@Unionhawk Greetings, Earthling

I did indeed grab my own discord username

Thank god

Not that I expected to have a problem

Smart move, and hope I get the same chance. I do have two choices, so it's decent odds

In other news, all set.

They're still rolling out through $3 nitro I think

So I got mine the other day

Dumb change but it is what it is now I guess

I've currently got the normal nitro - to boost our server. Didn't see an option to stake my claim though.

Interesting

I got mine couple days ago with the basic nitro

At least now we can have fun usernames like I saw someone grab oldschool.runescape.com as a discord username

And www.pathofexile.com

The memo, whenever it came out seemed to indicate they were doing in date join order. Leaves me about 2.5 years behind the most recent I know.

Instead of boring stuff like Unionhawk#2233 or whatever

@Unionhawk some of us can. Not gonna be long until we go back to mid-2000s xxx_elise_xDxD type names

I didn't like the discriminators as they were subject to change with nitro.

I hadn't thought of including the domain name in the user name. An interesting idea.

I mean it just depends, I know some people who got theirs like last week and have 30 unsolicited friend/message requests

Which, please I beg you just turn that off for everyone except small servers

You're going to get a virus and scammed

I don't actually control our server, just help keep it running, trying to keep it clean. Which, is fortunately rather simple with the class of members we have. Though it is a bit loud recently :D

For some unknown reason membership has exploded in the past couple weeks. /s

Site specific side note, without going to the bother of searching, is Factorio within the purview of Arcade? I might have to "join" is there's anything left to join later.

Yep, Factorio is indeed a game

The trolls in the Steam forum are starting to get a bit tiresome.

Yeah

@SPArcheon not sure what you are trying to infer to with Stamp that wasn't already indicated by the characters in-game

Stamp is a mascot that Shinra adopted for their propaganda which AVALANCHE re-appropriated with some of their work partly because Shinra may not notice the meaning and partly as irony that a propaganda symbol of Shinra is being used to aid in it's take down

@SPArcheon you referring to the church because there is still nothing that explains it properly

on the one hand people are suspecting there are now 2 timelines at play and the first few seconds on the reveal trailer was a shot of this second timeline since in Remake's ending you don't see anything from Midgar in the background when Cloud and the team were walking down the road

though i don't think i'd buy it personally. there are many unanswered questions regarding the final battle in the main game regarding the role of the Whispers, in particular why Rufus could see them, their fixation on Shinra HQ, their actions in what appears to be the end of Crisis Core and their fate after the final battle

not to mention the shorts in the trailer about a tornado, if you pause the footage you see the tornado and it was purple, same colour as the Harbinger so possibly the damage could have actually been the aftermath of the battle against it

also, the damage included Sector 0, 1 and 2, where Deepground is located. there's another theory that the tornado might have been Nero and the containment of Shinra HQ was meant for Wiess and Nero, not Rufus, and with the Harbinger's defeate the Whispers lost power and Nero went on a rampage

Shinra would no doubt twist the events for the public to hide Deepground's existence. shots of party being carried off could have very easily been manipulated footage by Shinra since it's not beneath them to do that

I KILLED THE BUTCHER

Cc @Yuuki

I kited him around a pit while my minions wailed on him and I threw the occasional bone spear

He was 2 levels above me too

Update on the status of the strike from organisers.

@Wipqozn Whoa, nice!

The one time I've seen him was at level 11 and I had no idea what I was walking into lol

About 20 minutes until the Xbox/Bethesda showcase

@SaintWacko He's killed me multiple times before. I got really lucky with when and where I came across him. Was perfect place to kite him infinitely.

@Batophobia I forgot there were more of these.

Anything noteworthy?

It's been pretty good so far

Dune x Flight Simulator

Sea of Thieves is getting a crossover with Monkey Island

Avowed, Senua 2, Fable

@Batophobia That's certainly a surprise

Oh, and Ubisoft's Star Wars Outlaws

Starfield is set for Sept 6, 2023

@Batophobia did they show gameplay?

They did

Likely will be a lot more during the Starfield-specific stream after the Xbox one ends

Oh dear, they brought back the fanboy

@Batophobia From oblivion?

Yup

Even knowing it will release with all the bugs, it looks really good

@SaintWacko what class(es) you playing as?

it's amusing to me that all of these story quest rewards are daggers

@Yuuki I never realized that

I'm pretty sure there's at least one amulet you get

From vigo

@Wipqozn I only saw him once, and didn't stand a chance

@Wipqozn true, but all these weapon rewards are daggers

i just noticed because, as a druid, i can't use daggers

@MadScientist-onstrike Yup, every other time I've seen him he messed me up within seconds. This time only worked out since I had a hole I could run around endlessly, and minions to slow him down. Even then, he almost killed me a few times. He does so much damage.

@Yuuki -I also did the campaign as a Druid. The druid takes quite a while to become good, which seems to be a common complaint.

Now I'm playing with a necromancer, which is almost caught up to my druid in level.

Not sure if I'll paly my Druid again anytime soon. I really burnt on it trying to rush through the campaign.

i haven't had too much trouble with it, but it seems like i have to make a choice between survivability and damage

and as melee, i kinda have to stick with survivability which makes fights take forever

@Yuuki Are you playing as a transforming druid?

Sorceress seemed pretty straightforward. The Curator in the capstone dungeon though, I don't think I'm ready for that yet

@Wipqozn i have one or two shapeshifting skills

@Yuuki I didn't shapeshift at all.

but they didn't change shapeshifting from the beta, which is annoying

my build is cyclone armor, wolves, creeper, blood howl

@Yuuki Oh, btw, everytime you see one of those bugs which shoot out bees, assume I'm next to you making ajoke about the Bee incident.

storm strike + whichever core skill i have legendaries for

@Yuuki By the enbd of the campaign I was STorm STrike + Landslide for my basic and core skill.

yeah, that's what i have right now

@Yuuki I had way more success once I swapped to Landslide.

seems like storm strike is the best druid primary skill by far

@Yuuki It definitely is. I played with all of them, and storm strike is the stand out.

the only reason to take claw as a werewolf druid (which i'm planning on doing once i level up more) is because there's a legendary/unique that gives you an automatic free storm strike every time you claw

Tornado is okay, except it's way too random.

tornado is core, not primary though?

Tornado can do massive damage when the stars alone though.

or basic, rather

@Yuuki it is, but I also forgot to send another message which had other context.

i just picked up a legendary that makes tornado seek targets

but I tried tornado, lightning storm, and landslide for Core skills. Landslide was the stand out in the end. Lighting storm was good too though, but landslide was better for single target.

might make tornado more reliable, but i also have a legendary that makes landslide echo so i'll probably just stick with landslide for now

@Yuuki I found that too, actually, but it was after I went to landslide.

@Yuuki I've seen a few folks online saying it makes Tornado way, waaaay better.

@MadScientist-onstrike I hear the capstone dungeon is a huge step up.

Sorcerer is apparently the most played class. I figured it would be Barbarian.

sorcerer has always been the fan (and dev) favorite

@Yuuki In D2 it was, because teleport fun times.

but for some reason I just thoguht it was Barbarian due to simplicity.