It never ceases to amaze me how arrogant pricks on forums think they are entitled to insult others for giving their opinions. Many things in life are a matter of PERSONAL PREFERENCE and NOT right or wrong or indicative of good or bad person, get over yourselves.
I can see benefits of PAUSE based RPG over TURN based (I like both) but have to say Larian is doing a great job at 'fixing' the inherent problems. After I typed post yesterday I remembered that the 'low' AP system is NOT THAT BAD, because Larian also introduced memory and source point systems. So instead of having high level skills require high AP, they require more memory and source. This is very smart and much cooler than I originally realized. It allows low AP to control massive actions per turn of DOS1 but also allows more requirements for high level skills.
Thanks to an earlier post I realized why some people are complaining so much about every character having balance. It seems to be a multi-player/single-player issue. Playing a game as single player, I don't mind at all that different race/class are totally out of balance because 'as a team' that I totally control, it is part of the 'role playing'/fun to create a synergistic party.
BTW I still get 'glass cannon' on ranger/mage (6AP is great) but make sure rogue/fighter have spells like 'armor/frost' to remove stun and 'haste' (or other heat skill) to remove frozen. They already have synergy with ranger 'first aid' which removes mostly physical CC that can happen to melee guys. I put a point of ranger on mage to get this (and tact/retrt) and to get high ground+, worth it.
The one hard CC I hated was walking on ice, which knock you out for rest of turn and the next whole turn. Larian allows us to put nails (I had 80 nails last run too) on boots to eliminate that though, also hover and flying.
But with multi-player were you only control yourself or maybe you and 1 henchman, if you are a weaker race/class I can see that the game can get really boring. So naturally you want your favorite character to be just as powerful as everyone else. Might be one reason I hate multi-player. Anyway, seems like Larian is doing a good job at pleasing most people (except perpetual complainers) and even for them it is very mod-able. Great work Larian.
