Eternity Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pre-DLC Thread [GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Quillon]

Armor and Penetration now scale up on PotD.

What does that mean exactly?

It means Armor and Penetration scale up on PotD, yes.

 

[Fairfax]

Armor and Penetration now scale up on PotD.

What does that mean exactly?

Flat +2 Armour and +2 Penetration to all enemies on PotD. The sort of thing that's often criticized here (see D:OS2), but a lot of people in this thread seem to like it.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Mother of God, balance changes are like 30 pages.

 

[Shadenuat]

Armor and Penetration now scale up on PotD.

What does that mean exactly?

It means that going through game dual wielding maces will work for 70% of encounters

 

[Sizzle]

The patch came out on GOG at the same time as it did on Steam :D

That's nice, GOG users usually have to wait.

 

[Lacrymas]

GOG has been pretty great with patches lately, coming out either parallel to the Steam one or just an hour or two later. The PotD +2 armor/pen thing simply puts pressure on character builds, rather than moment-to-moment gameplay, but that's not bad per se.

 

[yes plz]

My main issue with PoE2's story structure is that it exists just to set up PoE3.

Well, that was hastily optimistic on their part.

Are you fucking shitting me, they pulled another Tyranny?

It's not nearly as blatant as Tyranny. PoE 2 sets up a very obvious plot hook for the sequel and no matter what you do the Watcher's ending is always the same, but it's not like Tyranny wherein a very obvious and inevitable threat looms over all that you've accomplished.

 

[Quillon]

My main issue with PoE2's story structure is that it exists just to set up PoE3.

Well, that was hastily optimistic on their part.

Are you fucking shitting me, they pulled another Tyranny?

Nope, I don't see how the endings are setting up any clear new beginning, f.i. There is one with "fuck the gods and begin a new under the leadership of Vailian Republics & there is another giving all da power to Berath, I'm sure there are more endings.

 

[FreeKaner]

Can we rate whole of Obsidian fabulously optimistic?

 

[AwesomeButton]

The patch came out on GOG at the same time as it did on Steam :D

That's nice, GOG users usually have to wait.

GOG has been pretty great with patches lately, coming out either parallel to the Steam one or just an hour or two later. The PotD +2 armor/pen thing simply puts pressure on character builds, rather than moment-to-moment gameplay, but that's not bad per se.

Downloading the BIN file starts a download of a file with a smaller size than shown in the GOG page, and when you try to start the installer you get a "file is corrupted" message. Typical GOG. It was the same shit with Witcher 3 for a while. It happens when their servers are overloaded.

 

[Lacrymas]

I used GOG Galaxy, didn't run into any problems. The updating process was kinda slow, but it wasn't the end of the world.

 

[AwesomeButton]

GOG Galaxy is a problem.

 

[Lacrymas]

It's completely optional and you can tell it to not launch at start-up, I don't see the problem.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Anyone trying to hook me into their "social network" has missed the bus by 10 years.

The problem is that a company which takes 1/3 of the price of a game posted on its marketplace is investing in a shitty spyware app instead of in better servers which can handle the high traffic.

Every day I encounter sheepish users who have accepted the belief that everyone on the internet can assfuck them with a wet sanded stick.

 

[Lacrymas]

So, how would I know the improved encounters are in if I've only cleared the sea cave in the start?

 

[FreeKaner]

So, how would I know the improved encounters are in if I've only cleared the sea cave in the start?

I got killed instantly by two skeletons shooting me on POTD in first cave. I guess not wearing the chainmail as a wizard was a mistake.

 

[Lacrymas]

The numeric changes should be obvious, I'm talking about the extra mobs in certain encounters.

 

[FreeKaner]

The numeric changes should be obvious, I'm talking about the extra mobs in certain encounters.

If you have no reference points it's not comparable, that should be an obvious enough take.

 

[Lacrymas]

Someone can tell me "encounter Z had 3 boars, it now has 2 drakes as well".

 

[Ivan]

Can anyone remind me if there was an option to back the fig campaign at such a level that we receive the expansions? I don't remember if they carried that over for the sequel

 

[Tigranes]

So, how would I know the improved encounters are in if I've only cleared the sea cave in the start?

I can't remember the exact changes, the definitive one is when you get to the ruins on that same island and find multiple boars & drakes hanging out on the left side of the map, and a giant drake amongst other critters at the centre. You can beeline from starting shipwreck to Port Maje to the ruins in 5 mins, if you want, then do the rest of the stuff as you please.

edit: POTD obviously

 

[2house2fly]

Can anyone remind me if there was an option to back the fig campaign at such a level that we receive the expansions? I don't remember if they carried that over for the sequel

There was, I backed at that level and got a season pass

 

[Lacrymas]

Ok, I didn't think the VO would be so distracting, but it's kind of cringey in Port Maje.

 

[TT1]

So I just released my first weapon mod, the unique dagger "Skaen's Kiss", on Nexus. Now I'm better with the edits, I'll make some recipes to the weapon enchantments.

In other news, I spent my day playing with my next mod "The Codex" Trinket and I think I'll release it soon.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

So I just released my first weapon mod, the unique dagger "Skaen's Kiss", on Nexus. Now I'm better with the edits, I'll make some recipes to the weapon enchantments.

In other news, I spent my day playing with my next mod "The Codex" Trinket and I think I'll release it soon.

Can you make a mod that extends the length of the main quest please? Thanks.