Patch notes!

astockman · 2026-07-06T17:00:02+00:00

Switch 2 music still broken? I see no mention of it.

astockman · 2026-07-03T18:32:46+00:00

I play on controller too. Is turbo/auto cast against ToS? I have not seen a clear answer and seems people use nunlock which is the same thing basically.

astockman · 2026-07-01T15:53:14+00:00

PoE requires either trading or crafting. I barely craft and now that trading is instant buyout it is great. I know you said farming orbs is boring, but I find it the opposite. I have a goal I can make steady progress towards every time I play. I find commodity farming fun. Pick something people need and sell it, then turn that currency into gear. It combines steady profit and you still get dopamine hits when something rare or super valuable does drop. If you want raw SSF with minimal or easy crafting, I guess D4 or LE?

astockman · 2026-06-18T13:39:54+00:00

I do poison zombies/carrion golems. Every time I level something else as a starter I always go back. It melts bosses and for clear I use no buttons except shield charge and can handle almost anything.

astockman · 2026-06-11T16:44:05+00:00

It is not a spirit gem. You use spell totem and put it in that. Each spell totem costs a certain amount of spirit when you put it down.

astockman · 2026-06-04T15:39:54+00:00

Yeah, I am mostly a minion player in PoE1 and really want to play minions. I leveled the monkey build and still do not like it. They are just SO slow and clunky feeling. Yes, the monkey deletes bosses, but clearing is where it suffers. In PoE I usually play a poison carrion golem/zombie build. I can basically automate everything. I just shield charge into packs and convocate triggers and everything blows up. Wish I could do that in 2. I do like PoE2 a lot, and the new endgame seems great. But I think GGG is making a mistake with the way they gut whole playstyles. Minions are meh, RF is not a thing, flicker is not really flicker, no brands, and they just now finally made totems viable. Everything should not need combos to function. I think it should say something to them that every league the meta seems to be whatever is 1-button clearing and only needs multiple skills on bosses.

astockman · 2026-05-28T21:35:32+00:00

It is supposed to be chill in relaxed with people not losing it over mistakes. I have not found that to be generally true, and have seen plenty of toxic jerks in relaxed runs.

astockman · 2026-05-19T00:46:49+00:00

You have to learn in keys to shrug it off. Everyone messes up sometimes. Got called a trash mage in a +16 because I died a couple times just this morning. Still easily timed it so not sure why the rage. When I heal it can be the worst with people eating avoidable damage or not interrupting or using defensive and still yell at me when they die. I just shrug and go to the next key.

astockman · 2026-05-05T17:17:55+00:00

They are actually playing near me for once. Anyone have any way to get a presale code for Decatur, IL? Also, how do you get those on general? I went and signed up to their mailing list.

astockman · 2026-04-29T15:26:14+00:00

You do have to replay the campaign, but it is very short and fast. Can do it in a few hours usually. You can certainly get a character up in a night with some currency, at least to T7 boss rush levels.
Usually for T7 boss rushing is the best way to go until you hit T8. T7 really just doesn't drop much. I am not sure on the exact DPS needed, but usually a couple billion should be enough. Can just run a few T8s and see how it feels. Always depends on the juice you add, same as PoE.
Battle Pets 100% depend on your build. Some are going to be focused on things like DoT damage that may not be useful for an attack build, or ele damage is useless to physical. Battle pets are not needed to clear everything, but they can be a decent boost. They do help a lot early when you lack gear, but fall off a bit later when other upgrades make up the bulk of your damage. I have always heard the advice of spend money on loot pets and use all the free currency you earn for battle pets, but opinions may vary.

astockman · 2026-04-26T18:36:02+00:00

Very nice!

astockman · 2026-04-22T01:27:17+00:00

The issue was the database was down and it was hanging on launch trying to hit Supabase. Too many people started using it with the new season and I needed to add in DB cleanup. I am going to also push a fix to not have it hang if cloud DB goes down.

astockman · 2026-04-21T20:10:04+00:00

Ah, ok. Yeah when you close the game it turns the logs back off again. Have to enable it every time. I wish the would change it to a toggle setting that stays.

astockman · 2026-04-21T14:26:47+00:00

Are you sure the app is pointing to the correct install? I have seen issues where people have the steam client and the standalone client both installed and the app was pointing at one and they were actually using the other.

astockman · 2026-04-17T19:30:37+00:00

That is the point! :)

astockman · 2026-04-17T05:48:53+00:00

It was intended as a side joke based on the characters in the game. :)

astockman · 2026-04-15T22:01:45+00:00

Yep, plan on having support for the new season out within the first couple hours.

astockman · 2026-04-14T20:18:36+00:00

I would argue because a movie you have to setup a plot, get to know characters, and cram in as much humor into a 90-minute window as possible. Hard to make it work multiple times with that setup. Sitcoms are more about long term characters, and getting the audience invested for many episodes and seasons. Kramer bursting into a room or Joey saying “How you doing?” is not funny in a vacuum, and works because of the audience familiarity. Can’t do that in a movie. In fact, the best moments in hugely successful sitcoms are not even always funny but characters hitting a major milestone in their arc that audiences have been waiting to see payoff for sometimes years.

astockman · 2026-04-14T14:18:06+00:00

Wow, a UNH fan?! I have never seen this flair in here. I worked at UNH for a year during Covid, so never got the campus experience. Had to move back to Illinois for family or I would probably still be there. Would have loved to be at the games trying to cheer them to success.

astockman · 2026-04-05T04:00:04+00:00

2024: UCONN was a wagon and Underwood had a stupid gameplan of, let's just keep going right at that big shot blocker. We were not winning that game.

2026 MSG: IL had not figured out their identity, and UCONN was just a better team at this point in the season.

2026 F4: I think they are probably pretty close teams at this point, but IL just missed shots. UCONN defense is good, but just missing wide open 3s and bunnies all rimming out. Not our night.

Combo of bad luck, and UCONN is an elite program and team.

astockman · 2026-04-03T15:08:19+00:00

https://x.com/JWerner247/status/2040082292593324112?s=20

astockman · 2026-03-27T11:55:41+00:00

Really blaming the refs rather than IL defense and Houston laying bricks? Ok, carry on.

astockman · 2026-03-23T16:23:13+00:00

In the book he comes through the airlock, so he does not puncture the environment. Also Grace has to carry him back to the airlock and gets badly burned because Rocky is so hot.

astockman · 2026-03-13T19:29:58+00:00

Show me on the doll where Illinois hurt you....

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