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

[GentlemanCthulhu]

I need to buy the DLC.

I hear Lost Valley has a "proper" RPG campaign with branching narrative and multiple solutions to quests. Besides it has the sorcerer class added which I mained in my run of the base scenario. It was good.

 

[Lagole Gon]

The racist high-elf bimbo

She really is the only ray of light in the plot. I wish she lasted for the entire game.

She had an odd habit of sitting on increasingly high objects during the dialogues.
It culminated with a 2-meter tall wall. This gal really likes to look down on people.

 

[Sacibengala]

Someone should adapt an existing megadungeon for this game. It would work pretty well. Stonehell, Rappan Athuk, Arden Vul, the list goes over and over. It would be a lot of work, though.

 

[Acrux]

There's a recent mod that seems to be a mega dungeon. Haven't tried this one yet.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2846779460

Several of the user created campaigns are really good.

 

[Artyoan]

Seriously this game is fucking awesome. I might make a custom campaign for it.

That's what I'm working on right now. A couple hours a day. Very slow going but the campaign maker is extensive enough to justify it even if it has some major shortcomings.

 

[Yosharian]

I'm playing through the vampire castle right now, it's really great. Obviously the writing is just awful, but somehow it is really compelling despite that. The music is really good, and the graphics, despite their simplicity, manage to create a really effective atmosphere.

 

[Stoned Ape]

I'm playing through the vampire castle right now, it's really great. Obviously the writing is just awful, but somehow it is really compelling despite that. The music is really good, and the graphics, despite their simplicity, manage to create a really effective atmosphere.

In my opinion that's the high point of the campaign. The only annoying part was the buggy puzzle near the end. I had to use magic creatively in order to bypass it because some triggers weren't working properly during my playthrough.

 

[gurugeorge]

The Bad:
- Dialogue is stunted, partially due to budget constraints when it comes to voice actors. Often it feels like circles of mentally-stunted, low-functioning autists barely managing to construct sentences. This might improve your particular sense of RP though, i don't know.
- The "Humor" is grating.

The travel journal can be rather funny, when you receive a series of random procedurally-generated events reminiscent of the Codex:

It's a fantastic little flavour thing they've done there, only problem is there's not enough variation. Like, Gallivan, and only Gallivan, apparently produces wandering scholars by the bucketload

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

I particularly like the "vampires" in Solasta. It's funny how they probably couldn't use the phrase vampire due to licensing or wtv, but the end result is pretty fun. They are cool and powerful, and thoroughly wacky.

 

[IDtenT]

Vampire castle is probably the best setting. Also the one place where you can skip most of the combat through dialogue.

 

[gurugeorge]

Started on the Lost Valley, too early to say yet, and I'm a fan of the game anyway. But I did feel a slight bit of ennui contemplating the poor old old potato heads at character creation. How is it possible in this day and age to make characters that look so utterly lame and hideous, with plastic joke shop beards and what looks like a bad case of flaky, blotchy skin? Wanting to make ordinary looking people - laudable - but why do they have to look soooo poorly made?

But anyway, it occurred to me that you only ever make like 6 characters in Solasta, and it's defined by the voice actors:-

1) The grumpy one - usually a dwarf
2) The manly one - usually the paladin or such
3) The manlet - usually the thief or warlock or such
4) The posh older lady - maybe the cleric
5) The posh younger lady - the wizard
6) The cockerney slag - wha'eva'

If the developers ever get a bit of spare cash, they really should get another couple of voice actors in to give some more options.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

what surprised me is that a french dev couldn't get a single french female to do voice acting but instead opted to get british women to do it :puke:

 

[Denim Destroyer]

Even the French recognize the British superiority.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

what surprised me is that a french dev couldn't get a single french female to do voice acting but instead opted to get british women to do it :puke:

Did you try the French audio?

 

[Mortmal]

Someone should adapt an existing megadungeon for this game. It would work pretty well. Stonehell, Rappan Athuk, Arden Vul, the list goes over and over. It would be a lot of work, though.

Need to be a standalone dlc at full price , no one going to do that on their spare time, it requires ton of monsters models and new 3D art the game doesnt have yet.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

what surprised me is that a french dev couldn't get a single french female to do voice acting but instead opted to get british women to do it :puke:

Did you try the French audio?

but then they'll speak french, disgusting

 

[Hobo Elf]

I haven't looked at Solasta since it was released. How did the Druid and Barbarian end up? Any good?

 

[Roguey]

what surprised me is that a french dev couldn't get a single french female to do voice acting but instead opted to get british women to do it :puke:

Even the French recognize the British superiority.

As Infinitron put it

I suspect that some voice casting directors might choose a British accent for these sorts of characters because Americans find French accents funny.

Believing this to be true myself when I played Greedfall and it was Brits all around. Though the French are stereotypically known for their cultural superiority complex, they recognize that others think they all sound like Inspector Closeau and laugh at them when they talk.

 

[Yosharian]

I haven't looked at Solasta since it was released. How did the Druid and Barbarian end up? Any good?

Barbarian homebrew Path of Stone makes it one of the best tanks in the game

Also there is a bug with Barkskin, it makes your naked Barb AC 16 + CON + DEX so you can get ridiculously high AC

 

[Parabalus]

Frenzy Barb is a pretty good damage dealer too, only gets eclipsed when others get 3rd attack.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Did Solasta make much profit?

Main game, yes, a lot, dlc, probably not.
Content-focused DLC(what we'd refer to as "expansion packs") seems to never do well anymore unless it's marketed hard by a big publisher. Probably better off just making it a reasonably priced standalone expansion like ATOM's Trudograd.

Possible reasons? Digital shelf space is premium, DLC gets buried easily under a game that already released. Psychological baggage attached to DLC itself.

for reference as of posting: Lost Valley DLC has 136 steam reviews, Solasta has 11,433. Perhaps people are less likely to review DLC and therefore skews such metrics? Again would favor standalone expansion model as reviews are used to judge popularity and overall interest in a game at a glance, Lost Valley doesn't seem to be of worse quality than the main campaign but has a much lower review score. Probably due to customers being significantly more likely to review a product after a negative experience than a positive one.

 

[anvi]

That's a hell of a first game, a party based RPG that is actually decent and looks good too, and it sold well?! The spirit of Van Halen lives on.

 

[Hobo Elf]

People are much less likely to review DLC, whenever I look at DLC reviews. More often DLC seems to get reviewed if there's something wrong with it like it doesn't work. Also as a general rule of thumb only a small percentage of owners will review a game. Say in the 1-10% range. Use that as a multiplier for Solasta's 11.4k reviews and you have a pretty good but rough estimate of what it sold on Steam alone.

 

[Faarbaute]

Men, the GUI is terrible to look at - what can I do to fix it?

 

[Cryomancer]

I never reviewed an dlc. As for solasta i will wait till al dlcs launch to play more