Let me address this at least: In proper RPGs there are ways to make it reliable. Be it perks, skills, circumstancial modifiers. E.g move to short range, crouch and use aim maneuver with the extra acurate pistol sidearm before doing a called shot to the unarmored head of the poor sod.
It's not in enough. AP costs are way too minimal in this game, mostly divorced from movement (which I find a good thing, but you're not penalized enough for moving) and can even be reduced through various means. You can in the same turn throw a grenade, heal yourself, run to the other side of the room to stab someone and have enough ap left to call your mom.
There actually is, but you seem too much of a noob to know. Again, the problem is that the system is unbalanced enough all you is aim to the eye for the massive crit boost it gives. And the boost is so massive you never get to witness blind status effect. Again: shit balance
U people post too fast:
It's called item scarcity.
CIRCUMSTANCES
It's true, but again it's a matter of poor balance. It's the same way how fallout has modifiers for cover and lighting but by the time you realize those exist it doesn't matter anymore
Which would make for a fantastic game, true. Now please point me to that awesome dream game come true, I seem to have missed it.
*sigh*
Jagged Alliance
Certain factors always come into play like relative positions. Also unless one sucks at making encounters, there should always be various enviromental factors to consider, at the very least cover and blind spots. But CRPG devs have a tendency to design encounters that are just a tussle inside a big empty room. PoE being one of the worst cases of it in recent memory.
Aw come on! Not again. It's fantastic and all but it doesn't feature X files stuff (except for some aliens that look like the ones from the Alien movie in JA 2).
If a game is so broken that certain attacks are always obviously better in all situations, then adding cooldowns will only replace best attack with best attack rotation. This seems superficially better because hey, you're pressing more buttons, but it only hides the real problem, that there's no thought/strategy involved, which is what is actually important IMHO.
So you argue that the ideal game is one with no choices? Uh, no thanks.
You want a game with interesting systems and original setting in a genre of videogames that was dead for almost as long as it existed, and that has been perpetually stuck in a cycle of generic pseudo-D&D fantasy maze adventures that doesn't even resemble the tabletop games they tried to rip off anymore, like a jpeg picture full of artifacts due to being lossily reuploaded 10000 times.
At least tell us whose turn it is damnit!Even if there's always a best choice, it's often not obvious. Can you immediately tell what's the best choice in this situation?
Yes. And you know what? I got what I wanted. Underrail.
Of what?
Still not sure what you mean. Things like positioning and enviromental circumstances should add modifiers to the action where it makes sense. E.g you are fighting in melee and you maneuver the other guy into moving inside a tile full of rubble that fucks up his footing and then you make use of this to try and knock him down with a (high enough chance to success thanks to modifiers) that makes the action more attractive than simply attacking his face, as it might pay off with being able to absolutely destroy him next turn.
Yeah, I'm 100% Sawyerist as made evident many times. Roguey can confirm.
Yeah, this is all great stuff you don't see too often and the reasons I like Underrail despite some peeves. You know how it is, the more you like a game the more the things that annoy you in it stand out.
That is just a game of balancing numbers. It's not an inherent problem that cooldowns come to solve.
This should not be an earned skill. Shoving someone is something any person is feasibly capable of. Having higher strength and fighting skills just naturally makes it easier when locked in melee combat.
