Game News Pillars of Eternity: The White March Part 2 coming late January

[Invictus]

That is some creepy shit!

 

[Excidium II]

 

[Irenaeus II]

 

[Turok]

Are they on Unity 5 yet?

I hope.

 

[Slimu]

Did the loading times improved with the latest patches?

 

[Prime Junta]

Haven't timed them. They're still annoyingly long.

 

[Infinitron]

The thing about the loading times is that they might be improving, but any improvement may be offset by the increasing size of your saved game as more content is added.

 

[Slimu]

I don't understand where this long loading times come from. I haven't made any games, but as a programmer, I think that it should be possible to store the state of the game broken in two parts: the hero (party members, equipment, learned skills, etc.) and a map of regions. Only the hero and a region from the map should be loaded. Loading a region shouldn't be affected by the status of the others. Or maybe it has to do with Unity.

 

[Infinitron]

I don't understand where this long loading times come from. I haven't made any games, but as a programmer, I think that it should be possible to store the state of the game broken in two parts: the hero (party members, equipment, learned skills, etc.) and a map of regions. Only the hero and a region from the map should be loaded. Loading a region shouldn't be affected by the status of the others. Or maybe it has to do with Unity.

Load times do get faster after the first time you've loaded, so it probably is doing something like that. Just not fast enough.

They seem to have an idea for how to improve things but it'll only come in the sequel: http://www.rpgcodex.net/article.php?id=10051

 

[Sannom]

I don't understand where this long loading times come from. I haven't made any games, but as a programmer, I think that it should be possible to store the state of the game broken in two parts: the hero (party members, equipment, learned skills, etc.) and a map of regions. Only the hero and a region from the map should be loaded. Loading a region shouldn't be affected by the status of the others. Or maybe it has to do with Unity.

In which category would you put unpicked loot? As someone who leaves most weapons and armor on the floor, I can certify that those stick around.

 

[Krash]

Hoping that PoE2, when it's eventually released, will be to PoE what BG2 was to BG1 in terms of sheer improvement. PoE was pretty damn mediocre IMO.

 

[Slimu]

In which category would you put unpicked loot? As someone who leaves most weapons and armor on the floor, I can certify that those stick around.

All the stuff that doesn't get caried by the hero I would put in the part associated with the regions. Each one will store all the shit not picked up.

 

[Sensuki]

Hopefully they abandon the group story writing shit that they attempted for PE1, the story did feel like a bunch of different people's ideas duct taped together.

 

[Irenaeus II]

I liked the story. Sure, it could be better, with more real-talk, but this is SJObsidian we're talking about. I liked 95% of the story and characters and I'm fucking hard to please when it comes to modern stories due to my lactose intolerance of faggo-trees.

People of low brow stock just equate Mên-pwgras and Fampyrs to bad story. For instance, felipePepePepe is probably still confused how refugees reached Defiance Bay New Dunryd due to some closed reaching paths. Some people literally can't even.

 

[Sensuki]

Yeah but you also thought that there were penalties for spell casting in armor so ... haha

 

[Irenaeus II]

Yeah but you also thought that there were penalties for spell casting in armor so ... haha

Yeah, that was my mistake and it sure makes the game more stupid. Not everything that shines glitters is gold. This should be fixed (introducing Arcane Spell failure %).

 

[Sensuki]

I actually don't think it does (make the game more stupid), but spell casting in armor still sucks though due to the speed penalty.

 

[Irenaeus II]

Better than nothing, I guess. Still too little penalty imo

 

[Excidium II]

There shouldn't be any penalty specific to spellcasting in armor. D&D is that way ------>

 

[Irenaeus II]

fight me

 

[prodigydancer]

Arcane Spell failure %

And how would that help? At low levels DR > spells (even if you can't cast at all). At high levels damage dealers don't wear armor anyway.

Low level Wizards will just rely on per-encounters and wand blast even more. Chanters naturally tend to be tanky - taking away their incantations won't change much except reducing micromanagement from minimal to zero. Finally, Ciphers are already glass cannons relying on fast attacks (no attacks = no focus).

 

[Excidium II]

fight me

My mage vs your mage

Spoiler

Of course this is pure theory since in the actual game you're better off running around naked if you are not the tank.

 

[Irenaeus II]

The class abilities differences in this game's combat is a complex subject and requires an effortpost to properly discuss it. I'm here considering modding this game in the future, obviously after Obisidian finishes balancing it. I may like their final product, after I play it more, so I'll just leave it like this.

I like this mage to be fair:

Spoiler

But not all mages need to look like him. Or Mickey, for that matter.

 

[Copper]

I liked the story. Sure, it could be better, with more real-talk, but this is SJObsidian we're talking about. I liked 95% of the story and characters and I'm fucking hard to please when it comes to modern stories due to my lactose intolerance of faggo-trees.

People of low brow stock just equate Mên-pwgras and Fampyrs to bad story. For instance, felipePepePepe is probably still confused how refugees reached Defiance Bay New Dunryd due to some closed reaching paths. Some people literally can't even.

Too lazy to photoshop, so here's a more accurate picture of refugee life in Eora, and the hazards involved.

Spoiler

 

[Irenaeus II]