Steel Maverick

Thanks the responses everyone, hope other fellow Shaper aspirants will learn from my mistake here.

I've just gotten to Pentil through Pentil Plains instead of Pentil Woods which involves clearing the rogues out of west gate. There's a servile who would normally give you the quest to clear out the gates except there's now no option to receive the quest because said gate has already been cleared. Has anyone else had issues with being unable to get this quest if they've already cleared the gate beforehand?

Awesome. A bit of me feels sad knowing the series I enjoyed as a kid finally comes to a close.

I'm with the notion that easy mode is for relaxation and general amusement. It's always nice for a party in Avernum or Geneforge to mass slaughter every creature and enemy in a dungeon. Depending on the sort of game you play and difficulty is another story all together. I always ramp up the difficulty in strategy games, there's more foes with better stats and you have less units but there's always a way to get out of it and that's the appeal. And with bullet hell games the difficulty is the main appeal of the game in the first place so why play on easy?

This sounds very exciting. Especially the return of dual wielding. I hope it'll make my melee weapon user as powerful as my pole arm user. I also hope Jeff will bring back some old weapon types like maces, flails and crossbows just to add that final dimension to the game. Comboing your Frozen Blade with the Oozing blade etc, should be intersting.

In response to the thing about shortish demos I have to agree that we as players are exposed significantly less to the IMHO, overwhelming moral options we had in other Geneforge demos and the immediate mystery surrounding the game. Like say in GF1 and GF2 you know there's something sinister going on in the respective circumstances in the game but as soon as you start to taste a bit of the story the registration pops up and you're just left hooked onto the story. But getting back on track for G5, so far technical problems have hindered my experience for the game and the Australian exchange rate has been dropping. But nonetheless, what I have enjoyed so far seems promising. Expect some money from me in the mail sometime in the future Spiderweb!

Well this isn't incredibly serious but cryoas and other variable forms of shaped monsters aren't in their usual colour. This also applies to beautiful and lovely crystals. Both variants of those crystals are still green instead of the standard blue and red. I'm really not used to seeing red cryoas or brown corrupted thahds so I'm wondering if this can be fixed in anyway.