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Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

Bitchin'!


I get back into the beta next week in theory. I really want this to balance out and be cool and good.

Has anyone checked if you can still flush the toilet in Ankh to get behind the spider?

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Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

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Drinkfist posted:

On a separate note here. You are telling me that after all this work they did revamping the game not only will it have literally no new content but it is rolling back to the state of the original release with a new combat system? I loving love Funcom.

Are all the fun DLC missions in? By that I mean the Train mission in Egypt and the Vanishing of Tyler Freeborn. Please tell me that dumbass loving simulation area for the Venetians got the loving axe.

1) yes

2) no

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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Are they still criminally unfun?

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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Lawlicaust posted:

Do you really expect otherwise?

They made combat faster paced I was kind of hoping they dropped it from 15 minutes of playing defend the point to anything else.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

Bitchin'!


Drinkfist posted:

Totally understandable and the feeling is mutual.

I am sure this will totally work out after firing most of their staff and retraining/rehiring all the ones that remained on the Unreal Engine for "The Park" and "Conan Exiles".

I am sure they must have someone still in the house that knows how their proprietary DreamWorld Engine works. This reboot is gonna be a loving trainwreck. Even more so for returning players from the old TSW given that there is literally nothing added to the game for us.

Edit: and the loving Venice poo poo is still there.

Yeah going by what I gathered from the beta forums before I stopped getting to read them they don't care about us at all.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

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SweetBro posted:

As I was reading this it looked liked they took away all the good parts about the game to make it a generic MMO set in modern times? Does the combat at least no longer feel like a bullet spongy slog?

Hahahahaha


My favorite part is you have to do a lot of boring shoot zombies missions before you get to do anything fun and unique like sabotage or investigation missions

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

Bitchin'!


Richard M Nixon posted:

Is anyone else disturbed by the amount of people asking for full nudity in the game? Even adding the nipples to enemies was a little bit much but that's fine if they want to make it a bit realistic. Asking for the ability to make all players and NPCs naked with fully modeled cock and balls or vaginas is just a level of autism I'm lucky I don't understand.

Weirdly enough, the arguments for it are either "oh it makes the game so much immersive" or "this was responsible for 99% of all Conan Exiles sales so just think of the profits!"

Are any of you autists in the group of people whose experience would be enriched if old lady Norma had nice floppy granny tits that you could ogle? If so, I'd really like to hear how and also what the gently caress is wrong with your broken brain.

The whole thing feels like a pubic hair's width away from the ads on porn sites for "the most adult xxx mmo ever you'll cum in 5 seconds click here it's pussies online!"

E: Just loving stealth the stealth missions. What the gently caress is so hard about them? Aggro ranges are really really small, cameras have really obvious spotlights and patterns, and the jumping/laser grids are few and far between. I've never heard of anyone needing to kill the NPCs to cheese them.

Oh, and don't worry, the junkyard "the floor is lava" achieve is still alive and well.

Yes Roleplayers are indeed The Worst

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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Well they did add the third tier raid boss didn't they? I never did those because gently caress that poo poo.

Grind mobs for pieces. Use pieces to fight bosses who drop new pieces. Fight those bosses to get pieces for the next step up to get loot that probably wasn't worth the time.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

Bitchin'!


Avalerion posted:

Nope! I remember thinking the urban fantasy/horror setting is interesting but didn't get it - probably because monthly fees? And I seem to remember something about grouping/optimal rotations being kind of a thing? And then it just kind of fell of my radar until now.

I don't much care for dungeons, raids and the usual mmo stuff so this revival with it's re-branding to action rpg with occasional multiplayer seems to be pretty much aimed at casuals like me, who just want to play dress up, explore the stories, and blow up demons /zombies / Cthullu for a couple of weeks/months.

Then you're missing out because the dungeons are fun and have story.

Polaris: Ties into the story of Solomon Islands and what happened after the Vikings rolled up to beat up the Mayans...bad things

Hell Raised: Part one of the three part liberation of Hell

Darkness War: A dream quest about the time the Mayans invaded in an effort to release The Dreamers

Ankh: An ancient ruin full of mummies, filth, and Orochi

Hell Fallen: Part two of the liberation of Hell also the weakest dungeon IMO

The Facility: An old Cold War bunker where the Soviets tried and succeeded to create a Star Child

Hell Eternal: The last part of the liberation of Hell

Slaughterhouse: A Soviet research facility where they tried to make super soldiers with vampire DNA

The raids only one has any story at all and it's not very good.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

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Dark_Swordmaster posted:

They also sometimes have fun mechanics!

Facility NM I both love and despise for it's fight six mechanic.

the purple orb of death is named after he dog. Helena just got lonely and used her phenomenal cosmic power to make a puppy and it's trying to protect her.

But the actual mechanic of it is trash.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

Bitchin'!


Maybe this time Tokyo won't come out something like three years behind schedule.

In sections.

With the first being a barebones release and having you need to buy a second content pack to flush it out.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

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Arivia posted:

So are there still a bunch of standard MMO fetch/kill quests mixed in with all the really good stuff?

They also force you to do a bunch of the unfun ones before the fun ones open up

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

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flatluigi posted:

Yes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLue6h3RI9U

a good soundtrack to the above

TSW has had some really fun glitches, I think my favorite was being able to cartwheel into opposite faction HQs because the emote moved your character.

You could get out of anima Wells that way too

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

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Prygelknabe posted:

One of the newer Tokyo quests have a sabotage mission where you need to do crap like cartwheeling through a laser field and moonwalking past pressure plates. Guessing it's glitches and exploits like those that inspired them :allears:

And that mission is poo poo. EvilBillMurray has fought angels, demons, and possibly gods yet Orochi robots have to be carefully avoided.

Also you can rocketjump past the pressure plates to make it faster.


Ah god Fac 5/6 without rocket jump. :suicide:

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

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Kessel posted:

I thought it was from the mission in Blue Mountain where you had to avoid dudes in a mine while... planting explosives? What was it?

I think it slowly got patched in. Originally keeping it was a bug I think?

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

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Neat a character wipe and then I get unbanned

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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Someone ask about my akab pet. I got that because they bugged the poo poo out of Christmas 2012 and I deserve to keep it

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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Do the keys stack? Or do I get x per day and gently caress you if you want to bank them?

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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So I lose my free fun money stipend? Boo!

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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Lawlicaust posted:

It definitely gets wiped. You can give the key away though, it's not linked to your email or anything.

Hell the email I signed up to the beta with got an invite code today. They give zero shits.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

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Rookersh posted:

Would Pistols/Shotgun be worthwhile or no?

Also who all plans to jump in on release vs Steam release? Seems like it'd be a safer bet to jump in at Steam release, so that's when I'm coming back.

i like pain and i'd be missing precious free things since i'm a grandmaster so I'll be there day one

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

Bitchin'!


can't wait to see an otherwise unchanged golem event with a 10 player max :suicide:

edit: anyone know what timezone the tsw forums are in? either my ban message is hosed or they lied and i don't get back into the beta today

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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My vote is for Funcompetence if that's no longer blocked by the word filter

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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Richard M Nixon posted:

E: I like funcompetence but you know it'll be blacklisted. Maybe intentionally misspelling it will work and be an extra dig?

I can confirm it's a blacklisted character name dunno about cabals though. That required foresight I doubt they have

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

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We should try and beat The League of Monster Slayers to the name. Steal it right from under them

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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Variable Haircut posted:

Aniversity? (Or however the pubbies mispelled the anniversary chat channel)

I never understood that. "Oh well I made a typo. Instead of fixing it let's just advertise it and move on :downs:"

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

Bitchin'!


Tbh I don't even remember what my dudes face looks like. Horse mask 24/7 since I got the thing. It's why I won't buy outfits with my stipend because most aren't horse compatible

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

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Aye Doc posted:

I'm so excited for this game to disappoint me all over again

In new and exciting ways!

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

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Christ most f2p games at least have an account wide bank so you can shift things to alts. I think I might nope out and not even bother. I got my GM fun out of the game in the past

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

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I hope SWL launches with a golem event.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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M_Sinistrari posted:

Considering I hadn't a clue what the golem event was in TSW and only ran over when people were calling for more to help out, I ended up having quite a bit of fun with it. But then nothing in my world events in a game experience had me shooting away next to a naked guy wearing a horse mask and someone running around in a bikini with rabbit ears packing an AK.

They're pretty much Funcoms go-to for world events. Every event has a giant boss that tanks frame rate and drops a loot bag. Sometimes they launch with an extra 0 putting the boss at 200mil.

This time around since the server cap is 10 I'd hope they scale that number down but it's Funcom so I doubt it.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

Bitchin'!


So what I'm reading is they're going to run the Gaia event again and make me reearn shems. And that the gender specific account unlocks is going to be a thing still.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

Bitchin'!


I'm not even sure if I want to bother. I did all the not-Tokyo stuff and this time around it sounds unfun. I couldn't even bring myself to level alts before because gently caress that's a lot of unnecessary work.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

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In as EvilBillMurray. Let's do this

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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Why did I join Sanctuary? They got worse.

Edit: I will never understand the need to go "ah that's better i love ignore buttons" when you mute players.

Double edit: I'm finally able to do social things. Now I'm in game as EvilBillMurray.

Len fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Jun 24, 2017

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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The mankini is 2000 aurum :laffo:

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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Pryce posted:

Ah, I had a feeling it was something like that. Thanks!

Even then you may have to log out and back in because Funcom.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

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Tallgeese posted:

I can answer this: the answer is Greed.

How do you justify, in the Year of our Lord 2017, taking away:

1) The mail system
2) The ability to direct trade without a sub
3) The point stipend you get for subscribing

...without a new game?

That last one is probably because nobody fought Funcom to get one. Last time around the forums argued Funcom into giving a stipend the original plan was just all future content for free.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

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Archonex posted:

gently caress sakes. It's literally sitting in the shop inventory and is assigned to me. What a stupid way to handle things.

I already transferred. Wonder if I can get support to fix that?

And apparently I missed a lore segment in the Ground Zero subway mission.

Sanctuary says it shows up in the musrum(?) I think

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Len
Jan 21, 2008

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

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Hey someone hit EvilBillMurray up with a cabal invite

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