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April 3rd? I'll probably still be alive by then!
Called the release date announcement on their forum. Then again, it was fairly obvious why they were closing the backer portal.
I still don't know if I wanna pick up this at launch, GMG currently has a voucher that will bring down the standard edition to $40 and the obsidian edition to $60
On what difficulty the battles are easy,also didn't you say that you skipped some kind of battle because it was too hard? I couldn't understand what the empower system is,wouldn't you mind giving me a few pointers on the matter? I always see the mages as the late game nukes.It's not so simple. It's not only that casters are underpowered, melee are overpowered compared to the content as well, not only compared to casters. If they try to buff casters to the level of the melee, the whole game will be one big snooze-fest. I think the combat is to the point of being good enough if the numbers as tweaked. They definitely won't have enough time to rework the Empower mechanic, which is where most of the problems lie, so melee will still have that over the casters, but it's going to be fine, not great or mind-blowing, but usable for now, they'll have time to tweak stuff more after it's released.
On what difficulty the battles are easy,also didn't you say that you skipped some kind of battle because it was too hard? I couldn't understand what the empower system is,wouldn't you mind giving me a few pointers on the matter? I always see the mages as the late game nukes.
how does the beta run outside of the combat?
Lol that mechanic seems shit and pointless. It seems that its whole purpose is to offset the resting mechanic. Which i find retarded,it makes absolutely no sense to have only few packs of food when you are able to run around with half a ton of junk.On every difficulty, including PotD. I didn't skip fights because they were too hard, I think I was telling Sizzle that I skipped an optional fight because the monster offered me fish instead of trying to fight me. The difficulty relies entirely on what party you have, melee-heavy = boredom town, caster-heavy = some fights are almost impossible. If they buff the casters to the level of melee you'll steamroll everything even on PotD. The Empower mechanic either resets your per-encounter abilities so you can use them again in the same encounter or boosts one of your spells/abilities by +10 power levels (which is wonky). In theory it sounds bad, in practice it kind of works, but only for the casters and that's a problem. Casters are intentionally shitty so you have incentive to use your Empowers and rest, but melee don't have this limitation at all and Empower is barely useful for them, so they have insane steady damage without any drawbacks.
Great news, aside from the ones about the DLCs.
I wanted just one good and big expansion, possibly post-ending or at least accessible from the main menu, instead of content like TWM which, even if it's very good, destroys the balance of the game and force me to reload an old save (which will have overleveled PCs) or start a new game and play for hours before I can even begin the DLC.
They pretty much already said they were going in this direction, but it's still pretty disappointing, considering the survey they did just months ago and how people react to it (aka we want big expansions, not many small DLCs).
I want a fucking MotB, not Honest Hearts, Old World Blues and Lonesome Roads.