Latest / For Azeroth!: A World of Warcraft Podcast / #334 - For Azeroth!: "Power-cycling the DISC Belt"
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- 0:00It's actually pronounced Gemescalm.
- 0:04Forsaken. For Lauderon.
- 0:07For the Kirintor. For Pandaria.
- 0:13For. Calendar to the burning region
- 0:17for Gilnaeus, but has not died for the Lich King for the
- 0:24Sindora. For the alliance.
- 0:27For the horn for Azeroth. Hello and welcome to another
- 0:34episode of For Azeroth. I am one of your hosts Manny AKA
- 0:38the true villain Manny and I am joined my my other two Co hosts.
- 0:43First introducing the lovely Lex rants.
- 0:47Hello Lex, how are you doing? Hello Manny, I'm doing great.
- 0:51I am bopping right along in the World of Warcraft.
- 0:54You didn't ask me how the World of Warcraft was treating me, but
- 0:56I'm answering anyway. Bopping right along.
- 0:59I'm actually low key having fun with this cute little Delve
- 1:02belt. I'm doing them all at once
- 1:04because I am at the point of the season where I don't want to do
- 1:07work. I want to just go in and like
- 1:08face roll things for 30 minutes and then log off, which is
- 1:12great. I'm having a great time.
- 1:13I'm face rolling things so hard. Y'all, This is so fun.
- 1:17Yeah, so my belt is updated. I got my cute little CDs to put
- 1:20in. We're having a good time
- 1:22listening to our little music. OK.
- 1:25All right, all right. And then on the other side,
- 1:29coming all the way from I think his second or maybe primary
- 1:35residence, Sean. Hello, Sean.
- 1:38How are you doing and how's the World of Warcraft treating you?
- 1:41Hey Manny, we're in the main studio today.
- 1:42So we're the, we're we're on the on the on the the, the primary
- 1:46property. World of Warcraft has been
- 1:49treating me good. I too am wearing my Fanny pack
- 1:52stuff for the Sony Discman like Lex is and it's up to date.
- 1:57My borrowed power is all caught up and I'm just getting ready
- 2:01for raid testing. I've been on to the Ptra little
- 2:03bit, played through the campaign, played the new
- 2:05dungeon, and yeah, I'm mostly maintenance mode.
- 2:10It does look like I know, like I like.
- 2:14I update this every week and say the same thing, but it looks
- 2:17like I'll be playing Paladin next year.
- 2:21Our Death Knight, although maybe not with the thing we're going
- 2:24to talk about years later. Our Death Knight did initially
- 2:27lock in on returning to Death Knight when the changes went
- 2:31live for 11.2, but then they read the changes and the the the
- 2:36hive mind has decided 9 Sir 9. We do not like these changes so
- 2:42we'll see what happens. Maybe I'm back on DK, nobody
- 2:45knows next week. It could be something completely
- 2:46different. Oh, so you might be on DK.
- 2:49OK, we'll talk about that more as we get to that news.
- 2:52But Lex, you mentioned the gosh darn belt.
- 3:01So we have our first bit of news, which is the belt got nerf
- 3:06slash, buff slash, rearranged again with all of the powers
- 3:11that were like not worth talking about before it went live
- 3:15getting buffed last week. And we were talking and we
- 3:19didn't get a chance to talk about it because we had the big
- 3:22news of 11.2 coming. But I'm glad we didn't because
- 3:25all of that is worthless now because they have decided they
- 3:29were going to buff, slash nerf it all over again.
- 3:32And so the big offender went from having a big, big buff and
- 3:40being like the only one that anyone would ever pick to
- 3:44getting a 62% nerf. And Blizzard explained that on
- 3:50top of the buff that they gave it last week, they also did a
- 3:54bug fix to its functionality which caused them to overshoot
- 3:58the mark. But they've made the correction
- 4:03for that now. And then on top of that, they've
- 4:05buffed a lot of the other ones. So whatever you thought was good
- 4:08for you last week, do double, double check with your guides.
- 4:13Sean, you said your belt is up to date.
- 4:17So I guess that means that you have done the quest this week to
- 4:20give it the three item levels. Are are, are you enjoying this
- 4:27bit? You called it borrowed power.
- 4:28Are you enjoying the belt? Are you enjoying the borrowed
- 4:30power? No, no, no, how can you?
- 4:34No, what is there to enjoy? I log in, I pick up my quest
- 4:37from Dagron from Not Brand, I pick up my quest from Not Brand
- 4:42and I run my level 1 delve on 4 NA characters and one EU
- 4:48character and then I can ignore him until next week.
- 4:53It's I, I, I'm on record as saying the game is much better
- 4:58when it's accessible, and I think this season has been
- 5:01extremely accessible for a lot of players.
- 5:02You've seen we were seeing people who don't normally push
- 5:06very high Mythic plus being able to push higher in Mythic plus,
- 5:09which is good and healthy for the game.
- 5:10We're seeing people that clearing the raid faster than
- 5:12they had in the past, seeing people get further into the raid
- 5:15than they would have in the past.
- 5:16All of that is good. I support all of that, but I do
- 5:20feel like there's a little bit of boost fatigue on this our 4th
- 5:28item to power boost us with 'cause we had turbo boost.
- 5:33So I guess it's the third item. We had turbo boost.
- 5:35We had the horrific visions helmet chance and now we have
- 5:39the belt and it's just like, oh, I guess and the the raid
- 5:43renowned tracks. So I'm locking it in his fourth.
- 5:46I'm gonna say it is 4th. It's just I'm getting power
- 5:51creep fatigue and I would be I'm at the point of the season and I
- 5:57recognize that this does not reflect everybody, but I'm at
- 5:59the point in the season where I want to be white, where where I
- 6:04want. I just for the listeners at
- 6:05home, I just smacked my mic. Manny probably was unable to
- 6:08edit that out. I apologize so.
- 6:10On top of your sentence. I can definitely edit that.
- 6:13No, we're leaving it in. I want to apologize to the
- 6:14people, Manny. I want them to know.
- 6:18Professionals. That's right, and we're going to
- 6:20apologize to our one viewer. If you're in the discord bit dot
- 6:24LY slash fast discord, we have dropped a link where you will be
- 6:26able to watch us live record every episode starting this
- 6:30week. We gave exactly 38 seconds
- 6:33notice and Gary was like, I'm in anyway.
- 6:38I'm getting borrowed power for TR, getting power boost fatigue.
- 6:42I'm at the point in the season where I feel like I want to be
- 6:44winding down. I don't want to have a thing.
- 6:47I have to check it. I don't want to have to do my
- 6:48Korthia dailies to the bitter end, You know what I mean?
- 6:51I want to be able to dial it back.
- 6:55I want to be able to slow down. And they just, it's like every
- 6:57week it's like, here's a new thing, you're going to make sure
- 6:59you drink your Ovaltine. But we get turbulent time ways
- 7:03and I do love time walking, so I guess that's a bonus.
- 7:07Yeah, Lex, I mean, you're saying you're loving delves.
- 7:11This is another reason to do delves.
- 7:14Are you feeling the fatigue of borrowed power slash upgrade?
- 7:19That's a good question. I do think first of all, I don't
- 7:23love the like, not to say the scary word, but the time dating
- 7:29on it. I do sort of feel like,
- 7:32especially at this point in the season, if I want to just no
- 7:35life for no life for two hours, if I want to just like grind it
- 7:40out basically, I should be allowed to do that, right?
- 7:43Like, what are we? What are we dragging this out
- 7:46for? Why do we need to make sure I'm
- 7:48not too powerful too quickly at, you know, probably a month
- 7:51before 11.2 drops? Can't get AOTC too fast.
- 7:57So I don't love that aspect of it.
- 7:59I'm having fun playing the dolls.
- 8:02It is the the other thing is because the season is
- 8:05essentially over for me. I have ARTC.
- 8:06I'm really just kind of here for the vibes.
- 8:08I do, I like, I, I'm having fun with it, but there's a level of
- 8:13like, damn, man, if they nerf this belt at the top of 11.2,
- 8:19this is going to be a huge waste of time.
- 8:21So frankly, I kind of wish they were giving me like cute little
- 8:24cosmetics, like cute little pets or like cute little mounts.
- 8:26Although they've been doing that all, you know, if we're saying
- 8:28we've been getting too much power creep, we've been even
- 8:31throwing the pets at us. So what do I have to complain
- 8:34about? So I, you know, I'm having fun
- 8:37because it's giving me a fun little way to goof around,
- 8:38right? What I want at this point in the
- 8:41season is a fun way to goof around.
- 8:42I'm having a fun time goofing around.
- 8:44I that's how I'm playing one character, so I can understand
- 8:47why Sean would not be having fun with it anymore.
- 8:50You can only goof around so long before it becomes a goofing job.
- 8:53But I'm having a good time. I don't know that I need the
- 8:58belt. Like I, I don't know that I'm
- 9:00happier that it's a belt, that it doesn't really benefit me
- 9:03anymore because of how late it is in the season.
- 9:06And they better not nerf it. This better be useful in 11.2.
- 9:08And I know that a lot of people have the opposite opinion that
- 9:10it's stupid that we're basically losing the belt slot.
- 9:11But I will say that if I do this and I don't get to use this
- 9:13belt, at least through Heroic, I'm going to be a grumpy little
- 9:16camper. What do you think, Manny?
- 9:21I I think there's a number of things there goofing job sounds
- 9:25like profanity. I also think that you're right,
- 9:30there is this issue of is it going to be actually useful in
- 9:36the next tier? Sean, you were talking about
- 9:39horrific visions and the head enchant.
- 9:41If you go on the PTR right now, the head enchant specifically
- 9:45can only go on items from season 2.
- 9:48So as soon as you replace your helm with something from season
- 9:513, no more head enchant, which is actually going to delay you
- 9:55switching your your helm enchant.
- 10:00Maybe you might get something that's like a side grade a same
- 10:03item level and it's like better stats, but that helmet chant
- 10:06might push you off of it until you can upgrade it to a higher
- 10:09item level to offset that. It's a very weird thing, but the
- 10:14helmet chants in general were quite weak.
- 10:16So it's not it's not probably not going to be that big of an
- 10:19issue. But you're right, the same thing
- 10:21with this belt. They've buffed it, they've
- 10:23they've nerfed it. They've done a bunch of things
- 10:25and I'm concerned that we're going to get a point where we
- 10:32get into next tier and they'll be like, Oh yeah, it's kind of
- 10:35sticking with people too long into heroic and some people are
- 10:38taking into mythic and then the the nerf bats going to come in
- 10:42and shoot. I guess I should have been
- 10:44holding onto belts that we're dropping along the way.
- 10:47Is is it a real fear? So I think you hit on a couple
- 10:51of points there that I I'm a little worried about.
- 10:55Yeah. Like I don't want to get
- 10:57something and then replace it two months down the line from
- 11:01like quest stuff. I don't know.
- 11:05Yeah, but the the other hand of that though is that we already
- 11:09don't have like everyone's gonna have the same back in 11.2,
- 11:12right? Because it's the whatever thing
- 11:14that name I've already forgotten.
- 11:15Forgive me, listeners. Reishi wraps.
- 11:17Yeah, the reishi wraps. Thank you.
- 11:19So it does kind of suck to have it be like, well, two of the
- 11:23pieces are meaningless or like like 2 of the like two of the
- 11:27piece you weren't grinding for I guess unless they do adjust
- 11:32other drop rates. So like you are easily getting
- 11:35like really nice. I mean, I guess they definitely
- 11:37would for the back. But anyway, I, I, I don't really
- 11:40know where I fall with this to be completely honest.
- 11:41The more I think about it, like mostly I will be cranky if this
- 11:45work is for nothing. But I I can understand why they
- 11:48might make that decision, you know?
- 11:50What's really going to suck is when they don't remove the
- 11:52cloaks from the dungeon pool and you get them in your vault.
- 11:57Oh, that'll be fun. That'll.
- 11:59That'll be upsetting though. I think.
- 12:02I'm hoping that they will flag those.
- 12:04They had similar things where we had dungeons coming back from
- 12:09BFA and it's like, I'm not getting any necks and they're
- 12:12like, Oh yeah, because BFA didn't drop any necks or you
- 12:15would have Legion dungeons. It's like, I got no weapons,
- 12:18Blizzard. Yeah, so, so like hopefully
- 12:22that'll that'll come back as they're adding in things into
- 12:26the mix there. But as long as as long as
- 12:35they're being I, I can't actually say like as long as
- 12:40they're being intelligent about it because you get those reishi
- 12:43wraps as you're doing the quest. So that and it's needed for the
- 12:48very first boss of the raid. So we're going to get it before
- 12:52Season 1 opens up. I assume that we're going to
- 12:56have some sort of upgrade track with that because there's no way
- 12:59they're giving us like a cloak that is able to contend with
- 13:03anything that drops for like mythic level on week 1 when
- 13:08people are going to run into like LFR with it and, and the
- 13:11story mode and with it, you know what, I generally don't care
- 13:14about story mode anymore. So I'm just going to stop
- 13:16protecting story mode. And so there, there's a question
- 13:22there, the belt. Yeah, I'm just expecting it to
- 13:26get nerfed. I I'm hoping that their timing
- 13:31of the nerf is like literally, hey guys, we're going to be
- 13:35nerfing this since we're opening up a heroic normal and heroic
- 13:40next week. So that people have like a bit
- 13:42of opportunity to replace stuff because in the first week you do
- 13:47have the raids that are, sorry, the dungeons that are going to
- 13:50be open at 0 so people can farm for stuff before the raid opens
- 13:56up. That's my best case scenario
- 13:59that I'm hoping for. And you're right, having a bunch
- 14:03of slots locked off is doesn't give you the excitement of like
- 14:08chasing down down loot. No, does not spark joy.
- 14:12Yeah. But I guess the that brings us
- 14:18into kind of the next part of this, which is we have a lot of
- 14:23things that have been announced, including games.com.
- 14:30Now we we are literally just talking about like what's coming
- 14:34in 11.2 and all of that. We just had that big drop come
- 14:38and then Blizzard decides to say, hey guys, we're going to
- 14:42give you your first look at midnight.
- 14:47Feels like they're killing the buzz.
- 14:48Blizzard let let me just enjoy the moment.
- 14:52I think at one point we're like, oh, you know what we want to do
- 14:55let's talk about 11 point 1.7 because we never got a chance.
- 14:58No, no, let's talk about midnight now, because that is
- 15:02the big thing, Gamescon, which will be taking place this
- 15:07August, August 20th to 24th in Cologne, Germany.
- 15:12Now I might have mispronounced that.
- 15:14Please don't come at me. Germany.
- 15:16That's you pronounce that correctly, Germany.
- 15:17OK, sorry. I know.
- 15:19I, I thought it was Gamiscon. All right, good, good.
- 15:23I didn't pronounce it right. And we're going to get a lot of
- 15:30sorry, I didn't protest. We're going to get.
- 15:34It's Gmescom, Gmescom. And so we're going to get our.
- 15:42First look at midnight. I suspect that we're going to
- 15:47start looking at maybe we'll get a release date.
- 15:51We'll we'll definitely get some sort of trailer.
- 15:53There's no way. If you're in the fast discord,
- 15:55you already got the release date.
- 15:56I broke that stuff down for everybody.
- 16:00That is an infallible formula. You know the release date?
- 16:03Lock it in. I already booked vacation.
- 16:07You can't book, well actually, and I guess you can book
- 16:10vacation I. Feel like.
- 16:12Your vacation blackout days are based on like, Nope, Warcraft's
- 16:16doing a thing. No vacation for you.
- 16:18Yeah, maybe. Yeah, you know.
- 16:20You can probably play on the job though. 1.
- 16:22Problem probably. Yeah, that's true.
- 16:26But so they they will officially announce the release date.
- 16:30Straw Madasu or Straw Shan Adasu, I don't know.
- 16:35Nostra Shamus. Nostra Shamus notwithstanding,
- 16:39everybody else will will know at that point.
- 16:43I suspect there will be a really good trailer.
- 16:45The last time they announced an expansion at Gamescon was I
- 16:50believe Legion. And I mean, if, if that follows,
- 16:56yeah, it should be a really good expansion.
- 16:58But I'm, I'm looking forward to it because I am looking forward
- 17:02to seeing what kind of goodies were getting.
- 17:06Like, I'm not the biggest housing fan.
- 17:09I know a lot of people are going to love love housing.
- 17:11It's going to be, it's going to be something that changes the
- 17:15game for for people. But I'm more interested in how
- 17:21they're going to further develop the like character systems.
- 17:25Like they gave us hero powers and that's permanent.
- 17:28Are they going to give like each class another option for hero
- 17:32powers or are they going to like further expand hero talents?
- 17:36I want to see how like the classes are evolving in this
- 17:39next expansion. So there's a lot to be excited
- 17:41for. Well.
- 17:42Minnie, don't put too much on their plate because remember
- 17:44right now they need to be focused on making the third
- 17:46Death Knights back and then they can figure out what all you all
- 17:49are doing. Demon Hunter, but yes, what did?
- 17:52I say I said Death Knight. No, my joke was stupid.
- 17:56No joke works 'cause they just deleted one of the Death Knight
- 17:59specs so we need them to remake they'll.
- 18:01Give they'll give frost to the the demon hunters and the death
- 18:05Knights can get the voity boy. I'm sorry I'm I'm I'm spoiler
- 18:08alerting this one. I'm jumping ahead.
- 18:12This is why we don't have show notes anymore.
- 18:14We can't clip ahead if we don't know what man he's gonna ask us.
- 18:19I mean, I guess so, I guess so, but what are you actually
- 18:24looking forward to in terms of midnight?
- 18:27Like is there anything that you that you think they're hiding or
- 18:31is it is it going to be like player housing in continuation
- 18:33of the the story from the world Soul Saga or in the world Soul
- 18:37Saga? Cross region We are getting
- 18:43cross region gameplay with Midnight, so that'll probably be
- 18:48announced. That feels like a games com
- 18:50mainstage announcement so I'm looking forward to them
- 18:54officially announcing cross region gameplay coming in
- 18:57midnight. Just throwing off your batting
- 18:59average like that, I. Listen I have a source.
- 19:02You want my source Blizz? The last BlizzCon happened and I
- 19:06had a guildie who went because a friend of ours lives in the UK.
- 19:10This guildie went to one of the devs during AQ and A and said,
- 19:13hey, when can we have cross region gameplay and that dev
- 19:17told them, ask us again at midnight.
- 19:21Now whether or not that meant go, come to the Blizzard mixer
- 19:24and when the the two hands strike, well, then ask me again
- 19:28or midnight. But I, I listen, people will say
- 19:31it's copium. People will say I'm huffing it
- 19:33hard, but I am I'm locking in cross region gameplay in
- 19:38midnight. And when it happens, everybody
- 19:40can book February 10th off as the launch date for that that
- 19:44that expansion 'cause I think that's the date that I predicted
- 19:46in the for Ezra this guard. All right, all right.
- 19:51I think one of those is likely to happen and it will not be be
- 19:56playing with my European friends.
- 19:58We'll see. All right, Sean.
- 20:02We've had your predictions. We'll turn it over to Lex.
- 20:05Lex, what would you like just I guess at this point because we
- 20:10got pie in the sky. Go ahead and pie in the sky.
- 20:12This like what's, what's your dream of?
- 20:14Like? What will happen to World of
- 20:16Warcraft at midnight? Oh, no, Oh no, I don't know.
- 20:20So basically I'll do that. It'll become one in the morning.
- 20:22It'll be the next day. They should do a midnight
- 20:26release. They should totally do a
- 20:28midnight release for like a just stage it so that it's like it,
- 20:33it'll be like in Europe, midnight release, in North
- 20:36America, midnight release based on like the Pacific or
- 20:40something. That would be cool.
- 20:41DOP That's so cute. That's what I want.
- 20:43That's not my I. I feel like I need to talk with
- 20:45the thing I don't. What do I even want in the World
- 20:47of Warcraft? I want better cloaks.
- 20:49I think they're gonna announce that I get the cool little
- 20:51cloaks like Maya and I don't like, everyone's gonna be like,
- 20:53oh, but they added the thing. No, I want the cute.
- 20:55I want full body and I wanna wear it all the time.
- 20:59And I want multiple trans log options with multiple colors.
- 21:02Those literally exist. They wear.
- 21:03I don't. Care.
- 21:04I want more. But like what makes the trading
- 21:08post madif cloak like unique? I'm I'm missing something?
- 21:12No, no, the my F cloak the like the big ends on both sides and
- 21:15it's flowy and like it moves with you.
- 21:17My SO like it. Like it totally covers you.
- 21:19So like, looks like a Ranger cloak you could sleep in.
- 21:22Exactly, I want like a real cloak that feels like a cloak,
- 21:25not like a weird tape. OK, OK, there's.
- 21:29Still a little role player, just.
- 21:31Wants so she can shuffle around her new house in that.
- 21:35That OK, that also. I.
- 21:37Do want more cute little things on the Blizzard gear store that
- 21:42are like like more on in line with the murloc onesie, which I
- 21:45believe is permanently just continued.
- 21:46They first of all bring that back and second of all, I want
- 21:48like cute little like cosplay stuff like the cute little
- 21:51cloaks and cute little stuff that I can wear around my house
- 21:53and feel cool and never go out in public.
- 21:57I think they're announcing that midnight.
- 22:00I mean, I said pie in the sky. So that, that's, that's my bad.
- 22:03I should have been more specific.
- 22:04Anyways, yeah, I, I think there's a there it is very, it's
- 22:12very hard to predict or like even guess at things right now,
- 22:16because with this big thing of housing, like it feels like
- 22:19that's where all the energy energy is.
- 22:22But they have told us very surprisingly little about the
- 22:25next expansion. So there's a lot still to be
- 22:29revealed and I'm looking forward to that at Gamescon now talked
- 22:34about that. Let's talk about something a lot
- 22:38closer to release, which of course is 11.2, right along with
- 22:48all the things that are happening.
- 22:49We are getting ray testing that's going to be coming up,
- 22:54and the ray testing includes all the bosses.
- 22:58That's eight, sorry, 8 bosses with seven of them being main
- 23:03and one of them being optional. We have starting tomorrow heroic
- 23:11tuning, sorry the heroic bosses. We have Plexus Sentinel which is
- 23:15the first boss where you are trying to enter in through the
- 23:20mana intake. We have Lumothar which is the
- 23:24giant moth slash spider. I will be testing to see what
- 23:28that looks like with arachnophobia mode activated.
- 23:34We have Soul Binder Nazindri, which Sean, you and I have gone
- 23:43through the campaign. Is that the same Soul Binder of
- 23:46name that we saw in the campaign?
- 23:49I, I think so. I want to say yes, but I got to
- 23:52be honest, I found the campaign to be so humdrum that I didn't
- 23:57pay much attention to the names. Honestly, we do have to have
- 24:01that conversation and record it because Sean and I had some
- 24:04takes, some takes about the campaign.
- 24:07Yeah, sorry Laura, folks. Sorry.
- 24:12So those will be the heroic bosses, three of them tested
- 24:15tomorrow. On Friday we get an additional 4
- 24:19heroic bosses, which is everything except for the final
- 24:23boss. So that's going to be a Forge
- 24:26Weaver Arise, the Soul Hunters, which is the optional encounter.
- 24:31Fractalis and Nexus King Saladar they will also then open up
- 24:39normal the entirety of the raid for testing.
- 24:43Does that include the final boss when they open up the?
- 24:46No final boss will remain untested.
- 24:50OK. And that and so that will open,
- 24:53open up after the testing has been completed and go through
- 24:57the weekend until Monday. Wait real quick, Lord buddies is
- 25:03the Nexus king whatever is that Kev as his father?
- 25:05Is that like confirmed or does that just do they have different
- 25:09titles of reality? Wow, that's a great question.
- 25:12I don't know. We're not going to give any low
- 25:16spoilers at this. Point, but yeah, because we
- 25:18don't, Yeah, it's not that we don't know Lex.
- 25:19It's that we don't want to get a little more.
- 25:22That's such a thing. It's not that the campaign was
- 25:24so. Sean, Sean.
- 25:27No, no, no, no, no. We will.
- 25:29We will talk about it. We will talk about it on a we'll
- 25:32do a bonus episode. We got we gotta get that out off
- 25:35here just the. Most campaign campaign I've ever
- 25:38done. The most?
- 25:40Campaign, campaign. All right, John, you are on a
- 25:44campaign. Then next week Thursday we begin
- 25:49Mythic testing and so it'll be again the 1st 3 bosses on Mythic
- 25:55difficulty for Thursday, then on Friday the next 4 bosses on
- 26:00Mythic difficulty for testing. And then after that completes,
- 26:05Raid Finder difficulty will be opened up for testing and that
- 26:09will go over the course of the weekend again from Friday over
- 26:13till Monday. So I do need to make a slight
- 26:18correction there because I said this week we're getting the
- 26:22testing and the next week we're getting testing.
- 26:23That is incorrect. We skip a week because we have
- 26:26holidays next week, people who are celebrating Independence
- 26:30Day, Canada Day, my birthday, there will be no testing during
- 26:35that time. We actually come back on
- 26:38Thursday, July 10th and go through the testing there and
- 26:43then again on Friday, July 11th for the for the other testing.
- 26:47So my apologies on that. So big, 4 hours of raid testing
- 26:54on Fridays is painful. I would really, really like to
- 27:01not have to do that. I would rather have two days of
- 27:07two hours than one day of four hours when it comes to raid.
- 27:11Because raid testing is draining.
- 27:13Sometimes the bosses are bugged and don't work the way they're
- 27:15supposed to. You're not really always playing
- 27:18with a group of people that you play out with all the time
- 27:21unless you have a regular PTR test group that you run with or
- 27:25your Guild does it. It's just 4 hours is a lot in
- 27:27one sitting and it's also in the middle of the day.
- 27:30There's a lot to ask of people. That being said, if you are able
- 27:34to raid test, you should log in and raid test.
- 27:37The lots of communities have tests happening.
- 27:39No pressure has one sign that you can sign up for.
- 27:42The dungeon Dojo has ones you can sign up for.
- 27:44Get in, test the raid. Because your feedback matters.
- 27:47If you don't, the only people who do are going to be the
- 27:49sweats. Yeah, I realize I'm in that
- 27:52category. But then we're going to give
- 27:54feedback that makes it better for us.
- 27:55If you're a normie, you want to give feedback that makes life
- 27:58better for normies. I mean I I wish we had some
- 28:02normie representation but like it's between you who is like
- 28:06diving in and testing everything on the PTR already and Lex who's
- 28:10sweating through like 2 hours of delves or was it half an hour of
- 28:13delves? Lex was busy, no lifing that two
- 28:16hours of delves. Yeah.
- 28:18We, we, we got to get some casual representation, but we'll
- 28:21we'll go forward from there. I yeah, I do think that it is
- 28:27all very intense ray testing. It's clearly part of this trying
- 28:33to get things out as quickly as possible.
- 28:37For the ones that don't work, I hope that they quickly disable
- 28:41them and say, hey, we'll, we'll push the bosses forward and if
- 28:46we can get it up in the last slot, so be it.
- 28:49But we'll do it. Do it the following week.
- 28:53Yeah, the the PTR testing is very quick.
- 28:57And because Sean, you are a person who has very refined
- 29:02taste on what you think is a good raid boss or not that I
- 29:07think that they got to give the community a chance to actually
- 29:11test these, give feedback and for them to be able to schedule
- 29:14like retest. We don't want them to have a
- 29:17boss that is horrible on PTR that they completely rework and
- 29:22then takes like 5-4 hundred 500 pulls to kill with a complete
- 29:29with a completely different mechanics than it was on the PTR
- 29:33because geez. And I nobody wants that, no.
- 29:38There is there is time for retesting in the schedule here,
- 29:41with the last tests scheduled for July 11th and the patch
- 29:46expected launch date being first week of August.
- 29:49They have about 3 weeks where they can put in retesting for
- 29:51anything that was bugged or anything they want to change,
- 29:54and I suspect that they will. They usually do, so we'll see.
- 29:59OK. Beyond that, one thing that we
- 30:04have also had a chance to test, at least on the base level, is
- 30:10the new dungeon that is Echodome Aldani.
- 30:16Sean, I believe you have run this dungeon a couple of times.
- 30:19So do you want to give us the lowdown on what's going on here?
- 30:23Spoiler free review of Echodome Aldani incoming.
- 30:29It's great. It's a lot of fun.
- 30:33It's visually really nice. It really feels desolate in some
- 30:38areas. It doesn't feel jammed with
- 30:40enemies. It's very wide open.
- 30:42And there is one boss fight in particular that I really, really
- 30:45enjoyed where the it's kind of like a Fate Scribe esque fight
- 30:51where the boss will like knock your soul out of you and then
- 30:56they're doing a targeted attack at your soul.
- 30:58So everybody's soul gets knocked out and he's targeting these
- 31:01beams at them. He's going to kill them.
- 31:03And you take big damage if you don't get your soul.
- 31:05And you have to get to your soul and touch it and then get out of
- 31:08the beam before the cast happens.
- 31:11And you have to either look for your person.
- 31:13Don't do that. There's a big purple arrow above
- 31:15your head of the head of your soul.
- 31:17Just go to your purple arrow. That's your soul, but then
- 31:20there's also two other mechanics that incorporate the soul there
- 31:23in that fight. And then there's another fight
- 31:26where it has, I don't want to spoil it, but there's another
- 31:28fight that has similar mechanics to the Prototype Pantheon and
- 31:32Sepal call the first ones where you would have to put the lines
- 31:35through the Shields to break the Shields.
- 31:36It was a lot of fun, I really enjoyed it.
- 31:38I did not see, I have seen some Youtubers and content creators
- 31:43who have mentioned that there's like a lore thing at the end.
- 31:47I didn't see it. I also didn't phase shift and
- 31:49walk or phase dive and walk around, which you can do in the
- 31:52raid dungeon but you can't do in the dungeon.
- 31:55You can phase dive and walk around.
- 31:56I didn't do that. So maybe the lower things were
- 31:58there, but I didn't see like I know people were worried because
- 32:02of the dungeon canonically falls after the raid.
- 32:06People were worried that it was going to spoil the story of the
- 32:09the campaign for them. It it I did not.
- 32:14Having played the campaign through to the to the raid and
- 32:18then the after bit, there was nothing in this dungeon that
- 32:24would have spoiled either of those sections.
- 32:26So feel free to dive into the dungeon whenever you want on the
- 32:30the PTR or on the first week of the patch.
- 32:32It was a lot of fun, I really enjoyed.
- 32:34It there isn't like a stay while and listen where you like you
- 32:36walk in and everyone's like talking about how traumatized
- 32:38they are that the the entire world of Avaross has been eaten,
- 32:40then we all have to go become ethereals.
- 32:43Nope. Zealotath dies and then we sort
- 32:45of mourner and then that's it. Oh yeah.
- 32:49For for the traumatized listeners, that was a joke.
- 32:52Legal reasons? Yeah, for legal reasons.
- 32:54That was a joke. So the the dungeon has been
- 33:00available for testing since Tuesday of this week and will
- 33:04remain open for testing until Tuesday of next week, at which
- 33:10point I believe there might be another testing period later on.
- 33:16But you if you want you can find mythic keystones from the vendor
- 33:20just like there is on the PR Test that out.
- 33:24From what I saw there, there's no changes to any affixes or
- 33:28anything. We are basically following into
- 33:33season from season 2 and take those affix into a new dungeon
- 33:37pool. I was actually surprised.
- 33:38I was expecting them to like switch out some of the bargains
- 33:42or some or something, but that could come later, but you seem
- 33:49pertaining. It it, it does seem like
- 33:52recently they've been having a lot of here's the thing that
- 33:54we're going to change out and then it works really well.
- 33:56And then they're like, oh, actually, you guys want to just
- 34:01keep doing that one. And I know I'm not faulting
- 34:04that. I still have to play with God
- 34:05damn Bran. I mean Bran will be back in
- 34:13season 3 with the Delves. Or is the new Delve testing that
- 34:19one? Actually, it's nice to go back
- 34:22to the archives. These are the Azure archives
- 34:26from Dragonflight. Don't have to fly all the way
- 34:29out to Dragonflight to do that. The entrance is actually in in
- 34:34the new zone. So you go into the entrance from
- 34:37crash, that'll take you in the instance of the the archives.
- 34:41They're being assaulted by Ethereals and you have to put a
- 34:45stop to it. I haven't tested all the
- 34:48scenarios. I've only tested one, but those
- 34:50are those are available for testing if you so choose.
- 34:54No sign of any kind of overcharged stuff going on there
- 34:59as of yet. But you know, it's it's Dell.
- 35:02So we'll have to wait for Alexe to jump in so that we can get a
- 35:05positive review of that. Yeah.
- 35:07I'm playing on Tier 1. That's that's all I was doing
- 35:11with my free time. I just went through side Street
- 35:15while it was overcharged over and over and over again so I
- 35:18could complete the web. You just side street.
- 35:21I hate side street. I hate the stupid levels.
- 35:24I get so confused about where I'm supposed to go for things.
- 35:27Like on a higher difficulty, I'd be upset because you can pull
- 35:30things that are below you or above you with the with the
- 35:34wrong stuff. On a level 1 where I don't care.
- 35:36It's just like, yeah, have them run up to me.
- 35:38I don't have to worry about it. Let me let me have a little
- 35:41drink while I'm waiting for them to like path all the way up and
- 35:44just keep moving on. So it's it's fine when it's not
- 35:48like threatening. That's super I.
- 35:50I just personally get annoyed. I try to like go over some place
- 35:53and I fall and I'm now completely turned around.
- 35:56So I guess I could also walk on my feet instead of trying to
- 35:59wings across, you know, like glide, I guess is the word I'm
- 36:01looking for. Wings is for priests.
- 36:04But I don't. I try to fly and then I fall and
- 36:06I get confused and I finally find my way back to where I was
- 36:09supposed to be. And then I'm like, hey, you know
- 36:10how I should get over there? And then I'm surprised I falled.
- 36:14Then followed back in again, I mean, at this point, like if
- 36:18you've got your tree upgraded, you like literally run around
- 36:22into every lightning thing to cause the storm to get the buff
- 36:25to all of that. And you you're running around so
- 36:28quickly that you don't really need to jump.
- 36:31But that that's I guess the power fantasy that you you like.
- 36:37So that's Delves, that's dungeons, that is the raid.
- 36:42There is of course other things that are going up on the PTR,
- 36:46including the the zoo and such. I haven't had a chance to test
- 36:50that and we can cover that in future episodes.
- 36:53But I believe we did have one more piece of news that we
- 36:58wanted to cover that's on the PTR, which is spell density.
- 37:04I actually haven't played around with this and I only discovered
- 37:08this when Sean you brought this up.
- 37:10So I want to ask you what what's going on with this?
- 37:14So Blizzard is finally this was from community manager Lynxy.
- 37:19Special shout out to Lynxy, second favorite community
- 37:21manager, manager of the podcast 5X obviously #1 come on, Lynxy's
- 37:28a very cool second. So this this week's the Ghost of
- 37:32Gresh PTR includes changes and approvals to spell density
- 37:34graphic setting. You're going to be able to
- 37:38remove other players spell density like spell effects,
- 37:42which is great. I I hope I don't know how
- 37:50granular it's going to be because I want to see
- 37:52efflorescence so I know where to stand, but I don't want to see
- 37:57anything else my druids cast. I want to see Feline Stomp,
- 38:00which I actually can't see now, but I want to see Feline Stomp,
- 38:03but I don't want to see anything else the monk casts.
- 38:06I want to see where Earthquake is.
- 38:07Special shout out to my elemental shaman so that I know
- 38:10where to tank the mobs, but I don't want to see anything else
- 38:13they cast. So I don't think we're going to
- 38:14get that level of granularity. It's going to have three.
- 38:18It says there's three new spell density options.
- 38:21These are not new options. These options already exist in
- 38:25the game. Everything reduced and
- 38:27essential. Those options are already in the
- 38:30game, but it's for I think just enemy spells.
- 38:38Anyway, we're going to see hopefully we get or if I could
- 38:41even like, say, I don't want to see this players or this class
- 38:45of spells I need in my head. I'm I'm already prepared to be
- 38:49disappointed in my head. I'm going to be able to like
- 38:51pick and choose exactly what spells I want to see and what
- 38:53ones I don't want to see. Like show me spells that help.
- 38:56Don't show me spells that hurt. I'm not going to get that it's
- 38:59it's not going to. Happen.
- 39:00Somebody will build a before. That'll let you do it, but.
- 39:02Next week you're going to be pissed about it, but this week
- 39:04I'm just going to hope for it. But anyway, we're going to be
- 39:07able to reduce which this is good because it reduces some of
- 39:10that visual clutter. It frees up some of those brain
- 39:11GCD, some of that cognitive overload that you have.
- 39:14And if your PC isn't, you know, on the cutting edge, it might
- 39:18may help with some some lag that you experience in the raid when
- 39:23there's, you know, 20 to 30 of you spam casting AOE and oven
- 39:30axe. And there's also 45 eggs in the
- 39:32room. Oh, and there's 35 sets of tiny
- 39:36spiders to attack. So all of this should help to
- 39:39clear up some of those those performance issues.
- 39:41I'm looking forward to it. I really can't wait to be angry
- 39:44next week, though, And I can't set it up exactly the way I want
- 39:47to set it up. But thank you, Lynxy, for the
- 39:51news. And thank you, Blizzard, for for
- 39:54giving us what I assume is gonna be a fine option, but just one
- 39:59that I'm already prepared to be on.
- 40:01Happy pup. I do.
- 40:02I appreciate. If this is gonna be true for
- 40:04World of Warcraft, I know my Final Fantasy friends say that.
- 40:07Final fans, I will say World of Warcraft.
- 40:09This is a very interesting thing because for a very long time,
- 40:11Final Fantasy Online has been pulling heavily from World of
- 40:13Warcraft. And recently, it feels like
- 40:15World of Warcraft is suddenly pulling very heavily from Final
- 40:17Fantasy, including the player housing.
- 40:18But that's a little aside. According to my Final Fantasy
- 40:21friends, the turning off the spell density only does like
- 40:24fancy CDPS stuff. It doesn't turn off healer
- 40:27circles and things like that. TBD if that's how the World of
- 40:30Warcraft one works, but that would make sense, right?
- 40:32Like the things you need to stand in, It's gonna make your
- 40:34life better. You want to see those even if
- 40:36your stuff is down. OK, That would make sense
- 40:40because like that, those sort of healing circles like the
- 40:43efflorescence and such, those would be likely deemed
- 40:47essential. Like you should be still
- 40:48standing in this don't run out of my healing rain sort of sort
- 40:51of thing. Makes sense.
- 40:53And without all the other stuff going on, it'll be easier for
- 40:55you to see to see that. Yeah, I don't need to see these
- 40:587 consecrates. I have way too many paladin
- 41:01friends. I I don't need any.
- 41:02I don't need to see any consecrates.
- 41:03Well, like you have paladins. Boy.
- 41:09So moving right along our last story for the day is actually
- 41:14something Lex you brought to our attention, this Steam and
- 41:18Battle.net now being on the Xbox app, and it's not what I
- 41:23thought. Like, tell me what's going on
- 41:24here. Yes.
- 41:25So there's some conversation about this in the for Azaroth
- 41:29Discord bit dot LY slash fast discord.
- 41:32So there was an announcement that the Microsoft is basically
- 41:36adding Battle.net and Steam to what they were calling quote the
- 41:40Xbox app. If you are not in tune with the
- 41:45Xbox world, which I will be clear I was not until I started
- 41:47reading these articles. That makes it sound a lot like
- 41:50Battle.net is coming to your Xbox console, right?
- 41:53You are able to access things on your Xbox.
- 41:55To be clear, Battle.net is basically what Xbox is doing.
- 41:59They already have a PC app and for an app for like handheld
- 42:04devices and they are trying to make it into one big gaming
- 42:08system where whatever system you buy your PC games off of, you
- 42:13can get to them in the Xbox app, right?
- 42:16So if you buy a game on Steam and you download it, you can go
- 42:19into your Xbox app and open it there.
- 42:21If you are playing, you know, World of Warcraft, you have that
- 42:23downloaded. You can now access that in your
- 42:25Xbox apps. You don't need to both have
- 42:27Battle.net and Xbox apps. It's my understanding with the
- 42:29goal of like potentially even expanding it further.
- 42:32So as of yet they are not saying that Battle.net and World of
- 42:37Warcraft are coming to console. I will say people have said that
- 42:40they're coming to console for so long, but I'm officially pretty
- 42:42deep and I'll believe it when I see it.
- 42:44Mode, but if so, make sure you're reading those more
- 42:48thoroughly. I think it is cool.
- 42:50I think it is I I do feel a little bit like there was a
- 42:52period of time that I had like epic games on my PC and I just
- 42:56uninstalled it because I'm like there's like one game here that
- 42:58I would ever play, but it's it's annoying when everyone has their
- 43:01own little system and your own little thing you need to
- 43:03download and it would be nice if I could download the game app
- 43:08and then I have the games that I can play on my PC instead of
- 43:11being like, oh shoot, is this a steam?
- 43:13Is this over here? I have 50 pop ups every time I
- 43:15log into my computer. My SSD is busted now because I
- 43:19have so many things. I have two games, apps.
- 43:22I don't know. I'm actually like, I'm such a
- 43:23hardcore gamer who struggles so hard to find things but.
- 43:27Is one of them Battle.net? Yeah, it's Battle of Steam, my
- 43:30man. I feel like Steam is a pretty
- 43:33solid one. If you said I've only got Steam,
- 43:35that covers so much. Right?
- 43:37Like what are you gonna do? I only have Origin.
- 43:39Who the hell uses Origin? Like come at me, I don't even
- 43:43care if you're using Origin, get off of it.
- 43:46Really. Well, and that is interesting.
- 43:49I was a little bit surprised that Xbox was the one that was
- 43:52doing this because frankly, it does feel like this would be
- 43:54more Steam's thing, right? Like this is close, to my
- 43:57understanding, kind of what Steam was trying to be early on.
- 44:00Is the games app where you buy all of your games and play all
- 44:03of your games. And it's pretty successfully
- 44:06done that. Like it's got the Epic store
- 44:08that's trying to compete and and Epic store keeps throwing,
- 44:11throwing money at stuff. And of course, with Xbox now
- 44:15with the Xbox app, you're right, they're trying to be the one
- 44:18stop the all in It's available on your desktop and laptop.
- 44:31It's not available on your Xbox, Manny.
- 44:35It's only on your PC and handhelds.
- 44:36It might come to your Xbox in the future, but not on your
- 44:39Xbox, which is very. Confusing.
- 44:40The article says it's on console.
- 44:42Now what? No, I'm kidding.
- 44:48Kidding. I was like, I'm just like, I
- 44:49haven't discovered this. Yeah, but this.
- 44:52I read the title and looked at this picture.
- 44:54Oh, that's true. Yeah, Yeah.
- 44:55No, you're right about that. You're right about that, yeah.
- 44:58And so I will say I I do like the idea of them all going
- 45:02together. Although as I speak, as I think
- 45:04you we're coming to learn very much in this podcast, I kind of
- 45:06argue with myself in my head, even when you 2 aren't arguing
- 45:09with me. So I do feel like I've been
- 45:11burned by like movie and video streaming apps like Netflix and
- 45:16Hulu that were trying to tell me that they were the all in one.
- 45:19And then what has actually happened is just like a crisis
- 45:22of everyone needs me to spend $20.00 a month or I can't see
- 45:25The One Show and I have to spend $20.00 a month.
- 45:27I want to see one thing. So I am, although I guess that's
- 45:30kind of where we are with games right now.
- 45:32But anyway, I'm I'm suspicious of to make Manny's life a little
- 45:36easier for editing in poopification.
- 45:40Oh no, no, it's like that's a technical term.
- 45:43You can't say insitification that that goes through.
- 45:46Fair enough, fair enough then yeah I'm scared of
- 45:48insitification. But I mean it's gonna happen
- 45:52anyway. Like I said, it's there's games
- 45:54that I just will never play because I'm not re downloading
- 45:57epic games like I'm not doing it.
- 45:58It's stupid and dumb and I don't want it on my computer anymore.
- 46:01So like I do kind of hate how it it works right now and I don't
- 46:06knock on wood, I don't necessarily know that it could
- 46:08be significantly worse. I think like, sorry, go ahead,
- 46:12Shawn. We all everybody had cable and
- 46:14they were like, man, this sucks. And they go, well, what if we
- 46:16just give you the channels you want?
- 46:17Here's Netflix. All right, great.
- 46:19And now like it's exactly like he said.
- 46:21Now every every platform has its own streaming and it's like,
- 46:25maybe I should just go back to cable.
- 46:27Except that they keep them exclusive so that you can't have
- 46:31them on cable, which is, which is basically them trying to get
- 46:35a top down monopoly. And I think that Lex, this is
- 46:39the exact right parallel because you are going to have all these
- 46:43publishers that are going to going to make their own
- 46:48launcher. Battle.net being like the oldest
- 46:50one that I am aware of back when I was like launching Warcraft 2
- 46:56on it and trying to like load into a multiplayer game.
- 47:00They've evolved it and they keep adding things.
- 47:02See if Thieves is on it, they they add on ABK games and
- 47:08remember how absolutely clutching their their pearls
- 47:11everybody was when like Activision games started coming
- 47:14on that con on my Battle.net. Dear God, but they've expanded
- 47:21it. They've done a lot of different
- 47:23things with it and we have, I guess come to accept that Steam
- 47:28was was always trying to be like the Netflix of every game comes
- 47:34on here, go go ahead. But like what I think has helped
- 47:40is that Xbox and and Steam have not had exclusives.
- 47:51They've allowed things to be on all different things.
- 47:53It's like, yeah, but it's on Steam too.
- 47:55So why do you need to go over there where Epic has tried to do
- 47:59exclusives wherever they can and that's that has ruffled
- 48:04feathers. There was a big thing when they
- 48:06were starting it and they were throwing money at devs to be
- 48:09like, make your make an exclusive, you'll get more more
- 48:12money here. It in that way, it kind of
- 48:15actually reminds me of like the kick Twitch fight where it's
- 48:21like you can get more money on here, come over to here.
- 48:24And then Twitch was like, OK, you know what, we're giving up
- 48:27the exclusive, but everybody is on Twitch, right?
- 48:32Like, and so now you have YouTube Gaming and you've got
- 48:35Twitch and you've got Kick and Periscope and stuff and a lot of
- 48:39them just sort of fail and fall by the wayside.
- 48:42Yet we haven't really had the money reserves going into that
- 48:46like we have with the Netflix. HBO used to be formerly known as
- 48:51Max issues that we've been having with TV.
- 48:57Do you expect that it'll be more like Netflix or do you expect
- 49:00that it's going to be more like the entire Twitch thing where no
- 49:04company really has found the exact viable way of doing it and
- 49:10keeps it, you know, relatively customer friendly?
- 49:15I don't trust Microsoft anymore, so I think they're going to find
- 49:18a way to make it money. OK.
- 49:23I mean, I don't trust any company, but yeah, yeah.
- 49:27All right. Sean, you think some companies
- 49:28are good? Yeah, no, I definitely think
- 49:31Microsoft is going to do what's best for the consumer and try to
- 49:33save us money. No sarcasm.
- 49:38Disclaimer needed. Imagine a situation where
- 49:40Microsoft isn't altruistic and doesn't make their decisions
- 49:45with the player in mind. First, it's.
- 49:48Like how they bought World of Warcraft and there were no major
- 49:50changes. That's right, they made Warcraft
- 49:52better. Except they shortened the patch
- 49:54cycles, overworked the devs, laid off half the team, and
- 49:58refused to announce cross region play until midnight.
- 50:03OK, Yeah, it is. I think we're all on the same
- 50:08page. It's an unfortunate reality.
- 50:10I just hope that like, the company that wins is the one
- 50:14that gives us the best features and so far as far as company
- 50:18goes, Steam is doing the least amount of evil with it, so I'll
- 50:21be happy with that. I know I would love.
- 50:24Everybody loves Steam, I hate it so much.
- 50:27Interesting. Anything the least invasive like
- 50:29unless you want to go GOG. Like I would love if GOG took
- 50:34over but like it's so. You say it clumsy, but I have to
- 50:38in order to play any game that I bought on Steam, I have to load
- 50:41Steam, find the game in my library, hit play.
- 50:44Steam's running in the background.
- 50:45I can't just load and play the game.
- 50:47I, I hate it. I hate you have.
- 50:49The direct icon to load straight into it.
- 50:53I've well, I guess I'm an idiot then because I have never been
- 50:56able to open up a game without loading steam first.
- 50:59Well, I. Mean I think even if you do
- 51:01don't quote me on this because I had to take my PC into the
- 51:06repairs for them to tell me to press the power button, but but
- 51:13I my understanding when you do have those extra buttons.
- 51:17Listeners, I need you to stop typing right now.
- 51:20We don't need you to write a comment.
- 51:23We get it. She knows that that was a
- 51:25mistake. Yeah, this is this is a funny
- 51:30story because it's the most embarrassing thing that I've
- 51:31ever done in my life. Don't worry.
- 51:33How? Did you get it in without
- 51:35turning off the? This is computer though.
- 51:37That's the marvel of it. Like that's the like, how do you
- 51:40get it to the store without plugging it out and turning off
- 51:43the power? So, so so which The thing is, I
- 51:46didn't. Understand on the back.
- 51:47Yes, that's exactly. I didn't.
- 51:50Realize that there was that like, and I did OK, I will
- 51:52actually say the I didn't bring it to the store.
- 51:54I brought it to a person who was, you know, willing to just
- 51:57help me out. So I just at this point was in
- 52:00too deep and I, I lied and I was like, oh I don't know why that
- 52:03worked but I, I was I was only hitting the power source and I
- 52:07was turning that on I was like it's not working it's not
- 52:09working it's not working and then I went cuz I, I never had a
- 52:12gaming PC. I'd only have had laptops and
- 52:14I'm still stupid. I know this is stupid, but so I
- 52:16was doing that and I finally found this person to help me and
- 52:18I had my Guild leader was like on video calls me all the time
- 52:22and like trying to figure out why nothing was working.
- 52:24And then I pick, I finally like, I unplug it and I pick it up and
- 52:26I see the power button on the front and I'm like, oh.
- 52:32I am reminded of a tech support call I took once where the
- 52:34individual couldn't get their computer to turn on, but there
- 52:37was a power outage in their building.
- 52:42That's not stupid, Lex, especially if you've only owned
- 52:44laptops before. You don't know to look for that
- 52:47power switch 'cause you never, probably never ever touch it.
- 52:50So you just assume that it's on. I'm gonna cut you.
- 52:53I'm I, I'm gonna go on the record and say I'm cutting you
- 52:55some slack on that one. That is not the most
- 52:57embarrassing. It, it's pretty.
- 52:59It is not the most embarrassing story I've.
- 53:01Ever. No, no, Lex is fine.
- 53:04That was probably like 30 years ago.
- 53:05You've grown up since then. They're all good.
- 53:09But but the point of this was to say, I think that it does like
- 53:12soft launch Steam in the background, even if you do use
- 53:14that button, because when I've done that with Final Fantasy,
- 53:17like if there's an issue on Steam side, it's still not going
- 53:19to let you load until it's gone through the like updating
- 53:21steams, whatever. I think, don't quote me on that.
- 53:25No, it it'll launch Steam in the background.
- 53:27It's same thing with like the Epic Store.
- 53:29You can launch a game directly, but it'll launch Epic Store in
- 53:32the background. I think I think we should go
- 53:34back to DIF. This is stupid.
- 53:37Let me own the physical copy of the game and I put it in my
- 53:40computer and then it's there. I.
- 53:42Well, we put the discs in our belts now.
- 53:45Yeah, sure, fine. That's another thing I'll forget
- 53:47the power button on. It's OK.
- 53:49How? Backwards Are the Titans still
- 53:51using physical media? This is ridiculous.
- 53:54We'll talk about that more on the next episode, but until next
- 53:59time guys, may all your hits be crits.