They thought I was mad when I said I wanted a piece of that orc ass. MAD I TELL YOU. Little did they realize that Regongar would actually be the best waifu. Years of subsisting on Bioware RPGs has given me a finely honed ability to detect the best waifus, so even though Valerie and Octavia may look better at first glance, the wise adventurer knows the firm grip of a character with 19 natural strength is really the only acceptable place for his dick.
Ah, alright, I assumed it went for the entire party. If it's only created when you create a character with a custom portrait, anyone that didn't start with a custom portrait is SOL.
All of it. I extracted every single 2D graphic in the entire game to suck out those juicy portraits. If there's portraits anywhere else, they're sure as hell not kept as simple 2D/textures in the .assets-files.
Happened in my game as well. I think hey have you spawn just outside of the map or something.Anyone else been here?
Completely fucking broken. You enter the map, and you can't move from the spawn point. Complete stop, do not pass go, do not collect 500 shekels.
Yeah, such folder created when you create a character with custom portrait, I suggested this method to Lawntoilet because he specially mentioned that he have character with custom portrait from pack.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker Review
OCTOBER 05, 2018
A while back, I was having a conversation with some folks about the different merits of the various recent editions of Dungeons and Dragons, and I had to point out that when I began playing the game — in 1974! — there were no “editions,” just, well… the game. Of course, D&D went on to become not just a tabletop game icon, but the primary inspiration for computer RPGs as well, some of them using the actual D&D ruleset in one form or another. Pathfinder: Kingmaker is one such example.
Backed by a successful Kickstarter campaign, Owlcat Games’ Pathfinder: Kingmaker is inspired by the popular D&D adventure Pathfinder, and uses the D&D 4.0 rules to drive much of what goes on under the hood. From the character creation to every enemy encounter, from equipment and armor effectiveness to weapons and spells, just about everything is transparently the result of a 20-sided dice roll. While it might be possible to stumble through the game oblivious of the underlying mechanic, to do so would ignore the authenticity of Kingmaker’s D&D roots and would probably end in failure.
At first blush, one might be tempted to dismiss Pathfinder: Kingmaker as another fantasy RPG in the vein of Baldur’s Gate, Pillars of Eternity or Divinity: Original Sin. There certainly are similarities. The setting is familiar enough, the monster types have been encountered before and the quests and characters pull from well-established traditions. But Pathfinder adds a wrinkle or two, including a bit of city building and management that adds a new layer to story and character development as well as a significant amount of optional, on-the-side complexity. Like much of Pathfinder, the depth of engagement in the weeds of the mechanics is adjustable. If you want to see each and every roll of the dice, you can.
Although Pathfinder: Kingmaker at first seems welcoming enough, and begins with a prologue in the “gather a party and do battle” mode, it shows its stripes as a more challenging and sometimes frustratingly difficult game in a way that its popular brethren are not. There are some obvious balancing issues, which will no doubt improve with patches and fixes. There are tool tips aplenty but quite a lot of Pathfinder: Kingmaker is opaque and it’s very easy to feel lost and not well-equipped to make important choices. I never felt truly at home, despite that most of the mechanics of movement, party management, fighting, and casting are on the surface pretty familiar. I guess that for me, the game never found the sweet spot between easy mode and too much information mode. And it almost feels like all those numbers weight the game down.
We’re in a happy place in the hobby where nearly all RPGs take the time to present more-or-less interesting and well-written characters. In Pathfinder: Kingmaker, the dialog choices are a reflection of, not just dice rolls and alignment, but choices and actions along the way (even if ultimately, they’re the result of dice rolls, too). The characters that one adds to the party are quirky and although they fulfill the standard RPG roles (fighter, healer, mage, etc), they do so with some interesting and memorable attitudes. The player character’s progression from lone fighter to party member to powerful baron is at the heart of the story and adds a dollop of political intrigue with the expected clash of magical forces, Pathfinder:Kingmaker’s landscapes, castles and dungeons might lack a bit of imagination but they are pretty enough to look at, and there are some effective lighting and spell effects. Overall, the game is colorful, if technically inconsistent, as frame rate slowdowns and longish load times are common.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker is definitely one of the most faithful recreations of the D&D experience in digital form and those with patience, a love of numbers and a willingness to tolerate a bit of opacity and imbalance have much to look forward to. There’s something a bit overwhelming and unfriendly about the game’s mechanics and while Pathfinder’s faithful translation of D&D and city building elements are unique, a lot of the setting, story and characters are a bit too “standard CRPG.” There is room for improvement and growth through patches and content, and it will be interesting to watch Pathfinder: Kingmaker evolve.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker (PC) Review
Having played other games based on the classic pen and paper setting, I was a little leery about trying Pathfinder: Kingmaker. I was worried about clunky and complicated mechanics, and a regurgitated storyline filled with copy and paste NPC characters that haven’t seen an edit for over a decade. It was more than a pleasant surprise to have been wrong in my worries. For those of us who have a history with Pathfinder and similar tabletop gaming, Kingmaker allows us to dive head first into campaign bliss.
The game is based on the Kingmaker campaign module, a setting devoted to the players taking over and controlling their own kingdom. Taking over isn’t a stroll in the park, however. You must first lead your party to the Stolen Lands and take the kingdom from the Stag Lord, a self-made bandit leader who has set up his own makeshift community, at the same time competing with a rival would-be king. Once your kingdom is established, it’s up to you to ensure its prosperity.
I’m glad she’s on my team
Gameplay
Pathfinder: Kingmaker plays just like any proper tabletop game. Its controls are instinctual and everything is easily customisable. Before you launch your new game, be sure to check out the settings option first. This allows you to set up essentially your game’s “House Rules”, letting you take the reign on your adventure. Options such as allowing (or not) a character to revive after a battle is over, difficulty on numerous aspects, automatic or manual use of limited quantity spells or items used by characters, and a myriad of useful quirks and setups grips hold of your inner Game Master and quite suddenly makes old habits resurface. There is an additional, and condensed, configuration for your game once you start, handily tying up loose ends.
It doesn’t stop there for excellent customisation. Kingmaker’s character creation ranks easily in my top 5 of all time. The entire creation is so true to the tabletop process that I found myself reaching for my Player’s Handbook more than a few times. Race and class symmetry are easily balanced, statistics and skill points are especially well rounded, and the fact that you can multiclass/take levels in other classes than your starting class at such ease blew my mind. You even get a nifty levelling guide, showing you how feats, skills, etc will look down the line. The only aspect I felt lacking was the character story portraits did not have any connection with the avatar you create.
Introducing, Sonic The Bard!
A key factor a lot of us Game Masters can forget to include in our campaigns is resting and eating. Pathfinder Kingmaker not only incorporates this necessity but does so in a way that makes the whole experience enjoyable. The game utilizes a clock and calendar system that correlates well with timed quests and character fatigue. When travelling on the world map, your characters will get tired, fatigued and eventually exhausted to the point where they must make camp. You are then able to determine who hunts for food, who can effectively hide the group from possible monsters or enemies, the ever-important cook, and the most vital camp guard. Rations and hunting are no joke, so make sure you stock up! Camping in dungeons is also a good way to restore health without expending potions and restoring spells.
Final Conclusion:
Keep your schedule open, Pathfinder: Kingmaker will be taking up a lot of your time. Fantastic customisation, a well-crafted story and overall wonderful interaction will make you yearn for those years of tabletop gaming, yet keep you firmly glued to your computer. Even if you’re a bit rusty, a few playthroughs with different character builds will satisfy your visual tabletop needs.
FINAL SCORE
9.0/10
THE GOOD:
THE BAD:
- Character customisation
- Level up how you want
- Excellent character plot and interactions
- Set up “House Rules”
- Dungeons can be tricky to navigate
- Supporting quest info not always available
- Portraits don’t relate to avatars
Pathfinder: Kingmaker review (PC)
Pathfinder: Kingmaker by Owlcat Games was launched on Steam just last week. Inspired by classic RPGs as well as the Pathfinder tabletop game, here’s our review of this Deep Silver-published CRPG.
When we first laid eyes on Pathfinder: Kingmaker, we immediately got some hands on time as well. It was during the summer of 2017 at Gamescom, when the game was still being published by My.com (the move to Deep Silver was mainly due to Deep Silver’s experience with physical distribution). The game immediately stood out for two reasons: it was very different from My.com’s usual MMO fare, and it was an RPG made with a clear passion for what came before.
In this regard, “what came before” mainly refers to videogames like Baldur’s Gate – though the popular Pathfinder: Kingmaker game definitely adds its own flavor into the mix as well. Those who played Baldur’s Gate before will feel right at home with Kingmaker – from its classic isometric viewing angle right down to the control scheme, which feels like it was pretty much directly copied from Bioware’s classic.
Where Pathfinder: Kingmaker differs from a game like Baldur’s Gate is in its grand objective – which sees you assume the role of a baron and mixes elements of empire management into the gameplay as well. You start off with a very traditional party-based role playing adventure though, where you and your recruits try to lay claim to the Stolen Lands. You’ll run into plenty of monsters and other foes, navigate dungeons and towns, and learn more about the plot. Kingmaker is a very dialogue-heavy game, and there’s more (political) intrigue and strife than you’d initially think. This was clear even in the 30 minute hands on session last year, and I was happy to find out that Owlcat keeps the momentum up for the entire duration of the game.
Combat will be familiar to Baldur’s Gate veterans as well, as it allows for real time combat that you can pause in order to issue new and/or changed orders. I tend to play games like this on easy because I mostly enjoy the role-playing aspects and story development (and I also am just as happy playing Diablo), but even then I found Pathfinder: Kingmaker to be quite challenging – forcing me to pause and re-think regularly. To try out how tactical the game could become I started a new game after my initial playthrough as well, only to be brutally slaughtered time after time. It wasn’t until after about a dozen or so confrontations that I found something of a groove to settle into – but it remained a punishingly challenging game all the same.
Your own lead character has a base alignment at the start of the game, but you can sculpt and mold it through your actions and conversations. This will even shape conversations later on in the game by changing the responses available to you and the answers you’ll receive – which in turn are affected by how people think you’re managing your barony. On a smaller level, your allies might end up rebelling or leaving your party if they no longer agree with your course. These choices and consequences are a trend we’ve seen in other RPGs in the last few years as well (mainly in Obsidian’s titles), and Owlcat does an excellent job with it in Kingmaker.
If you’re not at all interested in managing an empire (or rather, barony), then you can leave all that up to the game as well, and just play Pathfinder like a regular RPG. It’s fun to dabble in the intricacies of the management side of things though, as you’ll have to make decisions on what tasks to leave in whose capable (or not-so-capable) hands – or make controversial decisions that in turn will affect your reputation and thus your interactions with others.
While there weren’t too many “ooh” and “aah” moments while playing Pathfinder: Kingmaker, I did find it to be an extremely solid RPG. Managing your barony is a nice touch, but doesn’t elevate the game above being an otherwise fairly generic (though well done) RPG. Fans of what inspired the game will definitely enjoy it though, and it’s a brilliant debut for Owlcat.
Score: 7.8/10
They thought I was mad when I said I wanted a piece of that orc ass. MAD I TELL YOU. Little did they realize that Regongar would actually be the best waifu. Years of subsisting on Bioware RPGs has given me a finely honed ability to detect the best waifus, so even though Valerie and Octavia may look better at first glance, the wise adventurer knows the firm grip of a character with 19 natural strength is really the only acceptable place for his dick.
Been pleasantly surprised with magus as a class too. Hybrid classes like that aren't usually my bag but the fact that it makes a lot of the less typically useful and popular arcane spells (Touch spells and self buffs) come to the fore I really appreciate. It's less just a case of getting a decent fighter and a decent wizard, it feels a little more unique since it's sort of a fighter that can occasionally go ham with some burst damage.
And people still believe ONE big patch will change much? Those guys are creating almost as much bugs as they are fixing. It will take years.
Rated butt-hurt because it's gay. Get it?They thought I was mad when I said I wanted a piece of that orc ass. MAD I TELL YOU. Little did they realize that Regongar would actually be the best waifu. Years of subsisting on Bioware RPGs has given me a finely honed ability to detect the best waifus, so even though Valerie and Octavia may look better at first glance, the wise adventurer knows the firm grip of a character with 19 natural strength is really the only acceptable place for his dick.
Been pleasantly surprised with magus as a class too. Hybrid classes like that aren't usually my bag but the fact that it makes a lot of the less typically useful and popular arcane spells (Touch spells and self buffs) come to the fore I really appreciate. It's less just a case of getting a decent fighter and a decent wizard, it feels a little more unique since it's sort of a fighter that can occasionally go ham with some burst damage.
