Delirium Statistics

league full of lags and bugs.
Kosis is insanly OP with bad mechanic.
You have reduced the size of cities in simulacrum, many builds suffer from this.

plz show builds and skills statisticks.

I’ve got a bunch of defense and life, but I still get one shots. It depresses and discourages the desire to play. Even HC players do not understand what kills them. It makes no sense to play. Of course, you can take the Maxblock 30k Armour Eva Cycloner or assemble a build for a couple of Mirror, but this is all extreme sides of the point.

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crunkatog wrote:

"Virtue is its own reward," said Wilson, halving the drop chances for delirium orb sustain yet again as part of a measure to prevent herald guardians from printing money. "No true warrior plays for the prize money. It's all about the street cred and sense of personal accomplishment."

"The game economy needs to come first. We simply can't have the poors getting orbs through normal mapping and engaging meaningfully with the league content," agreed Bob from Accounting.

"The delirium orb...is ideally a high-context tool for exclusive use by the high-acuity carry service," commented Frustus Pinch, analytics expert. "Our high-revenue streamers and RMTers need orbs; you people don't. You will thank us later, for keeping full exposure to the league mechanic out of your reach."

When asked if it was possible to maybe let the 99% get orb drops once in a while, Pinch had no comment.

However, a former associate spoke with us more openly, on condition of anonymity. "Orbs only drop from heavily delirious maps, and this is by design. We wanted to make it look like you were just having bad luck, but ensure the orb supply would remain under tight control so that the poors in HC couldn't just rip them over to Standard and start propagating large windfalls of additional orbs. We want [people] to stream lucratively for us before letting them have the biscuit. And by lucratively, I mean, git gud so people will bother subscribing."

So if you need delirium to get delirium, where does it start? "Yeah, the first couple days of the league, some people got orbs who shouldn't have, but we fixed that," said Honeydew Bollocks, trade API specialist. "But we've price-fixed adjusted the balance of delirium orbs in the trade listings so they are going to the appropriate buyers."

Are simulacrum splinters also seeing this degree of 'socio-economic stratification'? We tried to reach the ExCo but none of our calls or e-mails have been answered at the time of publication.

Don't forget the quote about making performance so terrible, the colour scheme depressing, and visual clarity the worst in years, because people should be forced to suffer to play the game, and only those who can withstand the worst FPS, crashes and lags should be able to say they can play the game....

But otherwise the best laugh I've had all league and about right for this league.

Yep the delirium wings are rather ugly, cape sticks out too much. Horns are whatever. The Metamorph challenge rewards were on another level entirely. Also delirium isn't fun to play so that may explain why players aren't touching the challenges.

Edit: forgot to mention that 3.10 broke multithreading/asset loading, and many people are unable to play (freezes and stutters), so that's also a factor to consider in those statistics.

I think completion statistics are lower because the actual league mechanic is far more rewarding and players are mostly focused on the Delirium itself instead of challenges at the moment.

I know i certainly am. A quick look at my challenges shows i've got 10-15 challenges 90% done and could push over 10 of them in a matter of 30 minutes if i choose.

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We're interested in hearing your thoughts about this!

Ask and ye shall receive.

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Do you find Delirium's set of challenges more difficult than Metamorph's?

Not significantly, at least so far. One exception, though: the "Defeat Map Bosses while under Delirium" is significantly more of a pain in the ass than the old "Defeat Map Bosses" challenge because a lot of my slower builds can't make progress on it through normal mapping.

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Are you less interested in these rewards?

Somewhat. I'm a sucker for green and black science shit, so Metamorph's rewards were right up my alley. Delirium's rewards are... less so, especially since 2 of them can't be used together since they go in the same slot.

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If so, is it affecting your motivation to complete challenges?

Not really. If I'm going for challenges, it's usually because it's an engaging goal to hit - it's about putting together a journey, not necessarily about the destination at the end.

The bigger thing affecting my motivation is how rough the league mechanic is, both for my playstyle and in general. I like to pick up loot and play somewhat slower, niche characters, and it feels like this league punishes both of those really hard. If I stop to pick up some stuff in a Delirium, it feels like I'm wasting precious seconds that I could be using to advance deeper in the fog, but if I don't then it feels like I'm either wasting time backtracking for it after Delirium is over, or wasting the loot that dropped in the first place.

And that's assuming I can even pick up loot without dying in the first place, since the number of delayed effects that only hit you if you stop moving (to pick up loot) is through the roof in Delirium - it's been said that that's to try to target players who clear quickly, but that doesn't make sense to me, since those players aren't the types to ever stop to be hit by these effects in the first place.

And that's assuming I don't just die outright because activating Delirium will occasionally tank my framerate for some reason. Turning off the audio in the config helped some, but the performance is still just really rough. I've thought about maybe upgrading my old potato of a computer, but from the sound of things, there are players with much beefier, modern systems having the exact same problems, and there's a bit of a pandemic out, so maybe I'll shelve that thought for now.

I loved metamorph challenges because they felt actually achievable because there was waayyy less RNG involved. It's quite easy to have a bad streak of RNG and it just ends up feeling really really bad. Especially things like Vaaling for which some of them take quite a lot of grinding and usually fail. Some RNG isn't bad, but having, for example, both the chance orb and vaal orb challenges in the same league is a bit much

I think for me the rewards for the challenges are not IMO worth grinding for.

Yeah, I usually only complete challenges up the portal rewards and don't bother doing more.

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Do you find Delirium's set of challenges more difficult than Metamorph's? Are you less interested in these rewards? If so, is it affecting your motivation to complete challenges?

Maybe?, yes & yes.

Metamorph emphasised bs one shots, but the fights were interesting.

This league feels like it's just "more mobs, run faster" (i.e. boring) but still has additional sources of bs one shots.

I liked blight, I liked (after-one-month-of-fixing) synthesis... I think lately I just prefer the full new gameplay mechanic leagues.

Side note - I was never enthusiastic for this league... "so there's a fog, and it's got more mobs in it, and that's it?" and that's how it's played out for me, but with yet more (poorly telegraphed/explained) one shots.

I've also struggled to find a build that I enjoy which feels both strong & attainable/affordable. I'm not really a fan of unique-required builds & there seems to be an emphasis on them for the last couple of leagues. Bleed glad was good, but then you nerfed the crap out of its attainability & I was already a bit iffy on playing the same build twice.

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it's important to note that being unable to complete wave 20 just means that you miss out on rewards from that wave, rather than the entire area.

ALSO MEAN I CANT GET MY FUCKING CHALLENGE FOR COMPLETING SIMULACRUM!!!