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Scripting-wise, Is it possible to replace zones with different ones?

The researchers that made something that could turn a SERVILE to a shaper, were thinking they could return to the island soon? That's waaaay to optimistic considering Shapers were being executed for far less from what I've seen in GF 3-5.

my theory is the shapers are too proud

Too much evidence points this way to call it a theory. It's practically written on half the endings I've seen that Shapers pay for their arrogance.

 

Why they kept it? Well, I really, REALLY doubt they anticipated it would lead to the rebellion.

Episode 33: Battle Alpha eh? Didn't make one in the whole GF5 game. Went straight for WTrall and had my trusty, leveled up clawbugs in the meantim.

I actually don't think it's even worth the extra essense; the bugs were terrific.

EDIT: I see you came to the very same conclusion like 2 mins later.

 

If I may, without wanting to dispirit you, give a slight criticism: The fight in the beginning of the episode with spawner was kinda... not too much fun to watch.

Lengthy battle that was not that important to the story. Spawners are, after all, a fongus that spews mindless bugs.

Nothing that could be done about it though. It was actually needlessly tiring for me when playing the game too. I'm not blaming YOU for the big fight. It's not like you could have avoided it.

 

Spellcraft increase (you probably don't remember since it's two months, but you got spellcraft increase) was... an interesting choice. I didn't raise spellcraft at all I think during the game.

 

ooohhh... North Citadel pass! I haven't actually BEEN there till nearly the end of the game. Found it hillariously easy but you're in for big trouble at that level.

 

 

Episode 34: This one is probably gonna be a good episode...

At the beginning you start the episode very close to several enemies. If I may be so bold and ask... why didn't you cast blessing magic?

 

Aaaah... the first battle with an unbound. It hasn't been a disappointment. As I think I've already mentioned, for me the most deep routed memory of GF5 is not the endings. It's that feeling you get when you're with 2nd tier creations and an Unbound walks in... That mad dash to escape, living piecemeal creations for the mad creation to waste its time on.

After that episode, you probably understand what I mean. And no, by the time I was 40+ lvl and met that very Unbound, that had 20% chance to hit my creations, I still got pangs of urgency and mounting tension beyond any reasonable explanation. Like you've probably figured already, I've been conditioned by the first half of the game to be absolutely terrified of the Unbound.

No offense but I found it terribly funny, how you left those poor soldiers to fend for themselves and made a run for it. Till Mera Tev. I could mentally picture your poor lifecrafter running aaaaaaaaaall the way to Mera Tev and collapsing only after the gates closed behind him.

 

I see that Bormac MADE IT through the purge... he's gained 6 levels by now. I hope he stays put for the long run (no spoilers please).

 

question: Have you returned there? Cause if you haven't I won't spoil it for you. But if you did... I have something to share about the whole thing.

 

Special Cannister: I ... have missed that. Mechanics-only probably. Must be the best cannister in the whole series. I don't remember any other giving +2. I didn't know it was even possible.

 

As a note, if you remember your first meeting with Guardian Makar. He told you that you've been partaking heavily on cannisters. He told me something different I think. Something like that I can still be at control but will lose it sooner or later.

PS. I'm pretty sure that Semini, the docile secretary of Guardian Makar had a HUGE crush on him.

Personally, since he's a loyal shaper (i.e pro-slavery, pro concentrating power to few hands and denying the rest, pro-genocide), although I admire his patriotism and his willingness to break a few eggs to make an omelette... I find his a good, loyal supporter of an evil regime. Astoria on the other hand allows people (Serviles) the right to self-rule and knows when enough is enough.

Actually, I would say starting with GF4, that I hate the shapers. The Rebels have a lot of blood in their hands, there's tons of warcrimes being commited from both sides, but the Rebels fight dirty against a Tyrannical empire that keeps species enslaved just because it's convenient and wants to wipe out different forms of sentient species just because they consider them dangerous. Yes, the Drakons are very, very dangerous. But the Rebellion is MORE than the Drakons as you've probably seen with GF5.

 

 

As such, while both sides fight dirty (Rebels fight dirtier), the rebels at least fight dirty to liberate slaves and topple a tyrannical, genocidal magical order while the Shapers fight in order to keep absolute control including control over creatures created subservient.

I'm not talking about loading, I mean casting regeneration aura more liberaly.

This about the Unbound is important for the game. You throw a couple least-valuable creations to slow it and run like hell. That's GF5 for me. Running from the Unbound wondering if I'll have to sacrifice ANOTHER high-level treasured creation.

I had the same problem as you in GF4 and GF5. And ended the games with stacks of over 30 consumables. What I mean is that you're (at Oklavano) about a level where you could keep 1-2 creations for a loooong time and leveling them up while the rest perish. I think I changed all of my creations for more powerful versions later on so it's not a biggy, but at the time I absorbed my final cryora at level ~30, she was so high level, that unbound had 20% to hit her.

Episode 32: Oklavano sea cave.

If I may suggest, when you get in a place that you expect to be hostile in low essence it would IMO be prudent to use some of those essence pods and replace a couple of lost creations.

That way, you can afford to use speed or bless (like that battle with the artilas).

 

I hope you revisit Oklavano later. I don't think I visited it. Doesn't remind me much and I certainly don't have the energy and time to load up and play it.

What do you mean? You had to play the same episode... 6 times? That's dedication...

I was thinking something else though. supposedly at least, it's possible to finish the game without fights. It SHOULD be do-able without a combat-powerful character. Frankly, I didn't have problems since I had a ton of creations (and playing on normal).

Well, you're the artist. I just watch the show! Don't let me dictate how you pursue your hobby or passion.

Drop it to normal then!

And yes, you can beat them. At least I did with a Shaper. Didn't go there immediately though; I did a lot of quests before heading there.

Unless you progressed far from where I have watched, you should probably be... before the half-point. If the game takes you 50-60 hours, you would need 140+ 25min episodes.

And it took me 70+hours (but I was playing slower)

Blazing gauntlets? They are good... but not the best IMO. You could have gone for this:

+5 Battle Magic, +5 Mental Magic, +5 Blessing Magic, +2 Strength of creations, +2 Dexterity of creations, +2 Endurance of creations

 

I actually made the lifecrafter gauntlets (like smoking+4 to creation stats)

 

NOTE: I just skimmed to see the artifact. I didn't even see where you are to keep it cool. Thanks buddy.

I plan to play them... once they become available in a new GF5-type format, which will hopefully happen in a few years or, barring that, when someone makes them as a total conversion mod for GF5. That's what I was planning to do with GF3 too, but it was too good series of games to just stop at GF4.

Thinking more about it, I suggest you put up that image on your channel. Then, you can "correct it" as you move forward and put people you meet there.

 

Personally, I would suggest putting in Shapers of GF1-3 (one dot), Shapers of GF4-5 (one dot). Then "Rebels" of GF1, rebels of GF 3-4 (one dot), Drakons in GF5 and "moderates" in GF5.

Put Trakovites of GF1-4 (one dot) and Trakovites of GF5.

Then, put smaller dots for important people; like Rawal, Astoria, Litalia and others that I won't talk to you about, and add it as a small link in the comments of your channel.

In the horizontal axis, you could put "pro-shaper" or "pro-rebel" to show where they stand in the civil war aside of their opinion on shaping; for example the guardian that betrayed Astoria and sent assassins is... very pro-shaper, moderately pro-shaping.

Attention: If you follow my idea, leave space on the extremely pro-shaper and extremely pro-rebel. You haven't seen how extreme are the extremes.

 

 

This is mine, with things from GF4 and what I've seen so far from yours (i.e. no spoilers; I won't tell you where I think Astoria or GF5 Litalia stand):

 

And here's an empty one if you want to fill it.

http://postimg.org/image/grxm94qe5/

I like that image.

 

Truth be told... Shapers and rebels reaction to shaping can be changed by the player (if you join the Trakovites).

As far as it goes... I kinda disagree with the Shapers being more pro-shapey in GF5 than GF4. Wait till you hit further ahead before putting the dot. You have just seen Astoria and Rawal and Astoria is less pro-shaping than Rawal (that had a Geneforge on his basement, so I actually not consider him a Shaper and there are more deviances from his side to be proven).

 

Rebels in GF5 are IMO below GF4 and in both GF4 and GF5 they are much above Shapers since they ... shape themselves totally. However a lot of rebels are too put off by... I won't say more.

Let's just say that Rebels are not just the Drakons and there are things for you to discover on that front even on the last battle.

So I would put both Shapers and Rebels less pro-Shaping in GF5 than in GF4.

 

As for not able to align yourself: Every faction choice I found was more or less bad. As with every war, this one brought out the worse in people. The good are few, the brave have already been killed, the idealists disillusioned. It's a very realistic representation of a long war IMO. Both sides have turned to extremities, there is literally not a good side and common people suffer.

 

Oh, and Trakovites in GF5 are not as antishaping as in GF4. You know that now Their base is full of shaped creations. They consider now that a Trakovite shaper\lifecrafter could create life in defense of the Trakovites.

Remember that dude in Monarch's basement in GF4? That was waiting for you? He didn't shape anything. He left the place armed with magic, not creations. When you meet him again, he's in a cave, thinking; not a cave full of creations, thinking.

 

The depth of GF series was very surprising to me.

 

Oh, and Litalia is my favorite GF character (and the 3rd best for my sister; she loved Moseh from GF4)

Watching episode 30.

Traps difficulty level 14? Nearby Astoria's (early mid-game) area? The game wants to tell you something there...

 

About the rage messages you get. I'm not sure of course, but I think (using less cannisters myself) that you get more "you supress your rage!" than I did.

Also, I see you found the Trakovites. When I saw their leader, after playing GF4 and part of GF3, my jaw dropped to the floor. I remember getting orders by that same Trakovite boss, to kill without mercy any Trakovite in GF4.

I also found it extremely peculiar that Trakovites had created Turrets and creations. That's Blasphemy for them. I ... got the explation from that boss (that used to hunt Trakovites 5 years ago) but at the time, I found it strange.

 

Episode 31: My favorite episode so far (because of Litalia)

 

May I suggest you change the name of the Yutube episode? Kinda too spoily of the biggest surprise and plot twist of the GF series...

You stumbled on the spoiler because you talked with that crazy guy. I didn't. I went to find that boss... and I couldn't believe it. For a moment I thought I was reading wrong or that there were two Litalias or something.

 

I found... remarkable how she distances herself from her past actions. "We have both been altered, seperated by our kind by Shaper magic" Riiiiiiight. And who was championing that cause Litalia? Saying that's the proper way of things?

Not to mention... who, as a Shaper, wiped out nearly all the Drakons before changing sides?

To accuse Shapers for Shaping sitting in a room with 5+ creations was rich. As rich as implying the cannisters and especially the geneforges (that she helped make and remake) were a crime.

 

"But I'm not like the others" (Should have added "I made the others what they were without care that some were maddened")

"I realized what was happening to me and it disgusted me" (should have added "after a decade or so of cannister abuse and slaughter")

"On the day the first Unbound were released, I understood the truth" (Should have started with "after over-ruling Greta and moderates that didn't like the idea of the Unbound, after assisting in the creation of the machinery with my Shaper knowledge, after helping Akari Blaze design them, on the first day...")

"The day the Unbound were released was the day I became a Trakovite" (Should have added "that day was a couple of weeks after I ordered some rebel to break away from a crucially important mission, completing the Unbound, in order to locate and destroy a Trakovite because I could not suffer them to exist.")

("Thankfully, once I left the Rebels they started to ignore my insane order of killing Trakovites wherever they were and now mostly ignore us")

Litalia was the only Rebel as hell-bent to eradicate the Trakovites as the Shapers; in GF4 not even Ghaldring was giving quests about killing Trakovites.

Laughed myself to tears again.

 

Anyway: I kept her cloak to the endgame. And trully, I found the Trakovites the most... emotionally charged faction to follow through.

Another thing: You say that the rebels do inexcusable crimes. My take on it is this: In a civil war, both sides have saints and fiends (Litalia being the later). Rebels fight a bit more dirty than the Shapers. However they fight for the freedom of a sentient race (Serviles) and the right of existance of two others (Drakons and Drayks). Shapers fight to keep those enslaved and all power to their order.

I could not align with the Shapers in any game because of that. In my opinion, both sides are nasty, but the Shapers are worse.

Sea caves? Never did that part.

I would suggest against that Blxz. OK the system wasn't perfect but it more or less worked. Doing what you say opens a whole can of worms that could lead to problems. For example, I'll find more disorienting a half-second delay than the loud ingame sounds. Please, keep doing what you do; it works.

Episode 27, Kaz, with the Servile and the "junk" that happens to be speciallized shaper equipment:

I was pro-shaper at that point and leadership helped me out I think. I had no problem buying from him... although IIRC he was expensive.

He had materials that you could use in recipies to make a profit though.

 

Anyway, I always find it interesting that Kaz had someone selling shaping equipment to the rebels but no Shaping hall or something or any Drakon insulting you while making cannisters.

Perhaps they ship it to rebel lands to the east with those wagons and other Serviles.

As for the East side of the Shadow Road, unless I'm very mistaken it's FULL of mechanic checks. I couldn't clear it all. Perhaps nice stuff awaits there for people like you.

 

I feel quite ... glad that you bumped leadership to 8. It would be good to have a little more... but you'll soon start finding those infiltrator items that give leadership\mechanics bonus.

There are a couple of places, not more, that you get an awesome reward for having high leadership. For some reason... I remember GF4's such places and not GF5.

 

Episode 28 sound issues: If I make commend on the audio, now the sounds of picking up stuff and such are too loud. I thought to lower the volume on my PC but then I couldn't listen to your descriptions. I don't know how or if you can address that, or whether you want to. It was though kinda annoying in the anvil part.

 

There was no freezes in this episode that I recall.

Well, it was not memorable to me, like my first Unbound kill, that took me 2 reloads, and a stack of healing spores and curing spores + extra items to give boosts while I cast spells.

 

 

I have a ... suggestion for your strategy (while wathing episode 25, Penta). Perhaps you should postpone opening locks until after you explored as much as you can from a place. Talked to people.

You used living tools twice as I saw, for doors that would be opened in a dialogue.

Really, you have mechanics 12. If unlock (that works with mechanics IIRC since if you put on mechanic gear it unlocks doors that it doesn't without) doesn't open a lock... it's not meant to be opened yet.

As a note, with unlock 1 I could open all doors I could open with 1 Living tool and at 2, I could open most (but not all) doors that required 2 living tools.

 

 

 

 

As a note, I think there was something of great value (item or ingredient) in that geniously made escape route, that crosses an open highway right next to a fort that is described as "able to turn around a force of a dozen Unbound" or something.

But perhaps I confuse it with GF4.

Episode 25, around 1:40. That little storage there in Penta, with the chest, is where I dropped most of my equipment. Near the end of the game, I probably had like 40 items there that I couldn't bring myself to sell. I was throwing crystals and crafting material there, as well as swamp herbs and research notes. Oh, just watching it brought up... emotions.

 

 

Aah... learned Dominic and his speech of "I know I will one day die protecting this place from a Shaper". The reason I sold the papers to them immediatelly instead of poking around for a better price.

I liked his stoicism and realism about the situation and his life expectancy.

As a note: I don't pay much attention to your inventory. I have noticed that you have one ingredient unless I was mistaken at a time I have two.

I'll take a better look next time, but as I said, I'm not sure WHEN I got most of my ingredients. Keep in mind: I didn't use them all.

 

Before you move to the next area, make sure you have some awesome magic gloves (forget the name) that give lots of mechanics. I remember finding them... before I moved out of Astoria's province.

On second thought... at end game with ALL my "mechanics bonus" equipment on, I had 1 mechanics more than you do. You'll probably never need the items.