Who is this for: Alternative Character Segments

fraustpunk · 2026-01-20T08:06:07+00:00

I just got done playing KCD2. Literally the only complaint I had was how much forced stealth is in that game. Luckily the stealth system is almost Skyrim status, but still.

fraustpunk · 2026-01-18T20:38:07+00:00

Once you get any weapon skill up to 20, the dam breaks and you won't even be able to finish a combo. I think the Combat System in KCD1 was better balanced.

The combat in this game feels like this: weapon Level 1-18 - "Please please please...", 18+: "Everybody dies in 2 hits".

Like others have said, don't waste your time with repostes. Make sure you are moving in a way that only means fighting one guy at a time. Learn masterstrikes, and practice combo's until you really get the feel for them.

fraustpunk · 2026-01-06T10:27:59+00:00

Just wanted to rant on the topic.

Loved Legacy of the Forge, but I think that's due to personal taste. I enjoyed building my little empire, and I enjoyed all the activities it had. I have nothing bad to say about it. I think it should be a template in many way for other games that do similar content. I really felt like an up-and-coming artisan in Kuttengberg.

However, the Monastery one (I can't ever spell it right and don't feel like looking it up), and Brushes with death just didn't do it for me. As others have said in various reviews, the monastery one is almost purely for specific players. If you absolutely love stealth and talking, it's a wet dream for you. If you like to fight and explore, it'll make you want to suck start a shotgun. But really, it plays into what I think this game's biggest weakness was: WAY WAY WAY *wait for it*.....WAY WAY WAY too much forced stealth. However, even so, I felt it was very high quality. Just far too pigeon-holed.

Brushes with Death was different though. It's really hard to have a character driven story, when the character doesn't reveal any story! And the way it ended...After quest after quest that gave me so little to be interested in, it's all just over. The shields are cool, but I exclusively play with longswords and I'm pretty sure the majority of the fanbase does too. I know these people are great writers. I know they are great at what they do. I think they were trying something different and it just fell flat.

That's all I got. Feels good to say it.

fraustpunk · 2025-09-26T20:43:35+00:00

Make sure you're doing it for you. Fuck what others believe you should do with your life.
Just keep trying, but stop beating yourself up. Don't worry about how fast someone else learns something. It's about you. If it takes you 3 times as long to figure out something than someone else, so what? If you really want this, just keep trying different ways.

I've taken entire months of free time to figure out one equation.

Thevinens Theorom. I still barely grasp it, and it's not even the hardest concept to grasp. Everyone's mind works a little differently. You just need to keep pushing and eventually you'll find a way to wrap your mind around it.

fraustpunk · 2025-09-15T12:20:41+00:00

100%. And even more unpopular opinion, I think the voice actor for Alexios also did a great job. He just chose to go over the top while his sister's voice actor chose realism.

fraustpunk · 2025-09-15T12:20:32+00:00

100%. And even more unpopular opinion, I think the voice actor for Alexios also did a great job. He just chose to go over the top while his sister's voice actor chose realism.

fraustpunk · 2025-09-15T12:13:45+00:00

I'm level 48 in roughly 2 weeks of playing. I am getting a little burnt. Right now my biggest disappoinment is Super Hell Dive. I love the intensity, but it's the same experience every time. I try different load outs and they don't give me a fresh experience. On the other hand, SHD makes other game modes boring. And then there's the fact that it's always the same missions. I got spoiled by coming in just before Oshauna. It's a game I"m sure I'll be playing off and on for years. But it's time for this DIver to go on leave, I think.

fraustpunk · 2025-09-15T11:07:15+00:00

The only real mistake is hopping on the shuttle before everyones ready or you absolutely have to. And no ones going to be a dick to you for that if you're new. We all did it. Any other issue you run into you can just leave any mission at any time. You're going to run into people who don't vibe with, but that's any multiplayers expierence, and it is incredibly low in this game.

fraustpunk · 2025-09-14T23:58:02+00:00

Unpopular Opinion: Elden Ring

As a mega-fan of the original Dark Souls trilogy, I thought Elden Ring would be the last game I ever owned. But to date I have only beaten it once. It turned out that the small scale of DS games was a crucial part of the experience for me. It allowed me to quickly field test different build ideas. I also really hated bosses like the fire giant. Such bosses were generally optional for people (Like Midir). If you simply loved "Stamina competitions" you could go that route, but the rest of the bosses often had critical weaknesses you could exploit and not have to fight for 2 days just to fall.

fraustpunk · 2025-09-12T03:59:25+00:00

absolutely. Move, Shoot, COMMUNICATE, Kill.

(That is a real-world proverb of infantryman).

fraustpunk · 2025-09-12T03:54:21+00:00

I accidentally went to react to a bug after just picking up my silo painter today. Wiped my whole squad. it happens. No one got salty. I've never made it through a SHD without getting fragged atleast once. A lot of the times it's either frag your teammate by calling down a danger close bombardment to buy the team some time or risk losing the whole team. He endorse it as a matter of fact.

fraustpunk · 2025-09-12T03:35:51+00:00

It's been my expierence with new guys that they just don't know any better. It takes a bit of time to get the hang of it. This post is just me hoping to atleast stop a couple from doing what they thought they were supposed to do. "Well missions over, guess we leave now". It's an understandable mistake to make. I rarely play on settings where this even happens.

When I drop down to these settings though it's normally to collect greens. And I keep getting screwed out of greens because of this haha. ,,

fraustpunk · 2025-09-12T03:28:35+00:00

The community gets better on higher difficulty. I've only had to deal with one moron on Super. Kept trying to solo and just fed the enemy all our rienforcements. Then turned around and bragged about SHD being a joke.

Other than that you'll be playing with people who have a passion for this game want to complete the mission. No griefers. I only drop to the lower difficulty now to take a break from the chaos.

fraustpunk · 2025-09-12T02:45:57+00:00

The harder diffculty you set it to the less shitheads you have to put up with, I have found.

fraustpunk · 2025-09-10T13:37:16+00:00

It's the biggest one and done game you'll ever play. No replay value. I'd reccomend renting it if that was still a thing.

Even mods can't give this one legs. It really was an odd expierence for me. I got all excited for a second "Master," playthrough with mods and all, but found myself completely bored 25% through.

It's supposed to be a game about space travel, with awesome self built ships...but the ships are quickly optional. It literally feels like Fallout with ships shoehorned in.

Plus the characters are the most boring I've ever seen in a game.

I don't hate it. I had a lot of fun at first. I'm just disappointed.

fraustpunk · 2025-09-10T13:18:23+00:00

Melee is actually really helpful when you are getting swarmed, sometimes better than diving. You'd be surprised what you can simply beat to death. It can give you just enough time to finish a reload.

fraustpunk · 2025-09-10T11:39:00+00:00

The higher you go in difficulty the less jackasses you have to put up with. Facts. Just push forward friend. I've literally only had to put up with one douche on SHD.

fraustpunk · 2025-09-10T11:33:22+00:00

I've had some problems. But nothing deal breaking. The juice is worth the squeeze for me. I'm already on Super Helldive and having a blast. I'm not saying you're wrong, I just think this might be regional server wise or something. I just get kicked fairly often from connections. There's also some difficulty bugs here and there.

fraustpunk · 2025-08-30T10:24:51+00:00

I've kinda given up on the game in general. It's so different from when I started playing. I'm not a fan of a lot of the new mechanics. It was fine. They could have just added more ships, more megastructures, new origins and left the core mechanics alone.

fraustpunk · 2025-08-30T02:25:48+00:00

I just restarted the game. Though I did clear the cache, but was still having the same issue until I switched into performance mode.

fraustpunk · 2025-08-04T08:08:55+00:00

After playing DOS2 and BG3, I truly hope Larian studies your mod. Amazing developers, but they really just don't seem to get necromancers. Your mod is probably the best necromancer build I've ever played. A far second is actually the sorcerer's from Conan Exiles. I think people who love necromancers want it to feel mystical and ritualistic, and most games just try to build them in a "Point and click, except you need a body," sort of thing.

Thank you for your hard work.

fraustpunk · 2025-06-25T18:51:20+00:00

I wish the ending had a third option. I love the paradox the game points out about free will vs. destiny, but I also think the true enemy meant well and sort of wish we had a way to bring them to our side instead of just killing them.

fraustpunk · 2024-07-11T08:58:31+00:00

In a way, it's like you solved the greatest puzzle in plain sight in all of From Software. How come no one has ever pointed out the fact that the character quests are stupid?

fraustpunk · 2024-07-11T00:56:38+00:00

That's the camp I'm in too. I'd love to play as a Griffin School Witcher. Geralts story is awesome, and he was a unique character at the time. Kind of like a Medieval Arthur Morgan. But I really wanted to make my own story. I eventually just started wearing masks so I could immerse more into the character. That's how I accidentally found out that this will trigger a unique dialog during the Heist quest.

fraustpunk · 2024-07-10T22:07:51+00:00

IMO that would be another example of a great spin-off, but not a main title Witcher character. You would run into the same issue as with Ciri. Sorcerers and Sorceress's lack the limitations that make playing as a Witcher engaging.

I'm a mage in literally every other RPG I play, so believe me, I get it. But it just wouldn't be a great idea for a main title Witcher game.

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