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Granted, a typical English longbow arrow hitting plate armor at a grazing angle would most likely deflect, but that's likely true of musket balls as well (hence why tanks have sloped armor). Longbow arrows could penetrate 10 cm of oak though, so they were pretty formidable.

Bows were better than guns in the 16th century. Tercio Pike and Shot tactics would beg to differ. Hmm, are we comparing weapons or battlefield tactics? The minimum practice range for longbows was 220 yards. Muskets could barely hit anything at 100 yds. Longbow could penetrate plate armor, so muskets didn't have an advantage there. The English longbow rate of fire was typically six per minute so as not to exhaust the supply. Under optimal conditions, muskets could fire 2-3 rounds in the same time span. The main advantage of muskets was that it didn't need anywhere near the same amount of training. Hence you could train a bunch of peasants to shoot in a few weeks, and group them into large formations. Longbows took years of training.

Bows were better than guns in the 16th century.

Magic can cause non-physical injuries to your soul-based powers.

Broliloquy must have quite the bunker in his back yard.

The "Back That Thing Up" achievement?

The squeaky wheel gets the grease, I guess. It wouldn't be my preference.

I'm perhaps a little surprised that Scientific American falls into the "mixed record" camp. They do include some editorials, but for the most part it seems pretty sound. Somebody's opinion, I guess.

If they just level scale the critical path, give side quests of various challenge levels, and remove the level cap, it should all work out.

But that's not how people played - they unloaded their spell books every encounter, rested, then and ran back to town to replenish supplies, often half way through a dungeon or area. Which people? I didn't. There was typically a camping supply or two to be found in each significant dungeon, so I managed the supply and lived with some damage and per-rest ability loss. At higher levels, magic items helped with the extra spell slots, as did spell mastery. I usually only withdrew for supplies if I got clobbered a few times, which is what you'd expect.

In the SE part of the Abbey of the Fallen Moon is an interactive boulder where one of the characters tosses a grappling hook. The text message starts with the character I selected, then switches to Edér: That's it really; just a confusing message switch.

^ Well, whatever. The party is healing up some pretty nasty injuries in the span of just a few hours. Seems like magic to me, even if it is "slow" acting. I'd like to see a more plausible mechanic than "camping supplies" for that, without resorting to healing item consumption during combat.

Scurvy

Most of the character's VO work was quite good. Maneha, however, sounded like a soccer mom on a shopping expedition. Her voice just didn't seem to fit that role. She might have worked better as a Cipher or a Paladin.

Nope. Health recovery potions. Thus why Luminious Adra from Deadfire is so valuable. Nope. It's part of the setting canon that health potions are very rare. Plus they've been overused (and overabused) in other games. We get to deal with it as part of the challenge.

Different strokes for different folks. Injuries make combat more realistic, which I appreciate.

The injury system worked fine in Drakensang. They're already in the game, so I have no problem with it.

Adra healing crystals: The heal a body quickly, requiring only 8 hours rest They can only be recharged at soul fonts They won't function if you carry too many Okay, lets call them "camping supplies"...

Here's an example: I was in the Actions panel, flipped to the panel and back again. "Recall" had changed to "Assign", even though Sagani is already assigned.

I've had several instances of Stronghold tasks with a party member assigned, then when I view it in the interface it says "Assign" rather than "Recall". Clicking on the button causes the task to vanish. Frustration ensues... I believe I'm on the latest patch level.

Perhaps a sentient weapon that has "lost its mind", so to speak, in the form of various appendages (gems?) formerly attached to the hilt. As these are recovered, more background on the weapon is gained, and possibly additional powers are unlocked.

A level 16 cap seems about right for PoE. On my current playthrough I've finished most of the content (including much of WM) and most of the characters are at level 14.

She says I don't love her. Says that I don't spend much time with her. And that I only care about games. But she doesn't understand that it's just fun. Sad. Game over, man. Game... over! Buy her some flowers. Listen to her blather.