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    Fallen Enchantress - Legendary Heroes

    I've only put in a couple of hours, but there are other fairly significant changes than hero levelling - one of the big ones is to the fundamental way combat works - in the newer version when you attack with a troop, all other troops adjacent to your target combo into the attack. It makes...
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    What's guaranteed to be in - an AH where you can buy/sell cards off/to other people with platinum, an in-game currency you buy with real money. What's currently engaged in legal wrangling - selling the platinum back to crypto for real money, i.e. 'cashing out'. This would make them a 'money...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Welp the "2x" skillup conversion got my poring hoard to: 25 marins = 3 skillups on Siegfried 8( 34 poporings = maxxed chuchu 35 drops = 5 skillups on valk 33 ghostrings = 2 max skill succubus Damn, I thought that volume of poring crap would be a lock for maxxing stuff. On the bright...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Yeah, DL is only partially useful as a leader because he is vulnerable to both dark and light bind, and you are going to get that from anything that needs either dark resist or light resist. DL is better as a sub for isis or horus teams though. ( Not so much mono dark and the like, as you want...
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    What did you just read?

    Just finished reading Digital Divide by K.B. Spangler. I picked it up partially as support for the webcomic ( a girl and her fed ) which I quite enjoyed - I was surprised though, the novel turned out to be an excellent book in it's own right. It's about one of the cyborg agents, who has been...
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    Fallen Enchantress - Legendary Heroes

    That's what they were aiming for yeah. WoM was rubbish. Fallen Enchantress made huge strides forward in playability/accessibility/non stupidity, but was still a bit rough around the edges. I will check out the new one, cause, hey, free stuff, and on steam.
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    Venturebeat: Blizzard delays unannounced MMO until 2016, resets whole project

    Depends which 2/3rds it is and why the project was canned. If it was canned for being a pants on head retarded idea, for example, they might keep the developers building the engine and bring in a new bunch of idea people and artists. Another viable strategy would be to move off anyone who...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    I had the same problem. Shiva/Ares doesn't have enough RCV and shiva/freyr doesn't have enough hp. I think I might give up on that one with adk team. I am up to 5 straight fails with dual anubis too - my alt accounts aren't having much luck ;p Main account has no problem though...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    AI offload could have fantastic results for turn based strategy games, assuming there ever are any on the new xbox. It'd actually fit fairly well with a cloud concept too, where the decision making scales pretty well with available resources, the load is very intermittent and developers would...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    I went in with dual anubis + shit on my loki team and made it to round 9 before failing to get a 10x and being 1shot by the angel. Probably doable if I didn't have such shitty colored subs ( I only had 9k hp total, but figured it was worth a try ;p ) Next try was mono red on adk team (...
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    Finished of Rithmatist - it started slow, but picked up a lot as it went along. It was definitely one of Sanderson's weakest books, but it was still pretty good. A heads up that it pretty much ends on a giant cliffhanger
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    Suggest a book based on my recent favorites.

    Land fit for heroes.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Basically yes - if you are going to pre-calculate you may as well bake it into the map. It has some potential advantages though, in that it doesn't require the box you are playing on - you could, for example, start to pre-calculate stuff for the next level while they play the current one...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    I went on full farm rampage. Overall results at the end were : 14 porings 25 marins 34 poprings 35 drops 33 ghostrings 0 angelings I alternated master and expert a bit to conserve stamina - as far as I can tell, if all you want are porings, then master is always better value than 2x...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    You can skill it up with hobgoblins, so it's not really any worse than skilling up a siren.
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    Good sci-fi/horror books?

    Blindsight, Peter Watts.
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    Suggest a book based on my recent favorites.

    I don't know - I thought the first one was excellent, but the second one seemed to do a sudden huge rewind and take 3/4 of the book getting back to where the first one ended.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    From the video I quoted - after he finishes his game, he tools about in the deck builder for a bit, and each card has three equipment icons
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    Heh, should we be concerned that both the boss and the lead designer are terrible at their own game ? ;p Interesting that the interface shows 3 pieces of equipment per card, not 2. I wonder if it's going up and the cards are behind, or going down and the UI is behind.
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    Suggest a book based on my recent favorites.

    Ouch harsh. His night angel books were pretty bad, although I don't regret reading them. I thought his current series, starting with Black Prism was heaps better though. Not really what the OP was after though I suspect.
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    Suggest a book based on my recent favorites.

    Gritty, darker fantasy isn't as common as you would think. Heroes Die has already been mentioned a few times, and I'd definitely bump that up the list. Child of Fire ( Harry Connolly ) is also excellent and pretty damn grim. The Dagger and the Coin by Daniel Abraham probably also qualifies...
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    What non-kickstarter means are there for getting exclusive rewards ?
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    Spring 2013 Anime Thread

    IIRC Commie switched to exclusively 10bit high ages ago. None of the hardware acceleration works on it, so it will run like shit on things with weak CPU. This is a problem that's spreading pretty fast though, the number of 8 bit releases is shrinking.
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    I'm pretty sure it does - balance and game changingness aside, there's not enough space to add another member slot without redoing all their artwork.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    That's actually the most sensible stretch goal they have done from a practical point of view - a intro video is something you can farm wholesale to someone else for a chunk of cash. Too many of the other ones are going to need huge involvement from their existing developers. I agree it's not...
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    Agree on head games, that's the kind of card that would work well in face to face play, but not so much in online where you can't see the person. General's tent is funny, I like it.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Before she went looking for Gendry, Mel told him that making vagina demons sucked up his life force and making more could kill him. That's why she went looking for someone else with Baratheon blood and picked up Gendry.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    Other people pretty much covered the pay to win part. As for how deep the gameplay is - Hex is built very much as a clone of magic the gathering, and the gameplay and strategy on that is *extremely* deep. For an example, Duels of the Planeswalkers is a 'dumbed down' version of MTG where the...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Sucks 8(. In contrast, my compo roll got me lucifer on my loki account, so I am willing to forgive this godfest's general shabbiness ;p They had damn well better extend 2x skillups to the 25th though, moving porings outside the 2x window is weaksauce x100.
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Bah at your luck ;p My four refunds were cupid, cupid, dark knight, toytops
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    WTB: mysteriously absent poring tower 8( Clearly the event people are on the ball today ;p
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    4 pulls across 3 accounts : green golem, red golem, blue golem, genie. Mmmmmm quality.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    Yeah, not a lot to talk about really without knowing the context - they have kind of dropped the ball of PVE stuff, which is pretty obvious from the pledge distribution. The legendary dragon card is pretty neat though - if they have no removal available that's going to be game over in short...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Yeah, it's about that. Also, something helpful for people who are just starting now - with the addition of the account linking, it's easy to backup a good roll that you aren't sure you want to keep without mucking around with root mode and files. If you get something good but want to try for...
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    From what I have read, having it RNG dependent is pretty much the point. It's to counterweight skill, so that bad players still win often enough to keep playing. There's also the whole random positive reinforcement gambling thing going on.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    Holy shit, I didn't think the stream was all that good, but obviously a lot of people disagreed - pro player tier is completely sold out and it's over 725k.
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    This - it's trivial to see that event and godfest stacks due to the level the creatures come at.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    I think that depends mostly on if it's a success or not. If it isn't, then you'd be completely right, but if it is a big success, then the number of people who were not part of the kickstarter will be considerably higher - the kickstarter has what, 5k backers ? Even 100k players would mean the...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    I can't imagine any dungeon better suited for Anubis than light legend. It's still a crapshoot ( I think I am about 50/50, maybe 60/40 ) but given the alternative is 'lol, no chance' it works for me ;p After light legend is over though usage is going to plummet I think.
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    Hex: Shards of Fate TCG - Set 7: Frostheart 6/29/17

    That mode looks like genius to me. A great way for PVE guys to get in a bit of semi-pvp without time constraints or pressure.