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AggroChat #547 – The Gabe Cube

November 16, 2025 by Belghast

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

Hey Folks! We recorded a massive show where we effectively burned through our entire backlog of topics. We start off talking about the new character, Maru, in Destiny Rising, and how this seems to be leading us to finally getting off the planet. Kodra discusses Broom Sweeper, which is effectively the Roguelikeification of Minesweeper. Bel got sucked into a local pen and paper game for Public Access and talks a bit about the setting. Ash is doing a “Three Job Fiesta” run of Trials of Mana, and Tam has been playing some ArcRaiders. We are all pretty pumped for the announcement of new Steam Hardware and what this means for PC gaming. Kodra and Tam talk about It Takes a War, and Bel revisits his Freezy Boom character in Path of Exile. We wrap up the show with some rapid-fire discussions about Gunfire Reborn, Winter Burrow, and Ambrosia Sky.

Topics Discussed:

Destiny Rising
- Pirate Queen Maru
Broom Sweeper
Public Access TTRPG
Trials of Mana
- Three Job Fiesta
Arc Raiders
More Steam Hardware
It Takes A War
Path of Exile
- Freezy Boom Revisited
Gunfire Reborn
Winter Burrow
Ambrosia Sky

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AggroChat #546 – Bouncing Balls of Death

November 9, 2025 by Belghast

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

We start off the show with some discussion about Geek Girl Con and how it is a great experience for the entire family. From there, Ash has played a bit more Daggerheart and discusses how not having initiative in that game actually works out really well. Kodra is trying a new mine build in Path of Exile 3.2,7 and we talk a bit about how Rolling Magma Mine has been working. Bel has finished most of the endgame prep and discusses the state of his build and how Breach has been working as a league mechanic. Touhou gets a little less difficult to engage with as Fantasy Maiden Wars attempts to present twenty years worth of assorted games into something more approachable. Tam revisited VTM Bloodlines 2 and thinks that maybe we are misremembering the first game, and how the thing that exists is actually pretty good if you give it enough time. Lastly, Bel finished Frieren this weekend and talks a bit about it being really good and well worth watching.

Topics Discussed:

Geek Girl Con 2025
Daggerheart
- Initiative is Overrated
Path of Exile 3.27
- Rolling Magma Mines
- Breach So Far
Fantasy Maiden Wars
- Super Robot Wars With Shrine Maidens
- Touhou
VTM Bloodlines 2 Revisited
Frieren is Great

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AggroChat #545 – The Tree Tree

November 2, 2025 by Belghast

This week, we start off with some discussion around Path of Exile 3.27, the Keepers of the Flame league, and how we are doing breach to make things with the tree tree. From there, we talk a bit about the murder of Amazon Game Studios and how New World is essentially a shambling corpse now… spooky. After that horror story, we needed something chill, so we talked a bit about Powerwash Simulator and its interesting method for delivering a story. Grace and Bel finally finish the Destiny Rising raid and talk a bit about how good it is at teaching mechanics in lower-level content. Dispatch is a wildly good game that is being delivered in an episodic method that feels like you are playing a really good television show. Guild Wars 2 Visions of Eternity launched and we talk about some of our early thoughts, namely around the builds introduced by the new elite specs. Finally, we talk a bit about Outer Worlds 2 and how it makes good on the idea of Obsidian’s very own Fallout New Vegas that the first game started.

Topics Discussed:

Path of Exile 3.27
- Keepers of the Flame
- The Tree Tree
New World in Zombie Mode
Powerwash Simulator
Destiny Rising Raid
Dispatch
GW2 Visions of Eternity Early Thoughts
Outer Worlds 2

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AggroChat #544 – Gambling Go Boom

October 26, 2025 by Belghast

Good Morning, Folks! This week we had the entire crew and a stacked list of topics, forcing us to bump several to next week. Tam starts out talking about Time Flies, leading into Grace talking about Ball X Pit. Bel shares his thoughts about the Path of Exile 3.27 reveal stream, and Ash discusses the Session Zero for the Critical Role Daggerheart system. Tam has been playing Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2… and how it is very much not a sequel to the first game. Bel talks a bit about the CSGO Gambling Crash, where the illicit market lost some 3 Billion dollars of value in a single day. Ash discusses playing Entropy Effect, which is set in the BlazBlue universe, and Bel shares some further bad news about the self-destruction of Xbox, with some new updates and Halo officially being announced for the PlayStation 5. We wrap things up with first impressions of Dispatch and Outer Worlds 2, which we are likely going to be talking about next week.