Solasta II

[Cloharp7]

Aaand, black woman in a suit of knight armor. First red flag for me.

The dwarf looks like a dwarf at least.

The halfling, oh God!

As I said, it's a premade party so you'll never see her again if you decide to play the full game.

Problem is exactly what @Oyster Sauce said. Let's not be disingenuous, if the "default optional character" is like that, I dread to see what the NPCs (the "characters you will have no control over") will look like.

[Roguey]

Aaand, black woman in a suit of knight armor. First red flag for me.

The dwarf looks like a dwarf at least.

The halfling, oh God!

The first game was woke. Of course the second game will be the same. They're French.

[Cloharp7]

Aaand, black woman in a suit of knight armor. First red flag for me.

The dwarf looks like a dwarf at least.

The halfling, oh God!

The first game was woke. Of course the second game will be the same. They're French.

Let me guess, all powerful women, all queens, all right, all perfect, while the men are either wimps, evil or wrong. Yeah, my hard-pass-o-meter is rising by the second.

[SoLong]

Fascinating how the only difference between the population of downtown LA and a fantasy world is that one has their people wear armor.

[Cloharp7]

Fascinating how the only difference between the population of downtown LA and a fantasy world is that one has their people wear armor.

It's the continuous disrespect that gets me. If it happened occasionally, I could have gotten over it. But it's been 10 ******* years, nonstop, where the "paladin" character is either black, or a woman.

[1998]

Fascinating how the only difference between the population of downtown LA and a fantasy world is that one has their people wear armor.

It's the continuous disrespect that gets me. If it happened occasionally, I could have gotten over it. But it's been 10 ******* years, nonstop, where the "paladin" character is either black, or a woman.

Sadly, its usually both

[Tangerine]

Fascinating how the only difference between the population of downtown LA and a fantasy world is that one has their people wear armor.

It's the continuous disrespect that gets me. If it happened occasionally, I could have gotten over it. But it's been 10 ******* years, nonstop, where the "paladin" character is either black, or a woman.

It's been longer than 10 years. They had a f*male paladin in Neverwinter Nights with Aribeth. She wasn't the first, but I can't think of a more notable example prior to her.

[Irenaeus]

Fascinating how the only difference between the population of downtown LA and a fantasy world is that one has their people wear armor.

It's the continuous disrespect that gets me. If it happened occasionally, I could have gotten over it. But it's been 10 ******* years, nonstop, where the "paladin" character is either black, or a woman.

It's been longer than 10 years. They had a f*male paladin in Neverwinter Nights with Aribeth. She wasn't the first, but I can't think of a more notable example prior to her.

At least she was hot. 2002 was so long ago.

[Cloharp7]

Fascinating how the only difference between the population of downtown LA and a fantasy world is that one has their people wear armor.

It's the continuous disrespect that gets me. If it happened occasionally, I could have gotten over it. But it's been 10 ******* years, nonstop, where the "paladin" character is either black, or a woman.

It's been longer than 10 years. They had a f*male paladin in Neverwinter Nights with Aribeth. She wasn't the first, but I can't think of a more notable example prior to her.

And that's why I will take Space Marine 2 over any feminist bs they try to make me gobble up.

At least SM2 has brotherhood in there, something misandrists and manginas outlawed from the gaming scene long ago.

[Kain]

SM > SM2. No ugly woman barking orders, no space ****** is my brother in arms.

[Kain]

Sadly, its usually both

Can we find a Western game developer that can resist the uncontrollable urge to ******** on the graves of their ancestors?

[J1M]

Tried the demo. Wizards should buy this company to replace their VTT product. Graphics look the same and it is actually functional.

[Rand]

really?

[Rand]

Yes, you are stuck with a pre-made party in this demo.
That is not a dwarf, that is a halfling

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In general small races also look like **** in this game. again.

... ancestry...

How about "Race" like all of history until 2020?

[Rand]

The first game was woke. Of course the second game will be the same. They're French.

Kill it before it spawns 20 niglets!

[Roderick]

Soylasta

[1998]

Sooo, how is the encounter design?

[J1M]

Sooo, how is the encounter design?

Some crabs attacked me. It was boring. They were really spread out and died before they could participate.

[rusty_shackleford]

woke game

[WaterMage]

They stealthly inserted pronouns in char creation. And keep using 5e.

We need a retroclone CRPG adaptation!!!

[rusty_shackleford]

They stealthly inserted pronouns in char creation. And keep using 5e.

We need a retroclone CRPG adaptation!!!

First game added pronouns right before release after kickstarter+early access. Community manager told us to go pound sand.

[Ilovecheezecake]

Pronouns in this one as well?

[Cedric]

Despite the nominally quite good combat of the first game, it couldn't hold my attention. The encounters, although satisfying in difficulty, were boring and 5E is generally not a fun system in terms of "tactical depth" to me (not the depth I'm looking for.)

[rusty_shackleford]

Despite the nominally quite good combat of the first game, it couldn't hold my attention. The encounters, although satisfying in difficulty, were boring and 5E is generally not a fun system in terms of "tactical depth" to me (not the depth I'm looking for.)

5e is just boring from a purely mechanical pov. BG3 made it work thanks to their engine/design in spite of.

[Cedric]

Hate how popular and widespread it is.

[Tweed]

That's a no from me.

[Roguey]

Pronouns in this one as well?

They changed "race" to "ancestry" and "karmic dice" to "helpful dice" but no, no sex/gender stuff on the character screen at all. There's no character creation in the demo.

[Mordred]

Fascinating how the only difference between the population of downtown LA and a fantasy world is that one has their people wear armor.

It's the continuous disrespect that gets me. If it happened occasionally, I could have gotten over it. But it's been 10 ******* years, nonstop, where the "paladin" character is either black, or a woman.

It's been longer than 10 years. They had a f*male paladin in Neverwinter Nights with Aribeth. She wasn't the first, but I can't think of a more notable example prior to her.

i think the most blatant one is the black fem paladin in 3.5 players handbook. The Ruleset was good but it already went woke af.

[1998]

Pronouns in this one as well?

They changed "race" to "ancestry" and "karmic dice" to "helpful dice" but no, no sex/gender stuff on the character screen at all. There's no character creation in the demo.

They are hiding it again, aren't they?

[Roguey]

Finished the demo.

Inventory UI is worse. :\ Makes you click one at a time to scroll through characters' inventories rather than showing all the individuals at once and letting you click on the one you want. This feels very much like a multiplatform console title, whereas Crown was a PC game later ported to consoles.

I hope the option to travel by clicking a spot on the map comes back.

I found the readability of enemies on the battlefield more confusing than what I remember of the first, room for improvement there.

Encounter design: crabs crabs crabs, boss encounter. I did like the boss encounter. The terrain in Crown of the Magister did a lot to make its encounters memorable; the design in the free mini-campaigns was lackluster by comparison. 2 is unfortunately more like the latter. Though like I said, the final encounter was pretty neat, there were a few spots where I got to have a height advantage with ranged weapons.

The final cutscene was funny, you had the dwarf guy's voice coming out of the human woman's and the human's lines coming from the dwarf. One Job.

It was okay, but pretty much what I expected, better-looking Solasta with less thanks to the engine switch and multiplatform development.