Pathfinder Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition - now with turn-based combat

Has anyone figured out how to the use the teleportation to your other settlements? I got a Mage Tower in my capital, do I need one in all villages? I was hoping it would at least work one way if you only got it in capital.

 

I turned Linzi into bard 7/EK x and focused all feats into bows. Gave her that acid bow you find. She is more useful now and deals good damage. Unlike Ekun she can provide Good Hope (+2 to attacks, saves, damage, skills), Bard Song (+2 to attacks, damage) and Haste (+1 to attacks, reflex saves and +1 attack per round). And she can cast Sense Vitals on herself which covers for small weapon damage penalty and more. With 7 levels of bard she only lost 2 bab compared to ranger. Only real penalty is that she does not have access to OP pet like Ekun does.

 

You need one everywhere. There are also teleportation circles (which I think need a certain Arcane kingdom value to become available).

 

To fix Octavia not being able to memorize spells in specialization slots I had to use a cheat program to remove all her Transmutation spells and add them back in... tnx for nothing devs..

 

First time I had skill focus: perception during Womb part of the game and I found an Enlarged Owlbear-like Treant.. this shit is insane.. 400 hp.. 3x +35 attack and 40 damage per hit and all saves 15+

 

The owl battle is maybe the easiest of the bosses. It just dies in two rounds.

 

Put a teleportation circle in every city you want to be able to travel to and from.

 

Finally found a magic tower shield for Valerie! It's just a +2 with no trickery, but better than her mundane one she'd been lugging around since the start. Still got fairly shit robes for my wizard and only a +2 INT hat but in the grand scheme of things it's not that important for wizzing. Vanishing of Varnhold quest continues to be pretty cool other than the fact that I probably should make a trek back to my barony just to reassign dudes and make sure nothing's on fire. Going over/through the mountains to reach Varnhold takes a decent chunk of time and the quest has had a fair bit of running around, so I might've rolled into a new month and had new events trigger. It is a bit of a shame that you can't just set your kingdom to "If the baron isn't around you idiots handle any crises" mode and it auto-assigns people to solve shit if they're available. Could even have the drawback of them not automatically jumping on opportunities, just fixing problems.

 

Is this game patched enough to play or should I wait a few more months? Tried it when it first came out and it was fun but a shit show of bugs and I had to stop.

 

You may as well wait until they've put out all the DLC, since they'll continue patching the game gor all that time and it's possible the DLC will introduce new bugs. There's no reason not to wait until it's as polished as it can possibly get

 

So, buy it 5 years later at a dumpster fire sale. Got it

 

You can assign people to do events from the world map even if you're far away from the barony. Just look for the Kingdom button in the bottom right of the screen when on the world map. Makes things much easier obviously.

 

Yup, but you've still gotta bet in your territory to do that. Which doesn't make it quite as much of a trip as hauling ass back to the capital but still means I'd have to go over the mountains. I have got that southeast region though so maybe I can snake down there without hitting any mountains and slowing down, not positive about that.

 

If you have expansion installed, the tiefling companion should add a kingdom project that speeds up travel in mountain region. Also, there is a food recipe that reduces travel fatigue (cheese crostata)

 

Yep, the food that enhances travel time without fatigue is great, and I didn't realize you had to be in your own territory to access the Kingdom from afar. Interesting.

 

IIRC, you need to be near one of your settlements to access Kingdom management in the world map.

 

The Kingdom Resolution mod has an option to access the Kingdom Management screen anywhere. It’s a nice quality of life improvement that should already be in the game because simple communication spells exist.

 

Finished it about a month ago, had maybe five quest broken/unfinished due to bugs, but nothing game stopping.

 

If you got silver lake region, you can get to it taking a path east of the mountain, that is how I managed my kingdom during Varnhold chapter.

Edit: Also you should build an aviary in your capital, it will let you control the kingdom from Varnhold area even if you don't have it claimed.

 

I don't have that option. But I also don't have an arcane advisor yet.
But Mage tower building in its description mentions teleportation, I was hoping that would be enough.

 

So ive got two questions

1. Is the game sits comfortably among all time classics?
2. Is it playable now from start to finish?

 

1. needs some more time in the oven to be in top 10 (or some good community patches). It is top 20 without that for sure
2. It is playable but still feels unpolished in may aspects of it.

 

Thanks

 

New patches bring new bugs. E.g. skinning used to work but is now broken in 1.2.0 beta. So you shouldn't take it for granted that in a few months it'll be more (and not less) playable.

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From a Steam review:

 

1. In my opinion, yes it does, one of the best cRPGs out there.
2. It is playable but still need some more polish. Much better now though.