Shunned wrote on Apr 6^th, 2021 at 4:33pm:


Yet here is a new item effects for this update:

Spell Turmoil This item pops and buzzes with suppressed energy. When casting any damaging Fire, Cold, Acid, or Electric spells, there is a chance that you will gain a +20 Alchemical bonus to Spell Power to one of those energy types for 30 seconds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoscaling

Are they running on a fixed number of machines?

Past: We are replacing attack speed with doublestrike to reduce lag
Present: We are replacing doublestrike with multi-hit to reduce lag
Future: We are replacing every attack with a single Whose Dad Is Stronger skill check to reduce lag

I think this change will be good for the game because goddamn that lag. But it's still a a very dumb change to have to make.

I'm sure this will reduce some lag sometimes, but there's still a lot of low hanging fruit to be harvested in lag reduction that they'll never bother with.

It's also pretty funny that melee crowd control and other non-damaging procs are now best done with THF.

U50 will bring the "all spells cast only hit once, but for more damage" update...

Dragonborn wrote on Apr 6^th, 2021 at 2:24pm:



I have a friend who is also a system designer and he plays DDO and asked him the same question. Since I'm not in the coding field he simply explained to me this:

When you keep building code on top of another code (even worse if the previous code is made by someone else), on top of another code (and even this was made by someone else) and so on, you increase the entropy of a system. Keep in mind that DDO is a 15 year old game and bam, there goes your performance.

Those were his words (more or less). He still raised some doubts on how some things were handled in DDO and is not a fan of the devs, especially Lynn and Steel since he likes to brwose the mobo for their comments. He's a good guy, don't know why he never made an account here on though (or did he?)

Bigjunk wrote on Apr 7^th, 2021 at 8:40am:


When?

NOTpopejubal wrote on Apr 7^th, 2021 at 8:55am:

TWF is now at 50% offhand dstrike for the most part on most builds. Getting past 100 doublestrike also now has a return of 50% of its value in the form of additional offhand doublestrike.

Most builds were hovering around 20-30 offhand double before this change

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/523402-Changes-Focused-on-Boosting-Gam...

After a deluge of ungrateful posts from players and no sign of Severlin, Coco, Steel, and the ever-sunny Lynn have also retreated from interacting with the masses and SSG has sent in the whipping dog to bear the brunt of the abuse today.

Twould appear there ain't no stopping this train! 

somenewnoob wrote on Apr 7^th, 2021 at 1:13pm:

I didn't think 8086 or 8088 CPUs could multithread!! 

Technomage wrote on Apr 7^th, 2021 at 1:21pm:



I stumbled on YouTube videos building a 6502 powered system to write Hello World from scratch on breadboards.
( up to an including all the externaly circuitry needed like the clock and more... )

Maybe DDO would run better on a 6502...

Phantasie II on the Commodore was the game I credit with getting me into RPG's!

I'm a little surprised they didn't make Manyshot into a damage multiplier too.

Off hand double strike scaling with main hand double strike is not capped at 100.
So if you have 120 doublestrike you still get one "extra hit" but your offhand double strike is up to 60 now, not 50% as some ppl are saying here, the devs confirm this, so for some plp this is actually a buff for offhand attacks.