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Adam interview with Shacknews 1. Beast of Winter DLC talk - a tiny bit 2. Beraths Blessing update to make game more challenging 3. Upcoming free dlc for ship and crews 4. The upcoming main DLCs will be similar in size and scope FNV DLCs 5. Adam favorite character is Eder 6. Talk about choices from POE 1 affecting POE 2. I wish POE2 would describe what that choice was that affected the result in POE2. I have seen the icon with a little blurb 'this was because of a POE1 choice you made' but i dont find it always obvious what they are referring to. Wish they would just say what the choice was instead of just generic words.

Ye i have even had items not highlight early on when i first encountered the ashen people eothas caused. They didnt highlight but were still clickable.

MaxQuest has a mod that fixes this i believe here.

More stuff from patch from Josh

Boom - Josh

Lul

You get to twin elms after the end of act 2 once the meeting with the duke has finished. If you have done that then you go to stonewall gorge and go down to the bottom of the map and it will take you elmshore then to twin elms. map

Adjustments coming ye bohoo.

Telemetric data about classes and ... Lol

I think Josh is loosing it. He needs the pillars vacation. You almost done Josh just a few more tweeks.

Oh i forgot if you hold sacred the 6 party member crpg then stay away. LUL. They go down to 4 characters. otherwise go for it.

Josh was on gamasutra twitch channel today. That video is not the full video. There a second part on the channel

i mentioned chrono trigger not really similar to POE but a game that stuck with me for sure.

I've never played it. Is it worth a go? I like POE better but it was definitely worth a playthough. i have done one full and a few aborted runs.

and this Josh:

Yes i believe you only get the option when you go to WM the first time and then when you go to WM part 2 for the first time. So if you went underleveled which 5 is then you wont get a chance to make the content high level until WM part 2. maybe there is a console way to do it. im not sure. maybe someone will chime in .

i dont think that is how it works. if you are over level 7 or 8 i think you get an option at beginning of WM to scale content higher. if you didnt get that option you will get another chance with WM2 content.

The best addition. Im just happy they added a quit to desktop option.

skip the intro coming

If you have the dlc you will get a barb companion, Maneha. You prob want an off tank or two maybe. You can make anyone do that but it helps to have several melee (and i dont mean melee classes you can make wizard or anyone be off tank melee) guys with you to control mobs. You can turn anyone in your party into that role. I do think you can make this party work just fine. it just up to you on how much you dig into skills spells. Wizards and Druids have great CC. and this party should be able to lock down all mobs easily.

FYI. here is the new somethingawful forum for Deadfire and Josh specific posts for for said forum. I havent played deadfire so i didnt want to go through and post specific stuff for fear of spoilers.

Josh on level scaling fix Josh

I could have swore josh mentioned on twitch that the patch would fix some of the companion issues.

1. I generally only enchant unique weapons / armors. You definitely will not be buying equipment every level. You will probably end up using lots of same gear over many levels and the main reason you will switch is mostly because the abilities on the weapons / armor better synergize with your party and not because the weapon is 'higher level'. by the end of the game you will be able to raise a few weapons or armors to the highest enchants possible. So its more about what weapon abilities you like. This isnt like an action rpg with leveled gear. There is enchanting that is kinda like leveling but like i said later on you can enchant a small number of select weapons all the way to the top meaning you could have found a cool weapon in the first town you really like and play the whole game with it. 2. There is no dual pistols in POE1. 2. Unless you are playing on the highest difficulties, the game doesnt punish to much your choices for builds. So pick the talents / armors you think are good and you are prob fine. You can make lots of builds / armor sets work. The simplest route is frontline melee give heavier armors and back line give lighter armors. There is a build section in this forums to point out specific build types to guide you if that is what you want. They are super min maxed but work just fine for companions and main characters that are not min max. Those builds are usually for POTD so take them with a grain of salt on lower levels if you use them. They will spoil gear you will find also later in the game. There is also a beginners guides to some of the mechanics here. 3. There is two talents in the utility tree and one potion (combat use only) and one wizard spells (combat use only and only for that wizard not on others) that heal health. Health was meant as a gage for how much you need to rest. But yes most of the time you have to rest or go to inn. 4. a. You dont have to read the gold plated npcs they are backer stories that dont have anything to do with game story or world b. You dont have to do most quest when you find them. So you can try and if you are having trouble especially in the beginning, just move on, level up, get more characters and then come back. That is ok. You can do dungeons partially also. In fact the largest dungeon in the game is like that where you do a few levels and then get rolled so a level or few later you come back and start progressing. c. Raedric is usually a tough early spike in difficulty at least on harder difficulties. So if you find it to tough just come back with full 6 person party later on

Josh had mentioned this elsewhere. I think like he said he wants to move to different projects. Hes been on pillars for 6 years or so