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    Backers don't play games....when playing games....

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    Awesome stuff guys, It will be good to connect the person to the item when I come across it.

     

     

    Interesting. On the photo in the OP you remind me of Yul Brynner. Did anyone ever tell you that? xD

     

     

    xD  I can see that, good call.

     

     

    Lol at your roleplaying!

     

    I’ve backed the “create an item “ but haven’t found it yet. It’s a battle axe named Amra, anyone here found it?

     

    Have you found it yet?

     

     

    I contributed something! It's, uh... A small line to a logbook. About a Skaenite cult worshipping a godlike baby. It's not a particularly memorable line, but I'm glad to see it's made it! :grin:

     

     

    Looking forward to reading it, I'll keep it in mind

     

    Sorry to bump this Thread. But yes, they've added Amra! You can find it in Dunnage east outside vendor.

    Combat is now mostly a dull chore

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    Problem is that they did exactly that with per encounter focus. There are still lots of small fights.

     

    In fact, there were more “per encounter “ fights in PoE 1 regardless of its limited rest than there are in PoE2.

     

    There were a few lvls on Od Nua and maps on White March that would quickly make me use my camp fires. And once those encounters happened, I had to use food and potions and a whole arsenal of spells.

     

    That’s how hard it was compared to now.

    [POTD Difficulty] Launch NOT tuned discussion thread

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

    Posted · Edited by Taurus

     

     

     

     

     

    So just like BG, IWD, the first PoE, etc. Granted, Deadfire is much easier to abuse.

     

     

    Yeah, this. To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure why people are singling out POE 2 for being too easy. I wouldn't be able to name a crpg that's harder than POE 1 & 2.

     

    Maybe you had a different experience, but mine was fast mode auto combat. PoE1 is much more difficult, not even comparable at the moment. BG-trilogy is more difficult even without mods. D:OS is definitely much more difficult, although it did suffer from crazy power creep. The Witcher games are way more difficult, even the 3rd game and even in the end since you still, no matter how OP you are, have to dodge those instagibs and spam that fast attack till your fingers bleed. I was literally away from keyboard fast moding boss fights in Deadfire on the hardest difficulty. There is no doubt it's badly borked at the moment, hence all these threads about it.

     

    Give me a break, I beat PoE 1 on Hard a couple of weeks ago with a straight fighter doing nothing but auto attack and letting the AI handle the companions. The combat was slower and less flashy, but it wasn't hard at all, just more tedious.

     

    BG is only hard the first time you play it due to the clusterf*ck that the AD&D rules are. After that it's a cake walk without mods like SCS.

     

    PoE 1 on PoTD is a much harder game than PoE2. This is unquestionable. Also, you found the combat slower? I think in PoE2 the combat is slower, and having a smaller party also contributes to that.

    Combat is now mostly a dull chore

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

    Posted · Edited by Taurus

     

     

    Hell the hack 'n slash genre is already a testament to per encounter combat, that not being arbitrarily restricted on your character is much better and more fun gameplay. As well as almost any other game and genre ever made, for that matter.
     
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    Apparently only the per rest system can be challenging, have you scraping the bottom of the barrel and generally make for some epic stories. Restriction = great gameplay.
     
    You guys are just too set in your way, just plain refusing to see the logic of how not only is everything of per rest attainable with per encounter (when the game has actually been balanced) but that it's much less restrictive, fun and just flat out better.
     
    Which is unfortunate.

     

     

    I cannot disagree more with this post. First of all, hack and slash games rely upon testing the player's skill in a realtime setting. However, realtime with pause is not the same thing. Realtime with pause is designed to test thoughtful tactics and strategy, it is essentially a less tedious way of having turn-based combat. Hack and slash games are about testing quick reflexes and quick thinking. This is a significant thing to misunderstand.

     

    Second, restriction can indeed equal great gameplay. If all the pawns on a chessboard could move like a queen, the game would not have the same level of strategic depth and never would have become a timeless classic. Games are *all* about restricting the player. Too much restriction or too little restriction isn't a virtuous characteristic of a game in of itself. Whether restrictions or freedoms work for the game is what matters. Again, this is a significant thing to misunderstand.

     

    I completely agree. However, as significant a thing is to misundestarnd, it's also a fine line between what rescrictions would greatly improve gameplay.

     

    Remember when PoE was released and there was no "emcumbrance" system? People where shocked.  

     

    Now, who would even think about having emcumbrance in PoE1 -2? No one even talks about it. 

     

     

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    Personal Inventory vs Stash?

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

    Posted · Edited by Taurus

    To be honest, I've never understood the mentality of threads like this. No offense to anyone, of course. It's just that if you really want the stash to be restricted to camps, taverns etc, why not... restrict it to those areas? Just because the game allow you to access the stash from anywhere, it doesn't mean you have to access it anywhere. All you have to do is tell yourself you can only access it in camps, then ignore it when you're adventuring outside the camp. Simple as that.

     

    Take weapons, for instance. In most games like this, if you don't specialize in a weapon, you get a big penalty for using it. But in this game, all you lose is the special "skill" that comes with it. So if you find a great pistol you aren't trained in using, go ahead and use it anyway. I know this could be a problem for some. "My priest would do a lot more damage with this, but priests don't use pistols. Angst!" Well, if your priest don't use pistols, then just... don't use the pistol? Likewise, if you only want to specialize in two weapons, yet the game "forces" you to specialize in a third, it doesn't mean you have to use that third weapon at all.

     

    Point is, I think a lot of people would enjoy games a lot more if they learned to open up and be more responsible for their own fun. Think the stash should be restricted? Restrict it yourself. Is fast travel cheating? Then don't fast travel. Is PotD too easy? Don't buy or craft any healing potions, and don't get the best gear possible at all times. Make a flawed character or two. Pick the worst classes you can imagine. Play a fighter or paladin in robes with no shield. There are tons of ways to tailor the game to suit your own need and playstyle.

     

    Because it's always natural that you wont mentally gimp yourself. 

     

    Thats why you have Trial of Iron.

     

    Say they removed this feature and some people started complaining. Would you just say "tell yourself" no to load a save if you die? That does not work.

     

    Say the majority of people found Dark Souls easy, your anwser would be "tell yourselft not to lvl up "?  And what about the majority of people complaining about POTD difficulty? Will you just tell them to not lvl up and use armor"?

     

    Whenever someone tells you to "gimp yourself" to make the game more enjoyable/playable, thats more a fault of the game than the person complaining.

     

    Truth is, I don't know why they've casualised this as well the unlimeted rest.

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    The First Impressions Thread

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    First Impression:

    -Lore tidbits like in Tyranny is a great adition

    -VA is awesome

    -Graphics / loadscreens/ animations vastly improved - and I'm playing on my weak laptop, since my main PC is now at my company.

    However, just left the first island and combat in POTD seemed a bit (actually a lot) easier than the first game. I've heard that , unlike the first game where the first act was the hardest , now the game progressively gets harder, so I'm hoping for that.

     

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    Game looks incredibly easy

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

    Posted · Edited by Taurus

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    O plz STFU.

     

    I have a triple frozen crown under my belt, and during battles I've never had to worry about health. Only after the battles or before an important battle, should I rest? Should I go to town? But never during a fight. 

    So yes, they are removing an aspect of the game, but removing and saying it's easier it's like saying you want "emcumbrance" in PoE because every other RPG has it.

    Well, I have The Ultimate achievement as a Monk and even in a solo run as non-healer high health class, health was definitely an issue for a few fights (especially a certain fight, you know what I mean). Now the game is obviously balanced around party play where you might have a dedicated healer on top of Healing Potions, Shod-in-Faith, Moon Godlike etc. so saying health system was irrelevant in Pillars 1 is simply not true.

     

    Congrats on TU , but you do know that is a very different case when you solo. Specially balance wise.

    Game looks incredibly easy

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    O plz STFU.

     

    I have a triple frozen crown under my belt, and during battles I've never had to worry about health. Only after the battles or before an important battle, should I rest? Should I go to town? But never during a fight. 

    So yes, they are removing an aspect of the game, but removing and saying it's easier it's like saying you want "emcumbrance" in PoE because every other RPG has it.

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    No Lady Webbs this time, please

    in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Stories (Spoiler Warning!)

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    Yeah, I thought they did a good job of making Iovara seem zealous to the point of insanity. She's a mirrored counterpart to Thaos. If she's a mouthpiece for the author, then that author needs to get some psychiatric help.

     

    Only that unlike Thaos, her motivations are proven to be altruistic and her beliefs to be true. Likewise, she is always portrayed as some benevolent liberator whose beliefs also never drive her to committing atrocities of any sort the way Thaos did, that we learn of anyhow. Also to house2fly, to the best of my awareness I was never given an option to tell her I didn't think she was right, or to argue against her exposition. This is even more worrying when, at least during my first playthrough, my character literally asked out loud "could this be true, that the gods are a lie?" right after the interaction.

     

     

    Read your full review. Very interesting and I agree with most of it. 

     

    Perhaps If we had the chance to disagree with her point of view, we would eventually be able to side with Thaos and that would lead to different endgame gameplay experience? That's the kind of stuff I want to see in PoE2.

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