Currently studying CS and some other stuff. Best known for previously being top 50 (OCE) in LoL, expert RoN modder, and creator of RoN:EE’s community patch (CBP).
(header photo by Brian Maffitt)
Basically just a recap of recent announcements:
Still, there’s always room for a bit of pud best girl
(it also implies Sana is in Promise, which I guess she kinda is honorarily)
Chants: chumbuds
Wait what? Did she actually crowdsource the chants somehow?
Omg, I thought I wasn’t zoomer enough but maybe I’m just not MLG enough
I see they’re going with the “assault the senses” style of intro video X_X
I’ve sent him a DM on infosec.exchange (Y)
Edit: he said he’s taking a look
DeviantArt (!) source (has higher res and uncompressed image)
I don’t use DA much these days because a huge chunk of the fanart there I’ve seen is porn / fetishes and AI-gen stuff, but now and then something like this is still living there amongst the rest of it.
Happy stomping!
On the modding side there are differing opinions on how much to change. I stuck with mostly the QoL and performance-improvement stuff, but there are mods to do things like add additional mission variety and improve AI. I’m hesitant to provide many recommendations for specific mods because the last time I was playing was before the most recent couple of DLCs, and I don’t know if the mods I used back then are still current / updated. An example that I think still works fine would be QOL Upgrades 2 - Thermals and Headlights - small things like headlights imo should just be in the base game but aren’t.
DLC-wise I’ve only played half of them (waiting on sales for the rest!), but for example Legend of the Kestrel Lancers gives you a self-contained storyline of maybe a dozen missions or so. The main thing about those missions for me personally is that the maps are unique (and not just rehashed procgen) and there’s supporting dialogue with some cinematics etc. So the gameplay overall is mostly pretty similar if you drill down to it, but the window dressing on top of it largely addressed the lifeless feeling of all the procgen missions (again, at least for me!).
It looks like both The Dragon’s Gambit and Rise of Rasalhague are similar in that they add a set of new once-off missions, but I’ve yet to play them personally. I guess you could try watching a bit of gameplay from a let’s play of them or something to see if it tickles your fancy. The reviews on the DLCs hovers around 70% on Steam, so it’s not as though they were universally well-liked and to be honest they might not be enough for you if you weren’t at least lukewarm on the base game already.
Interesting that it seems to be a four again (and a true four this time, no BAU BAU two-for-one technicalities)
Pixiv source (has grainier, less compressed image)
The nose prominence might take some getting used to, but it’s cool how much more expressive the updated model’s facial expressions can be!
P.s. At risk of coming across as self-important: as previously happened a few months back, I have some stuff to work on for a while that requires a lot of focus, so probably won’t be submitting much for a bit.
In the meantine, you, dear reader, can become the change submissions you want to see in your local federated community. 🤝
For most people it’s a collector’s item, so how well it works probably not so important.
Intel has denied the original claim’s accuracy: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-denies-reports-that-it-identified-a-root-cause-for-core-i9-crashing-issues-investigation-continues (thanks @[email protected])
??? Why the hell did my link get turned into a link back to Fedia lmao
Pixiv source (has less compressed image)
Casually feasting on the blood of her enemies
In fairness this is the stream that happened to reveal the Justice teaser, so they weren’t dissing them at the time!