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Pillars of Eternity |OT| You must gather your party before venturing forth.
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justsomeguy
Member
Just got mine. So proud. You won't hear me knocking it...
justsomeguy
Member
Cool... ok so I figured they were just dodging all melee damage due to high defence vs. deflection... maybe I was wrong... will look into it.
Not sure which mob it was now as it was a while ago, I eventually whittled them down.
It seems pretty clearly that he killed himself because he slept with a who he thinks is a man.. and he's not into men and so feels cheated and ashamed of the idea.
It's not pro-trans like others are saying. And it's not about insecurities. I doubt the writer was thinking that deep into it.
Just seems like an immature attempt at being funny.
By the way, Pillars is currently reaching a new peak concurrent player number on Steam.
I just finished that floor. Felt like I was playing Diablo haha
Go gunner rogue. I've been playing it and it's so fun. Two weapon slots with guns and one with a close range dagger if things get close. I'm thinking about doing a musketeer run where my whole party is a unit of soldiers that just pour shots into the enemy.
Probably just backers
Yeah, gunner rogue sounds fun. Maybe start with island aums for that weapon slot, and just swap from gun to gun while getting my reload speed down with 18 dex and the right talents.
quackamole
Member
Holy crap I haven't had this much fun with cRPG combat in a long time. Although I do miss the ten minute batman prep time before a boss fight in BG2 where I would cast all the buffs I can. Or maybe not.
Couldn't think of a better way to spend a Sunday evening. Then again I've been playing for the past 7 and half hours and only coming up for air because I need something to drink.
How is the performance of the game with onboard graphics? Say an i3-4150 (3MB, 3.50 GHz). I'm wondering what level of detail the game might have to run at with 1080 resolution. This rig has 8 MB of fast memory with a nice motherboard and will be getting a R9 280x at some point, but I don't think I'll be able to hold off on playing until then.
Poor. You'll have to turn the resolution way down.
Yeah, 77k backers and not even all of them are playing the game.
What a failure.
True story, I'm using a 1l glass in order to minimize interruptions
TharpDaddy
Member
Small annoyance [early act 2 side quest spoiler]
When you're trying to get the armor back for Rogue Knight quest, you end up having to either give the proof of forgery to the knight for no gain, or kill him to take the armor, I wish there was an option to just trade the proof of forgery for the armor. That seems like the logical thing to do, it would make both parties happy.
boybrushdRED
Member
2d backgrounds with full 3d models. Not gonna win best technical graphics of the year. But the artistic design is so beautiful.
psykobunny
Banned
a shitty joke in a shitty world makes sense
This close to pulling the trigger on this game at GMG.
Few questions. I think I've read that the story for the game is more serious then it is humorous. At least compared to something like Divinity: Original Sin. How true is this? How about compared to something like Dragon Age or
Do you eventually get a keep or some kind of stronghold for you characters? Answer can be spoiler tagged.
Is there one true lead character ala old Fallout games? Or just a group effort where there is no one that stands out?
Can characters have their own personality or are they just characters with stats and everything else is up to your own imagination?
Few questions. I think I've read that the story for the game is more serious then it is humorous. At least compared to something like Divinity: Original Sin. How true is this? How about compared to something like Dragon Age or
Do you eventually get a keep or some kind of stronghold for you characters? Answer can be spoiler tagged.
Is there one true lead character ala old Fallout games? Or just a group effort where there is no one that stands out?
Can characters have their own personality or are they just characters with stats and everything else is up to your own imagination?
TharpDaddy
Member
1) Yes, it has humorous stuff in it ofc, but the main story so far seems to be pretty serious.
2)
yes
3) Not sure on this one. I think your created character is technically the lead?.
4) You choose some stuff about their past in character creator and you kinda define what their personality is in dialogue by how you answer and the choices you make.
That is the issue there then. All NPC's, including your party, are 3D modeled so they take more juice from GPU to render, but if HW utilization is poor then frame rate will drop.
I haven't kept eye on HW utilization while playing PoE, but I also have noticed big FPS drop when in Defiance Bay.
So I tried to help with Sou Da's savegame loading problem as described here:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=157968931&postcount=4021
He PM'd me a few of his save files and I confirmed that they won't load on my PC either.
..but now every new save file I make is similarly corrupted. Even after reinstalling the game. Even after loading a Windows restore point from a few days ago.
I'm trying to load a full Windows backup now but holy shit, awful, awful bug.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=157968931&postcount=4021
He PM'd me a few of his save files and I confirmed that they won't load on my PC either.
..but now every new save file I make is similarly corrupted. Even after reinstalling the game. Even after loading a Windows restore point from a few days ago.
I'm trying to load a full Windows backup now but holy shit, awful, awful bug.
TharpDaddy
Member
whoa that's a really bad bug, i hope Obsidian is aware of it
holy fuck.
I hope Obsidian fixes that ASAP. That's gamebreaking in every sense of the word.
But there is
an option to give him the proof for the armor. Ask for it and tell him if he is stuck in old times, that he wants to wear it.
I haven't reached Defiance Bay yet but... that's like the exact same feeling I had in Athkatla in BG2. I mean, last time I played I was still beginning Act 3 and I had wasted like 15 hours doing sidequest after sidequest after sidequest. It's amazing. If they can replicate that here in PoE... then man, I am in for a ride.
I just hope I don't get a nasty bug that fucks up my save, lol.
What the... wow. Crazy that the effect would stay through all of that.
Blargonaut
Banned
Did the MSAA 0 command, turned Vsync off.
However, it's still just as choppy as I imagined it'd be. Totes a slideshow situation.
Paging Durante and/or GeDoSaTo users
casual questions imminent
I've never used GeDoSaTo before; is it possible to use GeDoSaTo to lower the resolution to something like 800x600?
Browsing through the thread, I've created a GeDoSaTo.ini for Pillars of Eternity using the following lines you've suggested to another GAFer-
However, are these 4 the only lines I need to include in the ini?
Do I need any more lines from the main config/GeDoSaTo.ini to make this work (if such a thing is even possible)?
Currently, with my gibberling-tier GeDoSaTo settings, the game crashes instantaneously after clicking the shortcut
However, it's still just as choppy as I imagined it'd be. Totes a slideshow situation.
Paging Durante and/or GeDoSaTo users
casual questions imminent
I've never used GeDoSaTo before; is it possible to use GeDoSaTo to lower the resolution to something like 800x600?
Browsing through the thread, I've created a GeDoSaTo.ini for Pillars of Eternity using the following lines you've suggested to another GAFer-
However, are these 4 the only lines I need to include in the ini?
Do I need any more lines from the main config/GeDoSaTo.ini to make this work (if such a thing is even possible)?
Currently, with my gibberling-tier GeDoSaTo settings, the game crashes instantaneously after clicking the shortcut
TharpDaddy
Member
Hm. I tried the option where you give him the proof first and then ask for the armor, but logically it would have a higher chance of working if you frame it as a trade in the first place, rather than giving him what he wants and then hoping he will give you what you want. I saved right before the encounter and kept trying but I didn't find any combination that would let me get the armor with the knight guy staying alive as well. I may have just missed something.
UnrealEck
Member
Does anyone know the mechanics behind the Rogue's Escape ability? I'm not sure how long the immunity to Engagement lasts. Is it throughout the encounter? Does it just disengage you from all enemies once, but you can become Engaged again? The immunity makes it seem like the Rogue would be completely un-aggroed by any enemy during the encounter and thus would never take hits directly targetted to them from an enemy after using Escape.
Working through everything in Defiance Bay felt like a game all by itself. There's almost too much content there.
Also, the goddamn pets in the game are too much. I squeal every time I see a new one, and I usually hate that type of stuff. But now I have Babe the piglet following me around, there's no way I could say no to that.
Putting up defence buffs with priest should help quite a lot with that and then you can even throw some CC at enemy archers while melee deals with melee attackers.
So about that Dyrford Crossing dungeon...
I sacrificed the ranger girl to a blood pool to get stat boosts for my main character. The bitch had to die.
Btw that place gives a crazy amount of valuable loot. I think I got like 14k when I sold everything after clearing that place. Any other places like that? I want to get paid son.
Reneledarker
Banned
If you go gunner be sure to get the gun hidden in the bandits ten in the first area.
beato_angelico
Member
Kana is an island aunauma and totally lost their extra weapon set from the racial passive. You might be able to fix it by dismissing them and bringing them back on, but if you screwed up on your PC, well ...
damn I have the bug as well, I lost the racial ability of my character. I thought about reporting but I guess it's well known. Not a huge deal but clearly very annoying.
jim2point0
Banned
Decided to buy it. Game is downloading...
I haven't played a game like this in a while. I tend to like melee types in RPGs. How are the melee classes in this game?
I haven't played a game like this in a while. I tend to like melee types in RPGs. How are the melee classes in this game?
Pinko Marx
Banned
Can someone tell me where I can recruit Durance. I think I've missed him.
UnrealEck
Member
Barbarian does a sort of cleave and can be slow+hard hitting or fast+lighter. Bit of a reckless class that hits harder as it takes hits.
Rogue I've found is okay. Does good damage but has poor survivability. But then I made it a glass cannon so maybe that's the problem.
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
So after the cloud save fuckup I decided to see the good side about this and with my reroll I retouched one of the ingame protraits so it looks more like me.
The portrait already looked similar to me (same eyes and eybrows) so I decided to draw my hair and beard to it (and retouch things here and there) and now I have a protrait that looks a lot like me saving not having any glasses.
Really cool you can add your own pngs as portraits to the game.
Thanks Violet, going to do something similar.
Not a game bug, happened also to me with alan wake, if the pc shuts down while the cloud is saving it erases your local saves. Not using cloud saves ever again, thats for sure.
The portrait already looked similar to me (same eyes and eybrows) so I decided to draw my hair and beard to it (and retouch things here and there) and now I have a protrait that looks a lot like me saving not having any glasses.
Really cool you can add your own pngs as portraits to the game.
Thanks Violet, going to do something similar.
Dont think they can do anything (also isnt steam customer servive pretty slow and shitty?) Shit happens, time to reroll and do better.
Not a game bug, happened also to me with alan wake, if the pc shuts down while the cloud is saving it erases your local saves. Not using cloud saves ever again, thats for sure.
boybrushdRED
Member
The player character is the lead. Stuff happened that made him/her special
There are unique party members that have their own story, questline and dialogue. You can also hire party members at the inn. It takes you to the same character creation screen like you did with the player character. But those hired at the inn have no story or quest line, or dialogue.
When it comes to the player character, there are dialogue choices in conversations, and the game remembers those choices you make and records it in the reputations system. There is an option that you can turn on so you see what kind of response you are choosing. (Honest, diplomatic, cruel, etc.) I came across one conversation and it recognized me being an honest guy because of the Honest responses I made with conversations with other people.