Great game made by some devs who used to work at Halfbrick (Fruit Ninja/Jetpack Joyride fame). Highly recommend playing with an actual DJ turntable for the full fantasy. Also had a recently released VR mode.
On top of all that, https://spinsha.re/
They were definitely worth the effort before if you were specifically going for the Mysterious Chests. Now those have been boosted in cost, it may be less worthwhile.
That being said, uniques can now drop from Helltide chests, and drop rates for non-Mysterious chests have been increased so it might be a zero-sum change.
Another vote for Synology here. I previously had a DS418play for almost 8 years. Just picked up a DS423+ recently to upgrade and the process was literally as simple as removing the drives from the old NAS, chucking them in the new NAS, and booting up. All my Docker containers, all my credentials, all my licenses were all just there and working, despite being in a new shell.
Also want to call out the importance of 4-bay vs. 2-bay. With 2-bay you get 1-drive fault tolerance in RAID mode, which is nice. With 4-bay, you can still opt for 1-drive fault tolerance and with SHR you can have 4 drives active (of varying sizes) giving you much more available space and making the upgrade path of storage significantly easier.
Just reporting back that I did the work last night to change the ingestion order for my cameras. I'm now using the go2rtc component of frigate as the first ingestion point. That component is serving a restream to both Frigate and my NAS' NVR. It's working much better now, with less frame delay, and less CPU usage on the NAS.
I'm not sure that I would need this very much. I'm mostly interested in a sort of ephemeral surveilance system; I only really need to store, at most, a few days, and then rewrite over it all.
This is exactly what I do. I simply cloud backup any event/object clips but only retain last 5 days. The cloud is if law enforcement needs it, or in the event of hardware failure/catastrophic house damage.
What tweaking do you generally need to do for the camera server?
Recording schedules change based on time of day/when we're in/out of the house. This is all handled as automations through Home Assistant, but is set up through Surveillance Station NVR.
This is exactly what I do. Record at 15FPS, event detection at 5FPS (at quarter resolution too).
That's quite a few cameras. I would do an audit on how many you will actually need first, because you will likely find you could get by with 5-10.
In terms of what you'll need - any Intel chip that supports QuickSync will likely do for the main ffmpeg processing of the image, but you will definitely want a Google Coral TPU. If you do end up needing 10-15 cameras, you may end up needing the M2 with dual TPU version of the Coral. You will also want some form of reliable storage for your clips (NAS local or NFS), as well as the ability to back up those clips/shots to the cloud somewhere.
I'm personally running 4 cameras (3x1080 @ 15fps, 1x4k @ 25fps) through my ~7 year old Synology DS418play NAS using Surveillance Station as the first ingestion point, then restreaming from there to Frigate. Now that Surveillance Station can accept external events via webhook, I may look to swap the direction, and ingest into Frigate first, then restream out to Surveillance Station for long-term storage.
"Why not directly use Frigate?" I hear you ask. Mostly because Frigate is pretty static. It's all set up via YAML with no config UI currently, whereas I can tweak stuff on Surveillance Station quite easily.
I think that one of the most disappointing things about D4 is that it actively punishes you for wanting to try new things via high respec costs and gearing/aspect requirements. This is especially true at end game because there is no "Refund All" for paragon boards. Hence why (accurate) build guides are so important.
Another thing that makes theorycrafting difficult yourself is that due to all skills being %age based, it's much harder to plan out the math behind a build.
Finally, while it's relatively easy to try out different builds while you're leveling, the landscape of what is viable when you hit WT3/WT4 completely changes as Glyphs start generating more of your DPS/survivability than the skills in your previous build, which dramatically changes what your build may look like. This change at end-game is great for variety (leveling builds are different to end-game builds), but due to the aforementioned way that D4 punishes you for wanting to try new things, it makes it pretty difficult in WT4+ to play anything but the "meta" builds.
All that being said, the Dev update tomorrow mentioned that they'll be going over Season 1 details as well as a bunch of QoL changes that are upcoming. So my fingers are crossed for at least a "Refund all" for paragon boards, if not multiple "Spec"/Armory slots.
Been using this for over 6 months now and have not really been tempted to try anything different. Using ink black linear switches in a self-printed gasket mount case.
Welcome to the existentialist crew! It's a great and humbling place to be.