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Jumped back into this game last night with a couple friends. Does it always seem so depressingly empty?
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Bombogenesis posted:Jumped back into this game last night with a couple friends. Does it always seem so depressingly empty? It's a well-kept secret.
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Jul 8, 2018 17:16
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Bombogenesis posted:Jumped back into this game last night with a couple friends. Does it always seem so depressingly empty? That's by design. Map instance population limits are kept low. More of the "single-player game that was mistakenly made as a MMO" thing.
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Jul 8, 2018 18:07
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I just got to Egypt and geez, was it a last-minute addition to the game or something? It feels like I spent the last two hours doing the same cut+pasted defend the base mission over and over.
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Jul 12, 2018 17:09
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Omi no Kami posted:I just got to Egypt and geez, was it a last-minute addition to the game or something? It feels like I spent the last two hours doing the same cut+pasted defend the base mission over and over. Egypt has the Last Train to Cairo content which was originally post-game content added into the main story. Unfortunately everyone who made the good fun missions had been cut by then and there are a lot of wave defense missions.
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Jul 12, 2018 22:20
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Just finished Egypt part 2 and I enjoyed it way more than part 1. Hell, it took me so long to get to part 2 because I went back to Innsmouth to level since I couldn't stand E part 1.
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Jul 12, 2018 23:45
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Omi no Kami posted:I just got to Egypt and geez, was it a last-minute addition to the game or something? It feels like I spent the last two hours doing the same cut+pasted defend the base mission over and over. EPIC fat guy vids posted:Just finished Egypt part 2 and I enjoyed it way more than part 1. Hell, it took me so long to get to part 2 because I went back to Innsmouth to level since I couldn't stand E part 1. Seconding this. First part of egypt actually made me stop playing for a while. But the 2nd part is pretty cool and you actually do stuff that matters. so i guess power through it.
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Jul 13, 2018 01:35
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Is the second part the underground city that's been mentioned a few times? The cult story line so far has been lame and not nearly as charming as Not Maine.
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Jul 13, 2018 05:14
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Nope, that's part of Last Train to Cairo. You'll resolve that before you go to the second Egypt map.
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Jul 13, 2018 05:26
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Huh. I thought the Last Train to Cairo was pretty alright. I actually can't think of any defend the base type missions in that chain but admittedly I haven't replayed it recently. The Unbound chain though, that I think I disliked.
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Jul 13, 2018 06:26
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The last train was annoying.
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Jul 13, 2018 09:40
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My main problem with the last train is how the blue (I think) card reader is not made easy to spot and I had to do a bunch of back tracking :V I might just need to do some investigation quests to avoid missing such obvious details though. The shittiest part was the broken ladders with the hook-in that needed you to enter at a specific angle else you'd fall off the train. 3rd area Transylvania isn't bad at all so far. Starts off way better than Egypt did anyway.
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Jul 13, 2018 13:45
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I liked Egypt. 
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Jul 13, 2018 13:54
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Meallan posted:I liked Egypt.  Last Train is incredibly divisive though, it's annoyed the living piss out of me on occasion. 
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Jul 13, 2018 14:16
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Pilchenstein posted:
Trying to get the "don't get hit by beams" cheevo on the top of the train is frustrating as hell. Transylvania is heaps of fun and I'm sad I raced through it the first time to get to 50. Went back recently and although I'm well over-levelled it's a really interesting setting.
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Jul 13, 2018 16:37
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Tirade posted:Trying to get the "don't get hit by beams" cheevo on the top of the train is frustrating as hell. Yeah, that infuriated me too. But when I didn't care about achievements I was fine!
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Jul 14, 2018 01:00
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Hypocrisy posted:Yeah, that infuriated me too. But when I didn't care about achievements I was fine! I just wanna dance like Nassir 
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Jul 14, 2018 10:36
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Is the last 25% of the game worth pushing through egypt? I've forced myself through what I think is most of the third act, then hit a weird bit where it takes a break from the plot to funnel you through an endless series of extremely frustrating sabotage missions. The latest one was the thing where you go back in time to rome, and since I"m terrible at stealth I probably poured 45+ minutes into figuring out what the heck it wanted me to do, only for the crafting thing to break. Forums all said to try relogging, which reset the entire mission and lost all of my progress. I haven't been having any fun whatsoever since about 2 hours into egypt, and if transylvania is more of the same I figure I should cut my losses and just call it quits.
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Jul 14, 2018 12:19
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Omi no Kami posted:Is the last 25% of the game worth pushing through egypt? I've forced myself through what I think is most of the third act, then hit a weird bit where it takes a break from the plot to funnel you through an endless series of extremely frustrating sabotage missions. The latest one was the thing where you go back in time to rome, and since I"m terrible at stealth I probably poured 45+ minutes into figuring out what the heck it wanted me to do, only for the crafting thing to break. Forums all said to try relogging, which reset the entire mission and lost all of my progress. I haven't been having any fun whatsoever since about 2 hours into egypt, and if transylvania is more of the same I figure I should cut my losses and just call it quits. Transylvania is definitely better than Egypt IMO. It's overarching plot is about vampires going on a cruise to take over the county using old Soviet leftovers. It also has probably the best DLC content with the Sleepless Lullaby missions. And that mission you were stuck on was part of Issue 6 which was just a poo poo show. When it came out in the original game it just flat out broke the game for a set of people using AMD+Nvidia. It was broken for a couple months with absolutely no communication about why it happened or when it would be fixed. Hell the original head dev actually mocked players for bringing it up.
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Jul 14, 2018 13:08
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Len posted:And that mission you were stuck on was part of Issue 6 which was just a poo poo show. When it came out in the original game it just flat out broke the game for a set of people using AMD+Nvidia. It was broken for a couple months with absolutely no communication about why it happened or when it would be fixed. Hell the original head dev actually mocked players for bringing it up. Yeah oh man, I assume Last Train to Cairo is the climax/final mission of that issue? Because it wasn't the buggy horror show that the rome level was, but holy crap what a giant bundle of bad design decisions wrapped into one mission.
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Jul 14, 2018 14:39
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Omi no Kami posted:Yeah oh man, I assume Last Train to Cairo is the climax/final mission of that issue? Because it wasn't the buggy horror show that the rome level was, but holy crap what a giant bundle of bad design decisions wrapped into one mission. It was indeed the grand finale of the issue. My favorite bad design decision was how during the time frame the game literally wasn't working some pubbie streamed riding the train for 18 hours (apparently the IRL time for it to get to Cairo from where SD takes place because the head dev jokingly said something might happen. In the end he popped into the stream and teleported her to a very unfinished and Tokyo as a tease. I think Tokyo came out like two years later? And the bug didn't get fixed until a couple months later
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Jul 14, 2018 16:34
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Len posted:It was indeed the grand finale of the issue. What part of this story is a design decision
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Jul 14, 2018 16:51
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theflyingorc posted:What part of this story is a design decision That someone let Joel be in charge and I'm still bitter that all the cool fun goons I used to play with stopped because of that
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Jul 14, 2018 16:55
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Omi no Kami posted:Is the last 25% of the game worth pushing through egypt? I've forced myself through what I think is most of the third act, then hit a weird bit where it takes a break from the plot to funnel you through an endless series of extremely frustrating sabotage missions. The latest one was the thing where you go back in time to rome, and since I"m terrible at stealth I probably poured 45+ minutes into figuring out what the heck it wanted me to do, only for the crafting thing to break. Forums all said to try relogging, which reset the entire mission and lost all of my progress. I haven't been having any fun whatsoever since about 2 hours into egypt, and if transylvania is more of the same I figure I should cut my losses and just call it quits. I thought Transylvania and Kaiden were really good story wise. Transylvania less so the main plot and more so the part that leads into Kaiden, though the finale of Transylvania was fantastic.
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Jul 14, 2018 21:49
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Omi no Kami posted:Is the last 25% of the game worth pushing through egypt? I've forced myself through what I think is most of the third act, then hit a weird bit where it takes a break from the plot to funnel you through an endless series of extremely frustrating sabotage missions. The latest one was the thing where you go back in time to rome, and since I"m terrible at stealth I probably poured 45+ minutes into figuring out what the heck it wanted me to do, only for the crafting thing to break. Forums all said to try relogging, which reset the entire mission and lost all of my progress. I haven't been having any fun whatsoever since about 2 hours into egypt, and if transylvania is more of the same I figure I should cut my losses and just call it quits. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO the way to fix this (i had the exact same problem, even opened a ticket for it) was to exit the game, then restart it. You do lose a little progress, but by now you should know the pattern. You should have the 1 part already crafted in your pack, you just need some bits from deconstruction one of those things and its done. And yeah, the 2nd part of egypt is good.
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Jul 15, 2018 01:06
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Here's another interview with the new lead designer. If you don't feel like reading, the only really interesting points are that the next content update will be a mission pack some time after the anniversary. Also, he likes the idea of scaling zones so earlier zones may not be a complete waste to do.
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Jul 15, 2018 01:18
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Len posted:That someone let Joel be in charge and I'm still bitter that all the cool fun goons I used to play with stopped because of that I loved how "Tokyo soon, promise" turned into "hey I guess you guys like golem events" for over a year. That said, the early golem events (anniversary golems, then the halloween event with Super Jack) started out fun, but got overly grindy. And even though the game clearly couldn't handle having more than a few people in an area fighting big bosses, they kept having them because they had nothing else at all. And then they dropped the godawful wave defense scenarios and those together with Joel being a smug rear end in a top hat about everything (and prioritizing taking ill-gotten achievement reward gear away from people over fixing any of the poo poo that was wrong with the game), I think that's what broke the game for me.
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Jul 15, 2018 02:53
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Hypocrisy posted:Here's another interview with the new lead designer. Hell yeah. First island still the best zone. I don't want to diminish the other ones but I find Lovecraftian coastal town with dark secrets simply more compelling.
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Jul 15, 2018 08:25
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I like the idea of zones not scaling so I don't have to put in effort when I just want to complete some challenges.
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Jul 15, 2018 10:36
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So Transylvania is neat so far, but that mission where you have to escort Romanian oompa loompas with weird Italian accents across the entire map at a crawl is godawful; I'm pretty sure it took me 15 solid minutes of walk ten paces, wait, repeat.
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Jul 16, 2018 13:41
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Omi no Kami posted:Is the last 25% of the game worth pushing through egypt? I liked Egypt so beware of my opinion but Kaiden was probably my favourite area storywise.
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Jul 16, 2018 15:30
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Meallan posted:I liked Egypt so beware of my opinion but Kaiden was probably my favourite area storywise. My favorite mission in the game is probably the content that's now at the end of Transylvania (I Walk Into Empty, which was previously part of an issue). Kaiden has a bunch of my favorite characters, as well.
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Jul 16, 2018 15:42
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Oh walk into empty was my favourite of the 3 expansion missions. But I love the no fear foundation stuff of kaidan and the orochi tower.
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Jul 16, 2018 18:02
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Omi no Kami posted:So Transylvania is neat so far, but that mission where you have to escort Romanian oompa loompas with weird Italian accents across the entire map at a crawl is godawful; I'm pretty sure it took me 15 solid minutes of walk ten paces, wait, repeat. Escorted NPCs (including these) speed up quite a bit if you get a ways ahead of them. Just have to be quick on running back to save them if something spawns behind you.
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Jul 16, 2018 18:03
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Meskhenet posted:
I'm still stuck on the have to navigate the beam maze to save the mummy guy , and that Orochi part of the Tyler Freeborn thing. At this point I'm feeling I need to do a computer rebuild since it's been a while and how stuttery some things are in the game that aren't when I see my fiance playing the game on his. So far I'm more just can't wait to be finished with Egypt and able to move anywhere else.
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Jul 16, 2018 19:43
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Hello Sailor posted:Escorted NPCs (including these) speed up quite a bit if you get a ways ahead of them. Just have to be quick on running back to save them if something spawns behind you. Ooh that's handy to know, thanks! I kept close because I was worried that getting too far away would result in the mission failing or them resetting to their starting point.
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Jul 17, 2018 04:03
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Aren't there some escort quests where the NPC stops moving forward if you get too far away
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Jul 17, 2018 07:27
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Kessel posted:Aren't there some escort quests where the NPC stops moving forward if you get too far away I vaguely remember the guy you rescue from the trap in Kingsmouth and have to escort to the police station never seemed to haul rear end and would stop when you got far ahead enough.
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Jul 17, 2018 07:36
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M_Sinistrari posted:I vaguely remember the guy you rescue from the trap in Kingsmouth and have to escort to the police station never seemed to haul rear end and would stop when you got far ahead enough. that's exactly the one I was thinking of. it's been a while since I last played so I don't remember how the other escorts functioned.
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Kessel posted:that's exactly the one I was thinking of. it's been a while since I last played so I don't remember how the other escorts functioned. It's the one burned most in my brain since I pretty much had to moonwalk and shoot to pull it off because he went so drat slow.
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