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

I haven't encountered that, but the hotkey for "menu" (Esc) stops working pretty often. Quite annoying.

 

Yes I do, I'll try that thanks.

Edit: Turns out not that many, I only had about 30 or so.

 

Including autosaves and quicksaves? Either way that is a lot, if you keep it around 5-8 manual saves you'll notice a massive difference.

 

OK thanks.

 

So have we bashed the game for not letting you ambush enemies that have required conversations first?

It's what made BG2 so great, and here it's missing.

Want to sneak up on this encounter? Face it with only a single member of your party. Oops you can't, because the canned scripting moves them all over to screw you over. They might as well remove rogues or the option to be evil from the game.

 

I think Dragon Age sort of numbed everyone to that particular folly a long time ago

 

Has the big patch dropped?

 

Cheesing and trivializing encounters through cheating in ways that no DM would ever allow is not what 'made BG 2 great' --- though I admit it made soloing it more fun and gave you more tactical options.
But it still leaves a bad aftertaste in that you're trivializing what's meant to be a challenging encounter by cheating the game in a way a DM would absolutely destroy you for.

If you think that made BG 2 great, and not the itemization, quest diversity and encounter design...

 

Yeah, why i can't spend 2 days of game time to place 10 spike traps in random place for no reason before evul dragon conveniently spawns here?!

 

There is a couple of decline design decisions like no pickpocketing, not being able to exit zones during combat and some others like having enemies on your screen but they don't react to you until you get a bit closer (IE games didn't allow you to see enemy, then buff at edge of their activation and then fight, if you wanted to see enemy you scouted ahead with stealth or invisibility).
But with so many bugs and features that need polishing and also with so many things this game did right, we are not complaining about this much.

 

Menus have been working badly since release. For some (Unity) reasons game 100% your GPU when you are in any menu. That can cause all kinds of problems. For me I cannot watch shows on another screen at the time, 720p shows stutter because game used up all GPU power.

 

There are plenty of LG and LN choices throughout the game. On occasion pick Neutral or NG and you are good.

 

It's getting worse...

 

Yes, I get it, it's a game. I mean, we prebuff and metagame and reload. I get it. But no need to make it even easier, is there?

"All right, we surround the Lich with 3000 summoned kobolds, then Bob talks to him."
"...what?"

Summoning shit around NPCs should force them to open dialogue and go, "Yo, WTF are you doing? GTFO!" and attack. Same with sending your Barbarian so close to the wizards that they are breathing down their necks.

 

There is plenty alignment options but some situations are just retarded. Like Linzi quest or Nazrielle's apprentice. Fag deliberately cursing innocent people(YOUR people) just to get revenge on his mistress and punishing him is somehow evil. Dafuq.

 

by assigning your level X Amiri with belt of strength +8 with +25 bonus +2 building +1 project +2 extra project +extra roll for kingdom project and so on

but if you mean Chapter 6 you need to go endgame already, since endgame cards ever increase in DC

 

I only realized this after the big tomb dungeon but some buildings increase your rolls! Build those!

 

Can I ask how much of a role MCA has in the writing for Kingmaker? My work of late prevents me from having any real time to play RPGs anymore but that should change soon and it sounds like Kingmaker is the RPG I've been waiting for since the whole Kickstarter fever began.

I'm more curious because I've missed a proper Chris Avellone game in a long while and I'm wondering if this is more MCA in a proper leading role or if this is more of a guest writer/writing a few companions or the occasional sidequest e.g. WL2 or POE

 

That's all.

 

Don't hospitals also give bonuses to some rolls? Available to good baronies.

 

Like what problems are you talking about? There is Fog, but that's the only one which is truly difficult.

At that point you should have at least 2-3 stats at X and others at V to VII. And that is without project for faster development which was bugged for me.

 

There's a LOT MORE buildings than that, scroll through the list.
Courthouse for example, hospital, many others.
Don't know if they stack but they sure help.