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Basic Chunnel posted:The big ones were the “members only” weapons shop on the second floor of the Salty Mast, which was all Codexian poo poo, and some of the inns. I'd like to think my multi bear build had something to do with that clip of the bear party in the deadfire videos.  I know a bunch of people came up with similar builds though.
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keirharder posted:Is there a link talking about the backer content? I mean other than the gold names and graves. Just curious really. - A lot of the unique items, unique weapons. - Portraits. - All the taverns except for the Black Hound Inn I think. - All the adventuring groups you run into.
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If I'm not mistaken, the Black Hound was supposed to be a backer-created inn, but the backer never responded to the surveys, so they put in some lines about the old owner abandoning it.
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Mar 10, 2018 07:09
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the 'abandonment' of the black hound probably refers to the abandonment of the black hound project which was the code name for baldurs gate 3. it gave me the warm and fuzzies the first time I saw it. 
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Mar 10, 2018 07:11
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Speaking of monks earlier, anyone who hasn't tried it before should load up an old White March save and spec Zahua into being a Long Pain focused build and then take it into a fight. I've said it before but it's really funny, try it and it's a risky gimmick too. You rush him in, take some wounds, Torment's Path to get him out, activate Long Pain, and then you just watch every other enemy (especially ranged ones) just wither under the weight of ranged superpunches doing 20-30 damage with less than a second in between each one.
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The Crotch posted:If I'm not mistaken, the Black Hound was supposed to be a backer-created inn, but the backer never responded to the surveys, so they put in some lines about the old owner abandoning it. This is correct. There is some audio commentary on that if you have that option activated. Cross-Section posted:I believe GAF users bought an island chain in Deadfire as well, but last I heard the folks who moved to ERA (aka most of them, including the person who put in the pledge for it) were contacting the devs to try to see if the GAF references could be removed. As far as I can tell, Obsidian quietly removed his portrait from PoE2, so I would not at all be surprised to see them quickly scrubbing those references away.
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Mar 10, 2018 08:03
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rope kid posted:I wrote Pallegina and pickups for various Edér lines. Eric wrote the vast bulk of Edér. Carrie wrote Aloth. Megan starks wrote Xoti. Paul Kirsch wrote Maia and Tekēhu. Who's writing Ydwin? I know she's not a full companion but I assume someone is assigned to her.
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The Crotch posted:If I'm not mistaken, the Black Hound was supposed to be a backer-created inn, but the backer never responded to the surveys, so they put in some lines about the old owner abandoning it. Zane posted:the 'abandonment' of the black hound probably refers to the abandonment of the black hound project which was the code name for baldurs gate 3. it gave me the warm and fuzzies the first time I saw it. It's one of them parfaits
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Mar 10, 2018 08:24
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Is kalakoth's minor blights affected by weapon focus: adventurer?
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Mar 10, 2018 12:34
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Wheres goon island. Doobies tavern.
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A Sometimes Food posted:Who's writing Ydwin? I know she's not a full companion but I assume someone is assigned to her. Probably Carrie Patel. She was going to write her if she became a full companion during the campaign. I image she's still writing her even though she's not.
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Mar 10, 2018 13:41
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CottonWolf posted:I'd prefer it if they moved all the fluff stuff to the start. Go Portrait -> Race -> Background -> Class -> Character Design -> Weapons Specialisation -> Assign Stat Points. Also, link the base stats of the weapon types in the weapon specialization screen. They're just as important to weapon type selection as the modals are. And it's annoying trying to remember what the baseline bonus of a morning star is now that it's no longer an interrupt bonus, or how big the accuracy malus of a large shield is, or whatever.
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Mar 10, 2018 14:29
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the producer lady from backer video updates is leaving https://twitter.com/kgarsten/status/972313523689701378 seems weird with the game so close to being released 
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Mar 10, 2018 14:30
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frajaq posted:the producer lady from backer video updates is leaving Wonder if her salary would cover a minute Fishing mini-game? bongwizzard fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Mar 10, 2018 |
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Mar 10, 2018 14:32
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Mymla posted:Is kalakoth's minor blights affected by weapon focus: adventurer? Yes, summoned and soul bound weapons work with whichever weapon focus you have.
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Mar 10, 2018 14:35
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frajaq posted:the producer lady from backer video updates is leaving I guess there's not much left to produce this close to release? plus, really, the puppet video couldn't be topped
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Mar 10, 2018 14:36
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bongwizzard posted:Wonder if her salary would cover a minute Fishing mini-game? Were that the case, surely they would have let her go a year ago.
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Mar 10, 2018 15:36
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The question is: Am I a bad dude enough to finish PoE 1+ DLC finally? While My heart resides with my Kind Wayfarer main, all these "ships, islands and pirates" talk make me roll a Duelist Hat tottin' Rogue for PoE 2.
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Galewolf posted:The question is: Am I a bad dude enough to finish PoE 1+ DLC finally? While My heart resides with my Kind Wayfarer main, all these "ships, islands and pirates" talk make me roll a Duelist Hat tottin' Rogue for PoE 2. Sure you can import that kind wayfarer, but you can also just remember what choices you made with them and make a rogue.
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I'm transferring my kind wayfarer and making them a paladin rogue, so...
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Mar 10, 2018 17:07
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RandomMagus posted:Double tapping a number centers the camera on the character like control groups in an RTS game. The number that selects them corresponds to the portrait order at the bottom of the screen. There's also a "follow this character/group" button but I don't remember what that is. Period maybe? It's in the controls menu in options. Wow, this on top of just finding out about "fast mode" just made this game 100% better. And it was already straight 100. Thanks
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Dennis McClaren posted:PoE 1 - Is there a key or command that re-centers the camera on the party? “.”
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Cheston posted:I guess there's not much left to produce this close to release? plus, really, the puppet video couldn't be topped
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I’d just as soon assume that she’d lined up another gig awhile ago and had stayed on to fulfill her obligations.
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If I recall correctly, her main job as a producer was to take care of the crowdfunding campaign. With the release of the PC version of the game so close, I would assume more or less all of her obligations are fulfilled. Besides, can't really top the puppets. Might as well go out with a bang rather than a whimper!
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frajaq posted:nvm thought you got that ydwin from this pic but it looks like slightly different the korean mmo portraits are aesthetic af compared 2 the originals xoti is the only one i dont really vibe wit, shes been softened too much in the remake and lost sum of her edge imo TEENAGE WITCH fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Mar 11, 2018 |
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The only character in Pillars of Eternity that I disliked was Aloth--mainly because he was an elf wizard with an upper class accent and posh airs. His little plot twist seemed to lean more into that element of his character than to redeem it. I was disappointed he's one of the main returning characters, although I loved Eder and Pallegina. Still, I'm curious as to how he'll play out in Deadfire. Grieving Mother was one of the weaker NPCs in Pillars of Eternity, possibly my least favorite after Aloth. But mainly because she was a non-entity rather than directly offensive. I thought her character and story tied in with the broader crisis facing the region and did a good job showing the emotional stakes involved. I think there's room in the same game for characters like Durance and Grieving Mother and Eder and Sagani. I don't agree that its jarring to have different characters with different tones in the same game, and think there's a lot of potential for interesting character dynamics if they actually interact with each other. See, e.g.; Planescape:Torment, which had Morte and Annah along with Dakkon and Falls-from-Grace. I don't know how Durance can be a Mary Sue. He doesn't have any special powers, he was one of a team comprising dozens of people, and he's scorned by his goddess, he doesn't have a special relationship with her. There are lots of constraints in role playing in reactivity in the main campaign of Pillars of Eternity(the DLC is much better about this), and its seems more like a function of the production cycle than any particularly unique aspects of Durance's character. It's funny how an internet echo chamber develops. Avellone is presumed to write only metaphysical/philosophical characters. But he also wrote New Reno in Fallout 2. I don't know if he wrote other NPCs than Kriea, but I think even Kriea is badly misunderstood. As others have pointed out, she's not a Mary Sue-she's also full of poo poo, and she frequently fails in her goals. Avellone was the project lead on the New Vegas DLCs save Honest Hearts. And yes, Ulysses talked about high concepts a lot. I don't know if Avellone wrote any of the characters in Old World Blues or Dead Money, but Old World Blues especially didn't have the stereotypical Avellone writing. Same with Wasteland 2. Same with Alpha Protocol. Same with Prey. Like a lot of figures on the internet, the perception meme has a lot more sway than the reality.
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Zahua's spirit lives on.
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Coating blowpipes with delicious malcachoa. Nice.
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:EDIT: Also, making a portrait "better" by lightening up a character's skin is always hosed up. Not an empty quote.
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There is a pretty interesting correlation between people who think Durance is a Mary Sue and people who think that RPGs should give you the ability to completely rewrite a character's personality with a few conversations, a la Jack from ME2(paragon path). I liked Durance because he was an important look into some major historical events of the setting. On top of this, his ending has him realizing that his god just wants him to gently caress off and die alone somewhere, and depending on how you talk to him, that's exactly what happens. Yes, he sets off to find a way to kill a god, but since it's been proven it can happen(kind of) and he now knows that gods have vulnerabilities since they're man made, that's not mary sue at all. We'll see if Obsidian can do more with him, but I doubt they'll use him again - he doesn't have much use to the story and I don't think the PoE saga is necessarily about killing gods.
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WiiFitForWindows8 posted:There is a pretty interesting correlation between people who think Durance is a Mary Sue and people who think that RPGs should give you the ability to completely rewrite a character's personality with a few conversations, a la Jack from ME2(paragon path). Says you. Killing them is my number one goal ever since I found out about their shenanigans. And yeah, Durance was fine, in the sense that you should see him as more of a challenge in addition to the rest of the game. As in, dismantling his philosophies. Sometimes, making companions see reason rather than agreeing with them or trying to help them with everything they do is more interesting.
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I understand being down for debating philosophy, but consider that he’s not just a traveling companion--you are bringing him to fight alongside you, in life-and-death circumstances. And while I may be willing to debate politics with some dickhead while I’m traveling, I don’t see much in-story reason to bring him along to fight at your side, especially when he explicitly tells you he may judge you a bad seed and therefore need to be killed. The last thing I’d want is to suddenly get stabbed in the back by someone who’s supposed to be on my own team. There is basically zero incentive to take an untrustworthy loving wackjob along with me when he may well just shank me in my sleep. I liked the idea where he lies and tells you he’s your only chance for a cure, because then the PC has a compelling reason to take him along and risk getting shanked. Herp derp but you need a priest, and metagaming tells me he won’t actually betray the party!!!  Edit: but clearly I'm just looking for MAXIMUM POWER FANTASY 
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All of this is more proof that if you look for deeper PC motivation then “Get gold pieces, kill dragons, smoke svef”, you are going to be disappointed at some point in every game.
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Dick Burglar posted:I understand being down for debating philosophy, but consider that he’s not just a traveling companion--you are bringing him to fight alongside you, in life-and-death circumstances. And while I may be willing to debate politics with some dickhead while I’m traveling, I don’t see much in-story reason to bring him along to fight at your side, especially when he explicitly tells you he may judge you a bad seed and therefore need to be killed. The last thing I’d want is to suddenly get stabbed in the back by someone who’s supposed to be on my own team. There is basically zero incentive to take an untrustworthy loving wackjob along with me when he may well just shank me in my sleep. I liked the idea where he lies and tells you he’s your only chance for a cure, because then the PC has a compelling reason to take him along and risk getting shanked. As for why you’d take him with you for fighting, he’s actually the least nonsensical party add, his magical power is immediately evident on meeting him he seems more enthusiastic about violence than anyone else, save maybe Aloth (who you meet while murdering some kith together). It should break your immersion more when Pallegina or Kana goes along with a random battle in the wilderness off the road, or Eder joins in on murdering a man in the Gilded Vale town center for his plate mail.
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*Sagani, while breaking into a civilian house in Copperlane for no reason* This adventuring life is what it’s all about
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*Hiravias, upon murdering an entire Glanfathan bloodline and stealing an infant* Just another day on the road to discover the meaning and purpose of my werecat form
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:I'd like to think my multi bear build had something to do with that clip of the bear party in the deadfire videos.
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In this game, you also take with you: - a literal murder robot who was made a robot due to her career as a serial killer, - a guy you met when he jumped out at you from a barrel of fish, - a guy whose resume is "smells really really bad and says he's a druid," - a guy you see provoke a fight while claiming not to have said what you just saw him say, - someone who all available evidence suggests is a hallucination. People a sane person would associate with are a minority in your party in this game, and probably in this sort of game in general. e: like for real, being veritably insane and smelling really, really bad are selling point for joining your party in this game. Hodgepodge fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Mar 11, 2018 |
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