KickStarter King Arthur: Knight's Tale + Legion IX standalone expansion - dark fantasy turn-based tactical RPG from NeocoreGames

Darth Roxor · Dec 7, 2023

FFS, I am too dumb to learn how to change difficulty lvl. There's no such option on the world map screen, cannot do this during mission. I must have been missing something.

Options menu -> Gameplay

covr · Dec 7, 2023

That's what I've tried, difficulty option should be on top of gameplay tab. But I have none. Maybe it's case of resolution scaling, or just a bug. I am able to change difficulty only when starting new campaign.

Harthwain · Dec 7, 2023

covr said:
That's what I've tried, difficulty option should be on top of gameplay tab. But I have none. Maybe it's case of resolution scaling, or just a bug. I am able to change difficulty only when starting new campaign.

Here:

Edit: If you still can't see it, it could be because you can't change the difficulty for Roguelike mode (it has only one difficulty - hard by default).

covr · Dec 8, 2023

Harthwain said:
covr said:

That's what I've tried, difficulty option should be on top of gameplay tab. But I have none. Maybe it's case of resolution scaling, or just a bug. I am able to change difficulty only when starting new campaign.

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Here:

Edit: If you still can't see it, it could be because you can't change the difficulty for Roguelike mode (it has only one difficulty - hard by default).

Fuck, your are right, I am on roguelike mode therefore difficulty lvl cannot be changed. I hope game is going to be more challenging later on, but right now is it a smooth sailing, and I am playing sub-optimal builds, I am skipping all jewerly upgrades to items and I am not a powergamer.

Grunker · Dec 8, 2023

covr said:
Harthwain said:

covr said:

That's what I've tried, difficulty option should be on top of gameplay tab. But I have none. Maybe it's case of resolution scaling, or just a bug. I am able to change difficulty only when starting new campaign.

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Here:

Edit: If you still can't see it, it could be because you can't change the difficulty for Roguelike mode (it has only one difficulty - hard by default).

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I hope game is going to be more challenging later on

The game gets significantly easier as it goes on. Lack of challenge in late-mid and late-game are its biggest issues. I played on the hardest diff

razvedchiki · Dec 8, 2023

Grunker said:
The game gets significantly easier as it goes on. Lack of challenge in late-mid and late-game are its biggest issues. I played on the hardest diff

even after the recent changes?

Grunker · Dec 8, 2023

razvedchiki said:
Grunker said:

The game gets significantly easier as it goes on. Lack of challenge in late-mid and late-game are its biggest issues. I played on the hardest diff

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even after the recent changes?

That I can't say

Parabalus · Dec 8, 2023

Game does feel easier, they seemingly nerfed all the enemies and encounters alongside the players.

Dunno about the endgame.

Grunker · Dec 8, 2023

Parabalus said:
Game does feel easier, they seemingly nerfed all the enemies and encounters alongside the players.

Dunno about the endgame.

Jeez. The last thing this game needed was an enemy nerf

Harthwain · Dec 8, 2023

Grunker said:
Parabalus said:

Game does feel easier, they seemingly nerfed all the enemies and encounters alongside the players.

Dunno about the endgame.

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Jeez. The last thing this game needed was an enemy nerf

There was a bunch of quests that well really overtuned compared to others (9-12 range, if I remember correctly. Stuff such as White Knight, Morgana le Fay, Sir Damas, etc.). If there was a nerf, then playing on the hardest difficulty is indeed recommended for challenge purposes.

Darth Roxor · Dec 8, 2023

'You have entered ZE CURSED MIST. Saving is temporarily disabled, your progress is saved automatically.'

Fair enough, I say.

After two fights I have to quit.

Turns out 'automatically' means 'not at all'

gurugeorge · Dec 8, 2023

Darth Roxor said:
'You have entered ZE CURSED MIST. Saving is temporarily disabled, your progress is saved automatically.'

Fair enough, I say.

After two fights I have to quit.

Turns out 'automatically' means 'not at all'

Yeah that one was a bit of a shocker. Fortunately I'm playing on Normal so despite a few hairy moments it was ok, but I can't imagine anyone playing on Very Hard would have a good time with a mission like that that early in the game.

Darth Roxor · Dec 9, 2023

I'm pretty impressed about the AI in this game. It's smart enough to not fall for all the standard tricks and pitfalls, such as 'come on bro here's a juicy tank character juuuust in range for you to move up and slice once, please ignore the guy with a two-hander who can swipe you for -50 hp on the next turn that stands right behind him tho :^)', and it does so very consistently.

Parabalus · Dec 10, 2023

The changes they made to Camelot and the classes are really good, the new building gives you more control over the items you get.

Removing the endless +AP on kill also made the later battles much tougher.

Marksmen are also much better.

Chippy · Dec 10, 2023

Game is awesome! They did everything right! Only developer in existance that actually learns from their past games. ANd their past games RPG systems were always great anyway. 10/10 :5/5:

All glory to Neocore and their future success!.

I have to admist that King Arthur 2 was probably rushed, but this makes up for it in spades. If they could do a enhanced edition of KA2 the world would be perfect, but I'd probably dtill be too busy playing this masterpiece.

Darth Roxor · Dec 10, 2023

Tfw you kill brave sir Lanval in an honourable knightly duel by having him run into bear traps for 10 turns :lol:

Harthwain · Dec 10, 2023

Darth Roxor said:
Tfw you kill brave sir Lanval in an honourable knightly duel by having him run into bear traps for 10 turns

Darth Roxor · Dec 12, 2023

I will go right ahead and say that this game is a paragon of system design. I don't remember the last time I played something that had mechanics this well thought-through - you can tell that the team was focused first and foremost on making the combat work. Usually in such games you can easily identify features that could easily be taken out or others that are bandaids put on glaring issues, but here everything just clicks together so organically. I particularly dig the three-form life pool combining vitality, HP and armour. It's also great that this game avoids the pitfalls of most deterministic systems where the fights feel like chess puzzles to arrange and essentially 'pre-win' on turn 1. There are enough unknown/changing variables involved in combat here to make sure that the fights actually play out on a turn-by-turn basis where plans can go wrong and you're forced to adapt to the consequences of failure and unforeseen circumstances on the fly, and all of that is accomplished WITHOUT the cancerous universal death timers and endless deep-striking reinforcements - I cried manly tears of appreciation when I saw that even the bone totems that summon skellington crossbowmen actually explode by themselves after summoning a certain number.

It's obvious to me that the primary objective behind the development of this game was to make sure that everything about the combat works right, with no exceptions or handwaves, and that everything else was 10 priority levels under that. Neocore knew what they set out to accomplish and they did it. This game simply knows what it's about and it sticks to its guns exactly where it matters. Playing something with a focus/vision this clear and well realised is always a true joy.