"SpellForce 3: Fallen God" shocking start!

[ovd_masterkey]

It's quite shocking how you get thrown into the deep end when you just want to play this game after a few years of break, after SF 2.

Right at the beginning you should "build" your heroes, but how ??

Who should you take and what skills should he have !?

After I realized that you can get all four heroes and after a lot of deliberation, I was able to select some talent trees.

Reading contributions from other players was also of little use, most of what is being discussed is simply incomprehensible for beginners!

Of course, my hero attitude was total crap and so after ~ 2 hours of play I had to start all over again, this time with a much better setup!

So after I played briefly and the game is really made very "cute", the landscape, the trolls and also the dialogues and the group dynamics together with the perfect syncro is just great!

There is maybe only one shortcoming, that is the bad overview due to a too low FOV !!

To improve this, you can install a community patch that slightly improves it.

So after all the problems that once cost me 20 hours, I'm now very satisfied with my settings and the game.

If you don't want to try around for so long, you can read my guide:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2459371831

[5262]

Welcome to FG! It's a real gem.

Great to see you wrote a piece for the budding adventurer that's really wet behind the ears.

I do want to highlight some basic stuff about the game since you had a hard time about building your heroes and ending up restarting:

- In game glossary will store all kinds of information about gameplay so you can review it anytime.

- There's a difficulty slider which you can adjust at will, allowing for easier/harder gameplay since it tweaks damage and resistance values. Start out easy if you are easily overwhelmed, or get right into it on CM if you want some challenge. The LV50 mod by Neox drastically reduces difficulty as well.

- While there are more or less optimal builds, anything combination works. Even on the hardest difficulty (CM). In addition, you get handed attribute and ability respec potions right at the start + they are craftable. As such, you'll never be put to a halt by the game due to wrong choices.

- Starter weapons are interchangeable current day. You can slap them on any party member, allowing for flexibel start. The characters handle each role in a different way due to their unique tree and synergy skill.

- Because of flexible and unique character building + adjustable difficulty and skills/options/gear and such along the way, it really just pays to plug and play to your preference.

Don't fret if you have questions. Enjoy the game!

[Paraleo]

Difficulty is changeable on the fly that means if you find RTS too punishing or whatever you can change it for that thing only and then back, even during the missions.

[ovd_masterkey]

Thank you so much for your encouragement , of course you can play all combinations and in the beginning I made Akrog a wizard with a gift of frost and flame because I personally prefer that role and he has the lead role and Grangwar has a hand-to-hand combat with a shield with one Gift of blood. All of them had a mixed profile and therefore had little influence at the beginning!
And I'm kind of a perfectionist, that bothered me.
But the main problem is simply that due to the low field of view and the small space, at least at the beginning, I'm still before the devouring ceremony, ranged combat is completely pointless, also because you can see opponents only 3 cm in advance. And I just have more fun when the look of the characters matches the skills.
For immersion, it is simply better if the two brothers, the "closets" with broad shoulders, play the stoppers at the front and the old and small ones play as "ranged fighters = second row" magicians and spearmen.
I also like the skills of Gift of Twilight for the Mage and Way of Shattering for Akrog, only better.
It is simply gratifying how good the penetration power of our heroes with weapon skill 10 is (magic wand IQ = 10, spear skill = 10, knife and bat strength = 10) and that already at the beginning of the game!

[ovd_masterkey]

Originally posted by 5262:

Welcome to FG! It's a real gem.
Don't fret if you have questions. Enjoy the game!

Sorry, now I have a few more questions:

• Can you disassemble everything you find, without thinking?
  
• There is no need for gold?
  
• The raw materials blades steel, steel plates and form essence is all you need?
  
• When are there better, stronger, weapons from the builder?

Thank´s a lot!

[Farlon]

Originally posted by ovd_masterkey:

Originally posted by 5262:

Welcome to FG! It's a real gem.
Don't fret if you have questions. Enjoy the game!

Sorry, now I have a few more questions:

• Can you disassemble everything you find, without thinking?
  
• There is no need for gold?
  
• The raw materials blades steel, steel plates and form essence is all you need?
  
• When are there better, stronger, weapons from the builder?

Thank´s a lot!

1. Yes, if it's possible to disassemble you won't need it. At least most of the time.
2. Gold can be useful and sometimes give you even more gold.
3. Yep
4. Once you unlock the recipes, they can be found all over the world.

[ovd_masterkey]

Originally posted by Farlon:

1. Yes, if it's possible to disassemble you won't need it. At least most of the time.
2. Gold can be useful and sometimes give you even more gold.

I can't believe it, so I'd rather ask again:

But all of the things that you can find, things for human´s, colored red (Armor, Helmets and Swords), are worth gold and worth dismantling. Can you get gold for them or can you just disassemble? Why do they have a Gold Value?

Sorry, thank´s.

[Farlon]

Originally posted by ovd_masterkey:

Originally posted by Farlon:

1. Yes, if it's possible to disassemble you won't need it. At least most of the time.
2. Gold can be useful and sometimes give you even more gold.

I can't believe it, so I'd rather ask again:

But all of the things that you can find, things for human´s, colored red (Armor, Helmets and Swords), are worth gold and worth dismantling. Can you get gold for them or can you just disassemble? Why do they have a Gold Value?

Sorry, thank´s.

You can sell them if you need gold to buy something but usually, it's just better to dismantle them.

[Paraleo]

You do not have many traders in this game, maybe 4 only one is actually richer without spoiling too much. One tip I could give you soup is good but very expensive and only one per character works.

[ovd_masterkey]

Originally posted by Paraleo:

You do not have many traders in this game, maybe 4 only one is actually richer without spoiling too much. One tip I could give you soup is good but very expensive and only one per character works.

LOL.? soup?? Soup, like soup, broth, bouillon, pea-souper, this water-like thing you can eat? Realy?

[5262]

Originally posted by ovd_masterkey:

Originally posted by Paraleo:

You do not have many traders in this game, maybe 4 only one is actually richer without spoiling too much. One tip I could give you soup is good but very expensive and only one per character works.

LOL.? soup?? :lunar2019shockedpig: Soup, like soup, broth, bouillon, pea-souper, this water-like thing you can eat? Realy?

Minor spoiler:

You'll come across a goblin merchant in the game, twice. He sells goblin soup (iirc 25K per soup), which is a consumable that grants a perk that adds +1 to all stats. You can get this soup for every party member, so it's really nice to have.

[ovd_masterkey]

Originally posted by 5262:

Originally posted by ovd_masterkey:

LOL.? soup?? Soup, like soup, broth, bouillon, pea-souper, this water-like thing you can eat? Realy?

Minor spoiler:

You'll come across a goblin merchant in the game, twice. He sells goblin soup (iirc 25K per soup), which is a consumable that grants a perk that adds +1 to all stats. You can get this soup for every party member, so it's really nice to have.

Wow, but where did you get 100K?