Actual Sandbox RPG's Like Kenshi are Rare, But Soulash 2 is Looking Ambitious 

Yeah i'm with you on this. It's a symbol not a traditional character image, like the local area objects have actual images so it's weird to not give the player one.

absolutely. It seems like a good choice to save that for closer to a final release

100% the coin portraits are so much worse then the last game

The coin portraits are so unbelievably ugly

100% agreed I loved the first game I'm sure there just place holders since a lot of races and creatures are still missing I bet they'll add all of the old races as monsters to fight, Artur does great work and it a obvious great idea.

idk bout yall but having played dnd before i didnt notice nor care about the tokens being portraits havin some sprite art that gets customized with the character would be cool, but the game already give so much to get bogged down in the details of how your creativity is displayed especially when mods will exist just like soulash 1

That's fair, I'll play it regardless. I put a tonne of time in SA1. I haven't even dipped into mods for the original. Are there any that you would recommend?

@@krelekari I have played DnD since my first deployment in 09 and still do and it is always more fun with all our cool painted figures than when we didn't have them and had to use place holders

I honestly hate the token characters :( It has no personality

@@krelekari I played dnd using erasers as characters, but i really dont like tokens. I dont care about having a complex animated character either, but tokens just feel unnatural

Thanks for the info!

heh basically what i wrote, except i added SL 1s sprites were much better than big head mode.

Same. Like c'mon I'm sure AI could take a single sprite and shit out an entire sprite sheet for that character

@@gloaming4247 an ai would make a better comment than that up ya game

@@throeawae2130 looks like we found the guy who made the coinheads. My comments are free that vidya game isn't.

Gameplay and story have to come first. Without that, graphics only sucker you into an awful grind. Graphics can be added later, same with balancing. That's part of polishing after the game is fleshed out

Ulfsire ( Path of Achra dev, who is also a great guy ) is a big fan, and views the first one as an essential of its generation of randomly generated open-world roguelikes. PoA has amazing pixel art and fun fast roguelike gameplay, but the story is just go kill all the things in the next area.

The thing is if they were actually placeholders I would expect the dev to tell Splat when sending him this demo so he can make a video on it. I can't believe they wouldn't mention it.

Heh, heh. I don't remember that. But then, I probably just never figured it out.

... precious? my man, i hope you dont talk like that irl. weenie cringe af

it's so not the same thing but try checking out some of the fallen london games, like sunless seas/skies.

Don't get it twisted. This is the game and the game loop gets boring quickly.

I hope modders can fix the game but that's a big ask.

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​@@jessl1934That other person must've dirty deleted, so the lack of context connecting my black kitty to socialism is absolutely wild lmao

It's not nearly as much like Kenshi as I'd hoped. But I'm still waiting as patiently as I can for Kenshi 2. :)

@@Bill_Garthright agreed, but it does look promising. i hope the coins get replaced with actual sprites. i'm right there with ya on Kenshi 2 though. :)

Real though, even if its just pixel sprites seeing my character in some way is bigg part of the experience for me

Seems to be a recurring trend with this dev. The first soulash was also ambitious and have great potential but ultimately lacking in depth/polish

It's only a demo at the moment

full release wont have different graphics. thats how soulash 1 looked too and it uses the same engine. thats a game for people who like deep video game mechanics and have enough imaginiation to fill in the gaps left by the graphics.@@dawggydawgtown

Agreed

@@dawggydawgtown yeah, hopefully they do more with it.

Agreed

So, when are we going to get Kenshi 2, I wonder? I can't wait!

Who's gonna tell him

Beep is life

The big focus is you can totally conquer the world you want to or build Crazy monuments

Please, do not compare Adventure Mode to this, that is a sin.

Necromancy is planned and will be added during early access.

Have you heard of Dwarf Fortress?

As I recall, you can buy skills from NPCs. They're not too expensive, given that you can pick up stuff in villages and sell it back to them. :)

@@Bill_Garthright - Buying skills from NPCs only increases your maximum potential level in the skill, not the current level of the skill. So it's a huge grind to get that first level or two so that you can actually craft stuff, and there's no shortcut through it that I've found. Also, I think that means that if you're interested in Pyromancy, you *have* to take it as one of your chosen skills. Most skills allow you to grind up your first level, whether it be breaking down equipment that you find (Tailoring, Blacksmithing, Weaponcrafting), using a weapon in combat (all fighting abilities) or flinging yourself off of a hill repeatedly (Athletics). But the only way to increase Pyromancy is by using Pyromancy in combat.

@@BardMichaelKelly I see. Thanks. And yes, I always started with Pyromancy (along with Adventuring and Defense). Nothing else worked as well.

@@Bill_Garthright - My favourite start is probably Pyromancy, Adventuring, and Weaponcrafting - starting with a hammer. pickaxe, and waterskin. All of the combat skills are fairly easy to level up as soon as you pick up an applicable weapon type or shield, but I find that what is *hard* in this game is getting ahold of tools. With weaponcrafting, as soon as you can afford to buy some metal ingots, you can craft right from the start: - A knife for butchering corpses for vital food and bones/leather - A 1-handed bone axe for cutting down trees to get wood for craft-leveling your Adventuring skill - Tailor tools, for when you've broken down enough stuff to get your 1st level of Tailor or Leatherworking - A sickle, which lets you harvest wheat and cotton The only real tool that you can't craft at the beginning (and which is RIDICULOUSLY hard to get your hands on in general) is the pickaxe, because it's gated behind Lv16 Weaponcrafting. Which means that most of the toolmakers you meet out in the world don't have the skill to craft it. But if you start with Adventuring, you can have that and a waterskin right at the start. BTW, the easiest way that I've found to get that first level of carpentry and armourcrafting is to wait until you've got a couple of hundred $$$, find an NPC craftsman, and commission them to make about 20 of the cheapest thing that they know how to make, using the cheapest materials. Waiting to encounter that many things for you to break down out in the wild to earn your first level so that you can start crafting things to gain EXP can take a really long time.

@@BardMichaelKelly Very interesting. Thanks!

Lmao, when do you think that will be? After toady patches the bugs shtty ui that have been there since the dawn of time? I mean the games slogan among players literally is "losing tens of hours of progress to a rng event is !!!!FUNNNI!!!" I wouldnt expect many new players that havent been pushed off by the unnecessary UI and bloated features.

I really enjoyed the first one, it did have a pretty steep learning curve, the freedom to do anything was amazing, I have really high hopes for this one, just really hoping they add sprites at some point, it really makes a difference