Just started playing this, and I'm not entirely sure whether I should be posting this in this thread or the original game thread
Mod comments go here, 1.1.1 remarks into the original TfD thread.
but despite having spent quite a lot of time on the original Defiler Wings, I'm immediately finding the game completely fucking unplayable.
This mod is slowly going farther and farther away from its DW origins, where battles were rather random and the overall atmosphere was more VN/CYOA than a 'full' game. I'm doing this primarily for myself, and if others also find some enjoyment, all good and well. If not, the choice is doing your own fork or playing other games. I'm open to reasonable suggestions, but the overall direction of the mod is not going to change much if at all.
Even though I'm only playing on Normal difficulty (which should be all respects be the most "balanced" difficulty)
It is. Higher difficulties just have pointlessly inflated enemy stats (so you can get your bragging rights
) and easy starts you with considerable extra resources.
my starting dragon literally cannot DO anything except steal the odd bit of food that doesn't require a skill check and mildly inconvenience some maidens. Seriously, I can't win a fight against the guard dog
Well, yeah, you're basically a pet dragon at the start.
Grow up, as the trainer says.
I can kidnap any maiden with no effort at all
This will change.
I can't actually DO anything to them because I'm too wimpy to even rape them
Yeah, but think of the sweet, sweet revenge when you get bigger and badder and pay these bitches back for all the humiliation.
they just walk out of my completely-unguarded hideout as soon as I rest.
Start as a blue dragon and find an underwater lair. Or hoard some money (by getting milked, if nothing else) and buy some goblin guards or traps from the gremlins.
There's no way that I've discovered to find any money
Getting milked, the usual treasure spots in forest/mountains/sea, robbing girls if you've built up your strength a little. Try to find
weak peasants to play with/rob, some of them are significantly tougher than others.
no way to gain any experience
Quests. You get your first 50 XP by raising infamy, which you can do by just bothering the country girls for a while. The next two quests should also be relatively easy.
That 150 XP gets you to either Large size, or Medium with some extra body part(s). Medium gives you fire breath (2x damage skill) and Large provides a magic barrier (+50% physical resistance skill).
Honestly, what the game needs (and could be incorporated into this mod) is a better tutorial to give some vague idea of what you should be doing when starting out, because frankly I'm clueless.
Experiment. Do quests. The mod is in a rather fluid state at the moment, so I'd rather spend the time on development than writing guides.
I'm also not terribly enamored to the idea that you
must play any game with a walkthrough in hand. The proliferation of quest compasses, game wikis, guides etc has really trained all inquisitiveness out of too many players.
Edit: And the quests sorta serve as an extended tutorial, gradually unlocking more and more buildings and having you go through the main features of the game. They don't really provide
detailed advice, but I consider discovery a better teacher than tutorials. And I've never played a tutorial that was
much better than just trying out all the different options and reading through descriptions. I guess there must be
some games with really good tutorials, but I've never run across one.
