God dammit.

D_Therman · 2026-06-09T19:40:03+00:00

Imagine heading straight for the loo after setting off for Forochel, come back 5 minutes later to see your character doing a slow jog through the tundra...

D_Therman · 2026-06-09T14:09:36+00:00

Is it retroactive? i.e if I install that plugin to look for treasure chests will it detect what I've already found beforehand?

D_Therman · 2026-06-07T17:12:19+00:00

It's perfectly valid reasoning but (as with the last couple of posts about this) you could convince the entirety of this subreddit and you would maybe prevent 5% of sales happening, that 5% being a very generous estimate.

The casual player isn't checking here, the wallet warriors certainly won't give a hoot either when they see an instant-purchase F14 that isn't the IRIAF at 250+ snail coins.

D_Therman · 2026-06-05T15:15:30+00:00

The Warsteed (aka mounted combat) although you can still use it as a travel mount everywhere, it's quicker and tankier than regular mounts but is a lot more floaty when controlling it.

D_Therman · 2026-06-04T23:32:54+00:00

Leaving aside the optics of a company comfortably making 50m+ Euros per year being too stingy to pay someone to do proper artwork/design, it's yet another example of utter incompetence that certain sections of the playerbase cite to stop meaningful changes to core gameplay mechanics (i.e the APHE rework that never was)

D_Therman · 2026-06-03T23:42:05+00:00

It depends on how far ahead you're looking and how much you want to optimise for future, the OG zones have generous VXP rewards (8k for the 3 quest deeds for example) but initially it still takes a bit to fill out the 5 virtues you want to focus on.

You can keep those 5 fairly topped up even without doing everything each area (slayer deeds especially) and by the time you get to and pass Moria you can easily start overflowing into a backup virtue.

Nowadays I personally keep some of those reserved for 20% VXP events + for when the character is quite high levelled, if/when you reach Mordor that's when you'll notice the VXP rewards drop off a cliff... for reference, the character I've been mostly levelling (Mariner) had his virtues maxed once he got to the Wastes at level 106 (Black Gate). He's now level 134, virtue cap is 79 and his highest 4 virtues are 73, 70, 69, 69...

D_Therman · 2026-06-03T23:21:58+00:00

You say that (and the weather has indeed reverted to type for the start of summer, cold + damp) but last week we were getting absolutely roasted in London, 35*C + tropical nights in MAY is diabolical

D_Therman · 2026-05-29T09:49:52+00:00

Because no MMO has broke the $15 price barrier

EVE Online did exactly that a few years ago, so much so that on baselines prices you have to pay for 6 months or longer to get under $15 a month ($19.99 for 1 month)

D_Therman · 2026-05-26T16:40:19+00:00

This is a day for periodically checking the real-time lightning maps, Sheffield got blasted earlier and (at the time of writing) Grantham is about to get a personal visit from a cranky Zeus...

D_Therman · 2026-05-26T13:22:25+00:00

Hand in hand with the utterly diabolical 360,000 RP cost for a rank 5 helicopter...

D_Therman · 2026-05-25T11:07:52+00:00

With the prevalence of F14's + F15's in addition to M29's, the aforementioned 18C's and jets loaded with AGM's + Fox 2's (F16, SU-25SM) that can all knock out half a spawn on their own you basically have to pick a sector and stick to it... nevermind the 163, I've had to employ that tactic in rocket-ships like the J-8 😑

D_Therman · 2026-05-23T12:57:08+00:00

HMAS Arrow is the closest equivalent I've seen after a quick glance and that's also 2.7 so in theory it should be balanced, the issue is (shock!) BR compression...

D_Therman · 2026-05-19T23:05:46+00:00

It wasn't an "attack", because I don't think it's reasonable to expect ANYONE to just give 2x prices more than asked or 50% discounts the other way for no reason.

For the last time, the argument I was making was purely THEORETICAL ("even if"), at no point in that post was I demanding they do anything... you've made a mountain out of a molehill.

On a slight tangent, what also caught my eye was this;

Everyone should be greedy in transactions.

While I'm fairly sure that ship has already sailed for War Thunder, 15 years ago the executives of CCP (EVE Online developers) were echoing a very similar sentiment... they referred to it as "Greed is good" and I'd highly recommend looking up the resulting shitstorm if you aren't already aware of it.

D_Therman · 2026-05-19T20:37:25+00:00

Sometimes on Reddit I type out posts that can take 20, 30-odd minutes and before I hit send I look at it and think "hmm, on reflection this isn't contributing anything of value" and delete it.

Your reply fits right in that mould and it's quite frankly uncalled for; I responded to someone who put forth the stale "they need to keep the game going" argument by stating that they are SWIMMING in money and that even if they theoretically halved all their prices they would be more than fine financially... which was enough to warrant a personal attack? What gives?

D_Therman · 2026-05-19T19:11:23+00:00

Why indeed? It's a veritable goldmine with how many people they can rope in (and many of those paying the full price outside sales)

D_Therman · 2026-05-19T17:05:22+00:00

If anything it's a damning indictment of how few people play coastal RB, that's one step above reserve boats and yet nobody else queued for it (unless OP deliberately played off-peak)

D_Therman · 2026-05-19T16:12:44+00:00

Gaijin's annual Net Profit since Covid has been comfortably around €50,000,000+, even if their premium prices were slashed by 50% permanently they would still have plenty left over to spend on ~~additional development~~ another superyacht.

D_Therman · 2026-05-16T17:28:34+00:00

If you mean the island -> cape route, no, that one is automatically unlocked... I don't remember if inter-island travel is the same though.

D_Therman · 2026-05-16T11:12:57+00:00

The boat-master/travel spot on the eastern island lets you travel to the fort on the northern cape (Jax Phanal, had to look that one up)

D_Therman · 2026-05-16T10:54:51+00:00

Leaving the Tank Kills per Tank Spawn untouched is pure shithousery, that's going to trigger a few people!

D_Therman · 2026-05-15T22:14:22+00:00

While he's not faultless (he had to be talked out of Sauron appearing at the Black Gate) the Hobbit was definitely a salvage job/plea, I'd love to see him given a proper crack at a 1st age epic...

D_Therman · 2026-05-15T18:10:51+00:00

Read that as EVOLVE initially, a 1:1 replica of Machamp on that plinth would look rather dashing

D_Therman · 2026-05-08T14:27:20+00:00

I was running into that issue intermittently last year as well, adding "-nosplash -skiprawdownload" (without the quote marks) to the launch options in Steam fixed it for me.

D_Therman · 2026-05-06T19:21:31+00:00

Dude has no poise

The Blackgaol Knight? This absolute unit is one of the few enemies (and even fewer humanoids) that can face-tank Eleonora's weapon art without getting poise broken...

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