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  1. Pyros

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    What I read recently is they're working on a DLSS-like solution, and that's why they have the 4K dev kits, to make the games in 4K then be able to use their new tech to train AIs to render that shit better on standard Switches. Which does kinda make sense, seems better to just have games...
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    DOTA 2

    I mean other than the super delay on first day, and the stupid fake crowd sounds spam early in the 2nd day(they reduced/turned it off midway), it's dota. I don't really watch all the other shit anyway, just the games, and the games are good so far, lots of picks and lots of strats. Production...
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    I wonder if it'll be the full soundtrack though, considering they probably lost a bunch of licenses by now and iirc they had to remove songs from previous GTAs over time on digital marketplaces. But yeah I remember just driving around with the music back in the days, last GTA I actually played...
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    Path of Exile

    Well the math is already kinda done, you don't get more auras per se, but you get aura tresholds easier. There's a nice table on reddit that shows how it works. In this example you can see you can for example run 2 50% auras and a 25% aura at 25% efficiency(albeit with 0mana left so you'd need a...
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    Path of Exile

    Well reservation is a buff for most people, just a nerf for aura bots. Aura effect is a small-ish nerf for normal players and a huge one for aura bots. Same for curses I think. EE change looks like a huge nerf to non-dot EE builds, elemental hit/wild strike that switched and minions mostly...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    DRK definitely gets "shafted" on new stuff, although I'll probably play it some cause I like how braindead it is currently, so for doing EX roulettes and shit I like just turning my brain off and DRK provides exactly that, used to be PLD back in ARR/HW/SB and now it's DRK. They should have made...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    PLD got some nice changes. Spirits Within doesn't have the penalty for not being full hp anymore, and with a 80+ trait becomes an aoe. Intervention is nerfed down to 10% dmg reduction increase for Sentinel or Rampart active, but also gets a 80+ trait that gives it another 10%(so 10%base, 10%...
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    Path of Exile

    That's a lot of buffs. A few nerfs here and there(or in some cases, a cancellation of the buffs, like some of the strongest unique flasks) but overall it seems much improved. The planned changes to auras/curses also sounds interesting, nerfing their powers for aurabots but buffing them for low...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Yeah I've been using the Makai fists(from the Garo collab) and that's basically the same style of weapon, very simple weapon design and some effects over your hands, I much prefer that compared to the usual oversized claws and other cestus-like stuff. I liked the Tonfas too though, but figure...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I think I stopped before that step cause I didn't like it too much, and I wasn't really playing MNK either so I did the DNC weap instead, but DNC last step looks like ass so I'll just finish with MNK, need to do a bit of farming inbetween but nothing too big, the relic this time around is pretty...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Yeah out of the new relics the only one I find ok looking on a class I'm planning on playing is MNK. Maybe WHM/AST too but honestly don't think I'll play these too much with Sage coming out anyway. So I'm just gonna finish Monk and leave it at that. I already had started too cause the Monk first...
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    Path of Exile

    They posted the schedule so I guess it's not skill changes and just "balance changes", which sounds like a lot of nerfs.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Savage is like 48man complex stuff, similar to Eureka's last dungeon Baldesion's Arsenal. Normal DR is the thing you can queue for, has a weekly and is needed for a few relic steps. You won't see a PF for it since it's easy to just clear with normal queues, unless people are specifically doing...
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    Path of Exile

    I'd expect summoner will be safe regardless. Although I could see them nerfing spectres yet again, or supports or whatever, the usual. Past that not sure about any of the older stuff. Iirc they were planning on fortify rework that didn't make it last league, something about making it more shit...
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    Path of Exile

    That's A LOT of justification though. I expect they're going through some old skills and buffing a bunch of shit instead/too. Not big changes necessarily, but small buffs to lots of things and hope some new stuff comes out in a decent state. Like if you take every low performing melee skill and...
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    Dragon Quest: The Definitive Thread

    Googling it quickly cause I didn't remember for sure, IV(the first 3DS game) started the automapping, but it's the "partial" automapping option, where it only colors the ground tiles you're walking on, you still have to draw the walls. Starting Untold 1(which is a remake of EO1 with additional...
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    Dragon Quest: The Definitive Thread

    You can draw directly with the mouse, it emulates the touch screen perfectly like that. I set the automap option to full(it draws walls and ground tiles as you walk next to/on them) so I don't have to do it too much though, but whenever I want to draw stuff in the distance or add things, I just...
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    Monster Hunter Rise

    Oh nice they actually have higher rez textures in that, not just the resolution increase, looks actually pretty decent. Looking forward to grabbing this, assuming I'm done with FFXIV by that time, otherwise I'll just grab it after. Wonder if updates are still gonna be delayed though or if...
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    Dragon Quest: The Definitive Thread

    On Citra, you can just display the main screen and switch screens on a button(F9 by default but can rebind), or use different sized screens if the other screen is somewhat relevant. In my setup, the main screen is like 3200 x whatever and the other screen is much smaller fitting in the rest of...
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    Path of Exile

    Seems the date of the 3.16 announcement stream leaked via twitch, Oct 14th, I'll let you calculate the time(says 2 to 8PM central on the screen), stream will probably just rerun constantly for drops which is why it's that long. Main points of interest of next league is they're reworking the...
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    Dragon Quest: The Definitive Thread

    Did you look into emulation? If you need the portable aspect it's not necessarily great I guess, but for playing at home it's much better imo. I've been playing Etrian Odyssey Nexus the past couple of weeks on emulator, using Citra and it basically runs perfectly, the filters to smooth it out...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    And well a bunch of the streamer boom is gone too, I'm sure a lot of people who tried playing the game quit because they didn't like it, or already cleared out the story, or are taking a break before the expansion or trying New World and so on. I wouldn't make a char there if you want to play...
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    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    They could find a new hack on the first versions of these too. Iirc there's some hacks for the "New 3DS" too even though it was released so many years after the original 3DS.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    They were a regular thing in SB already, that's when they set up these to prevent some of the mechanic cheesing that happened during HW. HW and ARR both had vuln stacks too but to a much much lesser extent, usually on very specific mechanics only. Vuln stacks are usually not that bad though...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Well the true skill is actually doing all mechanics perfectly, with as little downtime as possible. Most pubs fail right away at that stage. Like having random deaths, people messing up mechanics and getting(or worse, giving) dmg downs, losing several GCDs due to not optimizing movements and so...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Well NIN isn't exactly like that. First off, you want to float your ninjutsus, so you can use them all during Trick Attack window. Which means when they come back up you have to wait instead of use them as they come. The 2nd "weird" aspect is you generally want to Kassatsu before the whole...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Yeah but the buttons light up when you have enough Soul Gauge and use the skills that give you access. Like it'll probably have a sound once you hit 50 for the normal building and then for the special skills that build right away you don't need a sound cause you know you use these after spending...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I don't think it's that complicated, there's a bunch of ressources, but they only slightly interact with each other. You build soul, then you use soul to build the other, and once you have 50 you go into the burst phase. The burst phase just mixes the 2 other systems, and that's roughly it. You...
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    Dark Souls

    Imo Souls games are somewhat hard to rank, because the more you play them, the easier they get. Like Demon Souls was super hard, and Dark Souls was hard but by Dark Souls 2, then 3 and Bloodborne, it all felt similar enough that the difficulty kinda disappears. You still have hard fights for...
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    New World

    You could just donate their money to veterans or whatever, which would fix all your problems with it. Assuming there is such money to begin with.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    It is somewhat busy, although you run into plenty of times you don't have oGCDs I think. But yeah you're saying a 3rd or more and that sounds about right. It's similar for a bunch of classes imo although some favor an "ebb and flow" type gameplay, like Ninja which is "fuck all for 40seconds...
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    Actraiser Renaissance

    Hoping this sells decently enough so they do the same thing with Soul Blazer. I think the only game I finished more than Soul Blazer was FF6, but it was probably pretty close. It was a simple game and yet I loved going through it.
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    New World

    Eh personally I really hate not getting my name in games, and my name is fairly common so this kind of move is really shit. If you give me the ability to put spaces in names, it's all good, but most games still are made with 1990s limitations so you can only put underscores or periods at best...
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    Actraiser Renaissance

    Also on mobiles. I mean don't see a point in buying a Switch just so it's on a "Nintendo product" when it's not really anything like the old SNES anyway, and you can use a SNES pad on PC if that's what you want. Obviously the Switch has other games that are worth buying just seems like a waste...
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    Tales of Arise

    I used Rinwell, Dohalim with mostly melee attacks turned off(just the aerial launcher and some aerial skills, once he's in the air he usually doesn't get hit much) and healing off besides Rez so he'd just spam spells(had to switch earth or shadow spells depending on mobs with resists though)...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Well actually closer to 2months, Nov 19th. If you do a hunt train for like an hour you'll cap tomes and be able to afford 2 or 3 accessories depending on how many you have, as well as a ton of the old tomes which should buy you several 490 pieces. Can do it via dungeons/roulettes/whatever too...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Well lucky for you, you don't have to listen to what they have to say? I don't get the complaints that's like complaining there's gonna be french/german/japanese guys over there even though you don't speak the languages. Everyone there is going to report on the game and you can just watch/read...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Yeah it's a media tour, they have traditional media(PC Gamer, Kotaku and all that stuff) and also invite community figures of various types, including high end raiders but also people who run some websites, random popular twitch streamers and so on. Rich Campbell is confirmed, Asmongold I don't...
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    Playstation 5

    To be fair that's how M2s work on PC too, you don't just have them hug your motherboard, there's a riser thing, and while usually you don't have to move it(unlike here) you sometimes do if you pick a non standard size M2 SSD(like other than 2280) or if the motherboard comes with a special cover...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Also worth noting for news, the Media Tour is happening soon-ish(or happened already? no idea when it actually is) and the NDA for it will lifted on the 13th of October. There's a post on reddit with a tentative list of all the people who will have access(only people who announced it basically)...