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Well, just about 3 things kinda bother me about this. One would be that it would take an anti material rifle to handle a dangerous zombie next to something you normally don't want to fight, and if you have one then the list of things you don't want to fight get pretty small. The other is that a turret is going to be fighting zombies for the rest of its existence because none of them would ever go down permanently no matter how many chunks fly off them. And the last being I would rather not keep track of every zombie I had to kill but not butcher after big fights.

Eldritch scoundrel really gives up too much between armor, sneak attack progression and uncanny dodge. I think you even get less rogue talents. It makes sense you wanna give up a decent amount of stuff for spell access on a rogue, but you can compare it to the primalist bloodrager who basically ends up as a better barbarian with less hit points.

And well, adding sneak attack damage ends up being taking one level of vivisectionist to get it and an alchemy bonus to one attribute you want and a smattering of useful spells. I don't think sneak attack damage is as useful as doubled strength bonus damage though. With the right build anyway.

Anyway, weekend is in let me see if I can get farther in than all the beta versions I had to stop playing due to a game breaking bug somewhere there.

Well, it really comes down to be nice and don't assume the worst out of people because they contribute to a project really. I also kinda let my frustrations boil over a little there.

One thing I kinda wish cataclysm had though was something that reduces the amount of corpse pulping you had to do after fights. Right now it's just based on how over kill your attack was, but it'd be nice if there was some skill interaction with survival top disable zombie revival instead of the all or nothing implementation right now.

The succubus can be tough this early on, but you generally want some method to hit touch ac or make enemies flatfooted somehow. Currently running a Kitsune vivisectionist build I had since the beta and at level 3 I have 4 iterative attacks with sneak attack damage at 2d6. No idea if this will bear out well the rest of the campaign but being able to push your dex to a minimum of 30 is helpful.

I can probably play on higher difficulties but I keep forgetting to update the ai level then get too lazy to start over. I'm not taking the game seriously at the moment though and I'm exploring the classes and seeing what they offer before attempting a serious game. I'll likely start out against count level AI when I get there

Well, mostly just kinda making it clear why I bounced off of DDA. And a lot of these had been kinda issues that my friend group ran into mostly, but we're glad we have a choice in the matter now at least

I believe the last time I played they had reduced what bows and crossbows damage by 1/10 or 1/5 then raised their critical damage by the same factor making those weapons useless against anything with even a thick hide (since damage multiplies after damage calculations). Given I care about bows and personally don't believe it's a change that makes sense I kinda bounced off of current DDA and the stuff I hear about how CBMs are handled means I'm likely not going to go back. And well, as far as pockets go, Bright nights just got an implementation that lets me drop my backpack off my back then pick it up and wear it with all items contained in it. Not quite pockets but it does what I want from pockets mostly.

If it's any consolation, despite the patches, the game seemed pretty stable even on release. Most of the fixes seem to be related to the networking stuff right now so if you are playing this as a single player game you likely won't notice much unless a typo was bugging you.