Eternity Pillars of Eternity II Beta Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Lacrymas]

What is the modal ability for stilettos?

 

[Prime Junta]

What is the modal ability for stilettos?

Add even more Penetration at the cost of speed IIRC.

 

[Quillon]

where they are standing in relative to each other and the environment they are in etc..

Dialogue interfaces in both IE-games and Pillars don't block this.

PoE's dialogue UI blocks some of the NPCs occasionally(along with the environment obviously). This is even more of a problem at lower resolutions(when I was playing it on laptop initially).

 

[Infinitron]

PSA: If you donated to our PoE2 Codex fundraiser and you're not logged in, please log in and check your PMs.

 

[Abu Antar]

Penetration is absolutely devestating. I'm playing a shadowdancer. I'm only using weapons that raise penetration and lower deflection. The streetfighter combined with the shattered pillars seems to be doing very well.

 

[TT1]

Penetration is absolutely devestating. I'm playing a shadowdancer. I'm only using weapons that raise penetration and lower deflection. The streetfighter combined with the shattered pillars seems to be doing very well.

I´m trying a Streetfighter/ Devoted

 

[santino27]

What is the modal ability for stilettos?

Spoiler

 

[Lacrymas]

+100% Recovery time? The fuck? Is 2 Penetration that big of a number to warrant such an extreme Recovery penalty?

 

[AwesomeButton]

where they are standing in relative to each other and the environment they are in etc..

Dialogue interfaces in both IE-games and Pillars don't block this.

The HUD layout has been consistently retarded across the two games. Apparently we are talking about a UI designer who doesn't play the game, and hasn't played the IE games.

After the waste of empty space in Pillars' HUD, in Deadfire we have one finger width of empty space that appears underneath the dialogue UI when you start dialogue. How can someone be so incompetent as a designer as to waste that much screen space both under and above the UI, and not get any feedback, even from within the development team... I can't really imagine.

I do not know how many times I have said this on Obsidian's forum - the fucking combat/dialogue log needs to be, is logical to be, will help teach players the game rules if it is, by any law of reason or good layout design should be, in the fucking center bottom of the screen! The silly, ugly, useless, space-wasting buttons, replaceable by key shortcuts, can be safely placed in the bottom right. The complete waste of space that is the huge sundial has to be reduced in size, because it's a key that's virtually never clicked - everyone uses the space to pause, because combat is too fast for you to move the mouse and click the sundial.

It's not rocket science.

 

[Lacrymas]

They don't believe in mutual criticism at Obsidian, obviously. Only positive reinforcement constantly.

 

[AwesomeButton]

This must be why Poles and Serbs are putting out better RPGs than multi-culti californians.

Sadly, it's not very difficult to imagine it - "We may have put up an inferior product but I couldn't bear telling my colleague his work was sub-par and could be improved, it would have been too offensive".

 

[Infinitron]

Unless you're Chris Avellone, then they tell your work sucks and you suck

:shitthatneverhappened:

 

[Lacrymas]

They didn't tell him his work sucks, they told him it was too voluminous. Why that matters is anyone's guess, maybe they didn't want the other writers feeling inferior.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I don't get your irony. I've never been part of the Avellone-worshipping crowd.

Ah, I got it after reading Lacrymas' post.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Ahh, you mean there was a lot of text that took novels worth of effort to go thru before the conclusion?
Isn't that was PST was all about?

 

[AwesomeButton]

They didn't tell him his work sucks, they told him it was too voluminous. Why that matters is anyone's guess, maybe they didn't want the other writers feeling inferior.

Avellone is white and he is a man, so that's different.

The only thing he's got going for himself is that he is getting fat, but maybe it wasn't fat enough at the time of PoE.

 

[TT1]

I just reported 2 bugs:

1) Making head gear invisible causes hair to disappear

2) Creating a custom save game dont work

 

[Ulfhednar]

Finished it today - putting it away until they announce what direction they are headed with for talents in CC. Glad to see they are listening - it's got a ways to go before it's Pillars 3.0.

Edit: Has anyone looked at the Definitive edition for PoE?

 

[Lacrymas]

Edit: Has anyone looked at the Definitive edition for PoE?

I've read that some of the items were quite overpowered, but that's it, haven't actually installed the game to check their stats.

 

[Quillon]

* we're going to try a global reduction in combat movement speed internally to see how that affects the feeling of combat. we may also experiment with a global increase to recovery times. unfortunately, lagufaeth are just really dang fast.

Why increase recovery times? Doesn't combat feel too fast cos of action(movement, animation) speed? If anything recovery times adds to the issue by balancing overall combat duration via inaction; if you take away recovery and add that time to animations/make all animations slower and even reduce damage for how long you want the fights to last, wouldn't same thing be achieved with much clearer combat?

 

[Lacrymas]

Like I said, the combat needs less things happening in any given time-frame, not slowing down the animations.

 

[fobia]

PSA: If you donated to our PoE2 Codex fundraiser and you're not logged in, please log in and check your PMs.

Should people who donated less than 99+ bucks have gotten a PM too?

 

[Quillon]

Like I said, the combat needs less things happening in any given time-frame, not slowing down the animations.

I think f.i. shooting an arrow takes half a second and recovery time is 3 sec, making the animation take 2 sec to complete with nock, draw, loose etc with no recovery and maybe less damage, it should be a lot clearer.

DAO didn't have recovery times, did it? Combat was never confusing in that game tho animations were painfully slow, especially swinging a 2 handed wep.

 

[Abu Antar]

Sorry if old.

 

[Lacrymas]

You might say those slow animations were the recovery times. It can go either way, slow animations or long recovery times, but slow animations also means slow casting, which isn't that good.