The game has been pre-loaded for a couple days and I'm champing at the bit for it to go live on the West coast. Who else has bated their breath?
I was planning on playing SC2 Legacy of the Void first and am picking it up tonight at Best Buy. I will also get Fallout 4 too so I'll be playing that as well. Like I said elsewhere I might not sleep tonight.
So yeah, I can't wait to play it.
I didn't realize the game was able to be pre-loaded, so I just now got that started. I've been patiently waiting for it and I'll continue to do so.
How long to download at your current rate?
I can't give you an accurate time until my other downloads complete. Right now it says about 3 days.
I usually see my "peak network usage" at over 700/KBS, now it says it's just over 800.
Oh snap this event exists. Just saw it!
West-coasters: Use a VPN to the east coast and you can start playing in an hour. Or use a VPN to somewhere that's already tomorrow, and play it now!
My Blizzard "Background Download" is going about 700/KBs, while Fallout 4 is going about 100/KBs (or less). I decided to let my Blizzard client have unlimited network access. It told me you can change that under "Settings," so I did. This is going to interfere with my Kindle time. I like to watch a bit of YouTube before bed. Downloading a game on Steam usually creates lag on my Kindle. I may see if it does that on the PS3, since I can watch YouTube there and lie in bed.
@Travis I'm not sure how tightly it's enforced, but using a VPN for that purpose is technically against Steam's TOS. So I'd say to do so at your own risk.
@jaelte: I'd heard that doing that to get price differences or different versions of the game was against the ToS, but hadn't heard that about unlocks. Good info. People are talking about it all over like it's a typical, normal thing, so it's good to know that Steam might take action.
@Greg: Yeah trying to do two at once is probably hurting it.
Well this Blizzard update is only about 3 gigs, Fallout 4 is 24 gigs. At least my Nvidia drive is up-to-date now. =)
By the way, the game is available now on the West Coast. I am getting a "Ready to launch in approximately: 10 minutes" message at the moment.
Ah, so there's apparently a quick patch required first that's downloading. That's why I have that message.
I picked up Fallout 4 on PC when I nabbed Starcraft 2. Fallout 4 is installing now and I am heading in to play SC2 now. YAY!
After installing a bit of Fallout 4 off the DVD the Steam download it picking up at a nice 7.0 MB/S. 
What kind of settings do you have? The game detects your hardware and adjusts them accordingly. Mine detected as "High" or "Ultra," I can't recall which at the moment. Then I exited the game and decided to let Geforce Experience optimize it further, I believe it increased some settings.
What color did you set your HUD and Pip Boy to? I went all blue!
What character model did you go with or did you customize? I stayed with the default guy.
How did you allocate your stat points and what did you name your character? I evened them all out and named my character GregoPeck.
I believe I have the first mission started, but that's as far as I got. I think I need more sleep. There are a couple of things I don't like so much. If I look around, it seems there may be a bit of "screen tearing," at least I think that's it. Also, when talking to the salesman, I wasn't too happy with how the character's mouth looked and how it when moved with the audio. It just didn't seem totally right. Any one else with these issues or other first impressions?
OMG the questions!
Mine detected as medium and it runs fine, no noticeable slowdown.
I never customize interface color, I just leave it at the default. I love that the interface is different when you have power armor on.
I customized the hair and gave him a beard (obvs) but that's it.
I went heavy perception, agility, and intelligence, as normal with Fallout games for me.
My dude is named Travis Weyland, just so the robobutler could call me something other than "sir." I promise not to join forces with someone named Yutani.
Geforce Experience probably turned off v-sync for you Greg, and that's why you're seeing screen tearing.
The voice sync? Come on this is Bethesda what do you expect? :D
>What kind of settings do you have?
1080p medium. The game runs at 30-60 fps depending on what's happening.
> What color did you set your HUD and Pip Boy to?
Standard green.
> What character model did you go with or did you customize?
Standard guy.
> How did you allocate your stat points and what did you name your character?
5 str
6 per
5 end
5 chr
5 int
2 agi
1 luck
Thanks for answering my questions!
@Travis, I noticed screen tearing in GTAV and found out that the VSync setting resolves that, so I'll give it a try.
I couldn't find a VSync setting in the game or on Geforce Experience, so I ended up turning it on globally in the Nvidia Control Panel. It's better now!
It might just be called vertical sync.
I didn't see it anywhere, even after a second look. But, like I said, I changed the global setting in the Nvidia Control Panel, so it's all good now. When I read about VSync months ago, it seems to be a feature that some people like and some don't. I guess it just depends on the game you're running, if you experience screen tearing, and whether or not you mind screen tearing.
Looks like there's no menu option for it, which is weird. Also weird is that it seems it's on by default in Bethesda games, with good reason. It can make really weird things happen in that engine when turned off. Further evidence that GeForce Experience probably turned it off.
If anyone reading this doesn't have the nvidia control panel, here's where to control that in the FO4 prefs: https://www.reddit.com/r/fo4/comments/3s53en/turn_off_vsync/
Well it was off globally in the Control Panel by default, so I just turned it on.
Oh! Yeah if you have it off globally that'll do it. I never turn anything on or off globally since different games need different things.
Time to spend some Birthday Steam Money! I have no idea what I'll want, I'll wait to see what's on sale :)
I've been playing through Costume Quest recently and loving it. If the sequel goes on sale I'll probably pick it up. :)
No, I can't think of any. Although, the Terraria Halloween stuff should be available right now, shouldn't it? Yet I've played it with WBS and Travis, some what recently. I still haven't completed the Pumpkin Moon event. We were able to do it on the server because, I think, Travis added in the necessary materials, although we didn't defeat it. I have all of the CG worlds saved and therefore, I could loot the necessary materials any time. Now I'm getting tempted to try it out again. Haha.
I'm still playing Bejeweled 3, getting all the badges. Luckily, I've gotten the hardest ones. I have most of them already. I've also been working on completing the Smash Bros. (3DS) challenges, but I had to take a day off after my thumbs were sore after getting the Home Run Derby challenge completed with Ganondorf.
The Halloween stuff should be available in Terraria now.
If the server is still running we could do a Pumpkin Moon event. I'll rope in Travis to see if it is.
The server is still running, I just tested it. =) It's probably been a long time since any of us played, although I can really only speak for myself and assume for every one else.
The games I am planning to get during this Steam sale are.
Magicite, Broforce(still early access, but maybe it's ok), Dishonored(+ all DLC) & Farcry 3(+all DLC).
:godmode:
Dishonored is interesting. I was interested in that game but had forgotten about it.
Depending on if Watch Dogs goes on sale, I really want to get that game, but I don't want to spend much.
And I am waiting for Transistor to go on sale to pick up as well.
I really enjoyed what I played of Dishonored on console. Picked it up on Steam a while ago and feels just as good, if not better. You'll probably be reminded a bit of Bioshock while playing, with more stealth options. Beautiful game, too.
There are a few games in the $10-$15 range that I'm hoping drop to the basement, like Secrets of Raetikon, Ikaruga, Syder Arcade, Final Fantasy III. Beyond that, maybe Might & Magic X - Legacy, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and/or Dark Souls II, if the prices are right. That could change entirely, depending on what enticing thing the Steam Sale presents.
Awesome video about the sale circulating around the internet.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=yr2GdRBDOmU
DON'T GO BELOW 60%!
Maybe Spintires, Civilization 5, Goat Simulator, Borderlands and Borderlands 2, Kerbal Space Program, South Park: The Stick of Truth, MAGIX Music Maker 2014 Premium, Assassin's Creed IV... all posibilities
Adym-- You gotta get Borderlands if you haven't played them. They're both fantastic. There's a certain charm the first has that I don't get in the second, but the game mechanics and pacing are improved in the second one.
AC4 is one of the best in the series. Tons of fun.
Yeah, I can't put my thumb on it with BL2 either. It's fine, but much less interesting even though it's seemingly improved in nearly every respect.
I'm falling further and further behind with the AC series as they crank out games like wild, ninja rabbits. Revelations is my hang-up. I suppose I could rush through it, but I like finding all the secrets. The idea of spending 60+ hours in this game gives me a headache. Maybe it's Ezio. I think I'm done with him, as a character. He just doesn't interest me anymore. But I have to push through, because I really want to get to AC3, and 4, and Unity, and fuck-all (I suppose that includes Liberation). If they end up tying the Watch Dogs and AC universes to some substantial end, and keep continuing each individual series, I'll hate Ubisoft forever.
Black Flag looks kind of interesting.
AND it's started and Steam is down... :godmode:
"Remember, it's an adventure, but it's not your adventure. It's your money's adventure. It will bravely travel in small amounts through the vastness of the internet, and, while you'll never see it again, you will receive a game to forever remind you of its journey."
There wasn't anything I wanted for sale when I checked at about 10:02 lol.
Go Team Blue! I hope a bunch of other people craft their badges, because I probably won't lol
I might pickup the Far Cry franchise pack. It's $15 for all the games.
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/46028/
Not sure it could get much better than that.
It begins.
Divinity: Original Sin looks like a fun Co-op RPG. If I can find that on a steep discount I'd like to pick that up for me and the wifey. :)
Borderlands is awesome! I think I may be in the minority here when I say I actually do like the second game better than the first in nearly every way. The ONLY thing I didn't like in the second game is that not all characters have their own method of ammo regen. In the first game everyone could either find an infinite ammo gun or get a class mod that allowed ammo regen for at least one gun type. In BL2 only the Gunzerker can do that. But really it's a pretty minor thing and every other aspect of the game is improved over the first.
I can be difficult to see all the games on sale, but if you go here http://steamdb.info/sales/ it lists them all. You can fliter to Games/DLC/Guides/etc Only, and sort by Discount percent, Price and Savings. Super handy.
4965 items on sale right now lol
Should we keep track of our loot here? So far I've picked up:
I'm on team pink. I feel like Steve Buscemi in Reservoir Dogs now.
Jon, our Team Purple isn't doing so hot...
TEAM PURPLE!
Nabbed the Far Cry Franchise collection for $15. So much game...
That's a nice take!
Suck it Team Pink! Jon, your Franchise purchase just put us in second place!
I don't think we'll catch Adym and Team Blue. Can they finish, though??
This is the Steam Olympics!! http://youtu.be/jp77WTBLYCA
Not sure how many more games I plan to buy. I just got 4 games and am pretty happy with the Witcher 2(the intro was pretty fun as is the normal game so far. Witcher 2 is very Game of Thrones like).
That said, I might not be able to hold out on getting Broforce.
Just picked up an interesting game called They Breath for $0.61. So far I'm holding onto my money.
Whoa, whoa.
$0.61? Damn. Big spender.
FIRST WORLD ADyM
I don't know anything about web domains/internet traffic, but sometimes I can get onto store.steampowered.com at work, and sometimes it's blocked (https://bpb.opendns.com/a/store.steampowered.com/), because my company blocks all opendns websites. I've noticed that the site is blocked when I would imagine it's busier (like right now with new sale items). Is there some sort of switch Steam makes depending on internet traffic to the site?
With so much focus on badges, card price demand seems to have gone up. I looked through most of the cards I'd need to complete sets of games I've played, and the cheapest card I could find was .09, but most were at least .10. That doesn't sound like much but at lot of you guys have plenty of cards that you could put in the marketplace and make around .08 each (again, not much, but when you sell a bunch of cards, it adds up)
Just thought I'd put that out there for anyone who cares :)
For whatever reason, I feel compelled to hang on to my cards. What I should do is list my remaining Summer Sale cards, which have been averaging $.50 each, and those are going like hotcakes. It's interesting, too, that Valve has implemented a new interface, just for these cards. Before, you had to constantly refresh the page to try to find a decent price, and grab before someone else could. Now, you simply place an order at the desired price, and when one becomes available, it gets sent to you. Pretty crazy!
I have all my cards from the 2013 sale, curious what those are going for.
Looks like those are around 8 and 9 cents. I'd be interested to know if those actually worked toward badges anymore.
I'm a little bit confused on which badges people are going for too. Is it just badges from this summer's sale's cards, or any badge from any game's cards?
I just traded a 2014 sale card with Tungsten for The Orange Box.
10/10 would trade again.
For the contest of teams, Summer Sale badges earn 10 points, while other game badges earn 1 point. Foil badges are 10x the point value in each catagory. I'm not seeing to much of an increase in regular card prices, maybe a few cents here and there, but the Summer 2014 cards are quite high, though not as high as they were yesterday.
@jdodson, that's quite a trade!
Wait, Jon, you didn't already have the Orange Box?
I have Half-Life 2 & Portal on Steam. I never owned the rest on Steam BUT I have The Orange Box on PS3(where I originally played all the games the first time).
That said, I think i'll hold on to it to give to someone. The only things I need are the Ep1 and Ep2 to round out my Steam collection for HL2.
You guys lucked out with team purple. The team switcher items for purple are going for like $35
You can do that?! I'll switch teams for $35. Holy knight!
Ahh, you have to still have your token intact to sell it. Booo!
Token?
I thought it was a token, but I guess they automatically assign you to a team when you craft a Summer badge, so I don't know how people are acquiring tokens to sell.
You can get them at random from crafting badges.
A couple more games. I've bought Ducktales and ORION: Dino Horde
I'll have to download ORION again, give it another try. I was severely disappointed in the initial release, deleted it, and forgot about it, but it looks like they've change some things. Looks like they may have gravitated more toward their original ideas.
Adym, Duck Tales is short but it feels just like the NES version. Tons of fun.
I've only played a few mins of it, and totally love it all over again!
It also seems like a proper episode of the Cartoon, which is great.
I've Never Heard Of That Game
... Well If It's A Game
Amnesia - A Machine For Pigs Is On My Whish List, It's An Indie Horror Game Made By The Creators Of Amnesia - The Dark Descent, It Focuses On One Of The Best Horror Stories Ever Written, And It Takes Place 60 Years Into The Future
I've bought The Walking Dead: Season 2, The Wolf Among Us, and Jazzpunk so far. I *may* just have a thing for adventure games. :)
That said, I haven't started playing any of those yet as all my recent video game play time has gone into Wildstar (which, by the way, is not on the site's game list). That's not a Steam game, though, so I'll discontinue this off-topic chatter.
Jazzpunk looks really interesting. You'll have to let us know how it plays, when you get around to it.
Just added Wildstar to the game list, by the way (which also looks amazing. Is it the WoW killer everyone thought it would be?)
Wow, I hadn't heard of Wildstar, but that looks amazing!
Just picked up an interesting looking game called The Political Machine 2012. It'll be a bit dated, but I love political simulations. You play as a presidential candidate trying to win enough electoral votes to win the presidency. Either an actual candidate, or your own creation. Can't wait to dive into this one and geek out on politics!
That's a great game idea, hope it is fun!
Jazzpunk was on my wishlist for awhile, so I'm glad I could finally get it cheap. I may end up playing that one before the other two I bought because the others still have unreleased episodes. We'll see.
Wildstar is incredible. I don't really know if I can type to its WoW-killerliness, but I do know that I'm having a blast so far. The main thing that keeps me interested in MMORPGs is being able to play with my friends, so I imagine I'll continue to play it as long as a good portion of my friends are playing. This, of course, does not preclude me playing other games.
In other news, it looks like the my team (Blue) is winning today. I don't know how it all works, but the system looks rigged to me -- each day one color end up way ahead of all the others. It's probably explained on the site somewhere, but I guess I'm not too worried about it.
As it's just about 10, and the new day is about to start, it's somewhat amusing to watch the team points at the beginning of the day. It's like watching a horse race lol. I accidentally stumbled upon it yesterday and thought I'd pass along the amusement to y'all :)
It is interesting to watch, and I've wondered the same thing, jaelte. I wonder if it has anything to do with time zones. Maybe while the other teams are sleeping, the waking team has the initial advantage?
Here's a really interesting article about Team White and Valve's efforts to disrupt them
http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/06/24/how-the-internet-tried-to-rig-the-steam-summer-sale-and-how-valve-is-trying-to-stop-them/
So today I decided to try and play the Team Token Market today like a stock day trader. I bought a Green Team Token for $1.50 and now am attempting to sell it for $2.00 (meaning I'll actually get $1.75). Right now it is hovering in the around $1.80. I might be stuck with a useless token at the end of the sale, or make an easy $0.50 lol.
Boom! Just sold it for $2! Easy money man lol (I meant make an easy $0.25 in my last comment)
If you could do that a few hundred times in a day you could quit your job.
Thanks for posting that article, Adym. I thought something fishy was going on.
If any of you are looking for a last minute, cheap game to pick up, I highly, highly recommend The Fall. A cool blend of something like Limbo and The Swapper, with a top-tier Sci-fi story, fully voice acted. Almost a crime to get it for the sale price.
You talked me into it.
Yeah, I think i'm gonna pass. My list of amazing games is already stacked pretty high right now.
That said, maybe at some point!
Oh and it looks like we have 13 hours left of the sale and they are bringing back some of the really great deals. Terraria for $1.99? Crazy great deal.
Dig the new 1.2.2 stuff but it seems to be a new Pumpkin Moon event and presents instead of candy bags. Not that I mind, I think it is really neat.
That said the fight is really awesome and I got quite a few presents including a Christmas Tree sword. Let me know what you guys have done and find.
Mrs. Claus costume. Oooooooh yeah.
I do like dressing up as women.
Everyone, never let Jon forget that he said "I do like dressing up as women."
😀
Hey Yall,
Just wanted to let you know i'll be shutting down the server in the next day or so. If you want to know why you can message me privately.
So get in your server time WHILE YOU CAN :D
So WBS and I just took one two of the new holiday spawn events. I got another Razorpine and gave it to WBS and we both used them in the battle. Holy cow, the Razorpine with the Spectre Armor is awesome. So much health comes back to you in a fight.
Curious though, is there a hotkey for drinking a mana pot?
A definite must get for sure.
Yep, quick mana drink is "J" that will help out during the fight a ton.
http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Game_controls
Oh and I will be taking the server down in the next couple hours, if you have anything on it you need grab it before it goes. I'll bring it back for a few full uninterrupted days in the new year though.
I never knew about J, I just have mana pots in 0, and switch to that whenever I need one. That's definitely good to know.
It's probably worth mentioning, but i used zero mana potions during our frost moon runs. I just used Magic cuffs and when my mana was getting low I let a mob hit me. http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Magic_Cuffs
Usually I prefer melee type characters, and I absolutely LOVE my paladins hammer + cursed hatchet combo, but spectre armor + magic cuffs is where it's at for these special moon events.
Whoa, an actual use for the shackle!
I know. I think I have a few in a chest somewhere if you.. need a shackle :D
I think I'm going to finally pick up the AVGN game. I've been eyeing it for a while, so assuming it goes on sale I'll nab it.
I'll also probably pick up another extra copy of Terraria. I gave my spare to my friend Greg (as some of you can tell from the Facebook discussion) so I need to get another to keep around for situations like that.
It's become something of a Tradition with me and my friend Jason (@JaBo) that we buy each others Christmas gifts during the steam sales. So I'll be picking up whatever I can off his wishlist as they get discounted. :P
As for what I'm hopping to get for myself, there's several games I'm going to keep an eye out for. Papers, Please looks really interesting, and Organ Trail looks like a lot of fun.
Cities in Motion 2 DLC, maybe. Looking at Bioshock Infinite and Assassin's Creed 3 and 4 too.
Papers, Please and Organ Trail are both worth getting but the game I bought recently I have been enjoying the heck out of is Pixel Junk Monsters. Plugged in two controllers and a friend and I played it two player, so much fun. Fun single and two player both actually.
Going to pickup Pixel Junk shooter for sure.
We'll see what goes on sale. Most the games on my wishlist are new-ish, so I'm not sure if any of them will be discounted enough to entice me. I still own a metric crapton of games I've never played.
I have lot's of games I haven't played too, mostly from bundles. That said, I have noticed from what games I do purchase I play.
I don't buy because it's a good deal anymore, I might even hold off and buy it later just to ensure i'll actually play it. Might pay a few bucks more, but I am trying to avoid the 4,000 games unplayed story :D
I don't count bundles as much BUT I am not buying bundles if they don't contain at least one game I want to play immediately. Which means the last few bundles I have skipped entirely.
Wow, BioShock Infinite is amazing. Seriously, for $9.99 you need to pick it up. Been playing it on my Mac and it is superb. So beautiful and an awesome story. So far only a little bit in and I love it.
Borderlands 2 GOTY is only $15? Whoa.
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/32848/
That's tempting, but I bought Borderland 2 on PS3 so I could play co-op with my wife and I generally have a rule about not buying the same game twice. :\ I would love to play with all you fine peeps who have it on PC though.
Over at Amazon they're offering Bioshock 1, Bioshock 2, and Bioshock Infinite as a bundle for 15 bucks. I'm considering that one. http://goo.gl/64gAVl
It's $20 on Steam now http://store.steampowered.com/sub/36223/
The amazon purchase might be for steam keys though :D
The amazon deal is for Steam keys, yes.
Do it. Infinite is worth the price of admission alone.
Yes, that's two of the best games of the decade and one that's pretty OK as well.
So far, I've bought Gone Home (which looks really interesting, but I know nothing about), Left 4 Dead 2 (for free!), NBA 2K14, Papers Please, and Tower Wars.
Installing Tower Wars now.
Any room for utter newbs? I was never able to get it run very well under monogame, but I'd boot to Windows to play. Or try with monogame again. Fez runs well, so results might be better now.
Please join, I remember playing Terraria for the first time, it was so great. I'll post more later about when the server will be live so people can play right at server drop or later if they want.
Noobs are definitely welcome. Even the experienced peeps are going to be starting new characters and with 1.2 they are making a lot of sweeping changes to the game, so we all will be kind of "noobs" to the game again. :)
Yeah, I am not entirely sure what all the new stuff will be but I can't wait to figure it out :D
Hmm. This is one of the games I've had in my Steam library for awhile and haven't gotten around to playing yet. I'm not sure how much time I'll want to spend on it but, since you seem to welcoming noobs, please count me in. Who knows? I may become a new addiction for me. ;-)
@jaelte: Join the event to ensure your spot, I dropped the amount of spots in the game to 8 to ensure there isn't a ton of lag and I am going to advertise the game outside the site in a few days.
Imma grab a spot now to check it out with y'all! But, if I get busy and can't commit to being super active, I'll let you know to bump me and let someone else join.
Sounds good, you can also leave an event you have joined as well.
Hey folks, quick question--
Since there are going to be a lot of people in the server, what do you think about the starter area? Should we divvy out equal space to lay claims to before launching, or just let it flow as it will?
If we did this, we'd make 8 sections marked off as plots for building, and separate it with dungeon brick or something.
Even with our previous servers, some people get relegated to the fringes where the building situation isn't ideal, and this one will probably be more populated. This could help with fairness and cooperation, but it hinders creativity a bit in the compromise.
What do you think?
I think we can do that Travis. So yeah, you have my +1.
Oh and I increased the event from 8 - 10 people max. I figure some people may join but not play, so I am increasing the amount of people we let in.
Also, if people join and don't play, i'll boot to allow more people to join that want to participate.
Welcome to the recent people that joined up, if you have any questions about how the game will go, ask away, we've done 2 other limited run servers before.
Huh. I could've sworn I'd joined when I mentioned it before.
Something interesting I just learned, and look away now if you don't want any item spoilers: We may want to eventually start a second world with the same characters.
There are world-exclusive ores in 1.2. For example, if you have iron in your world, you'll never see lead. If you have platinum, you'll never see gold. If you have crimson, you'll never see corruption.
Interesting. So are these ores just like equivalent to the others? So if you have Plat you won't see Gold so they are equal ores?
Look at Terraria, ripping off Starbound...
;-)
No, they aren't exactly equal. Platinum is better than gold, lead is better than iron. They're closer than silver and gold, but not the same.
Interesting.
This shows off the Crimson. It's interesting that they have alternates to keep things interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiL62WXXrm0
I'm going to bow out and give my spot to someone else. I'm starting a new job that day and might not have much time to play.
That's cool, thanks bean. If you have some time, feel free to join.
Also, here is a work in progress change log for Terraria 1.2. The item dupe bug and the like have been fixed :D
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nubZZSGBoUiuKFKzWT7raMrPI35MQtDWSsL-MbHFgqs/preview?sle=true
"You can now make picks instead of drills and axes instead of chainsaws in late game tiers."
I hope that means you can make drills OR picks, etc. I loved my drills. ; ;
It reads like its inclusive to me. Or said another way, yeah you can still use your drill, seems like its an option if you don't like the drill. The drill may be somewhat loud(GET OFF MY LAWN) but it seemed fine to me too :D
"We will be launching Terraria 1.2 tonight at midnight est. (4 more hours!)"
https://twitter.com/Demilogic/statuses/384809540434161664
The game just started updating for me. 18.8 MB, a few minutes early!
Updated my client here too, now to update the server.
Ok everyone, server is up and ready to connect. Check the event up top for the server URL and password (if you have joined).
I'll be on tonight as soon as I get the kids off to bed. :)
So I logged in for a bit... I think I'm going to need to read/watch some sort of tutorial because I'm not really sure what I'm doing. It does seem interesting, though.
Yeah, I watched a few videos myself. But if you play with any of us we can help you out too.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uw5NmNVIW-I&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Duw5NmNVIW-I
So I played for a few hours last night and had a blast. I was mining for quite a long time until I found any ores and then only a trickle. THEN after a bit I was just hit with load after load of ore or what I was calling "the rich stuff." Anyways, I found some rad gear and @WhiteboySlim and I found some ice caves under the snow biome. There is also a Pyramid section under the desert biome.
So far, I have noticed a TON more loot drops from bad guys and the chests are loaded up with great finds as well.
That Pyramid was pretty cool if a bit small. I'm loving the Sandstorm in a bottle I picked up. It's just like the cloud in the bottle, but with a snazzier animation. It might be my imagination, but I think it jumps a little higher too.
I'll should be on again tonight. It will probably be after 8 or 9 pm PST though, so I might be on too late for some of you guys. I've previously put in 151 hours in Terraria (thanks for reminding me, Steam) and this feels almost like a whole new game. There is SO MUCH NEW STUFF and even the old stuff seems to have been tweaked or revamped.
Ok so a bit of an update.
It seems when you have the Crimson instead of Corruption you can spawn the Brain of Cthulhu instead of Eater of Worlds. To spawn the Brain you need 15 Vertebrae and then you can craft the Bloody Spine at a Crimson Altar. I setup a Brain fightin' area to the left of the base and @WhiteboySlim and I killed 3. Basically the Brain drops the Crimtane Ore and Tissue Samples + cash and a random chance to spawn a wand.
The Crimtane Ore allows you to craft the ore weapon and armor set. I have the full armor set and the bonus is increased life regen, which is killer. Anyways, I will be harvesting more Vertebrae for Brain runs, so yay!
http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Crimtane_Ore
http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Brain_of_Cthulhu
How tricky was the brain? I loved the mechanics of the EoW fight, kinda sad we don't get to fight him.
I agree, but the Brain is somewhat similar(sort of).
The Brain is VERY reminiscent of Mother Brain and much harder than EoW at first. Basically it spawns and is invincible but has these floating circles you must kill. They die individually and when they are all gone you can kill the Brain.
Tonight I tipped over to 201 hours played. Bethesda games are now the only ones beating Terraria in terms of time played.
I love this game.
So apparently the password has changed? I am now getting an error telling me that it's incorrect.
jaelte, I already mentioned this to you on Steam, but to anyone else, Jon isn't home to restart the server but he should be soon. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Should be fine now. Sorry yall.
javierieh, adym, william and osiris. Since you guys haven't joined us, I am going to remove you from the event. If you change you mind and want to play, feel free to join again!
We are going to open the event up to a few more people on Reddit and we need the spots. Thanks guys!
Thanks guys!
Yeah, I'm good with being replaced :-)
I joined a couple of times in awkward hours (it was like 3 am UTC-4 i think haha)
But im ok with being replaced to let others join. Thank you!
javierieh if you are playing join back up, I didn't know you had played! Yeah, totally sorry I didn't know you had joined the game. I didn't see your house or whatnot! No worries if you play the game at different hours, no problem there!
So Travis and I did a bunch of Queen Bee kills and I love the new boss fight. We were also thinking about good ways to farm the goods and realized we might be able to build a hive over the lava with the bee wand and mine the honey blocks that way.
Oh and with the new Bee Gun and boss fight, I was reminded of this:
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view1/1416886/oprah-s-bees-o.gif
http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Abeemination
* Honey Block: put hive over water, mine until you have enough since you can replace hive w wand.
* Crisp Honey Block: put hive over lava, mine until you have enough since you can replace hive w wand.
* Stinger: Kill bees in the Jungle
* Hive: Mine them from the hive
* Obsidian: Mine from lava+water
* Bottled Honey: put jars in your honey from mining it from the hive
Am I missing something? For me the hardest bit will be obsidian, never was great at mining that.
Man I am really digging the new bee stuff. New boss, bee gun, vanity set, hive & honey. A totally awesome addition to the game!
I was just looking over new potions we can make and I made a few of these, returning damage to an attacker seems pretty useful. Maybe even boss fights.
http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Thorns_Potion
Not too hard to craft either.
I loved casting Thorns as a druid in WoW. It's always great to passively damage :-)
So I've really been digging the new houses people have been putting up in different biomes. Tonight I turned the dungeon entrance into a house for our delving needs. I guess beach houses and cactus houses are next, though they provide less utility.
Right. WhiteboySlim and I put one up in the snow biome to get ready for hardmode.
Speaking of, when are we going to kill the Wall of Flesh? I am thinking soon because I am, right now, not entirely sure what to do next. What have you guys been doing?
I've been obsessing over collecting stuff, and finding beehives. Farming some materials for the dungeon tonight made me realize that there's still some challenge there, so I might hang out down there a bit. Jaelte, how are you doing on gearing up for hardmode?
I also think we should kill Skeletron a few times as well. I kind of want to see how well we do with him now :D
Travis:
I'm not really sure how to answer that question. I've read a little, but I don't fully know what hard mode entails, nor what I would need in order to be better equipped for it. I suppose I should head down into Hell and check it out one these days...
jdodson:
I wouldn't be opposed to checking out Skeletron. I've never seen that boss before.
OK, Hell's not so bad. I dinked around for an hour or so mining Hellstone and, aside from burning to death once (easily remedied by crafting a skull), I didn't have much trouble. Now to make some more Obsidian and figure out what to make with resulting Hellstone bars.
As far as hard mode goes, like I said, I don't really know enough about it to know how well I can handle it. Don't let me slow you all down, though. I'm sure I'll learn to survive either way. :-)
Well, crafting the hellstone armor is the last stuff you can get before hardmode so when you make the set, you as ready as you could be.
Should we wait for the Halloween update before popping the server into Hardmode?
https://twitter.com/Demilogic/status/390597870820155392/photo/1
Might make some sense.
Yes, lets wait until after that. It's always good to explore new content when you're geared up for the world. Looking forward to the creeper costume!
Me too. I hope this stuff lasts all year and not just time based, but some of it may be.
A great pumpkin boss battle perhaps?
Creeper costume! Do we know if the Halloween update is coming before or on Halloween? I don't know if I want to wait until 10/31 for hardmode. :\
@Travis. Yeah I made the jungle house, and then Jon and I made the Ice one. Once we get into Hardmode I saw there's a teleporter item we can get off one of the new NPC's and I was hoping (not sure how the teleporter works really...) that we can link the different houses via teleporter. :D
@Jaelte, Once you craft up a full set of hellstone gear (armor set, sword, pickaxe, and hamdrax) you should be pretty well geared for hardmode. If need help digging out more hellstone or obsidian just let me know.
@WhiteboySlim: while it isn't confirmed, the Halloween update will be out before October 31st. My impression is in the next week or so, but you never know.
As for the teleporter, you can connect any two locations together with wire. So we should be able to go from main base to other bases, but probably not from say the dungeon to the jungle, because of the 3000 block limit on wire. I guess you could have teleporter waypoints.
I had no idea this could be done. My new goal is to see this happen before Hardmode :D
Ah, sorry jon. You have to be in hardmode to make the teleporters. Otherwise I'd be all over that :)
There's also a hardmode item that lets you instantly teleport to any open spot on screen. I'm really looking forward to that.
Ah dang, read what you said wrong then. Oh well, more stuff to keep hardmode compelling.
Luckily we only need to beat the first hardmode boss to get the NPC who sells them, so we should be able to get it pretty quickly.
So I was building a shack on the beach, since I'm building shacks everywhere lately. I killed a ton of enemies out there, including a lot of ocean life (Just call me BP... heyo!) and happened to notice that I had an item called a "pirate map." So I thought, what's this? And used it.
Oh boy, bad idea.
Well, good idea. But it was a struggle. PIRATES INVADED. We now have a new NPC, Blackbeard the Pirate.
Thing is, that item isn't supposed to drop pre-hardmode. I suppose it bugged out.
At any rate, if you want a set of pirate clothes or a cannon, he's your guy. If you want a parrot pet, make him live in the beach shack and he'll sell that there.
Awesome. I dropped in for a bit and boy were those pirates hard! I imagine at some point maybe we can farms maps or something and spawn bosses to see how we can do vs all that stuff.
I did some work on the NPC housing. It seems like I've been unofficially in charge of that on each server and I was getting bored with wood houses with wood walls.
Going to start prepping the world for hardmode, putting down some dungeon brick to prevent major damage from the clowns in hardmode and the spread of crimson.
Oh, and there's some corruption now, safely away from other stuff. You can now farm the pieces to spawn the Eater of Worlds, unfortunately I can't seem to get him to spawn.
I take that back. Jon got on and we were able to get EoW to spawn but he's a bit tricky to keep to the artificial biome and keeps leaving. I guess we're going to need a bigger biome.
In the pursuit of things to do while waiting for Halloween/hard mode I built an arena for hard mode bosses to the east of town. Look for a rope next to the greenhouse. Nothing to do there for a while but it's ready for us.
I wish I knew when the Halloween update was coming.
So I'm decked out with full Molten gear. I see that there's one pre-hard mode sword that's considered an upgrade to the Fiery Greatsword, I'll need farm some in order to obtain its components (assuming they still drop). I'm probably good to go for hard mode either way, though.
Does anybody have additional suggestions/requests? I'd be willing to help out with construction or whatever.
Yeah the Night's Edge-- you need the fiery greatsword (which I assume you have) the crimson/corrupt sword, which you probably have, the muramasa and the blade of grass. The muramasa is in Dungeon chests, and I think there are a couple still there, we've been leaving stuff we don't need. The blade of grass is pretty easy to get materials for. You should get extra so you can make an ivy whip too.
Other than that, I recommend the star cannon and the Phoenix Blaster for the Wall of Flesh fight. Star Cannon has very limited ammo, obviously, since it uses stars , so use it sparingly. The Phoenix Blaster isn't automatic like the minishark but it makes up for it in damage done.
And the Bee Gun. Always Bee Gun.
@Travis and @jdodson: Were you able to craft the worm food at a crimson altar? Or did you have to take the items to another world you created and craft it at a demon altar?
@Jaelte: It sounds like you're pretty good to go for hardmode. A night's edge is nice, but on our last server I went into hardmode with the fiery great sword and did fine until I could craft a Phase Saber, which is very easy to get once in hardmode provided you already have a phase saber (craft from meteorite bars + gemstones of the color you want). I prefer the minishark over the phoenix blaster, but both work just fine. Last but not least, try to find some Hermes boots if you haven't already. You'll need the speed to outrun the wall of flesh. Plus you can craft your rocket boots and the hermes boots together at the tinkerers station. Sorry if that's a bit of information overload!
@WhiteboySlim: You can craft the worm food at a Crimson Altar but Travis got the food from another of his games.
I also left a pair of Hermes Boots in the chests in the spawn zone at one point.
I got some of them from our first server, actually. :) But yeah, I crafted a few at a crimson altar.
As for phoenix blaster vs. minishark, the shark does 6 base damage compared to the blaster's 23, but it's much faster. For me it seems to work out to about the same dps for less ammo, BUT if you need to spray and pray the shark is your best bet. The phoenix blaster will hurt him hard but the shark will get through the hungry better.
Bring both :) Or spawn the Eye of Cthulu and try them both out and see what you think. Reading around it looks like they're equally recommended.
Either way, make some meteor shot for them.
I bet the bee gun would actually do pretty well with it, helping to get rid of the hungry, then swap to the real gun and pop some caps.
The star cannon can seriously do some damage though. I've been hoarding stars like a squirrel for it, but it isn't really sustainable for many fights.
Melee is basically right out though.
I have been hoarding stars too, late game it's either use them for the cannon or make star lights from them. I love the Star Cannon but it feels like its the most expensive ammo ever :D
So I explored the whole dungeon (WBS joined me for a bit) and didn't find any Muramasas or Handguns, so it looks like I'll be going into hard mode with Fiery Greatsword and Minishark -- and a Bee Gun, of course. Thankfully, I was able to find enough Meteorite to make a Phaseblade (with one whole bar left over), so I should be able to make the Saber version pretty early on. If I happen upon some more Meteorite, I'll look into building a star cannon, but I'd definitely need to farm stars if I don't want to run out of ammo in the first few seconds of the fight.
So anyway, I'm probably as read as I'll ever be. I guess we now wait for that hallowed patch.
The fiery great sword and minishark are plenty powerful to get you through the wall of flesh fight and into hardmode. If you really really want the muramasa and/or handgun your best bet is to create a small single player world and go straight to the dungeon. You're geared up enough that you should make short work of skeletron and after last night you should have plenty of golden keys to open all the chests. You can probably get all the dungeon items in a half an hour or less. :)
That's actually how i got my lucky horseshoe (negates fall damage). It looked like there were none left on our server when I went looking for floating islands, so I just created a single player world specifically to find one.
Oh, and here's my thoughts on the new stuff that was built on the server:
The dungeon brick looks cool! Although I hate to break this to you after you did all that hard work, but the clowns no longer damage blocks. I loaded up our old server file to confirm. But still, it seriously looks cool!
The boss fight arena is insanely cool. How on earth did you find all those heart statues? (P.S. All those statues under my house are up for grabs if anyone needs them for any contraptions.)
The jungle/corruption/mushroom farming area is cool too. But I'm a little concerned that they're big enough to spawn the biome specific mobs. Especially the corruption once we get into hardmode. It will start spawning corruptors which can infect the area around our base. The corruption area you set up above our crimson boss fight area should be fine because 1) it's so far up and 2) the surrounding area is crimson, and I'm pretty sure any corruption won't spread in the crimson.
"the clowns no longer damage blocks."
WHAT?! Well, at least it will keep the Crimson at bay when it starts spreading, since after hardmode the crimson/hallow V might get really close to base.
That's something else to bring up. Jon, you should consider backing the server up right before WoF, since our base could be totally ruined by the initial deposit of crimson/hallow.
" How on earth did you find all those heart statues?"
I went into our previous worlds and took the heart statues from the boss arenas there, two from my first personal world, and two from this world. If anyone considers that cheating I'll totally pull some of them up. :)
" It will start spawning corruptors which can infect the area around our base."
I forgot about the corruptor spit. That's an excellent point. I'll move it somewhere else. It wasn't working for what I wanted to accomplish anyway-- EoW doesn't exactly cooperate. Jon and I were trying to spawn every pre-hardmode boss at once the other day.
" Jon, you should consider backing the server up right before WoF"
I can totally do that, no problem.
OK, removed the corruption and moved the mushrooms up to the next level, so the jungle has more room. The trees weren't growing well.
If the jungle enemies start annoying anyone (especially you, Jaelte, since you're on that edge) let me know and I'll knock out some of it.
So tonight I built us a shack at the far end of the platform in hell, so we can set our home point and such. Put a lava sacrificial shrine on top to summon the wall. And extended the platform a bit. We should be all set to get there and kill him.
So what do you all think about this weekend? Any plans to get in the way of us taking him down? Ideally all four of us kill him together, though I can only remember once when we were all on at the same time.
I am thinking this Saturday at 1pm PST?
That work for anyone else?
Also, originally the server ended tomorrow. I just extended that to middle of November :D
Saturday at 1pm PST? I will try to get on around then. It depends on whether or not I can get my son down for a nap. He usually naps around that time, so I think I'll be good. :)
@jdodson: I will check need to into my availability, but I should be able to make 1 p.m. Saturday.
@WBS: Thanks for the suggestion. I was bored, so I went to a single-player game. Skeletron was indeed quite simple -- the Minishark with normal shot made quick work of it. I looted I think four dungeon chests and got a Cobalt Shield (fwiw), Muramasa, and a Handgun. We'll see if I can get some farming/crafting in before Saturday.
Since the event was supposed to end, but was extended, maybe we could start a new event and continue the conversation on that event? (That was those of us that aren't playing don't get notifications)
If not, it's all good, just a suggestion :)
Ill take you off the notification train tonight Adym, no problem.
Ill also be modifying events so people an unfollow them in the next few weeks or sooner.
Rock on man
If I'm doing timezone math properly, 4PM EST sounds great for me.
Yeah, we need an event in this event so it can parse the timezone properly.
Yo dawg...
I realized we were missing something important:
http://i.imgur.com/OpMHtsC.jpg?1
Ha, awesome. Just made it the image for the event :D
Hey good news, the corruptors no longer spread corruption: http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Corruptor
I guess they no longer live up to their name.
In addition, the Steampunker sells a weapon called the clentaminator that uses different solutions to cleanse corruption or crimson, or spread it. So it seems we can more easily fight the crimson/corruption in hardmode now. I was considering digging trenches like I'd done in the past but I think I'll let it ride and see what we end up with Saturday.
I put a base on each end of the Wall of Flesh bridge so regardless of which side we're on we can spawn the Wall and get a bed while we're there. Yeah, I'm filling time :) It may save some farming time, though, since we can just go to whichever is closest.
I stocked a chest in the first one you come to with some goodies for each of us, buffs and potions. Any other suggestions? I have another night to mess around :)
Updating the server now for the new Halloween update:
http://www.terrariaonline.com/threads/terraria-1-2-1-halloween-update.116144/
Looks like there is a new Pumpkin boss fight?
https://twitter.com/Cennxx/status/393595718662774784/photo/1
Oh man, why am I at work and not at home farming pumpkins and shit.
*cough* I think I'm coming down with something *cough*
Convincing?
*writing you a doctors note for having caught Terraris+
More Halloween gear:
http://m.imgur.com/a/EPlC5
So this morning I harvested my pumpkin crop and got a ton more pumpkin. Made two pumpkin themed levels to my spire. I also got a pumpkin pet I can plant.
Looks like the Pumpkin Moon event is a hardmode only thing and you need to be fairly well geared to complete it. Seems that its a multi-staged boss event. It has a random chance of happening in hardmode or you can create something to trigger it w pumpkin and other hardmode stuffs.
So far, I dig the update. OH and it was confirmed, there will a Christmas update much like this one and "robotic elves" were mentioned :D
Yeah we gotta gear up before Nov 10 so we can take out the Pumking! Most of that stuff in your second comment up from this one is dropped by him, and I've read that he's tough even in badass gear.
Wow, so much new stuff already! In that post for the new armor/items it made mention of a "headless horseman" and a "mourning wood" (lol). Other new monsters?
I've heard the Golden Shower is particularly effective against Mourning Wood.
That's a totally serious statement, I'm not joking at all, and I love that redigit has enabled me to use that sentence in a factual manner. Golden Shower is a top-tier 1.2 spell.
LOL. Can that be the MOTD on the server? jdodson, make it happen!
So bloodmoons are awesome for gathering goodie bags. I've gotten like 12 over two bloodmoons.
Costumes I've found so far:
Cat
Fox
Princess
Pixie
Cat ears (different from the cat costume)
Grim Reaper
Ghost
Leprechaun
Robot (which is awesome, btw)
Treasure Hunter (it's Lara Croft!)
Pumpkin (different from Pumpkin armor)
"Yeah we gotta gear up before Nov 10 so we can take out the Pumking! Most of that stuff in your second comment up from this one is dropped by him, and I've read that he's tough even in badass gear."
It seems we can spawn the new Pumpkin Moon event if we have the right stuff any time of year. The special "treat bag" and pumpkins growing spontaneously is all time of year based. Or else that seems to be what i've read.
Oh and on a side note. I noticed that the glowing mushroom biome you made above ground is spawning unique mobs. I saw a glowing mushroom zombie, a mob similiar to the man eaters from the jungle, and a beetle that took a surprising amount of hits to kill! No unique drops from any of them, however (at least so far).
OK, I have yet to play this update, won't get to dive in til tonight, but how have you found so many costumes? Holy cow, that's a lot.
Are goodie bags just random loot from any enemy or specific ones?
And yeah, the mushroom enemies are pretty awesome. I hope hardmode doesn't come with really hard mushroom enemies or I might have to relocate it.
All the costumes come from the goodie bags. Each time you open the goodie bag you get a random costume or rotten eggs (which can be thrown).
The goodie bags are random drops off of mobs. They definitely drop off the costumed monsters. As for the regular mobs? It's hard to tell. There was one time I think a bag dropped off a normal jungle bat, but that was during a blood moon and there were a lot of other mobs around at the time. So it could have just been lag and it dropped off a near by costumed monster.
Goodie bags can definitely drop off non-costumed mobs. I got my first couple while in the Underground Jungle where nothing was costumed.
So tonight WBS, Jaelte and I farmed the hell out of some goodie bags. I've made comments before about how I don't understand people's obsession over costumes in video games, but I spent hours farming for items so I could play dress-up. Go figure.
WBS made a horrible genetic experiment gone wrong by mixing a unicorn head with a ninja turtle body. Excuse me, karate tortoise.
Terraria makes me get the "gotta catch em all" mindset like no other game. I MUST HAVE ALL THE COSTUMES.
I've made a pretty effective goodie bag farm to the West of town, past the biome farms. Using pressure plates, a timer, and dart traps, you can sit safely enclosed in brick and especially with a water candle and the slime pet, rack up the bags.
Since getting hit with multiple dart traps at once only counts as one hit, I'm using the pressure plates and the timer together to stagger the shots.
Feel free to farm the hell out of it!
So in one blood moon, my bunker thingie racked up over 6 gold and 7 goodie bags, along with 14 shackles and 4 zombie arms. Easy pickings!
Ha ha ha ha, awesome! Yeah I definitely feel the "gotta catch 'em all" fever with this game. So far the only costumes I'm missing are the Creeper, the Alien, and the Bride of Frankenstein. I've also never gotten any of the paintings or the cat summon item. :\
I have a ton of the costumes now and it's pretty surprising how many they added to the game.
Oh and this conversation thread has been and is currently the longest running one on the site. 113 comments.
Ok I have an idea for a plan we can follow for the start of hardmode.
Mine and find a palladium armor set. You can also mine for a Mythryl or Titanium set if you want too. I have a full Palladium set and its helping.
We need to kill some hardmode bosses to get Hallowed Bars. Its easy to get them now, just kill a hardmode boss and they drop it. Reason we need hallowed bars is for a level 200 pickaxe.
http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Pickaxe
Reason you need that is so you can mine Chlorophyte Ore. Chlorophyte Ore is a ore that spawns in the jungle that automagically spawns from mud. Ive seen it in the jungle I just cant mine it. You can craft some ultra powerful gear from it, so I think we should go that direction.
http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Chlorophyte_Ore
SO gear up some, lets do some hardmode boss fights, get a level 200 pickaxe and chlorophyte. An idea.
Ok so potential problem. Since our Hallowed area is small how will we farm souls of light for the boss fights? I got a few so far but I dont remember where they dropped.
I got a ton in hell below the hallow. The surface hallow is small but deep underground it's pretty big.
Also, when I spoke to you earlier on the server I had some reservations about fighting the hardmode bosses in just Palladium armor. I have full Mythril armor right now, and the Destroyer just showed up at random while I was at home organizing chests. Totally unprepared, I was able to take him out. So, consider me convinced. I think they must have tweaked the damage he does or something.
Finished out the titanium armor set and dove into the jungle. The jungle is the place to be. The spawn point for Plantera is down there now since a hard mode boss has been defeated, the life fruit are all over the place, and there's chlorophyte to collect. One thing to note about chlorophyte is that it grows back as long as you leave one piece of it there. So when you mine it, be sure to leave one. We are going to need so much chlorophyte to finish off all the items we can craft.
Ok after some farming I have the full Chlorophyte armor set and Claymore. Really dig it.
http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Chlorophyte_Bar
Up for Plantera at some point. I read that after we pop him, if we don't mirror, but make or way to the surface he is super simple to kill.
So after you get the pygmy staff from Plantera, the Witch Doctor starts selling armor and accessories geared toward a summoner-type player, kinda like the Witch Doctor in Diablo III. The Pygmy Staff summons pygmy minions, like the slime minion but way more effective, and with all the gear from the the Witch Doctor, you can have six minions active at once.
This makes summoner viable. If you're down mining in the hallow or whatever where there are hard enemies around, the pygmy army actually takes care of things for you so you can do what you want.
I took a screenshot as well: http://i.imgur.com/5K4cVMo.jpg?1
So is the only way to get that staff to farm plantera?
Oh and I think my favoriate new "old biome" is the jungle. So many uses now with the hives and Chlorophyte. Great addition. 👍👻
The jungle is my favorite place, period. Seriously, so much going on there now.
So I made my way through the entire jungle temple and disabled all the traps (using wire cutters, I felt very sneaky/thief-ish). I also spawned the golem just to see how the fight went. He was a bit much for me one on one with no buffs and no prepping before the fight, but as a group I really don't think he'll be a problem. Especially if we set up the arena a bit first. Some things I noted on the fight:
-The altar is in a large, mostly square room. Setting up an arena should be easy.
-After I activated the altar enemies in the temple started dropping alter cores. I gathered 3 or 4 just on the walk out of the temple.(I stuck them in the temple safe house chest). Spamming this boss should be easy. :D
-I noticed the following attacks from the Golem: 1) Fireballs that can be blocked by walls. 2) His hands that act like projectiles and can be blocked by walls AND knocked back by weapons. 3) Lasers that pass through walls. He started shooting these after his stage 2 kicked in. The lasers hurt pretty bad but were not too hard to dodge.
-He despawns really easy. This is how the fight actually ended. I retreated around the corner from the altar room just to restore some HP and he despawned.
-I see no reason we can't set up a ton of traps in the altar room and kill the Golem with his own traps. :P
I fought him a few times and with the platform you had up top, I was barely getting hit until the head splits off. With some buffs, the first part will probably not net you any life loss. The second wave when the head separates is a pain but quite doable.
But yeah, I've seen some farms for this guy where it's just spawning him and watching him die due to all the traps. Or making him spawn above you and shooting him from below. There are a lot of possibilities.
With a pickaxe that you get from him, I think you can even move the altar if you're so inclined, so we could make him spawn exactly where we want him.
So I've been dungeon diving for ectoplasm all day, seriously for about 5 hours. I ended up with nowhere near enough to make the Spectre Armor. So insane.
But in the process I noticed that I only lack 4 items to make the Ankh Charm.
http://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/terraria.gamepedia.com/1/1b/Ankh.jpg
This has to be the most complex item in the game, but I still think I'll have it before I have all the ectoplasm I need :)
Yeah, that ankh charm is insane. So far I have the bezoar, the bandage, the tri-fold map, and the armor polish. Still a lot of materials to gather!
Yeah I got two Bezoars a while back, if anyone needs my spare. I also have two extra bandages from my trip to the dungeon today.
I made a Golem "arena" below our hardmode boss arena.
I use "arena" in quotes because it's really just a matter of hitting the timer, activating the altar, and running back and forth when the lasers start firing.
I urge you all to fight this boss legitimately once before you use this, because this method is very cheap, and the boss fight isn't that bad. I made a quicker path to his chamber as well, so you can get to him more easily.
We're wired up now to get to the snow house and the dungeon quickly. There's a teleporter at the east end of town. The first hop is the snow house, the second is to a waypoint (no wire connection can be more than 2000 wires long) and then to the dungeon. I can't think of anything else noteworthy on that end of the map, but I'll wire up one on the west of town going to the jungle, lihzahrd, etc.
Awesome, thanks for this Travis, getting to the Dungeon has been a real pain in the ass so this will really help that out quite a bit!
I considered one to the underworld but we don't really need it much at this point. It kinda sucks that you can't get teleporters til hard mode, because they'd be way more of a help about halfway through pre-hard mode.
Can you cheat it and just bring the supplies over from another game? I agree with you BTW, so if we could do that, I say for the next one, lets :D
Yeah you can do that. Definitely worth considering for sure. It almost eliminates the need for safehouses
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jr7F9l2Ociie2i2232Cj0mgn5-Ly5OSSoR-AmSurUgM/preview?sle=true
"Plantera now enrages when taken out of the Jungle or to the surface"
Damn.
lol, I wonder just what "enrages" means. I feel the need to tempt fate when I get home later tonight.
Ehm, I think I messed something up. I tried one of the teleports and it worked to get me to the ice level and then nothing worked anymore. Plus the pad on the right side of the village is gone, I think I removed it but its not in my inventory.
Sorry.
@WhiteboySlim my guess is Plantera gets some serious buffs so she is MUCH harder to kill on the outside.
I wonder if hell below the jungle counts. I fought her down there the other day and it worked well.
That's odd about the teleporters. I probably won't be on today at all, so if anyone wants to take a crack at it, be my guest!
So we got the new patch today. I've noticed a few things because of it. You don't have to be anywhere near a campfire for its effects. Standing right to the left of Jaelte's house, I still get the effects from my campfire.
Also, apparently placed water candles do increase spawn rate. WBS, standing under your house causes the buff to show up, and your water candles are placed a few floors up.
Jon, as for the teleporter issues, they all work just fine here. Not sure what you were seeing.
Oh snap, yeah. Ok I took out the water candles from my house. They're now safely stored in a chest. I wonder if that's a bug or if the wiki was wrong when it said that laying a candle out does not grant it's effects. It also makes me wonder about the dungeon and all the candles sitting around down there. :\
I did the golem fight legitimately earlier. It was kinda sad. He's actually really easy. I got a nimbus rod the other day and it literally rained destruction on him. Pair that with the golden shower to cut down his defense and it was over pretty quick. Then I tried your golem death trap and I gotta say, that is hilarious to watch. The server did NOT like that though, and it caused a HUGE lag spike what with all those traps around.
Speaking of lag, was that rainbow brick near my house causing anyone else trouble? I'm not sure if it was lagging because of my laptop or because of the server. :\ Either way I would really appreciate having that moved.
Plantera is a jerk, btw. He killed me twice and I never even got him to the surface to see what "enraged" really means. :P I'm going to start setting up a plantera arena down by the jungle temple. I'm not sure how well it'll work out, since we can't plan where the plantera bulb will grow, but I figure it's worth a shot. My plan is to just make a huge square empty space for plenty of room to move around, and then have several long rows of jungle grass in hopes the bulb spawns there. Worse case scenario we end up with a good place to farm life fruit.
I think the Plantera arena is a good idea. So far he is the hardest boss i've fought in the game and now that he is harder on the surface, might make sense to create one for him.
Just saw these comments, I didn't see any lag issues with the rainbow brick. I made a park in that empty, unused space and decided to spruce it up with some rainbow. I'll totally get those out tomorrow.
I'm supercharging the traps to the west of town but I'm not done. Feel free to play with it but be warned, I don't have anything labeled yet and it may be dangerous if you do things out of order.
OK, cleared up the rainbow brick. If you still get lag I'll move the whole thing. Depending on what's taxing your laptop. I doubt the fountains are using effects, most likely just basic animations, but I don't mind prying up the whole thing.
Tried out the tele-porters and they are awesome. Thanks for putting those in, I can go to the dungeon and the jungle so fast.
WBS and I hit up Plantera in the arena he built, makes the fight a snap. We killed the Golem once too, pretty easy fight all told.
So, since we are doing pretty well rocking out the bosses, I went over and farmed ectoplasm for the Pumpkin Moon Medallion and I now have 2. This should be a pretty intense fight we might want to try doing together.
I have some time tonight, say 7p? If you guys are in, let me know.
Having gotten tired of hopping to other worlds to get stuff from the hallow, since ours is so tiny, I made a small patch between the two crimson areas to the east of town. I extended it slightly underground so you can go there for souls of light, etc.
If anyone wants to expand it, all that it will require is making a house over there and putting the Steampunk in it so she sells the hallow solution.
Just be careful with it and keep it somewhere containable.
Thanks for this Travis. Our Hallow got the short end of the stick for sure.
Thanks to your new Hallow area I could hunt some pixies and got my Fast clock. All I'm missing for my Ankh shield is a stupid nazar.
I found a Nazar in the dungeon, I *may* have an extra.
Hey guys, curious what you think about setting an end date for the server? Say... 11/20?
Seems like things are winding down some, but I could be mistaken.
Got my ankh shield! Woot!
And yeah, I think it's winding down a bit. I'd still like to take another swing at that pumpkin moon event with you guys again. Hopefully I won't lag out like mad this time and I can actually do something to help in the fight. :P
How about directly after the Roundtable for that Pumpkin Moon fight?
It depends on what time we wrap it up. I want to be able to spend a little time with the kids before they head off to bed. :D
Ok, lets talk about it afterward then.
Oh and thanks to whomever gave me my pigmy staff. I love it.
Going to read up on how I can get more of those little guys.
Hey all.
Logged in to the server last night because I wanted to try some bullet crafting. Apparently there are two really interesting high level bullets you can craft from musket balls.
Crystal Bullets and Chlorphyte Bullets.
http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Crystal_Bullet
http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Chlorophyte_Bullet
Crystal Bullets seem to be to be the best. Hit for 8 but break into 3 pieces and do sharding damage at 60% the original value. Just to test I hit up our good old friend Plantera and I killed her 2 our of the 3 times I went at her. The bullets really mess her up.
I mined some Chlorophyte and they do 15 damage(wow) and seek enemies on screen. I haven't tried it because they cost Chlorophyte Bars to use(expensive) but I love the idea.
Anyways, the server is gonna shut down in 5 days but maybe we can plan a last hurrah where we take down all the bosses in a row ending with Pumpkin Moon?
I am thinking this Sunday night @ 6PM PST?
That sounds like a blast! I'm game.
Can't wait. Stock up on super neat bullets. Can't imagine what most bosses would do with a quad assault of mega sharks and crystal bullets.
The chlorophyte bullets are a lot of fun, but kinda suck for some bosses. I've messed around with them. Skeletron Prime, for example. You can't really target the head, because it auto-targets the closest enemy, so fights take longer than they should. Crystal bullets are a ton of fun though.
Awesome, thanks for doing that Travis. Basically we owned all the bosses and did well during the Pumpkin Moon. Travis did WAY better, his Spectre Armor strategy made him virtually unstoppable. I think in the end he was running low on mana potions :D
That said, server ends in 3 days on the 20th and I want to thank everyone for doing this. Best server ever.
Like last time i'll make a zip available of the world. When there is the Christmas update(or some neat update sooner) i'll turn on this same server again for a few days.
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Looks like the premiere was moved to tonight, so I may jump the gun a bit. ;-)