A game of survival, trade and exploration in the universe of Fallen London
Combat - Just 'Unbalanced'?
Psst!
Posts: 99
8/5/2014
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my opinion of the combat system is evolving, and for the better.
i'm wondering if the main issue is not with the system itself, but in the balance.
at game start, my stats were jack.
the only options realistically available were flare, shoot, or flee.
any enemy capable of handling that had my butt in a bag.
so i either had to run away (craaaab!!) or the fight was a total curb-stomp (not bats for dinner agaain...)
but now that my stats are up and i have decent VEILS combat has become an intricate dance between light and shadow, punctuated by sharp attacks.
i can EVADE and it actually does something.
i have options and planning and timing of moves actually counts for something.
couple days ago i spent over a minute going back-and-forth with an Unfinished Pirate.
avoiding his illums, him evading mine, wild shots between, a potent flare (from them!) when they couldn't break by evades ...
in short, it worked.
it was an engaging, chess-like challenge.
i've had similar experiences since with zee-beasts and (strong) boats.
trouble is that i had to get jacked-up stats to make it possible.
without good VEILS, you've got nothing.
and MIRRORS, oddly, doesn't seem to count (for "observe" only??) - doesn't help you get better illumination points, so far as i can see.
maybe there just needs to be more balance between skills and results.
either way, there's a marked difference in play as skills go up.
i dunno - it might be that if my stats get up into the hundreds, we're talking about curb-stomping everyone again and its a bore.
(excepting Lukes & Nomad, nats.)
edited by Psst! on 8/5/2014
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Zee-Bat
Posts: 140
8/5/2014
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Mirrors does help though, with my current stats I can illuminate almost everything in 1 Flare.
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It's rather like eating a trout, if the trout had tried to kill you a few hours ago. Take that ersatz trout.
I didn't do it, wouldn't know how to do it, and I was in Paris at the time it happened Officer.
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