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I admit I might have missed some new additions, do you have any updated test server notes? For me the most interesting changes are to some of the legendary gems and the stacking changes and I didnt see many new legendary effects. Most of that is mechanical in nature and doesn't create new...

We just lived through a season of Superwizard and his sidekicks. Basically the fault of one item that slipped through the balance testing. That will always happen. I didn't really mind that and had fun this season because a handful of new items especially for DH allowed a nice diversity of...

That's a way to stretch things out, yes. However, with their set power-level leapfrogging upwards every patch your are usually locked into only one or a few sets per class if you want to work on the season journey. I had to do the 6 sets to grift55 conquest last season so I'm fairly up to date...

Next season seems boring too, with barely any new item powers or actual content. Feels like the patch with the least additions so far - how hard can it be to throw in some fun legendaries for each class? After wrapping up S5 I went and played some PoE the last few weeks. Might actually keep...

That's probably the reason for the recent changes though - the old game director that "left to pursue other interests" was responsible for HotS and the old production schedules, the new one is trying to right the ship.

They might have said that, I don't know - I'm only doing quick play matches because anyone I know that wants to focus on faction warfare says it fucking sucks, mostly due to map design and lack of players. If they really have an all-time peak good for them, but then those players don't seem to...

They used up probably every opportunity they had (including a steam launch - waste of their best shot) to grow the player base enough for the planetary conquest style content, and failed. As a result the most 'meta' aspect of faction warfare is which faction you pick to have a chance at actual...

They have that bonus even if you do not pre-order but buy them later, don't they? Pre-order bonus stuff seems to be just fluff (some cockpit items, premium time and credits or credit-bought items).

I think they even showed the room with the people playing the "npcs", it's not like they were trying to deceive the audience... well at least not in this specific case.

Didn't someone a couple hundreds pages back find out that storybricks was never workable to begin with? If that was true them teaming up with Smed is not going matter (and I doubt the new studio Smed opened is going to amount to anything anyway).

Everyone seems so hung up on Landmark/voxels. For me storybricks was by far the more important innovative feature they announced for EQN. Voxel terrain was a cool idea (looking forward to it in future games) but without storybricks, which died loooong ago, EQN was no longer that interesting for...

Does this have a decent UI/input scheme on PC or do I have to endure a console menu while playing?

Gotta love that they actually balance towards harder instead of gimping their game down like most companies do. I'm 70 hours in with 2-3 campaigns I lost early and the current one where I guess it's basically won, avatar-surfing for fun right now but only a few missions from finishing.

The whole greater rift leaderboards idea is flawed. Did Path of Exile already add those weekly challenge dungeons things or does that come with the next expansion? Anyway, Diablo should steal that idea and base leaderboards around them instead of RNGreater Rifts. Would have been a good use of...

As someone that has CC sitting around but rarely plays - would those be a good thing to buy, and why/which ones?

Did you read it or stop there?

How often does a planetary landing come up during the average play session? I think the answer is relevant to this topic. I don't mind taking a griffon now and then in WoW for example, and it takes anywhere from half a minute to 5+ minutes. If planetary landing is uncommon enough I wouldn't be...

Don't get me wrong, I'm ok with a good grind (even better if it is optional) - the issue I have with GW2 is that it boils down to the same grind too often, no matter the actual goal (efficiently getting gold and buying shit is MUCH better then farming said shit yourself).

GW2 is being purely cosmetic items AND no sub leads to them having a very high percentage of items and skins tied to gold. For me at least that is a downer - I'd rather do different things depending on the goal I'm setting, and too often it comes down to just doing the most gold-efficient farm...

Current WvW is 400v400v400, is it not? Performance issues are real though, I bet many people play with everything turned to minimum in WvW. I know I do, although I rarely bother with it anyway.

To a true Citizen, there cannot be a game as good or superior as SC. That's the whole point of that cult. Although I guess the true believers are only a small percentage of backers, and a majority of silent moderates who might look at other games.

I made a DH for this season. Yea, dumb idea I guess but that bow looked sweet. I guess wrapping up the season journey on DH involves more work then starting a WD/Barb just for grift 60 (DH kinda plateaus at low 50s for me).

That's the best approach for sure. I mean I did back this for over $100 waayy back during the KS and I havent read their newsletter or website in over year. I just read about updates in this thread (thanks Variise) and get a chuckle out of the drama and the extremists on both sides from time to...

I agree, I can't say I like the expansion. There are some nice parts, like their solution for adding classes. I think that has alot of room to build on. I like the idea of masteries but there should have been tons more to pick from and an unlimited supply of points, imo. I did not like the...

I would consider taking those aspects of different genres and implementing them all into one game innovative. I also think the definition of the word backs me up on that. But I guess we are arguing semantics then, and I don't care enough about SC to keep that up. Especially since it would be a...

I don't think you can claim that about the entire project. Maybe if you are talking about the current or near-future state, but the entire scope is unprecendented. Are there even any other multiplayer spaceship games besides Eliteangerous (where you actually fly a ship simulator-style, not EVE)?

You might have a good point or two in there, but might want to work on not sounding like "What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I?ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I?ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have...

What kind of "MMO"? Planetside-style pvp only, or something with pve/AI content? From the little bits of background I caught, most of the world would be mundane and boring. If you really must drag it towards the MMO genre, it seems far more suitable to something like a lobby-based game in the...

That the Blizzard guy wants it to be "nice for T10" wank builds is lame imo. That's grift 40 or so? Looking at the current season and that they'll push those limits by 10-20 for the coming season as they always do, the goal for this set shouldn't be fucking grift 40 viable. There's no target...

Not really - there isn't even much new stuff *with* the expansion. Feels like HoT is about twice the content of LS2 pluswhat they used to call a feature patch (rebalancing and revamps, think WoW 4.0/5.0/6.0).

I am in because Battletech, smoking some hopium that makes me think this will turn out better then MWO.

Probably by setting their own goals that are compatible with the amount of time and money they are willing to put into the game.

Something similar is going to be permanent from now on anyway, no more need for bear asses.

I'll reserve that decision until they show the cosmetics for their other games that come with founders pack. Need that SC2 portrait and WoW minipet.

ftfy

I assumed EVE because there is no other massive space battle multiplayer game. SC might become one in 3+ years but who knows, even the current plans outlined by Variise dont put it into the "massive" category for me.

People bring up their winfury nostalgia on this forum all the time. Based on that, huge crits should have a decent following.

There are? I mean I get your point and agree with it, but you make it sound like there a many alternatives to this dream they are chasing. Truth is there are only a handful of choices to begin with.

Wasn't S42 the game/Kickstarter and this whole PU thing is the stretch goal?

I asked for it! Thanks Bioware for complying, I'm rescinding my "You have 14 days" ultimatum now. Joke aside, it means there is more level-appropriate, optional content for any given character then before. That's a good thing in my book. If you wouldnt do content that you outleveled anyway, then...