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In Arcanum the tech genius character is named Gil Bates.
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Sep 20, 2017 03:08
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Broken as they are, I really love Arcanum's systems and the "here's a load of poo poo do what you want with it" approach to design. It reminds me of Morrowind in a lot of ways. The guy who did the unofficial patch for Arcanum has spoken about releasing a balance mod for it to tweak some of the hardcoded things like the crazy strength bonus, but I think he falls in and out of love with the game a lot so don't expect anything soon.
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Sep 20, 2017 04:14
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Ratios and Tendency posted:Actually, harm is boring and lugging around a bunch of scrap and schematics so that you can build an army of spider robots and tesla guns is extremely ftw. This is my end problem. It sucks that the boring poo poo is strong, that the cool poo poo is weak. It's what holds me back from replaying Arcanum every time. The more kickin' rad your character, the more you actually try to play to the unique elements of the setting, the more bullshit you have to go through to make them work and not just sit back and rely on your two or three melee butlers to take care of things for you. They made this world of magic and revolutions and advances in technology and traditionalism...and the best character you can make is the most boring loving high fantasy adventure shithead that exists in every other goddamn setting already.
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Sep 20, 2017 04:54
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My favorite thing about Arcanum was watching Chris Avellone get killed by wolves for an hour.
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Sep 20, 2017 06:11
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Entropy238 posted:Broken as they are, I really love Arcanum's systems and the "here's a load of poo poo do what you want with it" approach to design. It reminds me of Morrowind in a lot of ways. the guy (drog) only gets really hyped for arcanum when he drinks heavily extremely same
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Sep 20, 2017 07:28
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Wicked Them Beats posted:My favorite thing about Arcanum was watching Chris Avellone get killed by wolves for an hour. Never forgiven him for not completing that drat Lets Play. I would love to see developers play through their own games more often. Avellone playing through PST or Josh going through Pillars 1.
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Sep 20, 2017 08:51
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ProfessorCirno posted:Things in Arcanum that matter in combat: ProfessorCirno posted:get Dog
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Sep 20, 2017 09:00
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mitochondritom posted:Never forgiven him for not completing that drat Lets Play. I would love to see developers play through their own games more often. Avellone playing through PST or Josh going through Pillars 1. Did he ever at least SAY he was gonna stop, or did he do what all failed LPers do and just...stopped posting the videos?
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Sep 20, 2017 09:29
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ProfessorCirno posted:Did he ever at least SAY he was gonna stop, or did he do what all failed LPers do and just...stopped posting the videos? He literally couldn't figure it out and blatantly quit because the game was kicking his rear end
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Sep 20, 2017 09:39
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ProfessorCirno posted:Did he ever at least SAY he was gonna stop, or did he do what all failed LPers do and just...stopped posting the videos? The later, iirc. Maybe he was in a bad place at the time, since it was a few weeks before he left Obsidian? Anyway yeah, dick move. Don't promise stuff you won't commit to. Doing a live LP is not that hard.
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Sep 20, 2017 09:40
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Entropy238 posted:Broken as they are, I really love Arcanum's systems and the "here's a load of poo poo do what you want with it" approach to design. It reminds me of Morrowind in a lot of ways. To be honest I think no matter what you go with the game is boring to actually play, but it is fun to think about things that you could play.
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Sep 20, 2017 10:31
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Furism posted:The later, iirc. Maybe he was in a bad place at the time, since it was a few weeks before he left Obsidian? Anyway yeah, dick move. Don't promise stuff you won't commit to. Doing a live LP is not that hard. I seem to remember Avellone not being asked before it was promised on the kickstarter, anyone know if I'm remembering right?
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Sep 20, 2017 11:55
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kujeger posted:I seem to remember Avellone not being asked before it was promised on the kickstarter, anyone know if I'm remembering right? I too remember he was a Kickstarter goal without being asked, but I remember it as being his role on the new Bards Tale game from InExile. I may be wrong though.
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Sep 20, 2017 12:57
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forget that big (but impressive) nerd screed back there about character builds. Arcanum is cool and good because it is large and spongy and dynamic enough to let you play all sorts of crazy builds. you can play as a pretty girl with nothing but a chr score and a dress and get enough companions to do everything for you.
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Sep 20, 2017 14:40
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whats the poe 2 backer t-shirt look like? I can't find any solid pics of it the more I read about deadfire the more I want to upgrade to some absurd backer level e: wait the shirt is an addon not even a backer reward well then double edit: will pillars 2 be moddable in an official capacity? or at the very least will it not be a massive daunting hurdle like pillars 1 modding was? mbt fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Sep 20, 2017 |
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Sep 20, 2017 16:16
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Why does Arcanum have a multiplayer mode? What does that even look like? EDIT: How breakable is Planescape: Torment? SirPhoebos fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Sep 20, 2017 |
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Sep 20, 2017 16:37
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Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:double edit: will pillars 2 be moddable in an official capacity? or at the very least will it not be a massive daunting hurdle like pillars 1 modding was? They have said it will be more data-driven, so it should be easier to mod some things at least (I assume spells and abilities will be part of it). I don't expect they will make it easy for us add things like new locations, NPC's and quests.
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Sep 20, 2017 16:55
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SirPhoebos posted:
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Sep 20, 2017 17:00
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SirPhoebos posted:Why does Arcanum have a multiplayer mode? What does that even look like? please don't play arcanum multiplayer torment isn't really combat focused so breaking it is as simple as "max wisdom and int, get a lot of dex" then pick the right dialogue options Parenthesis posted:They have said it will be more data-driven, so it should be easier to mod some things at least (I assume spells and abilities will be part of it). I don't expect they will make it easy for us add things like new locations, NPC's and quests. being able to add NPCs or random events would be primo
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Sep 20, 2017 17:03
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SirPhoebos posted:Why does Arcanum have a multiplayer mode? What does that even look like? Get Wizard training ASAP and max Int. Also max Wis because conversations matter more than stats. With a decent Cha, you can use the Friends spell to get all three conversation stats high. You can talk the last boss into suicide, but I settled for convincing him to gently caress off so I could res my party.
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Sep 20, 2017 17:52
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i'm refreshing constantly to get the mullti class update 
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Sep 20, 2017 17:55
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Good news. You can stop torturing your F5 key. https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/93848-update-40-multiclassing-part-ii
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Sep 20, 2017 18:08
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 And you can preview ability trees! Praise be unto Josh.
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Sep 20, 2017 18:20
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Way late, but Intelligence in Arcanum affects how many spells you can have active at the same time, so it's important for buffers and summoners (aka the coolest build in any RPG). Edit: Universalist for Druid + Priest is pretty clever.
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Sep 20, 2017 18:22
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Shadowflame and Crushing Doom are in. Good stuff. But yeah, 2nd ed multiclassing was probably the way to go. Otherwise you would have had weird edge cases where multiclassed monks were terrible with their fists, and stuff like that.
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Sep 20, 2017 18:37
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I don't remember if this was mentioned before, but there are no Interrupt or Concentration values in the Character Sheet, which makes me wonder how the system works now. Will it just be based on specific attacks, like it was in Tyranny?
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Sep 20, 2017 18:39
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Is there a particular reason for the Sorkin homage
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Sep 20, 2017 18:39
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Gonna be a Cantor and kill ppl while singing hymns at them
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Sep 20, 2017 18:42
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Oh the old subclasses (for Paladins/Priests only) have penalties now to balance out, interesting. gently caress I'm gonna spend hours in the character creation when this comes out, goddammit
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Sep 20, 2017 18:49
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Ah man, if POE II is anything like POE I with the status effects being thrown around everyone will always be vulnerable to sneak attacks and Kind Wayferer will suck
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Sep 20, 2017 18:51
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It gives them a lot more flavour. Kind Wayfarers doing less damage to anything that qualifies for a Sneak Attack is particularly cool. Any Pallegina's order's 'I will not wear any peasant clothes' thing.Mr. Prokosch posted:Ah man, if POE II is anything like POE I with the status effects being thrown around everyone will always be vulnerable to sneak attacks and Kind Wayferer will suck Not if you build that as a tank/healer. Go Kind Wayfarer/Lifegiver druid, be the best healer you can be. CottonWolf fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Sep 20, 2017 |
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Sep 20, 2017 18:52
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why can't I be a fighter sub fighter so I can be 85% of a fighter with bonus fighter skills e: the combo class name would be fighter
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Sep 20, 2017 18:56
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Raygereio posted:Good news. You can stop torturing your F5 key. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk0wIKSWIWY 
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Sep 20, 2017 18:56
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Also trying to figure a good ranged build preferably with guns- maybe sharpshooter ranger/assassin rogue?
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Sep 20, 2017 18:57
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My Bleak Walker gun palladin can finally be the Bleak Walker/Sharpshooter she always dreamed of being.Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:why can't I be a fighter sub fighter so I can be 85% of a fighter with bonus fighter skills In their internal build you can be a monk/monk multiclass. The fistiest.
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Sep 20, 2017 18:59
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StashAugustine posted:Also trying to figure a good ranged build preferably with guns- maybe sharpshooter ranger/assassin rogue? That looks like a good choice for pure damage. Or a sharpshooter/fighter Devoted to arquebuses. E: Quote is not edit.
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Sep 20, 2017 19:02
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Actually wait, do proficiencies still apply to all soulbound weapons? Devoted sound pretty ridiculous if so e: also what the gently caress is Stride
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Sep 20, 2017 19:04
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Fighter power source? Though I thought that used to be called Discipline...
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Sep 20, 2017 19:05
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Some of those kits (mage slayer, devoted) seem like no brainers.
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Sep 20, 2017 19:07
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These update videos are entertaining as hell. Also, what ui gods are they praying to cause that poo poo looks beautiful.
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Sep 20, 2017 19:07
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