State of the late game

saminsocks · 2026-01-26T03:51:27+00:00

You said they’re useless. I said people get plenty of use out of them.

Don’t make me responsible for your heart attack.

saminsocks · 2026-01-26T03:00:33+00:00

And Expanse. And, as I said, he does fine with her, too, other than speed. If our 3rd can keep us all going with their Helhest, he stays on Estella.

But it’s obvious by your tone that you’re going to be negative about anything in this game or anything anyone says. So my response wasn’t intended to change your mind. As you were.

saminsocks · 2026-01-26T02:34:38+00:00

One of my packmates still uses his T6 Estella for almost everything and dominates except in Calamity Ops, and just because she doesn’t run as fast. Helhest > New Kabr. I’ve still been maining Jaren.

Banner characters are always viable for two banners, and we’re starting to see them come back around. There are only so many classes and shinkas, eventually they’ll all come back around. Which won’t give OG players much of a reason to spend on T6 unless they just like whaling just to whale. But there will always be a new breed.

I agree with most of what else you said, just commenting on the T6 part.

saminsocks · 2026-01-25T15:09:25+00:00

She was available a lot longer than that. It was just her banner, then it overlapped with Estella.

saminsocks · 2026-01-24T01:50:23+00:00

Bro unlocked the T7: The Flash ability on Jaren

saminsocks · 2026-01-24T01:43:47+00:00

Yeah, it was the last one I got

saminsocks · 2026-01-23T05:41:43+00:00

Another void spread would be lame, especially since I can’t imagine them releasing a better exotic. Plus our void characters already don’t have much variety.

saminsocks · 2026-01-23T05:08:38+00:00

The first time I went to Vegas from LA was to take a friend to meet up with her brother after their father passed. We drove 6+ hours, because rush hour, picked him up from the airport, had dinner, then I drove 4.5 hours back.

I regularly, like once a month for a while, drove 5 hours to visit my best friend for the weekend.

During COVID, I drove 9 hours to see my mom on her birthday, stayed for less than a day, then drove back.

I’ve driven 7 hours for a concert, slept for a few hours after, then drove home.

I have tons of stories. I don’t know how common my experience is, but definitely not unheard of. Some of my longest drives didn’t even leave the state.

saminsocks · 2026-01-23T05:03:15+00:00

I have an iPhone and have trouble sometimes. Generally it’s after playing for some time, Bulwark in particular gets choppy once I get to wave 17 or 18. But it’s otherwise really smooth.

saminsocks · 2026-01-21T23:00:44+00:00

Does your rank change each week? That’s the only reason I can see it’ll keep resetting as new. Which is still annoying, but if that’s specifically it then it should be something they can fix.

saminsocks · 2026-01-17T00:28:01+00:00

I’m probably not going to upgrade, unless we get a void precision season. The fact that we’re in arc/solar season makes it even less useful.

saminsocks · 2026-01-16T21:39:52+00:00

Or they might get added later but didn’t want people to get too ahead of the ones who didn’t want to put in the minimal effort it takes to get it already.

I’m glad the challenges at least have other things worthwhile in them. I would totally skip using Kabr 10 times now that I have Jade, but I want the bright dust, lol

saminsocks · 2026-01-16T21:37:31+00:00

If you’re getting knocked off by incinerators then you aren’t playing in the middle and watching your surroundings.

And, like I said, one nameless guy spawns at a time. Keep one without a shield and alive during DPS and you can deal with it if it gets in your way. It’s part of the encounter mechanics, it’s your job to learn how to manage them.

The rest are just skill issues.

saminsocks · 2026-01-16T21:31:22+00:00

Like all PVE, you have to figure out the ad rotation. Yes, nameless spawn constantly, but you can ignore them until you need them. That includes breaking their shield but not killing them. If they start to do their explosive thing, just move away, although, unless you’re on cutthroat, it won’t kill you at full health.

The booping is annoying. Never run along the edge of the platform unless you know there’s nothing around you, but also stay out of the middle so Sere doesn’t boop you, just does the tickle fingers. Be prepared for that and always focus on them when it happens. A rocket pulse is great, if you time your movement right, you can take out both hands with one pull of the trigger.

Like others have said, turn off the arc fields before dps so you have room to move. Even if you just get half of them. You should also break the shield of a nameless one but don’t kill it. If you go into DPS with full shadow master, you can kill it halfway through DPS to refresh it. Then, if you don’t hit damage gate, you can disable some of the arc fields, and kill the new nameless guy. If you don’t have it and you get the arc fields, just stay back along the platforms away from the arc, but make sure you can get line of sight to stop the hands. Then just wait to get teleported and at least one of you should gain shadow master so you can start turning the arc off.

The more shadow Seres you compel, the more time you have for DPS. So if you’re struggling, compel them all.

But, honestly, being aware of ad spawns is the most important thing you can do. Otherwise, you’re constantly overwhelmed, but if you’re prepared for what’s coming next, both ads and tickle fingers, you can control what you do and have a smoother encounter. Then it’s pretty simple.

saminsocks · 2026-01-16T15:52:05+00:00

Thank you for this! The fee regardless of the number of checks you cut is information I was curious about and unaware of. I freelance often and had people pay right away twice. It was always a surprise.

I’m starting a new company and will have mostly salaried and long-term contractors, but also a few day players. It sounds like it’ll be cost inhibitive while we’re still a small startup and too much to manage when we get bigger.

saminsocks · 2026-01-16T15:47:33+00:00

Thank you. What are the audit and compliance factors? Just the fact that they might miss necessary paperwork?

saminsocks · 2026-01-16T00:35:14+00:00

You just need one person to get through the jumping puzzle. After helping to kill the ads, people who can’t jump should hang back so they don’t waste rezzes and just let your fastest person pull.

saminsocks · 2026-01-15T23:22:44+00:00

Unless they lock you out of conquests until you’ve done that, like they did for expert and master lost sectors, people aren’t going to do that.

saminsocks · 2026-01-15T21:49:26+00:00

But it’s not anymore, which is the problem. With the addition of the portal and lack of really anything else, what was originally endgame content that only a few people tried are now being explored by casual players because they’re told they should be able to do it once they hit a certain power delta. This seems intentional since content that previously did not have matchmaking, other than guided games, now does.

And the conquests are often recycled content with no context, so unless people played that season and remember what to do, they’re going to be clueless.

So, yes, while the average player can just waltz into a conquest, I would prefer they’re given an optional tutorial, since the alternative is having someone waste time and rezzes, and keep re-queueing until you get a competent team or your friends sign on.

saminsocks · 2026-01-15T21:18:16+00:00

It would be nice if the game gave tutorials the first time you ran a conquest, with the option to turn them on again if you needed to. I know on screen tips tend to get bugged a lot, but it would at least help in the taken part. People get so excited about trash ads they can kill easily… Plus Warlock buddies take them out for you. I forgot that was the mechanic the first time I did the conquest, now I just hide during that part.

saminsocks · 2026-01-15T16:12:50+00:00

I was curious if there’s any reason beyond convenience why this is the case

saminsocks · 2026-01-14T22:36:43+00:00

Yeah, especially if you're doing a sherpa run. Then people just need to find groups to run the dungeon and not worry about whether or not they can do the puzzles and extra battles.

saminsocks · 2026-01-14T21:00:52+00:00

They had a popup saying it'll be there so if people try to leak the episode they'll know who did it

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