I've seen them drink them repeatedly, but the AI is iffy at times.
No shit. But there is a very predictable, boring sentiment that pervades every thread on this game. That is, separating meta knowledge from first time player knowledge. There are at least 10 character backgrounds that can severely gimp the beginning of the game. It adds artificial difficulty that you or I would see having played the game, but any other player may not quite get it. "Hur, you can't create a bad build because people who never played the game before would know to spam harm if they didn't go melee!" That kind of idiocy more or less runs rampant in these threads.sup, Avellone
if you make a character without melee, maybe fighting in melee combat is a bad idea...
What part of "zero melee skill" was hard for you to understand the first time?
So what? You get a different experience. You either roll with it or start a new game.
lol, maybe they should level up before trying to cross country at level 1 then. There's a whole town to level up in. And yeah, leveling up is something you have to do in RPGs. Go figure.
I never quoted that part of your post, smart guy.
And that certainly wouldn't be the guy who implied everyone here who disagreed with him was practicing "idiocy" and then can't fathom why he's suddenly a subject of critique, now would it?Someone appears to want to make an argument of this.
yeah, yeah. wuss out then. I've said what I had to say anyway.
This is incorrect in that there was no implication that anyone who disagrees with me is an idiot. I said that in almost all Arcanum threads, idiots show up (see Lambchop19 ) and argue that first time players should understand optimal game builds. It's painful in its predictability.And that certainly wouldn't be the guy who implied everyone here who disagreed with him was practicing "idiocy" and then can't fathom why he's suddenly a subject of critique, now would it?
I never said that though. I said that they should understand that zero melee skill means (shockingly) zero melee skill. And that they could see what the consequences of their choices were and choose to reload. Reloading - it isn't a sin or a permanent injury. There is no tutorial. There is you finding out what the world is about and how to play the game live.
So long as you admit it, we won't have a problem. Run along now.
Come on: peace. I mean it. Nothing personal about this. We're still friends.So long as you admit it, we won't have a problem. Run along now.
this game have a manual.No shit. But there is a very predictable, boring sentiment that pervades every thread on this game. That is, separating meta knowledge from first time player knowledge. There are at least 10 character backgrounds that can severely gimp the beginning of the game. It adds artificial difficulty that you or I would see having played the game, but any other player may not quite get it. "Hur, you can't create a bad build because people who never played the game before would know to spam harm if they didn't go melee!" That kind of idiocy more or less runs rampant in these threads.sup, Avellone
if you make a character without melee, maybe fighting in melee combat is a bad idea...
Plan out any build and allocate your initial 5 points and background, but plan on being non-melee. Plan on being a charmer, or a sneak, or a thief, or a bow type fighter. See, that kind of thinking may connect with what I call "rational people." Sure, there aren't any here, but I'm just picturing someone buying this game off of GOG based on rave reviews. They structure their player around sneaking. Now, they can't get past 2nd level, and when traveling between towns, Virgil is killed every time and they can't escape combat.
I finished the game the first time just cranking pure melee, just because I like two handers. But, on a lark I created a non-combat, non-harm character. It was fucking awful but getting out of Shrouded Hills was a breeze with about 3 different ways out.
It's also very easy to get stuck in Shrouded Hills with even a good combat build. That is, when trying to get past the first gate.
Fallout 1 makes almost any build possible, Arcanum, not so much. Dumb to say it's impossible to make a bad build. Its very, very possible.
And you'd have to go to the Glow to get it anyway.
Combat isn't hard though and if you are unable to engage in combat personally, you should heal them yourself instead of wasting your time repeatedly slapping yourself in the face with your staff like an idiot.
Regardless, making a non-combat character is a CHOICE. You've chosen to do it, so either suck it up and roll with it or don't do it.
The top tier black necro spell is like an even more OP harm. You basically only need those two spells and a high magic affinity to win the game.
Doesn't the building on the jetty near the gypsy woman have access to the old sewers?
