It's been a while since I've dealt with a Packers team with a losing record this far into the season. The offense is lost and lacks play makers or the ability to get the ball to the couple of play makers there are. Special teams is a liability. Defense at least is middle-of-the-pack, but lacks any form of consistency.
But at least I have /r/NFCNorthMemeWar to make me laugh.
Yes this is a week late. That's how much it hurts. We'll see how this week goes.
I am away this weekend camping in the real world MMO. Enjoy some of my screenshots from my brief adventures in Brimstone Sands!
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| And here we go... after unlocking the quest to access the zone. |
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| SQUISH! Small scorpions get squished by running over them. |
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| A cozy camp. |
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| O_O This legendary rapier was a quest reward for one of the first quests! |
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| More legendary quest rewards! |
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| I swear there was a giant sand worm in this picture when I took it! |
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| Amazing atmosphere in the desert. |
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| A tower to explore (have not gone in yet!) |
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| The main city. |
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| A pool in the main city. |
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| Amazing places to be found in every nook and cranny; or canyon in this case. |
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| And last, and not part of Brimstone Sands, but this is the new facade for Monarch's Bluff |
I beat down the login queue, fixed my crashes (driver updates and a specific driver rollback), and enjoyed some of Brimstone Sands last... oh what is this shiny thing... New World Buddy!? I will get to my Brimstone Sands impressions (probably next week), but I really want to talk about this tool. It is very slick.
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| Oh shiny! |
First there is the question "aren't mods against the terms of service?".
No Games or Mods: sorry, but it's not okay to make your own game using our game content or to create mods. If things change for a particular game, we'll let you know.Yes, mods -- as can be seen above -- are not allowed. However, this tool is not a mod. It does not interact with the game. It is simply showing the same data that any of the New World websites such as New World Fans or NWDB are showing. In fact I suspect many of it's data sources are the same as those websites.
In addition to giving quick access to tons of information about items, crafting recipes, perks/abilities, and points of interest it also has an amazing feature for tracking gear sets. When I clicked into the gear builder and started putting together my build for tracking I realized how slick this tool was. You can select any gear and if it has set attributes/perks it brings them in. If the gear has variable perks it lets you set them to what you have in game. Then it has a screenshot tool that lets you quickly screenshot the build (see screenshot below - just me playing around to track a build so its not complete).
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| Output from screenshot tool on Gear Builder |
There is also quick reference to information such as umbral shards required to upgrade, XP required to level, and crafting recipes (especially helpful this release with the introduction of Heartrunes and Runeglass gems that require a lot of materials to be collected). On top of that there are various calculators such as gear score and access to crafting calculators with the ability to import prices from nwmarketprices.com for your specific server.
Over all this is just an amazing tool for a community member who made it "because I got tired of tracking things in spreadsheets". I absolutely love things like this coming from the community and it enhances my play experience with the game. I understand why AGS had to crack down on things like the in-game overlay map tools that were being built because its a step too close to interacting with the game. But this, this little buddy, is amazing and just brings information to your finger tips as well as giving a better solution for build tracking than using a spreadsheet. I can't imagine AGS would have issues with this tool as it just a glorified website in an app.
Want to give it a try? First; you do have to trust this developer as Windows will flag it as not trusted. Proceed at your own risk. See the info below (and there is a discord server linked on the site if you want to get more involved):
This is an open source windows application (electron app)
https://github.com/giniedp/nw-buddy
http://nw-buddy.ginie.eu/
