u/DarthUrbosa

Outside of just good yields in starting spot and surrounding ring , what makes for good start? Even with mods spacing civs out, still find myself boxed in with barely anywhere to settle elsewhere.

Last start was pangea but it started me on a mini island with only one apth to mainland which had a barb camp. Soon as I go to clear the camp, a fresh one spawns a tile below my capitals sight range and immediately starts pumping barbs. Like I barely have land to work with and already ud force spawning barbs on me?

I know this is a topic done to death and my take is probably not even that popular. I just thought I would mention my thoughts after getting further into act 3 than any of my previous 14 runs (2k hours).

• First strike against act 3 is the performance. This is a highly subjective point as im sure a lot of peoples rigs are better than mine as I know mine is kinda wack old. Doesnt change the fact that act 3 stumbles hard with the number of npcs (even with mods removing most filler ones), dense buildings and streets. It makes getting to places like quest locations a pain in the ass.
• Game narratively and difficulty wise peaked at ketheric. While there are some solid story and difficult fights such as house of grief, hope, etc, act 3 is filled to the brim with cut content, mediocre story beats (gale quest hello?) and just baffling encounter choice. The encounter choice is definetly subjective tho, I was watching someone run through the game for the first time and he had like 3 characters dead at the 2nd minsc fight. That fight is incredibly easy, easier than the bank fight and yet he almost wiped. Otherwise act 3 is full of low level randos, attacking for like 5 dmg and one attack per round. At level 10+.
• Tying into the last point, progression falls off a cliff in act 3. The level cap has been talked about extensively and it ties into the encounter design. It feels like they just couldnt balance or come up with ways to challenge the party. They also had no way to knowing what level people came into act 3 with so theres easy encounters and massive xp just thrown at you.
• The game turns into a big checklist. This is coming from someone who skips pidgeon quest, scratch owner, mystic carrion and the artist, ethel part 2, iron throne half the time, gith under the tavern most of the time. It just feels like a day of: wake up from long rest, navigate streets with shit game performance, get to quest area, fight some mooks, maybe get a cool boss. Rest. In fact, most of it is just show up and kill the enemies, there little room for deception or alternative paths compared to previous acts.

Downloaded this mod permanent spell boosts to save time but one of the spells was armour of agathys. I found I didnt like that being permanent, especially as a warlock when the lvl 2 version stacks on top of the lvl 1 to do 15 dmg retaliatory cold dmg at no resource cost. I respeceed. Its still there, I killed my character, it is still there. HM so single save.

Can I find it my game files and tweak it or is that a big hell no?

Can't do duplicate leaders for the condition.

Advanced options if checked, won't do it.

I uncheck it, it won't do it either.

Same message "one or more player options is invalid"

I thought I knew this game inside out and I came back for another run a few days ago. Found this maintance section in. The shuttle bay that leads to a power breaker, turns the lift shafts back on without needing to go down and use the workstations. First time I found that area existed.

>!Hopped on after a few years away. Just listened to message in the office at the start of the game and got the code for the safe. So these things I all knew, I grabbed the bug out bag supplies long before December sends you there.!<

>!However I never knew you could go to fabrication this early. U can grab the code off one of the computers near Morgan office, through quarters into fabrication. All u have to contend with is a telepath but there's no corrupted operators or mimics yet.!<

>!All u have to do is evade or worse case emp, get the ketcard and bam neuromod recipe and fabrication licence within the first 30 minutes?! This is why I love this game, no ropeing off areas of you have a good method of getting there<

I set up a new game to play with chosen reward variety. I went into the file and altered the weights and in case I needed to find that file again, I changed it from whatever generic number it had to chos reward.

Raided warlock and all i got is the warlock gun so clearly the mod aint working. This was on the game launcher via steam. I went to AML and it flagged this one as something it cant recognise the workshop ID

I have been trying this final section 1 hour and a half and I just cant. Rage quit to try and calm down. Both wraiths are dead, just need to push the fucking button. But i cant. Two ghosts in the area which i have to kill or they pop me fast. Dropship drops off two more in either the left or right bank by chance it seems. Brute section is impossible to push past, furthest ive got is the final fuel rod chieftan and he kills me instantly everytime. He fires too fast for me to fight head on and he camps the button. I have literally died as the cutscene is starting and it kicked me back to checkpoint.

BTW this is all on the same checkpoint, none ever materialises even i spent 15 minutes killing everything else. Fuel rod, dead, fuck your 15 minutes.

Oh and all the marines? They are braindead. Not an insult, they literally do not shoot and the enemies ignore them. They walk around while the enemies target me and do nothing

Dolor encounter at market. Gale as my rogue won iniative and sneak attacked him down to 20 hp. He attempted to flee, with dimension door and got counterspelled. Proceeded to throw a sleep potion at his feet and put himself to sleep. Incredible.

Bit like the stone lord thug at the beach that threw a potion at her feet healing herself but also gale.

Getting burned out. Outside of a break, one of the ideas I had was to go back to mod less for a run. Can I go mod less in the mod manager or as close to that as possible without having to rejig the current load order (or save both a modless load ordetand current)?

I get most of my mods either in game or off nexus with the mod manager. This has largely worked out. However I am attempting to download pactbound warlock off nexus and the usual zip method doesnt work as it claims the file is "The archive is either in unknown format or damaged".

There was a mod manager download option instead which ive never used. I clicked it and it opens the mod manger, the mod doesnt show.

How to solve?

I've gotten Gale to lvl 11 on this build but I've realised chromatic orb is off the sorcerer spell list while 10 wizard, one sorc. Considering I dumped charisma, Its rolls are bad.

I Respeced at withers, making sure to pick chromatic orb for myself on wizard and not on sorc.

Even then, it's still on the fucking sorcerer spell list and using their spellcasting. Wtf gives.

Tried it once a year ago and didn't like how op some stuff were out the gate.

Trying it now and the items are too niche, too many downsides while the game is casually adding AC to balance for my "awesome" loot, msot is straight up unusable.

Is it bad luck, I'm not understanding the mod? Mindset? Anyone more experienced with the mod?

Whenever I boil the kettle for the gravy, I boil and pour once done. My mother always pre boils it, often up to ten minutes before she I tends to use it. She then has it boiled again, justifying the first makes the 2nd quicker. Seems redundant to me but she's the cook, their merit to this method?

So it's somewhat common knowledge you can bump off parts of the towers before the final fight there.

I just did a 45 minute long fight where the enemies kept trickling in and being summoned to the prison for thanks to the crying eyes. My poor sorc had to take an angelic rest potion.

Thankfully wasn't in danger of death really thanks to heavy armour mastery.

It was one of the most fun and satisfying experiences I've had.