KickStarter Pathfinder: Kingmaker Pre-DLC Thread [GO TO NEW THREAD]

[razvedchiki]

the countess probably is a bug,she wasnt there before 1.1 and she doesnt talk.

neither do i play hard just challenging,havent found a way for my tanks to have sufficient AC for hard "(

 

[Jasede]

I played Icewind Dale on Heart of Winter difficulty (or whatever it was called) with a fresh level 1 party.

The trick was not to need AC. You did this by spamming web/entangle/grease and Hold Person. That was basically the only way to survive and progress.


And even so, I have no urge to play this game on Hard+.

 

[Reinhardt]

the countess probably is a bug

 

[Haplo]

We are talking about high difficulty settings, right?

I don't know, I am playing on challenging. It is up to you to mention difficulty you are talking about when mentioning something is hard or easy. We are not mind readers.

We are codexers, so if you are not fantadomat - you are playing at least on hard. I thought you don't need to point obvious things.

I think only a few people are playing on Hard here.
And I don't play on Hard because I prefer to have a more authentic D&D experience, once you change numbers too much, many of the classes and abilities become pretty useless.

Challenging for me as well. Probably could switch to Hard, because I'm having few challenges now (level 9), but I don't mind feeling rewarded for progress and don't want bloated enemy saves/CMDs. Plus as I understand, there will be some challenge again eventually.

 

[Jasede]

The Countess bug is harmless, by the way. The quest can be resolved normally. Once you clear the boss in Pitax, leave the city, and enter it again. Then go to the Lonely Manor with Octavia from the map that pops up.
And yes, that bug has been there for several hotfixes now. Low prio.

 

[Reinhardt]

Start of the game is the best time for high difficulty because you can reload fast. Later you don't have such luxury.

 

[Reinhardt]

And I don't play on Hard because I prefer to have a more authentic D&D experience, once you change numbers too much, many of the classes and abilities become pretty useless.

I'm now thinking about setting option affecting enemy rolls to normal and leave stats on hard.

 

[razvedchiki]

in my mind hard is for all custom min maxed party,hard with npc companions is more of a quickload simulator.

 

[Efe]

i thought you did olegs fight by sending everyone except 1 across the gate as far as you can so they start the fight behind the enemy.
very easy once you get free access to those archers

 

[GrainWetski]

This is a response to you and the other couple of people who seem to disagree with the statement.

This game not only clearly does not belong on consoles because of the way it controls, but because of it's problems with performance even with the beefiest systems on the platform it was made for. Not to mention it will not appeal to the general casual taste of said console owners.

It's a waste of time and resources because it's going to sell like shit on consoles, and if the game had a troubled reception on PC because of things like complexity and difficulty, I can't imagine the outrage those few who buy it on consoles will express. It will serve to further drag the title through the critical mud and cause the publisher to apply pressure on Owlcat to alter things that are going to lead to an overall decline of quality. Either way it shakes out, it's going to deviate the focused strength of the developer.

It really surprises me how some folks around here can't recognize how this will play out given observable patterns in the industry in the past. I don't think it'll destroy Owlcat or anything, but there is no doubt in my mind that it will be a detriment in some way to the spirit of the qualities we appreciate in the developer here.

Clearly nothing ever happened to certain genres, mainly CRPGs and FPS, after being forced onto consoles. Nothing at all.

Oh well, the genre was already completely dead for about a decade, so it won't be anything new when the inevitable happens.

 

[Risewild]

At least now reward for killing Stag Lord fast is a direct upgrade for one of my girls.

Upgraded girl...

 

[Jasede]

Difficulty spike? Let me just say, the last chapters are not a difficulty spike. They are a difficulty Himalaya that you are asked to insert into your ass.

 

[razvedchiki]

so when i slay some monsters i suck some blue stuff,like the highlander after a duel.whats up with that?

 

[Yosharian]

So, here's a question for you guys. I finished the Stag Lord off, but I still have 50+ days left on the timer. Should I spend those 50 days grinding against mobs and exploring the areas I haven't visited yet? I figure those 50 days are 'free' days that I won't get to spend doing other things if I just hand in the Stag Lord quest right now... am I wrong?

 

[ArchAngel]

So, here's a question for you guys. I finished the Stag Lord off, but I still have 50+ days left on the timer. Should I spend those 50 days grinding against mobs and exploring the areas I haven't visited yet? I figure those 50 days are 'free' days that I won't get to spend doing other things if I just hand in the Stag Lord quest right now... am I wrong?

There is not that much to explore anyways. I would clear the map of all areas your Perception will allow you to find. Even with Stag Lord gone, the magic fog is still there impeding your progress.

 

[panda]

so when i slay some monsters i suck some blue stuff,like the highlander after a duel.whats up with that?

This is tied to late game quest. In theory you need to kill 50 strong monsters to get access to the deepest part of a certain dungeon.

 

[Jasede]

Game just majorly dicked me.

I am in an area where you need to assemble a key made out of three parts. Without this key, some doors are locked. There's a part of the map that you can only reach by unlocking one of the doors.

Well, the game glitched and when I climbed up some stairs, instead of where I normally come out, it dropped me inside a room locked by all sides by doors I have no key for. There's no secret wall to spot...

 

[Jasede]

In fact, that's game over for me, I only kept my auto-save and 2 quicksaves, and used them all in that area. Great game, 10/10. Grrr...

Lately a lot of things I enjoyed turned to trash near the end. As much as I appreciate a higher challenge, copy-pasting the same encounter 15 times, even if it's a good or challenging encounter, isn't enjoyable. This would be fine if at least the game didn't teleport me into a locked room because of a glitch.

 

[Shadenuat]

I only kept my auto-save and 2 quicksaves

 

[Parabalus]

Which key is it? Save games are easy to edit, you only need to know the item code.

 

[Jasede]

The one you need in the House at the Edge of Time. If you have the code, that would help, but I don't know what the final key is called.

 

[Shadenuat]

I don't remember room like this, one has key in a chest, one has guards I think

The endgame suxx tho.

Can you load your save somewhere? I wanna see where you ended up
Wonder if you missed a key on one of the guard bodies during your jumps

 

[Jasede]

The one that opens the door with the single character to the left and the one near Valerie. There's no way to escape this area without it.

See the transition at the bottom left? That's where the stairs were supposed to lead me. But because Octavia was too big I think the game moved me to that locked corridor, trapping me.

 

[panda]

Can't you teleport out with lantern off? AFAIR only one character needs to hit the veil/mist/whatever and entire party will automatically follow.

 

[Jasede]

There's only one mist there, and that mist puts you into a room IN THE SAME TRAPPED CORRIDOR (just the alternate version).