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Cheston
Jul 17, 2012

(he's got a good thing going)

M_Sinistrari posted:

Sure it's not Futhark?

It's Futhark. I translated the runes on the Darkness War loading screen back around launch. (unsurprisingly, they translate to "War of Darkness")

It's not 100% consistent though, IIRC

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Amante
Jan 3, 2007

...


They are woefully underprepared for even modest player numbers. Seeing things crash and burn at Steam release is going to be "fun".

PST
Jul 5, 2012

If only Milliband had eaten a vegan sausage roll instead of a bacon sandwich, we wouldn't be in this mess.
The cabal I created to use as a bonus bank space has disappeared and creating a new one does nothing, wheeee...

Amante
Jan 3, 2007

...


The old one is there, it just can't be accessed due to the community server everything UI-based hinges on being down. Probably best not to try and make new ones, never know with Funcom.

M_Sinistrari
Sep 5, 2008

Do you like scary movies?



Since I've been logged in and running around for an hour and still only getting the make a cabal option, I'm going to assume I got booted for being bad. I don't know what I did that was bad, but I'm sorry. I promise I won't do it again if someone tells me what I did.

Richard M Nixon
Apr 26, 2009

"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker."
I forgot that we can't joke with goons because reading human emotions is sometimes difficult (it is an autism joke).

The community server is beyond hosed at the moment and most people can't see cabals, form groups, meet up, trade, or do much of anything. It's just a bug and they sent out an in-game announcement that maintenance is about to begin and will last half an hour.

M_Sinistrari
Sep 5, 2008

Do you like scary movies?



Richard M Nixon posted:

I forgot that we can't joke with goons because reading human emotions is sometimes difficult (it is an autism joke).

The community server is beyond hosed at the moment and most people can't see cabals, form groups, meet up, trade, or do much of anything. It's just a bug and they sent out an in-game announcement that maintenance is about to begin and will last half an hour.

Or in my case it's defaulting to the idea that I screwed up somewhere and didn't notice.

And at least Infernal Vibrations is back up for the time being.

Exmond
May 31, 2007

Writing is fun!

M_Sinistrari posted:

Or in my case it's defaulting to the idea that I screwed up somewhere and didn't notice.

And at least Infernal Vibrations is back up for the time being.

When I get on ill kick shorty , don't worry about it.

M_Sinistrari
Sep 5, 2008

Do you like scary movies?



Exmond posted:

When I get on ill kick shorty , don't worry about it.

drat my stint in Catholic school from way back when. Makes it easy to feel guilty over nothing and gave me a dislike for wearing plaid.

Richard M Nixon
Apr 26, 2009

"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker."
Oh gently caress. Who was it who called this out in chat yesterday?



Time limited caches! Seasonal items! Woooo!

Tallgeese
May 11, 2008

MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR


Richard M Nixon posted:

Oh gently caress. Who was it who called this out in chat yesterday?



Time limited caches! Seasonal items! Woooo!

That would be me.

Tallgeese
May 11, 2008

MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR


Double.

M_Sinistrari
Sep 5, 2008

Do you like scary movies?



Richard M Nixon posted:

Oh gently caress. Who was it who called this out in chat yesterday?



Time limited caches! Seasonal items! Woooo!

It was kinda expected since everyone else who does lockboxes has a rotating flavor of boxes.

Richard M Nixon
Apr 26, 2009

"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker."
I didn't notice if the launcher noted the 150 cap has been 'fixed' or not, but I've been doing quests today and just noticed that I wasn't gaining any AP/SP. The cap is back to 50. Beware!

M_Sinistrari
Sep 5, 2008

Do you like scary movies?



Richard M Nixon posted:

I didn't notice if the launcher noted the 150 cap has been 'fixed' or not, but I've been doing quests today and just noticed that I wasn't gaining any AP/SP. The cap is back to 50. Beware!

And the servers are coming down again for approximately an hour.

NeurosisHead
Jul 22, 2007

NONONONONONONONONO
Not gonna lie guys, the sub benefits are strong enough and my understanding of the value of a dollar is weak enough that I want to pay for patron. Does their shady credit card stealing service take paypal?

e: lol blocked by my work VPN, potential fraud flag

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
Out of interest, what's specifically dodgy about using a French payment processor for a European based company?

Amante
Jan 3, 2007

...


DancingShade posted:

Out of interest, what's specifically dodgy about using a French payment processor for a European based company?
Probably its 1/5 star ratings everywhere online and known history of being shady.

NeurosisHead
Jul 22, 2007

NONONONONONONONONO

DancingShade posted:

Out of interest, what's specifically dodgy about using a French payment processor for a European based company?

I don't think it's the nationality of the company, it's the company itself. There's at least a few people in this thread whose banks have declined or frozen the transaction at first for fraud risk.

Richard M Nixon
Apr 26, 2009

"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker."

Amante posted:

Probably its 1/5 star ratings everywhere online and known history of being shady.

Who goes online to review payment processors with good experiences? It's like when you see a local towing company with 1.4 average stars on Google and all the complaints are "they towed my car!". Nobody is going to go out of their way to leave glowing feedback for their card info not getting stolen or something.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
Instant Gaming, wanted to get a game. Enter my details, says processing. 1 min later BOOM, Payment Rejected, i get an SMS saying my money is taken. Call my bank, they say its in my active reserves, need to contact HiPay so they can sort this out. Sent emails 2 times, 7 days apart. Each time it would be an automated response, and after they reply saying i need to send them a PDF of the transaction the e-mails stop. Contacted Instant Gaming to see if they could possibly do something, if anything remove the payment option from their site so that more people don't get tricked out of their money. I hope the people behind this site will be found and exposed for the criminals that they are.

"Instant-Gaming.com - All your favourites games for Steam, Origin, Battle.net, Uplay and Indie games up to 70% off! Digital games, Instant delivery 24/7!"

Yeah I think I can guess why they had issues :v:

HotBobaloo
Jun 19, 2002
So people on reddit are exploding about the new AP/SP additions for patron, claiming they need to reroll because of the doubled AP/Sp you get for earning xp while leveling. Is this actually a legit argument? Like is there a level cutoff where it makes no sense to reroll? Like under 20 for example? I was actually thinking about buying patron, I'm enjoying the game so far. I'm lvl 17 with my shotgun guy. Is the 200 ish Ap worth my time to reroll?

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

HotBobaloo posted:

So people on reddit are exploding about the new AP/SP additions for patron, claiming they need to reroll because of the doubled AP/Sp you get for earning xp while leveling. Is this actually a legit argument? Like is there a level cutoff where it makes no sense to reroll? Like under 20 for example? I was actually thinking about buying patron, I'm enjoying the game so far. I'm lvl 17 with my shotgun guy. Is the 200 ish Ap worth my time to reroll?

You get more frequent injections at the lower levels because the XP needed to reach each part of your XP bar is much lower. So sure if you ran the calculations and spreadsheeted your current progress there might be a benefit to rerolling from a strictly XP / AP / SP perspective.

Or you can just shrug and keep getting injections of AP/SP at whatever your current level is because it'll never really stop. Just slows down because you need more XP later on.

They're just freaking out because they aimed to ultimate min-max their character progression and now someone starting today might get a bigger number before them in the long term omahgard.

Space Skeleton
Sep 28, 2004

Any idea why this is greyed out?



The catalyst says it's usable in place of a maximum epic quality or lower talisman when performing fusion. I was not actually planning to fuse with that catalyst since it's better used for epic to mythic but I am curious about why it doesn't work.

Martout
Aug 8, 2007

None so deprived

DancingShade posted:

They're just freaking out because they aimed to ultimate min-max their character progression and now someone starting today might get a bigger number before them in the long term omahgard.

unacceptable!

dear funcom,

Exmond
May 31, 2007

Writing is fun!

Space Skeleton posted:

Any idea why this is greyed out?



The catalyst says it's usable in place of a maximum epic quality or lower talisman when performing fusion. I was not actually planning to fuse with that catalyst since it's better used for epic to mythic but I am curious about why it doesn't work.

Are you lvl 50? At lvl 50 you can start fusing blues into purples i believe.

Space Skeleton
Sep 28, 2004

Exmond posted:

Are you lvl 50? At lvl 50 you can start fusing blues into purples i believe.

Oh, nope. Thanks. Odd that it doesn't say that anywhere, there is no tooltip in the button or anything else I can find.

M_Sinistrari
Sep 5, 2008

Do you like scary movies?



Exmond posted:

Are you lvl 50? At lvl 50 you can start fusing blues into purples i believe.

That's what I was guessing the reason was. Wish they made it more clear in the tooltip.

Randler
Jan 3, 2013

ACER ET VEHEMENS BONAVIS

DancingShade posted:

You get more frequent injections at the lower levels because the XP needed to reach each part of your XP bar is much lower. So sure if you ran the calculations and spreadsheeted your current progress there might be a benefit to rerolling from a strictly XP / AP / SP perspective.

Or you can just shrug and keep getting injections of AP/SP at whatever your current level is because it'll never really stop. Just slows down because you need more XP later on.

They're just freaking out because they aimed to ultimate min-max their character progression and now someone starting today might get a bigger number before them in the long term omahgard.

That sounds like it'd actually make more sense for casual players to reroll, because you get abilities faster without having to do XP grinding at the end while it does not matter for the spergs, because they'll be playing at level cap anyway.

NeurosisHead
Jul 22, 2007

NONONONONONONONONO

Randler posted:

That sounds like it'd actually make more sense for casual players to reroll, because you get abilities faster without having to do XP grinding at the end while it does not matter for the spergs, because they'll be playing at level cap anyway.

I'm playing pretty casually right now. Looking at my level 20 guy, the idea of having twice the AP/SP to play with to get to this point is tempting enough that I'll probably do it.

Thursday Next
Jan 11, 2004

FUCK THE ISLE OF APPLES. FUCK THEM IN THEIR STUPID ASSES.

NeurosisHead posted:

I'm playing pretty casually right now. Looking at my level 20 guy, the idea of having twice the AP/SP to play with to get to this point is tempting enough that I'll probably do it.

Yeah, I'm going to re-roll. I wasn't loving my abilities anyway. And I freaking love Kingsmouth / Savage Coast. That amusement park is legit creepy.

Dark_Swordmaster
Oct 31, 2011

Thursday Next posted:

Yeah, I'm going to re-roll. I wasn't loving my abilities anyway. And I freaking love Kingsmouth / Savage Coast. That amusement park is legit creepy.

Just wait 'til you learn its backstory!

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


I couldn't imagine being so pissed I'd redo all that poo poo again. I want out of Maine so goddamned much doing it again sounds like the opposite of fun

M_Sinistrari
Sep 5, 2008

Do you like scary movies?



NeurosisHead posted:

I'm playing pretty casually right now. Looking at my level 20 guy, the idea of having twice the AP/SP to play with to get to this point is tempting enough that I'll probably do it.

I've been just doing the daily challenges and that's gotten me to the late 30s so far. As I'm still not sold on doing multiple factions in SWL yet, I'm not going to reroll. I don't really feel like doing the lore token platform jumping more than I have to.

Richard M Nixon
Apr 26, 2009

"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker."
Did my 3x polaris - can confirm that getting item loot is bullshit. About 50/50 rate. Polaris gives ~3k xp with patron and the guaranteed reward bag does drop. In 3 runs, I saw one rare chest, which has red runes on top and I think the spikes were different. Got a blue item distillate for 1k item xp and a trash green item.

NeurosisHead
Jul 22, 2007

NONONONONONONONONO

M_Sinistrari posted:

I've been just doing the daily challenges and that's gotten me to the late 30s so far. As I'm still not sold on doing multiple factions in SWL yet, I'm not going to reroll. I don't really feel like doing the lore token platform jumping more than I have to.

I've got a real problem with being a completionist and explorer, so I'm like level 20 and just starting in on the amusement park quest line. I enjoyed the actual doing of the Kingsmouth quests enough that I don't mind doing them again. We'll see, maybe my opinion will change once I get 5 minutes in and feel bored with doing Kingsmouth again.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


Richard M Nixon posted:

Did my 3x polaris - can confirm that getting item loot is bullshit. About 50/50 rate. Polaris gives ~3k xp with patron and the guaranteed reward bag does drop. In 3 runs, I saw one rare chest, which has red runes on top and I think the spikes were different. Got a blue item distillate for 1k item xp and a trash green item.

So you get items at the rate they say you will? The patch notes say 50/50?

Richard M Nixon
Apr 26, 2009

"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker."

Len posted:

So you get items at the rate they say you will? The patch notes say 50/50?

Patch notes say about 50/50, so it's on point. Still pissed about that. Way too high, imo, and the AH is down so I can't offload this garbage. Loving the xp, guaranteed bag, and rare chest spawns.

E: my rare item bag from today:

M_Sinistrari
Sep 5, 2008

Do you like scary movies?



NeurosisHead posted:

I've got a real problem with being a completionist and explorer, so I'm like level 20 and just starting in on the amusement park quest line. I enjoyed the actual doing of the Kingsmouth quests enough that I don't mind doing them again. We'll see, maybe my opinion will change once I get 5 minutes in and feel bored with doing Kingsmouth again.

I'm every bit a completionist and explorer too and I do love running around Kingsmouth too. However, some quests are not ones I look forward to repeating unless I absolutely have to. Like that drat slowpoke as gently caress escort quest with that guy caught in the bear trap you have to get to the Sherriff's office within the time limit and happens to aggro every drat mob within a five mile radius in both TSW and SWL.

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malhavok
Jan 18, 2013
How can i recover my pw for this thing if i don't remember my account name? drat thing doesn't have an email option.

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