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Anyone else getting this vibe whenever Fisk is talking with Daniel?
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I hope they don’t kill off Daniel anytime soon. I would love to see Daniel getting morally corrupted by Fisk’s influnce and won’t hesitate to accomplish more of his control over New York in the same way how The Penguin took Vic Aguilar under his wing in his show.
Top Comment: I'm almost certain Daniel will out Matt's identity to impress Fisk and he'll end up killing him for that, essentially what happened in Bendis' run changing Fisk's son for Daniel
Remember the viral internet video called Damn Daniel? I am stalking my nephews with it.
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There was this viral internet video called "Damn Daniel" in 2016 of this kid getting complimented on his style of dress by his friend saying "Damn Daniel" weirdly and funnily and at the end pointing out his white vans and saying "Back at it again with the white Vans!" - it was so random and weird as to why it went viral ( in my opinion) This was so long ago now.
I am 43 years old and my nephews are 18 and 17 and they are over "Damn Daniel" and are completely embarrassed by it...but I stalk their whole life with it. Not every day but I stretch it out in doses. Sometimes we will all be sitting around the living room and I will be on my phone and I will pull up the video and crank up the volume to where it blasts DAMN DANIEL! real quick and then I will shut it off.
Then a few weeks later we will be eating at a restaurant and I will finish giving my order to the waitress when I exclaim "Damn Daniel!"
Then a month later when we are at the movies and the theater is about to quiet down I will slip in " Back at it again with the white Vans!!!!!"
They just roll their eyes at me. They probably think I think it's still cool and I am trying to be cool with them but that's not the case. What is wrong with me? And why did I choose this of all things to stalk my nephews with?
Top Comment: The new Rick roll, haha. Love it. They cringe but they will love his memory of you.
[ALL] why do people in this subreddit ignore sean and daniel?
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i’ve seen so many posts criticizing true colors (which i agree with) and people reply in an attempt to defend tc by saying the only reason people don’t like it because it’s not max and chloe despite that having nothing to do with what makes tc unenjoyable. i, and many other people, loved lis2 which had protagonists who weren’t max and chloe and personally i am not excited for double exposure because its a max sequel that i feel isn’t necessary.
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I have nothing but good things to say about the both of them I love Sean only cause I made him care for Daniel but for that reason he really did everything he could to protect his brother even if it was wrong in the end and Daniel really grew up fast over the span of the 5 episodes it sucks with the ending I choose that they’re hiding out in Mexico because I figured the entire plot of the game was pointless if you didn’t go to Mexico (I did play back for the other ending and to 100% but I would do anything for these boys they deserve nothing but greatness real or not
"He knew what I looked like beforehand"
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Taylor's concern about Daniel "know what she looked like" doesn't really add up to me. He may have followed her on instagram but it was before LIB so he wouldn't even be thinking about that in the pods or put details together to know it was her, or even if he did maybe he doesn't remember what she looks like because it's totally out of context for him.
He then unfollowed her at some point. Most people do follow a lot of people so he may have never even seen her posts or remembered them, much less know details or memorise her bio.
Her on the other hand: she claims she clicked through once and somehow remembers details like specific pictures and his face and that they had mutuals? Whenever a random person follows me I don't remember who they are months later, much less be able to recognise them or remember we follow the same people.
Her logic of "he must know me" could also be applied to her, since she seems to remember a lot more than he does.
I think she's making a big deal out of nothing, maybe because she's not attracted to him and wants an excuse to leave him.
Top Comment: Wasn’t he the one that asked her what her Instagram handle was? He also mentioned that he has a great memory of peoples IG handles. I thought it was strange he would even ask her that.
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Just finished my Long Victory with Daemons of Chaos (a.k.a. Daniel). A few thoughts.
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Ok, Instead of giving up and playing Dark Elves (to round up the elven achievements) I decided to give Daniel a go. I'm a CA shill, as people here love to call me now and then, so I did not believe the constant bitching about Daniel being shit. After all, I hear the same about Norsca (who I love playing), Empire (who I really love playing), Kislev (who is my favorite WH3 race)... see a pattern? Can you blame me for thinking "Well, everyone is bitching, so Daniel must be fun!"?
In the name of The Great Horned Rat, by the hammer of Sigmar and with the blessing of The Lady, I was so wrong. So, so, so, so wrong. I publicly apologize for my snarky, arrogant thoughts on Daniel. You are all still wrong about Kislev and Empire, tho ;)
Fair warning - this is most of me just ranting and venting my complete frustration with this faction.
So... Daniel. Where the fuck to begin? Unlike in previous posts, this time I'm gonna go trough the faction part by part (mostly to bitch) and then the campaign and then I'll bitch some more.
The Demon
Also known as Daniel. Or Yuri, cause as far as I can tell, he still claims to be The Godslayer
Now, making a custom demon is fun and the lego approach works surprisingly well graphically. The idea of you being capable of just swapping parts of your own body for the occasion, going from caster, to tank, to duelist, to support is marvelous. Yet..
The parts are bad. The mix and match approach works for the early game, then you just fall out of power. Additionally you can't equip regular items and can't get ancillaries. No banners for you, Daniel, you are too dumb for that arcane mystery. Not that you get any good ancillaries, but on that later.
The problem with the demon parts is that they barely boost you to about the stats of a regular LL in the same focus at high level. Except all LLs get items in addition. So you are never on par with them. Never. And your casting is just a joke - it's like you get a custom Lore made from some not-so-great spells from other lores. Yes, with some support you can get pretty good (I did go 1-on-1 with Tamurkhan once and kinda survived), but I can say the same about Kislev's Ice Witches! And they are immensely better casters!
You'll do the same bs thing for a wile - "Hey I unlocked a new part!!!", opens panel, scrolls for a minute to find the equipped and the new part and compares them... "That's the same part, same ability, but they switched +4 Melee Defense for +5% Physical Resistance... and that's supposed to be better???"
Instead of becoming the next Scarbrand, you go for a melee build and get your ass handed by Franz. Or more embarrassingly - you go to snipe Elspeth and she hands you your ass. Like, what the fuck, CA?
I ended up going mix and match, strapping two separate AoE damage items (that I unlocked at turn 20!!!!) and use Daniel to just wipe out chaff.
You have an unique Skill Tree... and it's trash. You essentially have 5 blue lines. None of them has anything good. No Melee line, no Magic line, no command line, nothing.
I went Undivided, because it looked cool... but from what I saw, the god-specific parts are in no way any better.
Let me put it in plain terms. Going Undivaded should make you the equal of Be'Lakor, Khorn - equal to Scarbrand, Nurgle - the Equal to Kugath, etc. Instead you go undivided and a random Norscan lord eats you for breakfast.
What needs to be done? Buffs, buffs, buffs and the ability to equip actual items. Nothing here gives me 16% Ward Save. Nothing.
Glory to Chaos
So, to unlock pats and units, you need to accumulate Glory for the different Chaos Gods and Undivided Glory. You get a lot of Glory by capturing settlements and dedicating them to specific Gods (no Undivided option). You also can get it from post-battle actions, but since it's attached to the regular stuff (exp, replenishment, money and the massive amount of +5 winds of magic) you aren't gonna be able to constantly go that way.
Also, you getting Glory is relatively easy and once you dedicate it takes just a few turns to max out the bar. After that, Glory is pointless and meaningless.
You also unlock a nerfed version of some mechanics from each monogod - bloodletting (more of a penalty, imo, see bellow), Plagues (never bothered much, you get 3 and they suck), Teleportation (but not the teleport-attack, so essentially a very expensive underway/beastpaths/etc stance EDIT: Apparently I just ran in to a bug or something, because it does work, making it one of the best things you get on the list) and Seduction (but you'll never have the money for it). You do so very early and I admit, watching a Nurgle Lord with a Nurgle army seducing stuff is plain funny.
The faction
Why did I go Undivided? Cause I was poor as fuck. Man, I thought Boris and Ostankya are poor. I was wrong. I get it, you are supposed to get a lot of money from combat, but you start in the Chaos Wastes - long distances, spread out enemies and considering the amounts of WoC factions - a bunch of empty settlements and ruins. And just enough space for the AI to jerk you around. Now, you may say, "But hameleona, you should leave them and go South!". Yes, but I was going for the Long Victory. More on that later.
You have 4 + 4 Lords and 4 heroes, all dedicated to a Chaos God. No Undivided Lord or Hero. Why? No idea, I'm not very interested in Chaos, so maybe there was just nothing from GW that could be used, or just CA being lazy. Why 4+4, because at level 15 your Lords can ascend to demons, loosing half their levels. I am yet unsure if this is a good deal. The heroes aren't anything special, tho combining specific abilities of the Khorn one and the Slanesh one can give something like 60 or 80 total difference between your units MA and the enemy MD. Gotta say, that was fun and useful. But they all felt extremely squishy in combat, idk why. You will get a metric ton of them, since two buildings give capacity AND both give it at T3. Hero stacks? Possibly worth it. Also, do you know what's fun? You have no way to increase recruitment slots. You get 2 +1 from commandment and 3 global (I think 1 was from Undivided) and that's it. Yes, you might have to spend 5+ turns assembling an army together. If you ever have the money, that is.
You know what else? You get heroes at level 4 at most (IIRC Undivided dedication) and Lords at level 10 after Long Victory and that's it. Yeah, no way to increase that.
I honestly don't know what CA was thinking designing the faction. And that's not even mentioning the Victory Conditions. Short Victory is ok, quick and easy. Long Victory wants you to eliminate a bunch of WoC from Sigvald and Valkia, to Kholek with Archeon and Azaziel as a side dish. You'll have to also slap the Emo Dark Elf on the way, so unless you are very smart with your diplomacy you can get stuck in a war in Naggarond and having The Dark Elf experience - dozens of turns of fighting edgy elves.
The Buggy
Karnak or however Cerberus is called has the buggiest campaign map movement animation I've ever seen in a TW game.
The Campaign Lasted 185 turns.
So I went East, since first Epidermus, then Emo boy, then Sigvald, then Valkia just saw me and declared war on me. Granted I had to kill the last two anyway, but whatever. I was about to get the Dark Elf Experience, but I was smart, I just traded a few settlements to Momma's boy and said, fuck this shit, I'm going east! Now Archeon was a chill neighbor, but I needed the achievement, sooo...
Until my armies get there he was mostly dead. From (anyone who saw any of my previous posts would understand my pain) mother fucking Grimgor Ironhide. For the fuckes of sakes, that's 6th campaign in a row, where that fucking black orc is not only alive, not only well, but also a mother fucking major power. And fucking greenskins expect a DLC, so even more of a boost. Fuck this shit.
So I did, what a smart Demon does - I expolited the game, sold him a single settlement and got him as a vassal. Yes, Grimgor, with 25 or so settlements, 15 full stacks with waaghs became my vassal for a T2 minor settlement. Seriously, CA?
After that it was Daniel grinding trough Tamurkhan to get to Kholek, while my other 3 armies were trying to corner Azaziel (yeah, he just ran around Kislev avoiding combat). And finally, they were dead... only for me to realize I need 15 more settlements to get the Victory.
Let's make it clear, so that you all get my pain. I essentially held all of the Chaos Wastes, barring the 3 western most Norscan settlements (who I traded away so they do count for the victory). From there, all the way to The Mountains of Mourn (essentially to Cathay) I held the northern part of the map. Plus a province in Norsca and half of Kislev. And that was 65 settlements that I have ever conquered. For ~160 turns. That's how shit the Chaos Wastes are to play in!
So I just declared on the Empire and triggered essentially the End times, with Grimgor on my side. Still took me 15 or so turns to just grind trough the endless hordes of Franz, Nuln, Luen and Morgiana.
For the record, I'm not that bad of a player, I play on VH/VH regularly. And I play Empire and Kislev on it with no problem. I do Boris and chill. I'm not great, but the sheer stupidity of design of Daniel's faction made the game an endless grind, where I never had enough money, never had enough infrastructure (since I had no money), never enough armies (literally had just 3 until I finished off Valkia I just couldn't afford more).
The saddest part is... the ideas and the general outlines are there. An Undivided demon, gets all the options, kicks ass. I wanted to like it. I really did. I tried. And I failed miserably. At least I knocked all of the achievements and don't have a reason to get back to Daniel, ever again.
Honestly I don't hate the idea of a long campaign, where you have to bring the End Times. Or try going all Be'Lakor and amass enough power to challenge the Dark Gods themselves. I love the idea of the Glory, but it needs to be a resource that you spend on recruitment and abilities. I love the dress-up game, but please give me my items back. The Demons were interesting, but Auto Resolve hates their guts with passion, so I fought waaaay too many pointless manual battles. I love the settlement dedication system, but, ffs, where are my recruitment slots and shit?
Daniel needs a complete re-build from the ground up. A DLC won't save him, he needs to get the Beastmen or WoC treatment.
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The problem with Daniel is he was designed for the RoC launch environment. Even then, he had issues, but he was only dealing with a dozen major factions, many of which had their own problems (This is the environment where CA thought things like '+3% speed' traits were a good idea).
But he just doesn't work with IE or the current state of the game. Like you've said, he needs a complete overhaul.