You just add the dollar amount to your existing pledge. They'll confirm what you wanted after the pledge drive is over.
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Pillars of Eternity by Obsidian Entertainment (Kickstarter) [Up: Teaser]
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You just add the dollar amount to your existing pledge. They'll confirm what you wanted after the pledge drive is over.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Yes. They will contact you to confirm what you want for that $20.
Saw this posted on RPG Codex:
Oh my god! That is so amazing!
Hargenx
Member
Saw this posted on RPG Codex:
Oh man don't do it, I have to be focus on XCOM, must resist to not install...NO NO NO NO...God why?!
*Taking Baldur's Gate 2*
Joseph Merrick
Member
approximately the same number of new backers... but with another 7 hours of prime time to go in the kicktraq day.
The 30k difference you mentioned is definitely partially due to people upping their pledges (a third of it comes from one new 10k backer from a little while ago), but believe me, the backer rate in the past 3 hours or so has accelerated past anything since the first few days.
Need more weepers.
It must reach 3.5, you hear? Another large city won't be just a large environment - it'll be a massive amount of additional content. Perhaps something like an expansion's worth.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
That screenshot, is awesome. I expected as much though, people really seem to always forget the power of pre-rendered stuff. I mean look at all these good reactions, from a pretty merely 'good' 3d render.
I do love it though just because it lets me know they are doing pre-rendered backgrounds, which is super great. You get so much creative control and ability to do amazing things with the environments.
Also increasing my backing to include the expansion and maybe up to the beta, its such a good deal. $165 is so much though!
I do love it though just because it lets me know they are doing pre-rendered backgrounds, which is super great. You get so much creative control and ability to do amazing things with the environments.
Also increasing my backing to include the expansion and maybe up to the beta, its such a good deal. $165 is so much though!
Yep and You're locked into one resolution and lack of interaction with environments, also animating world is pain in the ass.
whalleywhat
Member
If the area is only the size of one screen, I guess. All of the old IE games can be modded to modern resolutions.
Seems like they picked a good resolution, then
Seriously though, every graphical engine has strengths and weaknesses. At least for the infinity engine games, this approach seems to work pretty well.
I just got home from work guis, whats goin on in this threa.....
For the new page
Pledge or be damned!
The only behind the scenes things they've talked about is at the 35 dollar tier. It's just a section in a book, I think.
*edit* lol ^^
That doesn't matter. Altering the resolution of the game doesn't affect the resolution of the render.. its the render that has a fixed resolution; which is very nice to work with. Upping the res in the old infinity engine games is simply like having a greater FOV.
I like their demonic, quasi-skeletal smiles and faces.
I bet it has something to do with souls. In fact, I bet those two statues represent humans without souls! See the empty chest cavities and the half-skull faces!
Damn, if they can push the concept of souls, it's going to make for some really interesting stuff.
whalleywhat
Member
It's functionally the same as changing the resolution, because everything is smaller and you can fit more on your screen at once, even if nothing is changing with the render. It's not like a game like FF VII, where you're stuck with a pre-rendered backgrounds that look terrible on modern monitors, which is what I though he was implying. Seeing the full scope of the environments in a game like PS:T is a real treat.
But yeah, every format has it's advantages and drawbacks, and it's too bad that this style has been almost totally abandoned, because it can look gorgeous.
tbh, they kinda remind me of DA's Darkspawn
... I sure hope there's no equivalent of an undead horde in this game
superdeluxe
Member
Upped my pledge. That screen is too hot. That's exactly the type of look i want out of this. I think it was smart making the big goal so far away cause then maybe some people who wouldnt have donated will chip in to reach the goal. High profile stuff like this always benefit from big goals like that.
Still doubtful it will make it though...
Still doubtful it will make it though...
Nice. $7 seems very cheap, may add it to my pledge. Need to decide between $35 and $50 but probably going to go for $50 for the almanac.
Minsc
Gold Member
BG:EE fixes this problem and lets you use any resolution with variable zoom, so you can run it in 1600x1200 with the same visible area as the original 640x480 resolution (or pull the camera back and see more). So this shouldn't be an issue these days.
I seriously doubt Project Eternity will only run in one resolution.
Madrugador
Member
Shit, that screenshot is amazing. We need to get to 3.5 million!
Too bad we need to wait an eternity to actually play the game.
Too bad we need to wait an eternity to actually play the game.
I see what you did there.
Oh thats cool. I wasn't really saying it was an issue though.
But doesn't that still create problems when you are effectively scaling up very low res background images? Or have they re-rendered all the background for nicer resolution?
I think people are getting a little confused, atleast I thought he meant it was an advantage it is locked in 1 resolution - in terms of rendering. As in the rendering of the background image is just a fixed-res single image. Which obviously comes with a whole host of benefits graphically/artistically.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
So the question for me is: is that water going to animate?
SerArthurDayne
Member
I loved the screenshot. Would like to see 3d characters in it, but I can wait for that.
But when I saw the BGII photo shop. Oh my! Absolute perfection.
But when I saw the BGII photo shop. Oh my! Absolute perfection.
I think it is. I mean, it will look a little odd if they weren't, and it wouldn't be that hard to do either as a looping animation or some simple 3d over the painting/
Mister_Bubbles
Member
The Obsidian CEO was answering a few questions in the Kickstarter comments section and he said yeah absolutely, they'll be animating as much as they can within the world starting with whatever key features are in each map and then working down the priority order. He also said that there will be butterflies, fish, birds, leaves and debris effects etc added as filters. Sounds like, all things considered, it should be looking pretty tasty.
It is concept art. The whole game you are essentially playing over painted art that is prerendered.
superdeluxe
Member
Well it is a digital I believe
I love that style. I dont know why more folks dont do it. Is it actually harder to do? Or is it just not "3d" so pubs wont back it? I imagine it would be easier. Taking anything to dress up in photoshop is always easier then having to make it look good in real-time.
It's problematic in games with free cameras... And there are very few games with locked cameras today.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
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People use Nalia?
and any party without Minsc is a sad sight.
and any party without Minsc is a sad sight.