Official Sword Coast Legends Thread

Digipact · 20 Oct 2015 at 15:09

It's getting very mixed reviews on steam, might give this a miss till it's in a sale. I do have a lot of games to play over these next few weeks anyway.

Zethor · 20 Oct 2015 at 20:13

Zethor said:
This game doesn't 'feel' like it will be a good one. I hope I'm wrong..

Called it..

dirtybeatfreak · 20 Oct 2015 at 21:20

ICEx21 said:
Because it doesn't have any depth to it and even combat is dull, loot is pretty crap as well and the skills are meh.

Agreed, been trying this out for the past couple of hours. Just can't get into it at all. Will persevere for a little longer but so far my review is also...meh

elmarko · 22 Oct 2015 at 11:34

dirtybeatfreak said:
Agreed, been trying this out for the past couple of hours. Just can't get into it at all. Will persevere for a little longer but so far my review is also...meh

Exactly my experience & based on my history of games it should be a sure fire thing for me.

NWN, Wastelands 2, Divinity, Dragon Age & many others are far better. I'm clearly not alone in this based off a very poor steam reviews overall - mixed is usually bad regardless of genre (when you see how well other games of this type review).

kola · 22 Oct 2015 at 12:40

Why panning the camera so rubbish ;/ Played it for 20 minutes couldn't take any more lol

FlamBango · 22 Oct 2015 at 12:58

kola said:
Why panning the camera so rubbish ;/ Played it for 20 minutes couldn't take any more lol

This! Played it for an hour or so last night in single player and having to use the keyboard to pan the screen around when you should just move the mouse to the edge is seriously annoying. It does feel very "lightweight" though and certainly no Pillars of Eternity.

The Bioware team did seem to lose their way a little after the heights of the BG series though and each following game dumbed down a little more, you can see theyve tried to go back to their roots here and not really made it.

Thankfully i got it cheap off CDKeys so im not feeling too hard done by and will carry on with it to see if it picks up later.

EXxx · 22 Oct 2015 at 13:21

yeah, played the single last night as well, for about an hour or so.
seems the lite version:
Inventory is wishy-washy
where is teh dice roll? ad&d gone?
camera control seems a little harder than in other peers.

No1newts · 22 Oct 2015 at 16:02

Oh well, huge shame but looks like a not but for me in the end

Newbie007 · 22 Oct 2015 at 19:48

Its coming to consoles apparently which is why its a totally watered down version of other incarnations of the genre...

Side note Bioware/Black Isle had nothing to do with SCL have they?

dirtybeatfreak · 22 Oct 2015 at 21:12

I did think that too? I think maybe someone who worked/works for Bioware has some involvement in this too, don't think the company itself has.

Putty · 30 Oct 2015 at 20:38

Just a heads up that there is a 1.5GB patch out now and a bundle of updates/fixes planned:

"Halloween Update: "The Pumpkin Patch": October 30th

New "Liars' Night" themed area and placeables in the spirit of Halloween
Cemetery DM location with over 35 new placeable objects and new player gear
Screen nudge with mouse (toggled option)
Players will now be able to move the camera by nudging the edges of the screen. The WASD keys and the middle mouse button will still work the way
they currently do.
Auto-heal at Adventurer's Camp
When entering the adventurer's camp, the party will heal any damage previously taken.
DM collect quests will display "x of x found" on the HUD
Hotkey added to re-center camera on player
Doubled the max length for DM quest conversation text
Added the option to lock your cursor to the window
Bug fixes"

There's a lot more to read through via Steam and the Sword Coast website.

Bickaxe · 29 Nov 2015 at 19:31

Got the campaign edition from the site earlier as it was cheaper than key sites.

Missus wants to run a game with some friends so for £57 we got 5 standard editions. (Usual price £150+)

StevieP · 17 Dec 2015 at 17:22

Just a heads-up for anyone wanting to give this a try - apparently there is a free Steam weekend starting today!

No1newts · 17 Dec 2015 at 18:06

Nice heads up!

I'll have a look.

Nelly · 18 Dec 2017 at 10:36

PC Gamer | Posted: 18 Dec 2017 said:
Sword Coast Legends is having a last chance sale before it's gone for good

You won't be able to buy the D&D cRPG after December 31, but servers will run "indefinitely".

Sword Coast Legends is a cPRG that's hard to recommend. As Angus wrote in his review, it's largely full of clichés and lacks ambition, and the early game in particular is a real slog. But that doesn't mean it hasn't attracted a loyal band of followers, which makes it sad that, after December 31, it will be gone from stores for good.

If you want to pick it up before that happens then its price has been slashed across the board, and you can get the standard edition of the game on Steam for £3.62/$4.94.

Servers will remain open "indefinitely" after it leaves stores, so you'll be able to carry on your adventures solo or in co-op of up to five players, which includes one (admittedly limited) dungeon master role.

https://twitter.com/SwordCoast/status/940250781256732673

The removal from stores comes after developer n-Space closed down last year, leaving publisher Digital Extremes to support the game solo.

Again, there are many more RPGs you should play before this one, but it's now cheap enough to consider picking up if anything about it catches your eye.

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