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Slotharingia

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  1. The quest in Motare o Kozi Wait, you mean there's a way to do it, without just murdering everything in the area? How? You have to sneak up to the corrupted trees in stealth (use the char with highest stealth on their own) and click them *before* the panthers etc aggro. The game gives various options to heal them, but I think you are supposed to use the Spine of Thicket Green ideally. Then convince the mother to let you heal her in her dialogue. -edited to add, you prolly have to hold tab to highlight the clickable surface.
  2. I also tried this and it did nothing. I assumed it was a way to get room on the ship, but apparently not.
  3. Same. It does nothing, or if it does something, it's obscure.
  4. Most of them won't trigger + until after you leave there, which is a good thing really as it's the intro area, although it would have made sense for characters from P1 to have an opinion of you at the outset based on your interactions in that game. Why have characters your Watcher already knows if they treat you like someone they only just met and are significantly harder to get + rep with even when your history with them is exclusively positive?
  5. Agree they should attack one another. It always annoys me in games when people only attack the player and not one another. There should be repercussions, but they should also only happen if it's known it was you. It makes no sense you killed some guys and no one saw it, and seconds later everyone knows it was you, same for sinking ships. Seems to me if you are getting caught somehow, it should positively affect your rep with another faction, and maybe that's why they didn't bother with it. Then the Principi are divided, so shouldn't they have two rep meters? You can steal stuff right in front of people's noses w/o consequences, so there seems to be no rhyme or reason to how/whether your actions are known. At the same time you can be the dogsbody of all factions and no one cares, even if you mess up their quests, intentionally or not. And while you are leading everyone on, the guy from the RDC will talk to you like you are a nincompoop if you have points in dip and benevolent xD You can piss off gods with no consequence too. Also, not using violence should make a diff, and I haven't noticed it doing anything. Another thing, is there a point to all the copious clothes and ship flags?
  6. I didn't fight either dragon, but the mechanical boss was a pushover. I used all my summons expecting a hell of a struggle, and then shot at it like once before it died (on normal). Nemnok on the other hand, took a while and was listed as the strongest enemy killed even after then end boss, and some of the vampires are pretty dreadful. On my second playthrough I'm on veteran and have level scaling on, and it seems to me the worst fights this time round are due to that, as you can get into battles will enemies that have high armour rating and top tier spells, etc because the downscaling apparently only applies to level but not all the other stuff.
  7. I had a similar thing. I blew up the powderhouse and blamed the Vailians, lost no rep with them, but lost some with the RDC, although the latter didn't know I did it and the former were royally screwed by me (I sided with the Huana). My reputations were mostly extremely mixed pickles. Maia also didn't quit my team, and I did speak to her, it just said "she glares at you", or something to that effect. I think I found a horn to call allies to somewhere, which would suggest picking a side earlier in the game. I feel like some aspects just weren't finished and then left as is, not only factions but also companion reputations/reactions/conflicting dispositions (Aloth in particular feels like he was written during an all nighter right before his completion deadline), and player dispositions very easily result in everything or close to everything maxed out. I looked it up due to your comment as I never figured out what Rust was for and missed out on all of this just by being a compulsive thief xD Anyway, having - rep with the criminals makes them charge you extra and the drug dealer won't sell you anything.
  8. You'll take your Half-Fledged Dwarf Masseuse and you'll like it. Isn't a male a masseur though? I know it's a masseuse in game but it's weird to me xD
  9. I dunno. His story didn't seem that unresolved at the end of 1, and the Leaden Key involvement (or lack thereof) in Deadfire is weird. I'm not sure I even get what it was really about and this would be way worse for new players. I do agree he needn't be tied to the main plot, but still feel he should have more to him than dictating who we should hang out with and lecturing us about tradition if we don't obey, which is unfortunately all I seem to have got out of him thus far. I also think he should act differently depending upon whether he's anti or pro leaden key (and also depending upon the relationship in 1, but I've already prattled about that enough). As in, stewardship/pro tradition if he's pro leaden key, autonomy/anti tradition if he's not; and also not have the dutiful disposition conflicting with the anti tradition one. I'd like to think that aspect is related to his own inner conflicts with Iselmyr, but I doubt it. Haha yeah. I can't say I gave it any thought, but it is pretty ridiculous. They could've had him be somewhere else and contact you without too much difficulty.
  10. I will say, I'm slightly disappointed at the lack of vithrack love in what I've seen of the game so far. Even amidst the wilder crewmembers, Big Mouth is the only one who you have to hire through the crew tab and not actually meet in the world and convince to come with you. WHERE MUH VETHRUCKS UT, OBS?! Hell yeah. But this GROUNDFILTH ALSO WANT IMP.
  11. Yeah well, Eder doesn't really fit either, but at least he's still his old self, unless you are an a$$hole, in which case he's all surprised about it lol. Pallegina wasn't necessary either tbh. Aloth being in the game was a major selling point to me, but in the end he was the game's greatest disappointment. It feels, as you say, like he was just thrown in, and to make matters worse, turned from shy and opaque but loveable weirdo into an obnoxious git that controls you via their superficial approval/disapproval of other characters and unimportant stuff, while putting on this great show about not liking bossy.
  12. Yeah I know. My first char pissed him off just by cracking jokes with Tekehu. I kinda do have to make an evil character to have the remotest hope of rivalmancing him though, cos I compulsively want to be liked by him (but not to the extent of completely butchering my character's personality xD), so I have to make a weird character to pull it off. Anyway, I made a Bleak Walker Death Godlike corpse eater and Aloth gave him the "ur 2 traditional m8" speach on the boat from Port Maje, and that after only having got one visible grump face from Aloth beforehand. Now I'm sure there are various ways to describe his behaviour at that point, but "traditional" would not be the first one to spring to mind xD I also find it kind of odd that a pro Leaden Key Aloth would still be anti tradition, and / or that they didn't really think through his dispositions since they are not black/white. Solas greatly disapproves. Seriously though, I think DAI makes a bit more sense as you don't get the companions judging you for crap of no consequence you say to others, which isn't to say the system there doesn't drive me nuts at times lol. It's also easier in DA because you always play someone new so you have a clean slate. I'd find Aloth a lot easier to cope with if he wasn't someone my Watcher already knew, when in P1 you never felt like he hated you for cracking jokes and when due to your history with him, he potentially has every reason to like you and none to be a judgy git that constantly drops snide remarks and whose opinions of others seem to lack intelligence, flexibility, insight and self control (hating / liking people for superficial / dubious traits, judging others harshly for things he does himself). It seems in Deadfire they hadn't taken into consideration that different playthroughs could have a Watcher with very different relationships with Aloth and took the default of your Watcher having kept him around, but that they exist in a state of mutual distrust. In my first pt, he even said something to the effect of that the Watcher just uses people, which was a lovely case of projection considering that Watcher (and all my other p1 watchers) totally forgave Aloth for his duplicity and supported him in every way, and my feeling was that they shared a mutual and deep friendship as a result of what they went through together.
  13. Lots of people complain the game is too short, so getting kicked out of the factions would make that worse and it's probably why we don't. We can also sack ships of any faction with impunity apparently, but friendly fire from fights will get - approval from where it happens, at least that was the conclusion I came to. To make matters worse, Maia won't even leave if you just don't take her with you when you side with the Huana. This is what I did and the only thing that happened was that she stared at me spitefully on the boat, so she obviously knew.
  14. Heh, well I prefer playing more flexible characters (and I also don't think Aloth should be that fussy since it makes him a hypocrite), so I guess it's no Aloth for my Watchers then. *sniff* I'm okay with characters having understandable red flags, but only giving approval to people who act in an exact x way while ignoring all the positive stuff they've done for you is a mega turn off to me. Maybe I'll try the rivalmance when I play an evil character, but I'd probably feel too bad. xD
  15. My last one had every single disposition maxed out except cruel really early on. This one doesn't as he's les YOLO, but he doesn't seem to be doing any better with Aloth in spite of my picking way less joke options and reloading when he disapproves. Maybe I should use more diplomatic/honest (he's already hardcore beneveolent), but OTOH I feel it ruins the game if you have to play a character in some exact way to get a companion to like you, especially when we're talking about unimportant banter. I'm a cipher/rogue and being overtly diplomatic/honest doesn't really fit. Maybe I should just give up and leave it for another character. Talking of honest, does he approve if you blow his cover at the beginning? xD
  16. So has anyone official confirmed it's bugged? You mention him having conflicting dispostions, but is it really a bug or did they intend him to be like that? Yes, devs confirmed it in the last stream. And no, there is no ETA when the patch fixing all this will come out. Well that's a relief I guess. I had that when I took him and Tekehu to the Wild Mare for the first time. There is a humorous conversation between the godlike and the innkeeper, in which I participated, with Aloth rolling his eyes the whole time. I assumed it was at Tekehu's party animal antics, but apparently, me joking about it was just as bad. Went from 0 to -1,5 after that one encounter, triggering the "get your s... together, you're not treating this whole Eothas business seriously" lecture. Huh. I joked in that conversation too, but Aloth only disapproved of Tekehu, not me. My own rep with him remained at 0. Go figure. It also seems that when Aloth reacts to something it doesn't always get listed in the conversation window. Your score with him goes up/down, but you are not informed about it. Might be the same with other companions as well. This is something I actually like about this whole relationship system. It reflects the companions' personalities rather well. Both Serafen and Tekehu (especially Tekehu) are friendly and easy-going, and they aren't going to have a problem with you unless you really cross the line. I bet Tekehu isn't even aware that he is such a headache to half of the party lol. Yeah don't get me wrong, I didn't mean I don't like it, but it doesn't make Aloth come across in any better light. He just feels like a super judgy guy who only likes/dislikes people based on whether they are self-confident/light-hearted or myopically adhere to their "duties", and in the case of the Watcher his approval or lack thereof seems even more superficial (kind of like "I don't care you stuck with me through thick and thin and always have my back, you joked with the shark guy once to often, game over us" xD ). Btw, I also hit -1 after the Wild Mare scene with Tekehu.
  17. So has anyone official confirmed it's bugged? You mention him having conflicting dispostions, but is it really a bug or did they intend him to be like that?
  18. I have to admit that thought crossed my mind. I wondered whether he was written in a way to make people dislike him so no one would care when he disappears. I even wondered if whoever wrote him dislikes him xD
  19. Someone in another post was referring to Mokeha as a "third wave feminist" (no idea why). Maybe they mean that? I don't understand why anyone would care whether you can romance a companion with a same sex char, just don't do it if you don't like it. *shrug* As for Tekehu being bi, people have been bi and gay since like forever. Not like it's anything new *reshrug*
  20. I don't think a joke can be irresponsible unless it's practical. For instance, I have a friend who is a physician, jokes about his work all the time, with friends and patients alike, sometimes (rarely) in bad taste even. Most responsible guy I know. Have to agree. My last char was joking all the time, doesn't mean he was irresponsible. I'd argue getting daunting things done is easier if one can still have a laugh. It's certainly more positive than whining, hating everyone and being chronically passive aggressive xD In fact, Tekehu and Serafen's lack of disapproval as regards Aloth just makes him come across as even worse to me. Maybe it's supposed to reflect his lack of self confidence, but it's not endearing at all.
  21. I dunno I must be doing really badly then since I'm intentionally avoiding his disapproval. I think I only got one so far, when he interpreted my character picking a convo option to avoid a fight as being "traditional". Considering how he lies and expects you to lie for him, he ought to be able to cope with the concept of saying what people want to hear if it's the better option sometimes. I did actually get his approval to -1 on my last playtrhough, but it was due to joking around with Tekehu who my character was romancing and I reloaded, kicked Aloth out of the party, and then did it again without him. However, if he'd have lectured about tradition after that, it would have been weird. Also, how can he be so sure Thaos did what he did due to tradition as opposed to duty? I got the impression Thaos thinks he's doing the right thing, as in that people need gods and maintaining the narrative of the deities sometimes involves making sacrifices, and that seems to me to come more from a sense of duty than tradition. *shrug* His idee fixe about tradition = bad and duty = good also makes him come across as opinionated and inflexible to me, since both of those can arguably be good and bad depending upon their context. For instance, one can disapprove of the Huana caste system, but still think that doesn't give others the right to annihilate their culture by force and replace it with their own flawed ideals. That seems quite similar to gods deciding for kith, which he disapproves of. *grumble, moan* xD Thanks for the suggestions btw, but I don't know how to do console commands and I've already done that quest. Also I'm stubborn and feel it ought to be doable by just playing normally, especially if the Watcher has a positive history with Aloth from 1 (maybe understandable if the Watcher told him: I h8 u, u liar, but u can stick around cuz u r useful sometimes ,but watch ur step or else, and similar things xD ).
  22. Oh thanks haha. I suppose I'll save that for when I play someone who actually uses swords. As for Aloth, I might as well give up then since I apparently cannot get his approval over 0 even when avoiding all the fun convo options that cause him to groan. *weeps* The mind boggles as to how the OP got it to +2 early on *mouth hangs open in awe*
  23. Xoti says flirty crap to my Watcher, but I don't think I'm in a romance with her (at least I hope I'm not lol). But how do you even get into a romance with Aloth? I've never even had anything resembling a flirt option for him, all he ever gives me are pained looks. Who the hel is Modwyr? รถ
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