One more question, do you get more feats later on? I didn't take those to start, but figured you'd acquire more feats.
Oh... what's the difference between henchmen and companies?
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One more question, do you get more feats later on? I didn't take those to start, but figured you'd acquire more feats.
Oh... what's the difference between henchmen and companies?
I'd go so far as to say "fuck yeah!"
there are two pieces of star stone you find in the town. one in the healers house and one in the inn's murder room. first stone you find unlocks the homestead, seocnd stone unlocks the "hall of heroes" where you find an NPC who you can hire henchmen from.
The game's combat encounters are balanced around you having a party of four, your two main characters plus two companions/henchmen.
If you choose to ignore hiring extra members of your party AND don't take the Lone Wolf perks which you're refering to, the game will be much more challenging (and far less forgiving towards your character creation choices).
If you choose to ignore hiring extra members of your party BUT you do take the Lone Wolf perks which you're refering to, the game will be more challenging (and less forgiving towards your character creation choices).
Then there's summons.
Then obviously there's a middle ground if you only give Lone Wolf to one of your main characters.
Then you can fiddle around with actual dificulty settings!
You can carry barrels? This changes everything!
You get one every two levels if it hasn't changed. Companions have dialogue/quest lines and react to your decisions and personality. Henchmen/hirelings are basically quiet mercenaries. I personally am more interested in those because I quite enjoy the interplay between the dual protagonists(especially in coop) and don't need additional narrative obscuring that.
Bear with it until you can hire henchmens in the first city.
If you don't have enough money to hire them, just rob all the city.
Medora and the mage (the companions) have kinda the same personality = burn all the demons!
So for the moment, there is no Baldur's gate 2 feeling dialog with companions at least for me.
The dev plan to add more companions in the futur, though.
A crazy cat mage would not be too far out for Larian.
If it's not nailed down, chances are you can drag it into your inventory, theoretically.
My witch always has around five candles in his pockets. Who needs to put a point in Fire Magic to allow igniting oil? Pfft. Not he!
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Perfect. Thank you.
Yeah, fixing the voices is a HUGE upgrade.
Yeeeeeeee
Finn of Ooo
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Do spells requiring you to be in melee range also take an armor penalty?
Like vampiric touch for example.
Like vampiric touch for example.
You can move a stack of three barrels a very short distance using one point of telekinesis. If you move the stack as close to an enemy as possible they will take damage based on the weight of the barrels. You can use this to two-shot the lighthouse boss or the very large level 7 orc boss for 4 AP.
I linked a one minute twitch recording of me smashing the lighthouse boss like this earlier in the thread. Not sure if it's an intended mechanic but a level 4 doing 180 damage for 2 AP is... interesting.
lol you guys... the banter never bothered me, and often it indicates a side quest available.. so I kind of use it like a homing beacon to find the side quest-giver
Let's see... halibut... sheep's cheese... tomatoes.
Exactly! Most important thing tbh lol
Toemay O's*
Spehornoob
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Glad to hear this is doing well. I hope, if it continues to do well, Larian keeps making games with this scope rather than trying their hand and press-a-to-awesome, AAA development. I love this type of game.
ItAintEasy
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loganclaws
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So guys, is the game good? I enjoy games like fallout 2,Gothic, divine Divinity and xcom, but I'm worried that this game doesn't seem to have a good story.
I'm not in a position to test it myself but if you are (or anyone else is), you can use offensive abilities on party members with CTRL. Should be a quick experiment just comparing numbers between armour on and armour off.
I'd be very surprised if armour was factored in though. I imagine it's just Intelligence versus Bodybuilding factoring into the saving throw.
the story is quite good and my friend who is way farther than me says it goes crazy and awesome
publicpwnerer
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You genuinely get stronger as you level...it's very satisfying. I just hope the second+ towns aren't as frustrating as Cyseal initially.
Anyone familiar with the talent "Picture of Health". It adds 5% HP X your Man At Arms level. Does that apply to future levels too?
Anyone familiar with the talent "Picture of Health". It adds 5% HP X your Man At Arms level. Does that apply to future levels too?
it applies to future levels,yes
FinalHeaven
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I have one friend who insists the game is terrible. But almost everything I read and a bunch of my other friends say it's really fun. I didn't follow the development much but I think I've settled on getting it. Just sort of trying to decide if it's worth the $40 price tag.
I realize I probably should have just snagged it during the summer sale :/
I realize I probably should have just snagged it during the summer sale :/
helloresolven
Member
You have a terrible friend.
No accounting for taste... but this game is legitimately amazing.
I'm guessing your friend hasn't played it or just doesn't like CRPGs in general.
Your friend is a cynical blowhard.
FinalHeaven
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Well then, I guess that pretty much solidifies that I should probably go ahead and purchase it. $40 isn't bad at all if it really is that good.
Spehornoob
Member
It's really old school when it comes to design. You've gotta think, read your journal, and the game isn't all about combat. I can see a lot of people being turned off by it, so your friend may have his reasons for holding that opinion.
But, if it's your thing, it's damn good.
Terra_Ex
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I have a friend who thinks Dragon Age 2 is better than BG2, you can imagine how much stock I put in his opinion regards rpgs.
Original Sin really is as good as people are saying, buy it.
SaiyanRaoh
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Okay, I might be the only one not playing. I can't get more than 10 fps on this thing no matter what graphic setting or resolution I use. It makes no difference. I've updated the game to the most current version, I have the most current non beta Nvidia drivers with no improvement. I've uninstalled and reinstalled repeatedly.
I have an i7 4770k
Gtx 660ti
Gtx 560ti (Physx)
8gb memory
Any ideas?
I have an i7 4770k
Gtx 660ti
Gtx 560ti (Physx)
8gb memory
Any ideas?
Yes and also chests you don't have keys for yet. I do like to use my very strong character as a water carrier and pre-battle trap builder extraordinaire
Spehornoob
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Try turning off shadows. It made the game playable for me.
So you can take lone wolf for one of your characters and still use henchmen etc?
Anyone have issues with Fake fullscreen or window mode with screen tearing? Game runs like butter 60fps with everything to the max but that shit is tearing up the place when I'm not in fullscreen mode. I have D3DOverrider on, though I haven't turned it off to see if that would somehow help. Messing with the ingame settings for Vsync, frame limit and what not haven't done anything, haven't messed with any other settings though like AA or shadows.
Never had an issue with screen tearing during the beta though. Played some dozen or more hours and it was always tear free.
Never had an issue with screen tearing during the beta though. Played some dozen or more hours and it was always tear free.
The way companions/henchmen work is they are paired to the main characters -- Roderick can hire one, Scarlett can hire one. So a party of four. If, say, Roderick takes Lone Wolf but Scarlett does not, then Roderick loses his extra party member allocation, but Scarlett retains hers. So a party of three.
SaiyanRaoh
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Shadows were the first thing I disabled. I have the game on the lowest settings possible and Even 800x600 res. Makes no difference. 10...maybe 15 fps.
Sir Garbageman
Member
Still no AI personalities...blerg :/
I'm glad to see they are fixing stuff quickly !
That sheep cheese girl was driving me crazy lol
What I like about thecombat in this game is I have not encounter a single combat where we just blindly move the char and kill stuff .
you need to analyze terrain scout ahead and make strategy because the freaking AI is pretty challenging and use terrain to their advantage .
We managed to win against a party of 8 undead yesterday felt so good when we won
That sheep cheese girl was driving me crazy lol
What I like about thecombat in this game is I have not encounter a single combat where we just blindly move the char and kill stuff .
you need to analyze terrain scout ahead and make strategy because the freaking AI is pretty challenging and use terrain to their advantage .
We managed to win against a party of 8 undead yesterday felt so good when we won
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Thats what i did. Lone wolf for my "main" character, so now i have a party of 3 (max)