Wbat a bunch of nonsensical whining and screaming from mass market "players" who blindly stumbled upon the fact that the game dishes out elemental resistances way too easily (a clearly unbalanced feature that didnt make the final release cut) - took that as a sign of their own personal superiority - :lol: - and ego affirmation - :lolcopter: - and now someone has taken away that from them.

How dreadful.


btw, just to point out;

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If you are talking about pure mechanical balance, then I absolutely, vehemently disagree that it is necessary, or even relevant at all, to single player games. If two mechanical decisions have the same outcome - then there is no choice.

If all choices are equal, then that is the same (functionally) as saying that there is a "right" way to play the game. If that is true then playing the game is no different then "playing" a book where you click to turn the pages rather than to make real decisions about gameplay.


This only shows a drastic misunderstanding and ignorance about what kind of gameplay an RPG game is supposed to provide and be.
(you dont even mention an RPG in that tirade, just a "game")

The balance in SP RPG games does not mean that all choices produce the same result or outcome. Or give same amounts of XP for that matter. It only means that all options you have should be similarly viable.

Not the same. Not producing exact same results.

You only jumped to that initial completely wrong assumption because of fear logic and denial of a unbalanced feature being so easily achievable (while its still easily achivable even like this, for extra laughs), and then get your whole logic distorted because of it.

And its not like its a new issue. The same ignorant, misguided, incorrect and laughably wrong assumption have been repeated for Pillars of Eternity since its kickstarter.

..usually by people who cannot understand simple sentences.

For example - you are able to through different gates in Cysael and do different quests in somewhat different order - only because the game is balanced enough to allow it. Mate.

If it wasnt. You couldnt.


But then again all this just shows fundamental misunderstanding and ignorance about a whole genre and, generally speaking a completely different spoiled brat screaming mindset.