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

[Larianshill]

Oh, wrong link. Here's the right one.

 

[V_K]

I had no problem with that, but I had my first TPK against the flying lizard wizard of infinite nukes along with his 5+ bros. Looks like the fight might kick off with a cutscene too so I'm not sure I can even catch them flat footed, but it's possible the cutscene fired because I charged into the room instead of sneaking. Not quite sure how I'm even going to handle that, feels pretty rough at level 3.

If you're talking about the Manacalon Ruin fight, you can totally stealth your way into position and get a surprise round. There are even some conveniently places nooks for your sneaky snipers. The cutsecene just plays during the first round then.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

I had no problem with that, but I had my first TPK against the flying lizard wizard of infinite nukes along with his 5+ bros. Looks like the fight might kick off with a cutscene too so I'm not sure I can even catch them flat footed, but it's possible the cutscene fired because I charged into the room instead of sneaking. Not quite sure how I'm even going to handle that, feels pretty rough at level 3.

If you're talking about the Manacalon Ruin fight, you can totally stealth your way into position and get a surprise round. There are even some conveniently places nooks for your sneaky snipers. The cutsecene just plays during the first round then.

Oh, nice. I was going balls to the wall just because everything had been reasonable up to that point and I was figuring if there were enemies I could stealth (Similar to the cultists, had my warning and then got sneaky) so I was concerned I'd be on even footing each time. I'll give it another whirl tomorrow and take advantage of that camp for a full rest to recharge my spells, and that combined with a round of free combat should probably do it. Wizard will still be a fucker but if I can cut down most of the regular mooks before he arrives/flies over that'll make things a lot easier.

 

[Bara]

Could you make a gif or something of what this looks like because sneak attack been 100% fine for me.

https://vimeo.com/556093062

Holy god thats awful but that's definitely not happening on my end. Maybe they didn't optimize for your cpu or something?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

What's the sneak attack bug?

Trying to shank the spider but ending up stomping it. Still works, but then the boots need replacing.

 

[Lacrymas]

Don't be so cruel, arachnid lives matter!

 

[fantadomat]

Buahahaha the writing is so fucking bad lol. So i have to find lizard thing head,i do side quests and end up fighting two lizardtards,then on the way to the "head" i get ambushed by group of lizardtards,but nah,we need a special lizardtard head lol.

 

[fantadomat]

Nope. Is more due 5E ruleset and slow animations than due verticality.

Ahhhh that is what i am saying,slow animations + endless running around and jumping and climbing = a shit ton of waste time. Tho at least the speed hack does work fine with the game.

 

[Cryomancer]

Nope. Is more due 5E ruleset and slow animations than due verticality.

Ahhhh that is what i am saying,slow animations + endless running around and jumping and climbing = a shit ton of waste time. Tho at least the speed hack does work fine with the game.

Why you don't put 200% damage taken and 50% enemy health? It would not make the game lethal as a 2E game, but will drastically increases the lethality of the game. You can also give bonuses to both(you and enemies) and make missing rarer. I will play authentic on my first run, but if I replay the game, I will do this changes to increase the lethality of the game.

 

[Reinhardt]

I will do this changes to increase the lethality of the game.

Of course. Or else your 4 storm arcanist elves pew-pew button can't be awesome!

 

[ArchAngel]

Reminder that the sneaky sack of shit who made the post about 'trans people' and is banning people left and right has been roaming around here as a patron and with a super-special tag.

Make me admin. It's time the Codex had some honesty.

No need. Just tell Resetera that he is a patron on Codex and see what happens..

 

[NJClaw]

Wizard will still be a fucker but if I can cut down most of the regular mooks before he arrives/flies over that'll make things a lot easier.

That piece of lizard shit is a real pain in the ass. I can't prove it, but I'm sure he is cheating somehow, he can't seriously have two hundred slots to waste on Shield and Counterspell. The best way to deal with him is to bait him into wasting his reaction on countering a weak spell and then throw everything you have at him while he can't use Shield. Usually a good arrow from a Ranger with Hunter's Mark is enough to break his concentration. Laughing at him while it crashes into the ground is a 10/10 feeling.

Buahahaha the writing is so fucking bad lol. So i have to find lizard thing head,i do side quests and end up fighting two lizardtards,then on the way to the "head" i get ambushed by group of lizardtards,but nah,we need a special lizardtard head lol.

The best thing about that part is that YOU ACTUALLY HAVE SORRAK BODY PIECES ON YOU, because they drop their stings and you can loot around three or four of those in the first dungeon.

 

[Reinhardt]

(((They))) gonna (((their)))

 

[TemplarGR]

Yawn! Just another isometric snorefest for wannabe-grognards. Now with trannies!

 

[Black]

This is unthinkable and cancelworthy. Only 3 sets of pronouns? What about the rest of them? Do you not feel for the marginalized victims? You are literally murdering all the troones that use different pronouns, erasing their existence.
Kinda based tbh.

 

[V_K]

The best thing about that part is that YOU ACTUALLY HAVE SORRAK BODY PIECES ON YOU, because they drop their stings and you can loot around three or four of those in the first dungeon.

Yeah, that's the weakest point in the story. Thankfully, it gets better from there.
On the other hand, huge respect to them for the final chapter acknowledging that resurrection spells exist in DnD and even making it play a big role in the story.

 

[Larianshill]

That piece of lizard shit is a real pain in the ass. I can't prove it, but I'm sure he is cheating somehow

I AM NOT CRAZY! I am not crazy. I know he added more spellslots. Three level three spell slots, as in half the level. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He covered his tracks, he got those shields to throw me off. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That council meeting! You're telling me adventurers just kill mythical creatures, and happen to not bring proof?! No! They've orchestrated it! Soraks!

 

[Dwarvophile]

Buahahaha the writing is so fucking bad lol. So i have to find lizard thing head,i do side quests and end up fighting two lizardtards,then on the way to the "head" i get ambushed by group of lizardtards,but nah,we need a special lizardtard head lol.

so, in your eyes, all LIzards look the same ?

 

[Lacrymas]

This is unthinkable and cancelworthy. Only 3 sets of pronouns? What about the rest of them? Do you not feel for the marginalized victims? You are literally murdering all the troones that use different pronouns, erasing their existence.
Kinda based tbh.

Do the party members ever refer to one another with pronouns? Two party members talking about a third? I don't remember such a thing. That would be pretty difficult to implement with the personality tags I imagine.

 

[jackofshadows]

Yeah, it was a tough fight as some here were saying for a 2 lvl party. Were too many misses even with blessing and shit. Fortunately, my fighter did tank with his half-dead carcass quite well (used npc's stabilize cantrip like 5-6 times on him). This corpse-tanking reminded me of some other 5e based game... can't remember the title, it's on the tip of my tongue.

Playing on 4th difficulty btw, no extreme. Maybe will tune it up later if it'll become too easy.

 

[Lacrymas]

Torrents of misses aren't uncommon in 5E, that's why we've started experimenting with using 2d10 instead of 1d20.

 

[Larianshill]

I hate sacred flame so goddamn much

 

[Myzzrym]

Heyo folks!

Just dropping by after the 1.0 launch rush. Clarify a few things, so and so. First of all, thank you to all of you who left us warm wishes, know that we appreciate it! For the others, go f... just kidding, y'all have the right to criticize whatever you want. Even if we don't see eye to eye on some topics, eh that's life, we don't need to agree on everything. That said, let's go!

Discord Mods (Myzrym) really angry about other DnD settings.
Just got ban for posting DS lore, when asked why Dark sun CRPG game is so cool.

I did not ban you, I kicked you after warning you first to stop spamming and going off topic (there is a Tabletop channel for that...). Copy/Pasting wikipedia pages is pretty obnoxious on Discord, and you were so heated that you were constantly arguing with everyone about tiny little things. Like I said in the Kick message, feel free to come back after you cool your head. It's all good my man.

Like, motherfucker, the only reason to put that shit in is to appease the journo neonheads. They already got buttblasted by the reviewtards. Why add this degeneracy now?

(just to be clear, this thing wasn't in the backer build)

Alright I feel like the pronoun thing is very controversial here. First, that choice was already there in the backer build - the only difference between that build and the release build is that we fixed more bugs. As to why we added it, it had always been in our todo list - it simply didn't get added before because we were working on other things, nothing more. There is no grand scheme as to hide things behind the curtain for a big reveal as if we were some BBEG at the end of a campaign.

Now, as for our stance on the matter, it's fairly simple: We believe trans people have as much right to exist as any other person, so we added that option in. It literally doesn't change anything about the game, the story remains the same, the gameplay remains the same, the NPCs behavior don't change, so yea apologies if some of you get triggered by that - you can just choose to ignore it. The issue has never been a political one here (we're not americans), and it's not like we force you to use the "They" pronoun.

Anyway, if that doesn't align with your vision of the world eh that's cool too - like I said, we don't need to agree on everything. I'm not here to try to convince you, just giving you our side of the coin. I'm sure there are enough games out there for you to enjoy.

This Myzzrym goes to all of the trouble of generating goodwill towards the game and the developers and then his boss decides to hire some token black "trans" chick to be their "Diversity and Inclusion Officer" with the pre-order money. What. The. Fuck.

Lol good one, that made me laugh x) We don't need to do diversity hires, in the 17 of us here are pretty diverse already! You can find a picture of the team on the website. If anything I'm sure we'd love more programmers :p

And just like that, Myzzrym was never seen/heard from again on RPG Codex.

Listen Myzzrym, I never liked the cut of your game from way back in the demo. Wasting money on voice acting, going with the shittiest ruleset next to 4E, cinematic kill cams, a UI that makes a cemetery seem full of life, needless genocide of spiders. You were riding on bad faith with me right from the very start. Then you did something I really didn't like: you responded and told me my views on the UI were misguided and I was wrong. First off, my momma told me I'm always right. You calling my momma a liar? Last guy that did that forgot everything he learned from elementary school.

But then I saw your dev updates, I saw the cat pictures. Now you may have fooled some people with this "oh it's cute and whimsical" shit, but I know what it really was. It was an encroaching fog of destruction. You see I've been single since late 2016 and I know what sort of creatures love cat pictures and they all have one thing in common: incurable head trauma. I wanted to think it wasn't true, maybe you're just some nice guy dad that when not game developing or reading RA Salvatore you're constructing railroads for your model train hobby. Maybe after a nice square meal your highschool sweetheart of 20 years cooked up you go to your basement, make the mini locomotives go in circles with a conductor hat on and find artistic inspiration in it all.

Release day comes. I've not touched this game, saving myself like it's prom night, I go on Codex and expect to see discussion. I see a pronoun screen, I see you Myzzrym on the Steam forums defending this shit by saying a transsexual is a valid person too (lie), and worst of all I'm getting all this information from Jenkem. JENKEM. Of all the fucking posters, I am getting this unloading from the guy that plays games where furry raccoons have sex with their furry raccoon mothers. Do you know how humiliating that is from a pointless Internet feud standpoint?

And worst of all, you're gone. You'll never return. You got everyone all excited, then at the stroke of midnight you unleashed the payload. This is exactly what Happy New Year 1999 did to my old IBM family computer. Everyone was enjoying the fireworks and then you came from behind and FUCKED them good.

So listen up Myzzrym you little bitch, you little, uh, uh, cocksucka, if you're half the they you think you are you'll come back here. You'll come here and get your self-esteem set back thirty years and you'll like it. Every day you skip town I swear to God I am going to Chinatown and buying a cat to eat AND I'm requesting to the Chinese lady to let me keep each head she cleaves off. Don't try me, motherfucker.

Man that's some top tier writing, 10/10 would get roasted again by Generic Giant Spider. But c'mon leave the cats out of it

And what's with Myzzrym response to the trans question? Just say "We wanted to be inclusive to trans people." and that's it. It's basic PR. No need to be combative about. I guess now that the company has people's money, it's ok to burn down bridges.

You know what? You're right, that'd have been better. Not much to add here.

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Anyway, now that the game is out I'll drop by a bit more frequently like I did a year ago. And like I said we don't have to agree to chat here, it's cool - that's you folks' turf, not mine.

Cheers folks, Myzzrym out

 

[Larianshill]

Fix sneak attacks.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Tried playing with beards on, 0 beard issues in game so far. So not sure why its melting in your guys screen shots

Beards on MY machine.