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

[razvedchiki]

valerie is good as she is,buff her with belts/heroism etc and she will be ok.

 

[frajaq]

Thanks for all the help earlier, just one more question: at which difficulty do you ACTUALLY need to worry about optimizing your party? My first run of this game I want to be kinda chill and just enjoy how the story unfolds, and then worry about hardcore stuff in a future run

 

[purpleblob]

I played on normal and didn't optimised my party, so that might be a good starting point?

 

[Yosharian]

Thanks for all the help earlier, just one more question: at which difficulty do you ACTUALLY need to worry about optimizing your party? My first run of this game I want to be kinda chill and just enjoy how the story unfolds, and then worry about hardcore stuff in a future run

You should run at the difficulty below Challenging, if you have some knowledge of D&D. Maybe it's called Normal? Can't remember

 

[panda]

Does the Bloodhound's damage stacking work for you guys?
Not sure, maybe i'm missing something obvious, but dmg rolls logs in my game stay the same even for consecutive hits.

 

[Haplo]

Thanks for all the help earlier, just one more question: at which difficulty do you ACTUALLY need to worry about optimizing your party? My first run of this game I want to be kinda chill and just enjoy how the story unfolds, and then worry about hardcore stuff in a future run

I think at Challenging you still don't NEED to optimize much. Of course, with some optimizing it would be smoother sailing. Hard and above, I'd say some degree of optimization is very advised (definitely not necessary to absolutely min-max on Hard though - probably needed for Unfair).
If you want to play it safe, simply pick Normal.

 

[Dr Skeleton]

Thanks for all the help earlier, just one more question: at which difficulty do you ACTUALLY need to worry about optimizing your party? My first run of this game I want to be kinda chill and just enjoy how the story unfolds, and then worry about hardcore stuff in a future run

I played on challenging and didn't use custom companions, didn't even multi-class anyone except Valerie to stalwart defender, just played normally doing whatever. The first act can be rough at times but it gets easier after that. There were some difficult encounters after that but nothing you can't solve by resting and using different spells or tactics.

 

[razvedchiki]

The games difficulty takes a deep dive after chapter 2 until the house of time,if you buff like a normal person you will be fine.

 

[pomenitul]

I played on core rules, which bafflingly required a bit of tweaking, and it was fine for an inaugural run.

 

[santino27]

Hotfix:

Hotfix 1.3.1 – April 3rd, 2019


Please, be aware of plot spoilers in the description below (in the Quest, Areas and Kingdom sections)!



Areas

• Improved area transitions in Pitax.

Quests

• A dialogue bug used to make it impossible to complete Kimo Tavon's quest "Affairs of the Heart". Resolution: fixed.

Classes & Mechanics

• The Tactical Acumen ability of the Tactical Leader (Inquisitor Archetype) did not work. Resolution: fixed.
  
  
• Even after getting to level 12, Tactical Leader's Swift Tactician ability would still take a standard action to use. Resolution: fixed.

Items

• Bonuses from Professor's Hat weren't attributed to it. Resolution: fixed.

User Interfaces

• In the trade window, the "Non-magical" and "Masterwork" checkboxes didn't work - the "Offer" button wouldn't offer to sell said types of items. Resolution: fixed.
  
• Starting character creation, then returning to the pregen selection, and proceeding to the creation again would result in a character missing their starting equipment. Resolution: fixed.
  
• When levelling up, different spells could start overlapping. Resolution: fixed.

Misc

• When entering the Global Map from the throne room, the party would consist of all characters that were picked the previous time, even if the player actually changed the party roster. Resolution: fixed.
  
• Recruiting companions while the main character is the last in party order could lead to a crash. Resolution: fixed.

A friendly reminder: while we deeply admire the contribution that mod authors make to our game, we would like you to remember that running custom modifications can lead to unexpected bugs and crashes. Unfortunately, if you encounter any issues while playing with mods, our team will not be able to help you. If this happens, please, report these issues to the mod's original creator. Also, remember that after each game update, there is a high probability of previously installed mods not functioning properly. If you wish to play with mods anyway, disabling auto-updates might prevent your save files from becoming corrupted.

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

How does the difficulty of Varnhold’s Lot compare to the base game? I’m near the end of chapter 2 and finding the game pretty cakewalky on challenging. Wondering if I should up it for the DLC or if it actually is significantly harder as the release notes imply.

 

[ArchAngel]

I noticed something new. Probably came with 1.3. All villages now have a priest inside that sells priest scrolls and components like diamonds.

 

[santino27]

I noticed something new. Probably came with 1.3. All villages now have a priest inside that sells priest scrolls and components like diamonds.

Yes, that was mentioned in the 1.3 patch notes:

From now on, there will be priests who sell and read scrolls in every regional settlement.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

I'm at level 8 and found a dragon named Crag Linnorm in a cave and after buffing my party with a ridiculous amount of buffs, I easily defeated him... sorta... kinda. He just rolled over on his back and layed there in a coma healing himself 10 points every few seconds but never rising while my party continued to beat the shit out of him. His color remained red-outlined as if he was still alive. Since the game wouldn't recognize him as dead, I couldn't leave the cave and had to reload. Anyone else experience this? I'm assuming it's a big-ass bug. It sucks because I let out a loud cheer (i mean, he's a fucking dragon!) when he fell thinking he was dead.

 

[Terra]

You need a Cold Iron weapon to remove a Crag Linnorm's regeneration effect (other stuff can take it off too) otherwise it won't die.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

You need a Cold Iron weapon to remove a Crag Linnorm's regeneration effect (other stuff can take it off too) otherwise it won't die.

Hmm. I tried acid and fire and that didn't work. Hey, it works for trolls (the normal ones) so I figured 'why not dragons?' I ran an Inspect on him but got no useful data. Sometimes it's just hard to figure out these things.

 

[Daidre]

How does the difficulty of Varnhold’s Lot compare to the base game? I’m near the end of chapter 2 and finding the game pretty cakewalky on challenging. Wondering if I should up it for the DLC or if it actually is significantly harder as the release notes imply.

Varnhold’s Lot is pretty merciless for 5-9 lvl campaign but in the same time it has 4 characters to make (3 other are mercs bit later into story) and allows some serious power building.
Also, my impression that difference between Challenging > Hard is more prominent than for Normal > Challenging.

Still, DLC campaign is doable on Hard, when you are prepared for "homicidal GM in bad mood" design approach.

Hmm. I tried acid and fire and that didn't work. Hey, it works for trolls (the normal ones) so I figured 'why not dragons?' I ran an Inspect on him but got no useful data. Sometimes it's just hard to figure out these things.

There is loading screen hint about them. I was always dragging around my first +1 Cold Iron knife in weapon slot on MC after reading it.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Heh, I'm using an NVMe SSD drive. Sometimes I can't even get a quarter of the way through reading those loading screen tips before the game starts.

 

[Yosharian]

A +3 weapon ought to have the same effect as a cold iron one? Maybe it doesn't work that way

 

[Ruchy]

Probably been asked before so apologies, but when is the right time to start Varnhold?

 

[Ruchy]

A +3 weapon ought to have the same effect as a cold iron one? Maybe it doesn't work that way

Has to be Cold iron on the Crag.

 

[Daidre]

Probably been asked before so apologies, but when is the right time to start Varnhold?

Imho, right after Troll Chapter or Bloom.

 

[razvedchiki]

How much perception to find armags tomb manually?

 

[Daidre]

No way to find out. ~30-40 should be enough but all skill DC upped by difficulty sliders. Inq-Jaethal is worked for me with skill in this range on Hard&Unfair, but all my party has points in Perception.
EDIT: you need to look for Tomb manually anyway, projects only reduce DC, but I never waste time on them.

 

[Ruchy]

Also makes sure to give her the new pet cat that dropped in a recent update for +2 to perception.