Solasta 2 hopes

[Silvercules('s')]

My biggest hope is more robust social, faction and economic systems. Solasta: Crown of the Magister was a fantastic turn based tactical fantasy RPG, but I'm hoping they raise the bar on the world and non-combat sections that were a little thin on the ground.

Oh and also cool late game transformation options like lichdom, sorcerous ascension, angelic blessings, etc. I'm hoping characters will be completely unrecognizable by the end of the journey.

[Soteria]

No thanks. Go replay WotR; we don't need copy-paste mechanics over here.

[Frostfeather]

Originally posted by Soteria:

No thanks. Go replay WotR; we don't need copy-paste mechanics over here.

Yeah, those are my exact thoughts, too. The whole mythic path thing was a disaster anyway. Very buggy, and almost every option was so op that it removed all challenge from the game.

I realize the whole "power fantasy" thing appeals to some, but that's not really Solasta's thing.

[fulf]

I hope for grappling and better feats for martial classes, and more spells for casters, even if they have to be homebrewed. More ways to interact with the environment would be nice as long as it doesn't become as gimmicky and silly as BG3's can be.

Official mod support and a more robust dungeon maker would also be obvious wishes, I sure hope they don't throw away a big part of what made the first game so special.

A more open story with better roleplay and some choice-and-consequence would be cool, but at the same time I don't want it to become too "cinematic" or full of itself. A big appeal of CotM for me is how unpretentious and straightforward it is, I come for the combat and there's not too much filler keeping me from enjoying that. Lost Valley was a step in the right direction even if it was crippled by bugs and copy+pasted locations, but I found Palace of Ice to be too reined-in and frankly boring.

5e's character progression is underwhelming but I don't know what sort of remedy I'd like to see for that. I admire the first game's adherence to rules-as-written. The itemization and homebrew in BG3 felt ridiculously unbalanced to me, it was way too easy to break the game by using certain items even without building for it.

[Barden]

Solasta is great, but it has a 2005 feel to it. I'm hoping Solasta II has a 2025 feel to it, while retaining everything that made Solasta great.

[Silvercules('s')]

Originally posted by Soteria:

No thanks. Go replay WotR; we don't need copy-paste mechanics over here.

Oh yeah, because WotR invented those. Shame they didn't patent them.

[Soteria]

Originally posted by Silvercules('s'):

Originally posted by Soteria:

No thanks. Go replay WotR; we don't need copy-paste mechanics over here.

Oh yeah, because WotR invented those. Shame they didn't patent them.

You can pretend that's not what you had in mind if you want, and you can pretend I said anything about them being invented by Owlcat if you want, but I will still say this is not something I want in Solasta.

[dataseer21]

I hid this game. I saw that there was a solasta II coming eventually so I looked up solasta 1 to see if there was an update. I stopped playing solasta because it was a buggy mess that crashed all the time. I will give solasta 2 a try because other than the crashing solasta was a good game. So all I'm hoping is that they deal with bugs. Even if solasta 2 is basically solasta 1 with a different campaign.

EDIT: Still I put 120 hours in this game despite the crashes.

[Soteria]

Originally posted by dataseer21:

I hid this game. I saw that there was a solasta II coming eventually so I looked up solasta 1 to see if there was an update. I stopped playing solasta because it was a buggy mess that crashed all the time. I will give solasta 2 a try because other than the crashing solasta was a good game. So all I'm hoping is that they deal with bugs. Even if solasta 2 is basically solasta 1 with a different campaign.

EDIT: Still I put 120 hours in this game despite the crashes.

I don't think I've ever had the game crash, so perhaps your issues have been solved.

[DethRaaj]

Originally posted by Soteria:

I don't think I've ever had the game crash, so perhaps your issues have been solved.

Likewise.

[Grumpy Old Dude]

Originally posted by dataseer21:

I hid this game. I saw that there was a solasta II coming eventually so I looked up solasta 1 to see if there was an update. I stopped playing solasta because it was a buggy mess that crashed all the time. I will give solasta 2 a try because other than the crashing solasta was a good game. So all I'm hoping is that they deal with bugs. Even if solasta 2 is basically solasta 1 with a different campaign.

EDIT: Still I put 120 hours in this game despite the crashes.

over 700 hrs STEAM/GOG...no crashes.....it aint the game