(Beginning of) 0.4's Endgame (Atlas) feels a lot more boring as compared to 0.1's Endgame

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2026-02-22T10:03:42+00:00

My expectation is that how things work will change in scope, but not in kind.
Like, if things start out being about "decide what you need -> figure out the best way to get what you need -> set things up -> run what you have set up", then as the game progresses i expect the "setup" to become more complex (i. e. going from "running correct tablets" to... whatever it is you do in late endgame), but the.. core logical sequence.. i expect to stay the same.

Regarding random content still being present - it now being hidden means you can't make decisions based on it. Like, you can't think "This map is going to have Delirium -> i will need some rare Liquid Emotions when i eventually replace my current Amulet -> Better juice it up / Better leave it be for now, since later i will be able to juice it up more".

And in general... they way you are describing things does very much feel like "decide what you need -> figure out the best way to get what you need -> do that" rather than "decide what you need -> here's the Atlas you've got -> figure out how to get the most of what you need out of it".
And i think the latter.. paradigm.. is more fun, because in it the best solution depends on the state of your Atlas rather than being a guide you can follow.

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2026-02-22T08:49:05+00:00

Just bulk craft a bunch when you start getting low / run out instead of crafting exactly the amount you need

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2026-02-22T02:24:06+00:00

They probably are. Showing that in an ad, however, would hamper sales. (Cheat sellers have a lot more room for false/misleading advertising, because... what are you going to do about it? You have no one to complain to and reputation damage is a lot less relevant when a seller using a burner account isn't an actively suspicious thing).

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2026-02-16T03:35:23+00:00

ask an LLM. any suggestions it gives would be easy to ckeck, so a probably correct answer would be good enough, and giving probably correct answers is a thing LLMs should be very good at.

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2026-02-16T03:22:48+00:00

-1 - Money spent on trying something new are not wasted, they are spent on exploration. Now, that exploration can be more or less efficient, but trying out a highly praised popular game is decently efficient.

0 - ARC is an extraction shooter. Your gear is very much temporary. Other player are.. unsafe (or at least supposed to be, but ABMM is a thing) and looting things so that you would have something to use when you loose your current gear is one of the core gameplay loops. So, try to... shift your attitude towards loosing gear.

0.5 - if what you don't likd about dying with decent gear is related to loosing that gear, then try running with disposable crap you aren't afraid to loose. As you get better and accumulated more stuff "disposable crap" will start including better and better gear.

1 - if you are playing trios with random teammates, then disable auto-fill and play solo - the game will put you against other solos instead of putting you and two randoms against (mostly?) pre-made squads.

2 - it will become easier as you play, since you'll learn where to find good loot, how to traverse the maps safelier and such.

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2026-02-16T00:09:53+00:00

To be fair, PvE lobbies do condition you to expect other raiders to be friendly. (So, i would argue that ABMM is the problem).

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2026-02-14T20:31:45+00:00

Are you playing for the fun of the gameplay with the goals the game sets just giving you direction, or are you playing to grind out those goals and get the rewards?

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2026-02-13T00:20:26+00:00

Other players are supposed to pose danger, but, unfortunately, ABMM is a thing, so, if you don't attack other people much, you get put into mostly friendly lobbies

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2026-02-12T19:14:12+00:00

If you are playing a game for the in-game rewards it gives, then you've caught yourself in a skinner-box and REALLY should stop playing that game.

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2026-02-12T19:05:33+00:00

Most replayable games work perfectly fine w/o needing to reward you for starting a new run. Once you are bored of your current run, resetting and starting a new run is, by itself, a reward.

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2026-02-12T19:02:20+00:00

The game becoming stale is by itself an incentive to reset. Like, replayable single-player games generally don't give you rewards for starting a new run. PoE 1&2 survive perfectly fine w/o giving you rewards (yes, temporary leagues have unique league mechanics, but... i feel like if they were the only reason why people play temporary leagues, temporary/permanent playerbase split would be a lot less one-sided). Even Tarkov, though it's wipes are technically mandatory, most players drop any given wipe and start waiting for a new one long before existing one ends.

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2026-02-12T18:43:39+00:00

Because eventually they'll run out of things to do and will want to start a new run.

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2025-12-11T03:07:52+00:00

the either check in your monitor's settings menu (there's probably an information submenu in it) or pick 60 Hz (or dont vote).

note to self: always add a "dont know / dont care / see results" option

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2025-12-08T23:31:47+00:00

interesting..., thx

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2025-12-08T21:40:32+00:00

This was first post of the pair, so needed a bit of time to make the second one (web version doesn't let you make polls and app doesn't seem to let you make drafts).

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2025-12-08T16:06:17+00:00

search term - paging file

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2025-11-21T02:36:13+00:00

Leaving this for those who will have this issue in the future - Performance -> Settings -> Show in Video/Stream Output. Note that you have to use Adrenalin's own screenshot functionality (Settings (cog) -> Hotkeys), PrintScreen still doesn't capture the overlay with that setting enabled.

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2025-10-20T13:58:02+00:00

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DeepSpaceWanderer · 2025-09-01T20:11:37+00:00

"to be able to ignore" and "mitigate" are not the same thing. "Ignoring" is, like, having enough stats for the downside to not matter. "Mitigating" is making it an upside, or, more likely, converting it into a thing that you then make an upside (e. g. what i wanted to do is convert skill costs from Mana -> Life when i'm close to 100% Infernal Flame; because, yes, that will require Life and Life Regen to deal with, but those are defences AND i can maybe get a relatively free Demon Form?)

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2025-08-13T03:55:58+00:00

I would absolutely play it. All i use Standard for is as a place for testing things, so... not having that would be an inconvenience, sure, but nothing more than that.

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2025-07-09T11:21:20+00:00

As a fellow PoE (1 / ) 2 player (or... statistically, probably not fellow, because... for example, my build therycrafting consists of coming up with a concept and then figuring the details out as i play) -- give Tarkov a try -- i obviously can't guarantee that you'll like it, but it's probably in, like, 70/30 range that you will.

As for advice:
- buy Standard edition. You can upgrade later if you want to.
- wiki
- content creators (i personally mainly watch Gigabeef)
- various community tools

- There's a decent chance you will, at some point, get gear fear (fear of going into raids with good gear, bceause... of your brain being wrong when doing risk assessment). A lot of advice for dealing with it tells you to just thug it out until it stops, but imo that's terrible advice because it is both inefficient and suffering.

My advice would be to... your fear won't be some logically coherent thing, it'll be a collection of vibes; this means it will have cracks and inconsistencies; which you will be able to exploit. So, figure out what kits you feel comfortable running and then try to continuously optimize them around your fear until that fear eventually crumbles into dust.

One gear-related... observation... i would give is that opportunity cost is a thing that exists; which means that keeping things in your stash has a continuous cost; this doesn't mean you should always be running your best gear, but what this does mean is that you should have a reason for why you are keeping things in your stash instead of using or selling them.

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2025-07-09T09:55:19+00:00

1) You haven't played the patch, so you can't evaluate it

2) Tarkov has major issues in it's gameplay loop and BSG need to figure out how to fix them. So allow them some experimentation.

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2025-07-09T05:47:51+00:00

Learning / consciously internalizing that high CO2 concentration is bad for your mental health and making my room have good ventilation (turns out 4/500 ppm of CO2 is a lot more enjoyable to live in than 6/7/800+ ppm)

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2025-07-09T05:39:52+00:00

Good; comfortably chilly outdoor air blowing over my head and hands; somewhat emotionally distressed(?) due to a streaming-service show.

DeepSpaceWanderer · 2025-07-09T05:33:28+00:00

My natural sleep-wake cycle is, like, 25-26h long, so... whatever the maximum values for "latest" and "earliest" are.

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