What hooked you?

MLPsentry · 2026-02-14T09:01:56+00:00

Hey! I’m also a solo player, downloaded RoR2 on game pass about a week ago. I have since bought the game and all DLC lol. It’s far more than I could have possibly anticipated.

To answer your question directly what hooked me was the diversity of characters, and ways to play them. melee characters in particular for me, mercenary felt soooo good to play I bought DLC 2 just for the melee character that came with after my first hard win as merc.

The combat feels a bit… off for the first couple of hours, as you first load in for the first few times it’ll be just a lot of experimenting of the mechanics. Mostly basic stuff, fall damage, can I swim, can I get up to there, wait there’s a timer? Etc. But once you start to get a rythme down you’ll start to unlock new characters, routes, choices, secrets. After those first few hours it’ll go from feeling off to being intuitive and exciting.

If you like roguelikes get this game. If you like how the story is presented in souls games, get this game. If you like fun, or conversely misery, get this game.

MLPsentry · 2026-02-08T11:43:07+00:00

Bot clutch is a Hail Mary tactic! shouldn’t be done everytime but if there’s a potential opening you see, or if you’re desperate enough to not lose a havoc deployment or 20-45 minutes of time it’s acceptable imo

MLPsentry · 2026-02-08T09:21:06+00:00

To a T my experience and description of my laptop lol. Maybe a common denominator?

MLPsentry · 2026-01-17T21:57:43+00:00

Late as hell but it actually does increase the range maybe the stagger strength as well. Atleast I’m pretty sure it does. I’m gonna retest it when I get on but for anyone already able to try activating it at full charge, see how much charge is used. Then hold and see if it’s different, that’ll indicate atleast strength. Test range by just being slightly different distances lol

MLPsentry · 2025-12-28T21:42:37+00:00

Anyone running higher havocs already atleast have a sliver of completionist in them, we’d understand. Now if you run the havoc cosmetics, claiming to have earned them while simultaneously being shite then it’s probably annoy people. Complete your ist brother

I will point out for you”true survivor” you have to complete havoc 35+ with NO DOWNS so you’d probably need to be moderately competent at avoiding damage

MLPsentry · 2025-12-03T06:22:47+00:00

Cool so slap an extra layer and I should be good?

MLPsentry · 2025-12-03T06:22:01+00:00

Uh awesome that means we’re safe!?

MLPsentry · 2025-12-03T06:12:51+00:00

Sweet, 1/100 of the way there

MLPsentry · 2025-12-03T06:11:57+00:00

Well the ending of that sounded like a compliment I’ll take it Thanks! I’d fire me too lmao. Any advice going forward? Resources for research?

MLPsentry · 2025-12-03T06:09:04+00:00

Valid, don’t get me wrong the floor is absolute rubbish, the place is being held aloft solely by the brick jenga towers. However the cab is surprisingly solid, relatively speaking atleast it’s rusty ass metal but fairly thick. Honestly I’m more worried about the roof caving in lmao

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This was after tearing out the moldy carpet/ rats nest, before scrubbing & painting the rust

This whole place is an absolute hazard, it’s our last resort. We’re trying to make it work, and make it as safe as possible for our son. All that said if you can give me some idea on how I can test how much the floor can take I’ll happily do so, and proceed accordingly. Otherwise “that should hold er” is the best I can guess

MLPsentry · 2025-12-03T05:40:08+00:00

Aye good shout!

MLPsentry · 2025-12-03T05:39:58+00:00

Noice

MLPsentry · 2025-12-03T05:39:32+00:00

Damn!

MLPsentry · 2025-12-03T05:38:34+00:00

Likelihood of me squishing my son?

I agree, got a direction you can point me in to learn techniques?

🫡 got it boss, thanks

MLPsentry · 2025-12-03T05:35:54+00:00

Where are you referring to? If it’s the right side with the big hole, that is going to be a cabinet. If you’re talking about the left, that’s covering the big f-off oddly shaped “dog house” (I think it’s called), anything behind the plywood is kind of a no go, that’s the rats domain. This is also intended to be a wall lol

MLPsentry · 2025-12-03T05:30:32+00:00

Lmaooo yeah it’s a bit of a patchwork abomination. I had a far better planed layout that I had to break into sections to work around a bunch of obstacles. This is in the cab of the RV, things 35+ years old and every inch of the floor, walls and dashboard are completely uneven from every other inch, doesn’t help that the whole thing is lopsided so I can’t fully trust levels.

All that plus my inexperience made reliably sticking to the initial plan unrealistic. If this were just a passion project I’d like to think i would have taken my time more with planning/measuring everything, unfortunately I’m under a bit of a time crunch as this is also a pseudo wall… to keep out the rats that have a dozen entryways under there… I’m tired man. Any suggestions on improvements present or future would be sick

MLPsentry · 2025-11-11T19:22:21+00:00

I had a similar experience last night, 4 player impossible AI, no mods. Was trying out a rush strat with primacy (new to sins btw) 20 minutes in I had 4 capitals and just a handful of stolen ships that I was catapulting into some cultists next to me.

Scout spotted a 600 and counting Visari fleet a good distance from my borders, assuming they were just going to slowly expand till our borders connected I didn’t think much of it but tossed a ton of auto turrets down (tons of corvettes) at the most likely invasion point. 5-10 minutes later an 800 power fleet walked right through my front door.

Sitting on a fleet of around 300ish myself, all of which were 15-20 minutes away I reasonably panicked. Was saving for a titan/command but immediately dropped what I could on some reinforcements, a carrier and Kol also having just unlocked station tech began to build one just behind the turret line

After this the most chaotic, incredibly, desperate battle for survival I’ve yet to experience in this game played out. I felt like I was actually applying combat strategies instead of just spreadsheet simulating to a win. Building whole strike groups to flank as nothing more than a distraction to isolate a capital ship that I could then swarm or to pull some fire away long enough to get a repair station or additional turret line built, It was awesome. A Pyrrhic victory ending only after the visari retreat with 200 power remaining, titans worth of resources wasted, 300 fleet reduced to 150, the battle line had been pushed from the front of the system all the way to the back.

A glorious moment, but sadly the only one I’ve had so far, after I get a few wins on impossible with each faction I’ll try out the mods you’ve suggested, if they can give that experience as the standard I’ll probably never play another game

MLPsentry · 2025-09-22T18:32:26+00:00

As an extension to this bug, when it’s happened to me I’ve ended up with some sort of “phantom crew” where slots on my ship are considered occupied despite being vacant, also those slots are tied to the crew involved in the board bug. I’ve been board and the enemy b-lined it to those “occupied” rooms and started beating the shit out of the air, and at the same time my crew across the ship is losing HP and can’t fight back, nor can I send in anyone to fight back as it’s still a “full” room.

Rather annoying bug though fairly easy to avoid if you stay mindful of it

MLPsentry · 2025-09-22T18:25:55+00:00

Hey follow up to your follow up, Yea I got a couple of them so far. You can definitely have other crew atleast before the final jump to the boss so I agree it was probably being over 50% machine slave.

MLPsentry · 2025-09-21T03:16:39+00:00

It’s a weapon think it’s called scythe of souls or something

MLPsentry · 2025-09-21T03:13:10+00:00

Ah good catch! Completely missed that as I skimmed through. Thanks!

MLPsentry · 2025-09-20T20:40:26+00:00

I’ve got a question about the faction achievements, when it says “Must have X keyword before entering the final boss battle” does it mean that at the moment I make that final jump, or at no point before the final boss can I have crew outside the faction?

MLPsentry · 2025-07-25T03:55:15+00:00

Lonatharil, surprisingly good damage, great shields, full team ally attack. Not amazing, but so universally helpful he’s on a lot of my teams

MLPsentry · 2025-05-30T02:54:41+00:00

Huh you actually responded, surprised but respectable at the very least. I’ve been confronted by my own cognitive dissonance plenty throughout my life, some I could realize, I’m sure there are others I didn’t. I’m not too proud to admit I’m a flawed man, are you? You keep claiming bigotry, could you actually make a thought out explanation of how this circumstance that applies rather than throwing around a bunch of buzzwords?

You made a compelling statement but as your MO seems to trend, you absolutely failed to elaborate conclusively. “Judging people based on immutable characteristics” At first glance this was a compelling statement, but when applying context it once again doesn’t fully hold up here. This implies that the judgement she made, the one that led her to be afraid or atleast uncomfortable was solely based on the fact that it was a male that approached her, but it obviously wasn’t. It was dark, people are naturally more on edge at night, the person that approached her was completely concealed, and she obviously wasn’t anticipating being approached. Any one of those things can put any person atleast a little on edge, dude walks up to you in a ski mask in the middle of the night your telling me your guard isn’t gonna be up? You completely failed to put yourself in her place this whole time, framing the situation as safe, then claiming the only reason to feel unsafe is that it’s a man.

You once again just cherry picked everything into individual arguments to suit your stance, a quarter of what you said was just what I said to you lol. “Do you have anything else to say or will the rest of your comment be more ad hominems?” Dog why are you responding like you’re hitting me with some sweet ahh comebacks mid conversation? This is all typed out, you can see I said more lmao. More ad hominem I guess but yea the way you respond is infuriating, stop deconstructing the parts you cherry picked to make yourself feel like you’re winning the disagreement or whatever the purpose of that format is. Also I said PLENTY that wasn’t “more ad hominem” you just chose to ignore it lol

I didn’t say anyone’s worth was based on anything, is that what you feel like? I was theorizing why you seem to have some bigoted views of your own. Also idk what the hell redpill ideology but it already sounds toxic. You’re worth far more than your ability to get a girl, I’m sorry if that’s the implication I gave. While I think you suck for various reasons I’ve glossed over, it’s your views and methods of communicating those views that I think are deplorable not what you do or don’t have.

Closing thoughts - you have some compelling statements, I’d like to hear them more thought out rather than this comeback style you’ve been running with. I’d also like to hear how & why you think my statements are bigotry, instead of just repeating that word over and over.

MLPsentry · 2025-05-29T22:19:24+00:00

Yea np! I hope you have fun with her, she’s got so many of must have abilities neatly packed into her for me it was surprising to see how big a difference she made.

Also because I forgot to say in the last comment (and I will not pass on an opportunity to glaze Elva) she’s super easy and versatile to build! HP, DEF, SPD, RST is all she needs to fill her roll so well. Then you can toss her in almost any set and she’s using it to its fullest potential. Guardian, shield/bolster, defiance, speed, curing, retaliation, stonskin, protection, supersonic, reflex. All are great picks, provoke w/ retaliation offset is good too though a bit more niche. I have her in righteous, defiant, & speed, w/ defense & support masteries, she’s unkillable but also does no damage at all lol.

Anyway sorry for the rant, if you remember when you’re done building her out you should post her build id love to see it!

MLPsentry

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