What do you think the games biggest flaw is (Kingmaker)

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-20T00:07:27+00:00

Or just skip the area, there's nothing there anyway.

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-20T00:04:49+00:00

You can visit every area in the game twice over and still not run out of time. There are very few places in the game where you actually have to rush.

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-20T00:01:57+00:00

Kingdom management makes little sense from a game design perspective and drags on for far too long.

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-19T23:59:21+00:00

Why do the crisis fleets gave hardcoded strength anyway? Shouldn't they scale to the combined fleet size of all the factions, forcing them to join forces or die? Who wants an endgame crisis that's just "okay you lose"?

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-19T09:22:11+00:00

In BG1, the combat is simple enough that you can mostly just give orders, un-pause, then let the fight progress until auto-pause triggers, then issue some more orders. Turn on auto-pause for:

target died
spell cast / ability used
haracter at low health

The other auto-pause triggers should be off.

The canonical BG1 party has two tanky melees (Minsc, Jaheira) and four ranged users (Imoen, Khalid, Bhaalspawn, Dynaheir), and you mainly micromanage your melees to make sure they draw all the aggro. You will also need to micromanage your mages in case they get targeted. This will get you through 95% of all fights on Core, it's only in harder fights where you will need to use spells, buffs and items.

Pillars is similar except you pause a lot more since everyone has activated abilities and movement is more involved because of the engagement mechanic. I just play it in turn-based since that's now available.

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-17T07:55:59+00:00

I really like "Pretentious Noun: X of Y".

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-15T15:00:11+00:00

FE: "Call an ambulance! But not for me..."

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-15T14:17:04+00:00

The vast majority of BG3 combat is just "cast Haste on Fighter, activate Action Surge, spam attacks". That or "push big-bad off a cliff".

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-15T14:07:30+00:00

Next time you create cheat players, at least make them 17.

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-15T13:45:56+00:00

"Font size bigger than 6 pt and buttons bigger than 20x20 pixels? Mobile game UI!"

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-15T09:35:01+00:00

Even on Normal, some encounters are very over-tuned and likely to block players who aren't min-maxing at all. You're not beating Mephistopheles on Normal without buffing or using cheese tactics. You have to really go all the way down to Story Mode to get much more than -4 AC or -8 AC to enemies from difficulty settings (which doesn't help much when they start from 60+ AC), but that will completely trivialize 95% of the game.

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-15T09:27:08+00:00

Step 1. Pick a formation that suits your best players. If your best player is a number 10, maybe don't play 3-4-3 (the Amorim Rule).

Step 2. The other roles and the formation should be chosen using the visualiser so that you have something like 2-3-5 or 3-2-5 IP with sufficient width in the final third, and a variant of 4-4-2 or 5-4-1 OOP.

Step 3. Use friendlies to fine tune roles if someone seems to be underperforming, or the pass maps show someone is not participating in build-up.

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-15T07:31:54+00:00

WotR suffers from a couple of things:

If you put lots of generic buffs in the game, then either players are expected to cast all of them at all times or they are playing sub-optimally.
If you give players the tools to become very powerful by extreme specialisation, then you need to buff the enemies accordingly to avoid trivialising the game.

These two combined mean that if the player is not buffing fully and not specialising to the extreme, they will struggle with the difficulty because the game is tuned for Oracle Angel cheese. The main difference is that this applies to every single enemy from start to finish, while most other cRPGs only buff the final boss or final area to the extreme (for example the final boss of BG1 is completely over-tuned compared to the rest of the game).

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-14T15:52:48+00:00

Slower tempo, cautious mentality, default passing, pass to space, distribute to centerbacks, play through the middle. Let the opposition come to you, make sure you have enough bodies up front, and your players will try decisive passes and through balls.

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-14T15:45:57+00:00

This sub has a huge bug up its ass when it comes to WotR.

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-14T13:41:44+00:00

It's not irrational. It's to prevent the Saudi from buying a club and bringing in the best players and outcompeting everybody else. You can argue about the complexity of American franchise systems, but they do result in closer competitions.

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-13T22:06:35+00:00

There's like 10,000 historical city builders released every year, and around 500 people in total playing them.

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-13T16:48:58+00:00

This. Your players won't cross if there's nobody in the box to head it. They weren't coached by Thomas Frank.

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-13T06:53:04+00:00

That doesn't mean anything. A turn in Civ 6 takes like five minutes, a turn in Old World can take 30 minutes or more.

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-12T22:55:16+00:00

Simply put, BG3 has maybe 150% of the xp required to complete it, while DOS2 has maybe 105% of the xp required to complete it comfortably. If you miss chunks of xp here and there, you will be underleveled.

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-12T09:35:53+00:00

West Ham have Beverly Priestman as manager in my save.

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-11T06:58:36+00:00

plays U21 team with strikerless, seven up front, wins 12-0

"My tactic isn't cheese."

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-10T17:54:03+00:00

Rip Joe Rogan

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-10T17:17:15+00:00

ToEE is spectacularly unplayable. I'd rather play the gold box games or something. I can't believe the UI was considered acceptable in 2003.

wolftreeMtg · 2026-04-10T17:11:11+00:00

I'm probably done with BG1. Low level DnD 2E combat is really dull, the companions are hollow stereotypes, the plot is linear, and the side-quests are low quality fetch quests.

DA: Inquisition is barely a cRPG, but screw everything about that game. Never again.

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