The end result is that cringe attacks the player from all sides.
The thing is: I read these threads and look at a bit of playthrough (like the one here from RK47) to see if I would like to spend the money and time on it.
Well, I probably spent more time reviewing it than most people who post a Steam review. I read about half this thread, for starters. And I watched roughly three hours of let's play.
I enjoy the dark eye universe more than D&D. I really love Drakensang games,they are maybe the hardest rpg i have played in my life. 30 minutes boss battles that make you sweat. Drakensang:River of time is better game thou,it have more side content and exploration,but it is easier. In the first Drakensang i remember one fight that just killed the boss with one character standing,enjoying in the glory of the victory to only see that the boss shows his final form and kills him. That moment just make watch the death screen for an half hour with opened mouth. It is a great crpg,would recommend for any hardcore fan that doesn't care about graphics or simplification of mechanics. Both games are far superior to any PoE garbage.
Knowing that you won't or would like the game and writing a review are two different things. Half the regulars in this thread haven't played the game yet they have an opinion on the matter. Just look at Lacrymas,Prime Junta,Roguey and FreeKaner and maybe AwesomeButton. For the last two i am not that certain if they haven't played the game,FreeKaner was saying that he will play it a month or two later. For the AwesomeButton i don't remember if he said it. People constantly talk/write about games that don't play,nothing truly wrong with it.
And first location in game had thousands vampires and illithid max level with basilisks as pets.
There relatively small amount of gear which grants abilities, mostly armor and weapons have stats modifiers, so yeah, bosses using potential of weapons and armor, players just don't see it. And many bosses not humanoids, so they technically cannot wear armor.
Actually they using a lot illusions spells, just almost all illusion spells focused on applying afflictions on your party or increasing enemy's reflection defenses. So your party see enemies, they just a little harder to hit.
He didn't enjoyed, so he invented his own variation of combat system. And he hates fun and wizards. And gunslingers.
at the start of combat) are down. After re-load I killed everything but boar and panther you see coming - I think they aggroed from below. Thinking about it now, I believe I managed to aggro every creature on the map by being at that place, perhaps even Drake would have shown up eventually (see the lone panther, it's from Drake group). They may have changed enemy aggro to see further.
Now I know that you didn't played BG2 either because original BG2 level cap is 21 level, while Kangaxx 27 level boss. With throne of Baal he even easier, because party have more trained and have more ways to hurt him.
I wonder if they fixed that you cannot train bows on targets or just shooting, only on living targets and bowmen competition (river with logs). Maybe I was wrong and it was not bug, but realistically any bowmen can train aim on any target random tree or ass of annoying trader alike.
2 TPK, 1 Re-load
TPK 1: I went to sunken street from north instead of south, and when game loaded I had 7-8 enemies in red and aggroed on me: wizard, 2 goons, 3-4 goons near well. After I gave some orders and mashed stealth randomly and un-paused, 2 of my characters were killed instantly by ranged attacks/pistol crit.
I then backtracked same street from the south, stealthed to 3-4 goons, killed them, then killed wizard lady & her goons.
1 Re-load: https://s22.postimg.cc/n6af2cepd/boardanddragonshitassleg.jpg
I still have Empower and Chanter but barb/monk is going down, and Rogue/Ranger and his lion Cupcake (whom I use all the time to collect 5 ranged attacks/pistols
TPK 2: Drake. He breathed fire and killed 2 out of 4 characters. I managed to continue battle until only wounded drake and my druid and barb/monk were left, but drake still won, I couldn't go through PoTD defences. After re-load I cast Woodskin right away and then it was easy, no casualties (although I used all potions because it was very long fight). Well calling it "easy" is stretching it, but it was more routine (tanked with summoned spirit & used spells & ranged weapons, then cleaned up).
Arguably Druid/Wizard & Troubador/Paladin of Elga carry the party though. Druid has Sunbeam, multiple damage type spells, Woodskin, Moonlight, bear form; from Wizard he uses grimoire for 500 coppers bought in starting city that has Chill Fog, Slicken, Web. Pally has flaming attack that heals everyone, lay on hands, +armor aura; as Chanter she has summoning spirit & paralyze shout. Rogue is Asassin/Stalker but so far is meh cause stealth is meh (although pet is useful), I am waiting for invisibility items & abilities; Barbarian/Monk(Shattered Pillar) seems to be fleshing out nicely though (20 Perception, 18 INT).
Now when I think about it, should have went 18 INT/PER on everyone. Somehow I just feel most use out of these 2 stats. Maybe I am wrong, or maybe it's just personal playstyle.
Yes, these, as well as 3-4 drakes or 3-4 imps simply 1-shot any low level character so you can't really solo-tank them without heals or sacrificing something. Or someone, like a pet or summon.
