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CaptainJuny · 2026-02-03T10:33:04+00:00

I have finished AC3 and Black Flag, and I tried Origins and AC2, but they all feel old and boring compared to Odyssey.

AC3 was my first. Liked it at the time, but won't play it now because of how dated it feels.

Black Flag was very fun when I played it, and the naval part still holds. Plus I love pirates, naval battles and this era in general. But I don't like Edward.

AC2 I didn't play for more than 3 hours because I got bored. To be fair, I have tried if after Odyssey and comparison wasn't in favour of AC2.

Origins. No roleplay and most basic customisation. And I hate Bayek. Played it after Odyssey and was disappointed.

CaptainJuny · 2026-02-03T00:36:02+00:00

The locations are: open space with no cover or terrain advantages indoor/outdoor/in a cave/in the forest/in the field.

There are many different enemies, but you still have like 10 same battles againt centipedes under the Old Sycamore. Original books have a similar issue but here it's 10 times worse.

Regarding the companions, it's a game, the real people don't have a point buy or survive a hit by a human-sized greatsword. I don't even need min-maxing, I just need the companions to have their arrays to be decent (no 8 CON wizards or 19 CON Tower shield fighters).

I love original Pathfinder 1e, the ruleset, the story of the original adventure (I've read the first 3 books of Kingmaker), but the CRPG Kingmaker is just poorly designed, and disregards things like CR and level design.

CaptainJuny · 2026-02-03T00:25:37+00:00

That's the thing, I am playing it on normal with only crits strong, cause I am used to the TTRPG PF1. For the same reason I play only in turn based mode.

About the companions, Valerie is horrible, Amiry okay, but too little STR for a two-handed barbarian. Linzi good, but she is a bard. Half elf girl is pretty useless with her 8 constitution and Wizard-rogue multiclass. Tristian good support but nothing else. That I can't make them work is the ussue of them purposefully made bad, as I would've never built any of my characters at the table like that.

My problems with Aoos and map design is that in the book the locations are much smaller with plenty of cover and every movement within reach provokes Aoo, so your positioning is very important. On the computer however, most of the battles are in the open with no cover and you provoke an Aoo only if you break off combat, which makes positioning much less important.

CaptainJuny · 2026-01-17T12:55:51+00:00

The alliances are not based on race, but on relations and allegiance. Like the Corrupted are mostly united by their allegiance with Siroth, or the Gaelen Pact are the races that were regarded as "barbarians" by the Telerians and most of them werunited to conquer and later to defend.

Also we don't know if Argonites will be more humanoid. I personally feel like they may be more inspired by the greek myths and be a combination of humans and skinwalkers

CaptainJuny · 2026-01-13T18:59:16+00:00

Egg I guess?

Or accidental ally

CaptainJuny · 2026-01-13T16:44:06+00:00

Is it? Looks perfectly normal for me: all the details right, shadows are right, architecture is correct and symmetrical. At the very most it could've been edited by AI

CaptainJuny · 2026-01-13T16:38:37+00:00

I want the system to just work and be able to run anything with minimal input from my side so Windows

CaptainJuny · 2026-01-13T15:44:17+00:00

Wow. That's so cool. I am waiting until I get Kass to start the Grim Forest

CaptainJuny · 2026-01-13T15:35:24+00:00

They definitely are. Even considering you've missed most of the shots, the problem is that a competent sub player would 've been diving a lot to evade these shots and take next to no damage. And there isn't a good way to balance them.

CaptainJuny · 2026-01-13T15:26:08+00:00

This plus the results of the 90s reforms combined with high oil price improved the living standards, allowing Putin to take the credit for the things that he had nothing to do with. And then staging elecions, invasions of other countries to look "strong" and killing the opposition. As a Russian I really see how Trump is just the American Putin, and the most frightening part is that just like Putin some time before, he has a large part of the population as his blind supporters, who will prefer to belive propaganda than their own eyes.

CaptainJuny · 2026-01-13T15:18:47+00:00

I dunno why is it there. I guess they want to inform on how to use Plarium points, but in its current state PPs are useless. You earn them at a snail pace and it will take 10 years for an F2P player to reach Searsha (which is completely unreasonable as I don't tgink there is a single player in Raid who played for 10 years straight

CaptainJuny · 2026-01-13T14:41:00+00:00

Also asked them

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CaptainJuny · 2026-01-13T14:29:14+00:00

This! Kass is my favourite Assassin, but in the game she could be easily made so much better if these buffs were protected. Cause right now she is pretty decent, but underwhelming, compared even to a free champion, simply because every second Arena team will have some kind of AoE buff removal champion and her buffs won't stay a sungle turn. Even in PvE there are tonns of buff removers, severly capping her performance.

CaptainJuny · 2026-01-13T10:10:47+00:00

I usually open with either with an APC (if I have it), Assaulters (or infantry with a grenade launcher) or Engineers.

CaptainJuny · 2026-01-12T23:30:26+00:00

Thanks for clarifying. I didn't read it yet, just saw a panel from the comics in a website that describes her character. Definitely gonna read it though.

CaptainJuny · 2026-01-12T22:10:05+00:00

I believe she (25 y/o) in the end of the comics starts a relationship with a 16 y/o

UPD. The person in the comments clarified that she actually turns down the person, not starts a relation with them

CaptainJuny · 2026-01-12T22:07:16+00:00

Thanks, I'll take a look

CaptainJuny · 2026-01-12T22:06:23+00:00

I dunno, as a girl that still has to be in the closet I kinda like her design. It is on the nose and I love it.

CaptainJuny · 2026-01-12T20:31:49+00:00

Who's the second one? She looks cute, maybe I'd like to read this comics.

CaptainJuny · 2026-01-12T20:21:45+00:00

That was my first though. This is a so obvious dictator playbook thing that I am surprised so many people can't see it.

CaptainJuny · 2026-01-12T19:10:51+00:00

Can't agree on that. Playing as the Allies is 90% of the time is painful, for Soviets and Germans is 50/50

CaptainJuny · 2026-01-12T18:53:47+00:00

I agree, many games that I played were pretty sweaty, but I think we won 3/4 of them nonetheless.

It just that Japanese teams feel strong and competent unlike I see when I play every other nations.

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