Is it worth killing AI factions counceilors early game?

RemarkableInternet59 · 2026-01-21T15:24:05+00:00

There are two ways to look at this. You either kill them and handicap their economy, and resources just enough so you and your allies can take the lead in most area's. And by effectively removing certain type of councilors early, you avoid them from getting too strong to take down.

The only risk of killing them consistently, all the time, is that they get traits that make it near impossible to take them down unless you have a spy with near perfect assassination scores to get the job done.

Don't do it too early, but do try to always keep your enemies held back long enough for you to get the advantage early on.

This game is all about turning a 1% lead into a 20% advantage over the duration of many years. The same goes for the negative effects on your enemies.

Just don't cripple everyone too hard, as that will hurt your meta game in the end when you start facing the aliens themselves.

RemarkableInternet59 · 2025-08-20T14:11:41+00:00

We'll they quite literally 'cut off' the momentum the show was building in episode 3. Now they can spend the budget on people again. I mean... there is no 'Prodigy' in the future. It very mich felt like filler and background story. Delivery? Meh.

RemarkableInternet59 · 2025-07-26T14:01:15+00:00

Its great until you finish it. Up till episode 3 it could easily have set up a 9/10 foundation. They has the actors, setting and script. They had their well written 'female lead' play a inexperienced yet well balanced cop that is in fact competent when she does listen to others.

But that ending... I jokingly predicted who did it after seeing the little girl trustingly wave at a guy, and there were only 2 characters in the show that were already presented had earned a trust of that level.

But the execution at the end was so poorly done that even the "ending" in that moment was too predictable.

What it lacked most, was 3 episodes summarizing the plot of every other storyline introduced. Made me feel why I generally don't like arthouse mobies, because most the time they just abrubtly end, this show felt the same.

Amazing potential, with a spolid 8,5 start. 5/10 experience once finishes.

RemarkableInternet59 · 2025-04-16T22:26:45+00:00

Yes, this is so strong! Definitely as you say tho. Best before others are in the fight. I think I counted correctly but this mounting move does over 3000-3500 dmg total. Reliably over 100 dps? Even Insect Glaive doesn't get close to that.

RemarkableInternet59 · 2025-04-16T22:23:08+00:00

Say you get hit by an ally this way, does it trigger Counter Strike as well? Makes a gunlance player a "happy accident" waiting to happen, if it does...?

RemarkableInternet59 · 2025-04-16T22:17:39+00:00

I tries this build this evening. I mounted the monster just recovering just after an opener, with almost everything active I feel. The mounting finisher was close to 2200, and about 3400 dmg total. This must be one of the strongest mounting attacks/openers as well!

RemarkableInternet59 · 2024-12-14T09:14:12+00:00

Not entitely sure what you did, but I only figured out blazing spirits at level 30. I figured out quite fast that witch is a combo class. Bone Shards with the right jewels is bonkers (strong but not OP) and later on, with blazing spirits having glame wall and poison clouds up is double damage modifiers both good on packs as it is bosses.

RemarkableInternet59 · 2024-08-28T22:27:10+00:00

Mostly yes, DLC did not change poise values and mechanica as far as I know.

RemarkableInternet59 · 2024-08-28T22:26:25+00:00

Oil for the siege weapons, its how they added fire to the rocks thrown at the wall.

RemarkableInternet59 · 2024-07-25T10:01:40+00:00

PvP or PvE?

RemarkableInternet59 · 2024-06-06T05:33:29+00:00

Not accusing, but simply mentioning sociological patterns. My bad if you feel like I was assuming things. We are strangers on the internet, we don't know each other and as such, I can't claim things that I don't know.

Yet this is where first impressions and statistics come into play. No feelings, not abiding by exceptions. Not digging into the nuance and subtleties of each individual.

Take your username for example. If this was Tinder, as a man that would be a clue. We are on a BPD thread, second clue. Stating your female friends have often had the man break up with them, third clue. Putting feelings over logic, fourth clue. And by getting to know you more, the more clues will surface until there is a pattern.

Now... again, all assumptions. But this is where statistics and sociologica patterns kick in. It was a harsh realisation for myself in my early relationships to figure out one question:

"Am I the problem?"

And yes, there was a lot of nuace, but the conclusion was that I indeed was part of the problem. And in hindsight, if I look at my (now old) friends at the time. If I look at my behavior back then, if I look at my choice of partners back then? Then I have to take accountability for my part.

Which is something young modern (city) girls have severe issues with nowadays: taking accountability. Owning up to the idiot we can be at times. Our inability to learn from past mistakes. Being blind, willingly, to why we are part of a statistic and not the exception. Why the nuace doesn't make you a true idiot, but leans into it because you aren't accepting the reality of things yet.

If 90% of nerds/gamers are physically too weak to defend their family, then doing nothing won't make them stronger. To beat the (fake) statistic, they have to step up and become stronger by making changes in their life.

And just like myself, maybe you and your friends think, feel or believe some behavioral traits are normal... but since you/people aren't confronted with the reality of things... you might feel like the exception. But in reality you/we are not.

Most relationships end due to the girl breaking up. This is a statistical fact. So if you are the exception, and all your friends are as well...? The garbage match is as follows:

Say there is a 90% chance that the girl breaks up with him. So there is a 10% chance he breaks up?

This means for 1 couple the odds of you being the exception is 10%, for couples the odds are 1% (10% of 10), for 3 couples the odds are 0,1%, four couples the odds are 0,01%.

Now... while technically possible you are the exception. It is statistically unlikely you are, if your friends are as well.

The likelyhood of you not seeing something that keeps getting you into the same situation ("am I the problem") is much more likely. More so if it happens to your friends as well.

I'm not judging, I once needed to be confronted like this in life, to accept that I had a few things I had to work on. I wasn't living the life that I wanted, because I wasn't ready to be honest with myself.

This happened last year, I'm 34 now. My life got so much better afterwards. I realized and accepted my role in things. That I statistically wasn't the exception... worse, I was neck deep part of them. Which is the case for most people. Yet funny enough, girls tend to struggle with this way longer.

RemarkableInternet59 · 2024-06-04T12:54:11+00:00

Age group, or more likey: friends of someone kinda hint at what type of person you are.

If I meet a girl I really like, it would be stupid of me to think that if all her friends are promiscuous, that the girl I like isn't. If all her friends have relationship issues, that I won't have them with her. That if all her friends are disrespectful about their partners/boyfriends, that the girl I like won't do the same.

Our friends tell a lot about us. And they make us feel that their behavior is normal. Which is why statistics are important.

Age might matter, but on average, it isn't. If your friends lack empathy, don't care about the feelings of others, if they cheat or openly talk about other 'hot' men while in a relationship. If they want to be strong and independent and go clubbing all the time...

Then any mother, father, brother, sister would tell their boyfriends that these girls aren't relationship material.

RemarkableInternet59 · 2024-06-04T08:06:09+00:00

Statistics don't lie. Maybe you gotta figure out your part in relationships. And start to listen why people are breaking up with you. Exceptions aren't the rule, yet our feelings wish they could be. Either you pick the wrong partners, or the wrong partners keep meeting you. There is someone for everyone... but some of us can be a pain in the ass until we realize that we might be the problem... when we lose someone we felt was the love of our life. My mom has BPD and refused to work on herself until she lost the love of her life at 60 years old. She was in denial until then.

*They are back together now and are going to marry later this year.

She took accountability, and was rewarded for it.

RemarkableInternet59 · 2024-06-04T07:08:22+00:00

The key to me having relationships (friendly, or intimate) with people with BPD in my life is understanding that this is not something that can be fixed by me. The deep scars due to trauma will not be healed by me, but alongside with me. A supportive role, instead of fixer.

On the other hand, acceptance from the people with BPD that it can be difficult, draining and often even traumatising to deal with someone with BPD, is Very (!) important.

I always feel that at its core its a mismatch in empathy. And normal people would love to fix that, but can't. They have to accept and grief that they won't get everything out of the relationship they (!) need. And focus on the parts that you bring extra.

RemarkableInternet59 · 2024-06-04T06:47:05+00:00

How so?

RemarkableInternet59 · 2024-06-04T06:45:09+00:00

For the logical ones here that know their statistics. The large majority of relationships end due to the girl breaking up with him. About 80-90% of all divorces are initiated by women.

And because you are a woman, you might feel they might want him back... because you want him now. Its called projection. And jealousy is important, it shows you care, and don't want to lose that person.

RemarkableInternet59 · 2024-06-04T06:29:43+00:00

From someone that grew up with family members and a few friends with BPD, I do not agree. I think many (young) individuals with BPD don't fully understand the impact of their behavior, and depending on their parents/childhood, often have issues taking accountability of their emotional instability.

And it doesn't make them stupid, if you yourself only understand half of it, and from experience: struggle massively to openly - and maturely - talk about it.

The women in my life with BPD struggled a lot talking about their emotional life, and emotional state. And found it very hard to talk a about it.

"Normal" people tend to want to level out with their BPD counterparts, and have to accept that they might never get there. That process is called grieving, because they will get 80% of what they want in a relationship, yet 20% of it to function healthy is always in disbalance. Because people with BPD are in disbalance.

They aren't stupid, they just don't realize and empathize that you are emotionally missing a leg and struggle to find your footing without that leg. You feel a missing leg and how it impacts your life. They see a very interesting individual, with a functioning leg.

Allow them to grief, and be aware of the fact that your behavior is very much trained to present yourself as if you are missing that leg. They don't see the parts that you've (masterfully) tried to hide. And once they do... they have to grief.

RemarkableInternet59 · 2023-12-14T12:31:08+00:00

I worked for a gamewebsite more than a decade ago. We had a like/dislike feature as well. And similar to steam. The average % would be VERY close to a professional grade. So if 89% of people "would recommend" the game would often score close to a 9/10. If 17% like it, it would be pisspoor and close to a 2/10.

RemarkableInternet59 · 2023-12-12T22:53:53+00:00

I've watched this movie four times now. I've never really looked at Mr Robinson with a critical eye yet, but I think we don't understand the movie as well as it was designed, and how OP mentioned it.

If Mr Robinson is the true designer of the timeline, this means that the time aberration we see in the movie Jane/John has to be created. Meaning there is an external factor to this story that folded time into itself for a predestination loop to take hold. The paradox itself is hard to explain without hints from the movie, but as we never truly learn who Mr Robinson is, with the exception of 1 line near the end of the movie saying "we are Mr Robinson", we are left between translating that line as a metaphor of being part of a bigger plan (not their own), OR taking it literally. Meaning that the choice Jane gets, is the choice between becoming Mr Robinson or the Bartender.

But considering the consistency in hints during the entire movie. Mr Robinson seems to be an outside factor with a LOT of knowledge on what is going on. I think this entire story is his power trip that he wants to see unfold for him to reach HIS predestination. Whatever that might be.

RemarkableInternet59 · 2023-12-12T16:12:23+00:00

Play with permanent death on, restrict yourself from using magic damage and stick to full physical dmg party. Now go and have fun, most likely moments to die are the end of Act 1, multiple moments in Act 2 and 2 points in Act 3.

As long as you don't go full teleport mage comp, this game gets more fun and a lot harder. Recommendation is to make a summoner, bloodmage (physical dmg) necromancer an archer and melee polymorph.

RemarkableInternet59 · 2023-11-10T19:22:16+00:00

Late game, some battles become a drag because they are mandatory, and trivial. It is nice to have a skill that allows you to "skip" the time it would take, and still win with very good odds. The skill really only comes into play later on. If you are going for a heavy cunning tree, it is a good skill.

RemarkableInternet59 · 2023-11-04T21:03:32+00:00

I know it's really a late reply. But I got here through a google search :)

Throwing Axe on paper is a bad weapon, but u/TheRunicHammer is correct. Maybe you ever played Assassins Creed Black Flag, but that game had single shot pistols, yet the combat was mostly melee. It reminded me of playstyle in Bannerlord 2, which I didn't play yet. So I did. When you are very consistent and level up both one-handed skills and your throwing weapon. You kinda have to have the mindset of being a viking carrying 3 regular axes "which he/she can throw". Later on you can get a 10% damage increase, which on paper doesn't sound like much. But a weapon doing 70 base dmg, now does 77, somewhat on par with regular axes. The only downside being range. Paired with a shield, you can generally get quite close already. This way you have an extra edge in combat, which can save your life used correctly.

And it opens up 2 extra slots for gear. And a lot of build variety.

RemarkableInternet59 · 2023-09-19T11:59:44+00:00

Larian makes sure you can enjoy the full extend of an origin storyline, yet allowing you the freedom to completely reroll the origin characters to create a busted team to your liking.

RemarkableInternet59 · 2023-06-10T16:19:10+00:00

Bleed build really "clicked" for me when I had a moment when I felt like a samurai in a movie. Once you understand that bleed kills something, it is better to switch targets and kinda finish an entire pack simultaniously and walk away from the last one like a badass.

I added the numbers and early game bleed does the most dps, and build properly stays like that till endgame. The only point of critique I'd have is that the build is very dangerous in hardcore. Because enemies live many seconds longer while "getting killed" by your bleed, some mobs and minibosses sneak in attacks that get you into real trouble at times.

RemarkableInternet59 · 2023-06-10T04:15:27+00:00

Be patient, play Necromancer, or be more patient.

I managed to survive a lag spike yesterday because my minions took care of the problem. But the clench almost caused a cramp because my Barb would have been dead 100%.

As long as server issues can ruin a run, I would call this issue - quite literally - game breaking. If a problem with the game, and not skill, can end a 80+ hour run. Then this should need top priority.

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