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...lives for biotic explosions. And cheesecake!
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Post by Kappa Neko on Apr 29, 2019 11:47:12 GMT
Fired up Subnautica again after a very long break of almost a year. Well, I did finish the story at the time but left my 4 bases unfinished because the grind was just too much in Normal mode. Always meant to return and finish my bases. Looked up how to build without material cost via console command and it works! Sooo much easier to wrap up my bases now! Although it's still taking waaay too long. I'm having fun though! I thought I was 90% done with my bases before but I forgot that I started to build inside a cave next to my main base. And that was a half finished mess. Spent about 10 hours on the weekend trying to fit building parts in there. Result wasn't great initially but I managed to cram two farming pads in there somehow. Connected both building structures in two different areas of the cave with those electricity light wires from the thermal plants. Which also act as a guide through the cave tunnel maze. I actually drowned in there a few times when I got lost...
Only gripe is that the game now has trouble loading assets and everything is much more blurry than I remember. All my graphics options were messed up too. Google search revealed that something got messed up for other people too. I assume through an update. There are fixes. However, I'm afraid that the bigger your base(s) become, the more the game fails to load assets properly. Some textures look PS2, and this isn't hyperbole. Just blobs of huge squares. The posters don't fully load anymore which I know for a fact was fine before. I was downright shocked how bad the game looks compared to NMS which isn't exactly the most graphically impressive either. I know Subnautica was a bit blurry before so maybe I just forgot how blurry...
Thanks to the nocost cheat I can now easily build a Seamoth for all my bases to park in the moonpool for eye candy. This is also very handy for when I use the alien teleporters as shortcuts. Two of my bases are close to them. But I can only go there on foot (or in the Prawnsuit). So it's nice to have a vehicle in every base.
I set up a nice path to my void base from the teleporter entrence with those glow sticks. So even during the pitch black night I can find my way there. That feels pretty cool! One thing I love about this game is that you can build all over the map. No base borders. The downside is that the game can't actually handle bigger bases well and my frame rate is all over the place and getting worse and worse the more I build...
There is a decorations mod that I want to check out. Base building is even more limited than in NMS. Since I'm in the enterior decorations phase anyway, might as well get the mod and do it right. There's only so much you can do. I'm placing medkits on walls everywhere because I got nothing else. Depending on how laggy my game gets with added clutter, I may attempt do resume work on abandoned base 5 on a floating rock. Two rocks actually. One has ship wreck parts on it. I wanted to build a long tube from one platform to the other as a kind of excavation site. Material grind would have taken too long so I focused on finishing my other bases. But even that got too tedious. Feeling new love for the game again so with the cheat maaaybe. IF the game can handle it which it probably doesn't...
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on Apr 30, 2019 0:00:10 GMT
Fired up Subnautica again after a very long break of almost a year. Well, I did finish the story at the time but left my 4 bases unfinished because the grind was just too much in Normal mode. Always meant to return and finish my bases. Looked up how to build without material cost via console command and it works! Sooo much easier to wrap up my bases now! Although it's still taking waaay too long. I'm having fun though! I thought I was 90% done with my bases before but I forgot that I started to build inside a cave next to my main base. And that was a half finished mess. Spent about 10 hours on the weekend trying to fit building parts in there. Result wasn't great initially but I managed to cram two farming pads in there somehow. Connected both building structures in two different areas of the cave with those electricity light wires from the thermal plants. Which also act as a guide through the cave tunnel maze. I actually drowned in there a few times when I got lost...
Only gripe is that the game now has trouble loading assets and everything is much more blurry than I remember. All my graphics options were messed up too. Google search revealed that something got messed up for other people too. I assume through an update. There are fixes. However, I'm afraid that the bigger your base(s) become, the more the game fails to load assets properly. Some textures look PS2, and this isn't hyperbole. Just blobs of huge squares. The posters don't fully load anymore which I know for a fact was fine before. I was downright shocked how bad the game looks compared to NMS which isn't exactly the most graphically impressive either. I know Subnautica was a bit blurry before so maybe I just forgot how blurry...
Thanks to the nocost cheat I can now easily build a Seamoth for all my bases to park in the moonpool for eye candy. This is also very handy for when I use the alien teleporters as shortcuts. Two of my bases are close to them. But I can only go there on foot (or in the Prawnsuit). So it's nice to have a vehicle in every base.
I set up a nice path to my void base from the teleporter entrence with those glow sticks. So even during the pitch black night I can find my way there. That feels pretty cool! One thing I love about this game is that you can build all over the map. No base borders. The downside is that the game can't actually handle bigger bases well and my frame rate is all over the place and getting worse and worse the more I build...
There is a decorations mod that I want to check out. Base building is even more limited than in NMS. Since I'm in the enterior decorations phase anyway, might as well get the mod and do it right. There's only so much you can do. I'm placing medkits on walls everywhere because I got nothing else. Depending on how laggy my game gets with added clutter, I may attempt do resume work on abandoned base 5 on a floating rock. Two rocks actually. One has ship wreck parts on it. I wanted to build a long tube from one platform to the other as a kind of excavation site. Material grind would have taken too long so I focused on finishing my other bases. But even that got too tedious. Feeling new love for the game again so with the cheat maaaybe. IF the game can handle it which it probably doesn't...
I didn't get any graphic degradation or lag at my end. Everything looks the same as the time I first play it. It could be PC systems specs? Or something else. Regards base, I only build one. I don't see the point of building more except for convenience. In my first PT, I built a second but I tend to keep heading back to first base so I found building more is useless in my case. Subnautica could use more building blueprints, I agree. I'm surprise the devs didn't add in more upgrades. I'm sure they did get player feedback regards this.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on Apr 30, 2019 0:05:59 GMT
I'm actually having fun in The Crew 2, despite being a terrible driver. Somehow, video games can make situations like getting incredibly lost in rural USA enjoyable... That said, this game has some level design issues... like this motorbike death trap that promised french cuisine as bait in order to trap me inside an inescapable walled-in alleyway. But at least it lets you customize your vehicle... Yeah I'm not the rgeates tdriver eithe rbut I still enjoy a fwe racing games just had a look at the Forza games 7 and Horizon 3 that I recently purchased I haven't played them properly yet but I will do and I'm looking forward to it.
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...lives for biotic explosions. And cheesecake!
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Oct 18, 2016 21:17:18 GMT
October 2016
kappaneko
Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquisition, Mass Effect Andromeda
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Post by Kappa Neko on Apr 30, 2019 8:27:54 GMT
I didn't get any graphic degradation or lag at my end. Everything looks the same as the time I first play it. It could be PC systems specs? Or something else. Regards base, I only build one. I don't see the point of building more except for convenience. In my first PT, I built a second but I tend to keep heading back to first base so I found building more is useless in my case. Subnautica could use more building blueprints, I agree. I'm surprise the devs didn't add in more upgrades. I'm sure they did get player feedback regards this. I also had horrible pop-ins all of a sudden. At first I thought the mod I installed shot my game but nope. Spent 90min "fixing" the issue with ideas that didn't work. But after reverting everything back and just switching the graphics settings to High and back to Custom (because High does NOT set everything to max), it was all back to normal. LOL, gotta love PC gaming... Something was not right with the settings, definitely. Because the pop-in fix that involved changing values in a file I applied to High settings did nothing. Only when I also modified the Medium and Low file, the pop-in went away but my fps was now bad. It's also possible to fix the textures in the console. It was set to 2 out of 4. That fixed the blurry textures easily but the pop-ins were a head scratcher. But after I messed around with the in-game options again, like I said, everything reset properly to crisp and no pop-ins. Now of course my fps is generally really really bad thanks to having 5 bases (not 4, I forgot one, lol). When I'm next to one base and look across it towards my other base a mile away, I get 15 fps....... on a GTX 1080Ti, on an SSD. So my fps fluctuates between 15 and 35 now. And it will get worse still since I'm not done with my bases and I know that clutter kills fps way more than the basic building parts (it's all about the polygon count). But hey, let's see how it goes! Might have to fiddle with the settings for recording... I read about a possible fps fix where you have to delete most of the things in the savegame folder because apparently, similar to NMS, the game saves ALL world edits. So every ore you mine, it all adds data to the game that slows it down. If you delete it and all stuff respawns, it frees up space or something. I'll try that after making a copy of the folder. I suspect that any improvement won't be dramatic because bases just ARE fps killer is ANY game. But it's worth a shot. People with small bases got their fps back to 60 that way. I would be glad about 30 at this point...
The decorations mod is nice btw. Not a whole lot of new things but maybe that's for the best given how the game is coded. Worked on several bases last night (spoiler to prevent wall of text): The decorations mod has its own fabricator that lets you craft as many microscopes and tubes, posters and stuffed toys you like. Plus it adds toy versions of some of the creatures. Before I had to make do with the few you can loot inside the Aurora. Not cool. The mod also adds lockers from the Aurora, a table light made from an empty reactor rod. There is also a second fabricator for seeds of all the other plants in the game. So I started filling up my remaining planters with new stuff. I spent quite some time cutting seeds off my grown plants for redistribution. I guess I could just spawn them with the console but so far I still enjoy the gardening aspect. *g* I also need to fill all my still empty aquariums with different fish. In all my dozens of hours with the game I apparently have only caught ONE holefish. They are cute, I want more of them! Need to go chase them down... The five (?) floor tower I built in the Shallows last year is now finally fully furnished. The top sticks out of the water and gives a lovely view of the Aurora and my escape rocket I built next to the base. Fps is shot to hell in that base thanks to it being fairly big and full of glass, built around the thermal vent there. There is a science floor, a dorm floor and a tank. The base has several more thanks, a greenhouse, another private lab and private bedroom, a scanner room, a water filtration room and a moonpool... I'm going to roleplay that after the events of the game a group of scientists came back to study everything properly. I added lots of picture frames to my bases. Even though I have hundreds of screenshots to choose from, I've already set up duplicates without realizing it. Going to be a headache keeping track of which ones are displayed already... I know it doesn't matter but I can get OCD about these things. Tomorrow is a national holiday and I will probably spend half of the day with Subnautica. I have a ton of work left to do at my lava castle base... that one I built last and it was a pain in the ass. The game has so many cool locations and I would LOVE to build a base in every biome. But this won't be possible on one savefile. I maaay start in Creative for that...
PS: My free roaming cuddlefish is still alive btw!!! Awww, I thought it died. Hadn't seen it in ages. I released it next to my first base. Used to swim around it. Then it was gone one day. Last night it was back a little ways off next to the cliffside. Made me very happy somehow. I spawned another one for my tank. I want one in every base. Or maybe two, so they have playmates.
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I never knew that love had a sound until i heard you laugh.
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Post by Patricia on Apr 30, 2019 11:09:24 GMT
Finished AC Odyssey for the second time in my latest NG+ PT and had fun but also some frustration as well. The game is definitely not perfect but i can say that for every game that i have played in my life. Started a new playthrough of Detroit Become Human meet Kara Conner and Markus the three main characters in this game. And i will play this game with a walkthrough because in my first PT they all died and i don't want that to happen again. That was an absolute frustrated PT and i'm to afraid to make the same mistakes again. I also still play SotTR and i'm half way through this playthrough give or take and having fun most of the time.
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Post by Felya87 on Apr 30, 2019 11:31:48 GMT
I've got my first non-visual novel platinum throphy!!! I 100% finished Odin Sphere Leifhrasir! Great action jrpg. If you like fairy tales and drawed style games, and you a have a PS3/4/vita, try it!!!
Now I have a little of "what I'm going to do with my life" syndrome, but I have Unchated: the lost legacy to start. I loved all the other Uncharted, I'm very exited to go back to treasure hunting!
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Go Team!
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Post by sjsharp2010 on Apr 30, 2019 19:42:18 GMT
Finished AC Odyssey for the second time in my latest NG+ PT and had fun but also some frustration as well. The game is definitely not perfect but i can say that for every game that i have played in my life. Started a new playthrough of Detroit Become Human meet Kara Conner and Markus the three main characters in this game. And i will play this game with a walkthrough because in my first PT they all died and i don't want that to happen again. That was an absolute frustrated PT and i'm to afraid to make the same mistakes again. I also still play SotTR and i'm half way through this playthrough give or take and having fun most of the time. Yeah Shadow's a lot of fun I've gone throug hthe main game although I've not played the DLC's yet although I do plan to soon.
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Post by dazk on May 1, 2019 2:20:55 GMT
So yesterday Kass continued helping Eppi find the Mycenaean Stelli and I felt heartless but in the end I disappointed the poor guy and made him feel worthless as Kass told him she could see what he couldn't. Then spent a good half hour changing the Athena Set for the Pirate set and choosing engravings and a new bow and a new secondary weapon. And WOW what a difference it made, strangely my assassin damage dropped by 30% but my crit damage when fully healthy is now 63% and 31% at other times. The set bonus of 50% to Assassin abilities makes Rush Assassination and Heroic Strike one hit deaths pretty much for everyone plus I added an engraving that gives +10 to all abilities topping them up some more. So after changing sets and upgrading my armour to my current level headed off to meet Stentor and then did the conquest battle. It was by far the easiest time I have had doing a Conquest Battle and will probably mean I do more rather than skip them. Met the Wolf and let him live, met Elpenor and he ran away, next will clear some quests in Phokis and then maybe do some contracts then off to see the Pythia. Poor Eppi Hi Dad Kass tells how it is Poor Wolf
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Post by Curious Crow on May 2, 2019 1:45:48 GMT
Had been prodding at BGEE for the last few days. Nothing of note except I was playing with a Berserker going Druid named Aerda. Still kinda set in my ironman ways, I was really amused how many bloody times she survived near party wipes and was able to resurrect her team and keep on trucking. Like at least two times where she was down to 1 hp, the only one alive and I'm hovering my finger above the escape button and boom! Kills the last fecker and lives to fight another day. Made it to Baldur's Gate, but then the run was running dry. Since while I was amazed at her tenacity, I had no real connection to her personally. Then was browsing this thread and ended up loading up Pathfinder Kingmaker because of Obsidian Gryphon's misadventures. Or well, not because of that, my sympathies for failing at romance, had the same thing happen to me with Carth in KOTOR (granted, one run I might have gone a bit evil and made one party member choke the life out another...but like...why you no love me?). But because I've already finished BGEE a few times but never Kingmaker. So loaded that up and played loads. Spoilers and long, long ramblings in the spoilers. So didn't feel up to listening to all the kingdom talk so decided to look on Halimar. And wasn't too pleased with what I saw. Well he was fine. Just not too keen on his companions. And yes yes I know you get more pretty soon but it was not soon enough D:. And he only had auto saves and all past the point where your companions are decided. So fine, remake him. Except his portrait was gone! That stinky Maegar Varn stole it with his dlc. Which I didn't have. And yes I know custom portrait. But something something supporting the industry after a night of sleeping on it.
So back at him with his proper face (death glares in Maegar's direction) he set off on his adventures. A couple of time since I'm finicky. But eventually settled on his build of a plain ol' wizard. Would have gone for the specialized ones, but none of the options excluded divination. And yes yes lore reasons, but what about my reasons!
So plain wizard it was with Specialization in Transmutation (because it was marked as Greed in the specialization class and well...Halimar is a greedy little man). And Divination and Necromancy in the opposition school. Divination because if he knew the future he'd never make the choices he made and Necromancy because corpses are icky and he aint spending his precious study time fiddling with them. And his familiar is a monkey because DAI Dorian's concept art sold me on the idea of having a stinky monkey on his arm, occasionally feeding him grapes and cheering on him to fling poo at his enemies!
Headed off with Valerie (because Lawful!) and the elf (because Evil!) and of course my majestic Amira who can snap mah spine anytime.
Then do the regular Chapter 1 stuff. Visit the outposts, go to the tombs, seduce the dwarf to die with us, talk to Halimar's imaginary girlfriend and so on. Stumble on to some slavers and seduce the dwarf to die with them. Then find them again and kill them, once more seducing the dwarf back onto our side. And also get two magical buddies as well.
Then stumble upon a swamp and of course we go looking for Shrek. Didn't find him, but found a wicked tree and a blue dragon fly. And that is the only reason I bothered to type this whole thing up. It was just a long winded way to share that: OMG HALIMAR ATE THE DAMN DRAGONFLY. Nuts.
Then back to the normal grind. Visit the warring small people and side with the Kobolds. Either because a certain lady suggested it, or that I was kinda against them on my other save or Halimar just likes small dragon people. Also fed the dog with some stoned Kobolds. Because my alliance was with the chief and well, evil points and so on.
Then assault the Stag Lord! And then bravely run away to regroup! Then assault the Stag Lord! And then reload because we done goofed! Mix this up like twenty times until the result is that the bandits are dead, we are alive and the loot is ours!
Then a bit of lollygagging before being assaulted by text. Find some more places and then manage to kill some Wererats. WHOOP! Get a snug new jacket and everything.
Then Halimar fulfilled his dream of becoming a noble man! And I fulfilled my nightmare of controlling a noble man!
Then things kinda went down the drain. Timed missions + resource management = my worst nightmare. And like I know the game was super generous on time in the first chapter, so crossing fingers that that trend continues. But still, I foresee a stomach ulcer in my future from all the worrying.
So first attempt I glaze through the text, not entirely intentionally, then waste some time at the table and then realize I have no idea WHERE the people wanted me to go and stumble around for a few (in game) days before giving up.
Decide to reload back to the banquet. Glaze over the stuff I did read before then pay very close attention to WHERE they want me to be. And seems like I did goofed since the clerics wanted me to chill before heading to the place I found on the map and the other lady just said the name of the place and the vague location. So fluff around on the table and go to the map.
And have a good chuckle since I spot the place I didn't see almost right away and enough time had passed for something to happen in the place I found. So do that first and then go to meet the lady.
And kinda knew what would happen, but not how. And hahahahahahaha I'm not ready and invisibility potion does squat. But did get to see Halimar fall face down in a ditch, so that was fun.
So debating whether to keep at it or restart his kingdom the third time since that is supposed to be the charm and I sorta have an idea of what I should be doing. Sorta. Maybe... TL:DR Had quite a bit of fun this session. And Halimar ate a dragonfly. That man, I tells yah. Also feel like I'm doing way better in combat with so far no moments of anguish and frustration. Sure there might be some in the future, but today I'll bask in the glory of being alright at it. Kingdom management stuff also seems a bit more doable this time around. Still a bit worried about spending time and stuff, but feel like I'm seeing a method in the madness. So that's nice. Also real happy over having no Ironman desires in this game. Because then I'd never make it past the prologue. Hehe...he...
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Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquisition, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on May 2, 2019 3:54:13 GMT
I started another Kingmaker PT because come hell or high water, I'm going to get that elusive LI! Found a YT of the romance, what lines to pick because by the gods, this romance is unforgiving if the wrong lines, even if it sounds fine, are picked. The approach towards other LIs are pretty obvious, unlike this tough case. I've already achieved a good ending in an earlier PT, no LI so I want to get this one because it leads to the best ending. I don't know the ending, only read that it's the best conclusion among all. I went with the same protag I made in the recent abandoned PT. Curious Crow , do you know that the companions will object if you try to give them things that don't suit them or touch things precious to them. Amiri especially; Don't touch my sword!!! She says that when I tried to move the sword to the first slot. Jaethal in an offended tone; Don't give me that.
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...lives for biotic explosions. And cheesecake!
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Post by Kappa Neko on May 2, 2019 10:18:18 GMT
^ Obsidian Gryphon Sometimes, you have to cut your losses and move on, my friend.
So, in Subnautica I was going to just record my second base in the Safe Shallows but ended up adding a new structure a little ways off... *cough* I built three levels of tubes around an above water platform. Great view of the Aurora, my rocket launch pad and the top floor of my science tower. I can also watch my stalker gang play water ball with the scanner room cameras! I released 6 tank bred stalkers next to my base ages ago. They have since drifted off a bit which is good because they kept clipping into everything... I LOVE how they just keep playing with the cameras like dolphins. When you're out of the water it looks HILARIOUS how they all clump together with their heads shooting out of the water, passing the ball from one animal to the other!! I managed to record it during my base tour. Sometime this week I will probably upload the video.
If anybody has wondered: No, you cannot actually place any interior items on a platform, even if it's not underwater... I wanted to build a nice terrace with benches but not possible. So now it's just an empty sun deck for... playing ball or something, lol. But still, getting out of the water and breathing in fresh air, listening to the sounds of the ocean feels GREAT!
The tubes I fitted with benches, potted plants, picture frames, coffee machines and a few observatories. One tube ring is completely underwater, one sticks out of the water a bit and one is above the water, all glass.
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Post by AnDromedary on May 2, 2019 17:53:51 GMT
If anybody has wondered: No, you cannot actually place any interior items on a platform, even if it's not underwater... I wanted to build a nice terrace with benches but not possible. So now it's just an empty sun deck for... playing ball or something, lol. But still, getting out of the water and breathing in fresh air, listening to the sounds of the ocean feels GREAT!
If you want more stuff on them, you should be able to put growbeds on there with some plants though, no?
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Post by Kroitz on May 2, 2019 22:19:31 GMT
Had a lot of fun sets in Mortal Kombat 11, casual and ranked. Happy that they patched the krypt and overall progression, even with some unlocking jank in the character specific towers remaining.
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Post by Curious Crow on May 3, 2019 0:51:16 GMT
Obsidian Gryphon I knew Amiri took offense to touching her sword. Learned it when I wanted to switch it out for a greatsword since I specced her for that (didn't realize to check the type of the sword she had before) and she was not having it. Didn't know about giving them stuff, so tried that this session. Harrim's "But I don't waaant it :C" cracked me up. Also got grabby with Jaethal's scythe, seeing as it was left for her or something. (And boo she was having it). And good luck with melting the Nymphs heart ---- Did play Pathfinder today, but might have just spent the time testing. What happens if you make a bee line for the purple wonder (not much) and which alt portrait Aldori gets if you use hers. And it's the one you get from the more expensive editions. Which I don't have. So cool gazes in her direction. Also saw the portrait the purple wonder gets and...yeah...obvious evil is obvious. But I do like this little feature. BG1 also had it, or at least BGEE but it was quite limited, just switching to same race(ish) portrait in the unused portrait pools. So you can get a party of the chick holding a sword by abusing the portrait change with Branwen, Dynaheir, Safana, Imoen and Skie. Granted you'd probably not want to since keeping up with the statuses would be a nightmare, but you can. Oddly enough Faldorn did not switch her portrait for me. So guess she's fine with being cloned. Most unnatural... Not sure if Pathfinder is more sophisticated with it's methods, since you can't switch portraits on the whim (as far as I know) and there is a decent while between starting the game and meeting someone with the same portrait to do any quick testing. And then you are stuck with that portrait. So it will be later testing, if ever. Was looking up some stuff and managed to glance the location of two new companions in chapter 2 so went and checked them out. One of them got smashed into smithereens (innocent whistles) and the other seemed okay. So that was fun. And so was this session in general, if not very fruit full. So good times.
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Post by dazk on May 3, 2019 1:41:04 GMT
So the past couple of days Kassandra has been hanging out with Barnabas and Herodatos and having the occasional bonding experience with Deimos. She's also been doing a fair bit of exploring of Phokis, Lokris and a bit Boeotia. She also sailed to Argos and slaughtered many pigs and a cultist. My build is making me struggle with Wolves and pigs in particular, I need to work on my dodge timing against them as their "tell" on when to hit space isn't instinctive for me. Have had to resort to dealing with groups of them by using Rush Assassination. Anyway, spoke to The Pythia and then spoke to her nicely at her house without killing any guards, had already killed Elpenor so then went to the cult meeting and met Deimos, chose this time to brand the guy in the torture chamber hell he was a cult member, why not. Then took a trip with Herodotos to Leonidas battle site and had some flashbacks and then off to Argos to pretend to upgrade the Spear and as mentioned before kill a lot of pigs and a cultist. Then returned to Temple of Apollo, satiated an old woman, returned some stolen Sapphires to Photios, killed some bandits for Elpenor's brother ( ) and then went and helped the Dr. Kass convinced him not to kill his mum and she didn't either and they "cared" for each other for a while. Then just roamed around opening some Fast Travel points and clearing places on the map. Pic's Fancy Dress Time Leonidas channelling a bit of Arya Stark Kass with a view to a Kill
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on May 3, 2019 6:30:27 GMT
Kingmaker. I'm having a few new encounters which I think are due to decisions made in kingdom management. For one, I ran into Osprey. In three PTs, I've never seen this guy! An Andoran (sp) banker turned up so I endorsed their bank because they're running an honest business. I refused the Razimiran trade agreement so the consequence of it didn't pop. I'm presently holding another trade agreement on ice but the deal seem ok to me. Also ran into some NPCs that seem to have no connections to anything though I found a new item regards one druid. I can't figure out how I miss the letter because I ran into this dude in previous PTs. Could have something to do with perception. Curious Crow, did you have the Baldhill Top curse research pop on you? I'm presently keeping track of the curses because they're a vital element in the secret romance. In the list, this research occur early which should be so considering the timing of the incidents but I never got it. I'm wondering if my game is bugging out on this. The rest are popping in accordance. I got myself a mod to check on the numbers on the romance. It looks like I'm on track.
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Post by Kappa Neko on May 3, 2019 7:28:09 GMT
If you want more stuff on them, you should be able to put growbeds on there with some plants though, no?
Interesting. When I put down the platform in the ocean above water I COULDN'T put down interior growbeds. But the exterior ones worked. The game was smart enough to realize that I wasn't underwater though because I couldn't place water plants in them. Now I wonder if there's a difference between building on land and just building above water level... hmmmmmm.
I didn't want growbeds there though. Too big. And the interior pots didn't work so... I could place down the modded interior lamps, however. Open air exercise room it is now!
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on May 3, 2019 14:39:51 GMT
Kingmaker *sigh* Just for the heck of it, I killed a certain apprentice just to see what weapons I'll get. Frankly I don't know what's with the game because I pretty much did 90% of the artisans' quests in previous PTs and yet I did not see some stuff I'm seeing now in this PT. I'm wondering if my choice of kingdom alignment is a factor. This is how the companions look at the moment. I hardly use these three guys for the active party. I like Jaethal but again she's only active in the first phase of the game. Nok Nok, hardly use at all and he is never on the Council. I gave the wizard hat, it appears in the present PT, to Octavia because she's a wizard! Again, I hardly use her. My favourite party. Jubilost, Valerie, Amiri, Linzi, Tristian. In a couple of incidents I wanted to yell at the NPCs; that's not what I meant by my actions! *gives up* Nvm.
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Post by Kappa Neko on May 3, 2019 22:03:34 GMT
Spent all evening editing my Subnautica base video. Since this was my first base that I left unchanged in layout, it's a bit boring. But I still like the Grassy Plateaus location around the small purple crater. And anyway, I wanted to upload them all because why not. In case anybody's interested:
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Post by Obsidian Gryphon on May 4, 2019 0:27:02 GMT
Kappa Neko, you have a cuddlefish sitting on top of a cupboard. Is it glitched out? Or is it a toy from a mod? The base is aesthetically designed; you're using components for deco because I can't think of a reason for battery chargers to be placed so far away from the moonpool or so many wall storage, etc. Great looking base!
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Post by Curious Crow on May 4, 2019 2:20:08 GMT
Obsidian Gryphon Never went that far in Chapter 2, only research I got was for the Nettle Crossing and the only thing that happened in the Baldtop Hill was a bunch of angry spiders and a nymph named Silky something. ----- Decided to put Halimar on ice, since when in unknown territory I usually end up picking Good/Chaotic Aligned choices which seems a bit out of character for a Lawful Evil fellow. So been prodding at the game with Kaira, who was my first mook who wrapped up chapter one. And judging from the time she had left, she'd done a lot of lollygagging. But oh well, probably going to lollygag to find out what to do in this chapter. Long recap in the spoilers. And some spoilers as well. Took the half orc lad as my envoy and put him as a general. Could have sworn that Linzi offered herself as treasurer the first time I peeked at chapter 2, but now she's having none of it. So no one wants to over look the barony's cash moneys. Not that we have any...
Kaira's village is a lot better looking, with colorful banners and tents, whereas Halimar's village looked quite drab. Also realized I could rename the first town, so now it's called Ravens Land. For reasons. I guess.
Current irritations with Kaira is that her portrait doesn't quite fit. Granted it looks lovely and I don't really want to change it, but the other dwarf lady with the crossbow is a lot more like her paper-doll. Second is that I worry about her build being sub optimal. But still, she's doing okay when in a group. Pretty useless alone, but united we stand etc, etc. And third is that she's a cleric. And Tristian is a cleric. So it might be a bit of an overkill to have two...But ah well, see how it goes.
So Kaira made it through the tryst in the Verdant Chambers. Had to look it up, since I was too daft to realize that falling off the wall into a safe spot was better than face planting in a ditch. Only other thing I have to say about it is: Bloody gnomes. Didn't even fight them or anything, just so weird seeing them there.
Then more lolly gagging. Help Tristian with whatever event thing he wanted to pull off and then things start happening.
Spiders infest the Baldtop Mountains and dirty trolls appear. So squish the spiders and go out. Find the gnome again and this time save his cart (and why yes, there was some reloading). Still can't stand him so just left him standing in the water, unchunked.
Then go to the watchtower and recruit Kivan. And yes he has a different name, he's a human and his ogres are trolls, but he's still Kivan in my eyes.
Find some good loot then go exploring the Witches hut. As in we sniff around the area outside because she wants some shrooms and we aint got any. Do a bit of lumberjacking, lizard hunting and general scouting in the area.
Shake hands with an elderly kobold. It was cold and clammy and not at all like hugging a nymph, but on the other hand the kobold seemed far more into it than the nymph.
Then head to the dwarf ruins and once more disappoint my compatriots since I wont smash the troll. Because eeew, that's dirty. Also he talk good. Decide to ignore his pleas about me turning back and clear a path to the ruin interior. It goes all right, but now Amiri, Tristian and Valerie are a vibrant shade of red, going on gray. So will probably head back to the base, get them healed up and see if anything happened while I was gone. So all in all an unexpectedly eventful session. Was expecting to end up shelving the game, but ended up getting a kind of goal to focus on. So good times. Top spot, top pic and a mystery for the ages.
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Post by dazk on May 4, 2019 3:37:10 GMT
Okay so another day in ACOD where Kassandra ran around for hours doing lots of stuff but not much of anything, ran my bounty up by killing some leaders and the mercenaries came like pigs to the slaughter including the Number 1 in tier 1 but still find my self having just moved to the bottom of Tier 3. Did have one exacerbating event. There had been a merc. (Merinthe The Brittle) staying one step ahead of me for ages so I thought damn it I'll hunt her down. Every time I fast travelled near her she'd have teleported somewhere else for about 5 times. Then started to chase her on Phobos and she just disappeared!!! Fast travelled again and started chasing her and some how she had gotten throught a region where Phobos was just useless so had to chase her on foot, this took overall about 20 minutes. Finally got ahead of her and one shot her with Rush Assassination and all for a legendary sword!!!! So having FT'd all over the place chasing the merc I decided to kill every cultist that was on the map which was kind of fun but involved a fair bit of travel time by ship on occasions. Anyway by the end of it there were 6 less cultists. Found myself at one stage near Kallisto The Bear so took the poor thing down, was a bit harder than it needed to be due to my squishy Assassin build. Wish you had an opportunity with these beasts to at least use RA at the start of the battle. Helped the Pythia's brother by killing some bandits and took a few contracts of the board. Pic's Curious Crow this ones for you: Poor Kallisto I blame you Daphnae you saucy minx: This woman was peeing beside me while I was in the stealth!!!! Speaking of everyday things, hadn't seen this in the game before, a woman painting her house while the husband stood by and watched : The Adrestia got a solid work out yesterday:
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Post by Kappa Neko on May 4, 2019 8:27:46 GMT
Obsidian Gryphon That's actually a toy from the decorations mod, yes. Yeah, I place chargers just to have something on the walls! Same for all the medkits and radios. Although, the ones in the first part of the base have always been there. And I NEEDED all the small lockers for all my materials! They have such small inventory space. I would return from my scavenger run, charge my batteries, walk over to my lockers, store everything, build new stuff, take my batteries and leave again. I needed my batteries for the Seamoth the least. Most of the time I had to charge my tools. By the time I returned, I had a bunch of empty batteries. Doesn't really matter where I charge them... besides, I rarely parked my Seamoth in the Moonpool unless the it was out of energy.
Btw, it's funny how not scary the game becomes eventually once you know where the lethal creatures are. The other day I swam 1500m from one base to the other close to the surface. At night. Wasn't attacked once.
Needed to get that one Seamoth I left at the entrance to the alien teleporter in the Bulb Zone...
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