaks the game

or the dwarven thrower

cant make the same claim about the trident cus 3d4 aoe thunder is wack

[formal mortar]

I wouldn't know about game breaking. My first playthrough was human fighter.

But also use whatever you wish don't use what you don't wish to use

In the end everything will be broken

[ocean widget]

except wyll

the infernal rapier unfortunately sucks

even more than karlachs heart upgrades

[formal mortar]

Eh

Eldritch blaaaast

All you need

[ocean widget]

yeah
doesnt make wyll any better tho

[formal mortar]

I played without multiclassing anyone

But yeah I get ya

I still feel how they set up my man Minsc was wrong tho

[ocean widget]

yeah they butchered minsc

[formal mortar]

A dex build instead of pure strength?

Damn

[ocean widget]

oh

you mean that way

[formal mortar]

Minsc is how he has always been

[ocean widget]

no thats unfortunately BG3 companions in general

halsin has like an 8 in strength

nvm its a 10

still does not fit that body type

[formal mortar]

Yeah but also I get it for mechanics I suppose

Still. Dumb

[ocean widget]

yeah unfortunately they didnt bother with making the stats fit the body

[formal mortar]

Does he have a high con tho?

[blissful kiln]

fighters are maybe the strongest thing in this game, battlemasters and eldritch knights
but that's not larian's fault

[ocean widget]

its a 14 so meh

[formal mortar]

Haven't played in a while, if he has a high con then that's reasonable

[blissful kiln]

and it's not really abusing anything, they're just really strong

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STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
10
(0) 14
(+2) 14
(+2) 8
(-1) 17
(+3) 12
(+1)

[orchid skiff]

I love fighters

[ocean widget]

350 years old with a con of 14 though

i've just realised gale has a higher con than halsin wtf

[formal mortar]

Lmao

[ocean widget]

who has more hp, some moronic magician or a 350 year old buff druid

[blissful kiln]

idk why larian decided to make companions extra special snowflakes that sleep with goddesses and serve archdevils, but decided to make them all adhere to strict point buy

[formal mortar]

Gale was shunned for trying to pull a stunt, so it makes sense for him

[sleek harness]

I have no idea what you are talking about

[formal mortar]

And anyone who is a warlock has a patron so that's normal too

[ocean widget]

i mean to be fair gale did find something that consumes magic

we had that with the spellplague

fun fact

the spellplague was not good

[ocean widget]

mizoras a cambion bro

if you mean karlach though

[blissful kiln]

i wasn't talking about mizora

[ocean widget]

she didnt really serve

it was slavery so not willing

[formal mortar]

Karlach is a slave

[blissful kiln]

tf does it matter lmao

[ocean widget]

probably the fact serving and slaving are different

plus karlach also slaved as a soldier

[blissful kiln]

she is a tiefling, has an infernal engine for a heart, and spent 10 years in servitude of an archdevil

exxxtra special

but has normal point buy

[ocean widget]

yeah
forced servitude with a possibly permanent chain round her neck

plus thats just DND

[sleek harness]

Why the hell yall comparing slavery to servery

[ocean widget]

rolling for stats would suck ass

[ocean widget]

because serving someone is willing
being sold to an archdevil by the guy favoured by bane and having your heart ripped out and replaced by an inferior implant is unwilling

[blissful kiln]

in pathfinder you don't roll stats, but companions use non-standard arrays

it's fine

[formal mortar]

I mean they do make use of her engine

[ocean widget]

i've noticed bg3 isnt pathfinder

[sleek harness]

Well I mean, no shit

[blissful kiln]

it's better than giving halsin 10 str or shart 8 charisma

[ocean widget]

yeah it does get better
still doesnt let her live outside avernus though

even though the fucking gondians exist

[formal mortar]

Gotta take a little bit of time for them to make that shit

Can't make it overnight

[blissful kiln]

you really do live up to your name

[ocean widget]

https://tenor.com/view/darkviperau-dark-viper-au-rambling-mad-angry-gif-2825798997258800055

[blissful kiln]

https://tenor.com/view/joe-emotiguy-emotiguy-butt-shake-emoji-butt-shake-joe-butt-shake-gif-14427695574209448709

[ocean widget]

its a reference vet

[ocean widget]

not even that

they dont make it at all

like oh hey we're the fucker who make

whatever the fuck they're called hold on

[formal mortar]

I honestly don't know much about that

[ocean widget]

steel watchers thats the fucker

[formal mortar]

I only beat the game once lmao

[ocean widget]

ok the gondians were nicked by gortash, shoved in a factory and made to produce steel watchers

[little marten]

UH OH ITS 5PM IN SWEDEN AND NO BLOG

[formal mortar]

And she became a mind flayer

[ocean widget]

yeah being a mindflayer can save her

somehow

despite yknow

the fucking heart

[blissful kiln]

darktide is dead

rip

[formal mortar]

I think because even the devils and demons have to worry about the eldritch

[ocean widget]

btw the steel watchers recognise karlach as one of their own due to the heart implant, albeit an outdated model

[formal mortar]

So the rules don't apply

[ocean widget]

nah the heart would still exist within the mindflayer

its not like it just gets pushed out and hits the floor mid transformation

actually tbf it'd probably kill her given the fact theres a metal object while her heart is trying to regrow

[formal mortar]

I dunno, I haven't seen any flayers with peg legs

[ocean widget]

i wouldnt be surprised if the brains just fucking obliterated any disabled mindflayers

either that or they just regenerate

[ocean widget]

oop you're half blind, have fun having no head and no soul dipshit sorta thing

[formal mortar]

Most I remember bout mindflayers tho was back in bg2, not having enough intelligence to survive one of their attacks

[blissful kiln]

larian or wotc changed mindflayers for bg3

[ocean widget]

having only 5 int means death from mindflayers easy

[formal mortar]

Who would have thought that the things with mindflaying in the name could destroy your intelligence and make you vegetable

[ocean widget]

im just glad you can betray the emperor ngl

either become a squidbitch or forced to work with one

you'd think the final act would have more mindflayers but nope

[formal mortar]

It's a desperate elder brain that got captured

[ocean widget]

true but it does have tadpoles in a fuck ton of people

you only encounter like 6? mindflayers before act 3

during the final fights theres a couple more but thats about it

[formal mortar]

Probably some interference or something

Because in that case we could have just been turned too

[ocean widget]

i mean 3 of them are during act 1 and one of them is during the prologue

[orchid skiff]

https://tenor.com/view/withers-tongue-withers-tongue-baldurs-gate-withers-tongue-baldur's-gate-3-gif-12055253015230729153