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I just finished up everything in Serene and reached The New World in GreedFall. I'm pretty doggone impressed with the game so far. I mean, it's a Eurojank RPG, these are like my comfort food, so of course I like it, but I didn't expect the combat to be this good. The combat just feels right; it's responsive, there are plenty of tactical options, and the feedback is solid. This is a pretty significant step forward over Spiders' previous titles. Anyway, I did my best to handle matters in Serene as discreetly as possible. I'm probably going with a firearms, traps, and phials build, so methinks it will be in my best interest to make nice with the Bridge Alliance, but I'm keeping my options open for now (so much so that I have an attribute point and 2 skill points unspent). At the very least, I want to get to know all the major players a lot better before I ruffle any feathers. Oh Eurojank, it's so good to be back in your loving arms.

Nah, I’m white. They just tell me to “slow it down sir. Have a good day” 😆 In all seriousness I’ve never been worried when interacting with cops. Funny story though. I used to own a business calibrating test equipment in Fort Lauderdale. I was renting an office space in an industrial park in Dania Beach. I had T-shirts made up with the business logo on it and the logo was on a sign on the door. It’s about 11 o’clock at night and I’m trying to get into my office when a Dania Beach police officer pulls up. Asked to see my ID and asked me what I’m doing here. I pointed out my T-shirt and at the logo on the door and I said “you’re quite the detective aren’t you?” The cop of course did not find that funny but the confrontation with no further than that. Anyway I told that story to a black friend of mine a few years later and he laughed and said if he had tried to do that same thing a beating would have followed. And he’s probably right.

I've already paid myself reparations.

I'm surprised you're not moaning about Rhodesia.

I've just started playing with this mod after finding it on the Nexus - it looks like some awesome, sensible changes! It's very cool that you have been keeping it up and continue to update it. I've noticed some spelling issues in the abilities, though. Would you like a native English speaker to help with that? I have done a small amount of editing for articles published on Medium and have written a protocol manual for work before, all with the goals of simplicity and clarity. The language mostly looks perfect and so far I have only seen spelling and capitalization mistakes, but I've only just picked up Xoti.

I wonder whats the lifespan of qq-ing about being conquered? Are those that carry Mesopotamian DNA still butthurt about the Assyrian defeat?

Last mission of Caesar 3, markets bugging out again and not getting food so need to figure out what's up with that. Did learn the Gatehouse trick to keep wandering patrols in your blocks, good to learn that 22 years too late. 😛

Well, cheese is not the same as a bug exploit, at least for me. Plenty of cheese to be found in various combos/abilities in Deadfire - and I'm not above using some of it. In fact, finding overpowered item/class/ability combos is a little hobby of mine. Equalizing exploiting a bug with using cheesy tactics rubbed me the wrong way, I guess. Lets leave it at that. Everyone can enjoy the game the way they like.

Someone else revived this thread asking about wizard solo. About Monk: Wounds disappear out of combat, you can't use abilities using Wound sout of combat, so SOF doesn't work on it and if you extend it in a fight with a party using a priest it would still disappear after combat ends.

Its funny you asked that because I asked my dad the same question, despite his deteriorating mental condition he still remembers and can recognize plants and trees and knows their names most of the time That part of the hike was in the forest area and it was beautiful and utterly serene. Those are Pine trees but a type of European Pine. I didnt even know their were so many different types of Pine trees. Good tree knowledge Gorthfuscious https://conifersociety.org/conifers/articles/10-types-of-pine-trees-that-everyone-should-know/

@Bartimaeus That sucks. Here's hoping she beats the odds. Hugs. @BruceVCLooks lovely/peaceful. I still miss my redwoods. Haven't been in a while, maybe this summer.

I wasn't gonna give you a major character or a big plot point for an extra credit question.

Iron Tower Studio's Colony Ship is now in Early Access.

If you read my post again until the end you will see that I said basically the same: that it's good to share such info - even if oneself doesn't use it. Again: my point was about how you seem to perceive it as a personal attack when people say they don't like to use exploits. Which it is not. I just want you to understand that there's zero criticism towards you or whether you use exploits or not. It's just players' preferences and neither criticism about the info you shared nor your way of playing the game. I wouldn't have said anything if you wouldn't have included that the Strand of Favor trick was "frowned upon" by some players. I mean even if that was the case: who cares what other players frown upon? It's your game and it's nice to share any info about it, even if some players won't use it. But if you are actually not feeling attacked and all is fine: even better. It sounded differently but I might have misinterpreted that. There will be debate lots of times I guess. Just because so few people know what it actually is - and therefore there will have to be further explanation. And then again some people will say "no thanks that is too cheesy for my taste" and so on and so forth. But why bother? I keep telling people how you can cheese charged items or how to export unique items to a new game or how Concelhaut's Draining Touch can be kept for the whole encounter - and nobody so far said "wow cool, I will use that". But I'll share it nevertheless. Maybe some day one player has fun with it - and it will be all worth it.

Over here there has been a massive influx of "foreigners" from the neighboring countries, who traveled to get vaccinated. They all got the AZ vaccine. Don't know if that is because it's the most stocked vaccine we have, or because no one wants to get it here, but people still take it. Also while the Sinofarm vaccine may be one of the least effective it's still pretty popular because people think it's the safest and it's looking like there could be a third dose for it to improve the efficiency too.

Yep*, what the US is doing blocking AZ exports I have no idea. Either approve it and use it yourself or allow the exports, but instead there are literally millions of doses sitting around in storage. That's even worse since vaccines have a fairly short shelf life even when stored correctly. *EU has definitely put pressure on Pfizer/ Biontech not to export though, but short of blocking them.

Yeah... this all makes determining "strongest" a bit difficult. If you ask for that you need to somehow narrow it down under what specific circumstances. Like solo, PotD, with Berath Blessing x,y or z, RTwP or TB, with cheese or without - and if with cheese: which sorts of cheese are okay and so on. Bit muddy all that. To OP (who is gone) I would say: Without any further specifics (everything allowed) I think SC Assassin with SoF 🧀 is a really strong contender for the crown. I already forgot: can you prolong WotW's invisibility with SoF? Because iirc it also doesn't break like Vanishing Strokes - and I consider SC Monk to be stronger than SC Assassin if both could stay invisible for unlimited amounts of time. Mostly due to Resonant Touch. Or not?

Eh, its still not so strong for those long fights IMO due to limited duration - unless you also combine it with Brilliant and SoT regeneration.

Tried DK2 pet dungeons again. Exited game/restarted after finishing each one, saved progress each time. Then I got to the 4th one again. Possessed a creature to group minions to get points (to finish the PD faster). Game froze. Wouldn't let me use my mouse on 2nd monitor/anywhere so I was spamming KB key combos for long minutes trying to close game window w/out a hard reboot. Come to think of it, the first time I did it, game did that "party like it's 1999" disco thing w/everyone dancing - and they wouldn't stop for ages, after minutes I could pick creatures up and drop them and they'd still be dancing on landing. Had to slap them all to get them to stop. Maybe that specific PD is just bugged in gog version, I've heard the campaign has a few buggy levels too. Copied over a couple of my self-made/altered PD's from other PC to Win10 PC. Playing those instead. So far they seem stable. Mine are more fun anyway - vamps can walk in water, creatures can train to lvl 8 (instead of just 4) and treasury tiles can hold a lot more gold per tile. Can't stand needing 10 treasure rooms... 😛

That nature reserve looks beautiful ❤️ What kind of trees are those? Looks like pine trees, but not quite 🤔

Baseball has such good stories. Lamonte Wade Jr. woke up this morning in Sacramento in the minors, got the call to make the 90-minute drive to San Francisco, and then got his first taste of centerfield in a super windy ballpark. He didn't even have time to practice out there. On top that he went 2-3 and helped the team win.

Fair enough, I would in no way defend Kingmaker as the best CRPG I have ever played, but at the same time I appreciated it for what it was and the only time I got annoyed and put down the game was because of its RTwP, I didn't experience the same frustrations that you did. But I also am not looking for a linear game that lays out the story for me and I just click through it like a visual novel. I read books on an eReader for that. I do feel like going from one point of the map to another to talk with companions is every single Isometric CRPG and not really a fair criticism, especially since talking to companions and others gives a lot of lore, backstory, builds the characters and is essential to any RPG. Was Pathfinder a wealth of well written dialogue, not really - I think that is a fair criticism. Another fair criticism for Kingmaker is that when it first released it needed still a lot of work, and with the ways they added options much of the Kingdom management criticism doesn't hold anymore, if you don't like that aspect just turn it off now. I personally like the challenge of it and did a playthrough where I just let the whole thing roll itself out without reloading, and I managed it and it was interesting. As for wanting the computer to think for you, you may need to wait for better AI that can anticipate what you want to sell and what you don't. And just because a video game can't address everything to make it like real life, doesn't mean they should do away with real life details completely, would I take all the details you listed out, totally, are most of those even possible today - not sure. Also camping in POE1 was too simple and basic, it wasn't even needed in most cases, or at all on normal difficulty. Limiting camping supplies was smart, but you can accomplish much the same thing with limiting food. One thing I like about DnD is the fatigue factor when you don't rest, again adds another layer of difficulty and planning.

Well, she is a mouse. I don't remember if this was evident in the beginning, but her workplace is a mess, just like you would expect.🤣

I did before I gave up sugar. I'll make up for it by getting a still and making moonshine once I buy a house in the mountains (hopefully this fall). Granted, I'll need to use sugar to make moonshine, but I'm willing to bend rules for alcohol. I'm sure you understand.

Can someone give a hand for this nice potantial portrait. With some ship and a sea at the background I think it looks really cool.

Iirc I learned that from @Powerotti. *Elton John voice* 🎶 It's the circle of cheese 🎶

As you quoted me (see the last paragraph): In other words: The Dragon Thrashed, The Dragon Wailed is not affected by Scion of Flame at all.

It was never directed at you (or even anyone personal) I straight up just wrote "beware there might be negative comments about this" (or something along those lines :P) Personally If I play a class that is a wizard/or multiclassed with another "caster" whoeveer doesn't have access to monastic unarmed I will always use that draining touch cheese (and yes I learned it from you ;)). I also sometimes use the charged items trick but it isn't super useful for most scenarios and I will always use it very specifically. I don't export items cuz it requires you to recruit a party member. 😛

I went to my sisters new house for an absolutely delicious Moroccan lamb barbeque and some of us went for a walk in a nature reserve about 5 minutes drive from her place. Really great weather and a great day to be outside...the lockdown has reminded me how much I miss these types of events

I just wanted to see a movie where the superhero's "powers" were faith and prayer as opposed to traditional superhero powers. I'm also curious as to how it would play out because most Christian movies I've seen are beyond insultingly terrible. I also feel like religion really needs a win right now.

SoF shenanigans are here to stay and unlock possibilities outside of priest/bloodmage for total OP-ness in Ultimate and such. Total OP-ness from SoF outside of Ultimate makes the game very dull in my very humble opinion. But anyone is entitled to do whatever they want. I don't think anyone here is trying to take anything away from any player. Just a healthy, friendly discussion about the game's intended and less intended features. I think we have here more a group of players interested in a good talk about exploits and such rather than a group of Ayatollah of Deadfire Exploits( ADE).

It is a really good sabre and worth keeping - if you want to spend the resources to upgrade it. Besides the normal sabre stats it is accurate (+5) which is great. And the best thing is not even listed under the list of echantments (or "Additional Effects") : This is a 20% burning lash. Lashes are mutiplicative dmg bonuses and therefore pretty good. This sabre works as if you'd have a "passive" Baby-Flames of Devotion: +ACC and a burning lash. It doesn't have the usual sabre "sharpness" which is +10% dmg. But that's only an additive dmg modifier and a lot weaker than the +20% burning lash. On top comes the 20% chance to deal some additional burn damage that is not connected to the initial weapon hit (has its own base dmg) and which you can upgrade to an AoE. This makes it one of the rel. few melee weapons with an AoE effect. This effect can happen on any hit roll. So for example if you use Heart of Fury, Whirling Strikes or Whispers of the Wind it can proc multiple times. And it emits light! Yay! 😄 Edit: I forgot - the burn AoE which can happen 20% of times targets Reflex instead of Deflection, also has its own base dmg (something around 8 or so I think?) but gets all the bonuses a normal weapon attack would get: weapon quality (fine, exceptional etc.), Might, Sneak Attack, Accuracy buffs (even the +5 from the sabre itself) and so on.

Somehow my kid finagled an appointment at a local pharmacy on next Tuesday. When I asked how she managed to get an appointment early she said "they gave me the appointment and I didnt ask any questions".

Mint mallet has been nerfed? It it supposed to no longer act like a mallet/hammer, even though it's the big daddy of all hammers? Hope this gets fixed, embarrassing that I'm wielding my hammer of minty gods but I'm forced to carry a stone slapper to get acorns/sap/quartzite etc.

The Hercules Beetle would be a large insect that would spawn inside of the big tree, The Hercules Beetle would have 3 attacks. 1. swat at you with its horn 2. catch you with its 2 big horns and squeeze you 3. fly into the air and smash into the ground The Hercules Beetle would respawn within 30 minutes of killing it.