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

[Prime Junta]

I'm sure chairs aren't any trickier. I'd expect an animation with two models interacting is more complicated (e.g. character and seat), but if you can do it for benches, you can certainly do it for chairs. All a matter of budget.

 

[Quillon]

Yeah animation is the tricky part and chairs have armrests also, and can be too close to a table etc.

 

[Iznaliu]

and also how many choose-your-own-adventure modules will be implemented depending on possible routes the group can take within settlements. The main city certainly looks big enough to support a lot.

Lots of context-dependent ones would be really cool, but I doubt they will have the time.

 

[HoboForEternity]

So now that turning people into animals are a thing

We can see this picture

in much, much different meaning.

*Evil wizard laugh*

 

[Prime Junta]

Lots of context-dependent ones would be really cool, but I doubt they will have the time.

CYOAs are cheap though. There's also a risk of going overboard with them...

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Mazisky]

Yeah animation is the tricky part and chairs have armrests also, and can be too close to a table etc.

U don't need to make full sittings characters, just create "fake" npcs (who cannot be interacted) like part of the background, just to spice up the scenario. They could do that

 

[Infinitron]

The new higher quality character models with lots of idle animations and naturalistic stances make this game look closer to PS:T when zoomed in.

 

[Lacrymas]

Wow, they are almost reaching graphics/character sprites from 20 years ago, good work!

 

[Abu Antar]

Wow, they are almost reaching graphics/character sprites from 20 years ago, good work!

I'll take it over most of the crap we are getting now.

 

[Infinitron]

It is good work because the PS:T characters were static other than palette swaps, whereas these can wear and equip anything.

 

[Abu Antar]

It is good work because the PS:T characters were static other than palette swaps, whereas these can wear and equip anything.

For me, it's more about not going with cartoony or over the top stuff all the time. Sure, some of the gear is over the top, but they mostly look realistic compared to other isometric games we have been getting in recent years.

Not many games in the genre has actually managed to deliver good looking characters recently.

 

[Kem0sabe]

I hope those load times between exteriors and interiors are not just clever editing. One of my biggest gripes about PoE is still the shitty performance, load times and memory leaks.

 

[Parabalus]

I hope those load times between exteriors and interiors are not just clever editing. One of my biggest gripes about PoE is still the shitty performance, load times and memory leaks.

I don't think they are. Tyranny was already a huge improvement and they made a selling point for PoE that sub-maps (house interiors) would have no loading screens, and that loading overall would be much faster than Tyranny.

 

[Lacrymas]

Both PoE and Tranny have awful loading times, no idea what you are smoking. Tranny is not a "huge improvement", if it had improved at all.

 

[Parabalus]

Both PoE and Tranny have awful loading times, no idea what you are smoking. Tranny is not a "huge improved", if it had improved at all.

It was around 50% faster than PoE for similar sized maps for me (which can still be shit long). If you didn't have to load house interiors that would be enough to stop bothering me personally.

 

[Sentinel]

Those random CYOA sections between city travelling are going to be a massive pain in the butt. I can already see the first mod is going to remove that shit out of the game.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Those random CYOA sections between city travelling are going to be a massive pain in the butt. I can already see the first mod is going to remove that shit out of the game.

depend on how varied and interesting they are

 

[Sentinel]

Those random CYOA sections between city travelling are going to be a massive pain in the butt. I can already see the first mod is going to remove that shit out of the game.

depend on how varied and interesting they are

Obviously. But 90% of the time these "random sections" get old after 2 hours of playtime. Seems like a waste of money to me anyway. I can't imagine not skipping them when I'm 20 hours into the game.

But hey Josh is heading this. He's the man with the plan. I can only hope his plan is good.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Eh, CYOA sections are great for breaking up the pace a little bit.

Hell, the meres in TTON were some of the best sections of entire game, even though it was just more reading.

 

[santino27]

Those random CYOA sections between city travelling are going to be a massive pain in the butt. I can already see the first mod is going to remove that shit out of the game.

depend on how varied and interesting they are

Obviously. But 90% of the time these "random sections" get old after 2 hours of playtime. Seems like a waste of money to me anyway. I can't imagine not skipping them when I'm 20 hours into the game.

How dare they add more game to my game?

A lot of people like the CYOA sections and requested more of them. They allow Obsidian to do stuff/situations that would be prohibitively expensive to handle as part of normal gameplay.

 

[Sizzle]

If there's a sufficient amount of those CYOAs, and if they are randomized and gated by chapters, skills, events (such as alliances), or some other way - so you can't blow through all of them simply by taking 30x strolls in Neketaka - they'll probably turn out to be even better than the ones in TWM.

And, judging by the game screens they showed off, it looks like every one of them will provide an option to simply not partake in those events if you don't care for that sort of thing, so not much there to complain about.

 

[Lacrymas]

It's not like they cost a lot to make. What I found soul-crushingly terrifying was Pallegina's watercolor portrait. What's up with that face lol. Also, what's up with that grammar - "With this rate, I'll not have near enough the souls"

 

[Sentinel]

Those random CYOA sections between city travelling are going to be a massive pain in the butt. I can already see the first mod is going to remove that shit out of the game.

depend on how varied and interesting they are

Obviously. But 90% of the time these "random sections" get old after 2 hours of playtime. Seems like a waste of money to me anyway. I can't imagine not skipping them when I'm 20 hours into the game.

How dare they add more game to my game?

A lot of people like the CYOA sections and requested more of them. They allow Obsidian to do stuff/situations that would be prohibitively expensive to handle as part of normal gameplay.

Where did I complain about CYOA sections? I complained they were placed in between travelling, which is annoying at best.
Spread them out throughout quests instead of dumping them when I'm trying to get somewhere to buy some shit or do some other quest.

 

[santino27]

Those random CYOA sections between city travelling are going to be a massive pain in the butt. I can already see the first mod is going to remove that shit out of the game.

depend on how varied and interesting they are

Obviously. But 90% of the time these "random sections" get old after 2 hours of playtime. Seems like a waste of money to me anyway. I can't imagine not skipping them when I'm 20 hours into the game.

How dare they add more game to my game?

A lot of people like the CYOA sections and requested more of them. They allow Obsidian to do stuff/situations that would be prohibitively expensive to handle as part of normal gameplay.

Where did I complain about CYOA sections? I complained they were placed in between travelling, which is annoying at best.
Spread them out throughout quests instead of dumping them when I'm trying to get somewhere to buy some shit or do some other quest.

So you've never liked random encounters in any game or P&P, I take it? To me, they help inject interest into what would otherwise just be clicking on Point B on the global or city map, but I can see how that might not hold true for everyone.