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Skwirl posted:Does anyone remember when Tutu or BGT (I can't remember which was first) first came out in a mostly playable form? Hmm, I definitely remember learning about tutu as I was graduating high school - 2005/2006? I think it was out by then already. Edit - And BGT definitely was after. DourCricket fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Jan 18, 2021 |
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Been playing BG Trilogy on Switch and the controls are pretty solid actually.
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It will be interesting to get to interact with the gods from the perspective of a character who doesn't know that they are artificial I feel like that colors a huge amount of the Watcher's dialogue options in 2. Though Avowed will probably be more like Pillars 1 where contact with them is pretty short. e: Dick Burglar posted:To be honest, I'm not sure the gods would really 'hold up' in 3D. I have a feeling they'd seem too mundane. Eh, if you keep the same perspective of them being dozens of time your size and most of them being weird looking monster things, that could be pretty cool. DourCricket fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Feb 18, 2021 |
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Feb 18, 2021 18:36
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I love me some non-standard Game Overs. Also the not-so-subtle implication that Ondra is trying very hard to kill you all for knowing about the Eyeless so that, once you solve her problem for her, they go back to being completely unknown. My favorite ways to get around it - -Put on the Diver's Helmet -Have a con score of 20+ -Free the spirits of the forge at the end of WM1, they will come rescue you as Not-Sahaugin
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Feb 23, 2021 21:46
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This is why you should play the PC version and console command the Turn Based mode off for trash fights, then back on for legit ones. I really really like the TB mode. BurningBeard posted:1. Can you get away with playing this having not played the first? These are long rear end games, and I’m not into RTWP and also have lovely eyes so the lack of voice acting in the first put me right off it. But am I gonna need to get a summary to know what’s up in 2? Read the plot summary as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Eternity General stuff off the top of my head - -Spellcasters tend to be better at crowd control/buffs/debuffs than direct damage, but it varies based on which one in particular -I wouldn't recommend multiclassing for a first time player. There's a lot of weird class interactions that might be overwhelming. If you do, make sure they're both melee/non magic classes as they're a bit simpler in terms of abilities and whatnot -Difficulty is set when you log onto a map, changing it in the middle won't do anything for a tough fight. Make lots of saves BEFORE you go to an area rather than when you first arrive in case things kick your rear end -There is some scaling in this game but several places/quests might be too high for you. You'll see a strike-through with skulls (potentially red ones), if you see those that means unless you're down for a rough fight you should head elsewhere. Quests are marked with these as well to let you know what to expect with enemies -NPCs are around you can recruit to (wo)man your ship. Be on the lookout for them -Speaking of ships, level up your companions who aren't in your main party regularly. Why? Because when you get into ship-to-ship combat ALL of your crew will join you in the battle. If they're low level they will not be very useful -Ship combat: just skip straight to boarding and don't bother with anything else. Obsidian tried to make it cool and drat they failed completely. -Get to know all of the 4 main factions of the game a bit. The Point of No Return for each is quite far along. -Be careful who you bring to see each faction's NPCs. If you bring a companion who hates the Vailian Trading Company to meet with VTC folks, they will poo poo talk them right in front of you and the faction NPCs might get mad at you for bringing that rear end in a top hat along. That's all I can think of off the top of my head. Have fun! DourCricket fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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Feb 25, 2021 18:50
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Personally I'll say that despite two playthroughs before Turn-Based, I didn't really GET how Pen/DR/resists/etc really worked until Turn Based mode made me look at every single character's actions + results and I went "Hey, why does this person do so little damage when their weapons say they should be about even with the other characters who are doing more?" and I dug into the combat window. In RTWP mode I feel like I had to pay attention to the battle as a whole all at once, which I don't think combines well with a combat system that has so many layers. Or maybe on Veteran difficulty its just not as necessary to pay attention to it all, so I didn't?
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Feb 26, 2021 19:14
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I'm sure the studios can talk to each other to time releases but honestly - I think the gaming market would absolutely eat up a giant "Elder Scrolls Style" open world RPG every 2/3 years. 5 years between Fallouts/ES is not necessary to build hype/sales.Zulily Zoetrope posted:I don't think there's anything that compares to That One Dialogue Option in PoE1 but you do get in the occasional sweet dunk. I've 260 hours in Pillars 1 and I don't know what this is in reference to!
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Hahaha that's awesome, thanks guys
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Mar 9, 2021 18:20
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Tekehu (Periki's Overlook in Neketaka) and Serafan (you'll meet him once you leave Port Maje, the starting island) are necessary for Good Vibes~~~ playthroughs.
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Mar 10, 2021 22:40
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rope kid posted:... I remember going into the game and wondering "Why am I not just going to side with the natives here? How is this going to be a question?" Then I found out they were totally cool with enslaving their allies if it meant some sweet, sweet magic powers and I got that rush of Obisidian-faction goodness where everyone is at least a medium-level piece of poo poo.
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It's not so much "spongy", more that the game was designed with RTWP encounter speed in mind. There are a lot of "trash" fights that are meant to use up a bit of resources but ultimately are not the consequential. In RTWP mode, you can play those out in real time and in 15~ seconds you're on your way. That same fight in Turn Based is at least a minute or two as you and the enemies move only one at a time. On PC I recommend just using the console command to disable/enable it for important fights or as a fight winds down and you know you'll win but that's a bit fiddly.
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Y'all haven't lived until you've Spin-kicked an enemy 20ft backwards as an Elk-lycanthrope. You just haven't.
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Doom2020! posted:Wish we could have at least one more slot for companions as five total guys is not enough. Eder and Xoti are always coming along if I have a choice (since tie to Eothas) but I like all of the companions. Hate having to choose and would kill for just one more slot. https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/288?tab=posts Balancing is a bit tougher with 6 but it seems to still work While you're in the modding mood I recommend stopping by here as well - https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/417?tab=posts
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wologar posted:I want to play the duology as a priest of Eothas. I assumed they would have a lot of extra interactions, but apparently they don't get many and priests of Magram get more. My first playthrough of 2 was that - unless you want to play as someone who is 100% behind what Eothas is doing, no I do not recommend it at all. I was hoping I'd get some great conflict scenes (how could the arguably only decent-hearted god kill so many innocent people?) but almost all of the Eothas dialogue options are THIS IS TOTALLY GREAT AND IM SURE IT'LL BE ALL WORTHWHILE!! Which that can certainly be an interesting character to play - just not at all what I was hoping for.
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Doom2020! posted:
My playthrough was on release - and I'm told since then patches have added a lot to the story to make the end clearer / more reactive so they may have added more to that? But there are no Priest specific dialogue for that. At least that I recall?
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The keep itself is probably fine at 3,but Raedrics fight is pretty tough, I'd say level 4 at least with 5 people.
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jerman999 posted:https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/1374208330701234177?s=21 The gods ARE real
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queeb posted:whats a good cipher build? playing through on game-pass now with all the dlc and i wanna do pallagena, eder, aloth and maia, and then myself as a cipher seems to fit in nicely. is single class best to get the endgame spells? If you multiclass you can't get Power 8/9 skills, so yeah if you want the big guns you'll need to stay single-class Cipher. I've only played Goldpact Knight/Soulblade and it was awesome. Both from RP and in combat.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:he was also dead in all of poe1, so who cares Yeah I imagine the God of Rebirths is hard to put down for good.
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Mar 26, 2021 19:10
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In my one finished TB game I made VERY liberal use of the console command to swap back and forth between TB and Real time. If the enemies were all much weaker than me or the fight was clearly wrapping up I would turn off turn based and mop up, then turn it back on after the fight was over. I did not notice any bugs or glitches
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Mar 31, 2021 19:30
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While I would prefer a POE3 I am glad at least the universe is continuing with Avowed - hopefully with its success and the success of Wasteland 3 Obsidian will want to take another crack of Pillars proper in the future.
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I feel bad for folks who didn't grow up rereading the "Ecology" sections of the D&D monster manual over and over again. The extraneous world building details were clearly meant for folks like me and I ate that poo poo up.
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Jul 28, 2021 18:50
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Speaking of dialog options - everyone should do an Aumaua/Deadfire playthrough as there are a million reactions to that. It changes the whole context of the game as you are basically "coming home" after Pillars 1.
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Jul 30, 2021 05:35
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Really my only beef at all with White March is how awkwardly it fits into the game. It really should've just been post-game content or installing it changes the level curves automatically of the other chapters.
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Mans posted:What happens in PoE 2 if on you decide to ignore the eyeless on the first game and get the "you got your rear end kicked by eyeless" ending? (PoE 1 ending decisions) I'm not sure you can import that save? doesn't the world basically end as the eyeless destroy everything to keep themselves hidden?
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Aug 9, 2021 17:37
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There's a good number of Pillars flaws (and strengths too) that you can point to them and say "Those are only there because Obsidian promised an Infinity Engine successor and you need those things to be a proper successor and not because anyone thought it was a genuinely good idea", attributes being what they are is just the first one you run into lol
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Aug 30, 2021 15:37
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Dick Burglar posted:God damnit. I was trying to decide which class I wanted to multi with a chanter (probably monk), but now I'm wanting to play a druid instead (probably also multi'd with monk). I can never stick to one character design for long. I've done that character and spin-kicking enemies as a WereStag takes a shockingly long time to get old.
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Eason the Fifth posted:Calling this Fresco Elysium and no one can stop me 
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I didn't love it and I really want to love it. I'll wait for a proper gameplay chunk video though before I get legit concerned e No Dignity posted:That aumaua guy is jerking the PC off through the whole trailer, drat you're so strong and cool and have a power no one has ever seen before but will you use it to save us... or kill us?? Yeah the lines there were garbage. Yes, we get it, this game will have choices and consequences. Please stop with the garbage trailer writing
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I think they've just moved the timeline and its set closer to Pillars 1 and 2. Maybe the plague is caused by what Eothas did? That's a lot of lore to hit the player with over the face in one go though
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Did not think I was going to walk into this when checking in on the Pillars 2 thread
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rope kid posted:...and PoE3 is nonexistent/irrelevant.  P.S. just started my Island Aumaua - Deadfire playthrough where I piss off every faction because I only stan for the roparu aka I'm doing it for the working class. I still haven't done the DLC! How will I fit this into my BG3 2nd playthrough, Starfield in 2 weeks, Cyberpunk in 6 weeks and an 18 month old baby to take care of who knows man
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Aug 24, 2023 13:31
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I am playing Turn Based with a 'new' mod that makes my spells go off immediately - the turn delay was incredibly unsatisfying and annoying. It may however have swung things a bit too much my way though and I may need to bump it to Path of the Damned...
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Shamelessly stolen from reddit, thanks for catching this ThinWhiteDuke https://www.reddit.com/r/projecteternity/comments/18gz4b3/phil_spencer_dumped_100_hours_into_pillars_this/ https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fm0qenrqnzx5c1.jpeg Phil Spencer put 125~ hours into Pillars of Eternity this year itshappeningboysandgirls.gif
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Strongly debating another Pillars 1 playthrough - I want to do both before Avowed but with the recent patch I feel like maybe 1 will get some new features soon, maybe announced today..? Even if it's something small like a few new subclasses that'd be neat
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