>the feature works both ways- you might not want to see what a kalavakus or derakni can do to a man on the battle field
They've stressed quite a few times that mythic paths will tie into the narrative quite substantially, would be weird if they walk back on these promises. And it's not clear yet how much money they want to ask for this +2 paths stretch goal. I'm betting on a quite substantial amount, maybe even +$200k or so.
We will see. I think it'd be JUST visual. But who knows...
Me too. But man oh man, the stretch goals have been very underwhelming.
I'm not entirely convinced it isn't the Bioware style of narrative adaption to player choice :p I dunno, somehow this doesn't inspire a lot of trust in me, the stretch goals feel random and made up on the spot. What does mounted combat have to do with the rest of the game? Adding more mythic paths means even more narrative work (if it does indeed change anything significantly) which historically has proven not to play well with budget and time constrains. Adding more prestige classes and visual flair like dismemberment is a much wiser decision. I'd also pay for a reduction of spell SFX, lol. We know how overambitious Kickstarters work out, and we know in what state PF:KM came out.
Mounted combat seems fitting for a setting heavily featuring paladins and knights.
Since mythic paths roughly correspond to alignments, I bet that they wanted to have a path for each alignment from the start, but decided to cut back on it for the initial pitch due to it being too much work. Now with the increased funding (and I believe that the jump to the +2 paths stretch goal will be more substantial than the jumps to the previous goals) they feel more confident that they can pull it off.
Well, do note that Owlcat Games formed in 2016, so they had less than two years and a half to develop Kingmaker from scratch. We all know that releasing it so early was a huge mistake (but I bet that they were pressured by the publisher to do that, after lackluster sales of Deadfire eroded the publisher's confidence that Kingmaker could sell well).
Thematically sure, but gameplay-wise not so much, especially with a party of 6. I expect it to be a gimmick almost nobody uses. Mounted combat is more fitting in things like Mount and Blade than iso RPGs.
I've unironically been spamming their kickstarter. I want them to care about monks.
