Silverfall: Earth Awakening

this must be the most dumb azz dlc ever in rpg history. not only it feels like whole different game, it also have different system and balancing than base game. the enemies now more sponge. it takes forever to kill one enemies when my perk is maxed out, this happened to favoring new crafting system, that not even exist in base game, now in order to dealt the massive damage that you normally dealt in base game, now you have to farming material to crafting better/epic type weapon that normally just dropped from enemies. bow now need 8 shot to kill single enemies with maxed perk, where it usually take 3/4 shot with crit chances. dropping rate is increasingly lowered, even though my entire party wearing backpack that increase drop rate that totally 50% and with perk also increase 25%, even beating champion mobs unlikely drop epic gear. freaking awful decision, it ruining the whole base game flow. game felt more grounded than fast paced like base game. the enemies is still horde but the game now grounded? now its need forever to kill single enemies, then it gonna take whole eternity to clear one horde.

The game had bugs since release, but still, I'm replaying it because I found this game in an action RPG bundle way back (DVD box mind you) and remembered it. I still will recommend it because it's an hidden gem, may you be willing to look beyond the flaws. The game is a mix of Diablo with a bit of titan quest for stats/gear stat requirements in a cel shaded artstyle. If you side with either nature or technology through quests, you also get access to faction gear and skill tree. Want to use gunpowder weapons on a goblin ? Guess what, gotta side with tech. Want to be a troll druid with wolves as sidekicks ? Guess what, gotta side with nature. HUGE DISCLAIMER THOUGH : Read the guide on the community page to install the game properly for it to work. You will have to install a legacy version of PhysX, then download Silverfall, then download Silverfall Earth Awakening, then verify the integrity of the game files from earth awakening using steam, and then start the game only from earth awakening to have access to the OG game + the expansion. In that order. If unsure, the GOG version of the game apparently runs fine. The game studio is from France, and there are some mistranslations which will be confusing for some mechanics : The game interchangeably uses "Strenght" and "Force" but both are the same exact thing. In french, if you are strong, we effectively say "mass" instead of "weight" The game interchangeably uses "melee" and "hand-to-hand" but both are the same exact thing. "Hand to hand" is a bad translation of "corps à corps"( "body to body" if I mistranslate it even more). This will get weird if you use melee weapons, but no doesn't just apply to fisticuffs.