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The something. Awful post just says Obsidian have fixed it and it'll be in the next patch after testing on the patch is done. So like after the weekend because well the weekend is THE WEEKEND Cipher focus workarounds would be appreciated tho

He said that the Obsidian team has fixed the bug, but they need to test it first and it doesn't seem like they'll be hot fixing it today/tomorrow. If someone finds a workaround you are my hero.

well yea the fact you didn't max might is sorta not great

Having cleared that area, I'd say it's just a really hard dungeon. Shadows have 48 deflection which is a lot, that's it. Honestly it's just a portion of the game that's a real test of game mechanics knowledge. You probably want 4 party members not 3 AND it's a real test of your ability to line up buffs/debuffs so you're attacking with a buff to your accuracy and a debuff to shadow's deflection, AND doing the right type of damage. The next party member if fairly important for this area for several reasons.

True that. I grabbed marksman regardless because I'm not geared up yet, so lvl 2 draining, lvl 4 marksman, then 6 could be quick switch 8 could be 4th weapon slot, 10 as weapons focus. Unless you go with Blunderbuss then you def take penetrating shot as 6th because penetrating is just about everything. Which begs the final question, do you go for a penetrating shot+blunderbus build, or an arbalest build. Or even an arbalest-arbalest-arbalest-crossbow/warbow setup.

Even if you include the DT, and the whole 6 points of DT are bypassed, it's still only a 30-42, -5 accuracy weapn, vs a 32-40. Same average damage of 36, higher standard deviation (which is not good), and a -5 accuracy bonus to boot. There's literally no upside to using an Arquebus. All the cards are on the big crossbow. Question is, is the Blunderbuss still worth it with 6 shots instead of 8.

Just checking this, because the lvl 4 talent selection (and all the talent selections) for either a ranged/guns Cipher build seems pretty incredibly important, between the weapons focus, marksman (potentially) and this. a) iirc, according to a Sensuki vid, the recovery time between switching weapons is 2 seconds b) Assuming ^ is true, does that mean "1.5 weapons recovery" changes the recovery time to 0.5 seconds from 2 seconds when you switch weapons. c) assuming ^ is true, does that mean this is actually a really important talent for players going "shoot, weapons switch, shoot, weapons switch, shoot" Or, is it just a fairly mediocre talent I shouldn't waste time looking at, and I should really either make my final choice between Soldier/Ruffian/War bow/Hunting Bow for +6 accuracy for my weapons focus, marksman for a +5 accuracy to all ranged weapons (seems pretty great if weapons focuses only give +6 accuracy), or one of the others. The lvl 2 talent was draining whip for obvious reasons btw.

Hard's going fine atm. Definitely doesn't seem like a tough difficulty for the first few hours, just an "it's possible you could not win every battle" one. Suggest EVERYONE starts with hard as their first difficulty who has played any Infinity Engine game at all.

Also mb, Obsidian renamed the mechanics forum. Move this to the strategy forum if someone sees this.

iirc, in the IE games (or at least he ones I played) after a quest/other source of XP, you got a block of say 1000xp, and if you had 6 members in your party, it's divided 6 ways, 150ish each, and if you had one they got all 1000xp. Is that the same in Pillars? Or is it the opposite, if you get a quest reward for 1000xp, each party member gets +1000. I assume it's the first considering there's a challenge for soloing the game and such, but just wanted to be sure.

oh well I forgot what the trick was to embed tweets on IP boards, without using HTML ofc, then it's easy.

https://twitter.com/ultrabrilliant/status/581027519161241600 Well, that's at least one 90+ score confirmed. #thebonusisaved

Metacritic has a user score??? That's like arming the gorillas at the zoo...

We need to get Josh to do a youtube video pronouncing a list of his weird names

North of 85 pretty sure, 86-88 could easily be foreseeable, it'd be pretty ambitious for it to break 90 on its budget, but who knows. I'm sure there will be some token 90+ scores from certain publications.

It's not the most super creative but your take on the build for the "all the guns" Islander Aumaua Cipher would be neat, pretty sure I'll play that on release because ready for hard difficulty+who doesn't like a psychic detective. Nothing says alpha strike like 4 Arquebuses followed by burning through your focus

well a) even if it's the most powerful class in the game, that doesn't mean it should have junk choices on its power tree b) what on earth makes you think that cipher is "the most powerful class in the game." Did its single target DPS magically overtake rogue's overnight? Did the debuffs/CC improve by some order of magnitude?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm assuming critical hits are calculated as d100+net accuracy calculation (total accuracy-targets defensive stat or thereabouts), and anything above 100 is a critical hit, +50% damage/duration. Question is, can a big enough accuracy bonus be obtained that a critical hit focused build/strategy is a worthwhile strategy for any of the classes, for DPS or otherwise? A 20-30% critical hit rate combined with a 50% extension of duration could lead to some very neat things. Or does the fact bonuses don't stack up just mean those shenanigans won't really work, you just can't find a big enough boost to accuracy to make it worthwhile.

You need to add at least two more decimal places of entitled kickstarter backers to that number. Like tbf not having the Steam key email out done b4 Steam opened pre-loading is def pretty disorganised. But at this point seeing that alongside all the idiots signing up for the forum to give out a gutful of complaints about streamers and media get copies first when it's marketing 101 is getting ridiculous. Point was made, stop whining and lurk.

Did you do a transcript this time around?

It's just a case of putting the right debuff classes next to the right classes that benefit from the debuffs. Ain't really even a question of class so much is at its about talents and abilities within the builds. Putting deflect debuffs next to a Dexterity attacking build etc etc. The class choice isn't the major thing, the build choice is the major thing, so we'll have to see what the full talent tree looks like post day 0 patch balancing before you can say "this works super well with that."

Yea like it's nice that you're doing it, but can the guy who keeps pushing Orcz wiki just stop, a) it's splitting the wiki community, b) Orcz wiki is def. pretty terrible and you shouldn't really be pointing people there for advice in the first place.

Yeah this is a) completely contrary to Sensuki's video, and b) if it was like this we would have heard Sensuki whining about it by now the stats are just outdated

Someone can confirm, but is it wrong about the Aumaua ethnic abilities as well? Or is it just scummy out of date wiki per usual.

Look, I install software one way: via a package manager. Does GOG package their games for AUR or have a repository? Because if so I'll switch from the Steam package manager. If I have to unzip some tarball manually—forget about it. GoG doesn't use a package manager. You download the game from GoG, the game installs, GoG ****s right off and doesn't do anything. You want to uninstall, you open the list of programs in windows and uninstall it, or click the uninstall option in the start menu.