Kyksie

This is true: Valiance began life as a generic fantasy MMO, then around 2015 or so pivoted to a superhero MMO and erased their previous identity. It's been a shitshow since day one. They had their first public alpha in 2020, during which I heard multiple reports of the installer failing completely. (does anyone remember the days when 'alpha' meant internal and 'beta' was public testing? Pepperidge Farm remembers.) Following that they closed up and went into "make a donation to play the alpha" mode, which is where they've been for five years. Nowadays, the website is mummified and the forum has half a dozen posts from this year.

The game is being torn apart on Steam and Reddit, I have only this to add: ....yeah. The tanker taunt aura is named "Chew Toy" and the description is "You are a chew toy for your enemies". This is clearly a placeholder that got left in, So in addition to the bugs and balance issues there were no polishing passes either. This is insane.

According to steamdb, there are 25 players now with a max of 100 yesterday. Reviews are terrible, price structure is insane, devs are allegedly banning all naysayers from the forum. In other words, the upcoming drama bomb will be the most entertainment this game has to offer.

I'd say it's a CYA in case of shitty performance.

I just noticed that the recommended system specs include 32GB RAM. Even the upcoming Battlefield 6 only recommends 16. Slideshow framerates and microstuttering ahoy.

...and just like that, ten years work down the drain.

You can still play these, at least the main game. The online part is gone now that they shut down the servers, but it was never good.

When Ship of Heroes first appeared I thought for sure it was a take-the-money-and-run Kickstarter scam, and when said Kickstarter raised roughly $37 I thought they would vanish.

You go into a cave and defeat the 'Guardian', then Wade. (whose name is spelled 'Darrin'). One mission, very barebones but no errors.

This is pretty good. The player is transported back in time to pre-colonial America, where one Abigail McCollum asks the player to find her nephew Francis, who has been kidnapped by witches. The player is joined by a friendly witch and a warrior of the Narragansett tribe; there's quite a bit of historical detail, all accurate. After being rescued, Francis is now Fran, and Fran has a plan, which involves a Viking runestone. However, Fran's plan came to a halt when they sank up to their knees in a hill. After quitting and reloading, Fran's plan came together, and the Red Caps were driven away.

Last week I decided to get the Force of Nature badge for Purple Lovin'. I went Rogue and picked up the Peregrine Island mayhem mission from Lord Schweinzer, set to my usual challenge level of 0x8. The bank hero was Holo Man, but the mission didn't end after he was defeated. I know that sometimes the holograms he summons can count toward the required defeats, so I just logged off after a minute. On my next attempt, the hero was Manticore: again, the mission didn't end after he was defeated, even though I went back through the bank in search of stragglers. Then I ran the mission again: the hero was Holo Man again, and again the mission didn't end. To try to reproduce the bug, I switched to 0x1 and ran it again. The hero was Cacophony, and the mission ended properly after she was defeated. I went back to 0x8 and tried again... and it didn't end. Since then, I've run it about a dozen times, with several different characters. Without fail, the mission would complete after the hero defeat if set to 0x1, but not end if set to 0x8. https://imgur.com/a/AELBcFv

Missions are saved locally as a text file. Just open Notepad and copy/paste.

25 years ago there was a short-lived MMO called Neocron, where every player was a member of a faction. You could buy stock in your faction (and others), and do missions for your faction to increase it's stock value. Neocron was kind of a shambles but that part was pretty cool.

On the final mission of the Penelope Yin TF, the nav text says "4 computers to activate at the same time", when in fact they do not need to be activated at the same time.

Going forward, allow me to resurrect the suggestion that we convert all typed defense to positional, and all resists to typed.

As an alternative, you can use the Police Station map. There's a weird bug with that map which causes the mission to not complete until the player has taken the elevator to the jail section.

Victory is possible.

Yet another example of the horrible spaghetti code this game is built on.

You know what my personal pet peeve timesink is? The fact that we can't click on a monorail when the doors are open. You have to wait for them to close. This might seem trivial, since it takes three, four, maybe five seconds at most. But if you add up the thousands and thousands of monorail trips over the past twenty years, I could have written the Great American Novel in the time I spent waiting. Or used the AE to write Mynx's Furry Adventure.

Given that there are 834 players present at a typical Adamastor summoning, most likely the system couldn't find an empty spot nearby on the X or Y axis, so it tried the Z azis instead.

Do you happen to know exactly what iteration of Chatgpt you're using?

Would it be possible for the event queue display to show the names of the people who haven't joined?