LadyCrimson

Seems to me that certain RTS strategy/sandbox games might be more to your liking, at least in this regard.

Just a note: if you like to travel maps by opening the area/world map, clicking on an area and then waiting for the green circles travel there while leaving the 'world map' still open, you'll miss most of the flavor companion exchanges because of how they just suddenly mouth off/text pops up over their heads at trigger points/occasions. I've gotten new ones in the same areas, at different times, so they're not just 1st-time-you-arrive one-offs.

Slight tangent: I don't like the "work" of but serious trail backpacking is definitely the only way to really see some of the awesome hidden places. Not something I've done a ton of personally, but yeah...totally awesome. Although sometimes the elevation usually takes a couple days for me to get used to. Even car-camping, we'd always try to get far far away from the normal track, driving on roads cars probably shouldn't be on, stuff like that. Hubby and I like to feel isolated. If we were the "last people on earth" we'd probably be very happy - for a while anyway.

Aloth and Eder's exchanges re: Aloth's "condition" crack me up more and more. Both the quest related to it (which is HILARIOUS) and the little sidelines they pop up with while walking around. I don't care about Aloth as a wizard, but I can't get rid of him because of this feature between them. Went back to Defiance Bay and think I'm getting close to finishing most obvious quests there, so am going back to Dyrwood to finish those (and the Main quest). I have a very haphazard way of doing things. I seem to have Assassins trying to murder me as I walk about Defiance town now. Not sure why, guess they don't like my hero reps maybe. Whatever, they aren't a problem. Have fun. That level nearly destroyed me at lvl4 or 5. Maybe you'll have better luck. I still haven't gone to do lvl lvl 4 in there.

Anymore silly "easter eggs" like this that people have found?

https://twitter.com/wilw/status/584772761152684032

Is that Wil Wheaton? Is that what the actual portrait in the game is? Some kind of easter egg joke using a joke Wil Wheaton pic? ...ok then.

I sort of hope, if PoE is doing super well, that Obsidian can work on another original IP, even if it delays PoE2 a little bit or a fair bit. Because I tend to like new IP's over endless sequels (and I'm not getting any younger). That's just me tho. That said...I'll guess early to mid 2018 for PoE2.

Yeah, loading and transitions were lightning fast for me initially as well. In my case there seems to be a little bit of a slow down the more saves I have per individual character save folder. Once a folder has maybe 25-30 saves in it, loading/transition time starts to increase a little, only for that particular character's game. It's not horrible or irksome in general - instead of 2-3 seconds it's like 5-8 seconds - but it is noticeable and starts to annoy when doing a lot of quick transitions. If I delete some saves (all in the same folder), it improves again. (i7-920, GTX-590, 7200rpm HDD that's almost empty, 12RAM). Some people (tech forum threads) it's like 30-60 seconds, but that's not what I'm getting. Although it's possible if I had 400 saves in a single chr. folder it might start getting there, lol.

They must be in the later game then because I think I've only found one. Maybe two. ...most of the helmets are fugly, imo. And/or don't look anything like their in-game icon. But I like the feather hats. I've found a few of the larger wide-brim feather hats, but sadly I've only found one tricone so far.

Outside of glitches, an option to turn the auto-save off would help a lot. The auto-save every time you enter/exit an inn, for example, especially multiple times for a side quest say. Super annoying, even if it is only 5-6 seconds (on my HDD). I really don't like constant auto-save functions, myself.

^ the price for at least the Animat one has gone waayyy up post-patch.

Xan was the man! Or Elf. Or something. And nice to see someone else who doesn't like Durance's yakkityyak. I've kept him in my original save because I wanted a Priest/have had him long enough to just put up with it, but in my other saves I create my own Priest if I want one.

Which is pretty much why the only time I use summons is in the big fights that last a while. Which means, not all that often. With a full party anyway. Edit: there's some items in the game that can allow others to summon a specific thingie in fights (quick slot item) but they tend to be expensive that I've seen far. Although I think I found one of them vs. bought - I can't remember. Maybe it was a reward. My memory is horrible.

I don't dislike the film or anything like that, but for me the best thing about 2001 was ... the music. And HAL, who was awesome. Other than that, it's sort of hypnotic at times, but mostly that leads to me falling asleep.

I'm definitely satisfied with PoE. I may complain about some stuff/think it has some faults, but it doesn't mean I'm not having fun/don't like it. I'd probably give it an 7.5/10 for its genre. And that coming from someone who really no longer really plays these types of games anymore. ...the Fast mode is really spoiling me, however. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to play another top-down party-rpg without it. Like walking in Diablo1 vs. running in Diablo2.

I like the purple skirt/dress uniform. I like flowing/elegant outfits. Games need more of those, imo.

Moving to the tech forum.

Made me laugh, thanks.

I did that ogre level at party level 5, but I had two fighters and a Monk. Managed to get through that level because of that, but it was rough and haven't been back to the Endless Paths in a while when I realized it got that difficult so quickly. Hehee. I'm lvl 7 now, might be time to check out another level or two.

I've been wondering the same thing. I've been in/done stuff in Durance Bay/Dyrwood etc. and no use for them yet. But still only lvl 7 (full party) so I've been figuring there was something later game. But...they are put in with the lore books and things. Maybe they are just "treasure for coin."

From a new game, you can pick up the first 4 companions at lvl2 if you want, if you know where they are and just rush to get them w/out really doing any fighting or anything. The others not sure, a little tougher, unless you set it to Easy initially maybe. Maybe lvl 3 for those. But yeah...it's kind of annoying and definitely need to cheat/use a mod etc if you want them all to be from lvl1.

I've actually tried to duplicate the increasing-stats bug on purpose...before 1.03. It didn't work for me/nothing happened. Stats stayed the same. eg, it's not a universal bug "everyone" is going to have and that I "just haven't noticed." I don't have it. Why, I couldn't tell you. At any rate, it's pretty difficult to really say how prevalent any specific bug is simply from posts on a forum. 1000's of posts doesn't mean 1000's of individual people for every reported glitch, for example. But it doesn't really matter if it's a minority or a majority. Some do have these gamebreaking bugs, bad luck or no, and they should be fixed where possible. Hopefully they will be.

There was a hotfix re: doors becoming non-openable due to a fog of war issue, earlier today.

I'm sensing a Cipher nerf may be in the future.