Solasta II

As a longtime D&D tabletop player, Solasta II has really clicked with me so far. The interface, both in the menus and in game, is clean, minimalistic, and stays out of the way. There are a couple of little quirks that made me think, "Dang it," the first few times, but after an hour or two your muscle memory takes over and they stop being an issue. I'm only a few hours into the game, but the tactical combat has been excellent. The encounters have felt well balanced and rewarding. If you want more of a challenge, the game gives you a surprising number of difficulty options. You can adjust enemy health, damage, death and resurrection rules, and several other settings to make the game easier or much more punishing. Positioning really matters. You are rewarded for taking the high ground, controlling choke points, and keeping your squishier party members behind your tanks. The game doesn't let you simply charge into every fight expecting to win. Good tactics are rewarded, and poor positioning gets punished. That is exactly what I want from a tactical RPG. I also like how magic and resting are handled. If you've played tabletop D&D, the system feels immediately familiar. Managing spell slots, deciding when to use your more powerful abilities, and choosing the right time to take a long rest all feel very much like sitting around a D&D table. Resource management actually matters. Picking up additional party members feels natural instead of feeling like the game is simply handing you companions because the story requires it. The dialogue has been engaging enough that I actually want to listen to it. I'll mention up front that there is quite a bit of dialogue, but it has been well written and the cutscenes blend naturally into the gameplay instead of constantly interrupting it. The world travel has been one of my favorite surprises. If you grew up playing tabletop D&D, the hex-based travel immediately feels familiar. It captures the feel of moving a party across a campaign map remarkably well. I also appreciate that travel isn't completely scripted. There is a randomness to the encounters that keeps exploration interesting. You can reload from an earlier save and may or may not run into the same ambush you encountered before. That unpredictability makes the world feel less like it's running on rails and more like an actual tabletop campaign. Overall, the mechanics feel like playing D&D, just greatly sped up. You lose the tactile feel of rolling real dice, of course, but the game captures the spirit of the tabletop experience remarkably well. The graphics aren't trying to compete with the biggest AAA games, and honestly I think that's perfectly fine. They're clean, attractive, and most importantly they never get in the way of the gameplay. If I had one criticism, it's the dialogue animations. The characters' mouths sometimes move more like a ventriloquist's dummy than a real person. It's noticeable at first, but after a while I found myself paying attention to the conversations instead of the animations, and it stopped bothering me. I can't really comment on the game economy yet because I'm still early in the campaign. Crafting also isn't part of Early Access yet, so I don't feel there's enough there to judge those systems one way or the other. One thing I would love to see, assuming it isn't already planned, is a richer multiplayer experience. Tabletop D&D has always been about getting together with friends, and Solasta II already captures so much of that feeling. Expanding the multiplayer features with more cooperative options, persistent campaigns, or tools that make it feel even more like gathering around a table would take an already enjoyable game to another level for me. So far, I'm impressed. If you're looking for cutting-edge graphics and Hollywood-style cinematics, this probably isn't your game. But if you enjoy tactical combat and want one of the closest digital experiences to sitting around a D&D table with friends, Solasta II is off to a very promising start. I'm looking forward to seeing how it evolves through Early Access.

Having played Solasta 1 as a 'Newbie' to this genre, I have really enjoyed Solasta 2 EA. Once I sorted the Proton layer in STEAM, so I could get the game to play in Linux (9.0-4 I think), it's been rock solid. Had a few glitches (e.g. an NPC or a party member getting stuck and unable to progress), but a restart fixed it. The world map progress is much better, but repeatedly failing skill checks for 'random encounters' because no one in the party has the necessary (and so not experiencing those encounters) is a little disappointing. Looking forward to future updates - hopefully, by the time the full game comes out, I'll have a pretty good idea of what I'm suposed to be doing LOL. Rated 8/10 so far.

Ich bin begeistert! Gegenüber dem auch schon starken ersten Teil wurde ein großer Schritt nach vorne gemacht! Man merkt den Einfluss von BG3, auch wenn Solasta (bislang) nicht in der gleichen Liga spielt. Muss es auch nicht, es macht Spaß und ist hervorragende CRPG-Kost. Man könnte natürlich an diesem und jenem herummäkeln, aber das lass ich einfach mal. Ist eh noch EA, wer weiß, wie es sich noch entwickelt.

和索拉斯塔1相比, 人物模型好了很多,虽然也说不上多好看,至少不是丑出天际了. 目前已经可以联机了,但bug非常多,尤其是分机现在会遇到各种各样的问题. 剧情方面目前也看不出来什么,但开局也确实没啥亮点. 但还是给个鼓励性的推荐,期待后续完善吧.

This game by all accounts has no reason to be running so poorly on my mid range PC compared to a game like BG3. Yes it's a smaller team and it's early access but once I hit the first in game scene with all the fire and the god rays not even the lowest settings was anything better than a slideshow, and for some reason it automatically detected me as best settings. Something is either in dire of need of fixing or I am in dire need of a supercomputer to play this game.

pretty good.

nope. game runs poorly. when i got to the part where I killed a few crabs in order to gain the trust of the kingdom, i realized that this is a cheap game.

Bg3 hat zwar die schönere Grafik, aber ich muss ehrlich sagen mag das Gameplay hier doch etwas mehr :) !