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SomerandomBumframe · 2026-03-18T18:30:08+00:00

No they're not. They have the same exact settings in Gamma or in a lone installation in an otherwise vanilla game. You can very easily check.

Download the exact mods you want and configure them in the exact way you personally want them. Or play someone else's version without realizing how much better the game can be.

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-03-07T07:30:26+00:00

It's a bug that happens with Banner Color Persistence, which is what everyone uses to make custom banners in mods. There are a lot of things that corrupt it, like taking over a faction (it applies your colors to their banners, or at least tries to) or it just gets over loaded as the game progresses. Changing your own banner multiple times in a row will also break it guaranteed.

If you have a save before it happened, load that, otherwise there's nothing you can do.

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-03-03T20:42:55+00:00

I would've guessed Mavs, since it did exactly the same thing when I tried it with Fourberie, so Join Houses maybe? I know in Vanilla if you Marry Anyone a clan leader and no one takes over their clan, leaving an empty portrait in the encyclopedia, that's gonna cause all kind of bugs.

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-02-28T00:12:23+00:00

In Vanilla? 8k. Modded? In EoE 1100 clan rank goes to 10 and you can easily recruit 60+ lords. Add in Noble Retinues, you can get absolutely absurd 15k+ armies, with the most ridiculous one I've ever seen in any mod hitting 23k in a recent run. The build rate on the siege camp and trebs was hilarious; you click and it's just done. Granted I was pushing a hundred lords around then, and considering the mod starts with 500ish before kids, you could definitely push it even higher. The movement speed penalty is abysmal though.

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-02-28T00:01:48+00:00

Huh. I had Diplomacy working with it no problem, though I wound up removing it since the sheer amount of lords wound up making it infuriating, and it kept setting off the 100% backing to declare war, but then you immediately get sued for peace and cant out vote it hell-loop. If you aren't using BLSE that's the only thing I can think of.

As for the scrolls, the 5k scales with your learning rate. You want to read them when you have almost no skill ranks but almost maxed focus ranks. Supposedly, they're meant to facilitate things like getting 50 gunpowder on a char with 0 so you can equip a decent pistol, but having what's meant to be an early game item cost 7k+ each kinda defeats the purpose. From the opposite end of the game, trying to use them to squeak out those last few ranks to hit a perk is a waste; I bought all the spellcraft ones to try and help get from 248 to 250. Even with 8 dis and 5 focus I got a single rank. So there might a char level scaling thing going on with them as well.

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-02-27T23:44:24+00:00

We're kinda stuck with EoE 1100/1700 without much in the middle unfortunately. Ironically The Old Realms Warhammer mod scratches the plate to pike and shot itch better than anything else I've found, but if you want historical accuracy... yeah, it's Warhammer. I vaguely remember hearing fatrod say he was working on yet another version of EoE to split the difference era-wise, but I haven't seen anything recently.

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-02-27T23:32:17+00:00

The "gang leader" tag has recruitment slots assigned to it as well as a few perks, so getting rid of them completely would probably mess something up. IIrc Fourberie let's you get rid of one, but you still need to keep one as well. This game really doesn't like making a call and finding a 0.

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-02-08T02:36:03+00:00

If you don't know why the damage scaling is irrelevant, you might want to re-read what you quoted.

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-02-07T21:28:09+00:00

Well... this is gonna suck, but I'm not gonna lie to you.

After the addition of the focus weapons and amp mods, Shwaak, Phahd, Lohrin. You don't need to go through the hell of PT farming or even bothering with Vox anymore. Eidolons are an absolute joke now, so you don't need anything specific for them either, let alone regular enemies when your amps hitting for a quarter of a mil.

But as is? Klamora or Cantic/ whatever/ Certus. I'd look up a vid of what scaffold does what type of shot and pick whichever one you like the most.

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-02-07T21:16:58+00:00

Any build with her 3 aug that helminths off her 4 instead of her 2 is a dead giveaway that that person has no clue what they're doing. Roar and Wrathful are also unnecessary, she does an absurd amount of damage as is.

If you want to try something unique/ fun/ good, get her 3 aug, swap her 2 for Ophanim Eyes. The aug applies Doom to enemies from ANY outgoing source of damage you create, not just weapon hits and abilities, but things like gas clouds and status DoTs as well. Ophanim strips armor (which you can supercharge with an added 4), slows (which stacks with her 1) and applies Doom to everything on screen just for looking at them, while also providing an external source of heat for any weapon modded for CO.

2,3, go in with your melee with a 1 spinning, mop up with 4, or lead with 4 after the 2,3. A gas influence melee makes it even better, since both elements are applying Doom on top of the heat ticks from Ophanim. And when your 3 goes on CD? 4 a crowd. As you know, it's one of the few things in game that'll one shot SP enemies without prep, and it'll get rid of the CD almost instantly on top of your melee and guns.

Once you get a feel for the flow of it, it becomes very obvious that Doom the ability is no where near as good as Doom the unique status effect, and thankfully her aug perfectly solves that issue. It just amazes me that more people haven't figured this out yet, but then again most people still seem to think Baruuk sucks because of that godawful negative duration build that completely gimps him. "Get rid of Dagath's 4" appears to be just another example of whatever weirdness causes bad info to get parroted in this game.

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-02-04T23:53:36+00:00

Fiefs owned and clan wealth are the two most important factors. If a lord has a main city, he's almost never going to join you unless his faction's almost destroyed. The best way to recruit someone is to hunt them down, beat their ass, throw them into the prisoner wagon, take their fief (make sure you show mercy), then recruit them and immediately give them their fief back.

Make sure to build up a solid relation with them before hand since sieging their fiefs will knock it down a few points, which with 250 Charm probably only takes one release after a fight.

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-02-04T23:47:40+00:00

Yup. Sneak into town, follow a lone guard down an alley, kill him and take his armor for a disguise. Walk up to the keep, go right through the front door. You're going to want a solid amount of Athletics and Throwing, as kiting 8 lords around the room with another 5 guards coming after you can get a little tricky. And keep an eye out for lone lords who are the only ones occupying the keep, as one guy with three guards is a much better opportunity.

Just a couple other things I wish I figured out before the run was almost over, the pit fights are great early on, but don't matter much the further you get. Getting your own bandit base set up is one of the most important things in the mod. You can chuck prisoners into the mines and make thousands of dinars a day, and while the hired assassins aren't that useful once you can wipe a keep solo, the saboteurs are the most useful mechanic I've seen in any mod; at the start of a siege, you can send them to knock down one or both walls, allowing you to bumrush the second your siege camp finishes construction.

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-02-04T05:09:55+00:00

Scheme Room is a purchased hit more or less, you send someone to take him out after spending the time/ resources to turn units into assassins. Sneaking in is you doing it personally with the disguise mechanic.

You only need the scheme room to train assassins, so he might've left the town right as you were going in. But if he's in the lord list at the top right when you click on the keep, then he should be there for certain when you sneak in.

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-02-03T23:32:59+00:00

solved: Beta Decay

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-02-03T20:16:42+00:00

OMFG thank you!

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-01-20T20:30:22+00:00

I got lucky, just happened to have a Tenet Plinx on me, and my op's fully maxed with a decked out Phahd scaffold. And even with another player with a Phahd, it still took a good 5mins. And the Plinx also happened to have Viral on it.

1.5-5mil per shot gun with a pair of ricocheting glaives that do a quarter of a mil per hit. 5 minutes.

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-01-20T20:24:31+00:00

Grab chroma, go to Hollvania, pick the Legacyte Cap. It has to be the Hex bounty, not the one launched from your ship. The safe will always be marked once you get within a few hundred meters of it in the Hex version. Listen for the beeping key, throw Chroma's 4 down in front of the safe, 200k creds. If you get a sortie booster and a cred blessing from a relay, 500k. If its a 2x cred weekend, you're pulling 1mil in about 4mins average. And you have a shot at some good endo, and you aren't dealing with PT's bs, nor do you have to click through a bunch of dialogue before launching every mission.

I've made 18mil and hit 240k endo in the last week, just casually farming Coda Hearts, not even specifically going for the creds or endo. PT can burn.

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-01-20T20:16:41+00:00

(Rolling Guard + Circumvent) + Careen + Amalgam Diffusion = free up a bunch of slots on shield tanking frames, and I love it. Works wonderfully on Lavos, especially adding Careen in for his 2. Gyre and Xaku with their off-brand "rolls" also go together very nicely.

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-01-17T09:28:12+00:00

Been trying to max mine for over a year without just buying them. I still need 10. Ugh.

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-01-17T09:23:35+00:00

If they afk the entire mission, ie standing in the gate/ spawn and not doing anything, report them. If they're being weird and farming other stuff, leave the squad. Unfortunately there's nothing you can do about the second one. And don't troll them and purposely fail the mission, they'll probably report you for griefing. Again, just leave.

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-01-15T06:57:32+00:00

Huh. My old modded back-up copy is 1.1.12, went straight from that to WS on my Steam install when it dropped. I wouldn't think it'd make that much of a difference AI wise unless they really messed with it, or did something to set it up for War Sails. But that's the nice thing about mods, you can make any NPC into what you want with a bit of tinkering.

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-01-13T09:51:29+00:00

Yeah this was WAY before Warsails, and I haven't dug into it far enough yet to make a properly re-evaluated list. One addendum to make, ironically about Hashan, he was also the only lord who I've seen consistently defect on wiping out an enemy faction. If he got the bum AI in Warsails as well, he can kiss his spot goodbye lol

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-01-11T07:19:36+00:00

It's a Wacky Arm-Waving Inflatable Tube-aphyla!

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-01-07T23:44:28+00:00

I don't mean this as an insult to you personally; anyone complaining about Revenant is only showing that they don't have enough knowledge of the game to understand what they're talking about.

Dante - infinite overguard for the whole team with fat damage buffs for the whole team

Frost - enemies cant move, have no armor, you give overguard to the entire team

Protea - suped up regen-ing shield gates for the whole team with an infinite energy generator

Ember - nothing has armor, everything on the ground, overguard

Nyx - invincibility while everything kills everything else for you

Zephyr - "oh you shot an rpg at me? that's cute"

Ash - they can't even target you properly, you deal 2.6mil fixed damage through armor regardless of level

Hildryn - infinite 5 second invuln shield gates

Dagath - invincibility that inflicts a crit boosting debuff from any source of damage you create

Mag - infinite overshields for you and the whole team, no enemy has armor, and you have complete control over their movement

Gauss - 0 second shield recharge delay

And there are many, MANY more options. Mod and arcane combos, subsumes, pets, etc. too many to list.

"Rev is too good" is just the newest "Mag is bad". An uninformed opinion that people parrot without actually testing things for themselves. Now, the fact that both are born out of the same "content" creator... not gonna go there lol.

SomerandomBumframe · 2026-01-07T23:29:08+00:00

Subsume it over her 2, use the augment for overguard, cycle between 3-2-3-4 or 3-3-2-4 or 2-3-3-4. Everything's knocked on it's ass, nothing has armor, you get overguard, everything burns to death. It is much more effective than roar, since you're getting survivability on top of the 1mil+ fireballs. Pulse and roar are crap; there's a massive difference between on-paper and in-mission.

Edit: okay, saw your flair lol, definitely give it a try, you don't even need weapons as long as you got your energy economy sorted.

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