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Started Outer Worlds 2 (using Gamepass) and played through the tutorial. It was great. The graphics are improved from the original. So far so good. I don't think it will win you over if you didn't like the original, but it seems like a solid sequel so far.

I signed up for a full Ironman with my wife. I did one in 2019 in Santa Rosa and it was pretty miserable. It took me 15 hours. I had a good swim, an ok bike, but terrible run. My stomach was a mess and I walked most of it. Anyways, my wife watched me suffer and has been bugging me for the last 6 years to do one with her. So we signed up for Ironman California, which is in Sacramento. It is still a year away. We volunteered at the race this year and paddle boarded for the swimmers in support. The swim looks amazing, it is downstream and should be fast. It also looks like a fun run snaking around the Capitol Mall. But now that I've paid for it, I'm in training mode, and that is a different lifestyle. I'm not out of shape, but I'll be pretty much doubling my training hours over the next year. It should be fun. I hope I can nail the nutrition this time.

I bought the deluxe edition, beat the tutorial, got no bonus packs. deleted and re-download 3 times, play thru tutorial again and still no dlc. please help, I did give you 100 dollars it would be nice to actually receive some content.

Indeed, it is way better to have a vindictive, narcissitic asshat with the intelligence of a seven year old as POTUS. Or worse, imagine if Biden had become president and stepped aside after his cancer diagnosis, it'd be a mixed race femoid with a weird laugh running the country. Unthinkable.

Sometimes a solid sequel is all we need. Just have more fun of the fun we were already having.

"Saga of the Malfunctioning Mechanicals" quest stays in the active section of the Journal under "Mentioned" even after Hogarth moves to Fairfield. Quest becomes impossible to complete even after acquiring the parts it asks for.

There's some setting that fudges the dice and is intended to help avoid chains of bad rolls, in practice it seems to make rolls worse (or at least more "average"), turning it off seemed to at least improve things for me. May be in my head, may not be, there's been evidence collected to indicate the former, but since Larian doesn't disclose how the setting atually works and kept updating it there's no telling how accurate that evidence still is. Anyway, may want to try turning it off (it's on by default) and see if that improves things for you, it did for me.

After reaching level 18 the flaw Easily distracted enforces the negative and let's me only add points to the lowest skill, but the benefit of 3 skill points is not working anymore.

Same on my end. Went to the location, text popped, but no audio and no Severin to be found. Completed other quests, changed region and planet, checked on other communication devices, but no luck making him appear.

There is no interst to explore this world. World is dead.NPC's dont react even when i steal their stuuf infront of them. They just stand around doing nothing.Not even smallest simulation of life. I dont want why i bother nobody cares.This game is dead on release. I could point a few things but i dont thing anyone will listen. 1:Backpacks.All kinds must be added. From small pouches to big ones if you need to carry your supplies with you.Such as ammo food and drinks.And distributed among npc's. 2:survival mod where drinking eating and sleeping is a must. 3:Day night cycle. 4:Timescale same as real world. 5:Make this world alive.NPC's must atleast react when i rob them blind.Also move around All of them must be doing their stuff.Repairing guarding working. Again this world same is aboba.Its dead. Also may be obsidian will give players some toolkit or something to make full scale mods. Games where modding is not allowed die quickly.I mean people still play STALKER. Save this game if you care.

This thread really is quite slow when I'm not around... So, quote for the day: "In America you call it the Alt Right. In Germany, we call it 'Why Grandpa lives in Argentina Now.'"

You make the mistake of thinking that Trump is the only one who is the problem here. It's all the people behind Trump that are the problem. You can't compare this with the Biden side, like, at all. It's pure and unfiltered greed. If Trump would die tomorrow, nothing would change. They'll just turn him into this mystical godlike figure and keep on keeping on. You have to get rid of the entire upper echelon of the GOP and I doubt that's ever going to happen. That said, I really need to stop engaging with you when it comes to Trump. Your incredibly consistent naïveté (I googled how to write that, I think it's a nice word) everything Trump related gives me serious rage. That's master level political trolling.

am so not embracing the biden v. trump cognitive race to the bottom. neither one 'o them shoulda' been running for President in to 2024. we mentioned multiple times how we wouldn't trust either one 'o them behind the wheel o' a car or working a gas stove, so why on earth would we think they were up to handling the office o' President? am thinking it's possible that most o' the biden team had genuine convinced themselves that he could still handle the duties of President in 2024, 'cause people are capable o' all kinda self-delusion and goal post shifting when confronted with tough choices. what am not able to accept is that the biden folks thought joe could manage another four years, and if that is the case, then multiple people shoulda' stepped forward to insist on a traditional primary. should never have needed get to the debate performance. am not letting the biden folks off the hook. they doomed democrats by not convincing biden to step away and let somebody else be the democrat candidate. unlike biden, trump is the one who shows legit signs o' dementia as 'posed to just old age, but so what? biden were looking very old, too old to be President. nevertheless, biden weren't a threat to democracy who had already tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power. biden were not a convicted felon who had, according to grand jury testimony of his own lawyers, attempted to prevent federal agents from retrieving top secret documents from mar-a-lago where he directed multiple persons to destroy evidence o' his interaction with those documents. biden were never found liable for sexual assault/digital rape. biden weren't talking about the enemy within and a mass deportation o' 20 million people, which is the approximate population of ny state. etc. elections is usually a lesser of evils choice. the thing is, biden were old and NOT on the ballot at the time of the election. we didn't much like kamala harris either, but compared to trump? even if all the republican fever dreams 'bout harris were born out, the worst case scenario for 2025 is... what exact? with a republican house, senate and this Court, harris wouldn't have been executive ordering her way to through the charred embers of the Constitution even if she had immunity from prosecution. so maybe a few more trans athletes competing in girls/women's sports? economically, what could she have done that were worse than trump's tariffs idiocy? and again, am a fiscal conservative, so am most certain not embracing many o' the progressive suggestions regarding economic change, but the US did better than virtual the rest o' the world post pandemic and is not as if the biden folks had implemented a communist takeover while nobody were looking. with biden out of the race and none o' those pesky age/capacity concerns at play with harris, it were difficult for us to see why a traditional free market conservative would vote for trump instead o' harris... even if we were able to ignore the rape, felonies, obstruction, mass deportation and "enemy within" crap from trump, which we couldn't. but yeah, the biden folks had to know he weren't fit to be President for another four years... and? HA! Good Fun!

Well, his and his doctor's. It's probably the most detailed section of the report, for whatever that's worth, since it mentions no less than three specific tests. It is perhaps relevant that you don't tend to get people saying Trump's doctors think he has anxiety or depression, which were the other two tests he took along with the MoCA. It's pretty clearly so a damned if you do, damned if you don't for Trump. Whatever he does people are going to think it's evidence he has dementia. If he takes a test it's because his doctors think he's got dementia. But if he doesn't take one then that's because he's trying to hide his dementia instead and he'd probably end up taking one anyway. He certainly has signs of mental decline, but that is what inevitably happens to old people. 14 for Trump, 20 for Biden. Number and even quality doesn't necessarily correlate to effectiveness though, given those 20 medical professionals missed Biden's cancer. In terms of a neurologist specifically, Biden's campaign claimed he'd seen one three times during his presidency, by way of comparison. Don't really want to write a thesis level analysis but quick and dirty: cognitive tests like the MoCA are useful because they're quick- and if you're seeing 14 or 20 specialists in a day that is important, same as it is if you're seeing a dozen patients a day- and a litmus test for a specific symptom. Dementia can be hard to diagnose from 'physical' tests, in part because it isn't actually a disease per se but a symptom of (a) disease(s) (or other cause) such as Alzheimer's/ Parkinson's/ ischaemia/ TBI etc. eg my dad had no direct physical symptoms at all when he was diagnosed despite two MRIs.

Seeing melathi's post about Hogwarts Legacy I decided to give it ago before Outer Worlds2. Yeah, I liked it more then I expected. I thought they managed to capture the universe rather well. Definitely the amount of murdering player does feels rather odd. And while I mostly found story to be fairly alright, there were couple points I felt the inability to react to things felt really odd. Main character doesn't really have a personality but the game also doesn't allow players to express themselves in spite of conversation options. There were quite a few things, especially in the latter part of the game, were I feel characters just move on from some things that really asked to be brought up. Overall, better then I expected. As I enjoyed early Harry Potter books and films in primary school, HL managed to pull my nostalgia strings. Started Outer Worlds2 - looks promising so far. Opening mission promised reactivity that I missed in the original game had. Adding to it the overall buzz around the game, I think I will enjoy this one.

Really would be great to get some update about this from Obsidian. It's the most upvoted issue by far.

"Trump has unveiled a number of moves aimed at cutting drug prices in recent months, but he has yet to move the needle on reducing costs – much less slashing them by 1,500%, which is mathematically impossible, experts say." ... experts say? experts? why not just ask a random fourth grader? am curious why the obvious question regarding the MoCA administered by walter reed doctors as part o' a trump exam is never asked: why did doctors feel it were prudent to have trump take the MoCA? is not a standard test for seventy-somethings. the fact doctors had trump take the test should be worrisome to people, but somehow that fact gets lost. tell us that his most recent PET scan is clear wouldn't raise alarms? 'course you would be curious as to why he were getting PET scans, right? PET scans is not routine. MoCA is similar not ordinary. trump bragging about acing the test is signature trump stoopid, but it should concern everybody that doctors had reason to administer the test. we were in the room when the test were administered to our +80 father following his TIA. *shrug* keep in mind that the media mocking trump for his ignorance and stoopidity is one o' the reasons he is so popular, as insane as that sounds. maga is about outrage and grievance... maga is the real victims in 2025. the perception that smarty-pants libs has been mocking working class americans for their lack o' education is one reason why they vote for trump. 47 is overt ignorant, unapologetically bigoted... and he is a winner. is a curiously seductive combination for too many americans. trump is using his voters and likely hates 'em, but maga loves trump 'cause he is their retribution. https://www.c-span.org/clip/campaign-2024/user-clip-i-am-your-retribution/5100721 maga identifies with trump not in spite o' his ignorance and bigotry but 'cause o' such. maga loves trump 'cause he is shameless and vindictive. lord help us. HA! Good Fun!

The worst part is the complete lack of communication from Obsidian. Under investigation for 3 days... and that's it !

Same here, made an account for this reason.

I finished helping Hogarth with the automech parts and afterwards he refused to talk to me so I moved on. After finishing other quest and getting the quest The Brain Benders of Auntie's Choice one of the objectives said talk to him but no conversation is starting. He's still acting like I just finished the automech parts quest and saying the same lines of dialogue making it impossible to continue the quest. Don't really have any idea on how to fix this but this is where I was told to report bugs. Thanks for any help!

Trump Says He ‘Aced’ a Cognitive Test. What Does That Really Mean?Experts say one popular test that the president might have taken is by no means definitive, or even diagnostic. "Do medical societies recommend cognitive screenings? "No. Such exams are not like mammograms for breast cancer and colonoscopies for colon cancer. With those tests, doctors can get a diagnosis and begin treatment. "But they are only part of an assessment of the mental functioning of an older adult. It can be more valuable to ask family members or others who know the patient well whether the person has been inefficient at tasks they once did well, like negotiating a new route when driving or following a recipe." "Screening tests like the MOCA cannot rule out declines in reasoning or memory, or difficulties with planning or judgment. The test is just too blunt an instrument, and for many high-functioning people, too easy. "For that reason, dementia specialists say they would not make a diagnosis based on a screening exam like the MOCA." btw, the test were original administered to trump in january 2018 shortly after an episode wherein the President were showing signs o' difficulty in speaking. "Asked about a much-discussed episode in which the president seemed to slur his words during a televised speech in December (2017) about the Middle East, Dr. Jackson said that he and his team of a dozen specialists conducted several tests, including an ultrasound of his carotid arteries, to determine whether there might be a clinical explanation. "Dr. Jackson said that the tests all were normal, leading him to believe that the slurred words might have been caused by Sudafed, a medicine for nasal congestion, that he prescribed for the president. He said Mr. Trump does not wear dentures “of any kind,” a popular theory on Twitter for the slurred words." so, if the number o' specialists reviewing a case is significant... again, biden is a red herring. irrelevant. trump had the test relative contemporaneous with a december 2017 speech which garnered much concern at the time. that said, am admitting having reviewed the video it seems positive pedestrian by donald's 2025 baseline standard. regardless, there were an obvious not-biden motivation for a doctor to administer the test. and speaking o' his 2020 MoCA test, trump observed, "I took it at Walter Reed Medical Center in front of doctors,” Mr. Trump said. “And they were very surprised. They said, that’s an unbelievable thing. Rarely does anybody do what you just did..." ... a dementia test. but hey, the statement came straight from the horse's mouth, right? trump has managed a kinda mass hypnosis in that most people has voluntarily disconnected any ordinary standards o' decency, intelligence and morality when reflecting 'pon trump behaviors and statements. how would any o' us ordinarily treat the self serving claims o' a pathological liar with literal thousands o' documented falsehoods to his name ranging from trivial golf score fabrication to pr0n star payoffs and even the most ridiculous and easily dismissed boasts such as the number o' floors in trump tower? have mentioned previous how post January 6, any accusation of tds sans irony is comical bold and deserving o’ brutal mockery, but zor using the derisive maga label in the context o’ the reliability of trump public utterances is exhibiting implausible credulousness which somehow managed to surprise us. when reflecting ‘pon trump’s improbable pride in his MoCA score, am faced with deciding whether it is more likely the President of the United States is so ignorant and divorced from reality that he genuine believes that acing a dementia test is praise worthy, or we must consider that trump is lying to the American people in an effort to explain why a doctor felt a dementia test was warranted for the most powerful man on the planet. curiously, zor’s defense o' trump’s explanation forces us to consider almost the same choice o’ unfortunates. but again, insofar as mr. trump, how the hell has he managed to so complete and utter change standards and expectations? we observed already that, "am having no idea what were the real reason why trump got the test," but we sure as heck wouldn't give any weight to trump's claims recognizing his tortured relation with truth. imagine not trump and instead your annoying neighbor who were the pathological liar, and they were bragging about their sexual, athletic, intellectual prowess. would you believe 'em w/o real proof? but let's say you somehow convince your self that corporal bone spurs and dr. feelgood are reliable sources regarding the motivations for the 2018 trump dementia test. the obvious alternative is that trump genuine believes that passing a dementia test (identify the elephant) is "very difficult" and praise worthy. ... as grotesque as it might be, am gonna suggest americans is much better off with a President who reflexive lies than one who is honest taking pride in his dementia test results. is not even one full year of trump's second term and we are in such a weird f'ing place, but somehow people have normalized it. HA! Good Fun!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy40jj71243o Might have space for you, Bruce

Happened to me today twice during the tutorial as well. I'm playing on Xbox Series S and didn't notice anything particular prior to it

Ah, the big mistakes of the very late 90ies and early 2000s. I feel like I need to apologize to George Lucas and George W. Bush, even though I obviously know neither personally. In hindsight, Bush wasn't that dumb, and the prequel trilogy wasn't that bad. Yeah, Bush wasn't the brightest bulb, and the prequels weren't good movies, but boy, did it get worse.

The math is a just bit off, but you are right that the perk is giving too much additional range. Since I enjoy having extra range on all my guns I suggest that they alter the tooltip to say +125% weapon range. 32.5 * 1.5 = 48.75 for the 50% increase. 32.5 * 2.25 = 73.125 which is a 125% increase.

Allow me to tell you about our lord and savior Dispatch. For all who yearn for the glory days of Telltale, he has risen again! Hallelujah!

When this popped up in my recommendations, I thought it was a fan trailer. But damn... it's real. And the Pathologic guys are involved. Still gotta get into Pathologic (tried once), but a few WTFs seem guaranteed. ALSO: Project Shadowglass is a love letter to classic immersive FPS stealth sims such as Thief, Deus Ex, and System Shock, built with unique 3D pixel ar..... SHUT UP AND TAKE MY FIRST BORN!!!!1 Project Shadowglass bei Steam

Elf is good for DEX and PER, but better Wood Elf than Pale Elf, Elemental Endurance is an occasional bonus. Boreal dwarf is occasional too, and you don't want DEX malus. Towerin Phisique is nice and also +2 MIG, but the best for me would be Moon Godlike, DEX and INT bonus plus self healing

I just finished Tyranny, and, I know people are satisfied with the ending or just replaying the game a bunch of different ways. I also assume people are okay with not having a sequel due to how much work and commitment it would take to make a game that compares to the original. I don't know, I assume the other endings maybe leave off on a way that makes a sequel seem less probable??? If there is even really another "ending" because I've read a few things about it through reddit, but don't want to spoil it, should I decide to try again another way. Idk. I only got my ending, it's all I needed. I liked the game and Obsidian is tied with Bethesda and Bioware for my favorite developers, so, I had to say something somewhere I guess. That's all. It'd be probably too much work, and I'm basically saying this to the wall, but, I like to dream. Mass Effect/Dragon Age save transfer and like 10 years of work. You got it, surely.

I confess that I didn't put much stock in Trump taking the test again: it's at least the third time he's taken it and bragged about it after the fact for reasons only understandable to the uniquely stupid person known as Donald J. Trump. Every time it's been administered, there's been the same sort of "the fact that a doctor forced(?) him to take it implies bad things about his mental state" media reaction to it, but like most "surely he's doomed now" headlines concerning Trump*, that unfortunately really just doesn't matter to anyone who didn't already care the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth times they read it. The amusement I got out of it was the irony of Trump conflating a cognition test with an IQ test, but it's not like we didn't already know the guy was dumb. *Everyone should know all too well by now that the only headline that will convince anyone of Trump's certain doom is the one that announces his actual literal death. Until then or maybe until the economy really explodes and we've got tens of millions of people demonstrating in the streets weekly, I'm afraid that he will unfortunately continue to get away with just about everything. Not that we should ignore everything in the interim, but we've clearly decided as a nation where we're going with this until we reach a real boiling point that actually gets through to the average news-disconnected moron in our great country of proud ignorance and inequality.

Shrug, right back at you. You asked the question of why, twice, you got the answer, twice second time with a direct quote- and you didn't like it, twice. Nobody else's fault but yours about that. Indeed, your response is highly reminiscent of what you'd expect from... Donald Trump insisting something is wrong because Sleepy Joe said it. I'm not one to take Trump at face value, but there is literally nothing to support your assertion- made twice- that Trump's doctors wanted him to take a cognition test. Nothing. His doctors don't say that. Trump didn't say that. He has a demonstrated history of demanding them to be taken previous and (allegedly) took them previous. He even got it being a cognition test rather than an intelligence one correct, initially. You might think it's silly trying to own Biden by passing a cognition test, I might think it's silly* but it's entirely in keeping with Trump's character over decades, and is something he demonstrably said he'd do and supposedly had already done more than a year ago. Again, the clearly in decline Biden couldn't be 'forced' to take one as you asserted Trump was. There is literally nothing to support you except it being Trump. You do actually have to come up with some evidence that Trump is lying besides his lips moving. Otherwise it's just Trump Derangement Syndrome and you can accuse him of quite literally anything- and whatever he says is evidence for your view. In this case everything is readily explainable by the one thing pretty much everyone except his absolute fanboys would agree Trump has- chronic narcissism. He was boasting about passing the test because Biden refused (or 'refused'), and because a load of people asserted he had dementia, and because he said he would and people would complain if he didn't. That's what he said, it makes sense from the perspective of a chronic narcissist, it's what he said he'd do more than a year ago; and there's literally no counter evidence provided. Disbelieving him him just because it suits you is an extraordinarily weak argument, even for you. Indeed, it's not really an argument at all. *not wholly so, after all Biden clearly was in decline and you got lots of people asserting Trump had dementia as well as a deflection from that. From Harris's recent comments you get the idea that she would have loved Biden to have taken one as well before deciding to stand again...

province count almost double also a lot more landless holding on the map not

You are missing the Toxicity mechanic. You have inhaler charges and that's the total amount of times you can use the inhaler with the ITEMS you have (i.e. all the things you've picked up that give you inhaler charge). Think of this like your food amount. It's the total you can heal. Then there's toxicity, the green bar that fills up when you use an inhaler. By default, you'll get 1-2 quick uses of the inhaler before the toxicity meter fills. Once it's filled, you can't use the inhaler and have to wait for toxicity to totally drain before you can use it again. Since you didn't mention toxicity, I'm guessing that's what's causing the confusion. I'm guessing you have it set up so that one hit puts you at max toxicity and you can't use the inhaler again for a bit, yeah? You can raise your toxicity threshold through the Medical feat and you can change the amount of toxicity you're getting per-inhaler-use by changing the Primer(s) on your inhaler (in your inventory, it's one of the tabs).

Sorted now. You just need to update. Bonus equipment not up to much if you've been playing a while. Oh well.

Again, thanks guys. I think I’m going to make the changes you guys outlined and see how this works . I’ll brb oh btw, pale elf is still a reasonable choice right? Or should I have gone Aumaua or boreal dwarf or moon godlike or something else? Since you’ve made solo runs I thought I might ask

Support wrote me they are working on it. But they didn't say anything certain. So, it's clear to me that the bonuses will only go live tomorrow, when the game releases for the rest of the world. We, who paid in advance, will be forgotten about again.

This is happening to me, too! I have no food or meds in my inventory and I collect literally all of it. Nothing left in there. I just got to golden ridge when I noticed. So frustrating.

Rotfinger Gloves are very good, because iirc the radius of that implementation of Touch of Rot on the gloves is much bigger than the actual Druid spell's (which only has 1.25m radius I believe the gloves' spell has at least twice the radius?). I suspect Touch of Rot got nerfed at some point during development, but since spells on items are just hard copies of those spells (and don't get changed when you alter the original spell) the Touch of Rot on the gloves was forgotten and stayed nice and big. Just a theory though, I don't know for sure. Concerning Combusting Wounds: Touch of Rot causes a DoT (after the initial dmg) - that doesn't trigger Combusting Wounds stacks like pulsing spells do. Wall spells are perfect because they pulse every second and stay for a fairly long time. Beams also pulse every second but have a short duration of 10 seconds which cannot be altered, so I don't consider them to be great in combination with Combusting Wounds. Chillfog however works nicely because it pulses every 3 secs and in addition does blind - which helps to hit with the wall spell more often. There are some boots which can trigger a beam by themselves (when you get crit iirc). Those could be cool if you wear them when you plan to treat a boss with Combusting Wounds. Same as multiple Retaliation items I guess. But I never tried that out tbh. You have to keep in mind that when going solo you will have to cast all those spells yourself, so timing Combusting Wounds + Wall + Chillfog optimally is a bit of a challenge. Works better with lots of DEX and Deleterious Alacrity.

https://people.com/donald-trump-mistakes-dementia-screening-for-iq-test-11837935 Canadian neurologist Dr. Ziad Nasreddine, who created the MoCA test in 1996, told NBC News that the screening should not be used to measure intelligence. "There are no studies showing that this test is correlated to IQ tests," Nasreddine said. "The purpose of it was not to determine persons who have a low IQ level. So we cannot say that this test reflects somebody's IQ.” I always like it when news stories bother to add these "expert opinions" to stories like this, bonus points that it's literally the creator of the MoCA* this time - as if this is a serious story where we really need context to fully understand what all of this means, when actually...yeah, we know the guy is just a dumbass. *

I pick up everything too, 100% get you on that. I will keep an eye on this also and report if it starts happening to me (on XBox). More data == a pattern that might get the devs to the solution quicker. : )

Luckily I'm a bit the vice versa. Don't care much about pixel perfection or ever bigger screens anymore (even the insanely pretty Kingdom Come 2 oft gets flak due to its lack of HW raytracing and thus less than "pixel perfect" lighting, shadows and reflections). Even pop-ins, I don't care about. Also, the best game I've played last year, and that's no joking: I think the only way I'd put more focus on all that again would be the widespread adoption of VR. After all, the promise of VR is that you're "forgetting you're just playing a stupid video game". But unlike Looking Glass (Thief!), most games are moving into the opposite direction, with cluttered HUDs, tons of arrows, tourist guides, etc. Making it IMPOSSIBLE to mask that you are, indeed, just playing a "stupid" video game. Speaking of which: Are "dummy" markers making you sleep walk and never mentally engage with the game world, quests and characters in TOW 2 optional this time? Or is it all similar to Bloodlines 2, where the next fetch quest is giving you, the elite eldritch vampire spawn, a mandatory in-game GPS system: "Deliver this package to the location 239 metres away, PRESTO, Mr. Bloody Heffernan."

Im about 80 hours into Cyb2077 and Im about to finish the last mission Its been fun but not fantastic, firstly the game gets a 60/100 on the globally respected " BruceVC game rating system ". Thats not a terrible score, anything higher than 50 is still worth playing I found myself getting bored with the game and most of the missions and the main reason for this is because Im not a big cyberpunk fan. So its not like Witcher and fantasy which is my favourite RPG genre First what I liked about the game very stable now. No serious bugs or crashes, maybe 3-4 CTD and I was using loads of mods I liked the hacking and braindance mechanics I liked the details with Night City and the NPC. It felt like a living city NPC and companions had interesting side quests I completed Phantom Liberty in the middle of the main quest and that was an interesting diversion There were some unique side-quests and choices I had to make like should I support the guy who wanted to crucify himself on live TV The races were fun and hunting all the cyberpsychos added some challenge to combat What I didnt like about the game Combat becomes too easy, nothing really can kill you on higher levels the city doesn't really have much to do outside of a few common activities the lore didn't motivate or interest me. not enough Romance or adult content. This is suppose to be a city of depravity and corruption and you were limited around what you could interact with despite extensive crafting available I ended up just using 3 weapons all the time I didnt end up using most of the special abilities as you increase in levels because I didnt need to use them in combat. Its a strange mechanical implementation in a game if you dont need to use something you have levelled up towards? As I mentioned my main issues with the game is because Im just not a cyberpunk fan Overall, fun game but nothing like the Witcher games

Didn't try. But since it's a bug that only affects a small number of players I assume it never got much attention and thus didn't get fixed. You can use Second Wind of course, but only if your endurance is above 50%. That is not great, but can still buy you time once per encounter.

I don't have much experience as a solo Wizard, but here are some things that are generally useful: Concelhaut's Parasitic Staff is excellent for the early game. It's a lot more efficient than using damaging spells, so you have to rest less often. It comes exceptional - which is already fantastic at lvl 1, but more importantly it has nearly twice the base damage of normal two handers. That means nearly +100% multiplicative(!) damage. *rogues cry* Chillfog is also one of the best spells early on. Tier 3 affliction on a AoE with pulsing rolls (rng is less of a problem), pulsing damage, long duration. Later in the game I consider Slicken to be better than Chillfog because it can make a huge difference in certain fights who disables whom first. If you can Slicken-prone Lagufaeth or Adragans before they can paralyze you the fight is won - the other way round it's lost. Chillfig will not win you this duel of hard disables. Confusion is very strong in PoE. Hence all spells which cause Confusion are excellent and can win you lots of fights alone. Get Ninagauth's Shadowflame. It is excellent bc. it combines hard CC with good dmg -> fantastic action and spell use economy. Against certain bosses, Combusitng Wounds + Wall of Flames + Chillfog is a fantastic combo. Most dragons are not immune to paralyze, so using paralyzing effects in them works very well (it also means +100% dmg received which is nice against those big dmg sponges). Dropping RES without any means to raise Concentration otherwise WILL be a problem against numerous, fast hitting foes unless you can raise your defenses a lot (may be expensive in terms of spell uses though). Defenses like dflection hae increasing returns, so I wouldn't drop RES in the first place. Medium and large shields do indeed put their acc malus onto your offensive spells You can run away and break engagement - you will eat a disengagement attack though. If you have very high deflection it's not a big deal. If you are faster than the enemy (bc. Deleterious Alacrity and/or Boots of Speed etc.) the enemies will not pursue far bc. their AI recognizes that it's pointless. The guy's name is Raedric (the Seventh) Infuse with Vital Essence can be used to restore health (no endurance but health). It works with all healing modifiers (MIG, healing done, healing received). If you still have lots of spell uses but are at low health you can use it to prevent resting. If you take it as Spell Mastery (I like that) you can use it at the end of fights and stay at +90% health all the time. It can be used to outheal your damage in tough, long encounters: usually there's a limit with how much damage to endurance you can outheal because at some point your health will be so low that you cannot heal anymore. Not if you have uses of Infuse with Vital Essence left. Using Infuse with Vital Essence also means you can lower CON. Your health pool can be smaller - since you can heal it. You cannot solo several encounters at the levels you used to with a party. You will have to come back later for the bear cave, Raedric etc. Summons are very important whe4n going solo. Interestingly Essential Phantom is a lvl-4 spell. So you can have it as spell mastery. That means a free summon in every fight. Although it's competing with Shadowflame and Confusion which makes this a really tough call. Wall of Many Colors: fantastic spell I think DEX is important. As I said above: many fights are about who disables whom first. Casting speed matters. I find it a lot more important than MIG and also more important than PER.

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That's not too bad actually. Since Rogues get access to a lot of damage bonuses you can easily get away with only 11 MIG though and put more points into CON and RES (both 10). But I think you can also leave it as is. 8 in CON an RES should be manageable. I would start fairly thick with a brigandine (doesn't look too weird on a Rogue imo). Kana Rua (companion) has one you could use for example. Then I would try to go lighter from time to time and see how it works, if it's doable. My goal would be to go all the way down to the Deadfire Pack uniforms (I'd pick the Deackhand's Uniform), but it may be that you'll have to stop at Padded or Leather Armor or so. It depends a bit on your party (like if you have even more squishy party members who take attention awaqy from you for example) and how you play. If you want to stay with a bit heaver armor because it works well: my favorite for Rogues is the Sun-Touched Mail of Hyran Rath. You can cast Sunbeam with it 3x per Rest. Sunbeam blinds (good for Rogues) and the Rogue's Deathblows (+100% damage against enemies who suffer from at least 2 Sneak-Attack-Afflictions) works with spells, including Sunbeam. So it can be a good damage tool, too. At the same time I would def. put on +deflection gear (bracers or cloak) and also some +RES item. If you can get higher deflection that some of your backliners (wizard etc.) the enemies might not want to attack you as desperately. You can trick enemies a bit by wearing a large shield + hatchet at the start of battle, that will give you a lot of bonus deflection. And then, when the enemies settled on their targets and you are on your way to attack some of them you switch to your actual weapons. It also works with two hatchets (if the look of a large shield feels too weird on your Rogue). Two hatchets give +10 deflection (+5 for each hatchet) and that stacks with everything.

If you want to build the Rogue efficiently you cannot use dagger and stilettos, you'd have to decide which ones you like better and then pick a backup weapon set which belongs to the same weapon focus group. Weapon focus gives you +6 accuracy for a certain group of weapons. Weapon Focus Noble contains daggers (among other weapons). Weapon Focus Ruffian contains stilettos. You don't want to buy two weapon focuses if you can avoid it. Avoiding it means picking for example two stilettos as main weapon set and use two sabres or clubs as backup (since both belong to the Weapon Focus Ruffian) or pick daggers + maces or rapiers (Weapon Focus Noble). The best unique weapon of the dagger or stiletto variant is a dagger: Drawn in Spring. It comes rather late though. There's also a good speedy dagger early in the game (March Steel Dagger). But there are also two nice stilettos in the game which both proc certain spell effects on crit (once per encounter): Azureith's Stiletto (procs Jolting Touch on crit) which comes super early and Bleak Fang (procs Touch of Rot) which comes late. There are some really nice unique/spoil bound (early) clubs and sabres in the game, too. So I personally would probably concentrate on stiletto and use some nice clubs and sabres as backup (when you meet enemies who are resistant or immune to pierce damage): clubs do crush dmg, sabres slash damage. Then pick Two Weapon Style, several of the full attack strikes (Crippling, Blinding etc.), NOT Savage Attack (of doesn't stack with Reckless Assault which you should pick). If you get targeted a LOT despite Eder engaging enemies it's most likely that your Rogue is so soft that he is too much of a temptation for enemies' AI. Rangers, Barbs, Rogues etc. prefer to attack low deflection, low DR and low endurance targets. If you dumped RES and CON and put on no significant of DR you will be very attractive. So attractive that enemies will even break engagement with Eder in order to get to you. Putting on a thicker armor and giving some +deflection items can help. You will have less offensive output - but your offensive output will be zero if you get attacked and knocked out all the time. So you have to compromise a bit. Also stay stealthed until Eder really has engaged several enemies and only then in stealth and try to flank enemies - rather than approaching the middle of the front line. You can place Eder at the front of the group and then leave a gap. So that enemies discover Eder first and the rest of the party stays hidden for longer. Use Escape to... escape if things get dire. Use Boots of Speed to run away if enemies approach you. If you are a lot faster than the enemy the AI usually stops following you immediately because there's no point. Beware disengagement attacks though.

I would say so. But keep in mind that PER also influences your ability to detect traps and secrets and the official companions usually don't have very high PER either. Not to me, it depends on how you play them (which spell selection etc.) though. I for example would play Serafen mainly as a Will and Fortitude debuffer with Spirit Frenzy, Secret Horrors and morning star modal. The MC I would use for fast-cast powers and damage I think. I run Aloth as SC Wizard most of times. I think it's the best option. Instead of Ghost Heart I would do vanilla Ranger then. Sharpshooter isn't good for this kind of playstyle (too slow) and Arcane Archer doesn't really fit thematically imo. Stalker is not good if you move around quickly and change from ranged to melee and back a lot. Instead of Cipher you could certainly do Troubadour or maybe even better Bellower ("ARRR"). This would also be a good opportunity to use Sasha's Singing Scimitar. With Scordeo's Edge Skald is also a good option, even though you won't get anything special from the shooting first. Most invocations have short casting time but longer recovery, which is great for shortened recovery effects. Ranger/Skald is very good with Blightheart (soulbound arquebus). The Skald doesn't generate phrases from crits then (because ranged), but every kill (no matter how) grants +1 phrase with Blightheart - and Skald's offensive invocations are so cheap that it makes a big difference. With dual blunderbusses instead of a pistol there's the Streetfighter of course. With Serafen's two mortars Monk is always a strong option. Stunning Surge + AoE + INT bonus is fantastic, paired with Driving Flight. In both cases there's no casting though. I don't really see a Paladin here. Thematically I mean. Principi and Paladins kind of clash in my head. Although Goldpact always works as long there's pay ofc.

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Hi orillah, glad you're enjoying the build DPS calculation in this game is tricky business, as so many things come into it (attack speed, damage per swing, DR bypass, enemy's DR, accuracy vs. deflection, lashes, other abilities, ...) and there's a point past which making comparisons becomes very hard. This is one of those cases, as we're way past the point where differences ... well, make a difference. I mean, reaching 0 recovery while packing damage bonuses looks and feels cool, but you can easily beat the game with a lot less firepower—and this gives you ample room to tailor equipment choices to your preferences and play style. Tidefall is (has always been) an impressively good weapon and is definitely still a good choice for this build, even though I didn't personally go for it. Running a quick DPS comparison for the sake of argument: Attack speed at 24 frames for both weapons; recovery is 0 for the BotEP, (135% - 72.5% = 62.5% * 50 = 31 / (1.36)) = 23 frames for Tidefall. Both have a 4-frame animation delay, so total attack time is 28 frames for BotEP, 51 frames for Tidefall. Both can be enchanted with an elemental lash, which adds +25% of the total damage against 25% of the relevant elemental DR (but with Vulnerable Attack, both have a higher DR bypass than 25% of the target DR we're using in this example.) Average DR against Pierce is 9.5; against Slash/Crush is 8 (source) so I'll use these values. Both weapons using Vulnerable Attack. Tidefall has the Raw DoT lash as well, which I'll try to take into account. Average damage per swing when fully buffed (MIG 37) should be as follows: Min = 14 * (1 + 0.81 + 0.15 + 0.15 + 0.1 + 0.2 + 0.45) = 40 Max = 20 * (1 + 0.81 + 0.15 + 0.15 + 0.1 + 0.2 + 0.45) = 57 (40 + 57) / 2 = 48.5 DPS calculation assuming Accuracy = Deflection and all hits (no misses, grazes, or crits): BotEP (10 DR Bypass) 1 attack every (28 / 30) = 0.93 seconds Swings in 10 seconds = 10.71 (let's round it down to 10 for the sake of simplicity) Pierce damage = 48.5 - (9.5 - 10) = 48.5 Lash damage = 48.5 * 25% = 12.1 Total = 48.5 + 12.1 = 60.6 damage per swing DPS = 60.6 * 10 = 606 Tidefall (5 DR Bypass) 1 attack every (51 / 30) = 1.7 seconds Swings in 10 seconds = 5.8 (let's round it up to 6 for the sake of simplicity) Slash/Crush damage = 48.5 - (8 - 5) = 45.5 Lash damage = 45.5 * 25% = 11.4 Total = 45.5 + 11.4 = 56.9 damage per swing DPS = 56.9 * 6 = 341.4 + Raw lash Raw damage = 11.4 over 5 seconds This is harder to calculate, but over 10 seconds you should be able to put through 4 full Raw lashes and two partial ones (to simplify, I'll count the latter two as 1 full Raw lash). That's 57 damage. DPS = 341.4 + 57 = 398.4 BotEP is the clear winner, but Tidefall also heals you by 20% of the damage you deal which is pretty neat.