Sarex
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am getting that some folks wanna chance to play powerful or gimped. a balanced game seeming diminishes the possibility o' playing superman but what about the folks who don't know they is playing gimped... get stuck playing as dazzler or skin? where is fun for those folks?
HA! Good Fun!
Well as this is a brand new game with a brand new and unique system, we are all getting in to it on equal footing. Also you are aware that you have six characters, even if you picked a "weaker" class you will have the opportunity to explore all the others and as all the non combat skill are shared between classes you can't really go that wrong.
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Just to throw this out there but I love this post Sarex because you just unintentionally proved my point. You soloed the game this way due to an unintended exploit resulting from a design flaw in how the game works. Not because it was designed to be soloable, but because the dev's didn't catch this bug and or didn't bother fixing it.
I never soloed any of the IE games in my life much less IWD2 in HoF mode, I have better things to do with my life. I just put it there as a possibility. In fact I never heard that someone made a play through with a bard.
Just so we are clear, we are talking about HoF mode in IWD2, that is pretty much impossible for most people to beat with a party of 6 that is level 1. The game is pretty soloable on any other difficulty, that you need to get creative on HoF to be able to do it doesn't prove your point at all, you need to be creative with a party of 6 also.
Also if you are continuing to be anal about it, you can just get an IWD2 fix pack and remedy the bug, thus your version of the game will be impossible to solo with that exploit and you will be able to sleep at night.
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So does this mean that boobplate is back in or is it the only armor that doesn't offer visual reference to the sex of the wearer?
Plate is to remain boobless alas.
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balance is important.
HA! Good Fun!
But not at the cost of the other classes, or the overall fun game.
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I like the last paragraph of that article.
Heh, the only visible comment from the author of the article is too funny. He admits he has no proof, but still goes on with the original point.
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Deflecting again. Nice.
I already said Dubrovnic wasn't destroyed. You are the one clinging to one disputed 'massacre' and insinuating that all the depraved **** that happened in that conflic really wasn't.
But first you said it was, it illustrates your knowledge of the conflict. Also he never said the ****ed up **** didn't happen, but that is wasn't in line with how the western media depicted it.
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Because their very cultures are defined by battles and injustices in the past. It would require a monumental shift in their national identities to accomplish peace that would bring a some sort bright future for that kettle of gunpowder. A modern Gandhi if you may, or small small steps for each generation. Having one court investigating the who did what 20 years ago, and packing the bags and declaring that the dark forces are now destroyed is waaaaay too simple thinking for that part of Europe.
I will not post more about this, i can already hear some Croat, Serb or Muslim getting their jimmies rustled.
Nah, you don't have to stop on account of me. Though I will say this, trough out most of history and wars Serbia was always on the side of the West, no matter who the enemy was how far he outnumbered us and what the consequences were to be. We never got help until it was too late, we always made a difference and we always lost the most because of it. What have we got to show for it today? Being depicted as the villains in every movie and tv show out there, thus poisoning the minds of future generations with rubbish like Serbs are evil, etc. and to add insult to injury a movement has started to revise the history of WW1, where the Serbs are depicted as the aggressors. With nations like Germany, Japan and Croatia it's forgive and forget, no matter what anyone has done, but Serbia it seems has some sins to repent for until the end of days. I mean ffs, even the Americans who are genocidal with Muslims have for some reason stepped in to protect the interests of Albanians, though that had more to do with that giant military base they plopped in Kosovo.
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I kind of agree that if a party-based game is soloable, it's probably because of lacking monster/combat/encounter design. Not necessarily, there's certainly a lot of player skill and relentless experimentation involved in such feats, but most of the time it comes down to abusing some part of the game.
Soloing IWD 2 Heart of Fury mode, which is definitely the hardest challenge in the IE games, is based on endless Monster Summoning (+Animate Dead, +Gate etc.), best done with an aasimar paladin 1/sorcerer X. There's basically no other way to do it (if there is, please let me know!). It abuses these facts:
- No limit on summons.
- Summons get the same stat upgrades that mobs get, so these spells become automatically über-powerful by playing HoF, while all others spells don't (in fact, thanks to the +10 to monster attributes AND higher base saves AND tons of extra hit points, most of other the spells get significantly weaker in actual use).
So the extra party helpers which are disposable by default are also incredibly strong in HoF, and numerous by DnD default. And yes, I consider that broken game design. Abusing broken game design DOESN'T make you a better player. That's just the power fantasy that you tell yourself. There's very little skill involved in the above playstyle, you call a crapton of summons safely out of enemy sight, drop a few buffs and then focus target mobs, maybe throwing in some AoE disable spells like the Symbols or Wail of the Banshee at the start, hoping for a few fails on the tough HoF saves. Repeat until your fingers are sore, not that much different from Diablo's gameplay. The only challenging fights are where you're immediately dropped into combat after traveling, with no buffs on you and no summons with you. Even then, casting invisibility takes care of the immediate threat, and you can continue to cheese your way through the game.
Anyone who wants a "nice" solo challenge should try any of the following games with just a single character:
-- Bard's Tale 3
-- Dragons Wars
-- Incubation and its expansion, The WIlderness Missions
Good luck. The above games didn't fail to provide an abuse-proof party-sized challenge.
There is a glitch that you can abuse with a bard, the songs for some reason stack. So the level 1 song with the ballad of the three heroes you gain +1 attack bonus, +1 damage, +1 saving throws per stack. if you get to level 11 with the bard you gain the war chant of sith, this makes you auto win any encounter, you gain +2 armor, damage resistance 2/- and regenerate 3 hit points per round, all of this also stacks. So you can essentially pause the game and regen you character to full health or spam the song every round.
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Wish you were here a few threads back, I don't know if you would have laughed or cried.
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Okay let's make something clear. The game won't be "broken". If it were broken no one could beat it because the mechanics would be broken and therefore unplayable. People need to stop using that word to describe poor design, bad design is not "broken" it still works it was just designed badly.
That said, again, in a game that has been implicitly stated to be designed around the use of a party and solo play (supposedly) not considered in the design... then yes I would say the design is poor if it can be completed solo. If the whole idea was using a party and come to find out you don't need one at all then something somewhere in your implementation must have failed on a fundamental level. Either that or you were considering solo play the whole time and you did want it to be possible you just didn't want to outright state that for some reason.
The achievement list will speak volumes. If there is an achievement for completing the game solo then we will know despite whatever has been said to this point solo play has been considered and somewhere in there they purposefully made sure it was possible to clear the game alone.
I'm sorry but that is such a ridiculous statement. So if the game doesn't force you to use the whole party then, it's bad design. Yeah, I'm not buying that at all.
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It was high altitude and targeted against infrastructure, certainly part of the plan was to damage the economy, to bomb military assets effectively you need spotters on the ground. Every effort to avoid civilian casualties was taken, which is why it was so ineffective. In the end though, it was part of the leverage used to make Milosovic buckle. The west had just had enough. Ethnic cleansing and civil war dragging on and on just a short boatride from the Italian coast. It wasn't going to fly anymore.
No it wasn't in the beginning it was only military targets, but we hid and moved all our people and resources, so the bombings had no real effect. Even when they started missing, as DE said, it didn't provide the desired results.
I already told you all of this and I see you chose to ignore it.
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Drudanae I'm saving that.
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^I'm just gonna use the cheat console.
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In news: fights raging around Slavyansk. The units loyal to Kiev are better equipped and are gaining ground. Russians still not really responding apart from propaganda support.
I think they are waiting for things to get worse, right now only about 4 million Russian in Ukraine (out of 10) are involved in the conflicts. When the situation escalates to the whole of east Ukraine they will move massive troops and go all the way to Kiev.
Kiev has already showed what kind of people they are. Cultist showed the pictures of what they did and it's only going to get worse. Once the Russians get involved there won't be much the rest of the world can say to that.
Think he meant they should be thankful NATO wasn't more severe (maybe take out more embassies
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Ristic reports that as Milosevic listened to the reading of the text, he realized that the “Russians and the Europeans had put us in the hands of the British and the Americans.” Milosevic took the papers and asked, “What will happen if I do not sign?” In answer, “Ahtisaari made a gesture on the table,” and then moved aside the flower centerpiece. Then Ahtisaari said, “Belgrade will be like this table. We will immediately begin carpet-bombing Belgrade.” Repeating the gesture of sweeping the table, Ahtisaari threatened, “This is what we will do to Belgrade.” A moment of silence passed, and then he added, “There will be half a million dead within a week.” Chernomyrdin’s silence confirmed that the Russian government would do nothing to discourage carpet-bombing.Which is why he ultimately folded. It corresponds to the events. The military was intact, the KLA+NATO invasion through Albania was destroyed, his pubic support was stable - he had no reason real reason to give in, 78 days in. So the Russians back-stabbed him and the west threatened mass murder.
Tis all history now and no one cares about the truth.
No one cares and no one would have cared even if they carpet bombed us. Look what they did in Iraq and Afghanistan, they went in to topple a government and in the mean time they destroyed the whole infrastructure of the country, setting them back half a century. They destroyed their power and water plants and now after the war they are getting payed to rebuild the same.
The same old conflict just repeats it self over and over around the whole world. Ukraine is just the newest one.
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Yes, and if 6 times harder than the default difficult isn't nearly unwinnable, then the default difficulty can't be very hard, can it now?
Or someone is just 6 times better then you at the game.
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@Sarex P:E will have a level cap. Gaining XP faster will just make you hit that cap faster and then plateau. If the endgame is balanced for or near the level cap, you're going to be roughly 1/6 as powerful as a full party at that point.
That should be bloody close to unwinnable from where I'm at, or else it will probably be too easy for a competently played full party.
(Unless you level scale to total party levels of course. :ducks: )
Or it will just be 6 times harder.
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Thanks for the support there Brainmuncher.
I will clarify to the anal retentive degree.
You are designing a game, your game is designed around the idea of a party of characters being used by the player to complete it. Your combat, encounters, mechanics, levels, all of it is designed around the idea that the player has more than one character at his beck and call. It is done this way from the ground up. So imagine that someone comes along with only one character and beats the whole thing. What does that say about your design? Remember we are supposed to be designing a game you need a party to play. So if someone can beat it with no party at all when it was designed to be expecting a party that may indicate there is a weakness in the design doesn't it? Maybe it is too easy, or maybe there are large exploits that can be abused, maybe the class they use is OP as hell? All of which I consider to be design flaws.
Is my point and opinion crystal clear now? I sure hope so cause I am not posting about it again.
Or maybe, just maybe, you get xp faster with less characters, thus your power is ramping up faster. Also who says that design has to be perfect for a game to be good. Making a design that is perfect and unexploitable is just wasting time that could be put in to making the game more fun and longer. This is a single player game, it is for you to play it like you want to, there is no need to be anal about it.
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From the EU. I hope this satiates your curiosity, because I have no desire to be interrogated by a nobody on a video game company's forum.
You are free to believe whatever you please, of course, if it helps you maintain sanity in that world of yours where fiction and reality are interchangeable.
Lol, you are a first class troll. Anyways you should look up a map, you didn't disprove anything with that claim. The facts are, you are parroting the propaganda that I hear from Muslim and Croats all the time, so it's nothing I haven't heard before. The fact the you mentioned the NATO bombings as a just punishment just confirms it. Next time try to ease in to, don't go full zealot straight away.
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Still didn't answer the question, where are you from?
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I knew it when he said JNA instead of the English equivalent, I'm just waiting for him to own up as to which brand of troll he is.
That too, nice catch.
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Who the **** are you and how are you an authority on Serbian media or the Balkan wars?
He's a Croat or a Muslim, this is their text book propaganda. See how there at the end he insinuated that we got what we deserved when NATO bombed us.
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It needs to be said that Serbian media are hardly a reliable source of informations. The brainwashing propaganda is not in full force like in the 90's, but it's still going strong and its effects are irreparable, sadly. NATO made a huge favor to the Serbian people when they demolished one of the centers responsible for spreading propaganda and inducing mass hysteria.
Oh, wow, you did not just say that. That is propaganda if ever I hear it. So according to you it should have broadcasted how NATO was our savior and how we should welcome the bombs of salvation, that ended up hitting more civilian targets then military.
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Personally, I'm excited. I love me some 2D platformers. Besides, there's already a 3D Prince of Persia series being actively developed by Ubisoft, it's called Assassin's Creed.
Booooooo, I say, boooooooo!
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"But it was made for us."
in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
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Serbian pizza is best pizza.(and I've been to Italy)