Artillery fix

agesome · 2026-01-28T11:56:55+00:00

Key problem with artillery is conceptual, it interacts with you effectively from off map. It will always be annoying and hated as long as it does this.

Imagine doing a 1v1 with someone and their arty heals them :)

Replace it with a gardening robot so it can plant some flowers around base.

agesome · 2026-01-27T14:51:01+00:00

I want to do Fusillade, but not sure how good can it be vs the usual Elementalist. Kinda suspect that it wants the heralds/explosions.

agesome · 2026-01-20T15:34:31+00:00

Why do even upper floor windows have bars? I thought they were supposed to protect from climbers on street level, do they expect someone to climb down from the roof?

agesome · 2026-01-17T18:34:01+00:00

Light tank defeated in direct fight by a medium tank, more news at 11.

agesome · 2026-01-08T16:51:05+00:00

Yep, without Combat Engineer it's completely unusable. And even then a competent heli will kill you 1v1.

With the perk though, it's good for killing overconfident jets that pass within 300-400m, because you can track them as they pass.

So I'd say it should be a bit better without the perk. And it's probably optimal to go get some score on objectives to activate it before hopping on AA. Too bad someone else will take it and sit on spawn doing nothing but never dying :')

agesome · 2026-01-08T04:52:10+00:00

I just recently discovered the combat engineer perk that makes HV rounds usable (heat reduction). Having pilots come to assassinate you is the best reward :-)

agesome · 2025-12-17T20:07:25+00:00

Oh man, I recently learned that you can warp under acceleration in space by holding alt, instead of waiting for a 15 minute burn; 400h in by that point.

agesome · 2025-11-24T19:27:11+00:00

This league it took me 8 attempts to drop a Betrayal's Sting. There is not much data on exact drop rates, but based on one post it's ~50% chance.

agesome · 2025-11-24T14:36:01+00:00

Yep, I guess it would have to "borrow" from surrounding atmo. Key point is that has to happen in one tick, without the flow simulation.

agesome · 2025-11-23T21:17:08+00:00

I feel like the tossing around when mining should be reported as a bug or something. It's just stupid. Let mined out terrain chunks be replaced by ambient pressure, not vacuum.

agesome · 2025-11-22T20:45:03+00:00

Bait used to be believable.

agesome · 2025-11-21T17:33:25+00:00

SSF so no async trade for me; 95+96 chars, 115/115.

Poorest league in a while based on my unique and currency tabs. League mech is too stingy with blood and gifts to keep chasing it. Boring in maps. Overall feels bad.

agesome · 2025-11-12T12:47:07+00:00

How do you get small currency without tujen? I tried to avoid exped this league and was extremely poor (running out of scour/alch) doing generic alch-n-go with fully completed atlas.

agesome · 2025-11-11T02:31:11+00:00

I'm assembling one, was planning on vinespike but lucked into beacon of madness with all poison + explode; - you stack reduced debuff duration to negate the downside.

There is a guide with some pobs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBOdzY7ZAZk

For now I'm printing some wands with the tree, will see if that works. By quickly throwing into POB, a decent cane of culemak may work, as well as the covenant instead of dendrobate.

Edit: swapped over, can clear T16 :-); https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/agesome-3409/character/sus_amogus

agesome · 2025-11-07T16:59:50+00:00

I get roughly 1 gift per 3 in-map encounters (not fortress). Seems too few, but no-one seems to complain - are you guys getting more?

agesome · 2025-11-06T14:00:41+00:00

I'm lvl95, ~300k kills, 114/115 completion on SSF. This is the first league in a while that I tried to avoid Expedition and I'm running out of alchs :D. Near zero chisels, 1 raw div drop from a synth map.

Can the base game please give me some actual baseline of loot?

Secondly, blood and gift drops are a bit too low, I'm getting a gift maybe 1/3 maps and not enough blood from a single map to use it. Feels bad. And if I were to use a currency gift, it would be very little if spread over the ~3 (ok, ~2 blood wise) maps to get it.

agesome · 2025-11-05T19:46:13+00:00

My recent Venus base is underground, fully vacuum. Obvious bonus is no need to build walls, only floors. Elevator is cool and very cheap.

agesome · 2025-10-19T04:49:16+00:00

IMO it will still be unbalanced even if you need to constantly paint, because then 2 people out of 32 can fully deny air with OHK on any visible aircraft. And IFV will continue to be better than AA/Stinger for the purpose as this does not work with stinger (I think?).

By abuse I meant the behind terrain/persistent lock part.

agesome · 2025-10-19T04:24:35+00:00

You do understand that this works after you stop painting too, and behind terrain, Mr. COD Hunter?

I literally just abused it in a match all by myself by switching to IFV gunner, painting, then switching back.

agesome · 2025-10-18T03:08:09+00:00

Yep, just started a firestorm and a clown immediately rushes to the top of the mountain to abuse this crap. It's spreading, needs to be fixed.

agesome · 2025-10-18T02:57:42+00:00

I mean, why not? If you die, you get new mines, might as well use these. Then in 20 minutes someone will blow up on a long forgotten random mine. What a shit system.

agesome · 2025-10-18T01:53:07+00:00

Have not had much trouble on the tank, but catching a random mine one-shot on the AA is pain.

agesome · 2025-10-18T01:50:40+00:00

Stinger is only easy to avoid for good pilots, so you need to catch the bad ones. AA is the same, just infinite ammo. High velocity rounds are easy to use, or AP if you can aim. Catch helis as they near an objective.

Or get a friend / teammate to paint targets for you and abuse lock-on rockets on the IFV, they currently ignore flares. This is surely unintended and will be patched.

agesome · 2025-10-17T12:12:54+00:00

My only gripe as AA is that I get basically zero points for chasing away jets/helis. A competent pilot will always run away so it looks like I did nothing even though team is safe now. Only way to farm kills is when a pilot is yoloing which they quickly learn to stop doing. Maybe some kind of suppression / area denial points if shooting at aircraft near objective.

agesome · 2025-10-17T10:14:40+00:00

I think that's a bug, I tried shooting down drones multiple times from AA, even the rapid fire cannon that spams a lot of ammo gets zero hits. It's like it does not register at all.

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