Stokes posted:

Is there some sort of official PoE discord server? Also, I'm looking forward to spending 10 hours starting and restarting characters before starting an actual playthrough.

GrandpaPants posted:

Lol the sword is tsundere.

Spikeguy posted:

Can anyone confirm if any of the romances are same sex? Specifically for a female character?

2house2fly posted:

I think the romances will be unsatisfying because the companions are all weird looking.

Serafen: hideous blue rat man
Maia: looks like a loving dinosaur. Ten feet tall
Tekehu: buff and moist, which helps, but he's a shark man

Random rear end in a top hat posted:

Welp, I just cheated away my Shady 2 rep to see if I could get Maia to stick around if I went with the Valians. Any guesses what happened? She still left, because I had a Diplomatic rep, which means I ‘didnt Know how to get things done.’ So yeah, even if they fix reps building up too fast you’ll still need to cheat or at least meta game like a mofo in order to get Maia (and presumably Pallegina, once she gets fixed) to go along with you on their not-preferred ending. Meanwhile, Serafen is down for whatever as long as it doesn’t involve slavery, so I think we know who the best faction companion is. Edit: Forgot about Tekehu, I didn’t use him but he seemed pretty chill, when I killed the Queen his breakup letter was more ‘I can’t be a part of this, but good luck’ than ‘FUUUUCCCKKK YOOOUUU’, so that already makes him better then Maia and Pally.

frajaq posted:

Captain Oblivious posted:

Well

He's a monotheist, red hair originates in central asia and was for a long time considered most prevalent among a particular insular non-evangelical religion. I'm not sure what languages Ropekid used to design Rekke's language but I'm betting some Aramaic/Yiddish/Judeo-dialects were involved because the dude seems to be an evangelical Eoran Jew.

frajaq posted:

less romance
more gameplay improvements

Basic Chunnel posted:

Kotaku review is up. Digest: good setting, good characters, game so broad that core plot feels disconnected from the rest of it by the end of a full playthrough.

treizebee posted:

Ydwin goes against the grain and wears that eyepatch on her eyebrow.

Ratios and Tendency posted:

Fantasy Polynesia and no kiwi or kakapo ropekid?? smdh.

Your Parents posted:

Consumables being a per encounter resource was apparently a pre alpha idea and what rope kid originally wanted to do but apparently there was internal pushback.

A lot of cool ideas from the lead designer seem to have been sandbagged internally so I'm not surprised rope kid wants to do something else now that I think about it

Chairchucker posted:

Obsidian should make a Noir Detective RPG with Alpha Protocol level reactivity IMO.

Taear posted:

Anyway - the best proof of Deadfire being Ireland is that there's some Coastal people working with them that they've made absolutely bloody sure are as Island as you can be. Like Maia! And Kana I guess. Just like Wellington.

Freaking Crumbum posted:

is he less of a twat if you don't tell him to sublimate isyldr? i feel like him having to deal with her outbursts would at least make him less self-righteous.

GrandpaPants posted:

I'm actually legitimately surprised by DOS's wide success. Like I'm not surprised by its success within the niche of CRPG aficionados because it's a good CRPG, but it got a lot of GOTY type of recognitions and I can't really fathom why. Is it just the combination of turned based combat with a bunch of modern QOL stuff that makes it easier to get into?

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Added UI to recommend which companions to bring on quests relevant to those companions.