History YMMV / PathfinderWrathOfTheRighteous

** Addressing yet another common complaint about ''Kingmaker'', the game flat-out tells you, ''"You do not need camping supplies or rations to camp."'' This was actually ''not true'' in [[WhatCouldHaveBeen earlier betas of the game]], but feedback about the concept was ''so'' intense (and it was noted that this was virtually at the top of something people modded away from the game) that, by release, Owlcat finally disposed of the widely-loathed camping supplies item and made camping require no dedicated resources (outside of optional resources like cooking supplies or crafting items).

** Timed Quests now only fail if the chapter ends before they are done, and thus are no longer tied to actual in game time. Similarly chapters themselves are not timed missions.
* BrokenAesop: The Condemned are a crusader group of criminals and outcasts, basically a penal legion. Most of the Crusaders don't trust them and even mock them, with every act of treachery being immediately blamed on them. Both Seelah and Irabeth will talk about how wrong this is and how they're still Crusaders like everyone else and you shouldn't automatically scorn them for their troubled past. [[spoiler: Every named member of the Condemned betrays you. The writers seem to be aware of this since you have the option to call Seelah out on being too trusting after the second betrayal.]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Aravashniel, one of the most prominent [=NPCs=] in the early parts of the tabletop campaign, is KilledOffscreen before the player ever officially meets him.

** The CharacterAlignment system is not much improved from ''VideoGame/PathfinderKingmaker''. While most alignment-affecting dialogue options now move the PC only on one axis instead of two, they've been criticized as lacking nuance. Furthermore, because Owlcat's grid is circular instead of square (as in the Creator/{{Interplay}} and Creator/BioWare D&D-based [=CRPGs=] that are this game's ancestors), it remains possible to lose class features as a paladin by picking too many Good options, something that shouldn't be possible by ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' rules-as-written. It gets even worse if you're a Paladin whose deity trends towards Good instead of Lawful, as in order to stay a Paladin you need to regularly contradict your deity's wishes and choose Lawful options that are anathema to their cause.

** To a lesser extent the alignment-specific options tend to lack nuance, shoving you towards one of the starter Mythic Paths rather than reflecting views the character might already hold. Lawful options (Aeon/Angel) tend to be uncaring, uncompromising, and unthinking, Chaotic options (Trickster/Azata/Demon) tend to be rude, disruptive, or just ItAmusedMe, Good options (Angel/Azata) tend towards AllLovingHero territory, and Evil options (Lich/Demon) tend to be mustache-twirling supervillainy. [[JustifiedTrope That said]] it doesn't seem intended for you to consistently choose these options, since you'll actually lock yourself out of one Mythic Path by choosing every alignment-related prompt related to it.

** To a lesser extent, a lot of the alignment options are less about providing general ideas that serve the character you might want to play and are more about railroading you towards the Mythic Path associated with that alignment. It's impossible to be a pragmatic or intelligent evil character by picking Evil options, as most Evil options are tailored towards making you a mad beast who kills anything that upsets you and would embrace the Demon Path without question. Chaotic explicitly tries to make you as much of an asshole as possible and derail serious conversations and topics with humor because that's what a Trickster would do. Lawful is all about following the extreme letter of the law without any hint of personal input or thought because that's the way the Aeon path wants you to go. Good is about forgiving everything and everyone and always trying to appeal to peoples' better netures, even people who clearly don't have one. In summary, consistently picking the alignment dialogue choices marks you as either StupidGood, StupidEvil, LawfulStupid, or ChaoticStupid.

** To a lesser extent, a lot of the alignment options are less about providing general ideas that serve the character you might want to play and are more about railroading you towards the Mythic Path associated with that alignment. It's impossible to be a pragmatic or intelligent evil character, as most Evil options are tailored towards making you a mad beast who kills anything that upsets you and would embrace the Demon Path without question. Chaotic explicitly tries to make you as much of an asshole as possible and derail serious conversations and topics with humor because that's what a Trickster would do. Lawful is all about following the extreme letter of the law without any hint of personal input or thought because that's the way the Aeon path wants you to go.

** The CharacterAlignment system is not much improved from ''VideoGame/PathfinderKingmaker''. While most alignment-affecting dialogue options now move the PC only on one axis instead of two, they've been criticized as lacking nuance. Furthermore, because Owlcat's grid is circular instead of square (as in the Creator/{{Interplay}} and Creator/BioWare D&D-based [=CRPGs=] that are this game's ancestors), it remains possible to lose class features as a paladin by picking too many Good options, something that shouldn't be possible by ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' rules-as-written.

* ScrappyMechanic: Like Kingdom Management before it, the Crusade Mode has been getting a lot of flack for being poorly balanced, unfun and dragging the pace to a crawl. Even worse is that, unlike Kingmaker, the Crusade Mode has no difficulty options and setting it on auto mode can absolutely screw with your entire playthrough. Wanna run a Lich but set the Crusade on auto? You better hope the system randomly runs the project you need or you're locked out of your Mythic Path.

** On the subject of Mythic Paths, one of the complaints about ''Kingmaker'' was that it often felt like it was difficult for your main character to stand out mechanically; they didn't get any {{Unique Protagonist Asset}}s despite being baron (and later king) and, if you were going in blind, it was rather easy to stumble into a character build that overlapped heavily with one of the companions (any two-handed weapon user will overlap with Amiri a fair bit, any bow user is going to be very similar to Ekundayo, any Alchemist is going to overlap ''a lot'' with Jubilost due to the limited archetypes, you get ''two'' Clerics, et cetera). This was a particular problem because your protagonist is the one character who is ''mandatory'' at all times; this meant that you had to build parties around them, and could lead to some pressure to not "double up" and thus ignore some characters. It ''was'' possible to be unique, but that required going into specific classes (druid, monk, paladin) which some players perhaps didn't want to play as and required specific alignments.\\

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Aravashniel, one of the most prominent NPCs in the early parts of the tabletop campaign, is KilledOffscreen before the player ever officially meets him.

* ScrappyMechanic: Like Kingdom Management before it, the Crusade Mode has been getting a lot of flack for being poorly balanced, unfun and dragging the pace to a crawl. Even worse is that, unlike Kingmaker, the Crusade Mode has no difficulty options and setting it on auto mode can absolutely screw with your entire playthrough. Wanna run a Lich but set the Crusade on auto? You better hope the system randomly runs the project you need or you're locked out of your Mythic Path.

** One of the things people absolutely ''hated'' about ''[[VideoGame/PathfinderKingmaker Kingmaker]]'' was how every single alignment-affecting choice had an effect on ''two'' morality axes, and often the law/neutral/chaos part of a choice could be questionable or vague, leaving you with no option that more closely matched your alignment on this axis; in particular, Paladins and Monks found it ''infuriatingly'' hard to stay Lawful while consistently being Good, and it got bad enough that Owlcat eventually had to cave and patch in "scrolls of atonement", which reset your alignment to the choice you made at the start of the game, which worked but was obviously hacky. ''[=WotR=]'' addresses the root of the issue at last, with virtually all alignment choices now having a significant effect on only ''one'' alignment axis, allowing you to more carefully control your character's alignment and act in certain ways without risking compromising your alignment in full. (This is especially important in ''[=WotR=]'', as the Mythic Path system also has an alignment component to it.)

** Addressing yet another common complaint about ''Kingmaker'', the game flat-out tells you, ''"You do not need camping supplies or rations to camp."'' This was actually ''not true'' in [[WhatCouldHaveBeen earlier betas of the game]], but feedback about the concept was ''so'' intense (and it was noted that this was virtually at the top of something people modded away from the game) that, by release, Owlcat finally disposed of the widely-loathed camping supplies item and made camping require no dedicated resources (outside of optional resources like cooking supplies or crafting items).

** Addressing yet another common complaint about ''Kingmaker'', the game flat-out tells you, ''"You do not need camping supplies or rations to camp."''

** Another common complaint about ''Kingmaker'' was around how the game disfavored many exotic weapons, there being far fewer unique variants in comparison to other categories and it being far harder to find them while looting. This meant that creating a character who specializes in, say, Nunchaku was a risky venture unless you were willing to look up guides online. ''[=WotR=]'' gets around this by introducing Finnean, a companion who can transform in to an enchanted version of any weapon in the game, and whose stats will boost as you progress with his personal quest, ensuring you'll always have an option that will carry you through the game.

** Another common complaint about ''Kingmaker'' was around how the game disfavored many exotic weapons, there being far fewer unique variants in comparison to other categories and it being far harder to find them while looting, making a character who specializes in them a risky venture. ''[=WotR=]'' gets around this by introducing Finnean, a companion who can transform in to an enchanted version of any weapon in the game, and whose stats will boost as you progress with his personal quest, ensuring you'll always have an option that will carry you through the game.

''[=WotR=]'' fixes this in two ways: first, there are now ''so many'' class, archetype and prestige class options that, even if you pick the same class as a companion, you will likely end up fairly distinct from them mechanically (and there are now ''more than a dozen'' classes that either outright don't have a corresponding companion or have very hard-to-get ones![[labelnote:*]]For the curious: there are no Alchemist, Arcanist, Barbarian, Bard, Bloodrager, Cavalier, Druid, Hunter, Inquisitor, Kineticist, Magus, Skald or Sorcerer companions, ''and'' the Monk companion is such a unique archetype that a more standard Monk will likely play much differently '''''and''''' the Warpriest companion is available on exactly one Mythic Path plotline[[/labelnote]]), and secondly, the Mythic Path you choose and its powers are completely unique to your main character, meaning that even if you pick the ''exact'' same class and archetype as someone else, you will still have ways of contributing that are totally unique to your character. Put together, it should help ensure most players feel unique and like their main character is contributing in ways the rest of the party isn't.

''[=WotR=]'' fixes this in two ways: first, there are now ''so many'' class, archetype and prestige class options that, even if you pick the same class as a companion, you will likely end up fairly distinct from them mechanically (and there are now ''more than a dozen'' classes that either outright don't have a corresponding companion or have very hard-to-get ones![[labelnote:*]]For the curious: there are no Alchemist, Arcanist, Barbarian, Bloodrager, Cavalier, Druid, Hunter, Inquisitor, Kineticist, Magus, Skald or Sorcerer companions, ''and'' the Monk companion is such a unique archetype that a more standard Monk will likely play much differently '''''and''''' the Bard & Warpriest companions are available on exactly one Mythic Path plotline each, and not the same one[[/labelnote]]), and secondly, the Mythic Path you choose and its powers are completely unique to your main character, meaning that even if you pick the ''exact'' same class and archetype as someone else, you will still have ways of contributing that are totally unique to your character. Put together, it should help ensure most players feel unique and like their main character is contributing in ways the rest of the party isn't.

''[=WotR=]'' fixes this in two ways: first, there are now ''so many'' class, archetype and prestige class options that, even if you pick the same class as a companion, you will likely end up fairly distinct from them mechanically (and there are now ''more than a dozen'' classes that either outright don't have a corresponding companion or have very hard-to-get ones![[labelnote:*]]For the curious: there are no Alchemist, Arcanist, Barbarian, Bloodrager, Cavalier, Druid, Hunter, Inquisitor, Kineticist, Magus, Skald or Sorcerer companions, ''and'' the Monk companion is such a unique archetype that a more standard Monk will likely play much differently '''''and''''' the Bard & Warpriest companions are available on exactly one Mythic Path plotline each, and not the same one[[/labelnote]]), and the Mythic Path you choose and its powers are completely unique to your main character, meaning that even if you pick the ''exact'' same class and archetype as someone else, you will still have ways of contributing that are totally unique to your character. Put together, it should help ensure most players feel unique and like their main character is contributing in ways the rest of the party isn't.

''[=WotR=]'' fixes this in two ways: first, there are now ''so many'' class, archetype and prestige class options that, even if you pick the same class as a companion, you will likely end up fairly distinct from them mechanically (and there are now ''more than a dozen'' classes that outright don't have a corresponding companion![[labelnote:*]]For the curious: there are no Alchemist, Arcanist, Barbarian, Bard, Bloodrager, Cavalier, Druid, Hunter, Inquisitor, Kineticist, Magus, Skald or Sorcerer companions, ''and'' the Monk companion is such a unique archetype that a more standard Monk will likely play much differently '''''and''''' the Warpriest companion is available on exactly one Mythic Path plotline[[/labelnote]]), and the Mythic Path you choose and its powers are completely unique to your main character, meaning that even if you pick the ''exact'' same class and archetype as someone else, you will still have ways of contributing that are totally unique to your character. Put together, it should help ensure most players feel unique and like their main character is contributing in ways the rest of the party isn't.

** One of the things people absolutely ''hated'' about ''[[VideoGame/PathfinderKingmaker Kingmaker]]'' was how every single alignment-affecting choice had an effect on ''two'' morality axes, and often the law/neutral/chaos part of a choice could be questionable or vague, leaving you with no option that more closely matched your alignment on this axis; in particular, Paladins and Monks found it ''infuriatingly'' hard to stay Lawful while consistently being Good, and it got bad enough that Owlcat eventually had to cave and patch in "scrolls of atonement", which reset your alignment to the choice you made at the start of the game, which worked but was obviously hacky. ''[=WotR=]'' addresses the root of the issue at last, with many choices now having an effect on only ''one'' alignment axis, allowing you to more carefully control your character's alignment and act in certain ways without risking compromising your alignment in full. (This is especially important in ''[=WotR=]'', as the Mythic Path system also has an alignment component to it.)

''[=WotR=]'' fixes this in two ways: first, there are now ''so many'' class, archetype and prestige class options that, even if you pick the same class as a companion, you will likely end up fairly distinct from them mechanically (and there are now ''more than a dozen'' classes that outright don't have a corresponding companion![[labelnote:*]]For the curious: there are no Alchemist, Arcanist, Barbarian, Bard, Bloodrager, Cavalier, Druid, Hunter, Inquisitor, Kineticist, Magus, Skald, Sorcerer or Warpriest companions, ''and'' the Monk companion is such a unique archetype that a more standard Monk will likely play much differently[[/labelnote]]), and the Mythic Path you choose and its powers are completely unique to your main character, meaning that even if you pick the ''exact'' same class and archetype as someone else, you will still have ways of contributing that are totally unique to your character. Put together, it should help ensure most players feel unique and like their main character is contributing in ways the rest of the party isn't.

''[=WotR=]'' fixes this in two ways: first, there are now ''so many'' class, archetype and prestige class options that, even if you pick the same class as a companion, you will likely end up fairly distinct from them mechanically (and there are now ''more than a dozen'' classes that outright don't have a corresponding companion![[labelnote:*]]For the curious: there are no Alchemist, Arcanist, Barbarian, Bard, Bloodrager, Cavalier, Druid, Hunter, Inquisitor, Kineticist, Magus, Skald, Sorceror or Warpriest companions, ''and'' the Monk companion is such a unique archetype that a more standard Monk will likely play much differently[[/labelnote]]), and the Mythic Path you choose and its powers are completely unique to your main character, meaning that even if you pick the ''exact'' same class and archetype as someone else, you will still have ways of contributing that are totally unique to your character. Put together, it should help ensure most players feel unique and like their main character is contributing in ways the rest of the party isn't.

''[=WotR=]'' fixes this in two ways: first, there are now ''so many'' class, archetype and prestige class options that, even if you pick the same class as a companion, you will likely end up fairly distinct from them mechanically (and there are now ''a dozen'' classes that outright don't have a corresponding companion!), and the Mythic Path you choose and its powers are completely unique to your main character, meaning that even if you pick the ''exact'' same class and archetype as someone else, you will still have ways of contributing that are totally unique to your character. Put together, it should help ensure most players feel unique and like their main character is contributing in ways the rest of the party isn't.

** On the subject of Mythic Paths, one of the complaints about ''Kingmaker'' was that it often felt like it was difficult for your main character to stand out mechanically; they didn't get any {{Unique Protagonist Asset}}s despite being baron (and later king) and, if you were going in blind, it was rather easy to stumble into a character build that overlapped heavily with one of the companions (any two-handed weapon user will overlap with Amiri a fair bit, any bow user is going to be very similar to Ekundayo, any Alchemist is going to overlap ''a lot'' with Jubilost due to the limited archetypes, you get ''two'' Clerics, et cetera). This was a particular problem because your protagonist is the one character who is ''mandatory'' at all times; this meant that you had to build parties around them, and could lead to some pressure to not "double up" and thus ignore some characters. It ''was'' possible to be unique, but that required going into specific classes (druid, monk, paladin) which some players perhaps didn't want to play as and required specific alignments (which, as above, might crimp how some want to play).\\

* AuthorsSavingThrow: One of the things people absolutely ''hated'' about ''[[VideoGame/PathfinderKingmaker Kingmaker]]'' was how every single alignment-affecting choice had an effect on ''two'' morality axes, and often the law/neutral/chaos part of a choice could be questionable or vague, leaving you with no option that more closely matched your alignment on this axis; in particular, Paladins and Monks found it ''infuriatingly'' hard to stay Lawful while consistently being Good, and it got bad enough that Owlcat eventually had to cave and patch in "scrolls of atonement", which reset your alignment to the choice you made at the start of the game, which worked but was obviously hacky. ''[=WotR=]'' addresses the root of the issue at last, with many choices now having an effect on only ''one'' alignment axis, allowing you to more carefully control your character's alignment and act in certain ways without risking compromising your alignment in full. (This is especially important in ''[=WotR=]'', as the Mythic Path system also has an alignment component to it.)