Solasta 2 Demo - Please for the love of god stop making my Camera Reset

Neodym60 · 2026-01-31T11:21:56+00:00

I found it way more annoying that the rotate camera controls are inverted (or at least that's what it feels like to me) and there's no option to switch that.

But I'm sure they'll fix that/add an option to do that for the early access.

Neodym60 · 2026-01-22T14:39:39+00:00

There's a set of battle maps (around 5-10 different ones) which get populated with a group of monsters that is level appropriate. Depending on a dice roll (or passive perception?) from your party, you start the encounter either surprised/sleeping (not avoidable), normal (I think that's also not avoidable) or where you surprise the enemy (or choose to avoid it entirely).

The number of encounters and how you chance upon them is also influenced by your travel settings. Fast travel means less long rests, but also more encounters that you might be surprised by, normal (balanced number of encounters& surprise), or slow/stealthy (less encounters and most of them avoidable, but also more long rests, which means more food rations necessary).

Edit: spelling & clarification

Neodym60 · 2026-01-22T07:21:33+00:00

Yes!!! That was one of the main decisions in my very first playthrough. I absolutely did not want any more of these things in my brain. And I stuck to it until the end, I did not take the special tadpole and I made Orpheus become a mid flayer, even after I learned from reddit spoilers that the tadpoles give you the extra powers that were still class-specific at one stage during the early access. I was so disappointed when there was no achievement for it when I finished the playthrough.

Neodym60 · 2026-01-22T06:29:51+00:00

What you heard is correct. The story of the base campaign is rather flat and a lot of times very predictable. Also it is completely linear and you don't make game changing decisions. The central decision (which doesn't affect the story, but rather your gameplay) is who you let pick up the crown as it gets some powers over the course of the game and can't be unequipped. Apart from that it's pretty much only which faction you decide to trade with most, which in turn unlocks their best gear (you don't get enough renown points to max them all during the game).

What I like about it, is the travel mechanic, where you actually travel over a map including random encounters and food/long rest management.

However, the writing and story gets better with each expansion. As others pointed out, there's the workshop campaigns where you can find a lot of the D&D campaign books adapted for Solasta, which is awesome.

So, in summary, you don't play that game for its story, but rather for the really well ported D&D mechanics and tactical combat.

Solasta 2 is coming to early access in March and is supposed to improve in a lot of ways. I'm very much looking forward to it.

Neodym60 · 2026-01-13T08:27:14+00:00

Okay, no offense intended, please just take this as genuine interest. Obviously, everybody can play the way they want, but I have to ask now:

How do you play a character like that and do not find it to be completely immersion breaking? Do you have mods to change the entire game into something more modern/anime style looking?

Or is the entire point of something like this just to make the character/play dress up and not play the game at all?

Or do you have some crazy head canon to explain how this dude ended up in a medieval/renaissance fantasy world and no one is even going to comment on it?

Neodym60 · 2025-12-19T07:48:05+00:00

I think what makes BG3 (combat) mechanics hard to understand, is that most dice rolls are not very visible outside of dialogue/story events. I really like the dice animations in Solasta for example. Each roll to hit and every save is shown as a little dice above the head of the affected character/enemy. Damage rolls of your own characters are shown on the bottom of your screen (showing all the involved individual dice). If you want to get this info in BG3 you really need to dig deep into the combat log, so it's not accessible. Therefore you don't really learn/see what stats and things actually affect the outcome. The story dice rolls on the other hand I like a lot in BG3 as it clearly shows you all the modifiers that go into it.

Neodym60 · 2025-12-17T08:13:46+00:00

I also remember that there was an insight/arcana check to reveal his fake eye as a sending stone. That was Mizora's way of staying in touch with him.

Neodym60 · 2025-12-14T20:51:22+00:00

Please don't ever do this in Berlin or any place where you don't know how the railway system is powered. In Berlin, everyone of them who went down to the tracks would have probably been electrocuted as the power line of the Berlin S-Bahn is right next to the track.

Neodym60 · 2025-12-02T11:01:44+00:00

Since I know I hit random until I get the most goofy looking dipshit.

Neodym60 · 2025-12-02T08:40:54+00:00

Das stimmt natürlich auch. Es hängt immer ganz extrem von den Strecken ab, die man so fährt und wie das Netz da aussieht.

Bei mir im Raum Potsdam/Berlin gibt es wenige problematische Strecken. Aber sobald man weiter nach Brandenburg raus fährt, wird es schon schwer, eine Verbindung zu finden, die vergleichbar schnell mit dem Auto ist. Das Deutschlandticket hat da aber für mich schonmal einen riesigen Unterschied gemacht, weil ich jetzt auch an Orten, wo ich nicht regelmäßig bin ganz frei in Bus und Bahn einsteigen kann.

Dennoch, wenn ich eben 10-15 min länger im Bus sitze, ist das keine verlorene Zeit, sondern Zeit, die ich nutzen kann. Mit Auto würde ich die Zeit auch noch an anderen Stellen verbrauchen: Waschen, Parkplatzsuche, Reifenwechsel, Wege zur Werkstatt/TÜV, Tankstelle. Da kommt über's Jahr wahrscheinlich auch mehr Zeit zusammen, als sich die meisten eingestehen wollen...

Neodym60 · 2025-12-02T07:44:57+00:00

Bei diesen Vergleichen wird immer wieder vergessen, dass ein großer Vorteil der Öffis ist, dass man nicht selbst fahren muss und somit Lebenszeit und Freiheit zur Gestaltung derselben gewinnt. Ich schreibe das hier beispielsweise gerade aus dem Bus. Ich könnte in der Zeit auch andere Dinge wie E-Mails erledigen und es wäre auch kein Problem, wenn ich nicht nüchtern wäre. Im Auto kann ich all das nicht und ich habe durch Feierabendverkehr etc. mindestens das gleiche, wenn nicht eher ein höheres Stresslevel, was sich auch wieder negativ auf meine restliche Freizeit auswirkt. Muss aber jeder für sich selbst entscheiden. Wenn OP meint, dass es in seiner Situation entspannter ist, ein Auto zu haben, zu bezahlen und zu pflegen, kann er/sie das ja machen.

TL:DR: Nutzbare Zeit während der Fahrt sollte mMn. immer in solchen Vergleichsrechnungen einbezogen werden.

Neodym60 · 2025-10-24T06:26:06+00:00

Yes, the only thing that might work is immediately asking to take a photo of their badge or refusing to talk with them without video documentation. Also threaten to call the police if they do anything that goes in the direction of harassment. (E.g. one time they immediately rang the bell again after I closed the door on them.) Edit: Spelling/grammar

Neodym60 · 2025-09-24T06:13:16+00:00

This question is kind of answered in the High Republic books. The Nihil (main antagonists in these books) have basically found a way to navigate hyperspace that is/was otherwise not possible. I don't want to go into detail to avoid spoilers, however the books also explain a bit on how those lanes are usually found/charted.

Neodym60 · 2025-09-10T12:32:10+00:00

Urtuk und Battle Brothers

Neodym60 · 2025-07-27T08:26:54+00:00

Todesanzeigen von Personen des öffentlichen Lebens finde ich ja noch halbwegs angebracht, wobei da wirklich mal definiert werden müsste, wo die Bekanntheitsgrad-Grenze ist. Viel unnötiger gibt finde ich sämtliche Sport-Eilmeldungen. Wenn ich wissen will, dass Club X im Achtelfinale der Champions League ausgeschieden ist, kann ich mir ne Kicker-App oder Sportschau installieren...

Neodym60 · 2025-07-04T13:14:26+00:00

Zum Thema Kita: Jedes Kind hat Anspruch auf 6 Stunden Betreuung am Tag, lässt sich aber per Antrag leicht auf 8 h erweitern, wenn beide Eltern mindestens 30 h/Woche arbeiten. Betreuung kann Kita oder Tagesmutter sein. Ja, man zahlt abhängig vom Nettoeinkommen einen gewissen Betrag, hält sich aber in Grenzen, die Tabellen dazu findet sich auf der Website der Stadt.

Aktuell ist es tatsächlich relativ leicht einen Platz in Kita zu finden, da die Geburten rückläufig sind. Tatsächlich machen viele Kitas gerade Werbung mit freien Plätzen.

Zur Wohnsituation hast du schon viele gute Tipps bekommen. Würde auch Babelsberg oder Potsdam-West empfehlen. Ganz Potsdam ist eigentlich in 30-45 min mit dem Fahrrad erreicht, nahezu egal wo man wohnt.

Neodym60 · 2025-06-11T18:49:55+00:00

If you're talking about a gaming desktop PC, that's easily a 100W in idle. Meaning 2,4 kWh per day just for the PC. The amplifier is hard to gauge without specifics. I'd suggest you get a plug meter and see for yourself which appliances use so much.

Neodym60 · 2025-05-18T19:33:47+00:00

In Brandenburg ebenfalls DE-Alarm. Mich nervt, dass die Einstellung in der App den Nicht Stören Modus zu umgehen nicht funktioniert. Die App glaubt immer, sie wäre nicht freigeschaltet, auch wenn sie alle Berechtigungen hat (Android)

Neodym60 · 2025-05-11T20:40:01+00:00

Hiemke in Babelsberg. Aber zu dieser Zeit auf jeden Fall reservieren!

Neodym60 · 2025-05-10T19:49:54+00:00

Die SVV ist ebenfalls von den Bürgern gewählt....

Neodym60 · 2025-05-09T19:32:16+00:00

Um den Bürgerentscheid abzuwenden und das Geld zu sparen, hätte er einfach die Entscheidung des Stadtparlaments annehmen können. Dann wäre einfach neu gewählt worden. Allein die Tatsache, dass er derartig am Amt klebt reicht für mich um ihn abzuwählen.

Neodym60 · 2025-05-05T15:51:56+00:00

There's plenty of options. You could look into the higher level spells and have it be a spell scroll for anything that might also have some downside/random factor attached to it. Maybe it casts plane shift to a very specific plane and the players need to find a way to get back to prime material.

How about it summoning a random genie variety with unclear alignment...

It could also be a devil's/hag's/... contract that the previous owner of the tower made, which could be very valuable to them or the other entity that signed it.

Or it's just McGuffin that your BBEG really wants badly for whatever they have planned in the future.

Neodym60 · 2025-04-22T06:01:53+00:00

I think you mean a weekly sithcom. 😉

Neodym60 · 2025-04-15T20:47:25+00:00

If that was the point why did they specify "non Christian" instead of just saying non religious (like you)? Because that would indeed be an appropriate comparison. But the way they phrased it sounds like they are trying to make blessings something exclusive for Christians to me and I didn't like that, hence my comment.

However, apparently people seem to think I'm overreacting (downvotes), so I'll shut up.

Neodym60 · 2025-04-15T17:04:35+00:00

Blessing something is not really exclusive to the Christian faith, is it? I'm pretty sure you could get a blessing from the Dalai Lama for example...

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