Arx Fatalis Character Creation
Home of the UnderdogsBy ThemeBy AlphabetBy YearTitle SearchCompany SearchDesigner SearchGame #4159Arx FatalisRPG First-personRating: 9 ( 451 votes)Without a doubt one of the best RPGs I have ever played, Arx Fatalis is a highly underrated masterpiece by French developer Arkane Studios. In Arx Fatalis, Arkane has successfully combined the graphical pizzazz of 2002 technology with the in-depth gameplay from the heyday of computer gaming – let's say around the time of Looking Glass' Ultima Underworld.
Character creation in Arx Fatalis is simple, with both manual and automatic methods available. Only a few portraits are offered, though, and the protagonist is always male. The game supports four base statistics: Strength, Intelligence, Dexterity, and Constitution, as well as a number of skills, including Close Combat, Long Distance Weapons, Technical, Object Knowledge, Stealth, and several.
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- This option works in both, the hero creation menu and inside a game. Just use it when you think your hero is too weak or his strikes are too light etc. After using the option go to the character menu (by clickin on the book icon in the down right corner) and upgrade your hero just like in the beginning when you created your player).
If you are a fan of Looking Glass who thinks Ultima Underworld III will never see the light of day except in the form of because Looking Glass has gone defunct, your wait is over.The fantasy setting is both intriguing and perfectly explains the diversity of the game's underground environments. In this fantasy world populated by goblins, trolls and the other common RPG staples, humans have been driven to live deep underground since the planet surface is no longer habitable after the sun burned out. As you begin the game a prisoner with complete amnesia, the kingdom of Arx is facing a most dangerous threat: the evil god Akbaa is about to return, thanks to his fanatical followers. But before you begin performing heroic deeds, you must first find a way to regain your memory - and fill an empty stomach. Before you begin the game, you must first create a new character. This part strikes a good balance between statistics-heavy mode in hard-core RPGs, and simplistic hack 'n' slash. You can allocate points to different attributes such as strength, dexterity, etc., as well as dozens of skills that have impact on gameplay.The first thing you will notice after character creation is that Arx is a very good looking game.
Even when I play it on an Athlon notebook computer with standard DirectX but no 3D card, the graphics are nothing short of spectacular. The architectural designs of man-made structures such as the town of Arx and the Temple of Akbaa in particular are excellent. This is a lively world - a world full of people and creatures and monsters that you will want to revisit over and over again. The second thing you will notice is how 'transparent' the game interface is. Arkane Studios states that one of their goals in Arx is to never take the player 'outside' the main game window (e.g.
Switching to a 2D screen when you enter a shop), and they have succeeded in spades. You can perform every action in Arx in real-time, in the game proper, by a combination of keystrokes and mouse clicks. When you want to buy weapons from a blacksmith, for example, all you have to do is double-click on a chest in his store to see its contents, then drag the item you want to buy into your inventory, which is permanently displayed at the bottom of the screen. The cost of the item will be deducted from your gold total. Similarly, you can sell unwanted items by simply dragging the item from your inventory over to the blacksmith's chest. You can even repair your weapon by double-clicking it (the game's default for 'use' command) on the blacksmith (if you want him to fix it at a price), or on the anvil if you want to fix it yourself. This extremely intuitive, user-friendly interface allows the highest interactivity possible in a game, and helps maintain the incredible level of immersion in the gameworld.How about magic, you may wonder - won't the game have to take you out to a special casting screen to prepare the spells?
Here is yet another area where Arx Fatalis really shines. Similar to the spellcasting system in Black & White, you cast the spells with the innovative 'onscreen gesture based magic system'.
Keeping the left mouse button and a key pressed, you can draw runes in mid-air. A typical spell comprises 2-3 runes, so a series of these mouse gestures combine to create dozens of different spells.
This is a wonderful and intuitive system that more first-person RPGs should use.So the game succeeds in immersing you with gorgeous graphics and excellent interface - but that immersion would quickly dissipate had it failed to sustain your interest in the story. Fortunately, this is not the case: the plot evolves from the mundane 'I must regain my memory' to something much more dramatic, full of sub-plots, plot twists, and interesting characters each with their own agenda. The writing is excellent throughout, and the voice acting is quite good. There are many optional side quests in the game, and most of the quests can be successfully solved in at least two ways depending on the type of character you are playing (although I noticed that many quests can be solved very quickly if you play a thief, i.e. Have very high stealth skill).
If you want to finish all the side quests and see all there is to see including all the secrets, Arx Fatalis will easily take you over 100 hours to finish (although much of this time will be spent searching for shortcuts from the different levels).There are many more great things I can say about Arx Fatalis, but I will leave it to you to find out lest I spoil the surprises. It is too bad that Arkane did not receive permission from EA to label the game Ultima Underworld III - because this is exactly what it is (the game even has a hidden UW mode that you can reach by casting secret runes), down to the tiniest detail. Fans of Origin's classics will be delighted at the excellent attention to detail: everything you pick up has a weight, for example, and the ways you can interact with the environment are staggering: you can cook raw meat and fish, use the fishing pole to fish, bake cakes from raw ingredients, and combine different items to make new objects. Simply put, Arx Fatalis is the best dungeon romp I have played since well, since Ultima Underworld 2. If you love the kind of dungeon romp that completely immerses you into its world, you simply cannot miss Arx Fatalis. Two thumbs up, and an honored induction into our Hall of Belated Fame.Reviewed by: UnderdogsDesigner:UnknownDeveloper:Publisher:Year:Software Copyright:Arkane StudiosTheme:,Multiplayer:None that we know ofSystem Requirements:Windows XPWhere to get it:Related Links:Links:If you like this game, try.
. I think taking the magic route is the most fun. It's difficult at startup and you have to deal with the terrible UI for memorizing and casting spells but by early teens you'll be hovering, running really fast, throwing fireballs, slowing down time, summoning demons (or demonic chickens), and raising the dead. The best armor in the game can be found pretty early and it has really low strength requirements so I was a spell casting, heavy armored, sword wielding badass by the end. In one of the early dungeons you'll find something called an Akba stone or something to that affect. If you pick it up (and I recommend not doing so) DO NOT DROP IT!!!
It's required to reach the final boss and it's otherwise a seemingly useless item that takes up a big chunk of inventory. If you discard it, you'll have to find it. makes it play nice on modern systems and fixes some bugs.
If you're not going to be wizard enough to be able to cast Levitation yourself, be careful with levitation scrolls. You'll need it to reach some areas in the late game and some treasures earlier on. Everything will be a bit shaky at first until you make your way to the big human settlement and get a chance to stock up on supplies. Power through. It's not until you get there that you'll get reliable access to potionmaking, a wider range of spells, heavy armor, competent weapons of every type, and a broad range of consumables. Spellcasting is really funky until you understand it. It's not about making the glyph as the game shows it to you, it only cares about the corners.
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Your lines can be any length (shorter is faster and more reliable), you just have to pause a fraction of a second, and then start your next stroke at a clear angle to your last. There also several spells you can cast the game never directly tells you about.
You can look them up, but you can also discover them by figuring out the grammar and meaning of the spell runes and extrapolating from there. To beat the game you must find 5 Akbaa stones.
Three of them are located in the Temple of Akbaa, a dungeon you go through about midway through the game. If you pick the stones up then keep them in your inventory or drop them in an easily accessible location. All objects in this game have permanence so they'll stay wherever you drop them. Level 4 has a barrier blocking a cave.
This is the final dungeon and you shouldn't drop the barrier until you're ready. Within are two enemies, one of them will run away immediately and he has the fourth Akbaa stone. The fifth stone is in the final dungeon and can't be missed. Object Knowledge is the most important skill.
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It lets you equip better items and is the only means to identify magic. The most efficient tactic is to hold on to unidentified item until you level up then put enough points to identify what you currently have. Expect to get 70 if you want to identify everything.
Close combat is the second most important skill regardless of character build. 30 is optimal, 40 lets you equip everything. You'll want to work on getting 30 points in casting regardless of build. Fireball is a level 3 spell and the most useful for all characters.
8 strength lets you equip over half of the game's armor and weapons. 14 is the minimum strength to wield everything.