KickStarter Knights of the Chalice 2 Thread - Augury of Chaos

[JarlFrank]

I finally got it.

Protip: after creating your characters, exit the game and restart it, or their class abilities won't work in dialogue.

 

[vazha]

where do i buy this? and is it a finished product or beta?

 

[Dickie]

where do i buy this? and is it a finished product or beta?

I think you'll be able to buy it here soon. Steam will have it in a few months. It's supposed to be finished, but the number of game-stopping crashes is overwhelming.

http://www.heroicfantasygames.com/FWE/Pages/FWE_Download.htm

 

[Mortmal]

Has anybody managed to make any progress? If so, what OS are you using and did you have to do any kind of tweaks? I just got stumped again. I've heard something about sewers in this thread, but I can't even get that far. I tried running as administrator and a whole bunch of compatibility settings, but I've had no luck.

On the bright side, I've fucked with that portcullis at the beginning enough times that I finally failed the strength check, and you get to fight an extra centipede. That let my guys get to level 2 with just one fight and a bunch of skill usage.

Well i am making progress now, but i get same crashes too, diving in the pool is crash most of the times, it even depends which character you send. I am at level 5 now , cultist fight took me ages and its especially unfair as it send you to the lower sewer without equipement.Only reward is 1000xp more.It's not unplayable by any mean , just extremely unfair.

 

[daedalus0]

KOTC was already hard as fuck. This is a new level but still darn enjoyable.

 

[Lilliput McHammersmith]

Has anybody managed to make any progress? If so, what OS are you using and did you have to do any kind of tweaks? I just got stumped again. I've heard something about sewers in this thread, but I can't even get that far. I tried running as administrator and a whole bunch of compatibility settings, but I've had no luck.

On the bright side, I've fucked with that portcullis at the beginning enough times that I finally failed the strength check, and you get to fight an extra centipede. That let my guys get to level 2 with just one fight and a bunch of skill usage.

Well i am making progress now, but i get same crashes too, diving in the pool is crash most of the times, it even depends which character you send. I am at level 5 now , cultist fight took me ages and its especially unfair as it send you to the lower sewer without equipement.Only reward is 1000xp more.It's not unplayable by any mean , just extremely unfair.

Hahaha I think most fights are extremely unfair. The pool fight in particular, since you can only have two characters, and the one Sharkman casts quicksand 85% of the time which means game over

 

[Strange Fellow]

Are people actually beating the fight where the cultist leader teleports away, or do you just agree to work for him? I don't see how it's possible, but then I didn't see how the second fight of the game was possible with my first party so it could just be a failure of munchkinism.

Not that I'll be playing any more for the foreseeable future, this thing crashes if you breathe too heavily.

 

[Dickie]

Hahaha I think most fights are extremely unfair. The pool fight in particular, since you can only have two characters, and the one Sharkman casts quicksand 85% of the time which means game over

Man, I can't even use a potion of water breathing or the game crashes. I tried once without it, and you can guess how that went.

 

[Jasede]

He can't breathe!

 

[Mortmal]

Are people actually beating the fight where the cultist leader teleports away, or do you just agree to work for him? I don't see how it's possible, but then I didn't see how the second fight of the game was possible with my first party so it could just be a failure of munchkinism.

Not that I'll be playing any more for the foreseeable future, this thing crashes if you breathe too heavily.

Id di it with a party of melee , paladin, barbarian, fighter (centaur) ,gladiator (mantis) one rogue one bard . Rogue has improved iniative, dex 20 etc . First turns, use the confusion scroll with the rogue, kill the hag at the bottom first, then kill casters , get lucky and fight is won.Outcome is same , he telports you away without your equipement.

 

[Rpguy]

Are people actually beating the fight where the cultist leader teleports away, or do you just agree to work for him? I don't see how it's possible, but then I didn't see how the second fight of the game was possible with my first party so it could just be a failure of munchkinism.

Not that I'll be playing any more for the foreseeable future, this thing crashes if you breathe too heavily.

Id di it with a party of melee , paladin, barbarian, fighter (centaur) ,gladiator (mantis) one rogue one bard . Rogue has improved iniative, dex 20 etc . First turns, use the confusion scroll with the rogue, kill the hag at the bottom first, then kill casters , get lucky and fight is won.Outcome is same , he telports you away without your equipement.

So do you have to do the pool fight before he teleports you? can you go back to the pool fight after the boss fight?

 

[JarlFrank]

I maxmaxed my party of 6 human females with Cheat Engine (all 18s) and yet the first proper battle still kicked my ass 10 times. I only won it when I used the web scroll to entangle almost all the enemies, then use my cleric's once-a-day blinding light ability to blind them all. And even then it was still tough.

Remember that final optional post-game encounter of KotC1 that really fucking raped you?

The first encounter in KotC2 is like that.

Yeah, this is the good shit.

Not to mention the ridiculous amount of class/race choices during dialog events. I don't think I've seen an RPG before that gave you that many choices based on party composition.

 

[aweigh]

no e-mail yet...

:/

 

[Tacgnol]

I maxmaxed my party of 6 human females with Cheat Engine (all 18s) and yet the first proper battle still kicked my ass 10 times. I only won it when I used the web scroll to entangle almost all the enemies, then use my cleric's once-a-day blinding light ability to blind them all. And even then it was still tough.

Remember that final optional post-game encounter of KotC1 that really fucking raped you?

The first encounter in KotC2 is like that.

Yeah, this is the good shit.

Not to mention the ridiculous amount of class/race choices during dialog events. I don't think I've seen an RPG before that gave you that many choices based on party composition.

All these posts are making it really tempting to bite the bullet and play, but it really sounds as though I should wait a little bit for some fixes.

 

[JarlFrank]

Haha I keep getting raped by the minotaur wizard. Fuck me.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Why does character creation background music sound like an early morning theme of a harem VN?

It's the same one that played in the original KOTC.

I liked hearing it. I didn't expect it. It's like being transported to ten years ago.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Full screen doesn't work, about 2/3rds of the game screen ends up taking like 1/6th of my computer screen.

In windowed mode, the bottom of the screen is blocked by the Windows task bar. So I can't click on confirm when I create a new character.

Help me.

 

[luj1]

Remember that final optional post-game encounter of KotC1 that really fucking raped you?

The first encounter in KotC2 is like that.

Yeah, this is the good shit.

Not to mention the ridiculous amount of class/race choices during dialog events. I don't think I've seen an RPG before that gave you that many choices based on party composition.

Sounds like fucking incline mate

 

[Humanity has risen!]

If someone wants quality turn-based combat while waiting for Pierre to fix his game, I recommend the genesis version of Langrisser 2 with the fan translation. I'm very close to the end now.

 

[Rinslin Merwind]

I maxmaxed my party of 6 human females with Cheat Engine (all 18s) and yet the first proper battle still kicked my ass 10 times. I only won it when I used the web scroll to entangle almost all the enemies, then use my cleric's once-a-day blinding light ability to blind them all. And even then it was still tough.

Remember that final optional post-game encounter of KotC1 that really fucking raped you?

The first encounter in KotC2 is like that.

Yeah, this is the good shit.

Not to mention the ridiculous amount of class/race choices during dialog events. I don't think I've seen an RPG before that gave you that many choices based on party composition.

Forgive me, but isn't situation when you can beat first fight in game only with cheats is sign that game completely broken right now? Or your party composition was shit and you hoped to "cheeze" your way through? Or maybe I don't understand something?
I mean, I can be considered guilty of min maxing sometimes, but 18s on all stats on first walkthrough...Honestly, I was expected more that fantadomat would do that (and complain that game is easy).

 

[JarlFrank]

Honestly, I was expected more that fantadomat would do that (and complain that game is easy).

Me and fanta are brothers in spirit

And no, it's not a sign of the game being broken, the fight is actually doable if you use the scrolls you find rather than going "Hmmmmmmmmmmmm I'll keep all these consumables for a later fight" and never using them.

The minotaur fight just after that, however... that's really unfair because you have NO equipment and that minotaur is both a spellcaster AND really strong in melee.

 

[Mortmal]

Are people actually beating the fight where the cultist leader teleports away, or do you just agree to work for him? I don't see how it's possible, but then I didn't see how the second fight of the game was possible with my first party so it could just be a failure of munchkinism.

Not that I'll be playing any more for the foreseeable future, this thing crashes if you breathe too heavily.

Id di it with a party of melee , paladin, barbarian, fighter (centaur) ,gladiator (mantis) one rogue one bard . Rogue has improved iniative, dex 20 etc . First turns, use the confusion scroll with the rogue, kill the hag at the bottom first, then kill casters , get lucky and fight is won.Outcome is same , he telports you away without your equipement.

So do you have to do the pool fight before he teleports you? can you go back to the pool fight after the boss fight?

I think so, i found no way yet to get back up. Just noticed a new pleasantry from pierre, vampires drain levels...

 

[JarlFrank]

So how do you guys beat the minotaur wizard that surprises you when you open the first gate in the dungeon the bad guy teleports you to?

 

[rotgrub]

Whoa, I backed the KS and had no idea I'd be getting a download now! Can someone fill me in on what the development timeline of this game is? I thought the videos and updates were all about a game still in development.
I see we have the 1st of several modules now, and the expected fulfillment of the 2nd is in January 2022. Will there be more development of the 1st module/base game between now and then? I'm not inclined to play a game that is still being improved/developed, finish it, and then have to wait more than a year for the next part to come around.

 

[Dickie]

Forgive me, but isn't situation when you can beat first fight in game only with cheats is sign that game completely broken right now? Or your party composition was shit and you hoped to "cheeze" your way through? Or maybe I don't understand something?

You get scrolls that really help with that fight if you have arcane casters on the team and one of them can use one of the scrolls before they all die.

I had my wizard use a scroll of Deep Slumber and a good chunk of the guys went to sleep. A lot of the other guys wasted their turns waking them up. Then, I used my normal Sleep spell to keep putting 1-3 guys per sleep per turn with the wizard and using a lot of Grease with my psion to hold everything down while the gladiator and polearm-wielding death knight cleaned up. Had my cleric using buffs and an occasional heal and the bard singing songs and killing dudes with his sword.