InsaneCommander

So the angered gods keep an eye on your boat? What if you pissed Ondra off?

Excellent question. I don't know if this can be answered here, maybe with spoiler tags, but is there a bigger battle in the beta? How interesting will mages be in this case?Nothing of the sort. Beta includes sidecontent and gameplay wise focuses on fairly low level basic stuff. While there are some tougher names enemies there, there is nothing too epic there. It’s not that I want to hear the answer - I prefer to discover on my own. I am just curious/worried how they will approach it as those fights are usually ones where full “rest” of abilities was coming to play. I agree, it's better to find out when we fight the first tough battle. I'll take some scrolls just in case.

Eothas dies by the end of act II, is forced to inhabit the steward statue and kills all of your pets. Again.

Excellent question. I don't know if this can be answered here, maybe with spoiler tags, but is there a bigger battle in the beta? How interesting will mages be in this case?

Ok, I'll have to do that in one of my playthroughs. I hope it causes a battle so that I can beat them into submission.

I don't like the Health/Endurance system in PoE. I will either run out of health before using all of my spells so it looks like I don't need to decide carefully when to use them or I will use them all the time and again they won't look like an important resource to save for special occasions. But this may be my impression now because recently I've only played on high levels, when I have lots of spells. Could also be because I play different from most people. I never spam rest, I only rest when it makes sense, like when I go to a new city/village or too much time has passed. Or when I explore an entire level of a dungeon and it feels safe to rest. I don't think I'll miss it. As for the new casting system, it does look worse, but I don't have enough information to judge it yet.

I liked pets in the first game because I always imagined them doing something funny, like the war puppy barking at the eyeless or the lagufaeth messing in the tavern. And they are badass, enduring every combat like a boss:

I found those in Pinterest, searching for "pirate rpg portrait". These are from Deviant art:

These are not requests. It's just some portraits that I think go well with the Deadfire theme:

He is in the pets sequence.

When I clicked on "view image" it showed more than I could see first. So, just in case somebody missed the top:

April will be like:

Well, to be honest I was worried that I wouldn't be able to finish the game with my third character, so in a way this is good news to me. I'm finishing WM part 2 with my first character now and there isn't much left. But my third character still has to play acts III and WM part 2. And act IV too, but that is the shortest.

How many skill points do you get when leveling up? Is there a distinction between passive and active skills points? I'm already planning my character skills and it would be good to know that.

I will check the non-spoiler section frequently just to have an idea of what is going on there. Maybe there is a bug or something that I'll like to know, but for my first playthrough I don't mind figuring things out on my own.

I'll miss the dungeons.

Romance was described to be part of the relationship system which was for companions only. And about 2 months ago Sawyer wrote on tumblr "Among our companions, we have men who are attracted to men and women who are attracted to women." Unless the definition of companions has changed neither sidekicks nor crew should count towards them. I was joking. Check that link, some romances there would be strange.

You need two watercolor portraits, one is 90x141 the other 76x96. The first one for conversations with other NPCs, the second one for scripted interactions. Thanks for clarifying. I was wondering if I was asking to convert more portraits than actually needed.

Who knows, maybe the ship's crew is romanceable too. There should be enough options for everyone: https://pillarsofeternity2.wiki.fextralife.com/Companions

@Aramintai thanks! I really appreciate it. Btw, how many portraits do I actually need for each character? I was watching a beta let's play and these new portraits seem to appear only in conversations. Do I need two of them, for the two different sizes of the normal portraits?

GM was my first character's best friend. In my last playthrough, though, she only made it up to Dyrford.

@Aramintai here is another request, in case you have time to do it:

I think the original portraits are really good, but I like the alternate ones too. Maybe I'll use them on different playthroughs, with the characters having had different endings in PoE. Original/Alternate: Eder: Mayor/Night Market Aloth: Dismantle/Lead Pallegina: 5 Suns/Kind Wayfarer Xoti: Monk/Priest As for Ydwin, it'll depend on whether or not she becomes a full companion and one of the romance options.

Ok. I guess my Bleak Walker will become a Paladin/Priest of Magran.

Can you play as a Priest of Berath/Bleak Walker? There is a conflict of disposition (Cruel).