Sacred 2 remastered thread

[Colif]

I might as well start one

Sacred 2 Remaster on Steam

Step into the world of Ancaria as one of six heroes. Explore a massive open world and master combat arts and spells for epic loot. This remaster brings a fan-favorite back to life — with hi-res textures, better combat and bugfixes, for longtime fans and newcomers alike.

store.steampowered.com

So I can guess new players won't get this:

Seeing buff names reminds me that two of those are essential.

Best place for tips on how to play: https://darkmatters.org/forums/index.php?/forum/357-sacred-2-guides-maps-walkthroughs-and-videos/
they responsible for creation of

https://www.sacredwiki.org/index.php/Sacred_2:Fallen_Angel

Its got some unique ideas I haven't seen copied:

• Survival Bonus: the longer you stay alive without dying at all, the higher the level of enemies around you is and the quality of drops increases. Dying really hurts in this game. Its almost worth restarting if you do.
• Exploration bonus: the more of the map you find, the higher your magic find gets
• Icons you can use to represent macros. Game lets you combo 3 attacks into one button so you put that on task bar instead of 3 separate moves.
• Armour/weapon /Jewellery sets that have higher level versions. At approx lvl 45 you may start getting access to set pieces, as every class has multiple sets that can fall. Later at say stage 90 you may get the same armour piece again, only the newer one has better stats.

When the new armour parts are available varies, lvl 45 might be too high, could be 35 and you get a new part every 35 levels... Its why after 3 years I have characters full of set parts at different levels. It is going to take me time to collect it all again. Some sets are also harder to find than others.
Sure makes game easier if you just have to get to a certain lvl to put gear on.

Set bonuses can be addictive and it can suck if game doesn't give you replacement parts.

https://www.sacredwiki.org/index.php/Sacred_2:Set_Items

The game is more likely to give you equipment for the class you are playing, so collecting for alts can take a while. Unless both classes use same weapons. Seraphim and Shadow Warrior both like 1 handed swords, for instance. I have lots of those in old save files.

General tips:​

this one needs a translation:

• Read all the grave stones. Many are jokes, some are names of people from original game. I had forgotten about them
• Don't buy Horses... you can buy them in stores but you can also get a Class specific mount in a quest during game and its free.... and has better attacks than the horses.
• There is a riding skill but its not needed. Just adds damage I think. Waste of points. Fun part of game is working out what skills not to take.
• Don't consume all your combat arts. The more you eat, the longer the cooldown becomes. Better to socket combat arts into gear as the penalty is smaller. Many of your skills are designed to reduce cooldowns. There are shops you can use to combine 3 into one CA, so pick up all the ones you find, even if you don't plan on using them. How you use CA has a massive impact on gameplay.
• Shields aren't amazing, better to use buffs to act as magical shields. Shields might seem logical to have more defence but its more sensible to kill things faster with a better 2 hander or two weapons at once.
• Unless they add features from the community patch, there may only be one shared bank tab, so it helps to make bank characters (I had 17) so can hope they add more stash space or increase total number of save games on steam to 99. Default is 24.
• shops are pointless. Maybe at start they might be useful to buy healing/mana potions, but most of drops are off mobs, not from shopping... Unless you play a shopping build... then bargaining can make a difference. Some classes can sacrifice skills to that, others need them all to survive.
• If you pick easy difficulty, don't try to do many quests as the mobs will turn grey on you - grey mobs give no experience. I really only start in Easy to do the Blind Guardian quest line and sell the rewards for money and then restart same character in Normal.
• There are 5 difficulties but you can only start in Easy/Normal. The others open up as you finish game... this is old school, game doesn't end just because you beat story. Max level is 200. Highest I have managed is 135.
• I don't go exploring world until I am in 3rd difficulty level as then mobs less likely to go grey. You have a big map, but most of it is ignored in main quest. There are some fun quests to find.

Quests​

One village is all ghosts.

I forgot Undead Legion quest gave Boneslicer - a legendary sword. Need to write a list of quests down to make sure i do them to add items to bank - first few characters will just be remembering it all again. Still need to work out what all buttons on interface do lol.

Super hidden quest that has you run around entire map talking to people. Lucky that is at end... if you find it. Its hidden after all. Really well hidden off beaten path. You not likely to stumble on it by accident. I don't think I ever actually finished it... just like they never finished the aim of quest... oh irony.

Aim of quest is to collect the scattered staff of Ascaron and get them back to office to make Sacred 3... Alas, they never did. Ascaron went bankrupt releasing game, and Sacred 3 doesn't exist still - you cannot convince me otherwise

There are 650+ quests in game, I am not listing them all

As long as remastered doesn't change too much, we should be okay. May be able to expunge memory of Sacred 3 from our memory

RIP the reviewer, not the game.

Screenshots courtesy on me finding a folder from 2008.

General notes:​

totally serious game

Potentially not in the game:

game was originally meant to get patches that added Holidays but that never happened, most we got was Xmas and I think it was added in the community patch.

 

[Colif]

I may have gotten carried away.

Finding manual did answer some questions I had. Mostly about interface and what it all meant.
think my first few characters will just be used to collect items. The first generation will feed the second.

 

[Pifanjr]

I tried Sacred 2 for a little bit back in the day, but it felt too different from the first game so I dropped it.

 

[Colif]

I don't remember much at all of the first game, apart from the orc seaside resort, and maybe parts of the end... or perhaps I am thinking of beginning cut scene.
All I remember is forest as that is the first area from memory. And I remember where Gladiator started in an arena.
I vaguely recall playing as Dark Elf or maybe that is me being wrong, and they are most common enemy?

https://www.sacredwiki.org/index.php/Sacred:Elves

doesn't help you can play as one and also fight them.

 

[Pifanjr]

I don't remember much at all of the first game, apart from the orc seaside resort, and maybe parts of the end... or perhaps I am thinking of beginning cut scene.
All I remember is forest as that is the first area from memory. And I remember where Gladiator started in an arena.
I vaguely recall playing as Dark Elf or maybe that is me being wrong, and they are most common enemy?

https://www.sacredwiki.org/index.php/Sacred:Elves

doesn't help you can play as one and also fight them.

The Dark Elf was my friend's favourite class:

https://www.sacredwiki.org/index.php/Sacred:Dark_Elf

I finished the game with a Daemon, but my favourite was probably the Vampiress, with the Dwarf a close second.