biffthestiff
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I keep notes on every game I play in a notes app. It includes some general tips in case I replay a game a few years down the line. I figured I'd paste them here in case a first-time player is reading. This is from my first and only Underrail playthrough a few years ago.
Agree/ disagree?
- Feats are the core of any build. Read them all and plan ahead for them.
- Use the character builder online, at a minimum. Ideally, follow an up-to-date guide. This game is extremely hard unless you minmax/plan, then you're OP. “Veteran” nerds just have all the necessary stats for every tiny thing memorized, which items require which stat, etc, and meet over the length of the game the requirements planned before they even started. This is no way to play.
- Beware of build guides. The retards writing build guides will ignore things like Traps (because they memorized all the traps), Constitution (because they know every fight), dodge/evasion (because they don't get hit in their glass cannon builds). You need decent trap detection, and you need CON for HP, and you need dodge/evasion on light armor builds.
- Follow-up to the above: better to just cheat to make a decent classic RPG character, without being gimped because you put 69 points in some skill instead of 70.
- XP system: go with Classic.
- Oddity: you get XP from visiting places and finding things. Considered by "veterans" more balanced than Classic, since it encourages non-combat builds. However, that's only because those veterans know where the oddities are, and will visit every city to grab them, before going back to the beginning to do quests. This is not how normal people play, there's nothing balanced about it, especially for non-autists.
- Classic: you get XP from killing and doing quests, and a little EXP from oddities too. Lets you hit the level cap much faster if you're a combat build, making the rest of the game easier...but it's still a really hard game.
- Keep multiple manual saves. Quicksave often.
- Dont waste time doing inventory and loot management. Pick up gear you want, ignore the rest, cheat for money when you need to buy new stuff. It all ends up being the same (money is never an issue after the beginning), minus hours wasted on bad item and weight management.
- Firearm pistols are terrible, avoid
- If you decide to use Psi, you have a permanent -25% HP
- Core City: don't accept ANY faction quest until you choose a faction to join. You get locked out of all other factions merely by accepting one.
Agree/ disagree?