(10-05-2018, 03:18 PM)Slamz Wrote: Is it annoying having to kill the stag lord every time you restart? Rimworld was a game where your kingdom was really meant to go down in flames so restarting puts you right back into the game. You don't have to do some tutorial or quest that's the same at the start every time.
Is it annoying?
Not for me. You have to do it every game but that mission is timed. You only have 83 game days to do it. If you fail game over.
I have ended up taking every last day to get my guys leveled up fast enough before I go kill the Stag Lord. I would sum it up as you get 83 game days to get yourself ready to run your own realm. Technically if you really wanted to just get to it, it is only like 4 quest to kill the Stag Lord. However I find myself wanting to kill the Stag Lord at the list minute to give my characters more time to level up before realm time. The Stag Lord has ended up just being prep time and I want to take every last day to do it.
Once it is Realm time you want the best party you can have to deal with shit.
So you could just kill the Stag Lord like an hour into the game but once you get your realm I don't see that as optimizing your chances of surviving.
You can't forget, this game kicks the shit out of you which is something other D&D (Bulders Gate, Never Winter, etc) games didn't do. I don't see this game being popular with a younger audience because even on normalish settings this game is difficult.
You will find yourself optimizing those 83 game days.