Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition

Poor balancing, hidden dice rolls, stupid mechanics and poor design making spiders the worst enemies. Low leveling and few items makes the first few random encounters impossible to deal with. A pure frustrating game with a scalable difficulty that doens't play well witht eh D20 rulesset. A slow camera, slow paced and none rotatablke map with plenty of trees and elements that blocks your view constantly. It is like there is a good game burried beneath everything, but right now - it's just a pain to play it. To be able to play it and manage a decent run, you have to be a min-max player and also, have a bit of knowledge of what happens to truly prepare for even the first few fights.

Дважды начинал я эту игру. Первая попытка пошла прахом из-за багов не дающих продолжить изучение сюжета, битых побочных квестов и т.д. и т.п. Спустя несколько месяцев вернулся к игре, а посему подробнее о второй попытке. В целом играться стало приятнее, и лучше. +дополняшку добавили. Чувствуется, что не забросили игру, хотя бы сама возможность завершить сюжет стоила того, чтобы начать заново. 1. Что стоит отметить. Квесты теперь не ломаются. Спокойно, и без нервов проходишь по сюжету. (Во всяком случае, не заметил никаких косяков) Остались мелкие косяки. Например, на некоторых локациях персонажи проходят сквозь стены хотя в паре метрах от них есть проход. Некоторые монстры способны закинуть персонажа в текстуру здания. (Такое случилось один раз) 2. Что бесспорно хорошо - гибкая настройка сложности. 3. Управление королевством - благодаря одной настройке есть возможность ускорить прогрузки переходов между локациями в столице. Это хорошо. Но. Если вас утомляет необходимость управлять королевством, а на авто сбрасывать не хотите, то рекомендую воспользоваться модами. Kingdom Resolution и Fast Travel и другими. Очень облегчает жизнь, а главное экономит реальное время и нервы, правда будьте готовы в некоторых главах мотать время месяцами до продолжения сюжета. 4. Сюжет хорош, интересно следить и наблюдать. Система решений, и вправду работает. То, что вы сказали или сделали ещё несколько глав назад (и благополучно могли забыть) может отразиться на текущем положении вещей и истории в целом. Наличиствует несколько концовок, плюс секретная, только тссс... Все это открывает возможность перепрохождения игры в будущем. 5. Исходит из 4. Не всегда очевидно, как проходить некоторые квесты, и возникает двойственная ситуация, либо ты в слепую пробуешь и пробуешь пройти квест, пока тебя окончательно не оставит терпение, либо ищешь ответы в интернете. 5 из 5 не позволяет поставить негативный опыт первоначального ознакомления с игрой.

I am an avid Pathfinder DM and I think there is a lot to love in this game: 1. The combat. It is pretty good, very close to the feeling of old games but with new tools. 2. Companions: I dont necessarily think all of them are fantastic, but they are fun overall, and quite interesting in their backgrounds. 3. The story overall is good. Don't expect a literal copy of Kingmaker, and I have enjoyed the changes it brought to the story. Some of the decisions to include or left out certain things totally make sense in the scope of translating the story from table top to computer game. In general, you have access to an insane array of spells, feats and even classes. I loved the fact that you can select certain archetypes of your classes. The kingdom part is extremely dissatisfying. You are always limited on resources and very rarely your companions succeed in their tasks. Then the actual kingodom building is kind of boring. You upgrade your town, and it doesnt reflect in the actual game, just in the kingdom builder. Several times during the story, you are on timed events and not giving priority will mean your kingdom is destroyed and you probably will require to go back to save at least an hour ealier to see what you did wrong or forgot. This can be super frustrating. I understand this game is emulating the type of games that were hard and required you undivided attention. But having the unnecesary ticking bombs on several chapters is just annoying and takes away from the fun part of exploring the Stolen Lands. I don't think it is a bad game, the combat and story are good. It's the kingdom management that could have been better.

Great game, probably the most fun of all the DnD style games out there. I didn't play this game when it was a buggy mess, I played when the experience was just fine. The only issue is how the devs structured interacting with your capital. It is loading screen hell for every action.

It's challenging. it's like you're playing Baldur's Gate having no idea about D&D rules but there's more. This game gives you time limits, lot of 'em. Lot of quests you have no idea where to start or go. So if you are not fan of hardcore RPG, it is not for you. By the way I made through nearly all main quests). I have no idea about rules of the same table game and can't tell you about how good implementation is. But if it is close to true than it's good expereince to explore those rules and it might be way to engage youself in table Pathfinder. Story is interesting but short and it's little frustrating because you will spend lot of time in game. Building Kingdom is weak point of this game, as in Neverwinter 2. You can't really progress while you get some point in game time or certain quest. And it looks like you would have some action between kingdoms and armies but it is not happening. About bugs. Sometimes loading stops on Pathfinder logo and stuck. That is bad. And loading time is slow for this kind of game. I am playing from ssd and it is the same amount of time as Tomb Rider or Witcher require to load level. So for me it ok but for those who use hdd it could be painful. There are some other bugs, but they are not so bad.