stamina??

[GOOD MORNING ASSHOLE]

is the only way to get stamina back is to stand around and wait for it to come back and use potions? (besides leveling up).

if so, i can't play this game. i'm only level 3 right now but killing the bats i ran out of stamina twice and therefore my character runs very slow, and stamina won't regen while walking (and it's not like diablo where i can make my character walk slower so i can still move and regen stamina at the same time).

am i missing something?

[IronBudmeister]

if you cant handle the hardcore and difficult climb to ascend the mighty and intimidating mountain that is Inquisitor, then i dont blame you. yes, stamina especially as a paladin is difficult to come by. in the very beginning your stamina regen is at pathetic levels and will continue to be so until you start leveling up and investing in some constitution.

your best bet is to dealwithit.jpg, budget your attacks and spells wisely, invest in plenty of stamina potions, and either obtain or buy some stamina regen items. once you're over that hill stamina wont be a problem, but dont kid yourself because it is definitely a potion guzzler (and to answer your remark yes, yes you can change your character from run to walk by pressing i believe its "R," although with the amount of speed you have in the very beginning it wont make much of a difference).

[GOOD MORNING ASSHOLE]

i don't see how "here, walk slow as ♥♥♥♥" constitutes to a game being "hardcore" and "difficult" but i digress.

i'll trudge through a bit more but if it continues to be absolute ♥♥♥♥ then if you want to call it "hardcore" i guess i'll succumb to it. played enough hardcore games in my day anyways.

i thought the game looked cool, got it with the bundle so only paid like $2 for it along with 5 other games

[IronBudmeister]

it sounds like there's alot more than just low stamina regen that upsets you about this game. i'm not sure what else to tell you, if your walking speed is that much of a problem for you that you can't just invest in some speed attribute points or swallow a yellow potion, then maybe this game isnt for you. we're all entitled to our opinions, if you dont like a game that doesnt hold your hand, fine. nothing wrong with that.

what else is there that makes the game so terrible in your opinion? if something bothers you so badly, why not take it up with Kovi? he can certainly clear things up better than i can. if there's any questions on how to trudge through the game as a paladin, i can do my best to explain.

[GOOD MORNING ASSHOLE]

no, it's only the stamina, you kill 5 things and you have to walk slow as ♥♥♥♥ everywhere unless you take a potion, i can only imagine my entire inventory filled with stamina potions, having to kill a few monsters only to pop a stamina potion every time a fight is over just to not walk slow.

and i would bet i've beaten more difficult games, you guys are quite funny

[Kovi]

I'm afraid you have to pop a stamina potion often to regen your stamina. That is just how it works in Inquisitor. The best thing you can do really is to fill an entire page of your inventory with various potions so that you won't run out of them at the most unwelcome moment. It sucks, but that is how the game was designed and it won't be changed. You could also buy some items that regenerate stamina. And if you get a few companions you won't have to fight your fights alone.

[MrMuse]

*very minor spoiler* -required for the not-so-bright
I think it's hilarious that this game is bandied around as an unfriendly and hardcore rpg. It's JUST good old-school. Go to the basement of the jail..get the dog...talk to the guy north-east of the start town and get a paladin when you come back...then you're off and running...go kill some zombies at the place of execution...boost some stats. Is that so hardcore? I think not.

This game has a well developed plot all linked with your quests (rather than the common pointless grind quests of most modern games) - I'm in act 2 with a paladin and loving it.

Low metacritic score? saddos who gave up after 10 minutes.

*edit* Don't bother with the bats quest at all and STAY AWAY FROM THE COMMONER QUARTERS early in the game. Oh..i forgot...talk to the guys in the church and get money to gear up.

[MrMuse]

I have only 2 criticisms. 1. the 2 npc's you meet early are both tanky types making paladin a bad starting choice. 2. the guy who attacks you in the town is too tough considering how quickly you will run into him (plus I get that he's a homage to the "I've a blade with your name on it" guy from Baldur's Gate as is the text saying "you must gather your party before venturing forth" on a loading screen).

[Cyn0sure]

Just about every action (especially the combat actions) requires a certain amount of stamina, your reservoir of which gets used up quickly. (Running out of stamina in the middle of combat is a frequent and major problem!) Once you've cleared your immediate surrounding area of opponents, you can stand around and do nothing, which will slowly regenerate your stamina. But there's no "rest" key to press, to speed up the process. There is no "camp" option, either. Nor can you trek back to town and sleep at the inn. (Although you can pay the priest there to heal you.)

You, the player, literally sit there, staring at the screen and waiting for your character's stamina to regenerate. You can go take a quick bathroom break or go grab something to snack on, or whatever, but the number of times you'll find yourself having to do this is beyond ridiculous. So, really, you're forced to rely on stamina potions - and lots of them.

There's also a great need for health potions and mana potions, and those too you'll have to upkeep in your inventory by the dozens as you continually burn through them. (And if you have a henchman or two, fighting with you, you'll burn through the potions - particularly the stamina and health ones - even faster! Because they need to use them too, as often as your character does.) You'll end up dedicating a third or more of your ample inventory just for upkeeping potions.

Eventually, you can acquire magic items (rings, amulets, belts, etc.) that can speed up (by, say, 20%) the regeneration of your stamina. Other items will even allow you to ever so slowly regenerate health and mana. (Because, health and mana do not regenerate otherwise!) But those items are hard to find and prohibitively expensive, the first dozen levels or so of your character. And even when you do acquire them, you'll continue having to burn through potions by the scores as opponents get tougher and exploration gets deeper and more protracted.

Sorry, but the continual need for the ridiculous numbers of potions, ruins what would otherwise be a pretty good old-school computer RPG, for me.

[Cyn0sure]

Originally posted by IronBudmeister:

if you cant handle the hardcore and difficult climb to ascend the mighty and intimidating mountain that is Inquisitor, then i dont blame you.

LOL. Yes, this RPG is "old-school". And believe me: I *know* old-school computer RPG's, which I've been playing since the ol' Commodore Amiga days. So, I know what kind of hard-nosed design paradigm and grueling challenge and slogging gameplay I'm in for, with an RPG like this. But there's good old-school, and there's bad old-school - and this is *bad* old-school.

[MrMuse]

Originally posted by Cyn0sure:

Originally posted by IronBudmeister:

if you cant handle the hardcore and difficult climb to ascend the mighty and intimidating mountain that is Inquisitor, then i dont blame you.

LOL. Yes, this RPG is "old-school". And believe me: I *know* old-school computer RPG's, which I've been playing since the ol' Commodore Amiga days. So, I know what kind of hard-nosed design paradigm and grueling challenge and slogging gameplay I'm in for, with an RPG like this. But there's good old-school, and there's bad old-school - and this is *bad* old-school.

I completely disagree. And I've never once stood around waiting for my stamina to regen. If you do that you are either stupid or you made a particularly bad job of levelling up your character stats and buying the right equipment. Yes, it's true that you have to keep buying a ton of potions - and there REALLY needs to be a way to multi-buy. But so what? MANY of these games "back in the day" were potion guzzlers. It's just how they played.
You have a point when you talk about the way your companions scoff your potions though...since there is no way of altering how they level up you can't even give them a ton of stamina to stop them guzzling all your potions.

*edit* the problem is compounded by the fact that there are far too many "energy drain" type monsters. A few undead priests surrounded by ghosts and spirits and your stam can drop to empty every half a second. It's a problem - but not a game breaker.