rope kid posted:

Probably a bit, mostly for companions rather than wilderness environments. Additional content does take additional time to make, but not dramatically, not at the scale we're thinking about.

E: Personally, I think more wilderness areas would feel really cool and I believe players would enjoy them. I also would like for players to have every character class represented by a companion. Right now we're 3 short. We don't want to go buckwild on this stuff, but we do think it would feel better with those additions. If we thought it would fundamentally make the game worse, we wouldn't even be asking.

JohnnyBigPotatoes posted:

Hey so Winter 2014 huh? technically that could mean next month, you guys work fast.

Also, saw this on the site and it made me sad that this isn't getting a physical release.

Llyranor posted:

Oh wow, that looked amazing. One of my most anticipated games ever (and most expensive -_-).

The survey's up on the backer site for those who can design an NPC.

Accordion Man posted:

This. I want to be the party members to be well-written characters, that's part of the reason I pledged and why I don't want to use the Adventurer's Hall at all.

Mymla posted:

Time spent adding more companions could always be spent on the existing ones. Somehow I doubt you're ever going to get to a point with your companions where you go "Welp, this roster of characters is literally perfect, no quest to tweak, no party banter to add.".
Adding characters also add exponentially to the workload if you want things like banter between the different NPCs. Which you probably do want.

Fish Fry Andy posted:

Personally I would like it if character shadows matched the background's lighting direction, which is what bothered me the most in the trailer.

Cession posted:

Sindai posted:

Wait, does "Winter 2014" mean in two months or in a year?

Wolfsheim posted:

Why would Bethesda blacklist RPG Codex in the first place? And no one say quality standards.

Hand Row posted:

Have we been told what the name of the other major playable city is? I was looking at the map trying to figure it out where it was.

Basic Chunnel posted:

It's been said before but Obsidian is a studio built for AAA game making, and while they could definitely support another KS game, the studio would not in any way be sustained by them. Pillars of Eternity has a very, very small team. They'll still be hustling for at least 2 concurrent AAA projects at any one time.

CottonWolf posted:

I would have thought that even if it had have been written two weeks ago, it still would be been too close to Christmas to make a KS wise. Everyone will have already spent all their money on presents. Or at least be planning to.

tima posted:

While we are on the subject of different settings for a game, here is mine:

You are a detective who gets woken up in the middle of the interstellar journey because there was a murder on the spaceship you are on. Was it a faulty ai? Did aliens infiltrate the ship? Is it one of the crew members? Stay tuned to find out!

Megazver posted:

Frankly, I find these goony posts about 'romance ewwww cooties' way weirder and sadder. *pat pat* It's okay to pretend to like someone for a while to vicariously experience the rush of falling in love all over again.

CommissarMega posted:

I'd like to see more romances that don't involve the player, since those can be more easily tailored to the characters involved, and you can ensure that they will happen anyway. It's either that, or go the Bioware route of 'they love you anyway/you must follow the One True Romance Path™'. maybe something along the lines of Khalid and Jaheira, or Haer'dalis and Aerie.

StashAugustine posted:

- Druids: Not much info aside from shapeshifting.

Scorchy posted:

Barbs are the melee with the focus on AE I think.

Priests and Paladins got shuffled around a bit, not sure where they're at right now.

Cheston posted:

Then I guess Chanters are just hobos with sticks.

rope kid on OEI forums posted:

Resolve modifies the duration of any effect generated by the character. Rogues gain Sneak Attack bonuses against enemies with a wide variety of conditions on them. Rogues are capable of inflicting many of those conditions on their own. If a rogue has a low Resolve, those conditions have commensurately shorter durations.

Fish Fry Andy posted:

I would actually like a Morrowind game by Obsidian, but that's just because Morrowind borrows from non-European history for its setting's inspiration. Really, I think it would be great if there were more fantasy games outside of faux Europe. I can appreciate why they made the POE setting what it is, but I hope that Obsidian's next setting is original and more out there.

Otto Skorzeny posted:

Is it only available to the PC, or if a party member would qualify for the gated dialogue can they butt in?

J.E. Sawyer posted:

Hi, Sykid.  It's a balancing act, because we don't want to do lore and mechanics dumps on the world this far ahead of the game being finished, but here are some things to help with both items and characters:
 
Items:
* Please, if it's at all possible, consider making something that is not a sword.  I think we say this in the survey, but I'd like to repeat it here.  There are no junk weapon types in Pillars of Eternity.  Even daggers and clubs are good weapons.  The same applies to armor and shields.  Every type has trade-offs, so if you want to make a suit of awesome padded armor, someone will wear it.
 
* Many D&Dish effects can go on weapons, armor, and shields.  That said, there are also many abilities that are unique to PoE and we will suggest them if the idea of your item seems to fit.  At a basic level, all weapons and armor can have a quality modifier of Fine, Exceptional, and Superior that roughly correlate to +1, +2, and +3 (not quite, but close enough).  This game is equivalent to a low- to mid-level D&D campaign, so Sun Blades and +5s are too macho.
 
* Materials like drake/dragon bone can be used in items, but whatever material you specify, try to make it fit with the idea of the weapon.  A dragon bone club, spear, or stiletto is more fitting than a dragon bone battle axe or mace.  Mithril and adamantine are not materials in PoE.  Steel is overwhelmingly used for most metal weapons and armor, with five grades of interest: Wyflan (good steel), March (great steel, more damage, protects better), Ymyran (great steel that is "blackened", faster/lighter), Durgan (super steel from the lost forges of Durgan's Battery) and Skein (like Durgan steel, but very new technology, made with really horrible soul magic).
 
* Copper and living adra (an abalone shell-like material) are often used to bind souls and magical energy into items.
 
* The timeline of the civilized world is not "Realmsian".  The Dyrwood and the Vailian Republics have only been colonized for a few centuries.  The Glanfathans have lived in Eir Glanfath for two millennia.  Before them, it was occupied by a relatively unknown civilization known as the Engwithans (who built most of the monuments and holy sites that the Glanfathans now guard).  The Aedyr Empire is about 600 years old (well, Aedyr as a nation is that old).  Old Valia as an empire was about 1500 years old but has collapsed by the current day.  The main point is that more than 4,000 years ago, civilization was extremely modest, not advanced.
 
Characters:
* Any NPCs you make could be from the following local/directly involved places... 
- The Dyrwood - Focus of the game, colonial area full of once-Aedyran humans and elves.  Hardworking, surly pioneers in the country, animancers in the city. More-or-less blew up a god in the Saint's War which (in the new timeline) happened about 10-15 years ago.  Dyrwoodan virtues: independence, perseverance, sacrifice, communal hospitality, and vigilantism/feuding.  Dyrwoodan vices: servility, shirking (responsibilities), selfishness, lingering (near Engwithan ruins), "facepainting" (pejorative term for sympathizing with/acting like a Glanfathan).
 
- Eir Glanfath - Deeper forest to the east of the Dyrwood.  Once in conflict with the Dyrwood, now (mostly) at peace. Less tech advanced, more communal.  Protect the Engwithan ruins. Orlans, elves, some dwarves.  Glanfathan virtues: cleverness, subterfuge, frugality, communality, mathematic aptitude.  Glanfathan vices: selfishness, cowardice, vanity, social intoxication, token gestures (as opposed to meaningful action).
 
- Vailian Republics - The most successful offshoot of Old Valia, these colonies sit to the southeast of the Dyrwood and south of Eir Glanfath, past a mountain range. They are a group of allied city states who mostly wield economic power.  Mostly humans and dwarves.  Vailian virtues: success, shrewdness, restraint, wit, polymathism.  Vailian vices: failure, bad style (i.e. doing something not in the "Vailian way"), bluntness, dullness, mercilessness.
 
- Aedyr Empire - The source of the colonists who settled the Dyrwood and Readceras.  Lost both to revolutions, though the Dyrwoodan revolution was far bloodier than the Readceran one that followed.  Much younger than Old Valia, but still in existence, which is worth something.  Overwhelmingly human and elven. Aedyran virtues: duty, efficiency, loyalty, modesty (not of dress, but of character), purity.  Aedyran vices: inconstancy, sloth, sloppiness, impunctuality, mixing work/leisure.
 
- Penitential Regency of Readceras - Quasi-theocratic state ruled by priests for their patron, St. Waidwen, and their god, Eothas, both of whom seem to have disappeared at the end of the Saint's War (which they started and the Dyrwood ended).  The prevailing attitude is that they failed Eothas and Waidwen and must do penance to regain their favor.  Readceran virtues: optimism, faith, propriety (proper behavior for your age, sex, and social class), vigilance, discipline.  Readceran vices: pessimism, doubt, deviance, rebelliousness, aimlessness.
 
... or these remote regions, which are relatively far away:
 
- Deadfire Archipelago - Quite a ways south of the Dyrwood, a wide archipelago of small volcanic island nations.  Naasitaq, home of many boreal dwarves and aumaua, is the biggest and most stable nation around.  Various nations and empires fight over the islands, to the east of which are sea monsters that invariably annihilate any ships that attempt to go exploring (many of them dwarven).
 
- Ixamitl Plains - Northeast of Eir Glanfath, the Ixamitl Plains are large expanses of fertile savannas.  Mostly occupied by humans and orlans, though the orlans have a bad history with the humans.  The Ixamitl culture is one of the oldest continuous cultures in the world, going back a little earlier than Old Vailia.  However, they are the least imperalistic large nation around, having only expanded their borders slightly in centuries.  Among other things, they are known for their contributions to philosophy.
 
- The Living Lands - A frontier island area in the far north, a land of wild weather, strange beasts, and hundreds of difficult to reach valleys containing oddities never before seen (according to the people who find them) by mortals.  It's a lawless land where communities band together, fall apart, and fight petty wars with each other constantly.  Has a reputation for breeding oddballs and madmen.  The racial mix in the area is extremely diverse but not necessarily harmonious.  Dwarves, propelled by their desire to explore, are very common here, even among the mix.
 
- Old Vailia - Once the crown jewel of the southern seas, the crumbling island nations of Old Vailia sit thousands of miles to the southwest of their offshoot, the Vailian Republics.  Humans and dwarves are common.  They are renowned for their great culture and history of accomplishments, though the rest of the world considers them to be far past their prime.  The nations that once made up the empire are engaged in a continuous war for dominance that has been going on (and off, and on again) for over two hundred years.
 
- Rauatai Gulf - Dominated by the aumaua of Rauatai, the gulf to the north of Ixamitl Plains is the trade center for several nations of aumaua, orlans, and dwarves.  The land is rich with resources, but hotly contested.  And in all matters, Rauatai and its powerful navy almost always gain the upper hand.  The whole region is also relentlessly pummeled by storms for half the year.
 
- The White that Wends - A huge southern expanse of polar ice occupied only by pale elves, some boreal dwarves, and a few really brave individuals from other lands.  It is considered mythic -- or at least inhospitable -- by most people from "civilized" areas.  Virtually no plant life grows in the White, but somehow its residents manage to survive from year to year.
 
Class combat foci:
 
Barbarians have great group-fighting abilities (both melee offense and personal defense).
 
Chanters have cycling lists of low power, high AoE passive buffs and debuffs and they can periodically use invocations, which are pretty powerful spells.
 
Ciphers are offensively-oriented psionicists/soulknives (more or less) who build Focus (their resource) through conventional weapon attacks.
 
Druids are crowd control kings and their beast modes give them nice single-target strikes + various special powers.
 
Fighters can withstand a freight train, hold a line against charging enemies (are "sticky"), knock down enemies, passively regenerate Stamina in combat, and have reliable attacks + weapon specialization.
 
Monks convert temporary damage-over-time stacks (Wounds, their resource) into magical abilities.  They are melee-focused but have a pretty wide variety of single-target and group attacks.  They can use their bare hands (which get more powerful as they level) but can use most of their powers with standard melee weapons.
 
Paladins have modal auras, powerful single-target support abilities, high defenses, and a Smite analogue in Flames of Devotion.
 
Priests have better support abilities, worse defenses, and some crowd control abilities that paladins completely lack. Also a few single-target strike spells.
 
Rangers and rogues both lack crowd control capabilities, but rangers have the edge defensively due to range and the interference their animal companions can run. Animal companions share Stamina and Health with the ranger, but they are very durable, DT-wise.
 
Rogues have the highest single-hit damage potential and they have a lot of ways to qualify for Sneak Attacks. There are no creature type restrictions on Sneak Attack and it's automatically triggered by a lot of different conditions on the target. Additionally, rogues gain more and more ways to cause those conditions!
 
Wizards can learn a huge array of spells with a variety of effects, mostly focused on group offense, single-target strikes, and personal defense.  They cast directly from grimoires that hold a limited number of their total spells.
 
Let me know if you have any more questions.

Lotish posted:

Is there a particular stat I'm gonna want to pump to be a chatty-Kathy or are stats factoring into dialogues going to be spread around the stats? (If this has been answered I kind of haven't followed this thread for a while, so I may have missed it.)

rope kid posted:

Strength affects your Health and number of inventory slots. Constitution affects Stamina. Dexterity affects Accuracy. Perception affects Critical Damage. Intellect affects Damage and Healing. Resolve affects Durations and AoE size. We may slightly shift these, but this is what we will be working with in the foreseeable future.

Each defense (other than Deflection) is equally influenced by two stats. Aside from level, the attributes that contribute to each defense are the primary determining factors of that defense. Class (now) rarely has a large influence on a character's defenses.

Fortitude - Strength and Constitution
Reflexes - Dexterity and Perception
Willpower - Intellect and Resolve

Deflection is the exception to this. While Fort/Ref/Will share roughly equal time in defending characters, Deflection is the most commonly-attacked defense. It is not influenced by any attribute and is mostly determined by level and class. Characters like fighters and paladins have great base Deflection. Characters like priests and wizards do not.

AXE COP posted:

Okay yeah, maybe that was an overreaction, but it still seems unnecessary and inconsistent with every other attribute purely being combat-related.

Furism posted:

Isn't it a bit what PE is going for? When you start you have no clue what Ogres are resistant to, then as you fight them the tooltip because more detailed?

FuriousGeorge posted:

Games like Dark Souls and Witcher 2 do potions much better