LadyCrimson

Interstellar Didn't realize it was such a long movie. We started it late and hubby went to bed in the middle, while I watched everything but the last 30 minutes or so. I'll finish it tonight. It's one of those movies where sometimes you feel like "nothing much is really happening" yet you can't stop watching because it still mesmerizes you somehow. Better than Gravity imo, although the bits on Earth are the least interesting.

+1 ...nice to read something like that.

Yes, I like the way they implemented the backer dungeon. I've been using it to gather coin inbetween questing stuff, or a break from the regular questing. I'm probably a wimp, but there's one level before too long that gave me a heck of a time. Tougher than anything else topside so far. Dunno if it's like that on all the levels, but it was refreshing.

I like that they're not all 21 or something. I think I'm one of the few who doesn't like Durance. Don't hate him, just don't care for him. Not my kind of "personality". He's written ok, what I've seen...certainly gives me a reaction, so no complaint there. But the more I "talk" to him, the more I find his attitude to be something that feels like sand in my shorts.

No, I've had this too. Eder is always in the leader position in my games but whenever I activate Stealth, it feels a bit random who talks. Or maybe it's based on who has the higher stealth, not including your player character. But both Kana and Durance, in my games, seem to react to stealth the most. The others occasionally.

Can I come over?

Edit: Oh wait, sorry, maybe you're talking about the one inside, not outside. Derp. I think that one doesn't clear until you've talked to the statue for the main quest path, again. At least that covers both possibilities now. Haha. -------- I think the issue is when you click that door and the map comes up, it initially centers in the "center" of said map. Which when you haven't explored all the levels, is blank, because the game draws the dungeon map (each level) as you progress. So...page/scroll up and you can see the top layers you've been too, and if you've found any of the exit/entry points, you can click on them.

Tried a pork rib place the other week. Heard great things about it from other people. They were large (not the small babyback) and meaty and the sauce was ok, but holy cow they were super strong with that fake liquid smoke taste. Made it really hard to eat without drowning them in sauce. I've since decided these "other people" have broken tastebuds. They also thought certain Chinese food was good, until we showed them better. I swear, there aren't any good basic eateries here at this point (used to be some, all gone now). *pouts*

Start of previous thread. Last page of previous thread Are we only on "part 6?" I thought it would've been higher by now. Anyway... ...they may be out to kill you, but at least they're polite about it.

Post limit, fresh canvas time.

I haven't gotten to a high level Monk, and I haven't min/maxed one, so big grain of salt, but they can feel pretty fragile even on Normal for a while, until you get gear etc. From what I can gather, if you build one "right" they can be effective, but are kind of in that weird spot where not as tanky as a fighter/paladin and not as dps as other melee builds. The main problem for me, however, is up to about lvl 6 at least, the Monk is rather dull to play. For me anyway. The whole wound mechanic sounds interesting in principle but quickly became more tedious than anything else. I'll finish my game with her at some point - maybe Monk starts to feel more "fun" at lvl 8 or something. >.>

I wait for this series to gather a few episodes on the VoD of my cable and then watch them all in a row. Need to catch up soon again. ...was bored so tried CSI:Cyber, even tho the ads looked horrible and made me shake my head. It's even worse than I imagined. Poor writing, poor direction, poor editing, poor camera work. Just ridiculous, imo.

Don't know if it's related, but another thread has been discussing a similar issue. Link to the dev. post in that thread: https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/75399-unopenable-door-in-raedrics-hold-dungeon/?p=1635001

So we've gone from a potential twitter outrage to a maybe fake twitter outrage to general game critique, Cadegund-gate, rape statistics and a bunch of other stuff. Only on the internet! I think we're long past this having much of discussion "point" or for that matter being about PoE the game, plus we're nearing the post count limit. Game over.

I just realized ... baseball. PoE (and other things) blew it completely out of my mind this year. Not that I'll probably be watching it a ton this time around, too many other interests going. Today it's cool but sunny and thus I am going to go for a long walk around what constitutes the "bay marshes" around here, to watch the ducks/birds flap, the ground squirrels scamper, and the plants sway in the wind. I used to take my camera when I did such things, but now it's too much bother to carry. I prefer to be unhindered. Maybe I need a hat-cam.

That's not "new". I remember that promo video for their game's kickstarter, which was a couple years ago or something, just like PoE. But yes I think at the time some were impressed with it. It got funding, at any rate.

Peon. Yeah, I used to email myself inbox archives for this reason - even if I have space, my personal quirk is not liking clutter, even as I want to keep too much stuff for possible reference. Although lately my laziness tends to trump even my personal quirks....

I tend to like characters who make me laugh the most frequently without being total slapstick-y about it. Hence Eder and Aloth at the top for me. The rest I've encountered (haven't met the mall yet) are varying degrees of "ok to somewhat interesting" to "close to spending the rest of the game sitting in my dungeon for annoying me."

Not sure which, but either 1 or 2 (or both? not sure if same spot in both pics?) is like what I was saying - the secret switch is on the other side of the wall from where your party is standing (can't access/see it if not in that room). I believe it's intended as another optional way to get to the bedroom without having to fight as many guards. It opens into a room that is easily accessible if you're just doing a bum-rush through the area and not taking all the "secret" routes (might need a highish Mechanics to lockpick the door into that room, I can't remember). Just my memory of when I've been through there a few times, tho.

Heh, that must've been it. Just assumed it was because I didn't do enough "stuff" but truth be told when writing my above post I couldn't quite remember the sequence of events I had...faulty memory circuits.

Some containers and some enemy loot is random per new game. But it's not random (that I can tell) in the sense that if you reload a save game to re-do the same encounter with the same chr, different loot appears each reload/attempt. There is plenty of "always there" hand-placed loot, as well - the special items, as it were. Of game encounters etc. I haven't reached far enough to have a great idea on this, but on repeats of Act1 it's certainly pretty much always the same. Doesn't bother me myself (I replay mostly to try new builds/party compositions etc) but I can see how it wouldn't be motivating for some.

I believe you have to have a chr. level that = the hireling being able to be 1 level below your player character. So if you aren't level 2 yet for some reason, they won't show up. Had that happen to me recently during a restart, because I dashed to the town vs. doing the stuff on the map before it, first.

Assuming I'm thinking of the same spot/potential doors, there is a hidden switch from one room to another that opens one camouflaged door but it has to be "scouted" from a particular wall side. Doesn't work if you're not standing on the "right" side of that wall. If that's not it, not sure.

If you have a party of 5 or 6, so far I haven't had to rest/camp very often and have yet to need to run out to get more mid-area session. I use per-encounter skills most of the time and save per-rest skills only if a battle isn't going well. If you're going it solo or with just 2 or something, however, I can see it being a lot more restrictive feeling. However... ...if this is what they did to fix the issue of supplies disappearing if you had the max already when trying to loot something, that's kind of disappointing. Would make more sense to me to just not allow them to be looted yet. Then after using one you could go back and loot it. But oh well, better than going "poof" completely I suppose.

Steam version: go "online" and it should start downloading on its own, unless you have the option checked to not D/L right away. The first choice is the default, however. GoG version: you'll have to visit their site and look in your "shelf" for the update, when it's made available. They usually run behind a day or three, because of their personal installer/testing process after receiving a patch.