I have finished my rerun of the game. Rerun, because I tried to load my old saves and I have not a clue of what decisions I had taken with each one, and I decided to start from scratch. I hope that a wise use of a notepad will avoid this kind of trouble in the future
And there are two things that are worrying me.
One it´s character inflation.
In all but one of my 4 runs I have finished with the stats in the 4-3 range. 2-3 "4s" and 3- 4 "3s". That´s really high. IRRR, there are only one time that the game request a 6, a couple times that request a 5 and may be half a dozen that request a 4.
Unless we have in the next updates a raise in the difficulty, my characters are really close to be able to choose every thing they want every time.
And also it´s really close to kill one of the core mechanics of the game. If you have a skill below the requested, you have the option to expend insight points to boost temporally your stat. This, when your stats are low, it´s a tough decision.
An insight point it´s worth 5 experience points, and if you have stat 1 or 2 you are going to get only 2 or 3 xp from this use.
But when you have a 3 on your stat, suddenly the decision stops being hard at all. If your stat it´s 4 you can expend your insight points to boost and get the same 5 xp. And if you reach 5+ on your stats, you will get more xp expending your insights getting boost that expending them to raise your stats.
It´s something that I believe that can be managed, but I hope that the designer keep this problem in mind when adjusting the future updates.
The other thing it´s that I believe that some scenes are unbalanced in it´s reward.
One of the main sources of insight points its having sex. That penalize some stile of roleplaying. By far, my weakest character it´s the Survivor, that attending at her history I decided that she want nothing to do with men. Well, my minmaxer soul screams at this, but it´s ok, I can live with that. But there are two scenes that I feel that are extremely overpowered. One it´s the scene with Lysander, at the very start. You get 3 insight points for banging him, plus an extra one if you rat him to his wife, if IRR. That´s a lot, more if you take in account that it´s at the very start of the game. And the second one it´s the scene with the giant hunter, at the end of the game. You get two insight and almost 15 points in Dex or Intrigue. And yes, may be can have hard repercussions because.."Twelve", but who knows...
And there are two things that are worrying me.
One it´s character inflation.
In all but one of my 4 runs I have finished with the stats in the 4-3 range. 2-3 "4s" and 3- 4 "3s". That´s really high. IRRR, there are only one time that the game request a 6, a couple times that request a 5 and may be half a dozen that request a 4.
Unless we have in the next updates a raise in the difficulty, my characters are really close to be able to choose every thing they want every time.
And also it´s really close to kill one of the core mechanics of the game. If you have a skill below the requested, you have the option to expend insight points to boost temporally your stat. This, when your stats are low, it´s a tough decision.
An insight point it´s worth 5 experience points, and if you have stat 1 or 2 you are going to get only 2 or 3 xp from this use.
But when you have a 3 on your stat, suddenly the decision stops being hard at all. If your stat it´s 4 you can expend your insight points to boost and get the same 5 xp. And if you reach 5+ on your stats, you will get more xp expending your insights getting boost that expending them to raise your stats.
It´s something that I believe that can be managed, but I hope that the designer keep this problem in mind when adjusting the future updates.
The other thing it´s that I believe that some scenes are unbalanced in it´s reward.
One of the main sources of insight points its having sex. That penalize some stile of roleplaying. By far, my weakest character it´s the Survivor, that attending at her history I decided that she want nothing to do with men. Well, my minmaxer soul screams at this, but it´s ok, I can live with that. But there are two scenes that I feel that are extremely overpowered. One it´s the scene with Lysander, at the very start. You get 3 insight points for banging him, plus an extra one if you rat him to his wife, if IRR. That´s a lot, more if you take in account that it´s at the very start of the game. And the second one it´s the scene with the giant hunter, at the end of the game. You get two insight and almost 15 points in Dex or Intrigue. And yes, may be can have hard repercussions because.."Twelve", but who knows...
