Maniacal
the green Napoleon
That's just dumb.
Seriously, just.. no.
Its not that I have a problem with health potions, it's the problem with the common ones not healing very much and the better ones being too expensive for how often they get used.
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That's just dumb.
Seriously, just.. no.
Its not that I have a problem with health potions, it's the problem with the common ones not healing very much and the better ones being too expensive for how often they get used.
The purpose of the DIII idea is to reduce the number of trips to back and forth to town, and the clogging of the inventory with potions. With the potions system, it just means you have to keep looking at your health gauge and press a key at the proper time to heal. Health "power-ups" (orbs dropped by enemy) sure sound absurd and "unrealistic", but I think it'll be an interesting change of pace for the game.
I mean, potions are okay for a game where you actually think about it when you use them. A more "RPG-ish" RPG like Morrowind, you had all sorts of potions, including health. Potions was a skill. In diablo, potions were more like a "heal me now" key you could press as much as you want because potions cost nothing anyway. And you could easily drink up 10-20 potions per minute when the difficulty was up.
So yeah, orbs of health for an "action-RPG" are fine by me.
I mean, potions are okay for a game where you actually think about it when you use them. A more "RPG-ish" RPG like Morrowind, you had all sorts of potions, including health. Potions was a skill. In diablo, potions were more like a "heal me now" key you could press as much as you want because potions cost nothing anyway. And you could easily drink up 10-20 potions per minute when the difficulty was up.
So yeah, orbs of health for an "action-RPG" are fine by me.
Ulyaoth
Emperor
Like a potion is any more realistic. In the heat of battle? Magically freeze time drink this potion and heal all wounds of any type with magic red potion!
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Well a magical potion at least makes partial sense, and some games show you drinking them. The orbs make no sense at all.
Ulyaoth
Emperor
You're stealing their souls.
And I've got stimpacks from FO3 on the mind as my health potions. That just makes no sense.
And I've got stimpacks from FO3 on the mind as my health potions. That just makes no sense.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
You're injecting medicine into you that heals you. It's not too much of a stretch of imagination. Could be the benefit of stem cell research. Or they have a plant that actually does heal really well, plus a lot of games have magic anyways.
Stealing their souls should be a wee bit more complicated than how I'm imagining it, like that experience blob system in Fable.
Stealing their souls should be a wee bit more complicated than how I'm imagining it, like that experience blob system in Fable.
Ulyaoth
Emperor
And these stem cells freeze time so the tons of bullets about to kill you or the super mutant about to smash your skull in just stop to let you inject this stuff in? And it can instantly heal a broken leg?
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
And somehow absorbing globes of energy dropped by defeated enemies which instantly heals all your cuts and wounds and brokenness makes more sense?
salty mud
Deity
Come on guys, these are games. 
If you want a realistic fighting experience, go have a fist-fight with a grizzly bear. You'll probably be wishing for magic health potions after that.
If you want a realistic fighting experience, go have a fist-fight with a grizzly bear. You'll probably be wishing for magic health potions after that.
Genocidicbunny
Bug squasher
I highly doubt that after a hand-to-hand fight with a grizzly you'd be able to wish for anything.
Captain2
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The colonists decided to turn their back on the Queen, abandoning her in favour of some of the local Cherokee savages when the call to arms came. They then attacked our peaceful diplomatic force that we had situated next to their capital for the sake of negotations. Our diplomats have done an excellent job of setting up defenses as you can see.
The colonists finally displayed their British blood by suprising our rangers and nearly catching them in a pincer movement, We however managed to withdraw them before they could be entirely decimated.
The Governor has recomended direct control of the Thirteen colonies from now on....
The colonists decided to turn their back on the Queen, abandoning her in favour of some of the local Cherokee savages when the call to arms came. They then attacked our peaceful diplomatic force that we had situated next to their capital for the sake of negotations. Our diplomats have done an excellent job of setting up defenses as you can see.
The colonists finally displayed their British blood by suprising our rangers and nearly catching them in a pincer movement, We however managed to withdraw them before they could be entirely decimated.
The Governor has recomended direct control of the Thirteen colonies from now on....
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Edit nvm
D'Artagnan59
The Gascon
Prussia-->Popular Unification. Modded into constitutional monarchy. Hungary is left to lose badboy and prevent rebellions up the wazoo, and Venice will become Italy.
e350tb
Stupendously Illogical Englishman
Why are there Company soldiers in America?
Captain2
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I can produce more troops per turn in India than I can in the UK
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
(My score is on top of the red British list)
Despite a ping of up to 280, I still did really well and ended up in the top 5 scores (three people higher than mine left during the game). Plus a rather surprisingly effective and coordinated defence on the British part of the last flag, although after nearly 10 minutes an american push defeated us.
Ulyaoth
Emperor
That's that hl2 mod right? I don't remember all the servers combined adding up to that many players when I played it.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Then it's been a long time since you played it, and/or you were on at the wrong times.
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