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So I made it around 5 hours into the pre-release.
Jyiiga
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A little background first. I've many many RPG title. Including, but certainly not limited to Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights and more recently Pillars of Eternity. In addition to that, I play Pathfinder regularly and I recently started my first ever 5E campaign. So going into the things, I certainly had expectations that the game would be along those lines.
Here are the things that bugged me.
1. Character creation. This was missing multiple races that are available to any new 5E player. The creation system was missing chunks of the 5E system. For example I created a Cleric first and noticed that I did not have a domain available to me. I later discovered that many of the domain specific spells were just mixed in with the games skill system. There was no cantrips (level 0 spells) available during creation. There were also no skill selection during creation.
2. Skill system. I found all those Cleric domain specific spells as soon as I got into the game (you know the ones missing during creation). All mixed together in an MMO style skill system that the game uses. As a 5E player this was a bit immersion killer for me. Since you could just mash together things like Nature and War or Life and War. There is no spell per day/rest system and instead all of the skills are available in nearly every fight. With cooldowns ranging from a few seconds to 240s. My heals were available in each and every fight, often being able to cast them multiple times and cheese my way through encounters by kiting around the AI while my heal recharged on the fly.
3.Playing with others. As long as I was playing the game with someone I knew (rl friend) it had some entertainment value. We could talk using the in game voice system and progress at fun and reasonable pace. Sadly this all went out the window the moment I joined a public game. Immediately the game became a Diablo styled race for loot. First person to reach that dead body or run over to a chest, was who got the loot. There is no roll system or priority system, first come, first served. Which often leads to players taking stupid risks in order to be the first grabby little person there.
4. Playing with others (again). Yep here it is again. I can not say enough about this. Play this game ONLY with people you know or be prepared for some Diablo (1) style problems. There is no anti-cheat system, the game trusts the client for everything. I've seen players with 999 in all stats. This force players (DMs) to have to police such things.
5. Lack of social skills. I did not see any crafting skills and I did not see anything along the lines of intimidate, persuasion or bluff. Maybe creative module creators can give these back to us in the form of interesting dialouge options with NPC characters, but as of now I had no NPC interaction that resulted in anything but, listen to what I have to say and then go on my quest. Was I missing it? Did I not get far enough?
As of now I had Steam refund my deluxe version. Perhaps I will pick up the cheaper version, but I do not feel that this is a worthy of a $60 purchase at this time.
Here are the things that bugged me.
1. Character creation. This was missing multiple races that are available to any new 5E player. The creation system was missing chunks of the 5E system. For example I created a Cleric first and noticed that I did not have a domain available to me. I later discovered that many of the domain specific spells were just mixed in with the games skill system. There was no cantrips (level 0 spells) available during creation. There were also no skill selection during creation.
2. Skill system. I found all those Cleric domain specific spells as soon as I got into the game (you know the ones missing during creation). All mixed together in an MMO style skill system that the game uses. As a 5E player this was a bit immersion killer for me. Since you could just mash together things like Nature and War or Life and War. There is no spell per day/rest system and instead all of the skills are available in nearly every fight. With cooldowns ranging from a few seconds to 240s. My heals were available in each and every fight, often being able to cast them multiple times and cheese my way through encounters by kiting around the AI while my heal recharged on the fly.
3.Playing with others. As long as I was playing the game with someone I knew (rl friend) it had some entertainment value. We could talk using the in game voice system and progress at fun and reasonable pace. Sadly this all went out the window the moment I joined a public game. Immediately the game became a Diablo styled race for loot. First person to reach that dead body or run over to a chest, was who got the loot. There is no roll system or priority system, first come, first served. Which often leads to players taking stupid risks in order to be the first grabby little person there.
4. Playing with others (again). Yep here it is again. I can not say enough about this. Play this game ONLY with people you know or be prepared for some Diablo (1) style problems. There is no anti-cheat system, the game trusts the client for everything. I've seen players with 999 in all stats. This force players (DMs) to have to police such things.
5. Lack of social skills. I did not see any crafting skills and I did not see anything along the lines of intimidate, persuasion or bluff. Maybe creative module creators can give these back to us in the form of interesting dialouge options with NPC characters, but as of now I had no NPC interaction that resulted in anything but, listen to what I have to say and then go on my quest. Was I missing it? Did I not get far enough?
As of now I had Steam refund my deluxe version. Perhaps I will pick up the cheaper version, but I do not feel that this is a worthy of a $60 purchase at this time.
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Let me ask, in PnP D&D, when your Cleric uses his spells, does your DM make you wait 24 hours of real time before you can use them again?
Of course the DM doesn't, they advance the time; roll an random encounter roll; and then they tell you... "You woke up the next morning, and your spells have replenished." That all took a few moments, and yet the gripe that your spells in a PC game have a cool down that is too short is plain and simply silly talk.
Honestly, there is not a single point you made I agree with. You do understand that there is some loss in the translation going from PnP to PC game, don;t you?
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Well typically there would be certain locations that are ideal for resting. You could easily have rest zones or safe locations in dungeons. Granted that's a pipe dream with this releasing in a few weeks.
Here is how resting in Neverwinter Nights works.
Resting allows a character to regain lost hit points and replenish spell slots. Any creatures summoned by that character will be unsummoned, and any lingering spell effects cast by that character will dissipate upon the beginning of a rest. A completed rest cycle also removes magical and extraordinary effects on the rested character. Supernatural effects, including most poisons and diseases (but not necessarily the damage caused by these) are not removed by resting. In addition, resting will cause a disease to progress, forcing the resting character to make a saving throw to attempt to resist the disease.
Resting for monsters is instantaneous. Resting for player characters takes ten seconds, plus half a second per character level. This is defined in restduration.2da as follows.
Resting can only be started in areas that permit resting, and only if there are no hostile creatures within a certain distance (even if there is no access from the creature to the character attempting to rest). Some modules (including the Shadows of Undrentide campaign) will allow resting in some areas only if a character is in a certain part of the area, possibly requiring that all doors to the room be closed first.
Resting can be interrupted (by player action or monster attack). If this occurs, only partial benefits of rest are obtained. Hit points are restored gradually (linearly) over the rest period, while spell slots are restored at irregular intervals, starting with level 0. The slots for the highest spell level a character can cast are only restored if the rest cycle completes. Some modules (including the Hordes of the Underdark campaign) provide the possibility of rest being interrupted by "wandering" (technically spawned) monsters.
Resting restrictions are somewhat common in some modules, particularly persistent worlds. These restrictions often include a limit on how often a character can rest, and sometimes a limit on how many hit points are restored. (Technically, full hit points are restored, followed by the character being damaged to remove the points in excess of what the world allows per rest cycle.) In addition, special items, such as rations, firewood, or a bedroll, may be required in order to rest.
You never just rest anywhere in a tabletop session and you couldn't just rest anywhere in Neverwinter Nights. In tabletop resting in a hostile area could result in a random encounter or ambush. You would have to designate a guard for the night (someone that does not rest) or you would take turns resting. Yet even then it you failed a perception check you could still end up with an encounter.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Thankfully the D&D license is not required to make titles such as these and I am extra thankful for Pillars of Eternity and the huge hit it has been. It fills the void nicely.
No social skills? No crafting skills? What about item creation feats, any of those?
Honestly, it just doesn't sound very good. I understand that systems have to be adapted, but it sounds like they were dumbed down as well. If I want simple mechanics I'll play an ARPG. If I want something deeper, I turn to games like Baldur's Gate and Pillars of Eternity.
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For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
lol @ sword coast legends still being far worse then neverwinter nights in 2015
lol @ developers assuming people will play nice online
Most that have played and modded NWN have said that the DM tools in SCL are far superior. I'll have to take their word for it.
The developers expect that players will find other players that do play nice, and have a system integrated with your Steam Friends List to facilitate that. This is something that hasn't been mentioned anywhere by the developer, and it is a big plus.
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Those reminded me of this logo:
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I buy all my games through Green Man Gaming, always with at least a 20% off coupon (sometimes more).
It's foolish to buy them anywhere else and pay full price.
Let's hope they can make some tweaks to get this game shaped up right.
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1.) Choose from pre-created "scenes". Forest A, B, C, etc. City Street A, B. Etc, etc.
2.) Your quests MUST follow one of the four following categories: Kill a boss. Collect a certain item type. Kill a certain enemy type. And of course Custom. Custom basically allowing you to put a quest on an NPC OUTSIDE OF A DUNGEON. The three types listed before that are REQUIRED to be dungeon quests. You can't use them in a "scene". You have to generate a dungeon first and apply them to that area only. Custom quests can unlock new scenes, or have you do more or less the same things minus a true boss kill in the "scene" areas. More importantly if you set a quest to an area then "visit" the area to check it out, you'll have to remake the whole scene again because you can't edit the thing after the fact.
3.) You can generate random dungeons. There is no tile by tile creation. You can create a number of floors for the dungeon choosing "enemy sets" that appear randomly in the dungeon, the size of the dungeon and the layout. The layout being generic terms like: "Simple, Complex". Totally random.
4.) You can edit the color schemes of creatures. Most monsters CANNOT be equipped with new armor or weapons. Some creatures can be equipped with weapons but most cannot. You can't really edit the stats of creatures. You can spend a few of the stats in point buy but you have to change them up from what they already have.
5.) You cannot create your own items. Loot is 100% random. That boss your players just spent two hours running through your 8 level dungeon and 5 scene module with 15 quests? He just dropped a white great sword. Congrats.