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Avowed Obsidian Entertainment's next epic, first-person RPG set in the fantasy world of Eora.

The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon is the first narrative expansion to the critically-acclaimed and award-winning sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. A severed arm and a mysterious message lead the crew of the Unreliable to the Gorgon Asteroid, formerly the site of one of Halcyon’s most ambitious and disastrous scientific undertakings, now a lawless den of monsters and marauders. Wealthy recluse Minnie Ambrose tasks the crew with finding answers about Dr. Olivia Ambrose, her mother and the doomed project’s disgraced director, but they are soon ensnared in an intrigue that will change the colony forever. Key Features: Intrigue and danger: Search an abandoned Spacer’s Choice facility and encounter a cast of new characters as you uncover the mystery behind the sudden cancellation of the Gorgon Project. New locations: Explore the treacherous canyons of the Gorgon Asteroid and encounter enemies that have been warped by science. More science weapons: Discover three outlandish new science weapons, including the P.E.T. (Pest Extermination Tool), an exciting new melee weapon that draws in enemies for close-range attacks. Expanded character customization and lore: An increased level cap, additional perks and flaws, wholly new armor sets, and several variants for existing gear. Plus, dig into the story of the Gorgon Asteroid with new Portable Phonograph audio logs that reveal the salacious secrets of a scientific experiment gone wrong. The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon is the first of two narrative expansions that can be purchased individually or bundled at a discount in The Outer Worlds Expansion Pass. A copy of The Outer Worlds on the same platform is required to play expansion(s).

https://avowed.obsidian.net

Just saw @Ethics Gradient post this on discord god damn Woedica lol

I like the idea of a game in the time of Woedica's rise and fall. A few weeks ago in another thread I mused that this game could be in the time of the Engwithans. So a prequel is fine with me if it is sufficiently far back from PoE1. And that also means no cameos from PoE1/2 characters, which would be a good thing imho. Leave those cameos for PoE3 I say.

Slanderous!

Very exciting! I really hope there will be a class system. Skyrim won't let me be a druid so do the right thing with this! DnD-like classes are well established in Eora with plenty of associated lore.

None of the AC games are hack and slash games. They are all open world parkour exploration games. If you like to explore historical settings and climb stuff, then they all have something to offer. They've also all had RPG aspects, but Origins was the first to introduce levels. It actually made it a bit more grindy and combat orientated, so I'm not sure I loved it, but to each their own. I haven't played Odyssey. Honestly I'd just choose the game with the setting that intrigues you the most.

Or go with Lamenters. Then any faults with the design will be lore based.

Cultural as ****!

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If you belong to the Venn-diagram intersection of "TOW fan" and "Military", what little snippets of unique-to-your-world dialogue would you love to see happening in the background in future installments of TOW? You know, those things that people in your branch always seem to say? I'm thinking something like: or or, of course, any Chief Petty Officer starting a verbal counseling of any kind with the wielding of said knifehand and "Shipmate -- " I'd love to hear from other military folks as to the kinds of verbal or visual memes that you experience in your day-to-day that you'd love to show up in the game! [ Edited to add: I should mention that this is US Navy. Absolutely would love to hear from other branches and other countries' militaries. ]

Excited that Obsidian is making a new RPG, and in the PoE universe, but not a fan of 1st person, especially for a fantasy RPG. I sincerely hope they add a 3rd person perspective, otherwise I likely won't be playing it. Hopefully they give us some clarity one way or another sometime in the near future.

I once tweeted that I thought a first person RPG set in the Pillar's universe would go down very well. I guess now we'll see. That being said, what is with the sudden aversion to Third Person Perspective in RPGs these days? While I do prefer to play RPGs mainly in First Person, I do like to switch to third person during longer hikes and to check out my character's looks when I change up my armour. I also feel for those who get motion sickness, as my sister suffers with it terribly and it put an end to many a fun gaming session back in the day.

The most important question is: What is the project name for Avowed (which state)?

PooZooka sounds like something the Golgothan would use.

Since Hurlshot did Origins, I've played Odyssey and while you wouldn't play it for the RPG elements it is a really well thought out and quite beautiful game that I would think most people would get a lot of enjoyment out of. I doubt most will finish it though, it's really long and at some point the Point of Interest farming gets boring despite there being a lot of variety; you can avoid a lot of combat but sneaking and combat does eventually get tiresome because there is an immense amount of it unless you stick to the main plot where there's only a lot instead. The plot is almost directly based on historical events from the Peloponesian War and does as good a job there as anyone could reasonably expect (toned Alcibiades down a bit, maybe) and the meta plot is... kind of just there, occasionally. If you get it pick the female protagonist, much like female Shepard in Mass Effect she's better in pretty much every respect. It has utransactions, if you care about that, but they're utterly ignorable and unnecessary for progression. I'd say it's definitely worth getting so long as you aren't a compulsive completionist or don't like open world or the perspective used.

am gonna admit we were surprised when during the democrat presidential candidate debates, multiple senators claimed they were gonna end various evils by executive order. claims were no less unconstitutional than trump's recent census executive order, but were senators o' all people, bold as our neighbor's cat who p00ps in the sandy soil 'round our gardenias every afternoon, making such claims. only one senator from whom we would expect such. and again, we were just as dismayed by lack of pushback from almost any in media or even other candidates regarding what would clear be a violation o' the Constitution. in 2020, if you like gun control, then is ok to violate the Constitution to achieve such an end? some o' our more liberal acquaintances on the boards may not wanna hear it, but to executive order the 2nd amendment to death is no less repugnant at law than is trump sending troops to portland or making undocumented citizens uncountable in the census. there should be similar outrage at similar violations, 'cause if is ok to do one such executive order, it becomes ok to do the others. am almost as concerned 'bout post trump US as we is 'bout another four years o' trump. almost. am hopeful sanity prevails and we pull back from the recent excesses o' more than one President, but am not confident biden wins and simple uses executive orders to end trump orders. will biden reflect on professor yoo's warning 'bout how daca decision could be used and like trump view instead as license? when do we finally say, collective, enough is enough? HA! Good Fun!

Feeling really really torn on this. I'd prefer me my Eora to stay isometric and with a party At least the franchise isn't dead though...

Ahh good to know. I really hope we still get a POE3... I'm looking forward to avowed but I've really learned to love crpgs the last few years

Some years(?) ago when Josh Sawyer was talking about PoE 2 sales and the future of the series i almost wanted to ask him if in his opinion there was a chance for a "modern" (i mean non isometric) Pillars game. The lore and the setting are so interesting and like Achilles wrote i'm

HAAAAAA! I was thinking the same thing! Was also surprised he hadn't yet cracked some code somewhere to tell us about this game before its reveal. But maybe MS's people in black suits and hats paid him a visit?

Well, since @Shyla is asking us to "speculate, imagine and dream ..." about this new game here, here's my dream for this game: Please include a third person option. Please include companions in some form. Please keep the PoE class system.

Josh Sawyer says he is not working on Avowed at all.... What is he working on!? I'm so confused... Is there another game in development? I'd be very happy if we were getting POE3 as well as avowed

Sawyer is working on his own directed small-size project. He recently said during an interview that they made a prototype, the team is very small (around 5 people, though we don't know if they plan to grow from that after pre-production) and during at least one talk he mentioned his current project was "non-violent". He's still the design director at the studio, though.

First person > isometric

They're talking about an empire in the trailer, my guess is the setting will be the Aedyr Empire.

ah this is great. So happy the PoE world is still alive. They put soo much work into that world as well. I wonder if you can have a companions. hmn so happy maybe with this we're get some more iso Poe games in the future as well. Take you're time obsidian, make it a big game, Only main issues i had with the outer worlds was it was to short.

So it looks like it's set in Aedyr, right? Broken crown of Woedica (with a sword through it?), mentions of an empire, and oaths.

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how did your character feel about kana? how did you end kana's questline in poe1? depending on how it goes, your character could either be pro-rautaui or anti-rautaui. (even if maia rua is with royal deadfire company, if you convined kana to be an isolationist in poe1 it makes more sense to not be pro-rautaui). judging from a quick skim, it sounds like the vailian trading company is your best bets, but which sub-faction choice you go for depends on your character's personality (both the principi and vailian quest lines have an internal struggle you can settle in different ways). For you, not only do the vailians invest in animancy a lot, they seem to value Hylea (one of the major patrons in Nekataka has Hylean influence, and Pallegina, well, you know), which might be consistent with your decisions in PoE1. Plus they like getting rich, which seems to be in your character backstory.

Hans Blix is a well-known Swedish lawyer, and he's been writing extensively on this subject - books as well as a plethora of articles in both English and Swedish. This article, an opinion piece, in the Guardian is but one tiny example: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/mar/20/iraq.usa Gromnir is in fact indirectly quoting it, by him saying "brits and US were reading intelligence and where question marks were implied, the folks were acting as if were exclamation points". In the same article, link above you, Blix claims: "The contract that George Bush held up before Congress to show that Iraq was purchasing uranium oxide was proved to be a forgery." If this is true; Who made the forgery and why?

I've always known that Azdeus is a man of culture.

now ask us to disprove it. such is the mo o' the anti vaxxers and tinfoil hat brigade. show us some kinda quartermaster report with disproportionate tp acquisition and then craft a whole conspiracy from such nonsense is exact what we face with the zors. that said, the wmd conspiracies does distract from the real abuse which has been repeated all too frequent. manpower and money required for regime building and security during such building were knowing and arguable criminal minimized. HA! Good Fun!

Pfft, Ultrasmurfs. White Scars is where it's at.

I seem to remember Kurt Russell and robin Williams doing a movie about that in the 80's. Don't remember the title

look it up. don't be low energy. we gave you everything you need to find. names. approx date. location. what more do you need. reason we brought up blix is 'cause he were a source offered by you on the issue and he quite clear rejected conspiracy. he were one o' the lead UN inspectors, so he were in a position to offer unique pov particular as he actual interacted with folks such as powell, cheney and bush. we stated already how blix wanted more time to investigate. in fact he pleaded with the powers that be and said that to produce reliable conclusions would not be a matter o' years o' investigations, but months. all he wanted were months. nevertheless, the coalition had already assembled troops and they weren't gonna wait any longer as investigations had already been going on for a considerable period o' time. however, not give time for investigations is hardly proof o' conspiracy. US had already provided their intelligence to UN inspectors and at least President bush were supporting investigations. also part o' US calculus were recognition o' axiom: it is indeed impossible to prove a negative. there were no way blix were ever gonna definitive prove the absence o' wmds and many elements o' US and brits were more confident in their intelligence than in the lack o' progress, from their curiously busted pov, o' blix. blix didn't see rejection o' additional time as some kinda effort to cover up conspiracy, but zor knows better. *chuckle* anti vaxxer indeed. and no, stoopidity is not part o' conspiracy. stoopidity tends to make conspiracy less plausible 'cause what you need for conspiracy is a coordinated plan which were presumable successful up to some unspecific point... or people wouldn't bother discussing. if the conspiracy is a bunch o' morons who get caught before they hardly get started, then nobody ends up discussing. for obvious reasons, stoopidity goes a long way in diminishing likely o' conspiracy. freaking tinfoil hat brigade thinking. anti vaxxer thinking. any large government effort is gonna have innumerable folks being mistaken in at least small ways. is likely to be bunches o' folks wrong in big ways too. again, nature o' the beast. there will also be folks part o' such efforts who lied, usual for personal gain. point to individual instances o' unrelated stoopid and mistruth is not evidence o' conspiracy. need evidence o' a coordinated plan. tinfoil hat and anti vaxxers assume the coordination and plan from random mistake and mistruth. is bass ackwards. HA! Good Fun!

You're the one going on about Blix, not me. So what about December 2002, there was 4 more months of inspections after that, and he said progress was being made and he just needed more time. Which he didn't get. I'll also be frank, your recollection of a Hans Blix speech is not something I'm ever going to find convincing given your propensity for creative interpretation. Wilful stupidity is a key component of a lot of conspiracies same as belief is. If you're conclusion shopping- something you also personally do frequently and something that the build up to GW2 was replete with- the absolute key concepts are being wilfully stupid by ignoring contrary information and stating things you merely believe as if they are objective fact. And yes, those are exactly what antivaxxers do (along with the 'makes you think though?/ 'if there's smoke there's fire' approach, also used extensively in the GW2 lead up, but which is not actual lying just being disingenuous). I could post every instance of outright lies here, but I'd literally hit the character limit. As for official government enquiries, lol. The US/ Brits investigated the US/ Brits and found the US/ Brits did nothing deliberately wrong. I will pick up my jaw from the floor after I recover from the lack of shock. I won't lie, since my lack of shock is complete I may never be able to chew again.

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no oregon State body has asked for help: legislature; governor; and courts. all silent. the protesters being arrested is suspected and actual vandals but attempting to paint them as insurrectionists is a complete vocabulary fail not requiring a Con Law expert to explain. doj lacks authority to arrest these folks off fed property while they ain't active committing offenses. there is a third category where use o' fed cops w/o state approval is allowable, but we hesitate to mention 'cause is gonna cause confusion and be used by many to legitimize what is clear illegal. post brown v. board, the fed granted unto itself the authority to use troops/fed police to protect Constitutional rights o' the people o' the US from the diminution and dilution o' state institutions. now keep in mind Gromnir is likely the only non overt racist sob you will ever meet who has public criticized brown v. board. (is just one reason we were never gonna be making it as a fed judge-- immediate dq if you criticize brown.) the Justices did the right and moral thing with brown, but the law, the specific decision, were flawed. use scaliaesque textualist reasoning to overturn plessy woulda' been possible, but not only would such a decision have failed to address the actual immediate problem, textualism weren't a thing in the 50's. am not gonna get into all the legal flaws with brown, but part o' the problem with the decision which were immediate apparent were the Court's lack o' an enforcement capacity. the thing is, Congress and the President didn't have much authority neither. sure, Congress could withhold money from states who didn't enforce brown, but such wouldn't be much benefit to students current suffering from segregation practices. as difficult as it may be to believe, the POTUS didn't have more authority than Congress to enforce brown. Congress rewrote laws to give the President authority to use troops to protect Constitutional rights, which is kinda suspect and should make one pause at potential abuses. nevertheless, the fed folks so recent dismissed as rabid dogs were doing the right thing as they saw it. the fed were trying to protect those who could not protect themselves from the real rabid dogs-- The People. *sigh* fast forward to 2020 and doj is using brown reasoning to arrest protesters in portland? ... recall Constitution is not the Declaration, so if folks tell us 'bout protecting life and liberty and property (translation: pursuit of happiness) as legit rights needing and deserving fed protection we will callous and condescending mock 'em. Constitutional rights is not particular numerous and is not o' kinda and quality being protected by the dhs stormtroopers in portland. in fact, the militarized dhs troops is arguable violating rights o' speech, assembly, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, due process, and right to counsel... stuff off the top o' our noggin. gotta serious indulge in legal contortionism to use Constitution protection to validate faceless dhs paramilitary troop presence in portland as they arrest protesters and detain 'em w/o benefit o' counsel, nevertheless, in 2020 with bill barr's doj, such a heretofore ridiculous implausibility is what we are facing. how is it possible for so many to not be horrified?

This made me think: did Stephen Hawking ever curse with his synthesizer?

am challenging any trump supporter to identify the five difficult questions on the montreal dementia test. what should be frightening to the trump folks is the President has claimed the doctors were shocked by how well he did on the test. am knowing it is foolish to assume trump is telling the truth 'bout anything, but if the doctors were genuine surprised by how well trump performed on the cognitive test, that is a cause for concern rather than a reason to brag. HA! Good Fun!

Whenever I see someone like John Oliver suggesting to go with media consensus to avoid conspiracy theories I'm reminded of two things. Firstly, Gulf War 2. Anyone who didn't believe the WMD fabrications of 2002-3 was an unpatriotic conspiracy theorist. Except, it turned out, it was the media which fell for an actual conspiracy. Good thing they learned their lesson, after all the media which was punished for their stupidity and cupidity... oh wait, it was just the BBC that didn't buy into it that got punished, wasn't it? Guess there's an obvious lesson to be learned there, it just isn't a palatable one if you don't like male cattle excreta. Then there's mass surveillance. 'Conspiracy theory' says the mainstream media. Then there's Snowden and most of the mainstream media decides that actually it's not a big deal because we all knew it was happening anyway. And meh, let's barely mention the blatant violation of the Vienna Convention involved in forcing down and searching Evo Morales' plane because Snowden might be there. Yeah, antivaxxers, covid or 5g conspiracy theorists are whacky as; though flat earthers are almost all just taking the mick out of po faced science absolutists. Trouble is that the mainstream media will happily parrot utter rubbish if it's in their best interests or, frankly, even if they're just lazy and don't want to be bothered critically examining what a source or press release tells them; and if they cannot do it via the news they'll do it via opinion pieces that can easily be forgotten about or disclaimed away. That's also why 'propaganda' media which pushes conspiracy theories works in the first place, it doesn't matter if they lie so long as they can prove that the 'trusted media' lies too. And that's all too easy. Ultimately that's where reports like Oliver's fall down if taken as having a proper/ deeper message than just trying to be funny. There's a reason conspiracy theories exist which isn't solely because those that believe them are credulous ignoramuses. It's because the mainstream news is far more concerned with being sensationalist, building narrative and a host of other things than just giving out facts. (Difficult to be too critical of Oliver personally there since like Jon Stewart before him he's primarily entertainment/ satire rather than out and out news, and also like Stewart he's typically better at informing than a lot of mainstream news despite that)

That is not the story. It's more like: Eothas killed you, Berath revived you and forces you to follow Eothas in order to find out what he wants - or you will die. You just left out the "do this or you'll die" part. Quite significant part if you ask for motivation I'd say. Edér also says that they got you on the Defiant because the farther away Eothas got the worse your condition. If we measure the power of one's soul in character levels then Eoths took 93,75% of your soul when he crushed Caed Nua. Sounds like enough to care about. I guess players would have cared more if the whole Watcher thing would have been like a mini-class with a seperate ability tree on its own. And instead of leveling up that tree by XP you would have leveld that up by talking to Eothas and getting back parts of your soul. So it's not only meanngful for the character but also the player (even the powergamer).