Incline Age of Decadence - Tips, Tricks and Spoilers

Are there any people in the game who can train you if you pay them?

I finished Thief playthrough with unspent ~4k So that's why I thought that'd be nice to spend those money on training.

 

Nobody.

 

Isn't there an achievement for killing all Lords?
But probably not literally as i cannot initiate combat with them? Or can I?

 

Where can I find schematics for the "improved" crossbows in the game (double, repeater, scoped etc)? Or as a crafting crossbowman I'm restricted to crafting regular crossbows only?

 

There is. That's how Vince suggested doing it:

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Kill Antidas via Imperial Guards

Destroy Maadoran via Abyss

Sabotage the ritual or use the siege to kill Meru

 

Last playthrough I sided with Gaelius and Meru took me inside Al Akia and asked me to do the ritual. This time I sided with Strabos and Meru took me to Al Akia, but we didn't go inside. Furthermore, it's not on my map even though I convinced Paullus not to blow it up. I want to use the facility to become a god (got max CON and INT especially for this) with the help of the kid from the Hellgate. What am I missing? Do I need to go back and side with Gaelius? The only thing I can think of that's different about my character is lower CHA. Did I fail a check with Meru?

 

AFAIK, you only need to KNOW about Al-Akia for the ritual, so this should be enough for Bennie to execute it. Youd don't have to go there via map, Al-Akia is never shown there. Not sure if you could do this after blowing it up though...

You know you also have to visit medical facility via portal, right?

 

There is one final step:

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Open the sarcophagus and accept Agatoth's offer. Killing him by either blowing up the temple or 1v1 combat will NOT yield the achievement

 

Yes, thanks for the correction! That's an important detail.

 

That's a real shame, i would love to start a massacre in Maadoran's palace and so on... All those guards in their fancy armour look tasty.

 

Yes, thank you. I swear it used to show up on my map, just updated for this playthrough. I'm quite satisfied with my world domination

 

You can start such massacre but you can't kill anyone in the palace except for Erebus. All guards are dummies with no loot or stats (you can't attack them) and Gaelius is unreachable. If you try to come close to him a text box will open and after your brief conversation you will be thrown many tiles away. And if you try to attack him from a distance (by a crossbow for example) combat freezes (there is an infinite hourglass). How else do you think I've managed to get 452 bodycount (I'm a record holder for now)?

 

Well, you can start a "massacre" by either killing Gaelius and all his guards via Assassin's Guild quest (start a personal meeting, then trying to fight for the exit) or by persuading Gaelius' nephew (?) to start a raid on slums. Both are way cooler then just simply kill everyone by starting battle, IMHO

 

Are you not kicked out of Maaradon in latter case? Same as when you temper with Abyss.

 

Yep, exactly.

 

What is the most fun, build/class for full-combat walkthrough? Is a heavy tank viable?

 

Probably dagger/cs assassin (at least that's my most favourite).

 

It's pretty viable but most fun for me was dodger with 2h Axe who obliterated whole arena with 10 strength

 

Bow+Dodge+Alchemy=easy mode (just stockpile liquid fire for close quarter fights).

 

What's the reference behind this line, after leaving from Maadoran to Ganezzar?

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You put the 'god' out of its misery, releasing it from the horror of its existence and ending the magic that haunted the Abyss for centuries. And you didn't even get a stupid tunic for that.

 

I think it's an "and all I got was this lousy T-shirt" joke.

 

GTA joke, I believe. You did get a t-shirt saying this by finding all hidden packages in GTA 3, I believe.

 

Two hander axe or hammer dodge brute is a hell of a lot of fun and utterly lethal with maxed crafting and a bit of alchemy.

 

On the Imperial Guard path, does charisma influence the ending (so as to not get sent to the wasteland, already got that with a murderhobo) or it's just a matter of reputation? I'm trying a hybrid IG right now with 5/10/4/8/6/7 and those 3 points in CHA could really go somewhere else.

 

The ending is based on factional reputation. And reputation is affected by charisma. Whenever you do something positive or negative for a faction, how much your reputation changes is affected by your charisma modifier. I know its possible to get good IG ending with 4 charisma. Probably true for most factions.