New Player Old Questions
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 5:52 pm
Hello, all.
I just discovered Eschalon the other day by visting Play This Thing! It's a great site for finding indie games.
In any case I'm playing the demo for Eschalon: Book I now. I'm loving the game for it's old school feel. As much as I like the Mass Effect games they will never hold a place in my memories like the old school games Fallout, Baldur's Gate, and the other "Golden Age" RPGs do.
Now on to the questions. I'm sure these have been answered before, but my search-fu is tired and failing. Feel free if you know of a thread that answers these questions to just link it rather than typing it all out again.
1. Is there a hard cap to attributes and skills? If not is there a soft cap where the attribute or skill no longer really benefits from more points put into them? If so what is the hard/soft cap? I know the highest starting roll you can get for an attribute is 14. I'd hate to throw 16 more points into Strength or something just to find out that it stopped benefiting from more points at 20.
2. Time limit? Is there any sort of time limit in this game, or am I free to rest/wait as much as I please to recover HP/mana?
3. Respawning enemies? Does this game have respawning enemies? Actually the real question is there more than enough XP to around in the game to reach max level? I saw on the forums that 180,000 XP is the most you can earn. Is it possible to earn that much?
4. Any detailed information on attributes? I'm not looking to min/max my stats, but I hate not knowing exactly how certain things are derived. To hit? Resisitances? HP? How are this numbers calculated? Concentration attribute? The game says it effects everything. How?
That covers it for now. Thanks in advance.
I just discovered Eschalon the other day by visting Play This Thing! It's a great site for finding indie games.
In any case I'm playing the demo for Eschalon: Book I now. I'm loving the game for it's old school feel. As much as I like the Mass Effect games they will never hold a place in my memories like the old school games Fallout, Baldur's Gate, and the other "Golden Age" RPGs do.
Now on to the questions. I'm sure these have been answered before, but my search-fu is tired and failing. Feel free if you know of a thread that answers these questions to just link it rather than typing it all out again.
1. Is there a hard cap to attributes and skills? If not is there a soft cap where the attribute or skill no longer really benefits from more points put into them? If so what is the hard/soft cap? I know the highest starting roll you can get for an attribute is 14. I'd hate to throw 16 more points into Strength or something just to find out that it stopped benefiting from more points at 20.
2. Time limit? Is there any sort of time limit in this game, or am I free to rest/wait as much as I please to recover HP/mana?
3. Respawning enemies? Does this game have respawning enemies? Actually the real question is there more than enough XP to around in the game to reach max level? I saw on the forums that 180,000 XP is the most you can earn. Is it possible to earn that much?
4. Any detailed information on attributes? I'm not looking to min/max my stats, but I hate not knowing exactly how certain things are derived. To hit? Resisitances? HP? How are this numbers calculated? Concentration attribute? The game says it effects everything. How?
That covers it for now. Thanks in advance.