KickStarter Solasta: Crown of the Magister Thread - now with Palace of Ice sequel DLC

[Serus]

divinity original sin 2 is the best selling turn-based RPG primarily because of multiplayer

Which is of great interests... to shareholders of the company, not to people who want to play a good game.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

divinity original sin 2 is the best selling turn-based RPG primarily because of multiplayer

Which is of great interests... to shareholders of the company, not to people who want to play a good game.

if solasta had dos2 sales figures they wouldn't be gating classes behind DLC

 

[Harthwain]

Which is of great interests... to shareholders of the company, not to people who want to play a good game.

That depends on what you consider a good game and what you're looking for. To me the main problem is that cRPG don't really give you tools for proper roleplaying, so playing cRPG by having your team split kinda misses the point since the vast majority of team-based cRPGs are essentially tactical games, which are better when you have all characters under your control. To make a "proper" video game-based RPG one would have to come up with something different than just porting PnP into PC.

 

[Cryomancer]

New classes in DLC are fine. Mainly when they are completely new like PFKM Kineticist. Anyway, I'm happy that the lv cap din't raised past 12 with the new DLC. The game was already a very slow slog at lv 12 and 5E doesn't work at high levels.

 

[Whisper]

Disagree on the level design part,it's not that bad , the random encounters on map can be two or three enemies but have a look at their challenge rating, met a shambler ,cr 5, at level 3, it was an ok challenging fight for that level. The twelve thugs encounter may surprise you during your sleep and half of them get high ground in the dark while the campfire put you into light. It's like temple of annihilation random encounters in the jungle , nothing more or less.
I have not seen any dungeon crawl worthy of the name yet, you still have unlimited rests and the encounters are set at Deadly, which means in fact trivial as you have all your resources and do them one by one . No change at all in this area, that's not how you are supposed to run 5E , if you think solasta was too easy , this wont change your mind.
The plot is indeed extremely weak and predictable everything is obvious from the beginning, i have not finished it yet, but at this point i am not expecting any surprise. Still some good things, it had new monsters and tiles, more ammo for the modders.

Does new DLC limits resting in any way? Especially in final areas, for those who finished.

Original campaign limited resting only in the final area (which was surprising for mage parties).

 

[Whisper]

Also it was a bit dick move from game designers, when they never limited rests but except for final area.

Do they do this dick move in DLC? I.e. no limits, untill last part (when you build party for rest-spam, chances are you are going to restart full game).

 

[Fedora Master]

Not really anything TO screenshot since they're only second level now. Not enough differences in starting gear and powers and it's not like there's much in 5e for changing them up this early on..

Was looking for a laugh not to be impressed. Here are some Solastards that were near and dear to me.

NWN2 looks better than this

 

[Cryomancer]

NWN2 looks better than this

 

[Fedora Master]

"Lost Valley", more like "Uncanny Valley" am I right?

 

[zapotec]

They didn't sold a lot of this one, did they?

I am pretty sure they enabled this achievement with the release of lost valley

 

[Abu Antar]

To crush your enemies achievement is at 2,5%

And yes, it is DLC only.

 

[Mortmal]

Disagree on the level design part,it's not that bad , the random encounters on map can be two or three enemies but have a look at their challenge rating, met a shambler ,cr 5, at level 3, it was an ok challenging fight for that level. The twelve thugs encounter may surprise you during your sleep and half of them get high ground in the dark while the campfire put you into light. It's like temple of annihilation random encounters in the jungle , nothing more or less.
I have not seen any dungeon crawl worthy of the name yet, you still have unlimited rests and the encounters are set at Deadly, which means in fact trivial as you have all your resources and do them one by one . No change at all in this area, that's not how you are supposed to run 5E , if you think solasta was too easy , this wont change your mind.
The plot is indeed extremely weak and predictable everything is obvious from the beginning, i have not finished it yet, but at this point i am not expecting any surprise. Still some good things, it had new monsters and tiles, more ammo for the modders.

Does new DLC limits resting in any way? Especially in final areas, for those who finished.

Original campaign limited resting only in the final area (which was surprising for mage parties).

Absolutely no limit , few rooms, one encounter full rest, i am level 7 by now maybe it will get better , i doubt it. By the way you level extremely fast so even if it"sa 1-12 campaign, dont expect the quantity of content of a wotc module.

 

[Late Bloomer]

Gotcha. Have some taters.

They are all beautiful. That is an incredible shade of Green. The Jarls cloak the big girl is wearing would match perfectly. Thanks for sharing haha.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Lost Valley review.

 

[Late Bloomer]

Lost Valley review.

This is the party he used in the video review.

 

[Sunri]

Is it so hard to make at least semi good-looking models for characters?

 

[zapotec]

We are at evequest 2 model level

 

[Sacibengala]

Is it so hard to make at least semi good-looking models for characters?

It's even near impossible to get normal hair in any game these days. Not because of the quality of the models, but because of the quality of western civilization.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Lost Valley review.

This is the party he used in the video review.

Damn look at all those leg days they skipped.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

We are at evequest 2 model level

That's the 2004 models, they're only shown if you enable the alternate facial models.
The SOGA models look decent, but out of place, because they were made by Sony's japanese team.
I prefer the original models personally.

 

[Johnny Biggums]

I thought my druid sucked until I figured out moonbeam, now he is like an unstoppable bond villain

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

Not really anything TO screenshot since they're only second level now. Not enough differences in starting gear and powers and it's not like there's much in 5e for changing them up this early on..

Was looking for a laugh not to be impressed. Here are some Solastards that were near and dear to me.

Why is there some guy hovering like 150 feet in the air in the background between the two male character's heads? lol

 

[Reinhardt]

verticality!

 

[mediocrepoet]

The facial hair in this game always looks so awful. It does in a lot of games. You wouldn't think it'd be that hard to make it not look like you glued bits of a plastic halloween mask to your face.

 

[Sykar]

So is this worth getting yet for SP purposes?