FreeKaner
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I thought with crowdfunding business it's the opposite.
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Eternity Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Pre-Release Thread [BETA RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]
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I thought with crowdfunding business it's the opposite.
oldmanpaco
Master of Siestas
Naw they switched over to their own proprietary engine that they built with unicorn kisses and shooting stars. Can't you tell by the screen shots?
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Quillon
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Naw they are still using unity but they are using their "obsidian tools" more.
LizardWizard
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Feargus could just pony up the rest.
ye it's unity 5
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Lazydex.https://www.fig.co/campaigns/deadfire?update=353#updates
Update #31 - Extended Slacker Backer Funding, and Developer Updates
POSTED: 04/26/2017
Slacker Backers
We decided to extend our Slacker Backer funding until Friday, April 28th at 5pm PDT! This gives us a few more days to try and reach our $4.75M stretch goal - Sea Monsters and Fishing! Here are our current numbers:
Our Slacker Backer total is ~$285,000, which brings our crowdfunding total to $4.69M. We have only three days remaining, so be sure to spread the word.
- Fig Slacker Backers - ~$120,000
- Backer Portal Pledges - ~$165,000
On Friday, April 28th at 5pm PDT, we will no longer count contributions towards stretch goals and the game will be 'content locked', meaning that we will not be putting any new content into the game. However, we will continue to take new backers on Fig and our Backer Portal if you'd still like to get rewards. We will share an update on Friday with more information on the Backer Portal and what you can expect in the near future.
Remember to confirm your pledge on the Backer Portal if you haven't already. We need this information linked so we can send you your rewards! You can read through our instructions for confirming your pledge in Update #25. If you have already backed Pillars II, you are able to modify your pledge at any time.
PoE Deluxe Edition OST & White March OST Now Available for Download!
For those backers who purchased the Pillars of Eternity Deluxe Edition OST or The White March OST, these soundtracks are now available for download on our Backer Portal!
Head over to the 'My Products' tab of your Account Profile to view the items available for download, and you should see your Digital Deluxe and White March soundtracks. If you have questions or need help with claiming your available digital rewards, please reach out to us at support@obsidian.net.
If you haven't purchased these soundtracks yet, you can still get them as an add-on for $15 (Deluxe Edition OST) or $9 (The White March OST).
New Campaign Shoutout - Phoenix Point
- Pillars of Eternity Digital Deluxe Edition OST ($15) - The most complete version of the soundtrack to Pillars of Eternity I, containing 27 new tracks! (Includes the soundtrack to The White March).
- Pillars of Eternity: The White March Digital OST ($9) - The previously unreleased digital soundtrack to the Pillars of Eternity expansion, The White March (does not include the tracks from the base game).
There's a new crowdfunding campaign on Fig, and if you're a fan of the X-COM series, you'll want to check it out. Snapshot Games and Jullian Gollop, creator of X-COM, are back with another game called Phoenix Point. The game features turn based tactics and world based strategy in a fight against a terrifying, alien menace.
Check our their Fig page, and if you're interested, consider contributing to Phoenix Point. They have some pretty cool rewards!
What Are We Up To?
In development related news, the team is hard at work on another production milestone. Our milestones last for four weeks, and we aim to deliver certain features, areas, dialogue, and system functionality within that time frame. You can see our previous state of the project update in Update #24. Here are some snippets from our internal blog - taken straight from the development team.
Character Art and Animation
All of our godlike races have been completed by the character artists! More importantly, all of our races and genders are now implemented into Pillars II. Our most recent completed race is the Moon Godlike:
Environment Art
Our Lead Artist, Kaz Aruga, is experimenting with color correction passes in Maya to make our scenes feel more vibrant. See the difference below:
Before Maya color correction (Unity screenshot):
After Maya color correction (Unity screenshot):
Programming, and New Cloth Physics!
In Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire we've upgraded to a new cloth solution for capes, robes and other garments using the cloth physics in Unity 5. The improved pipeline lets us add more cloth items to the game, as well as have good cloth simulation across all platforms - including Mac and Linux. Great! Well... it wasn't all great... Game development is never easy, and there's always a problem or an unforeseen issue. And with our new cloth, we soon ran into a problem with it, as we couldn't get it to work on our full-screen paper-doll characters that are shown in our Inventory, Character Creation, and Level-up UI. As we implemented capes, we found that Unity only has one physics "world", and our paper-doll characters exist in a separate scene from the rest of the game - but they share the same world as the rest of the game. When the game world is paused, the cloth sim in paper-doll would be paused as well, completely still and non-animate. We couldn't find a way around it. This was unacceptable of course, and we needed to find a solution. Our solution sounds crazy, but the only choice we had was to write our own cloth simulation for paper-doll. Thankfully, it didn't have to be as efficient or fancy as Unity cloth, as we only show a single character in paper-doll. Our solution uses a simple verlet-physics sim to get a stable physics simulation that was is fast and was easy to implement. The results are shown on a Vithrack character - hopefully you can agree that the simulation looks close-enough. In addition, we are exploring leveraging this system for flails and other dynamic simulations too!
- Adam Brennecke, Lead Programmer
VFX
The VFX team continues their work on abilities and areas for this milestone. Because we have so many unique abilities, the VFX team is spending the majority of this milestone implementing ability effects and getting them to look awesome.
The ability shown below is called Minoletta's Missile Salvo. With this ability, the wizard braces to launch a series of missiles at the target over 4 seconds. The missiles do force damage and cause reflex shockwaves.
Overall
We're continuing forward at a fast pace and getting a lot done, but we still have a lot of functionality to implement over the next few months. The overall structure of Pillars II is starting to take shape. Areas and quests are beginning to flow more smoothly, more quests are implemented every week, and the text from our narrative designers has already immersed us in our journey back to Eora.
Thanks for stopping by!
oldmanpaco
Master of Siestas
$51K in 3 days seems pretty damn unlikely. Wonder why they bothered.
Luckmann
Arcane
Random question, have they said anything about new subraces or new godlikes of any kind?
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Sawyer explicitly said there will be no new playable Godlikes, although there is a new type of Godlike NPC - the blue Aumaua guy in this picture
As for new subraces of regular races, I'm not sure. I hope there will be at least some new ones, I quite like having lots of different sub-race options.
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PC is from PoE1, it would be inconsistent if there were to be new subraces/godlikes etc we can choose for the same character, which prolly rules out new background options also. Which is for the better IMO, since there won't be much reactivity for this stuff, adding to them wouldn't help + would be inconsistent.
Stormfolk is a new human subrace IIRC.
Stormfolk is a new human subrace IIRC.
Sizzle
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Yeah, forgot about that one. Don't know if the PC will also be able to pick that subrace (not that human subraces have any differences apart from looks), or if only Rekke the sidekick will have it.
"Rekke- An odd-looking man that the Principi rescued from a floating piece of flotsam on the eastern edge of the Deadfire Archipelago. He doesn't speak a word of any language that anyone can understand, but he's cheery and willing to lend a hand to any company he finds himself in. He's just happy to be alive(at least, that's what everyone assumes). Storm Folk fighter."
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It seems like he is exotic and, judging by the wording, it seems like the people who rescued him don't know where he comes from. If it was something that is known then they wouldn't describe him as "odd-looking" or his language as not being understandable by anyone. That's fine, I like some specialness in companions.
Space Satan
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You do know that you are mentally retarded, right?
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Sawyer explicitly said there will be no new playable Godlikes, although there is a new type of Godlike NPC - the blue Aumaua guy in this picture
As for new subraces of regular races, I'm not sure. I hope there will be at least some new ones, I quite like having lots of different sub-race options.
What is that bird thinking oh my god
"are you my mom?"
"do you wanna fuck?"
Maybe its both
they still haven't answered dear hiravias' question. does pallegina have a cloaca or normal happy slot?
FreeKaner
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A hole is a hole.
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I was busy driving into the shitstorm known as L.A. to watch <insert local professional basketball team here> lose again. Thanks for posting!
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