Wartales - turn-based mercenary band RPG by Northgard developer - now with Skelmar Invasion DLC

[ERYFKRAD]

Hit the boss, then run

he's too retarded to even have zone of control?

Dude's too busy winding up his hammer.

 

[ArchAngel]

sure u could beat him easily at level 1 or later overpower him but if you are in the cuck stage oops i sold my level 1 dagger that can put a poison stack on him only have bleed better go back to town or fuk off elsewhere for now. its tedious and gamey all I'm saying. Battle bros your not fucked cuz u traded ur pick axe for a two handed hammer.

You don't need any poison, in fact DOTs are not great against bosses since they get reduced damage and only get affected once per turn.

This specific boss can be beaten with anything, after you just look at what his skills do - he either uses an ability that targets closest person, or he uses an ability which starts channeling his attack on the previously targeted person, which will hit when he next acts.

The whole gimmick, is just that you need to plan your positioning, have you guys set up in a line, spread enough so boss can never target more than one person with his AoE, and only move the person at whom the boss is channeling his attack. Hit the boss, then run, to get out of his aoe and start setting up a new line. It can be done with whatever weapon, as long as you use your brain with positioning/order of movement, you can never take any damage in this boss fight.

That is interesting. I only tried him once with my lower level team and since I went first and attacked he just kept attacking that some person and often one shooting them. So the trick is just let him for his move and attack first and then avoid his attacks.
I was trying to swarm him and that didn't work. But all these tactics do not matter once you can take his hits. With lvl 5/6 party and animals to help he died very fast just by my team swarming him.

 

[Barbarian]

There is a dagger in Tiltren which is seriously the best weapon I have found so far. It is also upgradable on brotherhood training grounds.

"Elderguard" is its name, and its attack skill disingages deals damage to the nearest 3 enemies in close proximity.

You get it by a random contract to hunt a bandit tracker called Vesuna.

 

[Alpharius]

Do you guys play with autoleveling on or no? I turned it off and it seems kinda boring so far, everything is too easy apart from a rare boss fight. But then most of my dudes are level 3 and the enemies are too so it should be balanced? (I picked max difficulty ofc).

Also seems like both combat and economy are too predictable.
I didn't even finish the starting region and already thinking of dropping the game.

 

[Barbarian]

Do you guys play with autoleveling on or no? I turned it off and it seems kinda boring so far, everything is too easy apart from a rare boss fight. But then most of my dudes are level 3 and the enemies are too so it should be balanced? (I picked max difficulty ofc).

Also seems like both combat and economy are too predictable.
I didn't even finish the starting region and already thinking of dropping the game.

Region lock or adaptive(i.e: level scaling)?

If the former you will always have challenging fights, specially if you play on maximum difficulty. Can't vouch for level scaling in 1.0. It was popamole in past versions already.

 

[0sacred]

anyone know if they plan on doing fixes/balancing/DLC?

 

[Barbarian]

They will keep supporting the game and likely do dlc.

Helmets and new regions are confirmed.

 

[vitellus]

Helmets

how did i not notice this?

how the fuck did they make a game with combat and not include helmets?

 

[Barbarian]

Helmets

how did i not notice this?

how the fuck did they make a game with combat and not include helmets?

The great "heroes don't wear helmets" trope got to them.

As in every medieval movie or tv set in medieval times both historical and fictional of the last 20 years.

 

[Alpharius]

Btw noticed there is a bunch of path skills with "coming soon" description. Seems like the game is not quite finished yet?

 

[Alienman]

1.0 is just another step on the Early Access ladder nowadays.

 

[Reinhardt]

1.0 is just another step on the Early Access ladder nowadays.

somewhere between tech demo and alpha

 

[Shrimp]

Btw noticed there is a bunch of path skills with "coming soon" description. Seems like the game is not quite finished yet?

I noticed this too. I was also curious about what was up with some of those green toast messages you some times get saying you have unlocked a title (which can't be seen anywhere) and it turned out to be a leftover from the previous iteration of the path system that for some reason didn't get taken out when they switched to the current Path system.
The game does have a bit of an unfinished feel to it at times. The general framework is there but it could definitely have used some more time before its 1.0 launch.

I wonder if the launch date had been decided ahead of time and they were forced to release it prematurely? I remember they originally were going for a 2022 release but that obviously ended up not being the case.

 

[ArchAngel]

Btw noticed there is a bunch of path skills with "coming soon" description. Seems like the game is not quite finished yet?

I noticed this too. I was also curious about what was up with some of those green toast messages you some times get saying you have unlocked a title (which can't be seen anywhere) and it turned out to be a leftover from the previous iteration of the path system that for some reason didn't get taken out when they switched to the current Path system.
The game does have a bit of an unfinished feel to it at times. The general framework is there but it could definitely have used some more time before its 1.0 launch.

I wonder if the launch date had been decided ahead of time and they were forced to release it prematurely? I remember they originally were going for a 2022 release but that obviously ended up not being the case.

I was wondering what that means. Interesting. So this 1.0 is actually 0.98 or something :D

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Helmets

how did i not notice this?

how the fuck did they make a game with combat and not include helmets?

Helmets are more expensive than the average recruit.

 

[lukaszek]

so... takeway is that now is not the right time to play it?

 

[ArchAngel]

so... takeway is that now is not the right time to play it?

Depends on how much you want to play it. If you do not mind waiting more and you got other games to play you can skip it for now.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

Really no point in fielding anything but Brutes. The 50% damage bonus from maces vs armor is OP, nothing else comes close. Sword and axe guys take 3x as many turns to kill anything. If you make a balanced team you're gimping yourself for no benefit. Maybe toss in an archer and ranger or two for dex-bonus jobs but that's it.

 

[Shaki]

Really no point in fielding anything but Brutes. The 50% damage bonus from maces vs armor is OP, nothing else comes close. Sword and axe guys take 3x as many turns to kill anything. If you make a balanced team you're gimping yourself for no benefit. Maybe toss in an archer and ranger or two for dex-bonus jobs but that's it.

Brutes are dogshit, the actual broken comp is to field nothing but axe dudes. Once you get the +100% (150% with mastery) damage on the first attack skill, you end every fight on the first turn. I actually had to stop playing more than one axemen because they made the game too trivial.

 

[Alienman]

Really no point in fielding anything but Brutes. The 50% damage bonus from maces vs armor is OP, nothing else comes close. Sword and axe guys take 3x as many turns to kill anything. If you make a balanced team you're gimping yourself for no benefit. Maybe toss in an archer and ranger or two for dex-bonus jobs but that's it.

For me, throwing those poison bombs seems the way to go. Everything dies in a few turns with poison, does not matter what kind of armor the enemy has.

 

[ArchAngel]

Really no point in fielding anything but Brutes. The 50% damage bonus from maces vs armor is OP, nothing else comes close. Sword and axe guys take 3x as many turns to kill anything. If you make a balanced team you're gimping yourself for no benefit. Maybe toss in an archer and ranger or two for dex-bonus jobs but that's it.

Brutes are dogshit, the actual broken comp is to field nothing but axe dudes. Once you get the +100% (150% with mastery) damage on the first attack skill, you end every fight on the first turn. I actually had to stop playing more than one axemen because they made the game too trivial.

Brutes are OK but yes, axemen is where true power lies. I only got two, one two handed and one axe and shield.

 

[jungl]

Games so generic fantasy there oughta be a collectable vagabonds you find exploring the towns and world that mutter phrases like "these are dark times" "winter is coming" "true sons of skyrim support ulfric". They squat in your camp being useless till you decide to kill them for random troop bonuses that last a day.

 

[ArchAngel]

OK I went to Goseborg area that is a nice challenge because my guys are lvl 6 or 7 while enemies there are 8 to 10. I managed to scrape through most battles until I tried their local Arena lol. This one has a modifier where you cannot kill their guys but they are left at 1 life and once you get all 4 to 1 life round ends as your win. OK, certainly makes the game harder but then on turn 2 they also get ability where they all heal equal to max life of strongest enemy (which has 180 life) at start of each turn... so basically I am supposed to somehow take down 4 of their guys with 4 of mine from full HP to 1 HP in single turn... yea my lvl 6-7 guys cannot do that..

 

[Infinitron]

Released on GOG: https://af.gog.com/game/wartales?as=1649904300

 

[fantadomat]

Hmm still unfinished,but a decent game. Might even spend gibs on it.