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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    The thing Lanz mentioned about using thin cloth or paper over the lamps to diffuse the lamp light might be a nice idea to try

    Also I'd probably move the front lights in or the back light back since the back light is much stronger and casting a shadow on the front of the piece

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  • minor incidentminor incident publicly subsidized! privately profitable!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited April 16
    Also, in general, keep the model relatively far away from the background, and get the light as bright as possible on the model itself, with little or none of the light spilling over to the background.

    You should be able to adjust the exposure so the model is nicely lit, which will keep your background extremely black.

    Right now it looks like you have that one clip lamp splashing a lot of light onto the background, which is keeping everything looks more flatly exposed (because there's roughly equal lighting on both the backdrop and the model.

    Turn off any main/overhead lights in the room, too, for an even more dramatic effect so you can control the light and keep all your light sources only pointed at the model.

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  • minor incidentminor incident publicly subsidized! privately profitable!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited April 16
    That's specifically for bold, black background photos, though.

    If you swapped this our for a white fabric or paper backdrop, you'd want more light directly on the backdrop to keep it overexposed.

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  • IanatorIanator A predator cannot differentiate between prey and accompliceRegistered User regular
    edited April 16
    Yeah, already mentioned the light diffuser with printer paper. Looks like I want to swap the back and main lights re: which one's on a side tray and which one's on the main.

    Oh, forgot to mention, everything but the tray tables breaks down and fits into a one-foot fabric cube drawer. You can see the shelf I keep it on waaay in the back corner there!

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  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    As far as I can tell, the way the ranks are structured is that in the base game you start in low rank, then halfway through the game you get access to high rank. High rank hunts has all the low rank monsters as well as some new ones, but relative to low rank they all have bigger numbers and fight more aggressively. They also drop a new, higher tier of mats that you use to make a new, higher tier of gear. And then the DLCs add master rank which is as to high rank as high rank is to low rank.

    Getting into high rank might be what they meant by the game opening up. There's still gear progression as you work your way through high rank, but as you get up there you do start to get more choice in terms of what sets are actually good rather than just "newest one is probably the best."

    Or maybe they were talking about the actual endgame. Monster Hunter is sort of a loot game, so after you roll credits you're meant to be able to keep grinding fights to get all the gear you want or try to kill monsters as fast as you can or face the optional superboss fights or what have you. And as it tends to go with these sorts of games, while you're making your way through the story your gear tends to be more limited unless you're grinding; just using whatever the last upgrades you made were. But once you're past the credits and now at or around the power cap, basically all the gear is sidegrades relative to where you're at and you'll just naturally amass a broad stable of gear that's easier to mess around an experiment with.

    Though, Monster Hunter seems designed such that while treating it as an unending loot game/gaas thing is an option for you, if you just want to treat it as an action RPG and play to credits and then stop, that's still a satisfying game, so the above might not be relevant to you.

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  • jothkijothki Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Well, I hit True Master, with more ranks ready to go.

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Steel path circuit failure due to failing survival mission

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  • ouzaruouzaru RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Happy birthday, internet kindred.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    also within a generation the rythm is Mainline -> Exapnsion -> Expertimental -> Experimental Expansion.

    Mainline games introduce the generation, it's big monsters, new weapons, and tend to refine a lot of the best bits from the previous generation's experimental games. The exapnsion builds on that.

    Then later after the main game and it's expansion have had their time in the sun, you get the experimental game - this is when they tend to cut loose a lot more. Generations/GU, and Rise/Sunbreak are experimental games in their generation. They both get Pretty Crazy. The expansions are also very much in the vein of old school video game expansions - The Frozen Throne to the main game's Warcraft 3, so to speak.

    And in World you can actually see a bunch of the tech and ideas from Monster hunter Gen/Gen U intergrated into the base game - New moves added to weapons, new approaches like giving greatsword a very simple counter that dramatically opened up it's playstyle.

    Experimental games also tend to be a lot faster paced and zanier in the gameplay - sometimes to it's detriment. mainline games tend to be slower, more serious.

    To put it back to the soulslike stuff - Experimental games are closerr to being like Scholar of the First sin - a remix, almost, than they are OG Dark Souls 2 with no DLC.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    when you have the budget for it, I can also highly recommend some ulanzi VL49 LED lights; cheap as hell (typically around $30 a light, but you can find them discounted sometimes), shockingly bright for their size (one alone can light up a room), and you can set the intensity of the light level; you can change both the color temperature of the white light and straight up cycle through a rainbow of colors if you want colored light:

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    There's a pretty dramatic difference between anything pre World and world onwards in monhun, yeah

    Not accidentally, this is when the series blew the hell up in a staggering way, as they cleaned up a lot of the cruft and really tightened the series up .

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    edited April 18
    Junior Year has been tremendous so far. The Salsa Jump nearly killed me.

    Also the absolute ice cold chat with doggycollar littlegirl, incredible.

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  • DacDac Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Steel path circuit failure due to failing survival mission

    Survival is like the only stage where you have an actual threat of failing these days. It can be pretty rough.

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  • SwainwalkerSwainwalker Registered User regular
    edited April 14
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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 17
    Finally got this amazing Jessica Jones variant in the shop.

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    Frustrating having amazing variants on cards that are power crept though. :(

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  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited April 17
    For real, I miss my hawk deck that was just kind of a cheap power list with Jessica and crossbones

    Obviously wasn’t secretly top tier or anything, but it got wins. Now both those cards are just dead, zero reason to try and pick them up even for funsies

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  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    No? Monster hunter was a huge series already before world
    They tried changing things up more in world but it wasn't the point the series suddenly went mainstream

    Ehh. Monster Hunter World sold 22m copies, no previous single entry sold broke 5m.

    They sold 32m copies between World and Iceborne, Tri with 9.4m across all its versions and games is the second highest by that metric.

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  • jothkijothki Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Are the rotation A rewards on Circulus a good way to farm somatic fibers, or are people just dumbasses? I'm willing to leave room open for the former until I learn more.

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  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Dac wrote: »
    Steel path circuit failure due to failing survival mission

    Survival is like the only stage where you have an actual threat of failing these days. It can be pretty rough.

    When me and a friend were dipping our toes in, it felt like Defense was the only mission we could possibly fail. Like it completely unmatched in difficulty compared to anything else it might throw at us.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    jothki wrote: »
    Are the rotation A rewards on Circulus a good way to farm somatic fibers, or are people just dumbasses? I'm willing to leave room open for the former until I learn more.

    yes, that's probably the fastest way to farm somatic fibers

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  • jothkijothki Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    jothki wrote: »
    Are the rotation A rewards on Circulus a good way to farm somatic fibers, or are people just dumbasses? I'm willing to leave room open for the former until I learn more.

    yes, that's probably the fastest way to farm somatic fibers

    Okay, good, faith in humanity slightly restored. Still a pain when people sabotage my Voruna runs, though.

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    edited April 19
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  • kralizecckralizecc Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Warframe is such a seemingly random mix of detailed, and completely disconnected lore. I love feeling lost in a world that, if I squint, seems so vast and detailed down to the smallest quanta, over thousands of years. I know it's mostly a pastiche of random developer thoughts and ideas with little in the way of an overarching, solid theme. It's still cool to find blurbs like somatic fibers being an attempt to umbra other warframes.

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Warframe makes me happy to explore their world even though gameplay has become filling up meters.

    Duvarii is now, in my mind, time warp to the fallen kingdom and sidequest it up.

    My only complaint is that they do not have more kinds of sidequests.

    The owl giving me the AC gunship gameplay of call of duty without killing anyone or anything is a delight.

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  • IanatorIanator A predator cannot differentiate between prey and accompliceRegistered User regular
    edited April 16
    Anyways, now that my Huckebein Mk3 has arrived it's getting about that time for another of Bandai's big announcement expos. What's on you guyses' SRW shortlist? I'm expecting one of...

    * Granzon
    * Weissritter
    * Grungust (long shot: OG Getter-tier variable geometry transformations)
    * Huckebein Classic (long shot: too many Huckies in too short a time)
    * Aussenseiter
    * Angelg
    * Soulgain

    My safe bet would be the SRWA originals (Angelg, Soulgain).

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    Best guess: Weissritter

    Cursed guess: P-Bandai Alt Eisen Riese

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 16
    gimme

    dat

    horse

    the other longshots i want are the werkbau/dis astranagant

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  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited April 18
    Good lord, the latest episode of Very Important People with Zac Oyama as the guest.
    Vic and Zac both broke multiple times during the interview. It's WAY too funny. "What's your dream job, if money wasn't an issue?" Without missing a beat "the military".

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    it was pretty big outside japan! several million copies is a pretty big series

    It had a solid fanbase who were very dedicated, but the difference is night and day, seriously. It's basically impossible to overstate how big it blew up - going from 9.4m to 32m is *insane*

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 16
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    At the risk of derailing this Monster Hunter thread...

    Loaded up Elden Ring for the first time in a year on PC, only to find the performance has gotten substantially worse compared to when I last played, with microstutters and 12-15 FPS drops abound. Literally the only DX12 game I own with these performance issues.

    So loaded it back up on PS5 instead, where I will likely play from now on. Started a STR/ARC build with enough FTH for all the dragon incantations as well as the Roar and Axe talismans and will likely use that for the DLC.

    You check to see if they turned on the raytracing? I think that ended up being on by default after the patch.

    I've gone through all the troubleshooting already, and ensured ray tracing was off.

    The only thing I haven't tried was reinstalling it on an SSD instead of my m.2 drive.

    I suspect a SSD drive would do it a ton of favors, honestly. I swear i remeber it had issues with streaming content in when it launched

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  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    edited April 18
    I finally subbed to Dropout and immediately binged Magic and Misfits and A Crown of Candy.
    Shows are good folks!

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    An m.2 drive is an even faster ssd

    Oh, well that's me told then! You learn something new everyday.

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  • Dark_SideDark_Side Registered User regular
    edited April 18
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    Good lord, the latest episode of Very Important People with Zac Oyama as the guest.
    Vic and Zac both broke multiple times during the interview. It's WAY too funny. "What's your dream job, if money wasn't an issue?" Without missing a beat "the military".

    It's interesting watching them all start trying to find their groove with the character and then hitting it. Zac took a little bit but ended super strong. I still think Ify has been the best so far.

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  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    You can get M.2 slot SSDs that are SATA SSDs, too, and won't be blazing fast like a NVMe SSD. Though I think they're fading out fast?

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  • IceBurnerIceBurner It's cold and there are penguins.Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    GnomeTank wrote: »
    I don't care what they call it but full-price expansions gotta have the meat to make them feel worth that price, fromsoft DLC has never done that before so I am very interested to see if the $40 reflects the amount of content compared to the $60 massively stuffed original game or not.
    I'm definitely gonna be trying it to find out though.

    Not sure what you're saying here. That FromSoft has never offered a chunky expansion-esque DLC (Old Hunters has entered the chat)? Or that their DLC is never worth the price point regardless of size / price (all of DaS2's DLC and Ringed City would like a word)?

    They actually have a pretty good DLC track record. Even Ashes of Ariendel and Artorias of the Abyss are not terrible, even if they are weaker than some others.
    Armored Core would like to say hi. Past the AC1 era, each expansion game has been big enough to stand alone. Which they literally did; sold separately, built on the same engine and base content, but with new stuff and a complete story experience of their own, just not the original game's campaign.

    It really seems like they've worked up something of similar or even more grand scope here, but are selling it in a more modern way.

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  • IceBurnerIceBurner It's cold and there are penguins.Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    The AC expansions had:
    - New stages
    - New missions/story content
    - New arenas
    - New equipment with some new capabilities
    - All existing equipment and capabilities

    All of which is also expected in Shadow of the Erdtree.

    Yes AC expansions are not literal add-ons, but it shouldn't matter; that was intentional due to the limitations of the physical-only console game era. My point is that they they still took an existing base and added more, enough to be worthwhile as a separate game. I feel the repeated execution of such releases is pretty relevant to concerns over DLC scope and From's release history.

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I discovered the supposed kit of fried rice i bought at costco last year was actually 6 bags of cooked and frozen fried rice.

    Thank you past Royce

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  • jothkijothki Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    jothki wrote: »
    Are the rotation A rewards on Circulus a good way to farm somatic fibers, or are people just dumbasses? I'm willing to leave room open for the former until I learn more.

    yes, that's probably the fastest way to farm somatic fibers

    Okay, good, faith in humanity slightly restored. Still a pain when people sabotage my Voruna runs, though.
    jothki wrote: »
    jothki wrote: »
    Are the rotation A rewards on Circulus a good way to farm somatic fibers, or are people just dumbasses? I'm willing to leave room open for the former until I learn more.

    yes, that's probably the fastest way to farm somatic fibers

    Okay, good, faith in humanity slightly restored. Still a pain when people sabotage my Voruna runs, though.

    actually I still need Vourna if you want a buddy.

    Thanks, but I finally managed to grind out enough stuff to buy the parts I'm missing and craft all of them. Unless I decide that I really want a maxed Arcane Blessing for some reason, I probably won't be back there any time soon.

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  • IceBurnerIceBurner It's cold and there are penguins.Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    I have no real expectations, as I still haven't played Elden Ring and have no plans for it (I did watch a large amount of it). I just wanted to point out From Software has plenty of experience making big expansions, for those only familiar with recent, smaller work, and concerns due to that.

    If you're asking me to make some deductions, sure I'll hazard a guess. Based on all I know about this and From Software, I'd suspect Shadow of the Erdtree may end up larger than its file size suggests, but not as large as the base game over again. Consider that unlike Souls, not all new content must involve new areas. Due the more open nature of the game world, it's possible to integrate new content using existing spaces, something not as easy to do well before due to the structure of its predecessors. Their time is almost assuredly less occupied with engine-related development than the initial game, so that's more time for pure content and testing.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    voruna's lucky her maps are pretty fun to grind, I am still far from finishing citrine and her weapons because I don't find defense nearly as stimulating.

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