Posted September 13, 2021
high rated
Hi everyone,
according to GOG Galaxy I have been playing Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous for already 30h and 11m. Just finished exploring the main antagonist's lair. And I am really enjoying the game so far.
I have encountered a few weird, annoying, immersive breaking bugs so far, but thankfully nothing which broke my game to make it unplayable. I was wary in buying the game in the first place, considering I did pre-order Pathfinder: Kingmaker and was very unhappy back then, about how unpolished the game did feel to me.
The more in awe I am about the amazing writing and the presentation of the story which I have seen so far in WotR. It is smart, captivating, and it feels very well thought through. As in: loose ends like what happened to people you did X to them are often concluded early and very specificly despite they can be considered extremely tiny story details.
Also I am very happy about the customer support I have experienced so far from Owlcat. I can see how nice and fast the developers (representatives) on GOG, Steam and official Owlcat forums are working hard to take care of community feedback as good as they can.
I got terrified however by how different the tone is on Steam forums. With my experiences with the Owlcat support and forums moderators I like to have faith in them. I can understand the frustration of many players / customers about bugs which might spoil their fun. But the level how some react to them seems not appropiate to me, making those feedbacks which are actually hinting at very important issues going under in the masses.
The game has a huge scale with all the many objects, branches in choices, and so on. And there is the matter of individual game client platform setups (aka your PC/Mac/Linux - especially with PC and Linux there are countless possible setups). Some bugs are easy to understand and will certainly be fixed as soon as the developers know about them. It is an almost impossible feat after all, to take every possible setup into consideration. Like the fact: a lot of bugs I have seen and read about in the forums are loading errors. A matter which differs greatly just by simple things like is your game installed on a HDD or SSD?
I may be just lucky with my current playthrough considering my 08/15 / standard good heroine approach of the game. Which seems to be the most polished path, comparing to additional paths like Gold Dragon, Lich etc. I have never heard about yet (I really did not inform myself about the game before buying, though).
But there seem also a misunderstanding about what Owlcat has done really well it seems.
With the many complaints about game mechanics the matter means to me: why complaining at Owlcat in the first place? Instead they are to be praised if they made such a good adaption of the pen and paper rules that it gets annoying. Yeah, playing along the rules can get annoying for some certain players who never experienced "harsh" rules.
A lot of players are kinda used that games are designed where failing is not an option by design. Not to mention NAT1 throws (P&P players know what I mean).
With them too, I think it is good to give suggestions and see if they can be implemented and if it makes everyone happy. And if it affects only a part of the player base, how about making some stuff just optional?
Like the crusade mode or leveling up your characters - I have a hard time understanding a lot of the complaints since most sound just like ranting instead of being useful feedback. Plus they are optional.
And is it really fair to complain about the difficulty of the game and certain events when you have the option to scale them to your liking? Pretty much all difficulty spikes I have encountered so far are optional. I could just avoid some enemies which are too strong and are supposed to be mini bosses which you can find by exploring. Thinking of Lost Chapel e.g. I had lots of troubles with the monsters on the other side of the map around the Desna puzzle. But I did not need to go there in the first place.
The game is not perfect and probably will never be. I myself would not dare to combine a game type A with a game type B if one of them cannot stand alone on itself to be fun (I am thinking of the crusade mode).
But putting that aside there is so much more I can praise Owlcat for doing a job good and right. And I think this point is something which should not be forgotten despite the many "loud" issues mentioned here.
Thank you Owlcat for making a fun game. <3
Sorry for my bad English - it is not my native language.
Note: I felt like making this post after feeling overwhelmed of what I have seen on Steam forums. I do not think the same bad tone would be to be found here on GOG (I naively assume most players here are like me middle aged who love good old games ;-D ). But nevertheless I like to share my impressions about the game and devs.
So that they always can keep in mind: the majority of customers who are entirely satisfied have no reason to become "loud" on forums. They are too busy enjoying the game. Yet it is awesome knowing they can get help on forums with some developers checking in and giving quick assisstance. Keep up the good work!
according to GOG Galaxy I have been playing Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous for already 30h and 11m. Just finished exploring the main antagonist's lair. And I am really enjoying the game so far.
I have encountered a few weird, annoying, immersive breaking bugs so far, but thankfully nothing which broke my game to make it unplayable. I was wary in buying the game in the first place, considering I did pre-order Pathfinder: Kingmaker and was very unhappy back then, about how unpolished the game did feel to me.
The more in awe I am about the amazing writing and the presentation of the story which I have seen so far in WotR. It is smart, captivating, and it feels very well thought through. As in: loose ends like what happened to people you did X to them are often concluded early and very specificly despite they can be considered extremely tiny story details.
Also I am very happy about the customer support I have experienced so far from Owlcat. I can see how nice and fast the developers (representatives) on GOG, Steam and official Owlcat forums are working hard to take care of community feedback as good as they can.
I got terrified however by how different the tone is on Steam forums. With my experiences with the Owlcat support and forums moderators I like to have faith in them. I can understand the frustration of many players / customers about bugs which might spoil their fun. But the level how some react to them seems not appropiate to me, making those feedbacks which are actually hinting at very important issues going under in the masses.
The game has a huge scale with all the many objects, branches in choices, and so on. And there is the matter of individual game client platform setups (aka your PC/Mac/Linux - especially with PC and Linux there are countless possible setups). Some bugs are easy to understand and will certainly be fixed as soon as the developers know about them. It is an almost impossible feat after all, to take every possible setup into consideration. Like the fact: a lot of bugs I have seen and read about in the forums are loading errors. A matter which differs greatly just by simple things like is your game installed on a HDD or SSD?
I may be just lucky with my current playthrough considering my 08/15 / standard good heroine approach of the game. Which seems to be the most polished path, comparing to additional paths like Gold Dragon, Lich etc. I have never heard about yet (I really did not inform myself about the game before buying, though).
But there seem also a misunderstanding about what Owlcat has done really well it seems.
With the many complaints about game mechanics the matter means to me: why complaining at Owlcat in the first place? Instead they are to be praised if they made such a good adaption of the pen and paper rules that it gets annoying. Yeah, playing along the rules can get annoying for some certain players who never experienced "harsh" rules.
A lot of players are kinda used that games are designed where failing is not an option by design. Not to mention NAT1 throws (P&P players know what I mean).
With them too, I think it is good to give suggestions and see if they can be implemented and if it makes everyone happy. And if it affects only a part of the player base, how about making some stuff just optional?
Like the crusade mode or leveling up your characters - I have a hard time understanding a lot of the complaints since most sound just like ranting instead of being useful feedback. Plus they are optional.
And is it really fair to complain about the difficulty of the game and certain events when you have the option to scale them to your liking? Pretty much all difficulty spikes I have encountered so far are optional. I could just avoid some enemies which are too strong and are supposed to be mini bosses which you can find by exploring. Thinking of Lost Chapel e.g. I had lots of troubles with the monsters on the other side of the map around the Desna puzzle. But I did not need to go there in the first place.
The game is not perfect and probably will never be. I myself would not dare to combine a game type A with a game type B if one of them cannot stand alone on itself to be fun (I am thinking of the crusade mode).
But putting that aside there is so much more I can praise Owlcat for doing a job good and right. And I think this point is something which should not be forgotten despite the many "loud" issues mentioned here.
Thank you Owlcat for making a fun game. <3
Sorry for my bad English - it is not my native language.
Note: I felt like making this post after feeling overwhelmed of what I have seen on Steam forums. I do not think the same bad tone would be to be found here on GOG (I naively assume most players here are like me middle aged who love good old games ;-D ). But nevertheless I like to share my impressions about the game and devs.
So that they always can keep in mind: the majority of customers who are entirely satisfied have no reason to become "loud" on forums. They are too busy enjoying the game. Yet it is awesome knowing they can get help on forums with some developers checking in and giving quick assisstance. Keep up the good work!