KickStarter Knights of the Chalice 2 Thread - Augury of Chaos

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

50 bucks, lol..don't care, auto buy

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

I kinda expected Pierre to make a bad decision by overpricing the game, but... 40 bucks?

He really doesn't know how to sell his game, does he?

where is it $40? It is $45 on steam in US

 

[Dickie]

where is it $40? It is $45 on steam in US

Yeah, it's even $45 on his own site.

https://www.heroicfantasygames.com/FWE/Pages/FWE_Download.htm

 

[Serus]

Not sure why everyone has that hard-on for clerics. To me clerics in DND always feel like necessary deadweight because you need to have a healbot, but they are hardly useful for anything else - my two successful parties had druid and psychic healer to assume that role and I didn't regret a thang, because both felt just so much more useful to me.

Depends on the game and edition i suppose. They seem to be better in 3.x. (or Pathfinder) than earlier. Don't know about 5th ed. And the fact that Druid might be great != cleric is a deadweight.

where is it $40? It is $45 on steam in US

Yeah, it's even $45 on his own site.

https://www.heroicfantasygames.com/FWE/Pages/FWE_Download.htm

For me, a Potato, it is 161.99zł (both GoG and Steam) which translates to 40$ not 45$. Dollar being 4 something zł iirc.

 

[Serus]

Will GoG be very late with patches and updates compared to Steam? I suppose it depends on Pierre to some extent.
I'm not sure where to buy. If the game isn't very new i buy where the price is to my liking earlier. Here i'm not decided.

 

[Sacibengala]

Will GoG be very late with patches and updates compared to Steam? I suppose it depends on Pierre to some extent.
I'm not sure where to buy. If the game isn't very new i buy where the price is to my liking earlier. Here i'm not decided.

I buy on GOG singleplayer games and multiplayer focused and heavy mod focused on steam. The GOG galaxy is atrocious, so if you get anything dependant from that, go for steam.

 

[Infinitron]

Hmm, I'm a backer but I never actually got a key for this. Anybody else in the same situation?

 

[AdolfSatan]

Did you back for the steam version, or just the hosted download on his site? Those were two different tiers altogether.
In any case, just email Pierre, he answers rather quickly and is always willing to solve any issue.

Serus buy directly from him. You get the latest update before distributors and he gets more money for roots.

 

[Infinitron]

Did you back for the steam version, or just the hosted download on his site? Those were two different tiers altogether.

This one:

Diamond Knight

Golden Knight Tier + DIGITAL DOWNLOAD OF HEART OF EVIL, including another special Kickstarter-only in-game item.

INCLUDES:

• Steam Key for KotC 2 Heart of Evil
• Game + Three Adventure Modules
• Four Kickstarter-only in-game items

 

[Serus]

Will GoG be very late with patches and updates compared to Steam? I suppose it depends on Pierre to some extent.
I'm not sure where to buy. If the game isn't very new i buy where the price is to my liking earlier. Here i'm not decided.

I buy on GOG singleplayer games and multiplayer focused and heavy mod focused on steam. The GOG galaxy is atrocious, so if you get anything dependant from that, go for steam.

I don't use Galaxy. I don't use GOG to get another download client - or whatever it want to call itself. The only multiplayer games i play these days are boardgames and card(-ish) games, real life > virtual life when real people are in question. I haven't found a game where i wanted any steam exclusive mods.
In this case it's just the question of patches - will GOG be very late on those?

Did you back for the steam version, or just the hosted download on his site? Those were two different tiers altogether.
In any case, just email Pierre, he answers rather quickly and is always willing to solve any issue.

Serus buy directly from him. You get the latest update before distributors and he gets more money for roots.

That's an interesting advice. The issue is - it is 45$ there and as i wrote before it's 40$ on steam/gog for potatoes. But thanks for advice.

Spoiler

Edit: Bought on GoG, the game isn't bugged that much nowadays - if i understand correctly.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

Cool price.

Cooler money laundering operation.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

 

[Serus]

Cool price.

Cooler money laundering operation.

Lol. It is a very high price for an indie like this for sure. He priced it like it was a wargame and he was Matrix Games. But it isn't and he isn't. He very probably will lose a lot of profits unless the game will become big on steam among indies.... who am i kidding.
I don't care, the man offers something that few other do - with quality. Not to mention the extensive modules possibilities. Also i can't stand a Frenchman in need who must resort to eating roots. We Potatoes have some weakness towards frog eaters. Or, in this case, root eaters. Or used to.

 

[serch]

Hmm, I'm a backer but I never actually got a key for this. Anybody else in the same situation?

Me neither. We'll get it next friday baguette style

 

[Cryomancer]

Buy it in Argentine peso or in Russian ruble if you are too poor.

 

[CRD]

I wasn't expecting that price but, well, it's friday and I don't have plans, cheers to you, here goes a sale.

but it's true the price is not the standard for what you can find usually, on other spaniard forum that I follow there's 2 people on the thread of rpgs that were waiting for it and they are going to pass.

which steam region and server? I have a 10gb fiber connection and fucking steam never goes beyond 800/1000

The teeny tiny window is driving me crazy. Didn't someone have a resolution adjuster for this thing?

latest gpu's have lossless scaling, so you may want to put the game using them at lower resolution,

If you can't, you have some software for those games also like

https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling/
or
https://tanalin.com/en/projects/integer-scaler/

it's not ideal, but can save your ass sometimes.

 

[plem]

As part of this week's anticipation for the Knights of the Chalice 2 release, I uploaded one more video from the Hearkenwold adventure module.

Here is an encounter in the Dwarven Halls:

how does one get the game to look like this? I've only figured out how to switch between tokens and default sprites, even in the Haerkenwold module

EDIT: ah, I figured it out, you're just picking custom sprites instead of using the auto-create

 

[Dickie]

which steam region and server?

US-Houston. I didn't even think it was fast. Most people I know have fiber and rib me about my slow ass internet and Europeans always make fun of American internet for being so slow.

I was just happy it was finally downloading after being in my library as "coming soon" for so long.

 

[JarlFrank]

I kinda expected Pierre to make a bad decision by overpricing the game, but... 40 bucks?

He really doesn't know how to sell his game, does he?

where is it $40? It is $45 on steam in US

39,99€

 

[Waterd]

Lool in my country after conversion is 2.40 dollars LOL, I was gonna pay whatever, but i take it for the 2 dollars and 40 cents.

 

[Sacibengala]

Lool in my country after conversion is 2.40 dollars LOL, I was gonna pay whatever, but i take it for the 2 dollars and 40 cents.

I'm accepting gifts, daddy. lol

 

[Replicante]

I see that there are a considerable number of options to tweak regarding UI, display, quality of life, etc. Any particular options that you advise to check or uncheck (first time playing the game)

 

[Reinhardt]

I see that there are a considerable number of options to tweak regarding UI, display, quality of life, etc. Any particular options that you advise to check or uncheck (first time playing the game)

disable rtwp

 

[dacencora]

I'd be shocked if the game had any issues under wine/proton. The only games that seem to do these days are the ones with complex external anti-cheat systems.

Bit late to the party but I tested KOTC2 on Linux pretty extensively back in the early 1.0* days of it and it did not work at all. KOTC 1 works pretty well in Wine (I think it had music issues, probably something to do with MIDI emulation). KOTC2 used to crash on loading the module with Wine. I haven’t tried the latest versions of KOTC2, nor have I tried it with newer versions of proton/wine so maybe it’s different but I wouldn’t be optimistic about it tbh. Pass-through or VM would be a better option, especially for a game as bug-prone as this one was at the beginning.

(I tested it on Slackware, Gentoo, Debian, and Ubuntu, they all had the exact same results unfortunately)

 

[Tacgnol]

I'd be shocked if the game had any issues under wine/proton. The only games that seem to do these days are the ones with complex external anti-cheat systems.

Bit late to the party but I tested KOTC2 on Linux pretty extensively back in the early 1.0* days of it and it did not work at all. KOTC 1 works pretty well in Wine (I think it had music issues, probably something to do with MIDI emulation). KOTC2 used to crash on loading the module with Wine. I haven’t tried the latest versions of KOTC2, nor have I tried it with newer versions of proton/wine so maybe it’s different but I wouldn’t be optimistic about it tbh. Pass-through or VM would be a better option, especially for a game as bug-prone as this one was at the beginning.

I can't speak to linux compat, but the game was pretty bug free when I played in summer 2021 (about a year after the initial release). The original summer 2020 release was very buggy by comparison.