I would just correct Stabbey and Joebart on the matter of apples and some kind of great experience with the game.

I started playing OS much later then Stabbey, two versions of Beta ago. Or more like one since the beta got updated a few days after i started with the first version of it.

As a matter of fact, i didnt have any idea that Apples were giving poison resistance, before all this Stabbey criticism of the poison cloud arrows started.
He was writing he was dying very quickly, being one-shoted and frustratingly party wiped in one turn - while i was going through those same fights at the time, without those problems, except occasionally loosing one of the team who i would quickly resurrect so he doesnt miss on the XP.

That was at worst.
Myguys would get damaged, but not killed and they were able to walk out of those clouds.
While i always tried to keep the party positions very spread around.

Still, this made me curious and i went looking whats so different about my characters.

And then i saw what effect apples have.
Which was just one part of it - since im almost always using Earth magic and almost always have various parts of equipment that provide some protection from poison or Earth magic types of damage - which poison is.

In the current release, the vendors have too many items with poison resistance through the start. Almost all boots, helmets and those... things you put on the hands are mostly poison resistant.
And thats the whole story of my supposed huge experience with the game.

Plus, of course, JoeBart should remember the Snowhite.