Skill capped at 50

[Paper]

How do you increase the combat skill prof cap past 50. Is it a mask upgrade or a different mask or something? My friends and I are trying to figure it out.

[GhrominIronfist]

Not sure if the OC characters can be increased, so far the devs seem to intend for us to play as the recruited tribesman whos caps are randomized all the way to 120, they also have randomized traits that make them even better than you in other ways like 150% proficiency gain or 30% flat speed boost to certain crafting skills. Go out there and ash ketchum a better you.

[Kaos]

There might be a later game workbench to upgrade our original tribesman. However, the best way is to find a tribesman with great proficiency caps and traits and control them to be your main character.

[Paper]

Originally posted by GhrominIronfist:

Not sure if the OC characters can be increased, so far the devs seem to intend for us to play as the recruited tribesman whos caps are randomized all the way to 120, they also have randomized traits that make them even better than you in other ways like 150% proficiency gain or 30% flat speed boost to certain crafting skills. Go out there and ash ketchum a better you.

Oh, that extremely disappointing. There already wasn't ant incentive to play the main guy over anyone else, but I has hoped with the proficiency levels and customization that I could still play them until the end.

[Panic]

@paper why disappointing? surely its the same game no matter who your controlling, I look at it from a hive mind mentality, Why yes the queen bee controls, but the hive does all the leg work.

[Zalzany]

Originally posted by Paper:

Originally posted by GhrominIronfist:

Not sure if the OC characters can be increased, so far the devs seem to intend for us to play as the recruited tribesman whos caps are randomized all the way to 120, they also have randomized traits that make them even better than you in other ways like 150% proficiency gain or 30% flat speed boost to certain crafting skills. Go out there and ash ketchum a better you.

Oh, that extremely disappointing. There already wasn't ant incentive to play the main guy over anyone else, but I has hoped with the proficiency levels and customization that I could still play them until the end.

You can make a table to customize other people and whole theme of the game was you are the mask not the person and you can swap to others as needed for their skills and perks... That is waht the awaness level is basically you mask level is that, then you got pawn level wich you can swap out once you learn the very easy to get abilty in starter area...

[Paper]

Originally posted by Panic:

@paper why disappointing? surely its the same game no matter who your controlling, I look at it from a hive mind mentality, Why yes the queen bee controls, but the hive does all the leg work.

It's disappointing because it's not what I wanted to do. Losing a tribesmen to a boss, to have the grind another one, then another if I just can't get past it isn't fun to me. Additionally, I thought the game would be one character swapping masks, or something. It wasn't really conveyed that you'd be a gestalt and the PC was just insurance in case you lost everyone else.

[Paper]

Originally posted by Zalzany:

Originally posted by Paper:

Oh, that extremely disappointing. There already wasn't ant incentive to play the main guy over anyone else, but I has hoped with the proficiency levels and customization that I could still play them until the end.

You can make a table to customize other people and whole theme of the game was you are the mask not the person and you can swap to others as needed for their skills and perks... That is waht the awaness level is basically you mask level is that, then you got pawn level wich you can swap out once you learn the very easy to get abilty in starter area...

That theme isn't conveyed in any of the store page. It reads like you got a magic mask, and you can take other people's skills and abilities by recruiting them and possessing them. It doesn't state that you WILL be gatekept in progression until you do this and that your main character is actually just to make sure you don't run out of people.

[Kaos]

Originally posted by Paper:

Originally posted by Panic:

@paper why disappointing? surely its the same game no matter who your controlling, I look at it from a hive mind mentality, Why yes the queen bee controls, but the hive does all the leg work.

It's disappointing because it's not what I wanted to do. Losing a tribesmen to a boss, to have the grind another one, then another if I just can't get past it isn't fun to me. Additionally, I thought the game would be one character swapping masks, or something. It wasn't really conveyed that you'd be a gestalt and the PC was just insurance in case you lost everyone else.

After completing the first dungeon, we can obtain the Mysterious Stone Table that lets us record valuable Tribesmen. So when they die we can 'resurrect' them.

[starkmaddness]

Yea, this needs to change. We create our own character and want to be able to play our own character without being gimped. Allow us to absorb traits/skills somehow. Or at the very least, remove the cap for the main character, that is just awful design.

[Zalzany]

Originally posted by Paper:

Originally posted by Zalzany:

You can make a table to customize other people and whole theme of the game was you are the mask not the person and you can swap to others as needed for their skills and perks... That is waht the awaness level is basically you mask level is that, then you got pawn level wich you can swap out once you learn the very easy to get abilty in starter area...

That theme isn't conveyed in any of the store page. It reads like you got a magic mask, and you can take other people's skills and abilities by recruiting them and possessing them. It doesn't state that you WILL be gatekept in progression until you do this and that your main character is actually just to make sure you don't run out of people.

You read it wrong its you take them and SWAP to others to use their abilties I mean I got that from the trailer, demo and all the info they released when they had the demo out.

The entire base theme is you are the mask and you use the MASK not the player to take over otehr people, and swap to the best people for the job you are doing sigh...

[Judaspriester]

The caps like the one at 50 are fine by itself. The devs just need to find a clear way to communicate how to increase/lift this limit, so that less players run into this glass wall again and again while not understanding what to do to break it.

[天使竜]

Originally posted by starkmaddness:

Yea, this needs to change. We create our own character and want to be able to play our own character without being gimped. Allow us to absorb traits/skills somehow. Or at the very least, remove the cap for the main character, that is just awful design.

Originally posted by Paper:

That theme isn't conveyed in any of the store page. It reads like you got a magic mask, and you can take other people's skills and abilities by recruiting them and possessing them. It doesn't state that you WILL be gatekept in progression until you do this and that your main character is actually just to make sure you don't run out of people.

I agree with the OP and starkmaddness. I was googling for ways to increase my main character's proficiency past 50 when I found this discussion. I also had no clue that we're supposed to "use" other bodies to get past this limitation and I really don't like it either!

[| KeRoZeN]

Much more than our character, we embody our mask and its will. According to my deduction, this is voluntary in order to play with the tribe members, while leaving our MC resting high up on the throne.

[天使竜]

Originally posted by | KeRoZeN:

Much more than our character, we embody our mask and its will. According to my deduction, this is voluntary in order to play with the tribe members, while leaving our MC resting high up on the throne.

I don't really see how this is voluntary. Unless you wanna be mediocre in playing this game, you're being forced to constantly swap between people with better stats. I was under the impression that we're collecting tribesmen to help us with the menial tasks that come up at our base camp or help us with hard fights, etc., but that we would still mainly play with our original character.

[Chays]

Someone answered this question for me in this topic :
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2646460/discussions/0/4330853446696990274/