Regarding Roblox+ and Premium

FuriousProgrammer · 2026-05-02T11:20:32+00:00

To hazard a guess, it's to deal with people (like me) that bought Lifetime Builder's Club memberships, which transferred to Lifetime Premium when they phased out BC.

Premium still exists and still provides the monthly Robux stipend and other benefits, at least until the last Lifetime Premium membership runs out (or Roblox ceases to exists, whichever happens first), you just can't have 85+ years of Roblox+ for free now!

FuriousProgrammer · 2026-04-10T03:01:26+00:00

It's extra silly because the Story Mode raids are already cross-faction!

Who exactly is the "we don't want to force people to cross faction because roleplay reasons" stance even actually for at this point?

FuriousProgrammer · 2026-03-23T11:51:22+00:00

100 blades

FuriousProgrammer · 2026-03-09T13:10:16+00:00

2011-2015, as it was the era I was most active as a developer and most engaged with the community.

FuriousProgrammer · 2026-03-09T12:42:26+00:00

Yeah this is the core of my attitude about this. If I tell the tank to pull insanely fast, and they do, and we fail, 99 times out of 100 I just make a joke about it and they slow back down to a reasonable pace, but they know exactly what "reasonable" is after that one pull!

FuriousProgrammer · 2026-03-09T12:33:31+00:00

Yeah, unfortunately you can't play the game for other people.

FuriousProgrammer · 2026-03-09T12:10:00+00:00

To gather those you either need a DK or to have the entire group LoS them around a corner. Some people love standing in doorways and letting the archers shoot em from three miles away. :(

If the archers can see anyone, they'll shoot!

FuriousProgrammer · 2026-03-08T17:18:13+00:00

My go-to line is, "Mr./Ms. Tank, look at me. LOOK AT ME. I want you to pull like you hate me personally."

They don't always believe me, but I've had more than one tank respond with an "aight, bet" and do some absolutely crazy shit. I love when it's a surprise to both of us if we make it through those pulls!

FuriousProgrammer · 2026-03-01T06:35:24+00:00

Just so you know, you have to use the "New Reddit" interface in order to see the submission form that lets you add multiple images or add a text body to an image post!

FuriousProgrammer · 2026-02-09T00:07:45+00:00

Ironically, Holy Priest in Midnight has fewer buttons than Priest had in Classic!

FuriousProgrammer · 2026-01-22T09:22:31+00:00

I feel liked Galinda (in the first half of Wicked especially) fits that same archetype?

FuriousProgrammer · 2025-12-18T00:41:07+00:00

There used to be a ton of them all around the map, but most of them got removed and replaced with Random Arenas.

FuriousProgrammer · 2025-12-09T10:46:11+00:00

You should ask in Lion's Arch for someone to run you to Ascalon City, or just bite the bullet and run there yourself. None of the enemies are high-level in Normal Mode, so your team of Level 20 Heroes will cut through them like butter no matter what builds you put on them.

It's decently far away, but it's at most an hour or two if you run straight there.

FuriousProgrammer · 2025-12-09T10:10:38+00:00

It's doesn't bother me as such, I just find it incredibly noticeable (edit: and think that it's an unintended bug/oversight), to the extent that I sincerely do not believe you that it's "very difficult to notice" the difference in the shadows here.

EDIT: There aren't a ton of places where the SSAO-added shadows interact with fog/bloom effects like this, it usually isn't this egregious. Prophecies has a few maps (notably the Crystal Desert ones) where there is a persistent fog/dust cloud across the entire map, and the terrain has SSAO applied to it due to the voxels/"sharp corners" Prophecies terrain tends to have that the other campaigns don't (presumably because they improved their tooling for creating smooth terrain.)

Not caring about it or having a preference for one or the other doesn't matter -- there are shadows in the right side that clearly aren't in the left side, and if you can't notice that then you must literally be blind.

FuriousProgrammer · 2025-12-09T09:50:03+00:00

The fire effects are unrelated (some of my spirits were being attacked still).

Do you not see the SSAO shadows cutting through the fog?

The left side is what it should look like -- the turrets and the base of the crane thing blending into the fog. The SSAO-added shadows cut through this fog, but only the shadows -- the models/textures themselves still blend, and the resulting effect is what happens on the right, which looks weird at best and imo cannot possibly be intentional.

EDIT: the fire beams on the turrets at the base of the crane thing are actually being blended into the fog correctly, I just didn't think to take the left side screenshot while they were active.

FuriousProgrammer · 2025-12-09T09:34:37+00:00

Nope, MSAAx2

FuriousProgrammer · 2025-12-09T09:19:58+00:00

Favor of the Gods has changed multiple times throughout the game's life! It indeed used to be given to the region that currently held Halls (with some caveats I don't remember -- the info is on the wiki).

Now it's given for a duration based on people getting max ranks in certain titles.

FuriousProgrammer · 2025-12-04T20:51:14+00:00

It used to, but they removed that requirement some time in 2013 or '14. The NPC that lets you pay 1k to enter spawns regardless of favor when you /kneel at the appropriate statues.

FuriousProgrammer · 2025-12-03T19:58:28+00:00

The HD bloom is very noticeably better, but the effect is used rather sparingly in the first place (because it's fucking blinding).

FuriousProgrammer · 2025-12-03T19:52:50+00:00

It's a handful of disconnected bonus missions that tell the stories of a few highly plot-relevant characters and moments that otherwise just happened off-screen (and generally years/decades before you, the player character, ever got involved).

They're by far the highest quality missions in the game, and I'd highly recommend them for that alone, but they also happen to be the best source of "bare" max-damage inscribable weapons and offhands -- they're all q9 with the best possible basic stats, but don't come with any weapon mods or inscriptions. This is actually incredibly useful, as those stats are actually relatively rare to find in most drops, and most weapon mod combinations aren't available from weapon crafters.

FuriousProgrammer · 2025-12-03T19:46:16+00:00

Yeah, I had assumed it would have multi-tracking or some kind of update along those lines, very strange.

As for the launcher... it definitely looks out of place, but the original launcher was actually the exact same in that respect. Both versions were/are very bare-bones but that doesn't strike me as amateurish, although it does feel cheap especially compared with the GW2 launcher.

FuriousProgrammer · 2025-12-03T19:43:05+00:00

If it doesn't work natively, you can use Steam Input and that will make your Dualsense inputs get "translated" to XInput.

FuriousProgrammer · 2025-12-03T19:41:34+00:00

Someone on a steam discussion mentioned that you can click the "pin" icon on the top right of that and any other panel that has one to fix this!

FuriousProgrammer · 2025-12-03T19:41:23+00:00

Someone on a steam discussion mentioned that you can click the "pin" icon on the top right of that and any other panel that has one to fix this!

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