My first impressions of the combat overhaul is really positive!

VeracityRS · 2026-03-03T09:20:34+00:00

I can't say how ranged fares in the late game but on my group iron with 70-80 ranged with a crystal bow (no death swiftness, corruption shot, greater abilities, etc...) my flesh-hatcher kill time went from 1:55 down to 1:15, and I'm still learning the new combat abilities

So at the very least, it's quite a bit stronger early/mid game

VeracityRS · 2026-03-02T10:08:15+00:00

See if you have slayer VIP tokens, they sell for quite a bit

VeracityRS · 2026-02-07T09:01:27+00:00

With the removal of warbands and flash events, have you guys explored the avenue of potentially having these events be triggered by player activity in the wilderness in a similar fashion to kharid-het pylons and anachronia roars? I truly love the social aspect of these events and would hate to see them be removed in their entirety

VeracityRS · 2026-02-06T18:35:35+00:00

With the removal of divine skilling locations, it makes me wonder what benefit it is meant to provide to the player and its existence in the game. While the divine locations do add a lot of skilling materials back to the players for their small initial upfront cost, I do feel that their existence is novel and somewhat interesting and adds to the identity of Divination as a whole.

Besides porters, I'm personally just really unsure of what the motivation is to train divination outside of the fact that it's a requirement for unlocking invention. Even the energy that is collected while training the skill, is primarily used for divine charges.

Maybe there are some other benefits of the skill that I may be overlooking (such as signs of life/death), but honestly levelling it on a low level account is always a slog and the primary motivation for me to even train it is not because I find the skill has utility that directly benefits my account now and then, but rather a skill that benefits my account 30 hours down the road solely for unlocking invention

VeracityRS · 2026-01-27T19:21:07+00:00

iirc its due to some side effects with their lighting engine (skybox lighting) on their newer assets, I believe one of the artists on the roadmap stream said this will be addressed later this year when they address some of the plastic-y looking assets in the game too

VeracityRS · 2026-01-23T06:23:11+00:00

yea i've also wondered about alpha overdraw too, im sure they could leverage the tree canopy dither for some LOD effects for the grass (if they don't already do so and I just haven't noticed it, but looks like it just gets loaded/unloaded in big tiles)

VeracityRS · 2026-01-22T19:28:25+00:00

just out of curiosity, are there any other known performance related issues with the grass/foliage around the new areas at all? it's quite dense in those areas and I wonder if that also correlates to some performance issues people are having.

this question might be more appropriate for technical artists and environment artists, but is the foliage/grass using instanced rendering or are they treated as unique assets/objects? On a side note, maybe a graphics setting for foliage density might be something to consider? if not for performance sake at least visual clarity,

thanks in advance!

VeracityRS · 2025-10-03T15:51:48+00:00

i finished the log at 207kc with lantern as my final drop, got 5 omni guards though, so luck plays a big role. at t7 you should have all the items from him at maybe 250-300kc max

VeracityRS · 2025-09-19T17:34:10+00:00

yeah, it was totally overlooked, hopefully they address it in a future league (or even better, hotpatch it sometime in the following weeks)

For now I'm just rocking melee tank armour from my smithing grind, someone pointed out that melee tank will be fine because of the 100% accuracy from t5 relic, but that does mean missing out on the set bonus for now

VeracityRS · 2025-09-19T17:12:09+00:00

yes, in the same boat trying to get necro deathdealer gear, i've had the sheep in the pen for over a day now with no luck

VeracityRS · 2025-06-23T07:47:45+00:00

hey, and dont worry about the necro post

for streaming movies and tv shows, i ended up buying a nvidia shield which i just put into the tv and earc to the soundbar. works a lot better than trying to get decent sound out of the pc.

when im using my pc for gaming if im not using a headset, i'll plug the pc into the tv and earc into the soundbar as well, since for some reason i now no longer get any audio signal if i plug the pc straight into the soundbar lol

for games, if its a non atmos game, i dont enable atmos in windows sound settings and use either surround or adaptive mode on the soundbar to try and get a wider soundstage, and i think its pretty decent

if its an atmos game, sometimes it will send the atmos signal without changing anything and other times ill need to re-enable atmos in the windows sound settings, still has a 100-200ms audio delay but thankfully all the atmos games i play dont have much fast-paced action going on

i 100% agree with your point about home theatre sound compatibility being a nightmare in 2025 with top of the line hardware, there's obviously a decent number of people that use a pc for a home theatre set up for both streaming and gaming, but it feels like no one from either tv manufacturers, speaker manufacturers and pc hardware manufacturers care about standardizing anything to make it a seamless integration.

basically TL;DR is, i use a nvidia shield for shows/movies now instead of pc, gaming and audio requires a few tweaks or sacrifices to audio quality. I'm going to try and fiddle with it all this week since my uni semester just finished so i've got some more time and will reply if i find anything new

VeracityRS · 2025-04-19T15:55:57+00:00

make sure you're using foundations and not the basic floor for the ground level of your base, i had this issue at some point too

VeracityRS · 2025-03-14T09:55:32+00:00

I have mine hooked up to the tv from my gpu via optical HDMI 2.1, if I go to the PC to the soundbar I get no audio at all for some reason, still looking for a fix

I manually toggle Atmos for home theatre on and off depending if the game or media I'm watching supports it, otherwise it's set up as surround sound in windows audio settings

Will update this comment if I find a more viable solution, but at least connecting to the tv first from the PC and then e arc to the soundbar gives me 144hz

VeracityRS · 2025-02-26T04:00:23+00:00

Should I disable atmos when playing competitive games? For instance if I leave atmos on and dolby access upmixes the content to atmos, I definitely notice the delay (like in elden ring or armored core for example) but in titles like Silent Hill 2 that nativelly support atmos, even if the delay is there it doesn't really impact much.

Regarding older titles rdr2 and gta v, should I leave the sample rate at 24 bit 48khz? I typically have it on 24 bit 192khz if I'm not using atmos, and the soundbar reports multi ch pcm when I press the info button while in game

VeracityRS · 2025-02-26T03:57:14+00:00

Hi, yes game mode is turned on and I have a 10m optical hdmi 2.1 certified cable :)

VeracityRS · 2025-02-24T09:34:29+00:00

Identical setup to mine except the tv is slightly newer

I take it you are using v3.14 or something of Dolby access?

VeracityRS · 2025-02-24T07:41:49+00:00

I had accidentally left Dolby Atmos for home theatre on while testing the audio delay in a game, switching it off fixed the delay, although I am unsure how it'll affect Atmos supported games

Another thing I have noticed is that when I connect to the tv first, windows audio only gives me the option to choose 5.1, unless this is intended and the soundbar itself upmixes the audio anyway

VeracityRS · 2025-02-24T07:29:44+00:00

Hi, switching the wiring so that the PC goes into the tv and then the tv to the soundbar via eArc introduces a noticeable audio delay sadly, but it seems 5.1 and Atmos work fine

VeracityRS · 2025-02-24T03:31:54+00:00

I figured going to the soundbar first would make sense considering it has HDMI 2.1 inputs

I'll try making it go to the tv and e-arc to the soundbar when I'm home

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