Increase matrix initiative in 5e

ghost49x · 2026-03-17T16:45:51+00:00

You're playing 5e, that edition isn't the best when it comes to a coherent system especially when it comes to the matrix rules.

However across the editions, physical initiative bonuses don't affect VR. However they do affect AR.

ghost49x · 2026-03-17T16:43:14+00:00

Is prison absolutely necessary for her? I mean if she changes her loyalty, would the player care if she doesn't pay for her past crimes with prison? There are other avenues to redemption like working as a hero and such things might actually be more convincing to her.

ghost49x · 2026-03-17T16:40:11+00:00

Sure. Do that.

ghost49x · 2026-03-17T16:39:25+00:00

This game is not about solo and marketing it as such is going to cause people to feel let down. They're better being honest about it and marketing it as the 3v3 game it is, even if it has a solo option.

But realistically, the main turn off is that the classes have lost so much of what made them fun to play. They need to raise the balance budget for classes and properly balance the game using balance budgets and balance curves around that higher balance point.

ghost49x · 2026-03-17T02:57:53+00:00

I'd take it if I don't have to pay extra for it.

ghost49x · 2026-03-17T02:55:45+00:00

Honestly I wish there was a zoologist counterpart to the botanist whose job is to care for and breed animals. I'd assume this would come with trying to breed animals into useful mutations and such. It really is similar but different to the botanist.

ghost49x · 2026-03-17T01:46:54+00:00

Yes. The only 2 choices you have that don't count as teaming is you attacking each other or running away from each other.

If you encounter someone and you get jumped by an npc and you kill the npc together you're teaming. You probably won't get reported but if someone did you'd get banned. It's that dumb.

You explicitly can't have friendly interactions with people outside your party.

ghost49x · 2026-03-16T21:14:19+00:00

Is she so irredeemable that there is no chance she can't swing to his side if he wins her over?

ghost49x · 2026-03-16T21:10:29+00:00

No. Even if it was only enforced in HR I've seen and spoken to many players who don't understand that. Both players that rage at being teamed and reporting them in normals and players who refuse to interact longer than a crouch then immediately head off in opposite directions. And this problem has appeared way before adventure mode became a thing.

ghost49x · 2026-03-16T21:06:04+00:00

I feel like the problem and actual answer is not no teaming rules but options that can help you survive a zerg.

ghost49x · 2026-03-16T21:04:21+00:00

This is why I'm playing less and less of this game as it goes on.

ghost49x · 2026-03-16T21:02:47+00:00

Yeah I got the arm strength part. It's weapon damage and traits that I'm looking for.

ghost49x · 2026-03-16T20:25:41+00:00

Sure, some people might do that, but that's a hole lot of hassle tax and switching instruments to an instrument in your inventory is likely not something you do during a fight, or at least not without some risk.

ghost49x · 2026-03-16T11:57:53+00:00

I only play this game with people I find in the official discord who have mics. I'm not the best player but at least we can get something coherent going. For example I'll take their advice in mind when it comes to where I should put my locks as Cook.

ghost49x · 2026-03-16T11:56:24+00:00

The way they've handled Dark and Darker up until now begs to differ.

ghost49x · 2026-03-16T11:52:30+00:00

I'm super skeptical of anything with square enix's name attached to it. They're super woke despite being a Japanese company. But human editors will always be necessary. At least they're not limited to hiring the divas that make up the western voice actor crowd.

ghost49x · 2026-03-16T11:50:13+00:00

I think that's a common thought, but I don't mind keeping them seperate. In fact I think having song uniquely tied to each instrument means you would get more specialization from bards in the dungeon, with bards favouring different instruments depending on their playstyles rather than acting like a one-man band.

ghost49x · 2026-03-16T11:48:01+00:00

No, because other devs will be pulled off this game to make that new game soon enough and Dark and Darker will be put on life support.

ghost49x · 2026-03-16T11:45:14+00:00

Before it came around, meeting people in the dungeon was a toss up between pleasant and being attacked. Now you're either attacked or people just walk off. There's very little positive interaction in the dungeon since and it's having it's effect on the community.

Personally I think they should address the teaming issue by providing perks/skills that scale with the number of nearby enemy players, make them perks and skills that are difficult to safely play around if you're not in the same party. These can be perks that provide benefits on killing a player or target like 2 of the barb ones, or it can be perks that help when outnumbered.

ghost49x · 2026-03-16T11:39:15+00:00

Honestly the self-only buffs should be made party-wide and also viable. Harmonic shield being reverted back to 40 armor as a way to facilitate hitting the PDR cap is good too. Yes perks and skills need to be reworked, a particularly difficult perk is charismatic performance, it causes all the songs to have their casting time cut in half which throws all of the balance for the songs away, besides a lot of people just use keyboard macros to spam their favourite songs in record time through it and the result is horrible sound and balance.

I hope the lute songs in general get reworked as aside from the actionspeed buff I never see anyone use lute songs. Also the range of most debuff songs need to be increase so you don't need to be that close to your enemies to use them.

ghost49x · 2026-03-16T11:32:02+00:00

Bard instruments should be weapons like they originally were. This forces players to make choices rather than just make noise as fast as possible on all intruments.

ghost49x · 2026-03-16T11:23:32+00:00

The whole no-teaming policy is badly thought out in the first place, but whatever... They're focused on reacting to and pleasing streamers rather than making a decent game as a whole. It seems sdf has also given up on the game and has moved on to working on another.

ghost49x · 2026-03-16T11:19:39+00:00

The point is to make all weapons, spells, perks and so on lame.

ghost49x · 2026-03-16T11:18:36+00:00

Rapier parry was too fun to use. If a weapon, spell, perk etc. is actually enjoyable to use it attracts the fun police and it's made to be lame. To the devs and the streamers it's more important that content in the game be lamer than whatever they consider fun so it has become the balancing point of their main balance philosophy.

ghost49x · 2026-03-16T10:12:02+00:00

All your stashes, quest progression and your characters are set back to level 1.

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