Tainted Grail The Fall of Avalon (Early Access)

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Tainted Grail The Fall of Avalon (Early Access)

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This is a first person medieval single player in the Morrowwind/Skyrim mold. The main quest is to actually get Excalibur (you can see it in the first town but it burns to the touch). I enjoyed the initial "naked in a prison cell" trope and crawl. Upon escape I felt a bit under powered, but eventually found rest spots and fast travel. It really took off for me when I found I could kite some strong enemies and get a few superior weapons. Supposedly at least another 9 months in development. But my play style is to do all quests and get maximum level, which takes me as much time as others typically spend on a whole game. So far 6/8 flaming arrows.
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Well I finished the first act in 37 hours and encountered a couple of major bugs:

There is a broken skill called Killer Instinct where you one shot every foe.

I found a save bug where it got stuck on the Save screen and you could only ESC out. After a few hours I tried a whited out save that said Level 0 and it worked. Otherwise that was a DNF.

Also irritating is a door in a dungeon that requires a "guard key" which is nowhere to be found. People on the Steam forum reported this as well. In the end I killed every guard in the keep and none of them had the key.
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I must have missed this posting for this game.Sorry Jaymann.

Saw some stuff on it today and wanted to reopen the thread and post a game play video from someone on YouTube. It reminds me of an old game called Arx Fatalis. I played and finished it along with Divine Divinity about a year after both has released.

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Is it an actual open world sandbox with significant side quests, exploration, and so on if you ignore the main quest (like Skyrim or Fallout 3/4)? Or does it force you to follow the main quest without any real reward for exploring the open world?
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Madmarcus wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2023 8:08 am Is it an actual open world sandbox with significant side quests, exploration, and so on if you ignore the main quest (like Skyrim or Fallout 3/4)? Or does it force you to follow the main quest without any real reward for exploring the open world?
Definitely the former, and I explored every nook and cranny of the open world before finishing the main quest.
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Jaymann wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2023 1:44 pm Definitely the former, and I explored every nook and cranny of the open world before finishing the main quest.
You are selling it well. :D
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I was debating getting this as I've dropped too much on other games with my new computer lately. But today I decided I was going to bite the bullet. I opened up the steam store...and saw that I already owned it. Apparently, when I backed the board game on kickstarter years ago, I was given pretty much everything with the words "tainted" and "grail". :shock:
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hepcat wrote: Sat Jun 03, 2023 10:12 am Apparently, when I backed the board game on kickstarter years ago, I was given pretty much everything with the words "tainted" and "grail". :shock:
Better than getting everything with the words "t'aint" and "gruel" :lol:
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those two are from a different kickstarter, so I'm covered.
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