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Pillars of Eternity |OT| You must gather your party before venturing forth.
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Mad Season
Banned
prob silly question, but does this game have secret chests and stuff to find in villages , wilderness etc?
That's what happens for me. Or at least I think that happened... usually when I see some supplies I use my current ones and then pick them up.Seems like if I have my max amount of camping supplies, and I use take all on some container that has one, it just ends up disappearing? How come it won't stay there so I can run back and get it if I need it, or so I can use one right then and then top off my supplies?
It has a ton of secret containers (not necessarily chests) to find almost everywhere.
Hmm. Well, it only happened to me once or twice, so I guess I could've been mistaken about how it actually occurred. Maybe I actually was at 3 supplies or something.
Anyone playing Path of the Damned? How ridiculous is it? I'm playing hard and I like where the difficulty is at, though I'm still super early on.
It's happened to me too. If I try to put supplies past my cap into a party member's inventory it won't but if I put it into the stash they just disappear.
Also, does anyone know why when I equip Fluvano's Gloves (+5 reflex) on Edér it shows up as (Suppressed) under Active Effects and he doesn't receive the bonus?
Edit: Never mind, figured it out. He has a cloaked equipped which gives +5 reflex and apparently they don't stack.
It's happened to me too. If I try to put supplies past my cap into a party member's inventory it won't but if I put it into the stash they just disappear.
Also, does anyone know why when I equip Fluvano's Gloves (+5 reflex) on Edér it shows up as (Suppressed) under Active Effects and he doesn't receive the bonus?
Edit: Never mind, figured it out. He has a cloaked equipped which gives +5 reflex and apparently they don't stack.
Joseph Merrick
Member
jesus fuck, what a nice game
Intheflorsh
Banned
You have to dismiss and rehire them, it's a bug.
Ah. Thanks for the clarification.
Paladin DPS here. Stats:
18
5 (if I could go back I'd lower this to 3 and raise Might or Dex more)
16
14
15
10
Arms of choice: Arbalest (basically truck-shooting crossbow), Pike, 1h Sword (no shield); Light armor.
It obviously can't compete with Rogue, and I still don't know about how it'll fare in the mid-to-late game; but for now it's working: hard+expert difficulty and only problem I had was a room full of Shades (until I got the trick) and another room full of S-things with 2 Kings.
Ah, that would explain it, then. I pretty much always just take all into my stash, then sort it out later.
The problem with that is, depending on your settings, there would be effectively no camping supplies limit, right? You could just grab more from your stash whenever.
Oh, yeah. Forgot about that.
That would break the system though, as the limit would be basically meaningless.
EDIT: beaten
CrichtonKicks
Member
Well there are a fair number of quests within the Endless Paths so you can still get experience. Plus you get get experience for filling out the bestiary.
Why? They are 99.9% non-intrusive. NPC is colored gold then they are backer souls. Don't click them if you don't want to read the (IMO very well written) stories.
The epitaphs are just as easy to avoid- they have a unique icon that isn't used elsewhere.
Shake Appeal
Member
Decided to restart on Path of the Damned as a Cipher just to see how that class plays. A lot of fun so far. Also appreciate how the game handles multi-char saves (it files them by character with a dropdown option).
Shake Appeal
Member
Buncha warmongering sharkfaced savages if ya ask me.
For the shark races and undersea orgies?
Yeah, they're often well written, it's a shame they're completely disjointed from the rest of the game and you can't interact with those characters in any way.
Also I just realised they strongly remind me of PS: Torment's Society of Sensation "experiences"
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
im running a Barbarian and if you play to their strengths they absolutely smash things. Their strength is their AoE cleave ability Rampage. INT helps here because it boosts the range of the AoE. Every time you melee attack you roll to hit everyone in this area. As long as you have a tank you are devastating. i think 5 guys in one swing is my record. Because my character shouldnt be hit they are in a set of Fine Robes (DR 5) so they get more swings in than if they were heavily armored. im loving my 2H robed Barbarian.
Yea thats probably my largest complaint with the game yet (which isnt really a complaint). The stories are mostly excellent (there is one in the GAF inn that is really fucked up) but without interactivity they are basically just another form of book.
AWizardDidIt
Member
I really liked this game but I've just suddenly experienced a number of gamebreaking issues that are essentially forcing me to restart.
For one the party manager is completely broken. Sometimes it will let me remove characters one at a time and then add them but even then it's a crapshoot and often times while it shows my party is what I set it to, when I exit out my party will be whatever I had beforehand.
This breaks even more if I try to include Kana in my party. If I do that the party manager breaks completely and won't let me change anything. Furthermore Kana's shadow appears in the center of one of the Defiance Bay maps dead center and when you try to talk to him he has the speech as if I was talking to him in my hold.
Finally certain interiors cause the screen to just go black and while I can move my cursor around and hear music, I can't do anything else and even hitting escape doesn't cause a menu to appear.
It sucks because I was about 30 hours into the game... the thought of having to restart when this might just occur again is really unappealing.
For one the party manager is completely broken. Sometimes it will let me remove characters one at a time and then add them but even then it's a crapshoot and often times while it shows my party is what I set it to, when I exit out my party will be whatever I had beforehand.
This breaks even more if I try to include Kana in my party. If I do that the party manager breaks completely and won't let me change anything. Furthermore Kana's shadow appears in the center of one of the Defiance Bay maps dead center and when you try to talk to him he has the speech as if I was talking to him in my hold.
Finally certain interiors cause the screen to just go black and while I can move my cursor around and hear music, I can't do anything else and even hitting escape doesn't cause a menu to appear.
It sucks because I was about 30 hours into the game... the thought of having to restart when this might just occur again is really unappealing.
The game is horribly balanced for me so far. Playing on hard and while the first 5 levels of my party were tough, everything after that has been cake. I'm a little gutted. I may restart and try the next difficulty up as boredom is hitting now. Anyone got much feedback with path of the damned?
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
Sigh, another annoying bug.
When you're swapping party members out leaving your fortress don't hit escape after you've made changes. This locks your party and no matter where I go I can't re-add people to my party...
When you're swapping party members out leaving your fortress don't hit escape after you've made changes. This locks your party and no matter where I go I can't re-add people to my party...
You don't have to restart to change the difficulty. Path of the damned as far as I know includes all potential enemies from easier difficulties and also gives them stat boosts. Go for it.
You could also possibly try running a smaller party.
Way more, I'm only halfway done building my Xaurip Spear Fence
Damn. That sucks to hear... so many games just can't get a decent difficulty curve. Divinity, Wasteland 2 had these same issues.
Pretty hard to manage on a game like this though. Since group setups are basically almost impossible to predict.
Just finished
Raedric's hold
Oh, yeah. Where the hell is that damn vault?
Yeah there is a lot of trash loot but I dno man the ie games certainly had that as well as every enemy just drops whatever they have equipped. Def not a style of game where you wanna pick up and examine every piece of loot. the stash in this game kinda encourages picking up all that garbage though I guess.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Watch this game have multiple Pale Justice-like items in the random loot drops.
10 Copper a pop. Gotta pay those hirelings!
I can stop picking up every piece of loot even though I know 99% of it is basically worthless and just clogs up merchant windows.
I wish the highlighting would only shows those items, not uselessly make everything else slightly transparent requiring me to still scroll alllllllll the way down to whatever I'm looking for.
I wish the highlighting would only shows those items, not uselessly make everything else slightly transparent requiring me to still scroll alllllllll the way down to whatever I'm looking for.
Yep, I agree, not sure why the list isn't actually filtered.
Terra_Ex
Member
They remind me of Lost Odyssey's short story sequences, where certain events trigger a recollection of a past life, however they are far too many in number to pull off the same effect as in that game.
jim2point0
Banned
I'm still at the very start of the game. Playing on Easy. Just me (fighter) and Aloth. I stumbled onto the "Buried Secrets" sidequest... and it's kicking my ass. There's a room with 3 shadows that just demolish me.
I guess I'm supposed to wait a bit to do this one.
I guess I'm supposed to wait a bit to do this one.
BrassDragon
Member
I must be missing something really obvious... but how do I craft in this game? Upgrading my keep doesn't seem to unlock any crafting stations and such?
I understand the effect they were going for with the backer stories, the way I see it is that you are walking down a street and you catch glimpses of some people's souls without necessarily interacting with them. The issue for me is that the writing often feels of lesser quality in these, and the stories are often too short to offer anything really interesting. More importantly, the stories I have read so far never add much to the lore of the game, as opposed to all the books you find for example (which I can't get enough of by the way), and that's my biggest gripe with them.
All in all, I have stopped reading them once I got to act 2 and they really are easily ignored, not much of an issue for me but I can see why some would like an option for them to be removed.
You can craft meals and potions by going to your inventory and clicking the craft button in the bottom of the screen right next to your stash icon. You can also enchant your weapons and shields by right clicking them in your inventory and clicking the enchant button in the bottom right next to compare. You can craft at any time as long as you have the resources for it, no need to go to a merchant.
All in all, I have stopped reading them once I got to act 2 and they really are easily ignored, not much of an issue for me but I can see why some would like an option for them to be removed.
You can craft meals and potions by going to your inventory and clicking the craft button in the bottom of the screen right next to your stash icon. You can also enchant your weapons and shields by right clicking them in your inventory and clicking the enchant button in the bottom right next to compare. You can craft at any time as long as you have the resources for it, no need to go to a merchant.
BrassDragon
Member
Duh, it's right on the character sheet... early interviews and the wiki made me look in all the wrong places.
Cheers!
Ah good to know that there is a companion there, it's
the Edér dude, right?
Sounds nice! My problem must be the lack of a tank then hehe.
And I never imagined that Int was going to affect non-spells AoE :/
PoE had more backers though. But yeah I think this game will end up doing better than Divinity. We still don't have any way to tell numbers for GoG copies either.
Yup! After progressing the story a bit (inc spoilers)
sleeping in the tavern then talking to the person on the tree
Yeah the game lacks a lot of these seemingly common sense and minor features like sorting items in your stash.
Though to be fair I remember Divinity was the same at one point and it took a lot of complaining until Larian finally put in during one of the very last updates before the full release. Hopefully Obsidian will do the same in an upcoming patch, at the very least(though I pray it doesn't take that long) the expansion.
texhnolyze
Banned
You know a game's writing is good when you notice you spent the last hour and a half just talking to your companions and reading books, without taking a step from the inn you were staying. Obsidian fucking nailed it.
To anyone who uses her, what are your thoughts on
character background?
To anyone who uses her, what are your thoughts on
The Grieving Mother