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Heads up: Due to their digital summer sale, TSW is currently  on Amazon.If you don't want to spend that without trying the game first, ask here and someone can give you a trial key. orcane fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Jun 30, 2013 |
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orcane posted:Heads up: Due to their digital summer sale, TSW is currently  I was going to wait until the steam summer sale and have to go without it for a while after my trial.
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Jun 30, 2013 16:47
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EVERY loving TIME I LOAD I GET A GOD drat ITEM DELIVERY NOTIFICATION! I've already loving grabbed my issues, but apparently I STILL HAVE TO GRAB THEM! Is there a way to get this notification to loving go away forever because holy poo poo it's obnoxious!
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Jun 30, 2013 18:46
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:EVERY loving TIME I LOAD I GET A GOD drat ITEM DELIVERY NOTIFICATION! I've already loving grabbed my issues, but apparently I STILL HAVE TO GRAB THEM! Is there a way to get this notification to loving go away forever because holy poo poo it's obnoxious! You can delete it. It doesn't do anything bad if you've already grabbed it. Also you'll probably be annoyed once you don't have anything to spend AP/SP on if this bothers you so much.
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Jun 30, 2013 19:11
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Yeah, it does bug me that they constantly pop up. I save up points fairly regularly and it drives me nuts. But it's more frustrating with something I already did popping back up over and over for some reason. Is there a magical no-notifications UI mod?
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Jun 30, 2013 19:20
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:Yeah, it does bug me that they constantly pop up. I save up points fairly regularly and it drives me nuts. But it's more frustrating with something I already did popping back up over and over for some reason. Is there a magical no-notifications UI mod? There was but I dunno if it's been updated in awhile. I had to uninstall a couple mods the other day because they weren't compatible with the new dressing room and caused options to just not show up in the menu so who knows what that could gently caress up.
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Jun 30, 2013 19:32
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orcane posted:Heads up: Due to their digital summer sale, TSW is currently Looks interesting. Could I get a trial key?
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Jun 30, 2013 21:00
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A A 2 3 5 8 K posted:Looks interesting. Could I get a trial key? GK9LJJZ63REQKY956PW7 Pop that into register.thesecretworld.com
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Jun 30, 2013 21:10
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Here: E5FFKENXQNZBNZ7VN9ES Or for whoever wants it since I'm slow.
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Jun 30, 2013 21:12
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Slig posted:GK9LJJZ63REQKY956PW7 Thanks!
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Jun 30, 2013 21:28
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orcane posted:Heads up: Due to their digital summer sale, TSW is currently  Boy do I feel even more silly for having splurged and set the game to download overnight now.  you shall be missed.
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Jun 30, 2013 22:50
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Kyrosiris posted:The way I do it, I do the minimum of puzzling to where I get what the gimmick the mission wants you to know, and then I google it afterwards. I recently blasted through the investigation missions that came with the six issues so far, and this is what I did - especially the musical puzzles, since I'm tone deaf as gently caress. Also Hell and Bach. I got what they wanted, but honestly I'm not going to sit there for an hour and link up the letters to the runes and puzzle out the meanings of the runes whose letters they didn't give me.
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So, PvP exp gain seems hosed. I just wanted to do enough to unlock the Basic PvP Armor Models. So I started running El Dorado's/Stonehenges. After 6 horrible soulcrushing losses in which we got base camped, I now have just over 1000 exp. I need 50,000. And apparently 4 more ranks after that. This seems to be a horrible grind even to just unlock the basic stuff, am I missing something, or is this just poor planning in action.
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Jul 1, 2013 03:33
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Rookersh posted:So, PvP exp gain seems hosed. I can't say anything about PvP specifically, but beyond a certain point - say, beyond the story missions which while not short necessarily but still - the game becomes one of grinding in general. Grind Elites for Q10 blues to get into NMs, grind NMs to get bullion and Q10.5 purples or whatever for Raids, and so on. Also, as far as I've seen, PvP is probably one of the most neglected parts of the game. I could be wrong, but it seems like the developers have always been on the side of PvE when it comes to actually changing things up.
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Jul 1, 2013 03:54
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Rookersh posted:So, PvP exp gain seems hosed. Yeah, the top tier requires 200 of those little tokens. And I am currently up to 70 out of those 200, not including what I already spent to get the first tiers. The easiest way I have found to get pvp xp is to use the fight clubs with a willing opponent who doesn't mind getting beaten up for an hour. In the mini zones you get 30 xp per kill, in fight clubs you get 100 (-5 per kill). ^^Pvp is the reason for every major ability nerf since the game went live. But they can't get the actual pvp mini games to work and be enjoyable to anyone other then the 10.5.5's running around inside.
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Jul 1, 2013 04:09
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PvP definitely isn't 'neglected' in this game, they're trying very hard to make it work. It just isn't. If anything we'd all probably benefit from it being neglected, at lest it wouldn't be causing a bunch of largely unwarranted nerfs.
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Jul 1, 2013 04:13
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Nombres posted:I recently blasted through the investigation missions that came with the six issues so far, and this is what I did - especially the musical puzzles, since I'm tone deaf as gently caress. Also Hell and Bach. I got what they wanted, but honestly I'm not going to sit there for an hour and link up the letters to the runes and puzzle out the meanings of the runes whose letters they didn't give me. Hell and Bach was the one I was thinking of most. That one is just... tedious. Well done, clever but repeating the puzzle 3 times makes it a chore.
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NihilVerumNisiMors posted:Hell and Bach was the one I was thinking of most. That one is just... tedious. Well done, clever but repeating the puzzle 3 times makes it a chore. Brute forcing is really bad puzzle design. I hated Hell and Bach for that too. Another type of puzzle which I'm not overly fancy about are the ones which are very heavy on translations. I recall one in Transylvania which has tons and ton of Romanian text, and that comes out very incorrectly out of google translate. Even if you go all they way trying to translate that poo poo and painfully copy paste the numerous special characters into your translate tool, you end up with gibberish from which it's hard to pick up any clues. Also,  
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Jul 1, 2013 08:02
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New page, new horse adventures
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Marx posted:Here: E5FFKENXQNZBNZ7VN9ES Took this one. Thanks!
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Jul 1, 2013 09:12
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I created one for Section Z, but he bought it before activating the key, so here it is for anyone who wants it: N3XQ639258JQN9YQFZFB
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HughGRect posted:Yeah, the top tier requires 200 of those little tokens. And I am currently up to 70 out of those 200, not including what I already spent to get the first tiers. The easiest way I have found to get pvp xp is to use the fight clubs with a willing opponent who doesn't mind getting beaten up for an hour. In the mini zones you get 30 xp per kill, in fight clubs you get 100 (-5 per kill). Is it one token per Battle Rank? Or do you get more then that?
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Jul 1, 2013 13:40
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Looks like we are getting an anniversary event:
^^^^^Every 10,000 xp is 5 tokens, sometimes it bugs out and gives 10. Every battle rank is 50,000xp. Variable Haircut fucked around with this message at 14:16 on Jul 1, 2013 |
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Jul 1, 2013 13:45
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Oh, and for the Anniversary Event, anyone who has ever played a Funcom title can play TSW for free (w/o client purchase) for a week. Regarding the bosses...what I'm interested in is why we're supposed to "bring down" the Guardians of Gaia. I'm just hoping the world won't be as borked as with the Winter event.
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alfheimwanderer posted:Regarding the bosses...what I'm interested in is why we're supposed to "bring down" the Guardians of Gaia. I'm just hoping the world won't be as borked as with the Winter event. Kirsten Geary says it best: "We're getting reports that they've been showing up where the filth outbreaks have been most prevalent. Which means all of the wonderful hotspots you've been visiting recently. Management thinks we already have enough competition for the title of Last Man Standing after the apocalypse. If you see any more of those things, get rid of them. They're about as effective at saving the world as buying a Prius and they're almost as annoying. We want to remain the dominant loving parasite."
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Jul 1, 2013 13:54
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HughGRect posted:Kirsten Geary says it best: I wish she would marry me. 
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Jul 1, 2013 13:59
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Fewd posted:Brute forcing is really bad puzzle design. I hated Hell and Bach for that too. Oh yea, I did that loving puzzle yesterday. Even following a guide it was annoying and tedious.
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Jul 1, 2013 16:23
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Some of the investigation missions are intriguing and require some interesting bit of knowledge or a sideways leap. Hell and Bach was not one of them, and the music puzzles certainly loving aren't. Whoever decides to add another musical puzzle should be shot.
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Jul 1, 2013 17:04
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HughGRect posted:Looks like we are getting an anniversary event: Sweet. Any word on when it goes live?
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guppy posted:Sweet. Any word on when it goes live? While everyone is out of the office for the long forth of july weekend.
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Jul 1, 2013 18:17
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guppy posted:Sweet. Any word on when it goes live? New Letter indicates July 8th. Anniversary Event from July 3-7.
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Jul 1, 2013 18:40
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So I knew there was an SP cap, but for some reason I didn't think there was an AP cap. Hit it and lost a few points after a huge investigation mission.  I don't really understand the point of a cap, at least until you reach 100%, but oh well, time to start unlocking a bunch of stuff.
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You know, if you told me ahead of time that the Illuminati had a meme spouting quest giver, I'd probably roll my eyes but the fact that he delivers every line completely monotone somehow makes it amusing rather than annoying. 
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Ibram Gaunt posted:You know, if you told me ahead of time that the Illuminati had a meme spouting quest giver, I'd probably roll my eyes but the fact that he delivers every line completely monotone somehow makes it amusing rather than annoying. Wait until you find out who he really is.
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guppy posted:Sweet. Any word on when it goes live? The anniversary event starts on the 3rd and goes until the 7th or 8th. At the end of that event, 1.7 content goes live. Now we need to get a group or two together to go out and kill all these guardians for the achievements.
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Zephonith posted:Yeah I wouldn't feel too bad about cheating on the investigation missions. To do them all without help, you'd need to be able to read musical notation, circuit diagrams, ISBN numbers, Futhark runes and Egyptian hieroglyphs, at a bare minimum. Googling information relevant to the task at hand (ISBNs, circuit info, etc) isn't cheating and is how the game is meant to be played. Googling the exact solution IS cheating and there's really no need for it.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:You know, if you told me ahead of time that the Illuminati had a meme spouting quest giver, I'd probably roll my eyes but the fact that he delivers every line completely monotone somehow makes it amusing rather than annoying. The voice actor was completely unaware of all the memes he spouts as well so it really helped with the monotone delivery.
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Captain Oblivious posted:Googling information relevant to the task at hand (ISBNs, circuit info, etc) isn't cheating and is how the game is meant to be played.
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Well yeah, while it's possible to solo all the investigation missions without guides, personally I'd find that really unfun hours of frustration, so I don't. I'm playing a game, after all. Not to mention guide usage isn't all or nothing - at least one site has different tiers of hints, and I know sometimes I just need a nudge in the right direction or confirmation that I'm just not doing [particular thing game wants me to do] right.
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That being said, I do think the right way to do investigations (and play TSW in general) is as a duo. Investigation missions may well have been more frustrating if it wasn't a collaborative effort! Figuring it out together and talking it out was a lot of the fun of it.
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