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If modders updated it to current version, it will be fine. Obviously, back up your saves, which is a rule for any modification.

I have enjoyed Underrail, Age of Decadence, POE, and Witcher 3. A good year.

If you want to kill the creatures, then all you have to do is go kill them. It can't be 'not worth it' if you aren't exactly losing critical resources, and you're doing what you want to do in a video game. Equally, so many people seem to feel 'forced' to kill everything they can to squeeze out the last drop of XP and make the game tedious for themselves when there is kill XP. I don't really care about kill XP either way, because at the end of the day this is a game and you're setting your own challenges. You hate level 1-3? Just cheat yourself some XP, instead of "farming" things and wasting your time (unless you're fighting them as a fun challenge, which is cool). Doesn't make you a terrible person. Your point about needing to get quest XP to finish a quest is a fair one, though. This is not a problem after you get to Defiance Bay, but I can see how it might come up at the Keep.

As Boeroer says, the game specifically makes that autosave to let you play and look around - whether because of the xpack or otherwise. If you've deleted it, you can use console commands to teleport to an outside area, and play the xpack with no problems.

For the most part I like it. It made Dragon age Inquisition run faster. It is much less stable than 7 was though. And one of the mandatory updates made my pc unbootable and I had to roll it back Come on, Oerwinde! You've only listed the bad bits, but you say you like it!

I expect they'll have true multiclassing options this time. The cross-class talents in WM looked like a quick stopgap measure.

Loving it. 1) Traps and grenades are game-changers. Use them. Especially with crossbows. 2) Melee/Psi is probably an easy and fun way to get ahead for a new player. 3) Stealth now has a noise system, so you can use this to lure enemies to their doom, or to lure them to a false alarm and then sneak past them. 4) Play Oddity XP. Don't fight when you don't have to. 5) You will soon have far too much money anyway. Don't hoard what you don't need for your character's craftables (which is already plenty).

You can use cheats to escape. (This voids your achievements.) http://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/Console_command Use god mode to walk out, or use areatransition. Let's say, AreaTransition AR_0604_Stronghold_Great_Hall North1

Did you ever meet any of those swaggetarian hipster guys that seem to pop up everywhere? I'm perfectly certain such equivalents exist for entertainment too. Like a bunch of people I know who pretend to like jazz because it makes them feel superior to the grunts enjoying a bunch of Taylor Swift. Heh. There's always a minority that force themselves to consume what they don't enjoy, but you'll find that most people who spew at the sound of Justin Bieber just really cannot stand it. And if you gave me some of the fried goods Americans consume with glee, I would refuse it not because of my health (I eat plenty of terrible things), but because the mere thought of even touching those things gives me a fright. It's just a gigantic logical fallacy where "he likes Eisenstein and hates Michael Bay" => "But Michael Bay is fun [to me] and Eisenstein is incomprehensible [to me]" => "he must be pretending to enjoy Eisenstein and pretending to hate Michael Bay" => "why doesn't he just watch the fun stuff instead?" Much of the time, complaints about snobbery just becomes a backdoor way to say that people who like fancy stuff aren't entitled to a taste and should obey your own. It happens the other way, of course, and both are silly.

I have not seen any of those movies, so I have no stakes here, but: You're right. Nobody wants to see some crappy not-entertaining 'art' and everybody would rather see entertaining, enjoyable and fun movies. When people prefer 'artsy' movies and criticise the latest Michael Bay movie, maybe it occurred to you that for them, the 'artsy' movies - not all of which have random blobules of French underwear flying about for 3 hours, by the way - is entertaining and enjoyable, and they don't find the latest action blockbuster fun. It's always interesting how people implicitly believe that whatever they find fun, or whatever some Youtube reviewers find fun, or whatever the majority finds fun, must be objectively fun for everybody, and therefore anybody who hates those movies must hate fun. I have yet to encounter people who insist on not watching stuff they find fun, and watching stuff they don't enjoy, for years and years. Why would anyone be so crazy? But that's the crazy, crazy world that such arguments always assume. Without any reason, except a "everyone must think like me" assumption.

Depends on what you mean by old school. It's not a Gold Box game by any means, and crafting isn't necessarily old school.

Having played this in EA, it is an excellent little title. Grab it. It gets a lot of what made Fallout work gameplay-wise, and mixes it with other old school elements. Uh, I mean the original Fallouts. Crafting your own crossbows, loading them with poison/fire bolts, and combining them with various kinds of mines, is a joy.

Whatever you think about surveillance, it's criminally negligent to be OK with backdoor legislation. If you think the surveillance is OK, why does it need to be snuck in like a teen with drugs up his arse? USA Freedom Act made a specific, partial, not-hugely-significant restriction on surveillance; now CISA opens yet another legal backdoor to a huge set of problems. I don't necessarily believe that surveillance is always bad, and in terms of what it tries to do technically, it can't help but be indiscriminate to be truly effective. But the decision itself needs to be made through proper public and government scrutiny, and it is terrible that now the government was caught with its pants down by Snowden, it now decides to basically find ways to sneak stuff in plain air. And wherever you are on the surveillance scale, from 'it is great' to 'it is the worst', it is unfathomably naive, not to mention entirely incorrect, to think that none of this stuff is 'so bad' and all the talk about dystopia is just exaggeration. Without going into excruciating detail, surveillance (electronic & otherwise) we know for a fact has been used, in US, UK or both, for spying on activists; for journalists; for human rights organisations; for respected Muslim scholars with a record of decades of citizenship and service without any reason, before or after surveillance, to suspect them of anything; and more. No need to wait for slippery slope arguments; it is proven that GCHQ spied on Amnesty International; that American surveillance workers in the Middle East were explicitly instructed not to filter out Western journalist / NGO communications (James Bamford, The Shadow Factory); that NYC police staked out and spied on shops just because owners were black; and yes, we have people spying on and infiltrating 'disruptive' civil groups to make them fear for their privacy and to disrupt their organisational fabric, while undercover police have spied on Black Lives Matter activists. Would I still support indiscriminate collection of internet traffic in some form? Likely. The Internet is not a sacred domain free of state power, despite some early dreams, and some effort to analyse and monitor it is inevitable, and carries a lot of benefits (even if mostly hypothetical). But there's many different ways for that collection to happen. Secret courts, secret authorisation memos kept secret from members of the Department of Justice, backdoor legislation, papering over the cracks and calling it a 'Freedom Act', using terrorist attacks as an excuse to bypass public scrutiny, etc. is not the way to do it.

Either way you can easily be a godly death-dealer, so don't over-worry before you start playing. Rogues will work well with your preferences.

Saying that monks shouldn't be able to dual wield axes is arbitrary logic, could you tell me the non arbitrary logic for them to dual wield said axes? Because... reasons, yeah? I'm just saying, if you are part of a faction, order, military group or whatever, usually they are trained in certain ways, if you come from a certain school you come with a somehow defined setting, to see them said setting be easely swapped because... reasons is kinda mindblowing "oh hey I trained for 20 years in a Shaolin kung fu temple but when I hit lvl 2 I'll go full dual wielding Uzis in full postman outfit while my special ops partner will swap to jazz teachings in a white tutu, our background story and lore? Pshe, who needs them anyway". POE lore doesn't have ciphers as coming from Cipher School or from a specific region, etc., and the setting easily supports an Old Vailian cipher who learned to use guns vs. a wilderness cipher who got by with a hatchet.

Actually, 6 naked dwarves with daggers sounds fun. You can probably do pretty good monks and rogues with that, as well as passable mages and ciphers. Monks' ability to combine many of their talents with weapons (and not just unarmed), mages and ciphers' ability to use weapon attacks in tandem with their magical abilities, etc. allow for such a crazy party to be more interesting than, say, trying to be a naked dwarf mage with a dagger in DAO.

Sounds like he's saying Obsidian wasn't even aware they could have done it.

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The ability to customise classes the way you want, and to come up with a variety of weird builds, was a key selling point for POE. I don't see it changing too much in the future. A lot of people hate classes for the reason that they reduce replayability and variation. There's no reason not to tweak it a bit, though, to try and increase their distinctiveness. Cipher or Chanter is already pretty distinct, but...

You can solo just fine, but it's probably quite difficult if you want a robe-wearing, low-strength/con, paperweight magician.

Yep. Everything they've done so far is poor quality cashgrab that didn't really need to exist, so it remains unknown whether they can create a new quality game. That said, it's on an Infinity Engine base, so unless they screw up spectacularly it should be fun enough.

Yep. "We love America, except the millions of Americans composed of [whites/blacks/the poor/the rich/latte liberals/Republicans/Trump supporters/rapists/racists/etc/etc] that are not really American" is the basic move we see all over the world. We love us and we hate the other, except we make sure that everybody we hate can be moved to 'other' whenever we need to. Which is why we need to be careful about pretending that it's some kind of eternal classification that cannot be disobeyed.

I don't know if SCL reflects anything, since it was evidently a trashy B-grade game trying to cash in on other games. But in any case, cooldowns are probably the worst option out there: unlike per-rest/per-encs, cooldowns just encourage a mindless spammy 'tactic' where you just fire everything that is ready, and then you run around waiting for the cooldown on the next thing. If abilities tend to have short cooldown cycles you just play like a stimulus-response monkey, pressing the hotkeys when you see the cooldown timer fill; if abilities have longer (e.g. 180 seconds) cycles, they are basically per-encs anyway, with the added silliness of waiting around in-between fights for cooldown resets, using them basically as per-encs, etc. I think POE trying to combine per-enc and per-rest is nice, as it conserves some longer-term resource management aspect, but the balance between the various abilities needs a lot of tricky rethinking.

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Psychonauts over the years has been available at less than $10 many, many times, given it's such an old game. People can contribute to the fig if they want, but it's certainly not any kind of deal for the original game.