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2house2fly posted:I don't really know how steam works for new releases; will it automatically download the game if go away from the computer and leave steam open? Can I set it to do that somehow? The game releases while I'm at work and it'd be neat to be able to come home and get cracking without having to wait interminable ages while it insttalls Yeah I preordered and it's preloading right now. 1st preloaded game on linux for me also.
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May 5, 2018 21:46
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I might try a fanatic paladin, useful tank material as well as group boosts.
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May 7, 2018 10:57
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There is a save game editor for POE1 called Eternity Keeper that does have access to globals for each save, but the Vela quest doesn't appear to have a global that actually checks for variant outcomes to the quest, which I suspect is the problem. Eder has heaps of globals but idk if any of them check for his bug.
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May 8, 2018 17:26
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Oh they just fixed Gaun's Pledge, didn't notice I was missing it.
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May 12, 2018 01:12
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Heads-up for those who've played POE1 dlc's: don't go near Bekarna's Observatory unless you're good and levelled up because there's a certain lich who remembers you, and he's very tough this time. Ow. So very nearly dead.
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May 12, 2018 05:19
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Strom Cuzewon posted:How do i make the combat less of a clusterfuck? Every fight I get into I wish I was playing Original Sin 2 instead. As soon as anything happens its just a mess of circles and arrows, and the only way to keep track of everything is to slow it to a crawl, which means there's such a huge delay between giving a command and the spell being cast that I haven't the foggiest idea how useful anything is being. Harrow posted:I'm sure someone who has soloed PoE1's hardest difficulty can give better advice, but as an intermediate sort of player that usually gets me through. That would be me. The essential solo strategy, but applicable everywhere is kiting and pulling. Set your auto-pause to stop when you see an enemy and before combat starts. Use stealth to get within good range. Target one enemy and lure them back to you to avoid attracting the crowd. Kill, repeat. This especially helps when a strong opponent has or launches a crowd of pests at you. Always take advantage of chokepoints like doorways or cast a Wall spell while stealthed or an AoE spell to slow/damage them on their way to you. Once you get the hang of this, the pause in combat will make more sense to you and you'll be able to use it more effectively. You may even kill some dragons!
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May 12, 2018 19:23
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There's a party order bug I keep running into with a custom party configuration: party members randomly swap places. I can't pin it down to whether that's after an auto-pause or dialogue but it's rather annoying to have to move your casters back behind your tanks in the middle of a battle.
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May 12, 2018 20:30
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Agean90 posted:the line when she joins you about her standing uncomfortably close was far too accuate What about ship names? My first playthrough was THE SCURVY PRAWN. I'm sure goons can come up with some really filthy names based on Serafin's dialogue alone. Island names I base on something memorable about my time there: ALOTH'S STUPID FIREBALLS CRISPY XAURIP (there's a ship name for you). GOBSHITE LOOT
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May 12, 2018 21:38
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Fintilgin posted:Super frustrated that any crowd scene or ship battle drops to a unplayable 7-10 fps even on lowest graphics settings. My CPU exceeds the minimum and my GPU exceeds the recommended, so I'm thinking maybe it's not my computer. I've tried a new drivers, old ones, and a bunch of other fiddling, but nothing helps. The linux build is super unoptimized for me too, i5 4460 with GT 730, I might have to trade up to a 1030 or thereabouts.
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May 12, 2018 22:04
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Level scaling is stuck on All and I can't change it, it was set on None when I started my second playthrough. WTF, Obsidian.
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May 14, 2018 21:47
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Traxis posted:Level scaling doesn't work so it doesn't matter anyway. It seems Level scaling can no longer be changed on the fly, you're stuck with whatever setting you start with. Given the number of things you have to set at the beginning of a playthrough, that just adds extra irritations to the process.
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May 15, 2018 01:31
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Autonomous Monster posted:Oh man, you know what really fucks me off? That Sigil that casts Curse of Atrophy helpfully so a Death Guard Fanatic can own you. That took some kiting around and I ended up having to bomb it to hell because none of my weapons could dint it. Nasgate posted:At least that walk. It was cool and cinematic the first time. Now I'm just seeing how few clicks I can do it in. Oh god please Obsidian, it's terrible particularly with a lower-powered graphics card on an unoptimized linux build, stuttering my way through that intro is infuriating.
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May 18, 2018 02:52
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bewilderment posted:So I have no actual incentive to engage with the system because BAM FULL SPEED AHEAD GO GO GO. Same, I figured that out fairly quickly that with a well-equipped stable of characters (including ones you can roll yourself), you can take down big ships with big loot, and boarding gives you the biggest bang for your buck. I mean, it IS fun to play shootems too, but if I'm looking to rank up my crew quickly, there's no option better.
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May 20, 2018 05:00
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VanillaGorilla posted:He gets super bitchy about it if you kill all his minions, though, so worth it IMO Yeah I didnt get the answer until after I'd wailed them to death, pretty hilarious conversation.
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May 22, 2018 03:05
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I did some testing with solo saves from POE1 and you don't get Eder. He's not on the ship at all, in fact the game transfers a paraphrased dialogue tree to the Steward instead. I don't know where he is, and Aloth is missing too, but Pallegina is there. So I guess that's it for former companions, looks like missed Gilded Vale meetups remove them. It would be interesting to test dumping your companions and importing that save, I might try that later.
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May 23, 2018 07:10
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Khizan posted:I feel like a big part of the problem with RPGs in general and games like PoE in particular is that their fanbase has a huge split in it. On one side you have people who want grueling difficult combat encounters and who just speed through the story. On the other side you have people who don't care about the combat at all and who only care about the story and character interactions. Trying to please both factions usually ends up squarely in the middle with neither side as happy as they'd like. It's a general issue of whether you're happy with games to be a gatekeeper of content if you're "playing it wrong". Combat that is too difficult/min-max spoils the fun of the game for a lot of people and they will want the option to dial the difficulty down so they can enjoy the game, it's not an all-combat/no-combat line. Clearly though, a lot of RPG'ers want to be challenged so they want that difficulty scale. Of course you won't completely please either tribe but you've got to accommodate both to a degree. Personally I find the obsession with combat in what is supposed to be an engaging world a bit odd, you may as well have stick figures moving from box room to box room oh wait that was old skool rpgs
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May 23, 2018 08:36
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Torrannor posted:If you never recruited Pallegina in PoE1, can she still join you? And will she be aware of the nature of the gods if yes? Same question for Aloth and Eder. The answer appears to be yes for Pallegina but no for Aloth and Eder. I've tested a couple of imported solo saves and the guys just never appear but Pallegina can be found after your first visit to the Queen in Nekatana
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May 23, 2018 20:39
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I don't know if this is a Linux build-specific bug, but I can't see how to leave Crookspur by foot to reach the locations at the top of the island, not accessible by the landing at the bottom, is there a quest-related requirement?
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May 24, 2018 01:01
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DoubleDonut posted:Fun fact: Eder can die during the fight on the ship at the very start of the game, and he does not show up on the beach, nor does the Steward mention him at all. It seems pretty unlikely but it's pretty funny to me that someone could, presumably, not realize that Eder is supposed to be a permanent party member. Actually if you solo POE1 and never meet/dump Eder or Aloth they just aren't there. Which makes sense, the game can't tell the difference between a solo game and dead/unmet companions.
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May 25, 2018 02:54
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Freaking Crumbum posted:anyone else get a bug where you're at the port in neketaka and you're standing on the dock looking at your motherfucking boat, but the boat menu won't let you change out crew? it keeps saying "you need to be in the neketaka port to change your crew". I wonder if this is similar to a bug I've been having where you can get stuck in certain places like off a beach and be unable to move ie it thinks you're where you are obviously not? edit: frajaq posted:also if you don't meet Pallegina in PoE 1 is she available in PoE 2? Unlike Eder/Aloth it does make sense for her to be in Deadfire even if the watcher never met her I forgot to say, yes you do because she is part of the VTC questline. So I've been able to find her in Queen's Berth even with an imported POE1 save. ewe2 fucked around with this message at 09:35 on May 25, 2018 |
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May 25, 2018 09:32
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Oh my lord I never heard of Knightmare before I looked up the VA for Concelhaut...Edmund Dehn is a kooky guy 
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May 25, 2018 23:23
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Speaking of bugs, I've had a weird one with Maia where some kit is interacting with pistols/arquebusses and she repeats the cocking animation CONSTANTLY unless I take the weapons off her. Haven't figured out what's doing it yet.
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May 26, 2018 09:47
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basic hitler posted:Anyone have advice on the big fight at the observatory? The 'cast a wall spell while stealthed' trick didn't entirely work for me, but a good wall spell cast definitely helps, you need something to grind him down while you're fighting. Make sure your wizard has good defensive passives and your tanks engage well or at the least have a good ranged attacker that can take out the hangers-on so your party doesn't waste resources on them instead of the main guy. If you've got Captains Banquet, use it on a rest before you aggro him, it's been the difference for me in that battle as well as against Fampyrs.
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May 27, 2018 22:57
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treizebee posted:Words of warning if you use Eccea's Arcane Blaster: That gun will ruin your save if a character using it all of a sudden gets stuck in an infinite reload loop. You'll be locked out of almost all functions with reload weapons. Good news, I don't have that gun and I have that bug with Maia.
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May 28, 2018 09:08
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Randbrick posted:I'd have loved more time with Berath, not for exposition, but just for color. She's a really fun figure in those brief moments the narrative slows down and lets her show some personality. She does come across as the adult in the room, doesn't she. My take on the whole metaphysics is that many players will be like Xoti, unable to fully comprehend the real system and enjoying the mechanics way too much to really question it anyway. I couldn't get her to an uncrazy place in my playthrough no matter what I did.
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May 30, 2018 03:18
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rope kid posted:My hope was that funnier images on loading screens that illustrated the concepts we were trying to teach would draw people in more than what we typically used (level renders). I really liked how they turned out, but some people on the team thought they were too silly and lobbied hard to get them replaced, so we went with the single key art loading screen. I'm a sucker for comedy/4th wall breaks in RPGs, its a shame they didn't go with this.
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May 31, 2018 02:21
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Does Serafin go anywhere if you don't pick him straight off? I don't want to have to fight everyone in Deadlight again.
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Jun 5, 2018 10:05
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bewilderment posted:Uhhh you're meant to pick him up as soon as your boat is repaired, and if you don't it's a glitch (unless you intentionally refused him). Ah yeah, found him outside the dungeon doors.
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Jun 5, 2018 11:25
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jerman999 posted:How do I get the interaction with Galawain to trigger? I went down to the second level and started deactivating pylons without realizing there was an option to shut it down, and there was never any interaction with Galawain. You have to go into the room with the Adra machine and try to deactivate it, you'll get dialogue with Galawain then. Like the other issues with quests done in Not The Right Order, this is confusing and I got it wrong the first time too. edit: re balancing chat, I'm not a combat min/maxer, I don't really enjoy that but I am concerned about the number of passive vs active abilities you can have within the 1-20 level limit. Rangers in particular have to spend half their levels in passive buffs to their companions just so those companions aren't just smashed all the time, without the compensation of strong active/passive buffs to their own abilities, and forget about multi-classing them, that's just weakening them further. You can argue similar cases with ciphers. I think the passive ability tree has improved since POE 1 but in those cases it seems padded out to nerf the whole point of those classes. ewe2 fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Jun 7, 2018 |
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Jun 7, 2018 01:17
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Scorchy posted:Yeah DLC is still weird on Steam, have to go to the Beard pack DLC store page, Download launches the game. Then I think I'd have to quit out and restart it. It's extra fun in Linux because Steam there for some reason can see it, but won't install it, so verifying local file integrity is the one thing that will wake it up and install it.
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Jun 7, 2018 20:40
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Agnosticnixie posted:EDIT: Even against hotheaded french nobles, the massed warbow forces of the english pretty much needed the other side to politely wait until they'd dug in, which meant getting caught by surprise was the end. If you're talking Agincourt, the French army funnelled itself into a mudfield. At the bottom of a hill. Once that area was choked with mired Frenchmen and the less-armoured were picked off, the archers moved in with their other weapons, hammers, daggers, you name it and slaughtered whoever they could. It's guessed they killed more with those weapons than arrows. To be fair, the French were after noblemen they could ransom, and archers didn't count, so they completely discounted them as a force worth clearing. And the archers didn't give a gently caress about ransom, they just wanted to win. So, rogues 1, paladins 0.
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Jun 7, 2018 23:36
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Agnosticnixie posted:They dropped it to a point where it shouldn't happen (it's like -10 or -15% in the patch, or at least it was in the beta) Is that a beta bug? The main game is playable, although I'm reserving judgement yet on two bugs, the one that deletes savegames, and the one where it just never saves the option to auto-pause parties on finding traps.
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Jun 7, 2018 23:41
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Vermain posted:Glad I'm not the only one who saw the longhouse and immediately thought "residential school." If people think the Huana caste system is hosed up, just wait until you see the de facto caste system an RDC-run Deadfire would develop between assimilationist Huana and those that attempt to maintain their own cultural and civil freedom. Ah, just like our stolen generations in Australia, also happily run by Christians for the government. The latest tactic has been to cry "evil rape" and seek to remove the children again or failing that, just remove the cash economy from the area so they can be managed more easily, under the guise of saving them from alcohol. You couldn't possibly stop the white people from selling it. In Perth they built a stadium on a religious area because they decided that "myths" weren't a proper religion. And then there are the concentration camps for refugees on Nauru. Yep, not repeating history at all, nothing to see here. Back on topic, it's pretty clear that the Deadfire is an 'all choices are bad' no-win scenario, because that's colonialism. Let's blame the Huana for a caste system and then impose an effective caste system on them. Colonialism is full of that kind of irony. And there might be a criticism of cultural relativism in there somewhere.
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Jun 11, 2018 23:08
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I wonder if I could solo this sequel and what class should I try, some kind of paladin/wizard?
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Jun 13, 2018 10:09
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I'm making a stab at a solo run with a Paladin/Priest which is working out quite well, I'm only on classic with critical path level scaling up, and I'm keeping sidekicks for ship battles only, no companions. It's a bit sad telling Eder and Aloth to hoof it though. There is a bunch of stuff you can't do solo, but they're only side quests that I can see. Fampyrs are really REALLY hard to fight solo, you need all the buffs you can get. The biggest pain is loss of group stat buffs, so I'm using a mod The Lone Polymath which gives just enough points to manage, I still lose on most of the hidden stuff.
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Jun 15, 2018 23:34
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Ginette Reno posted:Poe2 adds urgency to the story which Poe1 struggled with but the problem with Poe2 is there's just no credible reason Eothas even listens to you. Like why should he give two shits what the Watcher thinks? You can't stop him. And the problems he's trying to address are way bigger than just you. That's an interesting angle because it begs the question: why how and who set up this thing in the first place and how did they get them to agree with it, outside of the immortality thing?
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Jun 19, 2018 09:50
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Ginette Reno posted:Not sure what you're referring to. The Engwithans created the Gods, and they did so by basically taking huge chunks of their own populace and turning them into soul puree which got put into a huge machine and distilled into basically robotic AIs/Gods who are built around ideals. And I don't know that any Engwithans agreed to be part of it knowing what was gonna happen. Most likely, they were duped/coerced or just outright forced into being turned into soul juice to power the Gods. I was being a bit 4th wall about it really: I don't buy that the Gods are AIs given the explanation we seem to get at the end of POE2, their interactions are exactly like the kind of pantheons we understand. If we theorise that they are supercharged immortal people, then that is the simplest explanation. Given that, we can understand why they would be motivated by the different roles, it explains Eothas and Woedica in particular. What it doesn't explain is why the Engwithans thought this would be a stable arrangement, it clearly isn't. It seems odd to cast off a pantheist worldview, and seek to rebuild it knowing its weaknesses. Obviously the idea was to limit each God by their specific roles and powers yet they never reckoned that a power-hungry cynic like Woedica wouldn't try to take over? That an idealist like Eothas wouldn't say, enough is enough, let's level the playing field? edit: I agree with Fair Bear Maiden's point, that they based their pantheon on an existing or former one. ewe2 fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Jun 19, 2018 |
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Jun 19, 2018 18:22
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Who else got all the sea bounties by just ramming everytime and shouldering the cost because you can? I think they'll update naval-combat in future to give better feedback. Me me me! Once you make the effort to recruit as many companions and sidekicks as possible and deck them out in some reasonable gear, you can easily take on enemy ships 5 levels higher than you and it's more efficient in terms of time, loot and levels. But you definitely shouldn't read this because it spoils something or other.
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Milky Moor posted:I don't know how I feel about a lot of the companions. Spoilering just in case. I liked Eder well enough and he felt like a good friend to my Watcher. Xoti was fine and she fit in well with the plot and Eder. I liked Pallegina in the first game but here, in PoE2, she felt way more two-dimensional -- wasted potential, I guess (the Godlikes, as a whole, feel weirdly underutilized). She felt like she was there to be the obligatory faction PC who would be upset with you if you made certain choices, like Maia. But speaking of Maia, I like how integrated she was to the world and her personal quest had some interesting consequences. But she was also kind of flat. Maia and Pallegina both suffered from being the loyal soldier, but Maia at least had the conflict over the methods. A lot of the others I didn't really use enough but I still don't really 'get' Aloth. The companions do feel like their personalities run on rails compared to POE1 where you had a real opportunity to change their outlook; by POE2 they seem stuck in their ways and you can only affect minor things. It's also really weird that Xoti, a new companion, has the same restriction. Serafin, too, can give you the silent treatment if you make a mistake, like I did by killing everyone in Deadlight (lighten up, Serafin). Milky Moor posted:I wanted to hear way more about her past and growing up in an all-male fighting order. The stuff with Giacolo was cool but also somewhat perfunctory. In the first game, Pallegina was a loyal soldier but she was also bright enough, and driven enough, to question her orders and to try and serve her country in better ways than her orders/superiors stipulate. But in Deadfire, she feels like a drone. I may be misremembering but, in Pillars 1, don't we meet her basically doing a one-woman crusade to investigate stuff she's been told not to? I always thought she was characterized by riding the line between free-thinking initiative and out and out insubordination, which we see in her PoE1 quest, but that's all just... gone in Deadfire. In PoE1 she felt like the kind of patriot who believed idealistically in the spirit her nation, whereas in PoE2 it feels more like she believes in the authority/structure of it. Pallegina is the most disappointing in terms of story, agreed. I could explain that away by explaining how much the VTC is a symbol of stability and self-image to her, but really it just feels like they gutted her story because it was too much work, and this doesn't bother the combat gamers who only appreciate her usefulness so fixing it seems unlikely. Milky Moor posted:The Herald of Berath stuff felt really underused and the bit where you summon the ghosts on the pier is really awkward and sticks out like a sore thumb. But on the other hand, gods talking to kith or doing weird poo poo with them is part of the lore (if you read the bookshelf POE2 books, but there's precedent. In the context of gameplay, it IS weird for a first-time player, like a mechanic you're not allowed to repeat.
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