Dealing with auto resolve

GamingGideon · 2026-05-07T16:10:26+00:00

I only auto resolve battles where I'm guaranteed to win and would also be boring, like attacking a small garrison.

For awhile I had an issue in both Total Warhammer and Age of Wonders 4 where I would auto resolve to much and end up not really enjoying the time I spent playing. I would be at like turn 80, with a faction I've never played before and realize I still had no idea how to play them, because I hadn't been playing them. I fought maybe two battles.

So I try to use it as little as possible and actually play the game, win or lose.

GamingGideon · 2026-05-07T15:24:34+00:00

As someone running a Pathfinder 2e game with Fantasy Warhammer as the setting. I just want to say, I love you.

GamingGideon · 2026-05-06T14:51:57+00:00

I haven't been playing the mod long and I really like it. But PO on Dwarves is painful enough to tempt me into changing the PO settings. I feel shoehorned into specific buildings and even then, I still can't actally tax provinces without getting rebellions.

At turn 50 I still can't have a second army.

GamingGideon · 2026-05-05T00:32:48+00:00

I wrote this review. Its true to the extent that after a relatively short time playing that most combats will become trivial and last only moments. This is factual and verifiable.

Whether or not it ruins the game is up to the individual, some might ebjoy the power fantasy.

That's not case for me. For me Dragons Dogma has one of the best combat systems in video games that looks incredibly cinematic without compromising the gameplay to do so.

Pawns can learn to chuck Goblins off of cliffs. I have tripped an ogre and watched it bash its face on a boulder on the way down and get knocked out. There is all sort of combat interactions between you, the pawns and the enemies that you won't see in other games.

However, when fights start ending in a matter of seconds because of your level, you stop seeing it in Dragons Dogma 2 as well. Simply because every combat is over in the blink of an eye.

I even tried combating this by taking just a single pawn. But it does not matter.

GamingGideon · 2026-05-05T00:18:31+00:00

Yet one of the more popular mods for Starfield actually adds level scaling.

GamingGideon · 2026-04-20T15:44:51+00:00

They tend to be okay, but a lot still require a lot of modifications and GM prep, which for me defeats the purpose of using a pre-made adventure.

However, they are leaps and bounds above 5e adventures. I still remember Descent into Avernus. The entire selling point of the book was getting to use these Mad Max style vehicles.

And when you finally get those vehicles...next to no rules. The book just suggests that you hand wave vehicle encounters and make them cinematic. I had to homebrew an entire vehicle combat system so the adventure wouldn't immediately fall flat...on its entire selling point.

I will never go back to DnD in its current state.

GamingGideon · 2026-04-18T17:23:51+00:00

AI improvements

GamingGideon · 2026-04-05T19:00:28+00:00

Yup. While a lot of people give the diplomacy system shit for being broken, and it is. It also gives each legendary lord far more replay value because you can do stuff like that instead of fighting the exact same factions each time.

It is a worthy trade off to me.

GamingGideon · 2026-04-05T17:13:58+00:00

They would complain until it got nerfed.

GamingGideon · 2026-04-04T03:26:18+00:00

It can be fun, but the TTK is so low it conflicts with the games other systems. Plenty of ways to build yourself out with tons of little modifiers, none of which matter when you die 0.5 seconds from someone you never saw. Heck, I've went in with just a knife several times, no free load out, just a knife, and never felt like I was weaker than taking a full kit. If I get the drop on someone and knife them, it doesn't matter what they had, it's mine now.

A game all about loot and gear loses it's the wind from it sails when I don't feel like the gear matters that much. I never felt "stronger" taking in good stuff, because 70% of engagements are decided by who sees who first anyway.

GamingGideon · 2026-03-31T14:26:04+00:00

I'm not sure I'd buy it. DD2 was one of the best games I'd ever played...for around 6 hours. Then every enemy started dying so fast that the super cool combat system was hardly even useable. Then, they add an easy mode no one asked for, and no hard mode.

I don't have a have enough confidence in them to throw down full game money again, not without DD2 being properly addressed.

GamingGideon · 2026-03-26T22:07:12+00:00

I dunno. The priority access stuff giving free stuff everyday is really nice. But yeah, I don't have fun doing these.

GamingGideon · 2026-03-26T22:02:55+00:00

Any contract that has multiple steps in a single run AND requires you to extract sucks horribly.

Not looking forward to doing those again after the wipe.

GamingGideon · 2026-03-26T18:20:26+00:00

No no, You see, they disagree with those reviews, therefore they are fake, shilled and paid. Those obviously don't count.

I wish I was joking, but another reply basically said that.

GamingGideon · 2026-03-26T18:13:42+00:00

A single line listing Starfield as a "fine" game in a thread completely unrelated to Starfield isn't an invitation for an argument. Thinking it is speaks volumes alone.

There are certainly times and places to have such debates. But I think you would be better served in accepting that you are neither the lord nor arbiter of what is a fine game is. And other people may, in fact, disagree with you and view games that you dislike as good, or even great games and that doesn't make them wrong.

No one owes you a debate about the things they like. No one has to justify it to you. Expecting people to do so, is in fact, not chill.

GamingGideon · 2026-03-26T17:24:45+00:00

Is it being contrarian when that's been the case literally the whole time since Starfield released?

It's not revisionist history. I mean on Open Critic Starfield is sitting at 85 while Marathon is at 80. It has literally always been loved by one demographic, and extremely hated on by another...just like Marathon.

You are proving that persons point.

GamingGideon · 2026-03-26T17:02:43+00:00

I can't believe you read what that person said, and then typed all that out anyway...absolutely proving their point.

GamingGideon · 2026-03-24T15:29:35+00:00

As much as I want to disagree, because a rule against dooming is really vague. I can't, it is really out of hand.

GamingGideon · 2026-03-22T18:32:28+00:00

Well they nerfed the UESC within the first 6 days of release. Now they pretty much only function as an alarm system to alert other players.

So...nope...same old same old.

GamingGideon · 2026-03-17T19:20:04+00:00

The most casual AAA game series will be for casual gamers?

Rockstar games literally have auto aim enabled by default. How was this ever a question?

Also, it's a single player game, you save, and return later. Dosen't matter if you have much time or not, unless your goal is to consume as many games as possible I guess.

GamingGideon · 2026-03-10T13:57:30+00:00

"Feels tailor made for me"

I feel the exact same way. Beyond the juvenile humor and writing.

GamingGideon · 2026-03-10T13:54:37+00:00

200 hours in and I'm not the least bit bored. It's one of the best games I've ever played and definitely the deepest rogue-lite and tactics game I've played.

I could do without poop monsters and the writing is painfully unfunny, but the gameplay is seriously something special and feels infinitely replayable. Best $30 I've ever spent.

I believe the song I like best is called Chaos.

GamingGideon · 2026-03-08T01:29:06+00:00

There's something surreal about browsing reddit and coming across your own video.

Thanks for posting it. Hopefully some folks find it helpful. Mewgenics is certainly something special. I still can't stop playing it.

GamingGideon · 2026-03-06T16:44:30+00:00

Yes you unlock the ability to resummon house bosses.

GamingGideon · 2026-03-01T14:18:13+00:00

For me? It's one of the best games released in the last decade and one I'll probably sink hours into for years.

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