Lactose_Intolerant
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He straight took out Raedric by himself.
I didn't even do the dialogue, just shot the closest enemy. Made the fight somewhat easier because the archmages didn't get involved to like 3/4 of the fight was over.
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Pillars of Eternity |OT| You must gather your party before venturing forth.
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I didn't even do the dialogue, just shot the closest enemy. Made the fight somewhat easier because the archmages didn't get involved to like 3/4 of the fight was over.
hemtae
Member
Range boosted by INT and it only damages foes.
Likely a lot of post-release support, given that the game will get an expansion.
There isn't much mod support, but there are already UI mods.
It's foe-only AoE which grows with INT.
I figured out the chokepoint trick myself, but in the case of those ghosts I think they can teleport and essentially render that tactic useless.
Playing on hard was a bit too much for me. Having to rest every 2 encounters or so down in that temple was just getting frustrating.
It's the bonus area from your higher-than-baseline INT. Unlike the red area, allies caught in the yellow area will NOT be negatively affected.
This has been my exact thoughts on playing evil characters as well. When I roll into a town with an evil character, I want to be its kingpin by the end of the day, not the psycho who depopulates it. Every evil option ending in "just stab the guy" is very boring and restricts any other interesting quest branches from emerging. I want more opportunities to lie, cheat and steal. Are there any RPGs that do evil character right?
They can only teleport to people they see, and only if they don't get interrupted. It's harder, but not useless.
But really, I wanted to illustrate the general principle.
You just shouldn't do the temple (or many other things really) as soon as you can. At least that's been my experience.
Yes, because this is a game designed by people who understand that some things shouldn'T be options
Shake Appeal
Member
For Ciphers, MIG trumps it. At heart, they're damage-dealers (even if the way they do damage is more elaborate than most). INT is definitely important, but in pure combat terms a Cipher needs plenty of Might.
I recall there being a BG2 mod where you could manipulate the naive Minsc into rationalizing all your evil-aligned actions.
doubleplusgood
Member
Well I've been having a fantastic time with this game. So glad I backed this. The few issues I do have with the game are very small in the grand scheme of things.
In terms of bugs, I haven't really seen a lot of them. A few sound bugs when I was dungeon crawling and once the select box stopped appearing when it should have.
In terms of bugs, I haven't really seen a lot of them. A few sound bugs when I was dungeon crawling and once the select box stopped appearing when it should have.
So i'm assuming there's friendly fire then that can't be turned off?
Yes, because this is a game designed by people who understand that some things shouldn'T be options
got it thx
I'm playing on Easy but as a fighter so haven't casts spells yet
Yes.
The aumaua next to Edér is basically Steven Seagal
One of the first interesting mods is a customizable UI one:
http://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity/mods/1/
http://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity/mods/1/
For anyone using GeDoSaTo, having the higher rendering resolution listed in the graphics options selected means the down-sampling is working, right? When I check the GeDoSaTo status it says downsampling isn't enabled, even though 5120x2880@144 is selected. Game doesn't seem to look much different either.
I feel like my settings are wrong... what settings is anyone else using?
I feel like my settings are wrong... what settings is anyone else using?
Yep. I've had one repeatable CTD (act 1:
going upstairs to see if I could talk to the contact guy right after the Raedric fight in his hold resolved
Shake Appeal
Member
Yep.
Dr. Benton Quest
Banned
My Ranger's animal has completely disappeared. Have no idea how to get him back.
Yeah I think I need a "story" mode difficulty then.
Since this is a Unity game, to use GeDoSaTo you need to create a profile for PillarsOfEternity and put this in (replacing the resolution with what you want):
Code:
clearRenderResolutions
renderResolution 5120x2880@60
forceAlwaysDownsamplingRes true
modifyGetCursorPos trueI also suggest Lanczos scaling type. And you need the zoom tweaks in the OP.
I should upload that to github and everything, but I could also play more PoE
Snapshot King
Member
AOEs are laughably easy to aim in this game compared to the old ones considering the easy to use selection cursor. Just whenever you want to toss out a friendly fire aoe just make sure your pals are either out of the cursor or only in the green part.
EDIT: Does the making of videos have spoilers? I'd love to watch them but I'm nervous about getting huge portions of the plot spoiled.
Except in Expert mode, where you imagine your wizard kind of squinting and shrugging before shooting fireballs.
If you have the time, you could maybe add a link to this post to the OP.
It's all stuff which is obvious to us old-timers, but it's pretty spoiler-free and it might help people who haven't played RPGs that actually reward tactical positioning get more out of the combat in PoE. It would be a shame if they just set the game to easy instead.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
What I don't like is how sometimes you can't see anything cause your view is blocked by a wall or a tree. Very annoying in fights.
I'm currently trying to kill
in a VERY small area and it's really annoying cause it's very hard to keep up with what's happening.
I'm currently trying to kill
a ghost lady and 4 knights
Snapshot King
Member
Except in Expert mode, where you imagine your wizard kind of squinting and shrugging before shooting fireballs.
I don't think I ever landed a single fireball correctly in the entire run I did through the Baldurs Gate games. I always blew my party up.
Pretty good. I have had one CtD so far and that annoying graphics glitch i posted about earlier, but besides that it seems pretty solid. That glitch though is starting to get mighty annoying as it seems it is getting worse. Though I can't rule out that the problem is with my old pos rig and not the game.
I had to switch from hard to normal while looking for maerwald last night. I think my party composition is not the best.
I made my main character a monk. So my ranged initiation options are limited.
But I'm finding normal too easy. And hard too hard. I wish you could set the number of camping supplies separate to difficulty.
What changes if you put it on expert? Is normal expert a thing?
I made my main character a monk. So my ranged initiation options are limited.
But I'm finding normal too easy. And hard too hard. I wish you could set the number of camping supplies separate to difficulty.
What changes if you put it on expert? Is normal expert a thing?
It told me something
about seeing a room deep in the keep, with a powerful force present.
Chance Hale
Member
The feeling when your wizard reaches level 5 and unlocks killer AOE spells <3
Ive never played the Old Ones
I did try playing IWD1 once years ago, and died to the goblins immediately and uninstalled and never went back. lol
know any good combo spells lvl 2 ?
What graphics glitch is that?
Slicken in the path enemies will take when they run towards you + any AoE.
Slicken is seriously OP.
Since this is a Unity game, to use GeDoSaTo you need to create a profile for PillarsOfEternity and put this in (replacing the resolution with what you want):
Code:clearRenderResolutions renderResolution 5120x2880@60 forceAlwaysDownsamplingRes true modifyGetCursorPos true
I also suggest Lanczos scaling type. And you need the zoom tweaks in the OP.
I should upload that to github and everything, but I could also play more PoE
Thanks. For some reason modifyGetCursorPos breaks everything for me (can't click on a lot of menus) so I removed that line.
Don't see much difference compared to normal 1440p though, guess this game just doesn't benefit much.
MisterShine
Member
I'm debating Walker or Goldpact knight for my second playthrough. If Walkers get lots of cool dialogue and Golds don't I might go with them then.
Aloth is my slicken bot. I hardly even cast other stuff with him. He and my monk main guy just spam knockdown on all harder enemies and they hardly get a punch in.