Eschalon: Book I Released!

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Man, I'm LOVING this. There's nothing like a bit of grave robbing by torchlight!

I nearly messed up as I didn't go to the cemetary, I headed north and kept getting killed in the marshes or by thugs, but then I figured it out and since then it's been ACE.

I have some more suggestions (I know the game is finished, and you probably aren't going to touch it any more but here goes):

1) It would be great if when attacking a for (or a barrel/door to break it) you could just hold down the mouse button and it would keep on hitting. This is to avoid lots n lots of mouse clicks
2) Why oh why doesn't water show up on the map? You can't pass it, yet it's green like traversible terrain Maybe the map changes as I get more skil? ...
3) Couple of your scroll bars could really do with a little dragging bit in the middle (between the up/down arrows) - this also indicates where you are in the list.
4) Escape exits a shop, great, but it doesn't follow the exit cases in the conversation, I have to click those manually. This would be a neat little optimisation and surely can't be too hard?

Anyway this is great, such an achievement. Best of luck with it.

Now some tips for the beginners (no spoilers):

1) Get at least one skill point in cartography (or more). You won't regret it! Without mapping the game is hard.
2) Get a ranged weapon! (you need skill points to use it) I've been ganged up on too many times and killed. I now love picking them off at range until they are close, switching to sword and hacking them, and if they run I simple switch back to arrows - cool!
3) Don't deviate from where the quest tells you to go (at for the first few hours) or you'll get mashed.
4) but tons of torches like >10. It's no fun being stuck in a dark crypt...

That'll do for now.