ELEX ELEX RELEASE THREAD

[Gilius Thunderhead]

Don't. The German and international versions actually have completely different scripts, the English version is not a translation.

Nope.

I can't rep, so thanks for the answer.

I can't believe a legendary studio like PB would allow a travesty like this. Seems like something Hideo Kojima would come up with as a joke.

 

[Dodo1610]

Here the faces of Piranha Bytes + profiles

https://www.worldofelex.de/en/site/news-archive/14-news-en/articles-en/707-piranha-bytes-team-2020

Looks like the Elex 2 marketing campaign is slowly starting

 

[1451]

They hired women? The game is ruined now.

 

[Sykar]

They hired women? The game is ruined now.

 

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

Here the faces of Piranha Bytes + profiles
https://www.worldofelex.de/en/site/news-archive/14-news-en/articles-en/707-piranha-bytes-team-2020

lol this guy.

>Favorite Music:
>Everything that comes in front of my ears.

>Favorite game(s):
>Everything that comes in front of my eyes.

>What are your strengths?
>Drinking coffee.

>What can't you stand?
>When the coffee is empty.

https://www.worldofelex.de/en/site/news-archive/32-misc-en/704-profile-amadeus-weidmann

 

[Citizen]

>What are your strengths?
>Drinking coffee.

>What can't you stand?
>When the coffee is empty.

Maxie doxxed

 

[Sykar]

Does increasing stats have any effect apart from unlocking skills?

Nope.

Well, weapons have steep attribute requirements.

As do the damage talents linked to the related weapon types.

Does anyone know how exactly "Extra Hit Points" work?

 

[ValeVelKal]

So I am playing this wonderful game (so far) and like it a lot.

A couple questions :
- Any reason not to drink Elexit immediately ?
- Any big thing I should know before building my character ( eg broken skills, "that skill will be given for free" and similar shenanigans).

 

[Hobo Elf]

You'll want to prioritize the trophy skill, at least until you get it to 2/3 so you dont get boned by the absolutely tight economy. You'll want to get 3/3 eventually, sooner is better, but it can wait a bit. Otherwise you're free to go with what you want.

 

[ValeVelKal]

You'll want to prioritize the trophy skill, at least until you get it to 2/3 so you dont get boned by the absolutely tight economy. You'll want to get 3/3 eventually, sooner is better, but it can wait a bit. Otherwise you're free to go with what you want.

Yeah, I already reached 1/3, I knew it was important from playing Gothic 1-3 [finishing 2 of them] and Risen 1-3.
Wondering if the "extra XP" skills are worth it, too.

 

[JDR13]

 

[Hobo Elf]

You'll want to prioritize the trophy skill, at least until you get it to 2/3 so you dont get boned by the absolutely tight economy. You'll want to get 3/3 eventually, sooner is better, but it can wait a bit. Otherwise you're free to go with what you want.

Yeah, I already reached 1/3, I knew it was important from playing Gothic 1-3 [finishing 2 of them] and Risen 1-3.
Wondering if the "extra XP" skills are worth it, too.

I haven't taken the extra XP skills so idk. I think you'll be trading a skill point for an average of 20 stat points, based on what I've heard from others. It could be important if you want to make a challenge run where you don't abuse Elex Potions.

 

[Sykar]

You'll want to prioritize the trophy skill, at least until you get it to 2/3 so you dont get boned by the absolutely tight economy. You'll want to get 3/3 eventually, sooner is better, but it can wait a bit. Otherwise you're free to go with what you want.

Yeah, I already reached 1/3, I knew it was important from playing Gothic 1-3 [finishing 2 of them] and Risen 1-3.
Wondering if the "extra XP" skills are worth it, too.

I haven't taken the extra XP skills so idk. I think you'll be trading a skill point for an average of 20 stat points, based on what I've heard from others. It could be important if you want to make a challenge run where you don't abuse Elex Potions.

Well 2 of those experience skills can be gotten from jewelry. The 5% from killing enemies I got from eating an apple. Don`t ask I do not know why. That being said the skill is almost useless with a companion around early game since you yourself need to land the killing blow, does not even matter how much damage you dealt, if the enemy had 1 HP left and all damage was done by you, if your companion kills it you get no extra experience whatsoever.

 

[HoboForEternity]

WHERE IS ELEX 2 BJORN!!!!!

 

[razvedchiki]

someone somewhere promised news of elex 2 development if a certain someone left the forums.....

 

[ERYFKRAD]

WHERE IS ELEX 2 BJORN!!!!!

Magalan

 

[1451]

I don't need Elex 2 news because I know it will be good in contrast to another game which is full of punks.

 

[welly321]

Elex 2 has the potential to be legendary if they can fix the stat system. I'd also like to see an improvement on hand placed loot. There was some cool hand placed stuff but most if it had ridiculous stat requirements to use. Finding Elex potions is cool but I can't help missing the stone tablets from gothic 2. I find Magalan to be an amazing setting for a game. I love the mix of Sci-fi and fantasy and the different Biomes. The white snowy mountains of Xacor, the yellowy desert of Tabar, the lush green forest where the berserkers lived, the Volcanic place where the clerics were. If they can keep the setting and improve on a few things, Elex 2 could really be amazing.

 

[Murk]

You'll want to prioritize the trophy skill, at least until you get it to 2/3 so you dont get boned by the absolutely tight economy. You'll want to get 3/3 eventually, sooner is better, but it can wait a bit. Otherwise you're free to go with what you want.

Yeah, I already reached 1/3, I knew it was important from playing Gothic 1-3 [finishing 2 of them] and Risen 1-3.
Wondering if the "extra XP" skills are worth it, too.

Late as hell to this, and probably no longer relevant, but the answer for the extra XP skills is mostly "no". You can get the book reading one from an amulet, which you can just equip when going through them. You can get the monster killing one as well, but truth is that they give little extra XP to really "make up for it". If you're going for a cold playthrough and don't mind chugging elex potions, then yeah sure, since it also raises your 'charisma' stat, but in terms of getting more XP to be "worth it", no. The extra attribute at level up however is worth it if you get it early enough, unless you specifically plan to be a low INT build.

 

[ValeVelKal]

You'll want to prioritize the trophy skill, at least until you get it to 2/3 so you dont get boned by the absolutely tight economy. You'll want to get 3/3 eventually, sooner is better, but it can wait a bit. Otherwise you're free to go with what you want.

Yeah, I already reached 1/3, I knew it was important from playing Gothic 1-3 [finishing 2 of them] and Risen 1-3.
Wondering if the "extra XP" skills are worth it, too.

Late as hell to this, and probably no longer relevant, but the answer for the extra XP skills is mostly "no". You can get the book reading one from an amulet, which you can just equip when going through them. You can get the monster killing one as well, but truth is that they give little extra XP to really "make up for it". If you're going for a cold playthrough and don't mind chugging elex potions, then yeah sure, since it also raises your 'charisma' stat, but in terms of getting more XP to be "worth it", no. The extra attribute at level up however is worth it if you get it early enough, unless you specifically plan to be a low INT build.

Yeah I figured out the whole "ELEX / potion" thingie and realized that the only one I would need is the extra attribute at level up. I found an amulet or something to get more XP when completing quests, and I realized it is only +5% so not worth it.

 

[Murk]

The document reading one is the only one that significantly impacts the % (double on books, 50% on documents) but there's so few that you can just save them up for when you get one of the various amulets.

I think you can argue the "xp on kill" one is eventually worth it if you plan to do a lot of combat since it may *eventually* pay for a level up (and monsters do respawn) but I think you're better off putting the point into something more immediately useful.

Though I personally like having charisma skills, so if you need a point there, not an awful way to go about it.

Also worth noting you can get a similar if not identical effect from using gemstones in your gear -- gems aren't consumed upon slotting, so you can deslot them later to upgrade them and switch them around.

edit: Others mentioned this, but just in case, make sure to max out trophy hunting 3 before you take on many strong mutant enemies (patron, moloch, cyclops, etc.) as it lets you harvest natural elex from them. Also, get haggle before you spend tens of thousands of shards on your armor sets.

Other weird note: if you get a weapon with a factional modification that is from a faction you won't be joining (so if you join zerkers, the 'energy sword' is an example) don't upgrade it as it will lose the modification.

You'll go from 'energy sword 1' to 'sword 2', and you won't be able to regain the elemental modification outside of your faction.

 

[Zurat-Yarkuch]

Going to give playing through this game another go. Someone mentioned it's possible to do quests without getting blocked from joining a faction. So I'm going to do all the side quests I can and then join a faction and do the main quest. I'll make a save before joining a faction so I can see what it is like playing as each one.

Saw this video, and now I'm going to try turning Auto-Focus off and seeing what difference that makes.

 

[Zurat-Yarkuch]

Had to disable tutorials in order to stop the slow mo button prompts that were messing up my combos.

Got super lucky, while Duras was guiding me managed to aggro a super strong enemy, Reaver. Ran all the way to Duras and had him basically kill the guy for me. Got a lot of extra experience and Elexit. Now I can afford to get the extra hitpoints skill, once I find a survival trainer.

 

[Zurat-Yarkuch]

Been doing quests, have gotten to level 5 and got the animal trophy skill along with extra hitpoints.

Really like the design decision to have you weak as hell in the beginning. Guard jips you out of a reward when doing a quest for him. If you threaten him he oneshots your butt into the ground. The smart move is to accept being ripped off or persuade him if you have the right skills (I didn't.) In most games threatening or killing people is punished based on some morality system. In this game it's punished by getting beaten to death.

It forces you to act like an actual human being would in real life, don't start fights with everyone you meet and try and find an alternate solution to a problem. It's actually really refreshing to not be some unstoppable god-like chosen one. I'm loving this.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Been doing quests, have gotten to level 5 and got the animal trophy skill along with extra hitpoints.

Really like the design decision to have you weak as hell in the beginning. Guard jips you out of a reward when doing a quest for him. If you threaten him he oneshots your butt into the ground. The smart move is to accept being ripped off or persuade him if you have the right skills (I didn't.) In most games threatening or killing people is punished based on some morality system. In this game it's punished by getting beaten to death.

It forces you to act like an actual human being would in real life, don't start fights with everyone you meet and try and find an alternate solution to a problem. It's actually really refreshing to not be some unstoppable god-like chosen one. I'm loving this.

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