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Is any part of Act 2 timed?

So I'm now finally at the beginning of Chapter 2 in this my first time through the game. Yeah, it's taken me this long to get through the Prologue and Chapter 1. I don't get much time per week to play my games, sadly. Any major pieces of advise on Crusade Management? I'm using the 'easy' setting but not 'auto' because I do want to be able to get the benefits of doing the crusade part of the game. Thanks in advance! :)

For me, using Firefox, I've been getting certificate security alerts when trying to access the forum login page.

No, no, what I mean is how can I keep a default action in that spot, but still override it and order the character to do something else during combat? I like my party starting out the first round spamming those auto mode actions, because they're often good debuffs of the enemies. But I want them to then stop doing that and start fighting. Is this somehow possible?

A basic question for all you WotR experts: So in your character icon there is the option of setting certain cantrips or abilities to be used in "automatic mode." But when I set such things as Demoralize or Slumber or Daze (cantrip) to automatic mode, the character just keeps spamming that instead of engaging in melee or ranged attack, and they keep doing this even if I manually order the character to attack a target. What am I doing wrong here? How do I get them to override automatic mode and do what I order them to do?

Oh come on! What's even the point of a TV show these days if it doesn't have fluff soft porn?! It's the path we need to take to get to hard porn someday!!

https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2448376/ai-copilot-air-force-achieves-first-military-flight-with-artificial-intelligence/ https://www.airandspaceforces.com/artificial-intelligence-easily-beats-human-fighter-pilot-in-darpa-trial/

I'm guessing it's a reference to the old bombers (B-52) having a bunkbed in it for the pilots to rotationally get some sleep on long patrols during the Cold War.

May I ask what is this trick?

This is it for me too. Obviously I have no desire to deny anyone their preference to play in coop/MP. But I simply don't buy that a developer can make game design decisions that are simultaneously optimal for both SP and coop-MP. Many game design decisions are optimal for one or the other, and doing it optimally for one makes the other experience suffer. So I believe games (specifically RPGs) can be "good" only as either SP-only or MP-only games. And while a game made optimally for the SP experience can still offer a decent MP experience, I can't see it being that way in the other direction. So for me, SP games need to be SP-only by design if they're to offer a good SP experience.

Yup, it's strictly coffee, beer, tap water (no filtering), and non-artificially sweetened and no added sugar fruit juices for me.

Then how do you explain Marc Fogel? Also imprisoned for drug use at about the same time as Griner. But no one even knows about him (nor cares). Griner was persecuted not because she's a celebrity but because she's an American. But she certainly got her freedom, at great cost to past and future victims of Bout, entirely because she's a celebrity.

But they left Whelen behind, and he's been incarcerated unjustly for over four years. I guess being a celebrity is what matters first.

Yup. Bethesda, Bioware, CDPR, and now apparently Obsidian have all walked away from trying to do SP+co-op in favor of strictly SP RPGs. Only Larian is still stuck in their "co-op is awesome, who needs SP" mentality.

Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is now well past alpha and on track for late '23 or early '24 release. Plus if it doesn't need to be AAA then you also have the two Pathfinder games and Black Geyser.

It's because many of these missiles are old nuclear-armed missiles from the Cold War, which were decommissioned after the end of the Cold War. So their nuke warheads were removed, and then the missiles placed in storage. Now, when those missiles are returned to operational use, there is no conventional warhead available that can be installed in them.

No it isn't. You are choosing to interpret as you want. Biden's comments included saying any talks must begin with the Russians being willing to withdraw from all occupied territory. And the Russians immediately rejected that, after which the White House also "clarrified" that talking with Putin made no sense at this time. Macron, in his statements, was also very clear that any negotiated deal must include the Russians being held completely accountable for all their "crimes" in Ukraine. And then the EU FM recently also made a specch in which she stated that Russia must be held accountable for all the damage and destruction it has caused in Ukraine, and that frozen Russian financial assets, including those of private Russians such as the oligarchs, should be used to create a fund to pay for Ukraine's rebuilding. None of this sounds anything like a "softening" to me.

But this has been widely reported in many other sources, sources that people generally view as "reliable." In any case, if this is the standard for judging the strength or validity of a news story, then by that very standard I'd reckon over 90% of news stories (from the so-called reliable sources) to be tainted, because making unsubstantiated claims and judgments is par for the course in news stories these days.

I saw this story too, from a different source. But didn't post it here because I figured some people would have that reaction of "it's just tabloid gossip." I personally can see this being very much true, esp. because the part that he is suffering from intestinal cancer seems solid with other previous stories.

Haha. I was expecting this post from you. Lots of articles but the pics are pretty much all the same, just only a front view. I want to see the planeform and profile views. Aviation Week's article seems to have the best rundown of technical details, such as they're available. Seems to be extremely optimized for transonic flight rather than high-subsonic like the B-2, which is very interesting.

Thank you. This is very helpful. Yes I did notice that I was already moving towards the "neutral" side and I couldn't understand why, since I had only been making entirely "good" choices.

This is an issue on which I see and appreciate both sides of it. On the one hand, I too hate when I'm maxed out on level advancement and can no longer look forward to anymore advancing on my characters. But I also agree that gaining that final level, along with its benefits, just before the end of the game leaves me dissatisfied about not being able to use those benefits much in the game. But I don't see a way this problem can be fixed. Btw, in WotR, I've already kept myself from bothering with optional fights. Just couldn't be bothered with that painful optional fight in the Prologue dungeon (although my sneaky character was able to successfully claim all the loot in the room without triggering the fight).

Thanks!! No, I did not know this, but did not know how it was before the change either.

@xzar_monty, I have very similar criteria for my PC choice, for me including wanting to have at least decent melee capacity. Because it's my first time through I did some online browsing and ended up going with the 'Oracle Angel' build (half-elf; lawful good) from Neoseeker (side note: Neoseeker is usually my go-to for help with all the games I tend to like playing; the Fextralife wiki is pretty helpful too). It's a pretty good build: lot's of ways to smack down demons even while also being a tanky melee character. And Angel seemed like a good mythic path to take my first time through. I'd prefer to be more neutral good than lawful good; wonder if that will be possible with the Angel path. Re. romance, the choices seem rather limited: Camellia or the queen. Are you guys all recommending Camellia? She's kind of a lightweight in my party.

So I've finally gotten around to playing WotR for the first time. Still in the middle of the Prologue but absolutely loving it so far. On track to be my all-time favorite cRPG. As expected I spent half a day just on creating my character.