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nokowi wrote on Apr 25^th, 2018 at 4:48pm:


They are talking about un-doing the tremor sense that reapers have.  Currently, that makes stealth useless anytime a reaper is present.

nokowi wrote on Apr 25^th, 2018 at 4:48pm:

they should always alert the group they spawned with. stop being stupid, stupid.

nokowi wrote on Apr 25^th, 2018 at 8:20pm:

my bad.

Asheras wrote on Apr 25^th, 2018 at 10:07pm:


The context is they are brainstorming "solutions" to reapers when most of the solutions come from fixing stuff outside of reaper.

You can read about unnecessary design and how assassins don't even want to be to do the things sev suggests - namely assassinate a reaper - on the main forums

You missed the context of what I said earlier, and devs are missing how to approach solutions effectively.  They are absolutely ONLY looking at reaper from their comments so far, which means it is likely they will apply a bandaid instead of coming up with functional fixes.

They might move on to other stuff later, but their approach for reaper won't be well thought out unless they consider the other issues that appear both in and outside of reaper.

Dev attention and design window is VERY small. If they are getting it wrong (they are so far form their comments), they often continue with that track anyway.

Put another way, they have a history of not understanding stealth issues. They won't come up with good solutions until they do.

Letting assassins assassinate a reaper is a "fix" that makes reapers meaningless, even in solo play. If that is their suggestion, you can't possibly think they are doing anything more than removing the challenge of reapers. Their goal should be to make reapers a functional challenge  - I outlined one method that does this.

Asheras wrote on Apr 26^th, 2018 at 8:17am:


I put a question mark by assassinate because his context was not clear.  How exactly is an assassin (and not any other rogue) "taking out" a reaper by just getting one sneak attack?  Someone that plays an assassin would use a better description of what they meant. You will find others that inferred this meant assassinate on the main forums, I just posted that it was unclear. Feel free to ask what I meant by the question mark, instead of yet again making false statements (do you see a trend here?)

I already presented a clear solution of the type that is interactive and keeps the challenge of reapers:

1. Reapers have extended (longer range) detection capabilities (opposed detection or autospot while in stealth)
2. A reaper quickly tries to attack/approach the stealthy character, removing them from stealth when they are successfully attacked or when the rogue attacks or takes other actions that remove them from stealth
3. The mobs without sufficient spot/listen scores do not know the sneaking characters location until the player character is removed from stealth. The remaining (non-reaper) mobs could be at an "activated --> searching" or increased detection state (+listen/spot) once the reaper detects the player character.

These are logical statements based on goals of interactions and challenge.

You keep throwing out emotional states, but that is a reflection of your own inability to ask questions or listen to the other person. You likely think i am upset about being banned from the main forums, but I made my decisions based on logic and I am satisfied with the consequences. It happened months ago and I am no worse off --> my first thread was initially just a "hello" to those that may be in similar circumstances.

I doubt I'll be banned for posting one possible fix for stealth and reapers, or responding to your personal statements about me. The fix is as easy as you engaging in conversation instead of spending your time misrepresenting me. You could start by asking for clarification of my position --> the type of thing that happens in a conversation.  You will find my responses to be pleasant and on topic when you are not misrepresenting me or my opinions.

Rubbinns wrote on Apr 26^th, 2018 at 1:00pm:


Pleasant for Nokowi