Hey guys. I hate to appear out of nowhere to complain, but there's something about Escape from the Pit I have to gripe about.
I'm about 30 hours in and greatly enjoying the game. However, the more I play, the more one big problem stands out to me. Whether I win or lose any given (level-appropriate or higher) battle is extremely random.
To start, with any attack there is a random chance to do a random amount of damage. Status effects are randomly inflicted by my spells and attacks, and then they may or may not affect the enemy (i.e. slow, ensnared, etc). I randomly gain entire extra attacks from Haste. Also, random critical hits.
The enemy AI chooses random targets, and if they focus fire, I die.
The worst part comes when the enemy possesses godlike abilities and spells (such as with any given caster or slime). For example, Draining Slimes can either attack 1 character for ~20 damage + acid or deal ~70 damage + acid to my entire party. Enemy casters either twiddle their thumbs summoning rats or wipe my party with lightning storms and poison rain.
Whether I win or lose is almost entirely random.
Is anyone else noticing this? Is anyone else extremely bothered by it? I just had to get it off my chest and complain. I still love the game, but I may not continue playing because of this.
Also, does anyone have any hope that it is something that can be fixed? I am using Avernum Remix, which is great, but I don't know if there's any way to fix this short of editing every enemy and item in the game.
Thanks for reading.