chiefnewo posted:

I've already sent Obsidian a message via the pledge website, but I want to whinge about it here too. I donated extra money during the Kickstarter for international shipping and an addon. The addon is $5 cheaper on the pledge website, so when I get to the checkout it mentions that I have money remaining. The balance shown on the checkout sheet correctly shows that international shipping will be taken out and there is $5 remaining. When I select to donate the $5 as additional funding it also takes the $30 for international shipping, then wants to charge me another $30 on top for the shipping I've already paid for!

I figure this is just an oversight and will be corrected quickly, but it's a bit of an oops that the system doesn't correctly take into account international shipping.

SoggyBobcat posted:

No Charisma stat? Good.

coffeetable posted:

Mind copypastin'/screenshotting the form? Curious to see what the prompt questions are.

CottonWolf posted:

omeg posted:

Now, is the "Digital Download of World Almanac" ($15 addon) included in a full digital tier of $50 or is it something else?

It should have been. I contacted them about that issue already, as I nearly ended up buying it again, and I'm pretty sure lots of people will have done.

rope kid posted:

The question isn't "Would you like more companions at the cost of the quality of current companions?" The question is, "Would you like more companions at the cost of $$$$$$ which would be necessary to make them good companions?"

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Ah, gently caress. And I even thought I'd checked through the $50 tier to check that the Almanac wasn't included before I added that. Oh well.

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We’re actually doing our character creation screen right now and for most of the D&D games I’ve worked on it’s a very similar presentation. You get a stack of things you’re going to go through and you go through them one at a time and it’s on a black screen—it’s like navigating a bunch of GUIs. Not super cool, really. Whether or not it works, it’s not super engrossing. It’s not like, “Oh man, I’m gonna foxing get into this game! I am ready! Bunch of GUIs.” It’s super boring.

We’re trying to do something that immerses you a little bit more in the world, sets the scene a little bit more. As far as how things are presented, we’re trying to make them more isolated so when you’re picking them you’re not seeing like, “Oh my god, I have to go through this huge...” It’s more like, one at a time, “What do you want the sex of your character to be? And what do you want the race of your character to be? What do you want the class of your character to be?”

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JS: It’s not mod-unfriendly...

There are certain elements of it that I think are probably going to be easier to mod than others. Environments are probably going to be pretty tough to author on your own, because even for us they’re complicated, they’re time-consuming to build, they’re very hi-res, they involve a number of special passes and things.

Other things I think are friendlier to modification, but we’ll have to see.

AB: It depends...we’re still investigating how much...since we’re using Unity there’s a lot of things we need to work around for modability, but we want to do everything we can do for the mod community. We’ll be really open, if they have questions. It’s nice because with publishers a lot of times they don’t like us talking about the technology and ways of doing things, but people can ask us on the forums and we can answer them.

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We have individual reputations for communities and stuff like that, and then we also have the personality ones which are more global, but fewer people will respond to those things—or rather, they’ll respond to them all over the world, and only specifically when they particularly care about that kind of reputation.

So for example, a cruel reputation—less people will necessarily care about that, but they’ll know about it all over the world. Once you build up enough of a rep, you’re that cruel guy. Or you’re really benevolent and nice.

But what we want to do is make it so that in Obsidian tradition, there are good things that come about from that and there are bad. If you keep choosing benevolent responses where you give things away for free or you’re just really nice or whatever, some people will be like “Oh, you’re a really cool guy, here’s a nice thing.” Other people will take advantage of you, they’ll assume you don’t need something because, “Oh, I assume you were going to do this for free because you’re the guy who’s really nice to everyone.” So sometimes it will work in your favor, sometimes it won’t.

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This area is a colonial era, more like a United States/Canada type of environment where the people that colonized it have had a rough past with the natives who live here, and only recently have they settled their disputes, they gained their independence, and part of that independence is that they’re practicing this scientific field of study called Animancy, and that’s the study of souls. Souls are a big deal in this world because people know that reincarnation happens, they don’t know a whole lot about it. They know that a person’s soul has a large influence on how they behave and who they are and things like that.

So Animancers are like the biologists of the soul. They study that stuff and they try to figure out ways they can understand and manipulate souls. And before this era of time, this was very taboo. There were a lot of religious prohibitions against it, there were a lot of political forces that were against it. Now that these countries in this part of the world are independent, they’re like “We should study this stuff. We think we can do a lot of good with this. We can fix insanity. We can adjust a person’s personality flaws. We can do all this stuff, and more importantly we can understand the nature of life and death and reincarnation.” Pretty important.

But there are still people within the country and outside the country that think this is morally wrong. That even if it’s not morally wrong, it’s something that the gods will punish people for studying. They think that there is bad news coming for the people that live here because of continued exploration of this technology.

And there are cool things that have happened. People have found out how to adjust and influence a person’s soul and personality through this. But there are also catastrophically bad things that have happened—created monsters and horrible creatures from it.

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And we do have different actions create different sounds. If you’re sneaking around a dungeon and you have someone like, “Hey man,” [gunshot noise], everyone comes running.

Anarkii posted:

I think it's the additional time most of us are concerned about. It's very very rare that you can take on a bunch of work and simply add resources without hurting the schedule. You already have a pretty fleshed out feature list, with arguably 1-2 features that weren't really needed too. Feature creep through stretch goals is starting to be a real problem in crowd-funded games of late, and experienced leads like yourself should be able to stamp it out. While all of us dearly love Obsidian's work, most would agree that a lot of the games felt like "Oh if only they had an additional 3 months to finish it, polish it and iron out the kinks". Eternity is a great opportunity to show what you can do without publishers breathing down your back.

Sleep of Bronze posted:

It should have been. I contacted them about that issue already, as I nearly ended up buying it again, and I'm pretty sure lots of people will have done.

Sensuki posted:

That's convinced me. Voted for.

Scorchy posted:

jammu posted:

Wasn't this map fixed during the kickstarter? I remember we having discussion about impossible dividing rivers VS natural combining rivers.

DrManiac posted:

I'm cool with waiting a bit if we get more cool companions (i.e one of the best parts of an obsidian game)

rizzen posted:

Hope there is a flamethrower.

rope kid posted:

It was! We will be replacing it with the version you see in the teaser soon.

Drifter posted:

Hear hear. But it's entirely possible that they are just needing more money. It is odd to open up a project to additional features when you've already extended the project timeline once/twice before, even if you think those features are p.cool.

Sensuki posted:

Yeah read all of those earlier. The PCWorld one was the best of the lot, though Buck had some good questions as well. Didn't like the RPS interview very much (which wasn't a surprise).

grrarg posted:

Obsidian was very up front that the estimated release date on the Kickstarter page was a placeholder that they could not change after it ended. Using that extension to criticize what they are proposing now is not really fair. Personally, I do not care when it is released as long as the game is finished and of a high enough quality to silence the "Obsidian games are buggy" crowd.

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The PCWorld one was great. The RPS interview sounded like the writer did not quite get the setting.

Airfoil posted:

Should we assume that, if new content stretch goals are added, any money collected from this point forward will be applied to them?

Hannibal Smith posted:

Is this where I get to brag about being one of the cool kids who already got a physical reward?

xthetenth posted:

There's no way to get my hands on that now, is there? I wish I'd had the money for some of that stuff ever since I got a real job.

Scorchy posted:

The PCWorld interview is bit of behemoth and there's lots of interesting stuff, like on character creation:

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As far as how things are presented, we’re trying to make them more isolated so when you’re picking them you’re not seeing like, “Oh my god, I have to go through this huge...” It’s more like, one at a time, “What do you want the sex of your character to be? And what do you want the race of your character to be? What do you want the class of your character to be?”

fermun posted:

No way, it was totally inspired by the Dalelands just flipped.