Ouch. I feel ya. I hope you can rekindle your interest in the event you have to start over to get the extra goodies from the Co8 stuff.
At least you’ll be able to reselect any characters you rolled up/
Wow, that was rough! I started a new game and went to the Welkwood Bog. I created a fighter, cleric, rogue and wizard so they are all level 1. I didn’t take any of the NPCs from the town. Killed a group of kobolds without too many problems. Found a passage that led inside the crypt. Lost to another group of kobolds but won on my second try.
I let the wandering monsters pass without engaging and got to the lich when he was by himself. He wrecked me many times, but I finally beat him. I needed to rest and around 8 giant rats attacked and wrecked me. Reload. That happened again several times and I finally was able to rest.
Lost to the kobold seargent and the other enemies a couple times and finally beat them. Went back to town and finished tow quest and made it to level 2.
I’m not sure if I should have created a fifth character for my party, or hired an NPC but it was tough. Not sure my group of 4 level 2 characters will be able to beat those giant frogs on the way to the moat house.
I always use the front end to let me have six hand made characters. I can’t imagine trying with only four, especially early with fragile low level dnd characters.
I read somewhere that someone played with 3 so I figured 4 was OK. Maybe not :-)
I did go to the moat house and killed the frogs this time with my 4 level 2 characters, so hopefully they won’t fail me. At least they will level up faster if they don’t die!
This game does NOT want you resting in anyplace other than green. Resting in yellow will kick the crap out of you !
What, that gnome illusionist with 2hp can’t take it?
Wow that final encounter in the moat house is a doozy. I’m not even coming close to winning that one. I didn’t have too much trouble with the rest of the encounters in the moat house. I died in a couple but beat them with a retry or two.
Well hot damn! You don’t need to kill all of the guards.
Eventually a cleric came out and started fighting. After I did some damage to him he surrendered. I never would have beat all of the guards.
I’m not sure how far I’ll get since Pathfinder Kingmaker will be out soon.
So is this game still worth giving a shot? I got it when it first came out but had some technical issues and put it aside. Is the Co8 patch the main extra I need and I’m good to go?
Other people know more than me, but I’d say get the Co8 mod with the extra content. The vanilla quests in the first town are horribly boring. Co8 adds a combat oriented quest you can do to get some experience and skip the boring initial town quests.
I decided to go with Temple Plus, because I wanted to see the Favored Soul. But I think am not sure I will use it.
But I probably won’t play it, because of Pathfinder.
OK you’ve got me interested in this. What is the difference between Temple plus and Co8? I never played the game but have had it forever.
This was a pretty cool ending to my adventures in the moathouse...
My party was half dead and I had accepted Lareth’s surrender, which I only did so because I was in such a weakened state. I went to open his cabinet and a dialog popped up asking if I wanted him to lead me to the Temple of EE. I said I wasn’t ready - I wanted to loot his cabinet. I tried again and the same prompt opened up. So, I went and healed my 2 unconscious guys with some potions. Then my newly conscious cleric healed my fighter and himself.
Now when I got the prompt I told Lareth to leave my party and I got an option to kill him. With many of his guards dead and me standing next to him while he was injured I decided to now fight him. I charmed one of his guards, killed him and finished off the two remaining guards. So cool, I rid myself of the evil bastard and now I should be able to look his cabinet.
Temple Plus goes over top of 8, and adds subraces, prestige classes and Favored Soul. Not sure if it does anything else.
I got ambushed by some characters I never met, so the whole encounter didn’t make any sense. They spoke like we met.
I think it fixes some engine related bugs. There may also be a planned feature of upping the level of all enemies by 1 to make the game harder. (Without changing the amount of XP you gain.)
Man, very cool to hear about Temple+ - I have to try it. I don’t think I’ve ever even done the new material in Co8 (they added the other city with the brothel, didn’t they?).
Where is this purchased?
Better phrased: How do I make this happen on my PC?
GOG has it, I believe.