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It probably has been brought up before, but I'd really like to see skills profiting from attribute boni, as is common in probably the majority of RPG rulesets out there.

My god that episode was a steaming pile of bull**** 😆

Bit of on topic : I played lots of Obsidian games, many from day one (KotOR II, NWN 2, Fallout New Vegas) and neither Pillars of Eternity or Deadfire were as buggy as the three I named. NWN 2 was the worst offender of the lot; it had a plotstopper early on which took around a week to patch, and then some of the patchfiles themselves were corrupted and I had to wait for the fixed files and download them again over 56k... those were the (f*cking awful) days! So no, from my personal experience I can't confirm that the quality of programming has suffered from crowdfunding, in Obsidian's case I'd even say it has improved (at launch at least; the games still tend to have some quite persistent long-term bugs).

I agree people should be angry at Bethesda. Just in general.

General comment on the EGS situation: It is evident that Epic is taking bucketloads of money in hand at the moment to establish a foothold in the digital distribution market. Rumours of conditions not only include much smaller cuts of sales than common for other game platforms, but also guarantees for minimum revenue. Epic will basically look at the projected money the publisher expects to make, and goes: yep, we give you that, no matter what; beyond that, we take 12%. It's the proverbial offer that's too good to be refused, and the amount of even high-profile games making the switch to EGS (e.g. Metro Exodus virtually mere hours before release) is testament to that. And I can't fault the Publishers for that, not to mention the Developers, who likely have little to no say on the matter. It's business. For Publishers/Devs, it's, right now, even great business.

In fact more features than I need.

PoE 1 for me, too. Deadfire always leaves me with a feeling of shallowness.

To be fair, that's about all the features I need.

This thread ameliorated my mood.

Needs a fast load mode. That is all.

I like Tyranny about the same as PoE I, better than Deadfire. That's not to say that it's an overall better game than the latter - it's shorter and has a lot less to offer in terms of loot and character builds (so much less of those, I can't stress this enough), but I do like it a lot nevertheless. The setting and premise are cool. I like the magic system, where you can combine sigils to spells, with some degree of customization; although you'll probably end up with the same ones every time, because they are objectively better than other combinations. Where it really shines is replayability. (I find Deadfire especially lacking in that - apart from trying out different character builds, you can see and do basically everything on the first run. Sure, you'll find someone else depending on your choice of faction, but it all feels and plays the same) Tyranny has 4 paths, of which 3 feel really different, while the fourth is just killing everybody. You also won't see every location and quest on just one or even two playthroughs. In a way Tyranny is the total opposite of Deadfire: Your character will probably always feel the same, because magic is by far the best way to go, but the quests you get, people you meet and fight, and the choices you make, will be largely different. I say this is the opposite of Deadfire, as in my opinion, your character is the only thing that ever feels different here (if at all).

I have the same problem as OP, the ghostly version of my party is very unfun to fight against.

I actually always enjoyed FO3/NV hacking. But I'm fine with no minigame when the available ressources can be put to better use elswewhere by the devs.

Fantastic :D

I feel the title is needlessly clickbaity.

The paperwork is still fresh after the merger, but it looks like DRIL no longer exists as an independent entity. It may take a little while before all the records are updated, but OEI and DRIL each show unspecified merger filings as of November 30. The likeliest scenario is that Dark Rock merged back into Obsidian for the purposes of the acquisition. Edited for clarity. Well that would completely defeat the purpose of having founded a separate company to hold the rights to their IP in the first place to prevent another Fallout situation. (Doesn't make that scenario a lot less likely, of course. Just annoying.)

How many bottle caps?

System recommendations are not a good basis for this argument.

Classic FO2 Gauss rifle is the best Gauss.

What do we know about the character system anyway? There are skills, and perks, and flaws, but what about attributes? The Raptiphobic flaw penalizes "Endurance, Willpower, Temperament", so these should be attributes. I hope for at least 6 of those, like in Fallout/Kotor/Arcanum (ok, the latter's 8 was maybe a tad overkill).

I have no strong feelings towards one direction or the other. I think however the combat could do with more visual feedback on the deadlier attacks; more an issue of ragdoll physics than gore though.

Perfectly fine.

I'd take an Atton, too.

Oh yeah, and the two companions we saw in this gameplay video look 120% bland.