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Okay, I spent most of the day playing so since there was no replies I'll add to the thread myself with what I've found so far and let me add that this game is fun despite it's jank, Combat on melee jobs is fantastic and exploration is addicting, questing is cool and feels emergent although it's much of go from A to B type stuff. The general feel from the game is much better than the jank implies and feels much better to play after you get used to what it's doing. So what I've found so far that'll help the the main issues I ran into...
- You can buy a house during a quest that triggers in the first main city, a women will ask you to house sit and after a week she'll offer the house to you for 20k gold which is cheap considering Inns take 2k per night. This is invaluable.
- You have a latern for dark areas, it's best to keep it on you. Night and dungeons are very dark.
- There is a ring you can buy at the main blacksmith in the main city that helps with equip load and stanima issues. You can also eat a certain brightly lit bug found on trees for a very small increase. Keeping your load light effects stanima so unloading to your stash at an Inn, selling or sharing items with a pawns inventory is best done often.
- Using oxcarts is invaluable, you can come across them on the main roads and they really help in a pinch even if they take you across the map, you'll find an oxcart at it's destination going back to the main city. Saved me having to reload at an Inn twice. You can use oxcarts to travel to a location if it happens to be between the destination and you're willing to wait.
- You can well gain skills early, it just has to be done at the vocation center, there is no other progression system aside from this, some vocations have passives which I believe carry over to others, so it's good to level up a few and grab them.
- You can enhance equipment at a blacksmith
- Archer is best but not as much fun as melee
- It's best to take your time and just go with the flow and you'll fall into a pretty nice gameplay loop.
- You find a graveyard in cities where you can revive dead pawns and NPCs so don't use the wakestones yourself.
- Fast travel stone are seemingly extremely rare so don't use it as tempting as it may be, save up a few first. I've only found two so far.
- Gold is easily come by, buy new gear if you see it in shops cause not much drops in the world and when it does drop it's class specific so likely won't be equipable
- Make your main pawn a mage so it can heal you if you can't spell heal yourself, this is invaluable and very nessesary
- The visuals are improved if you can get as far away from your TV as possible, the fuzz isn't noticable to a distant. Push the couch back if you can.
So far. Pretty excited by the game. There is something to people spending hundreds of hours in it l, indeed and the jank means very little once you adjust to the vibe of the game. Coming to this after Stellar Blade is jarring but the good VA and NPC dialogue is much more appreciated.
Last edited by LegitHyperbole - 11 hours ago
