Having a hard time getting into the game.

[Mclover]

I never played a game like this but still trying to understand it.

Any tips?

[Everyone Loves Raymond Legends]

What are the particular issues you are having with it?

[figmentPez]

From a post I made on Reddit:

1. Litany of Curses

2. Choose which of the three classes you want The Nameless One to be (fighter, thief, mage) and look to get trained into that class ASAP. Some people will tell you to level up fighter first, then switch to mage or thief, but only do that if you're looking to grind, grind, grind for XP. Mage is probably the class the game pushes you towards the most, and it's my favorite, but all three are good.

3. Talk to everyone, and talk to everyTHING. There are items you can talk to or interact with when they're in your inventory. Talk to your party members when they're in your party; talk to them again after major story events. Heck, talk to yourself when you get to that point in the game!

4. Save before talking to people, same way you might save before combat in other RPGs.

5. Regarding stats: wisdom is the most important, since a lot of stat checks are against that, and it also gives an XP bonus. There are also a number of intelligence checks in the game, but how much you pay attention to that depends on how much you want to meta-game. Same goes for Charisma, which is, I think, the third most checked stat, though it doesn't need to be as high, generally. (Intelligence and Charisma are the easiest stats to temporarily boost.) Overall I wouldn't worry to much about the specifics. You don't have to power game and unlock every dialogue option to do well in the game.

6. Don't feel you have to rush to complete quests. There's no time limit forcing you to run across the map as soon as someone tells you to do it. Explore along the way. Get to know the starting area of the Hive.

7. Take time to learn how the interface works and what you can do with it.

8. Rings don't depreciate in value when you sell them repeatedly to a vendor, but everything else does. A bronze ring will sell for 40 copper to most vendors, and will continue to sell for that much. A bronze bracelet, however, will start at 60 but drop to 45 after you've sold one, then to 30, and finally bottom out at 15. If you want to maximize your cash flow, save up common drops like copper earrings and bronze bracelets until you can sell a whole inventory full at once. Selling 20 bronze bracelets all at once for 1200 copper is a lot more than selling them one at a time for a total of 390 copper. (Find a favored container somewhere to store stuff you aren't using. Don't carry around vendor trash if you don't have to.) This leads to some difficulty in deciding when to sell less common drops, like certain types of weapons, but I think if you just stick to hoarding the most common stuff in the game it'll be enough of a bonus. (Copper, bronze and silver jewelry are the most common drops. Along with a couple items that are spoilers, but drop in a farming location and are worth a TON for the first sale.)

[Mclover]

Originally posted by Toenail Sniffin' Slutboi:

What are the particular issues you are having with it?

my lack of sense for directions, and never really played old school games like this which can be unforgiving as I heard.

[Mclover]

Originally posted by figmentPez:

From a post I made on Reddit:

1. Litany of Curses

2. Choose which of the three classes you want The Nameless One to be (fighter, thief, mage) and look to get trained into that class ASAP. Some people will tell you to level up fighter first, then switch to mage or thief, but only do that if you're looking to grind, grind, grind for XP. Mage is probably the class the game pushes you towards the most, and it's my favorite, but all three are good.

3. Talk to everyone, and talk to everyTHING. There are items you can talk to or interact with when they're in your inventory. Talk to your party members when they're in your party; talk to them again after major story events. Heck, talk to yourself when you get to that point in the game!

4. Save before talking to people, same way you might save before combat in other RPGs.

5. Regarding stats: wisdom is the most important, since a lot of stat checks are against that, and it also gives an XP bonus. There are also a number of intelligence checks in the game, but how much you pay attention to that depends on how much you want to meta-game. Same goes for Charisma, which is, I think, the third most checked stat, though it doesn't need to be as high, generally. (Intelligence and Charisma are the easiest stats to temporarily boost.) Overall I wouldn't worry to much about the specifics. You don't have to power game and unlock every dialogue option to do well in the game.

6. Don't feel you have to rush to complete quests. There's no time limit forcing you to run across the map as soon as someone tells you to do it. Explore along the way. Get to know the starting area of the Hive.

7. Take time to learn how the interface works and what you can do with it.

8. Rings don't depreciate in value when you sell them repeatedly to a vendor, but everything else does. A bronze ring will sell for 40 copper to most vendors, and will continue to sell for that much. A bronze bracelet, however, will start at 60 but drop to 45 after you've sold one, then to 30, and finally bottom out at 15. If you want to maximize your cash flow, save up common drops like copper earrings and bronze bracelets until you can sell a whole inventory full at once. Selling 20 bronze bracelets all at once for 1200 copper is a lot more than selling them one at a time for a total of 390 copper. (Find a favored container somewhere to store stuff you aren't using. Don't carry around vendor trash if you don't have to.) This leads to some difficulty in deciding when to sell less common drops, like certain types of weapons, but I think if you just stick to hoarding the most common stuff in the game it'll be enough of a bonus. (Copper, bronze and silver jewelry are the most common drops. Along with a couple items that are spoilers, but drop in a farming location and are worth a TON for the first sale.)

Thanks for the tips and i noticed how even conversations effect the outcome of wanted and unwanted situtations should start saving constantly then lol. Didn't know wisdom is important as charisma either. thought it was only mage stats but thanks again.

[matthew]

wisdom at 18, put intelligence at 16 and charisma at 13

That should set you up nice, get wisdom as high as 24 / 25, Int at 19, (doesn't need to be higher)

And been a mage is a good option, you get the most dialog choices.

[UR|wRÅR]

Not to mention the Friends spell.

[Regyptian]

Hey, I'm also new to the game and I'm also having a very hard time :-)

Right now I am in the hive and I'm constantly low on HP
- fighting random thugs that attack me
- trying to kill someone in the mausoleum but always have to leave because of getting hurt
- trying to fetch something for Farod or whatshisname underneath the city, which is even worse with all those flying things

What am I doing wrong?
Seems all I do is go rest, get out again, loose my HP in fights and go to rest again. Not funny :-(

All tips are welcome

[figmentPez]

Originally posted by Regyptian:

- fighting random thugs that attack me

Stop walking so close to them.

- trying to kill someone in the mausoleum but always have to leave because of getting hurt
- trying to fetch something for Farod or whatshisname underneath the city, which is even worse with all those flying things

Then don't do those quests yet.

My biggest advice for combat: Litany of Curses. Use it early, use it often, keep using it. It won't help with the undead in the Mausoleum, but it will help with just about everything else.

Talk to more people, get more experience from dialogue, then combat will be easier.

If all else fails, you can turn down the combat difficulty.

[Rednak]

Don't forget to immediately pick up a second party member in the smoldering corpse bar (when you leave the mortuary, go south one area and the entrance is in the centre of the map (you have to enter from the south side.) In that bar, you can also talk to someone who will improve your WIS by one.
You can normally level up quite a lot in the hive without actually having to fight. Just do quests, (become a mage imo), investigate the item in this party member's inventory...

[Inixus]

Mclover i feel your pain,

Combat is so wierd, my party members and i get destroyed by thugs in secs (i feel very weak/underlvld), by those demon winged things that roam in the hive, i just dont get this game, i didnt get the raise dead spell from the spirit (what are choices if you always have to go for the same anwers).

Mages can only use a spell 1 time then you need to rest (wtf), you need to click on a mob at a very specific little area to b able to att them back.

[Rednak]

some hints:
-Don't attack the abishai (the demon things), they might be too hard for now.
-You can go back into the mortuary to get the raise dead spell.
-When you're desperate, do a hit-and-run with the character that is being targeted. The enemies will run after that one while your other party members still attack.
-make sure you get your SECOND NPC party member from the smoldering corpse bar.
-Morte is probably your best tank, since he has a nice damage reduction. You can let him do litany of curses (special ability). Then enemies should attack him.
-Don't forget to PAUSE the game to give orders.
-focus on doing quests, not on fighting for now.