u/Ok_Philosophy_7156

Hi folks!

I’m working on mastering my OST for a video game ready for a stand-alone streaming release.

Obviously in-context some of these tracks were intended to be much lower than others. I’ve done a first pass through of the album mastering each track to what feels natural relative to the other tracks when listened through. It all feels reasonably good and balanced as an album, and nothing feels out of place when played through on shuffle either.

My only concern is the different ‘types’ of tracks are hitting wildly different LUFS and Peak levels to feel natural. The three Boss Fight tracks sit at around -12LUFS and peak at -1dB. The regular gameplay loops sit comfortably at -15 to -18 LUFS and also all peak at -1dB. The more ambient and minimal tracks, however, sit at around -21LUFS and only peak between -6 and -8dB. If I try to bring up these particular tracks they sound AWFUL, really unnaturally loud and in-your face.

What’s the general wisdom surrounding this kind of situation? I don’t really see a way around it.

What would happen if I sent this off to streaming sites with such a track-by-track disparity in these levels?

Thanks in advance!

Once you hit 520 you can buy a guaranteed T5 piece for a mere 2 legendary marks at the tower (Solstice Armor Focus at the Tenet of Bravery), making it the cheapest and quickest set to hunt for perfect stats (by my reckoning at least, correct me if I’m wrong)… but the effect is a little lackluster. Certainly not bad - fast free healing and a buff to solar weapons will never hurt - but not really a powerhouse set like many others.

Outside of the obvious Solar (or Solar-oriented Prismatic) subclass choice, is there anything else that can play well into the effect? Any other buffs that can be chain-triggered by the healing, or any weapons that benefit significantly from the armor effect?

Doing a fairly standard prismatic Buddy build - Getaway Artist for Arc Soul, Hellion and Feed The Void aspects. Strand Melee and either Strand or Void Super.

Primary: Lethal Abundance with Slice and Rampage
Energy: Choir of One, which I pretty much run as my primary unless I somehow run out of ammo
Heavy: Mistral Lift or Cynosure, both with Envious Arsenal and Bait and Switch

Armor set is Exodus Down for the time being, there’s some raid and dungeon set effects I want but I haven’t been able to get started on those yet to get them. Stats are 200 Grenade, 120 Melee and Weapons, 80 Super, Class is something like 30 and no Health.

Head Mods: Harmonic Siphon and either Void or Strand siphon (depending on which super I’m running and whether there’s ammo scarcity mods that would limit my Choir of One), and Ashes to Assets

Arm Mods: Firepower x2, Momentum Transfer

Chest Mods: Damage Resistance

Leg Mods: Void/Strand Weapon Surge, Absolution, Recuperation

Class Mods: Bomber, Utility Kickstart (for class regen with my lower class stat), Time Dilation

I find as long as I can pick up a decent amount of orbs, this build hauls ass and has great survivability and damage, but currently I’m not generating many by myself, so I’m dependent on generation from the fireteam. Is there anything I can change here to generate more orbs?

I hate how auto melee chooses to pop the unpowered one instead of the actual ability if I’m too close to enemies (especially frustrating on Stasis Titan and Strand Warlock) but when I have it disabled I can’t use my Glaive melee, and I really like Glaives…

I’m on PS5 so my rebinding options are limited.

Any ways to solve this? Don’t mind doing a bit of rebinding but the only free button I’m seeing is R3 (since that’s only used for finishers) but using that feels bad for both options.

Mostly struggling for boss DPS. I feel like my only good Void heavy is Truth, but I’m really accident-prone with RLs and am liable to wreck a solid run at the boss with a stray shot. By choice I’d probably use LFRs or similar but the only void LFR I’ve got is a Taipan-4FR from before enhanced perks were even a thing. I also struggle with Anti-Champ options when running truth because the only anti-barrier kinetic slot specials I have are Snipers and I’m absolutely garbage with snipers.

Loadout 1:
- Mint Retrograde/The Call OR some kind of sniper that I only ever use for Barriers if I need it
- Destabilising/Repulsor Brace Gridskipper
- Truth

Pros: Gridskipper is an absolute monster primary, and Truth is great for DPS.

Cons: basically a wasted special slot if I have to deal with Barriers, and my accident prone-ness with Truth sometimes wrecks DPS.

Loadout 2:
- Chaos Reshaped Blast Furnace
- Wavesplitter
- Destabilising/Killing Tally Hammerhead

Pros: Wavesplitter tears through everything except bosses and has great orb generation. Blast Furnace is a solid workhorse for ammo gen if I need it. All champions are covered.

Cons: Boss DPS is abysmal. Less void debuffs than the Gridskipper set

I’ve tried running non-void heavies but not having them benefit from my void weapon buffs also really stings my DPS compared to the Truth loadout.

The rest of the build is based around Nezarec’s Sin Soul Siphon spam, with the Exodus Down armor set. Sitting at 180 Melee, 150 Super, 100 Weapons, 80-ish Grenade, 0 Health. All the void mods on the Alchemy Satchel artifact.

Any thoughts or gear recommendations to hunt for would be greatly appreciated!

Looking to start doing Dungeons, currently just working on getting armor pieces with the right stats.

Survivability has been my biggest issue in solo content with my other builds and I’m wary of being a burden to the team so I really want to focus on something that can keep my health and overshields up, keep enemies weak or incapacitated, etc. I’m happy not to be the kill leader if I can hold my own.

I’m torn between using Nezarec’s Sin for suppress and energy recharge vs Winter’s Guile for damage. Been running both and prefer NS in solo but I’m not sure which would be better in a dungeon.

Aspects: Soul Siphon, Feed the Void
Fragments: Provision, Undermining, Vigilance, Expulsion, Persistence

Armor Set: Eutechnology x4
Helmet Mods: Hands On x2 and Harmonic Siphon
Glove Mods: Heavy Handed x2 and Melee Font
Chest: All resistance, changed with the Op
Boots: Orb of Restoration, Invigoration, Absolution
Class: Powerful Attraction and Time Dilation

Primary: The Recluse (Collective Pugilism/Chaos Reshaped)
Secondary: still hunting for something that really suits me, but most of the time I just use something with Pugilist for melee uptime.
Heavy: Really liking Fafnir at the moment, but not sure how suited it is to Dungeons etc.

Fairly standard Geomag Chaos Reach build, running Delicate Tomb for the exotic.

- Melee: Ball Lightning
- Grenade: Pulse Grenade
- Class: Healing Rift
- Aspects: Electrostatic Mind and Ionic Sentry
- Sparks: Resistance, Shock, Discharge, Frequency

I don’t run any particular heavy, but I’ve got a whole bunch of different options with good Arc-Based perks so I tend to just tag out what suits the encounter.

Got plenty of decent primaries but I basically just use them for ability or ammo gen. I’m wondering if anyone has recommendations that are strong for Arc or Super-heavy builds in particular?

Haven’t played since the Witch Queen, and really want to get stuck into raids and dungeons that I was never able to do before!

Hoping to join an active clan for more regular raids/dungeons and other high-end activities rather than just a one-off Sherpa run. I did a lot of raiding back in D1 but haven’t had the chance to do any in D2 yet.

I’m UK-based so looking for people in GMT-adjacent time zones for ease!

Just a silly idea I had to try and make the most ‘fantasy’ warlock possible. Low-tech, no guns, only the most ‘magic’ abilities rather than the more tech-y or cosmic ones.

Weapons-wise, only using Glaives, Swords or Bows.

What I’ve got so far is:
- Super: Stasis. You get a big ol’ staff, doesn’t get more wizard than that.
- Melee: Solar Snap. Fire at the fingertips is another classic wizard move.
- Grenade: undecided
- Movement: Blink (inefficient? Yes. Wizard as hell? Also yes.)
- Class: one of the rifts. Don’t think the Phoenix Dive is as wizard-y as a rift.
- Aspects: Hellion and Bleak Watcher. Magic turrets are also very wizard.

Looking for recommendations for Facets to use (I get 6 with those Aspects) and any recommendations for particular Glaives, Bows or Swords that would be worth chasing to play well with the build!

Just a fun hypothetical.

Let’s say you get to ask the lore team one question now, knowing that we won’t be getting any more in-game lore to solve the *many* outstanding mysteries.

You only get one question, and it is assumed that whatever you do ask, they actually have worked out the answer and whatever they say is considered to be correct and lore-coherent.

What do you ask?

As the title says. I’ve got a basic outline but stuck on a few bits of fine-tuning.

Durge: Hexblade Warlock 12. Shadow Blade, Devil’s Sight, Resonance Stone, the usual there. Also going for all Ilithid powers on him.

Tav (started in local multiplayer to have 2 custom chars): Beast Master Ranger 12 using the Raven to cast Darkness. Fairly cut and dry too, though gear recommendations would be appreciated!

Shadowheart: Although it has its weaknesses, I really want to do a thematic Sharite/DJ so I’ll be going Trickery Cleric/Shadow Monk multi. I’ve seen 6/6 usually being the recommended split for this but I’d be interested to hear if other options may be better. I want to be fairly melee-oriented using the Spear of Evening and full DJ gear so perhaps more monk is better?

Astarion: want to ascend him and go for Shadow Sorcerer to 11. Is there anything worth a 1-level dip, or just go all the way through to 12? Want to use him as more of a control sorcerer than damage, so gear recommendations would be appreciated! He will also be using tadpoles and going half-Ilithid

(Apologies I cannot show a visual example because of NDAs)

I’m in UE5.2. No third-party plugins in this project other than FMOD which I can’t see affecting this.

We have a bunch of waterfalls in the level, and I’m trying to set up audio emitters for them using Get Closest Point on Collision to move the emitter. The waterfalls all use the same Static Mesh with a simple collider covering a shallow rectangular plane over the vertical element of the mesh. I’m going to try and make a more complex collider shape eventually but I want to get it working with a simpler shape to start.

If the player is reasonably close and moves parallel to the plane, it tracks perfectly. Matches the closest point in the horizontal and vertical planes (relative to the waterfall, not globally) with no issues.

As soon as the player moves perpendicular to the collider, the emitter moves away in the vertical plane.

For example if the player starts level with the bottom of the waterfall and walks directly away from it, the ‘closest point’ moves up the waterfall, or if they start level with the top the emitter moves down towards the bottom. It seems that the angle it’s ‘casting’ between the player and the emitter gets steeper as the distance increases.

In the Blueprint, all that’s happening is just Get Closest Point on Collision with the target as the player pawn, and a Move To Location node to change the FMOD emitter’s location. As I said before the collider is a very shallow rectangular collider over the vertical element of the fall, no funny business there.

Anyone have any idea what’s going on here?

Hey gang, just wondering if anyone has any tips for making crevasses or fissures etc? I’m trying to make a big old fracture in the world, I’ve played around with using cliff symbols and filling the centre in black but it doesn’t really ‘track’ the way I’d hoped

Is this a deliberate thing?

I almost always end up getting a master ball during a run and usually just use it on Eternatus turn 1 for a quick and easy finish (plus Eternatus candies) but when I get there on challenge runs I get the ‘a strange force is preventing you from using pokeballs, weaken it first’ message (I can’t remember exactly what it says but that’s the gist of it) even with Master balls.

I thought it was something to do with Eternatus being the wrong generation/type on previous runs but I’ve had the same issue come up on Gen 8 and mono-poison and mono-dragon runs, which it certainly wouldn’t be excluded from.

Anyone else had this issue? It’s hardly the end of the world since the fight’s not *that* hard but still, annoying when it catches me out