I thought I was going to play as an eastern gangster but instead you're a cop compelled by the gods to sing karaoke. I thought I could just leave the minigame or afk but it turns out it's mandatory and causes "mission" failure. And the game seems keen on sending you on pointless errands rather than advancing what i assume will eventually resemble a plot
I will start by saying I like the game and the setting. Overrall it is fun and a good ride but it has some INSANE flaws that really cause problems and many lessons went un learned from kingmaker I have played through to act 4 i think it is, or act 5. Im pausing to write this review now because of a multi stage boss fight that either has an insanely awful bug or a mechanic which is retarded and ill probably end up lowering the difficulty and cheesing it because it completely breaks the way I was running the fight. 1) DC's. The difficulties of resisting many spells and effects are set way too high. Even a character with specialized resistances will struggle to even have a 50% chance of resisting some spells. 2) Scouting is largely ineffective. My scout had a total stealth score of over 50+ and the enemies got a perception check bonus of 45. 3) This is the worst one. Many enemies have AOE stun effects that will instantly incapacitate your party. There are not enough coping mechanisms for control effects. Why do I have to wait until Heroic invocation, a max level spell, to get immunity to fear? I had this issue in the last game as well. Remove fear and luck and resolve are nice I guess, but the DC is 30, my base is 10, and those add +4/+2. So....ok. 5) Long lasting debuffs: I dont know how you would play this game without the option to remove bad statuses on resting. An average fight will have you limping out with -5 levels, petrification, and polymorphed characters. 6) Armor class and role switching: In the early 10 hours, your martial characters will do all the work. After act 3 there is a drastic role switch and all front liners's life expectancy drops to 3 seconds. 7)There are items in the game which supposedly give immunities, and they make you immune to buffs of that type.there is a spell which gives YOU a gaze attack, and an item which makes you Immune to gaze attacks. This item will make your buff spell fail. I have seen at least 5 instances of this.
