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Blue mountain has an issue with mob density where you can be swamped really hard, if you dont have some form of control it can get dicey.
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Blue mountain has an issue with mob density where you can be swamped really hard, if you dont have some form of control it can get dicey. Only in a few areas really. If you stay around the roads and dip into areas you want to go from there you don't have much trouble. It's when you go exploring the countryside or that mine that you really start getting hosed. The countryside and woods had might as well be nicknamed Wendigo Land given the number of those fuckers out there and the mine has a really good narrative reason for being such a pain in the rear end. Though a few quests are just a hilarious gently caress you to the player. Like that intro quest to the zone that takes you by the bridge. You walk past all these corpses and think "Wow, something must have really hosed these people up." right around the time you realize that you were fighting zombies in the previous zones. Cue possibly dozens of corpses starting to stand up before rushing you.  The mobs do feel like they get a huge buff between the two zones though. Plus something about the pacing of the second zone seems to make people breeze through it before they're geared up for the next one. Archonex fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Mar 12, 2015 |
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Mar 12, 2015 01:36
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Archonex posted:The mobs do feel like they get a huge buff between the two zones though. Plus something about the pacing of the second zone seems to make people breeze through it before they're geared up for the next one. I think this is because there are two sets of breadcrumbs leading you to Blue Mountain and insufficient lines taking you around to all the hubs in Savage Coast. If you do the Motel, University, Town, Fishing Lodge, Amusement Park, and League of Monster Hunters, you'll probably even be over-leveled for Blue Mountain. Almost nobody ever does all that, though.
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Mar 12, 2015 01:44
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Blue Mountain has harder enemies than the mobs in Egypt I found. Not in the Sun Temple or some such, that's where I pretty much stopped playing.
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Mar 12, 2015 02:09
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What's a good skill setup with the revamp? I was using fists/blade but I've long lost the guide I was using to figure out what setup and skills I was going after and I figure the reshuffle has changed what I'd want anyway.
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Mar 12, 2015 03:00
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Calling all the basic bitches: Where are your horse masks?
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Mar 12, 2015 04:27
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Toshimo posted:I think this is because there are two sets of breadcrumbs leading you to Blue Mountain and insufficient lines taking you around to all the hubs in Savage Coast. If you do the Motel, University, Town, Fishing Lodge, Amusement Park, and League of Monster Hunters, you'll probably even be over-leveled for Blue Mountain. Almost nobody ever does all that, though. I went to BM under leveled, and ended up backtracking to completionist Savage Coast. That got me over the hump. After that it was smooth sailing and I just hit Transylvania a few days before the patch. Subsequently I got sidetracked my KSP, so I haven't experienced it's painful glory yet.
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Mar 12, 2015 04:35
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I want to enjoy the game but I feel like something about it just doesn't play nice with my graphics card so I waste a long time trying to fix it and then the game inevitably crashes as I alt-tab a bunch and play with settings. Shadows on people's faces and skin aren't black like it feels they're supposed to be. Instead, they end up red and weird looking. It's really noticeable on some characters like the fortune teller in Innsmouth.
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Mar 12, 2015 04:49
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Wait a minute. There's a revamp?!
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Mar 12, 2015 05:12
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flatluigi posted:What's a good skill setup with the revamp? I was using fists/blade but I've long lost the guide I was using to figure out what setup and skills I was going after and I figure the reshuffle has changed what I'd want anyway. hi flat blade/fist is still fine but you might need to refocus on blade if you're heavily invested in fists since blade is basically the best open world pve weapon at this point http://www.tsw-builder.com/#13v111144113115106315311p310114112110530330403 here's a good early game build; I forget exactly where you stopped but let me know and I can tweak it for some slightly better, more expensive skills
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Mar 12, 2015 10:08
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I don't have the client installed right now, so I have to ask a stupid question: does having the run boost toggle you get for leveling affect jump distance? Because I completely forgot that was a thing the last time I played (the Hallowe'en content last year) and I hit a brick wall trying to open the City of the Sun God because I'd consistently miss jumps by a hair during an earlier quest.
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Mar 12, 2015 13:03
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Bieeardo posted:does having the run boost toggle you get for leveling affect jump distance? As far as I can tell, it does.
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Mar 12, 2015 21:47
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Yeah I've always noticed it helps, always frustrating to have something catch you with an attack right before a jump and oh god why am I so slow I"M FALLING ARGHhhhh
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Mar 12, 2015 22:17
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TGG posted:Yeah I've always noticed it helps, always frustrating to have something catch you with an attack right before a jump and oh god why am I so slow I"M FALLING ARGHhhhh This is why I err on the side of "Ehhhhhhhh" when it comes to platforming in MMOs. It doesn't help that I'm not a fan of platformers.
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Mar 12, 2015 22:20
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mulodyne posted:hi flat yeah I'm a bit past that now and was starting to go after some more expensive skills, lemme see if i can grab an image of what I've got unlocked
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Mar 12, 2015 22:42
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Here's what I've got: Basically, all of Fists, Blades, and Blood Magic unlocked, with Vital Fluids under BM 'Transmission' and Brandish, Brandishing Support, Matador, and Riposte unlocked under Blades "Running of the Jagged.' I think I was going for "Finish the Movement" in that.
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Mar 12, 2015 22:51
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Warmachine posted:This is why I err on the side of "Ehhhhhhhh" when it comes to platforming in MMOs. It doesn't help that I'm not a fan of platformers. For me it came down to looking for help on the official boards (oh, god) and finding a related thread where the best suggestions were to go in and screw with your basic networking settings, connect the modem directly to your computer, and sacrifice a goat to the latency gods. I've got a vacation coming up and probably some bandwidth to spare. I think I'll reinstall and see if remembering the runspeed buff helps.
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Mar 12, 2015 23:14
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flatluigi posted:Here's what I've got: here is what i would work towards then http://www.drakkashi.com/secretworld/wheel.php?1=1&4=4&16=2&0=6&3=3&21=0&1=5&19=2&19=0&2=1&35=0&54=2&1=0&27=6 this build gives you tankiness and a heal while making you a pbaoe blender; very good for story mode content. it's modular and will last you up to tokyo, where you will probably have to tweak it again but by then that probably won't be a problem. i recommend you wear talismans with HP on them for this, running 1970 hp won't work. you should also get finish the movement at some point, as it's a really sick ability for a few of the best dungeon dps specs in the game, but that's way down the line and even if you want to do them.
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So the revamp is really nice. Seems to have made the game much more enjoyable. I actually feel like combat isn't a tedious slogfest now. Hell, i'd even recommend people to try to pick up the game. Tokyo is a proper survival horror experience now too since it wasn't given a mob rebalancing. You go from a challenge to literally being terrified of walking on the streets due to the difficulty jump in mobs. It's pretty entertaining to see new players to the zone cringing at the mobs every time they come out of Agartha. But that's not the important part of this post. No, the important part is that they've added in a ton of  fabulous pretty princess enabling clothing. Now your horrible neckbeard of a paranormal investigator can wear a Hawaiian shirt and look like a true beach bum.Apparently this is part of the "Pangaea" update, which adds a ton more customization in to the game. Dark Side has two new vendors that rotate stock every day. I've seen everything from goth clothing to stuff that would look appropriate on a stereotype of a tourist in a foreign country. It's pretty great. It's also pretty expensive too, so it's something to spend that extra Pax on. Archonex fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Mar 13, 2015 |
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Mar 13, 2015 17:08
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Archonex posted:So the revamp is really nice. Seems to have made the game much more enjoyable. I actually feel like combat isn't a tedious slogfest now. Hell, i'd even recommend people to try to pick the game. Tokyo is a proper survival horror experience now too since they weren't rebalanced. You go from a challenge to literally being terrified of walking on the streets due to the difficulty jump in mobs. It's pretty entertaining to see new players to the zone cringing at the mobs every time they come out of Agartha. Mother gently caress. I've already bought everything at Pangaea once. Guess in have that to look forward to if I get back to playing.
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Mar 13, 2015 17:11
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Len posted:Mother gently caress. I've already bought everything at Pangaea once. Guess in have that to look forward to if I get back to playing. There is a lot of it. Like, the vendors are equivalent to fully stocked Pangaea vendors with a poo poo ton of color variants for every option. And every now and then that stock changes to something equally huge. So far it seems like there's a lot of options. There's a thread on the forums that hasn't even gotten the full stock yet given all the options. Also, so far it seems like each clothing piece is like 50K to 100K. So I could see it quickly getting expensive. But holy gently caress a lot of the options are great. Someone in the game was telling me that it was just part of what they're working on too.
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Mar 13, 2015 17:13
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Even if it's not enormous game-expanding story content, I like that they're still working on it.
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Mar 13, 2015 17:30
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if you want to try out the game, whats a good idea to buy to start off with? (expansions or whatever)
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Mar 13, 2015 17:40
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xutech posted:if you want to try out the game, whats a good idea to buy to start off with? (expansions or whatever) Just get the base game on steam or whatever and use the SA mart thread to get 15% off because it's on sale like nowhere right now.
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Mar 13, 2015 17:50
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xutech posted:if you want to try out the game, whats a good idea to buy to start off with? (expansions or whatever) I'm sure someone could hook you up with a buddy pass, like 3 days of game play, I would but all mine have been used. If you do end up liking the game, it goes on sale a lot.
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Mar 13, 2015 18:57
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I got one for you: H2KLL7HFKCQQUQDFX5PD
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Mar 13, 2015 20:07
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So i'm running through some of the Tokyo missions. Kaoru is the rabbit killer, right? I mean, it can't be that drunk detective in the rabbit fursuit down in quarantine. Though the entire scene where you find him is a mix of hilarious and stare inducing. It seems pretty obvious given all the hints given towards it being them. Either way I want to build a teleport heavy blade deck like that now, if it's at all possible. That fight scene was  as heck.
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Mar 13, 2015 23:24
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novaSphere posted:I got one for you: H2KLL7HFKCQQUQDFX5PD Thanks good sir. Making the massive download now.
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Mar 14, 2015 10:57
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Ugh, so I guess I have to re-download this now.
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Mar 14, 2015 12:16
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Warmachine posted:This is why I err on the side of "Ehhhhhhhh" when it comes to platforming in MMOs. It doesn't help that I'm not a fan of platformers. Honestly, this game does not have many platform elements to it. The tools are there, it's just that they didn't make it a big part of the game. So far, I've only seen platforming during playfield achievements "Hot Lava" etc.
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Mar 14, 2015 16:07
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Hurray, 20gigs downloaded, lets start er up.. another 4 gig patch? argh
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Helmholz posted:Honestly, this game does not have many platform elements to it. The tools are there, it's just that they didn't make it a big part of the game. So far, I've only seen platforming during playfield achievements "Hot Lava" etc. I actually did The Cost of Magic last night. I didn't notice the achievement on the vampire platform section. The one I did notice was the poison lake. That was some hot bullshit that I gave up on because gently caress not even taking damage from the lake water but still losing the attempt because a network gremlin ate a packet. Meanwhile, the actual platforming section was super easy and I don't get what people were complaining about.
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Warmachine posted:I actually did The Cost of Magic last night. I didn't notice the achievement on the vampire platform section. The one I did notice was the poison lake. That was some hot bullshit that I gave up on because gently caress not even taking damage from the lake water but still losing the attempt because a network gremlin ate a packet. Meanwhile, the actual platforming section was super easy and I don't get what people were complaining about. There's a way to not take damage from the lake water? Huh. All this time I kind of just run/jumped to a platform, waited to regenerate from the lake damage and repeated. Maybe I should have looked harder.
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Mar 14, 2015 21:07
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what server is everyone on?
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Mar 14, 2015 22:17
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xutech posted:what server is everyone on? As far as I'm aware it doesn't actually matter
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Mar 14, 2015 22:27
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Yeah, you can group up with anyone no matter what server, it only matters for PVP. And even then not much.
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Mar 14, 2015 23:43
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Pesterchum posted:There's a way to not take damage from the lake water? Huh. All this time I kind of just run/jumped to a platform, waited to regenerate from the lake damage and repeated. Maybe I should have looked harder. "Not touching the water." But because lag, if you land too close, you'll lose the achievement, but not take damage because network voodoo.
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Mar 14, 2015 23:50
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The "Unseen" achievements seem to be hosed in some way or another, so godspeed to anybody trying them. AFAIK Living Oil and The Pick-Up are hosed, who knows what else.
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Mar 15, 2015 01:41
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Do you add friends by username or character name? xutech and zutech.
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Is AR/Shotgun still fine? I don't know if I can be bothered to reroll just for this new patch.
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