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Space Skeleton posted:A G13 isn't really a keyboard, it's basically a hotkey board you program your keybinds into and stick to the side of your keyboard to use instead of one. Yah, the thing I'm really addicted to is the analog stick for movement. I can't stand using WASD on games anymore.
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TracerM17 posted:Yah, the thing I'm really addicted to is the analog stick for movement. I can't stand using WASD on games anymore. Back in MY day we used to play Doom 1 using only keyboard controls and we liked it.  (I never went back to keyboard only controls once I learned mouse look and non-ball mice became a thing)
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I played TSW on and off over the last couple of years, but I never got past Transylvania. I had a Hammer/Chaos chick that I really enjoyed, even tanking a few dungeons with her, but I kept getting pulled away by other games. I finally got around to rerolling her last night in SWL as a Hammer/Blade and ran through the new tutorial, because I heard we have to transfer our shwag over by 9/4. So far so good. But it looks like Funcom has taken down the chronicles site, so I can't even ogle her old build. Does that still exist anywhere? Does TSW itself still even exist at this point? As a previous B2P, will it be reasonably easy for me to gain access to Chaos and basically have some semblance of my old toon back? Would Hammer/Chaos even be good for tanking poo poo now? Does Last Train To Cairo still exist, or did it die so we can all learn and be sad? Are the A'kab still hilariously fun to fight? Is KG still the best quest giver in any MMO? Brave New World fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Sep 3, 2017 |
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Brave New World posted:Does TSW itself still even exist at this point? Barely and somewhere deliberately hard to find. Probably just directly from Funcom. Brave New World posted:As a previous B2P, will it be reasonably easy for me to gain access to Chaos and basically have some semblance of my old toon back? Would Hammer/Chaos even be good for tanking poo poo now? You should import your old TSW account into SWL so can you have all your old cosmetics unlocked and all the weapons unlocked too. You still need to spend skill points on them per usual though. Also yes Hammer/Chaos would do that very well. Brave New World posted:Does Last Train To Cairo still exist, or did it die so we can all learn and be sad? Are the A'kab still hilariously fun to fight? It's still there and you won't miss it because all the Egypt DLC is now worked into the main story. A'Kab behave the same but TTK is much lower and the game draws ground attacks for you so dodging the charge is a lot easier.
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Len posted:It always drew the ground attack Was hard to remember fighting them several years ago but I'm glad its still like yesterday for some.
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DancingShade posted:You should import your old TSW account into SWL so can you have all your old cosmetics unlocked and all the weapons unlocked too. You still need to spend skill points on them per usual though. Also yes Hammer/Chaos would do that very well. I initiated account transfer last night. The only noticeable change was that it changed my available # of slots from 1 to 3. My toon is still level 2, and I heard that cosmetics, etc don't technically unlock until Agartha at lvl 10- Is that accurate? Also, mine's a Steam account- should I be converting that to Funcom too? I'm gonna level her up just to make sure.
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You've got a lot going on. Your char level won't change, as it's just a cosmetic copy. Once you reach the portal to kingsmouth in agartha you'll be prompted to claim your tsw vanity items. If your tsw account was a steam version, you should be playing via steam now. I wouldn't unlink it unless you really want to pay via the funcom site. It's a one time irrevocable decision to unlink. So they say.
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I got everything unlocked just fine. The skill window is a lot different, and the game is clearly a lot easier, but it seems to still be The Secret World apart from that. 
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Is it worth getting into this if only to experience the investigation missions and other good content? Or has it become a terrible unfun slog that takes ages to get through?
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You'll have to play through a lot of story to get to all the investigation missions but the story is really good so it's not a slog at all. Just doing the missions requires zero grinding.
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Mystic Stylez posted:Is it worth getting into this if only to experience the investigation missions and other good content? Or has it become a terrible unfun slog that takes ages to get through? The main draw is the story lines/writing/voice acting/cutscenes. It's all top-notch. If a person was just looking for WoW Clone #347, this ain't it. After they give you your quest, each NPC has a little blue bubble you can activate to ask them about different topics. Each topic can be clicked on several times until they've exhausted every voice line on that particular subject(it'll then show a green check mark). You'll get way more immersion out of the game/setting if you go through the additional dialogue, but it's not super obvious to everyone starting out that each NPC does have a lot more to say.
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DancingShade posted:Back in MY day we used to play Doom 1 using only keyboard controls and we liked it. I don't want to admit how long it took me to go mouselook from WASD and the arrow keys. Now I only go back to keyboard if I have no choice.
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OK, thanks! Is the Illuminati still the way to go?
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M_Sinistrari posted:I don't want to admit how long it took me to go mouselook from WASD and the arrow keys. Now I only go back to keyboard if I have no choice. WASD(left) + Mouse w/ side buttons(right) and binding every key around WASD? I probably couldn't do it any other way at this point.
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Mystic Stylez posted:OK, thanks! Is the Illuminati still the way to go? It does not matter But yes
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Templars are the one true light.
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Hello Sailor posted:Dragons get Japanese Joker (Mark Hamill version) for their handler in whatever comes after Kaidan. Which is why I swapped from Illuminati to Dragon for the relaunch.
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Hello Sailor posted:Dragons get Japanese Joker (Mark Hamill version) for their handler in whatever comes after Kaidan. Whoa, really? Where'd that info come from?
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crawlkill posted:Whoa, really? Where'd that info come from?
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crawlkill posted:Whoa, really? Where'd that info come from? Do not click on the spoiler. No really. After you help the host capture Lilith at the end of Orochi Tower. Or watch them do it really.
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Tokyo is an absolutely fantastic story, and everyone needs to run through it at least once.
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I did that questline with a friend, and when we were rummaging through the lockers a decapitated head rolled out of mine and screamed at the top of its lungs. I just about poo poo myself over VOIP, and he had literally no idea why because that event didn't happen on his screen. 
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The worst/best part of that entire thing is entering the building and accidentally looking up.
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Kessel posted:The worst/best part of that entire thing is entering the building and accidentally looking up. Can anyone, well-versed in the lore explain to me why? What was the purpose of mass suicide. Just to create a huge ghost?
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Sekenr posted:Can anyone, well-versed in the lore explain to me why? What was the purpose of mass suicide. Just to create a huge ghost? By focusing on eating the light/stars and emptying themselves of human concerns through brainwashing and stuff like outright castration etc it's strongly hinted they are trying to prepare vessels for the dreamers to fill, or to act as their unquestioning puppet agents. That mass suicide was probably just a test run and/or proof of concept. If you read all the letters & diary pages in that mission plus the ones in the secret underground cool club house for gifted loner kids in Tokyo Part 2 you can piece most of this together. But why? Because Lilith's puppet leader for her Morninglight Cult went rogue due to dreamer influence and/or a power grab. We don't know a whole lot about Philip yet other than what she says shortly before the host captures her mid speech. So we'll need a new info source after that. And since hubby is very unhappy with us after that particular event he's unlikely to fill in any blanks himself. DancingShade fucked around with this message at 10:54 on Sep 5, 2017 |
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DancingShade posted:That mass suicide was probably just a test run and/or proof of concept. That is what I was curious about, since there doesn't seem to be any apparent gain for FNF/Marquard or the sleepers, but who knows I also never really understood the second part, specifically Why did Samael even try to stop us from reaching her, and got angry at the outcome. He seemed very displeased with her shenanigans even before things went out of control with Marquard/the bomb. Didn't they even split paths after her last big fuckup with sleepers?
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Sekenr posted:That is what I was curious about, since there doesn't seem to be any apparent gain for FNF/Marquard or the sleepers, but who knows He probably still loves her, and has the sort of thinking "the only one who gets to punish Lilith is me."
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Meallan posted:He probably still loves her, and has the sort of thinking "the only one who gets to punish Lilith is me." Yeah it's this. If you replay the mission where you fight the Orochi bees a few times you'll notice his dialogue is very protective despite her betrayal. Granted you may have been a bit distracted by fighting said Orochi bees who respawn forever because hey, they're bees. Hell he's outright threatening towards you during that level which is a type of unfriendly he has never displayed towards you before. Blackmail? Sure. But he's well beyond that when Lilith is threatened.
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DancingShade posted:Yeah it's this. If you replay the mission where you fight the Orochi bees a few times you'll notice his dialogue is very protective despite her betrayal. Yeah, sadly couldn't really focus on his monologue and never replayed it.
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Meallan posted:He probably still loves her, and has the sort of thinking "the only one who gets to punish Lilith is me." He has a line or two during that mission where he outright says this or something to this effect, I think. And yeah, (about looking up) Lilith tried to make the Morninglight her personal cult, but the Dreamers are not to be outsmarted. The filth bomb was, if I recall correctly, an attempt to kill Lilith at the tower.
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Yeah, I just read his text and he says it plainLilith is my wife and thus off-limits to you. Really couldn't pay much attention with all the bee-juggling.
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Yup. And Lilith wanted Anima (Emma) to use as a power source for the empty Gaia engine under the Orochi Tower to do things like repair the filth damage and reshape the world. But I never played through that top end raid content in Old TSW so I don't know the dialogue, just a summary.
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Prygelknabe posted:Can't wait for the No Fear Foundation questline to return ? It has. It's in. It dropped with the Kaidan patch.
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I have to say, playing through the game's story missions again has been better than expected. Like the mission Obstructive Persons...the first time through I think "oh, they're watching me. Also, Cassandra is still a mystery." The second time through it's the other names that really jump out to me. I see you John.
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Phanatic posted:? I think they mean the rest of it which comes once we can get past the first containment wall.
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John calls himself a plurality in the Manufactory, so I think the mass suicide was an attempt to become a Dreamer. Whether it failed because that isn't how it works or because they hosed up the ritual somehow is unclear to me.
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Not going to lie. I think the buzzing and/or JohnThe Filth would be a great mission control. For people who didn't choose wisely to get the Yakuza Joker that is.
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