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Pillars of Eternity |OT| You must gather your party before venturing forth.
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LurkerPrime
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You can make your own formations, FYI, custom placing every party member - even a ranger's pets.
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Stevey
Member
Double click does the trick.
One of my favourite smaller features in the game. sogood.jpg indeed.
Sir Garbageman
Member
Wizards have the skill arcane blast which can be used 2X per encounter, which is a decent AOE attack. Easier fights can be wrapped up in three or four rounds, so use arcane blast and your ranged weapon of choice and save your bigger spells for tougher fights.
Worst case scenario you throw around too many spells and blow threw camping supplies, you could always hit up speed mode and book it to the nearest vendor or inn, so don't worry bout it too much.
There's another clue that says you need to ring the right bell first, before the large bell:
Solution:
Right Middle Left Right
Quick question about Wizard before I jump in: do I get two casts per spell level per grimoire? Say I have two grimoires, does that mean at, say, level 1 I can cast two level 1 spells then switch to a different grimoire and cast another two level 1 spells before needing to rest?
Thanks. I didn't notice it for some reason. Looked in my journal and got the clues I needed.
The first task I made for myself in the game (and completed) was finding all volumes of "The Dyrwood". (I found #3 first)Just reading the collectors book which has the Gods and their descriptions and worshipers. Learning about the War that took place, which lead to the events in Act 1 is incredible.
There's a lot more stuff to read in this game than I remember BG having.
decoyplatypus
Member
I'm so happy the journal lets me type my own notes. Maybe in the sequel I'll even be able to add tags for specific locations or questlines.
Pretty sure I've found a volume #6 soooo... Yeah good luck.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
I dunno man, BG had a ton of those types of books.
Char Aznable
Member
Wait what? How do i do that D:
decoyplatypus
Member
The last two options in the formation submenu are custom formations. Right click on them to bring up the interface.
Neat!
There's a typo in one of the books though. And a few questionable changes of tense mid-paragraph. Bad Obsidian!
It had quite a few, but I found over a dozen lore books in PoE already and I have been to 1 village, 1 dungeon and a few assorted maps, not even one of the major cities yet.
I can't believe Paradox published PoE & Cities: Skylines only a couple weeks apart. And each are less than $30.
I know, I know...different devs and all, but man am I madly in love with mid-tier PC game production.
In this context, just thinking about Safe, By-The-Numbers AAA productions from the likes of EA has me all...
I know, I know...different devs and all, but man am I madly in love with mid-tier PC game production.
In this context, just thinking about Safe, By-The-Numbers AAA productions from the likes of EA has me all...
May I suggest reading EVERYTHING about Skaen. You'd love it.
Welp, think I've hit a gamebreaker...
Just defeated
, and If I try to leave the keep from any exit, I just get a black screen and the game stops responding. Hope I can figure something out, because I don't feel like going back to a previous save, which was hours ago. I'm about 13 hours in and this is the first bug I'm seeing.
Just defeated
Raedric
You can also press "F", that's actually how I first accidentally discovered it.
Do books actually have an effect on your knowledge on subjects or dialogue as well just drilling people for info? Didn't' the BB quest
with the missing chick have a few dialogue options based on Skaen or something? Is that only accessible if you are Priest and that's your God? Or can you actually learn about it in game and then use that knowledge in the quest?
"Welp, think I've hit a gamebreaker...
Just defeated
, and If I try to leave the keep from any exit, I just get a black screen and the game stops responding. Hope I can figure something out, because I don't feel like going back to a previous save, which was hours ago. I'm about 13 hours in and this is the first bug I'm seeing."
From what I've heard that's a fairly common bug with no fix... sorry.
Just defeated
Raedric
From what I've heard that's a fairly common bug with no fix... sorry.
Sir Garbageman
Member
Nope, you just get a total number of spell casts per level between rests. Doesn't matter which spell or which grimoire.
Haha yeah me too I was going through the options menu near the beginning of the game and seeing what all the key bindings were.
Not very useful for me right now since I have no companions...
Are you alone still? If not what companions do you have? Rogues are not at all front line fighters so don't try and have them stand toe to toe against foes if you can. That's what Fighters and Paladins are for.
Jest Chillin
Member
Rogue is rough going early on but stick with it. Once you pick up a frontline guy (whether a companion or an inn hire), they really start to shine.
The Illiterati
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I just had to pop in with a great early game tip. I was getting frustrated with my party placements(with 4) while trying to draw enemies a few at a time, but I figured out an easy way to do it. Edit your formation so that your magic users are in the farthest row back and your shield/tanks are in the highest row. Arm the magic users with arquebuses and then stealth the whole party. When your front row sees an enemy, just send the back row to attack. They will not have to go past the front row and will get an early attack in while still keeping your front row ready.
CrichtonKicks
Member
Makes sense though- rogues have to pick locks, disarm traps, crack safes (don't know if they exist in PoE's world), etc so I have no trouble believing they have a lot of mechanical aptitude.
Agreed. Also I wish it would pause after the ability animation finishes, not before. Feels anticlimactic this way.
I noticed in my recent replay of BG1 while there were a lot of books to find, there wasn't a huge variety of different titles. So I kept finding the same books over an over.
Nope, that's rogue for you. It gets better, but at level 5 I still die like a bitch. I'm probably doing it wrong, I should have gone with more active skills like invisibility earlier on (and actually use them), instead of the passives I chose.
LurkerPrime
Member
No "R" permitted.
Equipment failure during field work, stop work called at 11. Home by noon.
Holy crap, this game is beautiful. Two hours just went by like nothing. There's so much depth of mechanics to learn, though, I feel like I've just scratched the surface.
Pillars of Eternity Day has begun.
Holy crap, this game is beautiful. Two hours just went by like nothing. There's so much depth of mechanics to learn, though, I feel like I've just scratched the surface.
You can disable it in the options, as HK-47 pointed out.
Alternatively, if you don't want to bother with that sort of helper stuff at all, you can restart on Expert mode and not give yourself the opportunity to change your mind. :>
AndyMoogle
Member
Is there a way to lock the framerate to 60 fps? I can't quite keep it at 120 fps so I get some stuttering now and then.
Are you seriously asking if a game that's been out for 2 days is better than probably one of the best games of all time?
Wondered this myself.
I thought a lot of people have finished it already
It's 80 hours long.
So, I'm having a lot of trouble with SPOILERS ABOUT FIRST MAJOR DUNGEON
I think I'm gonna go bash some wolves and then come back. Game is awesome, I honestly did not expect combat to be this engaging, but it sure is in a good way.
I was not able to kill those guys either alone, on hard mode as a cipher. I think cipher may be one of those slow burn classes, or may need a party to back them up.
Beneath the first town, the shades on the second level are kicking my butt. In particular, the shades, as opposed to the shadows, seem to be able to summon a shadow a piece, which quickly overwhelm my 3 man party, especially since they seem to auto-target the wizard (rightfully so).
I think I'm gonna go bash some wolves and then come back. Game is awesome, I honestly did not expect combat to be this engaging, but it sure is in a good way.
I was not able to kill those guys either alone, on hard mode as a cipher. I think cipher may be one of those slow burn classes, or may need a party to back them up.
The nice thing about Pillars of Eternity is that the folks behind it have had 15+ years to iterate on the design flaws and mistakes made in old IE games like BG2, so while I think I'd need more time to figure out which game resonated more with me, Pillars is better-designed in a lot of ways.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm planning to read everything about everything anyway
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Hi Pal!
That is a ridiculous question and it's way too early to answer. It's clearly a great game though.