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

[Perkel]

Party size is reduced to five members? http://venturebeat.com/2017/01/26/p...-obsidians-first-stab-at-crowdfunding-on-fig/

Incline.
6 man party is just too much.

With 6 people you never really trade anything hiring people because you always have double.
With 5 people you at least have to think who you get.

My ideal party would be 3-4 people but PoE is high fantasy setting so imo 5 fits the best.

 

[Starwars]

A shame if they reduce to 5 player party, and stuff like that should definitely be in the presentation for the crowdfunding.

Still, backed like a motherfucker.

 

[Abu Antar]

One interesting thing that I have seen is that pledges are higher than investments at the moment. This has not been the case for previous FIG campaigns.

 

[FeelTheRads]

What is lower than 6 but higher than 4? 5! Brilliant idea, let's go with that!

 

[Rivmusique]

MCA tweet next, please.

I can see how this came about — six characters can be cumbersome, while four can seem … limiting.

Top shelf journalism.

 

[Maculo]

Better than I expected.

Corrupted Adra stone?

 

[Jarpie]

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, if and when the game is developed and commercially released (anticipated Q1 2018).

so 2020?

 

[Sentinel]

What a freakshow. Carrie Patel as narrative designer, that's like hiring a janitor. Dmitri Berman has bright lipstick on his lips and mascara on the eye lashes.

Freakshow.

Carrie was a narrative designer on the first game and DLC

Eric Fenstermaker was Lead Narrative Designer on both.

 

[Delterius]

 

[AN4RCHID]

What a freakshow. Carrie Patel as narrative designer, that's like hiring a janitor. Dmitri Berman has bright lipstick on his lips and mascara on the eye lashes.

Freakshow.

Carrie was a narrative designer on the first game and DLC

Eric Fenstermaker was Lead Narrative Designer on both.

I know. Does it say Carrie is lead in the pitch video?

 

[2house2fly]

Better than I expected.
Corrupted Adra stone?

Adra that has the Blight...

 

[Popiel]

This seems to be generic, boring shit, and looks like they really wasted Eothas for something as bland as this.

 

[tripedal]

Why are they bringing back (and putting so much focus on) Pallegina and Aloth when poll after poll shows they're highly unpopular companions? Perhaps they realized that without MCA they can't write Durance/GM so they just gave up?

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

Incline.
6 man party is just too much.

With 6 people you never really trade anything hiring people because you always have double.
With 5 people you at least have to think who you get.

My ideal party would be 3-4 people but PoE is high fantasy setting so imo 5 fits the best.

I like 6 at least, if not more (ToEE).

6 works well in games that have a lot of different classes and builds. You can cover your mainstay classes with the first 3 or 4 slots (Fighter/Mage/Cleric/Thief) and then have 2 classes to experiment with. For extra wreck you can choose between 2 different types of similar classes in each slot (i.e. Fighter/Samurai, or Mage/Bishop, etc.), thus giving you even more options and more unique synergies you can create. For crazy extra wreck you can have an extra slot for a summon and/or follower.

That said, 5 is fine for this game and I'm cool with that.

 

[Sizzle]

What a freakshow. Carrie Patel as narrative designer, that's like hiring a janitor. Dmitri Berman has bright lipstick on his lips and mascara on the eye lashes.

Freakshow.

Carrie was a narrative designer on the first game and DLC

She also did the God quest vision descriptions, so we know she's not a bad writer.

... though she also wrote Maneha - the only SJW companion.

 

[Sentinel]

What a freakshow. Carrie Patel as narrative designer, that's like hiring a janitor. Dmitri Berman has bright lipstick on his lips and mascara on the eye lashes.

Freakshow.

Carrie was a narrative designer on the first game and DLC

Eric Fenstermaker was Lead Narrative Designer on both.

I know. Does it say Carrie is lead in the pitch video?

Hence the question: Who is lead?

 

[Delterius]

 

[Excidium II]

What is lower than 6 but higher than 4? 5! Brilliant idea, let's go with that!

I like 5 because it's a prime number but 7 is cooler.

 

[Excidium II]

lmao isn't the shitty mobile game with lady british or smth

 

[2house2fly]

Why are they bringing back (and putting so much focus on) Pallegina and Aloth when poll after poll shows they're highly unpopular companions? Perhaps they realized that without MCA they can't write Durance/GM so they just gave up?

The polls are weird because in actual forum comments the dominant opinion I saw was that people hated Grieving Mother and Durance. I don't feel any particular desire to see GM (she was so thematically centred around the Hollowborn and that's over now) but I'd like to see Durance come back at some point.

 

[2house2fly]

lmao isn't the shitty mobile game with lady british or smth

If you're seeing a .png hosted on imgur instead of an embedded tweet, best to assume it's a joke.

 

[Projas]

I'm kinda alright with the change to 5 characters in a party. I usually go for 5 even when it's max 6 if it has any benefits like more xp for individual party members.

Why are they bringing back (and putting so much focus on) Pallegina and Aloth when poll after poll shows they're highly unpopular companions? Perhaps they realized that without MCA they can't write Durance/GM so they just gave up?

They are Sawyer's and Patel's characters, I guess that might be part of the reason.

people hated Grieving Mother and Durance

What universe do you live in

 

[Excidium II]

lmao isn't the shitty mobile game with lady british or smth

If you're seeing a .png hosted on imgur instead of an embedded tweet, best to assume it's a joke.

I assume it was courtesy for people on mobile/resilence against deletion

 

[80Maxwell08]

lmao isn't the shitty mobile game with lady british or smth

If you're seeing a .png hosted on imgur instead of an embedded tweet, best to assume it's a joke.

I assume it was courtesy for people on mobile

Basically every picture of a tweet has been a joke edit for the past several pages.

 

[LESS T_T]

Finally!