Posted December 28, 2020
Hi, does the game have also other battle skills except the spells? I am asking because I follow the tech path and so far all I can do in battles is to do basic sword slashes.
EchoOfMidgar
Arcanum has the best RPG system
Registered: Nov 2010
From Slovakia
abbayarra
Mad Scientist
Registered: Sep 2010
From United States
Posted December 29, 2020
Hello,
If you improve your skills high enough you can pay money to improve what you can do. Also not really well documented is that you can target body parts in Arcanum with different attacks.
This is from the WIKI
https://arcanum.fandom.com/wiki/Called_shots
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Called shots
Note that called shots can only target the head, arms or legs. Non-called shots are randomly distributed to parts of the body (not equally; most are torso shots). So if you do not make a called shot, you will still hit your target’s head, arms or legs occasionally.
You can’t make a called arm shot on an avian, but you can target a quadruped’s forelegs with a called “arm” shot. You can’t make any called shots on amorphous creatures.
The called shot penalties for head, arms and legs are -50, -30 and -30, respectively. Firearms can have these penalties reduced by 1/3rd with expert training.
All called shots provide +10% better chance than non-called shots for generic effects, like doing bonus damage. Otherwise, the effects are as follows:
Head with no helmet: +25% stun, +25% knocked out, +15% blinded (in addition to all other effects, like crushing or electrical damage has increases for stunning or knockout)
Head with helmet: No bonus chance to stun or knock out, but +10% to blind. Plus, if doing crushing damage, 15% chance to knock off the helmet.
Leg: +10% crippled leg, +25% knocked down (bipeds only)
Arm: +10% crippled arm
Controls
Called shots can be made by holding down the following keys before clicking on an enemy. The cursor will change based on the called shot being made.
, (comma) - head shots
. (period) - arm shots
/ (forward slash) - leg shots
If you improve your skills high enough you can pay money to improve what you can do. Also not really well documented is that you can target body parts in Arcanum with different attacks.
This is from the WIKI
https://arcanum.fandom.com/wiki/Called_shots
____________
Called shots
Note that called shots can only target the head, arms or legs. Non-called shots are randomly distributed to parts of the body (not equally; most are torso shots). So if you do not make a called shot, you will still hit your target’s head, arms or legs occasionally.
You can’t make a called arm shot on an avian, but you can target a quadruped’s forelegs with a called “arm” shot. You can’t make any called shots on amorphous creatures.
The called shot penalties for head, arms and legs are -50, -30 and -30, respectively. Firearms can have these penalties reduced by 1/3rd with expert training.
All called shots provide +10% better chance than non-called shots for generic effects, like doing bonus damage. Otherwise, the effects are as follows:
Head with no helmet: +25% stun, +25% knocked out, +15% blinded (in addition to all other effects, like crushing or electrical damage has increases for stunning or knockout)
Head with helmet: No bonus chance to stun or knock out, but +10% to blind. Plus, if doing crushing damage, 15% chance to knock off the helmet.
Leg: +10% crippled leg, +25% knocked down (bipeds only)
Arm: +10% crippled arm
Controls
Called shots can be made by holding down the following keys before clicking on an enemy. The cursor will change based on the called shot being made.
, (comma) - head shots
. (period) - arm shots
/ (forward slash) - leg shots
EchoOfMidgar
Arcanum has the best RPG system
Registered: Nov 2010
From Slovakia
Posted December 30, 2020
If you improve your skills high enough you can pay money to improve what you can do. Also not really well documented is that you can target body parts in Arcanum with different attacks.
This is from the WIKI
https://arcanum.fandom.com/wiki/Called_shots
____________
Called shots
Note that called shots can only target the head, arms or legs. Non-called shots are randomly distributed to parts of the body (not equally; most are torso shots). So if you do not make a called shot, you will still hit your target’s head, arms or legs occasionally.
You can’t make a called arm shot on an avian, but you can target a quadruped’s forelegs with a called “arm” shot. You can’t make any called shots on amorphous creatures.
The called shot penalties for head, arms and legs are -50, -30 and -30, respectively. Firearms can have these penalties reduced by 1/3rd with expert training.
All called shots provide +10% better chance than non-called shots for generic effects, like doing bonus damage. Otherwise, the effects are as follows:
Head with no helmet: +25% stun, +25% knocked out, +15% blinded (in addition to all other effects, like crushing or electrical damage has increases for stunning or knockout)
Head with helmet: No bonus chance to stun or knock out, but +10% to blind. Plus, if doing crushing damage, 15% chance to knock off the helmet.
Leg: +10% crippled leg, +25% knocked down (bipeds only)
Arm: +10% crippled arm
Controls
Called shots can be made by holding down the following keys before clicking on an enemy. The cursor will change based on the called shot being made.
, (comma) - head shots
. (period) - arm shots
/ (forward slash) - leg shots
Kerebron
The Beholder
Registered: Dec 2011
From Poland
Posted December 30, 2020
One more thing you can do is backstabbing. If you attack your opponent from behind (rear, rear left/right direction) with a dagger (on Backstab Expert level you can use swords and axes as well), you will do a lot more damage. If you are able to stun* or knock-out an enemy first - bonus can be enormous (ten times or so). With good Backstab skill and training you can kill most opponents with one, two or, at most, three hits.
*Hint - Stun spell works fine for mages and technologists, as well as all Temporal spells do.
*Hint - Stun spell works fine for mages and technologists, as well as all Temporal spells do.
TwoHandedSword
Sharp tongue, rapier wit, cutting sense of humor
Registered: Sep 2011
From United States
Posted December 30, 2020
In addition, if invest in Smithy or ask Magnus (and have the right components) you can get yourself a balanced sword, and eventually a featherweight axe. The axe itself can then be turned into a high-damage-dealing pyrotechnic axe (the quality smiths in Tarant and Caladon sell the schematic, but only at random).
Combine that with Kerebron's backstabbing suggestion, and you are an instant god of war.
Combine that with Kerebron's backstabbing suggestion, and you are an instant god of war.
abbayarra
Mad Scientist
Registered: Sep 2010
From United States
Posted December 30, 2020
You want to go up to 18 on dexterity and get as high a stealth if you don't wan't to have to stun your opponent. That way you can sneak up behind them and backstab them. Other options are to stun using stun grenades as a tech player or stun spell as a mage. If you get dexterity and then do strength up to 18 to get the max damage modifier, I believe I've seen the final boss killed in 1 hit before. There is no challenge in the game at this point.
Ah, powergaming, makes me feel dirty.
Ah, powergaming, makes me feel dirty.
trekstar4444
New User
Registered: May 2020
From United States
Posted December 30, 2020
if you go the high dex route as tech, grab explosives and check in *ea and every trash can* for rags to combine with fuel for molotov cocktails. easy device to make for wholesale clearing of mass enemies. iirc, it makes the earlyer parts of the game a lot easyer.
eolsunder
New User
Registered: Jun 2016
From United States
Posted December 31, 2020
You get more experience killing stuff yourself, your companions steal experience so the more THEY kill, the less you get.
As an offensive character (full warrior, full mage, etc) since you get most of the experience yourself, you'll level up very fast and will max your level half way through the game. Its pretty boring after that.
The most fun characters where you can enjoy the whole game and not just the first half are support main characters, those with max part size and boosting powers so your party is doing the work and youre just backing them up. You'll level up slower, but you'll enjoy the game much more. Be the merchant, party leader, smart charisma guy.
The hardest, and the best is a full tech support character because even a mage support main leader still has powerful spells that make the game pretty easy. A full tech guy/leader i consider the most fun to play, stretches the game all the way through to the end, can perform all the crafting/tech skills, and isn't super powered allowing you to actually have party members.
TwoHandedSword
Sharp tongue, rapier wit, cutting sense of humor
Registered: Sep 2011
From United States
Posted December 31, 2020
You may argue, and rightly so, that without that cap the game becomes too easy anyway. But at least you won't get sick of doing side quests (or even the main quest) without any additional XP reward to look forward to. And since I'm one of those people who completes the Gods' Quest on almost every playthrough, because I love demolishing everything and everyone in my way up to and including the BBEG: 'nuff said.