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re ToEE - CoE:

As we all know, ToEE had a disastrous release. Crashes, tons of bugs etc. CoE is a community modpack, which has been in development for years [the first release dates back to 2003] in order to fix the bugs & crashes, enhance the gameplay with adding new areas, items. etc.
This is the full changelog up to v8.1.0.
As you can see, it's a huge freakin' list of fixes, tweaks and enhancements. This is probably one of the biggest community "let's fix it" modpacks released for a game ever. It just shows that the game had a huge potential @ release, even tho it has failed because of being in a beta state at release. [I never had any crashes with the 7.x CoE modpack btw..]
Anyway, just some additional notes: The story in the game is not on BG II. level, but the combat system and the combat itself blows out other cRPGs out of the water IMO, but again I always preferred the turn-based combat [..especially if it's based on a system like d&d 3.5] over other systems like the RTwP.. The game and the battles ain't that hard at all, since CoE is "newbie friendly", [especially if you powergame] but even in that case, it's fun as hell. [+ Which RPG is hard if you powergame anyway?]
Ideally, the perfect cRPG recipe is [again..IMO]: The deep story[line] and quests of BG II. combined with the ToEE CoE combat system/gameplay.

Yeah, I decided not to buy Dungeons 1. after reading reviews like this one on Gamespot.

PS. Wow, I haven't noticed that Dungeons 2. will cost 44.99€ like an AAA product. They better make it good in that case...lol. 

I heard that the save function wasn't working in the Steam release [v1.0]. Is that true? 

*edit*

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/04/01/dungeon-keeper-remake/2/

One of the biggest stumbling blocks turned out to be a save/load system. Bread and butter for most any PC game, but a serious headache for War for the Overworld. “We got it working, then every single change we made to the game broke it, and it was like urgh. Eventually we decided that we’re not officially supporting it until launch date. Even in the current live build on Steam there is no saving and loading. We’ve now got it so whenever we change something we’re going and testing saving and loading and it’s ok, but to do that for eight months would have been a complete, ridiculous waste of time.”

Wow...

Heh, it must be fun. I decided to start over once the 1.03 patch is out....the bugs are just too annoying to play on now. I am going to create some weird party I guess. Well...weird...surely not a party of 6 wizzies. 

Finally, some news! Sovereignty enters Early Access and gets a Stream! -> http://store.steampowered.com/app/312430/
"To better show all the features of the game we will stream it tomorrow 1st April (no joke!) on our official Twitch Channel at 20 CEST/2pm EDT!"

Yeah, but new level 1 hirelings are 250 a pop. I didn't realize that the stash was effectively unlimited storage, so I wasn't looting everything in sight, but even if I had, I probably wouldn't have enough to buy a full party straight away.

It's easy to collect that 1k for the 4 hirelings in the beginning, if you loot everything in the starter areas and sell all the crap @ your first visit in Gilded Vale. That's what I did. [I've recruited the wizard companion, so I had to pay for 4 hirelings only.]

I am playing with a coastal aumaua barbarian who wields a big f'cken 2hander. It's tons of fun. 

After playing for like 6 hours so far, I can state, that this is one of the best big, "commercial" RPGs released in the last years, along with Divinity - Original Sin. If you like RPGs, don't hesitate to buy it.