ELEX 2 - will Jax lose his powers (AGAIN!)?

[anarnam]

I know it's WAAAY too early to start ELEX 2 topics, but since PB is known for making the same character weakling in every part of their games I'm just wondering what excuse will they make this time to make the main protagonist weak :D
Maybe some kind of ELEX creature will suck the entire energy from Jax while he was fighting it (let's say tutorial prologue or something like that - but that's not very much PB style).

Or they simply make it Gothic 3/Witcher 3 style, where your main character is theoretically already strong to begin with.

What are your thoughts?

[treahnurb]

Would be cool if he maintains a few of his powers. Either with savegame port or a little question game at the start (like Mass Effect did for eg when you started ME2 without ME1 savegame) so you maintain basic skills of cleric/outlaw/berserk? There are a lot of games out there where you started more powerfull in the second part, like you said Witcher or Gothic. Old Baldurs Gate for example did that and, 'cause I allready mentioned it, Mass Effect did it too as far as I recall.
A new maincharacter and Jax being an NPC leader of the Camp of the Center wouldn't be much PB-like, I guess. But you never know?

[Dixon Sider]

I think they will just start you over at level 1 and assume your already powerful. Maybe we will be able to kill small animals in Elex 2 at the start now!!!!

[v0]

i'm not much attached to jax so new protagonist'd totally work for me.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Interesting topic.

Playing the amnesia card once more would work, too. Jax follows Hector and The Claws over the mountain pass, is buried by an avalanche and gets rescued by unknown survivors and potential allies. That way the developers could replace or rework the attributes and skills.

If player has completed the prequel at level 40 upwards, I don't see how one could continue there with all the skills and high-end equipment and still offer better items and new skills.

[v0]

Originally posted by D'amarr from Darshiva:

Interesting topic.

Playing the amnesia card once more would work, too. Jax follows Hector and The Claws over the mountain pass, is buried by an avalanche and gets rescued by unknown survivors and potential allies. That way the developers could replace or rework the attributes and skills.

If player has completed the prequel at level 40 upwards, I don't see how one could continue there with all the skills and high-end equipment and still offer better items and new skills.

i'd rather they offed jax or he'd simply vanish only to find him much later as npc.

[fastpuppy]

The protagonist doesn't have to be Jax and in a weird way it would be better if it wasn't.

If I were staging ELEX 2 then it'd be a generation(s) after the end of ELEX where Jax's efforts were a fading legend and the external threat has arrived.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Not adjutor any more then?

And do you think the sphere that's shown at the end of the game will take so long to arrive?

[Hadraziel]

You know what would be cool?
if Elex 2 was pirate themed

[nimrock]

Is it confirmed it will be Jax?
I know expecting PB to allow create players their own character for some reason is bit too much but damn... Jax personality is so... struggle to find world... absent.

[ReV0LT]

Originally posted by fastpuppy:

If I were staging ELEX 2 then it'd be a generation(s) after the end of ELEX where Jax's efforts were a fading legend and the external threat has arrived.

Decades? Isn't the external threat arriving pretty soon (like, maybe as short as just a few years away from the ending?)

I'd rather a new main char for the sequel than Jax again.

[Ruinous]

Originally posted by nimrock:

Is it confirmed it will be Jax?
I know expecting PB to allow create players their own character for some reason is bit too much but damn... Jax personality is so... struggle to find world... absent.

Well isn't that kinda deliberate, being what he was. But you can certainly make choices in the game to make his responses more human or more cold. I liked the way it was done, for the replayability.

[Kozzy]

I would do the next game in the future. Say in the same game world but in the future/down the road, with a different character.

[magna]

I hope for a different protagonist with some Elex characters and I don't want to see "The death of Joe will change the story" or "cold increased" anymore. These are immersion killers. I hope they implement the story better than in Elex (no cutscenes please).

[=Ost180=Hoshinohi]

Gothic 3 ......... ;)

PB allready managed it before that the hero in his ongoing efforts is stil able to act like he has allready been powerful thix can be done by simple mechanics like loosing youre origin of skills like in Gothic 3 where the type of magic been used before is no longer possible. Also having gear in the first place allways helps a lot to feel strong without the need of complete progression. some free to spend skillpoints and a balanced match of stats to begin with and you have no need to play the amnesia card anymore.

the biggest issue comes with finding new items that are basically way less effective than youre startgear ^^