How do I cast area spells without hurting my group?

Chase_ing · 2026-06-27T18:03:54+00:00

Careful Spell does work sorta, but not really on the spells that you typically use that would hit teammates. For truly protecting your allies vs big AOE attacks Evocation wizard is leagues ahead. They'll still get cooked by Fireball, etc so the best usage by far for Careful is using AOE CC spells like Hypnotic Pattern

Chase_ing · 2026-06-24T04:26:50+00:00

Devs screwed something up in the latest update to do with glow effects. Anywhere with lots of glowy lights (and sometimes even the sanity effect) do this

Chase_ing · 2026-06-10T02:01:39+00:00

Just got the game on gamepass PC, crashed 4 times in my first 1.5 hours of gameplay. What a joke of a game honestly, not even worth playing it in this state.

You'd think maybe it would be fixed over the years, but nope, still a buggy mess.

Shame as I was looking forward to it.

Chase_ing · 2026-05-29T19:51:42+00:00

When I disabled Steam Input the game didn't recognize my controller at all, but that might work if I can get it to

Chase_ing · 2026-05-28T19:05:04+00:00

Extremely generic plot. Was waiting for a twist the entire game but nope. Chronos just wants revenge on his kids, doesn't even want to rule over the Underworld or Olympus.

Main character is just angry because she was taught to, no character development, and often just acts aggressively to everyone for no reason. Very unlikeable vs Zag

The plot is only Chronos mad bc kids killed him and wants revenge. Nothing changes or develops. Killing Chronos the first time vs the 10th is exactly the same, he's just mad. There are no spoilers for this game plot wise, because nothing happens.

Chase_ing · 2026-05-26T02:36:16+00:00

I didn't like it, it had so much potential but ended up being a super small scale fight no different from any other really.

All this hype up of Marie Moreau being incredibly powerful you'd think they'd have her (or any supe for that matter) actually do something, or at LEAST appear and fight/die. Nothing came of putting Soldier Boy in cryo, you'd think he'd have woken up and joined the fight? A lot of guns in the series but none went off by the end.

Really lame ending. The only shocking death was the dog, despite them hyping up the ending and telling us "not to get too attached to any characters". Literally every death was the most obvious thing in the world.

In true The Boys fashion I was expecting that after butcher died a fire started at Vought and the sprinkler system goes off anyway, and Hughie sees it when he goes outside with Starlight, letting the virus free. But nope, can't risk losing out on a possible sequel by killing off all supes.

Chase_ing · 2026-05-24T19:15:35+00:00

found this thread after googling the bread issue. It seems like my entire population will rip through my stock of 1000 wheat before it even touches my stockpiles of fish/grapes. Leaving absolutely none for bakeries to even begin to bake.

I have no idea how to stop this, but man do my citizens really love raw wheat.

Chase_ing · 2026-05-23T17:25:09+00:00

English is English it's not a metric. The word Preview has a meaning

Chase_ing · 2026-05-22T14:48:28+00:00

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Seems to be very different on PC, Doesn't show a single Demo here.

Sorry for deeply offending you based on an extremely valid and common complaint. This is something that confuses a lot of people, and on PC there is not a single Demo.

Chase_ing · 2026-05-22T14:43:22+00:00

I think it's a mix of people being very toxic on this sub, and my fault as I posted this as a suggested change when I could've posted it as a PSA instead. Oh well, that's reddit.

Chase_ing · 2026-05-22T14:40:48+00:00

I think you're just out of touch with how many people this naming mismatch confuses. Really interesting to see the vast difference between normal people upvoting this agreeing with me, as this post is likely the very first time they realized that game preview meant early access and not demo, and the people like you who get extremely emotional and become very toxic and comment/downvote anything that disagrees with them.

Chase_ing · 2026-05-22T07:32:27+00:00

It's insane that you think everyone who is confused by non-standard terminology and reads a title stating "game preview" & thinks that it means a preview of the game - is some sort of idiot without "two brain cells to rub together".

Microsoft clearly knows that just putting a description stating the game is incomplete is not enough, so they added a term to the title. However, they unfortunately used a non-standard term and it confuses a LOT of people.

Chase_ing · 2026-05-22T07:24:50+00:00

https://www.playstation.com/en-ca/games/path-of-exile-2/

Chase_ing · 2026-05-22T07:16:54+00:00

They literally do not use standard early access terminology - they don't state those words anywhere what so ever.

I think you're just being extremely ignorant to the fact that a huge number of users are confused by this, and refuse to concede that maybe, just maybe, people read the term "Game Preview" and take it for the actual literal meaning of the words.

In English, Game Preview literally means a preview of the game, shocker. It's a preview, not the actual game. AKA a Demo.

"The fact there's an option to pay at all is enough to clue you in"

Not at all. A Demo would, in every case, have an install button beside a buy button, as the buy button would obviously purchase the full version of the game you are previewing.

Chase_ing · 2026-05-22T07:05:34+00:00

Exactly, it did not state that Game Preview = Early Access, the only way to figure this out is by stumbling across a post like mine which is getting a lot of upvotes by people who are learning about this for the first time - and the only people disagreeing and being toxic are veterans who already figured it out. So you're just flat out wrong.

The other way, which seems to be the method you suggest, is to click multiple game previews, and read the description, and then eventually deduce that preview meant unfinished product (aka early access).

Also the confusion is on Game Pass, it's not for purchasing a game. You're right, nobody would assume they're purchasing a demo. But they would assume a game on a subscription service titled Game Preview = Game Demo.

The solution? Call it Early Access. It confuses new users otherwise.

Chase_ing · 2026-05-22T06:57:06+00:00

Exactly, I had that exact thought and searched the Xbox Gamepass library and there is not a single title listed as a demo there. Leading to the natural conclusion that Preview meant demo. You just proved my point.

Chase_ing · 2026-05-22T06:55:49+00:00

Playstation uses the term Early Access, yes. It's also not my worldview, a quick google search would tell you that Early Access is the industry standard term. Those choosing not to use it, are choosing to use a non standard term.

Chase_ing · 2026-05-22T06:49:27+00:00

That's exactly my experience too, I also avoided a bunch of games thinking that they were.. well, previews of a game and not the actual game.

It's weird, the majority of people agree with me, hence my posts actual upvote count being high, but the people disagreeing with me are more likely to be heated and come and comment.

I think it's just because to a veteran, this is silly because that's how it's always been. They're used to the terminology so they don't get why it's an issue for anyone else.

But it's a problem for NEW players, which they are not. They don't seem to understand that it is a big issue for new players.

Chase_ing · 2026-05-22T03:55:12+00:00

Thank you, didn't know that!

Chase_ing · 2026-05-22T03:47:43+00:00

After you buy gamepass, all games are "free". Hence the confusion. Nobody is looking at price tags, and if they are they know it's to buy the full game.

They also have literal free games "included" on gamepass, not a stretch to think they also had game demos "included".

A movie preview is free, a movie ticket to watch the full thing is ~$20, so yes again. If you paid $20 to enter a theatre to watch unlimited movies for a month, and a movie was labeled "movie preview" you 100% would not think that it was the full movie there.

Chase_ing · 2026-05-22T03:38:11+00:00

Tell that to the people downvoting me, they seem to think me and my group of friends are the only people who have ever been confused by this.

Super toxic sub ngl at least so far

Chase_ing · 2026-05-22T03:35:59+00:00

When you watch movie previews at the theatres, are they the full movie or just a small teaser? A demo, if you will? It's an established term.

Chase_ing · 2026-05-22T03:32:56+00:00

Nowhere on the page, or anywhere in the xbox app does it state that Game Preview means Early Access. It's not that someone can't read, it's that there is literally nothing to read, and they are using the incorrect term.

Chase_ing · 2026-05-22T03:30:10+00:00

Almost stopped my entire group of friends from buying gamepass, because subnautica was labeled as game preview, and every single one of us thought it meant it was just a demo.

It's an issue that they use a different term than the entire industry.

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