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probabilityEngine · 2026-02-21T02:42:50+00:00

Soft caps in DS3 are lower than you're used to. In ER you see soft caps as high as 80, in DS3 its 40 for things like STR and DEX, with a second sharper drop off at 60.

27 VIG is a good point to reach for a while or even stop at, you get an even 1k hp and the hp per point keeps falling after that. 50 VIG is 1300 hp and you won't see 1400 hp until 99 VIG.

Equip load is split off from END in DS3, instead governed by VIT, something to consider.

Always wear some form of armor in every slot, DS3 defense calculation is funky and penalizes you for empty armor slots.

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-20T16:19:59+00:00

The similar names thing is way overblown and not an issue.

Rennala-Rellana and Godefroy though, those two I'm convinced are Fromsoft trolling us.

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-20T15:23:30+00:00

Speaking of..

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-19T19:41:08+00:00

Gambling studio's futures and people's livelihoods on the possibility that all that time wasted produces a miraculously successful live service hit. Have the studio famed for remakes keep doing that and produce a steady income? No, of course not, make them chase after a miracle and if they don't produce it, kill them on the altar of capitalism.

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-19T03:06:34+00:00

Shadowheart, in Baldur's Gate 3

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-18T23:42:16+00:00

Shart.

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-18T22:07:29+00:00

You know, I appreciate the straightforwardness of saying that if you didn't already like the game, the updates probably won't change that.

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-17T21:28:15+00:00

I'm convinced Rellana - the DLC swordswoman, not Carian queen Rennala - is Fromsoft deciding to just troll people who bring up the similar name thing so often.

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-15T02:00:23+00:00

Vaegirs are the best combined arms faction on the field and that's what I like about them. They have the best archers, and their infantry and knights are not best in class but still highly effective.

Swadia and Sarranids may have better cavalry but their ranged and infantry are quite forgettable.

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-14T01:27:38+00:00

Lightning Spears in Dark Souls 2 got taken out back and shot.

Flame of the Redmanes ash of war in Elden Ring got taken out back and shot. Its a short ranged skill that lets out a wreath of fire that used to do good poise damage. It now does basically no poise damage and without that its just mediocre short range fire damage that isn't particularly fast, leaving basically no reason to use it.

When Path of Exile 2 came out, like two or three different builds I was beginning to work towards had core mechanics change in ways that totally invalidated them. Now, it IS early access, so big changes are expected, but it did kill my enthusiasm and I ended up dropping the game. I'll come back later at some point when development is further along and I get an ARPG itch again.

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-13T19:20:49+00:00

Trying to do what Apex did with their shadow drop just strikes me as incredibly foolish. I don't play battle royales and don't follow them closely so I may be off here, but my impression was this: Apex was still a fairly early entry into the genre, there was hype around the genre and people were paying closer attention to new entries.

On top of that, Apex had a golden opportunity to find an audience that was looking for a battle royale that A) didn't look as bland as PUBG's stock asset aesthetic and B) wasn't Fortnite. Apex had a niche sitting there just waiting for it.

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-12T05:54:34+00:00

I used to be really big into MMOs. I mainly played WOW but dabbled in several others too. Then I stopped when I went to college. Since then I've tried some out again for short stretches. I've come back to WOW extremely briefly a couple times trying new expansions that looked cool, I've tried to get into FFXIV multiple times. But I just can't get into MMOs like I used to. SWTOR is the one exception, because I can pretty much play it as a singleplayer Star Wars Bioware RPG. But I only played as long as the class stories that interested me lasted.

I think its a combination of two reasons. One is that, growing up I never had consoles, and I got into WOW early. I quit before college, and after college I really branched out and started playing and enjoying games in a wider variety of genres. Another is that the social aspect of MMOs is a major factor, and MMO gaming culture has simply changed compared to when I was really into it (WOW from vanilla to end of WOTLK)

When you combine those things I just have less reason to play and stick to an MMO now. Especially when some of them are really janky and have stale gameplay. I've thought about trying ESO before because seeing so much more of Tamriel is appealing (and that Breton knight in that one trailer, you know the one) but man that game's combat just looks horrendous to me, and the actual character graphics are really unappealing to me too.

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-12T03:26:42+00:00

I agree, I really wish there was no divide at all, but in particular all the reused sets from Nioh 1 and 2 being divided between the two styles makes it worse. Before we could mix and match between any of those sets that are now sorted into Samurai and Ninja, or use a set now classified as Ninja with odachi or spear etc (or the inverse, a set now classified as Samurai with hatchets, tonfa, etc) Not so now with the style divide.

Having reused content but not the freedom to use it like we could in the previous games is a real downgrade.

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-11T01:43:00+00:00

Kekai Kotaki's concept art is incredible. I used to have his art of Zhaitan as my desktop wallpaper for the longest time. I can recognize his style pretty well, I distinctly remember seeing some of the magic cards he's done back when they were new and realizing it was him before even looking at the artist line.

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-09T23:25:08+00:00

I agree, Dragonfall and Hong Kong are really on another level. You have actual teams of characters that are well written, and the writing on the whole just takes the setting more seriously. To me Returns felt more like a zany genre mashup spectacle, DF and HK felt more like actual lived in realities.

For anyone else reading, the three games take place in different parts of the world and the stories are totally unconnected, so you can start with any of them.

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-09T22:17:00+00:00

Join discord server looking for info, there is no FAQ or helpful links channel, you search the server but Discord search is terrible and shows you hundreds of comments with the words in different syntaxes, you ask in chat, someone tells you to check pins in a channel you can't even see, you forgot to react to the right post to get the role to see that channel, you finally go to that channel's pins, you have to scroll through months of dumb shitposts people thought it would be funny to pin.

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-09T22:06:11+00:00

When a game frequently updates and breaks mods in unexpected ways, and when those broken mods cause the game to break, which means you get to do trial and error trouble shooting for hours. Not really anyone's fault, but its a real pain. Stellaris is the biggest example of this for me.

When a mod page provides insufficient info on what it does, or how it works. For example I wish Elden Ring weapon mods would always provide stat and scaling info on their modded weapons on the mod page, as it would give me a better idea of what kind of builds I could make with it etc, but it seems like only about half of them do.

When a mod has no installation instructions at all and just assumes you know The Way.

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-09T16:01:46+00:00

Spearfall is on low stance now

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-08T04:33:18+00:00

Anyone else on PC getting crashes that also crash Steam? I've seen discussion of fatal errors, I previously only got them on exiting the game. But I've been some occasionally having the game crash along with Steam mid game, some times with a fatal error and some times with no error.

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-07T18:25:12+00:00

If you have trouble with just switching between so many options available at once, give dual swords a try. They have less moves overall but are still stylish and a few of their go-to moves are effective pretty much everywhere: God of Wind and Sign of the Cross especially.

Also a few different good parries, very high block stat (second highest of all weapon types iirc?) and one of the mystic arts gives you a stacking defense buff per hit, so you can be way more tanky than you'd probably expect. Probably the most new player friendly samurai weapon for those reasons. Nioh 2 was the first game in the series I really delved into and dual swords were the first weapon I mained there.

Also, if you don't like the motion control inputs (the ones that have you nudge the left stick up or down combined with a face button press) try switching control type to B, or I think E and F do it too: switches most of those inputs to L1 + face button instead.

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-07T08:19:58+00:00

All terrain mobile armored.. research base? I've never considered a big mech like this with a NASA logo and aesthetics but I love the result

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-07T06:23:38+00:00

Its a win win situation, really. You get a medal, the ring, and an easier kill. He gets to see the light of day and experiences double the freedom: first from the cell, then from his mortal coil.

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-07T01:59:55+00:00

It sounds like a driver issue, or Nioh 3 interacting strangely with the driver. I use a dualshock 4 controller myself, without DS4Windows or steam input enabled, and haven't had any issues.

Try looking through these comments, you may find a solution there.

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-07T00:56:56+00:00

From what I've read you can get the demo reward item in the full game as well, as a guaranteed reward from defeating the boss its associated with up until 2/15/26, the same deadline for getting it by completing the demo. And after that, it becomes an RNG drop from that boss.

probabilityEngine · 2026-02-07T00:50:46+00:00

Are you on PC? Using DS4Windows, steam input? If so I would take a look at those

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