Playing Low Virtue

[Dead Owl]

I gotta say, my only gripe is trying to do a low virtue run. There is genuinely NO BENEFIT to it, at all. Want those Civic Crowns? Lul, you just gained virtue! Want that kick ass sword? Lul, won't make it if you're an honorless ♥♥♥♥. Oh? Random check during training? Lost some morale because everyone thinks you're a scumbag even though you're at max rep on everything? Oh snap, you just killed those people after a bandit raid, well, there was absolutely no benefit to it other than losing tons of rep and missing out of a crucial armor reward!

Like damn, yea, I can make an enhanced character with starting stats all in the 80+s, and he can beat the game from sheer force of strength, but trying to find anything beneficial about a low virtue run is like trying to 1v1 the Agema Peltast with the starter gladius. I've run it twice and honestly, I'm TRYING to figure out what the point is. Thoughts?

[nolram00]

you get that kick ass helmet, at the second or third siege, but other than that, no point really except you make some more loot

[gulegule]

You can get the Seric Iron Gladius, but you have to be _very_ low virtue and also high charisma, which lets you intimidate the swordsmith.

[7th of October]

You’re mostly right. Optimal run is high virtue.

Personally, I only just bought the game three days ago and literally did a close to all achievements run (turns out I missed pristine triumph cause after my first guy died I bought the second level sword at the start thinking that wasn’t considered a pre game buff, lol. That sucks)

Only ones I’m missing are the foot race, which I might be able to double get with the spectacle games foot race too, and the throw the javelin for distance spectacle game.

I am really hoping there is DLc for this game, or a sequel maybe set in the late republic or the late imperial setting.

Or even a Viking one, eg act one, unifying campaign of petty Scandinavian kingdoms.
Act two raids on east anglia, and Paris.
Act three campaign against the Angle/Saxon/Jutish kingdoms (great heathen invasion)

If you played great you end the game as a jarl.

Or maybe one where you play as an Anglo Saxon warrior of Wessex similarly drafted as part of the fyrd to fight Viking raiders, and you fight a steady campaign against them, the welsh, and the Cornish.

A samurai one would be cool.

A medieval knights one would be amazing. You could start off in Richard’s army, English civil war, French wars. Crusade, culminating in Arsuf or Jaffa.

Go from peasant levy, to footsoldier, to sergeant. To man at arms. Then to knight/landed gentry. Maybe top rank is minor noble. End game you become marshal of England and a high noble with enough stats and score.

Or a knights Templar run, which wouldn’t be hard to modify from legionary run.

[Rodrik Forrester]

Originally posted by Jake The scary doggy:

You’re mostly right. Optimal run is high virtue.

Personally, I only just bought the game three days ago and literally did a close to all achievements run (turns out I missed pristine triumph cause after my first guy died I bought the second level sword at the start thinking that wasn’t considered a pre game buff, lol. That sucks)

Only ones I’m missing are the foot race, which I might be able to double get with the spectacle games foot race too, and the throw the javelin for distance spectacle game.

I am really hoping there is DLc for this game, or a sequel maybe set in the late republic or the late imperial setting.

Or even a Viking one, eg act one, unifying campaign of petty Scandinavian kingdoms.
Act two raids on east anglia, and Paris.
Act three campaign against the Angle/Saxon/Jutish kingdoms (great heathen invasion)

If you played great you end the game as a jarl.

Or maybe one where you play as an Anglo Saxon warrior of Wessex similarly drafted as part of the fyrd to fight Viking raiders, and you fight a steady campaign against them, the welsh, and the Cornish.

A samurai one would be cool.

A medieval knights one would be amazing. You could start off in Richard’s army, English civil war, French wars. Crusade, culminating in Arsuf or Jaffa.

Go from peasant levy, to footsoldier, to sergeant. To man at arms. Then to knight/landed gentry. Maybe top rank is minor noble. End game you become marshal of England and a high noble with enough stats and score.

Or a knights Templar run, which wouldn’t be hard to modify from legionary run.

if you're looking for a (somewhat) similar samurai experience, try Shigatari!

[fields.of.elysium]

Thanks for mentioning this 'Shigatari' - looks well worth a try.

[Daniel da Silva]

I liked playing Low Virtue for the extra options you have sometimes. Didn't really think about rewards but more of having more story content even though I would have liked a bit more situations were low virtue plays a role.

[Lordly Cinder]

Originally posted by fields.of.elysium:

Thanks for mentioning this 'Shigatari' - looks well worth a try.

It is, well worth it.