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Problems with Poe 1 I hope are fixed in sequel: 1) no talking dog companion with magic dog items 2) can't dual wield pistols 3) at the top end of the game guns are deprecated due to irreducible reload time 4) the story was more interesting than compelling. Not bad, but there was little sense or urgency. Much like the second dragon age, where I just stopped playing once I got the house, there was a lot of "why am I doing this" to most of the side quests - no over all sense or urgency, not even BG2's drive to raise cash to save Imoen. 5) stronghold ties you down. Is your new stronghold your ship? That would be awesome. Cannons! 6) game was too drat long. Does anyone actually bother to do all the twin elms quests?
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Better be a goddam monkey island somewhere in this thing
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Jan 26, 2017 19:55
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I believe you want to it to balance a few inches above the hilt.
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Jan 26, 2017 21:14
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Rookersh posted:Cool post! It gets me a map
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Jan 26, 2017 21:21
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2house2fly posted:
Gator's Quenching Thirst-aide
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Jan 26, 2017 22:11
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Ginette Reno posted:We already have an SA spell in the game with Tayn's Chaotic Orb idgi
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Jan 26, 2017 22:32
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If strongholds return I hope they're a boat
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Jan 26, 2017 22:38
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Scorchy posted:Boo 5 player parties. So much agreement For many reasons. It really limits party composition, limits ability to experience the different companions, and the odd number makes for odd and irregular formations. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Jan 27, 2017 |
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Jan 27, 2017 02:21
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Oh goddammitquote:The biggest change from the original is that Deadfire will have a five-character adventuring party. The original had six players, and Obsidian’s 2016 RPG Tyranny had four. How did the designers decide that five is the magic number? Yeaaah this really feels like a bad call Harshin my buzz here man
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Jan 27, 2017 02:39
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zedprime posted:
This is a HUGE issue for me.
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Jan 27, 2017 03:04
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Does anyone know if the "Destroy vessels" ability of St. Ydwen's Redeemer will proc on Carnage hits? also, meant to post this earlier: 
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Jan 27, 2017 04:17
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Furism posted:It absolutely does. Shamelessly posting my LP to prove it (move to 1h54) : https://youtu.be/rbNWrufIFsg Arg that makes the choice for my spelltongue barb's backup weapon genuinely difficult
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Jan 27, 2017 04:32
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Oh the other thing the next game needs MORE FANCY HATS it is absolutely despicable how few good fancy feathered magical hats there are honestly the whole enchanted clothing aspect of the game needs more customization options
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Jan 27, 2017 04:37
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Furism posted:You could respect just for Galvino's and Durgan's Battery (Vessel heavy dungeons), or just use that weapon when needed. I guess you'll be bumping DEX and PER anyway and that's all you need really. I think I'm just going to give it to Pallegina and have her be my Vessel Blaster. I haven't even done Heritage Hill yet. I'd been planning on putting grey sleeper on the spelltongue Maneha as backup, but then she's stuck all with one damage type. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Jan 27, 2017 |
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Dolash posted:I'm not a big fan of Dragon Age or anything, but I was definitely able to get a grip on its setting that I never could with Pillars. Obviously your mileage is going to vary, the comparison's just meant to contrast how those games stuck closer to the familiar with Pillars' more original but maybe less cohesive setting. It's a feeling that's hard to put into words but I see echoes of it in a lot of criticism other people have made and it's something I feel too. The new game moving to a new location though means that it might not be a problem again. Gonna go all Book Barn itt: "Low Fantasy" and "High Fantasy" are poorly defined terms and are used variously to mean:
I think Furism is using "low fantasy" to mean "level of magic in the setting." Dragon Age has more magic flying around in the same sense that Chernobyl has more background radiation. I actually found that offputting because DA's setting was a lot less original if you've read a lot of fantasy already (Mass Effect had the same problem -- literally every good idea in the Mass Effect setting is stolen from somewhere else, usually Vernor Vinge). PoE has a great setting. I don't think that's the major issue with the accessibility of its narrative, or at least it wasn't for me (though I may have more exposure to varied settings than most people -- I really appreciated the originality of PoE's setting). I think the issue there is a combination of 1) most modern gamers expecting important exposition in cut scenes, not text boxes, and 2) lack of a real sense of urgency overall (A timer or something similar might've helped address this but would have introduced other problems). Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Jan 27, 2017 |
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Jan 27, 2017 05:51
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Yinlock posted:so did he just luck out with pst or what A lot of great writers are also lucky writers. That said I'm sad that Avellone and Fenstermaker aren't involved in this project but hell we're on a boat I bet Avellone wouldn't take away my sixth party member
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Jan 27, 2017 15:28
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Zore posted:So, wait, does 2 subclasses mean you can be a Ranger that focuses on 'Animal Companion' or 'Shooting poo poo' or does it tie into the multiclass system? I feel like we are getting a lot less detail in this campaign than we got in the kickstarter. Maybe it's just a feeling.
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CottonWolf posted:There are still adventurers. Pillars is a game secretly build for gimmick runs. My favorite PoE article remains the one about playing as a party of bears
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bongwizzard posted:Exactly but six bears are better than five bears. Obviously more bears = better, that's just math
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Jan 27, 2017 18:37
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Chairchucker posted:If more NPCs is better, what buffoon thought up a six person party size when we clearly should've been playing with all NPCs at once in one party? I actually looked for a mod to do that once just as a gimmick
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Jan 27, 2017 19:40
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Chairchucker posted:Did you find it? I didn't look that hard so no
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Jan 27, 2017 19:46
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Power Bottom posted:What's everyone's opinion on firearm balance in PoE? I've been toying with the idea of modding my game to make them slightly more powerful, because in playing they've seemed a bit lacking compared to the more traditional ranged weapons. I think they're well balanced up to the point where you start stacking speed buffs, at which point the irreducible reload speed makes them significantly weaker vis a vis bows. Also no soulbound gun wtf
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Jan 27, 2017 19:47
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Harrow posted:I'd guess so. Getting reset to level 1 is a perfectly good justification for getting to change classes, and hell, you could already just pay gold to change your attributes in PoE1 as many times as you wanted to. Eothas hits you so hard you wake up in a whole new body.
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Jan 27, 2017 23:57
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Fintilgin posted:Ok, Ok. We're level one. He needs all your poo poo for his charm bracelet.
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Jan 28, 2017 00:02
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bongwizzard posted:Yea, like, why bother to carry forward the story, then do some weak poo poo like this? Not necessarily. It depends on what carries over. There are a lot of special "talents" you can pick up in the course of the game that aren't level dependent (gift from the machine, etc) and dispositions etc might carry over also. I'd still like to start at like . .level four or so.
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Jan 28, 2017 00:18
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X_Toad posted:I'm not particularly upset that the party size was reduced to 5, unless of course it turns out that the five characters introduced so far are all the companions available, in which case I will poo poo a brick! Seriously, Obsidian already did that with Mask of the Betrayer! Five slots, six total characters Sorry Pallegina we're voting you Off the Boat
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Jan 28, 2017 01:34
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Fintilgin posted:Reducing us to level one is a very.... sane decision from Obsidian pov, but frustrating for players. I agree, I'd like to start at like level four minimum. The early levels are kinda repetitive. I'm hoping the traits like "gift of the machine" and the doemenels/dozens/knights bonus carry over at least. I'm gonna be salty about only five slots though.
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Semper Fudge posted:You all realize that you can balance a game so that being level 1 is the same as being level 4 right? You aren't making sense. Four is more than one. Duh.
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zedprime posted:The achievement snooping doesn't paint a pretty picture. They aren't perfect demographic cheevos and cheevo snooping only means so much, but The Heir of Caed Nua, the new stronghold quest (was that even White March locked?) is sitting at 7.5%, soul binding a weapon is at 6.4% and Maneha and the Zahua/Devil cheevo is sitting at 4.0 and 3.9%. Yeah, I think th game just has so much content people didn't want to play more. I suspect it'll see a sales spike with this announcement.
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Jan 28, 2017 02:28
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Did the regrets worth trading quest change with White March II? I seem to have somehow gotten a result where they were real giftbearers and actually dumped the dude's stuff in the lake for reals? So I don't get to slaughter the temple any more?.
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Jan 28, 2017 06:20
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Furism posted:Seriously? Any reward change too? No, I think I messed up somehow. I got the giftbearer's notebook and went to the ice, got the chest from the ice, the chest in the ice actually had the dwarf's stuff in it, and I can give it back to the dwarf for the small reward, but there doesn't seem to be any way to flip the temple -- no chest full of rocks or anything. Killing all the guys in the temple and the chest in the temple is just filled with cash.
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Roobanguy posted:you probably have to eavesdrop after first meeting them to get the chest full of rocks thing. I guess? But it seems like reality shifted. I mean either they're scamming or they aren't! This is bizarre!
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Jan 28, 2017 07:04
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Oh goddammit I forgot about this part of the replay The most difficult choices in the entire game: WTF should I pick for Durance and Aloth's spell mastery slots I goddam freeze on this every time. Eldritch Aim? the armor buff? maybe barbs of condemnation? Will the AI cast these automatically?
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Jan 28, 2017 07:20
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I wonder if cipher subclasses will split melee/ranged or damage/CC.
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Walrus Pete posted:This has never been and never will be a good idea. Especially in a genre so typically stuffed with optional content. Give me a soft time limit. "The longer you take to do X, the harder your task will be" type thing.
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Oh another thing I really want in PoE 2 I want to see your inactive pets running around the ship and playing with each other like in the rigging etc also at some point: pet sloth RopeKid, go read the aubrey/maturin series by Patrick O'Brian if you haven't already for nautical inspirations, officially Book Barn approved series
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Jan 28, 2017 22:33
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Scorchy posted:I think if they made a not-Priest class with mana resources like a Cipher it'd fill a big hole. Part of the point of Ciphers and Chanters was for people who hate Vancian casting to fill their party up with alternatives. This is a really really good point
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Zore posted:I think Chanters could fill the role with a bit of a rework. They already have a strong passive heal and the ability to spit out buffs in their chants, just give us some chants that can do things like some of the more important priest spells (suppress fear, remove mind control etc) and you could dynamically switch between them in battle. The chanter even sorta kinda does do that, there are a lot of low level chants that buff various defenses. The problem is it's just buffs not *immunity* and you really need actual immunities. And they're low level buffs that don't really scale well in the endgame when you need really heavy defenses to avoid getting chain-stunned/charmed/etc on PotD. Reworking some of the Chanter song phrases that give resist to charm, etc. as more general immunities could be a big jump in effectiveness. Only issue would be if a single chanter could just passively give immunity to everything, but there should be a workaround for that somehow (very long phrases?) Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Jan 29, 2017 |
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Do any White March I sidequests get broken by moving to WM II? I'm guessing Regrets Worth Trading, what else?
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I like to build druids as tanks. Hiravias can play as a front line melee fighter with spells if you build him right, and it plays very differently from a standard wizard at least (I've never tried a melee wiz). You just go supertank defenses and then cast returning storm and similar spells.
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