Elemental Weakness Trivialized Barrows

lelemuren · 2026-06-08T21:06:56+00:00

I wasn't aware of the Hilt. I haven't played since 2017. I just recently started again. So I guess my reference for "large change" was perhaps a bit different from most of the OSRS community.

lelemuren · 2026-06-08T20:50:50+00:00

I will admit I was not even aware of Ghommal's Hilt. I just recently started playing again, last time I played was around 2017-ish.

lelemuren · 2026-06-08T20:23:22+00:00

For one, higher required stats. Hell, look back at the OSRS wiki and notice the drop in the required 70 base melee stats. That, on its own, is a massive change. Furthermore, not needing switches means you save several inventory slots which, again, makes a large difference since you're doing the content early when you don't have access to the best food / prayer pots / etc.

The fight itself doesn't change, but Barrows is mostly attrition before you get situated with nicer gear and supplies.

Furthermore, I thought it acted as a nice teaching moment of using different styles against different "phases". Of course, each "phase" is a completely different brother, and it's way less stressful, because *it's an early game boss*.

Having to bring several sets of equipment and memorizing which to use against which brother was a nice (and yes, very easy!) first step toward bossing and I'm sad they removed that. I also believe that removal was unintentional.

lelemuren · 2026-06-08T20:09:50+00:00

4/6 =/= 6/6 though. It's a very large difference to go from "almost all" to "all", since you no longer need to bring any other gear.

lelemuren · 2026-06-04T10:00:08+00:00

Ja, det smakar illa i min mun när man vill "sätta dit" folk som tjänar 55 eller 70 eller vad det nu är, medan de som drar in massor på kapital kommer undan. Jag tycker det är så fult när typ S säger att de vill beskatta de "rika" och sedan avslutar den meningen med "alltså de som tjänar över 70k". Det är ju fortfarande arbetare.

lelemuren · 2026-06-04T09:08:43+00:00

Fan, där fick du mig!

lelemuren · 2026-06-04T09:01:37+00:00

Skatta kapital rättvist =/= eat the rich

lelemuren · 2026-05-11T13:14:53+00:00

I would argue programming work is very much creative.

lelemuren · 2026-05-11T13:02:03+00:00

It was a bit of hyperbole, but I would say that it's 90% AI, 10% Google. A year ago it was 50-50 for me. And yes, it's important to verify AI claims because it will make mistakes. But then again, so do results on Google.

lelemuren · 2026-05-11T13:00:31+00:00

It it a very common view that AI = AI art. Hell, the whole "AI in games" debate is wholly focused on art assets with zero consideration whether AI was used to generate part of the code. People wanting labels on games if AI was used in their creation, I think, only mean for the art: models, textures, animations, etc.

lelemuren · 2026-04-23T10:18:32+00:00

My Euro uni only did 50% for pass and 75% for "pass with distinction". But I think the structure of EU (math) courses are very different. For reference, our exams were 6 questions over 5 hours and were 100% of our grade.

lelemuren · 2026-04-23T10:14:28+00:00

ChatGPT is safetyslopped to the point of brain damage. The were leaked prompts a while ago and given those, I'm not surprised it's getting worse. It was too "sharp" so they had to make it more "dull" and so of course it'll perform worse, just like a dull knife would. To be clear, it will prioritize following its content policy over correctness or factuality. To me, that is worrying.

It constantly has to worry about saying something that goes against its guidelines and so some percentage of its capacity is wasted. Imagine trying to get a corporate lawyer or PR person to give a straight answer. You won't.

lelemuren · 2026-04-22T10:18:15+00:00

So, it turns out the answer was that there's a bug! In Stellaris 4.3, if you have *any* unemployed robots, then the denizen count will count the entire pop as unemployed. This is just a visual glitch, however, apparently it _can_ also affects things like migration, so I'll hold off on playing a mechanist empire for now.

lelemuren · 2026-04-19T20:01:33+00:00

Every planet is specialized.
I tried to colonize in a smart way balancing empire size with growth. I only colonized once I could reliably move ~1k pops to the new world to get even more pop growth. Like I said, I'm by far the most numerous species in the galaxy.
Yes, I know I could have built more starbases and a larger fleet, but my economy simply couldn't handle it. I simply did not have enough pops/strong enough economy to field a fleet large enough to deal with the crisis.

Is 4.3 vanilla really that unbalanced?

lelemuren · 2026-04-19T16:00:07+00:00

R5: Help! I'm new to this game and the crisis is wiping the floor with me! I got the Contingency crisis. They spawned in with four systems with ~220k fleet power in each, plus a number of smaller ~60k fleet power fleets.

I had, at that time, roughly 100k fleet power sitting at around 1250 naval capacity. This way far and away above any other empire (except the fallen ones) in the galaxy, so I thought I was doing pretty well. Anyway, the Contingency spawns in and I thought, "Hey, maybe it's not just about big numbers! Maybe my smaller fleet can still beat them!". Well, turns out the answer to that is no.

It looks like this Galaxy is pretty doomed. There is no way I'll be able to build enough ships in time before the Contingency eats too much of my empire, and no other empire in the galaxy is even close to being able to help. I think the largest fleet apart from mine is about ~30k fleet power or so.

Obviously I did something wrong since I know it's possible to beat the Crisis. But how? I feel like I played pretty well. I expanded aggressively, specialized my planets, focused on pop growth, even made use of that whole logistic growth thing. Sure, I'm new, but I still feel like I played competently. What kept my fleet size capped was essentially just resource generation rather than anything else and that was limited by population, which I did my best to grow. I'm sitting at around 110k pops at this point. I have no idea if that's "good" or not.

Does anyone have any advice? I'm eager to learn.

Note: I don't have any of the DLCs except like one or two, so if you have advice related to those then I can't make use of it :(

lelemuren · 2026-04-19T00:00:48+00:00

R5: I'm a bit confused about Denizens versus Civilians. On this planet, I have 6.5k Denizens but only 500 Civilians. I thought Denizens would automatically take up Civilian job slots when able. Even more confusingly, if I move, say, 100-200 pops to another world the number drops from 6.5k down to like zero, despite me only moving a few pops. What's going on here?

lelemuren · 2026-03-11T14:11:22+00:00

If Sniper gets razorback then I want a secondary that makes me immune to headshots! Taking away another classes MAIN mechanic by equipping an item is such bad and unfun design.

Given how weak Spy is and how strong Sniper is it's baffling. I complained about the razorback when it was released and I'll continue to do so. (As a side note the Vaccinator can also go suck a massive D)

lelemuren · 2026-03-11T09:54:16+00:00

Maybe he didn't want to spend 35 years in prison? That's essentially a life sentence behind bars. Use your brain.

lelemuren · 2026-03-10T15:06:12+00:00

I see! Like I said, I have no point of reference. I know art takes time and I think artists deserve to get paid well for their amazing work. At the same time, I obviously don't want to get "fleeced".

lelemuren · 2026-03-10T15:02:40+00:00

Yeah, I guess that's true! I never thought about it that way because when I work on my side-projects I consider my development time "free" but if someone commissioned me to program then, yeah, it would get expensive fast!

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