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  1. Pyros

    Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian's new CRPG in the vein of Baldur's Gate

    I played this a couple weeks ago in preparation for the 2nd one. It was... average? It wasn't terrible but there were a lot of flaws, in many ways it showed that it was a kickstarter project and stuff. The expansion content felt more polished and more interesting overall. If I had to list the...
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    Vermintide 2

    Item power isn't that big as long as you keep some of the items up since it averages your items and then add your class lvl which is generally higher when lvling. You can also craft stuff when you want a big upgrade at once. It's worth keeping a trinket with curse resistance for grim reduced hp...
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    Vermintide 2

    Really depends. The fastest way is incredibly boring and tends to be running Empire at Flames on high difficulty(hard to do if it's your first char though since you don't have the requirements for higher diff) and failling as far as you can get, getting to the wine cellar is like 400xp in...
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    Vermintide 2

    %damage vs armor can be good if you need a treshold for stormvermins one shot, but vs skaven would be better in this case too as I think you can get skaven+chaos on the same item. Still better than vs berzerkers though. There's a lot of not great stats, even the % power vs aren't great unless...
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    Vermintide 2

    No idea about controller, never tested and I never play any sort of FPS/TPS with a gamepad if I have the choice. For weapon balance the big difference compared to VT1 I think is that they added chaos mobs right, and Chaos Warriors(the big armored fuckers) are fairly common and much tougher to...
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    Vermintide 2

    It's not really animation cancelling anymore, it's just resetting the combos. You can't actually cancel block most shit anymore, but sometimes the moveset are shitty past the 1st or 2nd move so you want to block to reset it back. This is mostly a thing with halberd and glaive, I think you can...
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    Vermintide 2

    The datamining and actual theorycrafting is still underway, without mod support yet a lot of the testing is hard to do. Here's a general overview of the best choices based on what I've seen. Everything is subject to change and playerskill trumps everything as usual, push attack is a new VT2...
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    Vermintide 2

    Beam staff still great, just requires more venting. Which does make it shittier to level with, since venting options are super limited at low level. That said since that was the case beam wasn't really that amazing anyway for lvling. I leveled Sienna with a bunch of fireball and that worked...
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    DOTA 2

    Well he got banned from Twitch obviously and Mineski made an announcement to apologize, but he hasn't been fired or anything(which would kill the team really so that makes sense).
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    New strategy bundle at Humble Bundle, some pretty good games. Mostly Endless series: Humble Strategy Bundle (pay what you want and help charity)
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    Vermintide 2

    Spear isn't good. It could be, but just isn't. No weapon is good for legend other than Glaive, really. Like yeah you can complete maps with other weapons, but you're just making it harder on your team and yourself. Glaive charged attack does twice the damage Wardancer/Spear do on charged...
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    Path of Exile

    Well for the skill stuff this next league should have a bunch, they've already started talking about it. I guess all the potential previous changes were pushed back due to other issues and that led to 2 leagues in a row with not much new stuff, some new skills that underperform and/or are the...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Oh good that's what I was waiting for, some way to buy both legion and BfA without getting fucked in the ass since before that I'd have to buy both legion and BfA separately which was retarded with Legion only have a few months left.
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    Vermintide 2

    Some classes are still shit though which sucks because a ton of people are picking them now. Like so many Shades, even though the class is still bad even with lower cooldown, and all of them were shit too. Did some legend runs in pubs after the patch, it seems better than the beta version but...
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Steam has a deal until tomorrow(april 2nd) for the Steam link. Buy DOOM/Hollow Knight/Fall Flat and get Steam Link for 1$+Shipping. Shipping is expensive, kinda, but that still puts the Steam links pretty cheap. I grabbed Hollow Knight for 21euros total, since the game is 10euros on sale, that...
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    Twitch.tv

    I mean, you could just stop streaming and move on without needing an "excuse", it's not like you owe anyone anything really.
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    Vermintide 2

    Usually don't have issues but sometimes I'll get like 4games in a row going really bad, like retarded spawns or retarded people it's kinda weird. Rest of the time it goes fine though, some runs are a bit scrappier with deaths and shit but it's fairly balanced. Legend is meh though in pubs and...
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    Vermintide 2

    You can do champion super easily at 200item power if you're lvl 20+ though so it shouldn't be too much of an issue unless you want to do legend. The grind is the same before 200 than after too. Personally I just grinded recruit and veteran a lot and didn't open my commendations and since I...
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    Path of Exile

    I'd say probably some melee thing with Scion, something that's like Reave for clear Flurry for bosses, or Molten Strike which is good for everything.
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    Vermintide 2

    Meh attackspeed isn't that great and you can get Swiftslaying on your weapon eventually which gives 20% speed when you crit, which means crit is a lot better. Crits also cleave more so for hordes it's often quite similar and then there's some crit synergy stuff. 2nd one, headshot does more...
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    Vermintide 2

    Yeah curse reduction is for grim, it's effectively additional health when picking grims. Very useful stat, worth getting on a trinket and then just keeping the trinket until you get another with curse resistance, no reason to switch them up while lvling. For the 15 passives on waystalker, the...
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    JRPGs

    I have no particular interest in DQ as a series but since it'll be on Steam I'll probably play it at some point on a sale or whatever unless I'm bored when it releases. I only played DQ Builders which was kinda fun but pretty shallow and a remake of an old one on 3DS, 6 or 7 or whatever and I...
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    JRPGs

    Yep nice surprise, especially the simultaneous release rather than a delayed release like they've done for FF and stuff.
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    JRPGs

    Dragonquest XI announced for the west, PS4 and Steam version(no 3DS in the west apparently), September 4th. Switch version much later.
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    Vermintide 2

    The host related issues are apparently longstanding issues with their engine, it seems there were various issues with it in VT1 too, so that's probably why it's taking longer. I've had decent results just whacking the boss with block push attacks and having it turn around even though I'm not...
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    Vermintide 2

    It's funny how the ability will sometimes hit like some shithead special that was behind a door and then one shot 2 more specials that you didn't even know were there and sometimes you see some fucker on a ledge lobbing poisonous bomb at your group, fire directly at him, and the arrows just bend...
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    Path of Exile

    They obviously do since they're always talking about the economy and whatever and they do have a fair amount of standard players. The only time they go crazy with shit is when they void the leagues, and tbh the void leagues are often the most fun, because it feels kinda like D3 where you make...
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    The Bard's Tale 4

    In some cases it'll be useful for catching bugs and for UI feedback. Content you should mostly ignore I think and that's why they only give partial limited demos for alpha/beta but it depends on what you do with the feedback in the end. I don't buy into alpha/beta tiers for shit like this, but...
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    Ni No Kuni II

    30hours seems like a fine amount to me for a rpg. The old school jrpgs are mostly 30-40hours, it's just at some point they started becoming longer and now it's the norm somehow? But if you go back and play Chrono Trigger or FF6, they're around 30-40hours(although in my memory they were a lot...
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    Vermintide 2

    She's pretty shit until 7, at which point she gets ok if you switch to Pyro, then at 12 you're probably better off playing as Unchained for a while. Once you hit 20 or so is when you can easily go back to pyro and become god. She's great at everything with beam or bolt staff(with beam being a...
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    The Sad, sad, state of MMORPG in this brave new era...

    Blizzard slowly going the way of Valve, they'll just make money out of the shit they've already made and aren't making any new games soon. I think they'll be re-releasing war3 and D2 for the next couple of years and just selling more wow expansions/overwatch costumes/heroes of the storm heroes...
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    VR Gaming - Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, HTC Vive

    Iirc it's going to be cheaper to buy the vive pro+normal vive which comes in a bundle with shit than the shit on their own. Like you save 50bucks or something and you get a free normal vive out of it which you might be able to resell. I saw someone doing that math somewhere. Anyway shit's looks...
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    Vermintide 2

    They're used to craft items. They are kinda annoying and I hope they add a filter to hide them, but they're necessary for crafting purposes, in the current system. Currently, if you level and crash on the reward screen, you can actually not get them, and that means you can't craft the item(short...
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    Vermintide 2

    Whenever you want really, you shouldn't waste all your mats leveling but you can use a fair amount. I only crafted when I wanted to check a new weapon or when my gear was lagging behind too much. I don't think you should like waste all your mats just to raise your item level slightly like some...
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    Vermintide 2

    Only works when you free someone from a gutter/hookrat/leech though, which is pretty weak due to the conditionals. Getting 20%atk speed on crit or 50% dmg increased on blocks seem a lot better to me.
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    Vermintide 2

    Yeah the problem is, if he teleports next to you, you first have to run away asap to make it, but if you still have trash laying around cause people were too focused on killing the boss and you have to block, you can't make it far enough to reach a place where you can fit inbetween 2shots...
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    Overwatch

    Most japanese games in japan do that, voice actors promotions and stuff is pretty popular over there, especially with certain specific voice actors that did famous anime characters or whatever. Outside of japan voice acting isn't really viewed favorably as much though, most people don't know...
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    Twitch.tv

    Maybe he just liked the last Kirby game or whatever? You don't have to have played the original game to like a series and be hyped about a new game. There's a lot of people who are hyped about a new mario or zelda even though they've never played the original or only played the original on...
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    Vermintide 2

    It will get fixed when they release dedicated servers support, so there's no real reason for them to work on another fix and delay that. I fucking hate map RNG. Today I got Halescourge 5times and Skittergate 3times, out of like a dozen of games. These maps fucking suck in pubs. Skittergate is a...
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    Grim Dawn

    Elite was always a drop, mostly because act 1 and 2 are a lot easier than act 3 and 4, and yeah it's even more of a drop now compared to expansion zones. It's a pretty common theme with arpgs, in PoE back before they added act 5-10, going from act 4 to act1 was always a joke because act1 mobs...