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Pillars of Eternity |OT| You must gather your party before venturing forth.
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Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Steve.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Godddddaaaaaaamn the dialogue is good. Indulged myself in sneaking off to play for an hour or so and even just getting into the ruins I can already feel myself getting sucked into the writing
JimmyRustler
Member
Are the Royal-Edition goodies worth the money? Thinking about upgrading my Normal edition. How are the Almanach and the Novella?
Dragon1893
Member
Wow, it's only 20 euros at nuuvem. Not that nuuvem's prices are a surprise at this point lol.
By the time you reach Durante you should have had 2 more companions - mage and fighter. Both found in the 1st village.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
I can't say for sure, but loot was quite static in Infinity Engine games so chances are it's the same here.
I am loving this game. I started a Human Ocean Folk Monk. Feeling my way through the game. Had to laugh at a misadventure though.
Minor Spoiler about a Cave...
Minor Spoiler about a Cave...
Sweet, punching fools in the face is awesome. Oh, its a cave. Nice, a bear! I'm gonna Takamura this poor thing - OH GOD MY FACE!
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
This aint some namy pamby MMO with unnecessary cosmetic toggles. You will protect your dome and you will like it.
But I like seeing my hair =(
FrontalMonk
Banned
Dammit, I was hoping to survive the siren's call and hit this up in a few months...after all I haven't really given myself a chance to get through D:OS or Wasteland 2, but ... god damn, I'm in like flynn. I never beat Ultima 7, and I never beat Fallout, but I beat the _crap_ out of Baldur's Gate 2, so I think this is secretly the one I was most looking forward to, despite not backing it when it was on KS. Now I just gotta wait 'til I get home and eat to start this bad boy up.
Turin Turambar
Member
You know, I remember the very initial pitch when they still haven't defined the game very well but it sounded a bit more wild and different, more "Obsidian without a publisher doing finally what it wants". Then as they announced the Kickstarter and it got rolling, it turned a lil' bit to more traditional fantasy, very D&D, very Baldur's Gate, with barbarians, paladins and wizards and monks, very focused on pleasing the old Baldur's Gate fans.
Of course it still has their own spin on fantasy tropes and differences, the Obsidian touch is still there, but I think initially was further apart of the beaten path, with a more novel ideas about a world where souls worked in interesting ways and even the systems were tied to those "off the wall" concepts.
Let's be honest, they don't have a publisher to please, but they needed money to make a game, and said money came from the traditional fantasy RPG gamer which just want his elves and dwarves and wizards and dragons, and they had to cater said fans.
I'm late to reply, but this portrait reminds me of Robin Williams.After stumbling on it, this is totally my portrait:
A friendly looking frazzled dwarf who no-one expects to be a powerhouse of martial prowess
Chance Hale
Member
I remember Durante mentioning the game is weird about downsampling and you have to go from really high resolutions. What should I run the game at via Gedo with a 1440P monitor?
Just reading the collectors book in work while I wait to get home. Fucking hell some of this stuff makes for bleak reading.
You need to take 10 damage I think to get a wound.
You need to take 10 damage I think to get a wound.
The guidebook is brilliant, haven't had the chance to dive deep into the almanac or Prima's 512 pages short guide. Novella and making of documentary are goodies yet to be made available, I believe.
Buy it now.
Avoid reading the contents page of the Prima guide. I just spoiled a load of quest titles accidently. It throws caution to the wind.
terrisus
Member
PoweredBySoy
Banned
Oh god I love my Wild Orlan Ranger with my pet antelope, Kano.
Avoid reading the contents page of the Prima guide. I just spoiled a load of quest titles accidently. It throws caution to the wind.
Yeah, I'm not touching the guide until after my first playthrough. Thanks for the warning though.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I was a bit upset about that until the Torment campaign launched and then my view was basically "well I'm getting a traditional RPG from the best in the business and an off the wall RPG from a promising studio, I'm pretty happy with that"
Can I respec my attributes or abilities at some point? Not quite sure what I want to pick as a Chanter quite yet, it seems might is kind of useful for everyone for example, but the game doesn't recommend it for a Chanter. I think I will take one of the summoning Invocations for now.
It was in the documentry. They basically make no qualms in saying: shit was fucked up.
From the two videos previewing the eventual making-of documentary.
wolfhowwl
Banned
Their documentary on the game.
There was a thread earlier this month discussing it: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1008229
Chance Hale
Member
MickeyKnox
Member
Only got to go through the character creation before having to get ready for work, this is going to be the longest shift I've had in a while
Probably. I went with moon monk though.
The Dutch Slayer
Member
Have been at work all day anyone, got good screens / video of the GAF-inn yet.
Can't play yet until Sunday because of work.
Can't play yet until Sunday because of work
.Does this game describe active buffs(especially on enemies!) with possible tooltips for how to deal with them?
My biggest pet peeve of BG1/2 was having damn near no idea what those swirling colored auras that were affecting so many lategame enemies actually did. My weapons could be ineffective, certain magics, etc.. total trial/error guesswork on which disrupt spells to use to breach properly. Sometimes enemies stacked 4-5 different buffs, so it was nigh impossible to distinguish them!! So many buffs had similar animations so it was hard to tell what mages cast on themselves, etc...
No modders ever patched in right-click tooltip pop-ups to describe any of that stuff sadly. Does this game handle this better? Never felt blinding the player from tactical battlefield awareness added any benefit.
My biggest pet peeve of BG1/2 was having damn near no idea what those swirling colored auras that were affecting so many lategame enemies actually did. My weapons could be ineffective, certain magics, etc.. total trial/error guesswork on which disrupt spells to use to breach properly. Sometimes enemies stacked 4-5 different buffs, so it was nigh impossible to distinguish them!! So many buffs had similar animations so it was hard to tell what mages cast on themselves, etc...
No modders ever patched in right-click tooltip pop-ups to describe any of that stuff sadly. Does this game handle this better? Never felt blinding the player from tactical battlefield awareness added any benefit.
Jag
Member
The manual is linked in the OP.
I created my character via VPN while at work to my home PC. It ran surprisingly well.
Cocaines a helluva drug.After stumbling on it, this is totally my portrait:
A friendly looking frazzled dwarf who no-one expects to be a powerhouse of martial prowess
It's a temporal conspiracy. The solution, is for us to murder time. You in?
The powerful Cipher skills begin a bit later. About the 3rd group of spells are incredibly game changing.
Well a quick restart of my computer seemed to have fixed it. The achievement for being a backer unlocks right after character creation so pretty easy to see if that fixes it for you as well.
No kidding, my drive home I will have both turbos at full boil. Waze hopefully won't let me down...