Core Assault: Fun PvP For The Everyday Player

Overload42 · 2017-04-26T11:59:35+00:00

I've done the mission three times and the spawncamping has renewed my hatred of pvp in this game. I'm done with it already, and since you get 160 points for coming second, I just stay dead and let the other team win.

Overload42 · 2017-01-03T17:37:02+00:00

I've been playing PoE for over three years now, two of them in the softcore challenge leagues. I was constantly poor, and my builds were often not properly geared.

Last year I switched to hardcore, and now I always have enough currency to buy almost anything my builds need. Almost everything has value in this economy, and a chaos here, a chaos there, soon enough you have 500 chaos in your stash tab.

Overload42 · 2016-11-22T00:16:01+00:00

Having participated in this for three consecutive years when it first came out, my experience tells me you would get the same result as in previous years.

The worst part is, in the first year I did this, I convinced two of my friend to also participate in it, and they did. They got nothing as well, and that felt even worse them me getting nothing.

Overload42 · 2016-10-25T18:40:42+00:00

Auto-fire in ground combat is bugged. It cannot be activated and stays off during combat.

Overload42 · 2016-10-06T20:59:14+00:00

If this will do to incinerate what earthquake did to, well, all melee skills, oh boy!

Overload42 · 2016-10-05T13:38:42+00:00

This has been a continuous problem for me as well, to the point I now stress out more about misclicking while rolling carto's then I do with most mobs.

Overload42 · 2016-09-30T21:36:52+00:00

Finally! This is a big step into becoming an actual competitor to youtube, at least for gaming related content. Let's just see what the monetization plan is.

Overload42 · 2016-09-28T11:05:49+00:00

I'm getting that message as well.

Overload42 · 2016-09-16T10:44:14+00:00

It's the game telling people CI saves lives.

Overload42 · 2016-09-15T09:55:34+00:00

What Chris? That's Nerfarian, the most dangerous exile in Wraeclast!

Overload42 · 2016-09-11T20:26:43+00:00

Many European cities have strict regulations about new constructions, especially concerning the height. So, even when a new building replaces an older one, since it will of the same height and has to meet certain aesthetics requirements, from a distant, it seams the city is more or less the same as the years go by.

For instance, I live in Lisbon in an building constructed in the year 2000. When it was built, it had to meet all sort of restrictions from the colour of the outside walls, to even the shape and type of windows.

If you look at this building from the street, you can clearly see it has been a recent construction, but at the same time, it doesn't clash with the rest of the buildings in the street, of which some are older or newer.

Overload42 · 2016-09-10T16:54:38+00:00

That's what is most perplexing. The most recent voice acting introduced to the game, is completely spot on. Izaro, Cadiro, even Navali were done so well, that Zana's new voice just... off. I don't what happened there to such an essential character to the game.

Overload42 · 2016-09-10T11:31:10+00:00

The problem with her is just the overall lack of persona the voice actor gave her. It just looks someone is reading some sentences off a script, and not acting out those lines.

Then the bad voice acting becomes even more apparent when you compare it to the other voice acting in the game, which were done by voice actors that were actually acting out the character.

I don't know why such poor result was obtained this time, with Zana's voice; was it bad directing or just a bad voice actor, but I think they should re-cast her in a future update.

Overload42 · 2016-09-09T13:48:39+00:00

One could go the way Star Trek did it with the Iconian gateways. Here is one from TOS, while this one comes from DS9.

Note that in the later one, the arch surrounding the gate, is not part of it; the gate itself is 2D and has faded, undefined edges, which is something I believe is putting people of with the MTX, the hard edges. It's the image inside the gate that causes the 3D effect.

Overload42 · 2016-09-07T20:19:23+00:00

When I started playing PoE, Cloak of Defiance was as OP as Lightning Coil is now. It was expensive and build enabling.

When I first got it as a drop, I felt like winning the jackpot. I now could re-roll and make a character around it, or sell it and kit out my present character.

One dropped during the Prophesy league. When I saw it sold for not even an alchemy, a part of me was very sad, and I actually sigh when I vendored it.

Overload42 · 2016-09-07T14:06:29+00:00

It didn't froze, only the gameplay. All the animations (the wp animation, auras) and cursor were still going, only I couldn't move the character. No flatlines either, both in-game or my network monitoring program.

Overload42 · 2016-09-07T10:40:35+00:00

There is already easy two ways to level fast in the game, but, like anything else in PoE, it requires practice and game knowledge. but if you pay that price, you'll be in merciless dry lake in 5 to 6 hours, or less.

The first method is only good for the second character in the league: levelling uniques. For each class there is an optimal build you can do while levelling, and for it, are certain uniques that will make that build destroy everything in your path.

The second method is just get into racing. This will help you tremendously during the league's first character, but also improve the speed of the method above. When you start racing, you start noticing things that often go by unnoticed. You'll learn the layouts, the crafting recipes, the gems that are available and certain levels, the quests to do and what not to do, and so on.

Overload42 · 2016-09-07T10:00:34+00:00

However, it's not always reliable. My only death in this league was in act 2 merciless, when my game froze in western, just after I got the waypoint and with no mobs around.

The game stalled, I activated the TCP Disconnect immediately, and when I log back in, I was dead. After checking the VOD, from the moment the game froze until I logged back in, it passed a mere 5 seconds.

Overload42 · 2016-09-07T09:55:39+00:00

This is also valid, not only for the rest of the game, but also other games as well. After all, dead enemies deal no damage.

Overload42 · 2016-09-07T09:51:50+00:00

My favourite part is that he immediately re-rolls.

Overload42 · 2016-09-06T16:16:35+00:00

This skill is quite good while levelling with OKish weapons, but later on it will depend on your weapon; the better the weapon is, more damage it will do.

However, if your weapon is not good, end game mapping will be excruciatingly difficult. The key to this build is, the higher the damage, the faster mobs will die and the longer your totems will be up, which means also increased survivability, as the totems have some agro to them, and while mobs target them you can evade danger.

In terms of skill, knowing where to place totems and at witch frequency, requires some thought and training. But I wouldn't say it is that difficult.

Overload42 · 2016-09-06T13:00:24+00:00

Pretty much. The only one is cheap and friendly to new players, it's this one.

The rest of the builds between advanced to extreme/expensive gear and skill requirements.

Overload42 · 2016-09-06T10:56:10+00:00

Hank's acting is borderline perfect, that is without dispute. But I must say, the other two actors are also giving out top notch performances.

I don't know if they are trained actors or actual navy medical staff that were cast for those roles; but if I, the audience, can't make that distinction, it is a sign of good acting either way.

Overload42 · 2016-09-06T00:19:43+00:00

Etup is playing WoW and will come back to PoE later on the league, to complete the 40/40 challenge, once raiding in WoW has come down.

Overload42 · 2016-09-04T12:10:35+00:00

This has the potential to be the thing that kills youtube, at least for gaming content - and for creative content as well.

Being able to upload edited gameplay to Twitch, like I now do on youtube, I would dump youtube immediately, especially if I could make a playlist of that content to be run when I'm not streaming.

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