BrTarolg

my party consists of 1 nephil and three humans

the nephil has divine touch, and is primarily a priest with a bit of archery

the other three humans are all mages.

uhm.. yeah.

no seriously, mages are imba.

no i think exile 3 WAS perfect.

it was much harder though, no doubt, but it definately was perfect.

i mean, the super mages really made it tough to play

and if you dont have the right setup in your party, then thats most likely your fault - you shoulda gone into fighting mode, casted debuffs/buffs and tanked properly in the first place

see thats what i mean - exile is just so much more indepth - the battles are much more than "hack n slash" - each battle you have to think through carefully and plan it right.

back in exile with six characters i had 2 tanks, one archer and 1 mage, 1 priest, and 1 mage/priest

now it was true - it was the casters that did alot of the work.

however i found tha all the skills that the tanks could provide were also just as useful, in particular potion making. they were stocked heavily with potions, and also were VERY useful with their attack buffs/debuffs.

posion potion on sword saved me many times over when fighting more resistant enimies.

i wouldnt mind to see status enducing , or special effect spells on warriors - basically things that mages dont normally do

like coating their weapon with poison, or stunning the other character with their strike, or adding debuffs to their attack.

something like.. an active skill, which would have a passive effect.

this way you dont get the problem of fighters taking over, because most priests/mages rely on their active effects, with active skills.

purely passive skills simply add no intensity - assassination, riposte, parry etc. - they are just there.

but passive skills which can be activated <poison, debuffs to attack, etc.> would definately fit the line much better.

lol i would like to see a few of the E3 features back.. like just capturing order mages in soul crystals, and trying to attack the tower of magi yourself and stuff

it was just alot more open ended i guess.

jeff - just a thought, how long did it take you to make exile 3? it mustve taken you years and years... it is so incredibly detailed and complicated

its my favourite out of all your games at least

well also the gameplay felt more like geneforge, and less like avernum which was a shame.

like, i preferred it when you could walk into a town on the map, instead of actually having the town there - then again some people prefer it that way so..

as we were told, one of the big reasons why av 4 looks so much like geneforge, is because good graphics are extraordinarily expensive <or rather, hard to make and very time consuming>

i know out there in the community there are plenty of people willing to make graphics for this game <i know i would> - even if i had to do it the old exile way - making each step and graphic one by one for all different directions, casting spells, arrows, moving left right up and down, fighting, holding swords, daggers etc.

it really pained me to see that alot of the graphics like pots and cuboards and stuff were just the same as geneforge, and that the game resembled geneforge so much - instead of being more true to the previous avernum and the exile series

<though ofc, exile had about 100 spells in the third one, and it was almost impossible to beat the game on hardest difficulty >

i mean, IF an avernum 5 comes out <god forbid > perhaps there might be a fanbase for making graphics for the game?

or maybe even a patch to the current game.

i mean, i like how avernum is basically like a 3d <easier> exile but not like a geneforge

note they are more likely to turn rogue on higher difficulties.