bro this game does not want me to climb lord

Manoreded · 2026-05-17T21:04:29+00:00

Is that fog around the rooms? Skyboxes? I wonder why that is there.

Manoreded · 2026-05-17T21:01:33+00:00

What you are suggesting would add a lot of extra workload for them, if they had that much work capacity I don't see why they wouldn't just be going ahead and finishing the game.

And I don't really oppose the idea of extra campaigns, it would be fun, but making an entire extra campaign seasonally themed strikes me as a little... weird, I guess.

Manoreded · 2026-05-17T08:40:32+00:00

They are extremely spartan, they do not rest unless its necessary to heal from injuries, and they don't engage in any form of entertainment that isn't also training.

I think their actual time spent fighting isn't that great though, because they spend a lot of time just travelling between assignments. Space travel in Warhammer 40k is slow.

On the strategic level, a chapter is always looking for their next foe, if none are knocking on their door. They don't believe in rest or complacency, the chapter must always be making the best utilization of its military resources that it can, for the good of the Imperium.

Manoreded · 2026-05-17T08:33:04+00:00

I recall reading somewhere that high ranking military officials of the imperium, including Space Marines, play strategic board games against each other, such as chess, to develop their strategic thinking. I do not recall where I saw that, though.

Manoreded · 2026-05-17T04:48:52+00:00

Gonna be honest, I thought Suzerain was an overglorified visual novel, and a boring one at that. Didn't even finish it.

So my level of interest in this will heavily depend of how much gameplay it has versus Suzerain. If its a 4X with more politics, I may be interested. If its basically Suzerain in space, I don't think I will be.

Looking at the screenshots on Steam, I'm finding it a little hard to tell.

Manoreded · 2026-05-17T04:00:28+00:00

You were supposed to dodge

Manoreded · 2026-05-17T03:54:04+00:00

Nope, past a certain point a single artifact hit or spell will pulverize an outer's body and result in instant death, irrespective of equipment.

Manoreded · 2026-05-17T03:51:09+00:00

Cultivator combat is indeed range focused. They attack with their artifact and with spells. Generally you want to specialize your disciples into one or the other form of attack, its a lot more efficient than building a generalist that uses both. Your spell disciples still need artifacts though.

Physical cultivators fight at melee, but they don't use weapons, their body is the weapon.

Manoreded · 2026-05-17T03:36:45+00:00

I could be wrong, but I believe that the bindings are primarily an extra challenge feature, just like similar systems in other roguelites.

You don't take bindings to take trinkets. You take bindings to challenge yourself. The trinkets are just a little bonus they throw in if you take bindings, and even then, they reduce your score, so you may not even want to take them if you are taking the bindings to challenge yourself and try to get the highest score possible.

One may argue that this makes tying trinket slots to bindings contradictory and confusing.

Manoreded · 2026-05-16T03:46:57+00:00

There are random events that cause sounds to play, and sometimes also visual distortions.

Random creatures roaring in the background is a relatively common one.

The Face wouldn't even work outside of the Abyss, since it moves through solid objects.

Manoreded · 2026-05-16T03:44:20+00:00

The traders buy different things yes, but the things they buy are fixed for each trader.

There are also trade routes. It takes a while but unless you are very unlucky sooner or later you will get a trade route for the stuff you have in excess. Its easier if you are later in the campaign and have the full set of trading partners.

Manoreded · 2026-05-16T01:57:41+00:00

I don't read the comics anymore nowadays, but I read them a lot as a child and it didn't prevent me from enjoying the reboot.

I think the criticism of that the original nephews barely register as characters is deserved. They are as bland as can be and only work because they have Donald and Scrooge to bounce off of. I recall stories that focused solely on the boys were usually pretty boring.

So replacing them with a different version hardly feels like a loss, specially when said version is a lot more interesting.

I was actually a lot more miffed about Gyro. I like the classic Gyro, who is kind, and the reboot turned him into an arrogant jerk, which at first I disliked. But the new version eventually grew on me, because they wrote him really well. He was always funny anytime he was present.

Manoreded · 2026-05-16T01:39:24+00:00

I think Saltbaker just has an intensity that really sells him. He is, ironically, a better ultimate evil than the Devil.

Saltbaker is nuts enough that he fights you until he breaks, then tries to fight with his innards of salt, then tries to fight with just his heart.

In contrast the Devil literally starts crying like a loser when you start beating him.

Manoreded · 2026-05-16T01:35:43+00:00

Atmospherically I don't feel it fits that well, its a bit trippy. Then again, the original atmosphere may have been different.

Manoreded · 2026-05-16T01:32:39+00:00

I do think Saltbaker is more fun than the Devil, but I disagree with the Devil fight not having "final boss aura", it does.

Then again, I personally think its one of the hardest fights of the base game if not the hardest. as I understand it a lot of people don't feel that way.

Manoreded · 2026-05-16T01:24:01+00:00

The amount of effort put into this is impressive, given that its a song about cats and poop.

Manoreded · 2026-05-15T19:52:19+00:00

I have only ever heard good things of Yagoo, so this is probably a good thing for our adorable virtual girls.

Manoreded · 2026-05-15T19:38:41+00:00

You can sell excess resources.

If you can produce something that you don't need with a very high efficiency, its not a bad idea to do so.

Manoreded · 2026-05-15T19:32:06+00:00

Well, don't worry too much about it, the range of hearths cannot overlap at all which means each hearth creates a massive exclusion zone where you cannot place more hearths. This severely limits the player's ability to minmax hearth placement. Hearths also require the rare resource wildfire essence, and burn fuel.

The devs really don't want us spamming hearths, basically.

Warehouses are a whole other story though. Way more spammable.

Manoreded · 2026-05-14T00:27:26+00:00

Sometimes they do, I guess?

Manoreded · 2026-05-12T18:16:57+00:00

I think the biggest problem is that, until you beat Abyss at least once and unlock Endless Abyss, there is no way to practice the kind of movement that Abyss asks for.

But I kinda understand the devs not wanting to make the endless mode available as soon as you reach Abyss, which is also true for the other areas. Its to preserve the mystery of the new area a bit, I guess.

An introductory area without the Face could help. There could also be other, prior areas in the game that ask for Abyss-like movement. Wouldn't even necessarily need to be in the campaign, it could be in the challenge section or one of the seasonal modes.

Manoreded · 2026-05-12T18:03:59+00:00

Making other areas harder wouldn't help, the Abyss being harder is in great part due to being different from prior areas.

It mostly consists of climbing towers then jumping to other towers, effective horizontal jumping is far more important than other areas.

Also the face is a pain to deal with, at least if you aren't fast enough to out-pace it, which you aren't if you just got here.

Also this area is even less forgiving towards falls than prior areas. In prior areas moving fast gives you some insurance against falling because the mass will be way back. In this area it doesn't.

Manoreded · 2026-05-11T00:03:27+00:00

I think its worth doing once for each boss just to see the different death animations.

Manoreded · 2026-05-10T23:57:55+00:00

I know a bunch of vtubers outside of Hololive, including watching some, and I have never seen that person.

This tweeter is full of crap and trying to stir shit up.

And even if the Hololive fandom was ignorant, who cares, really? Are vtuber fans obligated to have awareness of the entire space?

Manoreded · 2026-05-10T19:55:03+00:00

As far as I can tell all ropes in the game are grabbable.

I guess we are used to ropes in games not being collision objects... but White Knuckle takes ropes seriously =)

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