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tarbrush posted:Finished honour mode! Didn't do Cazador, House of Hope or Grief and blew Gale up so the ending felt a bit lovely, but I have the dice. It's amazing how much of a wrench it is letting down these collections of pixels and voices even when you've saved them properly the first two times round. I haven't finished honor mode yet, but next time I play it's going to be on tactician with no savescumming. That's really the only part of honor mode I like. The game's a lot more immersive when I'm not relying on the F8 key to get out of every small jam. I haven't used Gale, Halsin, or Wyll in three plays, so that's my team next time.
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LifeLynx posted:I haven't finished honor mode yet, but next time I play it's going to be on tactician with no savescumming. That's really the only part of honor mode I like. The game's a lot more immersive when I'm not relying on the F8 key to get out of every small jam. Yeah same. I’m still chasing the gold dice so for now I’m sticking with what I know. But if I ever finish I would like to do a run with the companions and classes I never use. Have hardly touched Druid and ranger at all. Not used paladin too much either. Probably with the mod that turns tactician into honor mode but without the single save.
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Apr 27, 2024 17:22
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I had what felt like a classic D&D encounter. Secret cellar that had a secret passage to what seemed like a benign cavern. Decided to open an old coffin and there was a BOOM and out popped a skeleton, taking my party by surprise. And this was not a shambling sort of skeleton, but a spry rear end in a top hat of a skeleton who began dashing around the room and bashing open other coffins and in short order my party was outnumbered by these higher level bony shitheads. Everything went downhill from there and I had to reload, but still... if I'd just left that coffin alone I expect things would've gone differently, unless after my reload I'm about to do something else that wakes them all up again.
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Apr 27, 2024 17:26
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Docjowles posted:Is he wearing the arcane acuity hat? With how many attacks bards get that can really pump up your spell save DC to an insane degree. It was probably something like this. He's a College of Swords Bard, and I remember hoarding some of the various gear that would let spells and physical attacks pump each other up (a lot of it from the Creche), and gave it to him once I made him a Bard. Dick Trauma posted:I had what felt like a classic D&D encounter. Secret cellar that had a secret passage to what seemed like a benign cavern. Decided to open an old coffin and there was a BOOM and out popped a skeleton, taking my party by surprise. And this was not a shambling sort of skeleton, but a spry rear end in a top hat of a skeleton who began dashing around the room and bashing open other coffins and in short order my party was outnumbered by these higher level bony shitheads. Everything went downhill from there and I had to reload, but still... if I'd just left that coffin alone I expect things would've gone differently, unless after my reload I'm about to do something else that wakes them all up again. There's something special in that room that can get you a permanent friend 
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Apr 27, 2024 17:27
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my second honor mode run ended at level 3 again after flinging poop in a goblins face. his buddies sounded the drum, I should have ran for it. you really have to plot this poo poo out huh.
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Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:my second honor mode run ended at level 3 again after flinging poop in a goblins face. his buddies sounded the drum, I should have ran for it. you really have to plot this poo poo out huh. yes. my first solo hm attempt ended with a double crit from edowyn's idiot siblings. you'll get those golden dice yet. 
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Apr 27, 2024 17:31
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LifeLynx posted:I haven't finished honor mode yet, but next time I play it's going to be on tactician with no savescumming. That's really the only part of honor mode I like. The game's a lot more immersive when I'm not relying on the F8 key to get out of every small jam. For me it's been the opposite, the appeal in Honour Mode has been the souped up fights with cool new mechanics and the tweaks that fix damage riders. I'm not personally much enamoured with the "no reloads" thing, it feel like it's forced some incredibly cautious play from me that's been occasionally kind of tedious. I'll get my golden dice and in future see if I can get a mod to give me the honour mode difficulty changes without the single save file.
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Apr 27, 2024 18:15
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Dick Trauma posted:I had what felt like a classic D&D encounter. Secret cellar that had a secret passage to what seemed like a benign cavern. Decided to open an old coffin and there was a BOOM and out popped a skeleton, taking my party by surprise. And this was not a shambling sort of skeleton, but a spry rear end in a top hat of a skeleton who began dashing around the room and bashing open other coffins and in short order my party was outnumbered by these higher level bony shitheads. Everything went downhill from there and I had to reload, but still... if I'd just left that coffin alone I expect things would've gone differently, unless after my reload I'm about to do something else that wakes them all up again. Take a peek at what is directly above some of those coffins if the skeletons were giving you trouble
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Reveilled posted:For me it's been the opposite, the appeal in Honour Mode has been the souped up fights with cool new mechanics and the tweaks that fix damage riders. I'm not personally much enamoured with the "no reloads" thing, it feel like it's forced some incredibly cautious play from me that's been occasionally kind of tedious. I'll get my golden dice and in future see if I can get a mod to give me the honour mode difficulty changes without the single save file. That's a good point, I've taken so long because I've been cautious about bugs causing instadeath. I had Lae'zel fall through a bridge once and needed Withers to get her back. Another time I glitched and multiple enemies were untargetable; I had to kill the process in task manager. Once I had to end the task to fix a broken mouse cursor and the game forced a save on me. A video game intercepting an "end task" from Windows to force its anti-savescumming tech is crazy to me.
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Apr 27, 2024 20:34
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LifeLynx posted:That's a good point, I've taken so long because I've been cautious about bugs causing instadeath. I had Lae'zel fall through a bridge once and needed Withers to get her back. Another time I glitched and multiple enemies were untargetable; I had to kill the process in task manager. Once I had to end the task to fix a broken mouse cursor and the game forced a save on me. A video game intercepting an "end task" from Windows to force its anti-savescumming tech is crazy to me. Moving platforms are terrifying on honor mode. I’ve taken to doing “fox, chicken and wolf need to cross the river” puzzle back and forth poo poo to avoid ever having my whole party on at once in case they decide to randomly glitch off the edge. This has already saved my rear end several times lol. Thankfully a lot of them have a waypoint on the far side so you only really need to send one dude across.
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Docjowles posted:Moving platforms are terrifying on honor mode. I’ve taken to doing “fox, chicken and wolf need to cross the river” puzzle back and forth poo poo to avoid ever having my whole party on at once in case they decide to randomly glitch off the edge. This has already saved my rear end several times lol. There's also the times your party decides running through fire is the quickest way to get somewhere. Or an enemy's idle animation makes it so your cursor misses clicking on them, leading your squishy nerd character to run towards a pack of enemies at full sprint instead of casting Hold Person. Honestly if honor mode was a hard limit of maybe three reloads it'd be just as balanced.
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Apr 28, 2024 00:04
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BlazetheInferno posted:There's something special in that room that can get you a permanent friend Aren't they only permanent if you learn the spell as a wizard?
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Apr 28, 2024 00:48
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Floppychop posted:Aren't they only permanent if you learn the spell as a wizard? wizard, sorc, or warlock can get shovel by talking to them and picking the right options
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Apr 28, 2024 00:49
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LifeLynx posted:There's also the times your party decides running through fire is the quickest way to get somewhere. Or an enemy's idle animation makes it so your cursor misses clicking on them, leading your squishy nerd character to run towards a pack of enemies at full sprint instead of casting Hold Person. Honestly if honor mode was a hard limit of maybe three reloads it'd be just as balanced. This was my biggest frustration with the Grym fight, still learning a lot of the mechanics and hoooo boy let's run into the fire EVERY SINGLE TIME ASTARION
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Apr 28, 2024 00:53
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Despite being named "Lump the Enlightened" the ogres are not particularly smart about avoiding the lava!
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Apr 28, 2024 00:56
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This is because they nerfed the headband from EA because INT isn’t allowed to thrive 
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Apr 28, 2024 01:14
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I saved the goddamn world, you'd think Elminister or someone could toss me a Wish so I wouldn't have to look like a loving squid for the rest of my life.
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Apr 28, 2024 01:33
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Floppychop posted:Aren't they only permanent if you learn the spell as a wizard? You can also have Withers spec you into it and then spec back out after. Summon Shovel persists in your hot bar even if you spec back out of a caster class.
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SlimGoodbody posted:You can also have Withers spec you into it and then spec back out after. Summon Shovel persists in your hot bar even if you spec back out of a caster class. Yeah. I feel like this must have gotten patched at some point? There’s some Reddit posts of like 20 steps on how to get the summon whereas now my bard can just respec to wizard and get it no problem.
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...Okay, I'm assuming something weird is happening with my mods. But for some reason, one of the NPCs in Last Light Inn is being dragged into every combat I get into. I'm in Moonrise Towers. What the hell, Cerys, chill out.
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