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Draile posted:The rest of it happens in huge text dumps on Disc 2 and it's all gibberish. Which is what happens when it doesn't get spread out far enough that you can digest it.
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Cirosan posted:Playing Ultima 7 (GOG version) for the first time using the Exult port. The wiki page hasn't been updated since like 2011, so is there anything crucial I should know? It's a FedEx game. Get this for guy, get a bear rear end for the other guy in the next town over. At one point the fetch quests are nested about five deep. Unless Exult fixes it, it has a showstopper bug where sleeping at an inn can cause a key to vanish. Best not to.
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Hank Morgan posted:I love U7 but it is piss easy from a mechanics point of view. Treat it more like a graphic adventure with RPG elements. Most of the stuff is okay on the wiki although it mixes tips for Black Gate, Serpent Isle and even Ultima 6. I don't see any tips in there for Ultima 6? I haven't played the games, but I'd like to fix the wiki page, so if you could make it super clear which tips belong where, that'd be great. And does it make sense to have Serpent Isle and Back Gate on their own pages, or are they expansion packs for Ultima 7?
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Centipeed posted:I don't see any tips in there for Ultima 6? I haven't played the games, but I'd like to fix the wiki page, so if you could make it super clear which tips belong where, that'd be great. It's been a loooooong time since I played Ultima 6, but here's what I can recall... At the start of the game, Lord British will ask you some questions. The answers are in the manual. It's pretty oldschool, you need to grind to level up. Your overall course of action should be: assemble a party, get them good gear, grind to a decent level. Get the runes and mantras, cleanse the shrines. (the mantras are the same as previous Ultimas) Find a pirate dude who wants a map, do his looooong quest. Take the silver tablet to the chick in the college, do what she says to meet the gargoyles. Cooperate with them. There is a mouse. You need her at one point but she's otherwise useless. A wisp will give you the spell "Armageddon". Do not cast it. If you find a book titled The Big Book of Mantras, take it to the wisp for a ton of gold. Savor the Plot Twist 2/3 of the way through. Nowadays it's de riguer for an RPG to have seventeen plot twists, but this is the first game I remember where the bad guy turns out to be not the bad guy.
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Centipeed posted:And does it make sense to have Serpent Isle and Back Gate on their own pages, or are they expansion packs for Ultima 7?
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Now that I have a functioning PC again I'm considering really making a go of Arcanum. I played around with a half-Orc with the ugly stick background, and while it was kinda funny at first, convincing literally everyone I talked to to even give me the time of day started to grate while I was still tooling around Shrouded Hills, so I'm thinking of starting over. A couple of questions: -if I'm planning on going mostly melee with a dabbling of magic, is it still worth it to get Harm? Also, what are the actual worthwhile non-combat magics to get? -speaking of character progression, is this the kind of game where I can start heavy on melee and slowly veer into wizard supremacy, or will I gently caress myself? -why do my followers keep picking up random trash and how do I make them stop? Put down that random piece of filament, Virgil. -are the gear restrictions the unusually-sized races deal with worth the hassle of playing as them? -should I be bothering to boost persuade/etc, or will magic just let me ignore all that mess like in every other fantasy RPG? Also, is this like Fallout where there are a bunch of trap skills? I'm guessing gambling doesn't see a lot of action. Also, on an unrelated note, is there any reason not to get the Deus Ex Human Revolution Director's Cut over the augmented edition or whatever?
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Wolfsheim posted:Also, on an unrelated note, is there any reason not to get the Deus Ex Human Revolution Director's Cut over the augmented edition or whatever? The director's cut has some weird bugs that the regular game doesn't, and it doesn't seem like they're going to be fixed any time soon. The new game + stuff is kind of nice, and the commentary is pretty interesting, even though it's pretty hastily added. If they're the same price, I'd go with the director's cut, but it's not without its flaws.
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Wolfsheim posted:Now that I have a functioning PC again I'm considering really making a go of Arcanum. I played around with a half-Orc with the ugly stick background, and while it was kinda funny at first, convincing literally everyone I talked to to even give me the time of day started to grate while I was still tooling around Shrouded Hills, so I'm thinking of starting over. A couple of questions: It's been a long while, so apply a bit of salt here. - Harm is a great attack spell and remains useful throughout the game to snipe dangerous foes. Any build that uses magic to any degree should get it. - You can do that, but bear in mind that there is a ton more skills to buy, than you will likely ever have points for, so starting heavy on melee means you'll never be an ubermage. That said, magic works great as support and you need some weapon skill to deal with technological foes anyway. You main issue is likely going to be how much int vs strength to get. - Alas, that one you have to live with. Best option is to beat them to it and toss things in a trash can or some other container to prevent them picking it up again. - Normal odd-sized armor is easy enough to get, but good pieces later in the game are rare. There are a few, but I'd probably avoid it, at least for a first character. - Gambling is a trap skill. Expert haggle can be worth it to force shops to buy anything, rather than having to run to several places to empty your inventory. Pickpocket is also a bit useless, since you'll rarely get anything but junk, and gold is generally plentiful. Pursuasion is worth getting. One of your guys should also have Spot Trap as there are some nasty ones here and there.
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Centipeed posted:I don't see any tips in there for Ultima 6? I haven't played the games, but I'd like to fix the wiki page, so if you could make it super clear which tips belong where, that'd be great. There was a single tip for U6 mixed in that I had excluded from my post. I've edited my original post to make the division between the U7 series of games clearer. I'd keep both games on the same page. They are practically identical from a mechanics point of view and the Gog.com version just includes them as a single package anyway.
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Wolfsheim posted:Now that I have a functioning PC again I'm considering really making a go of Arcanum. I played around with a half-Orc with the ugly stick background, and while it was kinda funny at first, convincing literally everyone I talked to to even give me the time of day started to grate while I was still tooling around Shrouded Hills, so I'm thinking of starting over. A couple of questions: When you play melee you're definitely going to get into magic because melee makes tech mostly obsolete/tedious. The gear restrictions for weird sized people can be severe, but half-orc is such a beast in melee it's not really going to matter. I recall correctly, persuade is still pretty useful, I wore an oversized smoking jacket for most of the game for exactly this reason. For magic, get the buffs and heals first, and if you're having problems in the mid-game the summons can be useful distractions--your ogre will do disgusting amounts of damage. Arcanum is a pretty fun game but magic is far easier to use than the tech stuff because it has a better power-curve, it's more powerful in the long run, and it doesn't require micro-management. And Deus Ex Human Revolution is an awful game, regardless of edition. Horrible boss fights, embarrassing level design, clunky shooting, and an upgrade tree that removes all interesting choices. Smerdyakov fucked around with this message at 21:18 on May 13, 2014 |
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Wolfsheim posted:Now that I have a functioning PC again I'm considering really making a go of Arcanum. I played around with a half-Orc with the ugly stick background, and while it was kinda funny at first, convincing literally everyone I talked to to even give me the time of day started to grate while I was still tooling around Shrouded Hills, so I'm thinking of starting over. A couple of questions: There's an unofficial patch going around, but I haven't been able to locate it. Might want to ask in the RPG thread or something.
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It's worth noting that this is most definitely a minority opinion, and not crazy helpful to somebody playing the game for the first time.
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Wolfsheim posted:-if I'm planning on going mostly melee with a dabbling of magic, is it still worth it to get Harm? Also, what are the actual worthwhile non-combat magics to get? Harm is very worthwhile. It's one of the most powerful ranged attacks in the game. It'll be very effective even if you mostly pump strength and other melee stuff. The Black Necromantic college also has Conjure Spirit as the second spell, and that has a couple of cute uses throughout the game. Charm from the Mental college can get you through some dialogue checks, if you don't have the stats to deal with people. The next most useful spell is Teleportation, but that's the final spell in Conveyance, so you'd need to invest heavily into magic to get there. Wolfsheim posted:-speaking of character progression, is this the kind of game where I can start heavy on melee and slowly veer into wizard supremacy, or will I gently caress myself? The biggest problem will be the stat requirements to learn the higher level spells. Melee/caster hybrid is very viable though, I remember having a great time with a fighter using the Temporal school. Hasten is a great spell, and Tempus Fugit is goddamn ridiculous. Wolfsheim posted:-why do my followers keep picking up random trash and how do I make them stop? Put down that random piece of filament, Virgil. I don't remember if anything can be done about that. Just clear their inventories at town and sell all that crap I guess. Wolfsheim posted:-are the gear restrictions the unusually-sized races deal with worth the hassle of playing as them? It's fine. It only affects the torso slot, so you won't be gimped all that much. Wolfsheim posted:-should I be bothering to boost persuade/etc, or will magic just let me ignore all that mess like in every other fantasy RPG? Also, is this like Fallout where there are a bunch of trap skills? I'm guessing gambling doesn't see a lot of action. The Charm spell can help you in some cases, but if you want to be diplomatic, you'll have to put some points down. Persuasion is a great skill in that if you max it out and do the expert training quest, any recruitable party member in the game will join you, no questions asked, all restrictions are lifted. There are traps around, but you can mostly just run through them. Gambling sucks.
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Wolfsheim posted:Now that I have a functioning PC again I'm considering really making a go of Arcanum. I played around with a half-Orc with the ugly stick background, and while it was kinda funny at first, convincing literally everyone I talked to to even give me the time of day started to grate while I was still tooling around Shrouded Hills, so I'm thinking of starting over. A couple of questions: Harm is pretty baller early on, and you don't have to really invest anything besides a single point to get it, so it's well worth it. There's a lot of nice little buffs you can get like agility of fire or whatever its called, that just boosts your dex. As for purely noncombat spells there's an unlock spell that will get you through pretty much any chest/door. There is an invisibility spell if you ever need to sneak around. There are a couple temporal spells like haste or tempitus fugit that will let you go faster, I just cast it in town and zoom around. Then there's the all important most useful spell in the game, teleport. You will spend a fair amount of time traveling between places, especially if you want to do the ancient god quest, get dog(well worth not being able to ride on trains) or just discover everything you can. Teleport takes you straight to any place you have already discovered and it's absolutely wonderful. Wolfsheim posted:-speaking of character progression, is this the kind of game where I can start heavy on melee and slowly veer into wizard supremacy, or will I gently caress myself? That's pretty much the best way to become a master wizard. Because you get exp, based not only on quests, but on how fast and hard you can hit things. So swordsmen will gain exp very quickly. Wolfsheim posted:-why do my followers keep picking up random trash and how do I make them stop? Put down that random piece of filament, Virgil. You can't. Luckily so long as you aren't bashing open every container, it's not that huge of a problem. You can just clean out their inventories and throw poo poo in garbage cans every once in awhile. Wolfsheim posted:-are the gear restrictions the unusually-sized races deal with worth the hassle of playing as them? You can find plenty of small size and medium size equipment. It's really only half-ogres who have trouble fitting in. They can't carry smaller guns because their hands are too big, not an issue if you're playing as a mage. They do have platemail you can get, but it's very difficult to find. They make up for it by being ungodly strong. If you get the 'ran away with the circus' bonus right off the bat and boost your str, the game is absolutely the most easy thing you will ever do. You will split timber wolves in half with a rapier. That will lower your int though and make casting difficult to swing into. The real reason you would want to not play as a half ogre, if you want to do magic or tech, is their lower than normal int level which restricts both. You can counter it of course with a background, but you'll lose some of the benefits of choosing ogre in the first place, so it's really just for RP purposes. For the easiest most power gamey setup for a mage though you will either want to be elf or half-elf. I would go half-elf just because they have the fewest penalties and pretty much everyone tends to like them well enough. Wolfsheim posted:-should I be bothering to boost persuade/etc, or will magic just let me ignore all that mess like in every other fantasy RPG? Also, is this like Fallout where there are a bunch of trap skills? I'm guessing gambling doesn't see a lot of action. A lot of quests and interactions are locked behind charisma, persuade and intelligence. If you don't have like 3 points in persuade and ~16 int/charisma you will miss out. You will get higher rewards, access to companions who would be otherwise blocked as well as just more companions at the same time. And there's a lot of cool content you can get access to with characters like Magnus, Virgil, Loghaire, Raven, ect in your party at the same time. So if you want the best/most out of your game you will want to be good at socializing. You can however definitely just run through cutting everyone in half. You can actually complete the game by just murdering everyone in sight. There are notes with the main quest information on pretty much every NPC. Even still you can get pushed along the main quest no matter your skills(which is actually funny for retarded characters because it's basically everyone just abusing your stupidity, and the final big bad is just like 'what the gently caress' and just feels sorry for you in because you were basically used as a pawn.) Gambling can actually be pretty good, if you already have high int, it's only 5 points investment, you can gamble against shopkeepers and get a bunch of stuff for free if you're hurting for money. There's a lot of minor utility things that you can get out of skills you would think are useless: haggling - You can buy things shopkeepers have on their don't sell list. Eg the clothes right off their backs and some of them have really good items like the techno dwarf armor in Caladon. pick pocket - same goes for that, eg a right you can steal that gives you +2 constitution. Another ring that gives like +2 charisma +3 beauty. but there's a fair number of worthless ones pick locks - can mainly be done by companions or magic more easily though. disarms traps - there's really only one spot with a ton of traps in the game and they throw like 15 detect trap scrolls at you in that dungeon. prowl - mages do it better. spot traps - few traps so not a big deal. backstab - i guess it's ok if you're playing in turn based mode, but I never did. A few asides you should probably know: -In Ashbury(you can get there by train early on) there is an inn on the north east side of town where a gnome is kicking a dog to death. If you don't get there quickly the dog will die. Worthless Mutt is the most powerful companion in the game besides Virgil, but you won't be able to ride trains with him(not a big deal if you are going mage anyways.) He is the only companion in the game who gets master level melee. He is actually so powerful he can make leveling for you slower early game, because he will kill your opponents so quickly. -If you ever see a name of a character you haven't met or don't know. Or if you just need background information like where they live go to the basement of the hall of records in Tarant and ask the clerk. There's like 3-5 instances where it will help greatly in quests or potentially be the only way to complete said quest. -There is a quest to become a demi-god which will make you obscenely powerful. It is unmarked in your journal and is sort of a puzzle quest. A researcher on gods at the university in Tarant can get you set on the right path with a book and a wall drawing in his office. (+4 dex +3 firearms +3 melee +3 dexterity +3 pickpocketing +3 persuade + 100 HP +100 fatigue +30 resist magic +30 resist damage and a different game ending slide) -If you do ever play as a technology character: In Tarant University there are books that increase tech expertise in an area you aren't familiar with. They won't let you create items from learned schematics, but they will let you create items from bought or found schematics. Like for example the best gun in the game.
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Hank Morgan posted:There was a single tip for U6 mixed in that I had excluded from my post. I've edited my original post to make the division between the U7 series of games clearer. Thanks - I've updated the wiki page to include your edits.
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Thanks for keeping that wiki alive, you beautiful goons.
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In the next week I'll be starting Dust: An Elysian Tale and Heroes Of Might And Magic III. Any pointers?
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Eggie posted:Heroes Of Might And Magic III. Any pointers? It's best to have one hero do all your fighting. Give him Logistics if at all possible. Starting with Solmyr breaks the game. Air and Earth magic are great, Fire is blah, Water sucks. a dude posted:And Deus Ex Human Revolution is an awful game, regardless of edition. Horrible boss fights, embarrassing level design, clunky shooting, and an upgrade tree that removes all interesting choices. My opinion: shooting and level design are fine. The boss fights are annoying because they force you to do it a certain way, however the Director's Cut fixes that. As for the upgrade tree, about 40% of the upgrades are poop, and you get enough Praxis to choose all the good ones, so yeah, in the long term there's no real choice. Still a good game overall.
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Deus Ex: get the ability to punch through walls. It'll pay itself off.
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Eggie posted:In the next week I'll be starting Dust: An Elysian Tale. Any pointers? -If it seems like you have to do some silly or ridiculous series of events to get somewhere or achieve something, you don't have the item or ability required for it. Having that will always make those places a snap. The game never expects unusual feats of dexterity from the player.
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Chinaman7000 posted:Deus Ex: get the ability to punch through walls. It'll pay itself off. Addendum: if you're trying to go for non-lethal, Kool-Aid-Man-ing through breakable walls will kill any enemies on the opposite side of that wall. This doesn't matter a lot but I can think of at least one place where your options are 'walk into a fight' or 'bust through a wall' and there's no third option.
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Gynovore posted:As for the upgrade tree, about 40% of the upgrades are poop, On that note, don't buy any of the radar upgrades. All any of them do is clutter up your radar with too many drat dots.
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Smerdyakov posted:When you play melee you're definitely going to get into magic because melee makes tech mostly obsolete/tedious. The charged rings, featherweight axe, and PYROTECHNIC AXE would like to have a word with you.
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Thanks for the Arcanum tips, guys. Started over with an elf with the charlatan's apprentice background, and it's hilarious how all the same NPCs who were constantly making GBS threads on my half-Orc are now tripping over themselves to be helpful. I'm not quite as combat effective (though buying dodge/melee training was ridiculously cheap), but using Harm like a machine-gun and then blacking out while Sodd Mead-Mug mops up the rest is nothing if not hilarious. I'm guessing all the clues pointing me from Shrouded Hills -> Dernholm -> Blackroot are basically the beginner's path? Or is Arcanum a little more forgiving with sequence-breaking then Fallout 1+2 if I just decide to hoof it to Tarant?
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Wolfsheim posted:Or is Arcanum a little more forgiving with sequence-breaking then Fallout 1+2 if I just decide to hoof it to Tarant? You can go to Tarant pretty much off the bat while maybe dodging a few wolves. The bottlenecks are more the dungeons than areas of the world map. You should be fine, but many an aspiring technologist was chewed up and spit out by the Mines or whatever.
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alcharagia posted:Hey goons. What can you tell me about The Last Story? You'll be stuck controlling just Zael for the first ten hours or so, but eventually you'll be able to issue commands (spells and skill selections) to party members. If you see the chapter number skip one (I think the first is somewhere around Chapter 10-ish), it means there's a sidequest Chapter available somewhere in the city. It'll stay available throughout the whole game, you just need to go looking for it. Do the sidequests to help Horace as they become available. Completing them all will enable him to remove curses from weapons at his shop late in the game. There's a man by the arena selling Prank Bananas. Buy as many as you can and shoot as many people as you can with them using your crossbow  .Use Gnome Bronze/Silver/Gold as often as you get them for upgrades. You'll get more than you need by the game's end.
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Sentient Toaster posted:For the PSP version [of Tactics Ogre] I recommend against using any guides aside from beforeiplay. Make whatever story choices you want and roll with the punches. Later on you'll be able to revisit past events and make different decisions. You can experience everything on one save file. And maybe one last thing to add to the PSP Tactics Ogre page: I can't help but feel that there is something missing from the wiki, because I read that, played Tactics Ogre, was doing alright, and then got into an unskippable fight between just the main character and a boss which I simply cannot win, and I'm not sure if I should be grinding a lot more or if I just picked The Wrong Class for the MC. moller posted:The charged rings, featherweight axe, and PYROTECHNIC AXE would like to have a word with you. People keep saying that tech is underpowered, but I played through with a mostly-tech (all-tech, once I realized how completely goddamn useless Virgil is) party, and by the end the party was basically a Brotherhood of Steel cosplay event escorted by an army of killer robots and with ball lightning guns for everyone. And even before the endgame I was curbstomping most things pretty reliably. Magic may be overpowered in Arcanum but tech is pretty 
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Bigass Moth posted:Anything useful to know for MGS:Ground Zeroes? I hear it's really short? It is, but there's lots of side stuff and it's super replayable, both for score and general guard fuckery. Tag everything. It makes it so much easier to sneak around. You'll be taught how to do this right away. One important thing to know is that different knockout methods have different times. A tranq'd/choked guard will eventually get back up and raise the alert. I believe the length, from longest to shortest, is tranq, choke, melee knockout. To keep someone down for good, get behind them and hold them up by aiming a gun (even a tranq pistol) at them, and using the radio button+right stick to have them get down. If another guard sees them, they'll go check out what the hell he's doing, and get him back up. Use this to get behind THAT guy and create a hilarious chain of holdups. You can walk away from a down guard safely: they'll assume you're still there aiming at them. Guards will also get up on their own if a combat alert starts. The language of "alert" can be confusing. Guards entering alert status don't actually sound an alert, the kind that counts against your score or gets everyone called to your position. They just investigate the area they thought something happened: where they thought they saw a person, where they heard a gunshot, and so on. The alerts that count will be the guard calling "Contact!" and labeled in-game as "entering combat status", or something similar, I know it says combat specifically. The "call them" voice command makes the guard yell for help. Useful to gather a bunch of people to hold up in one area, bad if you're like me and thought it was a "call them and tell them all clear" button  Guard AI is better than it was: a guard cut-off mid radio will prompt HQ to send an investigation team. A guard not calling back after reporting something and saying they're going to check it out will prompt the same. Once you know where stuff is, try doing it again out of order, both the main op and side ops. It's fun for finding new routes, challenging yourself, and hearing Kaz ask you what the gently caress you're doing. Dog Fat Man Chaser fucked around with this message at 13:50 on May 14, 2014 |
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Eggie posted:Heroes Of Might And Magic III. I wrote a bunch of stuff in the Gog.com thread and I'm too lazy to do it again so I'm just going to quote myself. Will probably make more sense when you actually play the game a bit though. Recommended mods: Kanfy posted:Grab Horn of the Abyss (well-made community expansion) and the HD patch alongside with the base game. Campaign order, skills, some early game stuff: Kanfy posted:Fake edit: Wait, since you're talking about Centaur Captains I assume you've started with Shadow of Death which is the second of the two expansions. The order is a bit weird in the Campaign menu but the "proper" order is Restoration of Erathia -> Armageddon's Blade -> Shadow of Death). Try the RoE campaigns first, they're pretty much meant for beginners. The expansion campaigns are for more experienced players and noticeably more difficult.
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Eggie posted:Heroes Of Might And Magic III. Any pointers? There's so many things I can't tell you them all in a post. Heroes 3 is a game that you have to have the manual in your hand or on a 2nd monitor to play properly. You're going to die, a lot. Alternatively, if you haven't already played a ton of HOMM, learn the basics with HOMM 5 or 6 which are much more user-friendly, then move to 3 when you're pretty good on the mechanics. (Even then though HOMM 3 is more complex in some ways) There's a whole lot of obtuse poo poo that you really need the manual for. Units have all kinds of abilities that you need to know about, unit strengths are represented using this annoying vocabulary (which is more, a pack of orcs, or a throng of elves? For gently caress's sake!) Its a loving brilliant game but its really complicated and pretty drat hard. Start on a very easy difficulty. Be careful about engagements, only engage enemies you're confident you can beat without losing a ton of troops. Pyrrhic victories usually aren't worth it, because then you have to waste a week rebuilding. Kanfy posted:Also avoid spending resources and turns on upgrading creature dwellings and instead build ones you don't have yet so that you can start gaining more every week. There are only a few creature dwellings I'd recommend upgrading early such as Gremlins to Master Gremlins for Tower, Wood Elves to Grand Elves for Rampart or Archers to Marksmen for Castle. This is very good advise. Always build unit producing buildings first, or buildings which increase the population of units. Especially do this towards the end of a week. On day 7 always build a unit producing building if you can afford it. You're going to want to have at least 2 heroes with decent armies pretty early in the game, which means you need a solid population. Necromancer/Necropolis is extremely powerful because you can mitigate unit losses through the Necromancy ability. Zaphod42 fucked around with this message at 16:43 on May 14, 2014 |
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Bigass Moth posted:Anything useful to know for MGS:Ground Zeroes? I hear it's really short? -Your tranquilizer loses effectiveness on higher difficulties. On hard, they sleep for much less time than on normal, so you don't want to linger in that area. I don't have any real data but I want to say it's something like 10 minutes on normal and 5 on hard. -On the main mission, and possibly some of the extra missions, enemies spawn in at certain checkpoints. This means you should be even more cautious when heading to and from objectives, since you may want to hide anybody you knocked out or possibly leave them as a distraction.
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theshim posted:What can people tell me for Path of Exile? Nearly everything I can find is for endgame builds, and while the game does incredibly heavily incentivize building towards a very specific goal from the word go, I could still use some basics. Been a while since I played it, but here's how it was some months ago. You can, in theory, respec how many times you want. However you get a limited number of respec points (basically removing a skill and getting a skill point back) from quests and have to buy/find and use a certain item to get more. Doing a full respec of a high level character is expensive enough that you might as well make a new character. Because of this, it's not a terrible idea to have a certain path (build) in the skill tree in mind. It looks huge, but it's not that hard to reach most nodes. There should be a skill tree planner on the PoE homepage that can be useful. Whenever you find a new skill gem just chuck it in your gear and see if it's fun. A lot of skills are more viable than you'd first imagine. If you don't like it just swap it or take it out. Don't be afraid to ditch an old skill gem for a new one if the new skill is more fun or seems better. Skill gems level up very fast at lower levels. If you find an item with 5 or 6 linked slots hold onto that poo poo, they are very rare (especially 6-links) and worth a ton on the market. Speaking of market. There is no gold. All trading is done item to item. There are some items called "currency items" that function like money, but prices can vary from day to day. Don't sell items that claim to alter gear to vendors, it's probably a currency item!
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