I know this was not inteded, but god, your ramble made me cackle.
And its true. (PVE player here)
Like some changes are just downright obnoxious, optimisation? Never heard of it. Seven seconds since the last crash.
Procastinating on a task is fine, but not if said task is very bloody important.
There is not all negative despite that- as example, Fort Castrum (albeit its a lagfest) is a step in the right direction to lessen or remove forced pvp
(to be clear, i am NOT against pvp. I am against pvp in the way that someone jumps me when im mc fuckin fishing for no other reason than me being there. that shits annoying and you know who you are.)
Could be improved, but the idea is there- and PVE players who are thirstin for content at every angle enjoy it greatly, as it seems.
(not me tho lol i am so awful at dodging)
Despite him not doing any pvp updates, some changes seem to be… not thought out too well (see: brig beds being removed for respawn) which is often quite annoying, but god, i hope he takes the suggestions that have been made.
Keeping long time gankers in the game bc it would “die out” isnt important- it is important to get new players engaged, and if they get jumped three seconds in by some dude, i can not see how that could be possible.
If I headed up to cirrus, lets say around the elius arena, and just sat there afk until I heard a fresh level 50 show up and obliterated them until they left, I somehow doubt they’d come back.
The ONLY reason people don’t go up there to slaughter fresh 50s at random is the time commitment to climb, and even then I’m surprised more people don’t do it.
However, I did run into a delightful duo the other day at Sailors, who had twinked themselves out with presumably superior tiers of enchant, and were set to spawn there with multiple Knight files in an attempt to gank VERY fresh players straight out of Elius. They even had backup duo Crystal Mage files to switch to when I gave them grief.
Both of those files were created about five days ago and I’m sure they’ve managed to run more then a few new players off.
what the hell is wrong with people…?
an ACTUAL archrono W?
holy shit
the day has come
most of ur takes are shit but i can finally agree with one of them 
im gonna be real i dont even think the gameplay is the only problem
i joined for the story and now its kind of just??? meh???
you can see more rants about it in other threads (especially threads with skittle) (yes he rants about how bad the story is) (i agree with him and its not even because of glaze) (there is SO many plot holes holy shit) (so much glaze) (so much unneccessary info) (so many unneccessary retcons) (it literally disintegrated the plot of every single other game before it??)
on this topic, one thing I do NOT understand is why vetex made hecate essence the way it was after going out of his way to retcon minds.
I cannot emphasize enough that minds are literally 100% of the entire reason magic changing was supposed to be a huge pain in the ass to begin with.
Last time I checked, it was, indeed, veto’d
u should fish in places where people never go
I was at bloody dracos arc 
The only problem i face in this game is Performance itself, can’t even run Arcane odyssey on 10 Graphics bar without crashing every 5-10 minutes
In my opinion optimize should be main thing to make gameplay less laggy
Performance is really dog shit.
Wdym my PC can perfectly run Helldivers 2 on minimal settings, but struggles to run a fucking Roblox game at graphics 9
retcon odyssey with all the lore changes i got no clue whats going on nowadays
no cause this shit is more confusing than the lore of the most obscure media you can find
like how did vetex do this dawg
i can run 200 mods in terraria with a stable 60 fps and yet ao consistently dips to 50 or lower (from 120)
Because they want you not to feel bored
If vetex chose quality over quantity, it would quickly get repetitive
With the current thing you can atleast switch from diving to for example dark sea, or fighting pirates
Yeah you’re banned
I fit into this same category (if we exclude playing AA & OF), so I’m very intruiged to explore this rant for the second time (I made a comment on it in reminders discussion) in much more depth with you.
Whilst I understand where the argument is headed, don’t you feel this is still very disrespectful? For someone you’ve been a fan of since the previous decade, it’s appalling that you can talk like that about someone you seem to admire so much over a game. He’s has his own life, he’s his own person, and you’re doing nothing good for the guy by insulting him over the directions he chooses to take over something you can gladly drop and leave if you’re so upset with it.
I can get behind this, the gap between Vetex, Testers & the Balance Team is way too sparse, and the two groups just mentioned should clearly be a lot closer linked than they currently are so that balancing takes place.
Completely true, Vetex should’ve kept it at it’s original rate and there would still be some moderate difficulty attached to it (less islands searched - but still being in far reaches would work amazingly because the islands are still large).
Is a VFX Change all so important?
No offence intended to any testers who read this, but does much testing even get done during the development for updates? Yes, you can’t discover every bug whilst testing, and new ones may prop up over time, but the amount of new bugs or unfixed issues we see every update is a bit worrying.
I could probably make an entire topic about how the tester team is a perfect example of some like crazy ass arcane nepotism at this point but I’ll save that for another day.
I shouldn’t be one to speak on this, because the only experience I have with AO Content Creation is two recruitment videos & two rants on my channel, but I feel as if there is still content to create, you’re just looking away from it because you feel burned out (which is completely understandable).
For instance, although the video shown below didn’t rack in as many views, I enjoyed it (not because the clan mentioned is owned by a close friend, but because PvP videos are entertaining).
This video of yours below inspired me and a friend to make our own Water-Glass Mages.
You made me start maining a Lightning Ileg slot which I was planning to make ages ago.
I may come from an area of bias because I’m one of the more “PvP-Centric” forumers, but your PvP videos genuinely interested me, and I definitely feel you’re able to build off of them again with the magnitude of unique, unheard of, or straight up redundant build combinations.
I also discussed my views on what you stated about hecate essence on the post below, because I want to avoid repeating myself.
https://forum.arcaneodyssey.dev/t/full-release-update-patch-notes-discussion-thread/137894/1163?u=64arc
To conclude, I understand your frustration, but I don’t understand your aggression towards Vetex (and namely hecate essences as a whole), yes, he has a community to provide for, but he’s his own person, and he’s making his own creation. If you don’t see his vision, that’s completely understandable, but I don’t see why you should disrespect him for it.
now for snarky replies to the replies hehe
What the fuck?
I know you hate modifiers and all, but digging isn’t too hard (coming from someone who’s only time spent PvE’ing is doing charts).
W idea? get the shit boring stuff out of the way first?