Found FLARE a few days ago browsing engines on sourceforge. I'd seen it before, but I'm not so much a lover of the Diablo style, so didn't DL it til now.
It's exactly what I didn't know I wanted! I'm enjoying the living heck out of it. Playing a ranger, lvl 5 right now, no permadeath but I haven't died yet anyhow.
Music great, graphics perfect. I keep taking breaks from playing 'cause I don't want to run out of game. Mobs are kinda easy, but that's not a criticism-- I'm sure I'll get pwned sooner or later... and yeah I had trouble finding the goblin camp too-- the empty tower gives me a message, so why not the goblin camp? Goblins don't have their sh*t together, that's why. Even they don't know whether or not they're in camp.
Great job, ppl, seriously.
I love flare, too. For some reason I started as ranger, too :D. The developers did a great job and I can't wait to see more of flare. Maybe a bigger city or some more story elements.
The camp mission is a little bit tricky. The River encampment is an extra map to the north of Frontier Plains, maybe they could add some kind of quest radar as in sacred or at least mention that it is an extra map in the quest log. I personally don't like that the enemies respawn after leaving a map, but as they can't slow you down as in sacred its quite ok.
Some infinite, repeatable mission (as in "Strange Legacy" the amazing and good looking addon for battle for wesnoth \^^/) would be great to have and would allow to play the game even longer. You should add a way to start over in a higher difficulty, because it becomes boring to kill off the necromancer over and over again (or is there a more dangerous dungeon?).
You might also reconsider in creating an infinite skilltree, which allows to make unlocked abilities even better. I was also thinking about some kind of profession/wanderer skill tree which will allows you to craft, scavenge materials and to grant passive boni.
However, good work everybody and keep it up.
PS: I found a bug considering the runed chest of v. the destroyer. The firewave produced by the chest, causes a gamecrash.
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