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The Blue Pyramid posted:Loving this game so far. I'm still relatively early in the game but I had a couple questions- 1. Get the best gear that you can when you can. The only consideration would be if the random encounters aren't dropping a new ammo type yet, maybe hold off on the upgrade if you cant top afford to buy ammo refills. Otherwise, even with the combat running impressively fast despite being turn-based (good job devs), the less damage you do, the more time you spend in combat. The more combats you skip with outdoorsman or whatever the survival skill is called, the less skilled and equipped your whole team is, unfortunately. So the best way to speed up random encounters is to make your attacks hit and hit as hard as they can. 2. Having one guy behind a little bit isn't a deal-breaker. You can give him a +Cha trinket and spend his every tenth levels stat point on charisma or whatever, but unless you did that along with giving him another common xp generator skill or two in addition it field medic, it won't really make that much of a difference unless you're using 10 of the crappy med kits after every fight. Personally, I'd just live with it, give him stat ups for combat stuff and work on making him a focused badass. If you limit his skills and role, being a couple levels behind won't matter when he's the first one to max out a weapon skill.
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I wouldn't say combat initiative is linear, they've got some stupid equation hundreds of lines long for the drat thing. I'd say at twice the CI you'd probably get 3 turns to every 2 of theirs, it's just that with how lethal combat is that most practically works out to 2:1 in most situations.
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Nov 13, 2015 01:52
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The big difference here with skills is that you have access to a large team, like in most tabletop roleplaying games. The skill load is meant to be distributed in a manner more closely resembling reality. Picking a lock, cracking a safe, disarming an alarm and bypassing security software all do the same thing in basic function, yes; they give a player access to something they would not have otherwise. In a party based game going for verisimilitude, none of those activities have much real world overlap. In a primarily single player game, that form of redundancy is often just frustrating to a player and handicaps them by encouraging weak, unfocused builds.
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Nov 13, 2015 19:34
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nerdz posted:What actually makes me mad about the skill bloat is that you have to compromise between having chars that can unlock containers and chars that can hit something with more than a 50% chance. Yeah, the actual pro strat is to make your core team pure combat from the start and only add mild utility like leadership as needed. You can do a lot worse than giving everyone rank 4 in a gun and spending the other two skill points on surgeon or medic. Or just have one surgeon to start and everyone else saves their two spare skill points for Rank 5 in their weapon at level 2. Angela can actually crutch you through a good chunk of the early game, though if you're quick about picking up party members, you might not even notice that you were missing non-combat skills for the first few levels as you 360 no scope your way through every early fight.
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Nov 14, 2015 18:01
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I'm still going to give my Robert Cop run my full attention once I beat the game once. With stacking as many armor bonuses from traits as possible, damage from early game enemies like flies has actually been reduced to zero on my tank. To try out my advice above though, I put together a wrecking crew that had two weapon skills at 6 by level 2 (two ascetics) and I've only been hit in combat twice, once by the loving toad and once by friendly fire on an 86% shot. I'm almost done with Highpool.
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Nov 14, 2015 19:19
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Heavy neutrino posted:I feel like making 4 combat characters would practically trivialize the game. In my game I had two jacked up fighters and two characters who were almost entirely useless in combat (one with 10 charisma, one with 10 intelligence), and it didn't really matter because the two fighters with high CI would smash half of the enemy force before they even got a turn. This is true. I do tabletop rpg rules as a sort of hobby and anything that has an effect on action economy is incredibly hard to balance.
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Nov 14, 2015 20:09
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Krinkle posted:I thought speed was how quickly your turn order came, or how quickly it came again. If you load up on speed can you move two squares per action point? 2.8 at 10 speed.
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Nov 17, 2015 20:48
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crashdome posted:Great. And I just sold my cache of 500 rounds of .38 for few measly rounds of 7.62. That's how things work in most video games though, especially RPGs. It's just really jarring when applied to real world equipment you might have some familiarity with.
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