Stephen King Simulator: Let's Play Secret World Legends

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Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

EclecticTastes posted:

Tokyo was where Funcom caved in to the "hardcore gamers" and ramped up the difficulty of the combat significantly (not trying to start a debate, but I was personally not a fan), and it's like, why?

I think the horseshit combat in Tokyo was entirely to try and slow players down so the devs could catch up with content production, kind of like how the previous update wanted you to run a thousand lovely scenarios to earn the "certification" required to be allowed to visit Tokyo (which they started basically giving away once Tokyo went live lol). Anyway the AEGIS system didn't survive the relaunch, to almost universal rejoicing from the playerbase :v:

# ¿ May 10, 2021 00:10

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 03:24

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

As far as I know the transfer still works but you don't get the stuff until you reach Agartha.

# ¿ May 10, 2021 09:47

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Cooked Auto posted:

Didn't realize you could apparently still do the transfer, even this late. I did it back when they first announced.

I think it was initially meant to be a time limited thing but there were posts about it working on the official forums last year when people started playing during lockdown.

# ¿ May 10, 2021 11:39

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

I believe the instancing tries to keep zone population low, for atmospheric reasons and/or to stop people queuing up for mission objectives. There's definitely a hard cap of 13 players per zone (outside of Agartha/hub cities). I haven't logged in for ages though, so I've no idea what the population is actually like nowadays - a lot of people only log in when there's an event or a patch though :v:

# ¿ May 10, 2021 20:07

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

StoryTime posted:

Hey wow did they actually make this better?

YMMV. I got on alright with the combat in the original but I definitely think the new, simpler combat is an improvement if only for how much more accessible it makes the game. The new gear system is shite but it also doesn't really matter at all unless you're concerned with getting the highest dps score in high tier dungeons.

If all anyone wants to do is play through and enjoy the story the relaunch is definitely a winner in my opinion - even the raid has a story mode (which still "requires" a group but is almost impossible to fail).

# ¿ May 11, 2021 11:34

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

rastilin posted:

you could re-spec instantly

Unless I'm misremembering, both games are identical in this regard - you can't ever refund spent points but you eventually unlock all the skills/abilities and you can swap what's on your bar at any time (outside of combat).

# ¿ May 11, 2021 13:37

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Regallion posted:

I can also recommend installing the auto-sprint addon.

I always forget this is actually an addon and not base functionality.

# ¿ May 16, 2021 12:37

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Cythereal posted:

My take on the war golem being a chump compared to what's implied to have happened the last time it was activated is that that time it took everyone by surprise when it presumably went berserk. This time, you were prepared and went in to kill it.

One of my favourite things about the game is that the player character has a real "rip to your grandma but i'm different" vibe going on :v:

# ¿ Aug 11, 2021 15:59

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Is Africa that much more difficult than Tokyo? I've only done it on characters that had been spinning their wheels in dungeons for years so I've never gone straight through but having said that, it's not as if the content changes when you swap characters.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2022 15:41

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 03:24

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

The best part of The Ankh is when people who haven't turned off "double tap to dodge roll" yeet themselves off the bridge :allears:

Edit: I'm lying of course, the best part is Klein :v:

# ¿ Jul 8, 2022 08:41

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