Junior Adventurer's Guild - July: Of Orcs and Men

[rusty_shackleford]

Tip to avoid soft-locking your game: make sure you put some points into the stat that increases Styx's HP.

[Vergil]

>****** and jew protags
DOA

[Oyster Sauce]

I'm guessing that most people aren't aware that this is the origin of the much more well known Styx series of stealth games. What I played of the first one was pretty good. They're all on sale until the 11th, so you could grab the trio for like $6.

[Finarfin]

"Butcher of Bay Harbor" funny how it's almost "Bay Harbor Butcher" from Dexter

[TKVNC]

I remember this game. Very strange, and more than a little subversive. But then...

Who expected the French to create anything else?

[Finarfin]

Spiders, always has the most interesting settings but are technically a bit behind. Great devs without any woke **** so far.

[1998]

Nice! Downloading....

[gerey]

I vaguely remembering playing the game for a bit before getting distracted with other things, but I do have it in my library, so I'll give it a go.

EDIT: Where's my VtmB badge REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Element]

If you're on linux and not downloading it with galaxy, the menus may default to portuguese. Run with -lang=eng argument.

[Oyster Sauce]

Can't believe BG3 ripped off the companion tossing mechanic from this game

[1998]

I played it last according to Steam 2017, I forgot how forgiving stealth is in this game.

[Element]

Is keeping Arkaeil in defense and occasionally firing off a heavy attack when the enemy is stunned the standard approach on hard difficulty?

[1998]

Is keeping Arkaeil in defense and occasionally firing off a heavy attack when the enemy is stunned the standard approach on hard difficulty?

That's how I play it as well, **** knows if thats viable for the whole game. Would think so...

[1998]

Being able to skip cutscenes by smashing ESC without any confirmation or delay is quite a refreshing throwback...

[1998]

Reached The Mire

[Element]

Reached The Mire

did you win all of the challenges at the camp

[1998]

Reached The Mire

did you win all of the challenges at the camp

Easy actually. I went full defense. Shell - Stun - Fast Attack.

I had way more trouble beating some of the other fights, e.g. burning down the chapel

[Element]

Reached The Mire

did you win all of the challenges at the camp

Easy actually. I went full defense. Shell - Stun - Fast Attack.

I had way more trouble beating some of the other fights, e.g. burning down the chapel

Haven't had many problems in main or side quests, but monkey's resistance to stun proved too much for my build.

[1998]

did you win all of the challenges at the camp

Easy actually. I went full defense. Shell - Stun - Fast Attack.

I had way more trouble beating some of the other fights, e.g. burning down the chapel

Haven't had many problems in main or side quests, but monkey's resistance to stun proved too much for my build.

By that time I had already carapace upgraded with health regen...

[rusty_shackleford]

There's a couple fights where you only have Styx that can be difficult if you don't do what I said earlier btw.

[1998]

[1998]

There's a couple fights where you only have Styx that can be difficult if you don't do what I said earlier btw.

Actually just one. But that is Chinatown level bs...

[Oyster Sauce]

Is this the end?

[1998]

Is this the end?

Yeah...

[Oyster Sauce]

Is this the end?

Yeah...

Good job, now design a badge

[Finarfin]

Well, I might not have done many screenshots (mainly because it's short as ****.) But I have some.




Fun little game tho frustrating at times. The Rage mode from Arkail was annoying but I usually played Styx and let Arkail tank everything.
Looking forward to Greedfall 2 (I'll freely admit that I played all their and Cyanide Studios games and always liked them despite some outdated technical aspects)

[Finarfin]

Hope it's ok but now it's time to finally start Dark Sun. I actually look forward to it.

Oh and regarding the Badges. Something from here maybe?

[rusty_shackleford]

The graphics are what I consider to be optimal tbh. Anything higher fidelity than this is just meh to me. Only issue is the lighting model.

[rusty_shackleford]

The effective HP increase of agility on Arkail is really low, FYI. Even at low agility levels, the deflection increase of +1 agility is worth ~3 EHP.

[rusty_shackleford]

Honestly, this was a good base to build a better RTwP game from. Make combat actually based on physics, extend stats/gear, increase party size & add DAO-like tactics.
Main complaint I have with the game itself is the levels are way too linear. This was peak hallway-era of level design.