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I hope there is an optional third person mode, even if the game is designed around first person. It's nice to be able to see your created character.

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

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

I'll feel bad for them the day VIA overtake them on market share.

Since PoE2 introduced multiclassing and the TTRPG is classless I suspect that the "Skyrim on Eora" comes with a classless system. But that's pure speculation. Since there's Concelhaut's Draining Touch in the trailer I guess you can at least learn wizard spells.

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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).

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It's not easy to make a good combat system that works with both.

Creators behind the Suikoden series are planning to kickstart a 'spiritual successors series, Eiyuden Chronicles. If its more like the first two than the others, I'd be interested. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2020/7/24/21337046/suikoden-spiritual-successor-eiyuden-chronicle-kickstarter

Scared and angry people ? Well the cops already have them so no issue there.

Soft classes are a thing, yes. Just look at Oblivion or Morrowind, and compare with Arena.

I really hope they have a 3rd person option, even if it is janky like Bethesda's 3rd person view.

Well, not much to see here, yet. Still, I've been waiting for Obsidian to dip their toes in fantasy first person RPG waters for a long time, so this is exciting. If this is open world, it's nice to be looking forward to one of those for the first time in over a decade. On the other hand, if they went and made an Ultima Underworld type game, I'd be very happy too. Anyway, give us more info!

I think I saw Concelhaut's Draining Touch.

Pardon but combat is much harder in 3rd person? I think it’s much easier to dodge incoming attacks from side and back in 3rd person like witch 3. For shooting I agree 1st person is better but for melee it’s terrible.

Some games such as Skyrim have both. If it does have both, I don't want to not get the game because I thought it didn't have 3rd person. And I love chocolate-covered strawberries.

Awesome.

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Finished Dark S3. All those people who say that quantum mechanics doesn't have a practical use for general people proved wrong, it definitely helps you understand what's going on in semi obscure German time travel and alternative world shows where you can't remember half the characters' names. Might have been a touch confusing without knowing about the Trousers of Time. Has to be said: best casting I've seen in any show.

I can't say I see a point of a class system in an FPS (read: not team based) RPG. The very point of classes is to limited what individual character can do, and force cooperation... EDIT1: Looking at the trailer I wouldn't be surprised if our role wouldn't be to some extend defined - it's very much seems we are dedicated to Woedica.

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...

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.

I don't play 1st person games. Does Avowed have the option to play in 3rd person like Skyrim?

https://avowed.obsidian.net

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You never know, to be honest, besides the crowd funding on fig, I have not seen any marketing about that game. Might be local thing, but still. Some good MS marketing can make a big difference in sales even for the games like Sea of Thieves and Fable From what I understand MS bought some studios to be able to produce some AA games, so I hope they will stick to that and will be willing to greenlight even more niche products.

That's from three months before Deadfire broke even, so I still hope.

Met my niece's second daughter for the first time. She was born right after the shutdown and I'm pretty sure I had covid at the time (though I showed no symptoms) so I stayed away for quite awhile. Man, is she chunky. She easily looks ten months old.

the not naming option is less unreasonable than it first appears... at least if you are a conservative and rich white guy. this whole blm thing, from snyder's pov, is gonna blow over, just as it did post michael brown. name the team red tails or something else with any kinda overt ethnic awareness is gonna be divisive. is people all twisted up 'bout protecting confederate flags and statues memorializing the founder o' the kkk. am thinking it is not unreasonable to be recognizing how any choice which satisfies many members o' the washington fanbase will necessarily be a point o' frustration and anger for others. snyder wants the problem to go away, like it always does, before he chooses a name which won't enrage a significant % o' his fanbase 'cause is too sjw or not enough sjw. would be nice if ownership could man-up and take a stand. then again, we would likely be 'mongst those criticizing if they took the "wrong" stand. our vote, btw, is the "k street mob." k street in washington dc is kinda the swirling epicenter o' greasy federal lobbyists. second choice, only possible with dc approval would be swamp thing, though admitted the green color scheme would be too close to philly for comfort. HA! Good Fun!

I think unreal engine games are hard to mod... but i dont acutally know if thats true, just what it seems like. If you can have companions, maybe there will be classes. In the end i just hope its good.

This sounds so cool!! I hope that's the case, considering how the watcher has been tied to Woedica many lives before. I will be happy with a soft class system, where you are able to hone in on a playstyle but still grab some useful attributes outside of it here and there. I still would love to see the variety of spellcasting classes PoE has present. Honestly if not, I hope there enough mod support for us to add ourselves.

Pillars of Skyrim? Well I'll be! All aboard the hype train, choo-choo! I hope we can play as an orlan and get a shorter camera point. Hope it's more of an rpg than that previous game. Either way, it will probably be a good game for a filthy popamole casual like me, but I doubt it will be as good as Wiz8. Hmm, wonder how well the dungeon crawling will be; I mean it won't be Daggerfall, but it would be nice if it was close to Morrowind. There, that's a big wish.

Intel 7nm process delayed until at least 2022, perhaps 2023. Since they haven't yet got more than 4 cores out of 10nm that may mean 14nm desktop for 3 more years. Though they do still seem to be saying that they will have 10nm server chips this year, which implies higher core counts. Maybe higher core counts via a chiplet design, which could get at least some desktop onto 10nm too? [looks like 10nm server (and desktop) is delayed to at least 2H 2021 now as well actually, from the earning reports comments. Guess they could still be getting higher core counts via a chiplet approach though] [and using an (unnamed, but it can surely only be Samsung or way more likely TSMC) external foundry for their 7nm discrete GPUs is also in there too]

If MS is generous with funding, I imagine third-person'll likely be in, if only to make certain they don't lose a chunk of potential customers. For now, all we have is confirmation that it's primarily first-person, though it could be I've missed any announcements about it.

It does look like we'll be going back in time, which is probably to keep the game high fantasy: "oblivion with flintlocks" would be entertaining, but I can see why they'd want to stick to something more traditional; just too bad for my own preferences. And if it is set around Woedica's fall, which fits with a weakened Aedyr, seemingly lower tech advancement and the various oathy references, it makes for a good, viable spinoff from Early-Modern Eora: Far enough back that knowledge of PoE 1&2 isn't necessary for new players, while still a period that players of the previous games have just enough information on to pique our interest. Not to mention furthering the metaplot of "god shenanigans screwed things up, and now we have to find a way to solve it ourselves". I also doubt they'll risk losing a large chunk of customers by not implementing a third-person mode: it's a no-brainer if you have the funding for it, which MS'll probably provide.

Doubt it. I want to be able to see my feet in first person.... Which I also doubt. Curious, why won't you play first person games?

I agree. I mean... I'll play it either way but I want it to be as detached from POE as possible.

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

The "Skyrim clone" in the title is stupid. With that said since here we're allowed to dream ecc... there's a few...things i'd like to see in the game. Umh did someone say Eder or Aloth? Regarding the point of view i'm perfectly fine with it being in first person, in my opinion it's the best way to immerse yourself and experience the world. It's the same reason why Cyberpunk is in first person too. Elder Scrolls games also have a third person view but the combat and the animations were always...not great to say the least. It's very hard to make a good combat system that works with both, in GTA 5 for example you can switch to first person but aiming feels really clunky.

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

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.

Washington will go by 'Washington Football Team' until further notice.

Non-party first person RPGs that has classes? Elder Scrolls I to IV, although they became less important as the series progressed (with Skyrim outright removing them being the culmination of that trend). Remains to be seen if Avowed will have classes, of course.

Perhaps not related to anything more than Trump sending federal troops to Chicago among several other US cities (Operation Legend is certainly legendary... *Oof* ), but how cool and brilliant isn't this mayor? Lori Lightfoot. I can see why so many people voted for her. And yeah, her surname has a comforting ring to it, for sure.

It's a highlight of many reaction video channels. Heh.

Correct. You cannot know that the fight in Gorecci Str. is avoidable a lot easier if you come from the south. The usual way in is from the jail. If you don't have good stealth already on one party member it's very difficult to not trigger the fight. Fun fact though: if you reload the map from autosave (after getting crushed) you can usually sneak past them without them turning hostile. I guess it has something to do with the dialogue the looters usually have when you enter for the first time and which triggers their hostility. It's missing when you reload.

@Madhofd: You're missing everything. The advantages of Hand Mortar + Fire in the Hole: AoE weapons: they deal their damage in a rather big area of effect all CC or DoT abilites (except Wounding Shot) get applied in the whole AoE. Example: Rogue's Toxic Strike poisons every enemy who gets hit by the AoE. dual damage: they deal pierce/slash instead of only pierce dmg (normal blunderbuss). This is important against pierce-resistant/-immune foes. targets Reflex instead of Deflection. Reflex is very easy to debuff. Hand Mortar an be enchanted with Blinding Smoke. Blinding Smoke triggers a ton of hit rolls (that distract but don't damage). Although no damage is dealt, every such hit roll will triggere Avenging Storm (from scroll or Heaven's Cacophony) Fire in th Hole can be enchanted with Chain Shot which lets the projectile jump (like Ranger's Driving Flight). The AoE also jumps. As a Scout you can stack Driving Flight with Chain Shot and have three AoEs with only one shot. Hand Mortar will even trigger more Blinding Smokes with Driving Flight. In my case (why I was talking about above) the Monk's very good ability Whispers of the Wind becomes outright ridiculous with hand mortars because you basically get 2* Powder Burns * AoE * (AoE+AoE+AoE) * x Blinding Strikes hit rolls:

It's the final stretch before the release of Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, and for the last few months, @WorldofEternity, @Obsidian, @vs_evil have all been secretly adding codes digital, print, and real-life media. We didn't know what it was at the time, but they were laying the groundwork for The Deadfire Scavenger Hunt! Go here and start entering codes: https://eternity.obsidian.net/scavenger Below are the codes the community has found, listed in order of discovery: BtF6nW - Bestiary Entry 1: Imps (17 Jan) w6Pd2u - Bestiary Entry 2: Rathun (24 Jan) SHbEXB - We are happy to announce... (25 Jan) cCedpo - THQ Nordic mockup of the physical Obsidian Edition (26 Jan) 8twCgw - Bestiary Entry 3: Engwithan Titans (31 Jan) BMahh7 - Bestiary Entry 4: Eotens (7 Feb) KFK5Lj - February Press Images - Stone Doorway (Published 5 Feb, also in print) RMaM4A - February Press Images - Entrance Stairway (Published 16 Jan, also in print) XQrdGv - PC Gamer UK/US Cover (March 2018) CoC6eF - Bestiary Entry 5: Rotghast (14 Feb) DeYvu8 - Gamestar März 2018 cover (17 Feb) HTEPbK - Bestiary Entry 6: Naga (21 Feb) 25Pwqv - Backer Update 45 (23 Feb) VMTjAb - Bestiary Entry 7: Corrupted Tigers (28 Feb) yJ3BqA - Versus Evil video thumbnail (28 Feb) mfvU5r - Bestiary Entry 8: Constructs (07 Mar) vSKRXA - Bestiary Entry 9: Engwithan Saints (14 Mar) RHh2SA - Obsidian Pedi-cab (20 Mar) 3D7mzF - Bestiary Entry 10: Earth Blights (21 Mar) WgE69K - March Press Blitz - Right Balcony (26 Mar) tg2b3r - March Press Blitz - Circular Carpet (26 Mar) KUyE6X - March Press Blitz - Ship Stern (26 Mar) vitshR - March Press Blitz - Left Cell (26 Mar) 5Vtwje - March Press Blitz - Furled Sail (26 Mar) EQC3bw - Versus Evil PAX Tweet (28 Mar), Stoic Tweet (08 Apr), Backer Update 46 Tweet (30 Apr) APDPmj - Bestiary Entry 11: Party Time (28 Mar) zdhfFQ - Companion Spotlight: Tekēhu (04 Apr) zvzrSg - PAX East Twitch Stream, Day 1 (06 Apr) hCSjoE - PAX East Twitch Stream, Day 2 (07 Apr) iXncsY - Scavenger Hunt Site (11 Apr) eZ9ywi - Companion Spotlight: Pallegenia (11 Apr) mDjZsK - "Welcome to the Deadfire Explorer's Scavenger Hunt!" Email (11 Apr) 3kp5Bi - Companion Spotlight: Serafen (18 Apr) Ksucnw - Community Manager tweet: Aarik (23 Apr) 4eVMKu - Instagram Ad 1 (24 Apr) SNGVTh - Instagram Ad 2 (24 Apr) i2MrLF - Companion Spotlight: Aloth (25 Apr) aFJJ8F - Backer Update 46 (30 Apr) 6X4EYa - Backer Update 46 (30 Apr) BprrJv - Backer Update 46 (30 Apr) ysRHrs - The World of Eternity tweet (02 May) 3UNUbC - Companion Spotlight: Maia Rua (02 May) TjF5if - The power of friendship! (02 May) UBRYio - The Road To Eternity (04 May) P5swCz - Developer Tweets (04 May) PLmjXG - We can bearly wait (06 May) JvD6Sx - Last chance to pre-order (07 May) 47KjYc - InXile tweet (08 May) 7NLeRW - Deadfire Launch Tweet (08 May) zGckQH - Deadfire FAQ (08 May) UG6Q9Y - Backer Update 47: Launch day (08 May) PrHg3N - Press Kit Images eVSMvT - Press Kit Images cLD6nB - Press Kit Images uUZCgG - Press Kit Images E6Gqaj - Deadfire Manual - Table of Contents 56/55 codes found. WE DID IT! Congrats to the community! BONUS PETS!! The following console commands have been found in print magazines to grant the player some other fancy pets. After the game releases, open the console with the ~ key and enter any of the following commands: COSMIC DOG - Cosmic Dog Pet (PC Gamer UK, March 2018) COSMIC BIRD - Cosmic Bird Pet (GameStar, March 2018) COSMIC CAT - Cosmic Cat Pet Related Reddit Thread and Steam Discussion.]