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>Launch Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWIw_f8e9Pg
>Meet the Cast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGP3Q9AwKbU
>Features Overview:
The open world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfZCV8EySac
Combat and progression
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srQ-NtGNBpY
Life in Pywel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOy81crUgtw
>Playstation
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/crimson-desert/
>Xbox
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/crimson-desert/9P6HVHDP2PGK
>Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3321460/Crimson_Desert/
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Fixed backlink.
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gpt 5.4 extra high analysis
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>hey Kliff, let's do something together, follow me in my gay ass slow as fuck horse while I go as slower as I can
>okay.kliff
>ACKCHUALLY! I have something else to do, go and do the quest alone.
name a group more annoying than the greymanes. the black bears were onto something
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look at this shit, everything just fucking sucks, can't show the rest because it just shows me up this many days but all the others are exactly the same, nothing, zero, nada, not a single coin, I even bribed the banker and the guys at the entrance, fuck!
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>epilogue
>going around to every major faction leader for them all to say "man you look like shit now lol" and "yeah so I'm kinda busy now, can you leave" x 8
What is this absolute humiliation ritual of an epilogue lmao
I think only like 2 of them even explicitly says thank you, but every single one goes out of their way to tell you that you look like garbage lol
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Like 90% of side quests are supposed to take you near or past a POI, it just so happens that an unfortunate amount of them you already clear everything in the path by the time you get around to doing them, but it’s like a retard check.
They all take you last the abbys pot things on roadways, and some of the turn in item to assistant ones are at buildings that have dyes you can loot if you go inside. Even the retarded logging quest is designed to show you your house if some reason you never accessed the areas south of the camp at all. Bounties that are outside cities are often along roads that have key objects or POIs on the map to get you to go there and stop and see something.
Once I understood this it became a bit less annoying.
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They have plenty on their plates and in the end, Kliff is just a useful tool and him being "good guy" makes it easier to manipulate. You can use the visione to learn bit about Hernand's top dogs putting their bet on the Greymane because they know it would put Pailune in debt with them.
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post fits, I like some of the hybrid chainmail in the game.
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It's done
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I did it in the same fight. There were a ton of banners on and around the bridge so it made sense to do it then.
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Same, I do not remember if it has to be stealth or not either, if it does for some reason the bear mountain fight and presumably the other sieges as well cannot be stealthed so I think the enemies may not have any detection/alert at all so you can’t be “spotted” so the challenge just completes. There are 8 banners in the fight including the one or two on the starting bridge.
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During sieges. You see dudes who walk around with banners or even torches and just kill them. Easiest to do is during story when you take back Pailune you get it by default just by killing enemies here and there because for some reason game thinks you're not visible to enemies at that time.
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I was actually able to do it in the Hernand Castle
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>kill 5 enemies with a shield without taking damage
>im at ch 11
>shield lvl 15+ refined almost fully
>random hernand early game bandits still take like 10+ shield bashes to die
How the fuck are you supposed to do this? Why shield rush and other shield moves dont count too it has to be bash and nothing else.
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I just did this via holding LB and pressing RT on the bandits trying to get 30 kills with the gale shield that spawn on the side of the road just west/southwest of the greymane camp, follow the road and 4 bandits spawn and then another pack of 4 spawn further like 100m on the road to the south. There is only like one archer who spawns sitting down so kill him forst, but there is also more dudes to the east on that road. They are extremely weak and die in like 2 hits.
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>sandstorm at night
can't see shit why won't this end it's been hours (ingame)
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This wolf has fucking infinite JP the boss riding it vanished after he fell off but this fucker is just around and won't die
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>ator antumbra just bugged out on me and was standing still doing some idle animation and nothing else
i even tried to reload autosave because i though if ill kill him that way game might softlock his quest but it was the same and it progressed properly so ill take it lol. same happened to that faggot boss riding goat/deer.
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The quest was annoying for me for a wholly other way. I was unlucky enough to get the (apparently common) bug where he will literally not spawn, and tracking him just sends you in circles. On top of that, I was also the anon that had constant crashes and lost my saves a few generals ago, and this quest was where it happened. So yeah, I hate it too.
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i want a nobles estate like the azerian one, complete with a 3 floor mansion and separate buildings and with a perimeter. or shit a mercenary "town" as big as the halssius' house of healing. and then bandits or inquisitors can try attacking while im out adventuring and get called back to defend it.
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This looks ominous
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>kliff actually spoke a lot more but they decided to make him autistic in final release
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1ItNYP9U1M0
lol why
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Reading these, now I want both. Castle autism, and the land surrounding it including estates and villages. Manage the land. Be a lord. The castle is the important part though. Even better if its properly made, with thought-out layouts and defenses.
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Me trying to remember who Umbra was
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>in the rainforest searching for Damiane's book
>it's night
>it's storming
Literally the darkest it's ever been nights would be better like this. Nice turning on the lantern and it actually helping
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GIWTWM
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Was I supposed to clear up these bandit camps/castles on the way through the story? I assumed it was a faction quest not yet met and ran past it.
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What do I want to do with launchers, Off the Grounds, etc? Like when spam light attacks vs heavy attacks? When would I want to use turning slash over anything else? I get some moves get past blocks or brings their guard down but other than that not sure.
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pls re up...
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>doin 1st batch of sanctuaries
>boss sword phantom
>not that bad
>1st cutscene
>ok
>2nd cutscene
>becomes adhd spammer
I took 2 gold pills total but just for the last 2% of his health because he wombocomboed me. Still he wasnt as bad as lichfag in the spire. Im in chapter 7 and he feels impossible. He have 2 attack that you can use to nature snare him and beside that you need to bow this nigga right? Im a bit clueless, because i tried to find his gimmick but he spasm to much and camera can handle when his doin baron harkonen around the room.
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>*mogs your kliff*
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I have to wait a week in game for trade goods to reset. I did the first yann trade quest where you buy pepper but I also bought all the honey. Now his next quest want me to buy the honey that’s already on the wagon but the quest won’t progress until I buy some it seems.
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didn't notice but I limit my fps to keep my fans off
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probably zero for the most part, the grass shadows/AO might add a hit or something.
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>>563504382
On one hand I do appreciate that you can create recipes from scratch and are given them if you do it enough times but you're completely right, not sure why they even bothered copying this from BotW if it was gonna be so much more restrictive. It's almost like they expected people to just look the recipes up or something.
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I spent literally 10 mins fucking around with the first well I saw convinced that it was interact-able in some way and would lead to some elaborate chest or dungeon, this game broke me.
Then I realized it was literally just for water but by that point I could just buy a stack of 50 at camp after getting trust in the taverns.
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My only complaint is I feel like you unlock some armors far too late in the game, like by the time you are nearly maxed if you are upgrading them you still finally get stuff like t4 plate book from literal last chapter research. Hell I missed one of them entirely. Then after getting all books there’s the hidden 5th tier, meanwhile people are not able to find any new armors in the first like 30 hours unless you wander into the contribution shop.
One of the one handed weapons is literally a stuck with a chefs hand carved in it holding a knife. Goofy shit but it’s just unlocked too late.
I just started chapter 12 and wanted to take a break and do some side quests as Daimiameineine but she’s now locked for some fucked reason, do I have to get to epilogue?
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Some are bullshit 1 shots and with how clunky the cameras seem it’s often unfair. Other bosses I’ve basically 2 shot so idk. They became available around the same time so maybe some just have retarded DR or elemental weaknesses I was too lazy to guess at. The faggot yoda with his green laser was one of them, when he wasn’t doing that I took out half his HP in like one hit.
Some gay ancient mage boss meanwhile lands in like lava when he gets stance broken and you spend his entire cooldown rollling on the ground while in fire.
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guys what am i supposed to do in the gay tons of ice wizards area with the homo ice boss that either freeze my ass or 2hits me
i defeated him twice but im going in circles here
im guessing theres an arena somewhere where he rapes my asshole but where is it
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Did you wander over this way because some random dude in a house told you to light some torches? There is no boss fight he just fucks off when you damage him enough, we think the fight is broken or it was supposed to be like a stylistic choice that he is more of a force of nature and it’s just a frost resist check as you need like 10 frost resist minimum or you take a ton of damage unless you food and stop at each torch lantern. He dies when you light the torches.
Hint: it’s the giant fucking ice spire
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The tower is a bit further you will laugh with how fucking big it is. The game sends you there way to early unless killing everyone with surprises was the intention.The lanterns are frozen in ice so you have to melt them or use turning slash. Note it has like lethal frost damage around it so some people looked up specific armor instead of moving some gears around but hitting 7-10 is enough
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i hate vidya.
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>be me, be Taxman
>lord of area moved in new merc company greymanes
>no one is free from taxes.exe
>find leader of Greymanes, try to wave him down
>he refuses to speak to me, just stares at me
>shrug shoulders, keep walking to confiscate plebs hard earned money
>suddenly suplexed from rear, then picked up and slammed into ground again
>try to see who is assaulting me when devastating elbow drop is blasted into my head
>disoriented, suddenly feal someone grab legs and spin me around and fling me off 200ft ravine
>somehow still alive, assailant was never discovered
>carry in with job, but everytime I try to flag down grey mane leader same thing keeps happening
Fuck the tax man anons
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I think everyone has this issue with that area. There should be an ice resist check before you get there so you come prepared.
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>gold caves in desert
>none of them have roofs but all have a door made of rock
I am convinced this was added as a brainlet check so that people would realise you can blast these and they go back to other caves to check, as all of these gold caves you drop in from the roof and are barely hidden. Even if you do enough side quests to get them marked on the map you will see the hole before the “door”
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The game more or less counts on you ignoring the story and exploring since it covers so little ground otherwise. If you did nothing but follow the story you'd only touch about 33-40% of the map. This game thrives on your ability to enjoy just walking around and exploring. Finding caves, taking out bandit camps, solving random puzzles.
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I ran to the Eastern shore at chapter 5. Use a horse to run past the wandering groups of assholes around Demeniss. Just don't get caught on obstacles or shot off your horse. Delesyia is a bit safer as long as you stay out of the bug war areas. If you see big bugs, run.
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I went down to the Vellua area where the pirate ship is, took a rowboat and rowed all the way to the eastern shores. Was pretty chill and I saw cool things, was basically danger free as well if I didn't go too close to shores in some spots
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i love how the bdo subreddit always bitches about female classes and skins and saying that pa prefer females over males and now pa just gave them a massive single player game with a male only mc despite their "female favoritism"
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Supermoon Slash!
I've got no idea if this is any good.
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>>563533925
It's not hard, it's just a chore because it's overtuned and you have to kill literally hundreds of mobs to finish the quarry takeover. If you have the power of 'tism you can do it even with a weaker character.
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awoo
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>>563533925
I just left it till like chapter 5 as I got sucked in elsewhere and nothing there is actually critical. The hidden reward you can’t even access till chapter 5.
>>563533976
I dunno man I have made 90% of the kuku items so far and never bothered with a pet I just held X after a big batttle or two.
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So why did Hexe Marie keep the dead body of birdman anyway.
I was still wearing his chest armor so her going off on how I was the better birdman was kind of funny. I can’t remember if she escaped or not as I kept thinking about wanting to mating press the crazy out of her. Utterly based boss/villianess arc
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>>563533705
Oh yes indeed.
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Is there a mod that lets you swap to Damaine whenever you want? I just want to clear some side content with her before attempting the final story, it always feels weird to me to go back and do shit like bring someone a muffin or arresting a petty thief or whatever after killing god.
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>*blocks you path*
“What are you going to do, greyboi!?”
>*one shots you*
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NTA but several side bosses in Demensis each drop a spear/halberd that has “moon gears” on it. Each color is a separate one so you have to commit to it and sacrifice things that actually do damage like crit, I have this on a spare offhand I run around with but it’s kind of mid.
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My kliff looks like shit, doesn't he?
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nice pants
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>>563538705
Take the Darth Revan pill.
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We postin' our Kliffs?
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>>563538705
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Idk, I'm starting to think nothing will go well with those gloves.
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That's the one. Thanks.
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Also thanks. Just about to head to demensis anyway.
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clown shoe kliff
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>>563540923
what is the goofy glowing shit can you recolor it.
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>greyhound
There seems to be
https://game8.co/games/Crimson-Desert/archives/594022
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the goofy shit is imbue lightning. These gloves are really good for unarmed but the yellow light is the only thing you can't recolor.
Also, I think I;ll settle on this for now and I probably will swap the gloves out, I don't rely on unarmed that much.
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What the hell? They have giant mountable iguanas that spit poison.
>>563542000
Dam anon that sucks, I haven't seen one in that color specifically yet. I have two as pets in-game though. Will post if I find one/where.
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OMG I WANT A LIZZER
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He's not very fast but he has spirit. Careful spamming the spit attack. It crashed my game when I spammed it in rapid succession into a crowd of people in town.
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>>563540923
try slapping on the kuku disruptor pack (it also has glowy lines) and maybe running odeck's body armor dyed to match the shade of the gloves?
they kind of look browen/bronze ish in that photo, here's my kliff with bronze dyed odeck for comparison
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Oh man, a bunch of "jewel hunter" bounty hunters wanted to kill me at this quest location. I assume they spawned because I'm carrying a bunch of gems / ore from where the crab boss was. Neat.
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>Get told this game gets good at 10 hours
>It doesn't
>Get told this game gets good at 30 hours
>It doesn't
>Get told this game gets good at 50 hours
>It doesn't
>Get told this game gets good at 100 hours
>It doesn't
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Depends but it's just about colors, material can change a lot how the gear looks
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white and red
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Oh shit an aurora and a ninja turtle in one place.
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>>563542000
Hey guy I >>563544803 found your dog. It is in pic related. The town on the north-east side of the map in the Crimson Desert right under the section of the map labeled "Tashkalp" in this exact location. Was running quests and saw it out the corner of my eye. Hope this helps.
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I play in HDR so I use Nvidia app to take screenshots with ALT+F1 and then I have a utility that watches the folder Nvidia places its JXR files and dynamically tonemaps them down to SDR using my configuration and that is what I upload here.
Here is the tool: https://github.com/bvibber/hdrfix
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Why is parry a white circle when I have keen senses as lvl 3?
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any actual difference between pistols and muskets or just lower attack?
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>>563548108
If you're not playing in HDR why not use the baked in utility or snipping tool? Snipping tool's name is standard and then you can us xnview (or the command line utitlity) to batch rename them to whatever you'd like. You can even use a watcher batch script that looks for new screenshots matching the snipping tool (or in-game tool) and renames them as they are created. If I was in your shoes I'd do a simple batch file using https://www.xnview.com/en/nconvert/that watches the directory where you capture screenshots to and renames them with nconvert. Much like how I use my HDR -> SDR tonemapping tool to rename as they generation.
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Man when I saw your post I teared up a little and went where I last saw some greyhounds since I needed to do quests there and spotted him pretty quick. Hope he's there for you! I saw him at NIGHT by the way. 11PM-ish. Not sure if that matters but some pets only show up at specific time windows. You're most welcome, just pay it forward.
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monster hunter wilds
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>>563548337
Named NPC's such as vendors can be beaten up, attacked, tied up, thrown off a cliff, drowned in pools of water, run over by vehicles etc. and they won't die. So you can torture them endlessly! Also, if you take a kidnapped NPC to a location that they are unable to find a path to run away from, they panic, collapse to the ground and grovel for their life!
Isn't that cool?
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>>563550708
You've missed the point entirely. I can take HDR screenshots fine (and the built-in tool you're referring to is the snipping tool). 4chan doesn't allow upload of HDR screenshots. So I take my HDR screenshots (of which the best source of HDR screenshots is Nvidia's app since the tonemapping data is 16bit and in a JXR standard format) and have a lightweight tool running against them to tonemap them down to SDR so I can upload them on 4chan without losing color accuracy (just specular highlights and deep shadows stuff, normal things SDR can't do).
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Sometimes I don't even know what's real with the stuff I read about this game
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>desert ancient flying wizard whatever
>wander over there and get one shot
>go get kuku fire armor
>come back and he’s just standing there instead of flying at Mach 10
>4 shot him and take no damage
Ok then
Anyway do I do anything to the orange shit in the middle as I dispatched some guys here and they are rolling around on fire.
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>>563555807
This is fake man, all the facebook boomer bullshit images are. The game has no persistence, everything respawns and is reset at very short distances. Running from one end of the Scholastone building to the other already initiates a full state reset.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7USfuhKTQ5k
what client is this dude running. when i shoot explosive stuff into the water mine doesnt displace like this. is it cinematic only shit, because im only on ultra because i actually want stable 60 fps
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>Are you using RTX HDR?
No? Why would I do that in a game with decent native HDR and RenoDX available to make it perfect? I do use RTX HDR in games WITHOUT HDR to make them tolerable to play and it works extremely well if you know how to configure it and your system properly.
I wrote a guide for that in fact: https://pastebin.com/5ygwwiy8
Pic related for RTX HDR config (don't use RTX HDR for this game, use native + RenoDX). For my picture you want to follow the settings for +25 contrast (-25 saturation) and pick middle grey based on your panel's peak brightness. You wouldn't use the +50 unless you're doing something more advanced like targeting a different gamma standard (which you aren't if you're looking for help and basically no game is mastered for that in mind anyway).
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It gets good at 30ish hours, and then it gets bad again 120 hoursish.
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Oh boy, this is gonna attract degenerates big time
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>>563558361 >>563557625
its not a mod, the same thing happens if you use a disruptor pack in water (I have not tested if this works for fishing yet though lol)
litter.catbox.moe/sgy5o1.mp4
it's not purely visual either - it actually locally raises the water level causing you to swim if you're deep enough - their water physics and wave model is fucking insane
that said, I do have almost everything on cinematic, so visually it might differ to an extent with lower settings
what's really interesting is that if you're in a large enough body of water you can see a lear demarcation point between affected / not affected water, I'm wondering if that's the effective range of "active" simulated world that you can affect with physics features, or the respawn line, etc
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tariv doesn't upgrade to +4, it goes from 2 to +3 at 10/10
the gay rabbit slippers are the only shoes in the game that give +4 innate
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>wearing ugly shit for a 5% increase in movement speed instead of kino Hernand honor guard boots that match every armor set perfectly
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>>563564491
Yes but it's got to be full speed i.e from the nearby sky island. I suspect something at the Serpent Shrine as well because there's a skylight to a seemingly empty room but the abyss island is less convenient and the opening is much more narrow.
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>>563564618
You unlock it from beating the main story, it's the center skill node. Full speed would be when golden particles start flying off during the dive and releasing the button no longer puts you back into freefall.
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>>563564168
its even cooler if you do it in a stream where there's height change
I legit came a bit when I first stumbled across it randomly the other day
>litterbox/catbox suddenly starts throwing ssl errors when it was working fine not even 20 minutes ago
goddammit
>>563565249
30 vertical, 25 horizontal, farthest
I don't like games where the 3rd persona camera is a goddamned pie wedge away from the character
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there we go
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yeah it's clearly a temporary localized adjustment, and I haven't noticed anything like animals drowning in the temporarily raised water, etc
it's strange that the entire "active" cell seems to be affected at once and it raises to what would appear to be the maximum permitted height of the liquid layer at that point
I fuckling love how it does actually raise the water level though, causes rocks and clothing to get wet, make the character swim, etc
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pc master race
(almost) everything on cinematic
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>>563567873
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>>563568464
remnants of bdo2. all of cliff's archery moveset is 1 to 1 with ranger's basic moves, his hand to hand is from striker, oongka's melee is from berserker, his arm cannon is from awakening berserker. only damiane has a unique moveset that i don't recognize because rapiers are not in bdo. but her greatsword might be drakania or seraphim? i haven't played those classes yet
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Where the FUCK is it?
Not on Oongka by the end of the game, not in private inventory.
Is it just bugged and gone?
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>>563568883
In reality they should have just make it a main character you customize, but with very limited body customization so as to not break excellent animation work. So you either pick man or woman (Kliff and Damiane models, in this case) and split Oongka's kit between those two. Then the other gender becomes the teammate you can switch to and party up with.
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>>563567373
it does nothing sadly, I think waterfalls are static effects and not physics-driven
that said, for some reason the starting-zone trees are allergic to the disruptor pack? haven't seen this happen anywhere else
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>>563569305
They're extremely bugged. For the rare times they work, they're actually very useful. I notice that when I set them on standby, they become properly aggressive. But the problem is that they stop moving, they only attack what is in the vicinity and then I have to manually set them to follow. Obviously that's too much of a hassle so I stopped using the system, which is a shame.
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Yeah they're just standard vfx. Their engine calls it the "shallow water feature". Basically trying to do particle sim for waterfalls would tank performance insanely. Pearl Abyss gets away with this by only doing a flat 2.5D sim. It uses signed distance fields to calculate the distance from the riverbed or coastline and rocks and generates plausible looking displacement and flow paths based on that. It's a more crude method, and limiting it to shallow water and a flatter dimension is how they manage performance costs.
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>>563561721
What happens if you do it in a well or some water in a town? Can you wash away the people?
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>>563569456
Their AI pathing is a mess which is probably what's causing pet and follower to sperg out in combat. It's also funny when you're climbing/gliding and the followers teleport to you then fall down screaming.
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>>563570271
Yeah pathing is an extremely hard problem to solve. Hence DD2 pawns also acting retarded. Not much to do about that I suppose, even more so with the complexity of verticality added on top of it. I'm actually amazed at the few amounts of times when the guards can properly scale up buildings and walls to get up to you. Even that often gets bugged. I noticed.
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>Wouldn't it funny it we made DaVinci's tank into a gimmick boss for weakspot stabbing?
>what about pierce?
>lol nope
>can players reliable climb?
>nope, in fact tank will also deal ramming damage while climbing or on the air
>can players land on it?
>yes but good luck having Kliff crouch/cling before he gets thrown off by a ground aoe
>oh what about range?
>yes tank can also use missiles
>oh and also make sure tank can teleport and backstab players
I give up, trying to use the gimmick got me killed for an hour. Kliff is just an unreliable piece of shit, last 2 retries he stopped just shy of the green dome so he was just stabbing wood instead of the weakspot
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>>563573834
Chuds were calling her ugly lmao
https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1qwswip/crimson_deser t_some_people_call_this_female/
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>>563574051
if it's the time he joins for first time, they give you a quest to find your friends in town very close and after that you are supposed to go find the electric guy without an arm, just follow the lantern like with the reeds guy and you'll find him ready for a boss battle, kill him and that's it, just go to the funeral and the chapter ends and you can go back to kliff
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>>563574054
Appalling
>/r/Kotaku
There is chuds no there only retards confused about their gender
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>>563574740
Stab is for single target damage, spinning slash is usually for crowd control. Unless you're using spear, then spinning slash is more or less just better in every way, especially if you're using gears on top of it. Comes out wicked fast.
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>>563575621
Gimmick items then? Well I do enjoy those, but its a shame it won't help me get un-filtered.
>>563575741
Thanks I'll look at that.
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>>563575181
If you're talking about mech tanks in mech/xi quest? Just deal damage+dodge+run until it dies, trying to do the gimmick stab is just not worth it. If you try to climb it will shock you, try jump it will ram you, range to aerial swing he will missile you to death
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>>563576193
the armors are situationally very useful, giving 10 to their respective elemental resistance
the gardening pack is goated for collecting from your farm and palmer patches and such
the casters/spears are cheap/easy ways of dealing elemental damage if you haven't gotten around to unlocking imbued attacks
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>>563577168
What the game calls lariat is just the standard bodyslam grapple. If you're looking for an actual lariant/clothesline that's a separate upgrade, it's the lariat input while you're sprinting. Very useful.
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It causes a knockback in an area around you so it's best used to create space and do something like blind finisher. Later on when you get the glove upgrade cores it gets even better. It's pretty much core for large groupsIt's can be used on some bosses too, like the crowguy to do a big nuke of damage
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I find with Lariat that you have a long recovery and the guy gets up at the same time. Also the AOE stun around it is pretty small.
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>>563576949
Yep.
For the heck of it just retried it with infinite health, and in order to kill it with climb+stab or aerial swing you'd need boss to remain knocked/staggered far longer, and no there's no resisting getting thrown off. It's just not feasible taking advantage of the gimmick during combat, landmines, missiles, Kliff flinching every hit or picking up random shit instead of climbing
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>you have a long recovery and the guy gets up at the same time
You can definitely follow up before he gets up, either with a ground attack with your weapon or another lariat, which comes out as an elbow drop on grounded enemies. The AoE isn't huge but you're also mostly invincible during lariat which makes it doubly safe when you're surrounded, both as a finisher for the enemy you're targeting and a get off me for everyone else. Lariat's AoE is the most effective AoE you'll have access to until Hound's Claws.
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In my experience you sometimes can't get a ground attack in but they'll be facing away from you when they get up so you can go right for a suplex if you're quick enough.
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"Let's try an unarmed build!"
>the highest amount of crit you get from gloves is 2
>only two slots for neat abyss gears (there are no kick gears), when two-handed gets 5 and dual-wield get 6, and gears on gloves/boot don't benefit the other
>can't grab bosses so half your moves are useless there
>terrible AoE
>requires use of both hands but is -5 attack over two handed weapons for no reason
>only a single pair of gloves are actually decent, and they're literally as far away from the start of the game as they possibly could be physically
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>>563580576
Light attacks will literally never weave unarmed. It's objectively best to just throw all the abyss gears like the moon slashes onto your weapon and just hold down R1, because unlike other gears that increase stamina drain in exchange for their power, Pearl Abyss seems to have forgotten that light attacks don't consume stamina
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>>563580484
>unarmed build
>build
you're doing it wrong
it's readily apparent this game is designed around using "all" of your available tools
sometimes that means ranged/archery, sometimes that means melee weapons, sometimes that means axiom skills/abilities, and sometimes that means unarmed
trying to "pick one and make a build around only using that" is just a self-imposed challenge mode, like SL1 runs in Dark Souls
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Nature's Echo is a Kliff exclusive skill right? I'm confused because Damiane doesn't have it on her skill tree but I see a afterimage whenver I use R2 just like on Kliff but it doesn't actually do any extra damage with her.
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Again, why would you bother when you can just do this instead (holy fuck this was impossible to get under 4mb with these effects), which is also AoE and passes through objects? Your R1 is an abyss gear delivery system, nothing more.
If you want to do that for fun or challenge, sure, I did it too. But it's objectively worse
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Game is reminding me of Sifu.
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>holy fuck this was impossible to get under 4mb with these effects
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>spend time and a shit ton of gear/artifacts leveling all my gear to the max for the three overwhelming beings
>start with beloth
>the reward is a full set of gear that is strictly, objectively better than what I upgraded
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Predictions for next weeks patch? probs nothing substantial, just more optimization and fixes followed by a small hotfix. They do be cookin and cant wait for the good shit like boss rematches, repopulating forts, new mounts and gear
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Adding camera options to center kliff and options for hiding gear and items so you're not carrying 20 things on your back really endeared this game to me
I'm still hoping they just add a character creator, even if it's paid dlc because I'm sure it's not so straightforward
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>>563585443
there is already 50% of a character creator in the game, it's just behind ~20 hours of quests if you beeline
but yeah, at this point I have almost 200 hours in the game and I've barely even started the main quest or actually explored anything beyind the starting country in any detail/depth beyond making a giant circle around the entire map unlocking waypoints
I will gladly buy whatever dlc they end up releasing, as long as it's not something completely fucking stupid and pointless like multiplayer
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>>563586876
Dyers can only dye certain color, and some will sell you dyes they cannot use
>>563586841
Not only that, she never talks to you again. Maybe in a future dlc she'll be more fleshed out, I'm sure she's in need of a man now that her sister is dead
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Should I finished the Epilogue before I start clearing the side quests or would that lock me out of the game?
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>>563579828
>tech
>its just intended game mechanic
lol. do people really not try mixing and connecting stuff on their own? maybe its because i played shit ton of character action titles and beatem ups but I instantly have tried to string abilities and overwhelming majority worked.
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>>563566481
spoiler image that shit
fucking dipshit retard
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>>563579883
based dreamscape inventor.
Back when Gothic 2 was a new game, I saw a dream about a specific kind of sword in a cave.
Next day, I played Gothic 2 and found the cave and I found the sword. That was pretty eerie.
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>>563582586
How do you do the shield combo?
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>morphing
There's a clear border though, there's no morphing. Maybe your brain has morphed into a schizo brain
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>>563555807
I brought a mix of over 60 roaches, centipedes, flies etc into a bank and the interior was absolutely teeming with all manner of creepy crawling shit and interacting with stuff was difficult because there was always some sort of pest in the way.
The next day they were all gone.
I am pretty sure they either devoured the bank teller and assumed his form, or the bank teller ate them all.
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>>563596681
Plague knights represent
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>>563540513
I hate any kind of robotics in my fantasy games, even the muskets are too technological for me. The endgame is fighting an ai, then ride a dragon while being shot at with a minigun, heatseeking missiles and a canon with laser sight. I don´t know who enjoys this. I did enjoy the first 100 hours so there is that. I might play a bit more to find the last 2 epic bosses and some legendary animals before I call it a day.
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>>563597890
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>>563583481
>most normal Kliff reaction when someone in town insults him.
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I absolutely loathe cooking and any kind of mandatory shit I need to do in order to have basic healing supplies
what's the best thing I can do in this game to get by without every cooking anything? Can I buy my healing supplies?
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>>563602829
You will struggle in the long run if you don´t cook at all. The easiest is cooking meat, but the best recipe is clear soup. Yes it takes some time, but then you got for many hours of healing. There is unlimited water in the wells, find one and get 100 water. There is one just beneath the cliff at your camp in Hernand, next to a shop that sells horsegear. Buy up all the meat, because any meat and bird works in clear soup, buy up all the grain because any kind of grain works in the clear soup. Now cook it all several times. Every time you switch either meat or grain it asks you to make another batch, but after you cooked it, it goes in the same inventory as clear soup. Now you run around with 100 clear soups, 240 hp healing which works for most of game, if not the entire game, I personally switch to a meat and vegetable porridge in the end, but strictly I didn´t have to. You´re going to have a tough time taking on all the bosses if you can´t heal up. Having so many healings of the same kind helps in a boss fight, that way you don´t go from a healing item that gives 200 hp to one that gives 50 in the middle of a fight.
The key to working a well is this. Put on youtube. Have the the bucket just get barely underneath water, it makes a sound when it gets underneath, then have it barely get above water, it makes a sound again when it gets up, you don´t lower and raise it every single time, just lower it slighty and raise it slightly. 20 times for 100 water and hours upon hours of gameplay. I think plenty of players came to this playstyle independently.
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>beloth
I beat him today too
started chapter seven and he eventually spawned. The game immediately warned me Mighty foe detected. Prepare accordingly
I thought, how hard could it possibly be?
I got one shot.
And I barely did any damage.
upgraded my two handed weapon to max refinement, used every strong elixir I had saved from Arboria Castle, and stacked food buffs just to inflate my HP, equipped a Bear Mantle and frost-resistance abyss gear, though it was still only around +9 so I kept relying on food buffs to push it up to 15 just to survive anything.
Didn't use any pills. I tried with 0 food and got him to like 30% but the chip damage was really making life difficult since I'm still in early game and my HP is FAR from max+I don't have enough natural regen.
Said fuck it and used food since I was like 15 minutes into the fight already and didn't want to restart.
This is after I locked in and learned all his moves.
None of them are anything special when you learn them btw. He actually has a fairly simple move set contrary to appearances. In fact I would go as far and say he's nothing that special. Just don't get hit.
You gotta dodge or jump up when he does the unga bunga super move though that shit is one shot regardless of food at least for me since I'm still fairly early in the game.
Super happy I killed him though without cheesing.
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>>563602829
I absolutely loathe upgrading equipment and skills and any kind of mandatory leveling up shit I need to do in order to have basic fucking character progression
what's the best thing I can do in this game to get by without having to actually play the game? can I just buy an "all achievements unlocked" DLC?
>>563592316
people don't "try" much of anything anymore and it fucking baffles me especially in games like this
nobody goes through game settings/options to see what all is available and tweak shit, nobody tries interacting with or attacking or affecting random shit in the game world just to see what happens, etc
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>>563470072
This game would easily sell an additional 5 million copies in a week if it had a character creator.
I never played Black Desert Online, but I heard that game's character creator is amazing. Why can't the devs just airlift that system to this game?
I want to make some hot amazon goddesses.
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>>563608053
Mario isn't part of a genre that usually has a character creator and isn't made by a dev known primarily for a game with a good character creator. It also doesn't have a story that by-and-large treats the main character like a voiceless cardboard cutout that could easily be replaced with a created character.
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>>563607738
elixirs you get from arboria castle helped a lot with buffs(+10 damage abyss gear too).
Insane how I was dealing like barely any damage still. Should’ve just unlocked the flame element before I fought him.
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>>563607508
I have refused to talk to tax man, I have made dozens of attempts on his life, suplexes, throwing him off of ravines etc. Adds flavor
Also tried to get abyss bunny down from abyss, threw him over edge and tried to chase him down but he despawned
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>>563608570
This is a pretty weak argument considering Kliff spends 75% of the game in either complete silence or giving one-word responses. Even at his most verbose he's a man of few words, which is why you have characters like Yann providing most of the noise in the room. The MC of MH Wilds has about as much unique dialogue as Kliff and that game still uses a created character.
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>>563606161
You´re right. People set different standards for how they want to finish a game. For me, pressing retry was a failure. I pressed retry on Red Crimson, because I didn´t understand the force palm when I met him, pressed retry on the circus mech monster, because I didn´t get his gimmick on what the game wanted me to do and retry on Ator, because I was low on soup when I ran into him the first time, all the others I got first try, sure I used tons of healing and palmar pills, but I got them in the first try. Even if it took 30 healings and 5 palmar pills and I did it without having to learn a single moveset of any boss. I only finished elden ring once and I was done with learning movesets. To be honest, I think Ator was 40 healings and 10 palmar pills, but I got him in my second attempt.
By the way, the unlimited water also gives unlimited palmar pills.
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This, if a game is gonna have a predetermined MC it has to utilize them properly. Give them a proper personality so they can play off of other characters, or at the very least tailor the story to the character so it could only ever be them. The game copies enough from RDR2 that it should've realized Arthur is a distinct character with a distinct personality, which allows him to play off of other characters in unique ways. Kliff doesn't play off of anyone because he reacts to everyone the same way. He's either gruff (happy) with people he likes and gruff (angry) with people he doesn't know or dislikes. You know this is true because you could swap Kliff with anyone, including a nameless Greymane and the story would still work perfectly fine. Hell, most people address you as "Greymane" rather than Kliff anyway. The alternative is write the story in a way that it could only be about Kliff, the way that games like Sekiro do it. Wolf barely talks and doesn't have much of a personality but you could never swap in some rando in his place. He holds a unique position in the story, so the game is undeniably about him even if he doesn't stand out as a character.
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>>563609581
Stamina first until you have at least 200, preferably more. You won't need much health at that point yet. Then get some health or skills, depending on how you're faring. You won't get oneshotted very easily in this game if youre not an idiot so upgrading health isn't a top priority like in souls games for example
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If you find yourself eating a lot of shit you can lean a little more into health but you could definitely get away with 3:2:1 stamina to spirit to health. Stamina is everything, spirit is deceptively useful, health isn't nearly as important. No matter how much health you have the stuff that hits really hard is gonna demolish you anyway, and you need to be a good five or six health upgrades deep before some of the weaker one shots become two shots. You're given quite a lot of revives and death is a slap on the wrist, so there's really no point in investing in health early.
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>>563584946
Artifacts are the real bitch. I've done most of the puzzles and bosses, grinding challenges seems like absolute aids, and the only thing remaining is sending dispatches for Timeworn Ruins, but that takes 4 whole days and can come back with just a single artifact. I'm bottlenecked so fucking hard
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>>563610180
Unfortunately the game is just designed in a way that outright punishes you for upgrading gear too early. I bruteforced the game keeping all of my shit at +4 until I was up to my neck in artifacts and only when I was sure I had some of the best gear did I bother upgrading any further than that. They really should make it so that you can break down gear and get at least some of the upgrade materials back, or at the very least some of the artifacts you spent on it. How about letting you substitute the respec artifacts instead? I've got dozens of those and I've got every skill for Kliff, I will never need to respec again unless I randomly feel like taking Kliff's shit away and maxing out the other two.
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>>563608181
the Witcher games and RDR don't have character creators, and people didn't shit themselves over those
this game was clearly inspired by those games more so than BDO
sure, it's a _bit_ odd there isn't an explicit character creator because of the BDO connection, but it's not completely unexpected and surprising is all I'm saying
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it's not much of a punishment because gear is mostly all the same
there are a few different "types" of gear but the powerlevel is largely the same with a couple of exceptions in terms of jewelry
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Deferring rendering has nothing to do with this. And by the way, there is no fix besides ray reconstruction and max lighting. The reason for this is because they use up to 20 previous frames in order to speed up its lighting solution. They shoot 1 ray per 16 pixels in a 4x4 grid, whereas most path traced modes in games (the one where only a 5090 can do it) shoots 1-2 rays per single pixel. This was done so that even shitty macaco computers in Brazil can run the game and have a technically real globally illuminated and ray traced lighting system. This means extremely aggressive denoising (which explains the shitty high contrast indoor lighting) and extreme data reuse and resampling to further cut costs. This is why the ghosting is so bad. Nearly every single popular method for getting reasonably good looking lights to be cheaper involves techniques that cause ghosting, but Pearl Abyss took the future proof path and made it shit now so that it can seamlessly improve later, as the hardware floor does.
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>the Witcher games and RDR don't have character creators
The Witcher and RDR are also way more story-driven and their protagonists are central to the stories being told. RDR wouldn't be RDR without John or Arthur and The Witcher wouldn't be The Witcher without Geralt. The characters are integral to the narrative of the games. You'd have a pretty tough time making the same argument for Kliff being central to CD's story. Outside of a couple of lines regarding his connection to the other Greymanes you could effortlessly swap in a random nameless Greymane and nothing would really change. The story of CD exists in spite of Kliff, not because of it.
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>>563599809
I'm serious. I wanna know what this is for.
Also do you guys know how long it takes for the trade centers to restock?
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>>563611725
it's just knowledge
a tiny checkmark on a piece of information the game tracks that nobody will ever use
maybe there's an achievement for obtaining knowledge about everything in the game?
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HOLY RAGEBAIT I JUST WANT TO SIT DOWN
also is it uncommon for new players to meet Damiane before being introduced to her in the story? I'm 3hrs in just exploring and I met her at an archery competition area near this webm. she just said some random line of dialogue that meant nothing. I wouldn't have batted an eye if I didn't already know she was a playable character from seeing game discussion
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Yes, it's just one of those things where it was a beautiful idea that never got fleshed out. You could run into Damiane wandering randomly before you recruit her.
>HOLY RAGEBAIT I JUST WANT TO SIT DOWN
Also yes, this game has a shit system where cling and sit are the same button, so if the edge you're looking at is too steep, it will always prioritize cling, even if you catch it saying sit sometimes. So you can only properly sit on a ledge facing inwards. It's hard to get good sitting pictures because you aren't allowed to sit facing a vista. I already sent in a ticket to make sit a hold and cling a tap, but nothing yet. More people need to send in tickets. I'm talking about (you).
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Go to journal and find the abyss under the knowledge area. Scroll through and see and then you can auto mark it on your map. It’s great for caves that NPCs or game items revealed that you may have not wandered into yet.
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I dunno if it's just me, but that method is so painfully slow. It seems like only one in every 200 scholars I flash with my lantern even has one. It's practically more worthwhile to just go grind random mobs
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Oongka can't have the bear. This is very disappointing.
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>>563615629
When you kill them in the wild you get an item you can bring to any of the proper witches and exchange it for the mount. You get the locations of them and the other legendary animals from the quest to kill the black wolf, which is available pretty early on. Chapter 4 or 5, I think.
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Good shit anons, thanks
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Sneaking my way in here without a fight was probably one of the most entertaining things I've done in vidya games in a long while
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I wish you could actually fly. This is a perfect game for it. gatekeep it until you're far into the game I dont care. If you can fly a dragon you should be able to use your own crow wings to fly
infinite stamina doesnt even work since even with the fast flying upgrade you're still aiming down and cant gain altitude
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F1 wheel menu and mousewheel scroll over the bottom segment. You have to be using Kliff.
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Oh; so the other characters can use the alternate mounts! You have to summon the mounts as Kliff, then switch and disband him whilst the beast is still spawned. Then you can mount freely.
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>>563619208
>done with most faction quests
>done with most bosses
>nothing else to do but advance story
>the alive game is still alive there is just nothing else to fight other than 5 bandits camps anymore
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>unlike kliff damiane has no access to good resistance gear/cloaks so you can't even have normal stamina without bricking your build
guna install one of those cheat mods at this rate
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>>563582462
Anon going full RB on gear mid is fucking retarded and you are stupid for suggesting moon slashes like this.
Abyss rays also always miss.
-Normal enemies do not stand in lines
-Bosses past chapter 4 do not stand still let you get 5 hits in to proc this
-You are missing out on a fuckton of crit potential or proper proc damage
It looks cool but this is ass and nowhere near as much damage as a turning slash + stacking crit + 1 or 2 turning slash gears.
Also:
>click verify
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>click get captch
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How did the Japanese retard that bought this website manage to make it so much worse than when moot was running it off two fucking Mac minis in his closet.
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>witch of demeniss not actually first found in demeniss
I must have overlooked that fucking bridge a dozen fucking times. Yes, I mad. Goodnight.
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>>563478115
Yeah, I did the same thing, just smashed them all right in front of them.
>>563481514
I did that quest today and went round in a circle about 6 times before I gave up and went somewhere else. I killed him on the first encounter, but the quest didn't clear.
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I'm wanting to actually remove all the effect cores altogether and just stacking speed and damage instead. Because First of all those effect cores are ugly as fuck, they also obstruct my vision, and secondly they are next to useless.
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>NPC hints at wishing there eas magic neckless that could make it rain to help with farming
>assume its flavor text
>find sunshine neck
>oh I bet there is a rain one too then
>120 hours later I find it
Kek this game man.
Also does the game ever explain the flying fucks are weak to sword glint? I’m far to in for it to matter but it does more damage than like 3 explosive arrows and insta deaths them to the point I feel like I cleared all sacrums wrong.
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>>563470072
I wish Damiane was my mom
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https://youtu.be/TPo3oZ71EXw?si=dC8iSdZxjlPplrzA&t=609
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this place began to drop my frames afterthe part in the main story and 5 new mountains rose out of the waters
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Why didn't nobody tell me that the game has a literal Deadeye mode with the bow? When you aim and focus you can mark targets, and when you fire you shoot rapid fire at all of the marks.
You can shoot 6 explosive arrows in one second.
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>Why didn't nobody tell me
Because the game does? It's right there in the skill menu from the start.
>You can shoot 6 explosive arrows in one second.
Wait until you try Evasive Shot with explosive arrows.
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you just know she's an anal queen, i can just tell from the face and expression
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>>563628294
what the actual fuck is with zoomers needing constant affirmation that they're allowed to like something because "the experts" say its good?
are you physically incapable of forming your own opinion and likes/dislikes without some fuckhead telling you what to like and dislike and what's good and bad?
jesus fucking christ
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>>563569335
I dunno what this is but I like it
the crysis of open world fantasy games.
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>>563629062
Die and respawn it fixed mine
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I skimmed and he was impressed with the horse plating undulating properly and just thought some of the fantasy shit was retarded.
This game is kino and the fact there is so little clipping is also great.
Also lmao you can make chocolate with milk and cacao which are two of the easiest camp missions which heals 50% of your total bar and scales into endgame.
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BIG MOD ALERT
https://www.nexusmods.com/crimsondesert/mods/1197
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>the fact there is so little clipping is also great.
Even random trash enemies in the midst of battle have their hands on their weapons like they should, which is extremely rare in vidya
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I’ve been using grondsurge and fire too much, picked up some wind and ice gears, and thinking about using dual swords with wind, moving my 2H to ice and trying out maces with fire/groundsuge, anyone like ice/wind and have suggestions? I am running out of bosses to try things on so want to shift quick.
Also why is thanos’s third stage so much easier than his second? It’s all telegraphed and can be rolled under and felt kino aside from only his hands taking damage and not his face which was dumb.
I like how he was just a big retard with no motivation other than lmao I have a big zapper. Felt like the 3 fucking mini rock shits that spawn have like 50x his HP each though.
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Holy frack, just found this chest piece for Damiane. She looks so hot!
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>>563633071
That's going to the notebook, anon.
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>>563632631
>get one from every boss
>get one from every major quest
>get one from several minor quests
>get one for a set amount of combat
>get one from every puzzle
>get one from every abyss
>get another ten for doing every abyss
>get one from every cresset
>get multiple from every witch
>get infinite from camp missions
The fuck have you been doing?
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>>563633701
An alchemy recipe for lube!
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>doing bounties in pailune
>come up from behind on my mark
>some stinking greenskin, don't even know what he did I just hope he resists
>he's with his cronies but they haven't noticed me yet
>take the opening shot and prepare for a scuffle
>WANTED: MURDER
Excuse me? It was self defense and also they're freely associating with a greenskin so they can't be decent people.
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>>563634209
in this game goblins are honorable tradesmen, ogres are bankers and scholars, orcs are noble warriors and scientists. You are a fucking barbarian compared to them.
Besides, no one will ever be as chad as this man
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My ancestors are smiling at me... can you say the same, Neckbeard?
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Over 2m camp fund for 15 minutes wagon ride from Pailune to Demeniss.
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Here's your Secret Shop bro
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>>563637257
There is a similar one on nexus uploaded earlier. Dunno if it's the same one.
https://www.nexusmods.com/crimsondesert/mods/1192
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>>563637321
It is so disappointing everytime I run into him. I beat him up, tied him up and threw him off a cliff last time I ran into him.
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Those aren't even the worst, there's also a version where the areola is almost the size of the entire fucking boob and it's dark.
And in the comments someone asked if the modder could make a prettier version and he just answered: "no, make your own"
Sick fucks I say
Sick fucks
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>>563639227
These sick fucks have children at their furry convention.
>>563639290
Never, I have a kid on the way and couldn't fathom abusing a child like these monsters do.
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Kill goblins. Behead goblins. Roundhouse kick goblins into the concrete. Slam dunk goblins into the trash can. Crucify filthy goblins. Defecate in goblins food. Launch goblins into the sun. Stir fry goblins in a wok. Toss goblins into other goblins. Urinate into goblins gas tank. Judo throw goblins into a wood chipper. Twist goblins heads off. Report goblins to the IRS. Force Palm goblins in half. Curb stomp pregnant goblins. Trap goblins in quicksand. Crush goblins in the trash compactor. Liquify goblins in a vat of acid. Eat goblins. Dissect goblins. Exterminate goblins in the Turning Slash spam. Stomp goblins skulls with steel toed boots. Cremate goblins in the oven. Lobotomize goblins. Mandatory abortions for goblins. Grind goblins fetuses in the Alchemy Cauldron. Rub Damiane's beard stubble on a goblins face. Drown goblins in fried chicken grease. Imprison goblins in a prison cell with Yann.
Goblin system thinks this post is spam. Goblin will try again.
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>>563641141
it's sort of like it. it's not tab-target, just very strong lock on. but it also depends on which class you play, ranged attacks just lock onto whoever's closest to your crosshair without needing to actually aim like a fps, duh
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>>563642083
cd combat is pretty soulless in its own way. you just hit attack keys and it auto targets and paths you the right way. its extremely hard to whiff in this game too since a basic attack lets you cover 1090 feet in one go
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cd combat is pretty soulless in its own way. you just hit attack keys and it auto targets and paths you the right way. its extremely hard to whiff in this game too since a basic attack lets you cover 1090 feet in one go
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>ok here's a boss
>he flies
>he is immune to Axis things
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>if you avoid the aoe shit he shoots these projectiles at you
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exploration in this game would be so much better if side quests weren't locked behind other completely arbitrary side quests. So much cool shit that would be awesome to stumble upon naturally but nope lol fuck you you didn't help the dwarves with their hot air balloon on the other side of the map so there's nothing here
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>>563646853
arboria castle is a great example because it would have been so cool to just stumble upon a spider infested factory with a giant spider boss. But if you go there before helping the fishing village with their pirate problem you are just met with an empty building and a puzzle you can interact with but not complete
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Yeah from the way (you) people talked about this game I thought it was a true sandbox and that got my autism excited. I mean in some ways it still is, you can just kind of go anywhere immediately. But it doesn't feel very intentional when you show up to a place and it's empty because you didn't do xyz
I'm less than 10 hours in. Are there at least respawning and/or radiant things? Like if I want to spend 1000 hours killing bandits or clearing a dungeon / fortress or whatever am I able to do that?
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wait are you fucking serious? there's a finite amount of enemies? so at a certain point you're just walking around an empty world?
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How do I get Oongka's Vertical Flight ability as soon as possible?
I heard you research it from an area in Gorthak, so I went there but it's under siege and the area in question, the NPC is missing.
I'm really liking Oongka but not having movement comparable to Kliff is really ruining my fun.
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Well there you go nigger. Second try. It was just going to be a chill gaming session, I was going to get the white horse, get some legendary animals and that was it, but I thought to myself, you just never know, so I made 70 meat and vegetable porridges. What do you know, as I´m riding my white horse around to bond with it I follow a road I never followed before and before you know it, I´m running into one of the 3 hardest bosses in the entire game, so hard he is not part of the main story to finish the game. Do I turn around to come back later? No, I kill him in my second try. First try, 12 palmar pills and 9 refined palmar pills, I press retry. I get him second try with 4 refined palmar pills left and 13 porridges. Did I get around gathering gear to kill him? Absolutely not, I started out my journey with 7 frost protection and that is what I killed him with. Even forgot to light the last lantern right at the fighting ground to make sure I didn´t fight in a blizzard, doesn´t matter. Do I know his moveset? I don´t have to, he is dead, never to return again. Did I make some nice moves? Absolutely not, I pressed right click and force palm and sometimes a turning slash and a lot of f3. Easiest fight of my life.
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How'd you unlock him? Is it a side quest or only main quest stuff? I really want to unlock Oongka vertical flight, but fuck it's annoying being at the end of the game and finally being able to move as good as Kliff.
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>>563664136
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Don't quote me but I'm pretty sure that it works the same as gloves/boots, i.e. attack/crit only apply to the specific weapon it's attached to but attack speed applies to both. Though stuff that activates on swings like Wind Slash activates on both.
You can check by putting a crit gear on your offhand and pulling it out then looking at your inventory, it'll show you your crit level per weapon.
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thank fuck, that was driving me crazy
>>563664136
curious if that's counting the entire visible area in the image, or just "playable" area
because that background map of CD includes an absolute fuckton of non-playable area along the top and left sides, and obviously the ocean too
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That's fun and amazing for the first time, then you realize how small it is and then the littel stories and backgrounds seem pathetic. If there's only 13 npcs in a town then why are they all so shallow, you know?
The little backstories end up being insulting because they're so SHIT
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this kind of shit is where I expect AI/LLMs to do heavy lifting in the future
build a sumilation engine for major historic events, politics, racial attributes, etc, then feed it a list of different citizen types and some randomness and have it spit out full, contextually relevant, believable/reasonable backstories for each npc that can exist in a game
then you can have another separate system looking at different flags in those histories and have it generate relevant, believable quests of various types (collect thing, kill thing, cause infighting between group a and b, etc)
all that is doable currently manually, but it takes a fuckton of time and effort and you generally end up with obviously templated slop, whereas with AI working "right" it will be less obviously templated less sloppy slop
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that being said, these past 3 weeks I've been completely hooked and that rarely happened with vidya for me lately so, I'm having a great time
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A game from over 10 years ago made an effort to breathe life into generic NPCs. People who played Skyrim definitely remember the money grubbing general store owner of Whiterun or the uppity tailor in Solitude even if they can't recall the NPCs' names.
CD was made with modern tech yet the vendor NPCs that all players interact with are copy/paste variants of the ones in the first settlement. Can you name a single vendor in any of CD's major cities that have unique personality?
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I have like 700 hrs in Skyrim and don’t remember shit about the one dimensional shopkeepers anon. Hell most NPCs all look and act the same to me but that’s maybe because the cities are so fucking small and ugly I hardly ever went to them.
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>Skyrim
The game was a downgrade from Oblivion when it came to that kind of stuff for starters. Why the hell should I care about the personality of a random vendor, this isn't even a RPG. The only good thing Skyrim has over this game is dungeons and the OST. CD engine, physics, open world, interactivity annihilates bethesda. Their 3D engine is now extremely outdated, they fired Jeremy Soule. They don't know how to make good games anymore, Skyrim was the last good thing they did. Nothing since 2011
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https://files.catbox.moe/utcvmu.mp4
So I'm running everything on max settings, and over the last few updates the amount of pop-in has gotten close to unbearable. Is anyone else getting this? NPCs and wagons randomly showing up only when I'm close to them and seeing the border where grass starts to show is driving me up the wall.
Is there any way to optimize my settings at all?
I'm on Linux so I'm not sure if I can use graphic mods, but I'm willing to try anything if it means fixing these downgrade updates.
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first off thats false, they said its 2x skyrim and bigger than rdr2. this suggests its 10x skyrim and more than 3x rdr2, which would be retarded. even if you have fast horses and better movement tools, this is blatantly false
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>>563675787
If you were familiar to Pearl Abyss, you'd know that this is just how they are. Their other games are infinitely worse than this for pop-in. Their proprietary streaming philosophy prioritizes seamlessness over all else. This means no loading screens, super fast traversal speeds, and seamless entry into interiors without fake loading screens like a slow dramatic entry animation, or shuffling through a narrow path to load in the next area.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jooFwq3WGAI
sandbox my ass. this japanese guy has been messing around in the game to test its limits for emergent gameplay. you literally cannot do any creative cheese that works. even in skyrim you could put a bucket over someones head to blind them. this game has absolutely zero levels of that kind of sovl. for example here youd think you can use the smoke bomb to sneak forward or block the face of the statue or move forward with a shield that blocks the view. nothing works
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>fight bandits in the midst of the night
>all goes well
>fight bandits in the midst of the night with a bandit mask
>hit a horse with your wide swings and the hit registers because you are a bandit
>get a bounty on your head
sometimes this game is fucking ASS
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i need a list of all unique items only acquired through getting friendship level up to 100, most vendors ive gotten to full friendship gives you shit no one wants, the only useful one is the tavern contracts, armourer contracts are useless cos the ore you can get at your camp is capped
some saddlers can give nice stuff but what else is out there
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>strolling around in Pailune town
>a weird dude is following me, whatever
>grab a wanted poster
>wanted poster is about the dude who is following me
>the moment I stow away the poster, the dude pickpockets me
>beat the shit out of him on the spot
This dude isn't the sharpest thief in the town I see lmao
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>strolling around in Pailune town
>a weird dude is following me, whatever
>grab a wanted poster
>wanted poster is about the dude who is following me
>the moment I stow away the poster, the dude pickpockets me
>beat the shit out of him on the spot
This dude isn't the sharpest thief in the town I see lmao
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i need a list of all unique items only acquired through getting friendship level up to 100, most vendors ive gotten to full friendship gives you shit no one wants, the only useful one is the tavern contracts, armourer contracts are useless cos the ore you can get at your camp is capped
some saddlers can give nice stuff but what else is out there
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daily Damiane
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What's going on with uploads today? I can't upload in mp4 or webm right now: https://files.catbox.moe/ftujyi.webm
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finally can post image
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Tried to do like a navy serafuku what do we think bros
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>Can you name a single vendor in any of CD's major cities that have unique personality?
I thought the ones in the first town were cool. granted, I have only been to the first town
for example, the dyer was proud and boasted of his work, even though he used traditional methods.
the leather dealer was enthusiastic of his goods and spoke like he got some good shit in. the quest for purchasing his spinny wheel was funny.
the orc butcherer was cute but seemed to be struggling a bit, always trying to promote her shop.
the general merchant was friendly but a bit generic.
the good boy points trader seemed professional and meticulous, happy that you were doing good for the city
they don't have a lot of lines but there's enough there together with the journal text to give them character.
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Testing, maybe it was a temporary thing.
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>>563679584
Does Todd Howard's abortion have proper physics on everything and destruction of nearly everything? Does it let you disguise yourself to blend in with the enemy? Mechanically his games are some of the worst on the market. Skyrim was a downgrade of Oblivion which was itself a downgrade of the only decent game Bethesda proper ever made - Morrowind.
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Damn this game is pretty.
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Wait there are items that can manipulate the weather in this game? Fucking wild. What will the gooks think of next.
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>>563680231
Going wild with a bandit mask on is a mistake you only make once or twice. My first time accidentally murdering somebody and ensuing struggle to get away from the musou sized army after me resulted in a 50 silver fine (a lot at that point in the game).
It was memorable, and I wont make the same mistake again.
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I'm already at the point that I can do whatever mayhem I want and not even blink because the 100 silver cap is so hilariously low. I'm not sure how to get contribution levels back once you're done with all the quests though.
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Does more stuff open up in Pailune with the Greymane quests and/or moving the camp? Because I've done everything except the superboss and a few bounties and I'm missing so much stuff like 4 enemy factions, a bunch of stuff under Politics and the rest of the Skull Knight Follower quest (says complete, not marked complete). Didn't touch the region before finishing the main quest btw.
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does anyone have tips for a new player? like anything I should be doing / aware of that you only discovered 3000 hours in like people keep saying. I've forgotten what people actually said in those posts
the only one I remember is that there's usually something behind waterfalls and you just need to stab through them
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play the main quest until the beginning of act 5 to unlock pretty much everything you need to explore the world freely - explore the world once you do so
burn hard on upgrading your camp when you unlock it, to get resources stockpiling and unlock the barber if you want to do any character customization
complete the locked-artifact challenges as soon as you reasonably can, some of them are way more of a pain in the ass after you've completed certain storyline segments
upgrade verything you use to refinement level 4, it's basically free up to that point
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>>563694231
i played until chapter 5 on the base version
got my ass kicked by the first boss very hard
went exploring and came back with like 50 upgrades
he was a cake walk now
i did this for every other obstacle in my path
this also turned all the other bosses into cake walks as well
so my advice would be
dont over level