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WOOT WOOT!!! I'm really excited for this expansion. I avoided playing white march part I until this was out. But I'm syched !

sounds like, the white march was all higher level encounters, even though it seems the expansion was overpriced considering how little content is in it. What they need to do, is make the game abit more open ended and add some lower level area's that have a sprinkle of things you know better then to deal with. Like in BG series, you could easily go get killed by a Siren or a carrioncrawler or run into a group of mages 5 times your level throwing fireballs, and yet your still level one ! THAT is what made BG good too ! If this game is supposed to have been in that same spirit, they missed it by far. SO VERY FAR. They instead made the game abit mediocre in terms of where you could go and what you could do at first. I hope they fix that, I followed the game for like 2 years everyday in development, and when I finally played it, I was surprisingly disapointed, bored, and fealt like I had to force myself to play it. In the end I enjoyed the story, and all of Chris Avellone's darker narrative that I recognise in the game (seriousaly, best thing about it) but, I want freedom. I am happy there was some crafting. I hate the fact after a few levels all the abilities you would take, are just choices you make because theres nothing you want to take. Like your taking an ability bgecause its the least unapealing choice. Pretty much everyone ends up taking 2-3 abilities on every character that they rarely if ever even use once. In BG games using 2nd edition, you never wasted an ability (except maybe detect illusions??) like feats in 3rd edition, you always had TONS of things you wanted and could never get all that you wanted. In PoE.. by 10th level your bored, and don't want ANY of it. What they need is the ability to PERMANENTLY increase an attribute by 2 points with the abilities. That would be useful. It could even help fix abuild. Make it lvl10+ and you get to assign 1-2 attributes every 5th level or something, this would make the game more customizable and much better. Just because you have to balance the rest of the game, doesn't mean you have to dumb the options down and make it less interesting. thats what I fear they have done

yeah, they do not do so anymore. do not expect to use thier abilities in most battle,s making the whole point of being a cipher - for its abilities, useless. Stupid way to NERF the game.

yeah i'd like to have another hardcover !

didn't they say the Expansion is planned for 6 months after release, so that should be this year, before X-Mas for sure. They also promised the expansion would be a full expansion and not some DLC, it would be like Baldursgate's and baldursgate 2 expansions were, like Throne of Bhaal and Talkes of the sword coast. These added either a whole new campaign, or like added 20 hours

I got a bug where, when I place the amulet on faranoed's neck he gets taken over, after giving me some advice to follow Thaos.. but then he attacks after saying he should run.. Then even when i beat him, I could not control one of my members of my team. I wouldn't let me leave the area. Also, no journel entry either. It still says to find the dragon slayer..

Evil ? I wonder if the word is even used once in the game...

I've never seen it do anything. Then again, he's tanked like a mofo the way I have him. over 100 defense in some.

I still have not used a single chanter ability, I am a level 7 chanter now, even my chanter companion who is with me exploring the endless path underneath my keep is level 7, combat never last until round three. I even try and drag combat from multiple encounters into a single fight. I once hit round three, cast a summon just as combat ended. Completely useless class: Chanter. I would have had a more meaningful experience with any other class. I have no abilities to use except the chants themselves, which do very little. If you want an AoE fighting team just make 6 priests and use holy radiance all at once, when the enemies encircle you. The chants are way to small, your stats do not effect the Endurance from ancient memory, which is another thing that makes them suck alot. This saddens me, because I figured, knowing most the story before the game came out, I knew I wanted to play chanter or cipher to go through the game. Buts its also as meaningless as any class would be towards the story - EXCEPT being a certain priest type, or certain God-Likes. Seems aside from being a watcher, those class/races get all the lore. Fire or death-godlike and priest of Eothas would be best.(IMO) anyways, the game is really easy. TOOOO easy. and if I am what the devs called "Half-way" then the game is roughly only 15-20 hours long or so. So, I fear I might be heavily disappointed. Though, I did like the gaunts ring, the cloak of obsidian would be nice if it at least did something other then look cool/neat too. I do not use the ghost pig much, after travelling around, I noticed he didn't matter, so i switched to the Black hound, which is much nice, plus, as an adventuring team, having a blood hound just makes sense! OH and P.S Eder, is just the best character Ive seen in an RPG in yeaaarrs! Way to go whomever designed him, I friggin love you ! So, realistic and well rounded, emotional, thoughtful, concrete, idk, he's awesome, and believable. better then the characters in Torment, form back in the day even.

Great Post, I would send it straight to BAlder or something lol. But it quite obvious, the backs for PoE are a special kind, that care much more then the usual kind of backer /prepurchaser you would otherwise normally find. This game was vague, and not even close to being made when we backed, but we had been waiting for years for it. Well, we waited over a decade to have the opportunity to get our sentiments about old interplay and blackisles games out and get them coming back. I think Obsidian didn't expect to see so much attention from us, or care coming from so many. I wish they would partially fund the Expansion the same way. I want a expansion thats large, like mask of the betrayer. ToB and ToSC for me were kind of small, and I couldn't evenb tell they were really expansions most of the time.

2 hours mark..

that's a really high level spell. But who would know.. might be listed on the spell itself.

Priests are nice, but you can go without them. You will have to be much more careful with your party though. one thing though, without the priest , you might have another heavy dps'er and thus, maybe kill things fast enough to not need a priest. If you play on easy, I'm almost certain you will not need a priest. I can not determine what I want to play more, Cipher, or chanter. ..

What time exactly is this unlocking ? I ask because it is now, officially the 26th and its still locked. wait, just found it, 17 more hours ?!?!?! so, basically hours before the 27th.... how ****ing stupid is that. UGH, I hate **** like this.

wait, so when they no longer matter, near the end of the game, they become at will for lvl 1 and per encounter for lvl 2 ?

Awesomeness !

huh? did you get your key just now, from this website?

6GB! Awesome it's not going to take all day to download even on crappy Aussie internet. I'm curious if he can actually play, if that is also screwed up...

Yes, but backers are not pre-loading either yet. We have taken a complete backseat so far.

link..

I'll take two Brands and one pitch please~

Granted it's not like they sat there thinking how can they screw over their backers. But it does show that we meant so little to them that we were just some faceless mob who would be happy with being shoved aside and told "yeah, no, you guys did your bit you gave us the money now sod off and wait your turn" How can anyone in the industry still to this day after everything that is changing not pick up on why you put fans first. Yep, they sat around a table and thought "those scummy backers, we're going to screw them over by giving them their game on the release date. That'll show those bastards!" Nothing I say is going to convince you so I'm done here, but people reading this thread can make their own minds up as to whether this situation really offends them. *shrug* I backed the game because I wanted to see it made and I wanted the promised goodies. I got both. If I expected a lot more than what I was promised, I'm sure I'd have been disappointed, too. now in my signature..

This thread is a goldmine. Its probably decently large, and what do you mean this thread is a goldmine ? You play alot of warcraft of something ? I don't think anyone is saying disrespect was intended. But it does make some of us backers feel less deserving then these other guys who know so little about the game, don't care at all even to have even the slightest idea what they are playing, get the game first. I've watched 5-6 of them, and clearly they did not follow the game, some of them make the game look really stupid, having hundreds of us playingwould have revealed higher tier reviews IMO, imagine those like Sensuke that have no life and would indepth explain everythiing mechanically without making mistakes, and even add in the lore. Their walkthrough could even potentially be a strategy guide. These others look like retards, and it pisses me off. Only one so far was worth watching. Mr Odd. yet, he still knows nothing about the game, mechanics or lore, or even who Josh Sawyer or Chris Avellone is, or whomever, from Obsidian thats been suiing interplay for like last dozen years of the fallout series and has been largely making fun of it starting the new company inXile saying he's a director/ceo in Exile.... point is, these guys making the reviews, don't even like videogames half as much as half of us backers. We have waited 15 years for this game. They only got an offer via email to have the game for free if they will play it minus some special restrictions.. just another day at the office. scew that, we practically eat breath and sleep PoE daily, while these others, couldn't hold a match to our indepth love and ability to promote the game just out of pure fandom ! P.S. since the expansion is in 6 months or less, or so... I will say its a shame that its not being crowdfunded too. We would LOVE to help it reach higher potentials too ! It would also be awesomely neat if a completely IWD spiritual successor came out. more combat/tactics/gear/Party oriented then purely RP/epic story. A game meant for more of playing like PoE but more emphasis on the battles.

Actually by not releasing it to its backers and fans first - it shows they have no confidence in the game. Because you know ... the people who bought the game would be playing it and streaming it themselves - then give the Media the same access. You would get way more vote of confidence by word of mouth - Already I am telling my friends who haven't bought it not to bother buying the game because they don't respect their fans. Exactly. It's NOT about gaming media or streamers gettting the game earlier. It's about backers no getting the game at the same time of streamers and gaming media. It's like Obsidian distrusts their own backers that they can't understand or stomach a version without a "day one" patch for a few days of so. If you ask me giving backers the game early would have been an even more massive marketing scheme than just giving it to streamers, just like you said. They seem to forget that WE, the backers, are probably their most loyal and enthusiast fans and we want to share our enthusiasm with others. But if we have no chance to play the game we just do something else in the meantime. So giving the game earlier to backers would have been a win situation for everybody. That's what Chris Robert has already understood. That's one of the reasons why Star Citizen is THAT popular tbh. Putting backers and the fanbase first. Treat them right and they give back, short term and long term.. That would have made massive headlines ! We would have been like 50,000 people saying "we love you obsidian" instead of 5-6 people streaming spoilers and uploading the game as a repack on members only torrent sites.

Mine still has no information on shipping yet. :S