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Valmy
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Ok then, now I'm confused. If this is the case then.. well.. *to me* sidekicks are a complete waste of a more valuable slot that could go to either a pre-made character offering optimised class combination and stats or companion offering story line, roleplaying, relationships and dedicated quest lines...
How do you know this? I didn't think any of the characters were in the beta.
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The PoE manual is pretty clear that cleric spells do not come from deities, so a faithless clerics do not lose their spells.
Not that a character would need to have spells to be an antagonist. Nor indeed, be alive.
But Durance himself says he is going to stay devoted to Magran until after you defeat Thaos so he can keep his powers and denounce her and start his quest for revenge later.
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If it works at all like Pillars, you should be able to by going into the portraits/companions folder and merely replacing one image for the other. In the first Pillars you should be able to do this by heading over to Pillars of Eternity\PillarsOfEternity_Data\data\art\gui\portraits\companions. I've never tried it though so I could be wrong - and of course things could change in Deadfire.
I would be shocked if they changed that. It has been the same ever since the late 90s for these kinds of games.
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No. The Thayn of Caed Nua is always called the 'Roadwarden' because of its control of the crucial crossroads. It is supposed to be a ceremonial honorific, not a description of your job. I am pretty sure you would hold it for life even with Caed Nua nothing but a gaping hole in the ground.
So far as I could tell the Watcher is a noble and a vassal to the Erl, which is why he takes your rent money.
Edit: Presuming you did the quest that ended with the Erl bestowing your title on you of course.
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Because it's stupid that you need to pause like a maniac when combat COULD simply be changed into actual turn-based combat instead of forcing the player to resort to using pseudo-turn based mechanics themselves?
Seriously, ever head of games like the old Fallout series? Temple of Elemental Evil? Divinity: Original Sin?
I vastly prefer RT with pause. I vastly prefer the combat in the old infinity engine games plus Tyranny and PoE than the games you have listed. You pause like a maniac because that is the primary way you play the game. Rather being 'forced' that is how I prefer to play and how these games are designed to be played. So no I don't think it's 'stupid' that I am not playing another game that I find less enjoyable and less fun like the games you listed.
So I get you prefer those other games. Cool.
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Yeah none of them look like adventurers at all.
As long as you geeks can jerk your ding dongs all is well I guess.
I did not realize looking like an adventurer was based on small facial features.
Oh yeah. Those portraits are basically porn. For goodness sake.
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"Ugly" is quite an extreme discription. Crones in Witcher 3 are ugly. Those original portraits simply look more like real people, instead of a glam photos for a cover of Vogue. I really can't say anything about Yidwin or Xoti as I now nothing about them, but that is not Pallegina. I just find desire to edit female character portraits to be more sexually appealing... curious. "Really?" That said: quality work. They do look very good.
I must say, I am shocked how my throwaway snark poked a beehive.
You are shocked? You poked a very well known point of political controversy that has been raging in this industry for over 20 years and you are shocked? Huh.
I will use the original portraits because they are the developers' characters but I don't see how those are glam models but hey what do I know?
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I, on the other hand, am a huge fan of it, because I can choose characters based on whether I like their personality or not rather than whether they fit into my party mechanically.
Well then I am glad you are getting what you want. But I am glad they are at least limiting it a bit to conform to their vision of their characters.
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Why shouldn't we have the option of customizing them if we want? How does me having the option ruin your game experience in any way?
Entirely depends on how that option is implemented and what impact it has on the rest of the game. It may. I don't know.
Personally I am not a huge fan of being able to designate the class of characters that are, not strictly speaking, my characters but NPCs. But hey we can already choose what they take when they level up. Since we do have it, I actually kind of like the fact the choice is limited as it adds a strategic and RP consideration, I will think about how each one suits the character as I know him or her vs. what I need from a party composition perspective.
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Eora themed sea shanties? Now that is a crazy level of love and world building. This is why I keep playing your games.
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Alright, Aramintai. If you have the time, I'd love to get your help in converting this image into something that works in PoE2 for my female mountain dwarf:
That is one awesome dwarf.
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I have two requests.
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To get away from this annoying left and right and race and whatever crap....
... I've arrived at the Monastery location now and it looks awesome. Some parts of it remind me a lot of how the farm of my grandparents still looked like barely 10 years ago. Funny how little certain building styles have changed in the last couple hundred years.
Sorry about that. I DIDN'T START IT THOUGH
That is so awesome. i really want this game to be great since there is really nothing else like it and it warms my heart to hear stuff like this.
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Well how suicidal do you have to be to intentionally piss off the Gods?
From a rp view?
The "I don't give a crap" type, I guess.
Or the "actually all these revelations from Iovara make me change my mind" way.
Or "maybe Wael or Skaen do have a point after all"
Right, I mean some people did it.
I think most people would have not done it because it seemed like a really bad idea rather than just because they wanted a happy ending.
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Yes, was. Back in 2016. Nobody really talked about it anymore since then.
I half suspect these allegations came up not because people were actually offended but because the lead dev was a rather vocal supporter of #GamerGate.
I mean, I'm sure some people actually got offended. But most of them? Looking for ammo.
Meh. Gamergate was then, this is now.
But there was similar outrage about The Witcher III. Or, rather, fake outrage.
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Turns Out the First British People Were Actually Black. #stopthewhitewash
Whatever that means. I mean Kingdom Come: Deliverance has Cumans who are originally from Central Asia in it as a major plot point. But somehow they are white or that there are only two kinds of people in the entire world: black and white. So if you are not African therefore you are white no matter where you are from. Maybe. I don't know who the hell is what race. Iranians look pretty much like most Europeans to me.
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Thankfully, the Nexusmods came to the rescue once again!!!
Wow. An American in Bohemia 90 years before Columbus.
AMERICA! COMING AGAIN TO SAVE THE MUTHER****IN DAY YEAH!
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Aloth
Aloth dismantles the Leaden Key crushed the opposition, am I surprised? No. But there is quite a lot of players who thought that making him a grandmaster instead will benefit you somehow. Meaningless amount of elf haters here.
Aloth is not particularly elfy and is reasonably charming. The game did a good job training me to favor the truth over comfortable lies. The few times I did otherwise I had the weird feeling I had made a mistake, but then flipped that on me right at the end. At the end of the game I thought maybe the Leaden Key wasn't such a bad thing, but by then I had already turned Aloth pretty solidly against it. The other time I thought maybe favoring the truth wasn't 100% a good thing was with the Eyeless.
Vela, the orlan baby
Wow, what a score, this is almost tied you know. So you just wanna poison Simoc, but can't decide whether to take the baby for yourself? I'm amazed that more than 12% of players skipped this quest.
Jumping into a bottomless pit of almost sure doom is no time to carry around a baby.
The Eyeless
Another almost tied score. Again the good nature of mankind makes you wanna restore Abydon, but you are almost equally divided when it comes to tempering him. Given the fact that tempering is quite difficult to achieve I'm surprised with this score. Maybe it coulda been higher were it not the scripted trouble. Some destroyers in the miniroty.
I restored Abydon but I couldn't shake the feeling I had made a terrible error and possible set up a divine war between Ondra and Abydon. The fact that wiping his memories was much harder to do also bugged me a bit. But hey my character made the choice and now she has to live with it.
Llengrath
What's with these tied scores lately? Kill or pact, it seems there is no major preference, but killing seems to take the slight lead. For a bunch of do-gooders you really like to kill a lot of people.
My character was pissed off when I finally got to her, She was so damn tired of people trying to kill her for no damn reason. It was Llengrath who set the whole thing off by sending the Torn Bannermen so close to her lands to begin with.
Thaos
Ah, the cherry ot the top. Majority erases his memories and lets his soul go: again noble. But there are in fact two destroy options (with different incentives) so I must say that destroy choice is the winner here.
Nah. He was going back in the wheel the natural way. I hope he was reincarnated as a slug.
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It's almost 5 months and over 270 participants later.
Because the release of the sequel is quite near a little summary is in order:
As of today (2018-02-19) there were 271 participants, and the main conclusion of this survey is the fact that most players want good endings, you angels at heart you. It was debated before in this thread, and the trend easily managed to stay this way.
Well I think if you just use logical thought, or just don't skip most of the quests, you will end up with a good ending.
Souls of the Hollowborn
The winner is Hylea's choice, followed by Galawain's choice. The second runner up is Berath's choice, and other choices are pretty far behind. Most of the players are leaning to "good" ending, because the semi-good Wael comes next, and the ones considered to be kinda evil are barely seen on the graph.
My character was going to support Hylea no matter what she said due to her Eothasian husband (my avatar). Well ok maybe if Hylea had demanded all the souls become giant man eating birds of prey or something.
Angered gods
No angered gods choice destroyed the other possible outcomes (it figures, you goody-two-shoes players). Angering gods in Pillars of Eternity is like being atheist in Poland.
Well how suicidal do you have to be to intentionally piss off the Gods?
Animancy's fate
Animancy is acquited, Sanitarium rebuilt gets over 80%. I can tell that you like science and progress in the real life.
Well we were told that Thaos was trying to discredit Animancy before the hearing.
The Master Below
The Master is mostly killed, but some did set him/her free. I wonder, was it because they wanted/roleplayed it, or just had trouble fighting it... huh.
They thing had to die. I didn't care how many reloads it took I was going to kill it and secure Caed Nua for my own.
Pallegina
Half of you makes her a Kind Wayfarer in the end. Another noble thing to you, don't you think? Following choice is banished and pardoned, which means that again you good guys make her go against the ducs! Almost 3/4 of players want to save Dyrwood.
I think if I had favored Galawain she would have been pardoned so there was one not-ideal thing that happened. I didn't make her go against the ducs, she wanted to go against the ducs and I had no reason to convince her to screw Dyrwood against her own judgement. Besides, my character lives in Dyrwood and is a vassal of one of the Dyrwood Erls.
Edér
For the majority of players he ends up as mayor, but the secret eothasian organisation has a strong representation too. For a noticeable group of players (11% is quite a lot) this guy doesn't get his quest solved at all.
I was kind of surprised he went with the Nightmarket given what happened right at the end of the game, but obviously I was with him in trying to give Eothas the benefit of the doubt for most of the game so that was probably it. Eothas did nothing wrong!! (in PoE 1 anyway)
Defiance Bay
Another strong victory for a choice considered mostly good. The Crucible Knights abandon their forge-knight project and establish order in the city. Most players probably view this faction as some kind of a noble order, so this is their pick. But doubts are more visible here, as the following Dozens are not in a bad shape. House Doemenel in shadows is the first not so noble choice to have such a following.
Almost skipped this one. My character was an aristocrat so it made no sense for her to favor the rabble rousing commoners. I admit you are right on the Forge-Knights. You have to be kind of a monster to go along with that.
I was a bit surprised more did not favor the Dozens. House Doemenel is a bit more subtle and it is hard to tell they are an option at first and anybody who went to Dyrford Village first would be biased against them I think.
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My first RPG was Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord because I am old. I was a kid so rarely had patience to grind so I would bravely venture forth and die, and back in those days when you died your bloody corpse would rot in that dungeon forever. I never got far in that game.
When I got 'The Bard's Tale' a bit later I had learned the joy of endless grinding. I have a very conservative and completionist play style because I learned RPGs in this era I think.
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Housekeeping Simulator 1403
(srsly tho there were female condottieri)
Hey man I enjoy resource management games!
There were female lots of thing, even then. I mean over 90% of the men were farmers and we rarely play them as well.
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Also I've read they already think about the first DLC in which the player will be a woman.
I imagine this is the side story they talked about during the crowdfunding campaign. People asked about having the option to play a female character during crowdfunding and Warhorse replied that making gender interchangeable in the main campaign would be impossible, given that they were going for historical accuracy and the experience of a woman in early 15th century Bohemia would be VASTLY different than that of a man and something you couldn't just change pronouns and a few lines of dialogue for. Instead, they promised to include a side story where you play a female character. I'm assuming that's what this will be.
That's cool. Playing a woman in a historically accurate medieval society would be something different.
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Hey man I get it, I felt this way as well. I did not want multi classing as I have never been a fan and wanted to keep Vancian Casters but I was in the minority with you so we lost. I still think this will be a great game we will just have to shift. It is a great game world and I will play by what rules are implemented.
Yeah losing Vancian Casting was really disappointing to me. I enjoyed having both per encounter and per rest spells and abilities and the challenge of managing resources to go as far as I could before resting.
Ah well. I am sure it will be fine and casters will be just as great in PoE2.
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Do we really know much about them though? I mean we know they were created by the Engwithans but not much more beyond that. What is the actual scope of their powers? How were they connected to the aspects of their portfolio? Can they be destroyed or are they left to rule over Eora forever and we just have to figure out how to live with them?
WTF are sidekicks?
in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
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Hey! Cernd had a kid. That was a thing I remember.