Enya facing one her of her "brainworms": The Avatar of Envy. The kryptis are really fun to draw. Especially since they are so complex yet perfect for my way of texturing.
Wanted to wait until the entirety of soto drops with the judgement but this has been boiling in me for a while. I don't really buy the "smaller, faster expansions" pitch anymore. The "nothing to do in this game" wailing really just lead to the place where we get an expansion for basically the price of the previous ones but with barely any maps, artifically stretched out timelime, massive performance issues, no new guildhall or specializations, and no upcoming living world. Releasing half a map worked, okay. But releasing just a third of one?? For months?? I don't hate the content of the expansion itself, but I really don't see how scaling it down so much helped the writing or quality of the content. Because it didn't. I'd argue it's been outright detrimental to some parts of the writing (not going into that though bc spoilers).
Recently it became a trend for big studios in general to just release their games unfinished and then patch it up during the next year or so, and quite honestly what GW2 is doing right now eerily feels the same. Except it's worse, because it's an mmo. If you want to continue playing with your friends, if you want access to new meta builds, new strikes, new anything, you have to buy the expansion, even if it's an unfinished mess. It's disheartening. I hope this only happened because fixing up the core game took away their resources, but that might just be naive thinking on my part.