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luj1
You're all shills
More or less. I thought about it and you can't really blame the devs, it's more about the ruleset used.
luj1
You're all shills
I have to say however that early companions are rubbish in every sense.
Firstly, their personality archetypes are quite unoriginal. Cocky barbarian girl, misanthropic religious dwarf (discount version of Durance), Brienne of Tarth copy-paste, annoying pushy Deekin wannabe, etc. After 30 years of RPGs this was the best they could came up with.
Secondly, their stats and builds are rubbish too.
So you find yourself in a funny situation. Game is relatively hard, yet story companions are weak and custom companions are ridiculously expensive (devs' way of forcing you to use underpowered and uninteresting story companions).
Big fail by the devs on this part.
Firstly, their personality archetypes are quite unoriginal. Cocky barbarian girl, misanthropic religious dwarf (discount version of Durance), Brienne of Tarth copy-paste, annoying pushy Deekin wannabe, etc. After 30 years of RPGs this was the best they could came up with.
Secondly, their stats and builds are rubbish too.
So you find yourself in a funny situation. Game is relatively hard, yet story companions are weak and custom companions are ridiculously expensive (devs' way of forcing you to use underpowered and uninteresting story companions).
Big fail by the devs on this part.
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Better don't call the wolf out of the woods.
Yeah, I liked some of his builds, for example for Kalikke, but his stance on casters and CC is pretty hilarious.
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Valerie is hardly Brienne... At least Charisma-wise.
And the builds, while expectedly not a power gamers' wet dream, are more then workable with and easily competent enough to conquer at least hard difficulty.
fantadomat
Arcane
Oh,i blame nobody really,just pointing out a fact
. Every game have its useless feats and skills,and optimal build.Incendax
Augur
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I think Harrim is original. He does resemble Durance at first glance, but you quickly realize he’s just starved for acceptance and embracing a role that gets him negative attention.
ArchAngel
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He is a whiny bitch dwarf with daddy issues. Certainly original for dwarves in fantasy games.
siroptimusprime
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I'll find this Brienne comparison for Valerie endlessly hilarious. Speaking purely from an objective context, Valerie hides her beauty and is not mechanically known for brutish strength. Brienne is, at best, described as unfortunate looking and towers over and can physically overwhelm many men. The comparison from a "statistics" POV ends at blonde warrior.
Oh, and Kingmaker is ok. High highs and very disappointing lows with a shit "strategy" layer but fantastic build variety due to its quite good, though certainly not perfect adherence to the source.
Oh, and Kingmaker is ok. High highs and very disappointing lows with a shit "strategy" layer but fantastic build variety due to its quite good, though certainly not perfect adherence to the source.
luj1
You're all shills
I know I hijacked this thread but I felt compelled to post some thoughts after finishing Act 1
- Huge lore dumps during the otherwise enjoyable interlude
- Kingdom management is a giant miss. It's not done well at all (I've seen better sims on Facebook), not to mention it hugely detracts from the RPG experience
- The lore bit about the "Vanishing" is shamefully unoriginal
- Still not using cooking. Another pointless minigame.
Overall, Act 1 was an okay ride. I'm playing with two (custom) companions on a custom difficulty of my own creation. I have dismissed or killed most of the story companions as they are annoying and inferior in every sense.
Think it only gets better from here but we'll see. Anyway I really appreciate the challenge. I like that I'm forced to expend all the consumables I find instead of hoarding or selling them.
- Huge lore dumps during the otherwise enjoyable interlude
- Kingdom management is a giant miss. It's not done well at all (I've seen better sims on Facebook), not to mention it hugely detracts from the RPG experience
- The lore bit about the "Vanishing" is shamefully unoriginal
- Still not using cooking. Another pointless minigame.
Overall, Act 1 was an okay ride. I'm playing with two (custom) companions on a custom difficulty of my own creation. I have dismissed or killed most of the story companions as they are annoying and inferior in every sense.
Think it only gets better from here but we'll see. Anyway I really appreciate the challenge. I like that I'm forced to expend all the consumables I find instead of hoarding or selling them.
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Sounds like a mistake from kingdom management point of view at least.
Game is mechanically fun to play with except kingdom management part that is its makes nothing better CK2 or such games do and its really distracting from the adventuring part. If only you had an option of accepting title and let your barony be run by steward while you adventure on court and do errant for your liege, from time to time traveling to your hold to drink your wine and fuck your wenches I mean solving some quests there BG2 and NWN2 stronghold style it would be fun. None did RPG when you role play a feudal lord and/or courtier well so far.
hell bovine
Arcane
Yeah, that's one comparison that's... Brienne looks the opposite of a lady and can actually fight. Valerie has the looks, but wants to be a fighter instead. It's just that with her low intelligence she makes the absolutely worst
purpleblob
Savant
? Act 1 doesn't have any kingdom management. It starts from Act 2.
I really liked cooking, it adds immersion for me, and I found cheese crostata extremely useful when I need to reduce the travel time etc.
Chocolate ice-cream for +3 all skills is best food in the world)
If this is true your future kingdom somewhere between doomed and turning your life into living hell.
If this is true your future kingdom somewhere between doomed and turning your life into living hell.
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Yeah, I bought like 20 ingredient sets before heading to HATOET, only to discover you can never cook anymore...
This game becomes really good after using Fast Travel mod that can increase the speed of..well...everything pretty much
https://www.nexusmods.com/pathfinderkingmaker/mods/1
https://www.nexusmods.com/pathfinderkingmaker/mods/1
fantadomat
Arcane
Cheatengine and speed3 hack was enough for me.
fantadomat
Arcane
I honestly have no idea what they were thinking,not having a different speed setting. The only good thing in deadfire was the speed setting,tho it was still slowish.
Jack Of Owls
Arcane
Yeah, I don't like using those speed cheat mods unless the slow trekking is unbearable, in which case I'll just use Cheat Engine's speedhack. I like the sound of your characters on the OLM just grinding along at a leisurely pace. As for exploring regular maps, I like to polymorph my druid into an air elemental with speedboots then madly zoom around the map until I find something interesting or deadly, then I just zoom back to my team and wait for those poor baddies to hobble along to my party, unto a quick death.
50/50 on this. Some like Amiri, Jubilost, Octavia etc. work well even if they aren't perfectly optimized. Jaethal is unoptimized but has the added benefit of being Undead, meaning that an optimized build would just be bonkers on her. Then you have characters like Valerie and Harrim, that have basically been given shitty builds on purpose and the dev's response when you bring it up is "Fuck you". Harrim is the one that hurts the most. He's a Cleric, and one of his main character traits is being an obsessive, nasty, bore. So his dump stat would be CHA, right? Haha, fuck you it's DEX, have fun never hitting anything asshole.
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