I bought this game on another platform and invested around 20 hours in creating a party and playing the first few quests. I am an experienced D&D player of CRPG's as well as tabletop. At the end of the 20 hours I tried to play the game I just gave up because I stumbled upon the umpteenth problem that would have led to me again recreating one character and restarting the campaign for the thrid time. What is good and what is bad about Solasta: Good: - D&D Setting - Turn based combat - Lot's of dice, if you like that - No fuss story - Clear UI Bad: - Bad tutorial not only for people new to D&D especially paired with the next point - No manual - Spells that do not work in the way you would expect and therfore are useless - Inconstistent and therefore somewhat unbelievable world - Very bad charater creator (it is possible to create badly mamed chars) - No respec feature - No way to replace a character in the party - Bad game camera forcing you to a lot of clicking just to move from a to b - Lots of questions that come up and that do not get answered in game nor are easy tpo find on the WWW My experience led to me thinking this game would have done better staying in EA for some more time.
The game first did crash on Win 10 for me no matter what I set it up to in the different config programs that come with it and whether I setup compatibility mode in Windows or not. Unfortunately there is no documentation from GOG what the files they packed with the program do and how you have to use them. Do I have to use the ConfigEditor and/or DXCfg and to what do I have to set them? Do I have to setup a compatibility mode and if so how exactly? You have to figure these things out by yourself via trial and error and/or by searching the forums and the internet. The only thing that worked for me in the end was to delete ddraw.dll from the games folder.
Stay away from it for now because there is a high chance it's not working at all like it is for me.
