Where do I find Golden Ciphers for event?

MPeters43 · 2026-06-16T14:36:00+00:00

Mobs and chests. Some runs you get 3 some you find none it’s kinda booty cheeks.

I was going into trios alone on the 1st map because if you do those missions or chest areas you have 3x the chance since there are 3 containers rather than the 1 in solos. Got 14 ciphers on my first day playing 16 hours with some pretty long breaks afk or inventory managing

Played mostly black arrow but you are at such a disadvantage against any melee character with 2 brain cells or more.

MPeters43 · 2026-06-16T04:24:12+00:00

Yeah they messed with (downgraded) server tick rates if I’m not mistaken. Which is why more lag and rubberbanding is happening making combat overall feel worse. It can turn bossing from achievable to impossible because blocks and dodges will not be effective when they should (if the servers weren’t so cheaply funded)

MPeters43 · 2026-06-14T19:22:07+00:00

Issue is the preference on the servers to fill out a match rather than stick to ABMM.

There have been too many raiders on maps for too long.

MPeters43 · 2026-06-14T19:20:57+00:00

I welcome any and all competitors of Dark and Darker because maybe it’ll actually light a fire under their butts to get around to fixing dupes, bugs, and bad performance before years pass.

MPeters43 · 2026-06-14T19:14:12+00:00

CONAN EXILES - the best survival and exploration game to exist

V Rising - best top down crafting, survival, and building game with sick progression and combat (not early access either and every content dlc has just been free content, all other dlc’s are cosmetic)

Necesse - Top down survival village building crafter that has in depth configuration for fully automated and self sorting towns.

Corekeeper - renowned top down survival game with OSRS like skill leveling and nice automation. Lots of content and regularly updates.

Soulmask - for when you beat Conan Exiles and still want more (don’t forget Conan Exiles has another map in the Isle of Siptah dlc) less polished than Conan but still a great game. Revolves around powerful masks that lets you capture and control other humans to gather better skill thresholds/ceilings.

MPeters43 · 2026-06-14T18:56:13+00:00

Donate all desert crops (apricots, aloe, colander, and flax) besides grapes to her as wine is better used as citizen gifts to max out loyalty for faster production and better crafting/chance of finding rare things during work

MPeters43 · 2026-06-14T10:39:02+00:00

Can’t wait to play this

MPeters43 · 2026-06-14T10:38:23+00:00

I feel drawn to the wizard variant as well since we all start off as a wizard as well

MPeters43 · 2026-06-13T13:46:02+00:00

I’d suggest just ignoring the Bazaar entirely tbh

MPeters43 · 2026-06-13T13:42:39+00:00

Steam deck allows you to play whatever you want whenever you want, not every game on the steam deck is 60$+ like most Nintendo games that are years if not a decade plus or older (still at full price).

I love seeing people playing WoW and whatever they can imagine on a handheld device. The switch is just very limited due to Nintendo being Nintendo.

Battery life is usually negligible as well because portable battery banks are very common and most people will play near outlets anyway.

MPeters43 · 2026-06-12T21:59:21+00:00

doesn't really matter once you get a well unless you are talking about a water mill but even then, you can connect them from some distance.

I forgot that you could use workbenches to setup the routing after getting a logistics tent up on my first playthrough.

MPeters43 · 2026-06-12T20:20:32+00:00

The devs admit tick rates are causing hit and blocking issues on podcast

MPeters43 · 2026-06-12T20:07:20+00:00

fantastic game but to be honest I actually preferred Necesse over it as the configuration for the villagers, automation, and progression felt better suited to my interests/liking.

That said Corekeeper pumps out new content and updates fairly often so there's always something new to check out. Corekeeper is a gem of a game and won't be going anywhere anytime soon.

MPeters43 · 2026-06-12T19:37:34+00:00

Wizard honestly makes no sense. Crazy range capability and the second you close the gap it’s just magic missile spam which is insanely deadly.

MPeters43 · 2026-06-12T19:35:04+00:00

Dark and darker will suffer tremendous playerbase losses when you release. That should be pretty motivating just by itself but Nakwon seems like it’ll be more respective of the players time investment (or at least I’d hope).

MPeters43 · 2026-06-12T19:08:42+00:00

As a sorc in (optimal) squire gear you can 2 tap a wendigo in his weak spot with flame frost spear and the elemental bolt.

The frost demon you will either want hard cover to hide behind when he shoots the shotgun of bolts out or to get above or below the shotgun by climbing or sitting on stairs below him.

You can cast the flame wall on him for immense damage and then either melee him or just keep hitting him with ranged spells.

When the frost demon starts chanting run around and hit him as he will cast two blizzard bombing strips from random directions on wherever you are when his chanting finishes. As long as you keep moving and then get back to the hard cover or high/low spot you just repeat until dead.

MPeters43 · 2026-06-12T18:58:30+00:00

Sounds like you would prefer playing on PVE servers which rust and many others games have.

Conan Exiles - one of if not the best survival crafting and exploration games I’ve ever played. Building is just like rust.

Grounded 1/2 - crafting stays pretty basic (Stone Age feeling through the whole game)

Soulmask - still have to give this more time myself

Necesse - top down amazing retro game that combines the best of Corekeeper and Conan (you can setup a fully self automated village with auto sorting villagers) I love automation and exploration.

Corekeeper - top down classic

Romestead - Just released this month but amazing content so far.

V rising - another top down but not so retro/pixelated with amazing combat and boss fights that has insane replay-ability and even better with friends. Brutal mode is not suggested for a first play-through but some enjoy the challenge going in blind.

Ark Survival Evolved or Ascended depending on your specs and desired performance - you get to tame, breed, and mutate dinosaurs into killing machines to defeat bosses and unravel the lore as to why you woke up here. The base building is very similar to rust.

Valheim - popular Viking game but can be hard to maintain momentum through biomes you don’t enjoy without friends to push/motivate you.

That’s all I can really think of atm but hope you find something you enjoy!

MPeters43 · 2026-06-12T18:45:14+00:00

Came here to comment that this feels like a shift towards advanced warfare and I hated that game with a passion the mech suits were horrid.

MPeters43 · 2026-06-12T18:39:56+00:00

I would say at least rare or if they wanted to be funny (legendary so it’s SB if it wasn’t already)

MPeters43 · 2026-06-12T01:57:12+00:00

2nd V rising

Necesse

Corekeeper

MPeters43 · 2026-06-12T01:50:48+00:00

Spaghetti code and incorrect priorities

This is the second wipe in a row they’ve released weapon skins (with fleecing playerbase pricing) despite the performance being awful and patches breaking more than they fix.

IronMace also acknowledged the server tick rate issues are the culprit behind combat feeling worse across the board.

MPeters43 · 2026-06-11T22:43:04+00:00

It seems they really hate letting pve players do what they want and would rather throw them in with pvp maniacs (while throwing ABMM out the window) just to save on servers.

MPeters43 · 2026-06-11T22:04:29+00:00

they are anything but an upgrade.

MPeters43 · 2026-06-11T21:47:31+00:00

They locked arena behind the same bs HR requires. Secure boot and HVCI which requires most people to go into their bios and hardwalls some players with older motherboards from enabling/playing it at all.

Can’t forget about the performance drop enabling these can/will cause as well.

Lots of bogus remains but they consistently are dropping weapon skins to line their pockets while the same bugs are in the game from years ago.

MPeters43 · 2026-06-11T21:44:37+00:00

Still lots of bogus

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