Hello

I recently restarted beer brewing after a pause of some years. I like to drink and brew bitter, so I restarted from there. This in the picture is the second brew in my "second era", an e+g beer brewed in a 10 l fermenter (I don't want to manage bigger volumes).

Recipe is: 1 kg dry light malt extract; 50 g crystal dark (ebc about 270); 20 g Challenger for 40 min; 15 g Challenger for 2 min; 10 g Challenger in dry hopping; Mangrove Jack's M36 yeast. ABV 4.2%, IBU about 34.

I should change the 50 g crystal dark for, let's say, 60 g crystal medium. I'll think about it. In order to spend less I used a dual purpose hop. Maybe in the future I'll use some Target for the bittering, but for now I'm quite happy. I use a single fermenter, so the result is a bit opaque. I don't care so much about that, other than try to cool down the beer for a night before bottling.

Also I would like to resume my production of porter and maybe try some barley wine. Since a friend beekeeper gave me some honey, I would like to try mead making, but I know precisely nothing about that.

Tra ieri e oggi mi sento indecifrabilmente un po’ così… perché, purtroppo, vivere coscientemente nell’irrilevanza statica persistente fa male. È tutto molto complicato e forse spiegare sarebbe pure inutilmente palloso, ma forse si può riassumere tutto dicendo che sono una “vera perdente gf“ (…eccetto, come al solito senza “gf”, visto che non sono la gieffe […]

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2025-04-07 08:53:50

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Tra ieri e oggi mi sento indecifrabilmente un po’ così… perché, purtroppo, vivere coscientemente nell’irrilevanza statica persistente fa male. È tutto molto complicato e forse spiegare sarebbe pure inutilmente palloso, ma forse si può riassumere tutto dicendo che sono una “vera perdente gf“ (…eccetto, come al solito senza “gf”, visto che non sono la gieffe di nessuno, che neppure un mio clone 1:1 si metterebbe mai con me, bla bla bla).

Cioè… in realtà io mi sforzo di dormire di notte anziché di giorno… e il cibo spazzatura non è roba mia… e la mia stanza intera non è un casino, lo sono solo la scrivania con trecento cose e il letto mai fatto… però jobless è preciso. (Preferisco “unemployed”, perché fa più tragico, ma pazienza.) Poi però, a differenza dello stereotipo in figura, non ho né un cazzo di Blåhaj né le calze a gatto… e, come si suol dire, mal comune mezzo gaudio, visto che neanche Soffu ha questi prodotti, però dovrei comprarli per ridurre la mia sofferenza.

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Many people are reporting that gameplay is feeling too slow. Sometimes this comes in the form of people saying that monster life is too high, or player damage is too low, or areas are taking too long. In this post we will talk about some of the things we have already done, and more of the changes we are planning on making.

Huntress Specific Concerns

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We want to give early game players an option to get Frenzy charges without Parry, but we have to be very careful not to make this too easy and remove the rewards for doing the Parry combos.

In order to do this, we are adding a new Skill on the second row of the Spear skills called Cull the Weak. This skill is effectively the same as Killing Palm on the Monk, but for Frenzy charges. If a monster is in Culling Range, using Cull the Weak will charge towards the monster, kill it instantly, and give you a Frenzy charge. This skill should be patched in over the next few days.

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We previously significantly reduced the growth of minion life and damage as these gems gain levels, and the intention was to mostly hit the top of the endgame, but it seems that this had an unintended effect on campaign play as well.

We are making a change to increase the damage and life that minions get during the campaign to be more similar to before, while still keeping the scaling nerfs that were introduced to the higher minion gem levels for the endgame.

Monster Life Too High

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A second issue we found was that the life bonus on Rare Minions was incredibly high. One of the reasons why this feels particularly bad is because these monsters are still White, but had more life than Blue monsters. This calibrates players' expectations incorrectly and makes Rare fights harder than they should be. This number has been set back to what it was in 0.1.0 which lowers rare minion life by about 60%. This change has also been deployed.

Large Area Sizes

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In the meantime, we did notice that there are some areas that don't have sufficient checkpoints, so we are doing a pass of adding some more of these.

Crashes and Disconnects

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Thankfully, server side crashes are significantly easier for us to debug, and we believe that we should be able to resolve most of these within the next few days.

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