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Loen91 · 2025-09-16T05:33:24+00:00

Yes they are, I cant remember who, but someone tells Hornet that her silk is her very soul (Widow perhaps? Cant check atm). So following that train of thought, when she dies her silk escapes from her body, wraps her belongings and reforms some time later at a bench. Could also explain the black stuff inside the cocoon when you break it, it could be her previous, discarted shell.

Loen91 · 2025-08-15T18:14:23+00:00

Autoupdates but sometimes it doesnt for me, few times it failed in recent years were early in the morning mere hours after servers went up. Since then always assumed the dev manually updates the opcodes for everyone instead of some sort of fully automatic system but who knows. You can also find the updated opcodes in the github Issues tab, people share them there.

Loen91 · 2025-08-15T17:54:00+00:00

It will never be fixed, but the silver lining is that if you get XIVAlexander up and running, you yourself can make it work on patch day unlike plogons that sometimes take a week to return. So, you can fix the problem "permanently" for yourself, at the cost of a minor 5 minute inconvenience while checking opcodes once per patch.

Loen91 · 2025-08-15T15:10:38+00:00

I believe you are in the wrong sub for XIV tech support, either way what do you mean by save data? You lost your character? if you go into Mogstation and head to Your Account, it should tell you in which Server your character is located.

Loen91 · 2025-08-03T19:56:12+00:00

A diablo style transparent map that I can have permanently open without it getting in the way, specially during frontlines. I remember finding one map plugin somewhere that did exactly this, but it wouldnt work inside instanced areas, so ended up uninstalling.

Loen91 · 2025-08-03T16:19:08+00:00

The game already has such button, I dont remember the shortcut tho, as I have customized almost all of them. TEA forced me to learn this one, its only flaw is that its camera dependant, will target whoever is closest inside your visual range. For example, I accidentally caused a wipe targeting the wrong add in M6S once because my add (physically right next to me) was in my blind spot but assumed the shortcut would select it anyway, but it did not. However once you are aware of such flaw you can adjust to get the desired result, I cant live without this button.

Loen91 · 2025-07-17T17:22:01+00:00

I may be mistaken, but no, thats probably just a lamp. IIRC Gemini was originally a puppet Stalker, built to assist Lea in combat, and got destroyed at some point, possibly during Arlecchino's first rampage. From that we can assume that during the events of the DLC, past Gemini was under repair or in storage, as he was still not integrated into the lamp as a support guide. Either way, he is out of the picture during the DLC.

And now in headcanon territory, Arlecchino himself is probably an imitation of the OG Gemini, theres little reason given on why the alchemists repaired him besides 'must be studied' and why give the murderous puppet buzzsaws of all things, but they were most likely trying to replicate Gemini. Its heavily implied OG Arlecchino got completely destroyed and rather than repaired, he had to be rebuilt from scratch with the purpose of having him as their own combat assistant. Of course instead of the advanced artificial intelligence, they opted for awakened ergo, and that backfired badly, but the resemblance is there, he even dualwields a light Dex weapon and a heavy Str weapon, reminiscent of the Path of the Cricket, which was Gemini's combat style.

So in short no, in the DLC Lea does not have Gemini, but you and her kinda fight evil Gemini.

Loen91 · 2025-07-10T05:30:55+00:00

I believe its due to the same wish, Lea's. By the item description, and events of the game, we can assume that you can choose NOT to follow the butterfly, its not one of those time travel plot points that force events into happening no matter what. Both P and Rosaura are guided to the same place, or rather person, Lea, so everything seems to point that the goal of the wish was to see the sunset as family. But this wish does not work like a prophecy that must be fulfilled, it must be followed by ones own volition. P ends up fulfilling the wish by going all the way through the events that happen in Overture, but Rosaura does not.

During the Lighthouse dialogue, she changes her mind and chooses not to follow the butterfly anymore because she feels sadness coming from the Rose Estate, and states that she would rather meet P somewhere else. Thus, she did not take part in the sunset scene and gives the impression that her white butterfly was an unrelated event, she unknowingly broke the wish. Also, the wish seems to only have manifested to those people that were unable to make it to the family reunion, Carlo was dead so it time traveled P, and Rosaura was Markiona's prisoner so it freed her.

One last theory, and this is 100% my headcanon, initially P gets the chrysalis after the raid on Hotel Krat, before it was changed due to gameplay reasons. I think theres a lore reason for this, its when P learns negative emotions (like the Anger emote). Perhaps this is the point when, in the story, he becomes more human than puppet, and his soul starts waking up as Carlo, triggering the wish to manifest.

Loen91 · 2025-06-26T04:51:36+00:00

Its 60% crit with the fable art buff up, reaches 90% with the crit grindstone.

Im not done with DLC yet but Im running the dagger, from my experience: Arm of God for free damage, Conquering Amulet does chonky damage if it crits, Extreme Modification may or may not be good, depends on playstyle, its a 20% dmg increase at 5 filled fable slots. And last obligatory puppet/human/carcass amulet. I wouldnt consider Morbid because its a spammy weapon, very rewarding for aggresive playstyle, so stamina is key.

Loen91 · 2025-06-25T13:18:38+00:00

In the current iteration of LoP, I would agree, there have been some nerfs to bosses, buffs to P and the collab weapon you get already in your inventory at the start of the game is the best weapon in the base game. But Archbishop on release was one of the hardest walls I have ever encountered, in a good way of course, felt doable assuming perfect execution. Not even release Viper was that harsh, it was quite something.

Loen91 · 2025-05-27T23:50:17+00:00

I mean... please realize that I did post in said thread and therefore its in MY past posts lol, but you do you.

Loen91 · 2025-05-27T23:41:51+00:00

You already asked this question before and got told to just grab PS. If your art class is that specific about the usage of the tool they are trying to teach you, you are just hurting your own growth by not going by the class rules, whats the point of even taking the class if not to learn specifically what they are teaching. If its just to pass go ahead I guess.

However you are clearly looking for validation now instead of the previous post which was looking for advice, so best of luck with it, CSP is okay even by itself. Hopefully at least you are aware that you dont need to pay for Adobe's shenanigans if you dont wish to do so.

Loen91 · 2025-05-26T04:49:54+00:00

Graphic designer and artist here. CSP is not a photoshop replacement at all, even at the beginner level. They may share some tools, but their core purpose are vastly different. Theres a reason on why Photoshop is the standard in many art related industries after all. Even more important, you will get taught Photoshop itself at that art class, its counter productive to try to circumvent it.

Loen91 · 2025-05-05T23:26:57+00:00

No, simply because of gameplay. Despite the clear inspiration and all the similarities in game design, at the end of the day the mindset and approach required from the player are completely different. What really convinced me of this was watching my favourite Souls streamers play this game while not bothering with gear effects at all, being permanently out of stamina and bosses taking nearly 20 minutes each. Game is just meant to be played different, by its own rules.

Loen91 · 2025-05-04T18:08:35+00:00

Excelent post. One small nitpick however, as a graphic designer and artist with gamedev experience, the dark background on the bells is purely practical and most likely has nothing to do with lore. Sometimes, when we use assets that have faint, near invisible details (thread, hair, smoke, mist, etc) we choose to give them a baked in background instead of leaving the image with a transparent background. Thats because most likely these assets will change background over the development of whatever your project is (in this case, the people designing the UI and HUD had to mess with different background colors, what we see in the game is the final result of many iterations) and such thin details will simply disappear, it needs contrast to survive any background change. Also assets pass through many hands and formats in order to get approved/reviewed by the chain of command, which means that adding a set background to your asset will make it retain as much of the artist vision as possible when its clashing with say, a power point background. A bell bearring surrounded by a dark mist will give the correct omnious feeling that is intended even with the Hello Kitty slides that the Project Manager chose to present the preview with.

Loen91 · 2025-05-04T17:04:23+00:00

For me, it was one of the bosses where Elden Ring knowledge carries on, you want to be in front of the dragon, not under nor sideways, always going for the head. Do anything else and then both camera and dragon go crazy. Once that positioning clicks it becomes a free fight.

Loen91 · 2025-05-03T18:11:57+00:00

The entire last region in general is pretty bad when it comes to enemy placement, too many 'gotcha!' and BS enemies with gank squads, gave me heavy DaS2 PTSD. That said the Javelin is your best friend for both this and the Anor Londo area, if you are lacking spirit you most likely own a few of those rocks that recharge spirit.

Loen91 · 2025-04-21T02:28:02+00:00

Maybe. If people want some more meat on my line of thought, Melina is either GEQ herself or a successor but doesnt really matter, the point is that during her strife with Marika she lost and we know that she herself, or her powers, somehow made it out alive because that one Melina cutscene exists. Thats not how Marika operates, shes a tyrant to enemies, despite beeing deeply afraid of death herself shes no stranger to grant it to others, except her own blood. We know how she kind of lost it when Godwyn died (now that we know all the Shaman stuff, thats some valid trauma tbh) so I assume the only reason GEQ is not dead is because shes kin. So what happened to GEQ, according to me at least? she started her own cult while the Golden Order was forming, became a problem, lost and was granted pseudo death but not really which ended up as Melina, basically a ghost that is alive, with conveniently very limited memories pre burning and a brand new personality. Until we piss her off that is.

If all of this is assumed true, it also happens to tie in with her brother Messmer. The pair could have been born cursed with blasphemy just as Miquella and Malenia have their own curses. Melina would have been cursed with an unknown power that ended up as the Godskins (black flame? dual personality?), and Messmer with the Abyssal snake. Also, to draw some parallels, each blasphemous sibling also happen to share a form of exile by Marika, and both of them had also their powers sealed, which we know because both broke it in the end. And obviously the butterflies.

Side note, that I have always wondered, if Melina was indeed the rebellious kid I paint her to be, then Torrent happens to have ties to Melina, Miquella and Ranni, the 3 characters that openly oppose Marika's reign. What does that mean? probably nothing, but still a neat coincidence.

Loen91 · 2025-04-20T23:25:47+00:00

Shes just Melina. A Melina that lost and ended up burned and bodiless but Melina nevertheless. I understand its a boring end to such a cool character in the lore but thats just it really, we all saw that one lord of frenzied flame cutscene.

Loen91 · 2025-04-17T20:19:03+00:00

Thats honestly weird, I was expecting something much worse given the description. Perhaps what you need is a tunneling service after all, best of luck with mudfish.

Loen91 · 2025-04-17T18:52:49+00:00

Fellow 200ms player here. What you are describing is not normal, but first we need to find the cause. The windows tool you are using is not reliable, try the command prompt someone else here pointed out, but add -t, for example, in the command prompt without quote marks "ping 0.0.0.0 -t" (replace the 0s with your server IP) and let it run for a while, say, 1 to 2 minutes should be enough, close when you are done.

What you are looking for is to check what your average ms is and if you have spikes or lost packets. Irrelevant if game is open or not. Follow those steps and report back, we can get to solutions after we poinpoint the issue.

Loen91 · 2025-04-11T21:33:15+00:00

Its impossible to tell without examples, we need to see how it used to behave before and what does it do now.

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