"No Skill Drain"

[Wanderlust]

Whenever I die, I see this notification at the top of my screen. Does this suggest that at some point there WILL be some kind of skill diminishment upon death?

[fluxtorrent]

There already is, you just get a grace period after death that stops it from happening again so you can (hopefully) retrieve your corpse

[Gremmy]

Originally posted by fluxtorrent:

There already is, you just get a grace period after death that stops it from happening again so you can (hopefully) retrieve your corpse

This. And to expand a bit on it, on your first death you will lose 5% from all your skills (if memory serves on the number) and then for 10 minutes (again is memory serves) you won't lose any more skill points if you die again.

[Weaver]

The raven tells you so the first time you die.
You lose 5% of all current skill levels with each death. So if a skill is 100 you'd lose 5 lvls. If a skill is 20 you lose 1 lvl. So the higher lvl the more painful. After each death you have a ten minute window where you can die again without losing levels.

[Wanderlust]

Ah, so that icon denotes a buff that lasts for 10 minutes, during which you will suffer "no skill drain" upon death. Yikes, I never noticed skill cost of death and I must have missed Hugin's little speech that first time. Ok, thanks for the info.

[RasaNova]

Yep. It's good incentive to avoid death, and also when we DO die it's good protection from losing all your skills from a repeating death spiral.

Fortunately this game doesn't rely on skills, our gear is much more important!

[Weaver]

Originally posted by RasaNova:

Yep. It's good incentive to avoid death, and also when we DO die it's good protection from losing all your skills from a repeating death spiral.

Fortunately this game doesn't rely on skills, our gear is much more important!

Skills are very important. Each skill lvl with a weapon increases damage by 1%, so you end up dealing double damage with the same weapon. Bows draw 1% faster until you can instantly fire at full power (which also uses much less stamina). Run improves your actual speed significantly from 24 to 3o km/h, Jump increases jump height up to 40%.

[RasaNova]

Originally posted by Weaver:

Originally posted by RasaNova:

Yep. It's good incentive to avoid death, and also when we DO die it's good protection from losing all your skills from a repeating death spiral.

Fortunately this game doesn't rely on skills, our gear is much more important!

Skills are very important. Each skill lvl with a weapon increases damage by 1%, so you end up dealing double damage with the same weapon. Bows draw 1% faster until you can instantly fire at full power (which also uses much less stamina). Run improves your actual speed significantly from 24 to 3o km/h, Jump increases jump height up to 40%.

I'm not saying skills are useless, just that game progression seems more tied to gear than skill levels.

You would do OK in the plains with max upgraded padded armor and dark metal weapons & shield and zero skills, but probably wouldn't survive long with leather/wood gear and all skills at 100. You could harvest all the fine & core wood you need with a metal axe and zero skill.

Skill helps but we're not going to be crippled by a few deaths.

[Damnion]

Originally posted by Weaver:

Originally posted by RasaNova:

Yep. It's good incentive to avoid death, and also when we DO die it's good protection from losing all your skills from a repeating death spiral.

Fortunately this game doesn't rely on skills, our gear is much more important!

Skills are very important. Each skill lvl with a weapon increases damage by 1%, so you end up dealing double damage with the same weapon. Bows draw 1% faster until you can instantly fire at full power (which also uses much less stamina). Run improves your actual speed significantly from 24 to 3o km/h, Jump increases jump height up to 40%.

Skills only matter a lot if you are nutz and level them to insane levels you won't get to just playing normally, or if you use cheat commands to set them all up to max. I for one am not gonna spend 500 hrs jumping for no reason and shooting at rocks and trees.

[PorkSocks]

Bows skill at max is pretty pimp, but everything else isn't as game changing. It takes over 18k arrows to get to 100. I've done it legit. Twice. Never again. Just use the console commands if you want to try it out.

[evil tomatoes]

Originally posted by PorkSocks:

Bows skill at max is pretty pimp, but everything else isn't as game changing. It takes over 18k arrows to get to 100. I've done it legit. Twice. Never again. Just use the console commands if you want to try it out.

that 18k needed to cause damage or just shot anywhere?