Eternity Pillars of Eternity + The White March Expansion Thread

[Perkel]

https://eternity.obsidian.net/eternity




https://af.gog.com/game/pillars_of_eternity_definitive_edition?as=1649904300
https://af.gog.com/game/pillars_of_eternity_the_white_march_expansion_pass?as=1649904300

Spoiler

http://m.uk.ign.com/wikis/e3/Games_at_E3_2015

Infinitron attention

 

[Orma]

 

[Infinitron]

That's good to know, though not incredibly surprising. Why couldn't they mention that in their Kickstarter update yesterday along with the stupid card game plug?

 

[Delterius]

God willing, this will be the Mask of the Betrayer expansion for Pillars.

 

[Latro]

That's good to know, though not incredibly surprising. Why couldn't they mention that in their Kickstarter update yesterday along with the stupid card game plug?

Probably knew people would fling shit before the expansion news and that nobody would notice -after- an expansion announcement.

 

[AMG]

God willing, this will be the Mask of the Betrayer expansion for Pillars.

They already said it will be like tales from sword coast. It's not a new capmaign, just couple more dungeons.

 

[Perkel]

God willing, this will be the Mask of the Betrayer expansion for Pillars.

Ib4 Od Nua expansion:

- New things to build
- Repair system !
- You can hire 12 people now
- several more different people you can have in your stronghold
- 2 more shops. One with standard non magical weapons. Second with standard non magical armor

 

[Infinitron]

God willing, this will be the Mask of the Betrayer expansion for Pillars.

They already said it will be like tales from sword coast. It's not a new capmaign, just couple more dungeons.

It seems somewhat unlikely that a game with a 15 level megadungeon will choose to just add more dungeons in its expansion. By "Tales of the Sword Coast type expansion", they may just mean that it will add areas to the existing game, which may not necessarily be dungeons. Heck, even the actual TotSC added a town, small though it was.

 

[Anthedon]

I hope they flesh out Defiance Bay. It feels very empty compared to Baldur's Gate. The same goes for the stronghold, it was very much an afterthought during my playthrough.

 

[Perkel]

Yeah i don't think they will be able to do MotB like expansion in few months.
On other hand if they have their engine now completely figured out and pipeline...

 

[Bubbles]

I call dibs on the expansion review.

 

[FeelTheRads]

I call dibs on the expansion review.

Real or not?

 

[Infinitron]

I call dibs on the expansion review.

May be worth waiting for both expansions to be released, especially since it was described as a "one expansion in two halves" kind of thing, but I suppose we'll see. They do have to make that first half a worthwhile purchase all on its own.

 

[Athelas]

Maybe they'll conclude the first part with some kind of cliffhanger...

...the C&C of which may or may not be ignored/railroaded in the second half.

I'm surprised to see the expansion being showcased so soon. I guess they weren't kidding about being able to make environments really fast now.

 

[abnaxus]

Hŵrpa Dwrp

 

[Bubbles]

I call dibs on the expansion review.

May be worth waiting for both expansions to be released, especially since it was described as a "one expansion in two halves" kind of thing, but I suppose we'll see. They do have to make that first half a worthwhile purchase all on its own.

I'm interested in seeing how they're going to go about it. The BG2 expansion was something you could do after finishing the main game, while the BG1 expansion not only asked you to restart or reload an earlier save, but basically didn't change the game experience at all until you reached the mid-levels. There's some fine expansionology to be applied here.

 

[Infinitron]

I call dibs on the expansion review.

May be worth waiting for both expansions to be released, especially since it was described as a "one expansion in two halves" kind of thing, but I suppose we'll see. They do have to make that first half a worthwhile purchase all on its own.

I'm interested in seeing how they're going to go about it. The BG2 expansion was something you could do after finishing the main game, while the BG1 expansion not only asked you to restart or reload an earlier save, but basically didn't change the game experience at all until you reached the mid-levels. There's some fine expansionology to be applied here.

Actually, if you had a Final Save in vanilla BG1, the TotSC installer helpfully converted it, transporting your party to the expansion town. Little-remembered fact nowadays.

Also, in BG2, Watcher's Keep was accessible in SoA, so ToB is actually both kinds of expansion!

 

[imweasel]

I call dibs on the expansion review.

Real or not?

Darth Roxor will be doing the real review.

 

[Bubbles]

I call dibs on the expansion review.

Real or not?

Darth Roxor will be doing the real review.

We can do a roundtable review, with Roxor focussing in-depth on the game mechanics, Grunker on the broader implications for the card game and PnP spinoffs, and me focussing on the story aspects.

Actually, if you had a Final Save in vanilla BG1, the TotSC installer helpfully converted it, transporting your party to the expansion town. Little-remembered fact nowadays.

Also, in BG2, Watcher's Keep was accessible in SoA, so ToB is actually both kinds of expansion!

I think I started a new playthrough when TotSC came out, so I never made use of the conversion. The PoE expansion is supposed to have TotSC's scope (only for the first part, or with both combined?), but the balancing side will be much tricker; if you consider how much direct and indirect (through major bugfixes) balancing is still going on right now, and combine that with raising the level cap (basically assured at this point), you're looking at a massive increase in balancing effort. You'll probably need to do either a free full party respec or a replay of the base game by the time they've established a new balance. I am prepared for either.

 

[Ulrox]

God willing, this will be the Mask of the Betrayer expansion for Pillars.

They already said it will be like tales from sword coast. It's not a new capmaign, just couple more dungeons.

What I took from it was that it would be about as big as tales from the sword coast. Which wasn't very big, and then later on the real expansion would come. So I'm guessing that we're heading to cliffhanger city, with cliffhanger plot and cliffhanger cliffhangers. Something which black isle was very fond of doing with baldur's gate dark alliance.

 

[Zeronet]

Didn't they mention they were doing a 'quick' expansion and then a bigger one? I just hope they've learnt the lessons from the extensive feedback, it was a good fun experience but it could be better. I also recall hearing the stronghold was on the block for some love.

 

[Lhynn]

P5 for the ps3 too? man i have to get that console.

 

[Bubbles]

Didn't they mention they were doing a 'quick' expansion and then a bigger one?

"We've always been planning to do an expansion and the way we're really looking at it is that it needs to be a meaty expansion," Urquhart explained. "It needs to be this old-school expansion, not some DLC that's two or three hours of gameplay. What it looks like we're going to do, because this kind of expansion can take a while, we're going to split the expansion into two parts. It's going to be one full story that will go from part one to part two, but it's going to be two parts and anyone from Kickstarter that contributed will get both parts. They'll get the full expansion, but the best part is that they'll be able to play it early. We should have an announcement coming up soon."

http://www.shacknews.com/article/89...ity-its-early-success-and-its-first-expansion

 

[made]

Is this the expansion that brings the fun?

 

[Crooked Bee]

Retweeted by Brennecke so I guess that confirms it.