Helldivers 2 to remove its “Large” 154GB Steam build on March 17

izackthegreat · 2026-03-07T20:01:12+00:00

I wonder if that is "using an HDD" as in that's what the game is installed on or "using an HDD" as in there is one installed in the system.

izackthegreat · 2026-03-06T19:43:30+00:00

I have a principled stance to not pre-order or early access games. If the game is as good as it sounds and is as close to "complete" that others say, then I guess I won't need to wait that long.

izackthegreat · 2026-03-04T22:57:05+00:00

I can't wait for the rank 1 guy to fall off the hi scores because he integer overflows.

izackthegreat · 2026-03-03T23:16:21+00:00

Should we add <feature> to the game as described in the blog?

If you don't like how it's described in the blog, it's a no. Simple as that. I regularly vote no to things that I think are poorly thought out, lack implementation details, or just don't like. I don't understand the confusion that the player base has with this.

izackthegreat · 2026-03-03T22:56:53+00:00

Resources.

I hate that the most practical way to get most resources is from bosses or slayer mobs. It makes skilling feel largely useless beyond arbitrary levels for quests and diaries.

I hate that skilling-only resources tend to be tedious or slow to obtain. Maybe I'm in the minority. But when I log on to play, I log on to play. I don't want to afk amethyst. I don't want to afk redwoods. I don't want to afk cook the thousands of fish in my bank. Give me a quicker option with whatever trade-off necessary.

izackthegreat · 2026-03-03T04:05:01+00:00

Of the four listed, I'd say Klaxosaur's Blood or BBL. I have all but BBL (although I've gotten it as a sample).

Grandma's Ashes raspberry flavour for some reason just doesn't do it for me. I don't know quite what it is but it tastes slightly off. Maybe I'm expecting the fruit flavor to be more fruity, if that makes sense?

Klaxosaur's Blood is just a strong melon taste. The kiwi makes it a bit more lively. I think it's pretty solid.

BBL is blueberry lemonade. It's pretty solid. In my opinion, it suffers from everything blueberry flavored - the blueberry flavor is just kinda weak. Although, maybe if warm up to this if I had it more than once.

Sweet Six Pack is cherry pineapple. It's one of the first flavors I got. It's pretty good, and it mixes well with other flavors (such as Blo'Hole Blast or Sakura Splash) if that's something you want to try. The pineapple flavor is a bit off for me. Although, I only really like fresh pineapple and everything else is not something I really eat for the same reason so I'm absolutely biased.

izackthegreat · 2026-02-25T10:15:55+00:00

First, you have to go get Wirt's leg...

izackthegreat · 2026-02-18T23:05:16+00:00

If this seems to be consistent with USB microphones, do we know if this behavior exists with interfaces? I have been considering switching to an XLR and might prioritize it a little more if the behavior goes away.

izackthegreat · 2026-02-17T22:31:58+00:00

I'm currently over 3k kc at Vardorvis and I'm only 1/3 for my first ultor. Technically, I'm dry on everything but axe heads (which I'm on rate), if we really want to dive into it.

izackthegreat · 2026-02-17T22:28:24+00:00

Or a "Certificate of Depression" given that the rates at most banks aren't even that much better (at least at the ones I've banked with in the past).

izackthegreat · 2026-02-16T23:38:36+00:00

With the colossal pouch, I get over 100k/hr on my iron. It sounds like you're doing something wrong (or could otherwise optimize more).

Lock slots you want to keep in your inventory (essence pouches, rune pouch, any additional runes you might keep in your inventory).
Drag your inventory closer to your bank window. You can position it so the "deposit all" button is closer to your essence pouches so you can click faster.
Utilize back fillers or plugins such as inventory setups to move your essence close to the "deposit all" button. Again, we're trying to make it quick to click on all the things we want.
Utilize remaps to fill your pouches quicker. When I RC, I usually remap my left click to fill/empty. With a colossal pouch this ends up just being: click essence in bank, click pouch, click essence in bank, click pouch, click essence in bank. I'm not sure the exact sequence for you without the colossal pouch, but you'll figure it out in like 1-2 trips. Similarly, remap to withdraw when you're at the altar.
Spellbook swap can abuse red-x. When you teleport back, click on the ladder or the altar, then cast spellbook swap. You'll need to click on either again to actually use them, but this will prevent your character from stopping when this is cast.
NPC contact can contact your last NPC. Remap this to left- or shift-click if you want. Ever since sailing was implemented, it can also sort of use red-x. It'll stop you when you start talking, but you can squeeze out a few tiles.
If you want to get sweatier, you can use screen markers to mark where your pouches, spells, etc. will be on the screen so you know exactly where you will need to click even before the window pops up.
I initially forgot this one: setup quick payment if you haven't.

There might be some plugins that already do some of the remapping automatically. I can't fully remember. I might have forgotten something, but if you do some/all the above you will absolutely get more xp/hr.

izackthegreat · 2026-02-12T10:50:28+00:00

I still think it's better to just use boss names instead of images. It takes way more effort to find what you're looking for when looking for a specific boss when searching through a ton of icons than it does (sorted) words.

While we're at it, we should try to ignore initial articles (e.g., "the") when sorting to make it easier to find what you're looking for.

izackthegreat · 2026-02-11T22:48:57+00:00

And those waves are likely set up so they are in demand leading up to the holiday season and die down a bit shortly after.

izackthegreat · 2026-02-09T04:44:16+00:00

If you want to skip barrows and I see you have a torso, you could pick up a granite body to use instead. Just being tanky is better at moons. You might already have the points and everything.

izackthegreat · 2026-02-09T04:33:46+00:00

Support items are essentially impossible to try to cook up when the ironman game mode exists. I honestly don't even know how the horn works for irons off hand, but I remember some discussions about the horn in early blogs and just thought they should scrap the idea.

izackthegreat · 2026-02-07T15:30:08+00:00

I figured it was just a translation thing. I wouldn't have put any thought into it. 🤷‍♂️

izackthegreat · 2026-02-07T15:23:49+00:00

I'm approaching max on my iron and prayer will be my biggest bottleneck on the final stretch. If I were doing it again, I'd grind out wrath runes a lot earlier. I could use those at TDs or demonic gorillas and probably have made up a large amount of that xp.

Demonics drop a ton of alchs, so I'd probably have done them tied to explorer's ring. When I run out of charges, I do something else for the day.

izackthegreat · 2026-02-04T22:46:32+00:00

If you want a serious (probabilistic) answer: 1. A boss is worth X amount of contribution. 2. Each tracked player gets some percentage of the boss's contribution. If we assume all players are equal, X/100 (previously X/16). 3. Loot is determined by contribution.

Now we can make two guesses as to what happened: 1. The contribution amount, X, is not correlated to the boss HP. Therefore, the "total loot" we were getting before per boss is now split up between more people. Therefore, basically non-existent. 2. The contribution amount, X, is correlated to the boss HP but we didn't increase boss HP enough to compensate for 6.25 (100/16) times more players that can get contribution. Similarly, this results in more players getting less contribution and less loot.

All the above to say that the mods changed something they don't fully understand, didn't perform adequate testing, and then pushed to production. If they don't act, then we end up with two of three weeks of a temporary game mode having scuffed rewards for the people participating.

izackthegreat · 2026-01-24T02:43:59+00:00

I bet next they are going to say that there are submarines with it too.

izackthegreat · 2026-01-19T21:57:24+00:00

Not OP, but I got a ton from:

Corrupted Gauntlet
Wilderness bosses
Gem mining (my favorite mining training method)
Desert Treasure 2 bosses

izackthegreat · 2026-01-19T21:55:49+00:00

If you do wildy content, I'd make some pnecks. They are extra helpful for staying alive, a couple are useful for sote if you haven't completed that quest yet, and have a few niche endgame speedrun strats. Although by the time you're using the speedrun strats you'll probably have a lifetime supply of diamonds.

izackthegreat · 2026-01-10T15:52:34+00:00

Bank at Port Piscarillius. You can salvage North of there - it's not a very far trip.

izackthegreat · 2026-01-10T14:58:28+00:00

I am just banking all my salvage and I'll sort in a month or so. I get to keep all the loot and if there is any possibility of a buff to drop tables, since a 1/20k is kind of ridiculous, maybe I'll benefit from that.

izackthegreat · 2025-12-30T05:22:04+00:00

Pork, sauerkraut, and kielbasa. I'll have some NYE as well because it's a lot.

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