New Games Suck... Or Is It Just Me?

Dang Afania was lurking in the forums.

Not "lurking"!

That girl as much a "christian virgin" as all the camgirls that insist are "shy" while literally showing their naughty bits for the entire world on the internet.

To quote Kevin Samuels (RIP) - "cover those things up".

Because some Africans are silly yet interesting. They cheer us on like Trump is their president. (I believe Nigerians.) The world doesn't have enough knowledge about that continent other than colonization.

I wish we had a better education to understand their cultures, but instead we were forced to learn about slavery we had many years ago.

Psst... Brazil was the worst one.

lol

Probably a publicity stunt.

Later to the party I know.

I think it's very culture dependent. US tends to have a hyper professional culture where people in the office are expected to act a very specific way. Doing anything else might be interpreted is playing Russian roulette with HR. Remember HR's job is to protect the company from employee related lawsuits, so anything that might possibly lead to a lawsuit will get their attention.

Europe seems more laid back in that regard, beer over lunch with the expectation that people be adults would likely be fine. East Asia is a weird mix, in the office everyone is expected to be hyper professional, but after work "office dinners" are where everyone is expected to drink and participate socially.

https://reflectorentertainment.com/en/life-at-reflector

Hey guys, how is this game gonna do you think?
https://x.com/SheriefFYI/status/1864543861936439785

reminds me of an annoying application I used to make embroidery designs that would not open if I had visual studio open.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/ubisoft-shareholders-talks-over-possible-buyout-terms-sources-say-2024-12-06/

Hehehehehhehehehehehehehehe

Another one

https://gameranx.com/updates/id/519617/article/dragon-age-the-veilguard-head-wont-reveal-sales-numbers-of-game/

Looks like I wont be checking back on the sales numbers any time soon. Surely theyre refusing to release the sales numbers because its so astronomically high, it would embarass the non-woke games and they would stop resisting and join on the woke DEI bandwagon and make some real money.

Or

The sales numbers are absolute dogshit and theyre embarrassed to release them publicly.

Viciouss in shambles again.

PoE2 launch been a big bust so far.

people expecting to play one of the biggest titles of the year day one?

Ha

But POE2 looks greats - cant wait to play but I'm grinding the first descendant, stalker2, FF13s, and Infiniti nikki because my kid likes it

I know I know....

It does look good from what I've seen so far, it sounds like they made respecs and putting together builds easier than PoE. It also sounds more controller friendly than other ARPGs are, as well.

Was hoping to get some time in while I had downtime tonight but I know that's not realistic, even if I was hoping for it to work...

bust how? just can't dl or connect or something?

Not sure on specifics, the login servers didn't come up for several hours so no one could connect or do anything. It sounds like some folks are able to queue up now but when they try to do anything in game, they get booted out. In-game actions don't work. The account creation page is busted atm also, which is my issue since I don't have a PoE account linked to Steam. Some are reporting the game is giving them an error stating that their key doesn't work, I haven' t gotten that far.

They posted on Twatter that they were making some updates to the database at the last minute, but seems like a bunch of it broke.

A few streamers have gotten in, so it's working for some now (this is as of the last hour or so, prior to that it worked for no one)

455k in game right now and its only 515pm eastern.

Granted they could be sitting at login screen trying to get in...but thats still about 380k more than Veilguard had on night 1 prime time.

Within the last hour or so I've managed to consistently progress to the screen where you sync your PoE account to Steam, but since I haven't done that and the site is down...can't get beyond that point yet.

Pieces of the website are coming back up steadily, so it probably won't be long for scrubs like me

So typical launch day problems. Sucks, but little incentive to provide enough bandwidth and server space for people who won't stick around very long. Good luck getting in, gonna wait it out myself.

Yeah its rough to get in with the hype around it - I was happy preloading it while tinkering with the other games

Also - I heard Indiana Jones Games is great and it is on game pass in 2 days so it is nice xmas for gamers in all genres

I wonder how many times you have falsely claimed I was "in shambles?" Openly laughing at the idea that anything you have ever posted here has ever affected me. Just reading your nonsense on this page and its a big "who cares?"

No way you are getting in today. Just download and wait for Monday.

They actually fixed it, I was able to get in for ~1hr. Not sure if others are still having issues with keys they bought, but mine I got through Steam directly worked and aside from one jitter, played fine

You probably have 6 to 7 months of early access, but I don't think your progress carries over to the full release. So its not really a big deal if you can't play tonight.

Yea, I figured, they'll also end up nerfing or changing skills over the EA window like most ARPGs do a ton even after release. I'm not overly bent about it and idk how much time I'll put into it, maybe a bit until Last Epoch starts the next season. It's a careful balance with EA games to not burn myself out on it

Seems fun so far though

I sunk some time into PoE2 this weekend playing as monk. I like it so far but it's easy to see where it needs a lot of tweaking during EA.

It's been stable since Friday except one brief glitch, which annoyingly happened as I was about to finish the Act I boss. We all got kicked out. Game media is reporting they crashed on Friday after release, but reality is they were never up in the first place. Once they came up, it's been pretty smooth. Game client has been smooth for me, no crashes or other weird glitches.

Loot drops are basically nonexistent. This feeds into the difficulty because you can't get better gear to deal with the harder mobs. I basically had to buy all mine from the NPC, I have maybe in 15 hours gotten 1-2 decent drops I used aside from skill gems. It makes the game harder because unlike a lot of other ARPGs, it really matters even at lower tiers. There isn't any breezing through with shitty gear to endgame.

Game needs serious balancing especially as melee, ranged has it easier. Act I is harder than Act II, largely due to the number of enemies that swarm you and spawn HP drain pools. Normally you could dodge out of the way, but this happens a lot in narrow corridors where you can't roll out of the way or through enemies, so you just die because you can't move. The effects stack too so if you get enough at once, it's possible for your health to just drop to 0 before you see what's happening. In other cases, larger mobs just swarm you from off screen and lock you in place, then you die before you realize what happened. Encounters are random so you do a lot of pulling back, which is kindof bleh. This is less of an issue in Act II unless you screw up, with the exception of a few places. Ranged jobs can avoid this by moving at range, but melee just kinda gets locked in place. I gather Warrior has it worse.

Most zones have their own zone unique boss, which are really well done. They are all very unique, have their own sortof events, markers, and tells. It's not just copy/paste, all the mobs are interesting and cool, but I really like how they added these zone bosses. The problem is most of them are too easy. Same with most of the campaign bosses. IMO these should be a bit harder and put more emphasis on learning their moves, I was able to kill most of them too easily. The exception is the Act I end boss, he needs some serious balancing, he has moves you can't avoid even if you know they are coming and they can nearly 1 shot you with full health. It mainly has to do with the radius and lack of telegraphing of the attack. I think he's more manageable with better gear but see previous point, it's not exactly easy to find gear.

Monk is interesting but different than other takes on the job I've played, they emphasize martial/physical damage less and it's more of a mixed melee/elemental damage job. It's strongest move is a lightening based attack and they have a skill you can use to make your attacks AoE by hitting a bell, which is really neat. I was a little iffy about their implementation of it but it's been fun once I broke past what I expected from other games.

I thought I'd hate the skill system, but gems drop enough that it's a non-issue and I've come to like it. I hate how some support gems you can only have one of, but otherwise I think it's a good system although less consistent than just getting skills as you level. The passives tree looks intimidating but it's not as bad as it looks to interpret, but the changes there are less impactful feeling. Not sure how I feel about the ascendency system yet.

Crafting is kindof weak but I haven't gotten to endgame yet. I'm also not a huge fan of the idea we have to run the campaign twice to get to endgame content, I like how Last Epoch did that better, we'll see how the next difficulty feels but I may try a few more classes then wrap it up until they rebalance Act I.

Overall I think it's good, it plays more like Dark Souls at times than other ARPGs, but it definitely needs more time in EA and a lot of adjustment.

Gonna sit down for a couple of hours with it tonight during maintenance, I hope. Thanks for your thoughts.

POE2 is lit

got to the start of ACT3 - very fun to play - totally forgot about stalker2 and Marvel rivals (Also very good games)

need to clone myself