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I had been following this quite closely and then fell behind on updates from the Kickstarter and procrastination got the better of me. Reading through ropekid's posts in the old thread in an attempt to catch up a bit. Also it sounds like I lucked out with Wasteland 2, my guess is because when I played the old cRPGs at the time I sucked at them, so being more competent now makes it a bit more fun to go through. That said, just based on the beta I think this game will be better by a decent amount.
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Paper Lion posted:this game is gonna blow up your phone with all your friends texting you about how great it is! OMG!
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Paper Lion posted:this game is gonna blow you away!
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They announced the game just went gold.
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A Steampunk Gent posted:I still can't believe they got Chris Metzen writing the main scenario for this
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Scorchy posted:They announced the game just went gold. They gotta stop teasing.
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zedprime posted:I'm not sure I'd want to play the hatefuck of a story that would result from a forced Metzen-Avellone collaboration, but I expect the process would make good reality TV. It'd be like the reveal in The Shining with Avellone coming across a stack of paper with the words 'CORRUPTION' and 'ESSENCE' over and over again.
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How do I build a spellsword in this game? Mostly melee damage, but also using buff / debuff / cc spells.
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Smol posted:How do I build a spellsword in this game? Mostly melee damage, but also using buff / debuff / cc spells. Chanter, being capable of a little bit of everything, fits the bill. Paladins too in a way,
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Smol posted:How do I build a spellsword in this game? Mostly melee damage, but also using buff / debuff / cc spells. Fighters have CC and self-buffs. Chanters have a little bit of everything. Ciphers are a classic "magic user that fights with weapons too". Pretty much every class has some out of buffs/debuffs/cc. Is the magic part important to you or just the mechanical effect?
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Are the dwarves in this game majestic underground artisans and mechanical savants, or are they 3rd-world plains-dwelling piranha people?
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Smol posted:How do I build a spellsword in this game? Mostly melee damage, but also using buff / debuff / cc spells. Every class can use every weapon and armor, but I'd look at ciphers, chanters, and paladins. I normally ran fighter/mages in the ie games and my plan for this, after playing the backer beta, is a cipher with 19 int, 16 might, 13 Dex, and a blunderbuss, but you can also build one for melee. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Mar 17, 2015 |
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Does kickstarter backers get the Giant Miniature Space Piglet?
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DatonKallandor posted:Is the magic part important to you or just the mechanical effect? I don't know. I just like to play a version of my first BG2 character (F/M) in every fantasy RPG, since that kind of character is usually very flexible and thus fun to use. If I feel like cutting some heads with swords, I can do that. If I feel like becoming an immortal tank with spells, I can do that. If I want to cast some nukes, I can do that. If I want to make myself invisible and confuse the enemies, I can do that. So basically I just want to be the ultimate jack of all trades.
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Make a melee wizard with high Might/Con and heavy armor, they have at least 3-4 self-buffs at every spell level and you can swap out spellbooks to be more versatile.
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Oasx posted:Does kickstarter backers get the Giant Miniature Space Piglet? Yes.
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Yay! I feel like this is the victory lap thread for what has already been an exciting gaming experience-and the game hasn't even come out yet! Already bought and ready to roll! I wish I had access to the music early though so I can get myself more pumped for the game.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Every class can use every weapon and armor, but I'd look at ciphers, chanters, and paladins. I normally ran fighter/mages in the ie games and my plan for this, after playing the backer beta, is a cipher with 19 int, 16 might, 13 Dex, and a blunderbuss, but you can also build one for melee. Are most parties 2 frontline/2 mid/2 ranged or does it end up devolving into 3 frontline/3 rear? Just quickly reviewing the classes, not sure if I wanna do something like [Fighter/Paladin up front, Priest/Cipher middle, Druid/Ranger rear] or [Fighter/Paladin/Monk front, Druid/Priest/Cipher rear].
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Came for "Josh Sawyer will make you his bitch," leaving confused and bitter. Like every Tuesday.
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Papercut posted:Are most parties 2 frontline/2 mid/2 ranged or does it end up devolving into 3 frontline/3 rear? Just quickly reviewing the classes, not sure if I wanna do something like [Fighter/Paladin up front, Priest/Cipher middle, Druid/Ranger rear] or [Fighter/Paladin/Monk front, Druid/Priest/Cipher rear]. My plan for release is Fighter (plate melee), Paladin(plate melee), Priest(medium armor and ranged weapons / reach melee weapons), Chanter (medium armor and ranged and melee weapons with reach), Cipher(light armor blunderbuss ranged CC build), Wizard (light armor ranged damage build), which is basically 2/2/2 as you say, but that's probably not optimal, I just want to use those companions for my first runthrough. The theoretical optimum party is probably one or two fighters in heavy armor with high defensive stats to lock down the enemy and draw fire, and then four or five ranged damage dealers in very light or no armor to burn hostiles down. There's no "aggro" mechanic but positioning is important and enemies tend to attack the first opponent that gets their attention/is closest. In actual practice there seem to be two major kinds of fights -- open terrain, where yeah, things tend to go 3/3 or even 4 frontline / 2 rear, and dungeon crawling with lots of chokepoints, where you want two frontliners and then ranged supports. Having "reach" weapons (quarterstaffs or pikes) on your second rank can be really useful. For your damage dealers you don't want any armor heavier than a breastplate because the speed reduction really really tells -- some people like to essentially go naked but I find that too extreme personally.
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Is it possible to go full oldschool UO in this game and be a plate mail wearing wizard who shoots bolts of death and also uses a giant god drat halberd?
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Yes. Rope kid said he was doing tuning on melee wizards to make them stronger in the early/mid game, so we don't know exactly how they'll do, but chanters do pretty well on the front lines and ciphers have to use a weapon to charge up for their abilities.
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Drifter posted:Are the dwarves in this game majestic underground artisans and mechanical savants, or are they 3rd-world plains-dwelling piranha people? Think Marco Polo and you won't go far wrong for the first type. Then you have the pale dwarves, who are basically inuit.
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Scorchy posted:There's three separate game modes that can be turned on for increased difficulty: god drat
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A Steampunk Gent posted:I still can't believe they got Chris Metzen writing the main scenario for this Please do not troll on the Something Awful internet bulletin board.
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theshim posted:I'm probably going to end up doing this aren't I Do you hate yourself?
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Chris Metzen presents: Pillars of Corruption. You can now play as Demonic Orcs too.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:My plan for release is Fighter (plate melee), Paladin(plate melee), Priest(medium armor and ranged weapons / reach melee weapons), Chanter (medium armor and ranged and melee weapons with reach), Cipher(light armor blunderbuss ranged CC build), Wizard (light armor ranged damage build), which is basically 2/2/2 as you say, but that's probably not optimal, I just want to use those companions for my first runthrough. Thanks, this is great info.
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ded posted:Is it possible to go full oldschool UO in this game and be a plate mail wearing wizard who shoots bolts of death and also uses a giant god drat halberd? No, There are no halberds in the game only pollaxes and pikes. But every class can equip every normal armor and weapon. Hieronymous Alloy posted:For your damage dealers you don't want any armor heavier than a breastplate because the speed reduction really really tells -- some people like to essentially go naked but I find that too extreme personally. If you go naked, you will loose one item slot with enchanted equipment, so it isn't really optimal. Clothes also give no speed reduction, but you can enchant them. prometheus12345 fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Mar 17, 2015 |
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theshim posted:I'm probably going to end up doing this aren't I Do it as an LP, I want to enjoy the suffering.
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For the non-sperg game player, does expert mode seem like a viable playthrough? Its description from above doesn't describe much to me, so what does it actually do differently ingame? Will it just take away floating numbers and stuff? Or remove map markers type of things?
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Rope Kid, has anybody on the dev team has actually completed the game Triple Crown Solo mode?
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I think they said in the RPG Codex interview that no.
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Insurrectionist posted:Chris Metzen presents: Pillars of Corruption. You can now play as Demonic Orcs too. Get one character to level 55 to unlock the new Hero class : Deathknight!
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Upmarket Mango posted:Rope Kid, has anybody on the dev team has actually completed the game Triple Crown Solo mode? After watching Avalone's struggles with Arcanum I've lost faith in the Dev's ability to play games.
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Upmarket Mango posted:Rope Kid, has anybody on the dev team has actually completed the game Triple Crown Solo mode?
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Sergiu64 posted:After watching Avalone's struggles with Arcanum I've lost faith in the Dev's ability to play games. You didn't figure that out from every pre-built character build offered in every RPG ever?
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Drifter posted:For the non-sperg game player, does expert mode seem like a viable playthrough?
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