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

[ERYFKRAD]

noted this yourself on innumerable occasions, so I'm not sure what you're getting at here

He's very upset that he cannot enslave nations with necromancy.

 

[Mortmal]

Answering survey. Seems like for Solasta devs, every D&D CRPG which I've played except Dark Sun : Shattered lands(lv 3~9) and Eye of the Beholder 1 is "epic level". I recently ended Ravenloft : Strahd possession at lv 11 and then imported my save to Stone prophet which ended on lv 13.

I don't think that lv 12+ works well in 5E. In later levels, Solasta fells like almost a Oblivion style slog. But the class which I like to see the most is obvious warlock. Repealing blast + Eldritch blast in a game full of vertilicaty seems amazing.

High level adventures can work, but i doubt they could manage it since even current encounters are not challenging. My greatest grief with solasta is the uniimited rests, everything was trivial in the last DLC.

 

[Cryomancer]

(e.g. MOTB, BG2, etc.).

BG1 is low to mid level, BG2 is mid to high level, but yes, considering how enemies lost really nasty abilities, you would need to reduce PC levels if you are adapting most 2E and 3E stuff in 5E. Ravenloft Strahd possession vampires and other mid/high tier undead tends to have really nasty abilities, like being able to inflict negative levels.

I could't imagine a way to beat this game without at least a cleric in your party. Everything else, thieves, mages or fighters are disposable. Negative plane protection and turn undead are must have stuff.

My greatest grief with solasta is the uniimited rests,

Agreed. KoTC2 style limited rests would be a

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.solasta-game.com/news/157-solasta-future-dlc-survey-whats-next

SOLASTA FUTURE DLC SURVEY: WHAT'S NEXT?

Heya folks!

It's been a year since Solasta 1.0 launched on Steam, and what a great year it was! From adding the Sorcerer, Barbarian, Druid & Half-Orc, to increasing the level cap from 10 to 12, to adding Quests, Dialogs, Monsters & Items Editors in the Dungeon Maker, to releasing a full new campaign with Lost Valley...

But we're not done quite yet! And that's why as we've always done in the past, we want to hear your opinion to make sure we're creating the game both with you and for you, so take the short survey now!

And don't worry - we are and will always be fixing bugs when we can, even if we're working on larger updates or DLCs!



Survey Link

 

[Fedora Master]

 

[gurugeorge]

Answering survey. Seems like for Solasta devs, every D&D CRPG which I've played except Dark Sun : Shattered lands(lv 3~9) and Eye of the Beholder 1 is "epic level". I recently ended Ravenloft : Strahd possession at lv 11 and then imported my save to Stone prophet which ended on lv 13.

I don't think that lv 12+ works well in 5E. In later levels, Solasta fells like almost a Oblivion style slog. But the class which I like to see the most is obvious warlock. Repealing blast + Eldritch blast in a game full of vertilicaty seems amazing.

I had the same lol. 5-10 is the sweet spot for having enough toys to play with. I do like low-level, but only in the context of anticipation of more toys to play with in a larger game, and I doubt they're actually going to do another 1-10 adventure. "Epic" - meh, you're always getting into a situation where you lose sight of the "basics" and developers' imaginations start either scraping the bottom of the barrel or jumping the shark.

Fedora Master - I had the same for that too, though more politely worded.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

People writing some bullshit about faces are just enabling decline. Shame on you all. This is how it's done :

 

[Nicebrain]

Tried to play the game, got stuck not being able to leave the city... That poll dont seem to list "fixing bugs"

 

[Fedora Master]

The question regarding controller support tells me what direction they're going with this and it ain't ours.

 

[mediocrepoet]

The question regarding controller support tells me what direction they're going with this and it ain't ours.

Yeah, totally. Because if people reply putting it at the bottom, that won't impact their decisions.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

There are some people who play using controller on pc, I don't know why, but they exist.

 

[Nortar]

Out of the three new proposed races only the gnomes are ok in my book.

The tieflings are the new drow, - the race of choice for every special snowflake Mary Sue.
I don't care for them myself, but at least I can see who would pick them to play.

But can someone explain the appeal of the fucking Dragonborns?
They are the most retarded race that exists in D&D (and it already has the elves of all flavors), why there are so many people want them added?

 

[mediocrepoet]

Out of the three new proposed races only the gnomes are ok in my book.

The tieflings are the new drow, - the race of choice for every special snowflake Mary Sue.
I don't care for them myself, but at least I can see who would pick them to play.

But can someone explain the appeal of the fucking Dragonborns?
They are the most retarded race that exists in D&D (and it already has the elves of all flavors), why there are so many people want them added?

Replying just to agree with this more.


Especially the dragonborn. I've hated that race since the first time I saw it.

 

[Fedora Master]

The question regarding controller support tells me what direction they're going with this and it ain't ours.

Yeah, totally. Because if people reply putting it at the bottom, that won't impact their decisions.

If. Knowing modern CRPG "gamers" they very much want controller support.

But can someone explain the appeal of the fucking Dragonborns?

Furries.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

The question regarding controller support tells me what direction they're going with this and it ain't ours.

Yeah, totally. Because if people reply putting it at the bottom, that won't impact their decisions.

If. Knowing modern CRPG "gamers" they very much want controller support.

But can someone explain the appeal of the fucking Dragonborns?

Furries.

Not fucking the dragonborns, the fucking dragonborns.

 

[Fedora Master]

 

[V_K]

But can someone explain the appeal of the fucking Dragonborns?
They are the most retarded race that exists in D&D (and it already has the elves of all flavors), why there are so many people want them added?

 

[Cryomancer]

But can someone explain the appeal of the fucking Dragonborns?

Simple :

Some power gamers players like to play as Mari sue half dragons in 3.5E. And in 5E, they decided to make a race to attract this people. Some games inspired by 3.5E like DDO did included this race and is one of the most popular paid races.

Out of the three new proposed races only the gnomes are ok in my book.

The tieflings are the new drow, - the race of choice for every special snowflake Mary Sue.

Agreed that gnomes are the best race. But disagree about drow. Anyone who played 5E can confirm here if DROW has the ridiculous benefits which it had in 2E? Mainly to resist magic? And the crippling weakness vs light? If this weakness exists in 5E and the AI is smart to use drow weaknesses against drow, it can be interesting. As having your cleric casting daylight against vampires would put your drow at disadvantage too.

If drow comes without the disadvantage of drows, then yes, they are merely Mari Sue elves. And people should distrust them hence they should have penalty(disadvantage) in all social checks. They are from a race famous for raiding surface and enslaving populations, living in a very evil society near abominations.

BTW, one of my favorite side characters in Baldur's Gate saga is Drizzt, a drow. And yes, he appears in other games Menzoberranzan and you can even have him in your party for a short time. A lv 15 ranger with two +3 weapons in a game where you probably will end up at lv 10~13 depending on the class is incredible powerful.

 

[mediocrepoet]

BTW, one of my favorite side characters in Baldur's Gate saga is Drizzt, a drow. And yes, he appears in other games Menzoberranzan and you can even have him in your party for a short time. A lv 15 ranger with two +3 weapons in a game where you probably will end up at lv 10~13 depending on the class is incredible powerful.

Holy shit. You like Drizzt? And you're admitting it??

What is this site coming to?

 

[NJClaw]

Holy shit. You like Drizzt? And you're admitting it??

I love Drizzt.

I love him just like I love any other disgusting villain. Dismembering and quartering them like the pigs they are is so satisfying.

 

[V_K]

I love Drizzt.

Please post the link to your slash account.

 

[Cryomancer]

BTW, one of my favorite side characters in Baldur's Gate saga is Drizzt, a drow. And yes, he appears in other games Menzoberranzan and you can even have him in your party for a short time. A lv 15 ranger with two +3 weapons in a game where you probably will end up at lv 10~13 depending on the class is incredible powerful.

Holy shit. You like Drizzt? And you're admitting it??

What is this site coming to?

When I created my account here in codex, I mostly had played 3.5E CRPG's and a very long P&P campaign with few one shots in between, I only started to check the 2E CRPG goodness and P&P retroclones, when spended a very long time unemployed. 2E CRPG's changed a lot my taste for gaming, my favorite class went from sorcerers to specialist mages, instead of only liking high level gameplay, I started to like mid level(still don't like much low level) and consider that the greatest problem of high level is that it trivializes many enemies. Just compare dealing with a mindflayer colony in epic level on NWN1 : HotU and in mid levels in Baldur's Gate 2 or Dark Sun :Wake of the ravager. In wake of the ravager, dealing with them at lv 10~13 and no freaking place to rest was way better. Also played a TT retro-clone for few months.

And it made me find lots of interesting characters which I never heard before Drizzt is one of them and has a pretty interesting story. He is a freaking high level army slaying guy and yet he is very humble. He reefers to himself as "a young warrior, in training".

Is sad to think that so many amazing 2E CRPG's will be forgotten cuz people can't get into due graphics and "chunkiness"

 

[mediocrepoet]

And it made me find lots of interesting characters which I never heard before Drizzt is one of them and has a pretty interesting story. He is a freaking high level army slaying guy and yet he is very humble. He reefers to himself as "a young warrior, in training".

You're seriously triggering me rn.

Drizzt was a lame character that was symbolic of the decline of 2E and spawned a horde of dipshit characters that were all misunderstood drow who were actually good guys and dual wielded and had studied the blade since time immemorial and...

I need to leave this for a bit. Fuck Drizzt.

 

[Cryomancer]

And it made me find lots of interesting characters which I never heard before Drizzt is one of them and has a pretty interesting story. He is a freaking high level army slaying guy and yet he is very humble. He reefers to himself as "a young warrior, in training".

You're seriously triggering me rn.

Drizzt was a lame character that was symbolic of the decline of 2E and spawned a horde of dipshit characters that were all misunderstood drow who were actually good guys and dual wielded and had studied the blade since time immemorial and...

I need to leave this for a bit. Fuck Drizzt.

If him is boring, which 2E characters do you consider good?

 

[mediocrepoet]

And it made me find lots of interesting characters which I never heard before Drizzt is one of them and has a pretty interesting story. He is a freaking high level army slaying guy and yet he is very humble. He reefers to himself as "a young warrior, in training".

You're seriously triggering me rn.

Drizzt was a lame character that was symbolic of the decline of 2E and spawned a horde of dipshit characters that were all misunderstood drow who were actually good guys and dual wielded and had studied the blade since time immemorial and...

I need to leave this for a bit. Fuck Drizzt.

If him is boring, which 2E characters do you consider good?

None of them?
Friends don't let friends read D&D novels if they're older than 14. Are you older than 14, Victor?

If you meant when I was a kid... eh, I don't remember. Most of them are pretty shit, Drizzt was just particularly bad and really did spawn a wave of copycats in the tabletop scene. Honestly, the whole racial alignment cannot be defined degeneracy you see now likely started with Drizzt. If not started then, it was at least a watershed moment.