[Hour One]

Thanks for all the helpful replies. Most of you have indeed eased my worries about my perceived blemishes.

 

I particularly appreciated vetiver's comments. I will indeed take a long hard look in the mirror...Apart from being devilishly handsome, I've always wanted to be an ebarassment (as opposed to an embarrassment).

 

SO...MUCH...WIN!

[Hour One]

Some good feedback...thanks for the "feet tip" and the grazing mechanic (for both spells and weapons).

 

I guess it's nigh-time for me to delve heavily into the manual...Baldur's Gate style.

[Hour One]

To start, perhaps if you don't want it to autopause when you hit a target, you should turn off the option leading it to do that?

Indeed, yes, this *would* be a good start...except the option to autopause when I hit an enemy is not even an autopause option.

 

I can, for instance:

 

Autopause when an attack against a party member is completed

Autopause when a party member becomes the target of an attack

Autopause when a party member is engaged by an enemy in melee combat

 

None of these options (as far as their descriptions are concerned) is supposed to autopause the game when I hit an enemy.

[Hour One]

So I caved in the other day and bought the Royal Edition of PoE (Power over Ethernet?)

Being one of the World's best players of Baldur's Gate - a claim I can't substantiate - I figured I'd like PoE.

I played for an hour, and so far, it's OK. I was however a little worried about the following little blemishes (maybe you guys can ease my worries):

I rolled a Cipher character, with Blindness and Charm spells (these were real crushers in BG). I set the autopause options from the impressive array of autopause options.

 

The Blemishes Start:

• Wolf sighted (autopaused)
• Send Fighter girl to engage Wolf, start Blindness spell from Cipher > Wolf (unpause)
• Cipher starts moving towards Wolf, Fighter girl does nothing.
• Cipher gets within touching distance of Wolf and starts casting (grrr), Wolf hits Cipher (autopause kicks in about 3 times).
• Some message gets logged that Cipher is interupted, nevertheless Cipher continues the casting animation and casts it (eventually).
• Audio message from Cipher states spell has failed, message log says Wolf is blinded! (WTF)
• Fighter girl is still unmoved. Re-order fighter girl to engage the Wolf. She 'springs' into action.
• Fighter girl hits Wolf for about 0.5 damage with her weapon.
• Fighter girl hits Wolf for about 0.5 damage with her Torch, Audio message from Fighter Girl, "Weapon has no effect" (It clearly has had an effect - about the same as the Sword if I'm honest)
• Cipher hits Wolf with his Prodding-stick for 19 damage! (WTF - Fighter Girl hits for 0.5, Cipher hits for 19?)

Mutiple battles played out in this staccato fashion... i.e.

• Autopause pausing when I hit the target!
• Cipher regularly getting within touching distance to cast spells.
• Cipher regularly explaining that his spell has failed but it hasn't.
• Charmed enemies turning green, but continuing to attack Fighter Girl and me.
• Charmed enemies claiming that they are too busy.
• Fighter Girl refusing to engage and needing multiple click orders to 'get in there'.
• Fighter Girl hitting for sod all damage.
• Cipher hitting for godlike damage.

What's with this...Baldur's Gate was never this clumsy - Urge to worry increasing!