Chris
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Are the Omicrons even real though? It was left vague but it seemed like they were Dynamis echoes, that was confirmed by Urianger for the Ea at least.
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Merrith
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Actually I think it will follow typical release order. Although with gathering only having appeared last expansion, typical for that might still be getting figured out. I'm just assuming combat will be 6.1.
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Gavinmad
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Yes the Omicrons are real, did you pay any attention to the setup for the Stigma Dreamscape?
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I'm not "going on" about anything. "..." kept mentioning ff14 was the only game in history that maintains a consistent story/setting because this and wow are apparently his first and only video games hes ever played.
Chris
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Kinda of, not fully. I know the dungeon is to stop them invading Etheris which doesn't make sense with them being recreations like the Ea and I assume the Dragons are.
Gavinmad
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Look who doesn't pay attention to lore or story.
In mass effect 1 you use mass effect to send metal shavings at ludicrous speeds which is what ammo is, except guns overheat which is the mechanic which replicates reload speed/rate of fire. In mass effect 2 they have improved their weaponry by adding replacable heat sinks, "thermal clips," which absorb that heat and let you eject the clip to continue firing. Guns function the same way and use the same mechanisms for bullets.
You only "disputed" WoW(a game no one was arguing for), the only other game you've played apparently. You were wrong about mass effect.
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Chris
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Don't be an ass, just come out with it.
Do they say that real Omicrons turned up or they were going to send a signal to them or something?
I'm with Sylas, too many of these side quests are boring and if there's no voice acting I don't know if I need to watch them.
Gavinmad
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Does the game get more voice over cut scenes as you progess through expansions? ARR had like maybe 5% voice over cut scenes and 95% non voice. I've noticed an increase in hw, maybe 15% are voiced.
The non voice over combined with cthulu/lotr/gates of discord random name generator for every npc really hurts the story aspect. Its bad enough they are 1 dimensional and have no background and have shitty dialogue, but having main characters names sound like waghlaflsga and shit makes it worse. In the few voice overed cut scenes you can literally hear the pause in the actors voice as they struggle to pronounce the names, and no 2 actors pronounce the names the same way.
This has markedly improved in heavensward. Characters are more fleshed out and have real names.
Does the quality continue to improve or is heavensward a one-off?
The non voice over combined with cthulu/lotr/gates of discord random name generator for every npc really hurts the story aspect. Its bad enough they are 1 dimensional and have no background and have shitty dialogue, but having main characters names sound like waghlaflsga and shit makes it worse. In the few voice overed cut scenes you can literally hear the pause in the actors voice as they struggle to pronounce the names, and no 2 actors pronounce the names the same way.
This has markedly improved in heavensward. Characters are more fleshed out and have real names.
Does the quality continue to improve or is heavensward a one-off?
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The trend continues to the point where in Shadowbringers 80%+ of the MSQ is voiced.
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Cybsled
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To be honest, it is sort of vague. They mention the stuff in Ultima Thule are recreations made from Dynamis, much in the way Amaurot was created, and nothing was actually alive there. We do know that the souls of the dead civilizations were basically collected and stored in Ultima Thule so they couldn't be reborn, which are presumably released after we win. After you beat the final boss, most the entities in the zone have a more positive outlook vs. the nihilism they had before. Presumably because of the "song of hope" changing things.
That being said, the Ea and Omicrons specifically seem to have the most mystery surrounding how their civilizations met their end. With the Omicrons, we get the info that they were going to just stay on standby until their power ran out because they had no further purpose. The EA were looking to get vessels of flesh, so if they died out, that means they either succeeded, or they said "fuck it" and went with the aether exsanguinators (which the traditionalists were against and seems less likely), or just lost cohesion in their crystal "houses" while staying dormant.
While the Omicron dungeon intro mentions launching nukes and shit at the planet, it's questionable if there was ever actually a threat (unless dynamis created nukes is a thing). As far as we know, they are just phantoms that think they are alive, like when the EA want to feed you Aether and get confused on why it isn't working (they don't understand there is no aether there, because they don't know they're dead). I'm thinking it was a hollow threat, or at the very least, just a dynamis created threat.
That being said, at the end Graha spends a couple minutes musing on maybe there are still Omicrons out there waiting for orders and hoping to help them. That seemed rather intentional, so I suspect the real Omicrons will show up at some point again. My bet is they factor into any future expansion involving Mercydia, the continent of the dragons. This xpac spent a lot of energy rehashing some of the lore we learned about in the Omega raids, which currently are optional and not MSQ required. The dragons have mostly been resolved from a "peace with humans" angle at this point, so having Omicrons show back up makes for a good antagonist (in theory, I'm sure there will be some good Omicrons or at the very least, Omicrons who want to stop murdering everything in the galaxy that they perceive as a potential threat or resource farm, which gets back to the themes explored in the MSQ)
Gavinmad
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i got the impression that...at least most of who you talk to (and don't fight) are genuine folks who rode in on chunks of leftovers that are just being fucked with in an "i have no mouth and i must scream" style...but that the crazy ones, spectral ones, and random nonsense ones are manifestations.
i mostly say that because you have a mental affect on each of them you talk to at length. they start to shift their thoughts even slightly which disturbs the place. the manifestations wouldn't be able to be convinced of anything.
i mostly say that because you have a mental affect on each of them you talk to at length. they start to shift their thoughts even slightly which disturbs the place. the manifestations wouldn't be able to be convinced of anything.
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I don't even normally have to go very far for Omicrons; I heard sports bars have them these days.
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I was contemplating installing it on my Surface Pro 7 for brief instance runs, but figured unless I was playing with an AC unit blowing on the back of it the tablet might melt.
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Thats what im running it on. I used to run skyrim on my surface pro2 like 8 years ago so i knew it had the power, but the 7 is so much slimmer including the exhaust vents are like the width of a dime, the little fan inside kicks in to overdrive after about an hour and that's when i shut it down.
Story wise heavensward id give it a 3/10, an improvement over arr but still not "fantastic." I'd compare it to rise of the hutt cartel, well 1/2 of it. That was 2 unique stories (imp and republic) vs 1, but it is mostly a self contained story with a bunch of npcs who ultimately don't matter.
Idk maybe this story can't be saved since they shit the bed and then jumped the shark with arr/post arr? They finally start introducing npcs with real names, real dialogue, personality, and backgrounds, but everytime they do they then kill them off or they became the bad guy. It became so predictable, any time you started to give a shit about an npc you knew they were about to die, and they did. And im still stuck with tatertot and alpino. Oh and i got catgirl back, oh her eyes are cloudy now. Maybe after an expansion worth of story telling ill learn enough about her to give a shit so they can kill her off too.
Allegedly post heavensward the story "really" starts. Honestly though it seems like you guys are fans of m. Night. Shamalongadingdongs later, shittier works, where he works so hard to add a twist that the story is meaningless.
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Merrith
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Yeah, rise of the hutt cartel was pretty shit for both sides. HW is far better than that. Comparing the two is pretty much just trolling. I really think you should just buy the skip.
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