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What should I do in the early game?
Typical_Name replied to Typical_Name's topic in Geneforge Series - Remasters
Found it! I didn't see it before because it's almost exactly the same color as the pool of blood it's lying in... -
What should I do in the early game?
Typical_Name replied to Typical_Name's topic in Geneforge Series - Remasters
Oh, neat! I hope it wasn't Pool, the brave but very stupid Pentilian scout who died after several reload attempts to save his life, because he kept trying to punch cryoras as I lured them to the guards. -
What should I do in the early game?
Typical_Name replied to Typical_Name's topic in Geneforge Series - Remasters
Also, during my travels yesterday, while clearing out some Vlish in an area, I encountered an obscenely powerful fyrora-like creature (I think it was called something else). It was level 9, had a dialogue popup to announce its existence, and began combat hasted. I somehow managed to beat it anyways with some judicious use of mental magic and save scumming... and then nothing happened. I went back to its lair to see what loot it was guarding and found basically nothing. The amount of exp I got from defeating this seemingly unstoppable killing machine wasn't impressive either. Did I miss something? Is this some sort of penalty encounter I was supposed to avoid? -
What should I do in the early game?
Typical_Name replied to Typical_Name's topic in Geneforge Series - Remasters
Where can you see what your to hit chance is? -
What should I do in the early game?
Typical_Name replied to Typical_Name's topic in Geneforge Series - Remasters
Yeah, it doesn't say "Evade", but they do "Miss" more often, it feels like. And I was the same level between tries, this was me reloading a bit earlier to dump points into Evasion instead of continuing to buff up Mechanics because I was struggling to take out the spawners in East Pentil. The cryoras' spread attacks seemed to hit me way less. Alternatively, it could be that it was a fairly inaccurate attack to begin with, and either the AI is using it more since the single-target attacks aren't as good (because evasion) or I'm just seeing more of them since I'm surviving longer. Also, how does the math on Evasion and such work? Theoretically, if I buff it up high enough (probably not possible without cheats), would I have a 100% evade chance, or do the enemies have their own stat that counters it? -
What should I do in the early game?
Typical_Name replied to Typical_Name's topic in Geneforge Series - Remasters
Another noob question - Are all the tooltips accurate? Evasion says it only applies to single-target attacks, but ever since I dumped a bunch of points into Evasion, it's felt like the area-target attacks are missing more often too. -
What should I do in the early game?
Typical_Name replied to Typical_Name's topic in Geneforge Series - Remasters
I suspect that the Shapers did not leave voluntarily, given the talk of invasions and conspiracies, but I haven't gotten anywhere near far enough to confirm yet. -
What should I do in the early game?
Typical_Name replied to Typical_Name's topic in Geneforge Series - Remasters
Ah, okej, that's good to know. Also, if I turn in Naab, does that impact my relationship with the Takers? He DID say that his offer still stands regardless of what happens to him... (eyes quest exp greedily) -
What should I do in the early game?
Typical_Name replied to Typical_Name's topic in Geneforge Series - Remasters
Yeah, I saw that post, but I didn't want to get spoilers - I just wanted kind of a "list of quests to make sure I didn't miss anything before leaving," and I know that if I open that, I'll get "here is exactly where the disc one nuke is and what dialogue options you should pick to minmax." -
What should I do in the early game?
Typical_Name replied to Typical_Name's topic in Geneforge Series - Remasters
Oh, darn, I was looking forward to the continuity of playing one character across several games. Oh wells. Hrrm, is there a list of the quests somewhere, to make sure I don't miss any? So far I've found "kill the bandits", "help the alchemist open his box", "find the stolen steel knife", and "find the Taker spy" - I know who the spy is, but haven't turned them in in case I end up siding with the Takers. I meant for doing the same path of the quest, not doing it multiple ways - I wouldn't be able to take on the bandits in a fight (I tried it and the toll person one-shot me). Like, if I fail the dialogue option to resolve it peacefully, can I level up and try the dialogue option again, or am I locked into doing the quest the violent way (assuming I don't reload)? -
What should I do in the early game?
Typical_Name replied to Typical_Name's topic in Geneforge Series - Remasters
I never played the other Geneforge games, but I was under the impression that since it was a series, I'd be importing the character from each previous game and my decisions in the earlier games would affect the later ones. Is that not the case? What you describe is basically what I was doing to clear out areas, but I'm only getting around 10-14 exp per kill, and leveling up takes well over a thousand exp, and I struggle in any fight against more than one creature. Grinding doesn't seem like a viable way of leveling, unless I'm just doing something wrong? Also, if I talk to an NPC without the needed leadership level to do something, and then come back later after I level up my leadership, do I get the option to do whatever it was that required the leadership, or is the option gone? (ie, if I try to negotiate with the bandits, go back to the Blade person, fail the leadership check, then later level up and come back, can I try to persuade her again) -
What should I do in the early game?
Typical_Name replied to Typical_Name's topic in Geneforge Series - Remasters
Yeh, that was basically what I did on my first character, but she still only got to around level 3, if I remember correctly. I did eventually make it to the other settlement (I forget the name), with Ellrah, but I felt really silly after doing so after I found chainmail armor just lying around (after I had spent a big sum of money buying it from Vakkiri >_<). I might go back to that character, but reload from the point before I bought the armor. Are there any other significant items I should know about just lying around? -
I had tried Geneforge a long time ago and only got a few hours in. I forget why I stopped, I vaguely remembered liking the game, so I was pleasantly surprised to hear about the remake one day. So I'm giving it a try, and because I'm a very silly person, I have decided to play as an Agent on Torment difficulty, because playing as a magic knight that doesn't have to babysit summoned critters appeals to me, and I want to at least attempt the hardest difficulty before I give up and go easier. I'm also trying to use as few of the gene canisters as possible, because I vaguely remember that there's something bad about using too many of them (I haven't found very many to begin with, though). So far, there has been lots of dying - I don't mind that so much, but it feels like I've hit a brick wall in terms of the areas I can explore. So I've been trying to figure out if there's a better way to build my character early on - in my first run, I tried focusing on leadership and mechanics, but I felt super weak against the rogue creations and had trouble doing anything. I tried a second character in which I dumped all my points into melee attack (I'd rather do magic, but it's too weak early on), and she's a bit more survivable, but I'm not sure what quests I can do without leadership, and I'm still not very good at killing things yet. Is there something else I should be spending my limited exp points on instead?