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[smaug]

Anyone starting on unfair?

How’s the fight with Hosilla?

Shadenuat

 

[Ehrenmann]

I play on custom with 80% damage reduction and much weaker enemies.

 

[Ontopoly]

Also if you guys are playing on core, I don't think it enables alternative strategies or whatever it's called. I turned it on, has anyone experimented with this option? Curious how much it changes.

I was about to start on Core at first, but seeing that "advanced enemy behavior" is the only difference between Core and Hard, decided to give the latter a go.
That is if after I get past the stupor of choosing between Crusader, Stonelord and Shieldbearer.

Really? Didn't even look at hard because I assumed it would be all multipliers. Surprised. Owlcat improved the difficulty settings significantly if only unfair has the crazy multipliers

 

[The_Mask]

I play on custom with 80% damage reduction and much weaker enemies.

At least put the enemies on ENLARGED, so you get some satisfaction. If not for the extra exp.

 

[Shadenuat]

Anyone starting on unfair?

How’s the fight with Hosilla?

Shadenuat

I played beta only on Unfair.

Hosilla was one of the biggest gatekeepers if you were a caster and not stronk damager.
And when I played, there was no cutscene skipping.

 

[Desiderius]

Fuck those random battle encounters on the map. They happen every two seconds. All you need is the "You've been waylaid by enemies and must defend yourself." line from BG2 to complete the insanity.

if they didnt fix this crap it's a big minus, was terrible in beta too.

Stealth lets you Evade.

 

[Parabalus]

Lol, 24 hours after release and 1 in 200 have beat the Elemental in the Prologue on Core or above.

This might game might finally provide an achievement to supplant 'beating POE on Expert' as my rarest one.

Very likely your first encounter with it ends with it one-shoting your entire party.

 

[Desiderius]

Anyone starting on unfair?

How’s the fight with Hosilla?

Shadenuat

I played beta only on Unfair.

Hosilla was one of the biggest gatekeepers if you were a caster and not stronk damager.
And when I played, there was no cutscene skipping.

Should be able to Grease her I think.

 

[Desiderius]

Zboj Lamignat I'm giving you shit because if you play this game at the average level that people played BG you'll have a lot more fun.

Doesn't take crazy builds or autism or dumping stats or obscure combos. Just takes reading your spellbook and using your abilities.

It's not intended to be faceroll. Embrace it.

 

[Fedora Master]

I guess I'm ahead of the curve since nobody seems to be talking about this garbage. It's the same bullshit like in Kingmaker House fights.

No way to deal with this with my current party. No way to prgoress.

E: And just like that I beat the fight after a dozen tries. Doesn't feel like an accomplishment though.

 

[jackofshadows]

That won't be set as Core then. Any changes and it goes to 'Custom'. Which makes sense as of course you'll be at a higher level earlier with only active members XP. Will probably disable achievements based around Core and above, which could be why the % is so low.

No, I get that. Still. Lots of people care about achievements (not me though). Guess that's what a popular game's statistics should look like. I mean, core doesn't look like something special on paper, all the butsex should start higher with all the additional shit. Although what do I know.

Also if you guys are playing on core, I don't think it enables alternative strategies or whatever it's called. I turned it on, has anyone experimented with this option? Curious how much it changes.

Nope, since hard. And yeah, I will need respec anyway.

As for lich questions, I can awnser till the begining of chapter 4. Can't say much more about lichdoom. Cuz I'm on chapter 3 now and only played beta till the beginning of ch 4.

Thanks in advance but I'm at the very beginning for now, interrupting a lot.

No way to deal with this with my current party. No way to prgoress.

Not because of the difficulty but because of mechanics themselves you mean?

 

[smaug]

I guess I'm ahead of the curve since nobody seems to be talking about this garbage. It's the same bullshit like in Kingmaker House fights.

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No way to deal with this with my current party. No way to prgoress.

I don’t remember that being too difficult in the alpha, probably changed the fight though.

 

[Alienman]

I miss when you are inspecting creatures and there is no lore info like it was in Kingmaker. Don't understand why they removed that since now we have all kind of weird and interesting demons.

Should be there? Do you have Inspect turned on?

Yeah, with Y. There is stat info, but no lore stuff.

Like this monster like to eat children in the dark etc etc.

 

[Shadenuat]

Should be able to Grease her I think.

Not every char wants to be pro greasemancer. It's still a casino. And it's not really her who is problematic but 2 happy funny flying bros.

 

[Cyberarmy]

No way to deal with this with my current party. No way to prgoress.

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If you spare Huldrun his inquistors join that fight, if you didnt hurl some fireballs or other aoe spells inside. Grease and pit spells also work wonders.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Are cavaliers playable or bugged?

There are some minor annoyances with mounted combat. Mounts change their target and mess up full attacks or losing attacks with pounce

Does that mean that Vulpine Pounce and mounts don't mix?

Or that it usually works, except when it doesn't.

Didn't have vulpine pounce but pounce from greater animal totem works with mount pounce. Few enemies survived that alpha attack.

 

[Ehrenmann]

I play on custom with 80% damage reduction and much weaker enemies.

At least put the enemies on ENLARGED, so you get some satisfaction. If not for the extra exp.

Didn't think of the extra xp. Good idea, thank you kind sir.

 

[Delterius]

tl;dr: popamole garbage for people who unironically think baldurs gayte is a good game

brb uninstalling

 

[Parabalus]

Are cavaliers playable or bugged?

There are some minor annoyances with mounted combat. Mounts change their target and mess up full attacks or losing attacks with pounce

Does that mean that Vulpine Pounce and mounts don't mix?

Or that it usually works, except when it doesn't.

Didn't have vulpine pounce but pounce from greater animal totem works with mount pounce. Few enemies survived that alpha attack.

What do you mean works with mount pounce, aren't they independent? Rider attacks and mount attacks.

 

[Lodis]

Don't know if it's just me but I'm having trouble with those crusader battles. You get some shitty starter units and the game throws gargoyles and other enemies with high damage reduction meaning you have fuck all way of damaging them. The battle before you move into Drezen is especially bullshit and I'm not sure how they expect you to win against that. I feel like I'm missing something because I didn't have this much trouble when I played the beta.

 

[Reinhardt]

Btw question about itemization - is there any weapons with unusual crit profiles compared to other pieces in their class?

 

[Shadenuat]

Waves Mystery or Winter Witch FTW.

favourable magic

 

[Fedora Master]

I guess I'm ahead of the curve since nobody seems to be talking about this garbage. It's the same bullshit like in Kingmaker House fights.

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No way to deal with this with my current party. No way to prgoress.

I don’t remember that being too difficult in the alpha, probably changed the fight though.

Problem was that the boss can summon swarms, and these fucks are way more deadly than before. I eventually did it by spamming spike pit but the fight was still more decided by RNG than anything else.

e: See, everything AFTER that fight was considerably easier.

 

[CodexTotalWar]

So I grabbed Intimidating Display for Camellia (basically gives her the Dazzling Display feat), and that was working fine for a level. But on the next level up, the feat seemed to have disappeared? I.e. I can't even find the ability to access it anymore. Not on the hotbar or the expanded abilities bar on top.

Any vets can help me know if this is a known bug, or did I fuck something up?

 

[AwesomeButton]

Why is everyone either black, lesbian or a woman?

Because this thing was hired by Owlcat Paizo as a writer (and paid with my backer money to boot):

Did anyone manage to kill the

Spoiler

water elemental in the side room in the maze

when they were at lvl 2-3? It was beyond me on Core.

Spoiler

I don’t know if it’s possible unless your main is a melee guy. I am a Cavalier so I charged it enlarged with a great sword and manage to crit twice. As a mage I’m not sure.

Let Seelah take the hits ,reduce her, barkskin her and etc. Cam should be buffing party and demorilzing it. There are lots of scrolls and potions in the Maze, save them for that fight.

Lol, 24 hours after release and 1 in 200 have beat the Elemental in the Prologue on Core or above.

This might game might finally provide an achievement to supplant 'beating POE on Expert' as my rarest one.

I beat this fight on my second attempt, because then I actually prebuffed. :D You have Bless, Prayer at your disposal, at least two Enlarge person potions as well. I was using the Nigress-paladin and Spiderella as tank/twohander respectively (there is a masterwork 2-hand sword you can find somewhere in the maze, I forget where). Then Camelia was behind them with the wand of Cure lesser wounds to keep them up in case they got hit. If the elemental gets lucky it can one-shot your fighters who have about 22 HP. My main character, a wizard, was mostly busy with trying to cast Prayer through the Use Magic Device skill and failing miserably. He pretty much didn't take part in the fight. Unfortunatley I didn't get the achievement - I wasn't playing on Core but on Custom, because I wasn't feeling the "Number of enemies: Enlarged" setting. Not that it would make any difference for this fight.

Don't forget that Camelia can debuff enemies' saving throws, AC, or to-hit dice, with her Evil Eye ability. It's pretty good, because even on a successful save, the debuff is applied for one round, so there is no reason not to debuff every chance you get.