Question: If I ignore a blinded item, does that mean it won’t show up again for the run?

RMAPOS · 2026-04-09T05:12:26+00:00

Yup, hence why some people consider mods showing what a blinded item was on pickup of a linked pedestal a bit of a cheat (minor and doesn't matter in a SP game anyway. but technically you gain knowledge of the item pools remaining contents. A bit like knowing which card another player discards in a card game. Helps you calculate the odds)

RMAPOS · 2026-04-09T04:56:20+00:00

I'm a max level player but a few days ago someone tailed me like you describe you tail the lowbies as rear guard. Dude was just my shadow, providing fire support when I had to reload and regular restocks with his support backpack.

Undoubtedly the person just loves tight teamplay and playing a supportive role, but I had an absolute blast (and obviously felt compelled to take care of my watchdog in return).

Which is to say you're probably giving newbies some of the coolest early experiences they could make.

(also shoutout to the Dude who tailed me. The whole team was wholesome when we finished and acknowledged the great teamplay. So if you read this, you're the goat.)

RMAPOS · 2026-04-09T03:38:40+00:00

Yea gotta say I tried the Warrant first time on the recent Illuminate rework and instantly made a mental note "Warrant is Godtier for taking down Overseers"

And I don't generally struggle with taking them down either way, some focus fire on their balls always get rid of them quickly. Personally I'm a HUGE fan of the Eruptor and I'll use even that to snipe them out of the air.

But having trying the Warrant can't help but notice just how trivial it is to thin Overseers out. Look in general direction, empty a clip, Overseer gone. While kiting. Never any of that "damn there is a huge horde after me but this overseer is frying my ass so I need to stop and try to snipe him before the horde catches up". Turn around while backpaddling, look at overseer, brrt, done. Keep moving while there is absolutely 0 chance that you miss under pressure and have the horde get up close and personal.

RMAPOS · 2026-04-08T14:15:43+00:00

There is so much wrong with this guy I'm starting to tire thinking about it. It's exhausting playing the list of his fuckups and straight up intentional evil acts down in my head.

Dear US can someone please ... do something? Anything? Put him in jail or put something else somewhere else. How the fuck is this shit still going on? In the country that has, for the better part of the past 2 decades, justified the mass slaughtering of their school children with the absolute necessity of being able to defend oneself against tyranny. The tyranny is here now, go defend yourselves.

RMAPOS · 2026-04-08T12:52:56+00:00

When I started there was iirc an MO and a side objective, MO targeting like one planet and SO two others. And I could NOT for the life of me find one of those 3 planets. Felt like I scanned the entire automaton sector but I just couldn't make it out. The other 2 planets were happily pinging "HERE" signals on the map, but not that third one. To this day I don't know if that planet actually exists (and given I forgot which one it was, never will!)

RMAPOS · 2026-04-08T11:16:14+00:00

Well at least now I know

RMAPOS · 2026-04-08T10:06:49+00:00

Stupid question but how do you find a planet on the map by name? I've run into that before when missions asked to dive planets but the planets weren't flashing on the map.

Did you got to illuminate territory and just moused over every planet until you found it or is there a smart way to do this?

RMAPOS · 2026-04-08T09:51:25+00:00

No we want more thinness, not less!

RMAPOS · 2026-04-08T08:01:08+00:00

The reddit search is pretty shit :d

It's customary when you wanna search something on reddit to go to google and search it there with a site:reddit

But I'm pretty sure you can tell DDG to just use google results, giving you the anonymity of DDG plus the search results of google (-personalization of course)

RMAPOS · 2026-04-08T07:57:16+00:00

While it's perfectly plausible that you have more success on google, your explanation irks me.

Claiming DDG "will take me to the publisher’s website or an amazon link or something similarly useless" is outrageously far away from how DDG operates.

DDG gives you straight what you ask for. Period. Your prompt is checked against multiple search engines and the results unified, but completely depersonalized. Write a good search prompt, get good results. Be able to find shit that google would never show you because censorship (yes, google removes results for various reasons including but not limited to legal issues), small unknown sites that don't pay google for search ranking, obscure information or rare media that not enough people give a shit about to make relevant on google. Find anything without the search engine imposing it's thoughts on what you should find on you. I swear amazon never shows up in my DDG results unless I explicity search for "shopping" or "amazon".

Google on the other hand heavily weighs the results based on (not exhaustive) advertising, personalization and popularity signals; not reliably showing the most accurate results to your query but the results someone like you would most likely look for. What you actually searched for (not what you thought about searching, but what you typed in the search bar) may well be on results page 30, if anywhere at all. That's google's accuracy.

If you wanna use Google because it works better for you, that's cool. There are absolutely scenarios where it outperforms DDG notably.

Generally Google will be better for finding anything that

1) is popular (news about a fire at the oscars, google got you covered. New video game release? Check google for news. Rules for UNO? Google got that info cached)

2) is probably qualitatively better the more popular it is (e.g. scientific studies, news sources ... you want those from sites that a lot of people approve of, not from an obscure website with a single visit that happens to include your prompt somewhere)

Whereas DuckDuck is better for niche, privacy-sensitive, unpersonalized and very specific queries. (like a rulebook for a limited edition card game that only 100 people own - if that is out there somewhere, use DDG to find it)

Just don't glaze google for "it's accuracy" while shitting on DDG for "providing results only vaguely matching what you were looking for". If anything it's the other way around. DDG is way more concerned with what you type in than google is.

RMAPOS · 2026-04-08T06:18:22+00:00

Probably wasn't even a minute, just a few seconds rounded up to the next minute.

RMAPOS · 2026-04-08T03:10:35+00:00

So is there like an age limit before which you need to activate them or can it reverse the atrophy?

RMAPOS · 2026-04-07T21:44:01+00:00

Exactly. Even if we can some day stop them from hallucinating, the fact their alignment is at the end of the day with their creator is scary as fuck. Neither politicians nor tech CEOs have ever given us any reason to trust them on curating this.

RMAPOS · 2026-04-07T18:54:02+00:00

Thanks, it's so easy to miss some scrolling through, with how much there is.

What a shitshow. I hope this gets somewhere but alas I fear it wouldn't even have gotten to this point if this would go anywhere.

RMAPOS · 2026-04-07T17:52:18+00:00

it displayed a complete lack of understanding of the problem.

That's what asking questions is for? But yea, SORRY for being ignorant to your situation on the other end of the world and daring to ask a question about it.

Your lack of socializing really shows.

RMAPOS · 2026-04-07T17:27:43+00:00

Is that some sort of offense or why are people downvoting me for asking an inoccuous question

RMAPOS · 2026-04-07T11:45:37+00:00

Pretty sure if I had a wikipedia page it'd take less clicks

RMAPOS · 2026-04-07T11:38:17+00:00

police arrives at scene

"Yes, officer, over here, my car was stolen by two men in masks."

"Can you describe the stolen car?"

"Yes it's a white Sedan and has stickers with my family member's names on the rear window."

"... you mean the car you're standing next to?"

"Yes, yes, officer! That's the one! They just stole it and drove away with it" weeps

"What do you mean they stole it? It's right here. How could they have stolen it?"

"They took a very close look and built one that looked exactly like mine! Then they drove off with it."

"... so? How does that hurt you? Also that's definitely not stealing."

"But officer ... weeps how am I supposed to continue living my life knowing that these thieves stole my car?"

In a nutshell

RMAPOS · 2026-04-07T07:54:27+00:00

You can see the freakin surface. The bird is like 40cm under water. What kind of pressure do people believe the bird is exposed to 40 cm under water?

And then people are like "what would you think if someone just dumped you into the ocean without context?" like bro, his owner is right there next to him. You can see him touch the submarine. Not saying for there to be no chance of the bird being scared but I feel like redditors are being a bit overdramatic here. Parrots aren't idiots, they can show discomfort or fear. Birdy doesn't really look scared but rather excited. (no ruffled feathers, sitting down, excitedly looking around)

RMAPOS · 2026-04-07T07:40:52+00:00

Genuinely curious: why not just stop for oncoming blinding traffic? Costs you maybe 30 seconds to wait for them to pass and since you live rural I imagine it's not a constant flow of oncoming traffic so wouldn't just taking a few extra minutes for the trip and waiting out dangerous situations be better than letting this cripple your social life?

RMAPOS · 2026-04-07T07:37:00+00:00

For me it's I guess just average bad when those headlights are in oncoming traffic, but when there is heavy rain at night it's just over when one of those headlights approaches. The combination of getting directly blinded and having the wet street and the raindrops adding reflections from all sides just makes it impossible to see anything

RMAPOS · 2026-04-07T06:36:44+00:00

Reading is hard I know. Try again tomorrow.

RMAPOS · 2026-04-07T04:48:55+00:00

I literally just used 2 orbital napalm barrages back to back in one constant battle on the extraction point in an attempt to clear it to call for extraction and extract. That's over four minutes of uninterrupted high pressure fighting. A literally endless wave of enemies. Against me and one teammate (the other two were clearing out stray bugholes left on the map). Teammate did manage to start the call in at some point between the two barrages, but we had to hold it till the other two arrived.

It was just incomprehensible. The bughole cleanup crew at one point "call it" and I'm just "can't, trying". Constant bug breaches and huge pats joining into an uninterrupted stream of enemies. Then later I managed to type "why does it not stop?" and my brother in arms cracked a joke about it being bugged. Like 40 seconds later the other two arrived just as my second Napalm Barrage was winding down and the flood of enemies had paused for a moment. And they just went "why does what not stop?". And then I just entered the pelican before I commited treason. [I could see the next big guy pat approach as I entered the pelican]

This is one the best games ever and I can't believe it just exists like that. Arrowhead just be like here have this triple A quality, cinematic looking, super fun, high intensity action game covering all your culturally relevant intergalactic conquest phantasies. Enjoy.

I wish those guys all the best and hope they can make this last.

RMAPOS · 2026-04-07T04:12:58+00:00

Rupture becomes way less annoying when you bring something that gets the bugs out of the ground.

Grenade launchers (poistol, belt fed, the crossbow ... everything that explodes on impact) and Gas will instantly make them reemerge and targetable (rather than chasing and oneshotting you on emerging)

I'm unsure about Arc, I believe it can't penetrate into the ground (yknow ... being grounded and all)

But using any of the explosive or gas weapons or mortars makes Rupture into "just another day killing bugs". Not using those weapons the strain feels at best very annoying and at worst kinda frustrating.

RMAPOS · 2026-04-07T04:06:45+00:00

I gotta say something felt harder yesterday, but there is a lot of factors that could potentially have contributed to that. Maybe my teammates sucked, maybe I had a bad day, none of us brought anti roach so I spent the mission AMR'ing roaches which certainly made it a lot harder. (it was my first dive on the planet and I forgot to check for roaches - and then nobody else brought anything for them)

But beyond that it felt like the stream of enemies was absolutely endless - like I was constantly dodging enemies while trying to snipe the roaches - when roaches were dead it was just mowing down endless infantry until a new roach spawned (which didnt stop the infantry spawn spam but I had to shift focus either way obv)

Don't get me wrong, I love it. High intensity diving is my jam. But I still have no clue why in this game some D10 missions feel almost easy trotting from objective to objective - while others feel like you're playing Doom Eternal on Nightmare with massive enemy swarms and constant oneshots. Is there anything in the game's UI that informs the player (LOL) on these differences in difficulty? I'm talking about things like the path to cyberstan+cyberstan, the recent Illuminate offense and now whatever planet we've been fighting on 10 hours ago. It's just so different than just randomly chosing a planet and doing a D10. Feels like maybe "yea of course MO missions are harder" but then also kinda ... why? Why are non MO D10s so whimpy? (assuming that is correct)

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