KickStarter Pathfinder: Kingmaker Pre-DLC Thread [GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Jimmious]

Cael making sense? I guess man is a learning machine. "What a piece of work is a man [...], in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!"

I know right? He does makes sense now and then and has really good knowledge about some stuff but it's how the Codex feels in general: You have to dig through a huge pile of shit but you're bound to find gems eventually

 

[Grampy_Bone]

*sigh*

Player Options

Yes skills and powers were expansion books to 2E. They were also in the 2E players handbook as one of the many optional rules. Skills and powers implicitly replaced this system.

http://epicsavingthrow.com/add-1e-skills-non-weapon-proficiencies/

 

[MilesBeyond]

Seriously though, now that "turn based=unsellable" myth has been debunked by XCOM, it is merely cargoculting IE games with these RtwP offerings.

I'm pretty sure it is, yeah, particularly considering how much the interface also cribs from IE games. When games like PoE and Kingmaker literally have the same movement cursor as IE games, it makes it pretty clear that a big part of their motivation is to try and recreate the success of those games.

That being said, RTwP has its advantages. Turn based is hell for huge fights and just annoying when it comes to fights that you can easily win. I still have flashbacks to those damn wolf packs in Fallout. But this game could have been so much better with turn based. Damn Baldur's Gate nostalgia...

 

[Ezeekiel]

I only played through the intro with everything set to "normal" or "1", so as Core as possible and I didn't find any fight too hard.
Typical RTwP pre-buffing and targeting affair so far.

I rolled a dwarven battle Crusader of Caden Cailean btw. MAH WARHAMMER FOR YE DRUNKEN GOD

*Btw game is fun, character building etc is awesome and I like the combat as much as possible for RTwP. Of course dialogues and text in general is hilariously crappy, almost feels like a cringy 14 year old wrote stuff

I think a lot of people are playing on the wrong difficulties tbh. (Would have been better for the devs to do harder diff. by changing enemy composition or adding more enemies, plus more rewards instead of bloating crit chances and such)

That being said, normal difficulty appears to be -20 percent enemy damage, so not quite core.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

That being said, normal difficulty appears to be -20 percent enemy damage, so not quite core.

It's strange how "normal" is actually slightly gimped enemies while the next notch up gives them buffs. You actually have to use the custom settings to play with Core rules. Odd decision there.

 

[Jinn]

well then

Nice! Thank you to the kind soul who dropped this beautiful game in the rat's lap.

See you in a couple weeks, Roxor. I think you'll find some things to like in this one.

 

[Ezeekiel]

For anyone who cares, I finally found it: settings are stored in the registry(HKCU/Software/Owlcat Games/Pathfinder Kingmaker) in hex format with a NUL terminator('00')

Settings are broken and don't save properly, supposed to be fixed in the next patch.

honestly, I wish devs would just use a plain text ini for config values. Stop obfuscating shit.

Wich settings don't save properly? Graphics stuff etc or difficulty?

 

[Ezeekiel]

That being said, normal difficulty appears to be -20 percent enemy damage, so not quite core.

It's strange how "normal" is actually slightly gimped enemies while the next notch up gives them buffs. You actually have to use the custom settings to play with Core rules. Odd decision there.

Yeah, that's what I did. Zero issues so far.
And yup, I don't really understand why the devs did things this way.

 

[Jimmious]

I only played through the intro with everything set to "normal" or "1", so as Core as possible and I didn't find any fight too hard.
Typical RTwP pre-buffing and targeting affair so far.

I rolled a dwarven battle Crusader of Caden Cailean btw. MAH WARHAMMER FOR YE DRUNKEN GOD

*Btw game is fun, character building etc is awesome and I like the combat as much as possible for RTwP. Of course dialogues and text in general is hilariously crappy, almost feels like a cringy 14 year old wrote stuff

I think a lot of people are playing on the wrong difficulties tbh. (Would have been better for the devs to do harder diff. by changing enemy composition or adding more enemies, plus more rewards instead of bloating crit chances and such)

That being said, normal difficulty appears to be -20 percent enemy damage, so not quite core.

Yeah I changed that. I set everything to the "normal" setting, so I have a "custom" difficulty in total

 

[Belegarsson]

I spent 30 minutes to kick that stupid bear treant's ass and I got 67 EXP out of it???

 

[pomenitul]

Masochism is incline. Or so I've been told.

 

[conan_edw]

Any word on the quality of quest design in general?

 

[Ezeekiel]

Man, can you imagine the steam review complainers trying to play IWD 1 where you start in that little fishing village and you have, I think, goblins with archers close by? With 1HD chars hahaha
Plus some wolves later... They'd never get past the beginning.

 

[aweigh]

One good thing about Roxor getting this game is that it will help finish up his Deadfire review. He can just write "not as good as Kingmaker" and call it a day.

 

[M. AQVILA]

The developers really fucked up with the difficulty system, I still don't understand why they changed it from the Beta and didn't even add a "core rules" difficulty to the new system.

 

[Thonius]

The problem is a lack of manual.... I just dont have idea if claws from DD stack with Unarmed Weapon Spec's - Dragon style etc.
I don't know what is in the game and how it works and what's not. Encyclopedia is useless. They gotta add a LOT of text...

 

[Shadenuat]

Almost gotchaed by Sseth Merchant's Guild, no thanks even for 500 resource, "until you pay all your orders go through us" yeah fuck you no bye

Persuaded high priest to gib free temple

I am very wary to take an envoy who looks like Olenna Tyrell, but... well, I can deal with a few poisonings, I hope.

 

[Fedora Master]

Okay, some of this shit is simply clearly bugged.

 

[zapotec]

It's not bugged
Channeling energy causes a burst that affects all creatures of one type (either undead or living)
in a 30-foot radius centered on the cleric.

Here the pdf document found inside the OGL folder.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fkjf7na0ytlqih5/PFKM-reference_document.pdf?dl=0

 

[Suicidal]

Lol, all the retards on Steam bitching about the difficulty actually made me buy the game. I think I want to experience it in its purest form before the devs inevitably nerf everything into the ground. This better be worth it.

 

[Fenix]

Anyone read when are they planning to release 1.0.2 ?

I heard that only NEXT WEEK. Sorry.

 

[Serus]

I only played through the intro with everything set to "normal" or "1", so as Core as possible and I didn't find any fight too hard.
Typical RTwP pre-buffing and targeting affair so far.

I rolled a dwarven battle Crusader of Caden Cailean btw. MAH WARHAMMER FOR YE DRUNKEN GOD

*Btw game is fun, character building etc is awesome and I like the combat as much as possible for RTwP. Of course dialogues and text in general is hilariously crappy, almost feels like a cringy 14 year old wrote stuff

I think a lot of people are playing on the wrong difficulties tbh. (Would have been better for the devs to do harder diff. by changing enemy composition or adding more enemies, plus more rewards instead of bloating crit chances and such)

That being said, normal difficulty appears to be -20 percent enemy damage, so not quite core.

Yeah I changed that. I set everything to the "normal" setting, so I have a "custom" difficulty in total

Apropos , what's this "death's door" option? I assume it's an addition to make game easier or is it a mechanic from core rules of Pathfinder? It's on on "normal" and off on "challenging" so I'm a bit confused.
Anyone?

 

[Fedora Master]

It's not bugged
Channeling energy causes a burst that affects all creatures of one type (either undead or living)
in a 30-foot radius centered on the cleric.

Here the pdf document found inside the OGL folder.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fkjf7na0ytlqih5/PFKM-reference_document.pdf?dl=0

Smoulderburn is a fucking flying ghost skull. He's clearly undead.

 

[Thonius]

Ooof game got random hp on level up ( No max HP tick in options)..... f5 f9 here we go!

 

[fantadomat]

The XP gain is really fucked up. The amount should be relevant to the difficutly of the encounter,getting 60ish xp from the bear is like killing 6 centipedes is just retarded. Also i noticed difficulty of some encounters feels really unbelievable. I just mopped the floor with three trolls and a few kobalts,just across them i get wiped by bunch of wolfs. The prone spamming is retarded.