If a character's food runs out, he will start taking damage each turn, much like being poisoned. Characters must regularly buy food from a grocer. One of the key items in the game that a player must have is food. Characters must gain the Mark of Kings to increase their Health Points beyond 550. When a character has gained enough experience points, they must talk (i.e., "Transact") with Lord British for the character to level up. It is recommended, but not necessary, to level up characters to the maximum to have the best chance of defeating Exodus. Maximum health points for a character can be calculated by the following formula: H.P.= 100 * L + 50 (where L is the current Level of the character). Beyond this point the level will continue to increase however the number of Health Points is fixed at 2550. The maximum effective level for characters is 25. One thing that is common is wizard and cleric types outleveling the melee types because they have area of effect attacks and ranged attacks that allow them to kill enemies well before the melee types can even get to the enemy. This is to let characters increase in levels relatively evenly, as bigger and stronger enemies appear as soon as one character surpasses a given level. More challenging enemies (such as dragons or sea monsters) earn higher experience points than easier enemies (e.g., orcs, goblins, or skeletons). As the game progresses and enemies are defeated, characters increase their levels according to the experience points gained. Wizard type classes have strong offensive type spells and are limited to cloth armor and staffs.Įach character begins at Level 1 and increases individually. Cleric type classes have healing spells and spells strong against undead enemies and are limited to cloth/leather armor and staffs/maces. The Thief type classes are good at resisting traps that may be in dungeons or in chests and are limited in what weapons and armor they can equip. Fighter type classes are strong in melee and in defense, but with the exception of the Ranger, have no spells or abilities, and can equip most armor and weapons. These are Fighter, Cleric, Wizard, and Thief. The races determine limitations on maximum stat growth (i.e., some races allow certain stats to be maxed out while others limit the stats to half the maximum amount.) Certain spells will be unavailable for certain races that are limited in their maximum allowed Wisdom and Intelligence stats, thus a wise player will investigate the best races for their mages before commencing the game.įor the most part, all the classes of characters are built around four main classes with very minor differences. The default race for each class is the recommended race, but this can be edited along with attribute points for each character for Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence and Wisdom. Each class has a specified race among five different races. There is a choice between 11 classes as follows: Fighter, Paladin, Cleric, Wizard, Ranger, Thief, Barbarian, Lark, Illusionist, Druid, and Alchemist. The party of four that a player uses can be chosen at the beginning of the game. Enemies on the overworld map can be seen and at least temporarily avoided, while enemies in a dungeon may appear randomly without any forewarning. This differs from the two previous games in the Ultima series in which the player is simply depicted as trading blows with one opponent on the main map until either is defeated. Thus the player must understand weapons and magic commands and employ rudimentary tactics in order to overcome each opponent. However, in battle mode, each character is represented separately on a separate "battle screen" and the player alternates commands between each character in order, followed by each enemy character having a turn. During regular play the characters are represented as a single player icon and move as one. Also, Exodus differs from previous games in that players now direct the actions of a party of four characters rather than just one. Exodus featured revolutionary graphics for its time, as one of the first computer RPGs to display animated characters.
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