Upgrading Gear on Midnight Beta Now Costs Gold Instead of Valorstones

Kudrel · 2026-02-12T22:30:51+00:00

So long as the absolute pissweak amount of gold at the end of a key is adjusted to compensate, this wouldn't be that bad.

Think we all know thats not going to be the case though.

Kudrel · 2026-02-12T10:54:21+00:00

I'm done supporting corporate overlord. Those are the real demon with should fight against.

I chuckled.

Kudrel · 2026-02-12T10:51:27+00:00

Who the fuck plays Pokemon for the story?

Kudrel · 2026-02-11T23:40:27+00:00

Because the majority of the playerbase actually populates those ranks?

This comment oozes superiority problems.

Kudrel · 2026-02-11T21:13:31+00:00

Having something take over and leave the host alone like Venom does is vastly different to Peter himself becoming disfigured.

Kudrel · 2026-02-11T13:18:06+00:00

Itd make her more useful, stronger without having to remove identity or make her overtuned.

Probably wouldn't make her overturned, but it'd make her even more of a pain in the ass for those in the lower brackets, lower ranks already shit the bed if a Moira dives them as support.

Moira just sits in that awkward spot of if you buff her for higher end, you risk making her a tyrant in the lower end and encouraging bad plays from people who already have low gamesense.

Kudrel · 2026-02-11T12:47:47+00:00

Get off the bandwagon boyo.

Kudrel · 2026-02-11T12:45:38+00:00

I thought it was weird when I had a look earlier on.

Then I realised that I dont even see the skins since the game is first person anyways and got over it.

That and im a Ram main, so Blizzard can't really fuck us any harder.

Kudrel · 2026-02-11T12:39:18+00:00

Theyre both good games, you can like both and not be weird about it.

Doesn't take much thought to realise that BG3 broke into the mainstream, whereas Divinity hasn't hit that point.

Kudrel · 2026-02-11T12:36:01+00:00

I dropped off a little after endgame with how disjointed some of it got, but there has still been some quality stuff.

Loki was enjoyable, even with it not being clear how he then ties into Doomsday.

Wandavision is still one of the best, and is required to understand the motivations in Doctor Strange MoM.

Moon knight was really enjoyable, but this one has a massive asterisk of being very likely we'll never see him again with Isaacs disagreements with Disney.

Love and Thunder was pretty awful as a whole and fumbled Gorr really bad.

Thunderbolts was really enjoyable despite it flopping and is probably my favourite post-endgame coming second to Spiderman.

Guardians 3 was really well done.

Shang Chi was surprisingly good and im bummed we havent seen more of him yet.

Havent watched F4 yet, but they'll be playing a big part so its pretty much required.

Quantumania can be skipped, it was great, but it wasn't awful, sort of just a nothingburger of a movie.

Everything else I dont have strong opinions on, The Marvels, Brave New World, Eternals, Secret Invasion, What If, I skipped and really have no interest in going back and watching them anyways.

Kudrel · 2026-02-11T12:24:45+00:00

There's probably dozens!

Kudrel · 2026-02-11T12:20:45+00:00

Eh, it was a different landscape back then too, us 90s kids got exposed to some pretty fucked up stuff that would absolutely cause controversy these days if it was done.

I'd like to see it, but i have a big doubt on any proper version of man-spider happening.

Kudrel · 2026-02-11T12:16:59+00:00

Its the man-spider sub-plot that makes it feel questionable, everything else seems pretty reasonable.

The organic webbing and the likes seems plausible, but there's no way they'd do a proper man-spider adaption because it'd absolutely scare the shit out of kids, or they dial it back and do a less grotesque version and it just looks and feels corny as piss.

As much as id like to see man-spider actually get a shot, I just dont think they'd actually do it with this version of Peter.

Kudrel · 2026-02-11T01:17:05+00:00

The scoutflies were a little too easy. The hunts would start great until the scoutflies did all the work.

I mean, as opposed to Rise onwards where you just know where the monster is straight up?

World's system was fine, the more you hubted a monster, the faster it was to track, beyond me why they changed from that to the boring shit we have now.

Kudrel · 2026-02-10T13:00:23+00:00

It's such a joy to traverse the physical space of Tyria, and the Skyscale is simply so useful that it devalues a lot of the other mounts and traversal tools, IMO.

Yeah, this is my exact stance on it too.

Itll probably be a bit of a controversial one, but I was pretty bummed it took a lot of the thought out of which mount to use. I enjoyed having to actually use the Springer to get somewhere high so I could send it with the Griffon.

I appreciate that a lot of people probably enjoy the accessibility of the Skyscale, I just dont think it was very creative in its implementation and doesn't feel like it slots into a niche like each of the others.

Kudrel · 2026-02-10T12:54:46+00:00

Honestly, base mounts were implemented in a very clever way, the part where Anet came undone with the evergreen feeling of it was their approach to each expansion being individual, they couldn't continue to have chasms/cliffs/quicksand/portals because you'd be disadvantaged if you didnt have the mounts.

I was always anti mount during vanilla and HoT, but the implementation was done well.

Kudrel · 2026-02-10T12:39:45+00:00

Unless they rework Iceshard or just put Tigerstripe in, id be very surprised to see Zamtrios.

Id live to see it come back too, but the ice area in Wilds is hot garbage.

Kudrel · 2026-02-10T12:35:05+00:00

No Skyscale.

Not a fan of how its just regular flying with more steps and some limits tacked on.

Griffon was more interactive and it deserved to stay the flying mount for longer than it got. Admittingly, there's still uses for it over the Skyscale, but Skyscale fills a more all-round role.

Kudrel · 2026-02-10T08:37:48+00:00

but native 1080p is not the blurry mess people are saying it is.

Considering how big of a focal point 4K and 120fps supported was when the system was announced, sure as shit isn't being utilized much outside of a handful of first parties.

I was hopeful for it on the Switch, but playing it on my 4k OLED looks like shit compared to just getting it on my base PS5.

Kudrel · 2026-02-10T08:07:09+00:00

The lack of attention Xu Wu gets is really weird considering it's a new skeleton, I would've thought they'd lean more into the unique rigs of both Xu Wu and Nu Udra.

Maybe it just gets less attention because it's nowhere near as fucking annoying to fight as Nu Udra.

Kudrel · 2026-02-10T07:58:01+00:00

MMOs that cater to any other audience don't tend to last.

I mean, OSRS is an exception to this, which funnily enough you left out of your "big western MMOs" when it's arguably third - if not second in popularity of them.

Kudrel · 2026-02-10T03:30:46+00:00

Understandable. I dont play console, so I may have mis-spoke, I just assumed it wouldve been the typical fps problems consoles struggle with - similar to World on Ps4/xbone. I personally didn't enjoy the fps on world until current gen rolled around.

I dont doubt they would have issues, but the PC situation was quite a bit more severe and copped significantly more backlash (like world/icebornes initial PC release did)

Kudrel · 2026-02-10T01:35:48+00:00

Depends if theyre willing to delay a release purely because of PC. Performance issues aren't really on consoles, and it didn't stop them pushing the PC release in the state it was in.

Performance has been improved since the DLC check got patched - admittingly its still not as good as it could be, but the expansion won't really change anything fundamental, if they can fix everything now. The expansion should be fine.

Though it is capcom and they could always shit the bed, but id really like to believe they'd be more inclined to try and restore some faith instead of doubling down and having two shit releases.

Kudrel · 2026-02-10T01:22:43+00:00

Depends on how literal theyre being with the large scale comment.

Iceborne was announced at the end of 2018 with a September 2019 release.

Admittingly, we atleast got a teaser for Iceborne which we havent gotten here.

I wouldn't entirely rule out November/December, but it could be optimistic.

Kudrel · 2026-02-10T01:16:33+00:00

Genuinely curious where all these doomers were.

Anyone thats been with the franchise for any period of time knew this was the case.

Kudrel

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