How do you defeat the hydra, the guy regenerates, he has also good defence, I guess I could switch to warding rings, I am a warrior so I should be able to really do him in sharpish, but I just can't seem to do that without making things really bad.
If I focus on 1 tthing with everything I have I can basically bash him half in with 1 head but thats about it.
Everyone gets bashed up and then I die.
So what is needed to beat this boss, this is a boss a real big boss.

Hi.
Spoilers
I'm neutralicing the stones, I neutraliced the one in the Madranus Mausoleum, and the one in the Navincius Mausoleum. Where is the other? I'm searching but nothing.

Ok, Completed the main quest line with most of the other quests as well. Only wolf pelt is not working and update seems to break my game rather than fixing it.

Hey, an error occured when I tried starting the game.
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System.Exception: Could not find an event with the name snapshot music master

   at Ian.FModSoundContext.InnerGetEvent(String name, Boolean throwErrorIfMissing) in C:\Data\Recent\Games\Sound\FModSoundContext.cs:line 666

   at Ian.FModSoundContext.Init() in C:\Data\Recent\Games\Sound\FModSoundContext.cs:line 78

   at Ian.AHM.LoadFromDisk(IGameWorld ent) in C:\Data\Recent\Games\GameEngine\AudioHelperMethods.cs:line 274

   at Ian.RPGStartup.InitWorld(RPGWorld ent, String adventureFolder, CombinedFile cf) in C:\Data\Recent\Games\RPG\RPGStartup.cs:line 207

   at Ian.RPGStartup.RunMainLogic() in C:\Data\Recent\Games\RPG\RPGStartup.cs:line 104

   at Ian.RPGStartup.PerformStandardStartup() in C:\Data\Recent\Games\RPG\RPGStartup.cs:line 21
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hi,
So are the skills learned random in this game? Liams magical characters don't seem to have learned area magical attacks just yet, despite being midlevel. The demo had moves like choking darkness and breath of death.

A couple of questions. First, can someone offer some tips on getting through the heart of the forest maze, i get lost pretty easy. And second, do necromancers in this game get to summon corpses or not. Thanks.

hi,

@cw

the perspective is from the first-person point of view. Right now, the game only uses audio, but in a later mayor update the graphics will be enabled as well. So the sighted computerusers can play by vision. This is in my oppinion the best take-off to release a game wich sighted and visually impaired people can play on an equal footing.

Hope this awnsers your questions a bit

greetz mike

I'll keep non-spoiler/pro-tip things first.

To those having trouble playing after updating, this is a Windows file permissions issue. We're trying to see if there's anything we can do about it on our end, but thus far it looks like it all has to do with where you locate the game. For best results we recommend installing on your local drive, not a removable drive, and in something like Documents or your Desktop, not Program Files. Hopefully we'll have some fixes for this soon so you won't have to worry about it though.

SpiralingWyvern: Sounds like you're a pro at this. Nice job on those pointers.

@Trajectory, #396: You've hit on a couple of important points here. The balance between giving players enough information to be useful, but not so much that it's burdensome, is one we strove for at all levels of designer nd it's always hard to find. Your point about the in-sight list is a good example. I suspect that if we included bearings for those items, some players would b happy, but others would be irritated as they would essentially have to listen to twice as much text. We erred on the side of less information here, since you can snap to those items and then check their bearing that way. In locations such as the forest, also remember that you can use the top-down map to search for openings in the "maze" walls.

Here's how my process would go in a situation like you described. I scan and hear that there are some skeletal remains, a Deepwood ranger, and a bandit cache. So I hit ctrl + A or d to snap around. First thing I see is twenty tiles away and there are multiple lines of brambles between me and it...well, I'm not going there, too much work. I snap again and find a bandit cache eight tiles away in a Rock Outcropping, and there are brambles between me and it. Great! Now I'm going to note the heading toward the item....it's Northwest of me? Cool. I am on a trail that heads east and west, so I'm going to face west and set off, listening for an opening to my north (my right, if I'm heading west). One of a few things will happen:

1. I will hear an opening that leads directly into that area where the cache is. I pass through it, use ctrl + A or D again to face the container, and walk up to it uninterrupted.

2. I hear an opening that leads me to a north/south trail along either side of the area the cache is in. If I couldn't find an opening on the east/west path I was on, I'll head north into this new trail, listening for openings on the proper side and, once I find it, proceed as described in the step above.

So the trick is, I'm not trying to find the container, per se. I'm orienting myself to the general location of the container, and then I'm trying to find a way into the area the container is in. Does that make sense? I think I'll do a more detailed navigation demo sometime once things slow down a little—maybe hearing me walk through this process will give folks some skills they can use. Obviously I have a lot more practice with this navigation system than most of you.

Regarding forward scan while moving NPCs are involved, which I think you may have alluded to but I'm not sure, that's one area where we've always been dissatisfied, but haven't yet been able to find a more elegant solution. Hopefully we'll come up with something for a future patch.

You made a great discovery with the wolf dens, and I'm kicking myself for not noticing it before—these sounds don't attenuate with distance. There's a good reason why, but I won't go into it here. Will try to get this changed in our next content patch.

***Spoilers and pro-tips below this point***

@Jayde #392: Some of when you will learn skills depends upon what other skills you learned, and when you learned them. However in general, units will learn their top-level skills no earlier than the upper twenties. What level is Gwen? There are definitely some fire skills you've yet to learn. As for Holy Warrior, I won't give you too much information—just that this is not a skill Alexia can learn through leveling up.

@BlindNinja#397: Congrats on beating the main story. Regarding romance...maybe you just weren't nice enough to anyone? I wouldn't write off the possibility of finding love, after just one play-through...

Yeah, there's definitely romance of sorts in the game. My character and Gwen are practically a couple at this point. I've even made them an ice mage and a fire mage, respectively, so they've got that cool ice and fire combo going on as well.
Anyway, I'm off to have a second try at the final boss.

@joseph Well I do in general try to be as nice as possible in any game I play, perhaps it's time for another run though.
Possible spoilers though.
I'm curious, is there a point at which classes stop learning new skills? I was debating whether or not to continue doing some grinding before a new game, restart keeping the same class or trying something else, but then there in also lies the question, what happens for the skills of the new class if you do pick something else in a new game plus? One thing I do find odd though is that Matthias has like 15 expertise that he can do nothing with at the moment, I'm wondering if I missed something important.

hi @SLJ what would be best for running the game on a virtual then on Mac? i'm not very techy so you'll have to tell me what to use lol

I have a few feature requests. I think these would be beneficial to anyone using a controller, which, I know, there probably aren't that many, but here goes anyway.

It would be nice to be able to re-order your attacks and abilities because when using a controller, you don't have access to the first letter nav, unless you want to keep awkwardly reaching for the keyboard. So sometimes you have to go down 5 or 6, and its 4 or 5 to wrap around from the bottom and go up due to the common ones available to all party members, like use item, rest and retreat.

The second one would be to optionally allow the player the ability to arrange their abilities in a grid, similar to the pokémon games. Really either that or the one above would do nicely. So you could have two columns maybe, and you could use right and left to get between them.

I would also love to see a favorites list both in and out of battle. This would transcend the barrier between characters, making any of their skills available. Currently, on the controller, click left stick does nothing,so maybe it could be layered like click the stick, then press the dpad in any direction to access that slot. You would then have a favorites menu where you could add or remove favorites.

And finally, the ability to walk as well as run when using the controller by just varying the amount you press the stick forward. Though I see a potential problem with this as looking at keys.config or whatever that file is called, these actions are separate and so, I thought of trying to combine them, i.e. put them both on the left stick, but it probably would cause a conflict, or cause unpredictable behavior, so I didn't.

Anyway, you guys have a hell of a product, and you guys have been doing an amazing job of answering questions both here and on twitter from lots of people, and I know things are hectic and crazy. So even if none of this ever comes to be, I still love the game and appreciate the hard work you guys have put, and continue to put into it, and making sure everyone has a good experience.