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Is the "resurrections consume time-locked (or RL money-locked) currency" thing still a thing?
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prefect posted:drat, I wish there were more time before the relaunch. They're keeping the old game open, to the best of my knowledge. It'll be a ghost town as far as other players, but the Tokyo storyline you quoted is soloable.
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May 30, 2017 18:29
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The Filth Column Are horse masks carrying over? Stung Like A Horse
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Jun 9, 2017 22:05
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Are there any build planners (or even an updated wiki) to show all the new weapon trees? I had a lovely Blood/Fist build in TSW that could faceroll Tokyo and picked that combination for my SWL character, but I have no idea if the build could be recreated or not. It looks like there's a higher-tier weapon tree you unlock by getting the "capstone" buff from your current tree... is there a way to view it? The only button I saw that looked relevant just brought up an explanatory video when I clicked on it. e: Is slotting passives from other trees no longer a thing or is it just impractical due to SP gain rates? Hello Sailor fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Aug 1, 2017 |
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Aug 1, 2017 02:51
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Can any character do the event raid or is it limited to 50s and/or some minimum level of stats?
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Aug 2, 2017 09:20
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StashAugustine posted:So I just got this on Steam, started off with a Demolisher. I'd like to pick up a gun at some point, and I like tanking. What's a good gun choice to complement hammer, and what should I be looking at for skills? The tanking guide thread over on the SWL subreddit might be useful for what you should be aiming for in order to tank group content. For solo content, I think you can just faceroll 5-point abilities as long as you keep upgrading your gear. However, I'm just now starting Savage Coast, so maybe that changes.
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Aug 3, 2017 18:35
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Bruceski posted:I found a poster on the cargo hold of one of the Kingsmouth ships saying "Tonno Nyarlatho". Googling it just turned up a twitter post from 5 years ago repeating the phrase over and over, and a forum in french discussing it. Some old event? It's a reference to the Eidolon of the Outer Dark raid, which used to require a portal to be created to access.
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Aug 4, 2017 09:06
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Obviously, the solution is to only do those zones while it's nighttime in the game.
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Aug 4, 2017 21:01
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That may already be in. I got a status effect that was two horizontally-aligned arrows pointing at each other (like -> <- ), but it didn't stick around long enough for me to mouse over it. Presumably, I failed to make the proper foot motion to keep it going
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Aug 5, 2017 23:13
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DancingShade posted:The in game "I want to give you money" button does nothing. No deduction off steam wallet, no bank charges using the old billing system. Nothing. The little bee symbol in the upper left corner of the game screen took me where I needed to go, but I didn't start patron until I was already playing SWL through Steam.
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Aug 6, 2017 10:18
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You can get a 3-pip standard weapon with a good suffix (efficiency if you have an elite you want to use all the time, energy if not) for about 900-1000 MoF on the Auction House. You can get that from finishing a couple of the daily objectives on the Shift+J list. e: Oh, yeah, folks who didn't play the old version of the game have to unlock new weapons. I remember hearing it's like 25k MoF for your first weapon, which you can get with a couple days of daily objectives.
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Aug 7, 2017 05:10
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You can see the branches on the minimap and line up your fall for most of them. e: Whoops, thought you were talking about Agartha lore. There's a couple of Whispering Tide lore you can pick up that way.
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Aug 7, 2017 20:49
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If they really want pay-to-win, they'll introduce a stacking buff consumable to make getting the stealth mission achievements easier.
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Aug 17, 2017 13:35
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prefect posted:I would consider paying just to make some of them possible to complete, even without the achievements. I'm going to (attempt to) do In the Dusty Dark for the very first time later today. I timed out of the game last night just skimming through the mission guide. 100% no problem, right?
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Aug 17, 2017 14:06
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Beelining straight for the sprint upgrades with your MoF is the opposite of suboptimal play. The "free" maximum sprint upgrade you could get in TSW for buying the motorcycle was completely game-changing. The few points of attack power that you delay* getting by waiting to spend MoF on 3-pip gear are far overshadowed by the ability to zip around the map quickly and outrun enemies that you don't want to bother with. *And you'll be caught up well before Transylvania or Tokyo, so that's a non-argument. Hello Sailor fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Aug 18, 2017 |
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Aug 18, 2017 05:27
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Amante posted:Or you could maintain a simple priority system that a child could execute: Dragon's Breath as often as possible (which does great damage with or without passive), Purple Shells whenever. Stop acting like paying the slightest bit of attention to how you play is this huge hardcore chore. Funcom redesigned all of the weapon gimmicks to be simple and easy to manage, and they are. We're not talking some 800 APM complex rotation here. Tell us more about forgoing major quality-of-life improvements like sprint upgrades to prioritize negligible increases in combat ability that make no difference until well after you have both.
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Aug 22, 2017 20:06
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Glyphs always max out at 20, so that cuts a bit off of the slog.
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Aug 29, 2017 04:30
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Dragons get Japanese Joker (Mark Hamill version) for their handler in whatever comes after Kaidan.
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Sekenr posted:Khaled - who is he really? There were theories floating on the TSW lore forum that a brother to Moses or something. Yeah, general consensus is that he's Aaron, brother of Moses, from Exodus. No love for Nassir or Ricky Pagan?
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Sep 30, 2017 23:13
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Allatum posted:but where's the romance?  A euphemism? Probably not.
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Oct 2, 2017 18:50
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Here's an early Pistol/Shotgun solo build from another forum that commenters seemed to like. Active Pistol (4-1-5, 95 AP): Seeking Bullet (B), Unload, Full House, Bullet Ballet (E) Active Shotgun (0-1-1, 10 AP): Reconstituting Shells, Rocket Pod (+passive) Passive Pistol (0-0-0-4-0, 40 SP): Second Wind, Beginner's Luck, Flechette Rounds Passive Shotgun (0-0-2-2-0, 35 SP): Reinforced Rockets, Odds & Evens Once you have that, you can use it while you work towards a slightly more expensive version of the build. Active Pistol (4-2-5, +10 AP): Full House -> Clean Slate (+passive) Active Shotgun (0-0-4, +30 AP): Reconstituting Shells -> CQC (+passive) Passive Pistol (0-4-0-2-0, +35 SP): Second Wind -> Rehabilitation Flechette Rounds -> (shotgun) Passive Shotgun (0-0-7-0-6, +130 SP): Odds & Evens -> Fatal Funnel (pistol) -> Combat Reload Hello Sailor fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Oct 7, 2017 |
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It could be a big dudette. I'm guessing we're tracking down Cassie and Excalibur.
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Anyone know if accounts that transitioned from TSW to SWL keep all the weapons unlocked if they make a new character? Probably going to do Orochi Tower over spring break on my only character, might start a new one in another faction.Sekenr posted:Yes, that's what I heard unless they removed it in SWL. Faction-specific missions are some of the remaining unimplemented things from TSW. At the moment, flavor and handler interactions (both mission text and cutscenes) are the only reasons to pick one faction over the others.
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Mar 21, 2018 15:47
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If I remember right from the end of TSW, your handler had you go visit the appearance changer. Haven't gotten around to finishing the story in SWL quite yet, so no idea if that's still a thing.
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Mar 28, 2018 04:14
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dmboogie posted:I can't tell if I'm missing something or if I'm just being dense. That's twice now that a brand new recruit has blown the Illuminati's chance to secure important artifacts and disappeared entirely from their radar all within a very short timespan in terms of the storyline. You scare the poo poo out of them, which is why KG wants to keep you around. Even the Dragon handler gets a little nervous when their bee completely steps out of reality and then comes back. If your gear's decent enough (blue heading into purple should be fine), you can solo Egypt's dungeons.
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Apr 2, 2018 09:29
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Sekenr posted:In any case a dragon player barely ever received explicit orders from his faction before so the change of tone is grating. As a Dragon player still slogging* through Orochi tower, this sounds hilarious and I look forward to seeing it. I hope DK randomly calls you and tells you to do things similar to the moonwalking and whatnot in the bank heist mission. For best effect, you should get a timer status effect in which to complete the command, even if you're in combat at the time. Then if you complete the command, you get a stacking status effect called "good quantum". If you don't complete it, you get "bad quantum" and you can have both at the same time. The status effects should have an indeterminable mechanical influence upon gameplay and one dev should leak that it doesn't actually do anything while another leaks that it actually does. * Can't say I entirely like the change from TSW for the tower climb. Completionists might prefer clearing all eight divisions in one go, but three was more than enough for me.
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Chaos + Pistol is a simple and effective combination. They also both pair well with a lot of other weapons, for whenever you get around to unlocking more of them. https://forums.funcom.com/t/how-to-build-all-weapons/881
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The only thing I can think of that kind of counts as a weapon synergy is Shotgun's passive-enhanced Shell Salvage. It gives you 5 energy for both weapons.
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DailyDumSum posted:Yeah, I just recently discovered the difference between pips. Sometimes the funkier ones have less pips than the generic pip ones, any advice on that? So far I've follow the advice of combining into a 3 pip, but sometimes I think the two pip had better suffixes. Any advice on that? For talismans (non-weapons), a "plain" 3-pip version of the gear is always better than a rare 2-pip version. For weapons, the issue is considerably muddier, because the ability of a rare weapon often makes changes to the mechanics of the weapon. That said, as a casual player who just wants to solo the storyline, the non-elite regions of the maps, and some of the dungeons, you can do that just fine with plain 3-pip gear that's mostly purple with a few blues. How do I know? Because that's how I've beaten the storyline, including the new zone, and I am a terrible player. My build even does bad DPS in favor of ignoring Blood's damage-amplification mechanic (by slotting the base passive), being able to outheal most damage, and having two interrupts. If you're looking for specific advice, power up the crap you have equipped until it gets to maxed-out blue, then spend MoF* on a 3-pip rare version of the gear that has an extra ability that seems useful. For weapons, I prefer the Alacrity suffix, because it makes it much easier to avoid boss mechanics and run away from NPCs when your sprint is disabled. Carry it with you and power it up until you max out blue, then use your currently-equipped gear to make the new gear purple. If you've already got purple, power up new weapons until they match the level of the old gear and power up new talismans until their stat bonuses equal or exceed the old gear. * As noted above, for the gear you want that sells on the AH for a really high price, check to see if buying the cheapest 1 or 2-pip version and converting MoF to 2500 aurum for the cash shop upgrader would cost less. Or maybe you're cool with buying the cash shop currency with real money, instead of lighting $100 bills on fire in front of homeless orphans. Or whatever else it is you spend your entertainment budget on, you monster.
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clone on the phone posted:HJ is just the best. Those are the words of someone who hasn't had The Nassir Experience.
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Apr 11, 2018 14:04
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Hipster Occultist posted:I've always loved the lore behind this game, is having to learn a new game and level quick enough to get to the apparently new content? If the only thing you're in for is the current new content, I doubt it. You won't be able to gear up enough by zipping through the storyline alone. If you're cool with revisiting the game enough to do all/most of the missions in each zone, then you should be fine on gear. There's not really a learning curve involved in transitioning from TSW to SWL. If anything, it's the opposite.
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poptart_fairy posted:The orochi tower is stuffed full of detail, I love it. There's a thread on the SWL forums that gives half-builds by weapon so you can go with whatever primary and add a suitable secondary. The author doesn't recommend pairing elemental primary with blood, but does say that blood primary with elemental works. https://forums.funcom.com/t/how-to-build-all-weapons/881
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Don't think I've ever had a week-long doublepost before. Anyway, I'm aiming to kill the two Kingsmouth summoned bosses and the super version of the summoned jinn in Scorched Desert. They all drop lore. I have the items needed to do the KM summons (SD one just needs to clear several mobs in a small amount of time), but I've never done any of them before. As I understand it, they're pretty strong mobs that you want a full level-50 party for and the draug boss in Kingsmouth requires five people to do the summon. If there's four other goons who still play this thing and want the lore, let's try for this weekend. I can be available whenever would work best for everyone else; my only RL responsibilities right now are packing up house to move at the end of the month and job-hunting.
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I didn't know we had one. Just tried joining the Discord, but the GDN bot that does the auth PMs doesn't appear to be online.
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May 25, 2018 09:03
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There's not really any reason to switch, unless you want to. If anything, you probably don't have many hammer passives or a weapon as built up as your two main ones yet, so switching would be a speed bump at first.
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Jun 9, 2018 15:07
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I use a Double-barrelled shotgun secondary with the Odds & Evens passive so it's always on "even" and the 5-energy single-target active. It's an absolute monster.
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Jun 9, 2018 19:37
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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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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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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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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. He stops when zombies spawn to attack him. It may be possible to get too far ahead? I know that guy has two speeds: a walk which barely finishes the mission in time (if you kill the spawns and adds fast enough) and a jog he'll go into if you get a ways ahead of him.
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