Dark Alliance (Drizzt and co in Icewind Dale)

So killed the Beholder and unlocked the Icewind zone. It feels like the Icewind area was meant to be DLC. Not only is it placed oddly, but the Beholder felt like the actual end of the game AND there are types of monsters that are new to the Icewind zone (gnolls).

Utnayan said:

If this game is considered "decent" enough we have officially flushed this God forsaken industry down the toilet and I need to find a new hobby.

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Do you only play game of the year quality games? Do you know how many shit tier games come out constantly? Not everything can be a diamond. This is practically free if someone has Game Pass. It is entertaining for that price, if only for the laughs alone. Yea no one should pay $40 for it, but I doubt many are, so whatever.

Brodhi said:

Do you only play game of the year quality games? Do you know how many shit tier games come out constantly? Not everything can be a diamond. This is practically free if someone has Game Pass. It is entertaining for that price, if only for the laughs alone. Yea no one should pay $40 for it, but I doubt many are, so whatever.

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Your bar is set pretty low. Expecting functional AI and a level of quality for game is a not a bad thing. They all don't have to be God of War...but goddam man. No one should pay for this mess.

I'm seeing a really high fail rate on pubs man, and by that I mean having to do so much rezzing it makes it take 2-3x as long for me to finish things. Maybe even this AI is too much for the new generation aka retards.

I mean, my brief experience with the game I wrote about the other day, but essentially enemies (mostly bosses) that have literally zero frames to their move that one shots you.

I don't know what you're supposed to do in that situation? Hell, we had the one boss in the 2nd level who would just warp behind us and one shot us over and over. Blaming players and not the bad coding for that is a weird flex.

The floating dudes teleporting is intentional and I've learned to predict their movements for the most part.

Haven't had the bosses warp on me just yet, which one?

I'd note that I'm going down between 0-1 times with others going down 5-11 times consistently on the hard levels. So it has to be a me vs them thing.

Nirgon said:

The floating dudes teleporting is intentional and I've learned to predict their movements for the most part.

Haven't had the bosses warp on me just yet, which one?

I'd note that I'm going down between 0-1 times with others going down 5-11 times consistently on the hard levels. So it has to be a me vs them thing.

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Well, yeah, of course they're dying more. They got the buggy version of the game and you have an advantage since you never get any bugs.

Where can I get me some of them bug free versions of Cyberpunk and this steaming pile?

We are fighting the same mobs in the same game, grouped together at random

Nirgon said:

We are fighting the same mobs in the same game, grouped together at random

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Most people have massive amounts of lag (both input and animation) when they aren't the host.

It's a decent game. People just like to shit on things. It's not great, but it's not piss poor either - just like Cyberpunk. "Play it or leave it" just turned into "Play it or shit all over it online 24/7."

Im at 30 hours played without a single crash or performance issue. That's more than most AAA games can muster at release. I have Drizzt at 11 and Bruenor at 10. I gave up on Drizzt because everything was one-shotting him on higher CRs. Bruenor holds up much better plus his Anvil + Whirlwind is strong against groups and bosses.

If the people playing this still wonder about what buffs and debuffs do: Status Effects - Dark Alliance

I can't call a game "decent" when the AI ranges from non-existent to piss-poor. I have Catti at 20 and have just about finished the story. ~50% of enemies killed don't even react to my presence. Another 30% of them react, but only move around without actually attacking. The remaining few that actually do something can usually one-shot me if I let them get close.

I'm not talking about shooting from high ground or across a gap where there's no AI reaction at all, just running up to the mobs and shooting them in the face feet. It's like if Cyberpunk's police "AI" was the entire game.

The lack of QOL features really starts to grate on you after a while too. Stuff like how every non-boss mission has a stat shrine, but when you realize you're short a couple points there's no way to see on the map which ones you missed. Or not being able to respec, or even disable the shitty moves you have to buy on the way to the tiny handful of ones that are actually useable.

And speaking of moves, I challenge anyone to successfully fire 10 aimed+charged shots in a row with Catti without having her either fail to start the charge shot or do a jump shot or quick triple shot instead. The controls are just broken and don't correctly respond to your inputs, especially if you're moving around (bosses do generally fight back).

Driz has an unblocked knock down and a reliable way to apply aoe curse (50% damage increase debuff). I think gold and crystals are cross character.

User reviews are funny for this game. I'll summarize the two types:

1-4 star ratings mostly address the game and it being unplayable garbage, or playable garbage, to hoping/wishing there are future patches that help fix the garbage because it could be fun but is garbage.

5 star ratings: the PEOPLE giving low ratings are bad PEOPLE and those PEOPLE are just mad and loser PEOPLE because you need to learn to play PEOPLE because those PEOPLE are obviously just trolls and they're just down-rating the game because they're no good very bad PEOPLE!!! (with a lot of spelling mistakes as they claim people giving low ratings are dumb)

Not a lot of 5 star ratings that even address the quality of the game! Why is that? I know, I know, because just like in this thread there are accusations anyone critical just wants to shit on anything and everything for its own sake. Industry full of gamer nerds hotly anticipating a D&D game.... who all secretly want any and all games, especially D&D games to fail....

Can't explain that!