Gromnir

you gottta fiddle with the camera and your party position to gain access to the next map section. described insular like that it sure sounds like a bug, no? is the kinda thing that if it were a bug people would be complaining 'bout incessantly. truth is it's not actually that buggy o' a feature (anymore), though there are a couple easily circumventable bugs linked to geography shifting. unfortunate, the unique feature doesn't actual add any meaningful gameplay value. geography shift does add time and a bit o' annoyance. with each individual wall or building shift annoyance being somewheres 'tween trivial and minor, the problem is the all too frequent abyssal fed-ex quests and even simple map navigation has player time invested doing nothing meaningful multiplied and for no good reason. is a unique feature which does nothing save increase frustration and gameplay time. should'a been cut. HA! Good Fun!

not surprising, am going with a human inquisitor for our aeon. the problem were deity selection. wanted lawful and non evil. abadar were an obvious choice, but we went with erastil so we could go sanctified slayer and still acquire an animal companion. is a perfect legit wotr option as an inquisitor o' erastil could be seeking to cleanse the land of demon taint, including the demon horde's humanoid allies, to make the land safe for communities to once again flourish in the areas surrounding the world wound, but truth is we went backwards from abilities and powers to end up with erastil as our choice, which feels kinda cheap and metagamey. am suspecting we will manage in spite o' the role-play burden. kinda wanted to go skald now that they is working as described, but we also were committed to aeon and while am thinking an aeon skald would be excellent, it weren't on our shortlist. am actual a bit perplexed as to what mythic we would choose for a skald, other than trickster or perhaps an eventual legend build. am not genuine interested in trickster though. HA! Good Fun! ps we kinda wanted to go with a halfling sanctified slayer, 'cause such a choice strikes us inherent funny, but is a feat heavy build and the one extra feat humans receive were a deciding factor.

aside: if bill gates did have a plan from the last century to kill more than five million people by virus and his predictions were so precise he somehow knew that the omicron variant o' said virus would be causing global concern, then am thinking we should just be done with it and declare him Emperor o' The World, 'cause that is the kinda mad sooper genius you need murdering for you as 'posed to looking at you as a potential future victim. HA! Good Fun!

another unique but different problem. the wall you specific mention, unlike others, appears to move, but perhaps does not. we have a problem where if am too close to a wall, it simple won't shift, but the harem of ardent dreams wall is a curious outlier 'cause bunch up next to it and shift camera makes it appear as if the wall moved, but you are nevertheless prevented from moving forward. HA! Good Fun!

'cause bill gates believes he is actual a member o' batman's or the flash's rogues gallery and as such he were compelled by his special brand o' crazy to leave clues about his evil scheme two decades in advance via a french game developer's mostly forgotten product. as an aside, if it weren't for david bowie's contribution, we would have had no idea what you were talking 'bout. HA! Good Fun!

please recall how quick we got accustomed to a new normal post 9/11, and the truth is a follow-up terrorist attack were far less likely than is a large venue event becoming a super spreader situation. three thousand died 9/11. total. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us according to a stanford study, trump rallies alone 'tween late june and late september o' 2020 (just three months) resulted in at least 700 deaths. tell people how similar to new airport security changes they need be hours early to gain entry to a large venue event so they may be rapid tested and need provide proof of vaccination? no entry w/o proof o' both? hardly a forehead stamp, eh? would people have complained? sure, but if were a nonpolitical recommendation from cdc and got backing from virtual all political leaders on both sides o' the aisles, people woulda' gotten acclimated to such changes fast... and such stuff woulda' been far less intrusive than the patriot act which most americans went along with absent much criticism. try and tell us what people won't do or will resist doing ignores what they has done during past epidemics and specific recognizing how passive people went forward with far more serious changes post 9/11. mask mandates? *insert eye roll* covid-19 has been different 'cause skeevy politicians made different and 'cause some people keep excusing what were done for no reason other than political opportunism. HA! Good Fun! ps am also just fine with going obvious and not doing large venue with fans present, particular indoors, at least until we get decent antivirals and a few more people vaccinated.

perhaps amusing is a couple years past we mighta' suggested the above piece were likely edited to make republicans look worse than they is. no, is not as if we were thinking mr. o'sullivan would fake interviews, but if you interview a few dozen people and four o' 'em are loons, then it wouldn't shock us if the loons were figured more prominent than they deserved to be. is also ez to take a single observation or statement outta context. we recognize media bias and am actual ok with it. is hardly strange that reporters and news organizations got beliefs which color their opinions same as does the rest o' us. has never been some kinda rule that all news must be dispassionate reported. put your big boy pants on when watching or reading news and realize there is likely gonna be some level o' skew. the problem for us is in our conversations with living and breathing conservatives over the past few years, we have increasingly witnessed the kinda insanity visible in the above video clip. we live in a community which had most neighbors (overwhelming most) vote for trump. not all is antivaxxers, not even most, but is too many who do embrace such insanity and they seem to believe that their particular brand o' denialism and self-harm is actual the majority pov o' their neighbors. if your neighbors is polite and don't call you out on your antivaxx wackiness, these folks take instead as agreement. the more disturbing aspect is how frequent we hear tucker carlson nonsense come outta the mouths o' our neighbors. fbi were behind januar6? okie dokie. is also the weird and quixotic stated belief that blm and antifa were behind january 6 badness, but that for the most part january 6 were just a peaceful protest which is overblown and exaggerated by the media... which is weird views to try and square simultaneous, no? regardless, is increasing difficult to find what we think o' as traditional conservatives, or at least is difficult to find those who is willing to say anything contrary to the current narrative o' crazy which has taken hold o' the gop. cnn and mr. sullivan most assured do not need work hard or selective edit to make republicans as a whole look unhinged. HA! Good Fun! ps just so is clear, am not thinking most republicans is unhinged, but all too many are willing to embrace the insanity or are at least refusing to reject the crazy in their party. many o' our republican neighbors is retired military, far more than national average. when the rittenhouse stuff were big news, those retired military men were tending to agree that kyle's behavior were not reasonable and definitely not laudable, but when they were in a group with other republicans parroting fox news, those military guys became noticeable and uncharacteristic taciturn. if you listen only to the loudest republican voices, is gonna be ez to see 'em all as unhinged, which is fair but perhaps not as accurate as you might believe.

can't imagine why some people in Congress wanted an investigation surrounding the events o' january 6. after all, we could all see what happened, yes? one suspects at least a few o' the people from the linked video genuine believe what they is saying. relevant to another thread as well. conservative echo chamber has resulted in faith based view o' reality which all too often in 2022 is significant divorced from facts. HA! Good Fun!

making a second post (apologies) 'cause would be ez to miss in the wall-o-text which is our normal posting practice. recommendation: try and dimension door to every roof in alushinyrra. many roofs which visibly look like they could have content or is big enough to accommodate your party is inaccessible to dimension door, which am s'posing is the developer's way o' not wasting your time. the problem is there is a few rooftops with hidden 1007, some o' which is the best stuff you will find in the abyss. unless you wanna find a guide, am gonna suggest attempting dimension door every roof. tedious? indeed. warning: potential one of the most difficult encounters in the game occurs on a roof accessible only through dimension door. surprise. HA! Good Fun!

is actual a separate issue. the camera thing occurred to us 'cause we necessarily had to move the camera to track our party through the labyrinthine lower city during the beta. we saw buildings move (at first it was a heard as 'posed to seen kinda thing) moments after entering alushinyrra 'cause the developers put a hairpin turn on the map which is unavoidable and results in a pov which blocks your party if you don't shift the camera. am s'posing is possible to miss, but the building shift mechanic is made kinda in-your-face. however, assume one is stuck at an immovable wall, developers no doubt believe eventual a player will turn around and go back whence they came, which is also likely to result in a change in camera views. 'course, as we noted, if you have your party bunched up against a wall, is chances the wall don't actual move and all you get is the sound-effect, which is most annoying and could make the build shift missable. am s'posing the developers coulda made more obvious w/o being overt, but the hidden quality o' building shift didn't bother us none. what were annoying were fact the shifts occurred so slow and were extreme sensitive in select areas. ever so slight tap o' the mouse and perhaps the building sudden starts going in the exact wrong direction? different issue entirely is the problem with so much content being on the roofs o' alushinyrra. camera angle change will not get you access to much o' the roof content. if you didn't build one o' your casters to have dimension door, you could be in for a rough time accessing such otherwise inaccessible content. the conversation regarding the handicap to non fliers we mentioned doesn't actual apply to camera angles. after all, buildings (and later whole sections o' the city) do move to provide terrestrial bound critters access to additional portions o' the map. nevertheless, got arueshalae in your party doesn't give you access to rooftops even if she has wings 'cause there is no player flight and only other game flight is scripted (as with the dragon or vrock assassins sudden pouncing), but no such scripting gets you on rooftops even with flight capable party members. unless we missed something fundamental, you need dimension door, and if you only have limited access to such via wands or a small number o' scrolls, then you might be fubar if you don' have such stockpiled. we didn't check, but we don't recall significant quantities o' dimension door scrolls being for sale in alushinyrra. as an aside, for our first abyss run, all the traps on roofs is what convinced us we needed to access roofs and as such we needed nenio back in our party to be reach those areas. importance o' roof access were not gleaned through a loading screen tip or the conversation we reference but the simple recognition that if the roofs is trapped, is 'cause developers no doubt put other content up there as well. HA! Good Fun!

no, but you do have the vanity and narcissism to ascribe your faults to "quite a few." again, is not your suggestion that there is irresponsible and selfish people out there which offends. problem is you make a jump to the futility o' mitigation and vaccination; assume your flaws doom mitigation and vaccination is exact the arrogance which seems to offend you. edit: please recall before private vaccine mandates for workers were instituted, many cops, pilots, nurses or others claimed they would quit rather than get vaccinated. when the actual vaccination policies were instituted, the moral high ground folks whimpered a bit but overwhelming got vaccinated. united airlines, for example, a frequent target o' ted cruz, exceeded 95% vaccination rate for employees by late october. as such am finding it is o' limited efficacy to put to much stock into what antivaxxers claim they would or would not do when confronted with mandates n' such. look at what people do as 'posed to what they say or claim. HA! Good Fun!

thanks to russian blasphemy laws, is gonna be the closest we get to a reign of winter offering. HA! Good Fun!

them: if you would just be reasonable and realize the pandemic is 90% hysteria and 10% disease, we would already be back to experiencing pre-pandemic normalcy. ... is such a massive disconnect, and to think the disconnect were artificial and intentional is the real tragedy. pre-pandemic we had a hardened group o' antivaxxers, but they were few in number. then the pandemic hits and politicians begin conflating mitigation efforts with liberty and second amendment issues. keep in mind, the extent of the antivaxx response were not an obvious response even back in mid 2020 "them" thinks shady is buying into yet another liberal-democrat hoax invented to distract from real problems. your preoccupation with the pandemic is just another example of trump derangement syndrome, but is only partial shady's fault 'cause mass and social media is hiding the truth from you. it is imperative you self educate like "them" 'cause the real answers are out there. like so many issues today, the the pandemic became a binary with "them" being unreasonable and "them" looking very different depending on party affiliation and/or where/how you get your news. if you listen to conservative radio or enjoy fox, no doubt you are less concerned about an exaggerated disease which is only killing people with preconditions which woulda' killed 'em in a few years anyways. conservative radio listeners wonder why shady cannot be reasonable and see the obvious: mask mandates and the vaccine are just the first step in the government's efforts to take your liberty. didn't need be this way, but now that there is clear defined sides and a recognition o' "them" being unreasonable regardless o' your chosen position, we see no way to easily fix what is broken. *descends from soapbox* HA! Good Fun!

rooftops are frequently inaccessible save through dimension door. a few locals may be overheard mockingly referencing how difficult it must be for non flying mortals n' such trying to navigate the city, which am suspecting were owlcat's clumsy way o' letting you know some chests n' such would not be accessible save through extraordinary means. in the lower city there is a particular noteworthy belt and a star knife (in the unlikely event you use star knives) which you may only acquire with dimension door. the belt involves a fight with a boosted deathsnatcher (not playful darkness level, but tough even so) and a few adds, at least one which has a significant fear aura. am mentioning just as forewarning that going to the roofs via dd may involve lethal traps and encounters. if you are not immediate adjacent to a wall, camera rotate does work, but is indeed finicky and requires patience. annoyance o' need finding the exact right camera angle is no doubt why shady simple used dimension door as often as not. HA! Good Fun!

not unheard of, but prohibitive less likely. nevertheless, somehow the existence o' any vaccinated person dying o' covid, or extreme small numbers o' such folks, is a good reason to not engage in mitigation efforts or to get vaccinated. as the % of people who is vaccinated increases, necessarily the proportion o' vaccinated people who die from covid will increase. the math challenged cannot unravel the puzzle behind such an obvious result. HA! Good Fun!

you included self. you recognized you would do as did "friend's cousin" in a similar situation. ... if this is some kinda suggestion that mitigation efforts is doomed 'cause o' irresponsible people, using self as an example o' ordinarily irresponsible, am gonna suggest we see an obvious flaw in your reasoning which might be eluding you. HA! Good Fun!

am not certain how you may make such an observation on this board. perhaps one reason am arguable unfair measuring owlcat as being poor in their responsiveness is 'cause we need measure 'em 'gainst obsidian. just as an example: https://forums.obsidian.net/forum/157-grounded-technical-support-spoiler-warning/ see all the obsidian responses on only the most recent page? now view the wotr: https://forum.owlcatgames.com/c/pathfinder-wotr/bug-reports/22 point to us the developer responses. fans had long and serious discussions 'bout issues in all recent obsidian games, and were rare we were in the dark as to what were the obsidian perspective. sure, we were annoyed that josh in particular retreated from the obsidian boards to make his announcements, but via tumblr, twitter and a myriad o' other sources, we got far more feedback from obsidian... and as far as at least acknowledging bugs, obsidian absolute buries owlcat and most other developers. regardless, is an odd observation to make and make in this place. @KP on top of ZA WARUDO am believing your wall issue is not imagination. recommendation: do not have your party bunched up immediate adjacent to a wall or building which appears designed to move. back up a smidge, 'cause if you do not then in our experience adjusting the camera will frequent fail to produce changes desired. as for fps drops in the abyss and elsewhere, am suspecting is a memory leak issue based on feedback at owlcat. HA! Good Fun!

agreed. assuming the kings referenced is nba or nhl, that means is indoors, so makes a bad scenario even worse. then add people like "friend's cousin" who test positive and don't see anything wrong with trying to do an end-around on the system, and no doubt others who has acquired fraudulent passports, and such gatherings is kinda asking for there to be unnecessary spread. *chuckle* 'course even with rational limits on large venue gatherings am assuming "friend's cousin" would simple try and find a crowded sports bar to watch the game, and not see the problem in going to such a location following a positive rapid test. HA! Good Fun! ps can't spell friend?

... somebody missing the point. yeah, there is a loophole in the system, but who is the monumental a-hole who, discovering he current has covid by means o' rapid testing, moves to another line to gain access to a crowded sporting event? you answer our query, but is obvious the folks who came up with the three lines approach did not expect the kinda callous disregard for other persons displayed by yourself and the "friend's cousin." the flaw in the system is not predicting teknoman2 and the "quite a few people" you know who would do likewise. thanks for illustrating the problem. HA! Good Fun! ps how surprised would we not be to learn "friend's cousin" then informed his boss that he had tested positive and would need be taking the cdc recommended five-day isolation and would not be going to work?

is just so wrong we momentarily hoped antonio brown has cte. won't be able to know for sure until he dies and they autopsy his brain, but alternatives include mr. brown being an immature d-bag, and if such is the actual cause o' all his problems, then the only reason he were able to get to this point is 'cause coach after coach and team after team let him get to the jets game. just how many people balanced brown talent with his behavioral issues and decided to accept the predictable ab moments? if the latest is nothing more than a grown man throwing a toddler tantrum, then... if is cte, then there is no cure and no real way for antonio brown to fix his problems, so we shouldn't wish for cte to be the reason, but alternatives place the burden on parents, coaches, team owners, innumerable friends/loved ones and 'course brown himself. ab's most recent meltdown were not insular predictable save that no doubt many o' us expected something like this would happen eventual-- kinda an ironic example o' simultaneous surprising and predictable. regardless, am embarrassed to admit we kinda hoped for cte to explain.

the thing is, (warning: hawkeye spoilers) now sure, they made kate smarter and better at everything than just 'bout everybody but hawkeye, so is maybe not an ideal example o' a female protagonist with room for growth, but much o' the show involves clint saving kate's bacon, and her efforts to prove herself is resulting in predictable comic relief. *shrug* am not suggesting hawkeye is the best show ever, but am hopeful writers, directors and producers take notice o' the fact they may include a female protagonist who suffers a scene some audiences will reflexive label as a damsel in distress moment (over and over andoverandover) w/o such being fatal to the public reception. HA! Good Fun!

agreed. is absolute nothing wrong with a bit o' over-the-top. raimi and tarantino do such and am finding entertaining. am double impressed when the aforementioned directors is able to do so in a movie which is otherwise serious in nature. the thing is, the pregnant fight scene weren't embracing camp as far as we could tell. appeared to be deadly serious and aiming for extreme kewl, which felt... weird. HA! Good Fun! ps we misspelled "raimi."

sure there are. coulda' done as we suggested. is also nothing to prevent "ninja-tastic" (which in itself is wholly unnecessary) with a not pregnant woman at some point later in the show, if for whatever gawdawful reason reason you wanna go that way. show the woman dispatch a couple competent swordsman in a not silly fight would somehow diminish her skill in the minds o' viewers? you are not serious. sorry, but this is matrix reloaded all over for us. maybe you think the pregnant woman battle is fine, which is ok. to us the fight were indeed "glaringly wrong" and were unnecessarily campy. the fight distracted from what coulda/shoulda been a more emotional impactful scene. opinion. regardless, to suggest the fight were somehow necessary over-the-top is just plain wrong. is no doubt many ways the scene coulda' played out and am certain a few such ways wouldn't o' left Gromnir rolling his eyes and internal groaning. btw, if "ninja-tastic" requires superhuman abilities w/o magic, radioactive spiders or bionic man kinda stuff, then you have already left us outta your prospective circle o' fans... again, unless you is genuine going for camp as with five deadly venoms and the crazy 88s, but that scene did not strike us as trying for camp. HA! Good Fun! ps as improbable as it seems, or recollection is that jordan denied his aiel were inspired by herbert's fremen. supposed inspirations were real world bedouin, apache and zulu cultures and warrior traditions, which were simillar source material for herbert. anime shinobi were not listed by jordan as inspiration.

relevance? is accusations o' epstein being involved with israelis, russians or others, and possible sharing some info with fbi on the side as conjecture regarding his initial 2007(?) sweetheart deal. so, make the link 'tween such and a staged suicide in jail, 'cause am not gonna do it for you... or were you just doing a rando non-sequitur thing? HA! Good Fun!

complete disagree. reimagine her fighting a single guy and suffering labor pains simultaneous. make certain it is obvious to audience that the woman's opponent is not only competent but masterful, but the pregnant woman is nevertheless somehow holding her own... until a second man shows up and joins the fight. situation just became impossible. fight continues and the woman is suffering worse labor and becoming increasing wounded, but nevertheless manages to kill both her opponents, though she too takes a fatal wound, albeit not an immediate lethal one. now tell us such a fight could not be equal impressive as a fight scene. could be more profoundly evocative. could show the pregnant woman's personal resolve and the skill o' the aiel. could achieve everything one would want to achieve from a storytelling aspect and make more emotional significant 'cause it were not campy and cartoonish. we love stuff like five deadly venoms, 'cause over-the-top fights have their place, but does anybody wanna defend the matrix reloaded fight scene with smith and neo? weren't the cgi which made bad, but that contributed. were unnecessary. directors thought audience wanted kewl and more? had to somehow be bigger and with greater stakes, right? *shrug* from matrix fans we heard the reloaded fight defended, and those defenses were typical as bad as the fight scene.... and at least for matrix you had already made neo sooperpowered, so at least there were some excuse for excess, though such were also a good reason not to make reloaded in the first place. the linked pregnant woman fight didn't have the matrix baggage and it were not fun in a kung-fu campy kinda way, so what purpose did it actual serve? sure as hell weren't necessary to do that way. oh, and the pregnant woman fight were indeed "glaringly wrong," but that don't mean such excesses is inherent unacceptable or bad. gotta hand it to tarantino with kill bill. he were able to do both the camp stuff and get more serious, but typical you need choose one way or the other. haven't watched wot other than the pregnant woman clip and a bit more than sixteen minutes o' episode one, so perhaps am off the mark, but am assuming the pregnant fight were not supposed to be reminiscent o' the crazy 88s battle. crazy 88 were much better btw, in part 'cause it embraced the camp. choreography were better in kill bill, which is no surprise 'cause it were a big hollywood film. we were quits following the ya silliness in wot episode one. am now improbable more quits. HA! Good Fun!