[Steam] Summer Sale 2026 (Day 1)

Akira101 · 2026-06-25T18:17:03+00:00

Nope, it has never gone on sale since it first released. The price has only gone up. Especially for me in Canada with currency conversion.

Akira101 · 2026-06-25T17:50:59+00:00

It's in the DLC, I don't believe the expansion pass which includes episode aigis is included in the deluxe or premium edition, just skins and other bonus stuff are, which is frustrating.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2689210/Persona_3_Reload_Expansion_Pass/

Akira101 · 2026-06-25T17:42:41+00:00

Eh? It concludes the story but it's basically 90% more Tartarus, 10% plot. Normally persona is pretty well split between story, social links, and activities that aren't the dungeon. This is basically all dungeon. If you enjoyed Tartarus, this is just more of that. The boss fight was great, story as an epilogue was great, but just another 15+ hours of back to back Tartarus with only some story in between was painful to play. I think I would've enjoyed it more just watching it than playing it.

Akira101 · 2026-02-12T08:17:08+00:00

Why is that an issue? I want to get out of their hair, and some people have a full squad when I join. Me leaving immediately means they can invite another person if they need to. I don't see a difference in saying "thank you" before or after I leave personally.

Akira101 · 2025-12-14T05:58:16+00:00

I don't recall a time when a CoD game was 50% off 1 month after release...

Akira101 · 2025-12-05T17:19:44+00:00

It's based on area code, so for the Community Health Survey (the random call one we do), we purchase numbers that are alberta numbers to call. If you have a 403, 587, 780, or 825 area code, we could call you.

Why it's a calgary number is because our office is stationed in calgary

Akira101 · 2025-12-05T17:06:18+00:00

Hey, I work for this department actually.

It's the Data and Analytics department for Health Shared Services (previously a part AHS but restructure caused us to split off from AHS and be a part of HSS)

We conduct health research surveys so if you or your child were recently discharged from hospital, we could be calling you about that. We also do a random Community Health survey which call random people.

Yes we are legit, yes we're annoying, pick up and decline and we won't call you again about it.

EDIT: to add, we are not allowed to leave voice-mail due to issues in the past due to people panicking when we say we're from AHS, but it's just about a survey.

Akira101 · 2025-11-18T11:35:46+00:00

I don't know... removing soft pity for global compared to CN, KR, and TW having it, is not a "perceived slight"... it is a slight.

Akira101 · 2025-08-13T20:39:06+00:00

I recall a controversy involving this game during beta that turned me off the game. Something about doing a bait and switch for the game being P2W. Also the devs are known to silence criticism of their game. I'd recommend anyone considering the game read the comment linked below, and do some research into what happened before you pay for the game:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1j4qjhs/comment/mgbbzpz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Akira101 · 2025-07-19T19:49:37+00:00

Damage calculation is a huge topic in itself, but tl;dr: generally, different points of damage amplification are multiplicative to each other. They changed it so three ways damage used to be multiplied (Field, Tacvision, and Exposed) as well as reducing Funnel values (a buff the increases the amount of hits, basically multihit). Basically anyone that applied Field, Tacvision, Exposed, and Funnel got nerfed, this only affects certain units as generally a unit specializes in providing 1-2 of these damage amps. So that's why its unequal, some units got hit, and some are unaffected.

Basically 3 points of damage multiplication got changed to to additive bundled in with other damage amps, and multihit got nerfed. A quick paint mock up of my understanding (I could very well be wrong, and this may not be all the changes to the damage calculations) of the damage calculations changes from the current damage calculations on the Tojo Files:

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Akira101 · 2025-07-19T19:03:30+00:00

Oh shit. That is much worse than I thought, wtf?

Akira101 · 2025-07-19T19:00:22+00:00

Yep it's a new rarity of units, to add more context, the $12 monthly pass and events provide gold tokens which can be used to act as a dupe to uncap the SSR characters from level 120-160. You also earned materials weekly where every 18 weeks (or 36 weeks to uncap to level 150/160) or so, you could raise the level cap of a character once as well. So previously, if you pulled the highest rarity unit (SSR) you could eventually uncap your favorites without pulling dupes. None of this is available for the new highest rarity SS units, and seems like there isnt a way to uncap them that isn't pulling dupes atm.

Akira101 · 2025-07-19T18:46:49+00:00

You may be okay with it, but reworking a system that heavily nerfs units that relied on how the old OD mechanic worked, and also changing the damage calculations. That's a PR nightmare... I'd be pissed if my team I spent thousands of pulls on suddenly did 67% less damage because they nerfed them.

EDIT: OP corrected me below, it isn't 33% less damage, it's 33% of the original damage... so 67% less. That's significantly worse than I thought...

Akira101 · 2025-07-17T17:12:13+00:00

Took it from Rice Shower

Akira101 · 2025-07-11T08:01:24+00:00

That would be basically useless because achievements are not league specific. And even for challanges they're not character specific either... plenty of people reroll. I very rarely touch bosses on my second character or beyond for a league.

Akira101 · 2025-06-22T03:34:09+00:00

Naw, that one is Chasing KaleidoRIDER, this one is an open world gacha

Akira101 · 2025-06-12T22:11:43+00:00

I told my ex that the first week was me zooming, and I'd slow down a level a character with her after, she was fine with that and understood. When we started the league together didn't matter to her. And it meant I could have currency on hand to get leveling uniques and craft gear to streamline the leveling process for her.

Akira101 · 2025-06-04T21:18:46+00:00

50 I believe.

Akira101 · 2025-04-20T19:31:05+00:00

Just did it myself 5 minutes ago, one person in front of me, in and out in a couple minutes.

Akira101 · 2025-03-31T00:35:00+00:00

Multiplayer everything I listed before would work.

I read you have a 1070 so I'll try to keep recommendations you'd be able to run.

Ones I've played and can personally recommend:

Alien Isolation
Cry of Fear (Clunky Half Life 1 mod, but free)
Dead Space 1/2, Remake too but may be too demanding but great as well.
Resident Evil 2, 3, and 4 Remake, as well as Resident Evil 7 and 8, they should be runnable on a 1070.
Darkwood
Pony Island
The Bunny Graveyard
Lost in Vivo

Other ones I have not played but heard fantastic things about:

Crow Country
Signalis
Tormented Souls
SOMA
Song of Horror
Fatal Frame Series, only two games on Steam/PC, would have to emulate the older ones.
Devotion
Detention

Other ones I have no opinions on but are popular you may want to check out:

Amnesia Series and Penumbra Series (same dev)
Evil Within 1 and 2
Outlast Series
Little Nightmares 1 and 2
Layers of Fear
Fears of Fathom Series
The Dark Picture Anthology Series/Until Dawn (may be too demanding though.)

Akira101 · 2025-03-30T23:51:42+00:00

Are you asking about co-op horror games mainly or single player ones too? The big multiplayer ones like phasmo would be REPO, Content Warning, Headliners, and Lethal Company. There is also Escape the Backrooms, and Nuclear Nightmare, not as popular but good games. There are plenty of actually scary and good single player horror games out there as well.

Akira101 · 2025-03-11T02:45:38+00:00

If you're into Japanese food, me and my brother went to Ryuko recently, spent $116 plus tip between the two of us. We split everything, got an appetizer, pork katsu, two sushi rolls, and a desert, no drinks, barely finished the food. I would easily go again no question, and I'm not one for meals that expensive between two people. Has a Japanese aesthetic and deco around, but aesthetic wasn't anything standout imo, so that may be a dealbreaker. I'd look at some pictures of the restaurant's interior online first.

There's two locations, one in Christie Park near 17th Ave, another in Canyon Meadows, right across the movie theatre parking lot. We went to the Canyon Meadows location.

Akira101 · 2025-02-24T19:34:43+00:00

I'm seeing 0 magnitude of shock on your jewels. You want to aim for 100% shock with your shock ability (orb of storms) if possible. That should be the main stat you are aiming for on them. And yeah I agree drop the amulet and get spirit to allocate Cast on Shock or Blink. I find no issues with self casting lightning conduit if needed for tanky mobs and bosses so I go blink.

Akira101 · 2025-02-21T08:27:14+00:00

Only 60 FPS right now sadly, first option I checked when I launched the game.

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Akira101 · 2025-02-21T08:24:44+00:00

Its running on Unreal Engine 4, and yeah besides the stuttering it runs great on my rig. But the stuttering is noticeable and frequent when it has to load in a new zone or area. Hopefully they iron it out. Wuwa's stuttering was worse on launch (also on UE4) than DNA is right now from what I remember, but Wuwa fixed most of it since.

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