mechanicus copypasta about harry's addiction
From the moment I understood the weakness of my addiction, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of sobriety. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Program. Your kind cling to your vices, as though it will not cause decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death I serve the Program.
Real internet wasn't available where I was lining at the time Kingmaker was released, I just gave up because a 5G patch every two days made it to where I couldn't play. Looking back I am not real sure why I couldn't refuse to update, or why they couldn't patch more efficiently. I recall being fairly affronted that cold iron was so important but not very accessible by the time I needed it & some ridiculously difficult low-level werewolf encounter that the devs just doubled down on the worst parts of early era PC & DND game design on to defend. Might be the roughest launch I played in a long time, but the bones of something really good were there.
Do you think it got to a state that would be worth going back to?
I have played Kingmaker for 80h back during release. I heard it only got better in terms of bugs. Mind you I cant really talk about balance/difficulty. I only remember playing it on a rather low difficulty because im not a huge fan of the pathfinder combat.