Solasta II - Show me your Game Face

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Henriquejr spotted dev update #03 for Solasta II:

Dev Update #03 - Show me your game face!

Hey hey people,

Once again, happy new year! Now that 2025 is on its way, we’re back in the studio to share more about Solasta II. Hope you managed to get a good long rest off, because the train ain’t stopping any time soon!

[Cat Picture] ]We humans have to get back to work, you adorable little freeloader!

Before we start, don't forget to wishlist Solasta II on Steam - it helps us a ton!

Show me that face!

Let’s be honest, one of the weaker parts of Solasta I was our character models, which were the first things people saw when they started playing. In fact, even in positive reviews some of you said that they were apprehensive about getting the game at first because of how the characters looked.

Now, we explained quite a few times that we unfortunately couldn’t update them in Solasta I because of the entire pipeline already being built for that game. But you know what doing a whole new game in a different game engine allows us to do? That’s right, exactly that! Now, without further ado let me show you in-game screenshots showing currently implemented characters.

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Yep, big improvement. I wasn't all that bothered by the appearances in the original, but hey, anything that adds to the verisimilitude is a positive. Now if they could just add more character voice sets this time, it will be glorious. Maybe experiment with AI voices for greater variety?
 
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Yeah, I also didn't mind that faces/models - I don't obsess over what my character looks like :p As long as they are generally humanoid and have the requisite skills...but anything that brings in more support is good. I just hope they don't pander to people who didn't like the *kind* of game Solasta 1 was and end up turning it into something else.
 
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Sorry but they plan to have fewer. 2 male, 2 female.
Are you sure? So we can't have more than 2 party members of the same gender without them having the same voice?

That seems crazy especially since they made money from the first game. I'd assume they could afford more voice actors than that.
 
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Are you sure? So we can't have more than 2 party members of the same gender without them having the same voice?

That seems crazy especially since they made money from the first game. I'd assume they could afford more voice actors than that.
No idea if this bears any resemblance to reality, but I could see making money resulting in fewer voice actors if it means that for the first game they got their uncle Bob to be the paladin and for the sequel they're hiring real actors.
 
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Are you sure? So we can't have more than 2 party members of the same gender without them having the same voice?
Correct, they said that would be the case, but that they might experiment with pitch lowering/raising in order to allow players to create multiple variants of the 2 of each gender.
 
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Yeah, I also didn't mind that faces/models - I don't obsess over what my character looks like :p As long as they are generally humanoid and have the requisite skills...but anything that brings in more support is good. I just hope they don't pander to people who didn't like the *kind* of game Solasta 1 was and end up turning it into something else.
How dare they try to make a true RPG instead of a tabletop battle simulator. :rotfl:

Kidding aside I dare hope the sequel is different and they should be.
 
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What I meant was that it excelled as a faithful adaptation of D&D 5e with 3d combat etc (which BG3 did not have)- would be a shame if in pursuit of 'the masses' they threw those aspects out. Not that they will...but devs chase what sells (unsurprising). I want great 5e D&D combat *and* a better RPG story-wise etc.
 
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