Greedfall

It shouldn't stop you from gaining friendship with Siora and that quest doesn't affect her romance as far as I know (it's some mid to late main story choices that do). Note that Siora romance is the latest one you can "unlock" as her personal quests are all tied to the main quest lines and the last two are late game (like in the last 20%).

Aphra's personal quest line isn't gated and you gain back the native lost point by the end of it.

Ugh, looks like I wasted my money on this game.

A few suspect things in the game but for the most part pretty good at the start, some okay quests and such, okay I think I will enjoy the game as I am just about to leave the 1st area......And then the game suddenly morphs into Dark souls with an idiotically difficult boss fight in which they get rid of your companions and make my 4th level mage take on some big tree monster.

Okay after getting spanked numerous times I lower the difficulty to the lowest level, makes no difference, so I then use about every potions i have in my inventory to help.

Makes no difference.

I hated dark souls for these type of boss fights. I know others like them, not me.

(And I really don't care if it is a L2P issue on my part. If you lower the difficulty to the lowest setting to get by an area of any game it should be easy.)

I haven't read all of the pages, just skimmed through because I am afraid of seeing spoilers by accident. I just wanted to stop by and say how much I'm enjoying this game. I first thought I could finish it in a couple days. But I was pleasantly surprised. The more I do, the more I seem to get, and the story is really interesting so far. Had a few surprises and a few not surprises so far

I'm playing as female De Sardet and I'm planning on romancing Kurt but I'm like 55 hours into the game and haven't gotten his rendezvous yet. I guess I need to progress the main plot some more so I'm working on that (I got sidetracked doing side quests and exploring stuffs).

Beerfish don't feel bad and don't give up. I thought it was me as well, but I've talked to a few friends that also had trouble with that first fight. I think in my case I had trouble adapting to the combat. After dying like 10 times I walked away from the game for about an hour. Came back and finally beat it. (I ended up using stasis alot, it helps). And the story really picks up after you get to the island

I'm also glad that I mostly ignored development beforehand and went in blind. That way I had no preconceived notions about what it should be. I have read it being compared to DA and honestly other than having dialogue with occasional choices/branching storyline due to said choices and companions, it really is it own thing. The combat takes some getting used to. I was sure I was going to hate it the whole time, but it grew on me. If I had to find one nitpick it would be the map. So much looking at the map and loading to change between, at least you get the nice campsite pause to sell, craft, change up party.

Okay, I talked more than I thought I would and I probably will stay away a few more days so I can try to finish it up but remember - IT'S ABOUT TO GET DICEY!

I'm playing as a mage and yes the fight is absurdly difficult.

Hit Stasis as much as you can and attack it from behind.  if you have to move to avoid it, don't get too far away or it will do a flying tackle at you that's really hard to avoid.

This is the only really unavoidable fight of its kind in the game.  There are other tough fights later on in the game, but at least with those you can always leave and come back at a higher level or better gear.

If this has already been mentioned I apologize. But what I found working very well for me when fighting the first boss was the sound it makes just before it sends whatever he flings at you. It's quite faint, but you can hear it a just before it flings it at you. It is detailed in the Eurogamer video posted many pages ago. When you hear the sound roll away. That helped me a lot.

Hello btw, former lurker and newly registered here.

Yeah it's not a perfect solution. I got knocked down a couple of times. But dodging just at the last second made the fight much easier and managable. I'm a mage also. Don't think I used Stasis or got behind him. But I dodge alot and spammed the magic missiles as much as I could. He went down faster than I thought he would. Was kind of surprised after I saw the video of the boss previously!

And thank you for the welcome 😊.

You have the same relationship level as my character, but a good 8 levels on me....hmmm.

Welcome!!! 

Welp, it appears somewhere along the way I missed a dialogue option with Kurt and I can't romance him. Apparently there are supposed to be hearts for the dialogues (which are not showing up for me on PC) but I'm so far in the game and he's not letting me flirt with him I finally looked up a video and it looks like I picked one line different than the person in the video and that must've ended it before it even started *sigh* So now I don't even feel like finishing my 60 hour save I probably will rush my way through the rest of it now just so I can start over and *hopefully* do it right this time. Just annoyed that one flub ended the romance and not even sure how. Guess things weren't so dicey after all. *slinks off to cry in the corner*