I dunno why SSC doesn't auto-add for secondary affliction messages. And every IRE game should have gmcp.Combat. Message collection is the absolute worst.
Don't strip squad on death. That communication breakup is so severe that it makes them useless if you're not sharing xp. Rings give you xp share and communication with no death kick, and path grouping doesn't even care about your ring. Webs at least…
Overall, they have been great fun, but I'm a nitpicker so I'm going to pro/con timequakes to area shardfalls in Imperian. Not going to touch on the research or skills too much or at all, we'll see.
I don't mind getting ganked on entry. My SOP was to block/trap/wall shardfall area entrances and wait for victims. I've managed to get the 1m tick by myself v 10+ in 2-3 deaths. I almost got it in one once I learned Serpent, but the leg break spam h…
(I tend to use single-button offense archetypes [eg I had dstab1, teamstab, puncture route, etc] with choices to govern behavior and stand-alones for other stuff but kinda off-topic)
IRE in general struggles with team-based combat because…