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Accordion Man posted:Will I be able to just load up my save from before going into the last dungeon and just play the expansion from there? Yes.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 21:02 |
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Furism posted:Yes.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 21:03 |
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Accordion Man posted:Cool, thanks. I was hoping that was the case because I don't feel like going through the game again, mainly because I'll have other games like Shadowrun HK to play. I'm with you there, I wish Obsidian and Harebrained Schemes wouldn't release their stuff five frigging days apart.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 21:06 |
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Furism posted:I'm at the end of my first run after the XP re-tuning and I could realy tell the difference from before. I've just finished the god favor quests, halfway through the bounties, just after that Vithrak level in Caed Nua, killed Raedric 2.0 and did pretty much all of the side content except a few of the companion quests - and I just reached level 12 on most of my party. I've never felt frustrated by the leveling pace and it definitively feels more reasonable than before. Obsidian really did a good job.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 21:18 |
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I am not sure that the end fight needed to be more challenging, if you don't count the Adra dragon, then the end fight is easily the hardest fight in the game, even on normal. On the other hand the Sky dragon has always seemed super easy to me.
Oasx fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Aug 11, 2015 |
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Oasx posted:I am not sure that the end fight needed to be more challenging, if you don't count the Adra dragon, then the end fight is easily the hardest fight in the game, even on normal. On the other hand the Sky dragon has always seemed super easy to me. Agreed. You can cheese the fight by exploiting line of sight and such but I'm fairly sure most people don't even try to exploit it. I know it took me a good 6 or 8 tries on my first run, and I was not even on PotD. I can see how being level 14 can change the scales though.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 21:35 |
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quote:For Sawyer, one of the crucial things about The White March, Part I's story is that it won't end in a cliffhanger. "It's like, 'okay, this is now done,'" he says. "Shortly after that, something else happens that's a consequence of [Part I]. That's Part II. It still takes place in The White March, and it's a continuation of that storyline, but we don't have quests that start in the first one that end in the second. I wonder what happens if you only buy Part II.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 21:44 |
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I wish they called the expansions two different things instead of Part I and Part II.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 21:50 |
Scorchy posted:I wish they called the expansions two different things instead of Part I and Part II. Same. The Part 1 & 2 thing just makes it sound like they're trying to nickle and dime people, even though that's not the case.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 21:53 |
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Scorchy posted:I wish they called the expansions two different things instead of Part I and Part II. gently caress You, Suck My Dick, Part 3 of the Josh Sawyer Magical Christmas RPG Experience: Chapter 2 Book 5
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 22:04 |
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Nycticeius posted:I wonder what happens if you only buy Part II. Part II requires Part I.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 23:10 |
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Furism posted:I have a terminology question. According to my Kindle's dictionary, "Leaden" means either "very heavy" or "made of lead." Which definition is correct for the "Leaden Key" ? I'm not a native english speaker so I might have missed the proper sense.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 23:17 |
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so a key that slowly poisons you every time you use it? I can dig that.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 23:21 |
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Sorry if this was mentioned already, but do backers that preordered the expansion get both parts?
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 23:22 |
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Excelzior posted:so a key that slowly poisons you every time you use it? I can dig that.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 23:24 |
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Accordion Man posted:Sorry if this was mentioned already, but do backers that preordered the expansion get both parts?
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 23:25 |
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Some of the new areas in the expansion look amazing, especially after Kaz does a touchup pass.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 23:26 |
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rope kid posted:Yes. Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Aug 11, 2015 |
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Excelzior posted:so a key that slowly poisons you every time you use it? I can dig that. You're not going to get lead poisoning from limited handling of an item made out of lead. Lead poisoning is more from inhalation/ingestion/etc, not just from casual contact. It's why they can make fishing weights and bullets out of lead.
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Khizan posted:You're not going to get lead poisoning from limited handling of an item made out of lead. Lead poisoning is more from inhalation/ingestion/etc, not just from casual contact. It's why they can make fishing weights and bullets out of lead. Wait'll you poor fools get a taste of my MERCURY key! Hahaha!
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Khizan posted:You're not going to get lead poisoning from limited handling of an item made out of lead. Lead poisoning is more from inhalation/ingestion/etc, not just from casual contact. It's why they can make fishing weights and bullets out of lead. I thought lead bullets were being phased out due to regulatory pressure, at least in the US.
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Oasx posted:I am not sure that the end fight needed to be more challenging, if you don't count the Adra dragon, then the end fight is easily the hardest fight in the game, even on normal. On the other hand the Sky dragon has always seemed super easy to me. I found the final fight to be very very easy. I imagine party composition matters a lot. It feels like most of the difficulty people had with it last time we had this conversation was that the incredible easiness of everything previously hadn't left them particularly prepared from a player skill perspective. GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Aug 12, 2015 |
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I wiped a couple of times to the final boss when I went up against him on PotD and yeah, that was mostly because I was playing badly after curbstomping everything else for a while with the exception of some fights against multiple Cean Gwlas. But there are some things that make it hard and could possibly make it frustrating with the improved AI. Basically two things in combination, really. Thaos is very hard to hit with anything, especially early in the fight. Even with an accuracy buff, I remember my Wizard having something like a 5% chance to land a graze, which kind of sucked because I really wanted to land that spell that suppresses Thaos' self buffs. So, unless you luck out, it's going to take some patience to get Thaos down. The second problem is Cleansing Flame, which absolutely needs to get a Suppress Affliction when it hits a party member or that party member is gone. I had my Rogue outright die to it when I tried to have her heal through it with potions because the spell did more damage over time than she had health. Summons obviously help here, and I think a big part of the difficulty for me was that I played without summoning items so I had to rely on my Wizard and Druid to summon cannon fodder. But if the AI improvements mean that Thaos is smarter about using the spell on actual party members instead of the beetles you summoned I can see the final fight to be really frustrating without a Priest. Rascyc posted:I think on my last play through I hit level 12 before the god favor quests but clearing more of Caed Nua. I know the second Raedric quest was pretty much an entire level, the XP reward on that fight is absolutely nuts. Oasx posted:I am not sure that the end fight needed to be more challenging, if you don't count the Adra dragon, then the end fight is easily the hardest fight in the game, even on normal. On the other hand the Sky dragon has always seemed super easy to me. rope kid posted:A key that breaks off in the lock so you can't open it again.
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GlyphGryph posted:I found the final fight to be very very easy. I imagine party composition matters a lot. It feels like most of the difficulty people had with it last time we had this conversation was that the incredibly easiness of everything previously hadn't left them particularly prepared from a player skill perspective. I completely messed up my positioning and had my wizard and cipher knocked out at the start of the fight and still beat it first time.
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Ratios and Tendency posted:I completely messed up my positioning and had my wizard and cipher knocked out at the start of the fight and still beat it first time. I just completed my Pacifist run and had to tackle this fight with my weakest party yet. It was touch and go for most of the battle, but at some point, the boss became fixated on my Chanter, so Aloth just kept juggling the adds with Confusion while Durance kept Kana alive. I didn't even bother to pick up Hiravias, Grieving Mother or Pallegina since I didn't have enough gear to kit them out for a serious brawl. I think the one thing that secured me the final victory (aside from Eder burning through five bottles of War Paint), was the ability where Sagani can call her wolf back, causing every enemy he runs through to get dumped on their rear end. Made for a nice interrupt whenever it looked like a particularly nasty AoE spell was being prepared. Going to start fresh once the DLC gets an official release. Been doing achievement based gimmick runs for so long, I've forgotten what a normal playthrough actually looks like.
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 07:49 |
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I'm not sure how healthy that is, but I dreamed for PoE last night. Obsidian was announcing the second extension (ie: not The White March Pt. 2) with proceduraly generated dungeons. I realize that PoE maps are 3D models that are then hand-drawnd and all that, but when you randomly generate dungeons you actually do it room by room and hallway by hallway (that is, not tile by tile), I wonder if Obsidian could do it with their tech. Like, they could render/compute shaders/draw a bunch of pieces, which they could then put together. rope kid posted:A key made of lead. Cool, thanks for the clarification! drgnvale posted:I thought lead bullets were being phased out due to regulatory pressure, at least in the US. Informative video about lead, it's quite interesting and lasts about 5 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM1u29BeqC0 Ancient Rome used it as a wine sweetener among other things.
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 10:25 |
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Furism posted:Ancient Rome used it as a wine sweetener among other things. And, poo poo, they made their water pipes out of it, at that point you might as well go all the way.
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 10:33 |
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It's why we call it plumbing (Pb). ~*
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 15:20 |
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Will we also get more levels to the endless paths or something like it? I really enjoyed that and was sad when I had finally killed the dragon, got that sweet geae, and nothing to kill with it.
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 15:45 |
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Scorchy posted:- More bounties and a new dragon that's tougher than the Adra Dragon Can't say I'm looking forward to this part - Adra Dragon was pretty bullshit. And there are immunities now? I get this nasty feeling this new dragon might end up being immune to paralysis.
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Scorchy posted:- Part I of the expansion won't end on a cliffhanger Malek Deneith posted:Can't say I'm looking forward to this part - Adra Dragon was pretty bullshit. And there are immunities now? I get this nasty feeling this new dragon might end up being immune to paralysis.
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 17:13 |
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Jastiger posted:Will we also get more levels to the endless paths or something like it?
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 17:24 |
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Are loading times going to be optimized?
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 17:26 |
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Ok cool they announced the release date, but what about
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 17:33 |
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$14.95 for Part I, $24.95 for both together (USD).
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 17:35 |
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Can you do 24.95 for both now, as a pre-order for part 2?
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rope kid posted:No more levels for Od Nua. Will the additional bounties provide additional hard content as a stand in?
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 17:37 |
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Periodiko posted:Can you do 24.95 for both now, as a pre-order for part 2? Jastiger posted:Will the additional bounties provide additional hard content as a stand in? Crägholt Bluff is an entire area for high level characters. Some of the bounties and the dragon are also quite hard.
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 17:48 |
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rope kid posted:I don't know when that goes live (I don't think we're doing pre-orders for anything), but yes that's the intention. Ah alright, thats good. I really enjoyed the story, but also enjoyed testing my tactical ability with some really tough fights. You guys have a knack for making fights hard, but not bullshit hard. Maybe the one exception is the Adra Dragon. As soon as you agro him you die lol.
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So, monk players. Do you guys run your monks with or without armor? If you do use armor, what type would you recommend?
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