I just got to a group of houses and some guy smacked my head with a wine bottle. Does anybody know where I can sell all these armor and swords that I recently looted?
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I just got to a group of houses and some guy smacked my head with a wine bottle.
In a town dummy
Are you in Yabon? Or have you walked south, to Zun?
You can sell weapons and armor in smithies. They're the dark brown trapezoidal-looking buildings.
I am heading south of La Mun and found a group of houses where a guy told me there's an abandoned house which I can loot.
Here's the map, btw.
Doubleposting, because why not: BaK is one of the earliest (semi-)open world RPGs.
In the first chapter, you can travel across (almost) the entirety of the Kingdom. Elvandar and the Northlands are closed off due to plot reasons (and you really wouldn't want to go to the Northlands that early anyway), and I'm not sure whether you can reach Northwarden, but I vaguely remember going to Silden and Romney.
Of course, just because you can reach some areas doesn't mean you're equipped for them. Dimwood is full of nasty creatures, and trying to enter Sethanon with your untrained crew is suicide. Also, some quests are missing: Nia's quest (and the whole land thieves subplot) only starts in chapter 2, since you need to get Nivek drunk.
I believe you can go everywhere except for the highlighted areas in Chapter 1. You should grind in Chapter 1 because you wont get Locklear back until Chapter 5 and there's a huge difficulty spike right at the beginning.
Doesn't that chapter start with a fight, or something? Before you manage to get Patrus?
Wow, no other responses for nearly a day.
Such a pity that this game, which is quite a bit more approachable (for modern tastes) than others from the same period, doesn't attract the same attention.
I don't know what to say about it that isn't boring. Don't bother hauling around the lowest tier of swords or armor to sell because they're worth pennies relative to nicer stuff.
Also don't go crazy levelling up Locklear or giving him onetime training boosts, because he'll be gone next chapter. He'll come back later but the guy that replaces him is around for more of the playtime. Gorath and Owyn are the most used characters.
Trainer boosts (Sumani in LaMut, Tad Questor is Questor's View, Devon in Eggley etc.) are applied equally to all three characters, so they're not entirely 'wasted'.
Though, admittedly, there is a point to boosting his skills via direct combat, and saving the trainers for when you get Jimmy. His combat skills are worse than Locky's.
Also, I've noticed many guides suggesting to boost Gorath's lockpicking skill.
That is a mistake, you should boost Owyn's. Mages are the only ones who can disarm trapped chests (they are the only ones who can detect them, due to the Scent of Sarig spell), and the disarm chance is based on the character's lockpicking skill.
>Also don't go crazy levelling up Locklear or giving him onetime training boosts, because he'll be gone next chapter. He'll come back later but the guy that replaces him is around for more of the playtime
True, but chapter 5 is painful if he is underpowered and James rejoins with him for the rest of the game anyways.
Chapter 5 is painful mainly because Patrus is a notably weaker mage than Owyn. And you don't have a lot of choice in terms of spell variety, since you can't reach Dabeh's Fanciful Trinkets down near Cavall Keep.
Can you stash a bag of spells for him somewhere if you plan ahead?
The biggest issue with Patrus from what I remember is that every enemy gets to attack before him and they all kill him at the start of battle. It's so annoying. I ended up just leaving him near death eventually.
Yes, they all focus fire him with crossbows or rush him, and his poor speed (lowest of all characters) means he moves last (and has a short move area). In BaK, speed determines both initiative and move distance, so he's doubly disadvantaged.
Any screenshots?
Had to try a bunch of different renders.
The graveyard near LaMut.
And, before you go all "lul scanline faeg", the game actually looks even uglier without it.
How the frick can anyone play something like this? This is just painful to look at.
If it makes any difference to your opinion, it was just as ugly 22 years ago, when I first played that free version Sierra released in 1997, prior to launching Betrayal in Antara.
And, even when originally released in 1993, the heavily pixellated FMV-style digitized cosplay photos and vector-polygon (I think) buildings didn't exactly set a new standard in graphic quality.
BaK was more about the semi-free roam world and general story setting.
By not being a stupid graphics prostitute
things are actually much more memorable when use your imagination.
>gwaffix brain rot
If the gameplay is good you don't need ARR TEE EXX RAAAAYYY TRAAAACING
But it's not good.
>and some guy smacked my head with a wine bottle
Why would you ever let that happen?
It's a scripted event when you knock on one of the house doors in a hamlet.
https://vga256.com/krondor/krondor.html
So it seems there's a fix for that bugged quest in Dencamp-on-the-Teeth, but it involves manually hex-editing a save to change a '4' to a 'C'.
I'm amazed 2018 seems to be the first time I've seen anyone mention a hex edit fix for the mind melt bug, I could have done that 20 years ago
>one of the best crpgs is being slid off the page
Not on my watch. I am thinking o may replay this. I have such a strong nostalgia boner for it.
>>>/vr/
I'm on chapter 4 and the game has quickly become an inventory simulator. I'm on the inventory screen like 50% of the game at this point and I'm constantly picking up weapons and armor, repairing them, and selling them but I've stopped doing that now because how tedious it got and my inventory is still always full and I have to decide what I need or don't need. Am I playing it right?
Chapters 4 and 6 are somewhat tedious because you only have 2 characters, and there are a lot of vital items you need to carry (the spider and/or the spyglass, rope, rations, restoratives, medicine bags, enhancement potions, infinity pool, quarrels, repair kits, picklocks etc.).
By that point you should have enough money to ignore the armor/weapons of fallen enemies.
I think you theoretically could, but I can't remember which chest inventories remain static until chapter 5. Even so, his biggest weakness remains poor physical aptitude: low speed, low health and stamina. Oh, and speed is the only stat which is fixed throughout the game, it cannot be improved in any way.
I usually end up tapping out in the elf forest chapter when I try to replay. At that point you're basically just on a basically linear run to the ending and without having a sense of exploration I can't go on.
Why are the graphics so bad? Ultima Underworld from a year prior looked way better. Also why did they rotoscope real people for all the characters and animations? It makes everyone look like a larper
They went for FMV-style digitization, because IIRC that was a thing with some teams at Sierra/Dynamix at the time. Yes, they do look like low-budget cosplayers.
And the vectorized graphics were chosen due to minimap mode (you can play the game in overhead view, but it's a bit dangerous since you can't see enemies). Made the transition between views smoother and allowed for quicker loading of game areas (assets had lower memory footprints).
Why is Patrus so fricking useless? He's supposed to be this great court magician but he's literally worse in every way than a random teenager we picked off the road at the beginning of the game
That "random teenager" got sharpen his skills in hundreds of battles, got to travel and learn much more stuff than a doddering old man who spent his time playing parlor tricks and blasting the occasional moredhel.
BTW, if you want to have a better chance of Patrus surviving battles, you need to use the ambush system.
Which, admittedly, is easier said than done, since both Patrus and Locky's starting stealth skills are rather poor, and I can't remember whether you can find weedwalkers in chapter 5.
Also, in some battles the enemy ambushes you.
Actually, nevermind. It doesn't really matter whether there are weedwalkers in chapter 5, since, as far as I remember, Jimmy starts with his chapter 3 inventory. So all you have to do is make sure he has a pair at the end of 3, then you can go to a general goods shop (I'm pretty certain there's at least one on the road between Northwarden and Highcastle), sell the pair, then buy back 3 of them.
Damn it, we've got a bunch of threads about ancient JRPG shit, plus *hurk* Daggerfall threads, but the thread about one of the classics from the first golden age ends up on page 10.
Disgraceful.
Trying to learn the Kingdom Mine made me feel for Owyn and his consumption of practice lutes
Heh, the party's path in Chapter 1 is probably littered with broken practice lutes.
I just finished the game literally 10 minutes ago and bro, what was that ending. Gorath dies and after all he's been through and done, they spare 15 seconds to grieve and move on like nothing happened. Locklear and James didn't even inquire about his disappearance. They saw that he was gone and just didn't bother asking about him. We grow attached to him with his tragic backstory and as the character you control the most alongside Owyn and his death is treated as inconsequential and unimportant. He at deserved at least a cutscene of a funeral or memorial.
well in fairness locklear got also shafted in the kesh novel
He gets shafted in the game too. After chapter 1, he basically becomes a side character and James does all of the talking related to important story stuff
That annoyed the frick out of me, and convinced me that Feist can write, but prefers to willingly be a hack.
And it wasn't enough that he gave Locky the "Poochie died on the way to his home planet" treatment, but he also gave Owyn the "Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Movie" one.
To be fair, everyone treats him like expendable trash barring Owyn right up to the end. Their reaction (or lack thereof) didn't surprise me at all.
perhaps it was even the true betrayal at krondor all along
i rermember this game had some good music. something about old MIDIs sounds better and more melodic to me, than the boring orchestral scores we get nowadays, like that annoying morrowind theme
What were they thinking with the spell selection UI?