Eternity Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Pre-Release Thread [BETA RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[eXalted]

Man, someone give Josh the green light for a historical RPG. He is just crazy about making one.

 

[Sigourn]

 

[Sentinel]

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page is offline though

 

[Prime Junta]

Man, someone give Josh the green light for a historical RPG. He is just crazy about making one.

Hear hear.

The one thing about him that rubs me the wrong way is that he's such an engineer about this shit. He's a very competent designer, he knows how to get shit done, he knows a lot about how most of his audience plays his games and what they want, he knows how to strike a pretty good between different groups of his players, making them roughly equally unhappy... but he might as well be making accounting software.

I hope to God one day they'll let him make a game he's actually passionate about. He deserves it, and we deserve it.

 

[vonAchdorf]

Yes, in his GDC talk about PoE he said that PoE's system isn't what he personally likes, but what he thinks the majority of the target group would like / dislike the least.

 

[Infinitron]

Feb 24 - PAYPAL IS NOW LIVE! eternity.obsidian.net/backer If you aren't able to back through Fig and still want to become a backer of Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, you now have the option to pledge via Paypal! Head on over and create an account, or log in using your existing forum credentials.

page is offline though

Works for me.

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[Lacrymas]

What's the question?
Can't just go in there "hey I'm here to ask about the battlefield UI"

If the AMA is still going on, it's about making the battlefield UI clearer and making it more obvious whether you are hitting targets or not, without having to stare at your combat log the entire battle. The health bars obstruct the view a lot, too.

 

[Dreed]

I hope the quest associated with the talking sword will be something like the black sword in Forge of Virtue for Ultima 7.

 

[Infinitron]

Another update on the way, says Adam Brennecke.

 

[Sentinel]

Feb 24 - PAYPAL IS NOW LIVE! eternity.obsidian.net/backer If you aren't able to back through Fig and still want to become a backer of Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, you now have the option to pledge via Paypal! Head on over and create an account, or log in using your existing forum credentials.

page is offline though

Works for me.

Must be something on my end then. Tried on Chromium with extensions disabled, get a 404. Tried on bloatfox with noscript disabled, get a 404. Odd.

PS: Works now.

 

[Sentinel]

What's the question?
Can't just go in there "hey I'm here to ask about the battlefield UI"

If the AMA is still going on, it's about making the battlefield UI clearer and making it more obvious whether you are hitting targets or not, without having to stare at your combat log the entire battle. The health bars obstruct the view a lot, too.

AMA is over pal. Sorry.

 

[Projas]

Feb 24 - PAYPAL IS NOW LIVE! eternity.obsidian.net/backer If you aren't able to back through Fig and still want to become a backer of Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, you now have the option to pledge via Paypal! Head on over and create an account, or log in using your existing forum credentials.

page is offline though

Works for me.

Must be something on my end then. Tried on Chromium with extensions disabled, get a 404. Tried on bloatfox with noscript disabled, get a 404. Odd.

Doesn't work for me either. On Firefox.

 

[fobia]

Josh said there IS a chance the talking weapon will change it's shape.

 

[Lacrymas]

AMA is over pal. Sorry.

Did you ask whether they are going add filters to the combat log?

 

[Infinitron]

I'm getting a 404 now too, weird.

 

[Prime Junta]

The URL for the backer portal was wrong there. Actually is http://eternity.obsidian.net/backer

 

[Sentinel]

AMA is over pal. Sorry.

Did you ask whether they are going add filters to the combat log?

Nope. I suggested it on their forums last year but I doubt anyone relevant read it. Certainly didn't bother replying to it.
Don't really care to make another post there as I seriously doubt anyone will even acknowledge it, and thus I don't see the point. I'll just be lazy and suffer through the shit combat log in the final game.

 

[Luckmann]

Man, someone give Josh the green light for a historical RPG. He is just crazy about making one.

Hear hear.

The one thing about him that rubs me the wrong way is that he's such an engineer about this shit. He's a very competent designer, he knows how to get shit done, he knows a lot about how most of his audience plays his games and what they want, he knows how to strike a pretty good between different groups of his players, making them roughly equally unhappy... but he might as well be making accounting software.

I hope to God one day they'll let him make a game he's actually passionate about. He deserves it, and we deserve it.

I regularly take steaming dumps on Sawyer, 'tis true, but this I agree with. I'd love to see what he could come up with if he just got to do his own thing. If it could avoid being a pile of marxist nonsense, it could probably end up pretty good, considering that he'd probably have a pretty good handle on how everything would work and fit together from start to finish, instead of having to try to make systems work that he's probably not happy with.

We got that in New Vegas. But I agree completely; a passionate Sawyer gives birth to Joshua Grahams, a dispassionate Sawyer hatches Palleginas.

I dunno, he seems pretty happy with his institutionally oppressed ironically pseudo-trans power fantasy, especially considering that she's making a return in PoE 2, instead of, I dunno, a worthwhile, interesting character.

Spoiler

Durance, Durance, Durance, Durance!

 

[Rivmusique]

Pallegina was great. Sexy accent.

 

[Got bored and left]

Battle Brothers getting a lot of love in the stream

 

[Sentinel]

Wanted to give it a pirate to check it out, newest version on TPB is from 09/2016. Sad!

 

[oldmanpaco]

Wanted to give it a pirate to check it out, newest version on TPB is from 09/2016. Sad!

Yeah that's a real Greek tragedy right there.

 

[Fry]

Aaaaand... investor funds are maxed out.

 

[Sizzle]

Aaaaand... investor funds are maxed out.

On the plus side, another Fulvano's Voyage destination has been unlocked (they should post it soon, I suppose).

 

[oldmanpaco]

So they need 165K in less than 3 hours to get to the crew. Seems unlikely but then I never thought they would get to 4 million.