smee
01-15-2010, 06:36 PM
I recently got the game on Steam and started playing a mage on Normal. I didn't do anything really noteworthy except skipping the training dungeon (I told the king's man that I already knew how to fight.) After hitting Level 8 I was having serious trouble finding opponents in my league -- all the easy ones were dead, leaving lots of Impossibles. I was very surprised because I've played the original and know how the game works, and did not have any problems in the original.
Then I happened to notice two things. First, my stats were not automatically increasing with each level gained; I believe in the original you always got some stat increases in addition to the runes. Maybe this is how the new game works but I have not seen any real mention of it.
But more importantly, despite being Level 8, my Leadership was a mere 1026! (And yes, I was grabbing all the leadership banners, etc.) I just couldn't hire many troops at all.
Somewhat baffled, I started a new game (again with a mage) just to see if I was doing anything wrong. I decided to do the training dungeon this time (which, as I mentioned, I had skipped the first go-round), just in case it awarded some items or experience that made the game a lot easier.
Lo and behold, I am currently still in the training dungeon with my new Amelie, and despite still being Level 1 she already has 2230 Leadership!!! (Again -- after much exploring, collecting, and leveling, my Level 8 Amelie only had about HALF that amount of leadership!!)
I did a little searching but have not found references to a leadership bug. Has anyone else experienced this??? I am not sure which game experience represents how the game is "supposed" to be, but I have to imagine my second Amelie -- the one with over 2,000 leadership -- is how it is supposed to be, otherwise there would be more complaints. Can someone chime in on this issue and let me know:
A. Are you supposed to automatically gain stat points when leveling?
B. Does my second game (with 2,000 Leadership at Level 1) sound "right"?
C. Is it possible that the difference was my decision to do/skip the training dungeon? Would they actually punish you that much for skipping it?
Also -- when digging through some posts on this forum to see if others had this issue, I couldn't help but notice that some people were talking about how easy the game was (even at harder levels) and some people seemed absolutely baffled because they were experiencing problems like mine. Everyone seemed to assume that the people with problems didn't know how to play. I now suspect that some of them are having my problem and just don't know it yet.
Any comments / input would be appreciated!
Then I happened to notice two things. First, my stats were not automatically increasing with each level gained; I believe in the original you always got some stat increases in addition to the runes. Maybe this is how the new game works but I have not seen any real mention of it.
But more importantly, despite being Level 8, my Leadership was a mere 1026! (And yes, I was grabbing all the leadership banners, etc.) I just couldn't hire many troops at all.
Somewhat baffled, I started a new game (again with a mage) just to see if I was doing anything wrong. I decided to do the training dungeon this time (which, as I mentioned, I had skipped the first go-round), just in case it awarded some items or experience that made the game a lot easier.
Lo and behold, I am currently still in the training dungeon with my new Amelie, and despite still being Level 1 she already has 2230 Leadership!!! (Again -- after much exploring, collecting, and leveling, my Level 8 Amelie only had about HALF that amount of leadership!!)
I did a little searching but have not found references to a leadership bug. Has anyone else experienced this??? I am not sure which game experience represents how the game is "supposed" to be, but I have to imagine my second Amelie -- the one with over 2,000 leadership -- is how it is supposed to be, otherwise there would be more complaints. Can someone chime in on this issue and let me know:
A. Are you supposed to automatically gain stat points when leveling?
B. Does my second game (with 2,000 Leadership at Level 1) sound "right"?
C. Is it possible that the difference was my decision to do/skip the training dungeon? Would they actually punish you that much for skipping it?
Also -- when digging through some posts on this forum to see if others had this issue, I couldn't help but notice that some people were talking about how easy the game was (even at harder levels) and some people seemed absolutely baffled because they were experiencing problems like mine. Everyone seemed to assume that the people with problems didn't know how to play. I now suspect that some of them are having my problem and just don't know it yet.
Any comments / input would be appreciated!