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Midnight suns is a weird one. It's like Titanfall 2, gets crazy critical reception, but it's just not popular for one reason or another.

Did it? RPS was probably the only source that I follow who really loved it. Others were mixed.

I’m sad that Solomon is stepping away from turn based games. Between what he was doing at Firaxis and Larian’s games, I was hoping we might be seeing more turn based tactics games in the AA / AAA space, but it might still be too niche.

I know this is a movie but it's worth mentioning Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves , good special effects, good actors, story a bit meh but anyone who loves BG will love this, definitely worth it.

Jake worked on a Larian game? Which one?

Eh, I am curious what he will do next. Firaxis way was to shake up leads anyway, so if XCOM3 comes along I think it would benefit from a fresh vision anyway.

Read this article about the combat balancing philosophy in Midnight Suns, and it is a design choice I like a lot! Everything is fun but not perfectly balanced. Seems like it might be BG3's philosophy as well!

Here's a bit from the article:
"That's why a game like Midnight's Suns - also XCOM - in their current iteration couldn't be like a 'play forever' [game] like Diablo, for example, which is such a finely tuned game," he continues. "All the stats are so finely tuned and they're brilliant at that. Destiny, too - brilliant! But they have less leeway in terms of their design. I don't care if you said somebody could matrix out all the [Midnight Suns] heroes and their DPS and how powerful they are. They could score the heroes, and I guarantee they'd be way all over the place."

For Solomon, he's absolutely certain "there's clearly a best hero, and there's clearly a worst hero" in Midnight Suns, but levelling them out to make them more Diablo or Destiny-like wasn't ever a concern for him. "That's not our focus," he says. "We focused on the moment to moment of every time you get something, you go, 'Yeah, that's awesome.' I don't care how it matches up on a very, very fine level. We view it from more of a holistic level, they all feel generally equal, as opposed to something that's really finely tuned, like League Of Legends design or Diablo design."

It worked, too. In my Midnight Suns review, I wrote that it wasn't just the best Marvel game I've played, but one of the best superhero games full stop, precisely because it does such a fantastic job of selling you on that superhero fantasy. It's not a total pushover, of course - the sheer number of enemies you have to face with each passing turn does a great job of always keeping the pressure level nice and high. But yes, I must admit that I also probably didn't actually care too much if Iron Man ended up wiping the floor with everyone thanks to his brilliant missile strike cards, or if Magic was able to set up delicious, ricocheting portal grabs so I could drop a massive crane on top of my perfectly placed goon pile at the end of it. It just felt good in the moment, which is what Solomon and his team were striving for.

"The meta isn't as important in a single player game," he concludes. "I think that's the thing. We sacrifice the meta sometimes to make sure that the player's first experience of the game really feels awesome."

I thought it was generally agreed that social sim part is between poor-meh, and combat is fine, if a bit shallow and lacking in variety.

Wow classic hardcore - awesome fun - go hard or go home !
I’ve died about 15 times so far - so get used to re-rolling a character

Its the bloodsail buccaneers server (for north america) it is or used to be a RP server (blizzard WOW server not private) now its pretty much all hardcore - no auction house, no grouping (apart from dungeons & raids), no trading, no email, can only run a dungeon once, death = delete - there is an announcement coming 13th May which very much appears like Blizzard are going to put in legit hardcore servers.

Tell us what you think. I liked Kingmaker, and thought that WotR was in general an improvement but I don't know if it would be enough for someone who didn't finish Kingmaker.

But most of all, tell us what class and path you want to take!

I admit I have very little idea of what I’m doing with Pathfinder builds, but also no interest in just copying a recommended build from the internet or prioritising min-maxing over roleplay. Which is probably a combination of ignorance, hubris and skewed priorities that will land me in trouble in due course!

But I’ve created my kitsune nine tailed heir sorceror/rogue who I’m planning to make an arcane trickster later. I like sneaky witch thieves. Let’s see if it works! I don’t know about paths yet, but I’ll let you know .