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I kind of like it that way. If I wanted a more fast-moving and energetic experience I would log on something like Discord, which is where most communities are created and reside nowadays. Message boards, much like isometric CRPGs, are a niche for a handful of stubborn enthusiasts of outdated things...

Thank you for this. I spent more than one hour last night watching their version of the saga. Been the most I've enjoyed myself with Star Wars since Vader Sessions. "Sigh. Would you like to buy some drugs, Larry?" "Well, that's why I'm here!"

Onslaught release pushed back to late October

Err, I wasn't subscribed at the time when grinding influence via BT/Esseles was considered the most efficient way to level them up, but I'm pretty sure that nowadays it no longer is. Quick and easy way is now just to grab one of these: That's without even getting into what you can do with a level 50 companion that you can't do with a level 30 or 40 one. I only have level 50 companions on crafting characters. A level 50 companion can help with Master Mode chapters, but often you cannot choose what companion to bring, so leveling a companion for this purpose isn't very helpful. With the deluge of Command Crates from the double rewards events, artifact and legendary quality gifts have tanked in price, so that may be another way if crafting Dark Projects is not an option. I suspect that this is still more expensive than just purchasing a Commander's Compendium, and a hell of a lot more cumbersome.

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He'd make China pay for it.

Yo, what's Alaska going for these days? Asking for a (possibly formerly KGB) friend

The Matrix 4 is happening Look, I like Keanu as much as the next guy but...

You're mixing stuff up. In theory, a 128-bit key is economically impossible to brute-force. A 256-bit key is physically impossible to brute-force. What the Israeli company cracking iPhones did was reset the failed attempt counter by manipulating the hardware, and then used a brute-force attack to defeat a weak password and access the unencrypted data inside. If the San Bernardino guy had used a secure password, he would have possibly defeated this approach as well, but who does that. I know I don't. Really, government guys put their pants on one leg at a time. Which is why they they have been pressing tech firms to build backdoors into their products.

I knew about Fernando Melo from the Andromeda debacle. Nice enough guy I suppose but was, together with Lead Designer Ian Frazier, apparently oblivious to what people wanted out of that game or how to deliver it. As far as I know, and as you correctly surmised, Ben Irving does not exactly hold a stellar reputation among Anthem players.

If you stick to just your class missions and do nothing else, while also not using XP boost items, you'll remain more or less on-level with the story. Otherwise, if you do the planetary arcs, a bit of PVP, heroics or even the old flashpoints at the points they were intended in the story, you'll be overleveled.

Lead producer of next Dragon Age game leaves BioWare Second lead prod to quit in a week.

You can negate the XP boost from the event by using a "White Acute Module" which you can purchase from the Gree vendor in the Combat Training area on the fleet. Not that it'll do you much good now that the event ends in two days, but you can keep the item for when it comes back around, and pass it along to alts as it's legacy-bound.

To be fair, free movement of capital is one of the factors behind current migratory flows. Allowing free movement of labor within the EU hasn't raised living standards of burger flippers and ditch diggers uniformly throughout the union either, but having one without the other is kind of having your cake and eating it too.

I find I'm for the most part not very interested in movies nowadays. Mass-marketed stuff seems to be taking over, and I guess that what isn't that just flies under my radar. And then once every ten years or so Tom Cruise does something like Collateral or Edge of Tomorrow and I feel stupid for not giving more movies the benefit of doubt.

And such forward-thinking and humane peasants they were. The guillotine sure beats being boiled alive or drawn and quartered. Fun fact: some joker was handed a 18-month jail sentence for making a similar remark regarding our current king on some social network or other. Even funnier is that, far from objecting to the principle, progressives frequently applaud other people facing similar penalties when it is deemed to be "hate speech". The internets is serious ****ing business. Back to our regularly scheduled programming...

Feel free to do all your drive-by YT linking here. No need for new threads.

Grinding through heroics is no longer a time-effective way to make credits, especially since they fixed the bug that multiplied credits earned by the number of people in your party. If you want to make some decent money, you need to get in a guild that consistently achieves the goal for large planet conquest and hit your personal cap with as many characters as you can (within the guild). That way you get 1-4 "Charged Matter Transubstantiators" per week and character, which sell for about half a million a piece. Those are used to craft 236/240 augments, but unless you intend to do NiM raids or serious PVP, don't bother. However, I'd advise against doing any grinding at this point. A lot of things are going to change come September -assuming the expansion drops as planned- and that includes gear and crafting. In general it's not looking so good, if you listen to test server feedback.

Yes. The reason for that is the Arano campaign was a KS stretch goal and not the centerpiece -- the game was conceived basically as a big sandbox, with the random contracts and traveling around as the meat. That's also the reason why they likely won't be making another long campaign like that, and their DLCs are focused on ancillary stuff.

I didn't say Web was the only good 2nd level spell. There's also Mirror Image, as I mentioned. Those two are simply in another league when compared to the likes of Scorcher and Know Alignment. In any case, the point remains that with a bit of game knowledge, mages made the best frontliners as soon as you could spam fireballs protected by your mirror image. This runs counter to your whole argument that BG/2 had such complex design and nuance in character development compared to modern games that give fighter types abilities beyond autoattack, when in reality mages were just broken, is all there is. Breach is not strictly an offensive spell since all it does is remove combat protections, so your Fighters can autoattack mages. Which is really inefficient when you can just spam skull traps and insta-kill most of them, or disable them with Cloudkill and watch them run around like headless chicken because 1 point of damage meant automatic spell failure unless the creature was scripted to have uninterruptible casting. And then there were Liches and Rakshasas who were completely immune to all spells level 5 and under, including Breach, and could decimate any group of autoattackers without breaking a sweat. The solution was simply to keep spamming summons at them to exploit their penchant for wasting their most powerful spells on vermin, and then kill them with... Death Fog. Again, best frontliners (by proxy). You're now saying that I don't want to have a honest debate and that things don't work the way I say, but everyone can see that I'm the only one using specific examples in this conversation, concerning the BG games and others. You, however, keep deflecting with generalities and subjective feelings. Do better. BG2(EE) is a permanent fixture in my HD, btw.

Not really, because you couldn't fit fireballs in your level 2 spell slots, and the only worthwhile level 2 spell outside of Mirror Image was Web, which did no damage. Same with Stoneskin, as the only offensive level 5 spell you ever needed was Cloudkill, the effects of which were blocked by Mirror Image too. I'm not seeing any sacrifices here. And that's low-ish level mages. Once you started raking in the XP, you could do really stupidly broken **** like Project Image+Wizard Eye, 3xSunfire/Skull Trap in a Spell Sequencer, 3xHorrid Wilting in a Chain Contingency, Shapechange Mind Flayer+Timestop, and of course my favorite, Mislead and SI: Divination on a Mage/Thief for unlimited backstabs. And all of that was effectively per encounter because there was nothing to stop you from abusing the rest function. Fighters were completely obsolete by that point, and Hit Point totals were irrelevant because as a mage you didn't get hit at all if you knew what you were doing. The whole "tough decisions" thing in Baldur's Gate regarding character sheet development is the perfect example of the romanticizing I was referring to. I mean, the super-broken magic system was half the fun, but let's not get carried away.

Now that the conversation has moved on into something that has nothing to do with The Outer Worlds, I'm locking the thread. I'd encourage anyone interested to start a new one to continue discussing the new topic of the history of politics in media where such a thread belongs: in Way Off-Topic. Thanks all.

Well, it bothers me because CA have no experience with that kind of thing -- it seems they are just chasing the latest craze, and I'll eat my hat if they succeed at that. I'm also speculating that making a shooter precludes parallel development of a sequel to Alien Isolation, in effect consolidating that mobile bastardization released earlier this year as the true sequel. But yeah, sure. I guess a wise man knows better than to become attached to anything, understands that longing means unhappiness, and navigates an ocean of disappointment with apathy in his sails and stoicism for a compass.

Predictably, Putin didn't waste the opportunity to point out last month that the UK is less democratic than Russia because British voters didn't actually get to vote for their next PM. Given current fragmentation of support, it's doubtful that Johnson could win an actual election by himself. However Corbyn is, as usual, content to clown around, and left voters don't have two neurons to rub together as evidenced by a majority of them buying into the antisemitism accusations... so you never know.

Yeah, remember when mages were the best frontliners because mirror image protected you from your own fireball spam? Ah... good times.