I’ve been meaning to play this since it came out, but have been distracted by various other things. Just when I’m about to dive back in (I think I finished the tutorial last time?), I read that an “enhanced edition” is on its way.
Is this version particularly janky, ie waiting for that enhanced edition would be advisable?
From what I can tell the enhanced edition is coming in the fall - Though its also possible that this “enhanced” edition is pretty much a marketing term and will be pretty identical to the original edition + 6 month worth of patches?
Personally, I am waiting for the controller support, which I suspect will be arriving around the time it launches on consoles.
The game is already pretty good - while there are issues, its pretty much impossible not to have issues in games this complex, its very playable from start to end.
Yeah, WotR is great right now. They’ve added a few more glitches with the latest patch (I have loading screens that show a blank white picture, for instance) but it’s a solid game with lots of replayability. I’ve not read anything about an enhanced edition, but their intent seems to be to support the game for a while.
I almost agree. I do love WotR quite a lot, but honestly Pillars 2 is still my go to. I’m constantly tempted to play it again despite having done so three times now. The only reason I haven’t is I’m saving my next play through to try out on the Steam Deck, hopefully next year. I just really like how Pillars 2 looks and plays, how it feels and how the mechanics, classes, and story plays out in a big way - it super gels with me, all of it, though I know I’m somewhat unique in that.
What’s the worst thing in Pathfinder? Playing level 1.
Let’s make a whole adventure where you’re basically level 1. But also you have no gear, so it’s like level one only fucking worse in every way.
I just want to get through it so it can connect with the main game or whatever, but I’m about to give up on that.
There are some neat ideas in it, but “you don’t even have fucking weapons or armor” is not one of them. They took the worst part of D&D games, a part that is almost universally skipped in the first 5 minutes, and extended it over hours.
This is a huge thread, so please forgive my search skills for failing me. I’m about to take a 17 hour flight and I’m going to spend a bunch of it playing this game. What are the “don’t miss” mods to set my game up with?
Game 14 done. I did it on Hard mode. And it was hard. I had a build in mind of a gnomish, DEX-based duelist wielding a dueling sword. Which is a terrible idea for hard mode. DEX builds are inferior to straight-up STR builds with the power attack → improved cleaving finish feat path.
I made up for it by going Trickster and switching to Legend to keep all the cool Trickster feats. The game was pretty hard at the lower levels, as expected, especially the swarms. I used Ember with Ascendent Element (Fire) at M1 to handle them with Scorching Ray and a Wand of Molten Orb.
The difficulty finally started easing up around level 13 just before M4, and got pretty easy after that. It was still hard, but by paying attention and focusing on core strategies it was manageable. I one-shot the Pathetic Quasit and the Abyssal Conspiracy. Playful Darkness took 4-5 tries.
Threshold wasn’t bad, though the Desolating Gallu Stormcallers were worse than the Vavakias, as they could get off three spells a round including a Tsunami. Khorramzadeh went down in one round. The allies who turn up to help on Legend provided a useful distraction.
It was all pretty great until Areelu, who turned out to be quite difficult. Especially on Legend, as you have to fight her with the Shadow, who buffs Areelu with a Mythic song that heals ~25 health every time she makes a save. Which is always. With her high native resists, blasting her with an Empowered Hellfire Ray would… just heal her. I even had to turn off melee abilities like Blinding Critical. Anything that could be saved against I couldn’t use. Eventually, several rounds after the Shadow dies, the song will fall off. And magic missile doesn’t get a save so MM actually contributed a lot of my damage to her.
Now for game 15? Probably going with a palette-cleansing STR build this time. But then, I’ve never played a rogue…
Oh, but I need to (finally) finish the Inevitable Excess first, as it confers a significant bonus in the base game!
I’ve always felt a bit neutral about the layer in the two Pathfinder games. They had some interest, gave extra perks, and playing them on an easy difficulty makes them not frustrating at all, but I would feel just as well if the layer vanished from the game entirely.
I wonder if they’re asking for the purpose of DLC or if this is something they are thinking about for their next game and want to know what people think of it.
I finished Inevitable Excess on Core, then had to go back and do it again on Hard because Hard adds a third reward to the main campaign (they’ve since added a fourth reward for beating it on Unfair but I’m not doing that).
Now I need to beat it again as a Lich because there’s a Lich reward in the base game. At least I have to do it before I start my melee Lich run.
