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What feature that the Avernum series lacked would you most like to see in BoA? in Blades of Avernum
Bames53
Apprentice
Member # 3021
 written Monday, June 2 2003 11:27 Profile #88
quote:
Drakefyre :
You can have less by deleting party members at the creation screen. If you want more than four party members, give Exile a try.
Yeah i know, i have all of the exile series :)

To Jawaj :
and that explains why my not buying avernum just for a couple of features isnt so unreasonable.

benefits of dual weapons:
-you get two attacks
-if both attacks hit then you do more damage at a given skill level
-it would be cool to be able to set the targets for the attacks separately but that wont happen because it would require an unreasonable amount of work for the game programer.

disadvantages of dual weapons:
-each attack does less damage at a given skill level (or the second attack does alot less and the first does normal damage)
-defense is severly reduced at a given skill level ( but not much worse than having just one one-handed sword and no shield)

basically having two weapons make a character more attack oriented. it would be an even fight between fighters of equal skill with one weilding sword and shield and the other with two swords.

even the xp penalty would be offset by the fact that the character should get more kills. (are xp assigned for kills or just evenly assigned over the whole party?)

[ Monday, June 02, 2003 11:29: Message edited by: Bames53 ]
Posts: 2 | Registered: Saturday, May 24 2003 07:00
What feature that the Avernum series lacked would you most like to see in BoA? in Blades of Avernum
Bames53
Apprentice
Member # 3021
 written Saturday, May 24 2003 12:40 Profile #74
first and foremost i'd like to see more flexibility with item equipping. its been a long time since i've been able to play my character in Exile(Avernum, whatever). apparently there was some sort of disease that crippled everybody's second hand so they can only hold shields. While it may not seem like much to some people I dont plan on buying BoA unless i can equip two swords.

also id like more flexibility with the starting party. especially number of party members. having four as the default is fine but the option for more as well as less should be available.

(I havent even gotten the demos for 2 or 3 because i doubt these were added, but i could be wrong. please tell if i am so i can try them out and possibly order them.)
Posts: 2 | Registered: Saturday, May 24 2003 07:00