JMR
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The adra dragon was a pain in the ass but I was able to cheese it somewhat by skirting around it to take out the supporting xaurips and delemgans. The alpine dragon took me a bunch of tries to get that one down due to the small size of the cave and the number of supporting bad guys. I think the hardest battle in the entire game was Magran’s Faithful bounty. That shit drove me crazy even when I bumped the difficulty down the normal. I managed to finish it only by cheesing it via kiting some of the group with my ranger’s pet while I went to down those who stayed behind. Most humiliating of all are the videos on YouTube of people soloing Magran’s Faithful on Path of the Damned difficulty.
Arise!
I am going to settle in today and probably for quite a bit longer in an attempt to actually get into this.
As none of you except Scott Lufkin know, I feel as though I am terrible at real time with pause combat. If I have to, I am willing to mod the game to make it super easy so I can just watch my party play. I do really want to experience the lore/etc etc.
If anyone can point out any mods/cheats (besides the God console command, that seems like it might be Going Too Far), or knows of a fantastic way that I can just unpause a battle and watch my party beat some faces in, please feel free to share. I’ve been poking around for super easy fighting without human intervention but it appears nothing quite reaches that level.
A lot of people say to just set the game to Story mode and it plays itself, but other people say it does not. I would quite like that, gotta be honest. Is it true? Is it not true?
The more cheese the better, but I’d like to keep the ability to get achievements if possible because I’m kind of an asshole jerk when it comes to Pillars.
When it comes time to move on to PoE 2, I know that has a turn-based mode and will have no issues with that, I love turn-based.
Bring me your cheese if you have any, please.
Story mode was pretty low-intervention for me once they introduced AI scripts. I have definitely heard people struggle with even that, so I guess you might also look up build guides if you feel the need.
I know @stusser played with unlimited rests. That might get you where you want to be.
He wants the combats to autoresolve, and combining story mode with unlimited resting and AI scripts telling every character to use every ability every fight ought to take care of that!
Does the game just straight up have an unlimited resting option?
It’s been awhile, but I think I had to get a mod from the Nexus for it.
Thanks man, I’ll have a look around.
Hopefully the unlimited camping supplies mod is what I was looking for.
Just for any future lazy PoE players like me, the unlimited camping supplies mod doesn’t work on Story mode, because it’s already easy as hell.
Scuzz
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Yea, that should help. I know I just bought the camping supplies whenever I saw them.
Wrapped this up last night. I missed some things. Didn’t need any mods because Story mode is silly easy. There was a heck of a lull in the story that I fought to get through. Ask @Scotch_Lufkin how much I complained about the story at that point. Then for some reason it got really good and it stayed really good. I blew through most of it in the last three days.
Taking the day off and then Pillars 2 is calling.
robc04
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Are you going to play RTwP or turn based?
Probably RTwP on Story again. I’m thinking with the number of encounters in the world it’d take forever to get through with turn-based.
But after this I’m eyeing Pathfinder:Kingmaker on turn based and maybe DoS2. Yikes. Gimme those RPG’s right now though.
Wow, you finished it in only 17 days? What ended up being your total play time?
23 hours. When you don’t have to think about combat it’s not very long.
I’ve been messing around with Kingmaker lately. It feels very high quality, which is cool! Fuck me if it isn’t full of random bullshit that just kills you dead though, at least early on.
And, as always, D&D-alikes should start at level 4-5. Man are low levels stupid.
Fun game, though. Looking forward to checking out turn based mode which I believe is supposed to drop today alongside the console launch.
Bateau
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Amen. That’s why BG2 is vastly superior to BG1. Well, among 1000 other reasons.
Makes me wish BG3 started off at 4-5 and let players hit mid-teens.
