DLC and what to get.

[Newb.]

Which DLC would you guys say is the best or are all of them worth it?

[Rodso]

pirate one is good case boat and a whole ass giant region to use said ship in

taven dlc is a nice change of pace

i dont have pits

invasion looks cool but ive yet to start it so maybe someone else who has started it can better sell it

[Green Spartan]

I only have the tavern dlc and i kinda like it.It shouldn't been a dlc since it is a small addition to the game,like you can manage your own tavern (and only one) .

I like it because it is immersive, you interract to some degree with the locals,you can learn new recipes and the passive income is great on the long run, especially if you go for a large mercenary company like myself.

[DontWorryBeHappy]

The pirate one and invasion are must haves imo. They give you more quests and a new map. Pits is more of an endgame dlc imo - no real story but just killing and killing, fighting and fighting. Tavern can be fun but I didn't like it since it's not integrated into the world but has a different setting. To me it felt like it's "not immersive" at all.

[Cadwell]

Originally posted by Green Spartan:

I only have the tavern dlc and i kinda like it.It shouldn't been a dlc since it is a small addition to the game,like you can manage your own tavern (and only one) .

I like it because it is immersive, you interract to some degree with the locals,you can learn new recipes and the passive income is great on the long run, especially if you go for a large mercenary company like myself.

Honestly, agreed. It shouldn't be a DLC or at the very least not priced as it was.

Having the possibility to open more taverns would have been a good way to intertwine with the Wealth path in the game, maybe giving us bonuses to increase income, add policies to the taverns and so on and so forth.

Also, it's ridicolous that we do not get to rest at OUR OWN TAVERN for free as the owners! It's bloody idiotic!

[DontWorryBeHappy]

Oh... didn't you you have to pay to rest at your own tavern lol

[Newb.]

Originally posted by MacInTosh:

The pirate one and invasion are must haves imo. They give you more quests and a new map. Pits is more of an endgame dlc imo - no real story but just killing and killing, fighting and fighting. Tavern can be fun but I didn't like it since it's not integrated into the world but has a different setting. To me it felt like it's "not immersive" at all.

so what im getting from this is get the main expansions and then tavern if you like a management kinda deal and pits if you just want to kill stuff?

[DontWorryBeHappy]

Originally posted by Newb.:

Originally posted by MacInTosh:

The pirate one and invasion are must haves imo. They give you more quests and a new map. Pits is more of an endgame dlc imo - no real story but just killing and killing, fighting and fighting. Tavern can be fun but I didn't like it since it's not integrated into the world but has a different setting. To me it felt like it's "not immersive" at all.

so what im getting from this is get the main expansions and then tavern if you like a management kinda deal and pits if you just want to kill stuff?

The tavern dlc is less of a management but more of a mini-game dlc. It's very simple and will just demand only a few mins every few hrs. So no big deal if you ask me. It's really just a nice-to-have. Don't expect it to change or influence the game for better or worse in any possible way.

[Newb.]

Originally posted by MacInTosh:

Originally posted by Newb.:

so what im getting from this is get the main expansions and then tavern if you like a management kinda deal and pits if you just want to kill stuff?

The tavern dlc is less of a management but more of a mini-game dlc. It's very simple and will just demand only a few mins every few hrs. So no big deal if you ask me. It's really just a nice-to-have. Don't expect it to change or influence the game for better or worse in any possible way.

okay awesome thankyou

[Benchwarmer]

Tavern is overpriced but once you have it, it's hard to play without it. It's nothing special but a nice little and different element to everything else.

I bought base game, tavern and pirates for 40€ and it was ok deal and I still even havent seen Pirates content* after 50 hours. It's end game stuff in region locked mode.

*I saw the ship though, LOL

[Arctuhris]

Base game has around 100-ish hours of gameplay on *one* playthrough, if you know what you're doing. Pirates of Belerion adds another 20-30-ish hours in a new region, and based on my progress through the new Skelmar Invasion dlc, that seems to be on track for another 20-30 hours. I have enjoyed the base game, and both regional expansions immensely, and if you enjoy the base game, then I highly recommend them.

The Tavern dlc is something you interact with only after your party "rests" which happens maybe every 30-120 minutes or so of real time (depending on your party buffs and what you are doing, i.e. running across country or doing numerous back to back fights). In this way, it adds (IMO) a nice change of pace to the game, and gives you something other than your base-camp to build, organize, and tinker with. I really enjoyed it, but I recognize that its value might not be as high for others who don't enjoy the building/organizing aspect as much as I do.

The PIts dlc adds about 25 unique fights (on normal & brutal mode, so 50 fights) assuming you win each fight on the first try. If you enjoy "puzzle" fights, they're pretty fun, and they add *some* really good items to the game, and a bunch of useless items. I bout this one on heavy sale, and felt okay about it because this is one of my favorite games. I can't really recommend this one at/near full price though. If you love the game, though, it adds some fun stuff.

[Daevinski]

Originally posted by Arctuhris:

Base game has around 100-ish hours of gameplay on *one* playthrough, if you know what you're doing. Pirates of Belerion adds another 20-30-ish hours in a new region, and based on my progress through the new Skelmar Invasion dlc, that seems to be on track for another 20-30 hours. I have enjoyed the base game, and both regional expansions immensely, and if you enjoy the base game, then I highly recommend them.

The Tavern dlc is something you interact with only after your party "rests" which happens maybe every 30-120 minutes or so of real time (depending on your party buffs and what you are doing, i.e. running across country or doing numerous back to back fights). In this way, it adds (IMO) a nice change of pace to the game, and gives you something other than your base-camp to build, organize, and tinker with. I really enjoyed it, but I recognize that its value might not be as high for others who don't enjoy the building/organizing aspect as much as I do.

The PIts dlc adds about 25 unique fights (on normal & brutal mode, so 50 fights) assuming you win each fight on the first try. If you enjoy "puzzle" fights, they're pretty fun, and they add *some* really good items to the game, and a bunch of useless items. I bout this one on heavy sale, and felt okay about it because this is one of my favorite games. I can't really recommend this one at/near full price though. If you love the game, though, it adds some fun stuff.

And all of this extra content is merged with the main campaign or it's more like expansions to enjoy after you finish the main games?

[Arctuhris]

The Tavern & Pits dlc are (IMO) meant to be played through as you play the original 6 regions. Regions 7 & 8 (Pirates & Skelmar expansions) can be played into as "new" regions with a veteran troop of mercenaries---this is how I played them because my mercs were ready to go. However, if you play the game on Adaptive mode (as it is designed to be played) then you can go into any region at any level, including the newer regions from the expansion. There is stuff/gear in the expansion regions that would be fun to use while playing through the "base game," and vice versa. As long as you're playing on Adaptive, it really is an open world game, and you can go anywhere and do the quests in whatever order you want. So the expansion DLC's really just another region with it's own quests, story, unique faction, regional armors/weapons, etc.

TLDR: it's all merged, and you can play any of it in any order (unless you play Region-locked mode, and then you have to progress through regions in a set order).

[LeftPaw]

Does the pirate and invasion DLC meld into the base game or are they separate campaigns?

[Arctuhris]

Originally posted by LeftPaw:

Does the pirate and invasion DLC meld into the base game or are they separate campaigns?

The expansion dlc's just make the open world bigger with more stuff to do, letting you travel to new places with your mercenary company. It's all melded together.

[LeftPaw]

Originally posted by Arctuhris:

Originally posted by LeftPaw:

Does the pirate and invasion DLC meld into the base game or are they separate campaigns?

The expansion dlc's just make the open world bigger with more stuff to do, letting you travel to new places with your mercenary company. It's all melded together.

Thank you.