Wasteland 2 Kickstarter

[Tonitrus]

Could it be the 90% chances shown are base chance, unmodified by enemy stats/rolls? Blackguards does a similar thing.

No, I am referring to the one-sided skill checks against safes/locks, etc.  They each have a set, base difficulty, and you'll see the percentage chance dynamically change if you increase the appropriate skill level.

I've gotten into the bad habit of "storing" skill points and see where a timely increase might be most advantageous. 

[Tonitrus]

Participated in the funding by Kickstarter so I am playing. I like it but and yes it's close to classic Fallout but different enough. Tough choices (early dilemma e.g as said before [spoiler]but how did you make both [/spoiler]Tonitrus?) and skill specialisation as said before. Toaster skills can wait the mid-game

[spoiler]You cannot save both.  I had restarted a new game. [/spoiler]

Hilariously enough, [spoiler]I used all custom characters for my party, and without any foreknowledge, designed one as a "Native American Princess"-type and on the track to be my Sniper with high Animal Whisperer, Perception, Outdoors, and Field Medicine...and later found that when you rescue Highpool, you can get that exact character archetype (with the identical  skill emphasis!) as a potential add-on companion (Like Angela Deth)  [/spoiler]

[Pedrito]

I just [spoiler]inadvertently nuked myself and all the rangers out of the game[/spoiler] 

L.

[Valmy]

This game sounds great.  Raz and I are totally missing out 

[Habbaku]

I apparently got a second key with my Kickstarted copy...   

[Razgovory]

This game sounds great.  Raz and I are totally missing out 

I'm still holding out for time travel messages.

[Valmy]

I apparently got a second key with my Kickstarted copy...   

Man I would envy the lucky bastard who got their hands on that.

[katmai]

O rly?

[Tonitrus]

There was an update/patch today.

It appears to have scrambled my saved games. 

Edit: phew, still all good, just scrambled the list order all around

[Tonitrus]

The game has lots of cool references for us classic gaming olds. 

Like [spoiler]finding a cache of a gajillion ET video game cartridges. [/spoiler]

[Tonitrus]

Addendum to the ongoing review:

- Still consider it very good overall.  Had a few crashes, but nothing earth-shattering.

- Another review I read had a fair point...the games use of the percentage-chance/skill system, and the fact that it uses it often, kinda gives it a "things are really outside my control" feel.  Whether one considers it good or bad, the games make it very hard to have a jack-of-all-trades in the use of skills...often making it best to have your characters specialize in 2 skills (3 at most) in order to keep up with the increasingly difficulty skill-level challenges of locations as you go through the game.  Of course, there are usually the less glamorous methods of plowing through certain obstacles if you want to ignore some skills altogether.  I'd say some of the most important skills are [spoiler]the conversation-based ones (e.g. hard-ass/kiss-ass/smart-ass), if you don't want to miss out on a lot of side quests/game flavor.[/spoiler]

- Lots of good easter eggs, old-school gaming cultural references, and tips-of-the-hat to lots of gaming history most of us probably know and appreciate. 

 

[Pedrito]

Addendum to the ongoing review:

- Lots of good easter eggs, old-school gaming cultural references, and tips-of-the-hat to lots of gaming history most of us probably know and appreciate. 

DId you already do [spoiler]the rail nomads camp? there's a rather nice if tedious easter egg there.[/spoiler]

What I find difficult is keeping my team high on health, because there aren't many medics around that can cure the Group, and I'm eating up all my health-related goodies.
And, I forgot what a PITA can be the lack of correct ammo for my guns. 

L.

[Tonitrus]

Addendum to the ongoing review:

- Lots of good easter eggs, old-school gaming cultural references, and tips-of-the-hat to lots of gaming history most of us probably know and appreciate. 

DId you already do [spoiler]the rail nomads camp? there's a rather nice if tedious easter egg there.[/spoiler]

What I find difficult is keeping my team high on health, because there aren't many medics around that can cure the Group, and I'm eating up all my health-related goodies.
And, I forgot what a PITA can be the lack of correct ammo for my guns. 

L.

Yeah, I did.

I have one dedicated medic character, and never seem to have a problem keeping medkits in stock (getting health restored when they level up helps too).

[Duque de Bragança]

I apparently got a second key with my Kickstarted copy...   

Man I would envy the lucky bastard who got their hands on that.

Inxile localised the game in a "collaborative" way i.e pro bono translation, quality assurance and bug testing (at best) so there were even more ways to get that precious key.

[Razgovory]

Brad you are a fuckwad, just buy the goddamn game.