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For Idira's quest "The Door", we shall explore a Secret Wing of the Laboratory and face off against a drained Farseer! This shall conclude Idira's questline :D
Other than that, we also have Tervantias the Archmachinator in this place which I've been aching to meet once again, as the last time we left things unfinished... He remained alive, a mistake I intend to correct right now!
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[@Asankeket]

That was a string of bad luck for Idira. A testament to the power of your party, though, how you did the Farseer fight with your three main damage dealers prone in two rounds and with only one taking any damage. I am wondering how this would've gone with the new patch where they nerfed Seize the Initiative into uselessness.

[@CoredumpedGaming]

Ok so I finally managed to look at at least the top major changes in the patch (god that thing is looooong) and the seize the initiative change... I mean... might as well have removed the skill. One thing to say about it though is that seize the initiative does provide an insane amount of power to your party, and this playthrough will be a testament to that lol basically anything that gives you guaranteed initiative in a turn based game is going to be busted one way or another, especially with momentum and officer extra turns.
One thing I was happy to see though was the buffs to the pyro psyker as I was looking forward to playing one but always felt the damage was absolutely pitiful (and anything that deals damage over time in a game where most encounters end on turn one will never have much impact in my opinion) but looks at least fun.
Did not go through the other gigantic list of changes, but I'm pretty sure that when I replay this game, it will be a different game entirely.
And yeah, Idira did Idira things xD it happens, just happy that we were able to work through it :D

[@Asankeket]

@@CoredumpedGaming I guess our officers will all be Grand Strategists now. Until they remove their ability to go first. As I see it, the main balance problem is that there is no way to moderately affect initiative in the game, unlike in, say, BG3, where it was almost always worth it to use a feat or an item with an initiative bonus, but it never felt unbalanced.
And I've seen a DLC announced for August. I'm going to waith with my replay until that is out.

[@CoredumpedGaming]

Exactly, grand strategist is already in my opinion the best archetype to get for an officer as the ability to go first is just always too good. I imagine at some point that will also be nerfed given the balance changes I've seen thus far.
This is always a very fickle balance to achieve because if they make the enemies strong, it's quite possible they will just one shot certain party members on round 1 and if you lose the initiative roll you can't even do anything about it, which also feels *unfair*. There's a lot that could be discussed about this, but it falls upon owlcat to bring something that is challenging without feeling unfair while also being fun to engage in.

[@CoredumpedGaming]

Btw, do you know if the DLC will be something to start a new game for or is it something like a continuation we can pick up on from end game save?

[@Asankeket]

@@CoredumpedGaming I don't know exactly, but from the description the first DLC appears to involve various events on your voidship and a secret enemy acting from its unknown depths, and the second DLC is about a new companion and the hidden history of House Valancius. These sound like storylines running parallel to the main plot, so I suspect you'll have to start a new game.