That’s just miniature spears with a fancy propelling mechanism! More proof long stick with pointy end is the superior weapon!

I don’t think his 4 is bugged, it works exactly the same way Ivara’s Artemis Bow, Hildryn’s Balefire or Dante’s Noctua does, static cost to equip + additional energy per shot. Some Exalted weapons just don’t have that extra constant drain on them.

They do, including getting the power strength bonus from Hardened Wellspring. It’s the easiest way to maintain their energy other than Protea’s Dispensary.

I admit, I haven’t gotten Cyte-09 myself as all my rep is going straight into rank-ups right now but I’ve seen others play him and the guy looks like a powerhouse. His Exalted sniper rifle addresses the biggest issue that weapon type has - multi target viability. Shoot one guy, kill 4 others! Ressuply is just plain insane, even without using his 4 this ability is just crazy. Guaranteed status procs of whatever type you want on every shot! Heat is the obvious choice but Blast and Gas can be extremely effective at clearing crowds as well. Need to srtipo some armor? Corrosive is right there! Could use some CC to make landing those precision shots easier? Cold! This frame could have this one ability alone and he would still be one of the best gun frames available! Evade gives you near permanent invisibility as long as you play the frame the way he’s supposed to be played. The CD looks bad but it starts ticking when you activate the ability, get enough precision kills and build enough duration and you can stay invisible all the time. Seek synergies with the rest of his kit perfectly, wall hacks and weak spot highlights make getting those precision kills a breeze without even needing to move from your sniping spot of choice. All in all, an amazing if maybe a bit solo-focused frame. I imagine making his whole kit work in a team might prove difficult, unless you forgo the 4 entirely and just run-and-gun with Ressuply and any accurate crit focused gun.

I started playing GW2 at the end of 2023 an been having a blast with it! I played WoW for a decade until the combo of Shadowlands and the Acti-Blizz allegations soured me on that company forever. I tried FFXIV with everyone going over to that game and the story was good but the button bloat pushed me away from really getting into it. I then had that MMO itch at the end of 2023 again and decided to try GW2 and it’s been great. Fun story, good gameplay and most importantly no subscription. It’s so nice to be able to play with breaks and come back whenever you want to with no need to open up your wallet every time, just buy the expansions and Living Worlds once and you are done!

It’s a small rectangle that’s some sort of tech with blue blobs of techrot on it. It does show up on the loot radar, which helps a little, but the dark blue glow stands out way less than the bright green one of the other cache collectible. Apparently it also can spawn up to 100m away from the cache which means it can be multiple tilesets away if you get unlucky.

Pretty much same, I will do a cursory look in the area around it but won’t waste a lot of time on them anymore. I don’t know why DE made the Exterminate special caches be way more obvious with a giant bright green glow and a waypoint when you get close but made the Biocode so damn hard to spot. At least give them the same glowing outline as the rep collectables (an amazing addition BTW, makes them so much easier to spot than the Zariman or Sanctum Anatomica ones).

Yeah, you are probably fucked if you roll that combo. Your best hope would be the multi floor collapsed mall room or maybe the laser show one that has those small islands that stick out above the rest of it, hard to find much elevation otherwise.

I just stood on the roof of one of the many smaller buildings available in the tileset and bombarded the enemies below with a transformed Laetum, that counted for the objective just fine. Granted, that was on the day of the update’s release and I haven’t done that bounty objective since so one of the patches might have broken it.

My school never held any big events like this one either (except for the recruitment open days, but those were entirely voluntary and mostly relegated to clubs) but I’m with Bocchi on this, those evens are hell for introverted socially anxious people, so I’m kinda glad we didn’t. We did have a multiple days long class trip once and surviving that was a trial already!

Nice comfy low-stakes slice of life isekai. Nothing mind-blowing here, but a good enjoyable watch to relax to after a work day. Enjoyed season 1, looking forward to this one!

This survey made me realize how little anime I actually watched this year. I can’t even fill in all the categories! The few shows I did watch were really damn good. At least it makes it easy to pick my favorites!

My pick for the best starter. Volt’s got it all! A very cheap 1st ability that does enough damage to nuke low level enemies with ease while also stunning them. Speed boost that makes running through missions easier without being a master of parkour. An invincible shield that boosts your damage while shooting through it, that can also be picked up to provide solid personal defense. A nuke powerful enough to stay relevant even in ESO that can also give you all the shields you could even want with it’s augment. Just a damn good frame, easy to build, easy to use, versatile kit and an amazing early game passive that lets you build up precious extra damage by just running around. If I was to start the game again, I would 100% pick Volt.

I watched LemonLeaf/Fauna before she joined Hololive and will continue to do so now that she’s out again. While I’m sad for her as she genuinely seemed to enjoy her time there and was sad to leave, I’m also excited to see what she will cook up without the corporate oversight hanging over her head at all times.

I played my fair share of Excalibur and I Volt was my go-to AoE nuke before I got Saryn but I never really touched Mag much. She’s definitely strong with all the buffs she’s gotten over the years but she just never seemed all that fun to me. Magnetize is definitely her signature ability, shooting projectiles with infinite body punchthrough into it and watching them spin and obliterate everything inside is what she’s known for. Her biggest weakness is her dependence on specific weapons and mods to really make her shine, not something that’s ideal for a starter warframe.

Companies realized they can sell cheats as microtransactions instead and people will pay for them. They will likely also include some cosmetic microtransactions like their previous game, which they definitely don’t want people just cheating in. It’s why so many single player games require being always online as well.

You are in luck then, Xaku has a customization option now to always be in either fully armored or skeletal form!

Poor bot got confused by the strange release schedule of this season. No episode today, folks! The show resumes on 5th of February.

The end? What do you mean it’s the end!? There’s still so much more I wanted to see! You are lucky you were cute manga, or this would be a reckoning!

I really wish we got a little bit more, just two more chapters to wrap up Nishida and Tairazuma (although now that I’ve re-read the last chapter, it kinda looks like Azuma might have confessed to Taira in that behind the school scene). Here’s hoping for some 65.x chapters! There is also the anime announcement, I don’t actually really care about that one. I find that most of the time when I read the source material, adaptations are just not really that interesting to me. I’ll give it a try when it comes out, at least.

That’s awesome! Don’t let my jaded veteran ramblings discourage you, Excal is great and Exalted Blade is still a really awesome ability to use. It’s a sword that releases waves of energy with every swing, that’s just plain cool!