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Decided to give this oldie but goldie a spin the other day. Don't know much about neither the game nor the setting. Did a few minutes of browsing beforehand about the game and the rules and took some tips and tricks, ie knowing the game has max level rather than max exp meaning multiclass is superior to singleclass characters. I admit so far I am having a blast! I smashed my way through the pits on Balanced difficulty with my quite overpowered team. The rolls were crazy high so it was very easy to make insanely strong chars. Also the game let you put even more points after rolling. No idea if that was as in the original or some kind of GoG addition, but I could basically max out all stats I think? But I don't mind to be OP, it's for fun and not for the challenge.
Here's my team after killing everything in the pits, I did three fights IIRC (the fourth was with ridiculously strong enemies so had to reload and go for the escape instead). I faked allegiance to Scar and killed him in the arena, which was a fun twist. Killed the other rival team too but inside the slave pens, then as I escaped I cleared house and killed all guards, templars etc. Only the poor sod Gilal I let live.
The team is romping through the sewers now. Finished the main quest there with the chieftan and his daughter, killed everyone and will move into the optional area soon to find someone named Dagolar (I think). The team consist of the powerful mul leader Skatan with his three foxy lady friends. Fun anecdote, as I was creating the team and flipping through races and portraits, my wife saw me looking at these dashing, pixelated beauties and wondered what the hells I was doing. Of course then I had to choose three ladies to accompany me just to tease her. Had to rename them to their classes though since the UI is kinda hard to know who you are controlling in the middle of fights.
Here's my team after killing everything in the pits, I did three fights IIRC (the fourth was with ridiculously strong enemies so had to reload and go for the escape instead). I faked allegiance to Scar and killed him in the arena, which was a fun twist. Killed the other rival team too but inside the slave pens, then as I escaped I cleared house and killed all guards, templars etc. Only the poor sod Gilal I let live.
The team is romping through the sewers now. Finished the main quest there with the chieftan and his daughter, killed everyone and will move into the optional area soon to find someone named Dagolar (I think). The team consist of the powerful mul leader Skatan with his three foxy lady friends. Fun anecdote, as I was creating the team and flipping through races and portraits, my wife saw me looking at these dashing, pixelated beauties and wondered what the hells I was doing. Of course then I had to choose three ladies to accompany me just to tease her. Had to rename them to their classes though since the UI is kinda hard to know who you are controlling in the middle of fights.
Looks more like some kind of dancing pose than a fighter's stance. Had to go two half-elves for tripleclasses, but I regret it cause the two portraits and the player icons in the game are too similar so even with their names I don't always know who I have targeted. There's no circle around the char to show who is next, just a text box with their name. But it works mostly ok, and I have to say that so far I find this old engine a lot better than I thought I would. I have a vague memory I've tried this old game once before but getting wrecked in the first arena (you start as pit gladiators and have to fight directly upon entering the game before you are ushered into the slave pens and can walk around, talk etc) but this time I smashed these fights easily so not sure what I was doing last time.