
Some of these are small but nice to have, others are extremely powerful, like the abilities that add four more castings per day of every spell level, abilities that allow you to ignore elemental resistances and immunites (a must-have ability tax if you want to use any kind of elemental spell against all these demons who tend to have high resistances and immunities to everything), and abilities that ultimately let any spell that lasts longer than 5 minutes last 24 hours (pretty nice to have for frequent pre-buffers). Each one has its own unique benefits along with up to 10 levels of more generalized feats and abilities that are also available to all your companions. To unlock a particular path you have to make certain decisions in addition to having a compatible alignment, with Angel and Demon being the default good and evil paths, respectively. Unique to WotR is the ability to choose a mythic path during the campaign. How can almost every other non-demonic entity even function? On top of that, sometimes shelters would bug out and not prevent the corruption, which was frustrating. From a gameplay perspective, I'm pretty happy with this compromise, but narrative-wise it doesn't quite work you can only build shelters in outposts you've upgraded to a bastion and you only get one bastion for every three outposts you claim. The game also rewards you for playing quickly in the first two chapters. In maps where it's anticipated that you'll be doing a lot of resting, there are one-time-use holy spots that clear your corruption. If you rest anywhere outside your main camp (or a bastion on the world map where you've built a shelter more on this later) your corruption rating increases, and doing it enough times applies various penalties. However, it's still not totally unrestricted either. Resting's been overhauled a bit camping supplies and hard time limits are out. My save file ended up bloating to nearly 30 megabytes by the end, but at least this time I didn't experience a single quicksave crash. There's now an option to destroy nonessential uncollected loot when you leave a map, but it didn't work at all on the version I played through. My difficulty settings are more or less the same as the ones I used for Kingmaker: making the enemy statistics as close as possible to the rules as written and making a few things more convenient. I wound up using it for most of my playthrough to avoid the chaos of real-time with frequent pausing.

It occasionally hangs for a few seconds and might result in some weird behavior here and there, but I found it useful for dealing with the more demanding encounters. Owlcat took advantage of the improvements they made to Kingmaker and included a turn-based mode that you can toggle on and off at any time from the start. Like many sequels, this one has even more races, classes, archetypes, abilities, and features. If you're unfamiliar with Pathfinder, it's best to read my Kingmaker review because most of that still applies here. The particular version I played from start to finish was 2.0.6l. Released in late 2021 in a less buggy state than Kingmaker, Owlcat has continued to provide regular patches and shows no signs of ending support any time soon as of the publication of this article. This time around the character you play is dropped in the middle of a demonic invasion, and you soon find yourself leading a crusade to end it, mysteriously gaining mythic powers along the way. Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is Owlcat Games' follow-up to 2018's Kingmaker and another adaptation of an Adventure Path series.

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