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Game News Expeditions: Viking Released
- Thread starter Infinitron
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Maybe they decided to make it free at the last minute? The soundtrack and art book isn't free though.
Writing is abysmal compared to the last game.What happen did they change writers? Also the combat is not very different from Conquistadors and a lot of skills are just plain useless.And AGAIN the camera angle is ridiculous, there is no excuse this time.
Not yet, maybe later.
Jack Dandy
Arcane
Bought. Hoping it improves on ExConq.
IHaveHugeNick
Arcane
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Well? Anyone played this yet? Buy, wait for bargain bin, pirate, never touch, torch down with napalm?
Sensuki
Arcane
Not that you'd have the same taste as me but I think it's well worth the price.
Just a while in but I'm liking it so far.
A few things though. First off, it feels kinda unpolished. Just a while ago I had to force the game to shut down because it got stuck somehow in combat, could move my characters around but could neither do any action nor end the turn. Then it just froze up. And the UI is... not good. Hard to read, ugly and not particularly fitting for the game's theme. And I can't stand the camera.
So yeah, feels a bit janky. But the setting and combat are really nice, can't wait to get in deeper into the game.
Also, does anyone else have horrible screen-tearing? I've got V-sync on.
A few things though. First off, it feels kinda unpolished. Just a while ago I had to force the game to shut down because it got stuck somehow in combat, could move my characters around but could neither do any action nor end the turn. Then it just froze up. And the UI is... not good. Hard to read, ugly and not particularly fitting for the game's theme. And I can't stand the camera.
So yeah, feels a bit janky. But the setting and combat are really nice, can't wait to get in deeper into the game.
Also, does anyone else have horrible screen-tearing? I've got V-sync on.
No tearing, but my display has g-sync. Have you tried limiting fps to 60 or whatever your display supports?
Which fight was this and how did you get to it? Also, did you use any abilities that caused this (Or did the enemy)?
The wolf fight in the woods. Don't think it was player abilities, I believe something happened during the enemy turn because it was after that that it messed up. All the interface stuff that shows where your guys can move didn't show up at all. But yeah, could still move the characters around, but couldn't do any attack actions or end the turn.
EDIT: Also should mention this. After I loaded the autosave right before that fight, the shipbuilder guy (Thorfinn?) was back in my party despite the fact that he should have gone back to town since I had finished all the stuff with finding the wood. And again, after loading that autosave, when starting the wolf fight, my dudes didn't start all spread out in cover (like what happened the first time), but just started in one big clump.
So something weird going on there. That said, it didn't seem to break anything and Thorfinn was still in his proper place when returning to the town.
Any brave souls tried it on Wine? I had the previous Expeditions and I'm pretty sure it did run under Wine but I want to hold off until I know for sure. There's nothing on WineDB at present.
Cynicus
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Viking is finally out and I have to entertain in-laws all weekend!
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Things I learnt too late for the first fight, there's a nonlethal attack feature in this game which means all the NPCS you fight survive the fight, super duper useful would use. Button at the bottom right of the combat ui or z. Still killed the nutcase at the start of the tutorial though.
Sensuki
Arcane
I noticed some similar issues in the final beta with temporary party members still being in the party after reloading.
Jrpgfan
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Nice game btw. A clear improvement from Conquistador IMO, much more fun to play. It follows a more traditional cRPG formula instead of the HoMM one used in Conquistador.
Btw to the guy who was in doubt if it would work on his laptop, I'm away from home and having to use mine which has quite modest specs and I'm having no trouble running the game, so you should be fine.
hivemind
Guest
I can run it at like 15 fps and 3 min loading times for big areas like Ribe with a processor below min reqs.
It's like barely enjoyable territory, but I'm desperate as fuck
It's like barely enjoyable territory, but I'm desperate as fuck
Definitely on my wishlist, but no linux = no high priority.
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There doesn't seem to be a centre camera on protagonist/party key, which is a fairly major oversight considering you're scrolling all over the map and moving around the place. Also wish the party could move whilst you peruse the minimap, but understand that's not super viable in every engine.
F key doesn't do it out of combat?
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