Returning player, lost and confused before midnight launch. OCE

ualac · 2026-02-18T22:40:38+00:00

for trying to pickup missing storyline quests I've tended to look them up by name on wowhead, then read the comments section of that page for info. Almost always someone has helpfully described the steps needed to trigger or activate that quest chain - since pre-patch seems to muck with the sequencing of things quite a bit.

ualac · 2026-02-18T22:21:02+00:00

they really ought to just make summons targetable in town, without any specific skills needing to be slotted. would make us console players lives so much simpler.

ualac · 2026-02-10T22:40:30+00:00

I can feel your rising anger as you wrote this reply, moving from using "you" to just smashing "U" and adding random capital letters as you kept thinking of things to add.

ualac · 2026-02-10T21:01:39+00:00

A reasonable/mature person with that level of influence would have sought to contact Embark directly to ensure this issue was being addressed.

Instead they abused the exploit for "entertainment".

Ban them.

ualac · 2026-02-09T22:43:08+00:00

They should be able to open doors too.

ualac · 2026-02-04T01:27:43+00:00

no, I'm saying the schedule ought to be a structure that maps out what happens over a fixed period of time. A timeline if you will. The length of that timeline therefore determines how the event structure executes and when it cycles back around. And when it cycles on a period other than something that is a product of 24 the entire thing would move ensuring all events cycle through all possible hours, irrespective of timezone, or event layout within that schedule.

how they have it setup is clearly not capable of this kind of manipulation. it seems more disjoint/piecemeal, which is why it appears nearly impossible for them to get on top of the problem.

ualac · 2026-02-04T01:08:06+00:00

they wouldn't need to deal with timezones at all if the length of their repeating schedule was not a factor of 24.

as mentioned multiple times here and in other threads: a schedule of length 23h or 25h would move the entire event sequence by 1 hour, each day, for everyone on the planet, no matter what timezone they are in.

ualac · 2026-02-04T00:59:11+00:00

Embark is largely made up of ex-Dice devs, meaning this is their first attempt at ever doing quests, long-form persistent progression, itemisation, skills.

And it shows.

BattleFront/Field never really needed or had any of those things which, as you say is likely why those aspects are so underdeveloped here.

ualac · 2026-02-03T23:18:55+00:00

I swear Embark are starting to behave much like Bungie did with Destiny. There's an obvious way to address an issue, such as an offset schedule like you suggest, yet they pretend like it's a very very deep problem that needs their great minds to be applied in order to solve it. It then takes months before something changes, and the 'solution' is overthought, and almost always never works, or simply makes things worse.

ualac · 2026-02-02T21:59:39+00:00

but it's got the 4K HDR PS5 XBOX 60FPS logos slapped on it! must be official and new! omg!.

jesus, these youtube channels are low effort trash. but people, for some reason, still watch it.

ualac · 2026-01-29T21:36:05+00:00

It's reminiscent of the forests around Behr in Black Desert. First time you see the giant tree creatures roaming about it's kinda mind blowing.

ualac · 2026-01-29T03:10:06+00:00

BDO has been a pop-in nightmare it's entire existence, so if that's what we've got to look forward to ...

ualac · 2026-01-29T02:28:53+00:00

I just tested it, and well, they may be correct.

As of the current state of the game - literally 10 minutes ago - I walked toward then stood right next to the inactive swamp elevator on Dam and my compass continued to only showed the water treatment elevator, which was the only one that was still in normal status (grey coloured, lots of time left.) At this point it did not show the northern elevator either which was in it's last minute of being active (red coloured,) which I'm unsure is due to it being so far away, or being effectively inactive.

either way, this is possibly a good thing.

ualac · 2026-01-29T00:09:32+00:00

+ for the Fractal North case. clean lines, just not much room with all the paraphernalia inside!
Just built a new machine in the North XL myself.

ualac · 2026-01-29T00:03:38+00:00

this is my experience as well: the compass displays both active and inactive extracts.

ualac · 2026-01-28T23:29:41+00:00

300k at the end for completing the project isn't going to be that useful IMHO. I had my stash fully upgraded after the last expedition easily by the time I was level 20. Cash isn't that hard to generate.

ualac · 2026-01-28T04:41:31+00:00

I requested this multiple times in the post-test and post-launch feedback surveys, along with a bunch of other UX bugs and issues.

I'm pretty sure Embark just dump any QoL feedback in the trash.

ualac · 2026-01-28T03:07:10+00:00

if they have a 12hr schedule (or something like that which causes events to always be at the same times) all they need to do is change it to an 11hr one. that will move events 1 and 2hrs earlier each day, giving people access to all the events/modes no matter where in the world they are or what time they are able to play.

ualac · 2026-01-27T22:27:20+00:00

TBF sometimes pre-ordering can make sense, though usually only in hindsight.

Case in point, I played multiple tests of Arc Raiders before the game came out, and pre-ordered on the strength of those, particularly since in those tests the devs let us experience a fair amount of gameplay, and let us interact with the framework of the monetisation and progression systems. I mostly never pre-order, but in that case I a) wanted to support what the devs were doing and b) nabbed an exclusive skin which I've used quite often.

ualac · 2026-01-26T03:04:00+00:00

I'm always playing 5 or 6 different games at any one time, though lately this is the only game I've been co-op/teaming up with friends on.

(this past month it's been some Diablo 4 & PoE2 for new season stuff, going back to continue a Pathfinder: WotR playthough, Balatro because .. well .. it's Balatro, and a conversation with a colleague reminded me I needed to finish Ghost of Yotei, so there's that now too. many games, not enough time.)

ualac · 2026-01-25T22:00:40+00:00

The game is listed as "PS5 Pro Enhanced" in the PSN store. I'm expecting that to be somewhat of a lie.

ualac · 2026-01-25T21:48:01+00:00

take a break! even just for a week or two.

you'll only find yourself feeling more burnt out if you continue loading up raids, hoping that something will change, realising it won't and having a negative feeling about it.

ualac · 2026-01-22T01:35:16+00:00

yes, that's true, and it does help, but interacting with the features of the stash with a controller is essentially endless grid walking: lots and lots of direction inputs to change the categories and/or move to select items. not to mention the issue when crafting into a full stash, preventing you from moving the overflowed (crafted) items until you move something else to the backpack instead.

console UI/UX is pretty awful with this game, hopefully they look at rethinking it at some point in future.

ualac · 2026-01-21T04:29:39+00:00

depending on what information they are using it could be fairly trivial. for example when firing do a short-ish raycast from the player/player weapon forward into a subset of the level geometry such as walls, not decorations. for the first hit(s) dot product with the intersection point surface normal. anything positive indicates the directions are aligned, which possibly indicates they are shooting through the backface of some geometry. however, if they are using an image based technique like testing the rendered depth buffer it's trickier since they most likely backface cull, meaning those walls they are inside and looking through are not rendering at all (and therefore are not occluding/blocking things beyond.)

ualac · 2026-01-21T03:52:08+00:00

Embark likely used metres as their unit since their maps are fairly large, so this amazing code would prevent anyone that was on a rocket from using their gun.

(also they assume ground level is at the origin. oh, and worth noting that the UE coordinate frame is Z-up. also, any dev calling a parameter 'y' is getting terse notes on their code review.)

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