fantadomat
Arcane
As a fellow storyfag,yeah it have one of the worst writing i have seen. Tho the party banters i ok,but not wroth paying the game for it.
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KickStarter Solasta: Crown of the Magister Thread - now with Palace of Ice sequel DLC
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fantadomat
Arcane
It is bad,it shows lack of standards. A pile of shit is pile of shit,people are defending this garbage and even recommending it. They are either retards that will bring down the level of the codex,or intellectually disingenuous,which is even worst.
This not valid,as much i hate bg3,the game is not out thus it can't be said what level of competence is in it. Tho at least bg3 have some skills checks and dialogue.
Mortmal
Arcane
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Oh yes i disagree with it i place solasta >bg3 > kotc 2 . I have not played woTR , the simple fact its not turn based does not allow to compare them. I have no reason to think its more tactical than kingmaker.
Kotc2 require lot of balancing and hardly anyone will really enjoy it. BG3 is fun at least.
No one can insult anybody. People get insulted, they do it to themselves. The problem is with you, bro.
Cryomancer
Arcane
WoTR will have a optional turn based mode. The game is much better as a power fantasy than as a tactical game, but is a amazing power fantasy non the less. And KoTC has a amazing AI. BG3 unique good thing is the graphics. And KoTC2 unique bad thing is the graphics. That is the difference among this two games.
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It does look slightly better than Wasteland 2. But i'll probably wait till it comes out on ebay.
fantadomat
Arcane
Buahahaha just found out that you have to use detect magic spell to find magical items,then use identify on them. Buahahaha lol.
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My three-year-old thinks that if I can’t see him I don’t know what he’s doing.
Same thing with your passive aggression. Time to give up the diapers.
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WotR is TB. There’s just an option to allow turns to unfold simultaneously to enhance verisimilitude.
Mortmal
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Nope i am sorry, its not comparable, solasta , kotc and BG3 have hand crafted, tuned, balanced turn based encounters . WOTR, if like kingmaker, is just a turn based mode plastered on a RTWP game , with every encounters designed for real time , it's barely more than an easy slow mode. Kingmaker encounters were barely following the pen and paper version while solasta is 99% faithful.
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Not close to the case. KM TB is in some ways superior to Solasta/BG3. If you know how to find the Autopause Configuration Menu the RTwP plays very similar to the TB and both are very true to the underlying ruleset to the extent to which my level of play went from Normal to beyond Unfair once I found the d20 website.
Your take applies to Deadfire, not KM. Thanks may go to the TB mod guy but the experience is very smooth.
fantadomat
Arcane
Sooo the game tells me to go finish any optional quests because muh final chapter. So i decide to go walk around the world map so i could craft some shit. Turns out that the exit area is blocked and you can't go out of the city lol. Good thing that i know to finish me optional stuff early on.
Cryomancer
Arcane
Sooo the game tells me to go finish any optional quests because muh final chapter. So i decide to go walk around the world map so i could craft some shit. Turns out that the exit area is blocked and you can't go out of the city lol. Good thing that i know to finish me optional stuff early on.
Be prepared to a lot of long fights without place to rest.
Multi-headed Cow
Arcane
I was sorely tempted by that but I caved for the XP and gold. It's a +2 sword though. PLUS TWO. On the bright side I got a ring of darkvision so my dick-ass thief can see while sneaking.
I couldn't yet. I have a primed longsword but I haven't got a recipe or the materials to craft a +2 or better sword with it. Best I can do is craft a +1 battleaxe. Thief and bimbo are the only members of the party with magical weapons right now, though I'll probably make the axe just so the fighter's got a magical beatstick too.
Not released, doesn't look as good as the first, only one I've played, not playing until it's released. SOLASTA IS THE CLEAR WINNER.
PS: Fuck Underrail.
PPS: Do technically have WotR Kickstarted and BG3 preordered though since they're right up my alley. Kingmaker's awesome and even if BG3 is heavily DoS-tinged D&D I'm almost certainly going to enjoy it. Especially since I'll be heading into it expecting "Larian's D&D game" rather than a real BG3 since what the fuck sort of connection is BG3 even going to have with the originals? Plus it should be some great co-op with a bro. Buddy I played DoS2 with is already lined up for BG3 co-op which means the story takes back seat to talking bullshit while we spend an hour or two a night beating up monsters.
Bruh. BRUH. No wonder you were bitching about fights when you cheated all your stats to 18.
Buahahaha just found out that you have to use detect magic spell to find magical items,then use identify on them. Buahahaha lol.
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Suffering?
People who internalize insults are the ones suffering. I'm great.
You don't have to live like that.
Look, if you came into my restaurant and were discussing a dish with your bf and commented on the salt and I came over and told you I was sorry you were triggered by the salt and that salt levels will definitely NOT be adjusted because I for one believe that salt has a right to exist I think we all know who is insulting who, who's crazy, and why you and your beau chose to ask for a refund and not return to the restaurant.
Not complicated.
People who internalize insults are the ones suffering. I'm great.
You don't have to live like that.
Look, if you came into my restaurant and were discussing a dish with your bf and commented on the salt and I came over and told you I was sorry you were triggered by the salt and that salt levels will definitely NOT be adjusted because I for one believe that salt has a right to exist I think we all know who is insulting who, who's crazy, and why you and your beau chose to ask for a refund and not return to the restaurant.
Not complicated.
Volourn
Pretty Princess
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I have a very serious prosper question for everyone. Has anyone noticed any b00bs in this game? This game seems to be REALLY anti b00bs. Every woman seems to be flat chested? I thoguht the point was for everyone to represented... last I checked majority of women have b00bs so why aren't they represented. I'm not talking naked. I'm just talking shape wise. LMAO It is like b00bs don't exist in this world. WTF
Generic-Giant-Spider
Guest
Nigga I called my female party member "Treasure" because of her sunken chest.
Well, I don't think your analogy works here at all, because this is a game option, just like "Easy" vs "Nightmare" difficitly. Do you get offended by games offering a "story" or "easy" mode as well? Or that people might set a desktop wallpaper that you personally don't approve of?
You got triggered, you think someone "insulted" you, while I don't feel "insulted" by the developer the slightest. Sure, I think choosing your "pronouns" is a bit silly perhaps (but then my native language is genderless, so to me the whole obsession with pronouns seems a bit strange, from BOTH sides). But it's an OPTION, hey, so I couldn't care less. It's in the individual, you can get "insulted" by a lot of things, while other people wouldn't even register what you thought was a grave insult directed "at you"...
Btw, I think there's some reading comprehension check fail going on too. Read again what the developer said
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.
Getting offended by a game OPTION that you can ignore without affecting your game in any way doesn't seem like a very rational thing to me. Going back to your analogy, in your restaurant people would have lots of options when ordering dishes: no salt, little salt, salt overdose, etc. Problem?
fantadomat
Arcane
LoL the ending was super easy,didn't even used a short rest. Was keeping all me good spells and shit expecting the boss,ended up fighting bunch of low lever lizardtards with 50ish hp lol. It was a riot when just spammed them with ice storm and the priests guarding spirit or what ever its spell name was. Very disappointing ending. Especially when me game froze on the ending clip,had to open it in the player to see it,and it was a meh.
Sooo the game tells me to go finish any optional quests because muh final chapter. So i decide to go walk around the world map so i could craft some shit. Turns out that the exit area is blocked and you can't go out of the city lol. Good thing that i know to finish me optional stuff early on.
Be prepared to a lot of long fights without place to rest.
Grampy_Bone
Arcane
The developer could have just not put it in the game, esp. if it does nothing. Why do THEY care? If it doesn't matter, why put it in at all?
SJWs always do this--make some weird change to normality then attack you for noticing. Fact is it's very abnormal and weird, so it needs to be justified by them, not us. You don't refer to people by their pronouns--"Hi He, how are He doing today?" It is literally pointless on every possible level. It's like specifying the character's favorite type of Lunchable.
If there was a checkbox for "Should Israel exist?" or "Are traps gay?" it would have exactly the same impact and appeal to exactly the same number of people. It's just a dumb political flag to a tiny, ultra-rancorous demographic; the devs deserve every bit of ridicule they get for it.
SJWs always do this--make some weird change to normality then attack you for noticing. Fact is it's very abnormal and weird, so it needs to be justified by them, not us. You don't refer to people by their pronouns--"Hi He, how are He doing today?" It is literally pointless on every possible level. It's like specifying the character's favorite type of Lunchable.
If there was a checkbox for "Should Israel exist?" or "Are traps gay?" it would have exactly the same impact and appeal to exactly the same number of people. It's just a dumb political flag to a tiny, ultra-rancorous demographic; the devs deserve every bit of ridicule they get for it.
fantadomat
Arcane
Sooo here is me short review of the game.
TLDR: It is meh good enough only if you have nothing else to play,very basic tb combat,boring levelling,dumb AI and horrible writing. At least Wasteland 3 was mediocre middle of the road game,this is bad but playable,same as legends of the swordcoast or what eva its name was.
To be honest i was expecting to be a good game even with some problems,but it ended up as an mediocre time waster with a lot of daft decisions and overusing the verticality gimmick. Generally i don't feel regrets for playing it,it is finish once and never touch again kind of game. Also while playing i really felt like they were going for something bigger and more fleshed out,but ended up cutting or not finishing things. You could see it in the factions of which i talk later on,or in the skills that you chose in the start. There are system that are implemented in the game but never used or scaled back. There is such small thing all around the game,it feels weird. I personally can't recommend it as a must,just if you are like me and have played everything that you know is worth playing and have nothing better to play. I finished i in around 20 hours maybe less,in two days generally. There is plenty of far better games out there like NWN,BG,IWD,Kingamker,Underrail,ELEX,ATOM,Shadowrun,Drakensang,Dragon Age,Naheulbeuk,Wasteland even the motherfucking PoE. It is a game you play once you had played anything good out there. Still it is not a terrible one,even if it sounds like it in me review,it is a bit better as sum of its part than when dissected.
Combat,is the focus of the game,but it very basic tb with initiative rolls and 5e D&D rule set. You go around and hammer the enemy till they die,no tactics,no buffs,no resistance needed. Managed to get to level 8 with the starting weapons because i didn't noticed the detect magic ritual lol. The hardest battle is in the first dungeon,where you are attacked by lizards. After that it becomes pretty easy,even if you scale up the difficulty. As any D&D game the game is hardest when you are on lol max HP and could die from a single bad hit. Once you get things to negate the enemy,you are set for smooth riding. It lacks any real challenge,killed a dragon in two rounds with just focus smacking it. It lack any complexity in the area of resistances and immunity,they exits but are obvious and there is always a way to ignore them.
Most of the time you will spend fighting on areas where you have to jump around on small platform and fight enemies that can walk/craw on walls or fly. It gets old pretty fast. The rest of the time you just have to hold the line with your melee guys and sneak attack and wizard away the enemy.
The AI is pretty dumb too,when you cast an area of effect spell like say ice storm,they come to attack you,then get hit by the spell and after the attack they try to get out of the spell's area,which ends in a lot of opportunity attacks. When no sustained AoE spells,they just come and attack you. So if you want for the fight to end fast,a good strategy is not to use those spells
.
The game have pretty good bestiary which is interesting to read up. By the end of the game i had unlocked around 50% of the enemy,tho there is a checkbox in the options to unlock them all. Most of the enemies are pretty samey humanoids,there is undead,orks,goblins,lizards and their variations like archer warrior wiz. There is a bunch of spiders and similar to them,there is a few types flying things that look the same to me. And a few more unique enemy like young dragons and remorhaz. All around it is an ok roaster.
Animations are pretty slow an annoying,and there plenty of them due to the "verticality" gimmick.
Levelling is bare bones at best,there is one obvious archetype for the build you are going for,most of the skills you tag are useless and not implemented in the game even if you could select them,there is small "!" on the top right corner of such skills that says it. Spells are also very few and the good ones are pretty obvious,tho that is normal for d&d in the hand of experienced fan. Every few levels you get option between feats or 2 attribute points,which would have been fine if there was at least two good feat. With the archetypes they had ended up picking mostly useless ones,there are three per class,two useless and one good or great. In the end it feels very unsatisfactory to level up,even diablo 2 have more complex levelling system.
That said the character creation at the start was pretty good and fun,even if with limited options.
The writing is pure gem,ti so fucking bad that i was laughing at all the time,the side quests can hardly be even called that. There is like a dozen of them and it will insult to call the fetch quests,that is to the fetch quests. You just have to go trough an area that you had already explored,pick an item,have a fight and fuck of,tho some times you pick the item after the fight,very diverse. All the companions have their own side quests,which i believe that are connected to their class,or maybe background. The lowlife/rogue one was particular experience that i even posted a few pages back.
The main story is just a bunch of nonsense a 12year old kid could come up while playing make-believe with its toys. It is about collecting dragonballs....ahh i mean dragon gems,to stop an evil god or some such nonsensical shit. It is there to propel you forward but is just so fucking bad.
The companions on the other hand are pretty well done,strangely. Their personality is generated when you are making a party,and it strangely well connecting. There is not many awkward moments wondering what are they talking about. But it does happen from time to time,when the lines for their personality goes to another member.
Dialogue choice is non existing,early on you got a bit,like asking about some general information. After the first gem dungeon,with the undead,it is pretty much linear thing with a few checks here and there. Also there is no choices,all the options lead to the same outcome.
The game also have factions....which are.....aghhh just there. There are six of them in whole,two of them get to max pretty fast and make most vendors cheaper. The other four are the semi important,they are divided by the possibility to max. There is the tower of something vs the antiquarian,on the other hand you have the arcanum vs circle of something. You rise your standing by bringing special loot that is for that,it is shown on itself which factions will be interested in it. So you give it to them to get paid and access to special items. So in the end the factions are glorified merchants that unlock shit to sell..... and no,they don't fight with you even it is written on them,they do nothing.
They all have different merch to sell,thus you should check them out before going to raise their influence,because those items that you give them are nearly non existing in the second half. I would recommend you the arcanum and that antiquarians. The arcanum is needed for weapons that are used in crafting thus giving you access to the best items in the game. Antiquarians on the other hand give you access to useful trinkets you need to get attuned to. I never managed to max any of those factions and get access to all their things,tho i doubt that it is even possible.
Now the itemization......it is pretty meh. I spend most of my game using basic weapons. You get max up to +2 weapons and armour,and there is pretty good things in the crafting option. You could make them pretty early on if you know about the factions and minmax your opinion with the arcanum. Their shematics could be bought by the a merchant that spams at the second dungeon after you clear it out,the one with the crown. Those crafted weapons are the strongest in the game,but there is a chance of failing the crafting,so make sure you save before doing it and running around the world map till it gets done,or just use the always success check in the game menu.
Really annoying thing about crafting is that you can't check the stats on the item unless you have the materials needed to make it. Then you click on it,hold the mouse over the description and it shows you. The best ones are that just give you a bonus damage die of some kinds.
There is trinket that you could get from the antiquarians or maybe find,but they are nothing special. there is some neat ones that you could get early on,like bracers giving you longbow proficiency and hit bonus for your rogue,or ring that lets your human see in dim light. Tho i could never get the end tier stuff because there was not enough influence items or that faction.
Now the UI....aghhh it is ugly and nearly non-functional,clearly it is made by people that had never played RPGs and have no idea what is to be expected from a good UI. For a first time in me life i ended up making a list of what annoys me in the UI,here it is.
right click doesn't disable cast or an order,etc
too many buttons to click for casting,no quick bar spells
zoom out not enough,very shitty when you try to cast AoE spells
map edge scrolling needs convolute option checks
no force attack.
no option to show full info on spells
you can sell items only one character at a time,no basket
no number switching the characters in the inventory
no sneak shortcut
auto equipping garbage
no timer on active effects
Exploration....well....it is hard to say that exist,most of it is about holding alt to see which rock or tree have to pushed so you could jump your way to the chest. There is a global map that looks cool,but you just click on your destination and your party walks there,there is chance of you getting attacked by enemy in the journey,also you camp every night. I decided to disable the random encounters very early on so i don't get over levelled,but sadly i ended up over levelled anyway
. And that is it about the exploration,i managed to find one or two hidden doors in the whole game.
Level design is pretty meh most of the time,tho there is a few good dungeons like the undead castle. Most of it is about having a big room with small platforms you have to jump around. A lot of love for squares. Also a lot of pushing shit around,like trees and rocks,to make way for your party. It gets old fast,and ended up speeding up to 4x with the speedhack. Town levels feel empty and dead,people just seat at the same place and you can't even interact with them unless having a quest or something. A lot of empty room and useless npcs that you would thing you will need for a quest,but you don't. Feels unfinished.
Verticality.....is an annoying gimmick,i disliked and make me feel like a waste of time. It messes up spells and makes combat feel annoying. It could have been well implemented.....but it didn't.
The game tho have a decent amount of options that could be changed mid game. The difficulty settings are similar to kingmaker and good thing to have. Also a lot of options to customize your experience,like enemy going for your fallen characters and trying to kill them,or resting not using supplies,or always succeed on crafting or dialogue checks.
The game was also pretty stable,had only one crash and that didn't affected me game,loading is pretty fast too. Also only one big i found,which could break your game if you don't have an earlier save,i wrote about it a few pages ago. Also runs fine,tho i think it demands more Vmemory than it looks deserve. If you have stuttering,lower the texture quality option in the graphic options.
TLDR: It is meh good enough only if you have nothing else to play,very basic tb combat,boring levelling,dumb AI and horrible writing. At least Wasteland 3 was mediocre middle of the road game,this is bad but playable,same as legends of the swordcoast or what eva its name was.
To be honest i was expecting to be a good game even with some problems,but it ended up as an mediocre time waster with a lot of daft decisions and overusing the verticality gimmick. Generally i don't feel regrets for playing it,it is finish once and never touch again kind of game. Also while playing i really felt like they were going for something bigger and more fleshed out,but ended up cutting or not finishing things. You could see it in the factions of which i talk later on,or in the skills that you chose in the start. There are system that are implemented in the game but never used or scaled back. There is such small thing all around the game,it feels weird. I personally can't recommend it as a must,just if you are like me and have played everything that you know is worth playing and have nothing better to play. I finished i in around 20 hours maybe less,in two days generally. There is plenty of far better games out there like NWN,BG,IWD,Kingamker,Underrail,ELEX,ATOM,Shadowrun,Drakensang,Dragon Age,Naheulbeuk,Wasteland even the motherfucking PoE. It is a game you play once you had played anything good out there. Still it is not a terrible one,even if it sounds like it in me review,it is a bit better as sum of its part than when dissected.
Combat,is the focus of the game,but it very basic tb with initiative rolls and 5e D&D rule set. You go around and hammer the enemy till they die,no tactics,no buffs,no resistance needed. Managed to get to level 8 with the starting weapons because i didn't noticed the detect magic ritual lol. The hardest battle is in the first dungeon,where you are attacked by lizards. After that it becomes pretty easy,even if you scale up the difficulty. As any D&D game the game is hardest when you are on lol max HP and could die from a single bad hit. Once you get things to negate the enemy,you are set for smooth riding. It lacks any real challenge,killed a dragon in two rounds with just focus smacking it. It lack any complexity in the area of resistances and immunity,they exits but are obvious and there is always a way to ignore them.
Most of the time you will spend fighting on areas where you have to jump around on small platform and fight enemies that can walk/craw on walls or fly. It gets old pretty fast. The rest of the time you just have to hold the line with your melee guys and sneak attack and wizard away the enemy.
The AI is pretty dumb too,when you cast an area of effect spell like say ice storm,they come to attack you,then get hit by the spell and after the attack they try to get out of the spell's area,which ends in a lot of opportunity attacks. When no sustained AoE spells,they just come and attack you. So if you want for the fight to end fast,a good strategy is not to use those spells
. The game have pretty good bestiary which is interesting to read up. By the end of the game i had unlocked around 50% of the enemy,tho there is a checkbox in the options to unlock them all. Most of the enemies are pretty samey humanoids,there is undead,orks,goblins,lizards and their variations like archer warrior wiz. There is a bunch of spiders and similar to them,there is a few types flying things that look the same to me. And a few more unique enemy like young dragons and remorhaz. All around it is an ok roaster.
Animations are pretty slow an annoying,and there plenty of them due to the "verticality" gimmick.
Levelling is bare bones at best,there is one obvious archetype for the build you are going for,most of the skills you tag are useless and not implemented in the game even if you could select them,there is small "!" on the top right corner of such skills that says it. Spells are also very few and the good ones are pretty obvious,tho that is normal for d&d in the hand of experienced fan. Every few levels you get option between feats or 2 attribute points,which would have been fine if there was at least two good feat. With the archetypes they had ended up picking mostly useless ones,there are three per class,two useless and one good or great. In the end it feels very unsatisfactory to level up,even diablo 2 have more complex levelling system.
That said the character creation at the start was pretty good and fun,even if with limited options.
The writing is pure gem,ti so fucking bad that i was laughing at all the time,the side quests can hardly be even called that. There is like a dozen of them and it will insult to call the fetch quests,that is to the fetch quests. You just have to go trough an area that you had already explored,pick an item,have a fight and fuck of,tho some times you pick the item after the fight,very diverse
. All the companions have their own side quests,which i believe that are connected to their class,or maybe background. The lowlife/rogue one was particular experience that i even posted a few pages back. The main story is just a bunch of nonsense a 12year old kid could come up while playing make-believe with its toys. It is about collecting dragonballs....ahh i mean dragon gems,to stop an evil god or some such nonsensical shit. It is there to propel you forward but is just so fucking bad.
The companions on the other hand are pretty well done,strangely. Their personality is generated when you are making a party,and it strangely well connecting. There is not many awkward moments wondering what are they talking about. But it does happen from time to time,when the lines for their personality goes to another member.
Dialogue choice is non existing,early on you got a bit,like asking about some general information. After the first gem dungeon,with the undead,it is pretty much linear thing with a few checks here and there. Also there is no choices,all the options lead to the same outcome.
The game also have factions....which are.....aghhh just there. There are six of them in whole,two of them get to max pretty fast and make most vendors cheaper. The other four are the semi important,they are divided by the possibility to max. There is the tower of something vs the antiquarian,on the other hand you have the arcanum vs circle of something. You rise your standing by bringing special loot that is for that,it is shown on itself which factions will be interested in it. So you give it to them to get paid and access to special items. So in the end the factions are glorified merchants that unlock shit to sell
..... and no,they don't fight with you even it is written on them,they do nothing. They all have different merch to sell,thus you should check them out before going to raise their influence,because those items that you give them are nearly non existing in the second half. I would recommend you the arcanum and that antiquarians. The arcanum is needed for weapons that are used in crafting thus giving you access to the best items in the game. Antiquarians on the other hand give you access to useful trinkets you need to get attuned to. I never managed to max any of those factions and get access to all their things,tho i doubt that it is even possible.
Now the itemization......it is pretty meh. I spend most of my game using basic weapons. You get max up to +2 weapons and armour,and there is pretty good things in the crafting option. You could make them pretty early on if you know about the factions and minmax your opinion with the arcanum. Their shematics could be bought by the a merchant that spams at the second dungeon after you clear it out,the one with the crown. Those crafted weapons are the strongest in the game,but there is a chance of failing the crafting,so make sure you save before doing it and running around the world map till it gets done,or just use the always success check in the game menu.
Really annoying thing about crafting is that you can't check the stats on the item unless you have the materials needed to make it. Then you click on it,hold the mouse over the description and it shows you. The best ones are that just give you a bonus damage die of some kinds.
There is trinket that you could get from the antiquarians or maybe find,but they are nothing special. there is some neat ones that you could get early on,like bracers giving you longbow proficiency and hit bonus for your rogue,or ring that lets your human see in dim light. Tho i could never get the end tier stuff because there was not enough influence items or that faction.
Now the UI....aghhh it is ugly and nearly non-functional,clearly it is made by people that had never played RPGs and have no idea what is to be expected from a good UI. For a first time in me life i ended up making a list of what annoys me in the UI,here it is.
right click doesn't disable cast or an order,etc
too many buttons to click for casting,no quick bar spells
zoom out not enough,very shitty when you try to cast AoE spells
map edge scrolling needs convolute option checks
no force attack.
no option to show full info on spells
you can sell items only one character at a time,no basket
no number switching the characters in the inventory
no sneak shortcut
auto equipping garbage
no timer on active effects
Exploration....well....it is hard to say that exist,most of it is about holding alt to see which rock or tree have to pushed so you could jump your way to the chest. There is a global map that looks cool,but you just click on your destination and your party walks there,there is chance of you getting attacked by enemy in the journey,also you camp every night. I decided to disable the random encounters very early on so i don't get over levelled,but sadly i ended up over levelled anyway
. And that is it about the exploration,i managed to find one or two hidden doors in the whole game. Level design is pretty meh most of the time,tho there is a few good dungeons like the undead castle. Most of it is about having a big room with small platforms you have to jump around. A lot of love for squares. Also a lot of pushing shit around,like trees and rocks,to make way for your party. It gets old fast,and ended up speeding up to 4x with the speedhack. Town levels feel empty and dead,people just seat at the same place and you can't even interact with them unless having a quest or something. A lot of empty room and useless npcs that you would thing you will need for a quest,but you don't. Feels unfinished.
Verticality.....is an annoying gimmick,i disliked and make me feel like a waste of time. It messes up spells and makes combat feel annoying. It could have been well implemented.....but it didn't.
The game tho have a decent amount of options that could be changed mid game. The difficulty settings are similar to kingmaker and good thing to have. Also a lot of options to customize your experience,like enemy going for your fallen characters and trying to kill them,or resting not using supplies,or always succeed on crafting or dialogue checks.
The game was also pretty stable,had only one crash and that didn't affected me game,loading is pretty fast too. Also only one big i found,which could break your game if you don't have an earlier save,i wrote about it a few pages ago. Also runs fine,tho i think it demands more Vmemory than it looks deserve. If you have stuttering,lower the texture quality option in the graphic options.
DemonKing
Arcane
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Buahahaha just found out that you have to use detect magic spell to find magical items,then use identify on them. Buahahaha lol.
Not really - if anything has a prefix like “magnificent” or “suburb” it’s magical. Also if the value is really high it’s also probably magical.
Given you can cast identify as a ritual you might as well use it on anything you find that looks interesting.
fantadomat
Arcane
What are you on about? I never bitched about that. I did me stat on me main dude for fucking roleplaying lol. The rest of me guys have normal stats. Also never lost a fight in this game,it is too easy. The first dungeon's last battle was bit hard because you are at two hits,but it is not something impossible. Was bitching about not stabalizing after winning the combat and having to use scrolls,which is a different thing.
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