Hello,
I discovered the mention of this game a week ago and reading the review linked sounded really impressive and having been a fan of the old capcom knight of round, king of dragons and their 2 D&D games , this one got my attention.
After downloading openbor and having some pain to gather the 18 parts of the latest patched version of the game itself from the post of netspider1, i started to have lot of fun this week, it's really an amazing piece of work, congratulations for this game.
So far i completed only several quests, the latest was to protect the caravan back to the fort, after saving a few elvenfolks that were captured in the north.
This level was great as we were fighting as a group instead of me being lonely by myself and it made it very enjoyable.
The only problem was that the scrolling was stopping waiting for the caravan to reach a certain point before scrolling resumed, meaning half of the attackers were always off screen and i had to wait for my AI group to deal with them as the enemies were out of reach :/
But it reminded me of what i read , apparently you can hire mercenaries, and i simply can't find any.
I talked to everyone in street and in shops in the town, the fort or the elven glade but everything that had a sprite that looked like a possible mercenary never gave me a hiring possibility.
In the fort there was one guy that said he was a mercenary but there's no option to hire him, there's a dog too, that is obviously an animal and not a mercenary, and the dialogue basically tells that the little bugger is ready to follow me.
But he does not, as i had a few random encounter while moving around probably going to save that abducted healer, and still my dwarf was all by himself, depressed and lonely
So far i have avoided reading more about this in order to try to not spoil myself but i'm a bit at a loss, so my question is : where are those mercs that i am supposed to be able to hire ?
edit : just ran into a game breaking bug sadly
Iin the quest to save whatshisname apparently a healer from the fort captured by a bunch of orcs led by an orc shaman,
In what i assume was the end of that level, i destroyed the shaman as quickly as possible then fought against the warriors and the catapults remaining, once i was the last dwarf standing, nothing else happened, no scrolling or exit or end level
http://i.imgur.com/lpDROYJ.jpg
I had to quit and reload, that put me back at the start of that level, beat down every orc again, but this time killed the catapults and orcs without harming the orc shaman, then proceeded to axe kill him and again same bug, impossible to progress further the level does not end.