Tried another playthrough.
Would've worked if I had not shot myself in the foot by deciding to play a stealth/trap/crossbow build.
No idea what madness came over me. Such a playstyle amplifies all of the game's worst aspects:
- Tediously slow movement becomes even slower when stealthed
- Constant savescumming until you have learned the movements in a given area
- You constantly bump into things that move randomly, revealing yourself - yay, more reloading
- Everything kills you if you do not use masses of traps
- If you want to use masses of traps, you spend more time running back and forth crafting and setting them than progressing in the damn game
- Traps are fucking weak to begin with - you'd do more damage with a hammer than an explosive mine. Yeah, makes sense. And to make matters worse, enemies see them sometimes so all your time spent laying them was wasted.
- Setting traps before a fight costs a ton of time - in a game where everything already takes so long
- Low strength makes you move back and forth trading even more than necessary and movement... well, see first point
Basically, the entire build seems to have only one purpose: Slow down the game as much as possible
I lost my will to conitnue after saving Foundry.
I'm burned out for now, but will certainly do another attempt. With any build that does not include stealth or traps...
What I did see from the expansion was pretty awesome, though.
That Dude quest with the rifts is hilarious.
