Is desert possible?

[ᴮᴼᴷ Radamant]

(Spoilers from the third zone)

I had an easy time with the game until the desert, there are some problems that are made worse by the fact that the game doesn't prepare you or explain for them

1. Heat, I have +40 fatigue every turn, essentially always exhausted. This is frustrating and important for (2.)
2. Ransom quest: You have to defeat a powerful enemy in little time, it could be possible if I was not always exhausted...
3. I cannot rehire squad members in the desert.
4. Going through the desert to find Renauld was difficult, I found him but I was unable to defeat him since I had 0% to hit him (My AGILITY is extremely high, +32) Maybe if I was less injured I could have defeated him in many tries but the real and biggest problem is 5.
5. The game ends after you are unable to find Renauld, WTF? Why isn't there a warning? I understood I had to collect 1000 coins but that was not enough. If I knew that I would have tried harder (although, probably with the same result, due to the problems mentioned above)

devs pls fix

[Vinnie]

VDmitry の投稿を引用：

- encountering something with 0% chance to hit is how the game is designed
- I had no troubles going through the desert, but the enemy was tough, won by luck I think
- it's also the game end, what is not fun at all

This is the awesome thing about the game. When I first arrived at the desert I thought similar to OP that it's pretty much impossible to beat but with a much different approach to it. From my perspective it was impossible to beat with the character I was playing at that moment. On the next playthrough I came in prepared. I knew that I needed waterskins and canteens. I knew that I needed prestige to get Emma's favor. Then there was the build I went with, which was full dodge glass cannon without armor which seems to work amazing for the desert encounters. Suddenly it was a piece of cake. The game is much about having the right approach for each chapter. If it's a struggle just get one of the closest endings and start a new one with the XP collected from it. At the desert chapter it should also be a noticeable amount that's enough to pump up the starting weapon skill to 10 and get those nice early easy slays on opponents, and getting those per slay bonuses smoothly right from the beginning of the adventure on the highest difficulty.

[VDmitry]

I played the game just once, and have no desire to try again. It's certain that playing like me - without saves - you can die somewhere. I did once or may be more before the final battle, but at some point I decided to start saving my playthrough, so the 1st such event was recovered. Having a single save file you can encounter death as well, having no room to change anything.

In the final one I died several times. Without armor the guy kills me like in 2 hits, plus 1 hit to break the shield. With armor it takes as much. I didn't try the best armor though.

[VDmitry]

btw, my stats were like:

- STR 21, AGL 28, HP 61
- MELEE SKILL 30

and it required significant luck (with some strategy) to win

[VDmitry]

Radamant の投稿を引用：

COINCELPRO の投稿を引用：

the heat is a killer, you just need to be deadly enough to kill things before exhaustion, or defensive enough to fight well exhausted - dress down, the game says the fatigue buildup is worse the heavier your gear

Renauld stats are insane, stun him to tilt things in your favour or play the stamina and fatigue game
no guarantees, though, with some enemies 100% accuracy shots were 100% misses for me, always (with the secondary attack - primary attack worked, for some reason)

I get it, I have no problem fighting totally exhausted, the thing is, since squad members are turned off in the desert, I have to fight alone, thus, I need to be defensive and play with a shield. This takes time that is needed in the ransom quest.

And yeah, I don't know why tf the enemies are not affected by the heat...

Enemies are natural to the conditions, probably. I don't remember the ransom quest, but played almost whole game without party members. They are too costly and useless for my taste.

You can recover your fatigue in the end of previous combat. As for heat fatigue, I believe it's like 2 + 2 x ARMOR_WEIGHT, where the weight is the sum of all armor penalties.

Personally I see multiply flaws in the fatigue system, but it's completely broken in the heat. I can restore may be ~10-15 fatigue per turn, but even armor from the first chapters eats ~25-35 fatigue per round. So I couldn't recover at all and didn't even bother.

May be there is newer armor somewhere which is lighter, but I didn't find such.

[Etelbrand]

Did you had only 40 fatigue each round?
I suffer 116 fatigue for the full plate armor and it's really horrible...

I'm still going through this chapter, but I was terribly infuriated by the fact that if you successfully capture the prisoner, but remain to collect loot, then there is no warning and the hero has to simply abandon the prisoner and run away.
Why couldn't you give us a choice and have another tougher fight?

[Etelbrand]

And after that I got a new bug.
I spoke with the governor again and he again gave me this quest to capture the prisoner. After that, I went there a second time and again fought with saracens, only this time there was no one to capture.
Therefore, after I killed everyone, I received a message that I had failed, because the prisoner was killed, although he was not even in this battle.

After that, just out of curiosity, I talked to him again and he gave me the same task for the third time...

[VDmitry]

Etelbrand の投稿を引用：

Did you had only 40 fatigue each round?
I suffer 116 fatigue for the full plate armor and it's really horrible...

I'd say it makes no difference 40 or 140. If I knew that I'd probably get the best armor.

[death and rebirth]

Etelbrand の投稿を引用：

And after that I got a new bug.
I spoke with the governor again and he again gave me this quest to capture the prisoner. After that, I went there a second time and again fought with saracens, only this time there was no one to capture.
Therefore, after I killed everyone, I received a message that I had failed, because the prisoner was killed, although he was not even in this battle.

After that, just out of curiosity, I talked to him again and he gave me the same task for the third time...

yeah im aware
will fix with next patch (around monday-tuesday)

[subetai99]

Ironside12 の投稿を引用：

Just go a light dodge build when there. run defence stance and you'll be fine. Just wear them down.

There is no wearing anybody down, in desert fighting from what I've seen. I've tried going with gambeson and gambeson only, yet still get 20 extra fatigue, while the Saracens in full mail and metal helm get no extra fatigue. Maybe there's a trick to it, but I haven't found it yet!

Honestly, I don't mind that there's a penalty to heavier armor, that makes sense. I DO mind that we have extremely limited space to store things, like a full second set of lighter armor. That would be IF wearing lighter armor actually worked to negate the heat fatigue penalty!

I'm new to the game, but may not get to be "old" in the game, at present rate. Beating my head against the wall for several nights hasn't been enjoyable.

[gasivahtar]

If you have high enough crafting (25 is enough) you can make excellent armor and helmet with only one point of maluses combined, which means 2 points of heat per turn. I usually also wear additional light neck protection for 100% neck coverage, so 4 points of heat per turn.

[subetai99]

I think my game is over, at that point, anyway. The Saracens mow through my squad. I get fatigued easily and without a squad, am worn down. Honestly, I don't have a good feel for this part. I thought I did on the game, but have lost with the English (twice). Have lost the town of Rennes or whatever that was called to mercenaries. And now have lost in North Africa! I'm alive, but the game is ending. To decide if I play it again?

[Rooster1969]

i was doing pretty good with custom armor (reinforced leather w/ metal plate piece. im brain cramping on the name.) i actually died when one of my party squad went nuts. i tried to force him to stay and he friggin killed me. I killed 4 bosses on that run and lost to one of my own scrubs

[gasivahtar]

You have to let him go. Better not to bring the squad with you though, they will all die.

[COINCELPRO]

gasivahtar の投稿を引用：

You have to let him go. Better not to bring the squad with you though, they will all die.

could you please spoil more? make extra sure people don't have a reason to play the game

[gasivahtar]

Sure, which spoilers are you interested in?