Solasta Solasta II - Journey to the Lands of Neokos in the Unreal Engine - coming to Early Access - Demo Available

[ERYFKRAD]

with absolutely nothing that could possibly offend an 8-year-old American kid or their parents.

Other than wanton violence

 

[MerchantKing]

They got rid of the pronoun sliders right? President Trump has gotten rid of the need for such things.

 

[Myzzrym]

Is it even possible to not save Jabori? Isn't he crucial for the final battle? As for the other statistics, you tend to choose the option with the best chances, so specifically these statistics are bordering on pointless. You have to experiment on purpose to click other things. And I turned telemetry off too.

2% of players just shut the game off before saving him?

Come on, I'm a dumbass but not THAT much of a dumbass. For the decision graphs with % we only took the runs that were complete, 2% of people went to long rest before saving Jabori and that basically gets him killed lol.

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.solasta-game.com/news/197-adventurers-what-did-you-do

Adventurers, what did you do?​

Wake up, adventurer.

The numbers, adventurer! What do they mean?! Well, that’s what we’re here to show you. Let’s dive into what you did during this week of Steam Next Fest. How many of you saved the Fishermen? Did Jabori survive the adventure? Did you find the Temple’s secret entrance?

It’s been hard work trying out all of these demos, wasn’t it Sherlock? Take a well-deserved long rest.

Before we start, don't forget to wishlist Solasta II on Steam - it helps us a ton!

Roll out the numbers, devs!

An adjustment to Community Streams’ schedule

As we’re now going to be going full focus working on preparing Early Access, we are going to slow down on Community Streams. While you already know that I could yap for hours every week in front of a camera about game development and D&D, there is unfortunately little I could show on screen without spoiling too much! We’re therefore going from one stream every 2 weeks to one stream per month, with the next one being on Friday March 14th.

Don’t worry though - once we get close to the Early Access launch, we’ll go back to more frequent streams! There will be plenty to show then.

Article by Tactical Myzzrym

 

[Dwarvophile]

They got rid of the pronoun sliders right? President Trump has gotten rid of the need for such things.

General RPG Discussion is the safe space

 

[jungl]

Tried 40 min of demo yeah best thing about this is the pretty graphics and UI. Its not drawing me in. There more interactivity in icewind dale and 6 man party is more fun then baby 4 man. Real time combat better then baby shit that is 5E turn based. Idk maybe this game will sell to BG3 kiddies that think theres sex in it make sure to show sexy npcs towards release.

 

[Larianshill]

They got rid of the pronoun sliders right? President Trump has gotten rid of the need for such things.

Even if they did, the company's not to be trusted. There were no pronouns in the first game in the early access. Then, all the sudden, they've appeared in the final version of the game.

 

[MerchantKing]

They got rid of the pronoun sliders right? President Trump has gotten rid of the need for such things.

Even if they did, the company's not to be trusted. There were no pronouns in the first game in the early access. Then, all the sudden, they've appeared in the final version of the game.

Kinda like the genitals and vitiligo sliders in BG3. It's strange how devs keep pulling this bait and switch.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/rp...hat-not-every-rpg-needs-to-be-baldurs-gate-3/

A single D&D spell in Solasta 2's Steam Next Fest demo proved to me that not every RPG needs to be Baldur's Gate 3​

Clearly, the D&D crown belongs to Baldur's Gate 3, but Solasta has been quietly making a name for itself as one of Larian's larger competitors over the past few years. So when Solasta 2 showed up in Steam Next Fest, I figured it was finally time to find out what I'd been missing out on.

Initially, I was a little sceptical. I loaded into a campaign scenario with a party consisting of four pre-made characters: a halfling rogue with edgy makeup; a bearded dwarven paladin clad in plate armor; an elven sorcerer with slightly-less-edgy makeup; and a human fighter to round out the team. My party - a group of adoptive siblings - were visiting a friend in a remote but bustling coastal town, but for all the apparent trade and industry, the world was a little sterile. Most NPCs couldn't be interacted with, and while Solasta 2's world is very pretty, I felt a little railroaded through it.

That was, however, a concern I was happy to gloss over, because Solasta isn't simply trying to be another D&D RPG. Instead, I knew that its unique selling point was supposed to be its devotion to recreating the tabletop game's combat as accurately as possible. So, obviously, I went looking for a fight.

It wasn't long before I found it. A group of feisty, territorial crabs weren't too happy when I interrupted their feast of drowned Kobold, but thankfully they didn't put up too much of a fight. Even in that initial skirmish, however, I could see that Solasta 2 was trying to emulate D&D's rules extremely accurately.

(Image credit: Tactical Adventure)

One of my carcinized foes had burrowed up from the sand behind a rock, which meant that my Sorcerer was of little use thanks to a D&D rule that gives enhanced protection to units behind partial cover. With only a sliver of claw unprotected, I had to rely on my rogue to get up-close if I wanted to deal damage. That flanking maneuver meant the halfling had an uninhibited chance to hit, but since Baldur's Gate 3 doesn't adapt the cover rule at all, even this early fight offered a steep learning curve.



A few minutes later - having Short Rested the 'proper' way by using each characters' individual hit die - I was in another fight, this time against that unfortunate Kobold's friends. This time, it was entirely my own fault - I'd snuck around to retrieve an item to let me avoid combat, and picked the corresponding dialogue options to placate my foes (no dice rolls to fail here). Wanting to test Solasta 2 on its own merits, however, I picked a fight anyway, freeing the Kobolds' prisoner in front of their very eyes.


Outnumbered and still nursing a few crab-shaped wounds, this fight could have gone pretty badly. The Kobolds were no great threat on their own, but in numbers like these they might have presented a problem for my low-level party. They might have, but for Solasta's interpretation of one of my favorite low-level D&D spells. Shatter is available for all of D&D's dedicated spellcasting classes from level 3, and for how early you unlock it, its 3d8 Thunder damage is pretty potent. So when a couple of low-HP Kobolds clustered together at the start of the fight, I wasted no time in lining up a Shatter.

(Image credit: Tactical Adventures)

In Baldur's Gate 3, I would have hit my two opponents with its circular spell indicator and probably moved on. But as I went to aim Shatter in Solasta 2, rather than the 2D shape I was expecting to cast, I was met with a big, blue sphere - Shatter's actual D&D description confirms that it casts in a ten-foot orb, even if Larian's recreation is a little flatter. That sphere meant that I could position the spell in exactly the right place to hit a third enemy, this one standing on the floor beneath the ledge that his allies were on. All three Kobolds failed their Constitution save, and all three were blasted apart by my Thunder damage, turning the fight immediately in my favor, even after some of their surviving brethren tried to use that annoying 'fighting from cover' trick on me again.

It was one simple detail, attached to a simple spell against enemies that I probably would have beaten with little issue anyway, but it was enough to sell me on Solasta 2. It seems to have very little of the narrative and world-building depth of Baldur's Gate 3, but it knows that, and perhaps what impresses me most about it is the fact that it's not really afraid of that. This is a D&D Tactics RPG from a team focused on bringing tabletop combat to life rather than competing in the dedicated CRPG space that Larian has come to dominate. If you're chasing the highs of Baldur's Gate 3's story, you probably won't find it here, but if you're the kind of player who's been busy crafting the perfect Paladin build since 2023, Solasta is a genuine contender.

In any version of actual D&D/AD&D, a single sleep spell would take care of an entire opposing force of kobolds.

 

[mediocrepoet]

In any version of actual D&D/AD&D, a single sleep spell would take care of an entire opposing force of kobolds.

If your mage was alive to cast it after the kobolds fall back into their warren of traps and ambushes, narrow passages and murder holes.

 

[Salvo]

In any version of actual D&D/AD&D, a single sleep spell would take care of an entire opposing force of kobolds.

If your mage was alive to cast it after the kobolds fall back into their warren of traps and ambushes, narrow passages and murder holes.

Tucker does it again

 

[lycanwarrior]

I'll wait for the GoG version, hopefully it is a simultaneous/same day release as all the other versions.

Hopefully they don't try to ape BG3 too much with all the "cinematic" stuff.

 

[SlightlyRadioactive]

They are holding a contest for specific lore items descriptions.

https://www.solasta-game.com/news/198-community-contest-of-quills-ink

Community Contest - Of Quills & Ink​

Well, folks.

It’s been a week since the Steam Next Fest ended, and everyone here is back to their station, working hard on the upcoming Early Access build. Looking back and comparing the numbers of Solasta II to our first game, we feel overwhelmed by the amount of support y’all have shown us - seeing our demo in the top50 most played of Steam Next Fest was food for our souls. Thank you again!

We all can sleep better knowing how loved the demo was.

Before we start, don't forget to wishlist Solasta II on Steam - it helps us a ton!

Community Contest - Of Quills & Ink

We’re finally here. The first Community Contest of Solasta II! Grab a quill and fill that inkwell of yours, let your hand glide free across the canvas of words. Would-be poets, it is time to show us your soul; Of Quills & Ink has begun.

But you may be wondering - what is this Community Contest? Of Quills & Ink is the first of many community events where anyone can participate to get their ideas implemented in-game.

Of Quills & Ink is about lore books and scrolls that you will find in Solasta II. Create a lore item around one of the 10 different themes available, from its name, to its short description, to the actual content of said book or scroll - and those that we like the most will be implemented and available for anyone to peruse.

Want to participate? Simply click on the image and it will take you to the form!

What are the themes?

1. Spooky children’s tale warning about a monster
2. Page of an adventurer’s journal traveling through Neokos
3. Page of an herbalist book about folk remedies
4. Page of a faded journal recounting the events of Solasta I
5. Love Letter
6. Advertisement for a show, traveling circus, performance or the like
7. Flyers / Postings one could find on a public board
8. Angry complain about a late delivery / bad item quality / scam
9. Unfounded research notes / rumors about Shadwyn’s corruption
10. Pseudo-scientific research notes about Kobold social behaviour

These themes are all explained in more details inside the submission form. Note that the length of the text you can submit is at most 1,500 characters (with spaces), so keep that limitation in mind when writing!

When does it start, when does it end?

It starts now (Tuesday March 11th 2025) and ends in 2 weeks, Tuesday March 25th!

What are the prizes?

Well, have we something for you! Winners get the following:

1. 1x Steam Key of Solasta II (playable once Early Access launches)
2. 1x PDF copy of the Solasta Revised Campaign Sourcebook
3. Their submission will be added in-game
4. Their name will be added in the credits of Solasta II as Community Contributor
5. The “Bard” role in our official Solasta Discord Server

Find your inspiration and start writing.

What are the rules?

1. Please do not participate more than once per theme
2. Please do not submit text from existing books / games / etc.
3. Please note that we may slightly adapt the text you submit
4. By participating, you agree to Tactical Adventures using the content you submitted. The legal guidelines can be downloaded here, if you’re proficient in legalese and want to dig into the document.

TL;DR: If you submit something, you allow us to use it! Please only participate if you’re fine with all of the above.

How will I know if my submission is selected?

We will announce the winners in a future news post in the weeks following the end of the Of Quills & Ink Community Contest, and will reach out to them for the rewards around that same time!



Community Stream #07 Friday March 14th

We’re back with March’s Community Stream! As a reminder, we’re now down to one Community Stream per month until Early Access gets closer. We’ll be going over questions that were asked during the Steam Next Fest, some fun data we had in the demo and also check out the first Community Contest together.

See you on Friday, 10 am PDT / 1 pm EDT / 6 pm CET - be careful, the time slot is slightly different as EU & US do not change to daylight saving time on the same date!



Article by Tactical Myzzrym

 

[Lacrymas]

I might write something if I find the time from my other already-overwhelming creative projects going on. Most of the themes are a bit juvenile, but I like a challenge.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

The starting party is too ugly for this to be good.

Diseased art is the product of a diseased mind, so it's indicative of other less obvious flaws.

Form the still legendary https://badspot.us/Ugly-on-Purpose.html article comments:

I think it's interesting that not only does everyone think this is political, but everyone aggrees on which sides are left and right. Lefties are willingly ceding the entire territory of "being physically attractive". You see it everywhere: going to the gym is right wing, self improvement is right wing, defending yourself is right wing. It's crazy.

 

[Lacrymas]

The form doesn't give you more information about every theme at once, you have to restart the process each time you want to get info for another theme, so it's not the most ideal situation. Can't they just give us more information without the form, lol.

 

[Artyoan]

I made two submissions under a different alias. Quick and dirty.

 

[Lacrymas]

Is Neokos the village in the demo? Lol.

 

[Harthwain]

Is Neokos the village in the demo? Lol.

It's a continent. But I do agree it's a poor choice, chosen only probably because someone likes cats too much.

 

[Lacrymas]

I was asking because one of the themes is an adventuring journal across Neokos, so I wanted to see whether I can use the geography of the village. Either way, I'm finished with one of them, I'll write a few more and maybe post them here if it's allowed by the contest rules ;d

 

[jungl]

No playable catfolk or tabaxi race fake cat lovers devs.

 

[Myzzrym]

I was asking because one of the themes is an adventuring journal across Neokos, so I wanted to see whether I can use the geography of the village. Either way, I'm finished with one of them, I'll write a few more and maybe post them here if it's allowed by the contest rules ;d

Nothing prevents you from sharing your submissions here, so go ahead.

I made two submissions under a different alias. Quick and dirty.

I'll pretend I never read that.

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2405521934

 

[Lacrymas]

Myzzrym, are mere insinuations of voyeurism (it's not going to be graphic) going to put me on a list and get my entry automatically disregarded? ;d

 

[SlightlyRadioactive]

They posted a post-demo AMA.

Honestly I don't think there is anything much interesting here, they confirmed that you'll be able to move by clicking on the map, that the demo should be considered an alternate timeline for the events of the actual game and overall there were lots of "we are not sure" answers about various requested gameplay features.

https://www.solasta-game.com/news/199-steam-next-fest-ama-recap

Steam Next Fest AMA Recap​

March 18, 2025

Alright!
It’s finally time to get around answering your queries from the Steam Next Fest AMA event. Get ready for us to go over a list of 30+ questions, as we will be answering each and every single one of them - and this time with directors from each department stepping in!

Directors when they receive my mail with 32 questions to answer.
Before we start, don't forget to wishlist Solasta II on Steam - it helps us a ton!

Steam Next Fest AMA

Will critical hits / misses have any special visual effects on the dice roll on screen? What about the damage dice rolls resulting from a Critical hit? (from LJ the Brave)
Mathieu (CEO): This is an interesting suggestion! Depending on the time we have at hand (which isn’t a lot), it might be a little time consuming to create new VFX for that but we could try to look at better UI feedback, camera shakes and the like.

Will Solasta 2 have a higher difficulty, with more/unique enemies or with more/unique abilities, comparable to the changes of honour mode in BG3? (from Bloody Val)
Karim (CTO): We plan on having customizable difficulty settings so that you can fine tune your experience to your liking, similar to Solasta I. If all goes according to plan, this should in turn impact the ruleset and basic AI behaviour. Regarding unique abilities like Legendary Actions, they represent quite a large time investment to implement so we believe everyone should get to enjoy them regardless of difficulty.

Are there any internal discussions or plans to develop a sourcebook for use as a setting for a tabletop/VTT D&D 5e Solasta II campaign? (from DiceWrangler)
Emile (Com. Lead): We are indeed considering it. We already released a Campaign Sourcebook for Solasta I (available on Modiphius’ website), so we’d love to publish another one for Solasta II. That being said, creating a Sourcebook is very time consuming - and as you know, we’re already very busy developing a video game. We’ll probably take a more serious look at the question when we get closer to the 1.0 release!

Will there be a supporter pack for solasta 2 as well? (from Liza)
Emile (Com. Lead): It’s very likely going to exist, yes! As a reminder, the Supporter Pack only exists for people who want to give us a little extra to help the studio - it is absolutely not interesting in terms of value, so don’t feel like you’re missing out if you don’t get it.

Will there be an option to make our party characters silent (no voice acting) so we can RP our own voice? (from Vollen_sl)
Mathieu (CEO): This is not planned for now, but I suppose we could add that as an option in the settings. Note that even though it should be an easy thing to do, right now our planning schedules are packed to the brim with important features so even a feature being easy doesn’t mean that it will automatically be added!

Will any of the longer-lived NPCs from COTM, Lost Valley or Palace of Ice make an appearance in this new continent and in the new time period? (from SirRupt)
Xavier (Game Dir.): No, even though it’s still the same world and era, we wanted to bring our players to new faraway lands. While there will be mentions of events from Solasta I, there will not be any returning characters.

Are mounts gonna be a target for an expansion or dlc? (from Fenixy)
Mathieu (CEO): This is unfortunately something we can’t commit to, as it would be a very costly feature to add. That said, one of our programmers managed to fuse a character to a crab while working on something completely unrelated, so I guess technically crab mounts did exist for a brief moment in Solasta 2.

Will Flying be just as easy as in Solasta I? (from Ressque)
Karim (CTO): We are hoping we can make flying as smooth and intuitive as it was in Solasta 1, but with a new engine comes a new set of constraints. Just know that we love how flying worked back then, so we hope we can still replicate this as accurately as possible. That said, as long as it’s not implemented we don’t want to promise anything!

Will you guys follow BG3’s implementation of the ruleset / features for the development of Solasta II? (from Ryan Rinaldhi)
Emile (Com. Lead): No, although Baldur’s Gate 3 is a fantastic game that many of us have spent countless hours in, Solasta has always based its ruleset on the SRD of D&D 5e. Note that it’s likely that some features will end up similar due to both games originating from the D&D ruleset.

Will Solasta II be optimised for older hardware, and I am screwed and need to upgrade from my GTX 980? (from Itomon)
Karim (CTO): We will do our best to have a quality setting working for older hardware, but I fear a GTX980 will be out of our target minimum configuration (doesn’t mean it won’t work, but it means we can’t promise it will).

Will we see the return of custom difficulty sliders? (from Sigismund)
Karim (CTO): As stated above in Bloody Val’s question, yes! We aim to have custom difficulty sliders / options just like in Solasta 1.

Are karmic dice going to be back and on by default? (from Princeps08)
Emile (Com. Lead): Yes, something we’ve noted during the Early Access of Solasta 1 and looking up at other tactical games is that most players have a very skewed perception of probabilities, heavily favouring remembering bad streaks of luck over everything else.
For example did you know that in XCOM 2 Veteran difficulty, hit chances are multiplied by x1.1 behind the scene? So when the game shows you 50% chance to hit, in reality you have a 55% chance to hit. And if you miss, your next shot has a hidden flat +10 bonus which stacks until you land a hit (as long as your base chance to hit is over 50%). And even with all that (and more!), XCOM2 has a reputation of being hard!
There are plenty of other examples of games helping the player without telling them to make sure they don’t get too frustrated with RNG. Our take on this was the Karmic Dice setting, though we made the decision of allowing players to turn it off instead of hiding it in the code.

Can we romance the boss? She looks badass (from Papiko)
Emile (Com. Lead): Unfortunately that’s not planned for now!

Do we need to play the first game to understand this one? (from Dead)
Emile (Com. Lead): No, Solasta 1 takes place in the same world but it’s not directly related to the story of Solasta 2.

Is the Unstable Nexus from the demo something we can expect in the future Dungeon Maker? (from Agathys)
Mathieu (CEO): That could be interesting, and who knows we might even have different nexus types in the long run. Note that the one in the demo had some complex scripting to destroy stone platforms, so I’m not sure it would be simple to replicate in a Dungeon Maker (though I have seen crazy stuff in community developed Solasta 1 campaigns). Also as a reminder, we can’t promise a Dungeon Maker yet, we still have to scope that feature!

Are there plans to eventually bring the level cap all the way to 20? (from LittleFadeleaf)
Emile (Com. Lead): Not right now no, we want to avoid planning too far into the future and focus on finishing Solasta II first. That said, even with DLCs level 20 cap would probably not be something we’d go for. As I explained in a previous article, good high level adventures in D&D are incredibly challenging to run - on Tabletop your party would be zooming around with teleportation and would have enough power to raze entire countries and challenge gods, putting a lot of strain on the DM to adjust and improv’ accordingly. In a video game the options are predetermined, making it potentially frustrating for players - lore wise they have near infinite powers, but the game dictates that they can only do A, B or C.

Seeing so many steam threads asking for language localization, have you considered which will be implemented? (from LJ_the_brave)
Pierre (Marketing Dir.): We’re super thrilled to hear how excited our community is to play Solasta II in their native language. Audio language will be in English only, but texts will be adapted to different languages. Localisation is an important topic for us and for a game such as Solasta II, because it supports our narrative and the gameplay, but also because of the sheer volume of texts (dialogs & answers branching, banters, cutscenes, adventure logs, item description, menus, etc.) that we’re expecting for the final game. Once we have a better understanding of the cost/time/resource we can invest, we’ll probably start working on a first batch of languages that should mirror the ones from the first game, and then expand to new languages depending on community (roaring) requests and opportunities.

Will the Dragonborn get a visual overhaul in Solasta II? (from Delta)
Thierry (Art Dir.): Yes, in fact when we started Solasta II we’ve done research and experiments on each species. We’re still iterating on the Dragonborn at the moment, which is why there weren’t any in the Steam Next Fest demo.

Any chance for QWERTZ keyboard layout? (from Gildoriel)
Mathieu (CEO): The plan is to have remappable key bindings!

Will the next demo/update come with character customization or a deeper look into classes and subclasses? (from H)
Emile (Com. Lead): We will share more information about character creation and class / subclasses in upcoming articles before Early Access starts, however we do not plan to update the demo (or make a new one) because it would be a huge time investment! Time that wouldn’t be spent working on the final game…

Will Siklas be playable as a race for PCs? (from Pomellow)
Eleonore (Production Dir.): This was not in our plans, but seeing how much the community loved Jabori we’ll consider it. One thing is that in terms of narrative, it would potentially cause some issues - though I’m being told elaborating more would be a spoiler! So… not a No, but not a Yes either for now!

Will we be able to customize the PCs personality? (from Pomellow)
Emile (Com. Lead): Yes, we plan to allow you to select personalities during character creation, similar to Solasta 1 (although to a lesser extent). You will have less choices to choose from, but each personality should have more impact in-game.

Is free weapon switching something you intend to keep? (from Pomellow)
Mathieu (CEO): For now we don’t plan to change it as it makes it easier to use and removes the frustrating “oops I switched but I apparently don’t have line of sight and now I’m stuck with a bow in my hand instead of my trusty sword and shield”. We understand it’s less faithful to the ruleset so let us know if it’s something you disagree with. Note that it’d be difficult to make this a toggleable option setting as it does have an impact on how some stuff work behind-the-scenes.

What are the Devs’ take on 5e 2024 Dual Wielding? (from NoWokLurker)
Xavier (Game Dir.): This is a tricky question because the 2024 rules about light properties, weapon masteries (Nick) and the dual wielder feat make it quite complicated. There are those who would rule that a level 1 fighter with Dual Wielder and 2 light weapons including one with the Nick weapon would make 2 attacks with their main action (light + nick) and then an additional one with their bonus action (Dual Wielder) - while others consider that the convoluted wording of Dual Wielder simply means you’re able to make your second attack with a non-light weapon, and that it shouldn’t stack with light.
In any case, we haven’t decided yet on if we’ll be using the 2014 or 2024 ruleset for now.

Could we get enemy AI that frees its fellow enemies from control spells, like hypnotic pattern? (from Artyoan)
Karim (CTO): I would love to have more interesting AI behaviors like that, which I hope we’ll have enough time to add. If you remember, you could see in the demo one Kobold running to get reinforcement instead of fighting - that’s an example of more exotic AI behaviours that we’d want to have.

Will the Dragonborn get a visual overhaul in Solasta II? (from Delta)
Thierry (Art Dir.): Yes, in fact when we started Solasta II we’ve done research and experiments on each species. We’re still iterating on the Dragonborn at the moment, which is why there weren’t any in the Steam Next Fest demo.

Do you plan to use Epic Online Services for the eventual multiplayer for S2? (from Frost CA)
Karim (CTO): Yes, that’s the plan for now - though as far as we know, you won’t need an Epic account to play multiplayer.

Will you add the function that lets you move the party by opening the map and clicking on a location? (from BlackguardRogue)
Emile (Com. Lead): Yes, that’s planned.

Since the story in the Demo is not how the main campaign starts, will you use metrics for popular choices to determine what the canon events are? (from Fawz)
Emile (Com. Lead): Technically none of the events in the demo are canon, as you are sort of playing a version of the main game’s party. In terms of timeline, the demo story would probably be happening somewhere during the early-mid campaign. Although remember, it was a standalone adventure so these events won’t happen in the final game - think of it as an alternative timeline (where the party got TPK’d…)

Will there be upgrades to enemy AI compared to S1? While S1's AI is decent, even supposedly intelligent enemies give you too many attacks of opportunity. They rarely target your casters if you move a little bit out of the way. Enemies often cast too many cantrips, etc. I'd love a hardcore AI mode. (from Blackguard)
Karim (CTO): AI is heavily dependent on creature type and designer will. While we want to have smart tactical AI, our main objective (as it is for some dungeon masters) is to make the fights fun while still challenging the heroes. We will try to balance things so that the AI is and feels smart, but still leaves openings for players to use to not pigeonhole them into that one optimal strategy to reach victory. That being said, we do plan on having the merciless AI make a comeback, and if time allows it would showcase more of the behavior you describe!

Will we be getting hand crossbows? (from Sigismund)
Eleonore (Production Dir.): Not currently planned, but depending on if it’s highly requested by the community we could consider adding it in future updates or DLCs.

I was testing a few things and it looks like if you save before a combat round your next roll is locked in. Will it be possible to randomize it? (from Ankou)
Emile (Com. Lead): Yes, that’s the plan. The option setting was just not implemented in time for the demo.

When is a console version expected to be released? (from Ephemerant)
Pierre (Marketing Dir.): For the moment, we’re focusing on the PC experience first. That said, you’ve probably already noticed that the camera, the controls and even the UI are now better adapted for the gamepad. This is an important step for us to anticipate a future console release, and identify where we can implement common solutions vs. console-only features. At the moment, we are exploring our options for console adaptation, so it's a bit early to give you a precise date; but we can already say that Early Access will be PC only. Once the content of the game becomes more and more complete and we’re nearing 1.0, the decision on when to release on console will become clearer to us.

Will this game be complete after early access or is the plan to again hold back content to sell as DLC? (from MonoPegasus22)
Emile (Com. Lead): So, there’s sometimes a misconception from players who joined later after Solasta 1’s release that we are “holding out content to sell as DLC” - which honestly, is understandable if you didn’t know about our initial promise. Why does Solasta, a game claiming to be based on D&D, not have all 12 official classes included in the 1.0?
The answer is very simple - budget. Solasta started as a game promising FOUR classes: Fighter, Cleric, Wizard, Rogue. Through our Kickstarter we pushed through 2 other classes - Paladin, Ranger. At the end of the day, we delivered on everything we promised during Early Access - and more! Level 12 max cap instead of 10, a complete campaign, 7 classes by adding Sorcerers for free, a Dungeon Maker for players to create their own adventures and later, even Multiplayer for everyone (with DLC sharing!).
So, why couldn’t we simply add the other classes for free? Again, the answer is just “money”. As a company we can either just release 1.0 and move to our next game, leaving Solasta 1 as a game with 7 classes - or try to add the remaining ones (and higher level cap) through DLCs to pay for everyone’s salary. And as you all know, we did the latter!
Long story short, Solasta 2 will be complete after early access just like Solasta 1 was complete after early access. Just make sure you carefully read what our promises are so that you know what to expect from the 1.0 release, we are very transparent on what we can or cannot do.

Are quests going to be time-limited on the rest mechanic or can we play the game at our own pace? (from EE Eternal)
Xavier (Game Dir.) In general we don’t want to put time pressure on the players. There might be one or two key moment where we might think about using time pressure, but we want to avoid at all costs players to play hours before realizing they’re now penalized for having been “too slow”

Why does the character switch from wielding sword and shield to wielding the sword 2-handed when attacking? (from Morghy)
Emile (Com. Lead): Very simple, that’s because we did not have the attack animation for sword and shield in time for the demo so it used the two-handed sword attack animation instead.

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