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This is a nice find and great work, thanks! There is an issue, though. With this fix, the first Fury bounce also becomes a 'straight line' bounce, whereas before it was an 'unconditional' bounce. This is a pretty significant nerf to the Fury weapon in every situation other than a Fury/Ranger with Driving Flight. Perhaps everyone else here already knows the ins-and-outs of the different kinds of bounces, but I just figured them out after a little testing, so I'm going to explain. Watershaper's focus has a 'straight line' bounce, and this is the kind of bounce that Driving Flight gives. The Fury's vanilla blight form weapon has (what I'm calling) an 'unconditional' bounce. I haven't checked, but I imagine pretty much every spell which has a bounce is also this sort. The difference between these two lies in whether or not the projectile can bounce along acute angles. Draw a line from the shooter to a target and then from that target to another target. If the angle formed where these lines intersect is obtuse, then either the 'straight line' or 'unconditional' bounces will work to hit that second target. If the angle is acute, however, the 'straight line' bounce won't work, but the 'unconditional' one will. At a guess, the 'straight line' bounce is supposed to represent a projectile which glances off a target and strikes another, preserving its momentum (not one that is reflected) while the 'unconditional' bounce is supposed to be one that seeks out another target regardless of its original momentum. I suppose the developers didn't want these different bounces to mix. An 'unconditional' bounce is obviously better than a 'straight line' bounce, except in case you pick up the Driving Flight talent, so changing the Fury's weapon to a 'straight line' bounce is a straight nerf to every Fury that isn't a Ranger multiclass. But it does enable a pretty delightful interaction in that specific edge case. For my game, I'm currently doing a Fury/Arcane Archer run and I'll install @Noqn's mod once I take Driving Flight (headcannon: my character learns to curve the lightning the same way he curves bullets/arrows, but that restricts the way that it bounces). But @Elric Galad may or may not want this (mostly) nerf as a general feature of his mod.

The thing is that I recently buffed Fury druid base damages. So nerfing it a bit to allow rangerer combo would not hurt too much overall. I will think about it. Good find @Noqn !!

Practically, it's for sure impossible. Here in Serbia, there is tons of unregistered weaponry, from pistols to bombs. There is no practical way to fix that, but there is no pressing need to do so as carrying a weapon is illegal without a license and getting a license to carry is VERY hard for a civilian. People still die from firearms, but apart from accidents those cases would, most probably, have a tragic outcome either way. As for why we don't have school shootings, I couldn't say for sure. I would not say that we have great care for our mentally ill, but maybe we have better schools systems that identify them...writing that now and thinking about it I can't say that is the case either. Maybe it's because we are not that nonchalant with guns and have respect and fear of them, children usually don't even know that there is a gun in the house and they have no other way of getting them. I think parents wised up on that after a few cases where kids accidentally killed themselves or their friends while playing with a gun. I think the US treats weapons way too casually (driving too), banning guns is not a solution, changing the public's perspective is, but I imagine that is almost impossible in the US too. Either way it should not be that easy to get a gun, or drive a car for that matter...

@Elric GaladFury Driving Flight fix: Fury Bounce Fix.zip I think the issue is in ExtraStraightBounces description: "Adds Value bounces (in a straight line) to the target's ranged attacks that have no bounces." Watershaper's Focus solved it by setting the attack's bouces to 0 but giving the item the Leaping Arc mod which adds +1 bounce instead. I applied the same solution to Fury's weapons.

It Costs $110,000 to Fully Gear-Up in Diablo Immortal I have no words.

That's a lot of muda. Good. I'm usually right. Unless I'm not.

Armor and also shields degrade when you get hit and thus have to be repaired. However weapons degrade only when using normal attacks, not when using abilities. Soulblades (with Soul Annihilation) and monks (with Stunning Surge or Whispers of the Wind) can use weapons without degrading them. Natural/summoned weapons and armors don't degrade - thus a shape shifter can be great choice for melee. Using potions of the Fearsome Brute is also a good way to avoid weapon/armor breaking during long fights. Besides that, using summons to do the tanking for you and spamming hard CCs are other great options to avoid armor degrading. To deal damage you should try to spam mostly abilities/spells or use summoned/natural weapons (Firebrand is another good option).

This is another level of stupid. Sven, or other people working on this, don't seem to understand the basic premises of RPGs. Players are never free to do literally anything they want, there's always a framework you're working in. If the GM is very good at making up things on the fly without preparation, the framework can be very large, like "you can do anything that sticks to the world of D&D, but nothing outside of it". If the GM is a mere mortal like 99.9% of people, they will have some kind of content prepared, and the framework will be smaller, like "your quest is this, your characters want to do this" or "you start at this situation, from it you can do anything you want". Going outside the framework will break the game, and generally make it impossible to play. For CRPGs, this basically means a GM that's huge on content preparation. That's just how it has to be, technically. If the framework for BG3 means that you have the box, then just force them to take the box. Don't belittle people on the some kind of illusion of choice if you don't want them to make that choice. You can't have it all up to the player in any case; Players will come up with thousands of decisions that would be rational and logical in some sections of BG3's story that they won't have coded in, so no reason to pretend they can do anything they want. It's wasted resources, and an insult to players. But here's the worst thing they can do: Force you to take the box, and then have a character say "You idiot! You kept the box!". Don't make negative-McGuffins.

For me Alpha Protocol will always be the text book example of a trillion permutations... sadly also at the expense of other game mechanics, which were not so good (a bad shooter with bad stealth, mediocre combat and the ultimate crime and joy killer: mini games). But story wise... it's probably unbeaten to this day regarding how many stories players can create for themselves.

I was sent this yesterday, and it now feels appropriate to post it here:

Straight and omnidirectional are much better adjectives! I would say it looks to me like this is working correctly according to the game’s internal logic (what the developers intended and what they simply didn’t think too hard about – who knows). The confusion from our end is that the Fury’s weapon and Caedebald's Blackbow are the only weapons in the game that have omnidirectional bounces instead of straight bounces (and Blackbow isn't available to multiclasses so the Driving Flight question never came up). Players are otherwise led to expect that weapons have straight bounces and spells have omnidirectional ones. That expectation is reinforced by the existence of Driving Flight which is explicitly supposed to give a bounce to ranged weapons, and that is translated in the game’s logic as a straight bounce, stackable with weapons which already get straight bounces. I guess you can interpret Fury and Blackbow as special magical exceptions which don't work like other weapons (including Watershaper's Focus...which also looks pretty magical, but whatever). I think it's reasonable to want to change Fury to a straight bounce to preserve an otherwise clear distinction in player expectation for ranged weapons but, again, that’s a nerf to a weapon that is not at all too strong. On the other hand, the weapon itself is intrinsically underwhelming (Furies are all about the spells, not auto-attacks), but can become more interesting if made to interact with Driving Flight, especially with Arcane Archer. So the ‘nerf’ enables at least one interesting edge case to an otherwise underwhelming weapon. So, this has become a judgement call open to interpretation rather than a bug fix or simple question of balance, I would say.

I think that my distaste of CGI is pretty well documented by now but... With their recent financial troubles and signals that they're no longer going to be doing "expensive vanity projects" (ie the movies that are actually good), I will bet that Netflix doubles down on making/acquiring cheap cgi anime and Stranger things knockoffs. So more cars that makes us want to tear our eyes out or become the Joker.

I suggest https://pillarsofeternity.fandom.com/wiki/Fleshmender for main/one character, its auto healing can cut on Abydon's armor repairing expenses if you don't get damaged a lot

If you put it on XMP (or whatever) and it gets through one pass without error, it's almost certainly good. There's not really much need to let it do the full 4 passes or whatever it wants to do by default unless you actively suspect that there's something wrong with the module.

well, the single largest category o' gun related deaths in the US is suicides, and if you make suicide even a tiny bit more inconvenient, deaths decrease dramatic. am knowing such is hard to believe, but serious do a search for coal fire ovens and suicide in uk and us. also, o' the remaining +40% o' firearms deaths, "accident" and impulse account for the greatest numbers. is not drug dealers, burglars and carjackers who account for most firearm deaths. folks like gd know the statistics and don't care. if you own a firearm, you is far more likely to die by firearm than those who do not own guns. domestic disputes. shoot innocent person on your property mistaken thinking they is a nogoodnik. kids get access and shoot friend, brother, sister. etc. the vast majority o' felonious firearms deaths is stoopid and utter avoidable. am gonna repeat, the assault weapon ban worked and were a total failure at the same time. the thing is, when was the last time you heard o' somebody in the US killed with an uzi? no doubt you may find such examples, but is extreme rare. were a popular weapon o' gang members and drug dealers in the 70s and 80s, but almost over night their use stopped. the bad guys didn't just voluntarily give up their uzis, did they? serious criminals, the folks who is not doing crime outta impulsive anger or reflexive fear, find alternatives 'cause the penalties related to the assault weapon ban were kinda onerous. the assault weapon ban worked, but overall firearms deaths didn't drop noticeable. make a more comprehensive version o' the assault weapon ban and sure, more than a few criminals would continue using firearms, but gun numbers would dwindle as police would be taking more than a few weapons off the streets either in response to arrests or buybacks and those losses would not be replaced with new sales. no, you would never get rid o' all weapons, but the vast majority o' such weapons would disappear. that said, am not thinking a total ban is needed. is worth noting how sweden has a whole lotta personal firearms. the thing is, sweden is a less diverse population which doesn't suffer US sorta income disparity problems. am assuming sweden also responds better to mental health problems 'cause is tough to imagine being much worse than the US. sweden makes gun ownership a privilege earned after submitting an application and passing a test after which weapons need be stored and maintained responsible. 'course the US wouldn't be able to achieve sweden kinda results w/o addressing the entirety o' the gun problem, and is unlikely the US solves larger social issues as we reflexive try and remove ar-15s from the hands o' the anticipated mass shooters. HA! Good Fun!

I haven't played with a party in a while but at least solo, Bekarna's Observatory is not a place I usually clean early/mid level... (unless I'm an Assassin and can just cheese the hell out of both maps).

my screenshot on other thread seems to broken the forum. ups.

I forgot how much time that takes. I did one round the last test (hammer test) was on 50% before I interrupted... I'll probably leave it overnight if it's not too hot out.

@kanisatha: In response to what you said in the now-defunct thread: Putin does look gravely ill, I fully agree with this. However, it might be nothing more than age combined with the puffy look people get when they are treated with cortisone, and the reason for this treatment could be something fairly benign. So it's hard to say. Impossible, even. The potential psychological strain is also impossible to ascertain. If Putin lands, broadly speaking, within the definition of a "normal person", he is likely to be quite severely stressed. However, the more he leans towards psychopathy, the less these things will apply. One interesting thing about psychopaths is that they sleep well and they experience little to no fear, anxiety and depression. It has repeatedly been reported that Putin is fearless (this was even described as a fault when he was a KGB man, because fearlessness can lead to overly rash behaviour), which could be a symptom of true psychopathy, but not necessarily -- and no professional would make that diagnosis on the basis of one classic sign. So all we can say is that Putin may be quite stressed these days, or perhaps not stressed in the least. Which is not helpful at all.

I don't know. If you use them for tanking it's pretty good to have two additonal casts for 2 more phantoms in long fights. The substancial phantom casting stuff is indeed a bit annoying at times (I like Arduous Delay of Motion because it targets Will and stacks with all other debuffs, but Necrotic Lance and Minor Missiles are often just a waste of action time - casting can also break engagement the phantom might have via items which is detrimental to tanking) but if it's used as a tank then bigger health pool doesn't hurt I guess. It would have been very exciting if one could pick the 3 spells for the substancial phantom from your own spell portfolio. The opportunities...

These days I give him Effort and enchant it with Hemorrhaging because that also works with all crits, not only weapon crits. If you add Hylea's Talons you can generate ebven more crits per spellcast (because the DoT on the gloves also does a hit roll that can crit). Even before getting Avenging Storm (which procs on Hemorrhaging hit rolls bc. it originates from the weapon) it's cool to cause hobbled or sickened as additional CC effects on the fly while casting Chillfog, Wicked Briars, Tanglefoot and so on. Later add Avenging Storm and of course Maelstrom and he's wiping ads (which are usually more prone to receiving crits) like few other characters. Venombloom is lso excellent with this because it does 3 attack rolls every 3 secs (loads of chances for crit rolls which all trigger Hemorrhaging which in turn triggers Hylea's Talons and Avenging Storm - which when those crit trigger Hemorrhaging again and so on and so loop). Effort + Taste of the Hunt is also a pretty decent combo during mid levels. The combined DoTs melt tough foes pretty nicely (if you can reliably hit).

I must have played the game before the box was implemented, whatever the hell it is. Seeing the video title I thought it was in reference to that Peter Molyneux scam or somesuch. What I don't get is that this is the same developer who made it so that at the end of Act 1 in their previous game, they just instakilled all potential party members in the game except the ones you've explicitly put into your party, presumably because they didn't want to leave any loose ends.

Allegedly the 35th Army, the perpetrators of Bucha massacre, has been almost completely annihilated near Izyum. And here is a translation pretty sarcastic post by Russian Military blogger, who described how the situation around Izyum looked like for this army... It's pretty sad state. It pretty much confirms, that a lot of units of Russian army are dependent on crowdfunding from common Russia... https://wartranslated.com/russian-35th-combined-arms-army-izyum-is-destroyed-by-its-own-command/

The End of Vampire in the Garden. I had a fit of insomnia and watched the rest of it. You know what, @KP wants Blue Velvet was right, it was pretty decent. Did I love everything about it? No way, but it more or less made up for the things I didn't like with things I did, so I wasn't being hypercritical while watching it, and that's what's important.

I recommend Sky News for detailed coverage, I have been following some of the interviews with dozens of fans who have come from all over the world and many from ex-Colonial countries which is no surprise considering the reality of the real relationship between these countries and the UK But their are fans from Japan, USA, South America, Canada, Africa, India and Australia and NZ to name a few Its been an incredible few days to celebrate the life of this iconic monarch

Spy x Family 9 Holy s***. These people are almost killing each other and the secrets haven’t even been revealed yet. At least, for once, Anya was just sleeping peacefully (mostly). The episode starts where the previous one ended, that is, with Yuri demanding that Loid and Yor kiss to prove they are indeed married for real. Yor can’t bring herself to kiss Loid, even after getting intentionally drunk so that she could do it. Not noticing that, Yuri tries to stop her and ends up being slapped on the face and flying to the other side of the room. His face was already bleeding after she threw a fork at him when she got drunk and now he is bleeding even more. Still suspicious, Yuri leaves, threatening to have Loid executed in case he does anything bad to his sister. In the morning, Anya reads Loid’s thoughts and gets excited with the idea that there is a secret police, even if she doesn’t really know what that is. She gets angry and frustrated that they didn’t introduce her to her uncle. Yuri gets to work and tells a colleague that his sister’s husband is too nice so he must be a con man or a spy. And his colleague considers the possibility, asking if there is any proof. Well, isn’t it nice to live in a fascist state? Loid finally starts suspecting Yor and plants a listening device on her. Then he and one of his contacts disguise themselves as the secret police to interrogate her. What a wonderful idea! If only they knew they are threatening a professional assassin… Anyway, Loid stops suspecting her and they all celebrate the (fake) marriage anniversary eating a cake with Anya. Edit: in the video, Anya asks if it is the end of the world.

Yeah, I always memtest86 new modules - feel like it's worth it to get it out of the way ASAP given how easily tested RAM is relative to other components.

This comment on YT is particularly interesting: So that was almost 10 minutes of Muda Muda from Cioccolata's perspective.

I read faster than the characters talk, I skip a lot of dialogue.

I'm with the stupid on this one.

21 year old Iga Świątek won the French Open at Roland Garros for the second time in her career. The Polish phenom has won 6 straight tournaments and 35 straight matches, equaling the longest such streak this century (Venus Williams in 2000). Unsurprisingly, she is ranked #1 by the WTA by a massive margin. https://apnews.com/article/french-open-rafael-nadal-sports-jelena-ostapenko-iga-swiatek-7fbb7f44c8be43617e2b5568c0265442 Her dominance on clay is reminiscent of Rafael Nadal, who will be trying for yet another championship tomorrow. Can she be this dominant on other surfaces?

20% of Severodoneck, which was lost during last few days, is back under Ukrainian control.

What if that boi is Henry C.? I saw you have seen my first impression thoughts over at Larian's forum. After thinking on it for a while longer - I just think this is a wrong use of reactivity. Reactivity should "react" to player's actions decisions - create an illusion that game reacts to choices the player has made. This doesn't do that - this works hard to cancel players actions. It's the same thing they did with Godwoken prince in D:OS2 - yes you can kill him, even have a choice to let him live or kill him, only for the game to retcon it multiple times because he is story critical. The end result is that there is "intended" way of progressing - even by Sven admition some solutions don't work very well and I personally haven't experience the very silly ones.

If they stay true to Fantasy Flights games, you're likely loosing limbs right and left together with those stats. Those critcharts are quite mean

Obsidian is now part of Microsoft and as such, has some responsibilities regarding the public image presented. Being home to a bunch of howling fanatics crying out for blood and campaigning for the killing of people (besides being low brow tasteless) doesn't really belong in of a gaming community. I would suggest people go find political fora for that.

I love that thumb pic xD

Just came to say I'm very grateful for this mod, currently on a no rest run and the amount of clutter just bugs out the hover-over-portrait window if there are too many things. Will endorse once I'm able!

Okay, quote for the day for a reboot show : "The Golden Girls.. as re-imagined by the creators behind The Boys...."

the now mainstream alt-right were furious regarding mask requirements during a pandemic which killed more than one million people in the US thus far 'cause "assault on liberty" or something. many o' the same folks in ohio is nevertheless okie dokie with requiring young persons to submit to an invasive exam.

In the 584th year of the war in Ukraine, Putin declared victory for the 173th time at Mariupol (although the 68th “capture” of the city is still disputed, we’re the defenders actually driven out before they returned?)

Is it true the S*x Pistols will be holding a concert in her honor? How noble of them.

am quite disappointed in the lot of you. this is a crpg development board, a veritable fetid bog o' geekdom, a metaphorical boil on the arse o' humanity filled with nerd instead o' puss, and not one of you did the obvious and linked monty python? shame! boo! HA! Good Fun!