Blunderboss
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You do realise that all the issues with the game adds up and that causes low sales or not ?
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I get it , you played trough this game 50 or more times you think this is one of the best games ever made and everyone else who doesnt agree with you are just making things up and dont understand anything
Thats it for me keep believing whatever you want to believe
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You are talking about “sales predictions” when we are living in time post fact that deadfire did not sell well.
Just because you or someone else has jumped into direct sequel without playing the prequel does not mean anything, this is still off-putting to many customers. And this is just one example of issues people had with deadfire and there are plenty of those to go arround and they all add up and that results in lower sales overall, this is not that hard to understand.
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Dude, without any respect to you : you are clueless you compare deadfire to mainstream bethesda titles like oblivion and fallout .
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1 minute ago, thelee said:
the difference between "sequel" and "direct sequel" is one that consumers probably wouldn't care about.
Keeep believing that
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cRPG’s Is niche genre people dont just blindly buy these type of games they look up info about them and then decide, by the way fallouts and oblivion are not direct sequels so Im not sure why you mentioned them
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20 minutes ago, thelee said:
ugh, ok, now i do have to rehash stuff mentioned elsewhere.
very few people ever complete a game. this is true about any game. the completion rate may very, but even getting a majority of players to finish a game is a challenge and seems basically limited to linear, relatively short action games.
Fallout 4, for example, has a 25.9% completion rate (this is just for the main quest). https://steamhunters.com/stats/377160/achievements "Prepared for the Future"
Pathfinder: Kingmaker (which keeps getting brought up by comparison as more "successful") has only a 6% completion rate: https://steamcommunity.com/stats/640820/achievements "The Story's End" (though apparently this is understated due to how buggy P:K is)
D:OS 2 (which also gets brought up as wildly more successful) has a 11% completion rate: https://steamcommunity.com/stats/435150/achievements "Sourcerer"
edit - For reference, Deadfire has an 18% completion rate: https://steamcommunity.com/stats/560130/achievements ("The End of the Beginning")I don't think you can draw many (if any) conclusions about a game's critical or audience success from a completion rate. It probably just tells you a lot more about how accessible/long the main quest is.
edit 2 - just to really pile on, completion rate is information that is trivially available to anyone, including--for example--product managers. If completion rate was predictive of future game success at all, and this was signaled by PoE1 completion rates, there's no way that Obsidian would've plowed ahead on a bigger-budget sequel
Well Deadfire is direct sequel to PoE, so why people who did not finnish first game would buy the sequel , why would new player buy this game if at very intro of the game you have to choose your legacy from first game and this is not even optional, especially since this is obsidian game where story is big part of it
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Honestly if you look at PoE1 completion rates very few players even finnished the game and then deadfire is like direct sequel that does not improve that much from original and even fails at some things PoE was great at(like that thing called main quest). Also these cRPG games sell by word of mouth mostly(and im not talking about shill 11/10 goty reviews) and deadfire had plenty of issues that people disliked and even if those issues alone are minor but they add up into bigger picture which results in lost sales. Also at the start of the Deadfire player gets dropped into beraths intro where you have to choose poe1 history import your character etc, i wouldnt be surprised if a lot of players who bought it refunded right after that intro as they thought you have to play first game to understand whats going on.
Also its important to realise that stuff like full voice acting increased production costs by a lot and then deadfire needed to sell much more copies to cover the costs which it didnt, i think moving forward devs should really consider if costs of Voice Acting are worth the sales they will get from people who bought game just because its Voice Acted(obviously it does not), and maybe that money could be put to better use enriching existing game features and adding more content .
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1 hour ago, ekt0 said:
For examples, single class rogue is by far weaker than single class wizard or monk.
Single class rogue is second most broken build right after priests with BDD+SOT+Brilliant , and much easier to pull it off than priest combo since u click 1 skill and with right build you auto attack everything in the game while being invisible all the time, its by far easiest build to solo the game
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On 11/8/2019 at 1:04 PM, DYWYPI said:
There is a very quick way to do this, if you have a save from before rescuing Mother Sharptooth in the Caverns of Xaur Tuk-Tuk. Just kill the first few enemies there, bring Eder to look at her cage, and choose to ignore her over and over again.
Thank you for this tip, did it on new game in like 20 mins
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Meanwhile i dont agree about difficulty of the game, i totally understand the frustration about Armor and underpenetration, introducing this system and leaving it the way it is was epic failure by the developers and they never acknowledge how broken DR and PEN system is, basically there are no ways to penetrate enemy armor reliably late game, i mean even my SC assassin build has issues penetrating out of invisibility and assassins have constant +4 penetration...also it doesnt help that there are very few unique weapons to chose from especially when dual-wielding considering you will need to equip more than one character.
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Backstabing with arquebus is game winning strategy and everything else is just a flavor
3 Con 3 Res is more than enough for melee assassin, however melee assassins should always be single class
Assassin Ascendant is not the most synergetic combo but it will be good enough troughout the game, you can assassinate with Kitchen Stove+thunderous raport enchantment and you will instantly ascend and enemies will be half dead already, if you need to ascend more than once you can backstab with some op arquebus and you will ascend again pretty fast
Take a priest with you so you can prolong the ascended state with Salvation of Time , also it might be worth getting No Time for the Lost watcher skill for the same purpose of prolonging your ascended state
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3 minutes ago, KaineParker said:
there is no objective criteria for what constitutes a spiritual successor
Sure there is.
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You are the one that had no counter-arguments and went for cheapest strawman “its just your opinion” .
I am being very respectfull now when i am pointing out that you are a Strawman and a parrot who does not contribute anything to the disccusions
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12 minutes ago, Boeroer said:
Not really. For example Psychovampiric Shield lasts even if you kill the enemy you cast it upon. That was the topic of a recent thread here. I also thought differently but when I tested it was proven wrong. Maybe it changed at some point, no idea.
Psychovampiric Shield lasts longer with high INT (obviously) and I think also with Lingering Echoes (not 100% sure though) but most notably with Power Level (+5% multipicative with INT). So the more PLs you gain the longer it will last.
Hmmm so its only the Psychovampiric Shield that lasts after initial target died or there are other cipher spells like that ? I remember being pissed that Borrowed Instinct ended right after i kill the target which makes that ability much worse than it looks at first glance
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Nice parrot but you are getting old i will suggest you to learn new phrases once again
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PoE trying to be spiritual successor to BG is not my opinion it was selling point of first games Kickstarter
PFKM being true spiritual successor to BG is once again not my opinion but a fact that is widely agreed upon,since no other game got even close to that
BG2 is GOAT crpg and it has nothing to do with me or you liking or disliking it
Btw your parrot skills are really good you learned to parrot “its just your opinion” now be a good bird and learn some other phrases
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PoE tried to be spiritual successor to BG games.
PFKM is spiritual successor to BG.
BG2 is crpg GOAT
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27 minutes ago, Boeroer said:
@Blunderboss: Yes, Thunderous Report is like an AoE dmg spell - so that's a nice use of the crit conversion
What i like the most about Thunderous Raport is that is scales with everything you can think of because its considered weapon attack. It gets 60% damage from legendary upgrade alone and then scales with Might , PL , Bonus ranged damage like Harley buff and so on i think it even gets affected by sneak attack and deathblows
Obvious downside that its one per encounter and exclusive to another great enchantment on kitchen stove so you gotta make it count
@Chilloutman cipher debuffs that debuff enemy and buff yourself only last untill debuffed enemy is killed anyway
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Disintegrate Tactic is really good against tough enemies you can charm but cant explode with Thunderous Raport, depending on encounter you probably want to switch between , Single Target charm +disintegrate+ auto them with essence interrupter before they die, aoe charm + thunderous raport , just simply nuking enemy wizards with rogue skills you will crit them anyway and turn into minions(this is something you end up doing every time when enemy has a wizard which opens encounter with arcane dampener)Later in the game i mostly used Smoke Veil > Ring Leader repeat couple of times and smack them all with Thunderous Raport
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Whispers of the endless paths has reduced damage but it attacks in a cone and has Offensive Parry, with right build it does much more damage than other 2handed weapons.
Another great mindstalker build is Debonaire/Beguiler using ranged weapons.
You get Whispers of Treason and Ringleader for charming enemies, you can Whispers of Treason + Crit with Essence Interrupter bow and enemies will turn into your minions after they die. You can also mass charm enemies with Ringleader and then hit them with Kitchen Stove+Thunderous Raport for some serious annihilation. You will be able to interrupt in range with your rogue skills on demand which is very underrated imo, you will be able to build tons of focus either by using Deception spells which are some of the best debuffs in the game or just auto attacking afflicted targets with Sneak attack and deathblows. Build is very versatile and can switch between dealing single target damage , debuffing and crowd controlling on demand
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3 hours ago, the_dog_days said:
That's funny, my copy hasn't updated in months, same as my copy of Deadfire.
Last update for PFKM September 18 2019
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In current state of the games there are more bugs present in Deadfire than in Kingmaker. Kingmaker is still updated regulary.
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I dont think Obsidian forum is right place to compare other games to deadfire since people who are still active in this forum are mostly PoE fanboys (including me to some extent )
PFK is amazing game it is obviously more successfull game than deadfire, since deadfire is commercial failure.
This is the only true fact anything else is just useless discussions and randim opinions from self proclaimed single player game pros
Why is PoE2 not successful ?
in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
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There are 2 opinions on this forum that does not matter at all thats Boeroer and Thelee’s these guys clearly have **** taste since they keep playing average deadfire game for 55 times, and they keep derailing every topic with their ilussionary world beliefs where deadfire is the best game ever created. It isnt wake the **** up. Im glad you two loved this game so much that people saying truth about what this game did wrong butthurts you two so deeply. However it is clear that excluding 50 fanboys on this forum majority of players thinks deadfire is average or below average and sales represent it perfectly. I bet obsidian is happy that thelee and boeroer love this game so much sadly they cant buy another half of million coppies so there wont be deadfire 3