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Curious Artila

Curious Artila (3/17)

  1. I'm a shock trooper. I'm level 40. I'm playing on normal. I'm mostly rebel-aligned, and planning to go with Astoria or the Trakovites in the end. I've cleared out most everything that I can do before joining a faction except the following: Gorash-Kel, Shadow Road & Nodye Pass, Lethia Pass, Bonepeak Ruins, Okavano Sea Caves, Control Core B, Gazaki-Uss, Kayar's Spire, and a few others (mostly I avoid challenge areas, and a few areas that are primarily based on stealth. I got leadership, mechanics, and combat more or less down; after beating Bennhold though, and mostly without cheating I feel like I ought to be able to try some of these areas). Right now I'm running level 40 or higher fire and battle creations, and using a disposable creation strategy - I'm basically running a War Trall, a Rotgroth, and two Kyshakks. The problem: my creations are mostly as strong as I like (although I'd be even happier if I could find the 5th level fire creation and unlock the better versions of 4th + 5th level creations), but I need to take MYSELF to the next level because i am the most fragile thing in my army. What would you do in terms of armor to prepare for the end game? I don't have any mandrake tincture to get a suit of perfected armor going on, so I need to understand what the other options are. How many suits of armor/weapons do you keep in your inventory to be able to swap specs? Also, which consumables would you keep? I've got an inventory almost full of those things and that's a pain in the ass and I need to get rid of some stuff. I mostly only use missiles; I occasionally use wands of slow/ethereal bindings, but so far I haven't been much on the other consumables (I cheat between battles rather than carrying a full inventory of essence + healing pods. Sorry.), but I wonder if that strategy should change as I get to the higher level enemies/bosses. I am not above cheating with the Shift-D window, by the way. Tune me up!
  2. I actually think Alwan is particularly strong in terms of his convictions, and possessed of few creepy personality traits. I also really like that he's clearly a survivor and able to put his own strength behind what he believes is the right thing. Rawal, on the other hand, is a [censored] creepy opportunist, and Taygen is like the Nazi option of Geneforge. If I wasn't already very pro rebel in terms of reputation (apparently so pro rebel that he won't give me any more quests after the Gazaki-Uss one), I would consider joining Alwan for the endgame, but I think it's probably more consistent for my character to join Litalia or Astoria, as she felt very impressed by the strength of character and survivor traits and committment of the rebellious serviles from early on and was swayed to their side. I haven't played the other Geneforge games, however - I initially liked Avernum for the story, and kept getting confused and killed by gross looking things in one of the first Geneforges I played (no, I don't remember which one). However, Avernum 4, which I loved the story of on the first play-through, now feels boring and excessively fiddly, and I don't want to continue playing that again; I felt Avadon on the other hand didn't really give me enough options. Right now, there are things I would do differently next playthrough with my Geneforge character (specifically, I'd probably take a shaper instead of a shock-trooper), but I don't feel like I've spent excessive time fiddling or am completely unable to finish the game because of a couple poor choices with skill points, and I'm really enjoying the plot and shaping. My problem is sometimes feeling TOO compelled by the game and not logging off when I should.
  3. Currently trying to decide whether I want to go Astoria or Litalia. I have a silly question, though - if I join Litalia, do I have to stop shaping? That pretty much won't work for a shock trooper at all, I will die a horrible death in the endgame battles.
  4. update! DID IT. did it with the healmenow cheat, but DID IT. Basically what Lilith said, although I figured that out myself before she posted it.
  5. So, I've skipped the sneaking stuff which means just not doing the shadow road and Gorash-Kel for now until I have enough power to crush them easily, which is fine. But now I'm at Gazhaki-Uss and it looks like I can't get in to see Ghaldring the 2nd time without sneaking. I tried to get through the power core, just taking the PC, and actually liberally used cheat codes "healmenow" "shieldsup" to deal with it - one of the blasts does more damage than I have health or close to it (currently that's about 325) even running with essence infusion, extra physical armor, shieldsup, everything i can think of on. Anyone, ideas? Can I really get around this without sneaking? Is there something I'm missing? do I just have to wait? are there other areas I can do?
  6. Trenton: I am jealous of your shiny pets. Thanks for the showmeall cheat, I didn't know how that worked.
  7. I'm currently using disposable corruptible thads, so bringing my pets anywhere actually isn't necessary; the experiment with them made such a difference in my ability to tackle the Kratoa-Kel Stoneworks and Western Okavano that I've been continuing to use them. 7 meatshields allows me to surround enemies, which is nice.
  8. Hi everyone, So, I am bad at quests that involve sneaking/stealth. Mostly, I've got killing down, mechanics, and leadership. It says in the walkthrough to get my first glimpse of Gorash-Kel and to get onto the Shadow Road I need to sneak by guards, and these are sort of the two main quest lines. So far, I haven't been successful at not getting killed either way. Can anyone help me learn to sneak?
  9. On the stuff on ermarian.net? It currently says that you get +1 to reputation for giving Fackler the research notes. But wouldn't it be -1, because doesn't it clearly say "helping him irritates the shapers?"
  10. Man, number 1 is STILL driving me completely nuts. I have moused over every pillar and I found the secret room and took down the ones in the Caverns but no luck on taking down the barriers in the mudpits. This was an evil decision on Jeff's part. Hide and go seek is not a puzzle! However, I should add that the ones I'm having trouble with are really big and they are in the SW area of the Boiling MUDPITS, not the Caverns. I bet that changes things? Also, one more mystery: Nola seems to have vanished before I could give her her gold. Is that triggered by some in-game event? Thanks everyone for your replies :-)
  11. I am currently tying up loose ends with my lovely new disposable pet roamer/vlish and leveled-up cryoae (what can I say, I save all my cash for shaping skills) and resisting buying the full version until I finish my current Paper Of Doom. 1) Hint on taking down the magical barriers in the Boiling Caverns? Or can you just not do it? Or is there a spell later which will do it? I have the mechanics skill that is recommended to finish Chapter 1, but there doesn't seem to be a control. Or was I supposed to talk to Shaila or something about it? 2) What does adjusting the difficulty of the game actually affect? Do you get more XP from enemies (please god!)? Are there more enemy encounters? Do they get more HP? The game feels too easy in places on regular difficulty but I'm not sure what going to another difficulty would exactly do. 3) Is there something I'm missing with the battle alphas on Chickweed Bridge? They seem to start banging on me before I can hit the trigger for the mines, which I suspect from hints in the zone is what I need to do (actually, I can't find the trigger--maybe you have to come from the other side). I wonder if the best idea is to create some fyoras to distract them, haste myself, and run like hell across the bridge to hit the trigger? 4) Can I just not clear out the critter imprisoned in Southforge Citadel and the Crazed Drake in Chickweed Bridge at this point, or is there a trick for that too? 5) The only other thing that remains to me in Ch 1 is the Dumping Pits, I do believe, and I want to say there are some random critters wandering around that area :-) 6) At what point does canister use actually start to affect me, and will I lose anything important by using them? For instance, does that bar me from aligning with the Shapers or Trakovites? 7) Not chapter 1, but do I get reputation points for EVERY research note I sell or is there some cap on that? I would like to go rescue some from Chapter 1. Also speaking of reputation, what is the object that I get for betraying Drewry and Lilly? I generally hate betraying people. 8) Has anyone actually managed to beat Geneforge with geek skills (mechanics and leadership) alone? I've heard it mentioned, but nobody's talked about doing it on the boards. I personally hate combat--it bores me--and I could do without ever being in it. But you sort of need it to get XP because what you get from mechanics and leadership alone just isn't enough to do a lot of leveling.
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