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Thank you very much good sir :D Happy to hear you are enjoying the channel, many more videos to come!

I agree completely. The game is quite long, in my opinion maybe a bit too long for its own good, even more so if you go for the true final boss. I find the pacing of the game to be quite fine for the most part but it definitely reaches a point where I'm like, "ok, so this is going to be the end right?" And this question gets asked multiple times before it actually does :p not to mention you have to deal with some particularly nasty and annoying encounters before you get there which just makes you feel like it's dragging even more. In my first playthrough when I got to the house at the edge of time and had to deal with all those ghost mages and their stat drains I just wanted the game to be over and not deal with that. A good point on the advisors, thanks, I'll want to level them up also due to the possible necessity to play with them slightly in the house at the edge of time

Nah, ask away, this is why the comments section exists and I'm happy to help. Time is relative, as they say :p nowadays I would say the game gives you more than enough time to do whatever you need in the game, because I know what to do. In my first playthrough though there were times where I felt restricted by it. I would say in terms of time, the main difference is that in manual kingdom management you will want/need to go back to the barony every once in a while to check new events and take some time dealing with those, which in auto if I remember correctly you don't need to do. Other than that I don't think it changes the time frames for quests, but you may have to deal with certain kingdom events quickly or risk losing your barony which I don't believe you have to deal with in auto (sorry for not giving a more concrete answer but it has been a while since I've played the game with auto management).

@@CoredumpedGaming thanks man. That was pretty helpful. Thanks.

Demogorgon is definitely not the friendliest of foes in the game :p Don't feel bad for dying to him, he really is quite hard.

There is? Do you have to be of a specific alignment for it?

I am iconoclast. Passed a check to tell Calligos to leave the Xenos alone. He then says he is bored anyhow. ​@@CoredumpedGaming

I think only did one check which you did. Then I just asked about Haemoncolus. Can't remember the rest.

Ok thanks, cool to know! :D

It is a real problem lol And yeah, he's just too dangerous to stay free in my opinion.

Ah, I thank you my friend but it is not the case - I just like these games a lot and have had some practice :p

@@CoredumpedGaming yeah but your way of being very clear in your explanations, the way you present things in coherent blocks and your delivery/personality makes the product of your research very clear and easy to grasp. I hope to see more of this type of game(been playing these since BG1) and more of your analysis of it. On another note. Do you have a video on kingdom management? When I played this last year I kept it on auto to make sure I finished but this time would like to tackle it.

I am happy to hear good sir :D I do not have a dedicated video for Kingdom Management but I may do one in the future as it as also been asked by others before. I did have an episode somewhat dedicated to it however, which may cover most of the important things about Kingdom Management - czcams.com/video/A7mMVzFXTZs/video.html Let me know if this has the information you need or if it is still lacking in some form and I'll try to fill in the gaps.

Pillars of eternity 1 or 2? I'll assume 1 - make sure to check in the bestiary their defenses and try to use damage types which they are weakest against. Veil piercing weapons like guns also have a bonus against those enemies which may help. Other than that, they are quite tough enemies for the early game, make sure you have a solid party composition and are positioning properly. You can check my PoE guide for some tips and/or my PoE playthrough so you can see exactly how I deal with them.

Thank you :D E sim, o sotaque nunca engana os nossos :p Enjoy my friend, I'm also currently uploading an ongoing unfair last azlanti run of kingmaker in case you want to check it out!

@@CoredumpedGaming I definitely will 👍👍grande abraço e muito sucesso 💪

Eheh at this point I don't recall what my initial reaction to Engelidis was, but I vaguely recall also having quite a bit of trouble actually hitting her. I do remember getting frustrated by Irovetti's Overwhelming Presence, which I tought was utter bull feces at the time. And yeah, a lot of the buffs are providing a lot of STR which helps out a lot, and lets not forget that Regongar and Valerie are already quite strong with their builds.

eheh thank you :D Your english is perfectly understandable, so worry not about that! How is your Kingmaker run going?

@@CoredumpedGaming it is my second run , trying unfair difficulty. Failed with leveling up all advisors to 10 level because lost much time somewhere. Trying again to make a best ends according to guides :) Started with warlock and then for mystery trickster for unfair.

Oh yes, and a dragon disciple is just overall better than a sorcerer for what he gets, so you will be very well served :D

@@CoredumpedGaming Thanks for replying, man

No worries good sir, enjoy blasting your enemies to oblivion with magic :D

It is also my preference yes. I know a lot of people prefer the "everything per encounter" thing, but I find it to be a worse system overall. Pretty much every fight in PoE2, once you get enough power and spells becomes the same as you are just constantly spamming the same high level spells in every single encounter, something that didn't happen in PoE1. I also prefer the versatility of the grimoires and learning spells from grimoires in PoE1 than the system they had in 2.

Man... that brought back some memories! Haven't thought about that game in quite a while lol I do love Manny and Meche :D

I'm also not much of a fan of these "lost in a magical maze type of scenario" but thankfully it isn't that bad here. And yeah, a place with some actual foliage is an improvement :D

I'm with you on that one. Owlcat seems to have a gift at creating less than enjoyable "sub-games" in all of their games... I think the idea was not necessarily bad, but it's just not very fun, at least for me, and it gets kind of repetitive and a chore after a while. It's one of those things I wish you could just disable in the game so that people who don't want to bother with them don't need to. I can tell you right now that I'm quite excited for a new playthrough but already tired just thinking of the space battles :p

At least we can set a separate difficulty for it. It still takes a bit of time, but with almost no danger....

Yeah, I'm just not sure if it changes the overall difficulty from unfair to custom (I believe it does) which could interfere with achievements and whatnot. Not that I think there was even an achievement for unfair

Early on I spend a lot of gold on consumables and a mercenary. I also like to always have some money at hand for a rainy day which may have been why I didn't get the bag of holding. I do get them all when I feel I'm good on consumables and gold though. Gotta have all that carry weight to make my inner hoarder happy :D

We all have different experiences with these games. Personally I don't mind the pathfinding too much though I remember a few times where it may have gotten on my nerves. I find pathfinding in other games of this style worse than PoE though. As for the combat, it may just be the learning curve. Of course it may not just be your style but I'll share my experience with it - when I first picked up PoE I hated the combat, felt clunky, with a weird system that didn't make sense and the battles all seemed impossible. I did push through that feeling though (which in hindsight I believe was caused by my being so used to infinity engine games based on dungeons & dragons so this one just felt bad in comparison at the start) and found the combat to be actually very very enjoyable. It became one of my favourite cRPGs. As kind of an off-topic but relevant for this discussion: for the longest time I thought total war games would be perfect for me but I hated the gameplay so I stayed away from there for years and years. Recently I pushed through that initial impression, got a better grasp of how combat worked and now all I want is more total war in my veins :p

@@CoredumpedGaming It has nothing to do if these games are for me or not. I played dos2 and 100% it, had no problem with it whatsoever. This game has a solid foundation but the animations are stiff, the particle effects lame and the pathfinding terrible. It is a low budget game after all. I will give the sequel a chance to see if those things are better in it.

The sequel does feel more modern in pretty much every aspect, so it might be more your style. I do enjoy the first one better, but the second is also very good. If you enjoy it, make sure to also try out the "Secret Sanctum" DLC, which is exceptional :D

Ah I was wondering where you were :p understandable my friend, been quite busy myself. See you soon!

@@CoredumpedGaming Will do, buddy. Keep well in the meantime, and keep up the good work. As I said previously, and I meant it. I really enjoy your videos as well as your presentation of them. See you soon.

Yeeees :D one of my favourite movies eheh

She is appeased by sacrificing granddaughter into her arms for a bit eheh

Yeah, it really was lol breaking up over such a small thing is very excessive lol but oh well, we'll live :p And yes, the incorruptible petal! It's such a very good effect for free, I find it quite amazing that it exists to be honest. Now lets just see how often I forget to buff with it xD

Richard :D I have not played Bard's Tale, those were a bit before my time eheh Is Bard's Tale based on D&D? Or unique system?

@@CoredumpedGaming Hi again, Coredumped. It's been a while. It's a unique system which shows my age. There are classes like geomancers, chronomancers and archmages (who have access to spells of several basic classes). Unsurprisingly, bards are important too.

It's the type of game that I truly believe I would enjoy quite a lot, but I think its too late for me now to get into such an old (dare I say outdated?) gameplay system and UI :( It's the same thing with ultima underworld (maybe you also know it) - I love everything about the game in concept, as one of my favourite games of all time is Arx Fatalis which is based on the ultima underworld games, I purchased all 3 of them in a GoG sale, tried playing them but the way you interact with the game, aiming etc. it was sadly just too clunky for me :( I do really hope I will some day find the time and patience to try these games again as I truly believe I would enjoy them (ultima underworlds, eye of the beholder and also added bard's tale to the list now :D). And yeah it's been a while! I know people don't live in the youtube comments but you've risen above just someone that comments on the videos to me, if you don't mind me saying so (how does one say this without making it sound somewhat weird lol I lack the proper vocabulary or eloquence for it! nothing creepy though :p). How are things?

I have not yet gone into the details of the patch as I haven't had time for much of anything lately lol the current playthrough has been finished so the videos will not feature the latest patch. I can tell you right now though that I am very afraid that they will nerf the officer class to the point where it is no longer fun... I think having a powerful party in this game is a very fun experience and I don't think they should ruin that experience. I'm ok with balance changes as long as they don't go overboard. I'll catch up with the patch notes when I have the time and I'll reply here again with my impression on it.

You can find several portait packs in nexus mods. The one I'm using I got from there quite some time back

Man those zottenropple wizards caused me a lot of grief in the past xD I'm glad to have them dead quickly. Valerie does love the unstoppable khanda eheh it's usually my go to weapon for her :D We'll see if she'll start using it asap or not though because I do like the effect of the current weapon she's wielding

Thank you good sir, and best of luck for your runs :D

Its a messed up one to be sure lol

Yeah, this was a bit weird mostly due to an easily missed important NPC for the quest outcome, I get it sorted in the next episode :D

@@CoredumpedGaming Oooeeehh. Can't wait!

It was more complicated than necessary due to an (imo) easy to miss crucial NPC. But it got sorted in the end. I still am not too much of a fan of Heinrix but I agree that learning more about him makes him more interesting

Thank you, happy to hear it was useful :D Enjoy Pillars of Eternity!

I also like the palace combat quite a bit as well and I agree that the enemies here are a lot more enjoyable than the ones coming later. It does feel like some enemy types were made more to be annoying to the player than actually interesting and enjoyable, which is one of the downsides to this game in my opinion

Best of luck my friend, you're in for a wild ride :D Come back and let me know how your run is going!

I saw that a supposedly big patch was coming up but haven't had the time to look into it yet. It will be for a future playthrough though :p

Does that mean you already finished the game? :x

Indeed I have. Had to make as much use as possible of my free time because being back at work now and with the baby it's very hard to get the time to play :( I shall leave my comments and review for the game after the playthrough is finalized here in the channel though :p

Damn, that makes sense but I wasn't expecting you to have actually finished it. Though I don't know how much content there is after where the videos are either.... Next playthrough you'll also have the DLC to play with, I guess, whenever that happens :p

Yeah, I was actually quite surprised to see a DLC come out so soon for the game. I mean, announced at least, I don't actually know the release date. Lookong forward to it though!

Definitely something strange around the Inquisitor... But I can never really be too sure of it, which I quite like lol

-200.. aren't you generous :p I seriously don't know how they made the guy, but often I think I would feel safer up there and also easier to keep him alive if he were an enemy xD

Yeah, very true sadly... it's still fun to persuade people to join you, but it should really count for something more than just that silly fight at the gates.

For this playthrough I went with what I would recommend anyone wanting to go for the highest difficulties to have a smoother experience. I up the difficulty from challenging to hard when the stag lord is defeated (end of chapter 1) and then from hard to unfair after beating the troll fortress (end of chapter 2).

@@CoredumpedGaming awesome thanks! Unfair act 1 is horrible.

Yes it is lol it requires extreme amount of cheese to get through it safely and to me it's just not fun at all to do. Not to mention it takes a tremendous amount of time as well...

Ahah yes, fair assessment :p the early days of this release were trying times my friend... I got upset at all the bugs, but I kept wanting to come back for more as I was loving everything else about the game! At this point a LOT of the bugs have been fixed and it's a much smoother experience :D

lol, if in doubt, no spoilers :p

First of all, welcome to the channel :D and, even more importantly, welcome to the awesome world of cRPGs! I'm happy to see that people who grew up on more modern games can still appreciate these awesome oldies, I know that for a lot of people just the graphics or the UI is an immediate turn off and they don't even bothet trying out these games (their loss :p). I think one of the best things that came out of BG3, besides a good game of course, was a lot of interest in other cRPGs. You touch a lot of very good points in your comment and I just want to stress out a few: I think your mindset approaching these games (or any game really) is the correct one - going in to explore things at your own pace, trying out stuff, see what you like, what works, etc. instead of just copying some meta hyper-tuned builds or walkthroughs that don't allow the player to truly experience the game for what it is, especially games such as these where you have so much freedom of what to do. You're in for a truly great adventure which I hope you'll love and take your time with, and, that if you like these games, make sure to try out some of the other great ones and some of my personal favourites in Pillars of Eternity and Pathfinder (playthroughs and guides for both in the channel in case you want to get some idea of what those games are like). Best of luck, have fun! Come back and let me know how your adventures are going :D

@@CoredumpedGamingthank you! Yeah lol, the graphics seem to be an issue for many, though I really like their charm tbh. I have a thing for oldschool isometric graphics, for example I really like the graphics of the older Age of Empires or Stronghold games. Of course nothing wrong with better graphics but for me personally these oldschool 2d graphics are the most timeless. Ill let you know! 😁

Hello and thank you :) happy to hear you are enjoying the channel! For PoE2 I did not actually do a dedicated video for that purpose now that you mention it, but I believe I do go over the main character and companions, their builds and how they did in the final video of the playlist (the closing thoughts/review video).

Thank you for this feedback! It is definitely a confusing aspect of the game and may be worth going over it in a dedicated video. I do go over kingdom management a bit, but it's in the middle of my ongoing playthrough.

@CoredumpedGaming - ah sorry, by little content, I mean in general. There's not a huge amount of material out there that covers Kingdom Management in any great detail. Maybe a gap for you to fill perhaps?

Yeah, I understood your meaning. And it's very much appreciated when these things are mentioned as indeed it can be something I can dedicate some time to and help people :D