Gaming

Playing Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous and just finished Act 2 today. Kinda not sure about this one.

The prologue was a complete slog. Just stuck at level 2, basically no options to do anything, fights taking hours because the enemy and you constantly miss each other.

Act 1 was a lot better, you gain levels at a decent pace and grow a lot more powerful (compared to the prologue). There were a few challenging fights, I think most or all of them optional, so it wasn't too bad. Except when you're "stuck" in a tiny room with no space to maneuver, and enemies that use AoE attacks. Also, permanent debuffs, that you don't have the tools to remove yet, unless you buy expensive items from a vendor. Fantastic, just like Kingmaker.

Then Act 2 started alright, still had a couple of "trap areas", that you probably shouldn't visit as soon as you find them. Then in the later half it got a lot slower, nothing really to explore, and you're mostly waiting and slowly building your Crusader Army to clear the way. Kingmaker was similar, but only in the later Acts, when you've basically done everything, and you just need to wait for the next big event. While this wasn't as extreme (not by a long shot), it's a bit worrying that this stuff is already starting this early into the game.

Anyway, Act 2 didn't end badly, it was actually fun, since you get a lot of power, relatively quickly, so I'll keep playing. If there's another one of these super slow periods though, where you're just waiting around, I'll either cheat/mod to make it more bearable or drop the game, depending on how I feel at the time.

Apart from that, the game is still extremely buggy, even after all these years of patches. It's probably even worse than Kingmaker. I'm playing in Turn-Based mode and I regularly just lose turns with characters, which is just frustrating. The enemy aggro system/mechanic is also kind of terrible and possibly also broken. It's really surprising just how much better Rogue Trader is in that regard. It still has a bunch of bugs, but they are relatively minor.