Argh, no one told me about SOUL HUNGER! (NWN2 Expansion)

[MrAngryFace]

Its like adding a time limit to a game! I LIKE to rest

Not every new feature in Mask of the Betrayer is a home run. The game's most controversial addition is undoubtedly the spirit hunger that consumes your character. This hunger acts like a drug addiction, and it can be completely frustrating at first because the mechanics are confusing. Basically, your character has to consume spirits (essentially souls) to stay healthy and alive. Consume too many spirits too quickly, and you become more addicted and the effects of eating souls are shorter and shorter lived. The easier path is to suppress and satiate your hunger, which is basically the good path. But if you play an evil character, you have to consume spirits, so it becomes a vicious cycle in which you spend most of your time worrying about your spirit level. It's too bad that developer Obsidian doesn't let players opt out of this mechanic entirely. As it is, you have to carefully manage your every move, given that acts such as resting and travel will only drain the meter more quickly. This hunger system is probably a boon to hardcore role-playing fans who enjoy making tough decisions, but those who enjoyed NWN2 as a fun romp are apt to be frustrated.

[Fragamemnon]

I like the spirit hunger-it holds back rest spamming and actually adds a sort of urgency to finding a cure. It does stop ticking down while in conversation, and if you're just messing with inventory you can just pause.

Anyway, if you want to play it right, it's pretty much supress near spirits to get craving down to a minimum-that will reduce the amount of spirit energy consumed per unit of time, and consume a spirit every other "day" or so to keep it up. Eventually you're going to get into a FUBAR zone every so often where you need to NOM NOM NOM on your XP, it's not so bad and fills you all the way up.

If you just don't want to have to deal with it, bring down the console using tilde and hit this in:

rs ka_se_points_set(100.0)

That should fill the meter up.

It is a contraversial thing to add to this kind of game, but I think it has the effect of both not making people rest after every fight (which is unecessary for a properly equipped high level party anyway) and adding to the overall effect of "if you don't find a way to get this thing excised, you're fucked".

[MrAngryFace]

Drinky said there's a mod to remove rest from the equation, and I need rest. Thats how I play Im a scrub

Its not so much that I NEED to rest, but I just think if I CAN prepare, why not?

[TVC15]

I swear to god, Frag, they have to be adding this shit to give people reasons to write off the game!  Obsidian has to be some Producers-esque intentional flop scheme!

[MrAngryFace]

Ill give it a go if the mod works. I just wanna be able to rest. Already bought my copy anyway!

[TVC15]

Ill give it a go if the mod works. I just wanna be able to rest. Already bought my copy anyway!

Oh, I am sure the mod works fine.  I just question why they thought this was a good idea in the first place.  If they thought this was a good idea, I am surprised they somehow didn't realize that by their standards, adding a few escort missions would make the game EVEN BETTER!

[MrAngryFace]

Why does insomniac think I wanna break crates and have bolts fly at me for 7 games?

[T234]

where are the other 2 gamez man?

[MrAngryFace]

Oh theyre probably waiting in the wings

[TVC15]

I'm telling you they changed the bolt noise in the new game.  It is REVOLUTIONARY.

[Van Cruncheon]

in future games you will get a sixaxis(tm)-enabled waggle gravity control to control bolt flight arcs