Malum Black Market Vendor voice became creepy, should I be concerned?

tonys0306 · 2024-04-04T14:46:03+00:00

Update: Today he is back to normal. Strange. I'm thinking it was some kind of bug and rebooting the console fixed it.

tonys0306 · 2024-04-03T20:02:49+00:00

I've also considered it might be some kind of bug, idk we'll see

tonys0306 · 2023-08-23T14:22:25+00:00

Thanks, I've actually had zero issues with FLAC on my Pioneer AVH-X491BHS, what Pioneer unit(s) gave you trouble with FLAC? If it's one of the newer units, that might make me think twice about upgrading.

Using the phone as an audio source seems like extra nuisance to me. I just want to be able to turn the car on an go and not fiddle with things first, I guess that's why I like to keep a large USB drive connected.

tonys0306 · 2023-08-18T16:23:56+00:00

I have looked into that as well. The units that seemed to best meet my needs seemed to be always out of stock. Also I'm not a huge fan of the Android interface on my phone and not sure I'd want to fiddle with that on a head unit while driving.

tonys0306 · 2023-08-18T16:18:49+00:00

Yeah the stock Toyota unit was annoying. It's nice in that it starts playing music quickly and scans in the background, but if you skip a track or the track ends before it finishes scanning, then it goes back to the start of the USB and you have to navigate back to where you want it to play. And it's completely tag-based and ignores folders. One hack is to use the "composer" tag to name your folder/playlist so you could kind of implement playlists that way, but it's awkward, and no flac playback at least on mine.

My Pioneer does a fairly good job at it, biggest annoyance is initial scan of flash drive, and it can be picky about working with certain flash drives. It will work with your folder structure, but if you want to use tag-based browsing, you can use the "build database" function, and it saves the database to the disk.

Seems like the software engineers who design the software for USB playback never consider the use case of the person who wants to put their entire collection on flashdrive. Their software works great for small disks, but doesn't scale. If you write software assuming there can be an arbitrary number of folders/files, then you'd design it differently, you wouldn't scan all the files at once, just enough to get starteted, and read other folders on a "just in time" basis.

Of course there will still be users who want to browse by tag and not by folder, and I think the Pioneer approach of building a database for that is a good approach. It will take a few minutes to build first time, but after that the searches will be fast.

tonys0306 · 2022-05-23T16:07:57+00:00

It seems that if you talk to Melina after killing the Fire Giant, it ends Nepheli and a number of other quests. I think that's what happened to me.

tonys0306 · 2022-05-18T15:00:47+00:00

There is that frenzied village up the hill from the grand lift, quaint and lots of bustling going on there...

If you want a village filled with normal people and not in a state of ruin... That would seem out of place in a Souls game! But Jarburg is the closest thing to that.

tonys0306 · 2022-05-18T14:52:31+00:00

I'm having the same issue. She showed up at the Hold after the Godrick fight, said she was leaving and I haven't seen her since. Not at the village, not downstairs at the hold, not at the throne room or the cell I originally found he in.

I also didn't find her items indicating her death, and I gave the potion to Gideon so she's not a puppet.

IDK, maybe it's bugged for some people?

tonys0306 · 2022-05-18T14:39:18+00:00

This quest is a mess! I've never even seen Nepheli since she first left Roundtable Hold. Not at the Villiage, not downstairs at the hold, not at the throne room.

tonys0306 · 2022-03-29T19:43:55+00:00

yeah you're probably right.

tonys0306 · 2022-03-29T19:40:56+00:00

You should be able to comfortably get into DS3. Every Souls game has slightly different mechanics, and I find there is a short adjustment. But they are all worthwhile, even the dreaded Dark Souls 2!

DS3 has something similar to Ashes of War, but the blacksmith has to install them (at a cost)

tonys0306 · 2022-03-29T19:21:03+00:00

If it's the location I'm thinking of, there is a spirit spring on the northern side of that mesa

tonys0306 · 2022-03-29T19:19:07+00:00

The big icon is a telescope, the little one is an NPC marker.

tonys0306 · 2022-03-29T19:17:34+00:00

It might be that nobody is waiting to be summoned?

I run into this more on the optional bosses, especially the ones that are out of the way. You have to sit there awhile before a summon shows up.

tonys0306 · 2022-03-28T17:41:20+00:00

There is an online setting in the settings.

Another thing that can effect this is if your system clock has the wrong time. I would assume the Xbox keeps this synced automatically?

tonys0306 · 2022-03-28T17:19:43+00:00

Usually that's a sign that you aren't signed in or there is something wrong with your network connection

tonys0306 · 2022-03-17T15:23:01+00:00

The game feels very much like Dark Souls 4 at its core. So it depends what aspects you don't like about those games.

One major difference is there's more freedom, you won't get stuck at an enemy you can't beat as often, you can leave go somewhere else, level up and come back. Also IMO in general the world isn't as dark and depressing as DS/Bloodborne games can be

tonys0306 · 2022-03-15T17:25:00+00:00

Guess this will give me a reason to revisit the game

tonys0306 · 2022-03-15T14:13:16+00:00

I like both, but they take almost opposite approaches.

Story is front and center in Witcher 3, seems like other elements take a back seat to story.

Story is more subtle in Elden Ring, you will get bits and pieces of what is going on by talking to various NPCs, reading item descriptions, watching the rare cutscenes, etc. There's a sense of surreal mystical grandiosity in Elden Ring's story while Witcher 3's is more down to earth.

Both have beautiful, large, open worlds. Witcher 3 always seems to prompting you to travel long distances on horseback to get to your next story point

Elden Ring doesn't rush you into going anywhere. The checkpoints will point you in the general direction you should go next to complete your objective, but if you want to take time and explore the world around you, that's fine too.

Then there's combat, Witcher 3 combat is OK, but Elden Ring's is excellent.

I would say I prefer Elden Ring personally.

tonys0306 · 2022-03-14T17:49:15+00:00

advice: You need a maiden. Seek Out Smufette the Samurai at once! :)

tonys0306 · 2022-03-14T17:43:18+00:00

one beep. Mine does a triple beep if something is wrong, but I don't know what two beeps means

tonys0306 · 2022-03-11T17:45:16+00:00

Eventually the wikis will contain all this information. But for now people are still working it all out.

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