Lightning, I sympathise:

Ok, let's do this properly.


"Walk around monster bug". So when I go to attack, sometimes instead of attacking, my character will walk around the monster and then doesn't have any more action points (or what ever they are called).

Totally agree - the new graphical stuff has made targeting extremely finicky on certain mobs. I've reported it as a bug.

The game was played on as normal with the male fighting melee and the woman fighting with magic and summoning a wolf. I'm just frustrated with the whole combat portion of the game. I've never played a game (including Alpha/Beta) that had combat this unenjoyable.

Fighter + Witch = no healing. Availability of potions [drops, notably] has been severely nerfed in this beta build.

Whereas previously I had ~40+ odd potions on finishing an alpha run, this time I have used - approx 4 potions, and have 5 left total. Consider this a balancing / loot table issue.

The current drop rates of potions is, imo, not balanced and not helping new players

I was easily able to exit out of all the gates without any warnings coming up that I should have more party members. A guide mode would have been very helpful as there is a lot to take in with the game. The tutorial dungeon felt very lacking.

There are no warnings.

RGPs with persistent worlds / old skool sensibilities are "free form". i.e. If you're lacking, look around + search for help.

It's rather like the real world, in that manner...

So I picked up a few spells and when I clicked to drag a spell out of the hot key bar, I couldn't find where the spell book was to re-add the spell. I'm talking about a spell that I learned, not a scroll. When I click and dragged my scrolls out of the hot key bar into my backpack, they appeared there. When I did the same with a few spells, I couldn't find them again to re-add them.

This stumped me for a while: there's two small buttons under your character portraits (top left). One opens the skill screen, where you can drag / drop known skills / spells etc. You can also cycle through the 1-2-3 hotbars meaning that if you've learnt a skill / spell... it's on the hotbar already. But yes, you're 100% correct: takes a bit of poking to find this out.

For the Jake murder case, I'm also unable to find the dungeon entrance. Her journal talked about the one ugly monster that Arhu has which I assume was the one at the lighthouse, yet I cannot find the secret lab there. I also searched the beach where the level 7 orc's were and an area that had a really nasty undead dog. Is her lab in the areas where there are runes (fire, air, earth, water) on the top of pillars with levers to pull?) I tried the combination the grave said and nothing happened. There are two of those rooms and I just gave up on it after at least half an hour.

Again, you're being punished by growing up on the wrong kind of game.

This isn't WoW. You do not have to find that dungeon before you progress.

In fact, you really, really cannot.

Let's make an example:

You go to school. You're 13. The quest of school is to leave a happy, well adjusted human being with good grades to get into a decent University / trade&apprenticeship / job.


You. Do. Not. Attempt. This. At. 13.


There are no glowing golden quest markers. There is no right way. Your goal is X. Getting to goal X is half the game!


My characters are both level 5 at the moment. I'm really not in the mood to playing the game and looking for this Madora NPC... just had too much of a miserable experience last night and I'm actually mentally exhausted from it all.

Madora is in the inn.
Jahan is in the library [upper floor, council building].

Neither are very hard to find, if you talk to even 50% of the town NPCs.


What we are dealing here is a total lack of familiarity with real RPGs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l62UTsRQ6qY



Another problem I have is that when I switch between the guy and the girl, they kinda run around a bit (almost looks like dancing) which has set off some traps and such. Why the hell do they do this?


Yeah, that's REALLY bugging me as well, and is new to this build. Needs a fix.


Some good points in there, mixed with an alien experience of never having played the old RPGs of lore. Stick with it, ask on the Global Chat channel & old players / testers will help you.


Chin up, RPGs get better. Once you can swim, you can enjoy the old skool stuff. And then... maybe... one day.... Roguelikes wink



p.s.


Do not, under any circumstance, play old games like System Shock. Well, do. But they were mean. wink

Last edited by SteamUser; 28/04/14 02:43 AM.