fish types Action RPGs are complex and players are simple: They want power any way they can get it, even if it completely trivializes the entire game. Just about every Diablo 4 season has had something that does way more damage than it should, forcing Blizzard to play whack-a-mole to keep it balanced without pissing everyone off. Jonathan Rogers, game director of Path of Exile 2, jokingly acknowledged Diablo 4's ridiculous damage numbers when explaining why he doesn't think his game will have that problem on a recent episode of the Tavern Talk podcast , which is hosted by streamers Darth Microtransaction and GhazzyTV. "Look, PoE 1 obviously did get pretty crazy, but at the same time we had a lot of years—like a lot of years—where things weren't like that," he said. "Our numbers don't scale as fast as some games' do and they don't go quite as exponential which means we're not going to have to be worrying about trillions of damage or anything like that." Rogers said the team is "careful" when it comes to giving players power increases that feel good versus power increases that break the game. For one, numbers in PoE 2 are much smaller. An item might give you nine intelligence to Diablo 4's 200. This helps keep the numbers legible during combat, so players aren't trying to squint to see which attack had more zeroes. "I don't think we're ever going to have to do a numbers squish or anything like that," he said, possibly referencing what Blizzard tried and failed to do with the Vessel of Hatred expansion. It was only partially a success: damage numbers are lower in Diablo 4 than they were before until the moment you hit max level and have a thousand ways to ramp them back up again. PoE 2 doesn't work like that, and seems to have the kind of slow-paced combat encounters you'd normally see in a soulslike. You won't be teleporting through dungeons with a trail of bodies in your wake. It's still an ongoing consideration for Grinding Gear Games though. Rogers says the team has regular back and forths about how high the numbers should go. "Together with that I think we come to some kind of medium ground where we don't get things too out of control." Personally, I love trying broken stuff out in Diablo 4. It isn't a MOBA where balance problems ruin the experience for everyone else. Sometimes you just want to see big numbers. But at the same time, I can appreciate GGG wanting to keep PoE 2 from becoming a flavor-of-the-month action RPG every season. Players will always identify what the best and worst is, but trying to keep the gap in between those things small is certainly admirable. It's never fun spending hours working on a build to watch someone else barrel through the entire game due to some bug. I hope nothing like that crops up during PoE 2's early access, but I can't promise I won't hop on the bandwagon to try it out if it does. PoE 2 will launch in early access on December 6. The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.Target Corporation's (NYSE:TGT) institutional shareholders had a great week as one-year returns increased after a 5.8% gain last week

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A London restaurant found itself under siege by an 'AI mafia' gang that bombarded it with fake negative reviews, demanding £10,000 to stop the attack. Experts are warning that this sinister scheme could target more businesses next, urging, 'Pray you're not next.' Nikolas Lemmel , founder of online reputation firm Maximatic Media, shared that the unnamed eatery turned to his company for help after being overwhelmed by the assault. A flood of one-star reviews caused the restaurant's Google rating to nosedive from an impressive 4.9 to a dismal 2.3 overnight, leaving the owner shocked and desperate for a solution. Nikolas stated that the malicious reviews falsely accused the independent restaurant of racism, food poisoning, and generally poor service. Subsequently, the owner received an anonymous email from the 'review-bombing mafia', claiming responsibility and demanding a £10,000 ransom in Bitcoin cryptocurrency. Nikolas revealed that the attackers orchestrated a sophisticated global operation, utilising AI-powered bot farms to flood Google with fake reviews. These bots were designed to mimic the geolocation and user behaviour of genuine London-based customers accessing the internet via smartphones, thus circumventing Google's review verification systems. Maximatic Media collaborated with Google to remove fraudulent reviews and implemented a digital strategy to encourage positive reviews from loyal customers. In a remarkable turnaround, Maximatic Media rehabilitated the restaurant's Google profile, elevating its rating back to 4.8 stars within a month. Since then, the terrifying silence from the 'review-bombing mafia' has provided much-needed relief, per DailyMail . Nikolas explained that the 'AI mafia' continued to bombard the restaurant with negative reviews even as they worked with Google to remove them. However, over time, the frequency of these attacks gradually diminished. The owner was urged to share her story on social media to counter the negative narrative and openly discuss the ordeal. Furthermore, she was encouraged to incentivise loyal customers to demonstrate their support and help her navigate this difficult time. An influx of new positive reviews ultimately helped the restaurant overcome the attack, restoring its reputation and leaving the grateful owner relieved. Nikolas expressed concern over a 'scary' increase in automated attacks, warning that these incidents can jeopardise livelihoods and that limited options exist to prevent such attacks. 'Usually, we see competitors attempting to decrease the standing of a business within the eyes of a local customer base, but this was an outside party,' he continued. 'They were trying to extort money to remove these reviews. They were like a review-bombing mafia.' 'They were using bot farms to mask the IP address of the accounts and emulate a mobile device that was in the area of the restaurant. Usually, if someone was to leave a review from a different country, then it would be easy to get it removed, but in this case it was a lot more difficult.' 'The owner was extremely thankful that we got all of those reviews down and she didn't succumb to the extortion attempt. There weren't many precautions she could have taken to stop the review-bombing mafia from demolishing her rating.' 'There isn't much you can do other than pray you don't become a victim of this sort of attempt. It's scary. Unless your business is within the IT field, this is above a lot of people's pay grades and that's why it's hard to work out where it's coming from or how to stop it.' 'It's important people reach out to specialists in these sorts of situations because it's a tailored approach depending on what's happening. If you see a business get hundreds of reviews within seconds, then that's a very easy tell-tale sign that it's probably being targeted by an automated attack,' said Nikolas. Founded in 2020, Maximatic Media specialises in helping small businesses manage their online reputation through targeted PR strategies. Recently, Nikolas has expanded the company's focus, ramping up crisis management services to combat online adversaries who exploit modern technology to target businesses.Failure in controlling corruption risks Philippine grant from US MCCThe controversy surrounding this supposed agricultural phenomenon first surfaced when photos and videos depicting the oversized Chinese cabbages started circulating on social media platforms. Many netizens were astonished by the unusually rapid growth rate and impressive size of the vegetables, prompting questions about the methods and practices employed by the villagers to achieve such exceptional results.

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