LadyCrimson

Having gotten around to my first area with the tombstones - I'd say they're easily avoidable if you don't want to see them. There was one type that looked like a Washington DC monument shaped white tombstone and one was a wall plaque upon a mausoleum type grave structure. And even if you click on one, what it does is bring up a large list of "names", and to read their sayings, you click on a name. eg, it's not a field of 300 individual tombstones. Some of the names in the lists are immersion breaking, of course, but at least you don't have to read the sayings if you don't want, or don't have to click at all, period, once you know what to look for. I don't really see the big issue, with the way it was done. It was said by a developer that there is no other purpose used for these structures, so you won't potentially miss anything if you just ... don't click on the tombstones.

Just to mention, at least a few/some of the console commands don't require the iroll20s and won't disable achievements at all. Like the setzoomrange or msaa ones. Those are more functional commands (just need to open console and type them in). The iroll20 ones are the "cheat" console and do disable. Although I don't know if it's for just a play session or forever, either.

Spent the day with some family, BBQ'ing (I am so full) and doing the family things. Then came home and played another wee bit of PoE. Now considering flopping into bed, because I'm pooped.

Decided my 1st chr. was going to suck, so spent the last couple hours using her party to quick-run around and get the lay of the land/early quests and suss out the combat system more before starting over. Both Aloth and Eder's quips have made me lol so far, and I made one extra adventurer at the first Inn to see how that worked. I don't like resting very much, often feels too cheesy situation-wise, so mages aren't all that useful to me yet, especially with all the friendly fire. Just need curse/blessing casters I guess.

Not only feathered hats, but *pink* feathered hats. It's hilarious watching them run around with their hats and capes. Best game ever. (and yes the ground textures are fuzzy, it's console extreme zoomed)

At least you have it. Mine's still in the mail, so to speak. ...how's the t-shirt? I want my t-shirt.

^ Good to know (replacing with silent ogg file), thanks. I know renaming isn't always the best/doesn't always work etc., depending on the game. ...not that I personally want to get rid of them myself. I've been liking it all so far.

Just to say, should all be fixed now.

I've seen some posts on the Steam forums talking about this. Out of curiosity, how big have the save files become? Could be duplicating saves in a temp file system or maybe the autosave - wish there was a way to turn the autosave off, actually, anyone know a trick for that?

I think there's a screenshot hotkey noted in the game controls in-game menu ... is it different than what you're using? Edit: nevermind, it's not there...I need those new reading glasses. Not familiar with the Mac - is there no print screen key? That's fairly common on "PC's".

There's a music folder in the game directory....you could try looking in there for the mus_combat.ogg files. Do not delete them, just rename them to something else (example: put AA in front of them all, eg AAmus_combat.ogg) and see if that does it/those are it. If it causes any problem, you can just name them back/remove the extra letters you inserted. Steam\steamapps\common\Pillars of Eternity\PillarsOfEternity_Data\data\audio\mus\mus_final Please note that while I've done stuff like this in other games, I haven't tried it in this game yet - either it'll work fine (the usual case), it won't work at all, or the game may act weirdly if it thinks the files aren't there. YMMV.

I understand wanting a powerful party (and sometimes I want one too, eventually, which is why I'm glad there *is* an Adventurer's Hall) but I also like imperfect companions. I think it's more interesting to go through a storied game where everyone isn't extra powerful. eg, I don't always want The Avengers. Which is probably why I always grabbed Xan. But on some replay I am going to be making that handpicked party...

I have no idea, I'm sorry. Info could be partially attached somehow to the registry that isn't touched with an auto-uninstall or something like that.

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There was a thread about that, where someone posted pics of much closer zoom, supposedly without any console use (and media streamer copies seemed to have higher zoom). But even at "only" 1080 I can't get very close in zoom myself. They did mention that the zoom was altered from the beta for the Steam release I think. There's a console command to zoom in more but I don't know if one has to repeat it every area transition or not, like with the MSAA one.

Oh...I see the problem. That is a stumper. If I knew which file that info is stored in and if you're using the Steam version, you could probably delete that one file then Verify Cache and Steam would download the original default file that has no changes to it. But I don't. A full reinstall might do it but ... What keys were you trying to change? Have you tried using the other mouse buttons to click with instead?

I've been finding Normal about right for me (close to being too easy however) for a first playthrough, when I personally want to take it easy a bit more as I'm learning and more interested in viewing the game vs. challenging combat etc. But I do think on replays I'd want to do Hard at least. And I'd agree with Gromnir - dev's can't win re: difficulty. And not just with IE games. Just a common thing in general.

I believe it's Mechanics.

Try turning off the tutorial tip/window setting.

typoteque - if you mean resetting the default key controls within/for the game, there's a title bar in that menu "Restore Defaults" or something like that. That should restore the default key configuration of the game and you can either stick with that or try to change them again.

If it helps any:

Hiya - From the Steam client window (not from the Steam website), click the Games category name in the very top menu text drop-down list, pick "Activate Product on Steam," a small popup box will open and follow the prompts.

The forum quotes went wonky early this afternoon for me, then they went back to normal for short while, now they're wonky again. :D

I honestly don't know about that aspect. My replies were to "simplicity" re: their Steam key's scenario. I only just got the email from Paradox re: the "phsyical swag" this afternoon, myself (says estimated to arrive 30th to 31st, in mine), and don't know why they're being sent at staggered intervals outside of the possibility of having email list sending backloaded program or something. So it's possible you'll get your email pretty soon as well.

What file extension does the file use (the letters after the dot/period)? It's possible the forum isn't configured to allow it as an upload. If that's the case, you can zip the file with something like 7zip or WinZip and try uploading that instead.