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BasiliskWrangler wrote: Gallifrey points out two finishable quests in the demo, but there are 5-6 quests in all that you can get within the demo- you just can't finish all of them all because some of the solutions lay outside the boundaries of the demo and you must buy the full game to finish them.
Right, I neglected to mention that. Typing in a hurry and all that. :)
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Post by gragnak »

Thanks both.
Good new infos.
Now I'll send a terror squad to Gallfrey's home to get the demo.....

jokes apart, thank for your patience Gall.
Good work
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Follow-up question: are helmets/hats shown on the main character at all? In other words, is it the case that:

1) there is no slot for helmets/hats (i.e., there are none in the game)

2) there is a slot for helmets/hats but they are never actually shown on the character due to graphics limits

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3) You just did not get a chance to see them but helmets/hats are in the game and *do* show graphically.

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Post by BasiliskWrangler »

Yes, there's a helm slot, but caps and a light helmets don't show on the on-screen character. Full helms and heavy head armor will show on your character, but I'm pretty sure Gallifrey didn't find any in the demo.
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BasiliskWrangler wrote:Yes, there's a helm slot, but caps and a light helmets don't show on the on-screen character. Full helms and heavy head armor will show on your character, but I'm pretty sure Gallifrey didn't find any in the demo.
What about the kinds of skull-caps/hoods/pointy cones that a wizard might wear?

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Yes, wizard hats show up on your character.
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No, I only saw light helms and caps. But now I'm gonna buy me a wizard hat!
:D
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BasiliskWrangler wrote:Yes, wizard hats show up on your character.
Oh yaaa. Now I will love this game even more than I would already have loved this game! :wink: 8)
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Oh yaaa. Now I will love this game even more than I would already have loved this game!
Yep, wizard hats will do that. :wink:
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I can see having even a heavily armed brawling warrior in a wizard hat, just *because*.
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Post by Gothmog »

Ja ja....those wizard hats :lol:
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Ok, the wizard hat looks pretty cool :D

I just wanted to add a bit about environmental sounds, they are very well done. Traveling through the forest there are birds (I think I may have not really noticed them since I have a lot of birds around my house and my office has a window open* to the backyard...), bridges creak when you walk across them and water trickles by beneath. You hear your footsteps change depending on terrain as well.

*an open window guarded by Basilisk Goons (TM) so don't think of trying anything funny :evil:
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What about environmental interaction?
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Could you be more specific?
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Post by Rollor »

Arhh!! I have been brewing on post like this just for lol's .. damn :(

Anyway nice report and Gallifrey was definetly a good choice :)

Im glad to hear about that mapping feature, cool :)
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