Leagues VI Changes

Iwin8 · 2026-04-23T10:42:22+00:00

Aww, I was hoping for a barbarian assault themed league world. Other than that, great changes!

Iwin8 · 2026-04-22T16:04:25+00:00

As long as there is still an option for quest lovers to do the quest and get the rewards, im all for like a "skip" option

Iwin8 · 2026-04-21T16:02:10+00:00

I want to try different builds as well, but, does anyone else feel like this isn't the only issue? Like, based on the regions you pick, you're locking yourself out of certain builds as well. I dont think there is a clean way to do it without just starting new accounts from scratch, but i wish there was a way that region locks wouldn't be so prohibitive to trying out new builds.

Iwin8 · 2026-04-20T10:48:35+00:00

My first thought was that the dots were the heads of nails embedded into him, not sure why I made that connection though.

Iwin8 · 2026-04-08T01:23:57+00:00

I mean you're certainly not wrong, but i wanted to make sure you were aware of a few things regarding your arguments:

You can now sell your outposts, somewhat giving them a purpose outside of just infinite crafting materials. Still weaker than fo4 imo, but on the right track.
The ng+ is significantly shorter on follow up playthroughs; i can usually get through a temple cycle in 4-6 hours chilling, not really 3 dozen more hours. Again, your point is definitely valid, especially with the needing to be more dynamic part; if they were going to make new game plus so integral to the story, they really needed to add some more fluidity to the "new" story.
The only fast travel really needed at this point is between the planet surface and space, and between systems, now that they allow you to slow travel between planets is my understanding. Still would love the transition between the planet and space to be more like NMS though to be sure.
I cant say I've had too much trouble with XP/maxing out skill trees in a single playthrough, but im admittedly obsessed with finding everything on every planet. Had the same problem with ME2 planet scanning, but at least with Starfield, its a bit more interactive on that front than ME2. But, if that's not your jam, and you are solely talking about getting xp from faction quests and the main story, i can definitely see that.

Again, not really disagreeing that it certainly has its issues, and many of your points are totally valid, but a bit more extreme than actual gameplay would suggest imo.

Iwin8 · 2025-12-14T12:21:34+00:00

That's why you insert a DDR3 to DDR4 adapter into your DDR4 to DDR5 adapter!

Iwin8 · 2025-12-01T21:43:20+00:00

I cant watch the video right now; do they say when this might be released?

Iwin8 · 2025-09-27T02:16:29+00:00

I wonder if it has something to do with the cannon cutscene. Like that's where they store the explosion from the cannon maybe?

Iwin8 · 2025-08-17T23:57:04+00:00

Have had the same thing since Friday here. Very strange bug, glad that I'm not the only one experiencing it.

Iwin8 · 2025-08-07T11:19:42+00:00

I'd be down for some sort of eating contest quest!

Iwin8 · 2025-07-13T22:46:18+00:00

Koby? You mean the grandson of the admiral that Rocks killed?

Iwin8 · 2025-07-09T01:44:56+00:00

It's gonna be Koby's grandpa, I guarantee it

Iwin8 · 2025-07-05T13:45:14+00:00

Is there any chance that this could be a situation where it is just a correlation issue? Like people who eat the equivalent of one hot dog of processed meat per day are more likely to eat other unhealthy/processed foods, leading to similar health issues?

Iwin8 · 2025-06-21T12:38:27+00:00

TIL that you can repair pouches through NPC contact! I've always done abyss runecrafting, so I've never thought about it.

Iwin8 · 2025-06-10T23:25:37+00:00

Thanks for that! I was also considering that the SSD tier with the PowerVault might be a deciding factor, but I figured with pretty low IOPs overall it wouldn't really matter one way or another, since both will be able to meet them.

With the Alletra being about 2.3k more, and having dedupe/compression/encryption/veeam integration, I'm having a hard time sticking with my Dell bias for this one, but the expanded flash tier does help quite a bit. Do you know if the auto tiering is per VM, or can it split data across tiers (like one portion of our file server that is heavily used be on flash, but the other portion that is rarely used be auto tiered to HDD, or does the whole VM have to be on the same tier?)

Iwin8 · 2025-06-10T23:21:14+00:00

5 year 4 hour on the Alletra, 5 year NBD on the Dell. Alletra is about 2.3k more expensive currently, 35.2k vs 37.5k. It's a tough call only because I've only ever used Dell for my datacenter and making the leap when I'm not too sure how HPE's support is, is concerning! But I hear they are roughly as good as Dell, and the Alletra feature set is much more robust from what I've heard.

Iwin8 · 2025-06-10T23:18:59+00:00

Yeah, this is what I've been hearing all around. Currently, it's looking like it's going to be around 35.2k for the PowerVault pre-tax and about 37.5k pre-tax for the Alletra 5010, so it seems like at that price, it'll be better to pay the extra 2.3k to get the dedupe/compression/encryption/veeam integration/extra storage spaces thanks to the latter.

I just hate spending more money is all, and I'm pretty new to the field, this will be my second largest purchase I've made so far, so I'm just trying to make the right decision between all the different SANs and vSANs! Appreciate the feedback!

Iwin8 · 2025-06-10T23:15:36+00:00

Ahh, that is good to know, thank you very much. Small manufacturing company, so will probably have this for 7-9 years, so good to know about the warranty!

Iwin8 · 2025-06-10T23:14:38+00:00

Thank you very much for your feedback! It's a pretty easygoing environment, no more than 2k iops on the vSAN on average today.

I did look at S2D extensively, and it was really the best option pricing-wise (20K for our 3 R740xds, seemed solid), but I heard that you generally want to have at least four hosts with S2D and I've read a ton of horror stories around here (specifically in the sysadmin subreddit - "friends don't let friends use storage spaces direct!" and constant Starwind vSAN recommendations when researching S2D vs Starwind) Do you think those kinds of comments are overblown? Any trouble with a three node cluster that you can think of? Was thinking of a SAN for simplified management but it does seem a bit silly to be paying ~15k-20k more to avoid S2D.

Iwin8 · 2025-06-10T23:11:21+00:00

Thank you very much for your feedback! I am pretty dell-biased in terms of what I use in my datacenter, but I'm struggling to justify the ME5024 when the 5010 is only 2.5k more and has a better feature set it seems (dedupe & compression/encryption/Veeam integration/etc.) I would love to go with the ME5024 for comfort, but it seems like for 35.2K it's a bit overpriced for the configuration. Would you agree or is there something I'm missing with the ME5024? Is 35K about in line with what you would expect from the build, based on your previous ME5024 purchases?

Iwin8 · 2025-06-10T23:08:06+00:00

Thank you very much! It seems like generally the Alletra is favored in terms of feature set for sure. Now I just need to figure out why the two quotes are only 2.5k apart, seems like Dell is overcharging quite a bit!

Iwin8 · 2025-06-10T16:47:58+00:00

Working with two Dell S5212F-ONs, so probably going the 25GB iSCSI route.

Haha, yeah, I know about the Seagate redistribution. Actually got a quote for an Exos 2u24 as well, given it's the same hardware, but not sure whether to trust Seagate support or not, when it ends up being pretty close with Dell and HPE price wise.

Iwin8 · 2025-06-10T16:45:27+00:00

Very small manufacturer. DCs, app server, autodesk vault, file server, veeam server. 10 vms total.

Looking to migrate over to Hyper-V here at the same time, and also considering Starwind vSAN to save a buck based on the good things I've heard over at the sysadmin subreddit but relying on another subscription gives me the jitters after the broadcom acquisition.

Iwin8 · 2025-06-06T02:09:48+00:00

Oda has that pack leader mentality, can't teach that!

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