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Darkhold posted:Are you talking about the base game or the Xpack? Watching reviewers play the Xpack was epic. Yeah I'm just skipping through a few preview streams of Pillars and it's painful to watch people with no RPG experience at all try to attempt these games.
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Furism posted:20 GB according to a very recent dev post. I thought it was 14 Gb, see here: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/71176-difference-in-hard-drive-usage-between-steam-and-gog/#entry1587163
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So are the party members okay with me swapping them in and out or this more like Baldurs Gate 2 where removing Minsc or Jaheira made me feel like the biggest rear end in a top hat ever
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Mar 23, 2015 19:46
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rope kid posted:Once you get them you can advance them as you like. We don't have a "recommended" setting since that logic can get invalidated as soon as you do one level-up.
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Oo Koo posted:More Bleak Walker chat. What would their reaction be to getting backstabbed by their employer? Say someone hires some Bleak Walkers to fight someone, then decides that they'd rather accept their opponent's surrender/not pay the bleak walkers after all. And charges them in the rear annihilating the now surrounded and confused paladin troop. What happens afterwards? quote:Any army/general may surrender after Bleak Walkers are unleashed, but the paladins explicitly do not ask for nor give mercy/surrender. If a warlord said, "Hey, Bleak Walkers, take out this town," and then halfway through the attack, the ruler of the city tried to surrender, the warlord would have a problem on his hands if he wanted to accept. Bleak Walkers won't call off an attack even if their "employer" asks them to or turns forces on them. The Bleak Walkers believe this behavior is necessary to make it clear what is going to happen when they get involved. So basically, the Bleak Walkers are a) going to keep going after their original target and b) presumably come back around and crush the former employers if they can.
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Oo Koo posted:More Bleak Walker chat. What would their reaction be to getting backstabbed by their employer? Say someone hires some Bleak Walkers to fight someone, then decides that they'd rather accept their opponent's surrender/not pay the bleak walkers after all. And charges them in the rear annihilating the now surrounded and confused paladin troop. What happens afterwards? They probably kill everyone in involved If the Bleak Walker approach to thing is "Kill everyone all the time as brutally as possible so they know we don't gently caress around" then I don't think they're going to make traitorous employers an exception
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Backstabbing the Bleak Walkers is probably the one thing worse than your opponents bringing in the Bleak Walkers. You just made it personal.
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What happens if all the bleak walkers present lose though? Do they just keep calling in more of the order into the meatgrinder from abroad? What happens if they get their asses kicked so hard that there's not enough bleak walkers in the local area to mount an effective resistance anymore?
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Oo Koo posted:What happens if all the bleak walkers present lose though? Do they just keep calling in more of the order into the meatgrinder from abroad? What happens if they get their asses kicked so hard that there's not enough bleak walkers in the local area to mount an effective resistance anymore? I imagine they have enough of an overwhelming force to take most opponents, along with a distinct tactical advantage in that anyone they're fighting knows they're up against the most brutal, merciless and efficient soldiers in Eora.
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Mar 23, 2015 19:57
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Oo Koo posted:What happens if all the bleak walkers present lose though? Do they just keep calling in more of the order into the meatgrinder from abroad? What happens if they get their asses kicked so hard that there's not enough bleak walkers in the local area to mount an effective resistance anymore?
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If the employer had a force good enough to slaughter the Bleak Walker contingent AND any reinforcements they might call in, why would he be hiring them in the first place? If they do get smashed that hard I'd assume they'd stop reinforcing and start scheming to take down the betrayer.
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Captain Oblivious posted:So are the party members okay with me swapping them in and out or this more like Baldurs Gate 2 where removing Minsc or Jaheira made me feel like the biggest rear end in a top hat ever Previews said that they chilled at your stronghold and could even go on resource gathering style quests, so it seems like they should be cool with it. Malek Deneith posted:So the big question is - are companions always met at specific level regardless of when you get them? Or do they scale meaning you'll get less opportunity to advance them your way if you get them too late. They scale. Enjoy your priest coming with wound triage if you get to him too late.
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Oo Koo posted:What happens if all the bleak walkers present lose though? Do they just keep calling in more of the order into the meatgrinder from abroad? What happens if they get their asses kicked so hard that there's not enough bleak walkers in the local area to mount an effective resistance anymore? I'd imagine the number of troops and from what local chapter are part of initial negotiations. Similarly I'd imagine they'd use their discretion about what jobs to accept so they don't walk into hopeless situation
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Mar 23, 2015 19:59
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Any youtube/stream recommendation ? I just want to watch until a bit after the first dungeon, someone that knows how to play and don't rush dialogue/takes his time showing stuff.
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Mar 23, 2015 20:00
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Mar 23, 2015 20:01
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Icept posted:If the employer had a force good enough to slaughter the Bleak Walker contingent AND any reinforcements they might call in, why would he be hiring them in the first place? I kinda veered on a tangent there. That second question was more about what happens when the bleak walkers lose in general. Like if they don't get backstabbed but the opposing army just wins because they're better than the bleak walkers and their employers combined.
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Mar 23, 2015 20:07
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Roguelike posted:They scale. Enjoy your priest coming with wound triage if you get to him too late. mmm, I was concerned about that. At least it's semi-avoidable. I suppose you can save your level up, too.
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Mar 23, 2015 20:10
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I don't have time to watch most of a stream so what notable bugs are there in the present game? This isn't a Ubisoft effort so I'm expecting the bugs won't be as memetic.
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Mar 23, 2015 20:12
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When can you preload this bad boy?
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I will be shocked if there isnt a "companions always join at level 1" mod within like a week of release.
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Clever Spambot posted:I will be shocked if there isnt a "companions always join at level 1" mod within like a week of release. Bester is actually working on an in-game companion editor already. There are some issues with some of the classes though.
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Mar 23, 2015 20:14
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RPS plays a tad and gives commentary: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/03/23/pillars-of-eternity-the-first-half-hour/#more-277867
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Sensuki posted:I suppose you can save your level up, too. Would that work? Don't you hit the level up flag when you get experience, not when you apply your ability points? I know this may be a bit spergy, but I wonder how much more I'd rather rush to get the companions in order to control their levelups rather than waiting to do it naturally. I mean, you'd probably only be getting to level three before you get all the companions, right? Inspector Gesicht posted:I don't have time to watch most of a stream so what notable bugs are there in the present game? This isn't a Ubisoft effort so I'm expecting the bugs won't be as memetic. The main bug is that bighead mode makes everyone look like Shrek. 
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I don't have time to watch most of a stream so what notable bugs are there in the present game? This isn't a Ubisoft effort so I'm expecting the bugs won't be as memetic. Streamers don't seem to understand the mechanics well enough to notice any bugs. What they really struggle with is stuff that isn't bugs, like wizard arcane assault only being 5m so that wizards walk forward and die whenever they cast it, or interrupts canceling actions. Or engagement. Also bears.
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Roguelike posted:Streamers don't seem to understand the mechanics well enough to notice any bugs. What they really struggle with is stuff that isn't bugs, like wizard arcane assault only being 5m so that wizards walk forward and die whenever they cast it, or interrupts canceling actions. Or engagement. Also bears. If you're targeting an ability is there any indication that you're out of reach and will move forward?
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I wonder if most people will have trouble understanding that stuff or if its just a side effect of trying to play a game while also be entertaining (which whether they are succeeding or not must be distracting).omeg posted:If you're targeting an ability is there any indication that you're out of reach and will move forward? Yeah the targeting icon changes to one with feet in it.
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That's the double-edged sword of allowing people to stream your game early. You get some good publicity out of the people/blogs/companies that know what they're doing and have fun with your (presumably good) game, but you also risk some idiot with 20 thousand viewers making your game look like poo poo because he can't be bothered to read any of the tutorial tips, doesn't understand the basics of the game, and just shits all over it for 30 minutes before going back to playing Minecraft.
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ChiTownEddie posted:RPS plays a tad and gives commentary: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/03/23/pillars-of-eternity-the-first-half-hour/#more-277867 quote:hmm looks heavy on the text , Wasteland 2 made that mistake Gotta love random internet comments.
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quote:I’m not able to tell you at this point if THE GAME IS REALLY GOOD or not. So you’ll just have to continue not knowing if IT’S DEFINITELY WORTH GETTING for a couple more days. Hahaha
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Clever Spambot posted:I wonder if most people will have trouble understanding that stuff or if its just a side effect of trying to play a game while also be entertaining (which whether they are succeeding or not must be distracting). I doubt most people will understand that stuff. I didn't know about the feet thing and I've got an unhealthy number of hours in the beta. I haven't seen a single person using hotkeys and I wouldn't even know about them if I hadn't discovered them by accident because shift queing used to be bugged. Visually, engagement is completely drowned out by everything else happening in combat.
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Oo Koo posted:I kinda veered on a tangent there. That second question was more about what happens when the bleak walkers lose in general. Like if they don't get backstabbed but the opposing army just wins because they're better than the bleak walkers and their employers combined. Then them's just the breaks. Mercenaries know that sometimes you lose. You fulfill the obligations in your contract, which unless you are very stupid includes a limit on the resources you are willing to commit, and if you fail you don't get the rest of your pay. Unless becoming a bleak walker requires you to replace your entire cerebral cortex with a piece of paper with MURDER written on it, I imagine they employ the usual amount of business sense for a contractor taking on a risky proposition.
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Icept posted:Gotta love random internet comments. is there still time to remove all the text and add quick time events/
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Pillars of Eternity - You were elected to lead AND to read
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Pwnstar posted:Hahaha I hope Obsidian cracks down really hard on these malicious attempts to subvert the embargo.  Furism posted:Part 2 of the Road to Eternity Intro: https://vimeo.com/121319960 ropekid just do a second Kickstarter to switch another team to more glorious indie work in parallel to the one working on the expansion. Kick the treadmill to the curb. My money is ready.
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So I'm thinking of making a Cipher that uses one handed melee weapons(mostly swords unless I find something super good). Lots of people in here seem to have hands on experience and stuff so I was wondering, how viable is this character idea?
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Gyshall posted:is there still time to remove all the text and add quick time events/ Telltale bought the PoE IP?? Nooooo!
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im going to make a big, sick rear end, barbarian
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raiders5000 says: Look…if you’re not going to have voice acting, then you need to drop $20!  Airfoil posted:Telltale bought the PoE IP?? Nooooo! *rope kid will remember that* Drifter fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Mar 23, 2015 |
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Airfoil posted:Telltale bought the PoE IP?? Nooooo! Seriously please don't even joke about that.
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devilmaydry posted:So I'm thinking of making a Cipher that uses one handed melee weapons(mostly swords unless I find something super good). Lots of people in here seem to have hands on experience and stuff so I was wondering, how viable is this character idea? Do you want to dual weild or weild a one handed weapon only? With Cipher you generally want to max Int and then some combination of Might and Dex. The slower the weapon you plan on using, the more benefit from Might; the faster the weapons, the more benefit from Dex. Dual-weilding is the fastest weapon option, ranged guns are the slowest. One-handed by itself, without an offhand, ehh, Ropekid just tweaked it post-beta but the general consensus is it's slightly underpowered because ~*reasons*~ Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Mar 23, 2015 |
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