Wasteland Wasteland 2 Thread - Director's Cut

I think it fixes itself after a while, There was no sound when I loaded the game, Ralphy had "Its shiny" dialogue or something close to it in the Ranger Citadel, The text kept floating but after the sound and voices came, he said his line and the text disappeared.

 

I was hoping for a better one but the camera indeed still suck IMHO.
If only it was a fix camera like on PoE...

The character system is "very" good, at least much better than anything we are used too for a a cRPG with a party.
Luck and charisma suck and the intelligence thing is no good either (still 4 important threshold that really matter 2/4/8/10 so that's ok)...but still largely enough possible interesting build to make because whatever what you want to do, there will be at least 4 stats that would really be important.
And 4 important stats is a lot IMHO (Wizardry 8 known for his very interesting character development has 3 or 4 maximum important stats depending your class, the other stats being almost useless in comparison).

 

Play now, think later.

 

Yeah. Why lock the tilt controls? I hate it. But I got used to it eventually.

What really grinds my gears though? They actually added a skybox but now they won't let us look at it. The previous excuse about no horizon so we can't let you tilt the camera has been soundly debunked by their own cinematic hubris.

 

I found why you can only hear NPCs talk from one speaker. It seems this game has an extreme L/R balance settings. If person you talk to is right of your screen they will only come from right speaker but if you center the camera during the conversation it will then come from both speakers. Conversations with many NPCs center the camera first so it sounds OK than but for some that does not happen.

I never played a game with such extreme stereo effects. I would still consider it a bug although now I know a workaround.

 

Did they add one to every map though, or just to ranger citadel (or even just one direction of RC)? I wondered about it when watching the new cinematics.

Also didn't get what everyone was talking about with the mono/stereo VO. Then I found out my headphones where switched to mono since I watched a youtube video with only one channel a few weeks ago.

 

Its irritating that you can't see what's in front of you unless way zoomed out. POE mix of 2d backgrounds and 3d chars much better. I would have prefered a fallout style fixed camera 2d game over this.

I wonder if anyone knows how to mod camera tilt?

 

Have you ever managed to recruit Gary Wolfe? Went with Militia last time, he didn't spawn. Went with Militia this time around too, again no spawn. Charisma always well over 25.

Or is he spawning somewhere secret? Can't find the dumbass. I know he's bad but I just wanted to see him for OCD reasons.

 

Damonta makes me wish I was more judicious with my heavy weapons/grenades.

 

There are reports that he's bugged right now and never spawns.

 

How many more months should I wait before this game is fixed and playable? I heard bugs from the original release of the game are even still around.

 

Oh, I'd be surprised if they already put them in for every map - why would they have? - but it's quite clear that they could, at negligible performance cost. At this point I see no good reason to lock the camera like this.

The thing is, full 3D camera control in a game of this format was being done with no problems at least as far back as eight years ago.

I haven't heard of anything. Let me know if you hear of such a mod.

Unknown, but more than zero.

 

It took 12 years to fully patch Fallout 2 don't be rash boy.

 

camera angles a bitch, but enemies are never out of weapon range, its an annoyance but at least it doesnt significantly affect gameplay.

its still not the game i hoped it would be, but at least the DC seems playable to me, and i might be able to tolerate 30hrs of it. I quit the first after the ag center, the slog just didnt feel worth it.

i dont usually powergame but this might be onr that calls for it to alleviate the tedium. because the good bits are....good. but like shadowrun is only great if you have a giant vagina for cyberpunk...wl2 is only worthwhile if youre a buttslut for post apoc.

whereas appeal of games like fallout, system shock, et al generate appeal that goes beyond genre fans.

 

DC is really pretty compared to WL2 vanilla, I must admit that. I just wish they added more content and fixed more stuff. I am still having fun with it, perks added nice character planning layer that was just not there in the past.
Now I am combining my melee character with other skills that have perks that work well with melee or deciding who I want to have as weaponcrafting person so I can take that sweet perk that gives +1 AP if you are in light armor.

 

How so? The Fallout brand hit the big time with Fallout 3. Is there anything to suggest it had appeal beyond its niche before then?

 

Seems like getting every half-intelligent ranger 2 points in Weapon Maintenance to get the Tinkerer perk is a p good idea.

 

Only if you plan to use light armors. But yes, that perk is probably best low level perk in the game.

 

That last thing will always be the case. There has never been a RPG that fixed literally all the bugs.

It took them five months last time. They might not devote that much time to it this time around, but I'd recommend at least until they go on break for the holidays in December.

 

I took a quick look at the DC to see what had changed. Didn't look like much. Graphics are noticeably better but the UI is still horrific.

 

I can easily understand bugs being there in games with a lot of content but I really don't get how you can miss the fact that NPCs are disappearing when the player dismisses them. Like did anyone play the game before they released it? I've been waiting like crazy for that and now I'm not even sure if I should start... :/

 

"I'm just going to tweak this one behavior script before release. I've done it hundreds of times and it's never caused a problem before."

 

Didn't see any patch appearing recently so probably no... Also it happens in consoles too so I'm guessing they SHOULD BE fast...

 

That's why you need quality managers even if they are the most annoying assholes 90% of the time