Recent content by Shaod

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    Path of Exile

    That's not actually a really big deal endgame. Apart from Standard, Regrets are only about 1 - 1.5 chaos each. With those rates you can do almost a full respec for the price of an ex, and then you get another 24 or 26 for free playing through the campaign.
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    Crowfall

    5 abilities works in LoL because you only play a character for 45 minutes and then you get a chance to switch to someone else. Limited number of abilities can work in certain MMORPG contexts (e.g. Guild Wars 1, with its hundreds of unique abilities and combos to choose from), but in general MMO...
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    Archeage

    Are you sure about this? I tcpdumped a bunch of network traffic to the game server and ran a FIPS test over it, and apart from the first 16 octets of each TCP flow there?s no significant pattern (p=<0.005). There?s some unencrypted overhead for sure, but the vast majority appears truly...
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    Archeage

    I've been 50 on Dahuta (EU) for a few days, and I agree with his statement. Because there's no death penalty, if you're trying to get something done it can be more productive just to ignore them. If somebody kills you it doesn't matter: you can be back in a short amount of time (2 or 3 minutes...
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    Ubisoft's site hacked - change your passwords

    I'm not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but in a lot of people will actually think this way. In reality unless Ubisoft went far beyond industry standard for storing hashes these passwords are now in the public domain, and are individually linked to your email address, account name and possibly...
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    Eador-Genesis and upcoming Eador-Masters of the Broken World TBS Old school GOOD

    I've had it crash a couple of times while alt tabbing, but apart from that no issues.
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    Eador-Genesis and upcoming Eador-Masters of the Broken World TBS Old school GOOD

    I got this on Steam on recommendation from this thread. I'm a few hours in now and I'm very impressed. The gameplay is great and it's incredibly well polished (I don't know why but I didn't expect it to be).