Are the NPCS you get different depending on what you are? I got Aloth and a fighter in guilded vale pretty quickly. I couldn't do crap solo with my wizard, so had to backtrack to do everything I ran past once i had a crew.
Core stats, did a coastal aumuna (whatever that race is called) pumping up resolve and might and one other. Its uprising you don't get another fighter soon, Aloth is useless and so is the priest. Yes they have spells and all that but I prefer whacking.
Not a fan of the chanter class. I have a chanter companion and he's a micro management pain. Will ditch his ass once I get a better option.
Stuck on the Raedric quest, I can't get to the upper level to speak with the Priest, screen just turns black after loading. A shame they are going to make me wait a while for a patch.
I'm stuck there too,wiped out most of the NPCs in there except those locked doors that are too high for my charcter,basically stuck.
Game is very stable for me,zero crashes or black screens so far.
Stable here too...but I took the inconspicuous method that is allowing me to explore freely. Kind of a neat option. Once I've done what I need..then maybe I'll come back through and gain some xp.
Like the one that strips your character's permanent buffs and abilities if you double-click equipment in your inventory. The relatively devastating bug, posted to Reddit by kiror yesterday, happens when a player tries to swap out a piece of equipment on a character with an item in their inventory by double-clicking the inventory item—a relatively standard role-playing game practice. Doing so will remove a character's racial abilities, passive powers and permanent buffs.
If you're playing on 'Hard' (like I am, and loving it), there's no need to make it even harder yourself. Do hire 2 adventurers at the Inn. When you meet the game companions, you can leave your old adventurers at your keep so they go on their own adventures, etc.I've been fortunate that I haven't experienced any bugs, but man is this game hard. I've read plenty of posts talking about how easy the game unless you are on "Hard" or higher, but even with a well balanced party some of those fights are downright abusive. I'm guessing it could be a balance thing where some fights are too easy and some are too hard. For example, I managed to kill those two bears in the cave with without much trouble, but once I hit the temple I had some serious problems with the wisps and spiders. It wasn't completely insurmountable, but it almost seemed cheap.
I won't automatically jump to blaming game balance because it's possible that had my tanks been setup a little different some of the pain could have been avoided but maybe the dev should at least take a look.
On another topic, has anyone managed to be progress far without recruiting help from the Inn? I'm playing on Hard and I tried to avoid it and rely on the premade followers but I found the game was simply too hard early on to avoid it. Since you can't grind, I'm not sure to get a few more levels prior to the first major dungeon.
I've been fortunate that I haven't experienced any bugs, but man is this game hard. I've read plenty of posts talking about how easy the game unless you are on "Hard" or higher, but even with a well balanced party some of those fights are downright abusive. I'm guessing it could be a balance thing where some fights are too easy and some are too hard. For example, I managed to kill those two bears in the cave with without much trouble, but once I hit the temple I had some serious problems with the wisps and spiders. It wasn't completely insurmountable, but it almost seemed cheap.
I won't automatically jump to blaming game balance because it's possible that had my tanks been setup a little different some of the pain could have been avoided but maybe the dev should at least take a look.
On another topic, has anyone managed to be progress far without recruiting help from the Inn? I'm playing on Hard and I tried to avoid it and rely on the premade followers but I found the game was simply too hard early on to avoid it. Since you can't grind, I'm not sure to get a few more levels prior to the first major dungeon.
I gave up on hard after a few hours after been repeatedly raped in what probably should be easy fights. Especially with only 1 or 2 people in your group. There are frequent 1 round party wipes. I think you have to have a pretty good grasp of mechanics to play hard and I'm not quite sure how everything interacts on this system yet. Feels a little like divinity:OS where you're kinda thrown into the deep and and can easily wander into fights that you're not supposed to be able to do for a level or two.
As for hiring people- get 6 in your party as soon as you can. You can create specialists when you need them. If you screw up a build its cheap to reroll a new hireling. If you don't hire anyone your party should be full by the end of act 1 assuming
Have you run into the plague of insects one yet? DOT that doesn't have a timer and won't stop until it has maimed your entire party. Though a save/reload gets rid of it.
Stuck on the Raedric quest, I can't get to the upper level to speak with the Priest, screen just turns black after loading. A shame they are going to make me wait a while for a patch.
Sounds similar to what I see, but I started on normal. The biggest issue seems to be the hoards that come at you and always stand right on top of you no matter what you do. This makes casting spells a pain. Even with the crowd control it's still right on top of you.
I currently have 4 NPC's in my group that I got just around the first town. I guess I should go buy 2 more. I wasn't sure if you kept them for good or just for a certain amount of time.
Had the same problem. I guess I was expecting it to be like BG where you just find all the NPC's you need. Didn't know I could create extra ones. Was getting murdered everywhere. Plus I didnt have a theif type. Rerolled a ranger with animal companion, plus hired someone else, and now its much easier.
Also, found that it worked much better if you fight in choke points, like door ways. Lure them to you with a ranged attack and that way you dont get swarmed. Doesn't help much with shadows though.
What kind of class/builds you guys trying?
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I got that bug, had to reload a previous save.Stuck on the Raedric quest, I can't get to the upper level to speak with the Priest, screen just turns black after loading. A shame they are going to make me wait a while for a patch.
Bah, stuck here also. Can't access the floor where I assume Radriecks is.
Minor Spoilers...
I put on the robes, blend in with the priests, talked to nedor? who gives me key to the upper floor where Lord Radrick is, but after I unlock the door and attempt to climb the stairs, game crashes on me. Tried it twice. I guess I can try and fight my way through the map or maybe I will search on some forums for a workaround...
Other than that the game has been pretty stable. However it is sort of a showstopper. I guess I can go back to my keep and work on fixing it up...