Any Sacred 2 players?

[Kreij]

Being a toe-to-toe guy, I many times find myself running out of the thick of things just to spread out the monsters so I can see who I am attaking. When there are 20+ monsters surrounding me it gets hard to see what the heck is going on. Especially if you have the view zoomed out a ways to see the whole group.

I didn't know that ctrl-attack-spin did sort of a sweeping attack of who is in front of you. I'll have to try that.

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

My buddy who plays a Temple Gaurdian is strict melee. He uses it all the time. A few hits on this guy, a few on that guy. Mean while Im supporting him by casting ice shards or blizzard.

 

[DanishDevil]

I'll have to try those out later. I started playing when I got up this morning and after playing for what seemed like a little bit, I realized that it was an hour before class and I needed to get my ass moving!

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

one thing about this game. You will lose time. Sit down at 6pm...play for a little bit, look up and its 10pm already..WTF!!

So I actually think that indicates a great game.

 

[DanishDevil]

I agree. I like getting lost in games.

 

[Kreij]

This is definitely a time warp game. It's also one of those games where you look at your watch, realize that you can only play for about 10 minutes more and then go back for a few minutes more. You are, of course, then late for where you had to go.

My SW is not 27th, has around 1600 hitpoints and his armor is around 800. He beats the sh!t out of monsters so fast that I actually run around and train them for a little excitement. I've given up summoning my undead helpers as they are too wicked and kill too much stuff before I can get a chance to fight them.

Favorite monster death quote of the day : "Dammit, I knew I was just an extra".

Okay Sacred 2 fans, everyone stop playing for 5 minutes and let's see some screenshots of your characters in their favorite poses.

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

what are you using for screen shots? Wait till you see my sexy elf chicks.

NVM found the How to capture convert and post game screen shots thread.

i will post after i get outa here.

 

[Kreij]

I save a screenshot using the printscreen button.
Go to the screenshot folder and open the TGA file in an photo program (I use Corel PhotoPaint), and save it as a JPEG, then use TPU Image Hosting to save it.

On Vista, Image folder is "Pictures/Ascaron Entertainment/Sacred2"

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

yeah...I figured it out. but thanks.

 

[DanishDevil]

You can have some pix of my demo character I'll do a regular SS and if I can find some more sexy clothes, a sexy shot

 

[Kreij]

yeah...I figured it out. but thanks.

Yeah, I know you did as your posts were updating realtime, but I posted the info for anyone else who might need to know.

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

well i still thanked you! lol

 

[Kreij]

You can have some pix of my demo character I'll do a regular SS and if I can find some more sexy clothes, a sexy shot

LOL ... No photoshopping the clothes off your character for Sacred 2 pr0n or our thread will get nuked.

 

[DanishDevil]

LOL don't worry, I won't.

I do have to say that one thing I love is that EVERY item that I've found so far with a different name looks different.

 

[Kreij]

I played the original Sacred and really liked it. The critics in the game biz said the same thing then as they did now, and that was that there are so many side quests (not related to the main storyline) that it obscures the story.
I really can't fathom how there can be "too many" side quests. That is what makes a game open-ended and gives you the freedom to persue the main storyline or not. There are some quests that you will not be able to continue until you open up sections of the game until you progress in the main storyline, but that is a nit.

I really think the devs have done a great job on this game, and if there is a Sacred 3 it will have a place reserved on my hard drive

Here's another shot of my SW "riding his girlfriend".

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

My ICE High Elf. Lvl 31

FIRE High Elf. Lvl 43

 

[DanishDevil]

I took a bunch of screens, but I needed to download a program to export them to JPEGs since Photoshop CS3 still needs a little *cough*work*cough*

 

[DanishDevil]

Download's corrupt. Meh.

On another note, I'm kinda torn between getting Sacred 2 and getting either Dungeon Siege 2 w/ expansions or getting Neverwinter Nights 2 with expansions. Metascores for both are higher (probably because of the bugs) and if a bug hits me at the right time, I won't play a game for a month. The price is really getting me, too. I'm having trouble finding Sacred 2 for under $40, while I could snag NWN2 or DS2 for under $15.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, S2 for $40 or NWN2 or DS2 for much cheaper?

EDIT: I sucked it up and bought it off steam.

 

[Kreij]

EDIT: I sucked it up and bought it off steam.

LOL ... you won't regret it. I have all of the games you mentioned above.
Both DS2 and NWN2 are good games, but are pretty linear.

There is another game I've been looking at called Loki. Looks kind of interesting, but again sounds kind of linear if you read through the features.

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

I took a bunch of screens, but I needed to download a program to export them to JPEGs since Photoshop CS3 still needs a little *cough*work*cough*

Download GiMP....its free/opensource and can export .tga files to just about any other extension.

http://www.gimp.org/

I played the hell outa Titan Quest + Expansion pack. I finished the game with almost every character class...It is a great game....but way more linear then SC2.

No comments on my bada55 elf??

Cool. Thats 1 more player. I would really like to get a TPU adventuring team going. Playing Co-Op or OpenNet free play.

 

[Mike0409]

Download GiMP....its free/opensource and can export .tga files to just about any other extension.

http://www.gimp.org/

I played the hell outa Titan Quest + Expansion pack. I finished the game with almost every character class...It is a great game....but way more linear then SC2.

No comments on my bada55 elf??

Cool. Thats 1 more player. I would really like to get a TPU adventuring team going. Playing Co-Op or OpenNet free play.

Gimps a good program, free too.

Lol the elf look's cool.

So I should of been making an Open character all these times instead of a closed character eh?

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

No, thats cool that you have a closed net. I have a level 1 character in closed net, just my friends and I play pretty much on open net. I think the main reason is you can transfer items from single player and other open net characters....so you get a guy that has a lot of cash starting out and quicker access to good items the other characters can drop off.

I guess closed net is more of purest type mode. The ultimate purest is Closed Net on HardCore Mode. In HC mode there is no starting over or resurection. Once your character is dead, thats it, game over. I was reading some peoples post on a sacred2 forum, who you could tell were almost literally crying that their 82nd level character had just died.

 

[Mike0409]

No, thats cool that you have a closed net. I have a level 1 character in closed net, just my friends and I play pretty much on open net. I think the main reason is you can transfer items from single player and other open net characters....so you get a guy that has a lot of cash starting out and quicker access to good items the other characters can drop off.

I guess closed net is more of purest type mode. The ultimate purest is Closed Net on HardCore Mode. In HC mode there is no starting over or resurection. Once your character is dead, thats it, game over. I was reading some peoples post on a sacred2 forum, who you could tell were almost literally crying that their 82nd level character had just died.

Lol ouch...yeah I'll take closed without Hardcore then.

 

[Kreij]

I was just thinking that Closed/HC sounded like fun! I think the risk of perma-losing the character makes games much more exciting. Although it does tend to induce a lot more swearing.

@ZZZ : Both of your elves are awesome. Nice job giving them a "style" (if you planned that). My seraphim has gotten pieces that are so different that she looks like a walking freak show. I usually go for function over asthetics, but who cares it's a game. I've been trying to get my SW to look a little more like he planned his outfit.

When he's on his mount he now has over 2K hitpoints.
I was doing the main story in the caves under the seraphim island and it was so boring as nothing down there was giving decent XP for his level and they were so easy to kill it actually started to just be tedious. Not to fear ! I finished that up and moved on to much more challenging territories

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

All I know for sure is in HC mode things you didn't value suddenly become important. For instance Run Speed. Run Away, Run Away!!


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