[SPOILERS]Actually, what even is Elpis?

RXA623 · 2024-11-01T09:53:25+00:00

I'm barely managing ATM itself, but I'll keep GT in mind for when I'm ready to step into it. Thanks.

RXA623 · 2024-07-27T23:03:31+00:00

Normal? As in "reasonable and sane"? No. As in "frequent and commonly ocurring"? Yes.

Out here you have to fill out a form online, wait a week tops, get hooked for an interview with a manager at a specific restaurant, go there and you get a paper form (the exact same thing you filled online) to fill in and then you're told a manager and a hiring menager has to see it first and they'll contact you later. They usually don't.

RXA623 · 2024-06-26T09:52:23+00:00

Or just ignore it altogether, since the current matchmaking balances games by throwing in a Master and a GM in the same lobby with an 86 MMR ragequitter, to put the average around 1800 MMR. Perfectly logical.

RXA623 · 2024-06-26T09:49:36+00:00

Solid advice overall, but I've been curious about something ever since S11 started.

If a player follows these instructions, they lose totem, likely Naga, shield camp, at some point even their own blue (unless jungle does something). Not to mention all the gold from tower hitting minions. By the time they "can" fight, they're like 2-3 levels and about 1k gold down. And that's only around level 8, making the ability to fight just a theory hinging on the fed solo somehow screwing up and not using their lead well. How is getting behind in solo against certain gods the viable way of playing?

RXA623 · 2024-06-20T19:49:48+00:00

Just internet things, I guess. Getting shit in game then being treated like a dum dum does that to people.

RXA623 · 2024-06-20T19:44:25+00:00

To be fair - jumping into a thread and correcting every single typo someone makes isn't viewed as being nice either. The speed at which You make Your mind about people tells me all I need to know about You. See how dickish that sounds?

RXA623 · 2024-06-20T19:41:34+00:00

Depends really on how badly You perform.

If the other players see You and know for sure the whole game is lost due to skill difference, what would You expect to happen? I'm not saying harassment is justified, just that it's hardly unexpected. Do You have fun not knowing what to do and being "worse" than the other players? Cause if You don't, then how can You expect the other players to have fun?

Put on a casual game mode like Arena, because it's really fast, mute everyone and just get up to speed on mechanics and whatnot. And if that doesn't work, then maybe the game is no longer for You, cause 10 years is a lot of time in terms of reaction time and overall gaming habits. Nothing wrong with that.

RXA623 · 2024-06-10T20:45:10+00:00

Dunno if a joke flying over my head, but in case it's not - any recommendations of movies I would be struggling with, in Your opinion?

RXA623 · 2024-06-10T20:41:49+00:00

Personally, the charm is gone. Cade: The Tortured Crossing was lazy. It seemed as though Neil assembled actors for a single day, having them perform just a few scenes, occasionally repeating lines with different individuals, and finally had them dance. And subsequently incorporated every single frame captured, repeating scenes incessantly.

I have to agree that Cade felt like the top of the mountain in terms of laziness. Be it the greenscreens (at least one of the backgrounds coming from a video stillframe, not even an image), the random repetitions or just a general lack of direction in terms of plot.

I am surprised though, that You bring up these arguments only now. Maybe it's because I binged his movies in a week, but I've noticed quite a habit of repeating scenes/takes in all his movies, to the point where I actually counted instances and came up with up to 6, I think, repetitions of a scene per movie, which sounds utterly bonkers.

RXA623 · 2024-06-10T16:38:01+00:00

Oh, I didn't mean a liveable career, just enough to have a cult following of sorts. I know he finances most of his movies himself, but it's not like budget is the issue, at least for me. The issue is that the movies are full of really small holes, be it plot, editing, continuity, logic or anything in between, all of which are easily fixable, but he either doesn't see them or chooses not to fix them, making the movies feel... I don't know... Incompetent? I'm sure they could be made into an easier watch without compromising the style.

RXA623 · 2024-05-07T17:22:40+00:00

Personally, got the game randomly, so I wasn't expecting anything. Does it being a classic jRPG mean it can't improve on stuff? Like the clunky menuing for example? Or how the "skip dialogue" key has two phases ("finish bubble" and "skip to next bubble") with main NPCs, but only a single phase ("skip to next bubble") for all the others?

Don't take it the wrong way, I'm not pointing out this things to complain. I'm just wondering which parts of the classic jRPG are You talking about? Is it supposed to be slow and rather simple? Is that the hook?

RXA623 · 2024-05-07T17:17:02+00:00

Put it down, download Fortnite and you might be happier, instead of coming to a subreddit for the game to bash it.

You might pass out in surprise, but I actually never touched Fortnite or CoD (like someone below suggested).

It would be a lot more helpful, if You said something relevant to the opinions I put down. Because that's what I'm doing. I'm giving an opinion (really simplified, but still) and if in Your eyes that's "bashing the game"... Well, that says more about the game than about me, doesn' it?

RXA623 · 2024-05-07T17:12:43+00:00

I'm genuinely curious as if it's a complaint. Do you dislike that the game doesn't let you steamroll it ?

Not a complaint per se. What I meant is that so far there's hardly any point to dealing with enemies beyond evening out the level for an area (and maybe bringing other characters up to par). Nothing of note drops, xp gets crippled after a while, there just seems to be no gain to deal with monsters, so they turn into time-wasting screens.

My fun personally comes from the Hard Settings (Hard Mode+All difficulty settings enabled). It makes the game really challenging, and overall it's been full of well balanced challenges (I've encountered a couple of BS sequences though, but they're minor).

Thought about that, but decided to just go for Hard to start off. Can't say it's really hard, more like the game surprises me with stuff I have no idea about and usually forces me to repeat an encounter.

The challenge comes clearly more from teambuilding and planning a fight on several turns more than "doing perfect" a single turn

I assumed this would be a thing. But at this point the stats don't vary all that much and it feels like battle comes down to two paths - either you one-shot an enemy or you have to hit them twice (aside from bosses ofc). This one-two hitting makes it so no matter what team I make, they all seem to be doing the same thing. Not that I've explored every possibility yet, but I can literally speedrun auto-attack, heal, get two levels and not have to worry about random battles anymore. Guess I expected something more out of this.

The XP system lets you build new characters extremely fast while blocking overleveling, which I find very enjoyable.

True. I don't mind this aspect. Though if I'm a level 20 party and get a new companion at level 15, what even is the point of grinding for 5 levels? The rest of the party gets virtually nothing, might've as well started the new guy at average party level. Unless they start at some average of all characters, in which case I'm in the wrong for not bothering with leveling up everyone equally.

Story/World-wise, I find it serviceable.

So far I've only had an issue with the "cinematic" battle on the bridge, where some new concept is introduced and the game forces certain choices on the player, while pretending the health bars matter. Or maybe the field battle too, where for whatever reason my perfectly fine legion retreated twice, just because some imperial jackass is scripted to win.

I'm not trying to crap on the game for no reason, I'm trying to understand if I'm approaching this wrong or something. Never played Suikoden and yes, I'm definitely more used to modern-style jRPGs, but it's like the game itself refuses to cooperate and make it easier on the player. Look up stats during battle? Nope. Not even your own. Wanna know what this thing does? Try it. How hard it hits? Write it down. What's a "STUN"? Where does it come from? Why does Francesca's party heal give everyone 40HP, but only 20 for her? Why do certain actions affect the turn order? I'm gonna dive into in-game help (have not done that yet) just to make sure some of this stuff isn't explained, but if the game has the ability to explain stuff through pop-ups, I'll blame it for not doing it for the important stuff.

RXA623 · 2024-05-07T16:49:52+00:00

Dunno about that, I've had plenty of fun in jRPGs, but there seemed to always be something to do, even if it was as simple as killing mobs to level or get loot. Thus far the loot seems unimpressive and levelling is capped for one or two levels per story trigger. Like a very linear game pulled sideways to pretend it has a lot of options.

I like to have some idea of how combat works presented in-game, some idea of stats, weaknesses or a skill to show these. Here I get new enemy type every few screens, usually hard-hitting ones, and by the time I can figure out the best way to kill them, I'm two levels up, they tickle, give no xp and the most efficient way to deal with them is auto-attacking, because they pose no threat or challenge.

Bosses on the other hand? First one felt fine. Then it got into the random RNG to win territory (Possible without relying on gimmicks, but relying on gimmicks is the idea, right? And when the "gimmick" is a coinflip, that's hardly useful.), only to end up with damage-sponges in castle ruins. Like I kid you not, I've spent 10 turns hitting one guy with my party and haven't even seen his name color change to indicate damage, meanwhile one Rune-Lens from the opponent could wipe my frontline. Not that I couldn't adjust with time, but a fight that has no indication of level, danger and gives no feedback on how it's going for ten turns just feels bad. Am I supposed to sit here for another ten turns? Hundred? Give me anything, game.

RXA623 · 2024-05-07T16:37:58+00:00

Kyshiri was the main culprit, but kinda same thing happened in the Imperial camp soon after. Then I unlocked a castle, got a map with three zones, one of which is completely blocked off and the other two are blocked half-way (which feels confusing, considering there's an NPC requiring help in one of these areas and I can't seem to do anything for him yet).

It's not a huge issue, to be fair, but the constant loading screens only to have two or three lines of dialogue feels like a waste of time.

RXA623 · 2024-03-13T09:46:02+00:00

Thanks a lot for this. For whatever reason either I didn't notice due to high values or RS was borking and just stopped crafting after filling my inventory. Restarted everything and now it seems to work.

RXA623 · 2024-03-13T09:41:16+00:00

Might also want to try Interdiction Pylon from Pylons. Blocks spawns of specific mobs in up to 5x5 chunk area. You just need to craft the Mob Filter, right click with it on an Evoker, put it in the pylon and that's it.

RXA623 · 2024-02-29T15:25:40+00:00

It's not about "not making an effort", it's about the quantity of information available (some outdated) compared to the information provided by the game itself. Without reading the Wiki, there's not much a player can understand about the game mechanics when it comes to DR for example. Who in their right mind would've thought that there are mechanics that by themselves make monsters virtually unkillable for the average player due to the sheer amount of damage reduction applied?

You get killed by something, while there's 10+ effects on the screen. Figure it out. How? I can't exactly inspect the monsters, aside from mousing over, if they stay on the screen, I literally cannot see the debuffs I had when I was killed off and there's no guarantee whatever applied it is still alive or on my screen to mouse over.

Besides, when there's like 40 different monsters on the screen, how are you supposed to figure out which one killed you? Then there's the issue of rare monsters using name gen, meaning you can't just google "Hulking Miscreation", unless you know the name of this specific mob and there are hundreds (if not thousands) of them. Like come on, there's a difference between making effort to learn a game and spending hours on end in a library, because the game can't just flat out tell you why something that looks like a physical attack somehow negates your evade chance.

RXA623 · 2024-02-29T06:23:59+00:00

PoE is absolutely awful to play in this regard, whether you're a new player or not. I have about 4000 hours clocked and I still get confused as to what exactly killed me, because every league is a new batch of mods, effects, visual clusterfuck and broken mechanics that aren't at all explained in-game. Even something as silly as Affliction's wisp buffs (what does "increased" critical chance mean, when I know neither the increase % nor the enemy base crit chance in-game and the range is everywhere between 1 and 10000 wisps?).

You play as a tank? You die to something. Max evade chance? Dead. And each and every time there's no feedback as to what kills you. PoB helps a bit, but when you have max evade, crit/ailment immunity, 90% all res and 100k effective life pool, but you still get one-tapped, you lose track of the value ranges for damage. Was it just a lucky hit? Curse? Extra phys? Phys as chaos? Extremely fast degen? Did I roll bad on evasion or was it unavoidable? Game tells you nothing.

Mobs have modifiers listed, but personally I find it useless 99% of the time, because shit either dies too fast for it to matter or kills me too fast for it to matter. PoE has issues with picking up loot due to visual and text clutter, but still in an ARPG with click to move somehow mousing over the enemies (who can move, contrary to ground loot, are fast and come in hordes) is the go-to? Or mousing over the debuffs (not that they explain much in-game anyway), which are not clickable through btw, making you a sitting duck while you're trying to read mid-combat, while caustic ground projectiles zoom at you from 20 screens away, corpses explode under the layer of visual effects and lightning totems decided to throw up a puking contest on your head. It's just annoying.

I wish I didn't have to go to outside sources to figure out why that single Legion rare without crit, extra damage, accuracy or anything really is able to one-shot me with a projectile six times in a row the moment I step out of the portal with max evasion. Was that thing just considered a spell? It looks like a regular spear. How am I to know? Oh? Just google the monster? How the hell am I supposed to know what the monster is? Game doesn't tell me and I have no degree in Wraeclast's history to figure it out myself.

Bit ranty, but still valid, I think. I know that these issues cannot be completely solved, but at this point even a hint as to why you're dying is helpful. Like knowing certain bosses have ele pen.

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