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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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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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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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This is because they nerfed the headband from EA because INT isn’t allowed to thrive 
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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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Apr 28, 2024 02:15
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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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Apr 28, 2024 02:16
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SH is so hot in a hat
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exquisite tea posted:Despite being named "Lump the Enlightened" the ogres are not particularly smart about avoiding the lava! 👀
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The Little Kielbasa posted: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. Wish sucks in 5e, Elminister knows cause he looks at his character sheet each edition.
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Janissary Hop posted:Wish sucks in 5e, Elminister knows cause he looks at his character sheet each edition. you know... I would prefer not to speculate upon the state of Ed Greenwood's actual real life character sheets and their state of decay/robustness of dippin' sauce collections
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bird with big dick posted:SH is so hot in a hat yeah once you start messing with changing hair on companions you quickly realize those bangs are camo
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Apr 28, 2024 07:18
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Every female character gets that sassy glowup hair while wearing pointy hats, even Jaheira.
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Im at the very end of Act 2 with my meaniehead Durge. Kressa Bonedaughter is so freaking good. also, I knew what would happen and I killed Mizora in her pod and Wyll had an ignoble offscreen death but I went with it hehe 
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exquisite tea posted:Every female character gets that sassy glowup hair while wearing pointy hats, even Jaheira. I spec'd Laezel into Archery and rn she's wearing a leather cowboy hat 😳
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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. poo poo like this and bad UI are the reason why I'll never play these long games in any kind of iron man/honour mode.
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Any particular recommendations for an origins playthough? Tempted by Shart for doing a comedy Minty romance and general shar fuckery.
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Shadowheart is a decent origin if you want to do an evil run without going Durge. You can even go something like 5 Gloomstalker / 4 Trickery Domain / 3 Assassin if you want to maintain her Sharran skillset while still bringing some main character damage. Nice thing about doing an evil origin run is that you get to bring all the baddies (SH, Lae'zel, Astarion, Minty) without having to switch them out. Her origin-specific scenes aren't as robust as Astarion's, though.
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That's cool, I've not done an evil run yet, but also I'm not sure I have the stomach for it.
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I'm starting to dread big fights - they're always so loving slow. I really don't get why enemy turns can't be sped up. There's a mod that does this but doesnt work as of current patch.
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Kawabata posted:I'm starting to dread big fights - they're always so loving slow. I really don't get why enemy turns can't be sped up. There's a mod that does this but doesnt work as of current patch. during large fights i open tiktok and watch a few videos while enemy number 83736261 casts fury and i wait to hear the “bonk” i associate with my turn
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Although the cavern under the village is probably a bad place for me to be I did manage to survive the fight with the phase spiders and the weird humanoid spidery dudes. I handed out all my poison antidotes before hand but even so Shadowheart was downed by the last spider. If there's more spiders in here only my PC has poison resistance, but... I have a horn full of ogres just in case. EDIT: The fight with the giant spider took about four reloads because I didn't understand the limitations of the ogres, like climbing. I wound up sneaking my whole team down to the lowest level to start the fight and then summoning the ogres. It was still a mess but I had to laugh in the middle of it when one of the ogres who had been getting poisoned by a horde of little spiders booted one into a chasm. When the giant spider teleported among us all I had the githyanki trip her and the imp familiar frighten her and then she didn't get any more actions before everyone managed to stomp her to death. At the end I tricked the ogre boss into sticking around for another battle, but I hope I get another chance to avoid paying since it's up to 2,500 gold now. Dick Trauma fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Apr 28, 2024 |
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BlazetheInferno posted:...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. Okay, so I've moved on a bit, doing other stuff around Act 2, and this is STILL HAPPENING. I assumed the mod I use to make my party members AI-controlled was behind it somehow, but it's still happening after disabling that mod. Anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing this? The game trying to load all the way over to Last Light Inn from the other side of the map and back once a round is really getting irritating.
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BlazetheInferno posted:Okay, so I've moved on a bit, doing other stuff around Act 2, and this is STILL HAPPENING. I assumed the mod I use to make my party members AI-controlled was behind it somehow, but it's still happening after disabling that mod. Anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing this? The game trying to load all the way over to Last Light Inn from the other side of the map and back once a round is really getting irritating. does it have anything to do with failing the background constitution check while you’re talking to marcus? idk just spitballing.
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cash crab posted:does it have anything to do with failing the background constitution check while you’re talking to marcus? idk just spitballing. I dunno what check that could be - it didn't matter if I was on the other end of the zone fighting Shadows, or in the Jails of Moonrise Towers, Cerys is always in the combat, in the initiative orders, while all the way back in Last Light Inn. It gets to her turn, goes to a black screen as it goes to load over there for her turn, she does whatever (probably passes her turn), and it brings the camera back over to where we are for the actual battle before even finishing loading into Last Light Inn, and it has to load the terrain around me back in again because my computer is old and slow.
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wait so like, if you’re in moonrise prison, she’s joining the fight all the way from the inn??
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cash crab posted:wait so like, if you’re in moonrise prison, she’s joining the fight all the way from the inn?? Look, remote work is becoming more and more accepted these days.
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