GreyFox

I"m really worried about the AI... How often does an enemy use an anti engagement move to go after your caster(s)?

This looks like a Dark Alliance/NWN baby...ugh. I hate the 4 party limit too. I hate that movement where the party leader runs well ahead of the rest of the group as well. VO is bad. NO Fog of War = bad. WTF is that minimap thing useless as ever. The sad thing is it looks like the actual story/FR tie ins are going to be really good.

Yea I was definitely one of the people who read the combat log and even the dialogue quite often so an option to pop it up a bit and then back down would be nice.

Yea I didn't zoom in but I see now and I agree with you guys on that....I wouldn't want that border either. Still I like how there are a few of you guys picking up the slack for us lazy people and putting in some extra work! When I come home I don't feel like looking at code or suites anymore.

Kark has done a great job. I do agree with those that think the combat/dialogue log should be in the middle and works best for that. As it stands now KarkD is the best one IMO...good job though man. This is included in the IE mod as of now?

FTR I admit to being overly critical to try to squeeze every ounce of awesome we can get from this game.

LOL a proRomance NPC

Na there are more deserving bickerers...Tartar just trolls.

Yea I wasn't trying to insult anyone(wasn't the purpose). I joke around a lot IRL and it's hard to convey that online so it comes off as harsh...even my friends get mad at me online in games or whatever but when were in person they get it because we're the same. I guess the purpose of that post was to bring up that they don't seem to use or reference metrics when it comes to their balancing or reasoning.... We never hear "Wizards are in line with other casters because the data shows it"....

too touchy

Oh THAT AI/Fog of War bug....might be the most IE like feature they've implemented.

What is the Fog of War bug?

Bro I wouldn't make any video examples or they might disable moving in combat altogether.

Also Sensuki would love JE's explanation....lol...someone really asked him why does he restrict movement so much in PE. Pretty much said nuh uh. His talk about Wizard vs Druid pretty much confirms he hates Wizards and doesn't want them to do good damage...either that or their QA is bad or scared to tell them the truth.

Yea the video pauses/stutters a bit in a few different places. Bout threw up when he started talking up 4E...of all the editions for an IElike game to take inspiration from it's that one...barf. He's pretty much alone in his opinion on 4E...

Yea we've established that it doesn't actually stop kiting...so improve AI and remove slowed recovery?

So if I'm engaged but scratch my nose I get hit for moving a bit eh...yay stop kiting and nose scratching!

Does disengagement have a "grace zone" yet or is that still supposed to be ludicrously over sensitive?

Disengagement attacks are more than enough to punish movement.

Restored combat patch maybe....combat in this game screams "save me"

Yea like I said in another thread it seems like a bad idea...especially for conflicts or dialogues that start up upon arrival at a new location. Didn't know that lol....really? I don't know if I own a single game where you can't name your save file.

Sad that it's going to take a mod to get this game's combat to even resemble fun. Such a terrible addition so late, and they really are gonna deserve any negative reviews they get if people find the combat boring/bad. If the goal was to make combat worse than 15 year old games, well then they've succeeded.

This thread still brings up a good point though... How do you make the decision to code auto saves to work after the area transition instead of before?

I think you'll find yourself alone in this opinion as it harkens back to PnP where all you have is descriptions and your imagination. This, along with the scripted encounters should go along way to making this feel like an actual RPG that most of us are used to. Also almost always you hear people say "the book was better than the movie"....there's a reason for that ya know....give me those descriptions over crappy cut scenes and turble 3D.

It's pretty lame that the system goes like that...either enchanted tshirts and shorts or Plate.....booooring.