It wasn't feint that won the fight, but the AI fucking up by putting the guy wielding a 50k GP longsword next to the brazier at the right moment. So this 'tutorial' taught me how to reload the game over and over until the AI shit the bed.
Nah, I understood what Pierre was trying to do. But the clumsy UI and awkward camera angle frustrated my initial attempts to use combat maneuvers, and the numbers are a little too extreme for my liking for a fucking tutorial.
I almost did tbh but I'm a stubborn cunt, I just had to persist at it
Gaem too hard. Filtered by the tutorial. Welcome to RPG Codex, home of true, monocled gamers.
What proficiencies does Jorad have btw?
dark souls of tutorials!
Gaem too hard. Filtered by the tutorial. Welcome to RPG Codex, home of true, monocled gamers.
There is little difference in that case. What difficulties do mostly is changing long term balance, number of feats, having to pay for levelling, etc... Things that make the game easier/harder because your party becomes stronger or weaker. The change in combat itself are the initiative penalty for the AI on Normal and Hard and higher dying threshold - on per level basis on Normal. Let's forget easy. The initiative plays a big role, the bigger the stronger enemy, especially casters get but only Archmage by default doesn't have the penalty for AI. Btw a 25% penalty doesn't guarantee anything, just makes it much more likely.
Yes but i think it was a good kind of difficulty. Mostly.
Gaem too hard. Filtered by the tutorial. Welcome to RPG Codex, home of true, monocled gamers.
tbh the tutorial is harder than the first and second act of the main game
He also created a sort of "prologue" that is more difficult than the first chapter and half of the game. This is why everyone loves him. Or hates him but it is hard to remain unaffected by his "design" choices if you play his games.
Gaem too hard. Filtered by the tutorial. Welcome to RPG Codex, home of true, monocled gamers.
tbh the tutorial is harder than the first and second act of the main game
So what I'm hearing here is that visionary designer Pierre Begue listened to all the whining about difficulty and created a tutorial that will tutor players to be able to more easily pass the first two acts of the game. Genius!
This isn't true because I have seen a video of someone playing on Normal difficulty and he is hitting / succeeding on spells far more easily than I was. Normal applies a level drain to enemies which makes them weaker, so it doesn't just change long-term difficulty.
Normal doesn't apply any "level drain" automatically. Level drain is a rare effect from, mostly, higher level spells and a high level, rarely used, weapon enchantment. This is what normal difficulty modifies. The change only affects spells resistance and armour class - at least according to help files. This means that if the video wasn't showing mid game at least AND the players wasn't spamming the effect AND the enemy had SR (in case of spells) to begin with - the option didn't do squat - at least to my knowledge. Also See "observer bias".
What about healing? Only Psion in main team is capable of healing. Everything else from potions scrolls? You can't even read cleric/druid scrolls. I think you need the one of the two companion druids - or at least the elemental bodyguard of the "good" one. But then i'm a noob in this game compared to you.
The in-game help says "Negative levels may be assigned to certain opponents, depending on the Difficulty level. Negative levels resulting from the difficulty setting apply a penalty to Armour Class and Spell Resistance, as well as the standard effects of negative levels detailed below". Then it goes on to list Attack Rolls, Saving Throws, Hit Points, and Effective Level (affecting spellcasting/psionic powers).
So you admit that the negative level effect makes the fight easier, and having defeated the encounter before and knowing exactly what to do, you were able to defeat it again on the higher difficulty!
