Pathfinder Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Edition - RTwP incline from Owlcat Games

So are load times, especially for the kingdom management stuff a thing that will be enhanced or...?

 

whos gonna play on beta and tell us if there's any new spells

Shadenuat i choose you!

 

Wow this looks great!

 

New game it is

Fuck my free time

 

Anyone here generate their own party or at least a couple of other characters? The companions are mostly crap classes, not even a pure wizard! I want to have both a Magus and a Wizard so I'll have to generate it manually via the guild, but will I lose out on any NPC backstory/quest if i do this?

 

From what I have seen yesterday after epic loading of 18 GB patch current state is... very beta.
Would not recommend it to anyone remotely bugophobic.

 

It looks like they decided to add official respec to the game. I wonder how much it allows to change for companions.

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I was kinda afraid that Slayer will inherit Ranger's furry boots but this... is not a case.

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Good thing build starts as Eldritch Archer.

 

So does anyone know if a previous save will work with the EE version? I'm in Chapter 5 and would like to continue with the EE. And damn this game is great, Owlcat are instant legends for it!

 

Devs said old saves should work normally.

 

Not that I have noticed. I have all mercenary party for most of the time. When an NPC brings up a personal quest you can add them to your party and go to their quest location (like Amiri or Valerie). You can optimize companions by multi-classing (like Harrim to druid/Amiri to 2 handed weapon fighter, etc.) or just leave them as is and play on lower difficulty setting. Ekundayo could save a sub-optimal companion only party. He becomes so powerful with Devouver of Metal. Buff his (and any other pets) with mage armor and heroism, set him on auto-pilot and just watch the carnage from a distance.
The "only" situation I can see a player failing at this game due to character choice is having their main as something that can't complete solo quests. Even then there is an item that can solve many problem encounters with 0% risk.

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The Heart of Ira

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With Heart of Ira equipped in encounters like the Scythe tree, the ambush encounter...these encounters can be rendered trivial. IF I was playing an evil campaign this item has the potential of decimating otherwise frustrating encounters-

 

I read a comment on YT saying if you are playing with exp for active party only, you get a project to level up lower level party members to your current level, is that true?

 

Why is everyone saying the smilodon is the best pet? I haven't used it yet, but the wolf in comparison to the bear is a monster. Pretty much trips everything, setting them up for attacks of opportunity and sneaks attacks...

 

I use the Mastadon. High attack/strength/damage and a ton of HP. Not sure why everyone uncreatively uses the same pet...

 

Not everyone can be tripped and it does not work vs many that can be tripped as they are big and have huge defense. Smilodon does lots of attacks per round and does a lot of consistent damage that does not depend on trip.

 

I used a Leopard and at first it used to only trips during charges but then it started to trip everyone which was great.

I only picked a Leopard because I saw that it had the highest Dex gain so I was thinking it will be the best tank.

Thank you ArchAngel.

 

It depends on the difficulty. There is a hole in game where enemies CMD is so high they can't be tripped, but then you level up and get more spells to buff pets which closes the gap.

 

As ArchAngel said... 5 attacks a round, base. Tripping is great, when it works, but damage is almost always valuable.

 

Leopard is also my pet of choice. It has trip, 3 attacks per round and best AC.

 

As I understand, dog and wolf eventually gain 3 attacks also, all 3 of them bites -> Best CMB AND 3 Trip attemps per round (Leopard always has 1 bite -> 1 Trip).

 

They should not. Animals don't get bonus attacks due to high BAB.

 

Everyone takes Smilodon because it does 2x-5x the damage that the other pets do

It's utterly overpowered and doesn't even closely resemble a normal animal companion

 

So how hard is this game exactly? I am pretty new to crpgs and struggle with things like pre-buffing and micro managing units constantly. Should I just play on easy?

 

Normal difficulty shouldn't be too difficult, but the one thing I'd say is put the kingdom management on easy if you can because it's really frustrating

 

buy healing potions so you don't have to sleep all the time

 

This is by far the biggest complaint I've heard from friends, they said it almost ruined the entire game for them.