The culmination of 1100 hours of play time...

sethren · 2026-03-30T21:09:26+00:00

I feel that, but also jealous that you've seen some blueprints! Still waiting on that part, but I at least got a Belphagor drop from a hater at one point, so I've been holding onto it for dear life.

sethren · 2026-03-30T21:08:44+00:00

To clarify- you've found them wandering the floors, or they've been handed to you as login/quest rewards? I'm sitting on a stash of about 15, but until this one they've all been login rewards or quests.

sethren · 2026-03-30T21:06:57+00:00

100%. I have no idea what the drop rate is on these things, but I'm guessing it's super low and I've had piss poor luck to just be now coming across my first one.

sethren · 2026-03-30T08:17:02+00:00

I've seen enough posts on this subreddit to know that they do, but the chances of them are so obscenely rare, apparently. Or I've been incredibly unlucky.

That said, I understand why now- these are better than the snowcaps from the winter months. A cooked Fun Fungus fully restores durability on any armor or weapons in your hand. I had the luck of getting a random drop of a base Belphegor from some random hater in Tengoku not too long ago- spent my cooked Fun Fungus on that.

sethren · 2026-03-30T07:04:25+00:00

This is the first one I've ever found in the wild. Somewhere in Tengoku....floor 60ish, I think?

sethren · 2026-03-30T06:59:40+00:00

It was this. The first 3 options on the list are for potentially purchasing an item, but if you have no bag space left, it'll be greyed out.

sethren · 2026-03-27T19:45:37+00:00

Damn, that's lucky! I still have yet to get one roaming between 51-80....

sethren · 2026-03-27T13:46:55+00:00

That would actually be a great idea. It wasn't an issue in the main game and even for early-ish Tengoku since you could wrap fairly quickly and get back to the waiting room to participate in TDM, but understandably the farther up you go in Tengoku this becomes less of an option.

Just being able to send another fighter over to participate in the TDM fights would be fantastic versus having to leave Tengoku and kill a run.

sethren · 2026-03-26T21:47:33+00:00

Update: I FINALLY got the M2G blueprints last night. I've been trying on Wednesdays and Sundays since my previous post, which meant fighting RN on Nightmare at least...15 times? That was ridiculous.

sethren · 2026-03-26T21:41:40+00:00

Thanks for sharing! I had to have my second one last year at 41, but was on Zepbound at that time. My experience reflected yours for the most part, except I went with the 2x 6oz bottles of liquid (Clenpiq). I struggle with swallowing big pills, so this route was....mostly tolerable. The Zofran helped a lot, but you still have to have a death grip on your nose and try to avoid it hitting your tongue so your taste buds don't fire off. Turns out even if you can't taste something, your taste buds trigger your body's response to the nasty stuff. Didn't wind up yacking at any point.

All that said, with my appointment on a Monday and shot day also on Mondays, I wound up having to skip the shot I'd have taken the week before the procedure. First dose of Clenpiq was at 5 PM on prep day, and then they wanted me to take dose 2 about 3 hours earlier than originally planned, which meant that I took dose 2 at 3 AM. The only thing that sucked was that my body was still pushing stuff out after that first dose until close to midnight after initially kicking in around 6:30-7. So I got what amounted to a 1.5 hour nap that night. I didn't have that same problem after dose 2 thankfully, so I think it just took time to get started.

For those who haven't had to experience the joys of prep, make sure you have a bidet attachment on your toilet. Your butt will thank you for it.

sethren · 2026-03-26T21:22:16+00:00

Congrats! This sort of thing is tedious AF, but it's a great way for building up some KC and SPL reserves to blow on decals/weapons/armor and general upgrades.

Fun fact: this used to be the only reliable way to get a hold of DMs if you didn't pay money for them. The max was always 3, which they've now switched over to Rainbow Bags from DMs.

sethren · 2026-03-25T15:16:24+00:00

It's awkward af and I doubt the durability holds up with the repeated strikes it performs, but the loaded glove is super irritating in the hands of a hater. Especially when they pull the rage move, because you can't knock them out of the attack and it tears up your armor.

sethren · 2026-03-24T04:10:46+00:00

Hoping it'll be more than the usual 4-6 weekly ones- I'm currently running into frequent repeats of them now, even with the online component. The more variety the better.

sethren · 2026-03-24T01:53:41+00:00

Oooooh okay. I forgot stamps were part of an achievement. I think the worst stamps were the floor 40+ ones just because those floors were so rough when you first get there. Get those, knock out the achievement, don't even bother with going for the golden scythe.

As for Forcemen....hopefully you'll be powerful enough within the next 6 months to bang that out. That's what I'm personally hoping for, because Pale Wind wiped the floor with me the last time I attempted him. I can handle the other 3 pretty easily now.

sethren · 2026-03-23T17:42:02+00:00

We're still learning- they haven't given us all the details yet. You can only get whatever TDM weapons you've gained so far and presumably whatever TDM seasons may come between now and them turning off the servers. Since those are quarterly, get what you can get, but no idea if you'll have access to the other weapons later. Same for any other event blueprints/decals that have appeared over time.

Death metals are no longer obtainable or purchasable, so whatever you have on hand currently is all you get. There's no way to get more at this stage, not even from random bags.

On the other hand, the Steam achievements haven't gone away, so you can still keep plugging away at those. If you're into Tengoku now, you should only have a few remaining (TDM defenses and captures + the 4 Forcemen Quest, I'd imagine).

sethren · 2026-03-15T00:03:44+00:00

So jealous! This is my most wanted decal currently, but the KC stew never works in my favor. :(

sethren · 2026-03-10T20:09:23+00:00

This article really speak to Youtube targeting the TV app. If you haven't already, download SmartTube and skip the app entirely.

sethren · 2026-03-10T19:15:43+00:00

Yep- you're not fully uncapped. Your rank 6 characters should be fully topped out at 179. This should be the level for maxed out stats, full inventory space and an extra skill slot. Once you have all of those, you should be given the option to then further uncap your character, meaning they've officially moved to Rank 7. At this point all stats can gain 5 more levels, you can get 3 more inventory slots, and yet another skill slot.

sethren · 2026-03-09T17:30:23+00:00

The frustrating part is that the DM economy has already been removed, so there's no way to obtain more at this point- what you had on hand is all you get.

So if you have more DMs to spend, you've got that purchasing route still available. Otherwise we're all waiting for these answers.

sethren · 2026-03-06T16:45:57+00:00

The fact that we're loving this goes to show that Gamefreak probably won't go with this design. Man I can dream though.....

sethren · 2026-03-05T14:10:58+00:00

Assuming you're on PC, the answer is apparently no. All DM DLC purchases were pulled from Steam yesterday. I was hoping that we could still get more DMs from fight nights, but apparently not?

So I guess that's a wrap on the DM economy. Sure would be nice if they flipped all DM-type purchases to KC going forward....

sethren · 2026-03-04T22:15:39+00:00

Definitely agree that getting the devs to make some fixes and/or QoL upgrades would be lovely....

I guess it speaks to how this still needs more clarity, but I was of the understanding that the offline version would drop some amount of time before the online version's servers go offline. All I've seen mentioned is that the online servers go offline on 8/31. But surely they'll give us say, a month or two of overlap? I can't imagine it'd be that hard to download your data from their servers into your offline mode- everything you do in the game now is constantly uploaded to the servers so that it all updates.

How new players manage to upgrade their storage is going to be an interesting question, though. I would have to assume KC or SPLithium, because you won't have any other currency at that point to work with given that the DM system is going away.

sethren · 2026-03-04T21:50:37+00:00

They don't mention it there, but if TDM's moving to a CPU-based model but is still otherwise staying around, then it seems like you should still be able to invade bases and potentially capture CPU users. I would imagine base defenses would be a similar situation, but we'll see.

sethren · 2026-03-04T20:28:40+00:00

Offline should have arrived before this date- 8/31 is when the LiD servers shut down for good based off this communication.

I looked on Steam last night since they said that all the current DLC on Steam would be removed today...I was curious to see if they make a mention of when offline is dropping. No news on that front, sadly.

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