ScarySai

Largely irrelevant due to geas + aforementioned gaussian stacking.

1: First of all, no. Changeling isn't better than an optimized scrapper. Ratch and I have had faster pylons by a decent margin. You need to keep in mind that it's damage capped changeling vs a scrapper in this context. Min/maxed Scrapper at dam cap is going to blow a changeling out of the water. 2: Changeling is a temporary bandaid until khelds get some proper buffs. It's removal before said buffs would be a bit catastrophic, so I would encourage using your flawed data responsibly. 3: The power is largely in the procs. Turns out procs, stacking gaussians and anim skipping is a potent combo. Most of the actual power data here is completely irrelevant.

I think we already did, multiple times.

Guy's doubling down on a horrible idea despite everyone universally saying its stupid. Should consider applying to be a powers dev.

Respectfully, this is a skill issue.

inhale I approve.

I don't know how you can hope to have accurate datasets without four signature pets and a volley of warburg nukes before every attempt.

A fix for this behavior would be nice.

That implies I ever did. I respond purely to educate people who might read their falsehoods and think they have a leg to stand on. Every time there's a kheld thread. I swear, I have no idea why someone with essentially zero credentials thinks they can gatekeep something based off lore they either haven't read, or don't understand. Nothing in the lore contradicts a kheldian flying around and blasting or punching people, it's actually quite supported, so the only real argument to be had would be a gameplay mechanic thing, and it's very difficult to argue against a cosmetic choice like this in that area. The only thing of merit would be if somehow it would be difficult to do the conversion, which with how garbage this engine is, is plausible. But unless I see a dev around to confirm that, I will assume otherwise.

Lore arguments without citations, and paraphrased in a way that does not contradict anything being argued against should simply be dismissed. Honestly, just stop replying to these people, report them if they keep trolling and move on, they aren't worth the attention they seek.

You have to actually know the lore to be a lore purist,

Kheldians are balls of pure energy, this passage is not referring to shapeshifting, FYI.

I believe it was commented at some point that the jojo stand approach to kheld forms is feasible, which would inherently imply that minfx forms by themselves are very much in the realm of possibility.

I'm guessing, to be fair, because I don't believe it's documented anywhere who wrote the kheld stuff specifically, besides the early draft of the lore doc that isn't canon to what we ended up getting. But if someone can't cite a source and continues being an annoyance over a simple qol change, just disregard them as a troll and move on. I'm tired of this childish shit, frankly. Most people would like the change, it's a good change, it's optional and it doesn't conflict with lore. That's an easy win.

Michael Lewis, who is not a developer. I'm curious if you conflate lore with game design for every gameplay change, or if this is just a kheldian thing. Alright, I'm done, you've had enough and I said I'd stop.

No, you don't get to misuse terms when you're backed into a corner. You are now arguing the design of the game, and not the written lore for kheldians. Additionally, your assumptions of developer intent are not an argument.

Forms don't have downsides, so that was a very puzzling thing to say to me. It's a purely cosmetic change that does not infringe on the lore whatsoever. If you can cite the lore that does so, please do. Otherwise, stop lying to people. You wanna insist on that, feel free to PM me, otherwise we're gonna hard derail, and I'm stopping that now.

Let people minfx using the same powers, "problem solved." If you actually played Kheld, you wouldn't have said this to me. Anyway, as the suggestion currently stands: You would still be shapeshifting from a game mechanic standpoint, so this is false. The difference would potentially be purely cosmetic, though I imagine there would be other changes happening at the same time as this being worked on, so the mechanics themselves might change for QoL purposes, depending on what they do. It is, but that very same lore also justifies minfx forms, so it's a moot point. Like, come on guys, we do this every time someone asks for this, and your objections have zero weight, can you just not?

The lore isn't compromised by this solution, the game even supports this solution due to the fact that every single form power has a human variant. It's intellectually dishonest to keep insisting there's a lore conflict when there clearly isn't.

You're still shapeshifting, at the very least people would stop kneecapping their builds to see their own costume. If this is a lore concern, it's an invalid one. The shapeshifting ball of light that takes forms based on prior hosts taking the form of it's current host when shooting light or punching people really isn't infringing on the kheldian identity. I would prefer we take the jojo stand approach if we go down this path, as I love that kinda cool thing, but minfx is -fine- for the people who want it, I'm more offended by the fact human only builds are terrible than anything related to not turning yourself into a squid. Though, honestly, it is a very annoying trend that whenever khelds have any form of change suggested for them, someone who isn't a noteworthy kheld player takes it upon themselves to slap it down and derail the whole thing based off of nothing.

Veracor's reasoning for quitting is pretty valid, though the reason he's quitting isn't here yet, and pretty unrelated to OP.

Did nobody post a bane time? I ended up taking a break.

I highly doubt the gpu is the issue at all. You'll be fine.

Fwiw, I do with a 4090. No such issue on my end. Any performance issues I have are usually single thread limited sorts of deals that are short lived, like when a browser loads a video or something. Or cranking the settings past the point of optimization that the single thread really just can't handle. Check to make sure nothing outside the game is eating resources. Other than that, not sure what your problem could be just yet.

Today's (undocumented) changes to brine hurt the set a lot, and the proc changes don't help. The buffs to the maxhp debuff don't make up for the -res decaying. The maxhp debuff is still a complete joke.