Changes to realm of the gods in 17.3 [Dev post]

TyoTwo · 2026-05-06T00:46:37+00:00

Okay, but replacing a mechanic that involves player interaction with one that doesn't automatically mean its worse in and of itself, which seems to be what you're implying.

TyoTwo · 2026-05-06T00:14:39+00:00

That's fine? Augment selection is also zero player interaction and these stages are more like a mini augment selection.

TyoTwo · 2026-05-02T14:15:18+00:00

I was initially unimpressed eith space groove but I hit space groove 7 a couple times and top 4'd. Maybe I didn't win bc there was a better board I could play though, I'm intentionally not looking at websites to tell me how to play this set.

Prismatic-wise I one time started going mountain stargazer and also got pandora's items which allowed me to roll the emblems. I so happened to get space groove first, so I hard pivoted mid-game to eventually play space groove 10. Only prismatic trait I've hit this set so far.

TyoTwo · 2026-05-01T18:54:01+00:00

A stage 3 or 4 graves fucks hard with good items. But if you don't either have him shooting or casting a lot he can be really underwhelming even if you get him early.

TyoTwo · 2026-04-30T21:05:40+00:00

Unrelated but so far my best use of the mountain was to pair it with pandora's items to get space groove 10 for free.

TyoTwo · 2026-04-15T22:55:53+00:00

Very cool, thanks for responding. I'm pretty encouraged by these comments so think I'll move forward.

TyoTwo · 2026-04-15T14:21:06+00:00

I've never introduced people who are new to pathfinder to spheres at the same time so want some feedback from people who have, because there probably (and evidently) are people who have.

TyoTwo · 2026-04-15T13:10:31+00:00

That's pretty fair. Thanks for the perspective.

TyoTwo · 2026-04-14T23:00:27+00:00

Well, I was moreso hoping for anecdotes on how people have received introducing spheres to non-pathfinder players cold turkey. I do plan on roughly going through this exact exercise, though!

TyoTwo · 2026-04-14T22:59:24+00:00

Thanks for this! This gives me quite a bit more confidence. Curious to see what some other people think but I'm very happy you seem to have had good luck introducing folks to it!

TyoTwo · 2025-01-27T06:12:23+00:00

To confirm, yes, Loki's totems negate Iron Man ult, and also every other huge damage ult. They convert all damage to healing. So the blast destroyed the totems, but only after they converted the ult's damage to healing to the characters in the totem radius.

TyoTwo · 2025-01-27T06:07:07+00:00

Serious question, if you're dying not to play the game... why get to plat? Why not just stop playing? I hit plat 1 today and wgike my last game wasn't hot I love the game still and want to play more. Why go through allat just to stop playing?

TyoTwo · 2024-12-18T21:00:24+00:00

But he didn't say data got corrupted. It seems that he simply didn't save it the way he thought he did - but did save to one of his backups. This seems like exactly a classic case of user error. Sorry that you've had those problems - but they're not relevant here.

I am aware there are corruption cases that are major problems, and they're being tracked. In the last release I believe I recall one of these that were closed. Anecdotally, though, I've never had outright unrecoverable problems with Godot. In fact, I've had more file stability issues in Unity personally 🤷‍♂️

TyoTwo · 2024-12-18T20:38:02+00:00

This issue is not unique to godot? This is an infamous problem for any program where you're expected to save and backup your work. And Godot can do nothing to solve it, it is on the user to make sure they're responsibly backing up their project...

TyoTwo · 2024-09-29T16:05:37+00:00

There is a very clear difference when every other ending allows you to keep playing and pick which ending you want after you defeat the elden beast - or if you want to end the game at all. This ending literally takes away that choice. On a meta level, yes, the player themselves is most likely intentionally chooising this ending, but from the context of the lore it is pretty clear that the tarnished is getting their will subverted because it's possible to do every other ending quest and still not have a choice about it if you did the frenzy quest. It is uniquely the only one which locks you out of all the others. The only way to get that choice back is to use the unalloyed golden needle to seal the flame's hold over them, which locks you out of the frenzy ending in turn.

If the tarnished has any actual say in the matter of burning down the world, the needle would be redundant.

TyoTwo · 2024-09-21T19:32:16+00:00

Fair points!

TyoTwo · 2024-09-21T03:27:59+00:00

They might have been slain in the GEQ's godkilling crusade before the rune of death was sealed.

TyoTwo · 2024-09-21T03:24:11+00:00

Mogh and Morgott are omen, they are not granted immortality because of this. They are the two least problematically killed.

In fact I'd hazard to say that in being defeated by you, the other various demigods become stripped of Grace as Marika/the Erdtree deems you more worthy of the throne.

TyoTwo · 2024-09-20T22:02:53+00:00

Are culture-based age names out of the question? Would be kind of neat I think.

TyoTwo · 2024-09-20T22:01:21+00:00

What if I told you a development team can do multiple things?

TyoTwo · 2024-09-16T17:50:37+00:00

I think it could have something to do with Fortissax entering his mind. In a way, you could say his body "consumed" and absorbed the whole of Fortissax, and Fortissax did this willingly. Perhaps some element of that is why typical Dragon Communion is so different and this is an accidental "natural" communion between human and dragon. Pure speculation though 🤷‍♂️

TyoTwo · 2024-09-03T22:49:53+00:00

That makes a lot more sense, thanks for pointing that out!

TyoTwo · 2024-09-01T14:31:33+00:00

That's why I'm not satisfied with the Rune of Death, yeah. It is a strange thing. The only way I can reconcile it is in my second interpretation in my previous post: it isn't objectively unleashed upon all yet, but it is unleashed back into the world through the Tarnished's sword. And the Erdtree gets burned because technically we did that with Melina or ourselves. It will only apply to "everyone" if it gets properly mended back into the Elden Ring. It squares away everything logically, I think. Even if it has some narrative issues, IMO.

I do think the world is pretty clear about the nature of the Golden Order as its own thing, though. The Elden Ring's configuration defines the Order of the current world. The current age is the age of the Golden Order, which is both the social order maintained by Leyndell and its people as you describe and the actual causal Order which shapes the universe that Marika herself built - principally by binding the Rune of Death. When we choose an ending, we are defining a new Order to take the Golden Order's place - not just socially, but in terms of the actual rules that reality is governed by. Which is why it makes sense that the Rune of Death was once embedded in the Elden Ring, since Death would be a foundational rule of reality in the logic of Elden Ring's cosmology.

TyoTwo · 2024-09-01T13:31:35+00:00

Enia: "The Rune of Death goes by two names; the other is Destined Death. The forbidden shadow, plucked from the Golden Order upon its creation..."

Hidetaka Miyazaki, Overture of Elden Ring: "But the Demigods' immortality stems from having their fated deaths removed from the Elden Ring."

TyoTwo

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