Recent content by velk

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    Ancient Kingdoms

    Ancient Kingdoms is a tight, well-paced game. Some people won't like it, but I'd be surprised if anyone didn't 'get' it. You always know where you are, what's happening, and how you can approach things. Erenshor is a love letter to classic EQ. It's deliberately obtuse and awkward. I suspect a...
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    The Boys

    Ehhh, could have been worse. I will say though - 'What the fuck Hughie ?!'
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    For All Mankind

    Expanse engines are straight up magic, solely there so the story can happen. The idea of space pirates or navies is inherently ridiculous in a universe where the rocket equation holds. I agree completely on Titan - I feel bad for the 'cowardly' boss - the correct answer to 'why aren't we doing...
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    Ancient Kingdoms

    Yes, but as a solo tank it is harder than you'd expect, because it both enrages and casts heavily damaging aoe stuns
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    Spring 2026 Anime Thread

    I lol'ed at Farming Life's 'trial by combat'. The show is silly and predictable, but still surprisingly enjoyable. Witch Hat has a lock on anime of the season though.
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    Ancient Kingdoms

    This is good fun, really hits the single-player mmo target. In early-endgame ( vet 30 ), I think I am going to shelve it for a while to let it cook though. There's a few janky and easily fixable issues ( like not turning on auto-attack with ability, having absolute dogshit tab targeting...
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    Ancient Kingdoms

    Hold position seems pretty buggy - from basic stuff like having them run around into a different spot and *then* hold position, I've also had some: - Run into a wall and then vanish - Stop attacking and/or healing It also doesn't stop them from running away from boss abilities, which is good in...
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    Ancient Kingdoms

    Yes, they scale with level. It doesn't seem to change relative difficulty though - like the ice zone has way more mobs spawning much faster than the forest one.
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    LitRPG

    That's probably in the top 10 for self-publish mistakes, although it doesn't come close to the forerunners of discreet/discrete and sheathe/sheath. I think tools like grammarly are actually making it worse because instead of inconsistently getting it wrong, they end up teaching the tool that is...
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    Widow's Bay

    This is good fun. Not what I was expecting from horror comedy - it's legit really good horror, the comedy isn't making fun of the horror parts, but more about the character's reactions to them. Thumbs up from me after the first two eps.
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    Spring 2026 Anime Thread

    Classroom of a black cat and witch, I assume.
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    Ancient Kingdoms

    Prolly depends on what class and mercs you have - troll cave minibosses ( mushroom, troll, crawler ) have the sorcerer set, which is a significant upgrade over the ice cave set for mages - makes a pretty short loop while farming gold. With tank main I pretty much have to take druid and cleric...
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    Ancient Kingdoms

    There's some others that I found - the troll dungeon is 30-40 as well, there's also some dungeons with weird gaps, like abandoned tombs is a level 10 dungeon, but the eastern wing is level 35 with a level 40 boss. Given the gaps in the bestiary, I'm probably missing several other 30-40 ones.
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    Ancient Kingdoms

    Getting ganked by the ancient cyclops in the middle of a newbie zone brings me back. All the old flair - like killing a named then finding a quest given to kill that named then waiting an hour for it to respawn ;p
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    Ancient Kingdoms

    Dunno your class, but if you are warrior you can just stun her to prevent the spider summoning. Slam is a pretty handy skill.