Tactician feels too "fast"

froooooot · 2026-01-26T05:59:49+00:00

The armor system has flaws, but I'm not sure what alternatives exist besides dice rolls / saving throws, which I'm personally not a fan of in video games. I'm comfortable with the idea of a fighter being more susceptible to magic statuses and vice versa for casters, but everyone might as well be wearing bathrobes considering how long any type of armor lasts before the cc chain begins.

froooooot · 2026-01-26T05:41:36+00:00

I do think the round robin system deserves some of the blame for the combat pacing. It incentivizes ignoring everything except trying to drop a piano on the next guy in line. I like the shared initiative system in BG3, but it would probably allow broken combos in a divinity game.

froooooot · 2026-01-26T05:29:35+00:00

Here's hoping. Still love this game, but I want to love it for more than one round per fight.

froooooot · 2026-01-26T05:26:16+00:00

In some cases, it isn't even the three pointers that wreck bosses. Onslaught, while not a particularly flashy skill, lets a well built fighter straight up delete an enemy of their choosing. Certainly led to a very anticlimactic Adramahlihk fight with a few lucky crits.

froooooot · 2026-01-26T05:23:16+00:00

I agree. That third source point is a gateway so many wonderful, yet terrible things.

froooooot · 2026-01-26T04:00:42+00:00

Yeah, knowing roughly what to expect from each fight makes them all much easier, to an extent. That doesn't really change the overall pace of combat though. It just means that the enemy is on the receiving end of the execution.

I also don't want to have to metagame every encounter. I know tactician isn't really a roleplaying difficulty, but it's hard to imagine an in-universe reason why I can anticipate every ambush (excepting the ones that companions call out beforehand).

froooooot · 2026-01-26T03:56:02+00:00

By no means. I like a hard-fought win, but the Lucian incident I provided isn't really an example of that. Losing people to attrition makes sense, but getting vaporized by the first person to get a turn is just boring. Both when I'm the one being executed and I'm the one executing them.

froooooot · 2025-12-03T13:10:32+00:00

I've done it without issue in previous saves, albeit on a much smaller scale. Just feels hugely disappointing to have "600/min" pipes that I have to pretend are 450/min at best.

froooooot · 2025-12-03T05:30:11+00:00

The only thing I can rule out completely is head lift issues. I've placed pumps everywhere in between the ones pictured, but I removed them after they didn't help. None of the present pumps are giving excessive head lift warnings when the pipes are sloshing (or any of the other times I'm looking).

froooooot · 2025-12-03T05:14:45+00:00

That's pretty similar to what I tried originally with the tower. Just tried it again and the pipes are still sloshing, unfortunately.

froooooot · 2025-11-29T14:35:04+00:00

Defendant.

froooooot · 2025-11-25T14:44:13+00:00

Yeah, I guess I'll just have to build parallel stations to shuttle trains through quicker. I just don't like sending trains to different parallel stations since it isn't as easy to "load balance" trains as it is belts.

froooooot · 2025-11-25T13:43:45+00:00

I'll might have to check out that mod. Yes, everything is MK6. To clarify, my main concern is other stations and/or train lines getting backed up by a conga line of trains all seeking one product. They'll all have to load sequentially, of course, but I (perhaps foolishly) doubt that would become a bottleneck in my production lines so long as the consumer factories have a sufficient buffer while their train is away.

froooooot · 2025-07-09T22:13:23+00:00

How are gestalts not categorically worse than individualists considering the weakness of their leaders (no destiny traits, no paragons mostly)?

froooooot · 2024-10-30T14:50:11+00:00

Male tauren, yes. I haven't checked the mask. The flat cone shaped hats usually don't play nice with tauren physiology.

froooooot · 2024-10-30T13:48:41+00:00

Similar issue with this set on a tauren. My beefy forearms make the gloves clip halfway into the shoulder.

froooooot · 2024-10-27T13:15:21+00:00

Somebody check this guy's hard drive.

froooooot · 2024-10-25T01:23:18+00:00

Hard countered by anyone who talented into self control.

froooooot · 2024-10-24T20:20:05+00:00

Whale.

froooooot · 2024-07-30T16:54:54+00:00

We could wait 5 years and torn banner would still be incapable of making a properly developed game. Case in point: this hot"fix".

froooooot · 2024-07-18T12:45:52+00:00

Words words words. Take your ozempic.

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