The cost of rations is utterly offset by the loot you'll get as you explore.
When you're about to be trained by someone / read a book, make sure that only the skill being trained is selected.īooks still have a chance of slightly increasing your skill even AFTER you've first read them (10-15%), so it might be worth your time to spend a while reading (make sure you have enough rations though). Generally speaking, you should be running around with 2-3 skills selected (Defense and Accuracy: Melee, probably). However, the more skills you mark this way, the less of an effect the emphasis has. This skill will now improve 50% or so faster than it would have otherwise. First person view is great for spotting enemies and items, while the mini-map is great for navigating around and behind terrain (going around a hill rather than through one is far more frustrating than it needs to be in first person view)Ĭlicking on a particular skill in the character screen marks it with a red icon.
The main road mostly holds enemy encounters, but there's likely to be a chest or a hole or a corpse holding goodies behind every hill or dirt path branching off from the road.Īlternate between the mini-map and first person view. Never know when you run into a deadly inescapable situation, or manage to lose an important item.Įxplore everywhere.
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Use the "bookmark" option as a quicksave, but keep a manual save for when you move to a different area, near the start of a new chapter - in general, have a separate save for every few hours of gameplay. Save early, save often, save in different slots. Old school game, semi-obtuse mechanics - there's a reason you get a "view manual" option when you launch the game.