How armour kits works?

[Diarmad]

I can't figure out how the armour kits works. I searched the internet (nothing in the game manual about how armour kits works) and read a few things, but none of them are helpful; somewhere they say if we have a full set we get bonuses, in other place I read we don't get any bonuses.
But what I really want to know how even those kits works?
I have several exactly same armor pieces, but they are all belongs to different kits.
Example: I have several leather boots, few leather helmets, and several other leather armour parts. but it seems all belongs to different kits, because all are "1/5" (Or something similar, depends on how many parts have that particular kit.)
I don't get it, why they are all belongs to different kits, when all the stats of the same armour pieces are the same.
How I can find (or buy or make) armour parts that belongs to the same kit?
And do full kits give bonuses or not?

[Squerol]

I will quote myself from past:

Originally posted by Squerol:

About the bonus:
- from matching armor set there is 15% bonus to both blunt and slash damage resistance. I've read that information on official topware forum one time, when it was active.
Test it in game if You don't believe.
- You get bonus only from warrior armors kits - where there are 5 part kits, no bonus from 4 parts archer armors,
- You can't see Your overall protection stats anywhere.
- And final info, every armor set (hand, leg, head, torso, boot) protects only its bodypart! Percentage damage resistance is not sumed from all armor parts, every body part have it's own protection percentage! I'm not joking! I don't know how the situation looks like with magic ressistance and physical ressistance bonus from mage capes (3% blunt, etc.) - probably it works on whole hero body, just like 15% overall physical bonus from 5/5 kits.

You can only get 15% armor set bonus if You wear 5/5 sets - those armors are warrior class sets like leather, light elven, dwarven pride...

Also pay attention to colour variant of armor - for example, You wear 2 blue colour dwarven pride armor parts and 3 red colour dwarven pride armor parts - and what happens? You will get 2/5 and 3/5 kits! You don't get 15% ressistance bonus from wearing armor set!

So yes - same armour type but with different colour will match as different armor set!
Also there are few armor sets with same colour and type but differs with protective values and of course - doesn't match to single 5/5 set...

[Diarmad]

Thanks, Squerol!

So, basically, if your character is not a warrior (or wearing that 5 part armour kit) you don't get any bonuses. Damn. Why...
Why everything in this game is so...so...damn...designed so poorly...

[VaderDFXB]

Originally posted by GZoli:

Why everything in this game is so...so...damn...designed so poorly...

Yeah, the second game is alot weaker than the first one. At least the first game was interesting but it was quite...wonky sometimes.

[Squerol]

Originally posted by VaderDFXB:

Yeah, the second game is alot weaker than the first one. At least the first game was interesting but it was quite...wonky sometimes.

Both are "meh".
Both games have many good aspects but overall they ended up to be just lacklusters with wasted potential to became really good cRPGs :/

And because Reality Pump is gone (most of dev squad just left) we won't see any good Two Worlds game in future.

[VaderDFXB]

Originally posted by Squerol:

Both are "meh".

Well that's your opinion. First game I actually liked...as long as you avoided the awful main story. It's so terrible. Second game is fully "meh".

[Diarmad]

Originally posted by VaderDFXB:

Originally posted by Squerol:

Both are "meh".

Well that's your opinion. First game I actually liked...as long as you avoided the awful main story. It's so terrible. Second game is fully "meh".

Yes, the first game was really good, and I liked the main quest too. I'm finished a playthrough of the first game a few days ago, and I maxed out the game meaning that I done every single quest in the game. With the latest version (1.7b) I doesn't find any serious bug, only some minors like that some quest remain unfinished if you don't do it in the right order. But nothing serious compared to the second game!
The second is just horrible, I won't even start to mention what I don't like about the second game, because then I had to mention EVERYTHING in that game. IMO, the only thing is better in the second game is the graphics, the games graphic engine itself. It looks great and it runs perfectly even in a potato. But everything else is way too much worst, than in the first game...
Ok, I mention one thing, because that is what I really hate the most. And that is the magic. What the hell is that? I mean it's great that now you can make your own magic (or even a magic-combo). But seriously, what is this holding a stupid staff like that?! It's like the mage is an a$$F@ck Rambo shooting around with a chain-gun. ARRRRGGGHHHH!!!

[Squerol]

Originally posted by GZoli:

IMO, the only thing is better in the second game is the graphics, the games graphic engine itself.

For me soundtrack is amazing in TW2 and PotFF. Much better than TW1 tunes.
Also animations and story/quests are better. Gear upgrading, gems and leveling systems are better IMO too.

The thing that hurts the most about Two Worlds II is no "real" open world like in Two Worlds I (in pre-release interviews they promised us 30% bigger landmass than in Two Worlds I wtf). "Island per act" world model was bad idea - especially one act which take place on terrible savannah with poor copy-pasted zoo content.

Vanilla Two Worlds II was a mess, worse than Two Worlds I . But PotFF + Worldmerge + some personal tweaks (like not using overpowered combat skills and playing with single 1 handed sword only) makes it better overall than Two Worlds 1 for me.

[Diarmad]

Originally posted by Squerol:

Originally posted by GZoli:

IMO, the only thing is better in the second game is the graphics, the games graphic engine itself.

For me soundtrack is amazing in TW2 and PotFF. Much better than TW1 tunes.
Also animations and story/quests are better. Gear upgrading, gems and leveling systems are better IMO too.

The thing that hurts the most about Two Worlds II is no "real" open world like in Two Worlds I (in pre-release interviews they promised us 30% bigger landmass than in Two Worlds I wtf). "Island per act" world model was bad idea - especially one act which take place on terrible savannah with poor copy-pasted zoo content.

Vanilla Two Worlds II was a mess, worse than Two Worlds I . But PotFF + Worldmerge + some personal tweaks (like not using overpowered combat skills and playing with single 1 handed sword only) makes it better overall than Two Worlds 1 for me.

To be honest I don't even remember anything about the soundtrack, after playing more than 80 hours with the game. Because I find so many annoying bad design choices (compared to the first one) in the game, that I can't pay attention and enjoy the music...

I find the animations better too, but it still so bad, compared to other games from the era when the game is released.

Gear upgrading... Well, it's SEEMS good enough, unless you count that you MUST waste tons of skill points into smithing and into that gem-fusion thingy. I find this SO annoying.
Well, I don't expect to get back that (somewhat exploitable) stack-the-stuff-upon-each-other kind of upgrading, but I find this one just worst. Why? Because I don't want to be a smith, spending skill points so I can upgrade my gear. The game now won't let me to get a decent amount of gold by selling loot, so I can buy better equipment. It feels like it FORCE ME to torn apart the loot for basic materials, because they wort literally nothing,and FORCE ME to spend skill points into smithing and gem-fusion to be able to get a good gear in the game. It isn't fun. Of course I don't want that I can loot millions of gold by selling loot, like in the first game. BUt this nothing has a value and wort even less with every single sell system is just WORST.
This is the one of the things that I really hate in the game; I can't get enough gold by selling loot, instead I forced to spent skills into smithing and gem-fusion to get good equipment. And there are far more important skills that you must improve that smithing... Or simply, because it is an RPG, and I don't want to roleplay as a smith...

I totally agree with what you say about the world. I find it boring and ugly and small. Not that, the graphics are bad, I really like the graphics. The whole word is just...boring and restricted too much.
It doesn't matter where I was in the savannah, it doesn't matter that its huge, but I felt like I always at the same place, because it looks always the same, all the time. I felt it like a colorless, or more like one-colored (yellow) over-saturated emptiness. Large but, still felt like small, because of this stupid restrictions, that I can't even do the one of the first quest-lines in one row, because you forced to do other quests, just to open up that part of the world, where the quest you really want to finish is take place at that closed area.

I only have the game with the first DLC, so maybe my experience about the game is not as it should be, but I doubt I ever will buy any other DLC for this game.
I spent more than 80 hours with this game, and I only find EVERYTHING worst than in the first game. Only the graphics that is improved, but I found everything else is just thousand times worst than in the first game. I'm not kidding. The interface is just an ugly mess, inventory management is a nightmare, the combat with mage characters is juts a laughable stupid lame thing, character development and gear upgrading, because you forced to spend point into skills that you don't want, is become a grind-fest.
And the horse-riding...I literally rage-quit the game several times when I tried to ride it.
I find horse-riding is just stupid and annoying in every game. I never understand why I can't control the horse as simple as a character when it walks? You know like WSAD keys AND TURN WITH THE MOUSE! Ok, you control the horse with the keys and turn your "head" with the mouse, so you can look around. Well, in theory its sounds good. I think 99.9% of the games where you can ride a horse is not about looking-at-the-landscape-while-peacefully-riding-a-horse. The game doesn't really let me to look around, because the moment I stop moving the mouse, it pulls it back to the default viewpoint. It just tousle the camera around in the most annoying way. I can't even managed jump across those stupid crates and whatnot is blocks the roads everywhere. Simply I can't turn the camera into such an angle, that I can see when I have to hit the space to perform a successful jump! Those roadblocks are annoying even when you walk! And if this isn't enough, you have to repeatedly press the right mouse button, to make the horse go faster. And it is impossible (or I can't figure it out over more than 80 hours of playing this game) to stop the horse. It just keeps running into everything, until it slows down. The whole horse-riding is like you have to control a car with a flywheel, that has no brake in it, while you can't even look around.

I play PC RPG (and other) games since the 90's, and I swear, the horse-riding in this game is the WORST thing I ever saw in any kind of games during my gaming history!
I think the developers, easily can win the worst-thing-ever-created-in-a-videogame Noble-prize for coming up whit this $hit!

Anyway, to me, knowing and loving the first game, this is one of the most annoying game, and the one of the biggest disappointment in my gaming history. Too bad.
Oh, by the way, because the game annoyed me so much, I done a playthrough with the first game (I had the retail platinum version), finished a few days ago, and that just confirms that this one is worst than the first game. And I'm really sad, because I really liked the first one...

[VaderDFXB]

Well now that's a wall of text. But yeah, I just find the second game to be weaker in every way except general graphical quality. No idea where they went wrong but the first game felt unique and the second game very generic. It's an ok game though, but...first one was so much better.