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AggroChat #429 – Just Stay Down

April 2, 2023 by Belghast

Good Morning Friends! Lairs Day has come and gone, but for those of us recording the show… it was still happening and as a result, we talk a bit about that. From there we talk about the repeated death of E3 and why maybe they should just call it quits going forward. Thalen talks about the apparent fact that Crunchyroll is known for killing games. Bel and Kodra talk a bit about the Zelda Direct and how apparently Tears of the Kingdom is going to be even more sandboxy. Super Adventure Festival is going on in Guild Wars 2 and we talk about the quirky new Fashion Wars event happening in Lion’s Arch as well as the test release of World 3 of the Super Adventure Box. This past week the Crucible League announcement stream took place and the patch notes were released… frustrating a good number of players. From there Tam talks about Terra Nill an ecological world-building sim. Finally, we wrap up the show with some talk about the books we have been reading. Thalen talks about the Broken Earth series and Bel talks about Legends and Lattes and the Bloodsworn series.

Topics Discussed

Happy Liars Day
E3 Cancelled for Lack of Interest
Crunchy Roll Kills Games
Zelda Direct
Guild Wars 2
- Super Adventure Festival 2023
- Super Adventure Box World 3
- Fashion Wars
Path of Exile
- Crucible League Announcement
- Questionable Changes
Terra Nill
Some Book Talk
- Broken Earth Series
  - The Fifth Season
- Legends and Lattes
- Bloodsworn Series
  - The Shadow of the Gods
  - The Hunger of the Gods

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AggroChat #428 – Bad Big Boss

March 26, 2023 by Belghast

Featuring: Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, and Tamrielo

Hey Folks! Tonight we are down three folks and contemplated not recording at all… eventually deciding on the recording to save ourselves from a mega show. The original intent was to record a fairly short show, but ultimately we ended up chatting away for the full time regardless. Tonight we talk about Diablo IV again and some of our frustrations. This weekend Grace got to play the game in the Open Beta so we start out with their opinions and devolve from there. After that Tam talks a bit about his experiences with Triangle Strategy. Finally, we talk about Adepticon and all of the news coming out of it for new miniature gaming releases.

Topics Discussed:

Diablo IV
- Grace’s Opinions
- More Frustrations
Triangle Strategy
- Awful Name Great Game
Adepticon Reveals
- Warhammer 40k
- Infinity
- Ral Partha Nostalgia

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AggroChat #427 – Potential Rubbish

March 19, 2023 by Belghast

Featuring: Ammosart, Grace, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen

Hey Folks! This week Bel talks about his experiences playing Diablo IV Beta and how it is nothing as he expected and mostly Diablo the MMORPG. From there Bel and Grace talk about their experiences playing Last Epoch multiplayer doing the endgame activity called Monoliths. Tam talks about Star Citizen 3.18 recovering from its server woes and how fleshed out the new racing league feature is. Kodra talks about how much he enjoys games that are themselves effectively a tutorial. We’ve talked about Battletech by Harebrained Schemes quite a bit but we dive into an update about the current state of mods. Then we end up going off the deep end into a discussion about the 90s internet and the things that are now lost to the sands of time.

Topics Discussed:

Diablo IV Beta
- Bel Has Concerns
Last Epoch Endgame with Friends
- Bel and Grace Play Monoliths Together
Star Citizen 3.18 Recovers
- Racing League
Tutorials in Games and Tutorials as Games
Battletech with Mods
Remembering the 90s Internet

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AggroChat #426 – Victim of Success

March 12, 2023 by Belghast

Good Morning Folks! We start off the show with some random talk about Rick Astley and the history of Rickrolling. From there Bel talks about getting a Commander tag and going for the obvious best choice… that Catmander. Kodra talks about beating Axiom Verge and his struggles with M.A.S.S. Builder not quite being detailed enough. From there we talk about the launch of the Last Epoch Multiplayer patch and the struggles of instant 8X growth. We talk a bit about the challenge of a game launch and scaling servers without overbooking capacity. Then we finish out with some discussion from Tam about the Star Citizen 3.18 patch and its own server capacity issues.