BrokenFiction
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Pillars of Eternity |OT| You must gather your party before venturing forth.
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Lanrutcon
Member
On it. Been waiting months to finish this game.
Lanrutcon
Member
The second option. It's not stand-alone. It's made for level 8 characters, I believe? It has scaling options for higher level parties.
BrokenFiction
Member
Weird - now it's downloading another 1.8GB after finishing the 2.6GB earlier...
It did that for as well. I think it's probably the 3.0 patch followed by the expansion (or vice-versa)
Thanks, I'll do a proper replay then. I'm not a fan of battle micro-managing, so the party AI should make it a lot more fun.
Vincent Grayson
Member
I wonder how long before IE mod is updated.
Lanrutcon
Member
Shake Appeal
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Lanrutcon
Member
I was looking forward to playing as a Cipher for my complete content run.
Every ability they have now costs 10 x spell level. It's a pretty huge change.
Freyjadour
Member
Looks like they reduced the trash in Od Nua but increased the difficulty. Glad I held off on finishing that up.
Lanrutcon
Member
They're cool. After the buffs they got in 2.0 (we're now in 3.0) they performed a lot better. Aka their pets stopped dying so frequently.
I found the first new one in a new store on the west side of Stalwart. At least, it's new to me...
Since no one spoke up I made one.
It's actually impossible to find (or at least I couldn't) a bullet-point list of new features, content and improvements since the original release.
So I had to piece it together and write it on my own. Obsidian hates marketing obviously.
I was looking for an excuse to buy this game ever since the first steam sale I saw it with a reduced price. Now that I have no other game to play and its on steam's midweek madness I couldn't possibly delay this purchase. Played for a couple of hours and I am loving it. The music is fantastic and overall it kind of feels like the first Diablo for some reason. Can't wait to dig deeper in the game.
I did notice that too, there seems to be lots of high level info but I haven't seen what you describe either. Kind of annoying, I haven't played it since launch, just coming back into it now.
Dunkelgrau
Member
Are there a lot of decisions with consequences in this game?
Dunkelgrau
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Dwight Schrute
Member
Quick question : I have really little time to play the game. Will I seriously taint the experience playing in "story time" ? Can you change the difficulty during a game ?
Baron von Loathsome
Member
IMO, the role-playing and the writing are main draws of the game. And yes, you can change your difficulty anytime.
Freyjadour
Member
]blacky[;195989762 said:
shoehorning waifu time into a game like this should be illegal
Just curious, was there ever an update on the Chris Avellone novella or were the short stories supposed to replace that? Last update I saw was Chris saying he had submitted it for editing in June last year.
I also noticed on my kickstarter backing list it was also supposed to have an audio version which seems pretty unlikely at this point.
I also noticed on my kickstarter backing list it was also supposed to have an audio version which seems pretty unlikely at this point.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
If the rumors of Avellone's departure being less than friendly are true (plus the way they handled backer content), I really do not think we'll see anything by him whether it is done or not.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
InXile ships a game and has another in beta. Kickstarter asks for refunds and screams betrayal and scam.
Double Fine spends all their KS money and the game isn't done yet. Everyone shrugs "eh".
The moral of the story is that Kickstarter backers are incredibly fickle, especially around the bigger companies versus new ones.
So who knows.
This was my problem for a long time as well. I eventually settled on Cipher. You'll get the tastes for most of the classes just through your party.
I feel the game really opens up once you get a larger party. It's hard to really feel at home with any single class during the beginning of the game just because they all feel so limited to start.
You get a wizard really early on. I think Ciphers are a little more versatile, they can sort of act as spellswords. You can reasonable off-tank with one. I atleast had more fun settling on that class. They really shine with ranged weapons too. I find a lot of versatility in them in combat that I don't feel I quite get out of other classes that seem to have a lot more in the way of spells.
Freyjadour
Member
Druid was a really great pick for me personally. Lots of versatility, you can go Cat Form early on and then respec to spells later.
Probably my second recommendation. I really enjoy jack of all trade characters and crowd control characters.
White March pt 2 question:
It's a bit tough at hard difficulty, and lowering to Normal doesn't really do anything since I believe it affects only places that haven't been visited.
Is it normal that everyone attacks me at The Abbey of the Fallen Moon, both outside and inside the fortress? Or have I screwed things up?
Mister_Bubbles
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There are a couple of speech checks outside that you can pass to blag your way in, and you could likely stealth in via a side entrance outside as well.
Mister_Bubbles
Member
Boy, does he.
You may have to be in part 2, but make sure you've gone through all his dialogue trees and then it will start.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Am I failing this because it's not my party leader or something? I don't get it.
Yup.
It's a stupid, stupid mechanic.
"Hmm, I could be telling my party leader that I see this thing, but .. that would violate etiquette, better just shut up."
I get why they do it, of course. With 6 characters, any one play through will probably have at least one that focuses on each particular stat.
im playing through this game for the first time after an aborted attempt at launch and while i think its quite solid there are a couple things about this game that i think are a bummer. i know i'm super late and i'm sure you've heard them all before but whatever.
i think the engagement system makes encounters kinda samey and stationary. its an interesting concept to try to pull off in rtwp but i dno man.
encounters themselves are not terribly exciting. there are tons of them and most of them have very similar trash enemies which has led to a kind of rinse and repeat thing for me which doesn't involve a lot of thought.
i think its cool they tried something different with the attributes in the name of allowing more diverse characters but i think if that was their intention they failed, for instance why wouldn't you want a character with very high might? basically any class seems to need that.
the writing is hilariously flowery at times.
still having a lot of fun though!
i think the engagement system makes encounters kinda samey and stationary. its an interesting concept to try to pull off in rtwp but i dno man.
encounters themselves are not terribly exciting. there are tons of them and most of them have very similar trash enemies which has led to a kind of rinse and repeat thing for me which doesn't involve a lot of thought.
i think its cool they tried something different with the attributes in the name of allowing more diverse characters but i think if that was their intention they failed, for instance why wouldn't you want a character with very high might? basically any class seems to need that.
the writing is hilariously flowery at times.
still having a lot of fun though!
It just threw me, because other skill checks like moving a stone or something is done by the strongest character, or locks are picked with the character with the best mechanics.
I'm restarting a failed playthrough and yeah, I love this game still. My first time I had to stop cause I went in underleveled and without my sixth character. So I attempted to kill
(tagging it just to be really safe cause I see someone starting a new playthrough on this very page), and I didn't want to side with him at first.
Now I just beat him but I kind of feel like I fucked the town over cause
. I've played 10 hours today but I don't want to stop ;__;
raederic
Now I just beat him but I kind of feel like I fucked the town over cause
Kolsc eagerly looks at the throne