Under the vegetable posted:

I hope they aren't really using Fig of all fuckin things

2house2fly posted:

The nerd in me is vaguely annoyed that it involves Eothas possessing the statue from the stronghold, because the backstory of that statue is that it got cut in half or something and was useless, and also beetles gnawed at it for centuries. Still, that's probably something godly power could fix, and it's cool that the story doesn't just involve you leaving your giant castle which you're the lord of and travelling the world like I'd assumed(although the big reveal at the end of the game could justify that too).

I hope there's something like the Dragon Age Keep (I don't need the pretty tapestry poo poo, just a series of plain checkboxes would do me fine) if only because I want to know exactly what choices roll over.

rope kid posted:

did somebody say balance

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

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.

Harrow posted:

I think the only other real option would be to do like The Witcher series does: start you at level 1, but make all the numbers higher and all the starting abilities flashier so that, in-universe, you're still really strong. You'd start out fighting nastier monsters than you did at level 1 in the first game, and even though you'd have a much smaller number of abilities than you did at level 16 in PoE1 (because otherwise new players would be completely overwhelmed), the health/damage numbers would be comparable to level 16 in PoE1, so you can more easily feel like you're at the same level of power.

Functionally, though, it doesn't really matter how they do it, and "Eothas ate your power because he is a jerk" is a good enough justification for me. We can just assume Eder's out of practice from chilling in his village smoking his pipe all the time, Aloth lost his spellbook, and, I dunno, Pallegina joins later so she can be a slightly higher level?

AriadneThread posted:

Scorchy posted:

So we're still at encounters 1/6th smaller


Hope you're into cloacas

Helith posted:

Eder

I knew I made the right decision backing this! So glad that there's going to be a sequel and congrats to Obsidian for getting it funded so quickly, shows how much we love you!
Also I'm happy that party size is getting smaller as I found managing 6 to be a bit of a chore at times as I'd forget what everyone could do and encounters were really frequent. I also agonise over making leveling up choices so 1 less will make the game go a bit faster for me!

Tomorrows Ace posted:

didn't obsidian discover that large expansions just aren't worth it financially anymore. Think if anything they'd do a round of dlc like they did for new Vegas

marshmallow creep posted:

Imagine Deus Ex gameplay with Alpha Protocol reactivity.

Litany Unheard posted:

You can up my pledge by another $50. In exchange I demand an extra vote on our dumb pet/item.

And no one is speculating on the most important factoid from that stream: we'll be able to do something with all of our extra pets! Petting zoo? Pet combat arena? Eder opens a pet store? I'm pretty excited.

Enigmatic Cakelord posted:

Where did you get the 2.2 million number being what they really wanted from? They'll probably hit it quicker than a week, but overall I don't see them going much beyond 3 million unless they get the full fig funds amount. So, Pillars will get more backers and pledges than Wasteland, but it isn't going to beat it by much, if at all. It's a little sad.

tithin posted:

@Rope Kid - if I wanted to buy the $200 tier, is it possible to do it in installments (ala Path of Exile) or does it need to be all at once.

Dolash posted:

There should be a magic hat that's just four lesser magic hats stacked on top of each other. I know there's usually some sort of implicit "oh magic items can't be close to each other" rule in fantasy settings that keeps people from blinging out with twenty magic rings and eight amulets, but every so often it'd be fun to break that rule.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Different feather options that give different bonuses

Harrow posted:

I recall reading that the level scaling will be completely optional but apply to the whole game, but I can't find where I read that.

Aardark posted:

Holy poo poo, all that garbage was actually written by Obsidian people? Well at least they learned their lesson I guess.

edit: if I sound unreasonably pissed about this, it's because I didn't understand what the golden-named NPCs were at first, and actually spent the time to read their dumb stories until like halfway through the game.

StashAugustine posted:

I'm actually bothering to finish the game rn and the #1 thing I'm excited for is faster loading times

SunAndSpring posted:

On RPG Codex. Might be wrong (I haven't been there in forever now), but I generally am suspicious of people who go around parading Nazi stuff around because they usually end up being Nazis rather than people just very interested in Hugo Boss's fashion designs from the 1930's-1940's.

2house2fly posted:

Iovara does say that(http://puu.sh/u1VjD/9ca4ff79f3.png). The twist reveal is that the big authority figures in your life don't have any inherent right to tell you what to do.
The most common criticism I've heard of FNV's story is that getting shot in the head by a dude is a motivation to avoid him more than to track him down.

Litany Unheard posted:

It depends. We don't and won't know what agreement Obsidian and Fig have. It could be that Fig is using their $2.25 million investment pledge as a matching fund, which means Obsidian won't see it unless they get pledges equal to that amount.

Or an additional half million will be dropped on them on the last day of funding, shooting them past two or three stretch goals.

Fig's operations are a lot more opaque than Kickstarter, so there's no way to know for certain.


I think they'll still get the usual rush of pledges in the last two days that you see on Kickstarter. They'll want to have a media blitz timed for that, of course, so that latecomers come pouring in.

I wouldn't be surprised to see them end up passing $4 million, though it wouldn't be by much.

FreeKillB posted:

e:^^^^^^^ The only problem with that is that using companions at all rules out the canonical party, which is a PC and four adventurers that are all ranger/druid to field 10 bears.

Rope kid dating sim confirmed!

From fig comments:

2house2fly posted:

Quick, someone ask him for story spoilers while he's feeling loquacious

Ginette Reno posted:

Druids are extremely strong, especially once you get access to the storm spells. Just about any encounter can be trivialized by mass stunning huge groups of enemies at once and then ripping up their casters with your Shapeshift.

Prokhor Zakharov posted:

Just hit $2.8, pity those who are gonna have to write all those subclass/class combos.

Scent of Worf posted:

Link to Twitter/Facebook?

Litany Unheard posted:

Maybe the third cancellation will be the charm?

Scent of Worf posted:

Wow I didn't think the campaign would make anywhere near as much this time around because crowdfunding seems to have died down a lot, and because it wasn't on Kickstarter, but the game's 15k away from 3 million and still has five days left.

Congrats, rope kid. Glad the campaign has done so well.