According to "melee range" + "triggering an attack of opportunity" I will just add an essential thing which is important to know I suppose: At least during Turn Based Mode - when you are in melee range you can step out/disengage of that melee range without triggering an attack of opportunity against you = using the 5 feet move action instead of the ordinary move action. Either by using the 5F Button on the action bar or by using the right mouse button for performing the move action instead of the left mouse button. So during Turn Based Mode - when for instance your spellcaster/ or your ranged fighter got engaged by a mellee fighting opponent now standing right next to him in his melee range then your spellcaster/ranged fighter can disengage from his melee range with performing that mentioned 5 feet move action without getting hit by an attack of opportunity and then he can perform savely his spellcasting attack/range attack ( because he isn´t in the mellee range of the opponent anymore) at that same turn. For playing Real Time with Pause when everyone on the battlefield is acting simultanously that is obviously obsolet because it is simply not possible to perform

I just want to add something that might help people cope with not playing on the hard settings. With many games, the higher difficulty settings essentially force you to play a more narrow version of the game. This means fewer abilities will work, fewer compositions will work, and you will not be able to have as much creative choice in your game. I have found the most fun to be had with strategy-oriented games is to play them on Normal for a first play through, and then increase the difficulty a little once you know how the game works. You'll get much more enjoyment out of it. I used to play Civ 5 on Deity and the Total War games on Legendary, but I soon realized that I was mostly just using one of a few optimal strategies in order to beat the game. And that's not fun because you're just following a formula to win instead of having fun.

Yeah, those higher difficulties should probably be unlockable after the first playthrough. Indeed, the phrasing "familiar with the pathfinder system" is not discouraging, as that can be interpreted as "understanding the combat logs". What you have said, which is more correct, is "metagame knowledge".

Very nice video. there is 1 class however, that i would personally add to the "good beginner classes" as a main char (fairly high up even). Feyspeaker Druid. For those reasons: Gets an animal Companion from level 1. Since animal Companions are the strongest thing for new players in this game, i think that is a big plus. and while druid is probably the weakest of the 3 casters (arcane, clerics, druids), he is the best in buffing his animal companion. and since the animal companions are so good, that's even more of "so good". they also at least have some decent spells. the AI for example seems pretty bad in handling swarms. sometimes the ai flatout doesnt seem to know how to kill them lol. there are some other decent druid spells also. druid in addition is totally fine as a pure class too. feyspeaker in addition adds some illusion and entchantment spells from the arcane line, which is not too bad. and finally, feyspeaker uses charisma instead of wisdom to cast, making it a good "face/talker" for your party. which i usually like for my main character. i am the center of attention afterall! :D druid just isnt a good meta class. but for a first normal/challange run, i think it fits really well. Oh and also, there is no NPC druid in the game. i like being unique.. which makes paladin and druid a good choice for me.

Excellent video...a really much needed one. I enjoyed Bladur's Gate 1-2 to the max but I was completely taken aback by the complexity here. Greetings, fellow European.

I wish they had the chance to flesh out kingmaker more. I actually prefer its setting to Wrath of the righteous, but it's undeniable how much more depth Wrath of the righteous has

I still remember spider cave giving everyone problems

Thanks for this video got this game a few years ago and i didnt play it at first for whatever reason. Getting back into it now is hard since there is so much depth. Your video has helped alot.

I was pressing F5 since you posted the first EP. from Kingmaker, just waiting for something more. Mate, i really like you. Your voice, your accent. I love the content, i wachetd the PoE walkthrough. Now your voice is like a safe spot for me. I like to hear yuo when i'm anxious , or trying to sleep. It may sound weird ... but actually is a giant praise for you and your work. Greets from Brasil =D

Can't wait to tune into this later! Thanks so much for taking the time to put this together.

Very informative video. I've played cRPG's like Pillars of Eternity before but the Pathfinder system is so overwhelming and complex, it was driving me crazy. It's still so weird that armor/accessory pieces don't stack; I usually love to customize the looks of any character in an rpg. Anyways, thank you for the video!

Thanks. In-depth and easy to understand. Thanks to your accent which funnily makes your speech pattern easy to listen to.

Thank you for the great guide! Appreciated it!

Awesome guide, thank you.

Thank u for the guide. I’m quite new to cRPG. My 1st one was DOS2. Haven’t finished it as I’m not really liking the story and companions. Like the combat though. Then BG3 came out. Love it. At act 3 now. The story is just OK for me. Looking for other cRPG now, and stumbled on pathfinder. Playing Kingmaker now. Wow! I love the story and companions. I also like that it has RTWP as well as turn based. I don’t mind the kingdom management, in fact I quite like it as it sort of makes the story more focused. I’m quite familiar with basic rules of D&D now. Gonna dive deep into D&D now, and I feel like pathfinder has lots of depths to it.

Love this content! Had the game istalled for quite some time now, but only played about 20 hours. I love brewing character builds, but honestly I got a bit overwhelmed by this game. Also the timed quests and kingdom management weren't to my tastes. But I'm getting in the mood by watching your videos.

Very good guide, thanks

Well done!

Great video. Thanks.

Oh my, those hares in and about the sycamore tree are huge, almost human size. I bet they hunt people for food regularly. :)

This is great. I wish I had had such a detailed guide when I started playing this game way back in 2018. I knew D&D, and thought Pathfinder was just D&D with a few tweaks. Man, was I wrong. It took me two playthroughs to learn enough to make a party fit for the "hard" difficulty. Never did the final boss on "hard" even so.

It tells a lot about the game, when the new player guide is over two hours long :D Great video, answered a lot of the "wtf is going on" questions, thank you for that. I started playing this game after Rogue Trader, and while there are no "obviously bugged" abilities and stuff like in Rogue Trader, the number of hidden or not obvious interactions between mechanics is absurd. At least, for someone not familiar with pathfinder or old dnd mechanics. One thing I recently learned is that for Magus, I didn't realise at first that spellstrike and spell combat adds ANOTHER melee attacks. And it seems like the way to go. BUT THEN I learned that if you turn it off you get 1.5 melee damage bonus as "you use a one handed weapon with two hands". Maybe I didn't notice it in the game descriptions, but it is so not obvious and adds another decision you need to keep in mind (probably at some higher levels turning off spellstrike and spell combat would yield higher damage). The resurrection scrolls and spell specify that you would get "negative levels" as debuff, and you would need higher level stuff for that not to happen, but... It's just not in the game I guess, you resurrect without debuffs. Coup de grace is a good way to kill enemies that require some kind of special damage to kill them (trolls, troll dogs, some kind of lizard that required cold iron weapon to finish him off). And there's a lot of obscure stuff like that for new player. Honestly, just talking about mechanics and balance, I enjoyed the Rogue Trader more. No pre-buffing mess, much harder to "fail" at the game on just building your characters, much better balance (I won't even start on how infuriating some encounters are in Kingmaker, if you don't know they are coming). Rogue Trader just needs balancing starting from mid-game. Before that, it's just spot on, you can overcome difficult encounters with just changing your strategy or different approach, experiment, rather than finding the "proper way" to the fight. I traveled the entire map in act 2 in Rogue Trader and never encountered anything that I cannot overcome, it was just a bit challenging in a good way on max difficulty. Tried the same (traverse the whole map) in act 2 of Kingmaker and oh boy... Rogue Trader though becomes obscenely easy later on even on max difficulty, the class balance needs to be addresed. Officer + arch-militant, getting insane armor via operative, virtually unkillable melee tanks and Cassia (lol). Not to say I don't like Kingmaker, it's just very rough for newcomers. And this turned out to be a very large comment, I didn't plan on that at first :D

Thanks allot Core, I finished POE 1 with your help.

Thank you so much for your videos I've learned so much from various games from your channel. One question I have, is there a class in kingmaker that is similar to the Warlock class from dnd? I am about to finish bg2 and want to play kingmaker next.

Good video Coredumped. This game is based on Pathfinder 1e. Which is very different from the latest version of pathfinder. Pathfinder 2e. Pathfinder 1e is a derivative of DnD3e.

You probably were thinking of neverwinter nights when stacking mage armour with armour.

Tack!

I have a love hate relationship ship with this game. I love the premise, the music is amazing and the 3.5 style gameplay is great but the writing in execution is lacking in many areas especially towards the late game. Miss rolling characters thought point buy are too min-maxy. At least there is a mod for that in WOTR. The late game combat also has lot of problems with even on unfair combat ending in 2-4 rounds difficult to handle as it's quite boring compared to TOB scs. I will say the best combat I had was Varnhold'sdifficulty

Love your accent! :D

Really great video you put together, but just so you know, the "C" in "CRPG" stands for "Computer" not "Classic"

Man, i bought this game 3 days ago and i fell in love with it, its so much better than divinity sin2 ! Your guide is so good you went over all the points i was a bit confused about.

Great video 🚦🚦really helped 💯🤝🏾but lol… 1:05:50

Awesome information! Can we go over weapons and armor? I think some of that can be a bit confusing, for me at least.

Just wonderfull as usual with your explanation like in general in your videos. Thanks a lot. I have always wanted to play this type of game but it was so difficult that I always died. Thanks to you, now I can continu the advendure with understandind the game a lot more even if I have so much more to learn. I just asking myself about difficulty, I always choose the normal difficulty (as I am a big beginner) but I change some of the features to normal like critical ennemy, normal ennemy without minus or bonus. Is it a good idea? Because if I leave the normal difficulty with some feature that downgrade the ennemy, for me it's like cheating with the rule. What's your opinion? Again, thanks to you to be so helpfull and continu to happy us!!!

Using Jubilost for the thumbnail is so fitting.

Playing through this game for the first time recently. Ended up restarting like 5 times after learning more about character building 😂 my biggest tip is… SNEAK ATTACK. Man it is so strong and busted if you build for it properly! And easy to pull off.

At 1:31:00 you mention that the character can only do sneak attack damage because the target they were attacking was being flanked. Does attacking directly from stealth not offer a sneak attack like other games, and it can only be done through flanking?

I’ve never played a CRPG before and with this level of difficulty/complication I’m not going tostart playing now.

How do u typically use grease? I find it annoying because the allies end up falling prone as well.

there's no concept of going hidden like in pillars of eternity or hide in shadows like in infinity games?

How do I get my characters to hit something? Took 35 Alc Fire into the first cave and it took 32 to kill 4 spider swarms. Really not having fun.

Epá... topa-se a pronúncia á milha

Huh, I would not have recommended a paladin for the simple reason that virtually no enemies in Kingmaker are evil.

I played wotr quite a bit, but I can't stand the companions/dialogue. Too childish fanfic. Wonder if this is better. I've been on pillars 1 which I enjoy quite a bit and liked your video for it

How strange, you usually make this type of videos after the last chapter of the game.