What have you all been playing? I’ve been playing more dicey dungeons and cross code! Want to really commit to finishing cross code this time

  • ConstableJelly@beehaw.org
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    11 months ago

    I played maybe half or more of PoE and still do not get RTwP at all. I was playing on normal difficulty but started getting absolutely trounced frequently, so I gave up. If I’d thought about it at the time, I would have just dropped the difficulty, but it didn’t occur to me until so late I’d forgotten too much to pick it back up.

    Shame cause it was a lot of fun otherwise.

    • ampersandrew@kbin.social
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      11 months ago

      Really? There’s not much to get. It’s just turn-based but harder to wield, in most cases. PoE just assigns lengths of time in seconds to particular actions rather than turns (or “rounds”) like old D&D games did. You can also set the game to auto-pause when certain events happen, like when a spell is done casting or a target is killed, so that you can immediately assign a new action when the thing happens.

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        11 months ago

        Haha, yeah I get what it is and what’s happening, but I could never wrap my head around tracking it all. It was too chaotic in fights with more than a few enemies, and I guess what I really meant is that I do not get how the system is realistically meant to facilitate the kind of participation and strategy it seems to expect of me.

        I read a lot of forums around that time about it, and I do recognize that a lot of people not only like it but prefer it over turn based, but it just doesn’t work for me.