KickStarter Lords of Xulima

[Agesilaus]

the combat engine looks horrible

 

[victim]

ou spent your points in the highest stats of the class ? You did wrong, like i did, except on mage , focus on energy as the basic attacks are all blocked evaded and if not they deal very small damage.Looking at my party stats the mage did 37% of all the damage by himself.

Just started playing and saw that screen. I don't exactly understand what the %s measure because for me when I added them up they totaled substantially more than 100.

Also, is picking locks a guessing game?

 

[victim]

This s worth making a separate post about. My brother also got a steam key but the game will not open on his computer and it says something about an arial font error. Anyone else get that?

 

[Clockwork Knight]

http://www.twinfinite.net/2014/08/08/lords-of-xulima-preview/

In a fit of genius, the game includes a feature whereby the right-mouse button is solely for bringing up the tooltip for whatever it’s highlighting. If it matters, you can get some information about it. In a fit of madness, this is seemingly the only way to discover anything about the game save for long-winded non-interactive tutorial texts.

So save for being told what it is, the only way to learn about something is to ask what it is? Mindboggling

 

[Cromwell]

Also, is picking locks a guessing game?

Pretty much but you can at least count some ways out. There is always a number of cogs shown, thats the number of cogs in between the start and the end (not counting start and end). So at least you can count a way and when there are to many ? in the way you want to click your going the wrong way. You can save load to not loose to much lock picks but I think the layout of the game is different each time you click on the chest.

Also I am an Idiot, I never actually tried priestess heal just assuming it is just hp/pp healing.

 

[GrimoireFTW]

Fantastic game, im loving it. So far killed the first prince and the beholder. Now working on being strong enough to fight the boss of the divine temple.

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

The lock picking game needs work or perhaps someone can explain what I am missing. While it looks neat on first blush, there doesn't seem to be a reason to pick one square over another. So why bother showing them on a grid and give a false sense of choice & strategy at all? Am I missing something?

 

[jdinatale]

Fantastic game, im loving it. So far killed the first prince and the beholder. Now working on being strong enough to fight the boss of the divine temple.

Mark for spoilers dummy

 

[felipepepe]

The lock picking game needs work or perhaps someone can explain what I am missing. While it looks neat on first blush, there doesn't seem to be a reason to pick one square over another. So why bother showing them on a grid and give a false sense of choice & strategy at all? Am I missing something?

It isn't blind luck, you have to consider the number of gears remaining and what path would use those. It's a bit like minefield.

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

The lock picking game needs work or perhaps someone can explain what I am missing. While it looks neat on first blush, there doesn't seem to be a reason to pick one square over another. So why bother showing them on a grid and give a false sense of choice & strategy at all? Am I missing something?

It isn't blind luck, you have to consider the number of gears remaining and what path would use those. It's a bit like minefield.

Oh I guess this is indicated somewhere? I'll check.

Do you know whether the beta is a finished percentage of the game or are all areas being updated?

 

[felipepepe]

Fixed percentage... something like 40-50% IIRC. It's a lot of content, took me more than 40 hours.

 

[Mortmal]

The lock picking game needs work or perhaps someone can explain what I am missing. While it looks neat on first blush, there doesn't seem to be a reason to pick one square over another. So why bother showing them on a grid and give a false sense of choice & strategy at all? Am I missing something?

It isn't blind luck, you have to consider the number of gears remaining and what path would use those. It's a bit like minefield.

Oh I guess this is indicated somewhere? I'll check.

Do you know whether the beta is a finished percentage of the game or are all areas being updated?

All the areas i crossed were clearly finished no placeholder or empty space , theres some zone transition unavalaible so i am pretty sure its 50% of the finisihed game now.

 

[victim]

This s worth making a separate post about. My brother also got a steam key but the game will not open on his computer and it says something about an arial font error. Anyone else get that?

This problem has been solved. He was missing the font Arial Regular. Easy fix.

 

[victim]

It isn't blind luck, you have to consider the number of gears remaining and what path would use those. It's a bit like minefield.

I am just starting ahd have low lock pick. How do I know how many gears are remaining?

 

[felipepepe]

It always shows you that. You can see both the number of lockpicks you still have and the number of gears on the right side of the screen.

 

[Agesilaus]

Anyone able to share indepth thoughts about the combat? I saw a youtube video of some gameplay and it looked awfully dull. The rest of the game looks great, though.

 

[victim]

So there is nothing that tells you when you have completed a job/quest and even when you go to report it, it is nonobvious what you have to do to get credit for it.

 

[Cromwell]

So there is nothing that tells you when you have completed a job/quest and even when you go to report it, it is nonobvious what you have to do to get credit for it.

You have your questlog with active missions. Dont know about later but every quest I did was noted in my log, for example get x spores from the mushroom mother fuckers, then I had to check my Inventory to see how much I had, more or less obvious. Is there any point in pushing str for more damage or should I just wait for better weapons, whenever that will be?

 

[Don Peste]

Saw this from RPGWatch , if you wanna laugh / rage hard

http://www.twinfinite.net/2014/08/08/lords-of-xulima-preview/

Lords of Xulima is a role-playing game, or RPG. It does a fair job of emulating the characteristics of the genre but this is a game that caters to a very specific breed of RPG-gamer: the one that doesn’t care about meaningful characters, style, or the good parts of the genre.

Tl;dr he probably expected a Bioware game

I think I've seen another retarded review posted on the codex from there.

He does point out some interesting info:

Lords of Xulima is a role-playing game, or RPG.

Lords of Xulima, which is pronounced “shoo-LEE-ma” but spelled “Xulima” because it looks way cooler

By the time the game started I was ready to quit

Lords of Xulima is handled with the mouse and keyboard

The ambient sounds and background music are similarly trite, echoing games from the 90s.

I wonder what games from the 90s he remembers. Bart vs. the Space Mutants?

BTW, is he a native English speaker?

 

[muds_animal_friend]

BTW, is he a native English speaker?

I would guess yes, because only a native speaker could write so poorly. A non-native speaker who learnt English formally would know how to conjugate the verb "to be" appropriately. He would not write clunky spoken diction like 'it starts being even more boring', but rather 'it becomes even more boring'. Teh rEview is awesum lulz th0:

'... better get some wind in yer sails and search for greener pastures'

Holy mixed metaphor Batman!

Much like a Bioware lead designer, he knows what he wants from an RPG without actually knowing what an RPG is.

 

[sser]

Codex is an awesome marketing team.

Just bought the game.

 

[katyafrost]

The game is being made by 1+ people, and the reviewer totally neglects that fact. Some may argue that team size nor budget should matter when it comes to reviewing a game. I feel this is a disservice to small gaming teams as amazing gems like "Dungeons of Dredmor" might then be swept under the rug for not having the art budget of a Bioware game.

 

[Bubbles]

To be fair, Baldur's Gate 2 was also made by 1+ people and was a lot more polished than Xulima.

 

[Ramireza]

It says the author of the review was born in 1989. I was playing Might & Magic II in 1989. Author can go jump off a cliff.

I was born in 1987 and I'm writing our preview with Bee... should I jump as well?

Further you are the author of one of the best videos i have ever seen :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC0_7-U_BP4

 

[Grunker]

Baldur's Gate 2 was also made by 1+ people

most games are