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Returning to the game: current state?
Amalgamate
Posts: 435
7/3/2016
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So I stopped playing this a few years ago when content slowed to a trickle and I realized I'd spent months grinding without anything interesting happening. Some friends of mine just got into it recently though, I was considering replaying it if some of the storylines actually had conclusions?
What's the state of things now? Ambitions, SMEN, Glass/Shroud?
I don't really want to end up stuck and unable to finish the big stories again like last time, just wanted to get a status update from the forums before jumping back in.
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dov
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7/3/2016
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Well, there were many many changes in during the past few years. It depends on when exactly you left. Here are a few recent changes, off the top of my head. I'm sure others can add more.
The entire early game was restructured. There are now "Tracker paths" for each of the main qualities.
The Connected system (with various factions) is slowly being reworked into a system using dual qualities: Favours and Renown. The factions already covered are Criminals, Docks, Tomb-Colonies, and Rubbery Men. Urchins are next.
If you've finished the Foreign Office, you can go on a tour as a governor of the Carnelian Coast.
Zailing mechanics were changed.
A new seasonal event is about to start tomorrow - elections for a new mayor of London.
Subscribing as an Exceptional Friend now gives access to a special monthly story. Most have been very good. These stories are later available to buy separately via the Fate tab after a few months.
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suinicide
Posts: 2409
7/3/2016
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SMEN is finished. Ambitions are one or two updates away from being done. Don't know for glass/shroud, but its not finished.
Please note that SMEN finishes by permakilling your character.
edited by suinicide on 7/3/2016
edited by suinicide on 7/3/2016
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An Individual
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7/3/2016
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The Exceptional Stories that come with Exceptional Friendship have really been a saving grace in the end game. They provide a nice slow but steady trickle of new stories and lore during long grinds.
Outside of them and the re-introduction of the now completed Seeking, end game content continues at a trickle. The focus has generally been on enhancing and adjusting the early game for the introduction of the iOS app. I'm still hopeful we'll see the completion of the ambitions eventually.
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Amalgamate
Posts: 435
7/4/2016
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Yes, I think that's what I'll do. For now pick up Seeking again from that account. Perhaps by the time I'm done Seeking some of those main storylines are going to be complete and I'll restart an account to play through them. I just don't want to end up levelcapped/stuck at the endgame again, because then I simply forget what the story was by the time it continues and that's no fun.
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