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[Svalr93]

The world looks good but sometimes I wonder if devs make characters look intentionally ugly...
They look like some asset flip characters you get by default with the engine or something, there's like zero effort put into making them look appealing.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

Is the patch out yet? I think I will give it a try, what's the worst that can happen?

 

[amigastar]

Is the patch out yet? I think I will give it a try, what's the worst that can happen?

No i think on the 17th, maybe a midnight release.
I'm gonna continue my playthrough when the update drops

 

[Mortisfacio]

If I get downtime I may give NG+ another go with these changes. Go ranger build this time. I didn't enjoy the writing at all in this game, but I did enjoy the gameplay and biomes.

 

[PropellerEar]

Anniversary of a Bomba?

 

[SonicVolcano]

Want to give this game a fair chance. Any fun build recommendations?

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

Not to derail the thread (apologies mods, I'm still getting used to the rules here) but can anyone who actually played Avowed share some opinions on whether they think it is good or worth the time, a year after release? I'm also curious how well it "fits" in the PoE world.

Thanks, and please no ban.

Great game IMO. Played on launch. Combat is fun, not class based. You have access to 3 skill lines and you lean whichever way you want and while you aren't limited by class, your choices inherently limit your overall reach (ie going some distance down fighter tree means inevitably less reach down wizard tree so there are consequences- which is good).

Difficulty is not super high even on hardest difficulty (path of the damned), but at times can be challenging in certain encounters and wouldn't have wanted to play on lower difficulties.

World is beautiful, I had no technical problems. Landscape design is really nice, screenshot central when I was playing.

Verticality is really nice in some areas, lots of little secrets to find scattered about. Gameplay feels really good, best first person RPG combat I've ever played. I was a hybrid sword and shield with some magic thrown in like aoe blizzard etc.

There are some decisions to make that affect things later in the game, but nothing crazy. Story is solid but not amazing. As far as fitting into Pillars - it's separate but basically uses the lore as a skin. There are a lot of references to the earlier games found in books but no direct ties really in other express ways. I thought it fit really well though, I love Pillars. I really want Pillars 3, but I also want Avowed 2. I liked it.

What it's not: Skyrim. It's not a game designed to be like Skyrim, ie it's not open world. It's open zone and linear progression of zones. Ie the zone is open once you get to it, but each zone is story gated. All objects aren't interactive, etc. It's more like Mass Effect in terms of design style than something like KCD or TES.

But yeah, I say play it. Lot of haters out there though. I plan to replay it when the update drops, I probably would have played again at launch if new game plus had been in.

 

[adamsapple]

Is the patch out yet? I think I will give it a try, what's the worst that can happen?

Tomorrow (17th).