This was my experience as well. KOTC1 is one of my favourite RPGs of all time, and I backed KOTC2 on Kickstarter at the Hero level. Running into a brick wall on the tutorial after 10 or so attempts counts as my biggest gaming disappointment of the last several years. Maybe I should try again on easy, but fundamentally unbalanced and unfair encounters is not my idea of a fun game.
I didn't try the tutorial but I think if you just give the main game a try on normal with maximized ability scores for all your characters you should have a good time. Forget about min/maxing and just max/max!Running into a brick wall on the tutorial after 10 or so attempts counts as my biggest gaming disappointment of the last several years. Maybe I should try again on easy, but fundamentally unbalanced and unfair encounters is not my idea of a fun game.
Pretty much the same thing but with a bonus to saving throws. Make your own 6 then you get another 2 companions. There's plenty of summon spells for even more. Consider, if an encounter was PERFECTLY balanced then you'd expect both sides would have a 50% chance of winning. That's about as fair as it gets. Flip a coin a few times and see what you're in for when the balance is perfect. Most of these encounters are finely tuned and just brilliant, really.
Knowing you, it will be quite detailed. I'm looking forward to reading it.
Thing is, that's not fun for a lot of people. D&D fans like to roleplay. I don't want to have create a party with 18s across the board just to have a chance.I didn't try the tutorial but I think if you just give the main game a try on normal with maximized ability scores for all your characters you should have a good time. Forget about min/maxing and just max/max!
Yeah. There's nothing unfair about the rules in KOTC2, what really makes the game so hard is that enemy AI is completely insane. No D&D game, possibly no turn-based RPG in general, has ever implemented enemy AI this good. In particular, enemy spellcasters are free to use all the spells they have, do so fairly intelligently, and really just go to town on you if you actually allow them to get casts off.
Its not the rules being unfair. You also make a good point about the A.I. in KOTC2. What makes things so difficult is that you are often facing a band of enemies with more than double your numbers (often more than triple) and equivalent level. I would never give that kind of encounter to my players when DMing my tabletop Pathfinder campaign. The chance is too high that even fudging numbers, I couldn't keep the party alive and my players would be understandably upset. The fact that you have situations like these in other computer D&D games is made up for by the fact that the enemy A.I. is so stupid. If you have good A.I. then you need to tone down the amount of enemies you throw at a party, unless you have a party of expert tacticians who know how to work the rules.
I remember that! Had me terrified of clerics. Then when I could finally learn Slay Living I thought I got the most overpowered spell ever but the enemies always seemed to make the saving throws.
