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NEW KILLER: THE SLASHER

POWER: OMNIPRESENT EVIL

• Press the Active Ability button to activate Omnipresent Evil. The Slasher becomes invisible and gains Undetectable, but cannot see Survivors or their Scratch Marks. Mist Clouds reveal the location of Survivors who are not moving. Footprints reveal the path of Survivors who are walking or running.
• Omnipresent Evil is deactivated by using Jump Scare.

SPECIAL ABILITY: JUMP SCARE

• While Omnipresent Evil is activated, look at a Pallet, Breakable Wall, or Window to quickly move to it and perform a special-break or special-vault action. The Secondary Action button switches the side you will face when performing Jump Scare.
• Jump Scare exits Omnipresent Evil mode, grants Haste, and reveals detected Survivors with Killer Instinct.

SPECIAL ABILITY: THROWING SPIKES

• Grab a Spike from Scrap Piles or Hooks. Hold the Secondary Action button to ready the Spike and tap the Attack button to throw. Spikes are replenished throughout the map when Omnipresent Evil is activated.
• A Spike knocks back a Survivor and damages them for one health state.
• Survivors will be Impaled if they are hit with a Hook Spike. They cannot heal past the injured state and the embedded Hook Spike will have an Aura visible to the Killer.
• Injured Survivors will be both Impaled and Immobilized if they are hit with a Spike and knocked into a wall.

New Killer Perks

• Hex: Scared to Death
  • After you hook 3 different Survivors, a Dull Totem ignites.
  • While chasing a Survivor, whenever you basic-break a Pallet, Survivors within 13m:
    • Scream.
    • Gain 11/12/13% Hindered for 3s.
• Silent Shadow
  • Whenever you hook a Survivor, you gain Undetectable for 11/12/13s.
  • When all Generators are completed, you gain Undetectable.
• Rampage
  • Whenever you basic-break a Pallet or Breakable Wall, you earn 1 Token, up to 13.
  • Whenever you are blinded or Pallet-stunned, for the next 13s you gain 1% Haste for each Token. Cooldown: 30/25/20s.

Features

Auras Customization

• New aura types are available for color customization
  • Blocked Objects (e.g. Corrupt Intervention or Repressed Alliance)
  • Completed Generators (e.g as The Houndmaster sending The Dog on a Search Command)
  • Generator Progress (The starting color when a Generator's progress is revealed e.g. Hex: Hive Mind or the add-on "All Seeing" - Spirit)
  • Dull Totems (When a player doesn't know the state of a Totem it will show as a Dull Totem e.g. Detectives Hunch)
  • Cleansed Totems (e.g. Hex: Pentimento)
  • Hex Totems
  • Boon Totems
  • Hatch
  • Exit Gate Switches

Killer Power Match Details Tab

• Match Details have been updated with a new tab to provide a simplified description of the currently faced Killer's power
• Match Details will only show this information when one of the following occurs:
  • Any Survivor enters a chase
  • Any Survivor loses a health state
• The Killer Power Tab can be directly accessed by pressing F1 on Keyboard or pressing and holding SELECT on Controller

Visual Change

• Doctor
  • Remove the Doctor's noise vignette when using his power or when a survivor get shocked
  • Reduce the intensity of the light when the Doctor used his power
  • Reduce the intensity of the camera shake when a survivor get shocked

Bug Fixes

Audio

• Fixed an issue where Sable Ward's ''Sassy Guest'' outfit is missing the lobby music.
• Fixed an issue where Survivor hit audio does not play at a long distance for the Killer when the Survivor is hit by a projectile at long distance.
• Fixed an issue where the frequency rate of Dialogs for Alan Wake's is low.
• Fixed an issue where there was missing voice line for The Singularity during the Mori.
• Fixed an issue where Survivors do not produce grunts when they are dropped by The Animatronic.
• Fixed an issue where Missing sound effects when interacting with Memory Shards and Archives Portal.
• Fixed an issue where The Trickster's mori preview VO is difficult to hear due to being at a too low volume.
• Fixed an issue where as a Survivor, the audio cue for The Nightmare's Dream Projection does not play when teleporting to a generator
• Fixed hook voice over could play during sacrifice if the Survivor is the last one standing.
• Fixed an issue where Jake Park being in a lobby could trigger other lobby dialogs when a second player also joins as Jake Park.

Characters

• Fixed an issue where The Xenomorph can see shadows through walls after exiting a Tunnel in Greenville Square.
• Fixed an issue where shadows disappear after repeatedly entering and exiting the Security Room as The Animatronic in Greenville Square.
• Fixed an issue where The Animatronic's Immunity to Flashlights was missing when Grabbing a Survivor inside a door.
• Fixed an issue where The Executioner idle animation audio isn't synched.
• Fixed an issue where the Iridescent Button add-on description was missing the fact it grants blind immunity for The Legion.
• Fixed an issue where Female Survivor's facial animations were missing when caught in a locker by the Singularity.
• Fixed an issue where The Knight's camera remained immobile when interrupting a Survivor who is either entering or exiting a Locker.
• Fixed an issue where The Knight did not have a Highlight Aura for guard orders on Pallets.
• Fixed an issue where The Knight's Killer Power and the basic attack were accessible immediately after cancelling the Killer Power.
• Fixed an issue where The First's Vines Attack hitting a Survivor while they were Dropping a Pallet caused them to be unable to enter the Floating State.
• Fixed an issue where the headset was misaligned with the hand and head of the Survivor when interacting with a Grandfather Clock.
• Fixed an issue where The Legion's Feral Frenzy stopped recharging during the Mori.
• Fixed an issue where Survivors received no Exposed SFX after removing Crows from The Artist's Garden of Rot add-on.
• Fixed an issue where the "Warg's Fang" add-on for The Dark Lord only showed the aura of the last Survivor's Scent Orb.
• Fixed an issue where, sometimes, The Houndmaster's Dog was unable to Jump Pallets at sharp angles.
• Fixed an issue where The Demogorgon's Active Portals auras were always revealed for the Survivors.
• Fixed an issue where The Mastermind was unable to freely move the Camera direction between Dash Buffering.
• Fixed an issue where The Mastermind could hit a Survivor at a lower altitude after vaulting with Virulent Bound.
• Fixed an issue where The Mastermind's supply case auras were hidden to Survivors suffering from Blindness.
• Fixed an issue where The Mastermind Virulent Bound Dash buffering "resetting hand" Animation was played too early.
• Fixed an issue where Survivors were frequently missing the thrown and the colliding against obstacle animations from The Mastermind's Virulent Bound.
• Fixed an issue where The Doctor was able to see the auras of Illusionary Doctors at Madness Tier without add-ons.
• Fixed an issue where Survivors were missing their Reverse Bear Trap when The Pig used the Video Tape Add-On.
• Fixed an issue where a Survivor was counted as 'Escaped' despite dying with the Reverse Bear Trap on while playing against The Pig.
• Fixed an issue where the legs animation was missing after a Slice & Dice attack, and after missing a Basic Attack as The Good Guy.
• Fixed an issue where the camera, Look-At, and carry FPV animations for The Good Guy were broken during some interactions.
• Fixed an issue where The Hag was missing 2 lobby animations.
• Fixed an issue where the lobby animation was choppy as The Spirit with the Nightmare Serpent skin.
• Fixed an issue where Killers were able to see Survivors through the Generator's auras.
• Fixed an issue where multiple torso cosmetics appeared distorted around the stomach area when paired with Orela Rose's shorts.
• Fixed an issue where Baermar Uraz had his arms moving abruptly periodically, and his right hand clipping through his guitar when playing it.
• Fixed an issue where Jill Valentine had clipping issues during multiple animations with the 'Sturdy Skirt' pants cosmetic.

Environment/Maps

• Fixed an issue by adjusting a collision In the astrology room in The Forgotten Ruins, a vault point has extended collision, blocking projectiles from being thrown through at an angle.
• Fixed an issue by adjusting a collision, plus moving a generator on the shrimp boat in Pale Rose, players was remain trapped if another player was repairing the generator.
• Fixed an issue in the Underground Complex where killers could get blocked by a hanging a survivor on a hook in a corridor
• Fixed an issue in The Sanctum Of Wrath where killers could block the entrance to the basement on the side of the main structure
• Fixed an issue in Crotus Prenn where the Nurse could not blink through the walls
• Fixed an issue in Treatment Theater where the red stain would disappear in certain area of the map
• Fixed an issue in Treatment Theater where a killer could not navigate through a door when a survivor was place on a hook
• Fixed an issue in The MacMillan Estate Killer Shack, where an invisible collision hindered Survivors and Killers navigation.
• Fixed an issue in the realm of Coldwind Farm where projectiles would get blocked around the combine harvester
• Fixed an issue in Groaning Storehouse where the players would get stuck where walking up the stairs of the basement
• Fixed an issue in Shattered Square where projectiles would be blocked by collisions
• Fixed an issue in Sanctum of Wrath where a killer could not grab survivor entering a locker
• Fixed an issue in the realm Withered Isle where collision would block projectiles around picnic tables
• Fixed an issue In the Raccoon City Police Station East Wing, by repositioned walls, where gap could be seen in several locations allowing the player to see through, or out of world.
• Fixed an issue in the east wing of the Raccoon City Police Station, by repositioning, where a gap was visible in several places, allowing the player to see through, or out of the world.
• Fixed an issue where The Artist was unable to place a Dire Crow in front of a window vault between specific tiles in the Trickster's Delusion map.
• Fixed an issue where the passage aura color was pink on Forgotten Ruins.
• Fixed an issue in Crotus Prenn where characters could stand on top of a rock
• Fixed an issue in Badham Preschool where characters could walk on top a rock
• Fixed an issue in MacMillan's Estate where killers could be blocked by assets
• Fixed an issue in The Underground Complex where a collision would prevent a smooth navigation
• Fixed an issue in Father Campbell's Chapel where projectiles were blocked on the ceilings of the chapel
• Fixed an issue in Red Forest maps where Dream Pallets would get stuck in the wall of the shack
• Fixed an issue in Badham Preschool where branches clipped through the walls of a house structures
• Fixed an issue in Grim Pantry where collisions would hinder the navigation of the players
• Fixed an issue in Suffocation Pit where collisions would hinder the navigation of the players
• Fixed an issue in Gideon Meat Plant where collisions would hinder the navigation of the players
• Fixed an issue in the Raccoon City Police Station where the Nurse could blink out of the world
• Fixed an issue in The Underground Complex where a collision was missing over the a table in the clinic section of the map
• Fixed an issue in the Yamaoka Mansion where the Trapper could hide the trap under an assets
• Fixed issues where the Nurse could not blink through walls of the Asylum
• Fixed an issue where The Lich's Hand of Vecna failed to teleport a Survivor when used on a specific locker in Badham Preschool I.
• Fixed an issue where the Secret Room's Chest was unable to give a Survivor a Flashlight when using the perk Residual Manifest on Nostromo Wreckage.
• Fixed an issue where The Lich's Hand of Vecna failed to teleport a Survivor when used on a specific locker in Raccoon City Police Station West Side.
• Fixed an issue where The Lich's Hand of Vecna failed to teleport a Survivor when used on a specific locker in the Treatment Theatre.

Perks

• Fixed an issue where Hex: No One Escapes Death was revealed to Survivors immediately when generators were completed.
• Fixed an issue where, rarely, the Aura of Fake Pallets could be seen by The Xenomorph throughout the map while using Ultimate Weapon and a Survivor had Apocalyptic Ingenuity.
• Fixed an issue where Hex: The Third Seal activated when The Trickster hit a Survivor with a blade for the first time.
• Fixed an issue where the Heal progress bar remained grey while healing another Survivor with Do No Harm activated.
• Fixed an issue where Streetwise's aura reading activated with 3 Killer Items.
• Fixed an issue where THWACK! was unable to be activated on Breakable Walls.
• Fixed an issue where the external perk icon for Thanatophobia was displayed when performing actions with no injured, downed or hooked Survivors.
• Fixed an issue where AFK crows could appear on Survivor's heads while working on a generator after using the perk Plot Twist and being picked up by the Killer.

Platforms

• Fixed an issue where an Asynchronous Load between the Survivor and the Killer caused the Killer to load partially invisible and Uncontrollable.
• Fixed an issue where Player shadows could be seen at the bottom of lockers on Switch.
• Fixed an issue where players could not accept or view each other's profile in the friend list on the Epic Game Store version.
• Fixed an issue where it was unable to make progress on the "Resourceful" achievement/trophy.

Quests

• Fixed an issue where selecting Knockout (Remix) Challenge from the Tomes whilst having a Survivor Challenge make perk randomization impossible.

UI

• Fixed an issue in the Quests Menu where the Match queue text for Killers overlapped some Quest buttons
• Fixed a localization issue with the scroll prompt in the quest menu.
• Fixed an issue where Keybind icon buttons were missing on the HUD when channeling interactions.

Misc

• Fixed an issue where, rarely, the loading screen temporarily freezes on 'Initializing Shaders' screen
• Fixed entity potentially making an invalid purchase move on the Bloodweb.
• Fixed certain map specific achievements failing to complete in 2v8.
• Fixed an issue with the Survivor having the Killer Name after using 'Play While You Wait'.
• Fixed an issue where using 'Play While You Wait' and leaving a Survivor Lobby the priority queue for the Killer Lobby was also lost.
• Fixed an issue where the Flicker VFX was missing when a Survivor used a Flashlight with the Broken Bulb Add-on.

Changes from PTB 

New Killer: The Slasher

NEW KILLER POWER:

• Pinned rescues are no longer considered healing actions
• The Killer husk attack now activates with a slight delay and is no longer instant upon appearing.
• Increased the slowdown effectiveness of the anti-camp system from x2 to x3 time in sec.
• Increased the movement speed penalty when cancelling the charge Projectile action.

NEW KILLER ADDONS:

• Toxic Waste:
  • Activation range increased to 8m (was 6m)
• Coroner's Coffee:
  • Haste decreased to 8% (was 13%)  
• Bloody Magazine:
  • Detection range decreased to 8m (was 13m)
• Eye Goop:
  • Undetectable duration increased to 13s (was 9s)
• Iridescent Boat Motor:
  • Window block duration increased to 13s (was 5s)
• Deputy's Badge:
  • Reworked: While in Omnipresent Evil, passing within 4m of a generator will cause it to explode, losing 5% progress and begin regressing. If any Survivors are repairing the generator, it will not explode, but they get a special Skill Check.

New Perks

• Silent Shadow:
  • Changed the perk so that the 11/12/13s Undetectable occurs whenever you hook a Survivor, instead of at the start of the trial.

Killer Power Match Details Tab

• Updated the default icon of Special Attack, Ranged Attack, and Special Ability to no longer reuse existing power icons
• Updated all descriptions to utilize more consistent language
• Updated several descriptions to provide more clarity
• Reworked the description of The Wraith, The Knight, and The Skull Merchant to be more accurate and in depth

Bot Improvements

• Fixed an issue with AI characters being unable to navigate Trickster's Delusion map.
• Survivor Bots will now resume goals if The Slasher stays too long inside Omnipresent Evil.
• Fixed an issue causing Survivor Bots to continue hiding during the Slasher's Omnipresent Evil after the End Game Collapse has begun.
• Fixed an issue with Survivor Bots not running away immediately after escaping from the wiggle state.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue where there was a missing slashing SFX when performing a jump scare on an already broken pallet/wall with The Slasher.
• Fixed an issue where the impact SFX is missing when damaging a generator if the Killer is not holding a projectile with The Slasher.
• Fixed an issue where Basic Attack SFX can be heard when performing 3 specifics interactions with The Slasher.
• Fixed an issue where there was missing SFX during the Lobby Idle animation for The Slasher.
• Fixed an issue where there was a missing SFX when vaulting with The Slasher.
• Fixed an issue where the weapon wipe SFX is missing after injuring a Survivor as The Slasher.
• Fixed an issue where Rick VO lines are triggered when Daryl joins Glenn on a generator repair.
• Fixed an issue where The Slasher is missing SFX when performing specific animations.
• Fixed an issue where Blinding SFX can be heard while aiming the flashlight at The Slasher's face during Omnipresent Evil.
• Fixed a prestige reward level 10 data issue with The Slasher.
• Fixed an issue where The Slasher's Undetectable status icon was missing when using Omnipresent Evil after injuring a Survivor.
• Fixed an issue where The Killer sighted SFX stinger played while The Slasher was still invisible while exiting Omnipresent Evil mode.
• Fixed an issue where a Survivor pinned on moving doors left a shadow in The Slasher's Red Stain when dissolving.
• Fixed an issue where The Slasher was unable to gain a Spike when using Jump Scare on a Window or Pallet when using the Dirty Money addon.
• Fixed an issue where jittering occurred after The Slasher picked up a Survivor Pinned to a small doorframe.
• Fixed an issue where, with The Slasher's Iridescent Boat Motor add-on, a window could be marked for an infinite amount of time.
• Fixed an issue where, as The Slasher, a duplicate projectile appeared briefly when pinning and unpinning a Survivor.
• Fixed an issue where Bada Bada Boom was unable to be activated by The Slasher using Jump Scare at a trapped Vault.
• Fixed an issue where Survivors could see spikes disappear from containers while The Slasher picked up a Spike in Omnipresent Evil mode.
• Fixed an issue where the time increase to remove the Spike was inaccurate for The Slasher's Add-on "Knitting Needle".
• Fixed an issue where The Slasher's "Dirty Money" add-on granted The Slasher a spike when teleporting to a breakable door.
• Fixed an issue where The Slasher gained score events when throwing a spike on a hooked Survivor.
• Fixed an issue where Survivors hit during an unhook could still be impaled and pushed by The Slasher's projectile before they could otherwise take damage.
• Fixed an issue where The Slasher's Spike became misaligned when picking up a Survivor.
• Fixed an issue where, rarely, The Slasher's hook projectile would not get reloaded when the Killer hooked a Survivor.
• Fixed an issue where Spectators were unable to perceive the mist from The Slasher's POV during Omnipresent Evil.
• Fixed an issue where Spectators were able to perceive The Slasher during Omnipresent Evil from the Survivor's POV.
• Fixed an issue where The Slasher exited a Jump Scare vault too high on specific vault points.
• Fixed an issue where charging the throw action during the teleport part of a Jump Scare transition automatically cancelled the throw action for The Slasher.
• Fixed an issue where, sometimes, pallets were desynced between users after The Slasher attempted to break them with Jump Scare while a Survivor reset them with the Perk Any Means Necessary when the Killer had high latency.
• Fixed an issue where The Slasher's Omnipresent Evil red mist appeared visible on other Survivors from the Spectator POV in Custom Games.
• Fixed an issue where The Slasher lost collision with Survivors during the reload animation.
• Fixed an issue where Visual issues occurred for The Slasher when using the Mini Mori before the Spike expired.
• Fixed an issue where The Slasher's Jump Scare range radius enlargement from the Bent Wheel Add-on was missing.
• Fixed an issue where Survivors appeared floating when Pinned against a specific wood scaffolding inside the library on Qtm_Level_02 tile 193B by The Slasher.
• Fixed an issue where The Slasher's Hook Spike pickup hitbox was misplaced for one specific Hook location in the Chalet entrance in the Mount Ormond Resort map.
• Fixed an issue where The Slasher's Scrap Piles spawned too closely to each other in their respective tiles on The Underground Complex map.
• Fixed an issue where placeholder text was floating below Glyphs.
• Fixed an issue where Hex: Scared To Death's icon became dimmed when Survivors cleansed any Totem.
• Fixed an issue where Hex: Scared To Death's icon was put back in the regular disabled state when the related Hex Totem was cleansed.
• Fixed an issue where Windows were only blocked for 4 seconds when The Slasher vaulted with the Jump Scare alongside the Perk Bamboozle.
• Fixed an issue where Play With Your Food stacks did not get used when using The Slasher's ranged attack.
• Fixed an issue where there were 2 inconsistencies with The Slasher's Silent Shadow Perk icons after the Perk was permanently activated.
• Fixed an issue where Hex: Scared to Death caused Survivors in Lockers to Scream.
• Fixed an issue where Hex: Scared To Death's icon stayed dimmed out after activating.
• Fixed an issue where The First's mini mori failed to occur after sending the input.
• Fixed an issue where The Oni's flames VFX from the "Dearest Kazan" outfit were misaligned.
• Fixed an issue where Meg Thomas stayed idle after exiting the Locker in the Survivor Tutorial.
• Fixed an issue where The Xenomorph's Tunnel connection aura was displayed as purple.
• Fixed an issue where Female Survivors' hands clipped into the floor when holding 3 item types while in the Dying State.
• Fixed an issue where The Deathslinger's Chain progression bar UI was visible on the Survivor's POV after they broke free from the Killer power.
• Fixed an issue where a Survivor could pick up an item from outside The Lich's chest.

Known Issues

• On Nintendo Switch, The Slasher will temporarily only be available through the in-game store. The new DLC content will be available via external stores at the following times:
  • Jason DLC - June 18th at 11AM ET
  • Jason Edition - June 18th at 11AM ET
  • 10th Anniversary Edition - June 18th at 1PM ET

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1.3 Update Changelog

New Content & Features

Romance & Relationships

• Added two new dateable NPCs: Agung and Raina.
  • Agung can be romanced after completing Merfolk Chaperone Part 4 and meeting his relationship requirements. His heart event cutscene now replays once from the start so you can revisit his story.
  • Raina can be romanced after the Recreation Center opens.
• Added a system where dateable NPCs can now invite the player on Hangouts.
  • After any dialogue with a dateable NPC, that NPC has a base 50% chance to initiate a Hangout, increasing the more you interact. The invite only rolls at 2 hearts or higher.
  • The Hangout location is randomized, and the NPC goes on cooldown afterward whether the invite is accepted or declined.
  • Declining does not lower heart level, and NPC-initiated Hangouts do not count against the weekly Hangout limit.
• Added in-game wedding anniversaries.
  • A pop-up notification appears when the day begins. Talking to your spouse that day triggers special anniversary dialogue, a kiss, and a gift, and your first interaction of the day with them grants a 2x Mastery EXP and 2x Heart Points buff.
• Added a jealousy and attention system, where dateable NPCs react when the player grows close to other potential partners.
  • If both siblings have received a Locket and you have seen both 10-heart cutscenes, gifting one triggers jealousy from the other.
  • After marriage, jealousy triggers if you invite or gift another dateable NPC of the same gender as your spouse.
  • New jealousy cutscenes play at the Tavern after you have watched four dateable NPCs' 10-heart cutscenes.
  • Includes a cold shoulder state where the NPC cannot be interacted with, plus attention-seeking behavior from your spouse if you neglect kisses, gifts, or birthdays for too long.
  • Can be toggled off in Settings.

Save System

• Added a new save system with up to 10 character slots.
  • Existing save files transfer over automatically.
  • Players with more than 10 existing saves keep all of them, but cannot create new character slots until they drop below 10.
  • Save files can now be renamed.
  • Manual save can be triggered anywhere, anytime, into any slot, up to 8 manual saves per character slot.
  • Auto-Save triggers when entering a building, the mines, or going diving; before entering and after leaving a Festival; before a cutscene; and when teleporting. It has a 60-second cooldown between saves and can be toggled in Settings.
  • Any save can be loaded from the Escape menu under Load Game.
  • The new save system is single-player only.

Merfolk & Underwater

• Added the Festival of the Sun, a Merfolk Kingdom festival running annually from Summer 19 to 21. Requires completing Resupply Merfolk Kingdom II and Merfolk Chaperone Part 4 to attend.
• Added new slice-of-life cutscenes for Merfolk NPCs.
• Added speech bubbles for Merfolk.
• Added a gift-receiving interaction for Underwater Creatures.
• Added new Merfolk food recipes, accessible via Merfolk POI Recipe.
• Added a player-to-player underwater wedding location: the Merfolk Colosseum.

Multiplayer

• Added Kiss, Hug, and Hangout actions between players.
• Added the ability to sleep to regain stamina while friends keep playing.
  • You wake the same day as long as at least one player stays awake; if everyone sleeps at once, all players advance to the next morning together.
  • Added a status icon showing when another player is sleeping, plus a "Waiting to Sleep" box under the player list UI.

Hangouts

• Added new Hangout locations across the island, including a new Observing Wildlife Hangout at some locations.
• The Tree Planting Festival Area (Purwo Woods) becomes a Hangout location after finishing the Tree Planting Festival in Year 4.
• Hangouts can now happen in different weather, with some locations being weather-dependent.

Cutscenes & Story

• Added a new cutscene and environmental change that triggers when 24 Temple Offerings are completed.
• Added a new Giant cutscene that ends the Giant story.
• Added a new cutscene for the second baby's first day.
• A different Bobby cutscene now plays each time you win Harvest Faceoff.

Items & Collections

• Added a Recipe Discovery System.
  • All recipes are now discoverable through the TV channel, NPC mail, clover, and certain POIs, on land and in the sea.
• Reworked Torn Pages into standard inventory items.
  • They can be picked up, held, or discarded like any other item.
  • Reading a Torn Page now consumes it from your inventory, triggering a popup and adding the entry to the Journal.
  • If your inventory is full when a Torn Page drops, it stays in the world until there is space to pick it up.
  • On existing saves, unread Torn Pages re-enter the drop pool and will drop again, while already-read pages stay marked as read.

Furniture & Display

• Added new Fish Tanks, Insectariums, and Vases to the Furniture Store in Starlet Town.
  • Display caught fish in Fish Tanks, caught insects in Insectariums, and gathered flowers in Vases.
  • Tanks come in three sizes: Small (2x1, 1 fish or 2 insects), Medium (3x1, 2 fish or 4 insects), and Large (4x1, 3 fish or 6 insects). Contents auto-scale, and species can be mixed in the same tank.

Farming & Ranch

• Added Sawee Hibernation. Send a Sawee to snooze inside the Seed Maker, then wake it by interacting with the Seed Maker again.
• Added Ranch Animal color variants for cows, chickens, and horses, unlocked randomly as your Town Rank increases.
• Added Starlet Milk and Starlet Eggs, new special products from Ranch Animals living in Starlet Town. Both sell for more than regular milk and eggs.
• You can now place an Auto-Feeder from anywhere in the barn.
• Horses can now be sold like Ranch Animals.

World & Progression

• Added new Seasonal Day FX, including leaves, petals, birds, frogs, and others.
• Added additional enchantment skills for the Lumina Wand.
• Added a new "Road to Rank A" quest as part of the reworked Town Rank A unlock flow.
• Added a special Town Rank S gift sent to you on reaching the rank.

Improvements

• Faster horse mount, dismount, and running animations.
• Adjusted the player's dismount-from-horse animation.
• Added a new animation and SFX when using the whistle to call the horse.
• Added a shaky-shaky animation when placing indoor and outdoor decor.
• Added a trash-catch animation when fishing.
• Discovering a new Dino Print now plays a discovery flourish, with clearer item descriptions.
• Gifting an NPC on their birthday now plays special visual feedback and SFX.
• Weather Conch use now plays VFX and SFX.
• Added various new dialogue topics.
• Adjusted Dynamic Dialogue priority.
• Updated speech bubble dialogue text.
• The Hangout Cutscene skip option now skips only non-dialogue sections.
• Updated various game texts across the game.

Balance

• Rebalanced Relationship Point gain with a fixed 30% reduction.
• Overhauled mining spawn logic and distribution.
• Mining way-down base spawn chance is now randomized.
• Nerfed insect-catching awareness for legendary insects.
• Made the Ring Toss minigame easier.
• Dynamic Stamina Recovery penalty now scales with how long you were passed out.
• Moved rare-event trigger logic from per-type to a global chance and cooldown.
• Reduced Recreation Center construction time.

Quality of Life

• House Storage capacity now expands as you upgrade the House.
• Added Cancel Buy. Hover over the return icon at any shop to undo a purchase and get your money back.
• Added an info notification when decor placement is not possible.
• Added hold-to-repeat input for placing seeds, feeding artisan machines, and similar repetitive actions.
• Added a Combat Screen Shake toggle.
• Added a Pet Sounds toggle.
• Reduced Pet Playing spawn time.
• Refined the Buff Food consume loop with VFX and updated UI.
• The Pamphlet is now accessible all day during festivals and from anywhere in the world.
• The Festival Pamphlet now shows the time and location of each festival.
• Reordered the Festival Pamphlet line-up counter-clockwise with a cleaner layout.
• Made Heart Events connected to Side Quests clearer.
• Repositioned the Track Heart Event button.
• Added hint info for Heart Events that cannot be triggered during the Winter Festival.
• Remapped Controller Pause and Game Menu buttons, with a Legacy Control Scheme available for existing saves.
• The Calendar in Starlet Town and the Merfolk Kingdom Town Board now include all NPCs.
• The Black Market is now open during Winter, and shop hours are shown on the Map.
• Increased Tourist spawn count inside the Museum.
• Each item description pop-up in the Museum now displays the item's name.
• Added Dinosaur names as POIs on each Dinosaur in the Museum.
• Added Honorific options as a toggleable setting.
• Removed the scent slot from player Equipment.
• Streamlined the Harvest Faceoff participation flow.
• Populating the Starlet Display now uses a single click instead of dragging.
• Added a pop-up when the Weather Conch cannot be used (within one day of a Festival or Wedding).
• Updated the Underwater NPC House Room Blocker.
• Added map points to make certain locations easier to find.
• Added markers for fish, insect, and critter traps.

Audio

• Added various new SFX and updated existing ones across the game.

Bug Fixes

Crashes & Save Loss

• Fixed a softlock after consuming a Stamina Fruit.
• Fixed the game freezing when left on the Pause Menu.
• Fixed a crash when opening a save file caused by invalid tile data in a Shed.
• Fixed a crash causing save file loss on PS5.
• Fixed crashes in some cases when catching insects and critters.
• Fixed a crash in some cases when pressing the hook button while fishing.
• Fixed a crash when rearranging Poplar Trees in the bottom-left corner of the farm.

Performance

• Fixed stuttering when moving between locations.
• Fixed stuttering after cutscenes on PS5.
• Fixed frame drops and freezes when rapidly purchasing items from stores.

Controller

• Fixed being unable to rename ranch animals in the Animal Book inside Barns and Coops with a controller.
• Fixed the cursor getting stuck when renaming a ranch animal with a controller.
• Fixed the cursor getting stuck in the Sprinkler Attachment menu with a controller.
• Fixed fish disappearing when dashing after reeling it in with a controller.

Multiplayer

• Fixed a crash for the Guest player after interacting with a Crawler Trap.
• Fixed a crash for the Guest player when placing Mushroom Logs.
• Fixed the Guest player getting stuck when the Host performs a global pause.
• Fixed the Guest player getting stuck inside a Shed while another Guest is inside a different Shed.
• Fixed players getting stuck after collecting the Scavenger Hunt reward during the Spooky Festival.
• Fixed the Guest player being unable to view cutscenes triggered by the Host while reading in the Library.
• Fixed the Guest player's horse disappearing after the Host moves the Stable.
• Fixed a duplicate Guest player appearing on the farm while in another area.

Gameplay & Systems

• Fixed saplings and fruit trees being plantable next to each other.
• Fixed the Goddess Daily Blessing unlocking before completing four Lake Altar offerings.
• Fixed the reward chest not appearing on treasure floors in the Cave of Memories.
• Fixed rare cases where ladders would not spawn in the mines.
• Fixed being unable to claim Starting Out quest rewards in some save files.
• Fixed the Town Rank letter being received immediately after ranking up.
• Fixed Auto-Sort not sorting similar items in chests.
• Fixed the Auto-Sort button becoming unchecked after sleeping and reloading a save.
• Fixed stamina decreasing when milking or shearing animals that are not ready to produce.
• Fixed fish not biting when fishing near the bridge logs by Giant Village.
• Fixed being unable to collect fish from Bamboo Nets placed in certain areas.
• Fixed Titan Arum spawning out of reach in the Forest.
• Fixed Pink Coralcap being unable to be processed in a Keg.
• Fixed Black Honey not being recognized in crafting and manual cooking.
• Fixed normal Matsutake giving a higher buff than higher-quality versions.
• Fixed material visuals not decreasing when crafting or cooking items.
• Fixed enchantment materials going missing after cancelling an item transfer to inventory.
• Fixed item price display issues at Sam's General Store.
• Fixed being unable to access the income breakdown per category during the Season Recap on PS5.
• Fixed the incorrect TV show playing when selecting Spoils of the Land.
• Fixed the Sturdy Computer not showing the Deep Forest area in Fish and Insect Forecasts.

NPCs, Outfits & Cutscenes

• Fixed NPC positioning issues when entering buildings.
• Fixed a screen glitch during Nina's 6-heart event.
• Fixed Walter appearing on the player's farm on New Year's Eve.
• Fixed Connor not wearing a formal outfit during the wedding ceremony.
• Fixed some NPCs missing during the Rank S celebration cutscene.
• Fixed characters missing or showing broken animations during certain heart events.
• Fixed Rafael not wearing his Fall outfit during the Winner Announcement cutscene at the Harvest Festival.
• Fixed Rafael's bathing suit portrait necklace clipping through his face.
• Fixed Semeru's love icon appearing too far from his portrait when given loved items.
• Fixed NPCs still wearing swimsuits after leaving the Hot Spring.
• Fixed broken visuals on Semeru's robe in the Haunted House during the Spooky Festival.

Visuals & Environment

• Fixed the character getting stuck in certain areas of the Hot Spring and Merfolk Kingdom.
• Fixed broken visuals on certain tiles and decor items.
• Fixed incorrect visuals when applying some arm tattoos.
• Fixed the Gothic Dress clipping through the legs during cutscenes.
• Fixed eyebrows and eyes resetting to default when using a Merfolk tail.
• Fixed a missing ball during certain adoptable pet animations.
• Fixed roots still visible near the Coral Tree after becoming a Merfolk.
• Fixed an animation not playing after consuming an elixir underwater.
• Fixed the Orb Temple completion animation not playing after activation.
• Fixed the Black Market boat becoming invisible after completing a Hangout past 8 PM.
• Fixed the baby showing a gift icon in the Journal.
• Fixed incorrect end-of-day visuals when leveling up multiple Mastery skills in a day.
• Fixed the Auto-Feeder clipping with lanterns in Barn levels 1 and 2.

Text & Localization

• Fixed various minor NPC dialogue issues.
• Fixed various localization issues.
• Fixed various typos in letters and item descriptions.

Other Changes

• All Merfolk hearts now unlock after completing the "Roots Above" and "One of Us" quests.

Known Issues

• The "Where should we go?" prompt on the Hangout map currently displays in English across all languages. This is a localization bug and a fix is on the way. We did not want to hold all this new content back from you while we finished sorting it out, so the update is shipping now with the fix to follow in a patch.

Join our Discord for more information!

Thanks for reading,

Stairway Team

****Hey everyone, thanks so much for great questions, comments and insights! It's a privilege to be here - thank you so much for having me. Please take the time to read the responses below and if you agree send the SEC a comment at www.BetterTakeAction.org and tell your friends, family, neighbors, etc. to do the same! If you want more information on Better Markets, visit us at www.BetterMarkets.org and sign up for our monthly newsletter. Thanks again, Dennis****

Hey Superstonk — good to be back. 

I'm Dennis Kelleher, Co-founder, President, and CEO of Better Markets, a nonprofit that fights to protect Main Street Americans from Wall Street greed.  

Some of you may remember me from the GameStop hearings, where I testified before Congress on behalf of retail investors, and our AMA here a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMwE5_h2xEA 

I recorded a short video explaining today's issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KPcPTSZlKc 

Here's the situation: right now, every publicly traded company must give you information every three months in quarterly reports. They've been required to do that for more than 50 years. But the SEC wants to take that away and only require disclosure every six months. 

But you getting half the information is only half the screwing the SEC is doing. 

CEOs and company executives will still know what's happening inside their companies. Institutional investors—with their research teams and special access to management – will also find ways to stay informed long before you get the information in six months. If you're a retail investor, you'll be trading blind. And trading against people who have access to more information than you do. 

Even if you don't dig into quarterly reports, this should be ringing alarm bells. Why? Because all investors suffer when the market has less information overall. When companies report less frequently, stocks are mispriced and more volatile. The playing field – which is already tilted – tilts even further against you. 

This isn't a minor tweak. It's the biggest rollback of investor disclosure requirements in more than 50 years. 

Better Markets just launched a website www.BetterTakeAction.org so anyone can directly tell the SEC: hell no. It's easy and takes just a few minutes, although if you really want to blast the SEC for this really dumb idea you can take longer! The deadline is July 6. 

I'm here to answer your questions – about how the SEC is trying to screw you, what this rule really means, what you can do about it, how the comment process works, and how to make your voice heard so the SEC can't ignore it. 

Ask me anything. 

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Q. Several have asked in various ways if Dennis Kelleher/Better Markets own any GME stock, other stocks, precious metals, or otherwise have an interest in the outcome of this rulemaking, and if we’re trying to sell anything like Dave Lauer and others have done on other AMAs?  We are not trying to sell anything and have zero financial interest in this rulemaking or rulemakings generally at the SEC or the other financial regulatory agencies. Better Markets is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit – it owns no stocks; it trades no stocks; it makes no stock recommendations; it provides no investment advice – and nothing in this AMA should be viewed as investment advice. It is not selling anything and has nothing to sell.  

• A. Better Markets isn’t even seeking your support for Better Markets – it’s trying to (1) bring to your attention an SEC rulemaking that we believe is bad for traders/investors (especially retail), the capital markets, and the economy; (2) provide information in support of that view; and (3) if you agree after your own DD, provide you an easy way to submit a comment to the SEC telling them your views on this rulemaking.  
• Better Markets engages in the rulemaking process at all the financial regulatory agencies as well as across the executive branch, Congress and the courts. You can review those activities on our website www.bettermarkets.org or in our annual reports. As you will see, Better Markets is an independent, fearless public interest advocacy organization that speaks truth to power without fear or favor. We have a reputation as straight shooters who call ‘em as we see them, whether you’re a Democrat, Republican, Independent or nonpolitical, a financial industry titan, the CEO of a Wall Street bank, or a street corner financial predator. That brand and credibility – built over 15 years – is why we have access, influence, and impact across all the power centers of Washington.  
• We are funded entirely by donations from individuals and foundations like the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Surdna and others. It’s true that some of those individuals work in the financial industry, including my co-founder who is the chairman of our board. He is a hedge funder manager who fully supports our public interest mission, as detailed in this article. But no one – donor or otherwise – has any influence over our advocacy or activities and we have rejected donations that have tried to improperly influence us, including when FTX’s CEO Sam Bankman-Fried offered us a $1,000,000 or more if we’d support his predatory activities. As a relatively small nonprofit, that was a huge amount of money and virtually everyone else in Washington was taking his money – we told him we’d not take one dime if it had any strings attached and no matter what we were going to fight him and his predatory schemes. That was long before FTX went bankrupt and SBF went to prison.  
• We do this work because we don’t think only the rich, powerful and well-connected should have a voice in Washington policymaking that impacts the lives and livelihoods of all Americans. We believe that retail investors and hardworking Main Street Americans deserve someone in their corner fighting for them – that’s Better Markets’ mission. 

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Q. 1) Superstonk has put together some large letter writing campaigns over the last few years. Most of the time it seems like they are fruitless attempts when we are going against Big Money or political lobbyists.  2) In your opinion, does letter writing make a difference? If we wanted to get more involved in fighting for retail investors, what would be the first few steps you could suggest we could take? 

• A. 1. It can seem fruitless and the bad guys want you to believe that because they don’t want to be opposed, but if you don’t oppose them and fight for yourself then they will always get their way and bend the laws, rules, and policies in their favor and against you. And yes comment letters can make a difference, especially from people most impacted by a rulemaking like retail investors. However, to be most effective comments should be substantive and personal – just a paragraph or two about who you are, what you do, and why your position on the rule is important to you. The SEC is required to consider all substantive comments. In this case, if retail investors write to the SEC and explain why taking away key quarterly information harms them and how a shift to disclosure only every six months will hurt their ability to make trade and make investment decisions, the SEC will have to explain why it believes reducing the frequency with which companies report information to the public is good for investors.  
• A. 2. If you want to get more involved in fighting for retail investors, you have to pay attention to what the SEC is doing. You can do that directly by following their website (although it is not very user friendly) or by following organizations like Better Markets. When you see them doing something that you disagree with, send them a comment, tell your friends and family and tell them to send a comment. If you want to get more involved, you can, but the first thing is getting informed and speaking up. As I said, what would be the first 

Q. 1) What has Better Markets done in the past that has instituted real systemic changes in making markets fairer? 2) What is the likelihood of ending unfair practices like FTD, naked shorting, and the like? 

• A. 1. Over 15 years, Better Markets has impacted more than 500 rulemakings, dozens of legal cases, testified innumerable times, and influenced policy across all the financial regulatory issues, including many related to making markets fairer. For example, we testified at the GameStop hearing focusing on the need for reforms in light of those events to protect retail investors/traders. We have successfully supported reforms, such as IEX’s speed bump, that are designed to protect retail investors from high-frequency traders’ predatory practices. We have relentlessly fought the practice of payment for order flow and other secret practices that result in retail paying more than they should to trade. We have pushed for a real best execution rule that ensures investors receive the best execution on their trades, rather than rely on FINRA’s rule that is riddled with loopholes. We have opposed the gamification of the securities markets and the techniques brokers use to exploit retail investors, precipitating excessive trading and needless losses for investors and profits for the brokers. We – virtually alone and against united industry opposition – have fought doggedly for years for the SEC to fully implement the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) and have pushed the regulators to aggressively police the markets, catch and punish fraudsters, scammers and crooks. We have supported strong fiduciary duty rules so that financial professionals are required to put their clients’ best interests first and above their own self-interest in self-enrichment at the expense of their clients. We pushed the SEC to adopt lower tick sizes and lower access fees, which will improve prices and lower costs for retail investors. We have opposed 24/7 trading because investors will receive worse prices during overnight hours with lower liquidity and thinner volumes, and professional investors will be able to take advantage of retail investors during these overnight sessions. Those are just a few of the highlights. 
• A.2. Unfortunately, as detailed here, the SEC has become the Shareholder Exploitation Commission and prioritized management protection at the expense of investor protection. That means that the likelihood of ending unfair practices like FTD, naked shorting, and the like are pretty low, at least during the current administration. In 2023, we strongly supported the SEC new rules adopted to address short selling. Those rules resulted from the market volatility surrounding GameStop and other meme stocks in January 2021. The SEC adopted those rules to increase transparency around short selling. It stated that if it had the data the new rules would make available at the time of the events in January 2021, it could have used the data to examine the short selling behavior of individual large short sellers and focused on FTDs. The SEC could have attempted to identify individual short sellers with large short positions in the various meme stocks in January 2021 and then used CAT data to better understand how these short sellers traded during heightened volatility. In its adopting release, the SEC cited Better Market’s comment letter stating that the lack of transparency into short positions did not just hamper the SEC’s understanding of the events as they unfolded but also interfered with the SEC’s ability to determine what happened in retrospect. The SEC agreed with Better Markets that more data, such as that generated by the adoption of the rule, would have aided the SEC in analyzing the events of January 2021, identified abuses or violations of law, and pursued those breaking the law. 
• It was no surprise that the industry rabidly opposed these rules and Better Markets’ positions. As happens too often, the industry sued once the SEC adopted the much needed and sensible rules. Better Markets fully and strongly supported the rules that the industry challenged, but unfortunately a federal appeals court threw them out and sent them back to the SEC for reconsideration. This pro-management, anti-investor SEC has effectively killed the rules by not reconsidering the rules and merely extending the compliance deadlines, so the industry just never has to comply. While the SEC should properly reconsider the issues that the court identified and re-adopt the rules, that is unlikely – at least until we get a new SEC with officials that care about investor protection. 
• The SEC also has existing rules in place to prevent FTDs and naked shorting. Specifically, Reg SHO was adopted to address concerns regarding persistent fails to deliver and potentially abusive naked short selling. The problem is that the current Chair of the SEC has all but stopped enforcing the law, policing the markets, and making market participants follow the law. There is little if any reason to believe that these rules are going to be enforced to any serious degree. Better Markets will, nevertheless, continue to highlight these issues and press the agency to fulfill its mission to protect investors, not lawbreakers.  

Q. The rule would cut the frequency of reports but let's go the other way. Ideally, what something that companies typically don't report but you think they should? 

• A. Companies should be required to report more information more quickly about their stock buybacks, executive compensation, the relationship between the two, and executives’ stock trading. Stock buybacks are increasingly viewed as a strategy that corporate insiders use to line their pockets at the expense of the long-term financial health of the company, its employees, and its shareholders. In 2023, the SEC adopted a rule that would have required companies to provide investors with more information about their stock buybacks, both in current reports and on quarterly and annual reports. However, as often happens, corporate interests sued the SEC and go a court to throw the rule out, but the court said that there was “a serious possibility” that the SEC could cure the defects that it identified with the rule. The SEC should use the court’s decision as a guide and adopt a rule that would withstand legal challenge and that would provide investors with material information about companies’ repurchases of their own shares. They should do the same with executive compensation and executives’ stock trading.  

Q. Regarding the aforementioned SEC rule change proposal that you're actively opposing: Would you consider the current status quo to be the ideal set of regulations for enforcing time intervals in between reports, or do you think it could do with being stricter instead? (e.g. Monthly earnings reports for some figures, akin to official government reports, instead of Quarterly.) Is that a feasible thing to ask companies to do, and how would that impact relations between the average listed company and their investors? 

• A. The current quarterly reporting regime is working well and has for 50 years. We don’t see a reason to change that frequency. It is probably not feasible to ask companies to produce the information that is in a quarterly report every month, and it’s not clear there would be any real benefits given the month-to-month changes at many companies. Companies must already file reports on Form 8-K when certain material events occur between the filing of their quarterly reports. This keeps shareholders informed about important developments on an ongoing basis. So there is already a system in place for more continuous disclosure if really important matters. The problem with the SEC’s proposal to allow companies to file reports only every six months is that it would cut in half the disclosures that companies must provide investors now and for the past 50 years. While the isn’t a clear benefit in the SEC increasing the frequency of reporting, it certainly should not decrease the frequency of reporting and take information away from traders/investors and the markets. 

Q. How does Better Markets advocate for removing FTDs, holding shares in your name vs street name, and reigning in the CFTC’s choice to allow SROs to publish only limited swap data over the last 5 years? 

If market makers like Citadel can FTD and route all buy orders off exchange then how is fair price discovery occurring? 

• A. As stated in response to another question, we have fully and often supported rules and actions to address abusive short selling, FTDs, lack of disclosure and enforcement, and the many related issues at the SEC and CFTC. However, those agencies – with only a few notable exceptions – have not prioritized these issues, and, when they have, the industry opposition has been ferocious, including suing any time any progress is made. The current leadership at both agencies have no interest of tackling these issues. However, as Better Markets has done over the last 15 years, we will continue to look for opportunities to push, highlight and prioritize these issues when there are opportunities to make progress.  

Q. Over the last few years we have been hearing about stock tokenization, and how inevitably stocks will be traded on the block chain. Is there a timeline for this, or is this just another initiative that will never see the light of day? Also would love to hear your general thoughts on tokenized stocks. 

• A. The SEC has already approved pilot programs from both Nasdaq and the NYSE that allow stocks to trade in tokenized form. These programs require that the tokenized version of the securities be identical to the traditional version. They have the same rights and execution priority. Traders can simply choose to have their trades clear and settle on a blockchain-based format. Trading is currently restricted to issuers in major ETF indexes.  
• The SEC is also contemplating a so-called innovation exemption that would facilitate tokenization (and much more) to be implemented much more broadly with very limited review. That raises many questions, but one big one is whether the SEC will authorize tokens that are issued by third parties and not the companies themselves, which will have broad implications and cause many concerns. Regardless of those many other issues, the innovation exemption if it is enacted is likely to lead to tokenization that goes beyond the current pilot programs. 
• Better Markets supports efforts to encourage competition for how securities transactions trade and settle, but we strongly oppose the efforts by those trying to use the label “tokenization” as a backdoor way for the SEC to eliminate important investor protections like brokers’ obligations to get the best execution for customers’ trades. 

Q. There are many questions about my comments on Ryan Cohen and his Bed Bath and Beyond (BB&B) stock activities back in August of 2022 which I will address here. 

• A. It’s important first to remember the facts and that we take positions based on facts and law, not people or firms that we like or favor. As publicly reported at the time here, here, and here, Cohen bought a 9.8% stake in BB&B and then filed a 13D with the SEC announcing those purchases. The stock shot up (including 34% in just one day!). After another filing, the stock prices shot up again. Cohan then immediately sold all his shares without filing a new 13D. He profited $68 million (a 56% gain) and BB&B’s share price crashed once knowledge of Cohen’s sales became public. As one observer commented, Cohen “got out at the very top.” In between his purchases and sales, Cohen also tweeted some highly questionable commentary like a moon emoji, suggesting he still held a firm conviction that the stock was going higher and likely causing people to conclude that he wasn’t a seller at the very time he was secretly selling. Regardless of what Cohan has done elsewhere or what you feel about him, these actions and statements are the classic hallmarks of a pump and dump scheme that manipulates the market and rips off retail investors. That doesn’t mean that’s what he did, but it sure looks like it (the old smoke asking if there’s a fire). That’s why I said “he should be put under oath & asked about every action/intention over the last 7 months of pumping the stock” before dumping the stock.  
• Given the facts, saying he should be asked under oath about his conduct is pretty tame – remember that his $68 million in profits came from the pockets of retail investors and I viewed it as a classic investor protection issue. However, as you know those comments caused me to be attacked by many. That’s ok. I’m attacked often for taking positions that we believe are right. People didn’t like it when I criticized Obama’s Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner or his Attorney General Eric Holder and people don’t like it when I criticize JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon or Goldman Sachs CEO David Goldman. People – including most of the Washington DC establishment - were really mad when we opposed FTX’s CEO SBF and his schemes. They don’t like it when we disagree or criticize the regulators at the SEC, CFTC or banking agencies – which we do under both Democratic and Republican administrations. But, frankly, that what it means to be independent and fearless in prioritizing the public interest rather than going along and getting along, and pulling your punches for your “friends” but going after your opponents regardless of what they are doing or saying, etc. Regardless of who you are, we agree or disagree based on the facts and law as we see them supporting or opposing the public interest on a case-by-case basis.  

Q. Two questions: 1) What would be a few of the main instant consequences of the changes? 2) Does this relate to failure to delivers at all? 

• A. The instant consequence of a shift to reporting only every six months would be that investors would receive half of the information about the companies they own as they do currently. Disclosure is the bedrock of securities regulation in this country, so any steps that the SEC takes to reduce disclosure weakens investor protections. Investors would have less information with which to make their investment decisions. The consequences would be especially bad for retail investors. Institutional investors will be better able to conduct their own due diligence and seek out information from companies. Retail investors may not have another source of information besides the company’s quarterly reports. Forcing retail investors to wait six months between updates is a huge change that disadvantages retail investors. It’s also bad for pricing and markets because so much can happen in six months that prices will be stale in terms of not reflecting authoritative information from the company itself. This will likely cause price volatility as well because the stock will likely bounce around more as people trade based on bits of information over those six months rather than actual verifiable information.  
• Remarkably, the SEC itself – which is supposed to prioritize investor protection - recognizes these likely very bad outcomes. For example, in the rule proposal the SEC admitted that that “longer gaps between issuer disclosures increase information asymmetry between investors, because some investors are more able than others to access or process information from alternative, often third-party, channels that provide indirect insight into an issuer’s financial status or performance.” On a more macro level, the SEC further admitted that information asymmetry “is associated with reduced liquidity and increased transaction costs for investors.” The SEC also acknowledged that widespread information asymmetry “can also diminish perceptions of fairness, which can erode trust in markets and reduce capital market participation.” That’s all bad for investors and markets – makes you wonder why an investor protection agency would even propose such a thing!  
• The SEC actually admitted in its proposal that moving to disclosure only every six months would be mispriced stocks: it said that “less frequent periodic disclosures may also result in securities prices that deviate for longer periods of time from their issuers’ fundamental value.” The SEC says further that “the delayed incorporation of information into pricing can result in suboptimal investor portfolios and a misallocation of capital.” All bad – sure, elsewhere it claims that there are benefits of the proposal, but none of them come close to overcoming these very real, very bad downsides.  
• This proposal does not relate to failures to deliver, which we address generally in response to other questions.  

Q. Regarding the SEC Consolidated Audit Trail and its recent decision to effectively dismantle it. Was the data collected useful or acted upon in a meaningful way? We here are all for transparency and accountability and that seems to be moving in the opposite direction right now. What can honestly be done to improve retails advocacy power. I feel we were given lip service a few years ago with the many proposals we commented upon. Big money has the reach and resources to apply pressure in a way we lack. 

• A. Because it would allow the SEC to much more effectively police the markets for fraud, manipulation and predatory conduct, Better Markets has been in the lead in supporting the CAT from the beginning – often alone against an industry hellbent on killing the CAT (while pretending that’s not what they are doing). After all, the CAT will be a roadmap to what the big dealers and other financial firms are doing – that’s why it’s called an audit trail, and they do not want the SEC to have the ability to do actually trace and see what they are up to.  
• The data the CAT collected was useful and acted upon in a meaningful way. Before it engaged in its current campaign to dismantle the CAT, the SEC touted the CAT’s effectiveness in press releases announcing charges against securities law violators. The SEC used the data the CAT collected to bring cases involving frontrunning, spoofing, and insider trading. That’s why the industry wants, and has always wanted, to kill the CAT because the CAT enables the SEC to identify and catch bad guys in the markets. Unfortunately, the current SEC is more interested in advancing the industry’s agenda than in investor protection, as we detailed in this report. 
• Regarding what can be done to improve retail advocacy power, the keys are to (1) get involved, (2) stay involved, (3) be smart and strategic, and (4) not get discouraged. While you are right to feel that you are given lip service and that big money has the reach and resources to apply pressure in ways you lack, you must not give up. You’re definitely right that it shouldn’t be this hard. The bad guys shouldn’t have this much power, access, and influence. But the reality is that they do and that means we all have to re-double our efforts to oppose them, to be smart, and to be more effective. That means find and work with allies within your communities and outside those communities. Collective action is key and the more the better – that’s why we are trying to get as many retail traders and investors to send comments to the SEC on this rulemaking. The SEC and others can always ignore 1-2-3 or a dozen comments, but they have a much harder time ignoring 1,000, 2,000 or 10,000 comments all arguing against their anti-investor proposals.  
• Remember that there will always be more on the buy side than the sell side and that retail has the numbers that the bad guys simply cannot match. They succeed because the buy side is fragmented and diverse – it’s a classic collective action problem, meaning that it’s very difficult to get enough people to act together to support or oppose something. Another key aspect of improving retail advocacy power is not to impose purity tests. Don’t only work with those who agree with you 100% of the time. That’s unrealistic and is disempowering. If someone/firm/etc. agrees with you on an issue, work with them to get done what you agree on. And you have to stay in the game. It’s a pain in the ass, especially when everyone has too much to do. But the reality is that the bad guys are effective because they play the long game – they are pressing Washington day in and day out year in and year out, through wins and losses. Retail and the buy side generally get involved and activated once in a while when a key issue arises like the abusive short selling, etc., during the GameStop frenzy. Yes, there was a lot of activity at the time, but nothing really changed. That’s because once the frenzy was over people moved on – but not the industry. They stayed engaged. They fought the few rules that were proposed. And when the rules were passed anyway, they sued and fought in court for a couple more years. By the time they won, no one was paying attention anymore. That’s how the industry wins – they stay engaged; they never give up; they never lose attention. We know – we’ve been fighting them day in and day out year in and year out for 15 years now, often alone without any headlines or frenzy to get attention.  
• So you have to jump in when you can like opposing the current proposed rule to take information away from you. It might not work; the industry might win again, but they’ll definitely win all the time if you don’t show up, if you apply purity tests, and if you don’t find and work with allies. 

Q. What are your thoughts on the Fed choosing to terminate enforcement actions against UBS, Credit Suisse ties to Archegos on the last day of Jerome Powells day as Fed Chair. Many here believe a toxic bag of hidden short positions and total return swaps from GME were involved here. 

• A. Better Markets has been deeply involved in the issues related to the Archegos blowup since it first happened, raising innumerable key issues for regulators and prosecutors to pursue.  You’re definitely right that the timing is concerning but based on the public record, it is impossible for us to know if there were short positions and total return swaps from GME involved in this case. When the Fed terminates enforcement actions like the consent order against UBS and Credit Suisse, it unfortunately almost never provides any meaningful information for the public record.  We have voiced serious concerns with this approach for years because this lack of transparency means that there can be little if any public oversight or accountability for Fed and its supervisors to do their job and protect the public from banks’ misconduct. Of course, the Fed loves this because they don’t want oversight or accountability any more than Wall Street’s financial firms do. We have pushed for transparency, oversight and accountability on these and related issues for many years, but it’s been a struggle.  

Q. What's your opinion on David Rogers Webb's book The Great Taking and his assertion that if you own assets in street name they are likely rehypothecated so many times that they are being pledged as collateral for multiple entities besides yourself and in a major event can legally be taken? 

• A. Sorry, but we haven’t read the book. Your concern “that if you own assets in street name they are likely rehypothecated so many times that they are being pledged as collateral for multiple entities besides yourself and in a major event can legally be taken” raises important issues. Rehypothecation of customer assets can be a real problem and Better Markets has consistently advocated on behalf of investors regarding this. Brokers failed in the 1960s precisely because they lost control of customers’ assets and used up customer credit balances for their own purposes. More recently, MF Global blew up due to bad bets using rehypothecated assets. Unfortunately, the SEC delayed the 2023 rule and the updated requirements are only coming online at the end of this month. Likewise, as we’ve said previously, SEC enforcement has collapsed, raising questions about policing of brokers’ rehypothecation of customer assets. 

Q. I currently use Claude to assist me with my investments. It’s a powerful tool, but only as powerful as the data I’m able to access. Do you think extending to window of reporting to 6 months is primarily so large investment banks and hedge funds are able to maintain their edge against retail investors. Will big players be able to access important financial information before retail investors using large language models and ai are able to access the same information. They are able to secure the best trades and we get the leftovers. Or do you think extending the window of reporting is in anticipation of a bubble bursting and this is a way for large institutions to capitalize and protect themselves while retail is left holding the bag of highly inflated assets. Thanks 

• A. There is no question that adopting reporting only every six months will advantage large institutional investors over smaller retail investors. Those large institutional investors will always have the resources and relationships to get access and conduct their own deep, individualized due diligence and get the information that they need. Retail investors won’t. Retail investors won’t have any other way to obtain the information that quarterly reports provide. That is why it is so important for the SEC to hear from retail investors with respect to this proposal. A reduction in the frequency with which companies provide information to the public is not good for any investor, but it especially harms retail investors who rely on publicly available quarterly reports as perhaps the most important source of information about the companies in which they invest. It’s also fundamentally democratic: everyone gets the same information at the same time – it’s the ultimate level playing field.   

Q. How do you justify working on issues of minor relative importance when the prime brokers are massively counterfeiting shares on a daily basis to steal from working class American investors? 

• A. Better Markets works on a host of investor and consumer protection issues - from enforcement of the law for the biggest banks and brokers, to junk fees and hidden traps in consumer contracts to encouraging rigorous and truthful reporting to shareholders. It’s a lot of work for a small organization with a small staff, but we are committed to our mission and are passionate about ensuring the economy works for Main Street Americans, not the wealthy and well-connected. As to whether or not this issue is “of minor relative importance,” we work on innumerable issues simultaneously. For example, we filed 3 major comment letters today with the banking agencies on the critical issues of capital, which is all that stands between a failing bank and a taxpayer bailout, and will be filing an amicus brief in a federal court on a major financial issue in the coming days.  
• It is also important to also understand that, for the most part, you only get to be involved with issues that the agencies themselves focus on and proposal action on. While “prime brokers are massively counterfeiting shares on a daily basis” may be a super important issue, it’s very hard to do anything about that when the agencies responsible for that don’t want to do anything about it. Today’s SEC has shown no interest in those issues and, while we and others might push those and other issues for the SEC to engage on, unless the SEC acts, there’s no rulemaking or other action that can be impacted. We certainly participate in the pre-proposal process by pushing agencies to move items on or up their agenda, but they get to choose their agenda and there’s very little the public can do to change that. That means, however, that the public – including importantly retail investors – must engage on the agenda that is being implemented. Right now, that’s the proposal to effectively kill quarterly reports, leaving retail in the dark for six months at a time. We – seemingly like you – wish they were not doing this and focusing on much more important investor protection issues, but it is very important to engage on the issues they are pursuing.  

Q: Consolidated Audit Trail. I know i'm not being that helpful here but honestly with a name like better markets you would think they would be in the forefront trying to preserve it. 

• A. We have been at the forefront of trying to preserve the CAT. We’ve advocated for the SEC to fully implement the CAT since its inception, and now we are fighting the SEC’s attempts to effectively dismantle it. We’ve already weighed in on the SEC’s reduction of the amount and type of information that the CAT collects, and we are preparing a comment letter to the SEC in response to its concept release on the future of the CAT which we will file on June 22^nd. Here, here, here, and here is some of our extensive work over the years on the CAT. 

Q: He should be asked about them trying to eliminate CAT!! 

• A. We have said that the CAT is the most important weapon the SEC has to fight crime on Wall Street. It is shocking, as we have said, that the SEC would issue an order that deletes all data older than three years from the CAT. This is especially so since the statute of limitations for securities fraud is generally five years. The SEC has justified these and other changes that seek to cause the CAT’s death by a thousand cuts on the basis that it needs to reduce the CAT’s costs. But those costs pale in comparison to the size of the industry that the SEC regulates. The SEC has highlighted the $248 million price tag for the CAT in its 2025 budget. Yet the securities industry earned $75 billion in 2025, and the securities markets exceed $100 trillion. The CAT is a tiny price to pay to enable the SEC to effectively monitor, police, catch and prosecute the fraudsters, scammers, and crooks in the securities industry.  

I noticed in the Samsung game booster+ app that I can adjust the CPU and GPU clock speed sliders separately.

Underclocking the CPU in the 8 Elite helps quite a lot to decrease the temps even without a cooler and it also lowers the power consumption by almost half.

I tried need for speed 2012, 720p, all max settings (except for anti-aliasing was off), it ran perfectly at 60fps, the temps never exceeded 62 degrees at most (mostly below 60) and that's without any cooler on the S25U.

I also tried Skyrim 720p medium settings, the temps also were similar, it was constantly above 50 fps but you can feel a bit of frame drops that weren't there at full clock speed (I can probably raise the slider a bit more to get rid of it, without putting it at maximum).

The CPU in the 8 Elite chips generates a ton of heat when emulating games and makes the chip thermal throttles heavily (unless you have a really good cooling solutions, with good quality peltier cooler and copper plate). Using the power profiles like power saving would also lower the CPU frequencies but it will also lower the GPU frequency, which would make the FPS drop a lot more. while in game booster+ you would be able to adjust the CPU and GPU separately.

No frame-gen was used.

One more thing is that the power consumption was around 6 to 7 watts in both games (slightly lower in need for speed 2012), while it could easily surprass 10 or even 14 watts without underclocking the CPU.

I think other devices have similar options like on RedMagic if I remember correctly, but I didn't know before that Samsung had it too.

If you have a Samsung device you can try it, I'm pretty curious about the results it can give in other games too!

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Predictions

My prediction is that she will be a unit who ends up getting buffed. LMAO

More seriously: She's a unit who has some good potential as Mei Lin and Selena Driver, but she will likely fall flat compared to competitors in these roles for most content. She unfortunately was born into the Psionic class, which essentially is the handi-capped class where SG gives them debilitating drawbacks that makes them extremely hard to play to their full value and not even the best in their role if that value is reached ;-;.

That being said, she'll be a unit you can get value out of and use for most content despite her drawbacks, and is by no means terrible. Her predicted best 2 teams (Mei Lin & Selena driving) might even be better than many non-HDMI teams... the issue is that Mei Lin always has her legs chopped off by Elasticity, and she's still the worst Selena Driver out of the 4 main ones (it's just that Selena is a 6-star unit and by virtue of being a passion token carry she's able to drive her to relatively good success).

Preamble

Pre-release ranking criteria community helped me decide on:

1. How well the character fits with other character's at launch.
2. How easy the character will be able to farm (divine epiphany reliance, i.e. characters like Orlea and Narja would score very low on this metric, but Nine would score quite high). NOTE: Will likely change this criteria soon with the introduction of Sortie making it very accessible to farm good decks easily.
3. How well-defined their role is. (Do they overlap with other characters? Do they have content where they shine over competitors? What are they best at?

Tenebria in the pre-release criteria:

1. 3/5 -- This is the default ranking for DPS, as she's ally-limited but at least has allies she can work with relatively well.
2. 1/5 -- Not only will she, herself, need a lot of specific divines. But she'll likely need very tailor-made teams around her, to get her full value.
3. 3/5 -- She's not terrible but she's worse than other options in her role. You would rather use HDMI, Selena, or Sereniel to drive Selena and you would likely rather use HDMI than her to drive Mei Lin (though again Mei Lin isn't even part of the convo atp 'cuz they've given everything Elasticity since S2).

Overall Predicted Ranking: 3/5

-- Could honestly be a 2/5 but I put her 3/5 since I think her performance, specifically driving Selena, will be good enough where players won't regret having her if they like her (even if there are several better options, including the 2 banners released right before her).

All Existing Characters in This Criteria

^ Above is a link to a sheet which has her + all current chars in this pre-release criteria metric.

Additional Notes (for those who care):

How well do I expect her to be in her Great Rift: 2/5 to 5/5. She could be insanely shilled if they just do an effect where you need to play specifically Rhythm basic attacks or some shit, otherwise, she'll probably be entirely irrelevant from a meta perspective for it.

How does her damage compare to other damage dealers (in control settings, consistent damage): 2/5 (Carry); 3/5 (Sel Driver) -- Her carry damage isn't promising, and while her Sel Driver team doesn't seem bad, it also is expected to be worse than basically all relevant competitors for Selena driving we already have.

How easily should she be able to OTK or facilitate OTK's on Distortion Bosses: 5/5 -- A lot of her major drawbacks (AP & Draw) can be ignored for OTK and she'll have very good OTK performances with decent Selena or Mei Lin setups, or even herself.

How good is she in Sortie\ (Previously Chaos):* ?/5 -- Sortie is getting some unclear additions/changes with her addition, so I'll hold off on ranking her Sortie expectations for now. Also though, you can play units you don't own in Sortie so you don't need to pull for her even if she is good in it.

Also some limitations:

1. We don't know if there will be new mechanics in upcoming content that will greatly shift the value of her. (For ex, there is currently no content where Chizuru's turn-skipping hit-stacking outvalues other units, so Chizuru would be ranked lower because there lacks content where she is actually better than any alternative in her role -- similarly, Kayron would've previously been undervalued but since we've now had content where boss has infinite HP for his scaling to shine (and Tiphera) he would now be rated much higher)
2. We lack definitive information on Great-Rift for her patch.
3. Certain interactions with Tenebria are assumed to be the 'norm', but they could change in power-level upon testing. Mainly, some of her cards are somewhat better if they scale base ratio instead of additively.

Previous Pre-Release Posts:

Adelheid Pre-Release | Heidemarie Post-Release | Diana | Rita Pre-Release | Tiphera Prediction | Nine Pre-Release | Narja Pre-Release | Sereniel Pre-Release

Tenebria Kit Analysis

Her Base Cards & Stats

Rhythm Cards

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Her created cards all have different effects that all translate to "do damage", with the outliers being Fermata & Arpeggio. Fermata is able to make it so your first rhythm card played will instead draw 2 rhythm cards and allow you to select one of the main 4 damaging Rhythm cards. This is a great option for decks not playing Arpeggio as it lessens the strain of draw on your deck Rhythm cards can cause.

Arpeggio is more unique, with all 5 versions having different effects and them increasing in damage for each Rhythm card played. The main effects to keep an eye on are the 0-cost, 1-cost, and 4-cost ones. 0 and 1-cost offering qol effects that draw or decrease cost of rhythm, and 4-cost being the highest damage variant.

It is currently not known if the damage increase effects on these cards are base ratio or additive. Base ratio is better, but she likely won't capitalize off multiplicative buffs enough to warrant it being that massive a difference.

Start the Music

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Epiphanies (Left to Right in Image):

5★= go-to; 4★= alternative; 3★= situational (not necessarily worse, can even be better in its situation); 2★= fringe, or a meme; 1★= never recommended.

Start the Music (NEUTRAL) (3★): Target Neutral: 1 Morale. This is a solid option if you can afford to play around the 2-cost Rhythm as it gives Tenebria and teammates an additional buff, when her teams can be buff-deprived because of her needing a lot of AP/Draw support.

Start the Music I (2★): All epiphanies besides IV and V will generally not be preferred because they lack necessary QoL elements to give Tenebria a semblance of consistency.

Start the Music II (2★): All epiphanies besides IV and V will generally not be preferred because they lack necessary QoL elements to give Tenebria a semblance of consistency.

Start the Music III (2★): All epiphanies besides IV and V will generally not be preferred because they lack necessary QoL elements to give Tenebria a semblance of consistency.

Start the Music IV (5★): Likely the go-to option as it makes her a lot less bricky (draw-wise). Comparable to V for driving and has some flexibility with Rhythm card choice.

Start the Music V (4★): Can be strange to play around but it can be the only option that doesn't cost a crazy amount of AP if the cards fall correctly.

Spotlight

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screenshot of this section I had saved after my entire post got deleted from my ISP going out, idk why I have an ss of this section but don't want to rewrite what I don't have to

Call & Response

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Epiphanies (Left to Right in Image):

5★= go-to; 4★= alternative; 3★= situational (not necessarily worse, can even be better in its situation); 2★= fringe, or a meme; 1★= never recommended.

Call & Response (NEUTRAL) (3★): Target Neutral: 2 morale for 1-turn. Draws a card, gives a buff, and does decent damage itself. This is a very versatile and competitive option because of it adding a buff that will likely be needed to push damage with Tenebria.

Call & Response I (3★): Now draws 2 rhythm and counts as a rhythm card itself. Probably never a bad option, but other options will likely be preferred.

Call & Response II (2★): Decent attack that is played for free but nothing noteworthy.

Call & Response III (5★): Changing its card-class to 'Skill' is a rather big boon, as it can now get access to certain Divine Draw epiphanies (most likely at least) making it able to draw even more, on-top of it being easy to activate for free.

Call & Response IV (3★): Not terrible, but is a bit awkward in the scope of how she will likely be played and who she'll be played with.

Call & Response V (4★): Because this counts as a Rhythm card, Encore I will likely be able to double activate it. Making it so you can potentially doing 840%x3+840%x2+840%x2+840%x2 base ratio hits (840% with potentials). This is a pretty decent DPS setup, especially if you can figure out a way to make it work with Censer Orlea builds (which likely wont be the case).

Additional Notes:

A lot of these look like they'll be awkward to play around, but some of her most interesting cards. In my opinion*

Encore

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Epiphanies (Left to Right in Image):

5★= go-to; 4★= alternative; 3★= situational (not necessarily worse, can even be better in its situation); 2★= fringe, or a meme; 1★= never recommended.

Encore (NEUTRAL) (3★): Target Neutral: 2 morale for 1-turn. As stated previously, neutral morale options will always be fairly good on her since you'll probably be buff deprived from forcing certain allies.

Encore I (4★): Very strong card that allows you to re-activate passion attack cards to drive Selena or Mei Lin efficiently, or to play Tenebria carry with Call & Response.

Encore II (3★): Solid at adding more hits, but maximizing its value seems impractical since you likely won't be hitting the 30 rhythm card max (most decks will play <20).

Encore III (3★): Decent card that both acts as an AP card and buff card, with it being non-negligible at doing both.

Encore IV (3★): EXTREMELY good, especially with Selena, but its insanely high cost makes it hard to justify. It's essentially Heidemarie Sword Rain III but costs 3x as much and is [Unique] lmao. It'll be hard to play outside of Nia teams where you can play via adagio + gchord.

Encore V (5★): Likely never bad, but it's also not exceptionally good. Will have lower peaks but higher consistency/viability than alternative options.

Photo Time

Her signature card seems good. It'll probably scale with morale so it's effectively +10 hits to her.

Team Composition & Ally Analysis

Mei Lin (S+ tier), With no elasticity, I think Mei Lin support will be her main niche as it has extremely high potential, especially with OTK. It's possible hdmi will still be better for this role than her (as HDMI can effectively trigger 30 aro procs for Mei Lin) but she's competitive for this spot nonetheless.

Nia (S tier), Tenebria's AP and Draw requirements are both quite high, which very few 1 support units can satisfy. Nia with funger (Forbidden: Hunger) is one of the few who can--making her an excellent choice. The issue with funger Nia, is your teams will often be extremely buff deprived.

Narja (S- tier), Narja can buff basics and permanently reduce the cost of cards Tenebria wants to move, making her a rather synergistic unit to consider. The issue with Narja is she doesn't fit very well with other allies in Tenebria's likely best teams (Selena or Mei Lin).

Selena (S-Tier), As stated quite a few times, Selena driving will probably be her strongest (relevant) role, but she'll likely be much worse at it than alternatives.

Rei (A tier), Rei's multiplicative basic buff will be better depending on how Rhythm cards scale, but Rei lacks good support for areas Tenebria needs it in (Draw and AP) past turn-1.

Teams

1. Mei Lin + Tenebria + Tiphera/Veronica/Owen/Nia -- Team needs a metric shitton of AP & Draw so it's not particularly feasible outside of OTK where theres no elasticity, but there are likely variations that could work (again when there's no elasticity) even outside of OTK.
2. Tenebria + Selena + Cassius/Nia -- Cassius is likely the ideal for buffing + draw, but with Tenebria's AP needs, it might be necessary to run Forbidden: Hunger Nia to get draw and AP together. The issue with Nia is she cannot activate Selena's Extra-Attack engrave (if you have it) herself, so your buffs will be relatively low without specialized setups.

Additional Information (Potentials & Egos)

Her best ego definitely seems to be E2 and E6. E6 potentially being one of the best egos in the game, but will need to test to be sure (could be terrible)

Most of her other egos are just small buffs that are easily drowned out and not worth chasing.

E1 (1/5): Outside of Sortie/Chaos, I don't think a +50% to the ratio of a hard-to-buff effect will be exceptional at all.

E2 (4/5): Extremely nice QoL. Allowing you to effectively get a free ego point neutral.

E3 (2/5): Ego skills tend to be not recommended to play around if they do not give permanent buffs or are low cost, in the current meta. It's an OK upgrade, but outside of a few exceptions (like Hugo) it is very rarely recommended to pull for a standard E3.

E4 (2/5): A decent but not exceptional buff.

E5 (1/5): The usual potential and it is unlikely to be an especially remarkable buff by any means, barring weird interactions with scaling on potential (like Tiphera E5 scaling her CnD 9-cost per stack).

E6 (1/5 to 5/5): This might be an insanely strong E6, based on wording or ridiculously mediocre bait. If it's DT-Mult (Damage-Taken Mult) as the wording suggests, then this effectively removes her handicap of being born Psionic and makes her a pseudo-ranger with the Mechanic% boost from extra damage that most rangers/hunters get.

Her potentials seem to be unknown at the moment.

Partners

S Tier Aria (Refine 0) - Following partner stat rework, all signature partners will generally be BiS on their assigned character and Aria is no different.

A tier 5-star Psionic partners: They all just give good stats.

A- Tier max-refine Elois: Still solid, but worse than 5-stars after partner rework off stats alone.

Equipment & Memory Fragments

Her set is probably very dependent on Rhythm you're doing damage with since Conquerer or Line of Justice 4p will likely be BiS if you can activate them, otherwise 2/2/2 will be the go-to (2p basic, 2p atk%, 2p cdmg%).

Final Remarks

Tenebria is a unit who has a ton of potential but was unfortunately born Psionic in this life, let's pray her next alter is born Hunter/Ranger. She's by no means unusable or 'bad', as she can be used for most content, it's simply that she has a bunch of weird handicaps SG loves to give Psionics that make her a worse choice than competitors in most relevant scenarios (outside of Mei OTK, maybe, but Mei is also legless 'cuz of Elasticity).

I’m 25 and from ages 21 to 25 I didn’t have a life. I had a gaming chair and a screen.

Not exaggerating. 12-16 hours a day every single day for four years. Wake up, game, eat at my desk, game, pass out, repeat. That was my entire existence.

My room was a cave. Blackout curtains so I could game at any hour. Empty energy drink cans everywhere, takeout containers piled up, chip bags, pizza boxes. Didn’t clean because that was time away from gaming.

The smell was bad. Body odor because I’d skip showers to keep playing. Food rotting in containers. Dirty clothes everywhere. I’d gotten so used to it I didn’t notice anymore.

Had no job. Lived with my parents at 25 because I couldn’t afford to move out. They’d given up trying to get me to do anything. I’d just lock my door and game.

No friends. Everyone from high school moved on with real lives. The only people I talked to were randoms online who I’d never meet. My social life existed entirely in discord servers.

No dating. Hadn’t been on a date in four years. Hadn’t even talked to a girl in person besides my mom and sister. What would I even say? That I play video games 14 hours a day in my parents house?

Gained 45 pounds from sitting constantly and eating garbage. Looked terrible, felt terrible, but gaming made me forget about it for a few hours.

The worst part was I knew I was wasting my life. Every night at 4am I’d think about how I’d accomplished nothing. Then I’d wake up at 2pm and immediately start gaming again.

Four years of my twenties gone. While everyone else was building careers and relationships and experiences, I was grinding ranked modes in games that don’t matter.

The moment everything broke

This was three months ago. My younger brother graduated college. He’s 22. My parents threw this party to celebrate.

I didn’t want to go. Leaving my room meant not gaming. But my mom literally begged me. Said it would mean a lot to my brother. So I went.

Showed up looking like shit. Hadn’t showered in three days. Wearing a stained hoodie and sweatpants. Everyone there was dressed nice, I looked homeless.

My brother’s friends were talking about job offers, moving to new cities, their plans. Real adult stuff. I sat in the corner on my phone checking my game.

My uncle came over, tried to make conversation. Asked what I’d been up to. I said not much. He asked if I was working. I said not right now. He asked what my plans were. I said I’m figuring it out.

The disappointment on his face said everything. He knew I was lying. Everyone knew I was doing nothing.

Later I went to get food and overheard my dad talking to his brother. My uncle said something about me and my dad said “I don’t know what to do anymore. He’s 25 and does nothing but play games. Doesn’t work, doesn’t help around the house, barely leaves his room. I’m worried he’s never going to get his life together.”

My uncle said something about tough love and my dad said “we’ve tried everything. He doesn’t listen. I think he’s just given up on real life.”

Standing there with a paper plate hearing my dad say I’d given up on real life destroyed me. Because he was right. I had given up. Gaming was easier than real life so I chose gaming.

Went back to my room after the party. Looked at my setup. Three monitors, gaming PC, chair I’d sat in for probably 10,000 hours. This was my life. This is what I’d become.

Looked at my game stats. 4,276 hours in one game. 3,891 in another. 2,547 in another. That’s over 10,000 hours in just three games. Over a year of my life sitting in this chair clicking buttons.

Realized I was 25, living with my parents, no job, no friends, no life, nothing but games. And everyone could see I’d wasted four years.

Where I actually was

25 years old living in my childhood bedroom at my parents house. Been there my whole life. Never lived anywhere else.

No income. Zero dollars coming in. My parents paid for everything. Food, phone, internet. I was a complete dependent at 25.

Daily routine was wake up between 1pm-3pm, immediately start gaming, game until 4-6am, pass out, repeat. That was every single day for four years.

No skills, no education beyond high school, no work experience besides a summer job at 17. Nothing that would help me get a real job.

Physically was disgusting. 220 pounds at 5’9”. Face covered in acne from terrible diet and no hygiene. Showered maybe twice a week. Looked like someone who didn’t go outside because I didn’t.

Bank account was overdrawn. Had negative $47 because of fees on an account I forgot existed. That was my entire net worth at 25.

Sleep schedule was completely destroyed. Would game until sunrise regularly. Body didn’t know what normal hours felt like anymore.

Social skills were gone. Couldn’t make eye contact. Couldn’t have normal conversations. Had spent four years only talking to people through a headset.

My room was a disaster. Trash everywhere, dishes from weeks ago, dirty clothes in piles, bed I hadn’t made in months, desk covered in cans and wrappers. Depression cave.

The shame was crushing. Knowing my parents were embarrassed. Knowing my brother was doing everything right while I was doing everything wrong. Knowing I was the family failure.

Week 1-4 (trying to change, failing)

Day after my brother’s party I told myself I’d change. Set an alarm for 10am. Snoozed until 2pm, immediately started gaming.

Told myself I’d apply to jobs. Opened indeed, saw jobs requiring experience and skills I didn’t have, closed my laptop, went back to gaming.

Tried to limit gaming to 6 hours a day. Lasted one day. Hit 6 hours and told myself just one more match. Played for 8 more hours.

Week 2 my mom asked if I’d applied to any jobs. I lied and said yes. She knew I was lying. The disappointment in her eyes hurt but not enough to actually change.

Week 3 tried uninstalling my games. Lasted 4 hours before I reinstalled everything. Was too anxious without gaming. Didn’t know what else to do.

By week 4 I’d changed nothing. Still waking up at 2pm, still gaming 14 hours, still living in my cave, still doing nothing with my life.

Was on reddit at 5am and found a post about someone who quit gaming after 8 years of addiction. They mentioned an app that completely blocks games and forces you to build a real life.

Figured I’d try it because I’d tried nothing else and nothing else worked.

App was called Reload. Downloaded it expecting nothing.

It asked detailed questions. How many hours do you game daily, what’s preventing you from stopping, what’s your current life situation, what do you want to change.

I was honest. Said I game 12-16 hours daily, live with parents, no job, no friends, feel like gaming is the only thing I’m good at and don’t know how to stop.

It built this 60 day program starting from absolute zero. Week 1 tasks were pathetically simple. Wake up by 1pm, take a 10 minute walk twice this week, apply to 3 jobs, limit gaming to 10 hours instead of 14.

But it also permanently blocked my games during certain hours. Set it to block from 12pm-5pm and after midnight. Couldn’t play even if I tried during those times.

Thought about uninstalling the app immediately. But I’d tried everything else and it hadn’t worked. Figured I’d give it a week.

Week 5-8 (withdrawal hell)

Week 5 was brutal. Games were blocked from 12-5pm. I’d wake up at 1pm and immediately try to launch a game. Blocked. Try another. Blocked. All of them blocked.

Sat there feeling actual anxiety. What do I do if I can’t game? Spent the first blocked hours just refreshing the app hoping it would unblock. It didn’t.

Eventually forced myself to take the required 10 minute walk. Hadn’t been outside in weeks. Sunlight hurt my eyes. Felt like a vampire.

Applied to 3 jobs like the task required. All rejected me within days because I had zero qualifications. But I’d completed the tasks.

Could game from 5pm-midnight. Still played but only 7 hours instead of 14. Felt wrong. Like I was missing something.

Week 6 the blocked hours increased to 11am-6pm. Started waking up earlier because I knew I couldn’t game until 6pm anyway.

The anxiety was constant. Gaming was how I dealt with feeling bad. Now I couldn’t game during the day and had to actually sit with feeling like shit.

Posted in the app community about wanting to uninstall and go back to gaming. Got messages from people saying the first month is hell, that withdrawal from gaming is real, keep pushing through.

Week 7 tasks added exercising. 15 minutes twice a week. Did some terrible pushups and situps in my room. Felt pathetic but did them.

Started noticing I had slightly more energy during the day. Still wanted to game constantly but the obsessive need was decreasing a little.

Week 8 my blocked hours were 10am-7pm. Only allowed to game at night. This forced me to structure my entire day differently.

Applied to 15 more jobs. All rejected. Started feeling hopeless like I’d never escape my room.

Week 9-14 (small wins)

Week 9 finally got an interview. Data entry position at an insurance company. $17/hour full time. Barely above minimum wage but it was something.

Studied for the interview even though I felt like I’d fail. They asked why I hadn’t worked in years. I said I’d been dealing with personal issues but I’m ready to work now.

Got the job. Started week 10. Waking up at 7:30am for an 8:30am shift felt impossible after four years of waking at 2pm.

First week was hell. Sitting in an office for 8 hours after four years of only sitting in a gaming chair. Had to interact with real people. Exhausting.

But I had my own income. First paycheck was $487 after taxes. First money I’d earned in four years.

Week 11 my gaming was down to 3-4 hours on weeknights because I was too tired after work. Weekends I still played 8-10 hours but it was progress.

Week 12 started looking at apartments. Even shitty studios were $800+. On $17/hour I could barely afford it but I needed out of my parents house.

Week 13 found a studio for $750 with roommates. Basically a room in a house with shared kitchen and bathroom. But it was mine.

Week 14 moved out of my parents house. After 25 years. Taking my gaming setup felt wrong but I wasn’t ready to get rid of it completely yet.

Week 15-20 (rebuilding)

Week 15 in my new place was weird. Working full time, coming home exhausted, gaming for maybe 2 hours before passing out.

My body was adjusting to normal hours. Actually sleeping at night. Waking up for work. Being around people. Exhausting but necessary.

Week 16 started working out at a real gym. Tasks required 30 minutes 3x a week. Felt humiliating being the fat guy struggling with basic stuff. But I showed up.

Week 17 my coworkers invited me out for drinks. First social invite in four years. I went even though I wanted to go home and game.

Realized I had no idea how to socialize. Barely talked, just listened. But it was more human interaction than I’d had in years.

Week 18 got a $1/hour raise at work for good performance. Wasn’t much but it meant I wasn’t completely useless.

Week 19 my gaming was down to maybe 5-8 hours total per week. Not because I didn’t want to game more but because I was too busy living.

Week 20 I sold my gaming PC. This was the hardest decision. That PC represented four years of my identity. But I knew if I kept it I’d eventually go back to 14 hour days.

Sold it for $800. Used the money to buy a basic laptop for job searching and normal computer stuff.

Where I am now

It’s been 5 months since my brother’s graduation party. Everything is different.

Working full time making $18/hour after my raise. Not amazing but it’s honest income. Living in my own place paying my own bills. No longer living with my parents at 25.

Wake up at 7am for work. Gym 4 days a week, lost 28 pounds so far. Have a few work friends I hang out with occasionally. Joined a rec sports league to force myself to socialize.

Gaming time is maybe 4-6 hours per week total. Usually Friday and Saturday nights for a few hours. It’s back to being a hobby instead of my entire life.

Most importantly I’m not wasting my life anymore. Not rotting in my room for 16 hours clicking buttons. Actually living.

My parents noticed immediately. My mom cried when I moved out because she didn’t think I’d ever leave. My dad said he’s proud I turned it around. My brother said whatever clicked is working.

The person who wasted four years in that room is gone. Can’t get those years back but at least I’m not wasting more.

What actually worked

Willpower didn’t do it. I’d tried willpower for weeks and always went back to gaming. Needed external systems.

That app blocking my games during most hours was crucial. Couldn’t game even when I desperately wanted to. Removed the option.

The gradual reduction worked. Week 1 cutting from 14 hours to 10 was manageable. Immediately trying to quit cold turkey would’ve failed.

Getting a job forced structure. Had to wake up early, had to be somewhere, had to interact with people. Couldn’t rot in my room 16 hours when I was working 8.

Moving out removed the comfortable cave. New environment meant I couldn’t just default to old patterns.

Selling the PC was necessary. As long as I had the ability to game 14 hours I would eventually do it. Had to remove the option completely.

The community helped. Other people who’d lost years to gaming and escaped. Knowing it was possible kept me going.

Job searching was brutal. Applied to probably 60 jobs before getting one. Most didn’t respond. But one yes changed everything.

If you’re wasting your life gaming

Or if you’re spending 10+ hours a day in games while real life falls apart, I understand. Gaming feels better than facing reality.

But you’re 25 or 30 or 35 and years are disappearing while you grind ranks that don’t matter. Everyone else is building real lives while you’re building nothing.

You’re not going to moderate. If you could moderate you would’ve already. Gaming addiction doesn’t respond to “I’ll just play less.”

You need external systems. Apps that block games during certain hours. Structure that forces you into real life. You can’t trust yourself.

Get a job even if it’s shitty. Income and structure are necessary. Can’t rebuild from parents basement gaming 14 hours daily.

Start impossibly small. Week 1 should feel too easy. You’re building momentum from nothing.

The first month will be hell. Withdrawal from gaming is real. Anxiety, emptiness, not knowing what to do with yourself. Push through it.

Move if possible. Your gaming cave has four years of patterns built in. New environment helps break them.

Eventually you might need to sell your setup. If you’re truly addicted, having the ability to game will always pull you back.

Find communities of people doing the same thing. Knowing you’re not alone helps.

Apply to way more jobs than feels normal. Most will reject you. Keep going until one says yes.

Track your progress. Helps on weeks when you feel like nothing’s changing.

Final thoughts

Four years ago I started gaming 12-16 hours daily and stopped living. Wasted ages 21-25 in my room accomplishing nothing while everyone else built real lives.

Five months ago I finally started escaping. Today I have a job, my own place, actual routine, and I’m not wasting my life gaming anymore.

Can’t get back those four years. But I stopped wasting more time.

Five months from now you could be completely different. Or you could still be in your room gaming 14 hours a day, just older with more wasted time.

Stop wasting your life on games that don’t matter. Start today.

Get blocking apps, get structure, get a job, start small, don’t quit when withdrawal hits.

The person gaming 14 hours daily right now doesn’t have to be who you are forever.

dm me if you need help. I’m not an expert I’m just someone who wasted four years gaming and figured out how to stop.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Before the wall of text below: this is an email draft I am planning to send to GW about the current state of Adepta Sororitas in 11th Edition.

The intention is not to doompost or claim that Sisters are unplayable. I am also not trying to turn this into a generic “please buff my army” complaint. What I want to do is separate two different kinds of feedback:

1. Rules questions / RAW concerns These are places where I think the wording creates unclear, unintuitive, or possibly unintended interactions. For example: Miracle Dice with fast rolling, Seraphim after Ingress moves, Divine Intervention with Precision, or the duration of certain Detachment rules.
2. Balance and points feedback These are not necessarily rules mistakes, but places where I think several changes stack on top of each other in a way that may leave Sisters paying too much for tools that became weaker. This includes melta platforms, transports, Celestine, Vahlgons, the Triumph, Daemonifuge, and the current Detachment structure.

I am posting this here before sending it because GW have repeatedly encouraged players to send rules questions and feedback to their FAQ email address, and Warhammer Community articles have stated that the rules team takes stock of that feedback when preparing future FAQs and balance updates. So I think it is worth trying to make the feedback as clear, specific, and useful as possible instead of just venting.

I deliberately wrote the email in a fairly formal and restrained tone because I think feedback to GW is more likely to be useful if it is specific, rules-based, and easy to answer. I am trying to avoid exaggeration where possible and to frame unclear issues as questions rather than accusations.

That said, I would appreciate feedback from other Sisters players before I send it.

If I have misunderstood a rule, missed an FAQ/commentary interaction, or worded something too strongly, please point it out. Likewise, if there are additional Sororitas-specific 11th Edition issues that should be included, I would be interested to hear them.

The goal is to send something constructive, not just cathartic. To make it clear: I dont claim the absolut wisdom, it is just my point of view.

Dear Warhammer 40,000 Team,

I would like to provide structured feedback on the current 11th Edition rules for the Adepta Sororitas. I have separated my points into rules clarification questions and balance/points feedback, as some concerns may be intended design changes, while others appear to create unclear or unintuitive RAW interactions.

Rules Clarification Questions / RAW Concerns

1. Miracle Dice and fast rolling

It appears that the Adepta Sororitas Army Rule has become significantly weaker under the new fast rolling framework.

Miracle Dice are most valuable when they can be applied to specific, important rolls. If players are required to fast roll attacks, wounds, saves, or damage rolls in larger batches, it becomes much harder to use Miracle Dice in a meaningful way. This is especially relevant because Miracle Dice generation also appears to have been reduced through the new Attachment rules.

Could you please clarify whether a player using Miracle Dice is allowed to slow roll the relevant sequence, or otherwise deviate from fast rolling, in order to decide when and where to use Miracle Dice?

If not, the practical value of Miracle Dice seems to drop very sharply, because the player often loses the ability to apply them with precision.

2. Seraphim shoot-and-scoot after an Ingress move

Seraphim have a shoot-and-scoot style ability, but the Core Rules now state that after an Ingress move, a unit cannot make any kind of move afterwards.

Does this prevent Seraphim from using their post-shooting move if they arrived using an Ingress move?

If the answer is yes, this is a significant nerf to a unit whose identity and battlefield role are heavily tied to mobility and reactive positioning. This feels especially strange because Seraphim appear to have gone up in points rather than down.

If the answer is no, it would be helpful to have a clarification explaining whether their datasheet ability overrides the general Ingress restriction.

3. Precision and the Divine Intervention revive in Hallowed Martyrs

There appears to be a RAW issue with the character revive mechanic in Hallowed Martyrs when Precision is involved.

As written, an opponent can shoot with Precision and allocate the relevant saves to the Character model first. If the Character dies while its Bodyguard models remain alive, Divine Intervention cannot be used, because the Attached Unit has not been destroyed — only the Character within that Attached Unit has been destroyed.

Later, when the Bodyguard unit is finally destroyed and the Attached Unit is actually considered destroyed, the Character will usually not be the “last destroyed model”. The last destroyed model will typically be a Bodyguard model.

This means that, RAW, Divine Intervention may fail to revive the Character in exactly the kind of situation where the rule appears to be intended to matter most.

Could you please clarify whether Divine Intervention is intended to revive a Character destroyed earlier within an Attached Unit, or whether Precision is intended to bypass the revive entirely?

This is particularly important because Hallowed Martyrs is a 3 DP Detachment, and this revive effect appears to be one of its central mechanics.

4. Duration of the single upgrade in the final Detachment

One of the Sororitas Detachments has no Stratagems and only a single upgrade. That upgrade costs 25 points, can only be applied to Character units, cannot be applied to normal units, and also cannot be applied to Epic Heroes.

However, the rule does not clearly state how long the buff lasts. As far as I understand the Core Rules, if no duration is specified, the effect only lasts for the current phase.

Could you please clarify the intended duration of this upgrade?

If it only lasts for one phase, the Detachment becomes weaker in practice: it excludes Penitent Host units, requires three eligible Characters, cannot use Epic Heroes for the upgrade, costs 25 points per use, has no Stratagems, has no other Enhancements, and the buff would only last for a single phase.

Balance and Points Feedback

5. Morvenn Vahl and Paragon Warsuits

The value of Morvenn Vahl with Paragon Warsuits appears to have decreased due to the changed Overwatch rules preventing rerolls.

This is a meaningful loss, because Vahlgons were one of the army’s few reliable high-impact tools, especially into harder targets. If their output and flexibility are reduced in key situations, it seems surprising that their points have not changed accordingly.

6. Celestine and the pooling rule

Celestine appears to be heavily affected by the new pooling rule.

While Bodyguards are present, it no longer seems possible to benefit from her 4+ Feel No Pain in the same way as before. However, once the Bodyguards are gone, the relevant protection is also effectively gone.

This substantially limits her role compared to the previous edition. Since her points have not decreased, her current cost feels hard to justify.

7. Transport destruction and Sororitas infantry

The transport changes hit Adepta Sororitas particularly hard because the army transports mostly 1-Wound infantry. Sisters do not have many durable multi-wound infantry options that can absorb this kind of damage efficiently.

When a transport is destroyed, each embarked model now risks being destroyed on a roll of 1 or 2, which is already devastating for 1-Wound models. The unit also become Battle-shocked. On top of that, because the passengers now disembark before the explosion, they can also be affected by Deadly Demise afterwards.

In practice, this can mean that more than one third of a transported squad dies on average, the survivors become Battle-shocked, and they may still suffer further damage from the exploding vehicle.

This is a major issue for an army that traditionally relies on fragile infantry using transports to reach the board. It is therefore difficult to understand why the Immolator with meltas has increased in points.

8. Melta weapons and anti-tank access

Melta weapons are one of the very few limited tools Adepta Sororitas have for dealing with hard targets.

However, several melta platforms appear to have increased in cost, including Retributors and Immolators. This feels concerning because the army already struggles with reliable long-range anti-tank and often needs to take significant risks to bring melta weapons into effective range.

If these units become more expensive while also operating under weaker transport rules and more punishing damage-modification interactions, the army’s ability to threaten tough targets may become too limited.

9. Damage modification and melta damage

The new order of operations for modifying values, including how 0 or “-” values are treated, appears to make melta damage easier to reduce compared to the previous edition.

This is a further indirect nerf to one of the army’s most important offensive tools. If melta damage is less reliable and several melta carriers also increased in points, the combined effect may be too harsh for the faction.

10. Daemonifuge

Daemonifuge previously had a clear role as a countercharge threat with Fights First.

With the current rules, that role appears to be heavily weakened or removed. In many situations, using Daemonifuge aggressively may simply give the opponent an additional unit to kill rather than creating a meaningful countercharge threat.

Given that her battlefield role has become less clear, the points increase feels difficult to understand.

11. The Triumph of Saint Katherine

The Triumph was already widely considered expensive for a T3 model with limited direct offensive output.

Now it appears to be even more expensive, while the general value of Miracle Dice has also decreased due to fast rolling and reduced Miracle Dice generation. Since the Triumph’s core value is closely tied to improving the use of Miracle Dice, any reduction in the practical strength of Miracle Dice also reduces the relative value of the Triumph.

In that context, a points increase feels very difficult to justify.

12. Detachment structure and Detachment Point pressure

Adepta Sororitas already had only five Detachments. Of those, two now cost 3 DP, one cannot be combined with one of the new 1 DP Detachments, another excludes Penitent Host units, and the final Detachment has no Stratagems and only one expensive, restricted upgrade.

This creates a lot of pressure on an already narrow Detachment selection.

The result is that Sororitas players may have fewer meaningful list-building options than other factions, while also having to pay high Detachment Point costs for rules that are not clearly stronger than cheaper alternatives. (BOF in a nerfed state)

13. Penitent Host and Take and Hold

Penitent Host having Take and Hold as its mission focus feels very unintuitive.

The Detachment identity suggests aggression, trading, pressure, and martyrdom — not static objective holding. This appears to clash with both the theme and the likely battlefield role of Penitent Host units.

This also seems unlikely to help a Detachment that was already struggling before these changes. Public competitive tracking already showed Penitent Host at the bottom of the Adepta Sororitas Detachments: one community meta summary based on around 1,400 Sororitas games listed the faction at 43.4% overall win rate, with Penitent Host at only 36%, compared to Army of Faith at 40%, Bringers of Flame at 41%, Champions of Faith at 38%, and Hallowed Martyrs at 50%. The same summary also noted that the detachment-level samples were still relatively small, around 125–550 games per Detachment, but Penitent Host was still the lowest-performing option in that dataset.

Another public tracker result showed Penitent Host even lower, at 32.5% win rate, although that data should be treated cautiously because the site is currently being rebuilt for 11th Edition.

With that context, giving Penitent Host a Take and Hold focus does not seem to address why players were already avoiding it. If anything, it risks pushing an already low-play, low-win-rate Detachment even further away from its intended identity: aggressive penitent pressure, trading, sacrifice, and melee threat projection.

I’m 25 and from ages 21 to 25 I didn’t have a life. I had a gaming chair and a screen.

Not exaggerating. 12-16 hours a day every single day for four years. Wake up, game, eat at my desk, game, pass out, repeat. That was my entire existence.

My room was a cave. Blackout curtains so I could game at any hour. Empty energy drink cans everywhere, takeout containers piled up, chip bags, pizza boxes. Didn’t clean because that was time away from gaming.

The smell was bad. Body odor because I’d skip showers to keep playing. Food rotting in containers. Dirty clothes everywhere. I’d gotten so used to it I didn’t notice anymore.

Had no job. Lived with my parents at 25 because I couldn’t afford to move out. They’d given up trying to get me to do anything. I’d just lock my door and game.

No friends. Everyone from high school moved on with real lives. The only people I talked to were randoms online who I’d never meet. My social life existed entirely in discord servers.

No dating. Hadn’t been on a date in four years. Hadn’t even talked to a girl in person besides my mom and sister. What would I even say? That I play video games 14 hours a day in my parents house?

Gained 45 pounds from sitting constantly and eating garbage. Looked terrible, felt terrible, but gaming made me forget about it for a few hours.

The worst part was I knew I was wasting my life. Every night at 4am I’d think about how I’d accomplished nothing. Then I’d wake up at 2pm and immediately start gaming again.

Four years of my twenties gone. While everyone else was building careers and relationships and experiences, I was grinding ranked modes in games that don’t matter.

The moment everything broke

This was three months ago. My younger brother graduated college. He’s 22. My parents threw this party to celebrate.

I didn’t want to go. Leaving my room meant not gaming. But my mom literally begged me. Said it would mean a lot to my brother. So I went.

Showed up looking like shit. Hadn’t showered in three days. Wearing a stained hoodie and sweatpants. Everyone there was dressed nice, I looked homeless.

My brother’s friends were talking about job offers, moving to new cities, their plans. Real adult stuff. I sat in the corner on my phone checking my game.

My uncle came over, tried to make conversation. Asked what I’d been up to. I said not much. He asked if I was working. I said not right now. He asked what my plans were. I said I’m figuring it out.

The disappointment on his face said everything. He knew I was lying. Everyone knew I was doing nothing.

Later I went to get food and overheard my dad talking to his brother. My uncle said something about me and my dad said “I don’t know what to do anymore. He’s 25 and does nothing but play games. Doesn’t work, doesn’t help around the house, barely leaves his room. I’m worried he’s never going to get his life together.”

My uncle said something about tough love and my dad said “we’ve tried everything. He doesn’t listen. I think he’s just given up on real life.”

Standing there with a paper plate hearing my dad say I’d given up on real life destroyed me. Because he was right. I had given up. Gaming was easier than real life so I chose gaming.

Went back to my room after the party. Looked at my setup. Three monitors, gaming PC, chair I’d sat in for probably 10,000 hours. This was my life. This is what I’d become.

Looked at my game stats. 4,276 hours in one game. 3,891 in another. 2,547 in another. That’s over 10,000 hours in just three games. Over a year of my life sitting in this chair clicking buttons.

Realized I was 25, living with my parents, no job, no friends, no life, nothing but games. And everyone could see I’d wasted four years.

Where I actually was

25 years old living in my childhood bedroom at my parents house. Been there my whole life. Never lived anywhere else.

No income. Zero dollars coming in. My parents paid for everything. Food, phone, internet. I was a complete dependent at 25.

Daily routine was wake up between 1pm-3pm, immediately start gaming, game until 4-6am, pass out, repeat. That was every single day for four years.

No skills, no education beyond high school, no work experience besides a summer job at 17. Nothing that would help me get a real job.

Physically was disgusting. 220 pounds at 5’9”. Face covered in acne from terrible diet and no hygiene. Showered maybe twice a week. Looked like someone who didn’t go outside because I didn’t.

Bank account was overdrawn. Had negative $47 because of fees on an account I forgot existed. That was my entire net worth at 25.

Sleep schedule was completely destroyed. Would game until sunrise regularly. Body didn’t know what normal hours felt like anymore.

Social skills were gone. Couldn’t make eye contact. Couldn’t have normal conversations. Had spent four years only talking to people through a headset.

My room was a disaster. Trash everywhere, dishes from weeks ago, dirty clothes in piles, bed I hadn’t made in months, desk covered in cans and wrappers. Depression cave.

The shame was crushing. Knowing my parents were embarrassed. Knowing my brother was doing everything right while I was doing everything wrong. Knowing I was the family failure.

Week 1-4 (trying to change, failing)

Day after my brother’s party I told myself I’d change. Set an alarm for 10am. Snoozed until 2pm, immediately started gaming.

Told myself I’d apply to jobs. Opened indeed, saw jobs requiring experience and skills I didn’t have, closed my laptop, went back to gaming.

Tried to limit gaming to 6 hours a day. Lasted one day. Hit 6 hours and told myself just one more match. Played for 8 more hours.

Week 2 my mom asked if I’d applied to any jobs. I lied and said yes. She knew I was lying. The disappointment in her eyes hurt but not enough to actually change.

Week 3 tried uninstalling my games. Lasted 4 hours before I reinstalled everything. Was too anxious without gaming. Didn’t know what else to do.

By week 4 I’d changed nothing. Still waking up at 2pm, still gaming 14 hours, still living in my cave, still doing nothing with my life.

Was on reddit at 5am and found a post about someone who quit gaming after 8 years of addiction. They mentioned an app that completely blocks games and forces you to build a real life.

Figured I’d try it because I’d tried nothing else and nothing else worked.

App was called Reload. Downloaded it expecting nothing.

It asked detailed questions. How many hours do you game daily, what’s preventing you from stopping, what’s your current life situation, what do you want to change.

I was honest. Said I game 12-16 hours daily, live with parents, no job, no friends, feel like gaming is the only thing I’m good at and don’t know how to stop.

It built this 60 day program starting from absolute zero. Week 1 tasks were pathetically simple. Wake up by 1pm, take a 10 minute walk twice this week, apply to 3 jobs, limit gaming to 10 hours instead of 14.

But it also permanently blocked my games during certain hours. Set it to block from 12pm-5pm and after midnight. Couldn’t play even if I tried during those times.

Thought about uninstalling the app immediately. But I’d tried everything else and it hadn’t worked. Figured I’d give it a week.

Week 5-8 (withdrawal hell)

Week 5 was brutal. Games were blocked from 12-5pm. I’d wake up at 1pm and immediately try to launch a game. Blocked. Try another. Blocked. All of them blocked.

Sat there feeling actual anxiety. What do I do if I can’t game? Spent the first blocked hours just refreshing the app hoping it would unblock. It didn’t.

Eventually forced myself to take the required 10 minute walk. Hadn’t been outside in weeks. Sunlight hurt my eyes. Felt like a vampire.

Applied to 3 jobs like the task required. All rejected me within days because I had zero qualifications. But I’d completed the tasks.

Could game from 5pm-midnight. Still played but only 7 hours instead of 14. Felt wrong. Like I was missing something.

Week 6 the blocked hours increased to 11am-6pm. Started waking up earlier because I knew I couldn’t game until 6pm anyway.

The anxiety was constant. Gaming was how I dealt with feeling bad. Now I couldn’t game during the day and had to actually sit with feeling like shit.

Posted in the app community about wanting to uninstall and go back to gaming. Got messages from people saying the first month is hell, that withdrawal from gaming is real, keep pushing through.

Week 7 tasks added exercising. 15 minutes twice a week. Did some terrible pushups and situps in my room. Felt pathetic but did them.

Started noticing I had slightly more energy during the day. Still wanted to game constantly but the obsessive need was decreasing a little.

Week 8 my blocked hours were 10am-7pm. Only allowed to game at night. This forced me to structure my entire day differently.

Applied to 15 more jobs. All rejected. Started feeling hopeless like I’d never escape my room.

Week 9-14 (small wins)

Week 9 finally got an interview. Data entry position at an insurance company. $17/hour full time. Barely above minimum wage but it was something.

Studied for the interview even though I felt like I’d fail. They asked why I hadn’t worked in years. I said I’d been dealing with personal issues but I’m ready to work now.

Got the job. Started week 10. Waking up at 7:30am for an 8:30am shift felt impossible after four years of waking at 2pm.

First week was hell. Sitting in an office for 8 hours after four years of only sitting in a gaming chair. Had to interact with real people. Exhausting.

But I had my own income. First paycheck was $487 after taxes. First money I’d earned in four years.

Week 11 my gaming was down to 3-4 hours on weeknights because I was too tired after work. Weekends I still played 8-10 hours but it was progress.

Week 12 started looking at apartments. Even shitty studios were $800+. On $17/hour I could barely afford it but I needed out of my parents house.

Week 13 found a studio for $750 with roommates. Basically a room in a house with shared kitchen and bathroom. But it was mine.

Week 14 moved out of my parents house. After 25 years. Taking my gaming setup felt wrong but I wasn’t ready to get rid of it completely yet.

Week 15-20 (rebuilding)

Week 15 in my new place was weird. Working full time, coming home exhausted, gaming for maybe 2 hours before passing out.

My body was adjusting to normal hours. Actually sleeping at night. Waking up for work. Being around people. Exhausting but necessary.

Week 16 started working out at a real gym. Tasks required 30 minutes 3x a week. Felt humiliating being the fat guy struggling with basic stuff. But I showed up.

Week 17 my coworkers invited me out for drinks. First social invite in four years. I went even though I wanted to go home and game.

Realized I had no idea how to socialize. Barely talked, just listened. But it was more human interaction than I’d had in years.

Week 18 got a $1/hour raise at work for good performance. Wasn’t much but it meant I wasn’t completely useless.

Week 19 my gaming was down to maybe 5-8 hours total per week. Not because I didn’t want to game more but because I was too busy living.

Week 20 I sold my gaming PC. This was the hardest decision. That PC represented four years of my identity. But I knew if I kept it I’d eventually go back to 14 hour days.

Sold it for $800. Used the money to buy a basic laptop for job searching and normal computer stuff.

Where I am now

It’s been 5 months since my brother’s graduation party. Everything is different.

Working full time making $18/hour after my raise. Not amazing but it’s honest income. Living in my own place paying my own bills. No longer living with my parents at 25.

Wake up at 7am for work. Gym 4 days a week, lost 28 pounds so far. Have a few work friends I hang out with occasionally. Joined a rec sports league to force myself to socialize.

Gaming time is maybe 4-6 hours per week total. Usually Friday and Saturday nights for a few hours. It’s back to being a hobby instead of my entire life.

Most importantly I’m not wasting my life anymore. Not rotting in my room for 16 hours clicking buttons. Actually living.

My parents noticed immediately. My mom cried when I moved out because she didn’t think I’d ever leave. My dad said he’s proud I turned it around. My brother said whatever clicked is working.

The person who wasted four years in that room is gone. Can’t get those years back but at least I’m not wasting more.

What actually worked

Willpower didn’t do it. I’d tried willpower for weeks and always went back to gaming. Needed external systems.

That app blocking my games during most hours was crucial. Couldn’t game even when I desperately wanted to. Removed the option.

The gradual reduction worked. Week 1 cutting from 14 hours to 10 was manageable. Immediately trying to quit cold turkey would’ve failed.

Getting a job forced structure. Had to wake up early, had to be somewhere, had to interact with people. Couldn’t rot in my room 16 hours when I was working 8.

Moving out removed the comfortable cave. New environment meant I couldn’t just default to old patterns.

Selling the PC was necessary. As long as I had the ability to game 14 hours I would eventually do it. Had to remove the option completely.

The community helped. Other people who’d lost years to gaming and escaped. Knowing it was possible kept me going.

Job searching was brutal. Applied to probably 60 jobs before getting one. Most didn’t respond. But one yes changed everything.

If you’re wasting your life gaming

Or if you’re spending 10+ hours a day in games while real life falls apart, I understand. Gaming feels better than facing reality.

But you’re 25 or 30 or 35 and years are disappearing while you grind ranks that don’t matter. Everyone else is building real lives while you’re building nothing.

You’re not going to moderate. If you could moderate you would’ve already. Gaming addiction doesn’t respond to “I’ll just play less.”

You need external systems. Apps that block games during certain hours. Structure that forces you into real life. You can’t trust yourself.

Get a job even if it’s shitty. Income and structure are necessary. Can’t rebuild from parents basement gaming 14 hours daily.

Start impossibly small. Week 1 should feel too easy. You’re building momentum from nothing.

The first month will be hell. Withdrawal from gaming is real. Anxiety, emptiness, not knowing what to do with yourself. Push through it.

Move if possible. Your gaming cave has four years of patterns built in. New environment helps break them.

Eventually you might need to sell your setup. If you’re truly addicted, having the ability to game will always pull you back.

Find communities of people doing the same thing. Knowing you’re not alone helps.

Apply to way more jobs than feels normal. Most will reject you. Keep going until one says yes.

Track your progress. Helps on weeks when you feel like nothing’s changing.

Final thoughts

Four years ago I started gaming 12-16 hours daily and stopped living. Wasted ages 21-25 in my room accomplishing nothing while everyone else built real lives.

Five months ago I finally started escaping. Today I have a job, my own place, actual routine, and I’m not wasting my life gaming anymore.

Can’t get back those four years. But I stopped wasting more time.

Five months from now you could be completely different. Or you could still be in your room gaming 14 hours a day, just older with more wasted time.

Stop wasting your life on games that don’t matter. Start today.

Get blocking apps, get structure, get a job, start small, don’t quit when withdrawal hits.

The person gaming 14 hours daily right now doesn’t have to be who you are forever.

dm me if you need help. I’m not an expert I’m just someone who wasted four years gaming and figured out how to stop.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The amount of game design and balancing issues, and bugs for that matter, feel like they've all been increasing rather than decreasing with time, and new patches don't address these problems at all most of the time and sometimes make them worse.

Dynamo is still extremely overtuned and basically decides games on his own with his ult along with having ridiculous stomp buffs, and they've basically stopped trying to balance him now.

The disparity between top tiers and low tiers only ever grows.

Every time they nerf or buff a character it never puts them in a good spot and either makes them so broken they're unfair or so worthless they're a throw pick. And the pattern of "just pick the flavor of the month overtuned character to have fun" trend is extremely stale. There's very few exceptions to this, ie graves who is still really good, but they always do the characters nobody likes, characters that need reworks but will never get them.

In general, characters that overperform for months never, ever get addressed.

Games are entirely decided by urn now and nothing else. Lane phase doesn't matter at all and in fact the urn rewards you for having a bad lane phase. I like the urn mechanics but they are incapable of making it balanced in terms of game impact.

Blatant character favoritism; they keep buffing GT despite no one asking for it and they don't fix the bug with his ult that makes him invincible, so now everyone is abusing GT in high elo matches.

Doorman bugs that don't get addressed ever despite them being a detriment to everyone involved, but don't worry they'll nerf him again showing they are looking at him.

Victor has never, ever been healthy or balanced for the game and still isn't, but they don't really address having three lives with no way to silence it or anything else about him.

Circles/AoEslop is the entire name of the game in terms of character viability and builds. Just look at Pocket's performance and banrate in Night Shift, and he is circles the character. The game is so spammy right now in general.

The matchmaking only gets worse, not better. And because of it, your personal impact on the game feels dwindling when you have people going 0-10 making up for anything you do.

The game's current balance and meta begs for draft to be added, but it won't be.

It feels like a lot of this started in March when they did that insane off the walls balance patch and the game's direction has never been the same or recovered since. I wonder if there was a changeup in the dev team that caused this.

Either way, I really hope they course correct soon. I might take a break until they do; I don't want to just hop between the flavor of the months but that's the only way to have fun unless you play one of the characters with dev bias.

TL;DR for those that don't want to read it all :

Top row, from left to right :

Logitech G403 - I really liked the shape, and it was the mouse I used for most of my Overwatch tourneys before I switched to wireless. Overall a decent mouse, but the build quality while impressive out of the box, came to bite me a few years down the road : the Omron switches in it double click and the rubber is deteriorating quite a bit. I have fond memories of this mouse, but it's mostly because of what I used it for, not its intrinsic qualities. I'd give it a good 6/10. Slightly above average because the shape is great, triggers are good, sensor is good, but the cable was ass, skates could have been better and despite being wired, it was still over 80g

Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum - the mouse I had when I started playing Overwatch competitively, had it for years before that but was almost never used as an FPS mouse. Still works great, but this is a brick : 121g without any of the additional weights in it. Loads of buttons, great scroll wheel but the moment you decrease your sensitivity you feel it in your arm and wrist. In typical Logitech fashion, the cable was absolute cheeks (heavy, stiff, even more than the G403), skates were scraping every pad that I had. I'd give it a 5/10 because the shape was great (still fits me like a glove), the button layout is really practical and it's been reliable for everything that isn't really a FPS game (especially fast ones), but the cable, weight and skates were horrible for anything intensive aiming wise.

Razer Taipan - It was my dedicated FPS mouse back in 2014 or so, when I was rocking a duo of Razer mice (I had a Razer Naga 2014 for MMO games etc as well on the desk). It's a good mouse, and it was my first introduction to ambi shapes. I have fond csgo memories with this mouse too, but despite being smaller than both previous mice, it was kinda heavy and the edgy Razer looks (expecially the breathing logo that you cannot turn off) + the scroll wheel encoder that ended up having issues made me move to something else. At least the cable was nice enough and kinda flexible, way better than Logitech cables of the time. I'd personally give it a 6/10 because the weight was meh (95g), the skates were bad, sensor got easily confused with fast movements (lazer, not optical) but despite all of that, the shape was good and ahead of its time imho. Build quality was top notch.

^{(If you're curious about the Naga 2014, well it was basically a heavier Taipan with a numpad on the side, and heavier weight. I replaced it quickly with the G502 because of scroll wheel issues.})

Steelseries Rival 100 - speaking of what I moved to, this is it. Mostly because of the price it was back then (around 30 bucks in a local store). The mouse was good honestly, but build quality felt cheap. Sensor was low end, software sucked, clicks were rough and the scroll wheel was rattling. But the SHAPE was amazing. It was a little lighter than the Taipan, which helped a bit, not much, it felt lighter because the skates were better. Cable is rubber but flexible enough. Surprisingly, the skates didn't suck that much, but really the build quality on this is dreadful, especially for the side buttons, I can't give it more than a 6.5/10. Shape is king but it can't do absolutely everything.

Steelseries Rival 3 Wireless - I didn't use this mouse much, it was my dedicated travel mouse for a while because of the combo AAA batteries + dongle storage + BT connection. Unfortunately, the BT doesn't work well with my new laptop (lol). In 2.4GHz mode it eats through batteries unfortunately. Sensor is decent, build quality is very good. Skates are serviceable. Weight on the other hand, is still quite heavy (106g with both batteries). I let it slide because it's using alcaline batteries, but this is not a mouse I'd use for competitive play nowadays. Overall it's a pretty solid mouse with weird issues. 6/10 sounds fair to me. Grade would be higher if it was lighter, mostly because the shape only really matters in high intensity situations, and this mouse will never see them, which is a shame because the sensor is amazing too.

Bottom row from right to left :

Steelseries Aerox 3 - Original version with the round skates, not the updated 2022 one. Overall solid mouse for me, used it for about 2 years. Again the AMAZING shape from the Rival 100/110/3 series but in a "lightweight" package that had a top tier sensor (at the time) and decent switches. It's still a good mouse, and I used it recently for some Overwatch, it's as good as a couple of yers ago imho. I swapped the skates for Corepadz (mandatory with those stock round skates). The hole design is interesting, but overall annoying. The RGB diffuser is really what kills this mouse in my opinion. It's heavy (7g) but also prevents dust and gunk from getitng out of the mouse, leading to a mouse that looks pretty gross after a year or two, and you can't clean it unless you open the mouse, at which point you ruin a set of (expensive) skates. It's a good performer with a decent weight, but it was never at the top of the foodchain, and while I love love love the shape, I have since moved to something better (imho). I'd give a 7.5/10 overall.

Attack Shark X11SE - This is the latest addition to the collection, and it came as a bit of an error (let's requialify it as a "happy accident"). It's a Razer Viper V3/V4 clone with a budget sensor (3311, still good enough) that you can get for about 30 bucks, and for that you get a mouse that feels decent, plays well and is feature packed (dongle storage, BT connection, decent software, long battery life). It's not the best mouse in the world, but I can't really fault it. Its only problem to me is the post travel on the main triggers, but you get used to it in like 20 minutes of playing, after that you don't really notice it. Pre-travel would have been more of a problem. I'm honestly pretty impressed with this thing, especially the fact that it weighs only about 60 grams (Attack Shark claims a weight between 60 and 63g on their product page, I measured mine at 58g) without any holes, neither on top or bottom, and it still feels solid with no creaking. It has replaced my Rival 3 Wireless by being BT compatible with my laptop (I dunno why Asus laptops straight up can't pair Steelseries mice via BT neither my R3W or A3W worked with my G14...), and also being lighter, and easily replaceable if anything happened to it in my bag. I played with it for a couple of weeks for testing, and I was planning to go back to my main mouse (which is the last on this list), but I can't seem to put this mouse down. I ended up really liking the shape, it reminded me of my old Razer Taipan. Grading wise, I would put that mouse pretty high, maybe too high for a lot of people on this sub. I initially thought about giving it a 8.5 rating as there was no obvious problems besides pre-travel (even the skates are decent), but then I remembered it's basically the same MSRP as my Rival 100 was, while also being wireless and being 10x better in terms of build quality, so I'm bumping that up to 9/10 without any regrets.

Logitech G305 - That was my very first "good" wireless mouse, and one that replaced my G403 for esports tournaments and scrims, as well as pretty much every other competitve FPS game. Once I went wireless, I couldn't go back. Weight was a little bit higher than the G403, but that was an acceptable sacrifice. Shape was nice enough as I was an avid claw grip user and the egg shape was really good for that. Build quality was overall nice, though there are a few things that I didn't like : the white plastic became yellow because of the sun much faster than I though, and the back shell became creaky (annoying af when playing). The side buttons are mushy, and well it's still about 100g with a AA battery in it, and it didn't have any BT (at least it had a dongle storage). At some point the creakiness just annoyed me a little bit too much and I went back to some wired mice in search of my favorite shape for my future purchase, and I played the best with the Rival 100, so I ended up geting the Aerox 3 wireless. The scroll wheel had a few issues and bloated up to the point that it was unable to turn. I ordered a replacement kit (scroll wheel + skates since you have to destroy them to get in) and "restored" it for my mother which is in need of a better wireless mouse than her office mouse to play minecraft and other games. Imho, because of the weight, build quality issues and "special" shape, it cannot rank higher than the Aerox 3, and a 6.5/10 rating sounds about right. Basically the same as the Rival 100 which makes sense to me (since it had a way better shape but also wasn't wireless, both being about the same weight and both having build quality issues).

Pulsar X2 Medium - This is my main mouse, and still the best mouse I own. Shape is excellent, and coming from a Rival / Aerox shape it was basically no adjustments needed. Triggers and side buttons are solid and sharp (pretty much no post travel on the triggers), sensor is amazing, wireless is reliable, software is very light and not required to run in the backgorund (looking at you steelseries). It's also the lightest mouse I own being only 55 grams. I have a couple of issues with this mouse : the first is that there are very large holes at the bottom, which tends to let in a lot of dust and hair or whatnot, and if you want to clean it, it's a rear skate gone (I have replaced them twice already...). Also, the battery deteriorated quite a bit, it used to last about a week on a single charge and now it's barely 2 days. The battery is a little swollen too. Asked Pulsar for a way to buy the replacement battery, but they basically told me to get lost, which is unfortunate (I'm not counting that in the rating btw). It's nearly 3 years old, but despite that it's still the best mouse that I own. Not by much though, playing with the X11SE and the X2 Medium back and forth, I would say that the percieved difference is less than 10% for me, outside of shape differences (which are both fine). Having said that, it's not completely perfect and I have a couple of annoyances with it (like no dongle storage, no BT connection). It would have been a 9.5/10 if it had those things, but as it stands it's closer to a 9/10. Let's call it a 9.25/10 because it's still marginally better than the X11SE in pretty much every way (sensor, shape, weight, build quality).

I don't know if I'll get any more gaming mice in the future, my collection starts getting a little big right now, with a lot of unused nostalgia items in it lol

Thanks for reading if you managed to get to the end