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EDIT: drat why does this happen to me all the time. Man I am not looking forward to the second bit of that, Egypt is hard enough as it is without a bloody maze too. Actually I think they could stand to thin out the number of mobs by a little bit, the Secret World is really crowded. Im suprised there are any normal people left alive what with all the wendigos, ghouls, alien bugs, and vampires every where. Dreadwroth fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Jun 10, 2013 |
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Zephonith posted:We could go all current events and be "Prism Surveillance". 
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Jun 10, 2013 15:38
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Dreadwroth posted:EDIT: drat why does this happen to me all the time. I disliked city of the sun god for similiar reasons though, sometimes you have to run miles to get anywhere and the whole zone is just depressing IMO. Some areas are full of annoying mobs who always put some DoT on you, turning off sprint after a tick or two, or delaying tacos after every fight. And the missions didn't impress me either.
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I guess my real issue with TSW is they seemed to spend all of their time on Kingsmouth and just threw in Egypt and Transylvania at the end. I would have preferred more zones and maybe a few less quests per zone or something. It's really weird to go from basically Rhode Island to the desert to spooky Dracula land. It seems really disjointed. I was expecting to run around cities more, not have them as mostly pointless social hubs.
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I think that paints Kingsmouth/Solomon Island as some kind of Tortage just in TSW, and that's not really accurate. Sure, the investigations are frontloaded and later zones have more "kill stuff" missions, especially in Transylvania. So one could make the point that they did indeed run out of steam (and time/money) towards the end. Still, beyond that the regions are indeed disjointed to some extent and that has to be on purpose. The themes connecting the zones are the filth, Orochi and the old gods or whatever they are, but the actual zones then focus on the local effects of these themes in different ways and that's good because that way whatever legend never gets stale. Don't get me wrong though, I'd love to have more actual towns, like Kingsmouth. Al-Merayah is my favourite area in the game, you have a wide variety of missions in and around the town. That's also why I'm not a big fan of Transylvania - there's never really a town, it's just like one or two houses or a romany "trailer park", and some quite old ruins which make the whole thing feel like some regular fantasy MMO at times, always in some woods or monastery ruins or graveyards fighting weird creatures and ghosts. At least Carpathian Fangs has the Red Hand installations, but those mostly shine in their dungeon variants (Facility mostly, I love that place). Maybe Tokyo will be the "town" zone I'm missing, though. Edit: I also don't understand why they didn't flesh out the starting cities more (well other than not having the time and money for it, obviously) and even after launch concentrated most services in London. NY and especially Seoul are quite pointless. orcane fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Jun 10, 2013 |
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So, uh, does the Dragon become less horseshit or is it just guys spewing chaos theory and having sex with prostitutes the whole time? Because right now I'm pretty much Geary 4eva.
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They're all about that chaos theory. Their mission debriefings are hilarious (in a disturbing way, I think they're pretty much the worst guys that are not Orochi out there...) but all the briefing cutscenes in Seoul are basically  No more blowjobs though.
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orcane posted:I think that paints Kingsmouth/Solomon Island as some kind of Tortage just in TSW, and that's not really accurate. Sure, the investigations are frontloaded and later zones have more "kill stuff" missions, especially in Transylvania. So one could make the point that they did indeed run out of steam (and time/money) towards the end. Still, beyond that the regions are indeed disjointed to some extent and that has to be on purpose. The themes connecting the zones are the filth, Orochi and the old gods or whatever they are, but the actual zones then focus on the local effects of these themes in different ways and that's good because that way whatever legend never gets stale. Because London is the social hub. If you post wanting something different on the official forums pubbies will tell you to gently caress off and Joel will politely tell you to gently caress off.
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Have they ever determined what kind of hub the other cities are? Lore jumping puzzle hub and raid hub?
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Pfft more like DERPA My favourite area is the Roman era Sol Glorificus in Egypt from the Last Train to Cairo mission chain. Running through there with an assault rifle on your back ruins the immersion a bit, but the whole thing is lively, interesting and fun. I guess it's not in the "modern MMO" spirit and has more of an Assassin's Creed sort of feel to it though.
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I just wish I could keep that roman garb as permanent clothing.
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orcane posted:Have they ever determined what kind of hub the other cities are? Lore jumping puzzle hub and raid hub? Stormwind and Darnassus. (I think one was supposed to have a tattoo parlor. And Seoul's sewers are supposed to be full of demons. That's about it.)
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Why are you guys trying to form a new illuminati cabal again? Killsion, and myself, are regularly on, and lawli is occasionally around. What's the actual problem?
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GEMorris posted:Why are you guys trying to form a new illuminati cabal again? Killsion, and myself, are regularly on, and lawli is occasionally around. What's the actual problem? I guess since we have like 500+ members, 490 of which don't play anymore, it'd simplify things. I'm indifferent about it honestly.
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Killsion posted:I guess since we have like 500+ members, 490 of which don't play anymore, it'd simplify things. I'm indifferent about it honestly. In that case why not just ask us to clean house, or dissolve/reform? I certainly don't mind cleaning out the ranks, but dissolving and reforming could also work.
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GEMorris posted:In that case why not just ask us to clean house, or dissolve/reform? I certainly don't mind cleaning out the ranks, but dissolving and reforming could also work. As long as I end up rank five out of this shuffle I don't care what happens. Edit: How would thinning the ranks even work? The cabal system is garbage and doesn't tell you when people were last online. Would it just be posting on the offsite forums that we removed a bunch of people and they can message someone to get back in? Len fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Jun 10, 2013 |
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Jun 10, 2013 22:54
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GEMorris posted:Why are you guys trying to form a new illuminati cabal again? Killsion, and myself, are regularly on, and lawli is occasionally around. What's the actual problem? Who are you in game?
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guppy posted:Who are you in game? Rhan
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Man Raiser, even I figured that out 
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50 Foot Ant posted:I'm still an active member of the Templar faction. You can join the new club house if you want, or you can stay in the old one too. We all meet in mumble or the in game channel. Those have not changed.
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Marx posted:My least favorite part of the game is the City of the Sun God, which is the second part of Egypt. The storyline is interesting, but the environment just feels horrible. It's a giant 3d maze of valleys and ledges and navigating it for the first couple of times is obnoxious.
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OneEightHundred posted:CF is probably worse between literally everything leaving DOTs on you after combat, and Field Transfusion being the thing that should not exist. what you don't like being stunned every 5 seconds? Honestly that area was much more endurable when Sleight of Hand had a 20 second cooldown instead of a 40 second cooldown. It was the only way that area was doable for me.
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fullTimeLurker posted:what you don't like being stunned every 5 seconds? Honestly that area was much more endurable when Sleight of Hand had a 20 second cooldown instead of a 40 second cooldown. It was the only way that area was doable for me. Hinders! (Still annoying.) Is the game down for anybody else right now? The forums and main website as well.
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I'm in-game right now and the chat and community servers have been completely down for the last half hour.
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Yeah, I can't get back in right now. Funcompetence at its best.
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Since the game went free-to-play I decided to dust off my copy of the game and give it another try. I don't really remember much about the game. What weapon options pair well with pistols? Is there a ~60 point build somebody can show me to point me in the right direction?
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Ugh. I forgot that the Venetian Missile Crisis mission is what it is and just merrily ran off into the portal and now I can't actually leave that zone. At least not until my Agartha stone cooldown is over. Wasting twenty minutes standing in one place so I don't trigger the guards~ Fun times with Funcom.
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Looks like they're trying to get the Authentication/Community/lots of servers back up.Tyshalob posted:Since the game went free-to-play I decided to dust off my copy of the game and give it another try. I don't really remember much about the game. What weapon options pair well with pistols? Is there a ~60 point build somebody can show me to point me in the right direction? I don't think I have any low-AP builds, but Shotgun pairs well with Pistols. Use Out for a Kill as a consumer, and keep Breaching Shot and Deadly Aim as damage boosts, throwing in whatever hinders Shotgun provides. Alternatively, it's 36 AP to get through the inner wheel of Assault Rifles, and Assault Rifles are generally great with anything. (Slow the Advance is one of the better Elites early on, and you can get Three Round Burst (a good consumer) and Suppressing Fire (a good AoE builder that pairs well with Wanted) for 9 AP each right after unlocking the outer AR trees.)
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The Carpathians is pretty much my main AP-grinding spot, and even I have to agree that it can be a pain to get around. I consider the impairs worse than the hinders, though; Picking a fight against the vampire hybrid dudes, there are so many impairs and hinders flying around that Contortionist's protection is completely useless.
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GEMorris posted:In that case why not just ask us to clean house, or dissolve/reform? I certainly don't mind cleaning out the ranks, but dissolving and reforming could also work. What's the point though? Only thing it accomplishes is creating extra re-registering/inviting nonsense to the goons who visit this game every few years (like me). Or they'll just skip getting into any guild at all, in which case the guild has even less playing people than it would without kicking inactives.  I'm probably gonna sub for a month or two some time later this summer or fall.
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Everyone just hangs out in the chat channel or mumble. I don't ever think I've seen anyone talk in guild chat.
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Fewd posted:What's the point though? Only thing it accomplishes is creating extra re-registering/inviting nonsense to the goons who visit this game every few years (like me). Or they'll just skip getting into any guild at all, in which case the guild has even less playing people than it would without kicking inactives. TSW doesn't have cabal member limits so there's no real need to get rid of inactives, except for those in officer positions (especially rank 5s of which a cabal can only have what, 3? - and if you can't kick them you basically have to remake the cabal, thanks Drinkfist) but at the same time there's also no real use to having hundreds of people who never play this game again. Maybe that all will change when they revamp the cabal stuff, but that's far in the future. Funcom is still catching up with new devs, after the old one who did the cabal UI and systems left the company. orcane fucked around with this message at 11:09 on Jun 11, 2013 |
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Starting on Friday, it's double XP/double bullion/free boots weekend. Here is some info about it: http://www.thesecretworld.com/news/black_weekend_event_starting_this_friday That also means that this weekend will be a good time to try this game out, I guess. Anyone who wants a 3 day trial, just ask in the thread and someone will probably post one.
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I guess it's time to finally drag my alts through nightmares.
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I was almost excited about the event until I read what it was. I'll sign on to get the boots then go back to Last of Us.
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Len posted:I was almost excited about the event until I read what it was. I'll sign on to get the boots then go back to Last of Us. It might actually be worth using a condenser since you get 2 instead of one. And running 18's gets you 18 more bullion. With the lockouts it won't really change much of anything. Now what funcom REALLY needs to do is make an ALL ASTRAL FUSE weekend. Nothing but astral fuses drop from both lair bosses. Now THAT would be something that I'd get excited about.
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Did anyone notice whether or not Signet prices rose after 1.5 and 1.6? Fury have gone down in response to the patch notes, and I can't decide whether to sell while most of the signets I'd buy are cheap or wait and sell/buy when they're both expensive.
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fullTimeLurker posted:It might actually be worth using a condenser since you get 2 instead of one. And running 18's gets you 18 more bullion. With the lockouts it won't really change much of anything. Now what funcom REALLY needs to do is make an ALL ASTRAL FUSE weekend. Nothing but astral fuses drop from both lair bosses. Now THAT would be something that I'd get excited about. Astral Fuses from Nightmare bosses. Gotta make up for lost time.
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fullTimeLurker posted:It might actually be worth using a condenser since you get 2 instead of one. And running 18's gets you 18 more bullion. With the lockouts it won't really change much of anything. Now what funcom REALLY needs to do is make an ALL ASTRAL FUSE weekend. Nothing but astral fuses drop from both lair bosses. Now THAT would be something that I'd get excited about. Seems like they didn't get enough people buying condensers. Even doubling the BB from them is hardly enough to make it worthwhile. It might seem somewhat useful for someone with very little BB or custom gear, but once you get a few pieces of custom (like a week of gameplay), then the extra BB from condensers is just not worth it and you'll likely regret buying condensers over buying a sombrero. (BB is only temporary, Sombreros are forever [or 3D glasses]). ASTRAL FUSE WEEKEND! If you don't play all day every day, then you get behind and can't catch up, but that doesn't really matter because everyone that did has nothing left to get so they quit. Reverend Dr fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Jun 12, 2013 |
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