Truth is game rigging is more difficult than it looks pls stay ded What are you guys doing with bolverk that he's not King poo poo of gently caress Mountain? Give him armor break and strip a dude's armor off and then gently caress his poo poo up in the same move. How can you look at that and go "Hmm, that seems bad, the guy who is literally as good as any two other guys in the game combined is not a good unit"? Give him crits and watch him do like 30 damage to some poor fucker in one hit. He gets to attack twice, for free, every turn. I don't know how people keep saying Bolverk sucks when he's literally the best unit in the entire game. (Eirik with a +will/turn item basically allows him to make Alette into a turret forever.) I could probably beat entire maps with just him, Alette, and Eirik. Probably buff her with your skald as well, since that will let her crit the big dredge for enough damage to cripple them.Įgil is alive in my game and has so much loving armor and aggro that he just marches out a few steps ahead of Alette, puts up a wall, and waits for dummies to come up and get slaughtered.
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Knockback allows Alette to be the front line of your team, or to lock down a whole segment of the map on her own, if you want to inflict damage then you will need people to stand in front of Alette. Though Alette herself would need less willpower and so could be lower level. If you don't go knockback you will have to go to much greater lengths to make it work. I can't wait to have a 20 strength Alette killing or wounding anything dumb enough to come near me, and then having a unit just march around picking off the stragglers.Į: goddammit I just burned a TON of renown promoting a unit that literally hosed off forever like 2 minutes later. If it's anything like the first game, they'll reconnect toward the endgame. The real pity is that there are two characters on the other POV that would make Alette even more absurd. Interrupting turns is cool, but so is bringing anything foolish enough to attack to critical HP or dying outright. I can't decide if it's better with a knockback item or with a STR boost/Critical Hit item. Some people want to get the level 10 items, and I think that some of them are worth buying like the one that gives +3 to all talents, +1 break & armor+will/turn is pretty much great on anyone, especially Rook or Iver. Most units will be at or very near the caps on their primary stats at level 5, getting to 6-8 for the second ability and item access generally seems to be enough to set them up for the whole game. Personally, I'm finding promotions way less critical this time around.
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The caravan mechanics have also been rethought for the better, clansmen are actually something other than a drag on your resources and you can freely convert them into fighters if you want to. Also they realized that the turn order thing is tedious and gave every protagonist an ability that breaks the paradigm, while you still can't blindly focus fire you do have incentives to actually kill enemies outright this time around. This game's combat is much more polished than the first's. With the new training missions it's been a lot easier to stay well stocked and promote my team. If an item is really good, fits a character well, and is high level enough that I'll use it for a decent amount of time, I usually buy it. And if it seems I have a lot of extra renown while camping on the road, I start promoting people and generally try and keep my whole 'A' team leveled up incrementally instead of jacking up just one or two people like a few others. I generally buy as many supplies if I can and promote my dudes w/ the excess renown, or if I'm low I save enough for one or two promotions. I'm haven't finished yet but I like sneak guy and horse archer w/ poison a lot.
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BS2's combat is more enjoyable and there's a bunch of new units w/ new abilities, some are even fun. I kinda loved BS1 and even played the multiplayer battle game for a little bit.