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But rogues gonna do spike damage, so theyll be actually be better suited to fight stuff that can resist weak but fast attacks, which is the territory of the fighter.

Dreaad a warrior is one devoted to the art of war.

tuluse already mentioned the shotgun wielding rogue.

 

If they do the smart (i.e. simulation-y) thing, then they'll do the crit calculations after determining whether an attack has pierced armor. That way you don't have this problem.

 

Then my bad, just sharing my impressions anyway, and super glad to be proven mistaken on any of the negative ones.

 

Critting works similarly to DnD, if your to-hit roll is high enough, you crit.

 

I meant the crit damage calculation, not the crit chance one. Lhynn's problem was that if a rogue is a critting machine, then he'll be better against heavily armored enemies than a fighter, in spite of having a lower base damage. However, if you calculate whether an attack has pierced the opponent's armor before doing the damage multiplying, then the fighter will still be more effective against heavy armor.

 

The idea is that you don't feel like you need to do this while still facing sufficient challenge.

Some places will have creatures respawn on rest too.

 

Then josh cant into mmo vocabulary, thats called burst damage.
Spike damage is a as the name implies, a sudden spike in the damage, usually a single hit that does what a lot of small ones cant.
Dpsers are the ones that are good at sustained damage, they are usually the ones that win the damage race over time.

 

Yhm, ACTUALLY, he was a scoundrel

 

I hope the first mod to come out removes respawning nonsense.

 

If it makes sense for the area, why would you want to remove it? Play better.

 

Its not respawn, think of it as inhabitants of the area just finding you by chance after getting back from picking up flowers and raising their newly born childs and being a day away from retiring into a life of peace.

 

No mention of backer portal or prototype in the update makes me

 

Maybe it'll be lateral progression.

 

That is actually what he means. I think Infinitron is wrong. The Rogue is simply an MMO-style/4th Edition style Rogue - they do the highest single-target, single-hit damage but they rely on flanking and use of active abilities to boost their damage, having to flank implies the need to re-position, unless the target is disabled. Disables won't last for very long in this game (probs nowhere near as long as IE games), so that will probably be a few hits max, perhaps enough to still down a character.

One of the things previously mentioned is that a Rogue has an attack that does damage based on amount of missing Stamina (or Health), the lower the value, the higher damage bonus.

It's definitely a 4E-ism that Rogues and Rangers are the DPS dealers because they were moulded as 'Striker' classes, I've already expressed my distaste to that but so be it I guess. That's just how it is.

 

And some stuff from Kaz ... they must have only given him a Developer tag recently as he has posts dating all the way back to September 20.

Re: City sketches

 

It's clearly his dream project and may have contacted Obsidian on his own shortly after the Kickstarter. Which may be how the whole relationship started.

But, its pretty funny that none of us ever searched an user named Kaz after finding out.

 

Or before as he did the Sagani portrait which was one of the first pieces of art revealed during Kickstarter updates. The connection there is Polina Hristova - they used to work together for LucasArts on The Clone Wars.

 

Yes. After checking the date for him to have done that concept piece in that time (and it was a weekend no less) it would have need to be done beforehand. The Sagani concept came out much earlier than I rememberd it.

I did imagine that either A: Kaz contacted Polina (Obs) or B: Polina (Obs) contacted Kaz, but under that consideration it's most likely B.