I was actually going to go with Expert mode but I enjoy the area of effect highlighting, I did pretty well without in the early days of the BB but I honestly want it just because I know it could be there now.
Pillars of Eternity Gone Gold! Releasing March 26th
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I was actually going to go with Expert mode but I enjoy the area of effect highlighting, I did pretty well without in the early days of the BB but I honestly want it just because I know it could be there now.
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TrueMenace
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Expert mode is independent from the actual difficulty mode. (i.e. You can play easy on Expert mode on).
I'm aware, I was saying that I enjoy what Expert mode does except for getting rid of the area of effect highlighting. I'm probably going to play on Hard with most of the "helper options" off.
Soyongdori
Member
Anyone wanna participate in getting 3 keys deal?
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
I'll think I'll go with hard, then. If anything the game will last me longer.
hemtae
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TrueMenace
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If you are going with a dual-weapon style for Rogue, go with fast 1-H weapons in each hand like the stiletto which has DR bypass.
FWIW, I have played all the IE games and am finding Normal challenging. Hard might not be pleasant even for genre veterans.
Yeah, I may or may not have gone completely insane and planned out my dual wielding rogue build down to the last detail from Level 1 to Level 12.
Nope.
BrokenFiction
Member
Seriously. The wait from September 2012 to now has been killer and I can't wait to see what's in this sucker.
Enduin, destroyer of dreams.
Let me drink upon your tears.
You can always go for extra weapon slots and just switch between multiple guns. But yeah they're all 2 handed do to the very cumbersome and time consuming nature of reloading those old wheelock guns.
I think in an expansion it would be nice if you could dual wield two pistols or a pistol and 1handed melee and then just unequip the offhand weapon to reload the primary or just go melee until you actively select to stop and reload your firearm, if not just for aesthetic purposes but that might be a bit too complicated a situation.
Man that sounds awesome.
Obsidian about to show every other Western RPG developer how to do it right.
UnrealEck
Member
I would but I'm unemployed atm so, yeah. Got to wait a while I guess. But I'm still looking forward to playing it.
0.1.1.2.3.5.8.13.21.34.55
Banned
woah, that snuck up quickly. gone gold, release a week later. nice.
Shake Appeal
Member
Not the first journalist who's said something like this. Bodes well.
Blargonaut
Banned
My computer can't handle it thouuuuugh 
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Play for me GAF
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Play for me GAF
Seems like game-keys and rewards will be released Monday or Tuesday. Wish the rewards were today so I could just waste all weekend reading it, but I shouldn't have a problem finishing it all up prior to Thursday evening still.
Shake Appeal
Member
This is good, good news.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
living the dream
Yeah, I can say similar things. As in: cant talk about it, but it is all I want to play for a while. Even LoL takes a backseat to this.
I need a game like that. It's been too long since anything has really, grabbed me.
Shake Appeal
Member
Yes. Very good. Yes.
I can't believe Pillars is just 6 days away! Yesterday's Twitch video interview with Josh Sawyer is now on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fup7P1k0wTQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fup7P1k0wTQ
spindoctor
Member
Does the game have mid game difficulty switching?
Yep. There's a slider.
Who is doing the OT for Eternity? If they want they can put the following in a technical part.
In order to manage my excitement and get ready on the technical front (so that I don't waste any time on that when the game is out) I just digged a bit through the backer beta.
To get the best image quality on the 3D rendered stuff, while maintaining the full quality of the backgrounds, I suggest this (if your hw can handle it):
In order to manage my excitement and get ready on the technical front (so that I don't waste any time on that when the game is out) I just digged a bit through the backer beta.
To get the best image quality on the 3D rendered stuff, while maintaining the full quality of the backgrounds, I suggest this (if your hw can handle it):
- Downsample from exactly 4x the resolution (e.g. I'm using 5120x2880 on my 1440p screen).
- Since this is a Unity game, if you are using DSR you will need to set your desktop resolution to your downsampling resolution before launching PoE for this to actually work.
- UI will scale automatically, so there's no need to do anything regarding that.
- Your zoom limits will be messed up though: by default the game won't let you zoom closer than a 1:1 mapping of background pixels to display pixels. Since you are downsampling, every "display pixel" the game sees is actually just 1/4 of a physical pixel, so you'd like to zoom in further.
Luckily, this is easy to fix: open the console (look up the key for that in the options) and type "setZoomRange 0.5 100". 0.5 will let you zoom in such that you get 1:1 mapping of background image pixels to real physical pixels again with 4x dowsampling. - Additionally, you can use the command "msaa N" to enable NxMSAA, e.g. "msaa 4". It doesn't make a huge difference on top of 4x downsampling though.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
So what happened to the GAF inn? It's still in there, right?
yup. It's called "The Goose and Fox" and it's in a district of Defiance Bay.
Shake Appeal
Member
How beefy does your hardware have to be to do this? I have an i7-4700MQ @ 2.40 GHz and a GTX 780M. Native res is 1080p.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
Hah I can't wait to see it.
Both. There are written companions in the game, fully developed and everything like BG, but you also have the ability to create custom companions as well if you so desire.
It's hard to say really. I still get 60 FPS at 5120x2880 with 4xMSAA on my 970.
As I've not been able to use the Beta to tinker with things, how would I go about downsampling once the game gets released? Only tried it on a couple of older games last year and have sort of forgotten >_>
Thanks in advance
Probably, a dev early on got it working on one so it shouldn't be a problem. Though it's not officially supported or tested so I'd save often.
First Unboxing Video has popped up. Looks like the Champion Edition I guess. Guidebook and Manual along with paper map and soundtrack plus codes for DLC. In Polish so can't say much more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjG3Ww3-IJQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjG3Ww3-IJQ
Napalm_Frank
Member
Lil OT but anyone know if Steam charges immediately if I pre-order this or at release?
Shame I'm only getting my new PC next month but I guess my old rig can handle this fine enough.
Shame I'm only getting my new PC next month but I guess my old rig can handle this fine enough.