protopersona

Steam sales are a powerful thing. "It was as if millions of wallets cried out in pain, and then were emptied."

When you hover over an enemy you can see who they're targeting. The selection circle of whatever a unit is targeting becomes an X instead of a circle. I've found setting each party member's colors to something different helps me to tell them apart too.

Heh, the first time you meet Vela she's asking the priest about getting more booze. I don't think she's as young or as innocent as you're all assuming she is.

I also remember there being a mod for that. My guess is something "fixed" the ability for mods to unlock the helmet slot.

Supposedly there is one more Magran's Fire challenge coming. The rumor is that when it drops we will also get a new "The Ultimate" achievement where you beat the game 100% with all god challenges enabled. As for when that's coming we haven't been given an estimate yet.

Sadly I think even in those cases a troubadour using brisk recitation and Many Lives would get more mileage out of the combo in a prolonged fight.

Backstab has a range of 2 meters. Generally it doesn't help ranged weapons without a mod.

Things come in cycles because almost everyone chooses to ignore history.

Judging from the amount of UI, abilities, items, cyclopedia entries and interface changes that were in the leaked version I'd say yes, there was.

It's fixed at +1/-5. The increased area is more about hitting more targets than it is about power level.

Not right now, but in PoE5 the entire stronghold system will revolve around dealing with teenage Vela. As a matter of fact people might complain about too much money to spend, but they should already start thinking about saving for Vela’s education. To continue on this silly but funny tangent: interesting how you reveal yourself to be from an English-speaking country, there. Maybe the international editions will be slightly different, in the sense that Vela can actually get an incredibly good university education for free, enabling her (among other things) to speak a large number of languages unlike the English-speaking people who've paid fortunes for their education and can only speak one. This hits too close to home. ;_;

Yes, it still works.

The purpose of connecting your accounts is so that Obsidian can send a confirmation to Steam telling it to give you a copy of the DLCs the scavenger hunt unlocks.

Ya know, I've seen some videos that have this plot. I think it was on some Hub website.

If they did that wouldn't the players be able to loot that gear, and the problem would become players get to powerful too quickly?

Will there's this one that only gets rid of the pet, nothing else. https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/214

I think rebalancing the scaling rules would be more productive. I think the problem is the scaling is stuck at bumping things up a maximum of 4 levels, so a level 8 creature bumps up to a maximum of 12. If the maximum scaling was something like 9 then that level 8 can now go as high as 17, preserving some of the difficulty all the way to level 20. Both the XP gain rate and level scaling cap are issues fixed by the Deadly Deadfire mod. I highly recommend it.

I feel like there is a conspiracy going on at this point of people that want me to play a Citzal's build lol. Nah, just happens to be a rather powerful build. Right up there with single class monks or heralds.

I not realy understand how the monk single class with ability Whispers of the Wind connect to the blood mage ? Or its only example of easy solid build solo PoTD? Boeroer was making a joke referring to Marigoldran and their obsession with suggesting single class monks with "Whispers of the Wind" or Heralds (paladin/chanter) as the solution for everything in the game. Even in threads like this where Marigoldran's advice is completely out of place and unwarranted.

problem is crpg fans enjoy nothing and are never happy. Ud spread more joy by manufacturing pharmaceuticals rather than games. That's the dichotomy of groups really, two extreme factions under one label. In this case, fans of RPGs looking for empowerment, and fans of narrative agency. The first group wants powerful builds, advancement systems with plenty of choice, and the ability to demonstrate mastery of the game's systems. The second group wants the freedom to build the story they want, the world to react to that story, and the feeling of something greater than the individual parts. Pleasing both of those groups in a single game is genuinely hard.

There was a mod for this already on the Nexus, but it's hidden now because 4.0 stopped it from working evidently. Good chance the author is planning to fix it though.

About the only character you might consider changing is Serefen's cipher subclass. Of the 4 companions you listed they already really great in their roles with the default choices. Tekehu especially has a nice custom subclass.

It's been said already, but AI is actually rather hard to get right. No matter how complex you try to make it it's not really gonna make it harder. Either it has a pattern that can be figured out and becomes trivial, or it's randomized enough that it just becomes a reflex dance. Either way most people don't see it as enough of a challenge once they've learned what to do. That's why the AI in almost every game since the first one has had to cheat. Higher stats, abilities beyond what a player can do or just having perfect knowledge of the game state. Those are the only realistic ways for a computer to challenge a human currently. EDIT: Also there are practical aspects to this debate. They already have the framework in the game for good AI, the party AI system. Problem is they would need to add a bunch of triggers, test that those triggers work, build an encounter using dozens of those triggers per creature at least, and test it for who knows how long getting it to a beatable state. Or they can spend an afternoon buffing the stats of everything and test the big fights for adjustments. When you're spending money you don't really have the choice becomes pretty obvious.

My answer, from an RPG perspective, would be: because you are not automatically able to identify everything happening around you. As a GM, I would allow players to make some relevant checks (provided that they have the skills, otherwise it'd be an intelligence check) in situations like this. I don't know whether anything of this sort has been implemented into Deadfire. I agree that if you never have any chance of identifying stuff like this, there is a problem. I can understand this logic, but if the game devs wanted to take this route why give an ability icon instead of a generic casting icon? For experienced players just seeing the icon is enough to instantly know what's being cast. So why not give new players the tools to properly react to the enemy tactics as well?

Oh, well I'm annoyed then. Pretty sure Boeroer and AndreaColombo are too judging from their participation in this thread. Is that enough people yet?