nakedmolerat

Like I mentioned in the other thread, GOG likes to build their own installers. They probably sent GOG the files, and now its up to GOG to put them together in their installer and then upload them for the users. Since this thread went up so late in the day it makes me think that the patch went out late in the day as well, and thus GOG won't be getting to work on it until tomorrow since they're in Europe.

Keep in mind that GOG likes to make their own installers, and are over in Poland. (I think? somewhere in Europe.) So if the patch launches today you'll have to account for them doing that, and for the possibility of them getting the patch after their workday is already over.

Birthright. Thank you. Too bad I'll forget again by the next time it ever comes up, and I'll end up repeating my description blurb in stead of just saying the name.

There was a question in there that irked me more than usual. (Usual survey questions urk me because choosing the best possible fit of an answer still feels like I'm choosing pants a size too big.) Towards the end with all the pathfinder stuff there was a question about looking forward to a game and the answers for part of it focused on liking or not liking DND. I personally answered it in terms of dnd system, since setting is varied in DND (hell, varied setting is half the point, you can even homebrew your own campaign). Then it dawned on me afterword, are they asking about setting? And if I was wrong, and it was about setting, how can you answer that since, as above posters and I have said, the setting is variable. If I was initially right, and it was about system the answer still comes out wonky. I have fond memories of some of the rules of second ed ADND, but disliked the whole THACO thing, and how some rolls you wanted high, some you wanted low. I liked 3rd mostly, especially since it fixed rolls and now everything was basically "beat this number". However they way they did skills never felt right to me. If it was a class skill or a cross class sill would eventually lead to a large difference in abilities. If i wanted to be a guy that dabbled in lock picking, but there was a dedicated lock picker in the party, I may as well have wasted my points (outside of possible split party scenarios, which my DMs never liked because it led to more work for them, and for half the party sitting there waiting while the active half did its thing) And multi-classing was a whole freaking can of worms with all the min/maxing insanity it could lead to. Fourth Ed seemed ok, but our campaign was based on people with different schedules playing via the net, and things fell apart so I can't make a completely informed comment about how good or bad it ultimately was. Never Played fifth, Never played 1st (though my first DM did home brew in a few things from first back in the day). With that much variation in what is "dnd", how am I supposed to just say that I liked or disliked it? Even if we keep it to more recent DND, am I supposed to answer based off of 5th ed, which I never played? Am I supposed to answer based on 3.5, which is what I think I heard pathfinder was basically a continuation of? Am I supposed to answer based off of Greyhawk or Forgotten realms, which are pretty generic fantasy type stuff? Or maybe that Spelljammer (?) I heard about once with all its airships, or Dark Sun, or that setting I can't remember the name of where you play a person with a bit of the power of a god and try to build up a kingdom as much as you are building a character? Ok, venting over, I feel better now. Answer everything as best I could, hope it helps. One more thing (Inner Columbo time). The questions where you were to chose word to fit an art style seemed a bit rubbish to me, but that's probably just me since I don't attributing vague words like "epic" and "cool" to things when I'm trying to give concise and clear answers, like I would be in answering a survey. And both the pathfinder art styles look weird to me, and the only reason I could pick is because one of the faces looked a bit off and wonky to me, like it was an example of how not to draw anatomy of a face or something. So I just picked the set that didn't include that face.

I'm very curious about how you're going to handle this prizes for beta participation thing since GOG doesn't have beta stuff. Being a GOG user myself.

How does its power relate to the HD 4000? That's what I have in this laptop (the 4000). The game is playable, but just barely. 20 ish FPS when things are going ok, occational dips when a lot of effects are on screen (causing some actual slowdown). But so far I haven't found anything that stops my playthrough (at the end of act 2 in the main quest, and just finished white march expansion).

Some people like those extras, enough to pay money for them. I've also seen some people on forums talking about buying the bigger editions of whatever games as a way to get the devs a bit more money. Basically to each their own. For those that want this, I don't see why GOG shouldn't have the upgrades available. Its odd that they don't but steam does.

So I recently purchased this game over at GOG, and played a little bit of the first area up to that first town with a few classes, trying to get a feel for the game. I came up with a... question that I cannot find the answer for with my weak google-fu, nor searching these forums or GOG's forums. What determines a ranger's pet's stealth value? Static? Level dependent? Ranger's skill dependent? Some other thing? Thanks in advance for any replies.