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It checks a very important box too - it's something that Daybreak could actually do with a whole lot of the work already being in place
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It checks a very important box too - it's something that Daybreak could actually do with a whole lot of the work already being in place
Rajaah
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Way, way after PoP (the PoP that you erroneously think the game turns to dogshit after)
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Pharone
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About what expansion does the game go from fun to a spreadsheet mongers wet dream? Maybe I'll play up to just before that expansion next time.. if I ever play again.
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Rajaah
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It's a long gradual process. Hard to say when it really flips to Live levels of busy. As of level 115 on Phinny, my 6-7 hotkey bars had basically become their own meta-keyboard in the game. I don't like it either. It takes a while to get that bad though.
I'll venture a guess, off old memory, that Level 85ish is probably when it starts to resemble live more than it resembles what came before. Somewhere in SoD/UF/HoT. The ability bloat starts a few expansions earlier but it isn't serious at all yet as of TSS. And Buried Sea, considering what a blip of an expansion it actually is, is the last expansion that really has that "exploration" feel that the old game had, IMO.
TLDR: It's a long slow process of change/decline but I think the first 85 levels of the game are mostly spot-on.
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Rajaah
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Korillo
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Game seems super bloated and unplayable if you try to go straight into live right now. If you go through the TLP process, you slowly acquire the AA, discs & spells. It makes it a lot easier to manage without getting overwhelmed. Once SoD rolls around, you get mercs and there are a decent amount of AA to manage. I could understand if you don't get the same enjoyment out of the game at that point, it is a bit of a different game by then.
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They'd have to balance the hunter achievements in original/kunark and a few other expansions. Some of them are absurdly rare spawns. Burynai Cutter and Scourgetail in Field of Bone ended my quest to get the hunter achievements in the old expansions.
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Thanks for that. I might... MIGHT... might decide to give it one more go. Fuck me. Can't believe I am even thinking about it with as much as I hate DBG. Fucking addiction.