Oldtimer said:
Hi,
been playing Perisno for a while and have some remarks:
- game punishes player heavily for not immediately investing in strength and leadership for quite some time from start. IMO any character build should be viable as it improves role-playing aspects.
- faction relations are unrealistic and/or bugged. Examples: demons are pursued by redwoods. I`m a redwood merc, attack demons and pursuing redwoods don`t join. Lymbardians, Eagles, Legionnaires and whatnot seem to be left alone by all regular troops.
Amazons AFAIU the lore are friendly or at least neutral to redwoods. But they still hunt me, a redwood merc.
If the reason for this is to increase challenge, I say it`s a fake challenge. Player will with time become strong enough to deal with these problems anyway, but immersion is compromised from the start. Fantasy + realism = believable and immersive.
Why not have skill triggered options in dialogues? Like high charisma gives a chance to talk oneself out of a tight spot? Or buy oneself out. Gender giving bonuses or maluses to player in some situations?
- all troops having same proficiencies is a vanilla design flaw no one addresses. Archers being as skilled in polearms as archery are not very plausible. Diversifying this will force the player to give much more thought to troop composition and perhaps pursue different approaches to field army and garrison setup.
Have no doubt, I think Perisno is a great achievement already, but IMO some features need a thorough rethink.
Rgds, Oldtimer
Michadr said it himself.
Some areas of Perisno are harder to start, the Redwood elves have one of the hardest areas to start a new game or play, I don't know why as I don't get involved with them much, might be the woods, forests, y'know, fairies tend to be crazy, too much time spent on the forest yourself might be getting a little hippie, peace.
Whilst the Maccavian lands are safe and easy, in my point of view, depends on player perspective on wether how he or she wants to play, for a start, myself I prefer to play safe rather than getting owned by OP units at start, building up my economy, getting an good income then building armies and relations, a wannable mastermind trying to conquer the whole world.
What you'd expect? dragons run loose, either you have an army of trained killers which are costly, or you play safe. Or alone, I myself find tempting to get a good horse and a two meters sword and rush everything like if I was some medieval rambo. Conan more likely, thinking too much hurts sometimes, or unless you choose to play more tactical, being a virtual Sun Tzu, Perisno seems to reward you well.
Of course, in this version the game lacks some ways to make aurums, but surely in the future you will have tons of ways to turn anything into gold (Aurum)
Assuming we're talking one of the earliest versions of Perisno, it's a sure mark that some stuff are underthought, it's early, some features are appearing, whilst some are in the forge.
Patientia, Frater.
