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[Stumpokapow]

Okay, so I did my best to resolve this equitably:
- I merged the threads
- morningbus keeps his title structure
- I then hijacked an earlier post from MRORANGE's posting history, edited it into his OP, and copied it
- So MRORANGE is post 1 and morningbus is post 2.
- There are now two OPs.
- ???
- I have no idea if ModBot will work with the merged threads

Some ground rules for future months:
- As we tell literally every community, no person is entitled to make a thread.
- If someone is signed up to make an OT and can't, they really should let other people know in advance. It's ok, there's no punishment.
- Let's call 6PM eastern on the 1st the rough deadline for when we make a call about whether or not to call in a replacement. If the designated OP drops in before 6PM eastern to say they're delayed, then we go until midnight eastern. If they don't drop in, or if they do but still can't get it done by midnight, others can step up
- In the future instead of merging, I will lock.
- It's more important to have an OP than to have a super detailed great amazing resourceful OP.

 

[Anno]

Not really my kinda game but I'll probably give it a shot just to support the Shadowrun guys.

Edit: Thanks Stump.

 

[Chairmanchuck]

OneMoreBundle - Nice Price Bundle - $1

- The Archetype
- House of Caravan
- Mind: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition
- Alter World
- Castle
- Luminosity
- Post Apocalyptic Mayhem

Pretty great price. Especially for Mind: Path to Thalamus.

 

[Dr Dogg]

Right now that's cleared up here's some faffing about I've been doing to kill some time. Been looking through my The Division captures both on PC and Xbone to try and get like for like scenes to compare but this one stood out.

Now anyone with a pair of eyes should be able to tell console and Pc apart but there's one big glaring omission from one picture. What's happened to the Empire State Building? 100% Object Fading Distance my arse.

 

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everyone loves prinnies

 

[Boss Doggie]

that feel when the tales games you want won't go to PC (Destiny 1 + 2, Rebirth, Vesperia)

 

[Jawmuncher]

Okay, so I did my best to resolve this equitably:
- I merged the threads
- morningbus keeps his title structure
- I then hijacked an earlier post from MRORANGE's posting history, edited it into his OP, and copied it
- So MRORANGE is post 1 and morningbus is post 2.
- There are now two OPs.
- ???
- I have no idea if ModBot will work with the merged threads

Some ground rules for future months:
- As we tell literally every community, no person is entitled to make a thread.
- If someone is signed up to make an OT and can't, they really should let other people know in advance. It's ok, there's no punishment.
- Let's call 6PM eastern on the 1st the rough deadline for when we make a call about whether or not to call in a replacement. If the designated OP drops in before 6PM eastern to say they're delayed, then we go until midnight eastern. If they don't drop in, or if they do but still can't get it done by midnight, others can step up
- In the future instead of merging, I will lock.
- It's more important to have an OP than to have a super detailed great amazing resourceful OP.

Very good ground rules for the future.

 

[Ban Puncher]

Right now that's cleared up here's some faffing about I've been doing to kill some time. Been looking through my The Division captures both on PC and Xbone to try and get like for like scenes to compare but this one stood out.



Now anyone with a pair of eyes should be able to tell console and Pc apart but there's one big glaring omission from one picture. What's happened to the Empire State Building? 100% Object Fading Distance my arse.

That's worse than N64 fog!

Literally worse!

 

[shortsFortallPeople]

that feel when the tales games you want won't go to PC (Destiny 1 + 2, Rebirth, Vesperia)

Vesperia would cause a shitstorm depending on whether they port/translate the PS3 exclusive content or not.

Hell, i'd argue it would be a shitshow regardless given the years tales fans have been begging for the PS3 version to come to the west.

 

[The Dear Leader]

I bet you people that posted in that fake OT feel real silly about now.

 

[the_firewithin]

we one thread now and all is right in the world

 

[Tizoc]

Yeesh you lads need to chill.
Also enter my giveaway some 5 pages back for some +1s.

 

[GhostTrick]

So... the thread issue is finally fixed ?

 

[Intel]

Still wait FFIX release +_+

 

[corrosivefrost]

Slight DDDA spoilers (shows a bit of the conversation from the start of the boss encounter in the quest "The Final Battle", none of the actual fight, and the first cutscene that follows showing you reuniting with whoever the game designated your "love interest"),

Hard mode, you say? Grigori exposed:

Spoiler

https://a.pomf.cat/ssqbcq.webm

 

[freshVeggie]

Some ground rules for future months:

Should prevent future instances.

 

[iosefe]

Slight DDDA spoilers (shows a bit of the conversation from the start of the boss encounter in the quest "The Final Battle", none of the actual fight, and the first cutscene that follows showing you reuniting with whoever the game designated your "love interest"),

Hard mode, you say? Grigori exposed:

Spoiler

https://a.pomf.cat/ssqbcq.webm

cowards way out

 

[Hero Prinny]

Slight DDDA spoilers (shows a bit of the conversation from the start of the boss encounter in the quest "The Final Battle", none of the actual fight, and the first cutscene that follows showing you reuniting with whoever the game designated your "love interest"),

Hard mode, you say? Grigori exposed:

Spoiler

https://a.pomf.cat/ssqbcq.webm

woow!!

 

[Dragon1893]

Follow your heart and guess...

Spoiler

FO4 and Batman. The former definitely, the latter maybe

Thought so.

Thread merge! All for one and one for all!

FFXV PC is shocking news.

 

[lashman]

GRIP (EA)

 

[Ban Puncher]

everyone loves prinnies

yo gimmie doz prinnys dood

 

[corrosivefrost]

cowards way out

Haha, he's still a joke once you hit a high enough level, this is just faster and more efficient. And you don't really lose much loot either. Hell, the UR-Dragon can't really do much to me either and I think I'm going to try farming him offline next to see how fast it will level before heading back over to Bitterblack Isle since I think the final boss of BBI in his true form gives the most base XP in the game.

Since my goal was to get to what's after this on hard mode for level grinding to 200 for that stupid achievement (basically the only one left for me at this point, as hard mode is all but guaranteed but I don't want to pop it cause then I'd have to cycle to NG+++ and go through all the mainline quests to get back to this point with just about 0 benefit to me).

 

[jshackles]

Okay, so I did my best to resolve this equitably:
- I merged the threads
- morningbus keeps his title structure
- I then hijacked an earlier post from MRORANGE's posting history, edited it into his OP, and copied it
- So MRORANGE is post 1 and morningbus is post 2.
- There are now two OPs.
- ???
- I have no idea if ModBot will work with the merged threads

Some ground rules for future months:
- As we tell literally every community, no person is entitled to make a thread.
- If someone is signed up to make an OT and can't, they really should let other people know in advance. It's ok, there's no punishment.
- Let's call 6PM eastern on the 1st the rough deadline for when we make a call about whether or not to call in a replacement. If the designated OP drops in before 6PM eastern to say they're delayed, then we go until midnight eastern. If they don't drop in, or if they do but still can't get it done by midnight, others can step up
- In the future instead of merging, I will lock.
- It's more important to have an OP than to have a super detailed great amazing resourceful OP.

Thanks Stump, this seems both fair and amicable. Also, thanks for the ground rules going forward, hopefully that will prevent this from happening again in the future.

 

[Pachimari]

Collector alert

Spoiler

Not sure if this applies to the Steam version

Original Dying Light will “disappear instantly” from digital stores on Feb 9

Is this on sale anywhere right now?

Also, this thread is moving fast. I just finished reading through 18 pages.

 

[corrosivefrost]

Silver Knights looked solid enough, so I tested out modbot to ensure it works before the Prinny Dood's giveaway ends.

Modbot seems to be functioning just fine. Thanks Tizoc.

 

[Adnor]

Finally our national nightmare is over, thanks Stump.

 

[AHA-Lambda]

Slight DDDA spoilers (shows a bit of the conversation from the start of the boss encounter in the quest "The Final Battle", none of the actual fight, and the first cutscene that follows showing you reuniting with whoever the game designated your "love interest"),

Hard mode, you say? Grigori exposed:

Spoiler

https://a.pomf.cat/ssqbcq.webm

wut, what exactly did you do?

 

[Dr Dogg]

So I just did the stupid thing and booted up the Battle.net client for the first time in over a month. Find out that there's a 'new' patch for Diablo III (if you haven't been messing with the PTR that is) and Season 5 is underway. Welp guess I'll see you folks when XCOM 2 is out.

 

[Annubis]

Vesperia would cause a shitstorm depending on whether they port/translate the PS3 exclusive content or not.

Hell, i'd argue it would be a shitshow regardless given the years tales fans have been begging for the PS3 version to come to the west.

People can create as much a shitstorm as they want, I'd still buy it though.

 

[The Dear Leader]

Man, playing Jedi Academy can be a real pain in the ass, there's apparently only one checkpoint in this game and it's at the beginning of a level. Going full on Sith in this one, these Jedi's are too square for my taste, plus Force Grip is the best ability in the game.

 

[JaseC]

Collector alert

Spoiler

Not sure if this applies to the Steam version

Original Dying Light will “disappear instantly” from digital stores on Feb 9

I'm certain it doesn't -- or rather, not in the way that would demand the attention of collectors. The current app has a beta branch titled "dying_light_the_following_preview" and another named "dyinglight_thefollowing_enhanced_edition_review ", plus Techland made new subs just a few weeks ago. I'd guess the Enhanced Edition will be the only edition available and there'll be a loyalty discount for those who own only the base app that reduces the price to that of the Season Pass.

 

[Parsnip]

Hehe.
Merging the threads made lashbot look like a constant double poster.

 

[bigzgod]

Back down to one thread \o/

 

[milena87]

Slight DDDA spoilers (shows a bit of the conversation from the start of the boss encounter in the quest "The Final Battle", none of the actual fight, and the first cutscene that follows showing you reuniting with whoever the game designated your "love interest"),

Hard mode, you say? Grigori exposed:

Spoiler

https://a.pomf.cat/ssqbcq.webm

Uh.

Do you get drops / dragonforged gear when you use the Maker's Finger?

 

[Leafhopper]

Okay, so I did my best to resolve this equitably:
- I merged the threads
- morningbus keeps his title structure
- I then hijacked an earlier post from MRORANGE's posting history, edited it into his OP, and copied it
- So MRORANGE is post 1 and morningbus is post 2.
- There are now two OPs.
- ???
- I have no idea if ModBot will work with the merged threads

Some ground rules for future months:
- As we tell literally every community, no person is entitled to make a thread.
- If someone is signed up to make an OT and can't, they really should let other people know in advance. It's ok, there's no punishment.
- Let's call 6PM eastern on the 1st the rough deadline for when we make a call about whether or not to call in a replacement. If the designated OP drops in before 6PM eastern to say they're delayed, then we go until midnight eastern. If they don't drop in, or if they do but still can't get it done by midnight, others can step up
- In the future instead of merging, I will lock.
- It's more important to have an OP than to have a super detailed great amazing resourceful OP.

Thank you.

 

[shortsFortallPeople]

People can create as much a shitstorm as they want, I'd still buy it though.

oh, i would love to see the salt of a PC announcement, dont get me wrong. However, i can see bamco being stupid about not porting Vesperia just to avoid the shitstorm.

 

[corrosivefrost]

wut, what exactly did you do?

There is a merchant named Fournival in Gransys who sells a bunch of things you can use to help you take on bigger/more powerful enemies (he has potions and tools which when used will increase physical or magic damage, for instance). He also sells an arrow for the Strider/Ranger/Assassin vocation characters (Magick Archers can't use it since they don't use actual arrows in their bows) which is called "Maker's Finger". It costs $270k and is supposed to one shot most things in the game. There are a few things it won't, however, including most of the "bigger" enemies in Bitterblack Isle (the DLC area), where it will do a full health bar of damage to the enemy but that is all. You are only allowed 1 in your inventory and it will not be available for sale @ Fournival's again until you actually use it. Making a forgery of it doesn't give you extra either, as the forgery doesn't have the power of the real one.

In this instance, during the quest "The Final Battle" Grigori asks you to make a choice... during this time when you're supposed to walk forward or walk away, you can fire an arrow at his heart... and it just so happens that he's not immune to the power of Maker's Finger. So I dropped him in one shot before the fight even started because it was my 4th time through the game (NG, NG+, Speedrun, Hard Mode) and I just wanted to get it out of the way to unlock stuff that comes afterwards for the purpose of going after the "max level" achievement.

 

[Knurek]

So, umm, DENUVO = VMProtect?

 

[Baron_Calamity]

Back down to one thread \o/

But in our hearts, its two threads.

 

[corrosivefrost]

oh, i would love to see the salt of a PC announcement, dont get me wrong. However, i can see bamco being stupid about porting Vesperia just to avoid the shitstorm.

Yeah, I'd rather not have salt around it before it's even released...
One thing I've learned since putting a lot of my focus into PC gaming is that PC gamers can act entitled like you wouldn't believe and are hardly ever grateful for anything. :lol

Uh.

Do you get drops / dragonforged gear when you use the Maker's Finger?

Dragonforged, yes.
You get the special class based weapon rewards too.
You just don't get access to any of the chests that are there during the fight or any materials/items/gold he may drop after dying.

 

[Arthea]

So, umm, DENUVO = VMProtect?

if you are talking about ToS, it's not using Denuvo, it's much worse than that.

 

[Knurek]

if you are talking about ToS, it's not using Denuvo, it's much worse than that.

No, I'm talking about Denuvo being a fork of VMProtect (aka the stuff both ToS and AssCreed Syndicate use aka the stuff scene groups have been using for years to protect their cracks).

 

[Hektor]

Tales of Symphonia got the best piracy protection i've ever seen.
They just fucked up the port so badly, that no one ever will want to pirate it.
Fucking genius.

You think more games in the future will use this?

 

[madjoki]

I'm certain it doesn't -- or rather, not in the way that would demand the attention of collectors. The current app has a beta branch titled "dying_light_the_following_preview" and another named "dyinglight_thefollowing_enhanced_edition_review ", plus Techland made new subs just a few weeks ago. I'd guess the Enhanced Edition will be the only edition available and there'll be a loyalty discount for those who own only the base app that reduces the price to that of the Season Pass.

Yeah those subs are named Enhanced Edition.

https://help.steampowered.com/#HelpWithGameIssue/?packageid=88801&issueid=101

Since price stays same, it's better to wait for free (as in included with EE price) season pass.

So, umm, DENUVO = VMProtect?

They are not the same. Those online analyses smell of BS / guesses.

 

[The Dear Leader]

Tales of Symphonia got the best piracy protection i've ever seen.
They just fucked up the port so badly, that no one ever will want to pirate it.
Fucking genius.

You think more games in the future will use this?

"Best" in a sarcastic way, surely...?

 

[corrosivefrost]

Tales of Symphonia got the best piracy protection i've ever seen.
They just fucked up the port so badly, that no one ever will want to pirate it.
Fucking genius.

You think more games in the future will use this?

I'm certain it doesn't -- or rather, not in the way that would demand the attention of collectors. The current app has a beta branch titled "dying_light_the_following_preview" and another named "dyinglight_thefollowing_enhanced_edition_review ", plus Techland made new subs just a few weeks ago. I'd guess the Enhanced Edition will be the only edition available and there'll be a loyalty discount for those who own only the base app that reduces the price to that of the Season Pass.

And what if you own DL and the Season Pass?
Is this another potential Darksiders 2 Deathfinitive Edition fiasco?

 

[dex3108]

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege Official - Operation Black Ice [EUROPE]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y63iTKtIuY

 

[milena87]

Dragonforged, yes.
You get the special class based weapon rewards too.
You just don't get access to any of the chests that are there during the fight or any materials/items/gold he may drop after dying.

Interesting.
I don't really care for the items in the chests or the materials, so I might as well use it on my second playthrough.

 

[lashman]

Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2

 

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