Bards Tale IV announced

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@krayzkrok

I realised that I didn’t get the Charge attack in the first time. I know that means the enemy gets the first blow, but perhaps it also influences your first round initiative? Anyway, I tried this again last night and it was straightforward when you get the Charge attack with full initiative. I’ve yet to encounter any multi-stage combat. (I play these things slowly!)

Ahhh, I misread you. You’ll see some of those eventually. They aren’t super common. I don’t necessarily mind spell points or health levels carrying straight over but the Opportunity thing is a huge screwjob. Of course, it could be a bug.

Regular combat initiative is 100% determined by whether you land the charge (as it were) or get spotted. I’m not overly fond of the mechanic, although I’m not overly not fond of it. It is very rarely janky (you’ll charge into. . . something low on the ground and just sort of sit ther. Usually you can reposition and charge again but it’s not perfect).

This is the reason I bought the game on Steam. As much as I like the idea of GoG, they’re often behind on patches by several days (and in a few cases, they don’t get the patches at all!).

I am reminded that I often stick to Steam for the same reasons. I love GoG, but for tuff like this it can be frustrating. I think there’s minimal chance this goes down the road of NMS, but I haven’t checked patch lag on other inXile titles on GoG to see how they typically do.