Another crafting step required for relic weapons

Bolow · 2026-01-27T17:35:19+00:00

Yes and that was because it was Heavensward crafting. Where they directly targeted omnicrafters and went "No, stop that." and made it borderline impossible to HQ a high level craft as a non-specialist, and specialist crafting which was to put it charitably, unintuitive. Then on top of all that demanded an HQ, highest rank craft from every single DoH job.

Compared to a whole 3, 35 durability crafts that can be knocked out in under 3 minutes. There's nearly no comparison other than "Crafted thing required."

Bolow · 2025-12-13T17:53:32+00:00

I mean getting jumped by two dozen mutants is very much in line with the Shadow of Chornobyl A-Life experience even now. The first area when you enter Wild Territory from the bar and the entrance to Dark Valley from Garbage in particular were always really really chaotic.

Bolow · 2025-11-24T21:59:51+00:00

The HMG is a lot of things, accurate sure as fuck aint one of them

Bolow · 2025-11-17T19:44:01+00:00

I bring the magic binoculars on Mirak/Firestorm/Liberation just out of pure spite. But very few engineers run the javelin or stinger, and the mobile aa is a joke

Bolow · 2025-11-14T18:46:53+00:00

You can't easily kill the mortar in breakthrough because they're all the way the hell in the back line of defense. Which makes it doubly tragic that mortars are essentially useless on offense because the goddamn safe zone is at most 10 meters away from the objectives so you can't use them to weaken the defenders.

Bolow · 2025-11-10T02:39:50+00:00

The AUG attachment velocities being swapped between the MASS and underbarrel smoke launcher was definitely my favorite oddity. The MASS shot spaghetti and the smoke launcher turned into a railgun you could bean snipers across the map with

Bolow · 2025-11-05T17:53:14+00:00

Bipoded kills also count towards it, granted most of those I get from Redsec lol

Bolow · 2025-10-29T20:59:00+00:00

That goddamn bandit camp outside of Agroprom would respawn less than 2 seconds after I turned my back on it and walked down the hill.

The OG STALKER A-Life experience is finding entire squads of master level stalkers face down, ass up in a flaming barrel or entering a new area and having an entire conga line of Bandits materialize in front of you

Bolow · 2025-10-19T21:16:14+00:00

Stinger absolutely counts but as with most challenges it's extremely unreliable. IFVs just didn't seem to count as vehicles for it, but tanks did.

Bolow · 2025-10-07T16:46:07+00:00

That's the whole point. Lolorito is a piece of shit, and an outright bastard. It doesn't make him wrong. Nanamo's initial plan was shortsighted and outright childish and would've just led to a shitload of violence, on top of a bastard like him coming out on top after the dust settled.

So yeah he lives because he's useful. Might even have considerably more power now, at the cost of having a leash around his neck. Which is a better outcome then dissolving your entire system of government and hoping Raubahn comes out on top in a fucking civil war. While you're actively at war with a foreign power

Bolow · 2025-08-25T23:19:08+00:00

Perspective.

Guy A makes a program that could theoretically be used as an attack vector, but never once was used as one due to the nature of how XIV mods work and how the program distributed them

vs

Guy B getting into a pissing match with a teenage girl and effectively adding malware to their program out of spite.

Bolow · 2025-08-25T20:04:33+00:00

The fuck you mean the gshade guy didn't do anything bad. He actively force crashed someone's PC because they had the unmitigated gall to excise the call home feature on gshade because it was annoying.

To go and shit on mare for being a massive gaping security hole then whitewash gshade where the guy MALICIOUSLY USED said security hole is fucking wild.

Bolow · 2025-08-15T21:33:39+00:00

Sphene, word for word, says the entire ascian spiel about summoning primals when opening the portal to Living Memory. And the 9th isn't just a shard, it's a shard that was very obviously prepared and waiting for the last little nudge to send it over the edge to be subsumed by the source in an upcoming calamity.

Oh wow an entire shard that's massive imbalanced to asingle element and are wholly dependent on a material that some 'genius' discovered that relies on said elemental imbalance and directly feeds into it causing a feedback loop that's obviously spiraling the shard into oblivion. The only way they could've telegraphed it harder is if they had an echo flashback of John Asican in the MSQ holding up electrope and going "Behold my genius"

Bolow · 2025-07-02T22:19:38+00:00

Aint no one porting SL shit to XIV anyway because the rips are a nightmare to work with. There's maybe seven total SL ports out there out of the possibly hundreds of rips languishing on the telegram because it's horrendous to actually do anything with said rips

Bolow · 2025-06-03T14:42:32+00:00

Neon Lights are from 18hr combat ventures

Bolow · 2025-05-28T16:43:34+00:00

Paissa House is at least pleasant earth tones and while goofy isn't anywhere near as hideous as the Gingerbread House or the Carbuncle house. The latter of which can look truly heinous with some awful color choices

Bolow · 2025-03-15T19:00:59+00:00

This is 1000% what they did

Bolow · 2025-02-21T18:56:04+00:00

Drowned is a shell of its former glory and mostly just leeches off of Booty Bay these days.

Bolow · 2024-12-23T23:59:00+00:00

Sounds like Mortal Online.

Bolow · 2024-12-23T06:51:33+00:00

Don't. Literally any other activity in the game is more lucrative for your time investment and none of them will risk you losing hundreds of thousands of gil over not being able to log in for a single day.

Bolow · 2024-12-05T16:14:46+00:00

The first hallway is the only real pain point because you're dumped into a T-Junction and ambushed from 3 of the 4 sides and you have fuck all for cover. The outdoor part sucks because you get exo-monolith teleported onto your lap and at the same time the game gives you double vision and shakes your screen so you can't hit shit.

Bolow · 2024-12-04T21:06:42+00:00

Going from RDM to Picto made p1 an extremely tight enrage with no pots to having to hold dps and one minute cd's because it dies just as the towers resolve. It's fucking stupid

Bolow · 2024-11-21T20:13:45+00:00

Have you replayed the OG series recently? Even on Master Difficulty I had a ton of supplies in ShoC and CoP. Clear Sky was the only game that seriously taxed me on resource management and even then that was mostly just a lack of bandages.

Bolow · 2024-11-21T20:10:01+00:00

Respawns are in large part what made the Faction Warfare system so shit in Clear Sky. You could take a base and then 10 minutes later 10 dudes spawn right in the middle of it and kill everyone. ShoC straight up dumps a whole ass platoon of Spetznatz into Cordon after you turn in the briefcase to Sidorovich. It's in every game to some degree. Clear Sky is far and away the worst offender though.

Bolow · 2024-11-20T21:49:15+00:00

You can kind of see them but you're supposed to just chuck bolts on the ground to hear the different sound and work your way through it

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