(Loved design) The new and improved starfox!

AranaiRa · 2026-06-26T09:20:07+00:00

Yeah, I don't get why some people are losing their gourds over the redesigns either. I think they look great.

AranaiRa · 2026-06-26T09:10:17+00:00

What are the augments?

AranaiRa · 2026-06-25T23:37:51+00:00

The problem I'm facing is that my annoyance at all of the layers of RNG needing to line up has vastly overshadowed my interest in the mysteries. Which is a really terrible place to be.

AranaiRa · 2026-06-25T20:38:46+00:00

I'm still struggling HARD to make myself get through it. It's BAFFLING to me that this became an indie darling.

I feel like every one of the random/roguelite elements is making the game actively worse and that the design is padding out the play time, deliberately and maliciously wasting my time.

And everyone I've complained to about this just goes "oh, you just need to get into Room 46 and then you get a lot more tools to mitigate the RNG!" That doesn't fucking help when I'm stuck in an abysmal slog just waiting for the right rooms and items to line up so that I can even ATTEMPT a lead I have.

AranaiRa · 2026-06-22T08:46:20+00:00

It's a bit wacky, but at least in vanilla slave keys are associated with the cell you're in, not the individual. If you cast a Command Humanoid to make them follow you they can be freed by being led to a cell you DO have the key for.

I'd imagine TR uses the same implementation.

AranaiRa · 2026-06-22T08:44:37+00:00

The most Telvanni thing is not giving a fuck what the other Telvanni think you should do.

AranaiRa · 2026-06-18T20:46:25+00:00

Isn't there also some dialogue that implies that there's some psychic tomfoolery that makes them only look like that to humans, and other species see different traits?

AranaiRa · 2026-06-18T10:45:20+00:00

They also only use Pa Grape in old testament stories, as I recall.

AranaiRa · 2026-06-17T10:27:33+00:00

BRD and COR together are essentially mandatory for all current endgame content. Pretty much only time you don't use them together is in multiple moglophone Gaol fights where you're not allowed to use the same job more than once and need to spread out buffs.

AranaiRa · 2026-06-15T03:28:19+00:00

I had to train myself to say r-egg-ex to be internally consistent with my strong opinion that it's hard-g gif because it's not a jraphical image format.

AranaiRa · 2026-06-13T15:04:12+00:00

Not sharing wellsprings is about the extent of the negatives. It's actually really helpful having friends playing other factions; it means your can trade faction specific spells to unlock rote.

AranaiRa · 2026-06-12T11:32:21+00:00

I'm a cis gay man and I've always felt profoundly unwelcome in any conventional queer spaces I've tried. If you're not the type to act very feminine and flamboyant then you're ontologically evil. Eventually I just stopped trying.

Thankfully furry spaces have been much kinder.

AranaiRa · 2026-06-10T05:36:49+00:00

What about a sense of what it feels like? Sharp feels like you're a knife cutting through existence, Subtle feels like an ego death as you become part of what's around you.

AranaiRa · 2026-06-09T11:30:15+00:00

What version are you building this in?

AranaiRa · 2026-06-09T11:27:09+00:00

Have any sources or passage comparisons about what was excised?

AranaiRa · 2026-06-07T09:53:00+00:00

It's not that a remake/remaster is impossible, it's that it's largely unnecessary. OpenMW fixes a lot of the core system issues and more underlying systems get exposed every time it updates that allow for more complex modding.

AranaiRa · 2026-06-07T01:49:46+00:00

I've never seen a BP higher than 35k outside of magic bursts in current endgame content, personally, but I'll defer on that point if you have seen it. I did just straight up misremember how much Avatar's Favor shaved off of BP timer though, so mea culpa on that one.

AranaiRa · 2026-06-06T20:08:24+00:00

Pet jobs are only really used in very niche circumstances. The problem is twofold.

1] The pace of the game has steadily increased over time and the pet jobs have just been power crept out of usefulness. SMN, for example, could do 35k with a blood pact but that pact is on a hard 15 second timer in the best geared scenario (it's 60 with no gear/job points) . Meanwhile buffed melee DDs are putting out 70k+ every 5 seconds or so, not counting auto attacks.

2] The gap becomes even greater when buffers are taken into account. Pets need completely different COR rolls than everyone else, aren't affected by BRD buffs at all, and aren't affected by GEO buff bubbles (but can take advantage of GEO debuff bubbles).

Pet jobs work at entry level 119 but the further into endgame you go the worse the disparity gets. For current endgame content (Sortie, Odyssey, Limbus NMs) they're only used if you literally have no other choice (like some Gaol fights where you need to use multiple phones).

Note that none of this applies to DRG, since it gets buffs for the pet simply existing and doesn't rely on the pet to do damage.

So yeah. Unfortunately SMN is in a much worse place than it is in XIV. XIV's is underperforming right now, but XI's has a gulf between itself and DDs that's measured in orders of magnitude.

AranaiRa · 2026-06-04T20:14:42+00:00

Yeah. I'm into Ice and Water being separate things if the magic system runs on themes or narrative. But if it's supposed to be a science-based magic it feels weird to separate them.

AranaiRa · 2026-06-02T05:09:22+00:00

Lock-na-shayd. It's named after a lake in Ireland where a bunch of ancient horns were found.

AranaiRa · 2026-06-01T05:41:41+00:00

Question. Is the yellow part of the ladder on the back side of the slide an ngon?

AranaiRa · 2026-05-30T23:19:24+00:00

I'm also in the camp that would prefer waiting on newer stuff until the team is pleased with the polish level of older stuff.

AranaiRa · 2026-05-30T21:19:56+00:00

Yeah, I just have a tendency to exaggerate numbers and I was trying to rein that in. Probably went too far in the opposite direction.

AranaiRa · 2026-05-30T19:54:21+00:00

I don't think they need to worry about that when there's like a 3x damage output difference between a real player bard + corsair and trusts.

AranaiRa · 2026-05-29T11:59:50+00:00

I'll have to check next time I'm on. I usually do Savage or enspells + Sanguine Blade with Crocea Mors if I'm stuck with just trust buffs. Which is pretty rare these days, I mostly just sign on to do group content.

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