new player. Do I need seasonal or standart character?

[Papa_Roma_Whiskey]

Hi veterans.
Just bought the game yesterday. And it says seasonal character or regular in the menu . With character should I choose?

[tenser]

seasonal, u can make use of additional rewards [also curatoresveritatis is recruiting if you want a nice laid back cabal]

[secretlemur]

The only reason right now to create a NON-seasonal character is if you have a bunch of characters already and want to use the stash/money to twink them.

If it's your first, you should totally do seasonal. There will be benefits to it, and seasonal characters can share stuff between them. They'll all get converted to regular once the season is done.

[Papa_Roma_Whiskey]

Thank you for the answers. I am complete noob...so emm...what's a cabal (is that like a clan)? Does the rewards and season "stuff" comes up when I will play campaign or I have to do specific activities? Also controller or m/kb :)?

[secretlemur]

I'm playing with a controller. Only reason I'm playing the PC version and not xbox is for seasons. Game plays great with a controller. Though chat doesn't seem to be accessible with one. I play solo, so I don't care.

And yes - cabals are like clans or mmo guilds. Once you get to a certain level, you can create your own. Until then, you can join someone elses...

The season stuff shows up on your quick-mission menu (or on the main menu), and you can see what activities you'll need to complete the get the rewards. You'll need to complete at least one full playthrough of the base game (as in any character other than robot guy) to get some of them.

[Papa_Roma_Whiskey]

Thank you secretlemur. I just tried the controller and it feels pretty good. I especially like that you can walk slowly. But the thing I didn't liked is that the menus are not a floating cursor. How am I supose to see item tooltips and stuff? For example I got my first weapon. How can I see abillity descriptions with a pad?

[secretlemur]

select the item, push on the left stick. Many important controller interface stuff will be on the bottom of the screen in the menus.

[Papa_Roma_Whiskey]

So are you saying there are no disadvantages to using a controller vs mouse in this game.

[secretlemur]

except for the whole chat thing, I have found zero disadvantages.

To be clear - I've been playing it on the xbox for months (only on PC now for the seasons), so I'm completely used to the controller scheme, which I think is quite good. I haven't figured out how to use chat when the controller is active, since that uses a keyboard, and which I don't care about. As far as actually playing the game, I find zero issues with the controller.

[Papa_Roma_Whiskey]

Thank you very much for taking the time to answer.