Didn't he have something valuable, like an anti-shield grenade, plus a decent weapon and some augmentation on top meaning if tiny biotech lp (may misremember some of this)? And not like that computer/electronics check is mandatory for beating the highest checks in the game. Probably not the best example for your point.
Sure thing. This is what I ended the game with.
Why do you think tagging a skill and then mindlessly clicking anything tagged with the skill's name is "more involvement" than carefully considering which skill to put your precious skill points into?
Implants are a dime a dozen by that stage of the game – every other mook has one. And the equip wasn't anything special either from what I remember (then again, I did have like 6 anti-shield grenades on my by then, so I wouldn't have necessarily noticed it as anything out of the ordinary either way)
A check... is not mandatory for beating the checks in the game? I think you miswrote, lol. If you mean that you needn't beat them to finish the game, you're right, but I think that's beside the point. As a player, I might not NEED to pass a check, but I WANT to pass it, meaning I will make these considerations as I play.
afaik there are 2 places: when picking faction and for specific jonas ending
By the way, this player has Electronics tagged, Skill monkey feat, AND Mental fortitude (which is, I think, the best science skill-gain combo possible, and one that I used myself), and he still failed to raise it to 10
^ random player-submitted build
Probably missed a single check somewhere (on repairing Romeo, maybe?).
sneak is high so its not because of missing sneakery gated electronics checks. Looking at high combat skills - its likely culprit. Went too strong into combat, perhaps at the cost of token here and there.By the way, this player has Electronics tagged, Skill monkey feat, AND Mental fortitude (which is, I think, the best science skill-gain combo possible, and one that I used myself), and he still failed to raise it to 10
Imo its better this way than being able to raise electronics to say 15 if you invest everything into it and then having the hardest skill check in the game require 10, like "normal" crpgs do.By the way, this player has Electronics tagged, Skill monkey feat, AND Mental fortitude (which is, I think, the best science skill-gain combo possible, and one that I used myself), and he still failed to raise it to 10
^ random player-submitted build
But that's not very different compared to choosing a particular quest resolution to maximize xp in other games, no? Like "i'll kill both of you to get more loot and xp".
It was meant to showcase how little control the player has over it rather than it being hard to raise - the dude clearly made a build designed to maximize skill XP gains, and it's not a stretch to assume he very much wanted to raise electronics to 10 like his other tagged skills, yet he couldn't. Missed some check somewhere, maybe (training tokens drop off quite severely on higher levels in terms of usefulness), and that was that. As a player, I'd find such a situation to be incredibly frustrating, because there's nothing I can do to remedy it, nor is it clear what I've done "wrong".
Very, very few games are so tight on loot and XP to make that a real consideration. And in games like AoD, you usually (not always, but most of the time) get fairly similar rewards in terms of value whichever path you pick. More importantly, I don't really recall an instance where skipping a fight would be the optimal play.
You enter sneak mode. Oftentimes, if you have a stealthy character, you can quietly murder like half the enemies in an encounter, turning it into a cakewalk.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't killing in stealth give you XP for critical strike and nothing else, making it worse to soften the encounter considering you lose XP for guns/melee.
It gives you sneak XP too, and I don't think it's a serious consideration to make. First of all, critical strike is pretty good (possibly better than guns/melee – the farther into the game you get, the less of an issue accuracy becomes, while critically hitting someone is always great), second of all, you earn fairly little XP from combat encounters anyway, and only a few even have a sneak option.
do that means the studio is under dire conditions because the sales of colony ship, or that a colony ship sequel is out of the question because it didn't sell decently but the studio will continue with new games?
How dare you not to survive! You are the (almost) only no-nonsense TB RPG developer in 10 years, for frickin' sake! I forbid you from failing!
Most likely CS is our last game so none of the above. We'll continue improving CS throughout 2024.
Why, if I may ask? It's unlikely that post-release support of a niche poduct would generate significant sales. Wouldn't it make more sense to start working on the next project and hope you'll make do?
We aren't doing it to generate more sales but to improve the game and make it more enjoyable for people who like it.
Definitely not.
