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The more interesting parts (imho) is the smaller streets, cheap hotels places unlike those I find in Brisbane Yes, that's 50 Euro for a three bed hotel room. Won't find that anywhere in Brisbane! As mentioned previously, my brother and i visited during day time. I've seen the place at night (20 years ago) and it can get quite rowdy

The German Autobahn... always worth a visit in itself. My brother did the driving though. Not just because it was his car, but because 20+ years of driving in the left side has made me doubt my own reflexes if something happens at high speed. My brothers Tesla is no slouch either, with an impressive acceleration Long stretches of flat road with no speed limit.... Slightly more "affluent" and conservative part of Hamburg. Bear in mind, most of the city is reconstruction, built after WWII Yes, this building looks like it caught a plane in the side and is struggling to straighten itself out again... It wouldn't really be a harbour city without access to water... All very nice I suppose... but not really what my brother and I came to see

Those two posts are surprisingly fitting. Once Hurlshot joins the HOA cult, Azdeus will give him an imhotep injection as well, and both will shamble down the street in Hurlshot's neigbourhood chanting "Imhotep. Imhotep."

The actual video for those who want to see Avowed. Livefeed: * 01:30 - oh hi Matt Mercer. Is Sargamis an Aloth is disguise? Or what I prefer to think is, that there was a being with a powerful soul in the past with the voice of Mercer, and as his soul split overtime all that go a piece of it end up with Mercer's voice. * 03:10 - That's a weird camera angle unless we were playing an orlan. Cinematics seem to still need a bit of work. They seem a bit more elaborate than talking faces from Outer Worlds, but so far I prefered OW approach. *6:20 - I much prefer when games take time to create a consistant, understandable language, rather than clarifying what's interactable and what's not through intrusive icons. IF they are necessary, I wish they were part of some highlight feature (like Witcher's sense, or Cyberpunk scanning) rather than constant part of the world. *7:50 - attributes and skills look more or less as I expected. Looks alright *14:13 combat looks alright. UI gets busy indeed. Seems clunky, I wonder if it will scale better at a high resolution. Reminds me a lot of XBOX360 era with its overly large, clunky UIs. *20:30 - companion teleporting for the ability use... is it necessary? Couldn't he just attack from where he was standing? *22:10 - ok, so inspite of intrusive quest pointers, I do appreciate that there isn't one directly pointing you to a thing that you are not supposed to know where it is. *26:40 - animancers continue to be presented as complete maniacs. To be fair, Deadfire was better in that regard, but it is difficult to be on their side if they are presented like some fanatics. Looks alright. I think the game will look very pretty in action. Combat looks ok. Quest aroused my interest at the end, so that's a good sign. Definitely an Eora's game, and it seems they are continuing a lot of PoE1&2 threads, at least in this sidequest.

Beautiful weather in LaCrosse the past few weeks. But you can feel the air getting drier. Winter will be here soon. We're planning a trip to Big Bend National Park in November. Already have a campsite reserved in Cottonwood. We will spend the winter in West Texas. Looking forward to it. Hope you guys are doing well. @Azdeus hope your foot is doing better.

It looks like a worse version of Dragon's Dogma or a more melee centeic Mass Effect. Too slow to be exciting and too fast to be tactical.

Everything I've ever heard about HOA make them seem like some weird American Suburbanite Cult Thing.

Which is why I'm so happy they included a third person option.

Report him to Hurlshot. Let's see what the Homeowners Association will do about it!

Enotria: The Last Song - Gamescom 2024 Trailer The video shows mostly the combat, with a boss' intro cut-scene. The boss looks unusual (as far as an armoured lion/chimera can be unusual). I am curious how generous the parry timings are.

The experience with the Iron Passage does sound frustrating, but I am glad that it was positive overall. Killing the blue Smelter Demon used to allow to use the regular Smelter's soul to forge the blue sword, by the way. Not sure if it was changed in the SotFS edition. The Iron Ivory Crown DLC co-op area is widely regarded as the worst area in the Dark Souls trilogy, but the density of the foes is different from the Iron Passage. I was using the summons as meatshields and dismissing them before the fog gate during my playthroughs. About the co-op area (spoilers for the area; I assume you might want to read them after finishing it): About the boss battle (it is a DPS race and, if done incorrectly, it can end painfully after a certain point): Also (not related to the co-op area), if you would like to get the frozen knight armour set, farming the knights might be preferable before killing the final boss of the DLC.

Well, there used to be a time when one had to wait for NPCs to open doors for you. I liked it even less. Ideally, one would do a hybrid were NPCs will attept to do things, but players can also do them, but that would add variables that are likely not worth dealing with.

Looks like we have a new winner for the biggest failures of games: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/08/24/playstations-concord-did-not-break-700-players-on-steam-on-launch-day/

Will it be reset into the time, when they released HoMaM without the need to be always online logged into their malware client?

Yesterday, I have finally finished the Crown of the Iron King DLC. And it is a mixed bag for me. The majority of Brume Tower, is good and interesting design from my PoV. They made some areas filled with to much mobs, but, after few try and error attempts, they have become manageable. Only few Ashen Idols gave me some troubles. So after approx 5 and half hours after entering the DLC, I was able to defeat Fume Knight. All attempts have been made with two summons. This fight was pure DPS race. I had to make more damage to him before he wiped out my summons, and few of the attempts ended up with him with less than 5%. All in all I had 10 attempts IIRC, before being victorious. And even in that last attempt, he defeated both my summons, before I was able to land a finishing blow on him. So far so good only 15 wipes during this whole time. But this was the last part of the DLC which I have enjoyed. I have used the Tower Key and unlocked the way to Iron Passage... I should not have done this... **** it... The worst ever area in all of From Soft games, I have ever played. Multilevel areas, which were not completely accessible, filled with enemies, which sniped your ass into the otherworld in few seconds, if you were to slow to get into hiding spot or stayed to long out of it, fighting the melee waves jumping at you... **** it once again... And in the last room, just before the fog gate as a bonus oversized like-a-truck hitting mob, which destroyed half of HP of your summons... If by any miracle, I have survived up until the boss room, I became so pissed of at the whole gauntlet, that I was losing my concentration and made mistake after a mistake, so the boss has kicked my ass... Rinse and Repeat... For 3 and half ****ing hour... Until I was able to have enough concentration, to not mess up the boss fight... I hate you Myiazaki... 40 wipes in that session alone with hundred thousand plus souls lost, due getting gangbanged all the time... This area has completely discouraged me from playing the game further. I had so bad mood after that session, that I wanted to uninstall the game... Well, on the next day, I have tried to log into the game again, to check the latest area, which I still needed to finish, but the mood was still very very low... To my "surprise" another gauntlet... Thankfully, this time not as ridiculous as the Iron Passage, but it definitely did not make my mood for DS2 better... Anyway, I have done few tries on Sir Alonne and tried to learn his moves, when to heal, and when to avoid his moves at all costs. Due to me being down in the mood, my reflexes have been lousy as well, so I was not able to outroll or block all of his attacks, whenever he aggroed on me, so all the time, the fight ended up few seconds, after he got buffed after piercing me with his Katana... So I have quit the Brume Tower, and went to completely clear my head to grind 100 Mad Warrior kills, new Human Effigies, which I have lost in high numbers during my Iron Passage ball torture, and enough souls to fully upgrade Grand Lance to +10 (as I have noticed, that my Lightning Heide Lance is doing not as much damage, as I would expected on the boss - later I have found out, that he has a pretty high resistance against all of magic)... Stopped at 91 Mad Warriors, and went to sleep, pissed as much as the day before The only good part of the day was the interesting encounter with the 5 Prowler black phantoms, which have spawned on my way to the Bonfire before the Memory of the Old Iron King. After this, I went on a scheduled business trip, so I had no time to be pissed on the game anymore, so when I got back 3 days later, I had like two hours window, in my schedule, so I decided to boot the game again, with much clearer head. First I have finished the Mad Warrior grind, to acquire the Bell Keepers set, and from the new souls, I have put 1 more point into ADP Then I went back for the memory, and cleared the area up until the fog gate. There I've noticed, that I have enough souls to fully upgrade the Engraved Bracers, which increase the chance of critical hits, so I feathered back to a blacksmith. Cleared it one more time, fully healed my two summons, and readied my newly upgraded physical Grand Lance +10. Even though I was hit few times by the boss, which almost wiped me out, this time, I was able to avoid his buffing attacks, so the fight was a little bit easier, and my summons have taken much less damage. This helped tremendously with the DPS race, and made the fight much more manageable. To my surprise, I was able to defeat Sir Alonne on my first try. Which was absolutely unexpected, because I still had 50 minutes of my free time window, and I did not have any plans to move in the game at that moment Then I have remembered, that I still have to extinguish 1 Ashen Idol, and to pick up 1 Item, which was not accessible, when I have entered the Brume Tower. And one Crystal Lizard, but I was to lazy to try and run to it again The story, which almost turned into tragedy, has been finished. All three bosses down. This probably cost me few new gray hairs, but in the end, I was satisfied, that I have not given up on the game, although, I will probably never forget about that idiotic Iron Passge... Next stop, the last DLC, which I heard has some stupid design decisions as well. Hopefully not in the vein of Iron Passage. We'll see... Deathcounter: 250

Tried out the fairly new lebanefe reftaurant. Broke a toof. Obvioufly all the dentiftf I know are on holiday.

Those rat bastages made me cut down a tree in my front yard a few years ago (well, they paid to have it cut down and removed). I had planted it years ago when it was knee high and now it was towering. "Waa, we cant see your house number." "Waa, its way over first floor your roof line."

Hah, my dad told me the same thing. He said I'm basically inviting my neighbors to complain to me about everything. As a middle school teacher, I do have a pretty high threshold for patience, so hopefully that will help. I appreciate all of the support.

I have right now 3 Modal Proficiencies active, but i dont use any of those weapons. I am double wielding pistols now, but the medium shield Block proficiency is staying. Very confusing, it is as if it gives me a bonus even if i don't have it. It seems to happen if you switch load out when activating and then it can never get deactivated. Can you please force the current effect to get removed when you don't have the correct item in hand?

Nearly done with Rogue Trader. Both as in nearly completed it, but also nearly at the point where it is more annoyance than fun. My party is so powerful, most fights are finished before the opponents get to act. Level ups are boring. I have run out of things to pick at level up, meaning most times I pick the options I chose not to pick earlier in the game, not because now they have become interesting, but because I already have everything else. I have gotten to the point where I don't necessarily do the level up right away and simply continue playing. There are way too many skill checks. And since you are at silly high skill levels, the game throws silly high penalties at you to make the checks *interesting* - Check for Lore-Xenos with a -100 penalty, since you have at least one character with 150 in any given skill. *yawn* Throwing arbitrary, ridiculous penalties around does not make the game interesting, it just shows your advancement system wasn't balanced. Companion quests are WTF. Suddenly at the end of chapter 4 you discover that all interactions fed into a hidden counter and suddenly your companion decides that she wants to be a masochistic nudist because at the end of the prologue you were nice to the orphans. It doesn't help that there are still bugs in the later chapters. The guy I executed early in Act 4 showing up at the start of Act 5 to help me. But god, that overabundance of skill checks. Those and the environmental hazards. At least I know I will not be getting the DLCs. No way I'll endure this game a second time.

I managed to faint while giving myself an imhotep injection. I'm kind of proud that I managed 3 injections before it happening.

For whoever is interested. Not my cup of tea, but I gave up on DA with DA:I so not much lost.

It was twenty degrees here at midnight yesterday, which was weird.

Good to hear from you @Guard Dog! I'm doing well, I can feel both 40mm screws doing their job Hope you and yours are doing great!