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Age of Decadence Released

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Not an RPG by catking2003
I have been thinking a lot about what this game actually is and finally I come to a conclusion. This is not an RPG as it claims to be but rather a point and click adventure game disguised as RPG. There are certainly many choices but not much freedom. I know this sounds conflicting but it is not. You have the choices to do various quests but there are requirements for succeeding in those quests, most of which require certain levels of this skill or that skill. So in the end, to do and complete quests you are forced to put points in specific skills instead of investing points as you like, just like in an adventure game, you are forced to put items together to solve puzzle and proceed the game.There are also encounters and events that you can not get out alive, no matter what class you choose and what skills/stats you put in, just like that death spot in the adventure game where you will simply die by walking over. They make different stories for different classes which exactly show how lacking the game is. No, you can't solve the same problems with different methods using different classes but you can solve different problems with specific methods using specific classes. No freedom, just branching, the fact that there are more branches does not mean it becomes open ended.

Most other user reviews on GoG are positive but this one quite worrying.
I didn't spend a huge amount of time of AoD yet, but it feels more like other RPG aren't RPG compared with that one than the opposite.
 

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To protect from the mental attack you need to awake the god at the heart of the abyss and receive a mental shield ability. You need [7 CON] to survive the awakening. High alchemy, especially strong liquid fire and bombs, helps. There is also a way to weaken him before he awakes, but I still don’t know how to do that.
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The way to weaken him is:
Through the well portal, read the scrolls THEN click the canisters. Missable as you probably inspect them first when coming in, read scrolls, do machine shit then fuck off out of there. Oh, and you need lore/int to insert the canister in the temple console.

Does mind shield actually cancel the mind attack? The character I got it on wasn't much of a fighter anyway, but I swear I still got hit when I hopelessly fought him for laughs.

As to actually beating him, only time I've done it was after weakening him then spamming BP bombs (with the super bomb from hellgate going out 1st). No mind shield, but had con 8 (-10 HP from PA + not using the rebreather to get through the abyss), PA-Ra (slight health regen 2 dex and 2 str), highish block (~7 IIRC) so poison needles were shrugged off a lot and used a speed pot to get out an extra bomb for a few rounds. Need to get a 10 [weapon skill] to go against the weakened version at some point, see if a slugging match could actually kill him. Only full fighters I've got there had to fight him at full strength and could rarely land a hit.
 
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The way to weaken him is: Through the well portal, read the scrolls THEN click the canisters. Missable as you probably inspect them first when coming in, read scrolls, do machine shit then fuck off out of there. Oh, and you need lore/int to insert the canister in the temple console.

Oh, no. This fucking game.

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I think that when I tried this, either this wasn't implemented yet (I didn't start a new game after the release), or I clicked on the canisters first. That you have to do things in that order is pretty sadistic, even for AoD standards.
Does mind shield actually cancel the mind attack?

You take almost no damage.
 

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Hadn't had a chance to play for a week now because of a vacation with my wife (in Rome of all places!) and I have now
"completed" Teron with an assassin by royally screwing up.
Started then a new character as Grifter and have proceeded to the next town and failed only one quest in Teron that I could find. Still came out on top in my own opinion so far. Bumped Charisma to 10 at the expense of strength. Let's see how that ends up killing me in the end. This game...:salute:
 

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Loved these Easter eggs:
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:lol:
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Alchemy Training Room
Do not enter
Master Corax
Master Rauen

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Blade
Wooden Handle
Place for hand

Handle
Weakest Place
Blade
 

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What are those, runes?
Yes. I thought they were the Ultima runes, but authentic Futhark runes were used instead (similar to the ones Tolkein used in The Hobbit). Ultima switched the "H" and "W" runes and the "X" and "Z" runes for some reason.

In Ultima runes, the middle inscription for the axe would have read "Hooden Wandle" instead of "Wooden Handle".
 

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Can I just chime in here and ask where the game checks for loyalty, prestige and combat? I know how to lose one whole point of loyalty and go to -1, but I don't think I've ever EARNED a point of loyalty or had it checked at all.

Found big one.
You cant join Merchant guild if your Loaylty is negative.
 

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Teron:

- get the promissory note from Kaeso's house
- steal the goblet for Cado


How to get it? (i found crumbling tower on 3th walkthough)
 

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Teron:

- get the promissory note from Kaeso's house
- steal the goblet for Cado

How to get it? (i found crumbling tower on 3th walkthough)
The goblet - ask for Cado's help with the raiders (thieves only). Refuse to pay, offer to steal something for him.
Kaeso's note - you have 3 options in the first quest:
- bribe the guards (the easiest but will backfire in quest 3)
- steal or forge the mandate
- help the guard's captain with his debt problems (he'll ask you to get his promissory note from Kaeso). Do that and quest 3 will become much easier.
 
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Not sure if it's been mentioned, but when I betrayed the Boatsmen to work for Carrinas, the fight with Coltan and Agatai (I used the dex/CS/vial option) wouldn't stop.

Kept pressing space after they were both dead to no avail.
 
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After finishing

the Boatmen quest line siding with Varro and getting the
The Inquisitor
achievement, the game doesn't end. Is that intentional? Varro tells me
to talk to Meru, and there's only
the map line
So I guess I must side with him?

Is that correct?
 
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Btw, really weird that more people in Steam have finished
the Imperial Guards' questline in Teron (15.2%)
than finished the
the first quest as a thief (15.1%)

The
Inquisitor achievement
I talk about above was only done by
1.3% :cool:
 

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IG is the natural first choice, devs encourage people to create stupid ugly fighter first.
 

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Shadorwun: Hong Kong
:yeah:

Finished my first Praetor playthrough. ~10 hrs. I must admit it's p. hard to understand what's going on during your first playthrough. But I need to see the game from other perspectives.

Overall, the game is really something different. Worth the wait.

10/10 would buy a copy for my wife.
 

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Btw, really weird that more people in Steam have finished
the Imperial Guards' questline in Teron (15.2%)
than finished the
the first quest as a thief (15.1%)

It's also much easier to join the IG as another background like drifter, mercenary, or loremaster. To "impress Cado" you need to have very narrow skills that other backgrounds likely wouldn't have.
 
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Another big problem: if you're an Imperial Guard and destroy Maadoran before going to the Pass, you get sent to Ganezzar and end up locked out of the IG questline. If you go to the pass, Bass just loops a dialogue saying they heard Maadoran got destroyed and that it took care of their mubbajabbi problem, but you don't get sent to Caer-Tor. When I went back to Teron to talk to Carrinas/Antidas (I played the Kingmaker route) there was no option to talk to either, just a surly Dellar at the palace turning me away.

I ended up killing Meru and going to the Temple, then leaving it just to see what happened. No mention of Antidas being Emperor in the ending slides, rather it said the IG attacked Daratan using the assassination of Carrinas as a pretext. Carrinas should of course have been alive and well. I haven't tried with a kingslayer IG, but I suspect the result is the same.
 

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