This game goes super deep. There are crazy things you can do later on. Other dimensions, cloning and time manipulation are a thing. (I highly recommend reading the steam achievement titles of the game) On the skills: All skills have a category. Your base character can have things unlocked without having the category unlocked depending on their background/archetype. If you want to learn new skills of a category you have to unlock the category first, which usually gives you the first skill for free (the one you tried to learn for example).
Thanks for the information! It’s one of the reasons I picked up this game. The current character is the one recommended by the tutorial, but I’m excited to try out new builds and explore the character creation customization. For now, I’ll stick with this character and see how far I can go. That said, I fully expect to be blindsided and destroyed by something I wasn’t prepared for.
Starting out and finding new things and reading everything is one of the fun parts of this game. For people that like messing around with new things, going with Classic Mode and trying out new builds after each untimely end to an adventure is novel. Otherwise, they have a Roleplay Mode for people who want to keep going with one character without losing too much progress.
I love playing Cataclysm: DDA, and I quickly learned that reloading to avoid death takes away the thrill of the game, without risks, the fun disappears. While I don’t mind if others choose to do it, I personally avoid reloading unless it’s due to a bug. I’m enjoying this run, but in some ways, I’m eager for it to end. Right now, I’m limiting my playtime between episodes; if I play 20 hours off-camera between episodes 5 and 6, my approach to the game will shift significantly.
This game goes super deep. There are crazy things you can do later on. Other dimensions, cloning and time manipulation are a thing. (I highly recommend reading the steam achievement titles of the game)
On the skills: All skills have a category. Your base character can have things unlocked without having the category unlocked depending on their background/archetype. If you want to learn new skills of a category you have to unlock the category first, which usually gives you the first skill for free (the one you tried to learn for example).
Thanks for the information!
It’s one of the reasons I picked up this game. The current character is the one recommended by the tutorial, but I’m excited to try out new builds and explore the character creation customization. For now, I’ll stick with this character and see how far I can go. That said, I fully expect to be blindsided and destroyed by something I wasn’t prepared for.
Starting out and finding new things and reading everything is one of the fun parts of this game.
For people that like messing around with new things, going with Classic Mode and trying out new builds after each untimely end to an adventure is novel.
Otherwise, they have a Roleplay Mode for people who want to keep going with one character without losing too much progress.
I love playing Cataclysm: DDA, and I quickly learned that reloading to avoid death takes away the thrill of the game, without risks, the fun disappears. While I don’t mind if others choose to do it, I personally avoid reloading unless it’s due to a bug.
I’m enjoying this run, but in some ways, I’m eager for it to end. Right now, I’m limiting my playtime between episodes; if I play 20 hours off-camera between episodes 5 and 6, my approach to the game will shift significantly.