Well i haven't tested it they way Roxor did, i didn't know about the 6 level difference damage reductions, but all i know i killed a level 30 ice elemental on level 20 and 2 level 26 gargoyles nearby with not much effort. I used the correct sword oil, Yrden and Cleave. I'm having troubles fiding other high level enemies atm because i'm way overleleled. Maybe it's worse at low levels, IDK.
I don't really know. Anyway, the game doesn't force you to fight enemies way over your level, it's the player who forces himself to do that, so it's just sperging for the sake of sperging. I don't see the issue here, and as i said, i killed 10 levels higher monsters, and those fights were some of the best i had in this game. Different strokes for different folks.
Well i haven't tested it they way Roxor did, i didn't know about the 6 level difference damage reductions, but all i know i killed a level 30 ice elemental on level 20 and 2 level 26 gargoyles nearby with not much effort. I used the correct sword oil, Yrden and Cleave. I'm having troubles fiding other high level enemies atm because i'm way overleleled. Maybe it's worse at low levels, IDK.
It's not fixed like that, I think. I killed enemies 14 levels higher than me without any cheesing or higher than expected difficulty, but they weren't marked with skulls. I think as you level the range widens, by level 14 level 28 enemies aren't marked that way. Also, what the three guys above me said. At the risk of setting off the eternal Codex argument off again, ultimately RPGs are games of numbers. If you're able to game the system to your benefit, you should be rewarded for it. Scaling is equivalent of moving the goalpost and thus detrimental as a whole.
The irony is that despite that, the Gohic and Risen games have the best feeling of progression in any RPG ive played, and that's because of the zero scaling.
I don't really know. Anyway, the game doesn't force you to fight enemies way over your level, it's the player who forces himself to do that, so it's just sperging for the sake of sperging. I don't see the issue here, and as i said, i killed 10 levels higher monsters, and those fights were some of the best i had in this game. Different strokes for different folks.
Well i haven't tested it they way Roxor did, i didn't know about the 6 level difference damage reductions, but all i know i killed a level 30 ice elemental on level 20 and 2 level 26 gargoyles nearby with not much effort. I used the correct sword oil, Yrden and Cleave. I'm having troubles fiding other high level enemies atm because i'm way overleleled. Maybe it's worse at low levels, IDK.
It's not fixed like that, I think. I killed enemies 14 levels higher than me without any cheesing or higher than expected difficulty, but they weren't marked with skulls. I think as you level the range widens, by level 14 level 28 enemies aren't marked that way. Also, what the three guys above me said. At the risk of setting off the eternal Codex argument off again, ultimately RPGs are games of numbers. If you're able to game the system to your benefit, you should be rewarded for it. Scaling is equivalent of moving the goalpost and thus detrimental as a whole.
I think the current power curve is so steep that they could've achieved a similar effect without any bullshit mechanics, and quite easily even. At the start of the game your swords do around 100 damage per hit, by level 10 you'll probably have doubled that, and by the endgame your damage is maybe around 400. That's just the weapon stats, ignoring all other benefits you get from abilities, mutagens and level-ups. Some kind of Gothic-like damage threshold system would've therefore suited the game very well. A golem that absorbs 200 damage of your every hit would still be practically unbeatable for level 1 characters, for instance, and its stats wouldn't need to depend on the PC's level in any way. You could of course adjust the system in some way, like not making the DT absolute like in Gothic but always letting some damage through, effectively turning it into a very high damage reduction similar to the current system with the skull enemies. The downside of such a power curve is that it quickly trivializes combat against low-level enemies, which is a notable problem in TW3.
From my observation its more of a HP bloat than DR ( it can be both just different enemy types ) which is worse cuz with DR you can see that you are doing almost to no dmg so that makes you sure that enemy you are fighting is just to strong. With this HP bloat mechanic you acuallly do dmg, very similar to your normal and still fucker is not dying, then you come back with more lvls, kill him with basically the same dmg and its fine. It makes me feel like my dmg ( that comes from progress, items ) is meaningless.
