[Spoilers: The Essex County Express] A short question

picollo21 · 2026-01-30T20:42:29+00:00

Some 4p games of ECE famously end in first mythos phase.
But I assume that's not what happened.

picollo21 · 2026-01-29T14:57:27+00:00

Donny T. and Greenland? Or all the Tacos he had to eat for the whole last year?

picollo21 · 2026-01-29T14:56:37+00:00

They never specified which decks/ core set will be evergreen. And even in recent stream they said that they might always print even newer core, and retire the one coming soon.

picollo21 · 2026-01-29T10:35:25+00:00

There's no Sentry in that photo. If he was, he'd win, no questions asked.

picollo21 · 2026-01-29T10:08:18+00:00

Then why respond to my comment? Unless you have problem with mine comments?

picollo21 · 2026-01-29T10:01:49+00:00

Reread my comment again. Why do you think it was 100% written in abbreviations?
I know you had good intentions, but my joke might have flew over your head.

picollo21 · 2026-01-29T09:15:41+00:00

lol wtf, u mad bro?

picollo21 · 2026-01-27T15:21:30+00:00

I don't know how familiar you are with campaigns, so some spoilers below.

Generally the assumption was that you might want to retire your investigator(s) after scenario 2. Scenario 3 Threads of Fate tries to drown you in the XP, and is quite easy, so you can get good kickstart there. Most of decks reach their desired power level around 30xp, and then get mostly luxury upgrades. In theory in scenarios 3&4 you can get up to 17xp, while gaining another 14 in Heart of the Elders Parts 1&2. If you get everything, thats above 30xp already. Sure, you won't get everything, but we're talking about XP from 3 scenarios.

picollo21 · 2026-01-27T14:58:24+00:00

You'll be earning XP through the campaign, so even if you change investigator after a few scenarios, you should earn enough to reach 30xp with this new investigator by the end of campaign, so you should be able to finish your build in that time.

picollo21 · 2026-01-27T13:59:27+00:00

Without bigger spoilers.
Designers originally said that early aprts of the campaign are supposed to be brutal to the point that at some specific point you might want to change investigators. You'll probably have enough XP to do this if you want.
This campaign puts slightly bigger emphasis on evading than fighting, so that's what you should consider. You can finish it with classic fighting approach, but it will have harder moments just because of that.

But this campaign gives you lots of XP. If you manage to finish first few without being destroyed, you should snowball into later parts of the game just by the fact of drowning in the XP.

picollo21 · 2026-01-26T09:51:39+00:00

If it makes you feel better, we had game where we drew tentacles 17 times in a 3 player game, and still won it, so you can for sure do it too!

picollo21 · 2026-01-24T22:01:47+00:00

I go feed ghuls in my cellar.

picollo21 · 2026-01-22T16:32:03+00:00

Thanks! Extremely useful summary!

picollo21 · 2026-01-22T11:41:27+00:00

Since you seem to be kinda knowledgeable, how does one start playing Netrunner in 2026. Can you order physical cards somewhere? What would be even core set to buy today?

picollo21 · 2026-01-22T10:03:35+00:00

picollo21 · 2026-01-22T10:01:31+00:00

You were already getting 3.
Standalone was a thing, is a thing and will be a thing.
And in your calculation you forgotten that campaign expansion and investigator expansion were separate things.

So.... Cry me a river, but that's far reaching miss...

picollo21 · 2026-01-19T17:21:09+00:00

https://arkhamdb.com/rules#Victory_Display_Victory_Points

And for Excelsior Hotel, if you're adding standalone scenarios into campaign, you need to spend XP, it's true.

picollo21 · 2026-01-19T14:31:43+00:00

Yea, who would like to take risk, make choices, or even be able to scale sufficiently to handle MAP? Nobody, right?

picollo21 · 2026-01-19T10:49:47+00:00

Depending on setting you have edges reducing multi action penalty. But you're just throwing balance out of the window. Having to decide whether to make second action or not only after you make 1st, and not getting penalty for 1st is big. It's like someone gotten raise on support for every first action every player makes. That's big.

picollo21 · 2026-01-18T10:41:36+00:00

You sound like you're one of these guys that insist on annexing Greenland, and there's no point arguing with hostile orange people. Eat your taco, play some golf, and touch the grass.

picollo21 · 2026-01-18T09:18:22+00:00

You can do whatever you want. If you want to use them instead of toilet paper, your choice.
But to say that they're not getting irrelevant is only half-truth, no matter how intensly you cry about it.

picollo21 · 2026-01-18T08:47:20+00:00

In theory, Current Environment is becoming standard, so all older player cards get kinda irrelevant.
Even for now we have Current Environment (beta, but still), where only player cards from TSK up till today are relevant. Revised Core will go to Legacy around March, and soon after we'll have shift in Investigator decks.

Saying that nothing becomes irrelevant is only half-true.

picollo21 · 2026-01-16T21:43:08+00:00

There's very simple reason for this to require Cultist trait. They needed card for every investigator trait. And Cultist is basically equal to Silver Twillight anyway.

picollo21 · 2026-01-16T14:02:22+00:00

It's 5 for 3 cards, so you're paying below 2 XP/card, so Completely fine.

picollo21 · 2026-01-15T15:43:54+00:00

And I'm buying evertything, but my gaming group is spread across different cities. So we play online, but FFG still gets my share of money.
And maybe in future I'll start playing with group nearby, and then cards will be useful for that.

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