My gripe with this game...

[Jorath Calar]

After playing this game for a week... I also tend to university, and I'm a little busy there so I'm still in chapter 1... But after a week of playing this awesome game, I had been waiting to get for over a year... I have so far only find one thing that annoys me to no end... Barrels... boxes, remains, chests and all these other placeable you have to be endlessly chcking... ugh, and if I pass one by I get this nagging fear that I might be missing a grand tresure, so I go back and check the box... and find 1 goldcoin. Grrr.

Can someone tell me if it is really worth it checking them all... do you? is there ever anything good in them?

[9_1_6]

Well it depends on what location you are at. Most of the time, I get portions and scrolls and rings and money and etc. However, I get really good loot if the chest is near a boss character. But I think, it really depends on your luck what you get. It's random.

[andrewas]

Chests are random, occasioanly theres a fixed treasure, but mostly its random. The script generates loot in the chest when its first opened, and the loot is somewhat tailored to your class and matched to your level. So a monk will find more shuriken and kamas than a mage would, and at high level youll find more neat stuff. No harm is skipping some of them, you should wind up with decent enoug gear anyway. But you might be hard pressed to afford new gear and/or potions and recall if you skip too many.

[Stratos]

Yes it's a bit annoying with all those boxes and barrels. It would be better if they had much fewer of these in the game but with more valuable loot in them. Even if you just find a few gp it's adds up to alot of money after searching 1000+ barrels.

As 9-1-6 posted the best treasure are found in chests near bosses or other difficult enemies so you don't really have search them all if you don't feel like. Just be aware that a chest near a boss isn't a guarantee that the loot will be good. I've found plenty of more or less worthless crap in those kind of chests which on top of that had a trap that almost killed you on it. Life can be so hard sometimes.

You can of course save before opening one of those chests and if you don't like what you've found: Reload. This only works for random treasure chests.

[ 09-18-2003, 12:04 PM: Message edited by: Stratos ]

[Luvian]

If you don't open all containers you will miss some quests items.

[Attalus]

LOL, I opened a barrel in the City Core and found a Sash of Shimmering. But, if you reload often enough, it might get better.

[wellard]

Originally posted by Jorath Calar: I have so far only find one thing that annoys me to no end... Barrels... boxes, remains, chests and all these other placeable you have to be endlessly chcking... ugh, and if I pass one by I get this nagging fear that I might be missing a grand tresure, so I go back and check the box... and find 1 goldcoin. Grrr. Can someone tell me if it is really worth it checking them all... do you? is there ever anything good in them?

This is anoying the crap out of me too. How can I roleplay a paladin while breaking in to chests and opening barrels every second?

I guess it might be good for a bard/ theif character though.

[Luvian]

Originally posted by wellard: quote: Originally posted by Jorath Calar: I have so far only find one thing that annoys me to no end... Barrels... boxes, remains, chests and all these other placeable you have to be endlessly chcking... ugh, and if I pass one by I get this nagging fear that I might be missing a grand tresure, so I go back and check the box... and find 1 goldcoin. Grrr. Can someone tell me if it is really worth it checking them all... do you? is there ever anything good in them?

This is anoying the crap out of me too. How can I roleplay a paladin while breaking in to chests and opening barrels every second?

I guess it might be good for a bard/ theif character though. [/QUOTE]You have divine autority to defeat evil in all it's form. This give you the right to investigate for evil everywhere, including in locked chests. It also give you the right to confiscate anything for your cause.

[ 09-19-2003, 12:48 AM: Message edited by: Luvian ]

[Andraste]

I played a thief. I think I made more cash selling the recovered traps than from the contents - except the +5 bracers of dexterity that I picked up in an ordianary chest, nowhere special, were pretty useful.

I'd say that about 1 chest in a hundred is worth opening. Maybe, when you level up, since it is level related, you should do the reload/reopen thing on the first 10 chests, until you're happy you've got most of what's on offer, and then forget the rest.

[wellard]

Originally posted by Luvian: quote: Originally posted by wellard: This is anoying the crap out of me too. How can I roleplay a paladin while breaking in to chests and opening barrels every second? I guess it might be good for a bard/ theif character though.

You have divine autority to defeat evil in all it's form. This give you the right to investigate for evil everywhere, including in locked chests. It also give you the right to confiscate anything for your cause. [/QB][/QUOTE]LOL would this stand up in a court of law? [img]tongue.gif[/img] "but your honour, Luvian said I could, right here on this permission slip" [img]graemlins/laugh2.gif[/img]