|
Mazz posted:I’m gonna be honest I don’t think I’ve ever had a serious head injury happen. I’ve had the occasional broken nose it that’s really it. I don’t think I could ever see Steel Brow as a pick with only 11 perk points, but I default colossus on everyone so maybe that’s it? I’ve had guys die and 1-2 of them probably got head shot but I’ve spent like 300 days in this game fighting in the north full of spiked maces and the head injuries just aren’t there. Despite what the tooltip says, steel brow isn't really for preventing injuries, it's for preventing one-shots. It reduces head damage from critical (1.5x) to regular (1.0x) damage. High penetration weapons like heavy crossbows or berserker chains can one-shot your guys when they land a head shot unless they have a huge HP pool or steel brow. If your guy has plenty of HP, yeah, you can safely skip it. Alternatively, you can grab colossus instead, which is more of an all-around survivability perk.
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2019 21:19
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 4, 2024 12:58 |
|
|
Vox Nihili posted:Despite what the tooltip says, steel brow isn't really for preventing injuries, it's for preventing one-shots. It reduces head damage from critical (1.5x) to regular (1.0x) damage. High penetration weapons like heavy crossbows or berserker chains can one-shot your guys when they land a head shot unless they have a huge HP pool or steel brow. That makes sense, thanks. Yeah I put a lot of merit in HP (and resolve) so I usually end up with a lot of both on all my keepers. Wizard Styles posted:I haven't done it but making new items should be very easy as long as you have art assets that you can use. Good to know. There's a tunic mod on the nexus and yeah it looks like adding the items to the lists is a lot more work than just making them. I wonder if you just add it to the crafting list if it's not too bad though. Might have to see how that mod does it, he has both craftable and buyable versions. For now I've just been using BBEdit to give my guys a few extra perks when they get up to 14-15. Feels good to grab a second mastery or pathfinder/footwork and not feel penalized for it, but past 13 it starts to get a little too powerful so some sort of middle ground like a potion to do it would be cool. EDIT: And it sucks to do manually Mazz fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Jun 6, 2019 |
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2019 21:25
|
|
|
I wish there existed a mod that would remove loving alps from the game. Every time they appear, they just suck the fun out of it. I purposely avoided any jobs that would involve them, but now I'm ambushed by six of them, which means it's time to say goodbye to this company. I really preferred them before the change. They were unfun, but also manageable, if you remembered to spread your soldiers properly. Now they summon like 14 nightmares before I even get to move, giving me no choice but to fight them and leaving me with no action points to even move. At best I can kill two shadows with each brother, which just means the alp will summon them back in the next turn. Dogs don't work anymore, because they tend to attack the nightmares and they got nerfed in the last expansion, having only two attacks with lowered chance to hit.
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2019 21:39
|
|
|
Also Quick Hands no longer lets you switch from sword-and-board to 2h weapon for free 
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2019 21:52
|
|
|
Gantolandon posted:I wish there existed a mod that would remove loving alps from the game. Every time they appear, they just suck the fun out of it. I purposely avoided any jobs that would involve them, but now I'm ambushed by six of them, which means it's time to say goodbye to this company. I've heard that a cleaver berserker with whips can murder alps but I haven't personally confirmed.
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2019 21:57
|
|
|
Honestly alps were better before they changed them. It used to take a long time but was pretty easy. Now it takes a long time and is annoying as gently caress.
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2019 22:14
|
|
|
Gantolandon posted:I wish there existed a mod that would remove loving alps from the game. Every time they appear, they just suck the fun out of it. I purposely avoided any jobs that would involve them, but now I'm ambushed by six of them, which means it's time to say goodbye to this company. Try retreating on your first round. Seems to just nope out of the fight.
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2019 22:18
|
|
|
 
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2019 23:02
|
|
|
Finally got a Prophet of Davkul. I wish you had some choice in who it was since I've heard you can only have one. The ability is awesome, but I don't really want it on my GS-wielding guy that I'm trying to abuse Adrenaline-Indomitable-Recover with.Gantolandon posted:Every time they appear, they just suck the fun out of it. I purposely avoided any jobs that would involve them, but now I'm ambushed by six of them, which means it's time to say goodbye to this company. If you Retreat from Alps, they leave you alone and let you escape. I agree they're stupidly overtuned, but at least you never have to fight them if you don't want to.
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2019 23:11
|
|
|
I've discovered the secret to triggering sacrifices with the Cultists. Just take a caravan mission so you have no chance of getting to a tavern, and it will trigger immediately.
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2019 23:12
|
|
|
Update: Mission accomplished Def recommend kiting into bandits, they bought me like 8 rounds of freedom. Also kiting strat in action. 
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2019 23:26
|
|
|
Vox Nihili posted:Despite what the tooltip says, steel brow isn't really for preventing injuries, it's for preventing one-shots. It reduces head damage from critical (1.5x) to regular (1.0x) damage. High penetration weapons like heavy crossbows or berserker chains can one-shot your guys when they land a head shot unless they have a huge HP pool or steel brow. As per the last round of advice on this: Battle Brothers has tools to get a brother out of all kinds of nasty situations. But there's nothing that can save a brother from Suddenly Dead. Talents that prevent Suddenly Dead are always good.
|
|
#
?
Jun 6, 2019 23:31
|
|
|
 Set me back pretty much everything I had, but I'd say it was worth it. Also, is it just me or did Imgur remove their Edit Image option with the latest UI overhaul?
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2019 00:45
|
|
|
I think this is a testament to how OP high level barbarians are: I got the barbarian king event, and the follow up against the untoward. It attaches me to the the kings army like a caravan, and we move north. Kings army runs into a 14 orc party lead by a warlord. Kills the orc party with no losses on the strategic map. Get to the event battle, and the kings army kills all of them without my input, I literally hit end all turns 10 times and just watched the battle (other than 1 dude who got tossed into me by the unhold). The armored snow unhold wasn't under the beastmaster's control because it probably bugged out as part of the event, but it then also killed all of the remaining barbarians and I had to kill it to finish the battle.  Also that sword is ridiculous Mazz fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Jun 7, 2019 |
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2019 00:56
|
|
|
Wizard Styles posted:Let me know when you do because I keep changing things - I made Hexen always drop a potion like we talked about for example - and you might want some of the changes I added since last time. Send me the new files whenever. We have sideways walked into a mod now.
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2019 07:27
|
|
|
Wafflecopper posted:Is there such a thing as too much MA? Yeah man he's squishy AF. Jam hp and fat I to him every level. Also lol greedy swordmaster. Rip your wallet.
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2019 07:30
|
|
|
Gridlocked posted:Yeah man he's squishy AF. Jam hp and fat I to him every level. Yeah that guy is getting shot in the face and dying 100%
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2019 13:54
|
|
|
kidkissinger posted:Yeah that guy is getting shot in the face and dying 100% 1v1s a goblin, dies to stab
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2019 14:07
|
|
|
Ever chase down a fleeing mercenary archer only to find out he’s a dagger master and murders your dude with 3 punctures? Because I may have
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2019 14:23
|
|
|
RUN THEM DOWN oh no this was a mistake
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2019 14:24
|
|
|
This is where being lazy helps. If my archers don't take them down before they get out of range, gently caress it, they can go.
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2019 14:59
|
|
|
Mazz posted:Ever chase down a fleeing mercenary archer only to find out he’s a dagger master and murders your dude with 3 punctures? Because I may have It is extremely silly that a lot of ranged units are actually more dangerous in melee but there you go
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2019 18:32
|
|
|
RabidWeasel posted:It is extremely silly that a lot of ranged units are actually more dangerous in melee but there you go I remember thinking oh poo poo he hit with both, that was closAND THEN HE STABBED HIM AGAIN EDIT: on a similar note though mercenary parties are a pretty good source for 210-300 armor once you are comfortably clearing out raider/reaver groups. If you can find one that’s like 11-12 strong but with 3-4 dogs you can generally get them down pretty safely and net yourself a sellsword armor or solid weapon or 2. Can save yourself some money since common gear drops kind of tap out at ~140 and a lot of the good undead/barbarian stuff has high fatigue compared to the real stuff. Once I noticed this I jumped up from ~225 average to ~275 pretty fast. Also another strong point of morale bombing, everyone in direwolf adorned armor can surround and morale break guys that would be tough to kill otherwise. I pull that off on Warlords/Hedge Knights a good amount. Mazz fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Jun 7, 2019 |
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2019 18:40
|
|
|
a low level brigand landed two puncture stabs and while it didn't kill my bro took him right down to the licky bits of hp. reloaded that autosave just to kill the fucker twice. the audacity of trying to kill grim snorri the gravedigger with a knife.
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2019 20:30
|
|
|
Anyone tried the new Shamshir and Scimitar weapons? They seem to be mainly for killing unarmored or light armored opponents, but since they're mostly obtained from weaponsmiths, I haven't really had the chance to use them much.
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2019 20:41
|
|
|
You start with one of the lower tier ones as the Merchants. It's a slightly worse Falchion, for the most part. Nothing special.
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2019 20:42
|
|
|
The higher level one is basically a noble sword (same 45-50, think same % too) with a cleaver-ish secondary vs riposte. Neat in a way but not really outstanding. The secondary lowers injury threshold IIRC so paired with crippling strikes it could make a pretty good injury bro. Also another thing I just noticed is that 2 handed falbrand sword thing only uses 4 AP per attack, like 2H cleavers. I thought it was just like a lovely longsword but it might be pretty useful depending on when you get it. Mazz fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Jun 7, 2019 |
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2019 20:45
|
|
|
Warbrand slashes are also using the actual Slash attack, so +10% to-hit. It's not a great weapon and I'd pretty much never use it over a Longsword, but if a Raider drops one early and you've got a guy with the stats to wield it you can get some poo poo done.
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2019 20:53
|
|
|
Apparently the latest patch gave Fallen Heroes Resilient. All Barbarians already had it. So did Sergeants, Hedge Knights and Lindwurms. I hope nobody ever made a Two-handed Mace specialist thinking the 2 turn stun would be really good to control tough priority targets because most of these priority targets now either have Resilient or are just flat out immune to stuns (Orc Berserkers/Warriors/Warlords, Schrats, Unholds). It's good against Knights, Zweihänders and Necrosavants I guess but I think that's all there is.
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2019 23:06
|
|
|
Well the Kraken feels like the least enjoyable thing I've ever done in a video game. I like how having archers is a complete waste for this fight, really works in a Lone Wolf game.
|
|
#
?
Jun 8, 2019 01:16
|
|
|
 Gero is my banner bro. Also a Cripple. Bernfried is a Nimble Overwhelm bro who does not appreciate cleavers or Adrenaline at all. Ferdinand is an archer. Hadebrand is a polearm dude. Game, please. 
|
|
#
?
Jun 8, 2019 05:17
|
|
|
lmao a barbarian chosen just used rotation with an armoured unhold, wtf
|
|
#
?
Jun 8, 2019 07:17
|
|
|
The black monolith feels like it punishes archers too, looks like I’m changing up the group.
|
|
#
?
Jun 8, 2019 07:37
|
|
|
vyelkin posted:lmao a barbarian chosen just used rotation with an armoured unhold, wtf  I got back into this game after not playing since the Lindwurm expansion. I am terrible and lost about a dozen campaigns in a row before finally upping my starting gold and having a pretty good run. I'm only up to a handful of scale armor and decent weapons but I recently fought off two groups of undead led by necromancers and only lost a couple weak bros, then wrecked a group of Unholds. Pretty sure everyone will die horribly soon, but there's so much new stuff to check out I don't really mind.
|
|
#
?
Jun 8, 2019 07:54
|
|
|
The original Tryout talents mod got updated to use mod hooks so it should be compatible with other player.cnut files supposedly, I'm testing it now
|
|
#
?
Jun 8, 2019 15:11
|
|
|
Mazz posted:The original Tryout talents mod got updated to use mod hooks so it should be compatible with other player.cnut files supposedly, I'm testing it now The big thing for me would be if it became compatible with expanded obituaries.
|
|
#
?
Jun 8, 2019 15:34
|
|
|
Hieronymous Alloy posted:The big thing for me would be if it became compatible with expanded obituaries. You're in luck! They are all using mod hooks now. Script Hooks I went mod hunting today and found some good ones. I'm going to link a lot of the ones I'm probably gonna use. Sticking to mainly UI stuff if I can, at least for now, but there are some decent item changing ones on there too if you look around. Tryout Talents The original guy updated his with mod hooks so it works with other stuff now, also has a 2x cost version. The Alternative version doesn't use mod hooks! Better Obituary Shows a lot more detail in the obit page, including bros lost to events and stuff. Veteran level perks Adds some randomized stat rolls for levels above 11 and also gives a perk point every 3 levels after 11, more important it's two seperate files! Auto End Turn Toggle Adds a toggle to the top bar for the automatically ending turn at >2 AP, so you can use adrenaline and such on those characters. Company Tabards Little bit heavier, but it adds tabards to shops and the taxi that boost armor and resolve. Pretty well made though, and a good thing to look at if you want to add items. Better Combat Log Expands size + shows rolls for morale checks and such if you care to know Inventory Stats Shows base attribute numbers so you don't need to strip and reorders them if you care to Settlement Tooltips Tooltips shows what things like "Well Supplied" is actually doing to a settlement. Better King's Guard You can get a bro from an event that takes a while to heal only to be kind of mediocre as hell, especially for his salary. This pushes him closer to (but under) a Hedge Knight's stats. Settlement proximity prices Shows the sell and buy modifiers in the tooltips of towns as you get close, also a full map version if you want Conflict Pause Adds auto-pause when you spot enemies on the strat map Longer Endgame Crises Lets you make the endgame crisis 2x/4x/infinite, definitely trying out 2x at least. (****this file is kind of old, not sure if that will be problematic) Easier Lone Wolf This one is more of a personal for this 500+ day game, I'm not abandoning my archers because the legendary locations penalize them , YMMVI tried out the event frequency mod, and it's either broken or is limiting the events so I'm passing on that for now. Mazz fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Jun 8, 2019 |
|
#
?
Jun 8, 2019 16:25
|
|
|
Mazz posted:
gently caress that explains alot I'm my latest game. Cultist sacrifice event just stopped happening.
|
|
#
?
Jun 8, 2019 19:46
|
|
|
CrowdControl posted:gently caress that explains alot I'm my latest game. Cultist sacrifice event just stopped happening. I’m not 100% on that but 1. It felt off and repeating the same events a lot and 2. It edits events.cnut and hasn’t been updated in a couple months. That later thing is a big red flag to me, at least from my TW2 modding. That file could cover a whole lot so without opening it I’d rather be safe.
|
|
#
?
Jun 8, 2019 20:58
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 4, 2024 12:58 |
|
|
 I have a lot of respect for that Brigand Raider but...go home, dude. Just go.
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2019 00:47
|
|