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Pillars of Eternity |OT| You must gather your party before venturing forth.
- Thread starter EviLore
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Good morning everyone! Wake up, brush teeth, breakfast, Eternity!
No no no, the UI is fine. There is no need to 'consolize' anything. There's Dragon Age Inquisition for that.
No no no, the UI is fine. There is no need to 'consolize' anything. There's Dragon Age Inquisition for that.
Murder. She Wrote
Member
So what's the highest Stat based dialogue option you guys have found so far? I went 16 int 15 res 15 perception and I'm afraid I don't have at least one Stat high enough. I didn't realize we wouldn't get more points as we lvled.
Played for 8 and a half hours today and will probably play for 1,5-2 more. Awesome game. I finished all the quests in Gilded Vale, including the main one, and am now headed towards the keep with the story important old dude.
Wouldn't mind meeting some cool lady companions though, right now my party is a sausage fest.
Also, yesterday it took me 2 hours (seriously!) to decide on a character. Ended up as a Fire Godlike Barbarian.
Wouldn't mind meeting some cool lady companions though, right now my party is a sausage fest.
Also, yesterday it took me 2 hours (seriously!) to decide on a character. Ended up as a Fire Godlike Barbarian.
Well you can buff them a good deal with stat boosting enactments, resting bonuses and consumables. As well as some talents.
Snakethesniper
Member
thanks!
Also, where do you find informations about attack/recovery time? I've looked a video and it says that a single handed weapon has an attack time and 2 recovery times after. Where do I find this info?
SpiceMelange
Member
Inventory management and dialog not suited for controllers? Have you ever played a console RPG? Cmon now.
Also check Temple of Elemental Evil for a good example of radial selection that would work great with a controller for abilities. And there's zero precision or coordination in this game required, this game is built around pausing...... Go try kotor on xbox it plays great with rtwp.
SpiceMelange
Member
It's like you intentionally miss the point just to shitpost about consoles and Dragon Age. Or do you shit about Diablo 3 because it's console version has a UI adapted for it?
This is a joke right? Playing this game with a controller would be an exercise in frustration.
You can optimize away one or two steps in that!
Actually, Diablo 3 is shit compared to 2 in a large part because they designed all the skills to be controller friendly from the start (directional rather than positional). But that's a bit OT.
It's not exactly readily available anywhere in the game. Basically every action has an animation time, these vary by the weapon, spell or ability, then a recovery time, which is 1.2 times as long as the animation. Then you have armor speed penalties which are a percentage increase of that recovery time, up to 50% longer.
I love the recovery animations for some stuff. Particularly reloading crossbows. Crank it!
SpiceMelange
Member
1. No I don't think at all it would be an exercise in frustration with a good control scheme. I'm sure wasteland 2 will end up just fine and pillars would have not been any different. I never believed it was possible to make a proper mmo control scheme on a console and yet they did it with FFXIV.
2. You could have a point if spells like Meteor or Blizzard didn't exist (positional). Also let's not kid ourselves; the 2 button skills scheme (left and right mouse button) with hotkeys for switching them was not a genius idea
Fellow monks: Is using fists considered dual wielding? It seems to be given the attack speed, but I'm just curious if I get anything by taking talents that buff it.
Like the 20% attack speed when dual wielding talent seems like it would be absolutely cray on fists.
Like the 20% attack speed when dual wielding talent seems like it would be absolutely cray on fists.
You have a 6 character party, no need to generalize.
There are a few skill checks which check everyone in the party, but the vast majority don't. So I think specialization is better than generalization.
Alternatively, you can move the camera by clicking and holding the scroll wheel, and moving the cursor around. Though I agree that WASD is a better option.
Like a lot of inside encounters.
Leave your main party in a strategic location some distance from the mobs spread out wide with a tank in a forward position. Go in solo and open fire on an unaware enemy with a bow. Run back to your party, (and then behind it if you are staying ranged) trailing the irritated mobs. Send in the tank to engage when the enemy appears in your corridor of doom. A lot of the time you only bring in a few enemies at a time which makes it a lot less annoying on Hard.
Having a point or two in Athletics to mitigate combat fatigue might be useful, but other than that I see no reason to. You'll get to higher skill levels faster if you specialize, naturally, so you can pass some checks a level or two earlier compared to not specializing.
GordonHalfman
Member
Yes it works.
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[Asmodean]
Member
I was messing around with some command line stuff and lol, apparently forcing d3d11 via the launch command '-force-d3d11' actually works (as in forcing it).
Its glitchy ofc - shows vertices of some 3d stuff, on cloths. but I thought it was still pretty interesting.
Its glitchy ofc - shows vertices of some 3d stuff, on cloths. but I thought it was still pretty interesting.
Fan of Flames spell thrashes them. Attract them in the doorstep then fire away.
I'm so glad this game uses the tab key. Not being able highlight everything was so annoying when I was replaying Planescape: Torment because I kept expecting it to work and... uh... it never did
It's kinda funny since I immediately tried to rebind hold to highlight in Eternity to Alt... and it wouldn't work. So I had to bind toggle highlight to Alt.
arts&crafts
Member
Quick question, I am creating my first character and I want to be a "rogue sniper"
Is a wood elf rogue the best?
Or do I have to be a ranger to be good with bows?
I see rogue starts off with "sneak attack" can that be used with a bow?
Is a wood elf rogue the best?
Or do I have to be a ranger to be good with bows?
I see rogue starts off with "sneak attack" can that be used with a bow?
If you want to use weapons, be something else. The only reason to use a monk is for all the crazy fist attacks they get.
Fist damage starts out equivalent to a weapon and grows continuously as you level.
Pinko Marx
Banned
pants on head. if you wanna be a kung-fu wuxia dude just go warrior with single weapon style and pretend.
Snapshot King
Member
Crap, I gave my wizard 4 in athletics to complement his 5 (and soon to be much higher) mechanics roll. Is that too much? Should I re-roll then? I'm about 2-3 hours in.
Between engagement keeping enemies in place and having an actual visual indicator it's almost trivial to aim AoE spells compared to the IE games
I'm playing on hard and it's really quite hard. At least at the start.
Robert7lee
Neo Member
I'm on the fence wether to get this, I loved divinity original sin mostly because of the turned based combat, that real time combat seems a little off putting to mean, does the pausing help keep you in control of battles can it get overwhelming?
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Well, I've put a lot of time into the game. And I'm still really liking it. I don't see it topping BG2 for me, but it could come close.
My party now consists of:
Two tanks (one of which is a character I created at an Inn, and in terms of the world I'm RPing her as the sister to my main character so its not just a random person). Having two tanks is pretty useful I feel, for blocking off chokepoints while everyone else is either supporting or using ranged attacks.
A Chanter, which is super useful as both a ranged guy and a backup tank, not to mention that he can summon 3 skeletons to help get the heat off my characters if there is any trouble. The boosts his songs give are also a life saver. Couldn't imagine not having him in my party.
A rogue, my main character, who has a crossbow and a rapier so she's suited where ever she can be used-whether for the initial sneak attacks, scouting ahead, or being deadly with the crossbow behind the front lines. I was worried that she would be too situational, but it hasn't been an issue.
A wizard, who I have specced for a bit of crowd control in addition to some hard hitting one target spells for taking down the more bothersome enemies with really high health. He's got a scepter so he's actually still kind of useful when he's out of spells.
A priest, who usually stays between the front line and the rear line to ensure that no one falls to low. I usually have him buff armor and put down a circle of regeneration during the tougher fights, and then have him on standby to provide situational healing and buffing. If something goes wrong with the front line, he's got good enough robes that I can sub him in to protect the casters for a few seconds while I rearrange-or flee.
That arrangement is doing really well with me so far. I haven't had any trouble since I got my 6th member, and I've cleared out a dungeon or two at this point. Playing Hard-Expert, btw. I've been trying not to save scum too much, and accept my punishment if I fuck up, though if a character ever perma-dies, I imagine I would reload.
Have I mentioned how much I love the scout and endurance mechanics? I love sending a duo ahead to scout out the road ahead or a new room. It allows you to plan out things and really plot out what you want to do without using too many resources.Those resources are made far more important by the implementation of the endurance/resting mechanics.Each fight becomes important because how much effort and resources you put forward takes away from what you could be using in a later, sometimes harder fight. It's not like Baldur's Gate where you just sleep whenever your health is low-in Pillars you have to manage your limited supply of tent supplies.
Overall, I'm about 8 hours in and I totally get what people were talking about how they couldn't stop playing. I'm really looking into delving deeper in PoE because I feel like I've only barely scratched the surface. I forgot how much I missed IE games. Divinity OS nearly satisfied it, but PoE has completely fulfilled my D+D impulses.
Two tanks (one of which is a character I created at an Inn, and in terms of the world I'm RPing her as the sister to my main character so its not just a random person). Having two tanks is pretty useful I feel, for blocking off chokepoints while everyone else is either supporting or using ranged attacks.
A Chanter, which is super useful as both a ranged guy and a backup tank, not to mention that he can summon 3 skeletons to help get the heat off my characters if there is any trouble. The boosts his songs give are also a life saver. Couldn't imagine not having him in my party.
A rogue, my main character, who has a crossbow and a rapier so she's suited where ever she can be used-whether for the initial sneak attacks, scouting ahead, or being deadly with the crossbow behind the front lines. I was worried that she would be too situational, but it hasn't been an issue.
A wizard, who I have specced for a bit of crowd control in addition to some hard hitting one target spells for taking down the more bothersome enemies with really high health. He's got a scepter so he's actually still kind of useful when he's out of spells.
A priest, who usually stays between the front line and the rear line to ensure that no one falls to low. I usually have him buff armor and put down a circle of regeneration during the tougher fights, and then have him on standby to provide situational healing and buffing. If something goes wrong with the front line, he's got good enough robes that I can sub him in to protect the casters for a few seconds while I rearrange-or flee.
That arrangement is doing really well with me so far. I haven't had any trouble since I got my 6th member, and I've cleared out a dungeon or two at this point. Playing Hard-Expert, btw. I've been trying not to save scum too much, and accept my punishment if I fuck up, though if a character ever perma-dies, I imagine I would reload.
Have I mentioned how much I love the scout and endurance mechanics? I love sending a duo ahead to scout out the road ahead or a new room. It allows you to plan out things and really plot out what you want to do without using too many resources.Those resources are made far more important by the implementation of the endurance/resting mechanics.Each fight becomes important because how much effort and resources you put forward takes away from what you could be using in a later, sometimes harder fight. It's not like Baldur's Gate where you just sleep whenever your health is low-in Pillars you have to manage your limited supply of tent supplies.
Overall, I'm about 8 hours in and I totally get what people were talking about how they couldn't stop playing. I'm really looking into delving deeper in PoE because I feel like I've only barely scratched the surface. I forgot how much I missed IE games. Divinity OS nearly satisfied it, but PoE has completely fulfilled my D+D impulses.
It's not overwhelming at all, since you can simply pause whenever you need to do anything complex. Think of it as simultaneous turn-based with continuously customizable turn lengths and built-in fast-forward
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
It can get heated but there are a couple things that can help. The first is being able to set conditions for the game to auto-pause (enemy sighted, low health, ineffective weapon, and a whole bunch of other conditions.. theres even one where you can choose a sliding scale of 1 second intervals). The second thing that has helped me tons is to turn the game into Slow mode once battle starts. i find battles much more manageable in combat when things are like 66% normal speed unpaused.
Blargonaut
Banned
I've been Googling for the past couple of hours for possible graphics settings + tweaks for low-end systems, to hopefully squeeze playability out of my laptop... haven't found anything except the MSAA 0 console toggle, so far.
But, one thing I've noticed is when browsing random forums for info; I eventually scroll down to the bottom of the page, and I notice the visitor counter at the bottom:
It doesn't say '0 members, 1 guest viewing this topic'... I actually see other visitors... browsing random cRPG forums... in 2015...
But, one thing I've noticed is when browsing random forums for info; I eventually scroll down to the bottom of the page, and I notice the visitor counter at the bottom:
It doesn't say '0 members, 1 guest viewing this topic'... I actually see other visitors... browsing random cRPG forums... in 2015...
OverturePT
Member
I'm in love with this game. Just got to Caed Nua, maybe I should go back and try
Also, Durance is fucking crazy.
the fight with Raedric, I got my ass kicked with a party of 3.
Also, Durance is fucking crazy.
lordfuzzybutt
Member
Just buy this game for some friends.
Man, I need to stop impoverishing myself.
Man, I need to stop impoverishing myself.
im interested to know the answer too but my guess would be no