Larian I must first say that this game is truely something special, you have a masterpiece here and I cant put it down already.I really believe this game can win several awards and go down as one of the greatest rpgs of all time. ive beaten the beta 3 times now with 3 different friends, who i have all conviened they were going to buy it from the great co-op exp. I felt getting this great game for only 40$ was a steal and all my money was well spent. it reminds of a top down,co-op, turn based version of Dragon Age(which I hold in the higest regard because its an amazing take on the RPG genre). and I REALLY want to guys to succed and get all the awards you deserve for this game.
BUT this lastest patch has really made the game horrible, please do NOT leave the class/ability/talent system as it is in this new patch update. I will go on record as saying had I bought the game after this current patch update had been implemented I would have never even finished it one time, I would have tossed this out as another bad rpg attempt.
First I will go into what are actually "fair" changes.
1. level restictions on certain abilities, fair change.
2. weapons taking more action points to use if you are not at the correct level, fair change.
thats about it, everything else class related has really changed the game for the worst.
I really enjoyed the "way of" class system it allowed for much more custimaztion than the system that is in the current patch update today. Having the "way of" system allowed for you to be given bonuses for focusing in one thing which should be your choice if you want to play that way. The "way of" system also allowed for more custimaztion because if i wanted my fighter to have a spell to heal himself all i had to do was put an ability point(not stat point) into water and boom I have a fighter who can heal a bit. there was no need to put points into intellegence and I could use that stat point where I saw fit, if i wanted a warrior who could heal more I could make the choice myself to put a point into intellegence.BUT forcing me to a point a stat point into intellegence just to access the heal is very restrcing .I really really really loved you could focus on one thing right from the get go in the charecter creation screen, and fully build the charecter you wanted, without anyone forcing you to do a certain thing. I LOVED that about this game I really did. please change the system back.
With the new system I now am forced to put stat points into things I dont want to just to obatin abilities before which were not restricted that way,the previous system locked skills behind abilitiy points NOT stat points. If i want to lower my crit rate by not having any perception, that should by my choice; or if i want to have lower speed on my warrior so he goes last in combat,but still be able to have "oppurtunist" should be my choice.
I really loved that your game gave the option to truely build the charecter you wanted. but this lastest patch has turned your game into a hand holding system(hey,put this here and put that there)which has been done 100x times over.
take back your originality and give the players their freedom of choice back.
