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Sale on Ukrainian games - https://www.gog.com/en/promo/2024_ukraine_days Should go nab Cossacks. Remember, if you don't buy, Putin wins.

This can't possibly go wrong at all.

Absolutely perfect opportunity to migrate to Russia. This applies to those who cant live anymore in the liberal realities of Western countries and believe in traditional values. You dont even need to pass the Russian language test. Migration to Russia and getting citizenship has never been easier

I can see your point if you put it that way. If resilient is changed, then vicious stands out to be the only price to make it half decent and thus a must pick, I didn't think about it that way but it's true. I think action speed on bonded fury is good, my only concern is that would energized interrupt become better than they should be? Especially for lion. I must say I'm absolutely grateful for your work on this, even though sometimes I might get tunnel visioned, it's always great to have a discussion like this

Seems like they are moving from Godfather to The Sicilian. I dig it. Mafia is a curious IP - I adored father original but didn’t care much for the sequels (I am still to play Mafia3). But, Mafia Remake was very good, so I am hopeful they will land this one as well.

This. It is not even 2 free talent for a talent starved class since you won't get the +15% damages for vicious. Vicious Companion would become : +15% damages, +25% Stride. Which can be useful (esp for MC without obvious access to Nimble), but not necessary for all builds. Resilient Companion would become : +6+3/lvl hp, up to +66hp (better tough). Healing and damage prevention is usually more important than max health, but max health does help, especially with Play Dead (pets get more benefit from max health than your usual goonies due to that). You gotta be good at something. Anyway getting crit as pet isn't that obvious as you only get marked prey, aware and expensive Shadowed Hunter. A triple attack Frostseeker ranger with max Per will result in a much greater havoc. Thanks !

I meant SC ranger was not getting what's worth the points on the pets, who must rely on pet damage. I agree with resilient which is like pure potd tax and feels bad to pick, but I think paying for PEN is fine because even without it MC's pet can still serve a purpose, so it's not that mandatory for all rangers. Maybe to put it this way: I think pets should have a low base power, somewhere near current version, because MC are okay, but ceiling should be higher than current one, even if some passives are harder to trigger. I think the low base power part is where we disagree. 14 pen is very high for a summon, though SC ranger is also the only pure striker class that relies on summon damage. Chanter and druid has a lot more to do, so for SC ranger maybe let them hit just a little bit harder when they penetrate or crit, that's why I'm more into merciless and predators sense. I don't have a problem with 14 PEN after discussion, currently crit chance is pretty good.

For a functional ranger half, I think (unupgraded) mark, (unupgraded) Hunter's claw, stalker's link and driving flight are really necessary. Which isn't that bad in comparison, considering accuracy helps anything offensive, a MC with such abilities is good enough as a supporting half. Protective companion - stalker's link is the part that's probably problematic. MC Barb is similar in lacking an op ability and relying on small upgrades. Even non-tactician fighters. Unbending is op but that's rarely why people pick a MC fighter Resilient can be something more situational, but I think vicious does serve a purpose of distinguishing "SL only pet" and "having any offensive potential", and it is a meaningful choice imo. Not sure what can be done to stalker's link, does switching SL and protective's effects make sense to you? Even if give pet default 1 engagement, +2 engagement can be situationally useful if I want to get accuracy on more than 1 enemies, or just in case multiple enemies jumped to the back. Makes more sense if this one is behind a mandatory pick.

Since those ideas are spawning from russian troll farms, it's no surprise at all.

It can be simultaneously true that: 1. Donald Trump is the worse candidate for Palestine 2. Current Democrat policy needs to be better.

Conan Exiles is releasing some hero companions with backstories and quests in October, so I've been building a bit. They are also supposed to be updating the whole NPC system so they seem more lively.

Mwahahahaha Just remembered the Cleansing Flame doubling tick rate forgotten in the base game but re-added by Community Patch. Tested it and it basically multiplies by 2 the number of ticks, basically doubling any DoT damages (including itself) bar initial tick. It doubles tick but does not halve duration. Basically I can add a similar effect (multiply factor only 1.3) to Recall Agony to buff all DoT damages with the same magnitude as other damages. Won't stack with Cleasing Flame but will stack with everything else. Also CP Cleansing Flame might be a bit too powerful after CP change. This thing is a much faster disintigrate (208 base damages) that also bounces, target deflection, double other DoT damages (well it doubles itself, but I already counted it) and reduces beneficial effects.

Yeah, I am kinda confused why it exists - it didn't feel like they really had a take or an idea. The big pitch of "connecting tissue between BG1&2" seems to be slapped on top of a rather irrelevant adventure at the very end. The structure also just felt so very off. A very different game than Infinity Engines ones. I will definitely not include it in any of my future BG playthroughs.

Company of Heroes is still looking and playing really good for a game released in 2006. I cannot believe it's been that long, I feel incredibly old.

Picard is both too long and hard to watch, as that is what I was watching with my dad before he passed. So it's the Rebuilds or Twin Peaks, and it's been longer since I've seen the Rebuilds.

Atsuko Tanaka, the Voice of Ghost in the Shell's Major, Has Died (gizmodo.com)

Soulstice I used Discord to share the images, so they might not last. The MCs.