KickStarter Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness - Tales of the Moon Cult expansion on the way

[The Wall]

Not sure. 1000+ is probably the number of times I have raised concerns about absolutely disasterous influence of midwit Steam Babies on indie Devs, particularly in RPG genre. Countless Devs have kneeled before demands for "quality of life improvements" which are codeword for:dumbing down. These midwits that get born on Reddit weren't that numerous 5 years ago, but thanks to Devs' fear from negative Steam reviews (many of which are retarded) they have time and time again succembed to pressure. In process many of these now watered down games, who boast about survival while having so much food at every corner you feel like at grocery store and thus castrating any challenge and purpouse of survival mechanics - but one example of this decline, these games have solidified in minds of new players and old previously untarnished by decline that this is: standard. Goyim aka sheep aka Steam Babies should never design any game. Irony: then they complain about game being too easy. These are the same people who complain about Hard mode being hard

Very few devs are fighting for their design vision. IronTower and Underrail, Stoneshard dev is fierce fighter, Battle Brothers are completely ok, Vagrus devs and ATOM are middle of the road. Probably forgot a few. Rest have 0 design principles and basically all make the same game with different backgrounds, their fingers doing the coding, Steam Babies HiveMind doing design

 

[Acrux]

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wait, what?

Where does this information come from? I don't see anything on their game page or company website. Is it from a newsletter or something?

 

[Cyberarmy]

Game is already easy enough after a few levels?

 

[Grotesque]

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wait, what?

Where does this information come from? I don't see anything on their game page or company website. Is it from a newsletter or something?

is from the last kickstarter update from march when the game was released

 

[rojay]

I haven't finished the game, but the difficulty was not my issue when I played. It was the fact that I couldn't figure out half the mechanics. But I'm an idiot and the game showed a lot of potential.

 

[Cvilidreta]

A criticism that I have is that the game is too easy at lvl 11

I started playing on "veteran" difficulty and later changed to courier difficulty but there's no much difference.

The battles are quick, no zones with lots of enemy encounters and not lethal enough, potions and money plenty.

last chapter (chapter 5) has the boss fights which imo are a good challenge on highest difficulty

 

[Jermu]

A criticism that I have is that the game is too easy at lvl 11

I started playing on "veteran" difficulty and later changed to courier difficulty but there's no much difference.

The battles are quick, no zones with lots of enemy encounters and not lethal enough, potions and money plenty.

last chapter (chapter 5) has the boss fights which imo are a good challenge on highest difficulty

Agreed with this, I played game beta + first week of release and final chapter had 3 or so hard encounters. Regarding

final boss

it was immortal and did not get patched for a while so I ended up uninstalling game

If I remb correctly I found game very easy before final chapter there was like 1 or 2 fights that required multiple tries before that

 

[Supermedo]

Question if I'm playing a wizard class, and I only care about throwing spells, I can safely dump DEX and pump points in Focus and Intelligence, right?

 

[Grotesque]

Question if I'm playing a wizard class, and I only care about throwing spells, I can safely dump DEX and pump points in Focus and Intelligence, right?

there is a 20 points cap in each attribute.

you can easily reach 20 in int and focus with the help of equipped items

 

[Nortar]

I started this thing yesterday with a (who could have guessed?) dwarf fighter-cleric.
Turns out there's a bug powerplayer feature hidden in character creation.
If you go back through the tabs, the number you allocated for fighter special abilities visually resets to 0, but "secretly" keeps adding up.
On the screenshot you can see my level 1 dorf started with 21 uses of Vigilance.
Now I'm tempted to play it this way, just because I can, hehe.

Spoiler

 

[Lyre Mors]

A criticism that I have is that the game is too easy at lvl 11

I started playing on "veteran" difficulty and later changed to courier difficulty but there's no much difference.

The battles are quick, no zones with lots of enemy encounters and not lethal enough, potions and money plenty.

It's sounding like what this game really needs in order for me to get full enjoyment out of it is some actual difficulty. Was just browsing the steam forums last night and saw a thread about the lack of challenge. Devs responded saying that we should be seeing some kind of rebalance in the next month or two. We'll see if this is true, and if it'll actually add the challenged needed to make the game engaging. Hope it's both.

 

[GreenMagicSpell]

38% Sale GOG
35% Sale Steam btw

 

[SpoonFULL]

GreenMagicSpell​

I read in the Steam forum from one of the developers that the last patch reduced the game difficulty and this will be fixed in the next patch. Do you have an ETA for this new patch? Thanks.

 

[The Wall]

Any news about DLC? Both Blackgeyser and Vagrus devs are Hungarian. Hungary is now on map of good RPG makers. Congratulations on that to my neighbours

 

[GreenMagicSpell]

Thanks neighbor, best reggies to you too as well

@SpornFULL: ex doesn't answer phone but I found this hope this helps: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1374930/discussions/0/3367027031782718179/?ctp=2#c3360272431833922791

 

[rusty_shackleford]

ex

that was quick

 

[0sacred]

ex

that was quick

time spent on Codex suddenly increases dramatically

 

[SpoonFULL]

Thank you for finding out GreenMagicSpell.

 

[Lagole Gon]

Finally got in on GoG.

...

Wow. This guy REALLY loves Baldur's Gate, huh?

 

[Contagium]

It's like asking mom for Baldur's Gate, and she says we already have Baldur's Gate at home. It's basically that.

 

[cyborgboy95]

Update coming with Spanish localization and full party creation
Next week brings full party creation, improved balance and Spanish language!

Greetings, adventurers!

A major update for Black Geyser is coming next week with long-awaited features and improvements:

• Create up to 5 characters for your party during character creation if you prefer
• Charisma, Focus and Dexterity attributes now enable more enjoyable and versatile character builds
• Balance: improved early-game and end-game difficulty for smoother gameplay
• Full Spanish translation
• Lots of bugfixes

If you like our work, you can support the project by posting a review on Steam.

Stay tuned!

The Black Geyser Team

 

[Lyre Mors]

• Balance: improved early-game and end-game difficulty for smoother gameplay

What the fuck is this vague shit? Certainly not the increased difficulty they've been talking about. All this sounds like is that they're somehow making it easier?

 

[Cryomancer]

When I will be able to create my ice golem?

 

[Sykar]

If I could build an ice golem:

 

[Acrux]

• Balance: improved early-game and end-game difficulty for smoother gameplay

What the fuck is this vague shit? Certainly not the increased difficulty they've been talking about. All this sounds like is that they're somehow making it easier?

Yeah, they keep talking around it with this vague "affect difficulty", so who knows.

When I will be able to create my ice golem?

Golems, strongholds, dual wielding - there is still a lot missing from this game. And they've implied in the past that if it doesn't do well in the Steam winter sale, expect fewer updates.