Expeditions: Conquistador Discussion Thread

[anus_pounder]

Too bad the Incan campaign extended goal was never reached. Still, maybe we'll see it as an expansion later?

 

[Niektory]

I think the hardest battle is the one where your camp is surrounded at night and you have to survive 10 turns against 10+ enemies. It happens early in the game when your units are still wimpy. I haven't managed to win it without heavy losses.
Also the one where the rebels are fighting among themselves and you choose to attack both groups. I had to flee from this one and couldn't try again because of Ironman.
OTOH the fights agains Esteban didn't give me much trouble.

If you know you're going to lose a battle, run away to suffer less injuries. And sometimes it's even better to flee and lose than to win with heavy losses.

 

[felipepepe]

Well, for the first Kickstarter game I'm playing, I'm extremely satisfied, especially considering the only got 77k.

One question, is Esteban really backer-only?

 

[anus_pounder]

Well, for the first Kickstarter game I'm playing, I'm extremely satisfied, especially considering the only got 77k.

One question, is Esteban really backer-only?

Yeah, for now anyway. Don't think you miss anything tbh. From the preview version, I know having him changes a few extra lines (which ones should be pretty damn obvious) and expands a tiny bit on hispa's final post-battle text but thats about it. Considering Isabel doesn't have any unique lines in Mexico, I doubt Esteban would either. Maybe an extra camp scene of him interacting with you (and Isabel ?), but thats as far as I expect it goes.

Spoiler

I don't own the backer edition so I don't actually have any idea what I'm talking about.

 

[mikaelis]

Two questions guys:

1) Where is Esteban? It looks like I am finishing the first scenario soon, but no trace of him yet (yes I have his files in my game folder)

2) Why is tinkering blacked out? Is it going to be activated by some event/second scenario? I have scholar with tinkering at level 8 or 9 but cannot use it.

 

[felipepepe]

You're probably way earlier in the game than you think, you need materials for thinkering... and Esteban is unnavoidable, I believe...

 

[Tigranes]

Tinkering is activated by a quest, and then you need materials, it sounds like you've been exploring a lot and haven't done that yet, or you missed something.

Spoiler

You complete the quest where you check out that little village up north, the one with the fisherman selling nets, then you come back and talk to the Italian guy in the market at the starting town and he teaches you how to tinker.

 

[moraes]

I think the hardest battle is the one where your camp is surrounded at night and you have to survive 10 turns against 10+ enemies. It happens early in the game when your units are still wimpy. I haven't managed to win it without heavy losses.

This. It's actually better to surrender at the beginning than fight it out till the end. You'll lose a few valuables/equipment/morale/etc but will live to fight another day.

 

[Haba]

I managed to win that fight with one guy standing. Though surrendering would've probably been more cost effective.

I haven't actually used tinkering, lolz. I got lucky enough with random trap drops, but now I am starting to run out of them. I did the quests and whatnot, where is tinkering supposed to be used while camping or what? (tutorials are for fags)

 

[Tigranes]

Playing Ironman and used the .ini to jack up the difficulty a little more than Insane, and it's pretty damn tough. Got plastered in one battle and now I"m trying a low leadership PC, everyone's morale is in the pits.

Tinkering: Camp, Tinkering, Construction.

 

[Disgruntled]

Great game. Glad I picked it up.
Only lost the tournament 3rd stage so far. Still in Hispaniola, Insane doesnt seem too difficult but there is certainly a threat of a single failure spiraling out of control with the way camping is set up.

This has probably been mentioned a few times, but for anyone not yet aware Aguirre, the Wrath of God is a must watch movie relating to the time period about an expedition traveling in the middle of a hostile jungle.

 

[CyberWhale]

This has probably been mentioned a few times, but for anyone not yet aware Aguirre, the Wrath of God is a must watch movie relating to the time period about an expedition traveling in the middle of a hostile jungle.

Definitely. Didn't actually like the movie all that much, but the atmosphere is great. No wonder really, since it was filmed in the Peruvian rainforest.
Another thing that is worth mentioning is Alvar Mayor - one of the best comics that is placed in a similar setting.

 

[Western]

Really good game (woud like the camera a little farther and transluscent foliage like others have said though), regarding death spirals the only thing you can do is have plenty of doctors and medicine, i've got 4 doctors plus myself at the moment (tribal doctors rock, but if I was going hardcore i'd ditch one of my hunters for another doctor when putting a crew together, and I wouldn't put more than one in any battle). Don't forget doctors can still guard, hunt and patrol as long as you invest in the skills when levelling.

Running most battles with a doctor, shaman (terror is great), scout, trapper and two soldiers, i'll switch out a soldier for a tribal warrior if I find one.

 

[mikaelis]

Tinkering is activated by a quest, and then you need materials, it sounds like you've been exploring a lot and haven't done that yet, or you missed something.

Spoiler

You complete the quest where you check out that little village up north, the one with the fisherman selling nets, then you come back and talk to the Italian guy in the market at the starting town and he teaches you how to tinker.

Ah, all right. Indeed, I am mostly exploring and haven't cleared the village quest yet (have it in my journal).
It looks like the way I am playing, the game can be pretty long (though I imagine it can become tedious, so once in Mexico, I may do less exploration).

 

[Tigranes]

Tinkering is activated by a quest, and then you need materials, it sounds like you've been exploring a lot and haven't done that yet, or you missed something.

Spoiler

You complete the quest where you check out that little village up north, the one with the fisherman selling nets, then you come back and talk to the Italian guy in the market at the starting town and he teaches you how to tinker.

Ah, all right. Indeed, I am mostly exploring and haven't cleared the village quest yet (have it in my journal).
It looks like the way I am playing, the game can be pretty long (though I imagine it can become tedious, so once in Mexico, I may do less exploration).

Checking again, it is the very first quest to check out the native temple. Complete it, report to the governor, then visit Il Rosso, and you learn to Tinker.

 

[Overboard]

Week 1 Patch

There will be a patch coming out sometime before the end of the weekend. If any of you are experiencing bugs, tech issues, or just want to discuss the game further, please direct your messages to the forum. There are also a number of discussions popping up on the community pages at the distributors - you are welcome to share your experiences there with other members of the online community if you should so desire.
While it is quite effortless to update on Steam - you log in and it will take care of the rest - the DRM-free versions are a bit of an uncharted territory for us, and Unity doesn't make it straight-forward to create patches, so we're not exactly sure how it will go. If you are running a version from GOG, Desura, or GamersGate, you will need to replace the original game files. This does not include your save folder, but especially on this first update attempt, we recommend you back up all your save files just to be sure. After this, remove Expeditions: Conquistador from your hard drive, and then download and install the new version, then if there was any trouble with your save folder, paste the old game files in the new folder created by the new install.

 

[Jarakka]

A newfag's two cents about this game.

Yeah, it's pretty good, you could spend your 20 bucks on games much worse. The combat is pretty solid, the music is sometimes excellent and the writing is surprisingly good for an indie game imho, it doesn't tend to go overboard much. It's just too bad though that the game doesn't really excel in anything, just does things well enough. It's like all the elements lack that final edge. Combat lacks a bit of complexity, exploration gives a bit dull rewards since all the treasure is counted as just valuables (the jaguar and cannon were pretty sweet though), etc. Maybe it was the lack of resources, 77k is a really shoestring-budget for a game. As mentioned above, if these guys would release an expansion pack or an improved sequal, then great. If they started a new Kickstarter, I would back.

But if there's one thing that bothers me about this game, then it's how gender-equal the world seems to be in the 16th century. Now I'm no expert, but I don't think there was women serving as either conquistadors, or as aztec warriors. Yet there's already 3, 3, teenaged girls in my party serving alongisde my gruff, 30-40 year old mercenaries, butchering natives and burning down villages. There just shouldn't be these type of characters, especially in a game like this.

But it's still good, thumbs up for Logic Artists.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Considering the current state of the game, having to download and reinstall the game every time a patch comes out is mindboggling, also how they didn't plan around this unity issue before hand just stands out as amateurish.

I think Shadowrun has the same policy for their DRM free version, for every new update we will need to redownload the game from their site.

 

[tuluse]

Jarakka, there were female conquistadors. They were rare, but they existed.

 

[Regvard]

It's fun.

Though I don't like the overland map. Maybe it's just me but moving around, picking things etc. is so, clunky?

I haven't played the higher difficulties yet but there doesn't seem to be much incentive to deploy anything other than soldiers.

Hit/miss ratios for ranged aren't very satisfying. Why do I have a %25 percent chance of hitting anything while I'm firing into a tight formation of enemies without cover? Even Fallout modeled that.

 

[Jack Dandy]

Because you shouldn't use anything other than hunters for Ranged unless you have to.

 

[tuluse]

Scholars too, to get that damage bonus.

 

[Jarakka]

Jarakka, there were female conquistadors. They were rare, but they existed.

Huh, I see. Examples could be nice, since it's a subject I acknowledge I'm not very familiar with.

But nonetheless, the case is more that about half of your hermandad are women. And right now I've met more female followers than men, which are all younger than 20. The youngest one is 14 or so. That's mainly my issue. I wouldn't mind having few characters like Blanco or Vidal, but it's more that there's some characters that are a bit too unbelievable and that there's too much of them. Granted, history is unbelievable at times.

 

[J1M]

Scholars too, to get that damage bonus.

Those shouldn't be in combat at all.

 

[mikaelis]

Tinkering is activated by a quest, and then you need materials, it sounds like you've been exploring a lot and haven't done that yet, or you missed something.

Spoiler

You complete the quest where you check out that little village up north, the one with the fisherman selling nets, then you come back and talk to the Italian guy in the market at the starting town and he teaches you how to tinker.

Ah, all right. Indeed, I am mostly exploring and haven't cleared the village quest yet (have it in my journal).
It looks like the way I am playing, the game can be pretty long (though I imagine it can become tedious, so once in Mexico, I may do less exploration).

Checking again, it is the very first quest to check out the native temple. Complete it, report to the governor, then visit Il Rosso, and you learn to Tinker.

Thanks bro. I cleared the temple already, but haven't reported to the Governor yet (instead went all the way east and north to explore).