How does Leveling work?

[Johnam]

In Dungeon Master leveling was based on skill use, not on damage afflicted or mob exp kills. I was wondering if this game is adopting this model, or if they have chosen a more static kills for experience route.

If anyone knows please fire a response back my way. Thanks.

[shdwdrake8]

Can't answer your question, just wanted to say how much I loved Dungeon Master 2! I was literally convinced that I was the only person that's ever played that game. Sorry for the derail, hope you get your answer. =)

[Sol_HSA]

It uses the more static leveling system, yes.

[steff74]

Can't answer your question, just wanted to say how much I loved Dungeon Master 2! I was literally convinced that I was the only person that's ever played that game. Sorry for the derail, hope you get your answer. =)

just finished dungeon master 2 - again - and it was great - again!

[shdwdrake8]

Can't answer your question, just wanted to say how much I loved Dungeon Master 2! I was literally convinced that I was the only person that's ever played that game. Sorry for the derail, hope you get your answer. =)

just finished dungeon master 2 - again - and it was great - again!

One of my favorite games ever. I remember when I was a kid I was terrified to leave the safety of my "bat cave" so I just trained there non-stop, sustaining myself on bats and the occasional steak if I was brave enough to go fight dinosaurs. I'd be casting mid/high lvl Attack Minions reliably before even opening the gate to the thief/wolf area... Not to mention the fact that I'd pick the dumbest fighter for my front line, load him with Staves, and get him to Journeyman Wizard/Priest too... Yeah, I overdid it a bit. One time... I practiced wizard levels with fireballs in the 1x1 room in the bat cave for a very long time... I eventually broke the door. I felt kinda bad. I also would make entire fortresses out of Guardian Minions just to rest in hostile areas... Man I love that game.

I'm glad the OP got his answer because I've royally hijacked this thread. Sorry!!! I've waited over a decade to find other people that have played this game...

[steff74]

Yes the funny this is - it runs very nice in a dosbox under my current win xp system. Game is rather simple until i got stuck on the end boss dargoth. i always got killed or pushed down from the clouds. so i ran back down to the dinosours and leveled my party - i had to finish that game again or am i already too old for this? - so leveled and prepared i rushed back to the top of skullkeep and casted hundreds of attack minions - so i had to do only one hit to finish him of - finally

now waiting till 11th of april - maybe playing deus ex in the mean time which i found on steam when preordering legend of grimrock

greetings

[Johnam]

No worries guys, hijack away.

Thanks for the answer. Though the powering part of my personality loves to sit at the beginning until i'm an absolute beast. I remember spamming warcry in the first dungeon master in front of weak mobs and just steamrolling the game as result. I'll kinda miss having an exploitable system

[Sol_HSA]

Well.. If you want to cheat, why not cheat properly?

I did one 'speedrun' of LoG with maxed out characters (via memory hack). Took several hours, and I still found it a fun experience. Also found one bug where game did not expect such a xp level yet.

[DJK]

now waiting till 11th of april - maybe playing deus ex in the mean time which i found on steam when preordering legend of grimrock

greetings

Make sure to use the dx10 renderer for Deus Ex when playing, makes the game look a lot sharper
Found here: http://kentie.net/article/d3d10drv/

[steff74]

Make sure to use the dx10 renderer for Deus Ex when playing, makes the game look a lot sharper
Found here: http://kentie.net/article/d3d10drv/

Thanks but sorry, I only have WinXP with DX9.0c but the game looks nice anyway (after playing dungeon master 2 *LOL*)

I played the first mission yesterday but I think it is too time consuming for me, I will see if I play more...

Greetings