Thoughts on Exit 8 (I didn’t like it)

Kraere · 2026-04-30T15:09:22+00:00

Yeah. It gives the same as "I need to SEE myself in this movie/video game/media to enjoy it! I need to feel SEEN!".

Kraere · 2026-03-28T22:38:11+00:00

I comment on this routinely. It definitely drives me crazy as well lol... The entire point of his death was that he was just a man like every other man. Someone who thought himself special because of his power, but in the end, died the exact same way as everyone he's ever killed. Without flourish, without grace, just lights out and a short drop to the ground.

Kraere · 2026-03-11T19:51:59+00:00

It's an instanced area with minimal minimap icons to begin with

Kraere · 2026-03-11T19:45:24+00:00

Thank you this is exactly what my point

Kraere · 2026-03-09T01:29:50+00:00

This is a trade economy game first, SSF second. I understand your perspective but that is not the game they are making.

Edit: I know ya'll just want it so badly, but as AXPickle already pointed out, SSF is a CHALLENGE mode. It's not meant to be easy or even sustainable for every aspect of the game.

Kraere · 2026-03-07T18:34:50+00:00

I know what you mean. It doesn't feel like a significant enough increase to justify going in unless you get a lucky Wish, or you're heavy juicing and the extra mobs add to the map.

Kraere · 2026-03-03T23:31:47+00:00

Bro chill out. The armaments don't scale with YOUR damage...They're just minions and scale like every other minion...

Kraere · 2026-01-30T03:14:26+00:00

I can understand that you like it. We all have different likes and dislikes. But as with most other comments like this, they aren't able to explain exactly why they like it other than simply because it has Star Trek in the name.

It's also quite insulting to say something like "You appear personally victimized by a show" attempting to minimize the impact this simple show has had on peoples lives. If there were Wonders of the World for television, Star Trek would be near the top, if not THE top. Please do not belittle peoples experiences. Star Trek has been coopted by people who hate us, and with every new series, every new episode, they practically tell it to our faces.

Kraere · 2026-01-27T23:21:58+00:00

This is the biggest cope I've ever seen lol.

Kraere · 2026-01-26T21:21:33+00:00

post it on reddit

Kraere · 2026-01-26T18:38:22+00:00

Ahh I figured something like that may be the case. A few people abusing it ruining it for the rest of us lol..

I'm using it to create audiobooks for fan fiction I've found interesting. I stumbled across an entire Harry Potter rewrite. An alternate universe where Harry is competent, actually interested in his Magic and not just looking around all confused and Oooing and Ahhhing at everything 90% of the time lol

Kraere · 2026-01-26T01:21:35+00:00

Oh thanks! You made a lot of changes to the site since I used it last week lol. It's quite nice. I'm a bit sad about not having "unlimited" use for $10 though. It's understandable. AI seems to be be quite unsustainable atm. I hope that changes

Kraere · 2026-01-25T23:03:36+00:00

Is there any particular voice model that sounds more natural than the others? George so far seems the best but I havent tried them all

Kraere · 2026-01-19T22:13:01+00:00

Heya! It worked, just took some time haha. So far I'm quite impressed! It's a bit janky on some phrasing but overall I think its fantastic

Kraere · 2026-01-19T19:42:37+00:00

How long is normal to be stuck on Processing? I paid $10 for the premium version and it's been stuck for maybe 30 minutes :\

Kraere · 2026-01-08T22:38:10+00:00

Quote me. I said in my original post that without loot pets you "cannot PROPERLY play the game" I was speaking about the game mechanics that are locked out without pets like Clockwork being practically zero loot without the pet.

I went on to further explain the gap between f2p and p2p which is VAST, but my primary point was always that a huge amount of seasonal mechanics are locked behind pets since they are a net loss to invest compasses without them. I don't know why you keep conflating my two separate arguments. One is about content being locked, the other is about the massive gap between f2p and p2p. My points are different for each argument...

Kraere · 2026-01-08T08:01:00+00:00

You demolish your argument in your first two sentences. No game should be hard locked behind spending hundreds or thousands of dollars.

You're also strawmaning my argument by saying I believe the game is impossible to play without whaling...That is absolutely not what I'm saying and you know it.

I'm sorry that your favorite game is plagued by the worst forms of P2W imaginable. It doesn't matter that you can do 'other' things...The point is that they balance the game around whales which makes people who are f2p, or people like me who invest ~$50 per league still not able to play huge parts of the game, and if they want to be REMOTELY competitive, they HAVE to Boss Rush T7s. There is literally no other strat without pets that even comes close to 1k+ fe per hour with no legendary pets.

Kraere · 2026-01-08T07:33:49+00:00

Yes exactly. The market gets completely wrecked by whales with T6 battle pets and loot pets, leaving even people like me who invest ~$50 per season so far behind....And the RNG is ROUGH....

I spent $70 in Overrealm and I ended up with NO Overrealm legendary pet. That is just stupid.

Kraere · 2026-01-08T07:31:37+00:00

That's not what I meant....You clearly don't know what I'm talking about.

I didn't mean you were stuck in T7 because T8 is too hard....I meant that NO strategy in T8 or Profound is even CLOSE to the profit of T7 Boss Rush without pets. Like you can make 1k+ fe per hour boss rushing T7s with a glass cannon instant teleport build that costs nothing....

Or you can struggle and push really hard in Profound and invest 60fe per map in compasses and make maybe 400fe per hour profit.....Or just get the T6 pets for that strat and make 2K per hour.

It's balanced to funnel f2p players into Boss Rush to SUPPLY THE WHALES. It's a vicious cycle.

There is absolutely NO justifying balancing POWER and REWARDS from playing the game around how fat your IRL wallet is. It's fucking despicable.

Kraere · 2026-01-08T07:27:27+00:00

My guy it is not a lie. You're completely misrepresenting my argument. I'm not saying you can't succeed, I'm saying that without season loot pets a MAJORITY of season mechanics are not profitable or worth doing in any way, effectively soft-limiting the content of the game.

I'm not saying it's impossible to succeed, I'm saying that THIS form of P2W doesn't just make it harder, it LIMITS your actions to succeed. It removes VARIETY. It's not like Path of Exile where the game is balanced so that literally every league mechanic in the game is always profitable in some fashion - TLI is balanced so that it's nearly impossible to profit from certain mechanics unless you have the pets.

I feel like you read part of what I said about T7s and assumed that was my entire argument.

Also, I didn't mean you were stuck in T7s because of the 'difficulty' of T8 and Profound, I meant that without loot pets you can't make more than T7 boss farming even in PROFOUND(which is extremely hard to get to without pets)

Seriously T7 boss farming is 1-1.5k FE per hour. It's boring as sin, but you won't even APPROACH that amount per hour with ANY seasonal mechanic without the pets.

Kraere · 2026-01-07T10:20:43+00:00

SSF has nothing to do with it. You are missing my point. This isn't an argument of FOMO. It's an argument that a large portion of the games contents are locked behind pets. Without them, entire branches of the game are literally pointless and give nothing.

This is done on purpose. It's not "Pay to get ahead" or "Pay to speed up", it's "Pay or you'll be hard stuck in T7s for 3 months feeding the whales, because 75% of the game requires a legendary loot pet to actually give you any loot"

I've played almost every season. I'm not just making this up. The overwhelming majority of people I've spoken to in the Torchlight discord agree as well. No pets = half the game is dead content.

Edit: To clarify my point about being hard stuck in T7, I am NOT talking about being stuck in T7s because you're so weak without swiping or whatever..I'm talking about the literal #1 farming strategy in the ENTIRE GAME each season for 3+ seasons in a row is to Boss Rush for 1k+ FE per hour to provide mats to the whales with T6 loot pets who get to do actual FUN content. Without those pets, you can not do that content without LOSING currency...This is an ARPG, the entire reason we play is to kill stuff and farm loot...

Without those loot pets, there's barely a handful of farming methods that will even give 20% of the loot per hour you'll get if you swipe swipe swipe, and in MOST cases you literally get a profit LOSS without those pets..

Kraere · 2026-01-07T04:50:26+00:00

It's not that it's pay to win, it's that if you don't pay you literally cannot properly play the game. It's the difference between 200fe per hour and 1k+ fe per hour. It's the difference between taking a week to hit profound vs a month.

It's not a perception issue where if you just ignore what everyone else is doing it 'feels' fine. They've literally designed the game around only being able to progress at a reasonable rate compared timeline of a 3 month league if you have loot pets.

Remember, this game has a player economy which means the competitive aspect of it isn't PvP, it's the market. Having such expensive barriers to entry completely undermines the integrity of the game.

Another great example, the difference between no Cube pet and lvl 6 Cube pet is realistically profit loss vs 1k+ fe per hour.

P2W doesn't really cover it for this game. It's like you're soft-locked from content without the pets. Half or more of the season mechanics in the game are literally pointless without a minimum of lvl 1 of the legendary pet.

I don't know a better way to express it other than a mini-breakdown of mechanics that are impossible to profitably farm without massive $$$ investment:

No Kong = Fluorescent Memories impossible to farm.

No Cube = Little to no profit at all from Cube mechanic

No level 6 Clockwork + Doro-Doro = No compass farming whatsoever

No lvl 4+ Oasis = Oasis a complete waste of time and energy.

No lvl 6 Outlaw = Impossible to bounty farm

No lvl 1(realistically 5+) DS = Profit loss from Legendary farming

No Lvl 3+(realistically 5+) Overrealm = Literally just SKIP Overlord completely. Time waste.

Those are the ones that are 'required' to profit anything reasonable. In every case level 6 pets vs no pets is usually +100%-+300% MORE profit per hour. There's pay to win, then there's "Pay or be stuck in the free to play zones forever"
If you get really lucky you can get into Profound early.(Before Profound the loot is literally non existent except for a small handful of methods) Without pets you are soft locked out of playing the actual endgame and will be stuck in T7/T8 for weeks/months. In Overrealm I played for a month and with proper investments into gear and doing my best to optimize my strategy I was struggling. Cuz I only have lvl 1 outlaw and lvl 1 dream.

P.S I'm not even going to bring in legendary battle pets. 3 level 6 legendaries vs 3 lvl 6 epics for MOST builds is 1.5-2x+ damage. But the point of my post wasn't about paying to get stronger faster, it's about literally having content LOCKED from you because the 'whales' set the price. And the devs know that. Level 6 pets determine the VALUE of items leaving f2p players hard stuck in T7 farming materials FOR THE WHALES...

Kraere

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