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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:the biggest change between the TTRPG Navigators and Cassia is that they have toned her ability to annihilate everything with her basic Lidless Eye down a little, and made any abilities that were not Lidless Eye theoretically useful.
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:the biggest change between the TTRPG Navigators and Cassia is that they have toned her ability to annihilate everything with her basic Lidless Eye down a little, and made any abilities that were not Lidless Eye theoretically useful. In the lore it's supposed to be able to melt a space marine.
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Jan 16, 2024 17:45
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is the space marine okay, though?
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yeah he was a nurglite it was just annoying.
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The Lord of Hats posted:Picked this up recently, just touched down on Janus, going Iconoclast, having a fun time. you are playing the game correctly
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Warden posted:Buddy, you are absolutely full of poo poo if you claim that one can beat WotR on difficulties above Core without using any buffs. Did you by any chance mean below Core? I do not.
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Jan 16, 2024 18:20
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More human than hu...man...!
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IMO Black library does largely a good job implying that certain cultural factors that are at the forefront in the present day aren't really as important or even extant in the 41st millennium. In so much as sex and sexuality is stated or implied it seems much more casual and less stigmatized and formalized than in the present. I think that there are a lot of moving parts behind that, including the idea that sex doesn't sell models (at least not the way they want to), a legitimate intent to depict a different culture than the present, and the writers being almost entirely older white British dudes who aren't necessarily equipped or interested to make things like sex and race and background a pillar of their writing. The company is also probably extremely embarrassed about some of the earliest content put out, which was extremely explicitly horny. And, I don't want to yuck anyone's yums, It was horny in a way that's probably not in the best interest of the IP.
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Jan 16, 2024 18:22
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Yeah the Pygmy models are pretty notorious
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the Inquisition War books are an absolute mess, yes. made all the worse by the fact the guy writing them gets the comedy value of 40K, at least by the end of it. book 1 contains a bunch of extremely gross sex poo poo that is why Games Workshop tries to pretend the series never existed. book 2 ends with the super hot shapeshifter assassin girlfriend getting killed in a fight with an Eldar Aspect in the depths of the webway. book 3 climaxes with the inquisitor bringing said girlfriend back to life through some kind of webway time travel bullshit. her first act is killing him because as far as she's concerned the Aspect just pulled up an illusion of the Inquisitor to try to distract her and then hauling off into the webway trying to hunt the Aspect down. the spectating party members, a Squat and a Space Marine, then say "well that was a real waste of time. lets go wander off and try to find some of the Emperor's biological children I guess?" at its best Ian Watson captures the baroque nightmare insanity and resultant dark comedy of 40K pretty well. at its worst, [the entirety of Book 1]
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Most of the stories in the setting just aren’t written in a way where it would come up—it’s much more about slamming action figures together. And I want to be clear that I’ve read a bunch of 40k books because I do enjoy some good action figure slamming. But the author would have to go out of their way to make it come up. I recently started reading Flesh and Steel, which is a detective story in the 40k universe, and it’s really interesting seeing people just Existing in the setting in a place where war isn’t presently going on, You get an entirely different sort of details out of it.
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Yeah, 40k has horniness, you just have to look for it. The Eisenhorn/Ravenor novels I read a decade ago I remember being almost soap opera horny in the Inquisitors' retinues, and I know there was one particular character, a redheaded acrobat, who never appeared on the page without being described as "voluptuous"
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The Lord of Hats posted:Most of the stories in the setting just aren’t written in a way where it would come up—it’s much more about slamming action figures together. And I want to be clear that I’ve read a bunch of 40k books because I do enjoy some good action figure slamming. But the author would have to go out of their way to make it come up. There are different kinds of action figure slamming. Don't pretend you never made your dolls kiss. One of the things I like about RT though is that there's a good amount of 'normal boring life' stuff in the game that helps build the setting. Yeah, it's about grimdark war in the And hey, at least it's not the first sets of Repentia models. Naked women wearing scrolls is something I expect out of some anime waifu models and is decidedly less interesting than Jae's antics.
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The Lord of Hats posted:Most of the stories in the setting just aren’t written in a way where it would come up—it’s much more about slamming action figures together. And I want to be clear that I’ve read a bunch of 40k books because I do enjoy some good action figure slamming. But the author would have to go out of their way to make it come up. Warhammer Crime in general is a great line of books. Bloodlines is good, as is Wraithbone Phoenix, and the anthology Vorbis Conspiracy is great.
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Gainsboro posted:Having just breezed through the game on hard mode, all you need is a soldier/arch-militant, an officer/sanctioned psyker, and Cassia: Thanks for this. My RT is a Voidborn psyker, I'm having him take Pyro and Telepath and Idira be more of a support character with Sanctic. Early bolt staff seems pretty weak relative to other weapons...am I missing something? Just killing time until GTFO is an option for Argenta, I made a forge world crime lord soldier to replace her. Longlas rifle at range and chainsword/laspistol up close. Sure-fire plan, Concentrated fire and Run And Gun are working well together. Cassia is a beast and we've only gotten to the Rykia spaceport battles. Just defeated the cult in the warehouse with minimal difficulty. Looking forward to chasing down the sword shard and becoming my crew's god
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Anyone know if there is a reason why the epic store version is not playable on geforce now? Picked this up during the holidays sales and was hoping to play on my laptop via geforce now but it's not an option, although both pathfinder games are.
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People talking about noticing the difference between Act 1-3 and then Act 4 were not joking. Just the whole "Rumors" function is completely broken and I've seen the same Vox Master interrupt happen multiple times when passing by a certain planet even after resolving that "rumor". It doesn't help that any campaign map based skill checks are going to be a coin toss if they actually use the correct party member. Trying to resolve a colony event with -75 skill checks and its picking people who have 0 chance of success instead of Pasqal.
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Yeah, this game is a bit buggier than Wrath after act 3. Despite some bugs I was able to complete Wrath within a few weeks of release (I binged the gently caress out of it), but my game is stuck in Act 4 a month after release. Though that does include a holiday break for them and Wrath came out in September. Hopefully we get a good patch this week.
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Lord Cyrahzax posted:Yeah, 40k has horniness, you just have to look for it. The Eisenhorn/Ravenor novels I read a decade ago I remember being almost soap opera horny in the Inquisitors' retinues, and I know there was one particular character, a redheaded acrobat, who never appeared on the page without being described as "voluptuous" Hell, even the aforementioned Cain series can get up there. I'm on book 7 currently, and just about every time a particular character turns up Cain makes a point to note how she's about to spill out of her clothes. Which kinda makes sense, since chronologically it's one of the first stories where he's still pretty young, and he's being pretty adroitly manipulated by that character to boot. 
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The thing about the Imperium is that while it is a nightmare hell fascist state, it's also insanely tolerant in a lot of ways compared to many IRL societies, let alone authoritarian ones. Religious diversity is pretty big. They don't have too much in the way of actual orthodoxy and as long as you worship the Emperor and only Him, they generally don't care how you do it. Racism does not exist, and while some cultures are noted to be sexist, the Imperium as a whole seems to not really care about gender or sexuality. As long as you are a human with reasonably stable genes, you're good. Plus obviously the feudal nature meaning there is little in the way of a unifying Imperium-wide culture and lots of countless local traditions and practices. Like as odd as it is to say, the Imperium is pretty tolerant, they just have absolutely no tolerance when it comes to a small number of things, reasonable and unreasonable.
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Perestroika posted:Hell, even the aforementioned Cain series can get up there. I'm on book 7 currently, and just about every time a particular character turns up Cain makes a point to note how she's about to spill out of her clothes. Which kinda makes sense, since chronologically it's one of the first stories where he's still pretty young, and he's being pretty adroitly manipulated by that character to boot. Hell Cain managed to hook up with an enginseer. The Lone Badger fucked around with this message at 11:29 on Jan 17, 2024 |
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Pershing posted:Early bolt staff seems pretty weak relative to other weapons...am I missing something? Hammer of the Emperor (and its later combo with Press the Advantage) is core to getting those zap numbers up, because the flat damage boost applies to all targets hit by it.
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Gainsboro posted:It's because sanctioned psykers start with psy level 0. Idira will do significantly more damage with it in the early game because she starts at psy level 1, and this tradeoff will become less worth it over time as the sanctioned gains psy levels from feats and gear while Idira maintains a higher chance of exploding. Yeah, I had my RT using the bolt staff and Idira using a divination staff for Consign. Does unsanctioned increase the chance of Perils Of The Warp/summoning warp creatures? I had assumed sanctioned and unsanctioned were just story fluff labels. Gainsboro posted:Hammer of the Emperor (and its later combo with Press the Advantage) is core to getting those zap numbers up, because the flat damage boost applies to all targets hit by it. But anyone can cast Hammer, not just the bolt staff user? Also, will I get to keep Heinrix in the party or does he create problems like Argenta?
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Pershing posted:Yeah, I had my RT using the bolt staff and Idira using a divination staff for Consign. Problems are the spice of life. I'd be somewhat worried about having three psykers, though. Exacerbating the issue, unsanctioned does make perils more likely, that's the tradeoff for the +1 psy rating.
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Griddle of Love posted:Problems are the spice of life. I'd be somewhat worried about having three psykers, though. Exacerbating the issue, unsanctioned does make perils more likely, that's the tradeoff for the +1 psy rating. I'm keeping Idira around because I killed her off in my last playthrough. If I'm getting rid of anybody, it'll be Heinrix.
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Pershing posted:I'm keeping Idira around because I killed her off in my last playthrough. If I'm getting rid of anybody, it'll be Heinrix. Hmm, Idira can do some fun stuff but Heinrix can be a dodge tank with over 300% dodge, 95% parry, 300% armor and so on.
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Gainsboro posted:It's because sanctioned psykers start with psy level 0. Idira will do significantly more damage with it in the early game because she starts at psy level 1, and this tradeoff will become less worth it over time as the sanctioned gains psy levels from feats and gear while Idira maintains a higher chance of exploding. But Idira can wear the gloves that give +1 psi-rating every time things get spooky, allowing her to skyrocket her rating with enough officer attention. Or explode. It’s a cointoss each battle.
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So I finished up Commorragh. Did I really just miss out on recruiting Ulfar? I talked to him a bunch when he was in his cage and nothing we talked about allowed me to recruit him. I figured he'd just show up at some point during the Act and allow me to bring him with me but...nothing? If this is it and there's no other chances of recruiting him other than reloading the entire segment then lol, I guess I just get to see him on loading screens. Also, no Heinrix. He just vanished. He never appeared during all of Commoorragh and he's not back on the ship when I returned. He just unceremoniously bounced. I got Marazhai though, so I guess that's the trade? What a hosed up part of the game. I'm not really sure how any of you guys enjoyed it. AndyElusive fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Jan 18, 2024 |
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AndyElusive posted:So I finished up Commorragh. After speaking with Ulfar at least once, you have to talk to the haemonculus and pay him a body part to release the space marines and you have to pass a skill check. He then gives you a key, you go back to Ulfar and either take a dogmatic option if you’re dogmatic or otherwise pass another skill check to convince him you’re legit, iirc.
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Yes you missed Ulfar. You needed to buy him off the Haemonculus. Was Heinrik in your party when you went there? If so then he was in the city and you didn’t find him.
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AndyElusive posted:So I finished up Commorragh. You have to talk to the fleshcrafter to recruit Ulfar and find out where he hid Heinrix/Cass if they got taken to commoragh with you. Instead of being unceremoniously bounced, if you don't get them back they are Trapped in a psyker nullifying deprivation chamber going insane as their own thoughts bounce around inside their cold heads with nothing to tether or guide them for eternity. Bummer. Sharkopath fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Jan 18, 2024 |
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 Heinrix was with me at the start, so I guess I just didn't explore enough to find him. And that sucks about Ulfar. The entire Commorragh act feels so volatile, considering. Which I guess is thematically appropriate.
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Preechr posted:After speaking with Ulfar at least once, you have to talk to the haemonculus and pay him a body part to release the space marines and you have to pass a skill check. He then gives you a key, you go back to Ulfar and either take a dogmatic option if you’re dogmatic or otherwise pass another skill check to convince him you’re legit, iirc. I think you also need to talk to Ulfar before finishing the conversation with Haemonculus. I didn't notice Ulfar until I was about to leave so after I spoke to him I went back to Haemonculus, but he was done talking at that point. I didn't realize this was a problem so I kept playing past that part and missed the chance to recruit Ulfar.
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They need to fix the whole Hamonculus set of interactions. I don't even know why voluntarily giving up the body parts for free is an option and the choices seem to change each time you talk to him. I had to reload several times because I couldn't quite make sense of the whole spiel.
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Has the game received any updates that fix some of the post act 3 stuff yet?
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Bohemian Nights posted:Has the game received any updates that fix some of the post act 3 stuff yet? Very slightly.
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pentyne posted:They need to fix the whole Hamonculus set of interactions. I don't even know why voluntarily giving up the body parts for free is an option and the choices seem to change each time you talk to him. I had to reload several times because I couldn't quite make sense of the whole spiel. Yeah I had given over all mine, then googled to find any extras to give him for Ulfar. Just make it cost x body parts imo.
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Missed Ulfar as well. Same reason, gave away trophies for some random stuff because it wasn't obvious I'll need those for that character. Sounds dumb I can't just open the cage and suffer some consequence later on.
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Patch is upquote:Highlights
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Don't want to read too much because of spoilers, does it look like enough changes to make acts IV/V playable?
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