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

[Nano]

In what ways did Obsidian not completely live up to expectations with New Vegas?

 

[Prime Junta]

In what ways did Obsidian not completely live up to expectations with New Vegas?

Technical issues mostly. It was pretty buggy at launch, and still has some fairly severe issues, for example it slows down the longer you play, which is pretty damaging in a game as expansive and sprawling as it is.

It's still a spectacular game, IMO the second-best Fallout actually, after the original.

 

[Lacrymas]

Aren't the bugs fixed by the community? Also the memory leak issue?

 

[Iznaliu]

It is interesting to see Paladin orders have unique abilities.

 

[Prime Junta]

Aren't the bugs fixed by the community? Also the memory leak issue?

AFAIK the memory leak/slowdown issue isn't fixed. Last time I played it I installed all the recommended mods and it did get annoyingly laggy towards the late game.

 

[Stompa]

It is interesting to see Paladin orders have unique abilities.

Looks like it's not exactly a new ability but a modification of an existing one, Sworn Enemy. PoE1 did the same stuff with Flames of Devotion, only it didn't rename the ability.

 

[Lacrymas]

I think it's a modification from the Goldpact sub-class, otherwise he wouldn't mention them, just like how the order feats changed Flames of Devotion.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Aren't the bugs fixed by the community? Also the memory leak issue?

AFAIK the memory leak/slowdown issue isn't fixed. Last time I played it I installed all the recommended mods and it did get annoyingly laggy towards the late game.

Chances are the mods are causing it. That's the fucked up thing about F:NV. Vanilla F:NV has a shitload of problems, so you install shitload of mods , which in return cause shitload of problems of their own. It's a great game but it's always going to be slightly unstable and technologically flawed.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Part of me is very excited for this game. Part of me is very nervous about it all.

 

[Infinitron]

Barbarian multiclass names.

 

[BilboBaggins]

Amazing how he managed to avoid using Berserker.

Also... "I'm a wiz... WARLOCK mind you!"

 

[Prime Junta]

Amazing how he managed to avoid using Berserker.

Probably a Barb subclass.

 

[MilesBeyond]

Is there gonna be precasting this time around? I hated that so many spells were combat only.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Hmm, Corpse Eater. Interesting.

 

[TT1]

Barbarian/ Chanter = Howler
Barbarian/ Cipher = Witch
Barbarian/ Druid = Tempest
Barbarian/ Fighter = Brute
Barbarian/ Monk = Ravager
Barbarian/ Paladin = Fanatic
Barbarian/ Priest = Shaman
Barbarian/ Ranger = Savage
Barbarian/ Rogue = Marauder
Barbarian/ Wizard = Warlock
Rogue/ Druid = Pathfinder
Rogue/ Ranger = Scout

A LOT more to come

 

[Quillon]

Those are just names. I'm more keen to hear about yet to be revealed subclasses.

 

[Background Character]

Fuck yeah warlock! Although I was hoping the wizard/rogue class was gonna be called that, probably gonna get some name like spellthief
/fighter is gonna be spellblade
/chanter is gonna be spellsinger
/druid is gonna be spelltree
/monk is gonna be spellfist
/paladin is gonna be spellsmite
/priest is gonna be spellheal
/ranger is gonna be spellbee
/cipher is gonna be spellweird

Feel free to hire me any day Sawyerman

 

[Iznaliu]

Feel free to hire me any day Sawyerman

I think his party is full.

 

[Tavernking]

Any clue if Durance is coming back? I remember ages ago people were saying he was in a trailer, and would probably be in the game as a side-quest?

 

[TT1]

Any clue if Durance is coming back? I remember ages ago people were saying he was in a trailer, and would probably be in the game as a side-quest?

In the trailer? I dont think so!

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Durance was shit.

 

[LESS T_T]

Sawyer on USGamer RPG podcast (18:40): http://www.usgamer.net/articles/axe...ive-deep-into-pillars-of-eternity-ii-deadfire

Legendary RPG designer Josh Sawyer returns to dive deep into Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire's story, premise and multi-classing (18:30), but not before Kat has a healthy rant about NBA 2K18's stats progression and Nadia talks about the RPGs revealed at the Nindies event. Plus: Another Perfect RPG Party!

 

[santino27]

Sawyer on USGamer RPG podcast (18:40): http://www.usgamer.net/articles/axe...ive-deep-into-pillars-of-eternity-ii-deadfire

Legendary RPG designer Josh Sawyer returns to dive deep into Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire's story, premise and multi-classing (18:30), but not before Kat has a healthy rant about NBA 2K18's stats progression and Nadia talks about the RPGs revealed at the Nindies event. Plus: Another Perfect RPG Party!

Lot of decent (if somewhat high-level) information from Josh here. Some good questions from the podcaster, along with a bunch of your usual standard questions we've all heard dozens of times.

Confirmation that berserker is a subclass of barbarian (and street fighter is a subclass of rogue) around the 28-29 minute mark

Discussion of Eder being a racist at ~38m.

Careful omission of Chris Avellone at ~41m.

Podcaster says nothing for like 10 seconds. ~44m.

Ship duels @ 45:35.

World map + exploration focus: 49mish

Avoidance of filler content: 50:30+

Reacting to prior game's choice: 52:30+ (There's even a Tyranny mention. Guess Josh learned what that game was finally :D )

Pillars franchise as intellectual property: 54:15

Pillars console: 57:15 (Nice shoutout by Josh saying he doesn't want to think about consoles because he doesn't want that to influence their design which needs to be about the platform they are developing for (PC/Mac))

Pillars 2 DLC possibilities: 59m. (JES probably won't be very involved if there is any)

 

[Abu Antar]

I couldn't care less about names anymore. I want to learn about differences subclasses have. We haven'
t heard or read much about that, no?

 

[santino27]

I couldn't care less about names anymore. I want to learn about differences subclasses have. We haven'
t heard or read much about that, no?

Not really. He did specifically mention berseker (barb subclass) and street fighter (rogue subclass) in this podcast though.