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Vitamin P posted:It's a small thing but I really dig that this map makes sense geographically. Can you elaborate for us non geologist types?
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gigawhite posted:I hate that video game reviewers also get early copies. This is unfair and illegal As a BACKER (and not a scrub casual tier backer either) I deserve to have my poo poo now. 
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:where are these being sold? I saw one in the UK today at Fobidden Planet (Cambridge). It was £15 I think and hardbacked. I had a quick flip through, but was keen not to spoil anything for myself so I didn't read anything in detail.
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Sensuki posted:Yeah, I got the RPGCodex key. That was good of them to give it you! Was it a sort of reward for all your bug reporting?
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It always comes down to some personal preference. Sensuki has stated he is against any sort of group looting system, yet in his IWD videos on youtube he has got a plethora of mods that eliminate all kinds of busywork bullshit. He has identify all items mods and a mod that allows him to exchange magic items for different ones incase he didn't get the right rolls. None of it makes sense. How can you simultaneously think identifying items is a huge chore but individually looting 10 lizardmen isn't? The guy obviously has a huge huge passion for infinity engine games, but it grates people when you consistently state an opinion as THE TRUTH, so many people do it and its infuriating.
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some obsidian forum grog posted:They chose to put the media before backers and the backers on par with first time buyers which is wholly their right to do, but it does by virtue of action mean backers are not important or appreciated by them. We're just ATM's. Hope Obsidian are real scared now, they made this guys "cautious list"...
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Mar 26, 2015 11:00
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Illegal Username posted:Poleaxin' people as a rogue seems fun so far. What up polearm rogue buddy. Suprisingly for creatures that can't speak the Xaurip spear seems pretty deadly so far.
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Deaderinred posted:i love how most of the whining in the steam forums is over that kickstarter achievement. bwhahahaha. some guy on steam posted:And that's what was said about homosexuals and transgenders a century ago. "They have meds. And my gods, if people cared about world hunger as much as some silly abolishment of slavery or some silly suffrage..." Should have backed it on kickstarter... scrub
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Echoing everyone else I am absolutely loving this game. I have made it to the first village and I am slightly confused about something which may constitute a spoiler... Now that I have the power of ~~~soul-vision~~ I can speak to people with different coloured names and get to view some past memories. What I am confused about is can I actually speak to these people normally? They all have names and so I am assuming I can somehow. Also love that the first in is called The Black Hound.
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Mar 27, 2015 20:33
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Edwhirl posted:Does anyone know who the VA for Heodan is? I swear I've heard his voice before but I can't place it. I swear it was Virgil from Arcanum.
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Mar 27, 2015 21:11
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Musluk posted:Quick give me an example of memorable loot from BG 1! Ring of Wizardry! Outside the Friendly Arm Inn.
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Apr 5, 2015 21:11
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3Romeo posted:I just spent thirty minutes at an inn, doing through Durance's dialogue trees (and sleeping when he got tired of talking so I could make him talk some more). Like, that's all I did. Sit there and talk with him and listen to him rant about the gods. This is right up there with Torment. Durance is brilliant and his voice acting is the best in the game I think. I also love how all of your companions seem to pity him but he is such an rear end in a top hat they just take the piss out of him constantly.
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Why is this patch another 600 ish Megabytes? There was one the other day that was around 800. What is it about a few minor tweaks that mean it has to be this size? I am not bothered, just curious how some games can have major patches around 100 times smaller...
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Captain Oblivious posted:He's a fantastic character but a terrible person. Disliking him as a person is wholly understandable but he's extremely well written. He's the first Priest party member in one of these games to feel like someone who has ACTUAL religious conviction/zeal as opposed to the half assed lip service characters like Anomen/Viconia/Aerie gave to their gods. I think this post sums up what I was trying to decide in my head. Durance is a complete nut, but its totally believable for a priest living in a world where gods do exist. Given that he has been involved in making a giant bomb to kill a rival god and has a glowing magical stick thing its no wonder he is totally obsessed with Magran, he is a total fanatic and justifiably so.
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DancingMachine posted:I found Durance annoying and didn't like any of his spells/abilities that much, so I swapped him for Pallegina. We'll see how it goes. If doubts and curiosity plague you with your decision, in this thread I think you will find you are skinning your knuckles on the wrong door. Consensus is Durance is a cool guy.
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Apr 18, 2015 21:42
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The most important question is what alignment would all the NPC's be if they were in DnD!?
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How are you posting if you don't have the internet?!
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precision posted:I don't know who at Obsidian loves Druids but I'm not complaining. Druids are by far the most fun and useful casters in the game. Someone who worked on the Icewind Dale games, as the Druid spells you can get in those games are immense as well.
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I re-downloaded Pillars of Eternity in anticipation of the upcoming expansion and I was wondering if it has been clarified how the expansion will work? I am keen to try out "Expert Mode" and "Path of the Damned", having previously completed the game on Normal but I am unsure as to start it yet. Given my lack of skill I expect it will take me forever to do it, so should I start now and play-through the expansion with that game? Or will the expansion be only for new games? If I somehow breeze through and finish, will the expansion pick up and continue? For the Hard PotD game I made a Amaua Wizard, having totally ditched Aloth in the main game, is there anything I desperately should know about Wizards? I found the Normal play-through to be really difficult up to about 1/2 way through and then it was comically easy, is it a similar situation for higher levels?
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How on earth do you get anywhere in "Path of the Damned" mode? I just picked up Durance, Eder, Aloth and two mercenaries (Barbarian and Rogue), my main character is a Cipher with a hunting bow. Just south of where the Magran statue is there are some boars. I must have tried 10 or so times to beat these drat pigs and I got rinsed every single try. I am all for a challenge but this is just over the top, when I completed my first game it was on hard mode and I had no trouble at all in any fight, save for the finale of the Endless Paths.
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Sep 21, 2015 21:31
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Not sure if there is a separate Tyranny thread as of yet, but I saw this article in Science about what Bronze Age people wore into battle and thought they would fit right in with Pillars or the new game. If I recall correctly it was supposed to be set around this period of time. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016...eagebattle-3189
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Basic Chunnel posted:I'm surprised that no one here seems to have mentioned that Leonard Boyarski has left his position as art director at loving Blizzard to join Obsidian. I wonder what could have possibly enticed him over We can all pray for Arcanum 2: Steam harder
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Heres a question I haven't seen asked before. I am going to start my 2nd playthrough with all the White March expansion enabled and I was wondering if the Developer Commentary is quite intrusive and full of spoilers? I am assuming there is White March content for it. I guess I am asking if I should not have it enabled and then do a 3rd run eventually with it turned on.
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I don't know what I am doing wrong, but the difficulty in my Hard playthrough of the game is all over the place. It seems that fights are either a total steamroll or complete party wipe with barely anything in the middle. For example, in the Ondras Gift area the rain blights and adra golems in the shallows are simple, but the shades and phantoms in the lighthouse are completely impossible. I tried enchanting all my weapons with spirit slaying and having fire spell scrolls on Durance and my wizard to no avail. The White March area was challenging to defeat the ogres, but not impossible (i.e what I think the correct difficulty should be) but then in every area past that its a complete party wipe no matter what. Is it just me being bad? On normal difficulty I just beat every fight in the base game first time with no challenge at all.
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multijoe posted:The lighthouse is a deliberately challenging optional area, so don't feel bad about getting hosed up in there. I suspect you're not using the combat mechanics to their fullest though, TWM expects you to use defensive and offensive buffs intelligently, such as Prayer against _____ vs debuffers and the holy duo of Devotions of the Faithful and Crowns of the Faithful in order to become unstoppable. You've also got to pay closer attention to positioning and target prioritisation (especially in Galvino's workshop and Durgan's Battery). In general, TWM was a direct response to the simplistic tank & spank hallway fights of the base game, so you're going to have to raise your's accordingly. Thanks for the advice, I was getting frustrated with it so I went for a walk and gave it another go when I got back and made it to the top of the lighthouse. What proved really helpful was Kana's triage ability which healed my wizard enough such that she wasn't killed during the fight (instant end game). Solving the actual Banshee fight peacefully was also a welcome relief after the nightmare that was the lower floors. Furism posted:Get Bulwark Against Elements potions and find a way to deal with Blind (which for me personally means Bring A Priest). Again this is great advice, these potions really turned it all around for me, I did not realise the phantoms did cold damage. I actually used these guys previously against Cail the Silent and the drakes at the hot springs so god knows why I didn't remember to break them out here. I had like 10 made up already. Here is a question though, when picking weapons for your characters do you bother to go with what they are specialised in? For instance, Meneha has "knight proficiency" and I currently have her with a dock off morningstar with corrode enchant on it and wilder slaying. I would like to use a cutlass I found and try to dual wield spec her. Is it worth picking up another talent in the respective proficiency or is the accuracy bonus not worth it in the long run. If it isn't worth it, doesn't that imply the weapon proficiency talents are a trap and not worth investing in?
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Furism posted:Started reading the Avelone's novella and it's alright even though his style is weird. What's really weird is there are what seem to be game or lore design notes throughout the book - none have made it into PoE it seems - but I wonder why they're there. I immediately noticed the scroll of Wael in the book is the one you bury undeneath the dragons head in the game, which is quite a cool tie in.
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I have Pagellina trained defensively in my normal game (6 man, Hard) and she is pretty much unkillable. Even those rear end in a top hat fire constructs in Galvino's labratory don't touch her while insta-killing all my other guys. On that note, I think Galvino's basement is one of the crappiest areas in the White March I have explored thus far. Fights with a bunch of self healing, high DR enemies with traps all over the floor doesn't make for a fun experience. It seems to just be a big gently caress you to anyone trying to play without much resting.
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Ginette Reno posted:Those Soulbound weapons kick all kinds of rear end. My Barbarian is a terror with the Estoc which procs summons/twin stones. Heart of Fury + that = constant proccing. Sagani has also been pretty ridiculous with the bow that procs returning storm. I've been curb stomping the original game since coming back from WM1. In retrospect for a future playthrough I'd probably finish most/all of Endless Paths and finish Chapter 2 before going to WM1. Then do level scaling for it and level scaling on the way back. This is my situation right now, except I put the hallowed redeemer on Meneha. Her carnage / heart of fury skills basically obliterated the dwarven golems at the end of part one. Sagani with the stormcaller is similarly insane. I still think that fighting spirits/ghosts is bullshit in this game, but everything else is well thought out and the power progression of your characters is really satisfying. Going back to Longwatch falls after the adventure in Durgans Battery to wreck havok on those not-murlocks was possibly one of the most satisfying moments in gaming I have had in recent years. Going back to the Dyrwood and exploding everything is similarly amazing. One thing I have noticed above all is that the priest is almost an essential pick for the team. The utility Durance brings along is so great I just can't bench him, not that I ever want to as he is a great character. Another thing that doesn't quite mesh well for me is the way the characters in your party just straight up dismiss Durance or outright mock him. Obviously he is within the context of the world a sexist, racist shitheel and is should be.. well reviled. But Eder and Meneha just take the piss out of him. His character is so extreme I feel like the characters don't react plausibly to him, which really should be outright hatred. I mean the guy talks about skinning Orlans and burning people alive, he's a psychopath. I wouldn't be ripping him for sure.
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I suppose I can see that the other members of the party might get that impression of him, however I (well my characters) interactions with him that are presumably taken away from the party mark him as a dangerous individual. Perhaps some boldness ala Baldurs Gate with stronger conflicts and outright party conflicts where Durance straight up kills Eder for being a filthy Eothosian would put players off too much. I'll never forget when Zar and Montaron just decided to outright kill Jaheira for their difference in philosophy and Korgan outright hated Aeire (Didnt we all?). The characters are all really good in Pillars, but their interactions between each other are almost too twee for my tastes. Its a problem that was present in Baldurs Gate 2 also (Sarevok with acne, ugh!).
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Everyone who loves this game owes it to themselves to equip Meneha with a powered up Ydwens Redeemer and Heart of Fury her way through the Fampyr level in Od Nua. That level was horrendous when the game was released and this was great revenge.
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Ginette Reno posted:If I'm not mistaken the lack of party members arguing like crazy and wanting to kill each other was a deliberate choice by Obsidian because they were tired of the juvenile arguments party members got into in other games. Their choice in this one was basically yeah some of these party members don't like each other a whole lot but they're still going to fall in line and not go too nuts about it. I guess its only with Durance, he is the odd one out. In all my game time so far none of the other party members have disliked each other. Perhaps they were tired of juvenile arguments, but conflict within the party that requires mediation by the player could have been a way to increase the depth and characterisation of the NPCS. Tricky to do though I imagine. There is still plenty of juvenile banter though (constant mentions of Durance's other staff...) and Biowarian flirting between Meneha and Pagellina.
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My current party has both Kana and Durance as sort of "off-tanks" they both have heavy armour and shields. They seem to do an alright job as I gave them the cross-class constant recovery talent. Pagellina is my main tank and has proven to be untouchable so far. I actually forgot that Kana can upgrade his chants and have had him using whatever default he started with through the entire game to date.
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X_Toad posted:Which encounters are making you miserable? I can only guess at Lagufaeth...
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I use Slicken, Fetid Caress and Expose Vulnerabilities pretty much every fight as I "Mastered" them. Slicken knocks em down, FC then to paralyse the toughest guy and strip defense with EV. In the mean time I use Meneha to just rip them to pieces. It works phenomenally well and I am contemplating doing a duo run with a Wizard / Barbarian on Path of the Damned for my next game.
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Entropy238 posted:Ironically, even though she has the most text, I find grieving mother to be the worst of all because the only way she expresses herself is through massive text dumps rather than interjections, quips and banters. I have played through the game 3 times now and ditched the GM immediately after recruiting her. I couldn't stomach the awkward way she was written. I also find Aloth to be quite boring and I don't find his Scottish crazy woman personality to be funny.
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So I just completed the final Swamp / Bog encounter with Llengrath and her dragons. It was on hard difficulty and I was expecting a bit of a challenge, but with all my maxed out guys and gear it was a bit of a rollover. The only achievements left are the tough ones now, like solo / pacifist and the "Josh Sawyer face" ones. I don't think I have the patience to get any of them really, I contemplated a solo run on easy where I try to pick up some of them but decided to try out Serpent in the Staglands and then Shadowrun Hong Kong. Its been such an amazing few years for CRPGS, Divinity 2 is on the horizon and I still need to get through the first one  .When I was looking up the achievement player stats I was amazed that only ~3 % of people have actually completed the White March and ~ 1 % part 2. How do developers feel putting all that effort making content for a tiny proportion of people? I mean it is presumably financially worth it (otherwise why do it?). Only 10 % of the people who have the game on Steam actually completed it.
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Suspicious posted:But... the cheevs... I think you must be a priest of Eothas / Magran etc to get any deity worshipping specific dialogue, reading a text about Eothosian practises is not enough to satisfy the dialogue gods. It's not a bad idea for the sequel though! I was surprised in the White March how many times my character being an Aristocrat or Wizard came up, there's a lot of good reactivity in this game with regards to Class / Background / Skills.
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I think the feeling that nothing is resolved is compounded by the irreverence that the characters seem to treat their own lives with. Very shortly after solving the issues that have plagued Maneha's entire life she is back to making quirky remarks about Pagellina etc like nothing has happened. Then shes offering to kill herself in a huge about face after deciding her life is worth it. Similarly with Eder, you solve his quest and then hes back to cracking wise. There is a sort of flippancy in some NPCs that really doesn't mesh well with the thematically dour nature of most of their stories.
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I thought the Waidwen / Eothas mystery was great and the lore dump wasn't too bad for me. I knew what I was in for!GrumpyGoesWest posted:Imagine if when you completed their quests all they talked about was how lovely everything is now and how bummed they are. That wouldn't be very fun. Konsek posted:I think if all Eder talked about was his brother he'd be more like a one dimensional Bioware character. Wizard Styles posted:If Edér always spoke and acted like his brother's fate's all he thinks about 24/7 he'd be a loving miserable NPC I take all of your points and accept you are all right. But in the Dragon Age games the characters do similar things though (Alastair being the prime example). It is more muted in Pillars and its not as big a deal as I am making out, I really like all the NPCs, even Meneha. That might be because she is a total powerhouse though. My favourite NPC is Pagellina because she is no nonsense and she realistically babbles in some incoherent foreign language when she is pissed off, which is doubly hilarious because my main character was a Valian aristocrat and so she should theoretically understand her.
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Wildtortilla posted:In WM1 I've cleared Russetwoods, Longwatch Falls, the area outside Durgans battery, and just met Galvino. About how far through it am I? Um perhaps 50 % There's essentially the big dungeon that is the Battery left. Then Cragoldt which is back in Dyrwood.
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