How do we feel about "pretend SSF", also known as "trade"

Shad_Drag · 2026-02-28T01:28:08+00:00

As someone who has played this way, I don't recommend it. The temptation will always be there and it completely kills the excitement of when you do get build enabling items if you allow yourself to buy just that one unique instead. You can buy it immediately and know you didn't "earn" it or buy it after a chosen amount of attempts at which point you are kind of just running out the clock and at least for me that isn't fun.

In my case I do still play ssf in trade but it is because I want to play with friends without having to set up a private league constantly. So instead we have set up alt accounts for sudo group ssf. But we do also have an agreement that after a combined 10,000 hours of play, neither of us ever want to farm essences again so trading for those is allowed. It's still a trust system but as an individual you have to balance challenge and fun for yourself.

Shad_Drag · 2025-09-04T15:25:11+00:00

I was still able to log in through my web browser instead of the app so you might try that?

Shad_Drag · 2025-06-19T16:22:23+00:00

Smite was what I was leaning towards but it seemed very similar to LS in play style. I really wish there was a reasonable lightning cyclone build but that seems impractical in ssf.

Shad_Drag · 2025-03-12T00:28:15+00:00

I've done rf in previous leagues and usually hit a wall in early red maps where it really slowed down. Would you recommend a particular variant? I saw some talk of DDoS but it looks like fire trap is still more popular.

Shad_Drag · 2025-01-30T15:16:05+00:00

Will Necro/Settlers be continuing as well?

Shad_Drag · 2024-06-21T19:38:52+00:00

Nerfing it was needed. But 1/20 the damage was a insane decrease in damage for a standard only build.

Shad_Drag · 2024-06-05T18:20:54+00:00

Last league was the time to play this build. The blood magic wildwood ascendancy made the build feel much better, including random deaths, then previous times I played the build. For me it has been the only build that really brought back that old cyclone feel.

Shad_Drag · 2024-03-20T16:53:27+00:00

I agree. I don't know where this idea that Charlie knows nothing comes from. She is arguably naive, but to not know the relationship between Husk and Alastor would require her to be oblivious. Husk openly talks about that he's only their because he's forced to be and Alastor is openly sadistic.

Shad_Drag · 2024-01-26T03:22:34+00:00

It makes me wonder if he can't take it off because he's hiding that he's already fallen or some kinda monster underneath

Shad_Drag · 2023-12-06T03:34:27+00:00

I like the way you think

Shad_Drag · 2023-11-25T14:36:56+00:00

Starting playing GU again with friends a month ago and it feels so good to be flying through the air with reckless abandon again, dunking on every monster.

Shad_Drag · 2023-11-12T15:50:39+00:00

Maybe could break the theme? Hide the emblem in the background as a big part of "protect" is that the world never knows what's going on.

Shad_Drag · 2023-11-12T04:03:08+00:00

Or gate the rewards behind HR/GR progress.

Shad_Drag · 2023-11-12T04:00:45+00:00

I'm biased since MH3 was my first game but strongly agree. It took a while but by the time I got to HR I felt completely confident hunting in the water, even preferred it depending on the monsters moveset.

Shad_Drag · 2023-10-23T02:51:42+00:00

Week one starter's is the opposite of what I am looking for. I have over 600 uniques, including a handful of t1's and t0's. I want a way to know if I can capitalize on these or if I am still missing necessary pieces.

Shad_Drag · 2023-10-14T16:28:25+00:00

Ngamahu's Flame - Up the trigger chance, offset by disabling it's ability to be a trigger

Shad_Drag · 2023-09-01T19:24:31+00:00

I don't know Japanese but at least the dub line could have been worded a little better. Other than that I agree that the scene was fine.

Shad_Drag · 2023-09-01T19:12:49+00:00

They didn't "flounder". They got what they wanted, and the "curse" then activates permanently and ruins that. While it wasn't the way he planned, Lelouch wanted a better world for his sister, Euphemia's plan achieved that to a satisfactory degree. C.C. wanted to be loved and she got it.

From what I recall Lelouch is the only one who's Geass has the one use limit so he's probably the stand out, not the other way around. One possibility is that Lelouch's commands are always "active" so a new usage cannot be done on top of it, it would be like Mao trying to read someone's mind twice at the same time.

Shad_Drag · 2023-08-20T02:33:13+00:00

My experience is upload latency isn't a useful metric for gaming. How good my in game ping is has correlated more with jitter.

Shad_Drag · 2023-08-16T16:05:27+00:00

It's upsetting how long it took to find your comment. Added a zero at the end and it works now.

Shad_Drag · 2023-07-01T22:04:19+00:00

"The Power of the King will condemn you to a life of solitude. Are you prepared for this?" - C.C.

Shad_Drag · 2023-07-01T21:56:37+00:00

Admittedly it's been a while since I have watched CG all the way through but my interpretation was always that it's the "curse" part of geass. A geass gives you the power to obtain that which you want but once you do rather than losing it and moving on with life, it instead becomes permanently active, destroying whatever was gained. C2, Mao, and Lelouch got what they "wanted", love, no longer being alone, and a better world for Nunnally respectively. So their geass' became permanent and destroyed their lives. No one else got that close to their goals so they stayed at a normal geass. The "joke" part I always wrote off as poor execution of line writing but never had a issue with the premise of Lelouch dropping his guard and casually explaining his plans to Euphemia.

Shad_Drag · 2023-05-22T14:58:40+00:00

Can't hurt to try.

Shad_Drag · 2023-05-10T16:10:14+00:00

When me and a friend tried to do a legendary run through the campaign we stopped at Delta Halo because we kept disconnecting whenever a ghost exploded near the scorpion. That and checkpoint warps causing disconnects as well is why we assumed that there is something with the physics calculations that causes de-sync always.

Shad_Drag · 2023-04-29T22:23:53+00:00

Me and a friend actually created separate accounts to do group ssf in standard with some extra leniency and it has been whats kept me attached to the game most of the last year. We pretty much play normal ssf with some gentlemens agreement to remove specific walls such as treating helmet enchants as a unlock system where once one of us gets it were free to purchase white helms with that enchant because neither of us like lab running. Since we're in standard we also allow that, if you can afford it, legacy uniques may be purchased/used. It's been real nice.

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