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Hurlshot, how invasive is the whole shop thing? Is it only accessible through game menus or do they remind you that it's there all the time?

Note for those interested in this game, you also get a bonus campaign with the same characters, which was actually pretty cool. Story line was more interesting that Hong Kong (but not as good as Dragonfall) and a bit more focused.

According to Nvidia they're having a higher price point on their own cards so they're not competing with their partners cards. So intentionally overpriced to drive partner sales. But in reality, yeah it's a sucker's fee.

Yeah, that's just trolling. It could have been fun if another guild showed up in similar numbers though.

Yeah, but that's my point. If PVP isn't fun for you, you can easily skip out on one companion and not suffer for it. Basically, you'll have to decided which is stronger, your desire to collect them all or your loathing of pvp.

Yeah, wanting all the companios I can understand. But if it's only from a desire standpoint I don't think there's anything wrong with gating some behind pvp. Pvp players need some rewards for their activity as well.

Do you need more than 5-6 companions? previously you could only send so many out on missions anyway.

Now I am not against removing some of the abilities from enhancement. Things like Searing Totem, Magma Totem and Unleash Elements can easily go without having too much impact (and in fact, Searing and Magma Totem are already confirmed gone). But I just hate downtime between attacks, Waiting for a few seconds while resource regenerates or for cooldowns to expire makes for really boring gameplay, which is why I enjoy Enhancement. If they keep that feel to it I don't care about a resource system, but not sure it'll work out that way. We'll see tomorrow I suppose. As for growing bored of the game fast, WoD has very little engaging content so that certainly helps.

They are certainly saying the right things. So far what they're planning sounds good. Although WoD sounded good before release as well so we'll see how it panned out. But it seems like they've realized what went wrong with WoD and are taking their time to make a better xpac. The only thing they've said so far I don't like is the zones scaling to your level when questing. I understand why they do that (so people of various levels can play together and give players options in what path to go), but it kind of removes the feeling of progress for me, so it's a bit meh. Although leveling is such a small part of the experience it's definitely not a deal breaker, just one feature I could do without. I'm also hesitant about them giving shaman a new resource system. I main an enhancement shaman and I love how it plays (ie having to hit buttons all the time). But since they haven't shown any more details on how that system issupposed to work I'm in the wait and see corner (fortunately they'll give more info wednesday so won't have to ait long). Push comes to show I can always reroll demon hunter or survival hunter.

Well, so far information about Legion has been really sparse. They've promised Class Halls, Artifacts and Demon Hunters pretty much. So seems like they are taking a slightly more restrictive approach this time.

I tested the local co-op a while on our TV and it worked surprisingly well. The control scheme for controllers is well thought out. In the end we went back to playing it on PC since it was a bit hard to get a good overview on things in combat on the TV. Things felt a bit small when sitting that far away from the screen. That being said, if you only have the option of playing it on a big screen with controllers it's totally doable. I just prefer keyboard + mouse for this type of game.

No, but it means that if you're that unhappy with the situation you can get your money back and get on with your life. In the software business delays happen and priorities shift all the time. They clearly underestimated how complicated it would be to make Linux support when they made the promise (and as a result how much it would cost). They screwed up and have admitted as much and have learned from the lesson (ie not promising support for anything other than Windows in their second KS). And offered to give money back to the people directly affected by their inability to fulfill their promise. And since you said "Suffice to say, I have lost any and all faith and respect I had for Larian. As far as I'm concerned, they're scumbags. I will never give that company another penny ever again and I will badmouth them any chance I get." why don't you take this chance and relieve them of the money you've already given them?

Haven't Larian offered a refund to all Kickstarter backers who backed solely for the Linux version?

otoh, if you order something online in the US, there's no sales tax either (except for one or two states). So you could have whatever you need delivered to your hotel. But then you're praying that things get delivered on time, so may not be worth the risk.

You've missed the part on the kickstarter campaign where it says "You'll be able to recruit up to three companions" then? Pretty sure that in a single player game, you create one character and then the rest of the party is filled up with companions.

Yeah it shows you haven\t played in a while. Tanks are, if anything, the least gear dependant class. And holding aggro is a complete non-issue in Wow these days to the degree that if a tank is attacking a mob at all, it's impossible to take aggro off it. Unless you're also a tank. From all I've seen it was the same in MoP (which is where I started playing WoW), at least the aggro part.

And as is apparently mandatory for RPG kickstarters these days: Chris Avellone joins the writing team

For the content where you notice the lack of tanks and healers, tanking and healing is typically easier than dps:ing. But it comes with the perception of responsibility which most don't care for I assume.

The thing about the different difficult modes is that you're not supposed to do them all sequentially. They're there so people of different interest levels have challenging but doable content. If you're raiding heroic on one tier, you don't have to start on normal the next tier, you can go straight to heroic. Sure you might want a couple of nights in an easier difficulty to get used to fights and get a bit of a gear advantage, but you don't have to. LFR on the other hand most people in my guild avoid like the plague. They're completely devoid of challenge in most cases and offer no relevant rewards. It can serve t help you complete the legendary questline a bit faster (or catch up on alts), but if you're doing regular raiding in any of the otehr difficulties, it offers very little to you. It's there for those that for one reason or another can't or won't do regular raiding. Certainly doesn't have much of an impact on our guilds community. The premade groups tool might have a little more, but with that you still have to interact with other players, so it's just a simplified version of spamming trade chat. But yeah if you like the community aspect of the game, you'll have to find a guild that values that same aspect.

It's tricky. On the one hand Dragonfall is the best campaign of the three. On the other hand, Hong Kong does do some improvements to some of the gameplay aspects (more skills adding more choices to character creation, change matrix gameplay). So it might be a bit weird going from Hong Kong then Dragonfall, but I still think I'd like to save Dragonfall for last. I played Dragonfall just a few weeks before Hoong Kong and for me Hong Kong felt like a little bit of a let down, just because Dragonfall was so good. Hong Kong is still better than Dead Man's Switch so it'll still be a step up.

They've pretty much said the EE won't be out while this campaign is running unfortunately.

No, he only released 9 issues ( the trade according to Wikipedia was issue 1-5). I recall the comic being pretty good so this is interesting for that reason, but gating thesequel comics behind the $90 tier feels a bit off to me.

Think AMD has something similar to nvidia's shadowplay in their Gaming Evolved software.

I haven't finished it yet (am at the point of no return), but I also liked Dragonfall better. I think the story was told better in DF and for me it was more relatable. Also felt there were more options for decking and rigging in DF. Maybe I'll change my mind before the end, we'll see.

You're thinking they'll change the existing operations to be more melee friendly? I haven't ready too much about it, but I would assume they'd be more careful moving forward, but leave what's there as is. From what I've learned from the WoW devs communications, designing an operation isn't that taxing on man hours, biggest chunk of time goes to making the art. So I don't think adjusting whatever they have planned would be doable, I'd instead speculate they don't have enough artists to both make interesting story content and operations at the same time. But I hope I'm wrong and they'll get something out quickly. Also not sure how I feel about all operations being scaled to max level. I think it's great to have the story mode versions in rotation for the raid finder, but the heroics just feel weird for me.