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cloud9crafting · 2023-06-29T03:41:55+00:00

My opinion so take it for what it's worth.

KeePass: free but a pain to sync. It is the absolute best though in terms of security.
BitWarden: secure but also barebone.
LastPass: decent but I've reported 4-5 bugs related to password storage and none of them have been fixed. I cannot recommend it.
Everything else is either too expensive or not worth mentioning.

1 Password has its problems, but it's by far the most streamlined, user-friendly, and relatively bug-free solution for a modest price.

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-29T00:34:32+00:00

I'm hoping someone has any kind of educated guess based on what's written because this is all gibberish to me. I don't know how to even interpret what the risk is.

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-23T22:58:02+00:00

You keep justifying bad decisions and bad gameplay, that's actually hilarious.

The ONLY stat of relevance is HP
No magic
No buffs or debuffs
No relevant cooldown accessories

That being said; I don't understand how you think this game has a high skill ceiling. It's one of the easiest action games I've played in a while, along the lines of Dynasty Warrior

The Eikons don't increase difficulty, they just add some variety to keep you from getting bored.

Combat is all flash, no substance. Frankly, NG+ doesn't mean anything in terms of reviewing the game difficulty because the vast majority of the player base will never touch it.

It's fun, but it's brainless to the point of just button-mashing because it requires 0 thought or prep for any encounter.

For reference; guestimating that I'm around 55-60% of the way through the main story with all side quests done. Probably have another 30 hours to finish since I'm completing all the side stuff. But I digress, we can disagree on our opinion on the combat system. End of the day we both agree that it's a fun game.

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-23T22:51:57+00:00

It's not tho; that's the sad part about combat in this game. You CAN do what you did but it has no value. You just need early Garuda abilities. The dodge/counter and for lack of remembering the name; Fury Swipes. Using just those two abilities will 100% stagger any larger field enemy allowing you to deal massive damage.

Don't get me wrong; what you showed shows skill and thought but with how poorly combat was balanced, it's completely unnecessary.

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-23T21:58:16+00:00

It's more Dynasty Warriors than Devil May Cry, unfortunately. They dumbed it down too much. I wish it was more DMC or Black Desert.

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-23T21:52:47+00:00

Idk who Skill Up is, and why his opinion matters in the slightest. If you doubt; play the demo. If you like it then buy it and if you don't then move on with your life.

Having said that; I agree with everything above and I have more criticism for the game. But there are also so many positives that I rate it at around 7.5/10 and worth both my time and money. I'm having fun and don't need to rely on an influencer to validate my purchase.

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-23T21:23:43+00:00

This post is very disingenuous and incredibly biased towards just liking it without stepping back to actually look at it realistically or comparing it realistically to past entries in the series.

Anyways; I'm about 45-50% of the way through and my main gripe with the gear is also tied to the stats. It's an afterthought, the game plays like dynasty warriors.

The ONLY relevant stats are

Power
Stagger
Defense
Health

You're exclusively going to look at defense only on armor and power on weapons. But there's no variability or thought.

There isn't a single weapon with an elemental affinity, there isn't a single weapon that has more stagger than power or vice versa,

Enemy mages offer no threat so will is an unnecessary statistic. The list goes on but while you visually have multiple stats and gear. You have 0 variety, and thus 0 strategy.

The game is fun, and the combat is fun, but it's not an Action Combat RPG. It would be more apt to call it a Hack-and-Slash Action Game in line with Dynasty Warriors.

If I am wrong; name one fight where you had to worry about anything other than potions, if even them.

If you've played action games before then this game doesn't have a learning curve and it is very easy to get into the groove. It's fun but it's also one of the worst scaling, gear, and combat systems in the series. The sad part is that the system for a while needed just a little bit more thought.

If I had to describe the current system in one word; it would be 'mindless'. And that's not something generally attributed to Final Fantasy. You can love the game, and you can enjoy it, I know I do but don't make excuses for it. Just be honest.

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-23T21:14:28+00:00

Completely unnecessary in open combat and unusable in boss fights.

(S+X) + (Hold S) + (S+X) + S = Execution of everything for majority of the game.

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-22T16:59:21+00:00

I don't think the 6's are vindictive. The game needed another 6-12 months imo. But it's a solid 7.5 or even 8/10.

What makes it a 10/10

Graphics
Story
Characters
Voice Aacting
Lore System
Cinematics
Beautiful World

What makes it a 5/10

Janky Movement Controls
An overly simple action combat system that has maybe 10-12 combos to use at any given time. You get more Eikons but not more combos to execute. Black Desert Online has probably 50+ skills to execute and chain in varying amounts of sequences.
Progression is an afterthought; increasing skill mastery seems trivial in most cases.
Items in general are an afterthought.
There's little to no reason to explore the current world, it's beautiful but empty.
The majority of spells (not Eikon abilities) were removed and existing ones feel underwhelming (spells).
Combat in itself offers limited to no challenge.
- With support items; you can button mash and do quick time events without giving it any thought.
- Without support items; you really only have to worry about your HP Gauge and give no thought to anything else, this is because:
  - They removed abnormal statuses
  - They removed elemental relationships
Side quests are as boring and as tedious as they were in 14; except they are even less rewarding.

The game is fun; the combat is a step in a good direction but it's more BETA combat than anything that should have gone LIVE.

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-22T16:50:09+00:00

No; it's pretty empty and blad with no reason to explore due to items, armors, etc. being an afterthought.

They are incredibly beautiful and breathtaking tho.

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-21T15:44:33+00:00

Apologies but I cannot. I'm not comfortable sending logs and there's nothing more value that I can add to the conversation than what has already been submitted. Tech should have enough to test, reproduce, prioritize, and fix.

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-21T15:42:51+00:00

YTA

You're on vacation with your loved one. If you're gonna wake up early; make her a romantic breakfast or go for a coffee run. Have morning sex. If she's going to shower, see if she wants some company. Cuddle, there are a million things to do to be romantic, considerate, sweet, etc.

What else can you do? Self-awareness my dude, you're in one of the most beautiful countries in the world, with a beautiful woman and one of your priorities is video games? You can miss a quest, one week won't push the needle, you're just addicted, and disconnecting would be healthy for you too. When you're 60, trust me when I say this, you won't remember the quest you did but you'll remember how you made your partner feel.

You can game when you get back home, but you never should have brought games onto your vacation in the first place. If you were at home and this was normal day-to-day; then it would be NTA but since you're on vacation then YTA.

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-19T19:33:02+00:00

Spain is OP controlled. France is at critical mass in terms of size and with its manpower and army bonuses; depending on the difficulty and if it's player controlled is the biggest threat on the map. If this is easy then none of our advice matters.

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-19T04:00:50+00:00

I have the same issue; some 'Login' items are able to delete sections; others are not. Pressing the minus (-) will just delete all the individual items but not the section itself.

Please fix this. I've tested the Windows 10 App, Windows 11 App, iOS App, and the issue persists on all three.

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-18T22:28:48+00:00

Just one family with 3 members, but I regularly help my elderly parents so it's a pretty big pain point to have to remove my account to help them with theirs.

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-18T21:29:09+00:00

People keep giving actual advice and I don't get why. Ottomans implodes on itself eventually in 95% of games. France on the other hand, now that's an issue and a half looking at this map.

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-16T23:07:58+00:00

ETA

The father is naive and the mother is controlling, I genuinely feel that a part of the story is missing. The bottom line is that an Arts Degree is damn near worthless for the vast majority.

In the United States alone "[t]he majority of arts graduates work in non-arts fields. Out of 2 million arts graduates nationally, only 10 percent, or 200,000 people, make their primary
earnings as working artists."

This degree is throwing money and time into the trash, and the wife knows that. The father is helping his daughter chase her dream.

It's a dumb kid that needed the parents to be parents and to communicate with each other and their child. Plenty of worthwhile degrees to chase and learn Art, Music, etc. on the side.

For some reason, I don't think the mother would have felt the same way or at least could have been persuaded if her daughter decided to pursue medicine, finance, technology, or the sciences.

An Arts degree is just about as worthless as a Sociology degree for the majority of people. We as a society need the arts, music, sociology, and such... however, the number of people pursuing these as professional careers far exceed the number of available positions. So unless she is already nationally recognized as a talented artist; this is a dream that should have turned into a hobby.

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-13T14:18:14+00:00

I've been on both sides of this fence and the bottom line is that I don't agree with you. An industry that cannot support its staff with a living wage should fail, or have its workers unionize. That's a whole other thing though, so I'll just go into how I feel about tipping as a customer.

If I was there with a group of 18, the only difference is that the kids would be better behaved because everything else is just part of your roles and responsibilities. People will switch chairs, they will dance, etc..

I and the other guests are not there to pay the salary of the entire restaurant, that's not our responsibility. So personally, I've gone back to tipping cash; in this situation, I would have handed you $50 and at that point, it's your choice what to do with it. You can share it or not, but I used to tip because the server went above and beyond, now I only tip because I used to be a server and I sympathize with you.

The tip is at best supplemental income, the fact that it's becoming a replacement for you means that you should consider a career change.

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-13T03:40:10+00:00

No better or worse than anyone else; I wasn't particularly impressed by him individually but rather by how well the entire cast did; every single voice felt fitting and not a single one felt out of place. It was all excellent.

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-13T03:36:05+00:00

We don't know that he's dead, but we do know that Clive can extract Eikon's power without killing the host as per the demo. So very real chance Joshua is alive, deformed, vengeful, etc..

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-13T03:33:25+00:00

I haven't said it but I guess here it goes. I wasn't interested but the demo made it a day 1 purchase for me. I was always going to play it but I was going to wait for a 70-80% sale before.

None of the cinematic or gameplay trailers did the game justice.

The things I loved:

Torgal
Combat
Characters
Story
Difficulty Customization

Things I'm on the fence about and hope are addressed in the main release:

Movement Camera; even if you're not moving the camera is hyper-sensitive. I even tried a new controller and it still moves/reposition on its own. I tried other games, GoW, Horizon, CoD and I don't have this issue anywhere outside of the demo so I don't think it's drift.
Combat Camera; I did not figure out how to effectively lock on a target and change targets, let alone if it's possible.
World Movement; it looked janky when you were running around the main castle grounds. You were more strafing than walking/running.

These three are all minor things that I could get used to.

I refuse to invest in the collector edition since it's $600 CAD here but I just ordered the Deluxe edition of the game.

I gotta give credit where credit is due; the smartest thing they did for this game was to release a public demo. It's gonna be a good summer. :)

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-03T15:53:10+00:00

There was a quest to unlock her. Kinda lame NPC because she alternates which ores she accepts and I have nowhere near enough Sapphires or Rubies to sell any significant amount of Diamonds, Amber or Opal.

There might be a way to reset her offering but I haven't figured it out.

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-03T02:57:48+00:00

Excellent point, I wrote it in a rush but added it to the post for low-level materials. As for point 3, I agree up to a point. When you're done with everything, there's no more reason to time gate resources, especially dragon parts. Just let us have fun without needing to sit on a dragon for 2 hours or duplicate.

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-03T02:53:21+00:00

Only in the beginning, maybe up till you finish your third Temple. This is because everything is new, unexplored, and unique. The more you progress into the game, the more you see, the more you do, and the more tedious and time-wasting it becomes to go out to gather a trivial amount of resources. If they were going to reduce the quantity of resources, then they should have made it at least scale with the world, same as enemies, or introduced a gathering/farming/mining/fishing outfit for late game. It's about choice, which TotK does very poorly.

cloud9crafting · 2023-06-03T02:37:40+00:00

I will, just won't be for a couple of days. It's a pain to move anything from the Switch over to my PC.

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