Solasta II

去你妈的，上了抢先体验一个月不更新什么意思？没见过这么司马的运营。

People arent remembering that bg3 did the same thing. they released an early access and then took a while to finish the game, then delivered. This game as it is now has a lot of promise and potential, they added character languages, better graphics, better ui. You can tell that they want to make a good game. You make all your party members like the first game and they are in the cinematics. Theres way more character customization, and even more backstory built into the game. The game is a breath of fresh air in a sea of disappointment. Taking the good parts of the first game and cranking it up to 11.

Отзыв об игре (неоднозначный — читайте на свой страх и риск) Я давно слежу за этой серией игр, так как являюсь поклонницей данного жанра. Когда вышла вторая часть, я посмотрела несколько роликов и решила приобрести игру в раннем доступе — чтобы поддержать разработчиков. Прошла первый акт (насколько это было возможно) и готова поделиться впечатлениями. Что понравилось: Красивый и проработанный мир. Это не однообразные коридорные ландшафты, а почти живой мир: с множеством интересных мест для исследования, тайниками, секретами. Разнообразие прохождения. Маршрут, который выберет ваша группа, влияет на развитие событий — это добавляет реиграбельности. Живые и интересные диалоги. Персонажи запоминаются, их реплики звучат естественно и не сводятся к сухим игровым задачам. Яркие и харизматичные НПС. Они вносят вклад в атмосферу и делают мир более убедительным. Что разочаровало: Главный минус, который портит общее впечатление, — редактор персонажей и доступные модели внешности. Парадокс в том, что игра демонстрирует высокий уровень художественного исполнения: мир красивый, детализированный, есть примеры отличной визуальной работы (например, статуя богини выглядит впечатляюще). Но при этом: Женские персонажи (особенно если выбирать «тип 1» внешности) получаются крайне неудачно: вместо стильных образов — модели, напоминающие «бабулек‑алкашек с вокзала», без чётких половых признаков и с неестественно опухшими лицами. Мужские персонажи выглядят чуть лучше, но с усреднением пола и голубоватым отливом. В итоге возникает ощущение, будто редактор — это какое‑то издевательство над игроком: создатели явно умеют делать красоту, но пользователю предлагают играть «голубоватыми бомжами». Итог: Игра реально крутая. Мир проработан, геймплей цепляет, диалоги и НПС радуют. Но вот редактор персонажей — это какой‑то отдельный вид пытки. Так-как в игре ясно видно что создатели, могут и умеют в КРАСОТУ... Но вот конкретно пользователь должен играть голубоватыми бомжами и не как иначе ... А так игра супер советую к покупке если закрывать глаза в диалогах

The upvote is conditional, as there are points about the game that I really dig but there are others that annoy me mightily. Combat is good, perhaps even superior to BG3 in that features like Ready Action are available. Might not seem like much, but it opens a range of tactical options that were missing from previous titles in the genre. The other strong point, and a point that struck me as old school AD&Dish, came up at level 3 when a sand lion decided to run. It was the last critter left in the pride and it had seen enough, so it pulled a morale failure and it sprinted. The only thing that can improve on that is an option on whether or not to give chase. I would not have, but it was either that or sit and do nothing while it got away. Poor kitty. The things that rub me center around some design and some aesthetic issues. By design, I mean that 1) You are cast into a fixed family dynamic and a cattle-chute sort of plot. Not deal breakers, but certainly limiting and 2) I really cannot justify giving a voice that could compete with James Earl Jones to a gnome, even if he is an elder or a boss or a Poobah or something in a nomad tribe of hippies who talk like they spend every waking moment in a state of glorious stonery. Sorry. I can suspend disbelief when a gnome has a voice deep enough to belong to a medium sized human, fine. But when he could have credibly auditioned to voice-act Darth Vader my immersion goes *pop* and I become irritated. This game has a long road ahead of it, but it can become great when it is fully developed and you know that the modding community will make it amazing.

They've made a good start, and I'm excited to see the finished game. I think some of the negative reviewers are forgetting this is very early access and bugs and some roughness is to expected at this stage, they seem to be expecting a full game. This is limited to level 4 and one chapter, and I expect things will change a lot between now and full release. If you like the studio, helping to shape early access like I did in BG3 and want to support the Devs get it now, if your'e wanting the polished product wishlist it and wait. Story: At first I was a little taken aback by the characters being a family of sorts and having a backstory, but it ended up being one of my favourite parts of DA2 so I went with it, and I got more intrigued as I went and learned more. Lots of mysteries to solve. Rich worldbuilding, interesting characters, voice acting is good. Graphics: Much improved on the first, and a lot of it looks really nice. They definitely still need some work with clipping (hair, weapons, a guys beard through his lips when he talks etc) and sometimes it looks really fuzzy. The mouth movements don't always match the dialogue the best. I'm enjoying the cutscenes and dialogues. The camera randomly switches to some random position where I can't see anything sometimes hopefully they iron out that bug. Character Creation: Needs some work as they already know, but I do really like some neat things they added like being able to position and rotate freckle and tattoo patterns, not something I've seen in another game. I like how detailed and customizable it is, it just needs some fine tuning, which I know they're already working on from reading their Dev notes, and I have faith it will come together. Gameplay: QoL like them automatically jumping, swimming, crawling etc is nice, as is the best person for the job automatically doing it. Being able to switch between WASD movement and mouse was nice I switched back and forth a lot. A LOT of random encounters pop up on the hex grid map that will disappear after 1 long rest but theres rarely a way to get to them in time. Lots of permanent locations pop up too though so there was lots to do. Gameplay was smooth for the most part. Combat: It's D&D. Not much more needs to be said, it plays like a campaign and I like it. In big battles where there are enemy vs ally fights spread around the map nowhere near me, it would be nice if we could speed up their turns so we're not waiting so long for ours. You can use the environment around you and cover matters. All in all, I had a lot of fun so far and I'm definitely excited for the full release, I'm going to leave it for now until the next big update and play some more. Thanks Devs, good job and keep going :)

Haven't played too long due to couple reasons I will explain below. Game has potential but need to improve on a lot of stuff. Pros: 1. Way better graphic, animation compare to Solasta1. Somewhat comparable to BG3. But you need to fix the optimization, somehow I get worse fps after the update about it. 2. A lot of utility improvement, such as standard arrow is infinite now, group stat check and new party movement. Cons: 1.UI!! Oh my god the UI, it is one of the main reason I can't continue the game. - Information lacking. A lot of information is nowhere to be found or hard to find. For example, there is fight happens at border passing, and the enemy are hitting me with advantage. I have no idea why, how they have advantage. - Inconvenient design. Like solasta 1, you still have to click in to spells and then use the spells. If you play long enough, you know how tiresome it is. (I notice there is a favorite action slot, I can remove that slot, but no idea how to add another one back...) - Quest marker....well, maybe mark the people I need to talk to? - Maybe some right click function? Please? It is already a problem in solasta 1, you have to go into beastrary to find the monster you fighting. - Inconsistency, I can press "i" for inventory at a local place but not on the world map. Instead you have to click on a button on the top right corner. - Please make lootable item more visible, you can hide special items with mechanics and skill check, not challenge players' eyesight. There are too many minor things and I couldn't list it here but it needs to be massively improved. 2.Character Creation. -Not a big fan of the face morph method. It is hard to use and hard to get a good result. Rather prefer they make couple base face and let player adjust the details. -Doesn't really show you the high level feat and stuff when creating the character, consider they have this in solasta1, probably just because it is not finished and will be there later. 3.Story -It is ok...but lacks emergency. You are basically given an unknown quest and roam free. -Side quest...can be confusing. The pace and dialogue is really weird. For example, you are given 4 or 5(can't remember the exact number) quest immediately after getting the permission to leave the city and each dump you a bunch of lore and names. 4. Level Design. - It is very linear, you go in there and follow a specific path and battle and so on. I can see this is ok in Solasta1 but in 2 this is a huge waste for the opportunity of exploration. - Locations feel really small and empty(not about arts but interaction and content), it becomes a hassle than an interesting location. The world map and local map system basically becomes a loading screen between small dungeons. I prefer few large, well designed level than multiple linear, small levels. 5. Gameplay and Combat - I understand this is a game follows dnd rule set but it feels really restricted right now. I think the developers need to feel free to homebrew some of their own mechanics. Dnd is a table top so it is limited but a 3d game can go into many directions to add more fun. - A lot of high and low ground level design but what is the point of high ground if you don't have advantage on it? Obi Wan disapproves. - Not exactly sure since this is early stage but I kind of feel the same numbers game here as solasta 1. Instead of having interesting mechanics and skills, the enemies usually have an insane amount of bonus on rolls. A really annoying thing in solasta 1 is that later stage enemies have so many bonus that it doesn't matter how much ac your character has, it is always a hit. Dev, please consider this in advance. - No need to make every dialogue a face to face conversation animation, it feels slow and pointless, keep the time and energy for better cutscene and important encounters. That's it for now, I criticized it a lot because I think it has potential. Keep going, Dev.

This game has a ton, and I mean A TON, of potential. There are systems that are better than BG3's implementation of D&D 5e. That said, I am cautiously recommending this game with the understanding that it needs to probably hit the Q3 or maybe even Q4 milestones to really fire on all cylinders. Some neat things I found during my time: -Fully saving on death throws stabilizes you at 1hp, offering a risk/reward to not prioritizing a downed party member -Actually being able to explore the overworld instead if it being cutscene transitions between Act locations -Character facial customization allowing for blending of multiple face presets -Really solid inventory management and looting systems -Dice rolls for combat so you can actually see your misses and hits That said, it's very much in early access so I knew I was going to find some pretty big cons, such as: -No co-op. An utterly bizarre choice for EA when the game clearly is being built around it. -Very few backstory (aka backgrounds) and each gives you a Feat, which makes the list of actual Feats shorter. -Only 6 classes -Act 1 does [i]not[/i] feel finished or balanced, meaning one of their biggest advertisements kind of falls short. Example: I hit a random encounter that pre-spawned two mini-boss level enemies and four mobs, with nests that spawned additional mobs every other turn for 10 turns. In the end, I was fighting about a dozen mobs all of which would be fine if I wasn't capped at level 4 and this event wasn't happening between leaving city for the first time and my first quest location -Expanding on the point above of bizarre difficulty spikes. As any good DM knows your toughest enemies (bosses) should have health pools at max 3x the highest player HP. I was facing enemies in the wilderness and in side quest areas with 4-5x my health and most definitely not level 2. -Last, and somewhat least, is the poorly optimized game engine/graphics. I had several instances of the game stutter lagging, rubber banding player movement, and the AI just straight up giving up on pathing and running back in forth in place.

Solasta: Crown of the Magister had this oddly cozy feel of a DnD campaign one of your friends threw together at a short notice yet it was also something that they had always wanted to do. Solasta 2 is now that same friend, but they have honed their craft, they have a much better understanding of the rules, they've listened to the feedback of their players and they are more willing to do things a little differently. To be fair, this game is not Baldur's Gate 3. And it doesn't need to be. It scratches that DnD itch perfectly fine. To be fair, the second, this is Early Access. But there is a lot of potential. I for one am satisfied and looking forward to the finished product.