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I finally got my first console in forever and played TLOU Remastered. I really enjoyed the story and character development. I haven’t actually looked at the leaks, but I know the gist of them and it’s supremely frustrating to think about because the trailers do look really good. But the leaks...

Figured I would make my first entry into this thread. I've been a tinkerer on the guitar for 20 years now, but I take long( like years) breaks and have never had formal instruction, so I am still very much a beginner. I rarely learn full songs and mostly just play riffs that I like, but I want...

I binged season two and was a bit underwhelmed. I actually liked season 1 quite a bit and thought Joel Kinnamon brought more to the character than Anthony Mackie. In season one, I got a better sense of Kovacs' melancholy/sadness over what he lost those centuries past. He seemed to have some...

Last episode was pretty solid. I wonder if Alice sent Quentin back to that moment just so he'd have sex with past her and maybe remember who cool she could be...or if it was a timing coincidence. It would have been pretty funny if she was banging Quentin from the past at the same moment...

I quite enjoyed the Vanguard rogues until you hit level 51-55. They had a rogue only poison crafting system that gave some utility outside of just damage. For class specific flavor, you could craft darts with a variety of effects to take on the role of crowd control, slower or whatever. You also...

I must be a glutton for punishment to even respond to this, but this post reveals a very common error (or intentional misrepresentation) of people arguing against science. Outside of closed didactic systems such as math, the word proof doesn't even really apply. No scientific theory will be...

I don't remember if there was a time that crafted was the best gear in the game, but the Ancient Port Warehouse dungeon had raid dropped recipes, harvestable raid mobs for skins etc.., and the items crafted from those recipes and mats were really good. There were also master crafting components...

We do have a guy rebuilding Mekalia. He has been creating npcs and placing them to try and bring that city back to life. I think we have some data on the quests that existed there as well.

We have a great content team putting in adventuring quests, diplomacy quests, and performing spawn clean ups daily. I know Isle of Dawn has its quests built in both of those spheres. The content team has been working on all the starter areas as well and new stuff is implemented daily. Xinux...

I donated at the $375 level years ago and one of the perks was a $1 / year sub fee for life. It comes with other perks too, but that was the most important to me and why I gave more than I initially would have.

Solid series. Half the playerbase would be magic dance fighting though! The other half would be badass Tattooed warriors. But it would be neat to have a whole expansion to be to get out of the maze. You could enter it whenever you wanted, but you couldn't leave without finishing it! The...

I support a Flat Norrath Theory. Any planet that I can run from one side to the other in at most 2 hours (being generous) is probably less than 26 miles (also assuming I am kenyan long distance runner). Such curvature would be visible even on land.

I don't want to derail this thread, but its hard to watch such lunacy as Flat Earth justification. Lumi, disregarding the mountains of verifiable scientific evidence, I'll offer you two pieces of personal evidence that I have for a "spherical" (in quotes because its not quite spherical) earth...

There are some people in here that can't see the forest for the trees. They can't see their own total lack of objectivity regarding Pantheon because they are so emotionally invested in it. They rail against it and think they are being witty or insightful but they have the same mentality as the...

I was one of those people that had a great time in Vanguard. I was in beta 2 when new players started in Brennan's Stead and found it boring as hell. But I started live with the 3-day head start and had a blast playing the game. I didn't have an SSD but I always found chunking to be kind of a...

My post was nothing towards you, just found it a little unreasonable that guy chose the option for a possible nazi reference over the the very obvious literal meaning of the word. Where's a Dr. Evil "Homonym" meme when you need it?

It's still pretty dumb for that guy to suggest it might be a Nazi reference when its already an actual word with an actual meaning that makes sense to use given that he was a warrior. A class built around generating anger/threat in their opponents.

Thanks for the tip. I had originally chosen cleric, because I actually enjoyed cleric as a possible main and if I didn't like the paladin I could just switch to the cleric. My intention wasn't to use that as good duo per se, but more to form the core of a group. Just invite some dps and good to...

Thanks Kharzette. I think I'll probably go with a Pally, if I don't enjoy it, I can always just focus on my cleric since I did enjoy that a fair amount.

I played some on Phinigel but got tired of the slow exp given my erratic playtime. I'm going to play on Agnarr at a casual pace and thought I would try something really new this time. I have never been a tank in these games, and it seems like SKs will be fairly abundant, so I was thinking of a...

I would be tickled pink if they made Vanguard 2.0.

My summer timeline may be optimistic and again its just for abilities being scripted and combat mechanics being reasonable. The content development takes far longer and will lag behind that considerably. Some zones will have their quests done, but most will not have even been touched by that point.

I believe the plan once the game is really playable or close enough is release server packs so people can run their own. But yes, if you want to wait until its 100%, its going to be a little while. Only so many hours in the day, after all. Hopefully we will have all abilities scripted and...

This is where I disagree a bit. In my opinion, mentoring only helps grouping by expanding the possible pool of groupmates. I would go so far as to say its essential in a game because all games eventually become top heavy and new players have little option for grouping. Its a barrier to bringing...

Yeah, I wasn't really on board with that. I had no issue with how EQ handled it. You could sit to mem a new spell but sometimes you'd get sitting agro and get smacked in the face. So it was risky to try, but certainly possible, and allowed for people to pull some great wins out when they sat and...

It will definitely be playable in a year from a mechanic's standpoint. The content development and spawn cleanups take awhile though. Our content designers have essentially finished IOD and are now working on Khal, Tursh, and Tanvu areas. They also have a ton of ideas to make the game better...

Only ZippyZee left to work on the pantheon team. He is heading up the NPC AI effort, some of which was showcased in yesterday's stream. We don't have a large team over at the VG Emu, but its pretty stable now. We have 4-5 people who are working on the server and another several who are working...

I think the only thing in Vanguard that had shards was the Ancient Port Warehouse raid dungeon. Shards weren't true instancing since they were still all open world, but it served sort of the same purpose. APW had 6 shards, and which one you entered was determined by a selection box when you...

I played Vanguard in Beta and at release. I think I remember Beta being awful to play, but release really wasn't bad for me. I had a decent computer, but nothing top of the line. For whatever reason, I really just did not have the performance problems that were so widespread. I had to /flush...

While it may not be a popular stance here, I liked Vanguard's method of handling raiding. All mobs were open world, but killing it got you a lockout timer, so you could only kill it every 2-6 days. Raid mobs would respawn after a few hours and another group could try it. Basically the same...

Game looks pretty good and combat is already a bit more fluid than the last stream. I was happy to see both the Archai and gnomes in as well as ogres. That vertical ascent zone is pretty grand in scale. I can just imagine the crying when a group gets near the top and has someone fall to their...

Zippyzee is a great guy. Very motivated and a solid developer. He did a ton of work for VGEmu including the item system, diplo, npc movement and ai, banking, and a very convoluted quest system. We'll be sorry to see him working less on VGEmu, but I'm happy that Pantheon is getting another good...

Different strokes for different folks. I personally thought BDO combat was beyond terrible. Mowing down 10 enemies every 10 seconds like wheat in front of the thresher is just not my cup of tea. I strongly prefer slower combat requiring synergy between multiple people where individual mob...

I could be wrong, but I don't think that was a bug. Certain mob types were "strong" to certain spell types. Damage of that type would turn into a heal. As a necro, some of my DoTs were from the "physical" spell school. Flarehounds in RI were strong to physical spells, so if I cast that DoT on...

I didn't get to watch the stream until this morning, but I was very happy with the smoothness of gameplay shown. The combat animations were still simplistic, but far better than the streams from a year ago. They have a long way to go still with character/gear models, but its a start. Particle...

The newsletter said that they would be showcasing some pantheon specific stuff so it will be interesting to see what that is and how it lines up with The Pantheon Difference (TM). As for animations, I really hope some progress has been made there. I don't expect the animations and models to be...

Its a bold move, doing public streaming now. What will be far more interesting to me is the reaction here though. If they stream something that shows promise (taken in the context of it being pre-pre-alpha), will more than a select few here admit that the team is making progress? Or will we see...

Seeing that article was the first time I have heard about Wolfshead. If there is some inside joke to it, I'm not aware. So far, its the only info from a non-VRI person playing the game that I have heard of.

Here is a bit of info from one of the people who was invited to "pre-pre-alpha" test. I have no knowledge of him or his previous blogging about mmos, but it sounds like he was critical originally and is now cautiously optimistic. He doesn't give NDA breaking levels of info, but he does verify...

In UO, it was really annoying for sure. Vanguard had non-instanced housing too, but it was only in certain designated areas. Some were more desirable then others, and it was possible not to be able to find a spot since it was limited availability.