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Zore posted:I mean, if you sunk every faction ship you saw who the gently caress is telling them you're doing that? The crew is all dead and its not like cell phone or radios exist, primary communications are still carried out on paper by courier. You've got the colours of every ship you've sunk hanging from your guy lines every time you roll into port.
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Dragon Age 2’s post modernist playersexuality challenged the culture, like all good design tbh
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frajaq posted:I really really really wish Obsidian was more ballsy with the reputation system and consequences for poo poo, near the end of my full completion run I had sunk every single faction ship I saw and was still with Good reputation with every single major faction. This is just stupid. You can ask Maia about this and she tells you that anything you do to their ships is an acceptable loss compared to what they have to gain by employing you. It's only logical to think that the other factions feel the same way.
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May 16, 2018 01:17
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Anyone else having the issue where the auto-attack AI defaults back to Passive even after hitting Save?
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May 16, 2018 01:18
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Autonomous Monster posted:You've got the colours of every ship you've sunk hanging from your guy lines every time you roll into port. I found them in some flotsam. Must be a real bad dude out there somewhere!
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May 16, 2018 01:19
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Xoti as a Priest/Monk seems really good to me actually. She can throw down a buff or two before she starts slicin' and dicin'.
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precision posted:Xoti as a Priest/Monk seems really good to me actually. She can throw down a buff or two before she starts slicin' and dicin'. The problem is she would be even better at slicin' and dicin' if she was just a pure class Monk and thus progressing in the Monk ability tree faster. 
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May 16, 2018 01:23
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My dudes just have "..." over their heads. It keeps defaulting to passive.  So weird, man. I almost want to just go play PoE1 again.
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Captain Oblivious posted:The problem is she would be even better at slicin' and dicin' if she was just a pure class Monk and thus progressing in the Monk ability tree faster. Yeah, but there aren't a bunch of Priest companions you can pick up. One of the problems with her default AI I ran into with her as a Priest in my last playthrough was that she casts buffs from way in the backline and half of them miss the people who need them. I'm actually sitting here on Xoti's class collection tree debating Contemplative vs Monk. My Plan was: Edder - Fighter/Rogue Aloth - Fighter/Wizard Xoti - Monk/Priest Maia - Ranger/Rogue PC - Wizard
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edit: ^^^^ just smh if you don't make Maia a GeomancerCaptain Oblivious posted:The problem is she would be even better at slicin' and dicin' if she was just a pure class Monk and thus progressing in the Monk ability tree faster. True, but I didn't want to make anyone else a Priest and my RPG OCD demands I have at least one person for every class in the game 
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l'm fine with everyone being bisexual for the sake of inclusivity, but the "it's just a power fantasy lol" thing is dumb and wrong. This is very much a game about making choices about who and what your character is and the game constantly reacting to those choices. The most interesting and compelling parts of these sorts of games are the situations where you can't get the outcome that you wan't because of the choices you have made. The difference between player agency and just letting the player decide outcomes is one of the biggest things that separates good RPGs from bad ones IMO
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May 16, 2018 01:39
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Has a list of major points from the recent stream been posted anywhere? I don't want to watch a one hour video when I could read something for less than five minutes and retain the information better.
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May 16, 2018 01:45
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Heithinn Grasida posted:Has a list of major points from the recent stream been posted anywhere? I don't want to watch a one hour video when I could read something for less than five minutes and retain the information better. Like 80% of it was discussing when certain things would be patched (Issues with player dispositions will be part of the patch this week, issues with companion dispositions will be soon, late game difficulty won't be for a while) Free DLC next week makes the drunk orlan lady from the pirate keep in to a sidekick. Josh isn't directing the DLC, says they're aware people want certain sidekicks to be expanded in to full companions but that's up to the new creative director. Some other designer is in charge of Berath's Blessings but is working on expanding them.
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:Man the end to Eder's questline in PoE1 is so disappointing... Bear in mind that reading his brother's memories and not being able to answer why he joined the enemy isn't the end of the quest. The end of the quest actually comes in the final dungeon, so be sure to bring him along if you want a nice capstone to the whole thing
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Fintilgin posted:Does it really, though? It's totally cool that all the romance NPCs are bi, but the justification you're offering is both unnecessary and wrong. You're positioning the Pillars games as this sort of unadulterated power fantasy on the level of something like Saint's Row, but that's not born out in the writing of either game, both of which occasionally go out of their way to undercut the central power fantasy in an effort to make the world and your place in it more believable. This is power fantasy, sure, but it's not totally ungrounded in the way you're suggesting. Your argument isn't even born out in the romance selection, because the two best companions don't even wanna gently caress.
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I can certainly imagine games where an NPCs sexuality is relevant or meaningful to explore. I'm not sure that a Dungeons & Dragons game where you're chasing an 900 foot statue in a pirate ship piloted by a sharkman is that game though.
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May 16, 2018 02:13
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:Man the end to Eder's questline in PoE1 is so disappointing... You should ask yourself what his quest has in common with the other companion quest conclusions. There's a reason why his quest ends the way it does, there is a message.
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May 16, 2018 02:13
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do you have to start a new game for level scaling to work with the patch or beta patch or whatever?
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Fellatio del Toro posted:l'm fine with everyone being bisexual for the sake of inclusivity, but the "it's just a power fantasy lol" thing is dumb and wrong. This is very much a game about making choices about who and what your character is and the game constantly reacting to those choices. The most interesting and compelling parts of these sorts of games are the situations where you can't get the outcome that you wan't because of the choices you have made. The difference between player agency and just letting the player decide outcomes is one of the biggest things that separates good RPGs from bad ones IMO But this is not very much a game about romance, that's just icing. At heart this is still a game that is primarily based on systems of combat, the plot and decisions therein are window dressing. A lot of people skip through all the text as it is.
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precision posted:But this is not very much a game about romance, that's just icing. At heart this is still a game that is primarily based on systems of combat, the plot and decisions therein are window dressing. A lot of people skip through all the text as it is. Did you misclick on this thread? This post is completely wrong, to the point that I'm certain you're discussing a different game.
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Scorchy posted:Twitch stream archive: Thank you for this, and thank you rope kid (and Caleb but not sure if he's on SA) for the transparency. I'm super happy about Deadfire but it's rad to get perspectives from the development side.
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Fellatio del Toro posted:Did you misclick on this thread? This post is completely wrong, to the point that I'm certain you're discussing a different game. You're not aware that a lot of fans of PoE were fans because of the combat and just clicked through all the walls of text?
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Has anybody tried a straight up dual wielding dagger character? Between lover's embrace (frenzy!), pukestabber, blackblade's hood, the dual wield talent, and a bunch of dex, you should be able to stack an absolute shitton of action speed.
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precision posted:You're not aware that a lot of fans of PoE were fans because of the combat and just clicked through all the walls of text? A few. Not a lot. In fact, I'd wager there are about a poo poo ton more people who put it on an easy difficulty to experience the world and the writing without the difficulty of the combat.
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As a bisexual person, i think it's cool that most characters are "playersexual" because I like being able to craft my character as I so choose. Since the sexuality of the companion characters doesn't really drive the story, it's really just there as flavor for my run, so I'm glad I can organize that however I want. Besides, who knows how sexuality works on Eora? Maybe bisexual is normal and you monosexuals are the weird ones. Wouldn't THAT be something!!
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"Ooh I wonder if torment's reach can activate while spirtshifted" *werecat kills two mopes with a spinning back kick* 
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2house2fly posted:Bear in mind that reading his brother's memories and not being able to answer why he joined the enemy isn't the end of the quest. The end of the quest actually comes in the final dungeon, so be sure to bring him along if you want a nice capstone to the whole thing Yeah, I feel like I missed something pretty important when Suddenly I'm in the credits and Aloth is the new leader of the Leaden Key. That comes out of absolutely nowhere if you dumped him right after seeing the animancer in the sanitarium.
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So level scaling is definitely working with the beta patch but it honestly doesn't go far enough. I replayed through the final areas and there wasn't much difference in difficulty, the fights just lasted slightly longer.
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treizebee posted:"Ooh I wonder if torment's reach can activate while spirtshifted" Isn't it wonderful 
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Akong posted:A few. Not a lot. ha ha ha no way. Speaking of combat is there a place to farm xp/gold without running out of enemies? Even via respawns?
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pmchem posted:ha ha ha no way. Kills don't give xp, filling your bestiary gives xp. Once an entry is complete you won't get any more xp from that enemy.
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I think it is nice when your companions have their own personalities, motivations, and kinks, including not necessarily being into the watcher. However, with just 7 companions it's not like there's a ton more fish in the sea if they chose to limit one to only romancing male Orlans. If there were 30 romances then that would be fine ... but there's not. Erring on the side of inclusiveness seems sensible. I don't really want to go back to the humble origins of awkward orthographic RPG romance in BG2 where no one is the least bit gay, no one can love a short person and women are stuck with loving Anomen. It's as sad as a watcher that only Aloth could possibly love.
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the sexuality stuff is.. fine. it would be more interesting if the different societies in PoE2 actually had different attitudes towards sexuality, which then bled into the companions, especially since that was a really important historical difference between european vs. aboriginal / agricultural vs. hunter-gatherer societies at the time. a decision like that would create way too much trouble with the customer base to be worth it though--poe2 is deffo a gratification/power fantasy in this regard--so whatever.
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What is the "official" wiki for this game? https://pillarsofeternity2.wiki.fextralife.com/Pillars+of+Eternity+2+Wiki seems ... very incomplete. https://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/Pillars_of_Eternity_II:_Deadfire claims it is the official wiki but has even less info Basically looking for somewhere that's collecting where various items drop so I don't have to try building my own list.
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Pinned official wiki thread is here, so that second wiki https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/98308-the-pillars-of-eternity-wiki-the-saga-continues/ but yeah it is... spartan.
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Speaking of romance, I made a quick save just to make Aloth hate me real quick for an achievement and, uh... Turns out if you kiss him during the "maxed out negative relationship" conversation he's into it?
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I mainly come to these games for the combat. I never found the story in poe 1 or 2 all that amazing and tend to skip a lot of text after getting the general gist of the conversation. The writing in 2 is a lot more engaging and overall better but I want to be casting spells and gibbing dudes. I don't constantly replay bg1 and 2 for the plot.
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Harrow posted:Turns out if you kiss him during the "maxed out negative relationship" conversation he's into it?
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Akong posted:A few. Not a lot. You'd be surprised. A lot of people fuckin' love Infinity Engine-style combat and don't care much about the roleplaying and story. See also: Icewind Dale I mean, I'm not necessarily one of them. I enjoy the combat but it's only part of the package for me. But tons of people (y'know, relative to the number of CRPG fans, at least) are hardcore fans of Infinity Engine combat.
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