Synthesis Week 1: What We're Working On

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Redblade wrote:

Don't think I've hated a league as much as this since Warbands and I didn't get a single challenge in that league even. And that's saying something for someone who's done max challenges in all but three leagues.

Having to wait for a streamer to bring out some sort of manual on how to make proper use of the league mechanic is terrible, even worse is the implicit system as it's not intuitive nor is there a manual for how it's supposed to work. Sure some secrets can be fun for the discovery but figuring out how the crafting works 4-8 weeks down the line makes the knowledge irrelevant unless you're crafting for standard.

And to rub some salt in the wounds there's no clear indication on how the looting is supposed to work. Doing a 5+ long memory chain ending in a boss encounter means you're leaving several inventories of fractured items on the ground as portal out isn't an option. Learned that the hard way trying to port out after killing boss to drop off items.

So what use it the long memory chains if you can't loot them anyway?

Unless something changes drastically this will pretty much be a dead league to me before the first week is over. Only positive atm is that it's optional at least.

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"We plan to add the ability to delete Memories from your inventory list directly."

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"There will be a larger radius of no monsters around the start of each Memory."

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"There needs to be more of a delay before the decay starts moving at the beginning of a decaying Memory."

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"Players are sometimes unable to return to Distant Memories from the Memory Nexus."

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"Betrayal Intervention encounters causing lag and client freezes for some players (especially those with non-solid-state drives)."

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"You need to be able to easily toggle map modifiers on to read them when you want to, but to be able to have them off in busy areas so they don't cover a lot of the screen."

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daegda wrote:

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"We plan to add the ability to delete Memories from your inventory list directly."

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"There will be a larger radius of no monsters around the start of each Memory."

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"There needs to be more of a delay before the decay starts moving at the beginning of a decaying Memory."

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"Players are sometimes unable to return to Distant Memories from the Memory Nexus."

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"Betrayal Intervention encounters causing lag and client freezes for some players (especially those with non-solid-state drives)."

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"You need to be able to easily toggle map modifiers on to read them when you want to, but to be able to have them off in busy areas so they don't cover a lot of the screen."

These points are essential and in my opinion should be top priority.

All these issues reduces the ability to comfortably play the league and (as someone who does not have a fancy pants SSD) the league feels almost unplayable. For the time being at least, if you don't have an SSD you literally cannot play Hardcore this league. Which seems like a huge design flaw and, poorly thought out in terms of implementation. Which you guys are notoriously bad at. One last point, I understand the decision to switch to dx11 only but, there needs to be some quality options to make it easier for those of us without an SSD. The load times are severely dismal.

However, credit where credit is due. This league mechanic (in my opinion) is far superior to Betrayal league. It's very in depth and rewarding as well as unique in design. So well done in terms on conceptual design.