LadyCrimson

Exactly. I know I like a soundtrack when I've played many hours and have yet to turn the music OFF to either play my own music or listen to silence instead. I mean, sure, there's some pieces in the game that I may like more than others, but so far for me, everything has fit in very nicely with the game and I've enjoyed it very much both as atmosphere lifting and background listening.

Could you cite a source for that? I'm not sure I believe it. CPU's produce electrical current heat when doing stuff and if you go from doing no stuff to something that makes it do a lot of stuff, heat is produced/can spike. I've had CPU temp spike up rapidly in the space of several seconds when doing certain tasks even in a cold air conditioned room with the PC case covers half off and a pretty dust free machine. Like in this explanation: http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/281dty/what_exactly_causes_a_cpu_to_heat_up_more_during/ Regardless, the OP is using a laptop and there's not a whole lot of room in those for more fans or air circulation. So I'd guess it depends on CPU use, heavy GPU use adding to the overall temp inside making everything hotter (often the case with gaming, probably), the "cooling" design of the laptop, quality and condition of the heatsink/paste, and of course, as mentioned, dust. I've seen external extra-fan attachments or whatnot for laptops but have no idea if they work or not.

Most people talk about trying to go the game solo etc. I'm not interested in doing that right now, but I'd be interested in what pair of classes you think would fare well (in Normal or Hard, haven't decided yet) as a duo-team. Two fighters? Druid/Barbarian? etc? I'm finding the levels of micromanagement of 5-6 a bit annoying as time goes on - not as patient as I used to be I guess - and am thinking I'd like to attempt it with a much smaller party. 2 is what I want, but 3 would be workable if anyone thinks 2 is "impossible." Thoughts?

Moved to another subforum since answers are likely to contain spoilers.

Can't remember if I mentioned it already but the Terminator trailer makes me go "ugh." That's not a sequel, that's a total reboot negating the 1st movie and thus the 2nd movie and that 3rd one which I sometimes pretend doesn't exist anyway. Well...I guess if it worked for the ST movies....who knows. But it doesn't give me good feels initially. Not just reboot feeling but other stuff too. Actress replacing Hamilton seems all right ... Jai as Reese will never fit in my mind, even if he can play guitar ... but a Terminator with white hair is kind of amusing. Good ol' aging programs.

Ah. I could swear it seemed like swapping them worked that way, but I must have misinterpreted something. I do that a lot when sleepy and haven't gone to bed when I should. Like now. Keep telling myself "I'm going to bed now" but here I am checking in again....

Eventually you'll have multiple grimores that you can swap in between fights (or during a fight, with some delay) to extend spell use on your mage before having to rest. I haven't gotten too terribly far either, so I can't really comment on how awesomely damaging (or not) wizard spells may be, but I haven't been super impressed with the ones up to lvl 5. Not that that is terribly surprising or anything, low level spells. And I have played some games with some friendly fire aspects that I didn't mind/didn't bother me. Just not liking it in PoE at the moment.

But did you actually go to the tree and talk to one of the hung corpses? ...anyway, if you have done all of that, then I'd say glitch and you may want to bring it up in the Tech Support forum.

Did you have the dream-y scene convo bit with the old woman hung in the tree? If so and Eder still isn't joining, then I'd say something is amiss. Resting/sleeping is supposed to trigger that scene and afterwards Eder says something different as you walk past him, and clicking on him starts up his convo.

They are definitely overpowered in a lot of games (ranged classes often are), especially in the past. So like I said, I do understand FF and/or other methods to try to mitigate such issues. But while I love real-time pause, it doesn't mean I want to spend every fight/scenario pausing every 2 seconds to position and reposition and position some more. Along with the always present pathing AI issues, it becomes dreary for some of us.

This forum isn't intended only for people have already purchased one of Obsidian's games. Something like you suggest would block out anyone who wishes to register and ask a question/s before they purchase.

Yup.

Kind of feeling the same. I had a slight sadface reaction after the tutorial but nothing since then. But at least my companions are making me chuckle. I think the writing/story is fine/servicable, but nothing is really hitting me on an emotional level yet. But I haven't gotten to Defiance Bay yet either. I think I'm close but I keep getting distracted.

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Yeah, I can/do understand why some may like it and find it engaging. It just doesn't fit my playstyle very well is all. I guess it starts to become a little too much pause/chr. commanding micromanagement for my tastes.

The initial post approval period has nothing to do with being a back/paying customer etc. It's a forum spam prevention measure that applies to all newly registered forum members. We had - as many forums have/had - a really bad spam-bot problem some time back (despite other antispam measures in place) and it was part of the solution. It's not perfect but it does keep the spambots from taking over.

In the newly release-day created Tech Support section. http://forums.obsidian.net/forum/104-pillars-of-eternity-technical-support-spoiler-warning/

I definitely don't like friendly fire. I know know, it's more realistic/challenging to some with friendly fire. But for me it just means I don't tend to use mages/spellcasters for anything but buffs or direct dmg. single spells etc. Which means I don't tend to use them at all, in a party. Maybe if I was trying it solo or with just one other party member.

Awesome. I can't wait to find him, too.

Perfectly normal for this type of game. At least for some of us. On replays it tends to go quite a bit faster as you're familiar with stuff/quests/locations but the first time? I'm slower than a snail trudging through molasses.

I wish I could do the same, but I'd suspect it's a balance issue. By that I mean, enchanted cape + necklace may not have been balanced for. But it'd be nice if you could have a slot to wear any non-enchanted cape, just for looks, or something.

Could it partly be the size of the 3D objects when zoomed out etc? So small, not much for AA to work with, heh? Here's a test you can try just to see if the AA is working at all: if you use the console command to increase the zoom-in of the game a lot, do the weapons look more AA'd then? They do on my PC at very extreme zoom-in (but then the ground textures look utterly horrible heh). Still not perfect but it's doing something. http://crimsonkeep.com/wallpapers/data/media/139/PoE-Obs-0004.jpg But the farther you zoom out the edges of small objects start to pixelate more. Not quite as much for me as in some of your pics in this and other threads, but still noticeable imo, especially on straight edged weapons. http://crimsonkeep.com/wallpapers/data/media/139/PoE-Obs-0005.jpg Console command: hit the ` key, hit Enter, type setzoomrange [min] [max] and hit Enter again, then scroll to see the zoom difference. The default is 0.75 1.5 with the first number being the close-in zoom range. My 1st screenshot is probably around .3 or .4, I can't remember. This console command doesn't disable Steam achievements.

I haven't experienced this (yet) myself. Does it happen even early on, or only after you've been playing the same chr. for a while?

Is it also taking longer and longer to quicksave/load the game? Were the loading times briefer in the beginning? If so, could be experiencing the same issues as others in this tech forum thread. The dev's are aware of it. Might want to glance through that thread and add your pc specs etc. to it, if you wish. Edit: if it's just the multiple-loading transitions for short distances being a PITA probably not much you can do about that, outside of a SSD drive if you don't already have one, and/or other pc upgrades.