KickStarter Knights of the Chalice 2 Thread - Augury of Chaos

[jungl]

I like where monks are right now d8 class medium BAB you know WEAK. They serve as good goons to explode in bits for human male sword board chad fighters before the serious encounters come into play. Shame pierre did not add enemy monks in the module to fulfill this fantasy 90% percent DND playerbase can agree upon.

 

[Mauman]

Proposed video representation of monk changes in action.

Spoiler

 

[Pink Eye]

Shame pierre did not add enemy monks in the module

Vampire monks, man. There's a whole gang of em' in that tomb encounter where lich resides within upper sewers.

 

[almondblight]

As for the looks, Pierre already added 3D models on top of the original tokens.

I mean, that's kind of the point. He did have money for an asset package, but because he got it rather late it ended up clashing with the style he already put work into. He also ended up picking a pack based on a Kickstarter comment, and the pack is graphically fine but not really optimal for this kind of game. If people were more interested in giving him constructive criticism early on instead of patting themselves on the back about how little graphics mattered to them, they could have helped Pierre get a good pack at the beginning that he could develop things cohesively around and prevented him wasting time putting two completely different graphical styles in the game.

 

[Darth Canoli]

I mean, that's kind of the point. He did have money for an asset package, but because he got it rather late it ended up clashing with the style he already put work into. He also ended up picking a pack based on a Kickstarter comment, and the pack is graphically fine but not really optimal for this kind of game. If people were more interested in giving him constructive criticism early on instead of patting themselves on the back about how little graphics mattered to them, they could have helped Pierre get a good pack at the beginning that he could develop things cohesively around and prevented him wasting time putting two completely different graphical styles in the game.

First and foremost, everyone and their mother asked for KotC animated sprites from the get go.
The one complaining like a retard after the fact and not contributing is YOU, most people here gave feedback, here, on his forum or by e-mailing Pierre.

About the 3D models, I don't like them anymore than you do but what can I do?
I gave a lot of feedback to Pierre in private but in fine, it's his game, he listened to some, I can tell you I talked a lot about new pre-combat dialog options, extra village invasion fight, the village's spider, dwarves, Monks and Barbarians shortcomings with Pierre and it bore some fruits.

No such luck with 2D animated sprites though but this kind of expensive design choices are beyond user's feedback since the dev is the one paying the prices, both in money and consequences in sales and eventual lack of money to develop the upcoming modules.

Personally, I prefer shit graphics and getting the 3 upcoming modules than shiny 2D animated sprites but Pierre getting bankrupt and not being able to release them.

 

[Jasede]

Fuck yeah more modules
The tutorial is over!

 

[Brancaleone]

The game keeps boiling my CPU (i7-1165G), constantly around 90°. I've got a very slimmed down W10, repasted CPU, and all the temperature-related paraphernalia. For comparison, Battle Brothers averages 55°.

Anybody has any advice/solutions?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

The game keeps boiling my CPU (i7-1165G), constantly around 90°. I've got a very slimmed down W10, repasted CPU, and all the temperature-related paraphernalia. For comparison, Battle Brothers averages 55°.

Anybody has any advice/solutions?

Move to the Poles?

 

[Pink Eye]

I have no clue how the game can be doing that to your PC. It's not that demanding at all. I suggest emailing Pierre about it, though he takes about two or so business days to respond.

 

[Brancaleone]

I have no clue how the game can be doing that to your PC. It's not that demanding at all. I suggest emailing Pierre about it, though he takes about two or so business days to respond.

Yes, it's a strange behaviour, especially compared to far more demanding titles.

 

[Brancaleone]

The game keeps boiling my CPU (i7-1165G), constantly around 90°. I've got a very slimmed down W10, repasted CPU, and all the temperature-related paraphernalia. For comparison, Battle Brothers averages 55°.

Anybody has any advice/solutions?

Move to the Poles?

Sorry, don't like pierogi that much.

 

[Darth Canoli]

The game keeps boiling my CPU (i7-1165G), constantly around 90°. I've got a very slimmed down W10, repasted CPU, and all the temperature-related paraphernalia. For comparison, Battle Brothers averages 55°.

Anybody has any advice/solutions?

It's weird since my toaster with integrated graphic card can run it very smoothly.

Some Graphic settings can improve the performances by a lot:

• Display environmental particules >> OFF (display)
• Allow long pathfinding OFF (gameplay)
• Determine targets of spreads accurately OFF (gameplay)

Not sure about those two:

• Low res arrows and bolts OFF (both display)
• Vertical synchronization OFF

Last but not least (for even faster combat)

• Ultra accelerated combat
• Skip all effects (spell tab)

And finally, disabling 3D models and playing with tokens might just improve performances further.

 

[Brancaleone]

The game keeps boiling my CPU (i7-1165G), constantly around 90°. I've got a very slimmed down W10, repasted CPU, and all the temperature-related paraphernalia. For comparison, Battle Brothers averages 55°.

Anybody has any advice/solutions?

It's weird since my toaster with integrated graphic card can run it very smoothly.

Some Graphic settings can improve the performances by a lot:

• Display environmental particules >> OFF (display)
• Allow long pathfinding OFF (gameplay)
• Determine targets of spreads accurately OFF (gameplay)

Not sure about those two:

• Low res arrows and bolts OFF (both display)
• Vertical synchronization OFF

Last but not least (for even faster combat)

• Ultra accelerated combat
• Skip all effects (spell tab)

And finally, disabling 3D models and playing with tokens might just improve performances further.

I play with tokens, have everything off apart from Low res arrows and bolts, and CPU usage for the game is around 18-20%. I thought it was something due to previous versions having some issue, but it keeps happening.

Complete specifics: i7-1165G7, Iris Xe, 16 gb ram. Not a gaming machine by any means, but I can play Kingmaker on medium graphic settings with temperature around 75-80°.

 

[ionic atomic]

Just finished my first playthrough. I'm not sure the move to 8 char parties was the right call, it turned the puzzle-like fights of the first KoTC to a nukefest against the hordes. Also, most of the recruitable NPCs suck. 11 dex casters? Nope!

The path is really rigid. You really can't afford to miss any xp. Too bad, too. Because multiple scenarios do a nice job of giving you various ways to do them.

You can. The xp rewards depend on your level, if you end up lagging behind at some point, you'll catch up anyway.

 

[Volourn]

Nah. The xp is useful for crafting and prepping for the big set battles which most are. Plus I am a self punisher who doesn't use npcs at all. Lmao Though, I 'cheat' in other ways with extra feats and stat bonuses.

Just finish the flame fare. Not hard. I also killed the undead dragon in 2 rounds because of the silliness of giving the player an instant murder undead weapon. Lmao

Wiping out the goblin war room should be much easier thanks to all the anti fire shit we gathered. Plus, I now have +5 damage reducing Armour amongst other over powered equipment especially for level 7. This is a ph@t left lovers' dream.

Good game, overall, but I no doubt see hypocrisy. The same people who bash Bio games for ph@t left likely cum for this one. Heh.

 

[overtenemy]

Bros how does smite work? It says "single attack" but I full attacked while hasted and smite applied to both while being low level and having only one use. Bug or feature? I also notice you can't charge+smite, which has me wondering if when you get pounce whether a single smite use applies to all the attacks, you have to do separate uses, or it doesn't work at all.

 

[Grimlorn]

Did this go on sale for Steam's Summer sale? I was planning on getting it for the 50% off sale. Did I miss it?

 

[NJClaw]

On sale? This game?

Pierre's game? On sale?

Not only a sale, but a 50% off sale?

Infinitron give this man a "clinically insane" tag.

KotC 1 is a 13-years-old game and the best deal we've had so far has been 30% off a year ago. We can expect to see a 50% discount on KotC 2 around 2057.

 

[Pink Eye]

The Archmage edition is 5% off, but it still costs a lot of money.

 

[Darth Canoli]

Did this go on sale for Steam's Summer sale? I was planning on getting it for the 50% off sale. Did I miss it?

Fuck off already, hobo! If you didn't buy a Rollex and KotC 2 Archmage edition before your 40's, you've wasted your life.

 

[Grimlorn]

On sale? This game?

I figured Steam might put it on sale anyways or there might be some deal in place for a sale when Steam has them which is why he was charging about double what he charged for the first game. Everyone knows about his bad business sense and economics degree.

 

[Abu Antar]

Did this go on sale for Steam's Summer sale? I was planning on getting it for the 50% off sale. Did I miss it?

Regular version has been 5% on GOG, and that's it.

 

[Sykar]

Shame pierre did not add enemy monks in the module

Vampire monks, man. There's a whole gang of em' in that tomb encounter where lich resides within upper sewers.

 

[NJClaw]

On sale? This game?

I figured Steam might put it on sale anyways or there might be some deal in place for a sale when Steam has them which is why he was charging about double what he charged for the first game. Everyone knows about his bad business sense and economics degree.

Steam can't "put" a game on sale. Only Pierre can.

 

[JarlFrank]

I told Pierre at release that a sale might be a good idea.

But we all know how closely he follows good business advice...