KickStarter Knights of the Chalice 2 Thread - Augury of Chaos

[FA7]

Where do I report bugs? How come this atrocity haven't been dealt with yet and is being completely ignored?

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[Fireblade]

My mantis fighter gets 12 attacks/round. Using dex. as his main stat and with four "light" weapons he shreds things. He regularly takes down an enemy with 150-175 h.p. in a round. I do have him specialized for critical hits, though, so...

My mantis gladiator was getting 24 attacks per round in the later part of the game. Boots of haste, and four two-handed weapons (many of them with the Swift enchant).

 

[Whisper]

My mantis fighter gets 12 attacks/round. Using dex. as his main stat and with four "light" weapons he shreds things. He regularly takes down an enemy with 150-175 h.p. in a round. I do have him specialized for critical hits, though, so...

My mantis gladiator was getting 24 attacks per round in the later part of the game. Boots of haste, and four two-handed weapons (many of them with the Swift enchant).

Only problem with gladiator is that he can do so only in full attack, so you are limited to 1 enemy per turn, unless they stay really close. And not doing all this attacks vs mages, who are always spread out.

 

[Fireblade]

Only problem with gladiator is that he can do so only in full attack, so you are limited to 1 enemy per turn, unless they stay really close. And not doing all this attacks vs mages, who are always spread out.

Did you mean "1 attack per turn" rather than "1 enemy per turn"? If so, you can buy Belt of the Lion to fix that to some extent. But yeah I'd go fighter instead, if I was doing it over again.

 

[Lios]

That construct + gelatinous cubes that the hags summon for a fight kicked my ass many times but I felt good that I fucked them in the end. So far the two weapon critical sneak attack Rogue is surprisingly strong. Onwards to chapter 3!

Also, I'm pretty sure that I fucked up somewhere, but here goes nothing: where is this Tome of the Dead that the hags want? I can't find it anywhere.

 

[Darth Roxor]

you'll find out soon enough

 

[anvi]

That construct + gelatinous cubes that the hags summon for a fight kicked my ass many times but I felt good that I fucked them in the end. So far the two weapon critical sneak attack Rogue is surprisingly strong. Onwards to chapter 3!

Also, I'm pretty sure that I fucked up somewhere, but here goes nothing: where is this Tome of the Dead that the hags want? I can't find it anywhere.

For me it somehow ended up on Pizarra or whatever the character is you can hire in CH1/2. I then kicked her out the group because I wanted to stay as 6/7 and thankfully my googling found someone else who couldn't find it.

 

[Lios]

Well it doesn't matter for now since I will restart again soon.
And since I'm in a mandatory 5-day off from work due to positive cov test, I downloaded a (square) token pack from Nexus Mods and am slowly replacing the default token art.

 

[Tacgnol]

That construct + gelatinous cubes that the hags summon for a fight kicked my ass many times but I felt good that I fucked them in the end. So far the two weapon critical sneak attack Rogue is surprisingly strong. Onwards to chapter 3!

Also, I'm pretty sure that I fucked up somewhere, but here goes nothing: where is this Tome of the Dead that the hags want? I can't find it anywhere.

For me it somehow ended up on Pizarra or whatever the character is you can hire in CH1/2. I then kicked her out the group because I wanted to stay as 6/7 and thankfully my googling found someone else who couldn't find it.

That's entirely intentional. She tells you she has the tome when you first fight her in the sewers.

 

[Sunri]

Should I expect sex scenes in this game?

 

[mediocrepoet]

Should I expect sex scenes in this game?

Is he talking about a pearl necklace?

 

[Cryomancer]

Do you guys think that a Planescape tormet style adventure where you visit the 5 moons and then the 5 planes would be interesting? I honestly din't liked much scripting in KotC2 engine, wish that the game allowed the same freedom of NWN2, where you can easily re code and re compile stuff in any IDE that you prefer.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Do you guys think that a Planescape tormet style adventure where you visit the 5 moons and then the 5 planes would be interesting? I honestly din't liked much scripting in KotC2 engine, wish that the game allowed the same freedom of NWN2, where you can easily re code and re compile stuff in any IDE that you prefer.

No. Everyone knows that 3 moons and 7 planes is where it's at.

 

[Berengar]

This scantly-clad woman manifested out of thin air and softlocked the game. Did I just beat the game!?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Congrats you found Pierre's wife. Kill her to remove all voice acting from the game.

 

[underground nymph]

Watched some yt gameplays, seems like the most valid strategy in this game is to spam summons and aoe. Meh.

 

[ItsChon]

Did the game finally come out?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Did the game finally come out?

Nigga where you been

 

[Cryomancer]

Watched some yt gameplays, seems like the most valid strategy in this game is to spam summons and aoe. Meh.

AoE DPS spells are mostly trash TBH(except those who deal damage + status effect like Druid's Sirroco which deals damage and knocks foe prone + dispel persistent cloud spells like cloud kill and incendiary cloud). IDK in low difficulties, but in higher difficulties, casting chaos is often more advantageous than casting power fireball, web and sleep are amazing low level spells. As for summons, they take a full round action to summon, except for white wizards(specialized in conjuration), in the hardest difficulty, enemies with 30+ SR aren't uncommon so in many encounters is more advantageous to buff your party. Time control is a amazing spell, it "haste" your party and "slow" the enemies. I would say that enchantment and conjuration are the most powerful magic schools in the game and no, conjuration is not only summoning.

Martial classes are amazing in this game. Monks in particular are quite powerful with many special "punches" to chose and even something more vanilla like a Fighter, has coup d' grease, trip, sunder, disarm, grapple and other interesting "maneuvers", not mentioning how amazing magical weapons and gear is in this game.

 

[Berengar]

Feel like I accidentally skipped a bunch of stuff in Finchbury by talking to a guy in the tower.

Beat Pizarra but then my party got locked up and everyone got stripped of their gear

 

[Serus]

Watched some yt gameplays, seems like the most valid strategy in this game is to spam summons and aoe. Meh.

"YT gameplays"? Some trolls don't even try these days...

On a side not, It seems very wrong. It's like saying "fighting enemies and killing stuff is the most valid way".
AoE are good, obviously, if you fight a lot of enemies at once but dealing with most dangerous ones individually is still a thing even then. Also AoE can be damge spells or disable/debuff spells. There are combats where AoE are less useful than others due to numbers and/or placement of enemies. Combat tricks are useful too and sometimes the best method to disable pesky casters or heavy hitters. You also "spam" melee atacks. Summons can be useful but certainly are not near a "most valid" way. In general strategies to defeat the enemies are more varied from battle to battle, in this game, than in most others (DnD and DnD-like). In many games (Owlcat, i'm talking about you as well) it is mostly about pre-buffing as crazy and just murdering the enemy with pure damage in hundreds of encounters with trash. This is not the case here, almost every encounter has something unique to it. If KotC2 has "most valid strategies" then many other crpg games can be played on auto-pilot in comparison.

 

[underground nymph]

Watched some yt gameplays, seems like the most valid strategy in this game is to spam summons and aoe. Meh.

"YT gameplays"? Some trolls don't even try these days...

On a side not, It seems very wrong. It's like saying "fighting enemies and killing stuff is the most valid way".
AoE are good, obviously, if you fight a lot of enemies at once but dealing with most dangerous ones individually is still a thing even then. Also AoE can be damge spells or disable/debuff spells. There are combats where AoE are less useful than others due to numbers and/or placement of enemies. Combat tricks are useful too and sometimes the best method to disable pesky casters or heavy hitters. You also "spam" melee atacks. Summons can be useful but certainly are not near a "most valid" way. In general strategies to defeat the enemies are more varied from battle to battle, in this game, than in most others (DnD and DnD-like). In many games (Owlcat, i'm talking about you as well) it is mostly about pre-buffing as crazy and just murdering the enemy with pure damage in hundreds of encounters with trash. This is not the case here, almost every encounter has something unique to it. If KotC2 has "most valid strategies" then many other crpg games can be played on auto-pilot in comparison.

Not sure why you think I am trolling. I watched three longplay videos from yt, one of them on ironman. All of them basically used one tactic which involved spamming summons and aoe both damaging and cc. Their melee were useless, couldn’t hit shit and died/knocked out pretty quickly. Overall it didn’t strike me as something very tactical unless you consider blocking a bunch of enemies in the chokepoint and bashing them with one of the available aoes a pinnacle of tactical gaming.

 

[Sunri]

Watched some yt gameplays, seems like the most valid strategy in this game is to spam summons and aoe. Meh.

"YT gameplays"? Some trolls don't even try these days...

On a side not, It seems very wrong. It's like saying "fighting enemies and killing stuff is the most valid way".
AoE are good, obviously, if you fight a lot of enemies at once but dealing with most dangerous ones individually is still a thing even then. Also AoE can be damge spells or disable/debuff spells. There are combats where AoE are less useful than others due to numbers and/or placement of enemies. Combat tricks are useful too and sometimes the best method to disable pesky casters or heavy hitters. You also "spam" melee atacks. Summons can be useful but certainly are not near a "most valid" way. In general strategies to defeat the enemies are more varied from battle to battle, in this game, than in most others (DnD and DnD-like). In many games (Owlcat, i'm talking about you as well) it is mostly about pre-buffing as crazy and just murdering the enemy with pure damage in hundreds of encounters with trash. This is not the case here, almost every encounter has something unique to it. If KotC2 has "most valid strategies" then many other crpg games can be played on auto-pilot in comparison.

Not sure why you think I am trolling. I watched three longplay videos from yt, one of them on ironman. All of them basically used one tactic which involved spamming summons and aoe both damaging and cc. Their melee were useless, couldn’t hit shit and died/knocked out pretty quickly. Overall it didn’t strike me as something very tactical unless you consider blocking a bunch of enemies in the chokepoint and bashing them with one of the available aoes a pinnacle of tactical gaming.

Sounds like the first one when melee class was deadweight late game and game consisted of spamming 2 aoe spells with cleric and mage he

 

[Serus]

This scantly-clad woman manifested out of thin air and softlocked the game. Did I just beat the game!?

This screen looks nice, if only the whole game looked like this even graphic-whores (by Codex standards not in general) would be, i think, pleased. Hell I would be pleased. I had to change from sprites to tokens in main part of the game because sprites look out of place there and are less readable. Tokens on the other hand looks out of place in Finchbury. If the dungeons looked like this (or like in the tutorial module) as well then I would play with sprites all the time, readability be damned.

Am I correct assuming that next module will have all graphics like that? Pierre, do it and add Centaur and Mantis sprites*, I'll play all sprites then.

*Maybe Half-Salamanders too - how do they suppose to look like?

 

[Tweed]

Not sure why you think I am trolling. I watched three longplay videos from yt, one of them on ironman. All of them basically used one tactic which involved spamming summons and aoe both damaging and cc. Their melee were useless, couldn’t hit shit and died/knocked out pretty quickly. Overall it didn’t strike me as something very tactical unless you consider blocking a bunch of enemies in the chokepoint and bashing them with one of the available aoes a pinnacle of tactical gaming.

Then whoever it was did it wrong. Properly geared up melee dudes can close very fast to enemies and take down two or three in a single round, easy. But, yeah of course your wizards and psionists will be wiping out droves at the higher levels, it's their job.