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ELEX ELEX II - Jax is back
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Akshually, two of the four or something times when my performance bugged out completely was when the game was paused in the settings screen, so who knows wtf is really going on there.
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do I need animal trophy to the max to get rare ingredients like cyclop eye?
EDIT: no need for feats to obtain alchemy ingredients it seems, at least for troll. BTW do you know that using roxor technique you can stagger lock a troll?
Are trophies just for money? Cant remember how it was in elex1
EDIT: no need for feats to obtain alchemy ingredients it seems, at least for troll. BTW do you know that using roxor technique you can stagger lock a troll?
Are trophies just for money? Cant remember how it was in elex1
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rusty_shackleford
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1 week later and still no FOV slider lol
rusty_shackleford
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performance is worse
quest still bugged for me
joke patch from a joke developer
quest still bugged for me
joke patch from a joke developer
thelegend
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Elex II feels like a hastily put together afterthought and plays like DLC to the first game at best. And this is coming from a die-hard Piranhas fan with huge jankiness tolerance. Even for a budget RPG this is very bad.
My major criticisms:
1) Headcanon-ing. Elex II actively undoes everything you did in the first game by forcing particular choices, relationships and even love interests on you.
2) Elex II forgets that the main appeal of Piranhas games are interesting, developed, unique communities (factions), that offer distinct mechanics, abilities, gameplay, the way you are recognized and treated in the world. This was done very well in Risen 3 and even previous Elex game, but is no longer the case. Out of 5 factions 2 are minors that barely have any content, and even the remaining 3 fail to provide memorable characters or distinct experience. As if realizing this, devs offer you to play the game without joining any faction at all... This is a disaster.
3) Elex II is a carbon copy of the previous game to the point its not even funny. No balance. Bullet sponge enemies. Need to grind enemies to level up and progress in the ranks/story and sell hunting trophies to handle the game's economy.
4) Elex II offers a huge open world, which is dead and boring. I don't wan't dozen companions constantly annoying me with their copy/paste quests "Scout Ignadon 65535" and threatening to leave if I don't.
5) The story gives me Vampire: Bloodlines vibe (and I'm being generous here). It starts by trying to be engaging but from the midgame devolves into "go kill 50 robots; go kill 50 outlaws; go kill 50 aliens".
6) Joining Albs only to find out there's no way to become Elexetor and command mutants and a couple lousy ice spells is all you get.. my disappointment is immesuarable and my 54 hours are ruined.
Some more pieces of feedback for Piranhas' future games:
- I see how you tried to spice things up with a single large quest for joining factions and faction-hopping, but this is just unfun and unimmersive and I like the traditional progression much more.
- Less is more: I'd take a couple of factions and a bunch of companions over a huge dead open world any day.
- Romance options shouldn't be an afterthought - having to choose between 3 old chicks neither of which is attractive physically nor as a character made me choose none.
- I liked the idea of regaining mana from fallen enemies, granted sleeping and drinking potions is a frustrating way to play a mage in 2022 - but you also should make sure there are ways to spend it on.
- Factions have always been super important in your games: do not devolve them into "who gives you basic training" sort of thing.
- I liked the idea of certain NPC paying you more for certain trophies or ingridients. This is something I miss a lot when I'm trying to play hunter in Gothic 3.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/900040/ELEX_II/
Looks like elex is better than elex 2. I will stick with the previous game
My major criticisms:
1) Headcanon-ing. Elex II actively undoes everything you did in the first game by forcing particular choices, relationships and even love interests on you.
2) Elex II forgets that the main appeal of Piranhas games are interesting, developed, unique communities (factions), that offer distinct mechanics, abilities, gameplay, the way you are recognized and treated in the world. This was done very well in Risen 3 and even previous Elex game, but is no longer the case. Out of 5 factions 2 are minors that barely have any content, and even the remaining 3 fail to provide memorable characters or distinct experience. As if realizing this, devs offer you to play the game without joining any faction at all... This is a disaster.
3) Elex II is a carbon copy of the previous game to the point its not even funny. No balance. Bullet sponge enemies. Need to grind enemies to level up and progress in the ranks/story and sell hunting trophies to handle the game's economy.
4) Elex II offers a huge open world, which is dead and boring. I don't wan't dozen companions constantly annoying me with their copy/paste quests "Scout Ignadon 65535" and threatening to leave if I don't.
5) The story gives me Vampire: Bloodlines vibe (and I'm being generous here). It starts by trying to be engaging but from the midgame devolves into "go kill 50 robots; go kill 50 outlaws; go kill 50 aliens".
6) Joining Albs only to find out there's no way to become Elexetor and command mutants and a couple lousy ice spells is all you get.. my disappointment is immesuarable and my 54 hours are ruined.
Some more pieces of feedback for Piranhas' future games:
- I see how you tried to spice things up with a single large quest for joining factions and faction-hopping, but this is just unfun and unimmersive and I like the traditional progression much more.
- Less is more: I'd take a couple of factions and a bunch of companions over a huge dead open world any day.
- Romance options shouldn't be an afterthought - having to choose between 3 old chicks neither of which is attractive physically nor as a character made me choose none.
- I liked the idea of regaining mana from fallen enemies, granted sleeping and drinking potions is a frustrating way to play a mage in 2022 - but you also should make sure there are ways to spend it on.
- Factions have always been super important in your games: do not devolve them into "who gives you basic training" sort of thing.
- I liked the idea of certain NPC paying you more for certain trophies or ingridients. This is something I miss a lot when I'm trying to play hunter in Gothic 3.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/900040/ELEX_II/
Looks like elex is better than elex 2. I will stick with the previous game
Bah
Arcane
Does it still do that if you turn vsync on?
Cpt. Dallas
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I've hit lvl 27, haven't joined a faction and am one conversation before the end of chp 1.
From the quests and skill trees, the game steers you to one of the major factions or to 'dual class' and infiltrate and defect, i.e. alb to cleric or morkon to outlaw.
I don't know which faction has the most or best quests, but I'm guessing it's berz or morkon.
From the quests and skill trees, the game steers you to one of the major factions or to 'dual class' and infiltrate and defect, i.e. alb to cleric or morkon to outlaw.
I don't know which faction has the most or best quests, but I'm guessing it's berz or morkon.
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Cpt. Dallas who is claw cell contact in morkon territory?
Lyre Mors
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Patch didn't do anything. Goddamn, get your shit together PB. At the very least you could have provided another camera option. I have a really hard time understanding how that can be such a difficult thing to achieve when they are working off the same engine yet again.
Don't get me started on the performance. I think I've actually dropped a few FPS since I last played.
Don't get me started on the performance. I think I've actually dropped a few FPS since I last played.
Cpt. Dallas
Learned
I don't know. I completed all the Claw quests in the Fort though.
just
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certainly not morkons
Cpt. Dallas
Learned
Morkons had ok quests up to the decision to join. I can't speak to after. The alb buddy cop questline wasn't bad.
Maybe it's placebo but I feel like the performance got ever so slightly better for me 
Also the patch did some shit with enemy stats. There's the guy at the crater that the thieving kid delivers your Stolen Goods to, right? Earlier today when I tried to bash his face he was marked with 3 skulls for me and was hp bloated. After the patch suddenly he went down to 1 skull and I could kill him in three (!) regular (!!) hits. I also kill sick plague rats in 2 hits which I'm p sure didn't happen before. But otoh a bunch of other shits like jackals, reapers and the overgrown wasps seem to be the same.
Also a word of warning, something i've now confirmed with 100% certainty - don't spend too much time paused in the Esc menu, don't try to bring it up when you're near anything that's graphically taxing, and God have mercy on your soul if you try alt-tabbing when you're in that menu.
Also the patch did some shit with enemy stats. There's the guy at the crater that the thieving kid delivers your Stolen Goods to, right? Earlier today when I tried to bash his face he was marked with 3 skulls for me and was hp bloated. After the patch suddenly he went down to 1 skull and I could kill him in three (!) regular (!!) hits. I also kill sick plague rats in 2 hits which I'm p sure didn't happen before. But otoh a bunch of other shits like jackals, reapers and the overgrown wasps seem to be the same.
Also a word of warning, something i've now confirmed with 100% certainty - don't spend too much time paused in the Esc menu, don't try to bring it up when you're near anything that's graphically taxing, and God have mercy on your soul if you try alt-tabbing when you're in that menu.
Tyranicon
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