Can I have fun with a Brute build?

[Kain]

Will I keep getting weirdly awesome dialogues? As much as I loved PS:T it was a game largely focused on a high int/wis/char game and you could lose a lot of content and not have equally compelling quests and interactions for fighters.

[Sisyphus]

I don't recommend it.

[Du-Vu]

I would, actually. Maybe not as your first or only playthrough, but any build can work and unlock its share of passive checks and thus different dialogue. Skills like Endurance, Pain Threshold, Electrochemistry, Shivers, Hand-Eye Coordination, Savoir-Faire, and Interfacing don't really get much to say unless they're fairly high.

What I'd actually advise against, dialogue-wise, is an Intellect/Psyche or Physique/Motorics build. You end up with a lot of overlap in terms of knowledge/social options and strength/finesse options. A 1/4/5/2 playthrough has ended up probably being my second-most memorable, as I find I'm getting more banter between the skills themselves than I did on the 4/4/2/2 build I did as my first run, where Empathy, Drama, Conceptualization, and Inland Empire seemed like they kind of drowned everyone else out. Not that there's anything wrong with those skills, but as they rarely disagreed, they ended up not really saying as much. Or so it seems to me now. iirc and all that.

[Kain]

Interesting, so basically one sort of physical and one mental. I get it what you mean by overlaping, I had a quite high Intellect/Psyche and most of the info was redundant.

[Du-Vu]

A high Volition in particular will fight back against a lot of the bad ideas your other high-level skills suggest, which can be pretty fun.

[Kain]

lol, I love Volition, its almost as it doesn't want to be by my shenanigans more than it's caring about my character lol.

[Du-Vu]

Ha yeah, you pretty much have to go Boring Cop to earn Volition's approval.

[The War of 1812]

I love my cop's low volition, because it forces me to make stupid comments. This leads to ensuing hilarity that I probably wouldnt have chosen on my own.

[Jotun]

Originally posted by Kain:

lol, I love Volition, its almost as it doesn't want to be by my shenanigans more than it's caring about my character lol.

Volition and Authority are amazing. The whole Drama and Logic vs Volition dynamic while interviewing Klaasje was priceless. "You can't trust them! They are all compromised!"

[Du-Vu]

Originally posted by The War of 1812:

I love my cop's low volition, because it forces me to make stupid comments. This leads to ensuing hilarity that I probably wouldnt have chosen on my own.

Also a lot of fun, but I get the feeling more people see that by default, and might not really think about pumping Volition when there are other, more colourful skills to choose from.

[Dan]

I've been playing a drug-fueled, dumb meatslab for my first playthrough, and it's been great. Some very funny moments, and some interesting insights into other physique-driven characters.
(Mild spoiler)
- Things like your aggressive posture having a conversation with someone else's aggressive posture is great fun :-)

[davinewrath]

Just finished my first playthrough and went with with mostly fys skills (Pain Threshold was my signature, my cop was a wreck). I put a few points into Visual Calculus and Internal Empire,and got some good perception boosts from thoughts. I ended up building a sorry drunkard with good detective instincts. I thought it played out really well, made the game feel a lot like the noir fiction I enjoy reading.

[Dan]

Yes, it's a mistake to assume in this game, that a physique-focused character will play out with significantly less nuance than a high int/psyche character...
They've put a lot of effort into making all of the skills play their parts. All each character build really means is that your character will be dysfunctional in new and interesting ways :-P

[Kain]

Yeah, you guys are right, I'm doing a pure Emotion and Physical and Shivers have a lot of interesting things to show, plus it's nice to see more agressive skills arguing with Volition.

[mie001]

I tried a build like 5/1/1/5.
Killed by chair for about 3 or 4 times

[mitspieler]

Originally posted by Jotun:

Originally posted by Kain:

lol, I love Volition, its almost as it doesn't want to be by my shenanigans more than it's caring about my character lol.

Volition and Authority are amazing. The whole Drama and Logic vs Volition dynamic while interviewing Klaasje was priceless. "You can't trust them! They are all compromised!"

This. I had tons of fun with high int/psy