anus_pounder
Arcane
Blowing up Maadoran seems to cause all sorts of problems atm. I spent the rest of my years as the arena champion despite Maadoran being wiped clean. lolwut.
merc and drifter can join TG through the vignette quest thoIt'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.
That's what a lot of people want. Not a game where stats and skills matter but a game with adjustable stats/skills providing an illusion of a character system but ultimately only giving you bonus loot to make you even more awesome.my suggestion for game design, is to make the game winnable through any stats, no matter how low. but the rewards to scale with their level
is almost actually true.the game winnable through any stats, no matter how low. but the rewards to scale with their level
Whereas if you have high skills and thus manage to make something out of yourself you end up as consul/legatus/etc.
Things like that never happen in real life!Only if you have at least some Charisma. Some of the ending slides are hilariously out of touch for low CHA characters. I was just another Aurelian praetor that failed to make himself noticed despite successfully leading the Ordu through the pass, killing the Zamedi demon, making an alliance with the IG and leading the assault on Ganezzar, and then finally going to the temple and killing Agathoth? The ending slide just doesn't match what was going on in the game, because, despite the fact that Gaelius clearly notices you through the dialogue (mentions how great you are multiple times), you're told you didn't make yourself noticed because you only ended up with 8 HA rep.
I've noticed plenty of other endings that really don't match the experience from the character in the game, and the culprit in pretty much all the cases in low CHA. Meanwhile a high CHA character can mess up a bunch of quests and still get the best endings, despite all the characters in the game talking about how incompetent they are.
It's not even about ending up on top. I'm not opposed to the idea that a charismatic person has much better odds to make more with less than some unlikeable douchebag, it's just that the way the ending slides are written it often makes it sound like you're just some nobody who didn't do anything as opposed to an extremely valuable, competent person who just got edged out because no one liked him. It would be cool if some of the endings at least checked CHA to see if that was the reason you didn't have high reputation with any faction, because then you could have an ending slide that better matches the character, saying something about how you didn't have what it takes to compete in the world of politics so, despite you competence in other matters, you ended up with some shit job somewhere or whatever.Things like that never happen in real life!
Anyway, what would you suggest? How would increase the odds to end up on top?
Ok, so I've finished the game like 6 or 7 times already (it's fucking excellent), now I'm doing steam cheevos hunting. I know more or less what to do to get the remaining ones except for the "Burn It (Some Men Just Want to Watch the World Burn)".
Anyone knows?
Got me thinking. How would one speedrun this game? As in reach any (non-deathscreen) ending asap.The saddest thing is that is almost actually true.
Like you can 'win' the game with almost no SP investment compared to what you get.
You don't have to do the faction/side quests and still finish the game with very low SP cost. And the rewards are going to scale with it, you either remain a nobody as you started or get the world cucked by Agathoth if you are unable(for some reason) to complete the faction questlines.
Whereas if you have high skills and thus manage to make something out of yourself you end up as consul/legatus/etc.
Just did it for the lulz.speedrun talk
Do Teron by fixing the smelter or getting the map to Antidas to unlock Maadoran (all doable with starting skills)
Talking to the guy in Maadoran immediately unlocks Gaz (no skillcheck)
After talking to the guy at the tavern in Gaz you pass a check or two in either Dead River (lore + amulet) or Hellgate (get past the robot, amulet from divine spear guy, eat some laser damage).
Should take like... 5 minutes without loading screens? You may need to do like one or two other SP quests with skillchecks in between to be able to pass DR/Hellgate.
Just did it for the lulz.
Started as merc, so I'd have armor and a decent weapon without buying it. 7,8,6,5,10,4 stats, only skills were axe, dodge, persuasion, and lore. Let the assassin leave, didn't escort the dude to the thieves guild. Went to Feng to talk about the map because you can't talk to Dellar without doing that. Then went to Dellar, got the outpost quest. Went to the outpost and raised persuasion and lore to 4 each, fixed it and went to Maadoran. Talked to Abukar to get Domitius information, talked to Domitius, told Gaelius to shove off, left for Ganezzar to talk to cartographer dude, went to Hellgate. Leveled persuasion up to 6 (not sure what the Bennie check is) and rest went to axe. Killed the robot easily, got the amulet, and the rest is obvious. Took me less than 10 minutes total and I made a few mistakes that took time (tried to talk to Dellar before Feng and Domitius before Abukar, also went to bandit camp for free XP that I didn't need).