MC Banhammer Posted:

I don’t remember the gameplay being so static back before .moar files were added. Was it?

I’m also sure it wasn’t back before community forums were released, while actually playing through the game. I remember having to manipulate consumables and attacks to pwn the final forum of Ep1 and even some of the early ones when I first played through.

Can any other old-timers verify this for me?

Yeah, gameplay wasn’t nearly as static before ep.2 was introduced. But then, ep.1 had a level cap of 10 as opposed to 35, consumables that actually healed more damage than the forum could deal (if only slightly – but still enough to make the idea of using consumables something other than entirely pointless/unattractive), and more variable refresh rates for the higher-level abilities (among other things). But then on the upside, I don’t know about anyone else, but it did take me quite a bit of time and effort to get to the point where gameplay became static, compared to what it took to just complete episode 1.