Posted December 05, 2019
(Work in progress)
General :
-Carriages cost quite a bit of money, and dont offer any real advantages other than saving some IRL time. Setting step size to large when travelling long distances is usually sufficient.
-The game runs pretty slow on modern systems, try using cheat engine on a 4x speed hack setting and small or medium step size for general travelling.
-For combat modes, swing is generally your best bet, but at the start you may want to use thrust for higher accuracy.
-You can use auto hotkey to make the game use WASD for movement. Here's a simple script :
w::up
s::down
a::left
d::right
`::Suspend
When you first start auto hotkey, choose edit script, and replace everything there with the above text. Use the ` key (next to the number 1) to suspend the script when you want to type something.
-To avoid constant back tracking to pick up and sell loot, you may want to use the "supermarket for the rich" cheat (press ctrl + alt + z to open the message box) to get a second storage. Dump all the cheat gear out of the storage somewhere if you are not planning to use it.
-Food that is more expensive tends to last longer, roast chicken and lamb lasts a lot longer than bread and cheese for example. Rations last indefinately but are the most expensive. Food only decays when its in your party's inventory, so you can leave food on corpses for later use or store it in abandoned houses.
-With the exception of magic skills, skills only level up on use.
-Haggle is bugged, dont bother trying to level it, the haggle check only seems to occur once per shopkeeper so is nearly impossible to level as you need multiple skill checks to level a skill.
-I THINK that only the highest scouting or stealth in the party is used, but its not clear.
-Resting long periods of time at an inn may help to increase skills at the next skill check.
-Trainers/skill books can be saved till you max out the skill for the current chapter, which will let you go above the chapter limit for that skill.
-You cant cast spells when you are in an enemy's zone of control (visualized by a red hex, which is usually when you are next to an enemy who is facing your character). Some enemies like field worms have larger zones of control.
-You can only take one action per turn, you cannot for example, move behind an enemy then choose to attack, you have to either attack the enemy directly (which doesnt let you choose which hex your character moves into) or move to your desired hex.
-Repair after every battle, preferably with the auto repair option, you only get 1 repair roll after an item is damaged. If you take item damage in two battles without repairing, you dont get two repair rolls.
-Mixing ale with fidali leaves is a cheap option for poison immunity if you apply it to your armor, drinking 1 senwater before combat ends is also another option to remove poison. You can actually make a profit by making fidali paste and selling it, but you shouldnt need to as there is plenty of money in the game by selling loot.
-The temple of Kor blessing seems to provide a small bonus to your item stats, which may be % based, and isnt worth it at the start of the game. The Henne blessing just allows you to do a certain side quest and prevents you from getting fatigued while the temple of Senaedrin just heals you.
Chapter 1 :
- Combat is unforgiving with heavily RNG based results, at the start your skills are pretty low and your base accuracy is bad. Kaelyn's bow is also pretty useless until you find some grrlf arrows at the very least as the accuracy rate is low. This is one of the few games where I would suggest using the +10 skills cheat at the start as the game is very tiring if you are grinding skills with the low accuracy rate and trying to kill enemies before they run away for loot.
-Chailan Cutlasses are largely useless, as they have bonuses for hack but hack gets a large accuracy penalty. And by the time you can buy a 100% cutlass, you also get access to 100% long swords which have better stats.
-Rest at the Inn till Aren finishes researching static discharge, you will need it for the big fight when you try to go south from Briala.
-Dont go into the montari caves till chapter 2, you cant do anything important there yet and you will want fidali paste.
-Aren can get a quarterstaff in Imazi (go west from Briala) and if you go to Ligano from Imazi before clearing the Ligano-Sortiga route, you can sell 12 ales to the innkeeper at a large markup.
-When you get your next set of spells, research thunder strike ASAP, it is one of the most powerful spells in the game but can only target enemies wielding metal weapons.
General :
-Carriages cost quite a bit of money, and dont offer any real advantages other than saving some IRL time. Setting step size to large when travelling long distances is usually sufficient.
-The game runs pretty slow on modern systems, try using cheat engine on a 4x speed hack setting and small or medium step size for general travelling.
-For combat modes, swing is generally your best bet, but at the start you may want to use thrust for higher accuracy.
-You can use auto hotkey to make the game use WASD for movement. Here's a simple script :
w::up
s::down
a::left
d::right
`::Suspend
When you first start auto hotkey, choose edit script, and replace everything there with the above text. Use the ` key (next to the number 1) to suspend the script when you want to type something.
-To avoid constant back tracking to pick up and sell loot, you may want to use the "supermarket for the rich" cheat (press ctrl + alt + z to open the message box) to get a second storage. Dump all the cheat gear out of the storage somewhere if you are not planning to use it.
-Food that is more expensive tends to last longer, roast chicken and lamb lasts a lot longer than bread and cheese for example. Rations last indefinately but are the most expensive. Food only decays when its in your party's inventory, so you can leave food on corpses for later use or store it in abandoned houses.
-With the exception of magic skills, skills only level up on use.
-Haggle is bugged, dont bother trying to level it, the haggle check only seems to occur once per shopkeeper so is nearly impossible to level as you need multiple skill checks to level a skill.
-I THINK that only the highest scouting or stealth in the party is used, but its not clear.
-Resting long periods of time at an inn may help to increase skills at the next skill check.
-Trainers/skill books can be saved till you max out the skill for the current chapter, which will let you go above the chapter limit for that skill.
-You cant cast spells when you are in an enemy's zone of control (visualized by a red hex, which is usually when you are next to an enemy who is facing your character). Some enemies like field worms have larger zones of control.
-You can only take one action per turn, you cannot for example, move behind an enemy then choose to attack, you have to either attack the enemy directly (which doesnt let you choose which hex your character moves into) or move to your desired hex.
-Repair after every battle, preferably with the auto repair option, you only get 1 repair roll after an item is damaged. If you take item damage in two battles without repairing, you dont get two repair rolls.
-Mixing ale with fidali leaves is a cheap option for poison immunity if you apply it to your armor, drinking 1 senwater before combat ends is also another option to remove poison. You can actually make a profit by making fidali paste and selling it, but you shouldnt need to as there is plenty of money in the game by selling loot.
-The temple of Kor blessing seems to provide a small bonus to your item stats, which may be % based, and isnt worth it at the start of the game. The Henne blessing just allows you to do a certain side quest and prevents you from getting fatigued while the temple of Senaedrin just heals you.
Chapter 1 :
- Combat is unforgiving with heavily RNG based results, at the start your skills are pretty low and your base accuracy is bad. Kaelyn's bow is also pretty useless until you find some grrlf arrows at the very least as the accuracy rate is low. This is one of the few games where I would suggest using the +10 skills cheat at the start as the game is very tiring if you are grinding skills with the low accuracy rate and trying to kill enemies before they run away for loot.
-Chailan Cutlasses are largely useless, as they have bonuses for hack but hack gets a large accuracy penalty. And by the time you can buy a 100% cutlass, you also get access to 100% long swords which have better stats.
-Rest at the Inn till Aren finishes researching static discharge, you will need it for the big fight when you try to go south from Briala.
-Dont go into the montari caves till chapter 2, you cant do anything important there yet and you will want fidali paste.
-Aren can get a quarterstaff in Imazi (go west from Briala) and if you go to Ligano from Imazi before clearing the Ligano-Sortiga route, you can sell 12 ales to the innkeeper at a large markup.
-When you get your next set of spells, research thunder strike ASAP, it is one of the most powerful spells in the game but can only target enemies wielding metal weapons.