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Codex Review RPG Codex Review: Svarog's Dream

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Cons:
- Any amount of side-questing makes the main quest too easy. I got so bored with it I just dropped it and started exploring the most distant parts (and died).
- The controls are atrocious. Movement is done via mouse in your standard Grim Dawn/PoE style. But if you accidentally hover the mouse over an enemy or an obstacle, your character stops moving and starts attacking. There is no way to reassign the right button to movement without an externally reprogrammable mouse (i.e., right mouse button = "T"). It's mainly OK once you do this.
- The flat open world movement is OK. But once you get into any building, it's a complete pathfinding nightmare as everything randomly becomes visible, invisible, and this changes pathfinding all the time. The quest castle with the plague was completely inane. Generally the visuals don't correspond too well to passable terrain.
- The movement button seems to occasionally become unresponsible for no reason. Since fast response is very important as Svarog is pretty twitchy, this is intensely annoying.
- Inventory management is somewhat bad. You can thankfully sort by weight and type, but can't move item types to bags (even though most bags have bonuses for item types).
Half these cons being about movement/controls really emphasizes the point I made, I probably should've given more examplws/expanded on that.

I lost a character because apparently the shrub infront of me couldn't be walked through and I got stuck and swarmed by vampires.

And completely forgot about that maze going through the plague castle.

Funny thing is, the pathfinding when using right click is still the best way to play. WASD exacerbates the problem with movement.
 

Rincewind

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Man, this game ticks all the right boxes for me, thanks Darth Roxor.

I don't mind combat-light RPGs these days if otherwise the setting and the systems are interesting.

I'm hoping there are no large numbers of trash mobs in the game, Jeff Vogel style...
 
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I'm hoping there are no large numbers of trash mobs in the game, Jeff Vogel style...
There isn't, you can see stats in the last screenshot showing 747 kills and that was taken near endgame. Plus, with the lack of leveling scaling, a lot of those were one/two shots. There is a secret arena if you want to have wave after wave thrown at you however.

Also said again in the review

Also, geneforge is still better than this game

Man, this game ticks all the right boxes for me, thanks Darth Roxor.
:hmmm:
 
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Sweeper

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Doing a giveaway if anyone is interested.

Fun fact: "One God" was originally God/Christian God but people were extremely triggered over this and the dev is a weak willed cuck so changed it. Luckily just the name, not the content itself, so the blue haired obese reddit-types don't cry about agreeing with God if they want to be virtuous.
Oh yeah man, renouncing your Lord and Savior cause some blue haired, Satan worshipping dyke on twitter made a stink about it. No biggie.
I wouldn't play this piece of shit if you paid me to do so.

Buy and play HighFleet instead, you Godless heathens!
 

mediocrepoet

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Codex 2012 Codex+ Now Streaming! MCA Project: Eternity Divinity: Original Sin 2
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Doing a giveaway if anyone is interested.

Fun fact: "One God" was originally God/Christian God but people were extremely triggered over this and the dev is a weak willed cuck so changed it. Luckily just the name, not the content itself, so the blue haired obese reddit-types don't cry about agreeing with God if they want to be virtuous.
Oh yeah man, renouncing your Lord and Savior cause some blue haired, Satan worshipping dyke on twitter made a stink about it. No biggie.
I wouldn't play this piece of shit if you paid me to do so.

Hey chill out pal. I talked to God. He said He didn't care. Go nuts.
 

Sweeper

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Doing a giveaway if anyone is interested.

Fun fact: "One God" was originally God/Christian God but people were extremely triggered over this and the dev is a weak willed cuck so changed it. Luckily just the name, not the content itself, so the blue haired obese reddit-types don't cry about agreeing with God if they want to be virtuous.
Oh yeah man, renouncing your Lord and Savior cause some blue haired, Satan worshipping dyke on twitter made a stink about it. No biggie.
I wouldn't play this piece of shit if you paid me to do so.

Hey chill out pal. I talked to God. He said He didn't care. Go nuts.
You sure it wasn't Satan?
 

mediocrepoet

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Codex 2012 Codex+ Now Streaming! MCA Project: Eternity Divinity: Original Sin 2
Opa

Doing a giveaway if anyone is interested.

Fun fact: "One God" was originally God/Christian God but people were extremely triggered over this and the dev is a weak willed cuck so changed it. Luckily just the name, not the content itself, so the blue haired obese reddit-types don't cry about agreeing with God if they want to be virtuous.
Oh yeah man, renouncing your Lord and Savior cause some blue haired, Satan worshipping dyke on twitter made a stink about it. No biggie.
I wouldn't play this piece of shit if you paid me to do so.

Hey chill out pal. I talked to God. He said He didn't care. Go nuts.
You sure it wasn't Satan?
Go ask Him. Just be careful. Looks like there's a thunderstorm brewing over your head.
 

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