Gfted1

Read it and weep.

How is being able to heal stamina a benefit? Health only goes down and does so with 100% of attacks. At some point you will be sitting at full stamina and 1 health, effectively removing that character from use as the next hit will kill them.

But he also has no right to complain about it. If he doesn't like it, he could not use it. Yes, it's not his fault the feature is available, but the availability of a feature doesn't make its use mandatory. There's no need to assign blame for that. Personally, I like having that option available. Thats whats disappointing to me, that all these mechanics are being "fixed" to cater to the .5% of the backers that complain about not being able to control themselves.

Toggleable?

Are there "relationships" in the game now? All I remember from launch time was a few occasional fade-to-black moments with various NPC's throughout the game. Now they want to implement fade-to-black with same sex NPC's? With wasting resourses like that its no surprise the game is slowly tanking.

Wake up on the wrong side of the bed?

I've never suggested it was degenerate gameplay and I'm not sure why you would jump to that conclusion. Eh, it was just a smart ass throw away response based on the myriad of other mechanical changes you are making to ensure people cant "degeneratively" do this or that. Healing in the field? Nope. Resurrection? Nope. Resting? Sure, just travel (also see healing). Abilities use? Cooldowns. Inventory? Inaccessible deep stash (see resting). And thats just what we know so far. Im sure somewhere in there is "fun" but I just cant see the forest for the trees.

It would be interesting if such weapons had the power to take control over their users. Like maybe if the weapons intelligence was higher than the wielder or something like that.

Now you cant miss? Undoubtedly being implemented to stomp out degenerative missing. It gets worse every day.

It would have been better with no way to heal or resurrect....oh wait.

Isnt a private backers forum exactly what BSN is? You cant comment unless you have bought the game? Never did like that mentality.

I too am back to work today after being off since 22 Dec. Im already exhausted. At least my inbox didnt get hammered too badly while I was gone.

The Avengers. Pretty awesome.

They probably figured they were doing you a favor by not showing up too early.

Merry Christmas all!

Happy Birthday!!!!

I dig Ikea. Ours even has a special escalator that grabs your shopping cart and carries it up/down for you. Then at the and of the store there is a little restraunt where you can buy meatballs. Got all my wrapping done last night too, w00t.

Ive only ever watched that once. Dont see the cult appeal.

Cograts! and bummer!

Exactly my point. Which means the addition of a, imo, pointless "deep stash" is there only to limit players from accessing 100% of the stuff they have picked up. Why? Please dont say beacause of "degenerative inventory". Punative. *fingers crossed*

I'm curious about what makes you think so. You have to think about how to build your characters, yes. You have to think about what your fighters should be doing. You can't rely on longswords to carry you through the entire game. Nothing of that really flies in the face of IE games, it's simply adding depth that was sorely needed. I do hope some other areas get a complete overhaul as well (I'm looking at you "Hide in Shadows/ Move Silently"; "Pickpocket"; mage buffs; pre-combat buff insanity; rest spamming). I'm expecting some minor ****storms when more info is leaked that makes people realize it's not just a graphical overhaul of any IE game. Heh, I know I sound negative but the list of things Im not worried about far outweighs what worries me. Im not worried about the story, Im sure it will be good. The graphics are perfect, isometric is my favorite. The NPC's will probably be a major strenght and Im sure the background "how the world of PE works", what souls do and how they power stuff, all will be logical and well thought out. What Im worried about is the meat-n-potatoes stuff. The things Im going to be doing a hundred times just in the normal maintenance of my party throughout the game. From what I understand, it seems like there is a concerted effort to apply punative restrictions to these core mechanics. Healing (or lack thereof), saving (savepoints?), camping (having to to camp), inventory ("deep stash" you can only access while camping), cooldowns...and thats just whats been revealed so far. I just hope the game isnt scientifically designed to beat me up every time I need to do something.

I say enjoy it while you can. There will come a time when you will be in the 40-hour-per-week meatgrinder and you will look back fondly on these current times.

So do the myriad of other mechanics changes but we gots degenerate playing to stomp out.

Dubai is awesome. We used it as a port of call during the first Gulf War back in the early 90's. Although it is ridiculously hot. The kind of hot thats so hot it makes you squint. And the cab drivers stink a bit.

Last day of work for the year, woohoo. Already know I got a mid-four digit bonus. They are taking us to Benihana for lunch then we will probably be able to go home.