Wormerine

I encountered the destruction thing during the fight with Cristal Spider Queen. If enemy was petrified and she did her scream attack petrified companion would shatter killing him permanently. I managed to avoid it by equipping companions in danger with resistance gear so their addiction would drop to "paralyze". Recent expansions were first time I felt the wound system to actually have some effect. It was normal for my tank to die and get resurrected couple times making the would system actually mean something - neat!

Yes? I would be less positive about it, if it was made for launch - my philosophy is: pick want you want to do and so it well, rather than half-ass many things. However, now when games is well out I don't see it as anything less than positive. I would prefer redesign of ship combat though... Though the ship encounter UI looks nifty. I am curious who is responsible for it, and why it was made. Did someone wanted PoE to be turned based? Did low sales pushed higher ups to add turn based combat hoping to attract wider audience? I wouldnt riot, however, if PoE were turned based in the first place. I do like my RPG real time but I feel this is more of my nostalgia working. There is no decent way of playing PoE (or IE games) without heavy pausing so I do believe that high reliance on stats and hit chances mean that this system is not the most intuitive with real-time combat. So while I prefer real time I curious how well Deadfire will play as turn based.

I didn't play as Wizard, but I would've surprised if you could join the circle, full-stop. They make it clear it takes a long time, so I would expect a complete quest chain to make "circle application" happen. In addition, you didn't really anything which would impress wizards I think (you don't research magic nor create new spells). Making you part of the circle would mean introducing player to bunch of circle secrets. You could of course just give player a "circle member" perk with minor buff, but I feel that would be more disappointing than not being able to join circle.

Once you know he goes there you should be able to find him. He might even go there before you gather clues, I dunno. Just to make sure you look at the right place: If you can't find him there, you might want to send over your save for the devs to investigate.

I wonder if it will be getting inspirations from Josh's tabletop design.

What’s the fun in not playing the game? I have everyone on autoattack (and occasional no AI if I want to time my recovery) and manage every ability use. It’s way more fun that way, than watching figurines smash it out with little imput from yours truly (what can I say - I am a control freak).

Glad to hear it. No worries about my save though - I fixed it soon after posting this issue by replaying the fight and during the conversation with Wael not entertaining the idea of giving Concelhaut his/her body. And I like your writing! Looking forward to whatever is your next project.

Now that is a very good question.Turn time limit, like in Invisible Inc. time trial?

You are not the first to report such issue with this particular area. I think it might be a good idea to to head over to bug section and report it with as a save attatched (I usually use google disk as saves are too big to be attatched). https://forums.obsidian.net/forum/130-pillars-of-eternity-ii-deadfire-technical-support-spoiler-warning/

Curious. I will certainly give it a go. I can’t really thing of anything that would make the system not work as Turn Based, but balancing it to be fun might be tricky. Certainly it can’t be 1:1 translation or combat will go for way too long.

Oh boy. It must have been one of the first two. I am 75% sure it was “go-ahead to chop you to pieces” but might have been the 1st one.

I hope someday we can live in a world where money doesn't matter.

Your amount of casts is character dependant. Grimoires only expand your available spells. There is a grimoire which gives you one additional cast per level.

It seems to be pretty much content complete. Devs are still working on some things (including one extra challange) but if there are any other changes beyond tweaks and patches is unknown. During recent stream they said that they will clearly communicate when game will be completely wrapped up, but Forgotten Sanctum was the last major content.

Well, if I remember well how much HP your character has doesn't really matter in deadifre. The biggest danger of traps is that they grant you "wounds". Stack more than 3 on your character = DEAD. I don't think it is supposed to be possible to disarm traps without detecting them. You can only avoid them manually (not step on them).

I think this is time for Deadfire to get some serious praise and, hopefully, sales. For all the nitpicks that can and have been made, it is still a really well crafted game with a lot of talent behind it. I enjoy playing it every time I return to it.

I did find Eder and Aloth to not really work for me. I suppose I never felt like they belonged in the game beyond being likable faces returning for the sequel. Didn't yet connect with Eder's personal quest, and Aloth's ending up in Deadfire seemed too convenient. Though personally to me, the bigger issue I had is that their PoE1 endings felt undermined in order to allow to have them return without the need to write multiple versions of the same character. Aloth with&without Islelmyr's was in my mind different Aloth, while in Deadfire Aloth without Iselmyr is simply an Aloth with less content. Personally, I think I would prefer to see them as a small cameo but do see a clearer change in who they are though I imagine that properly developing various Eders and Aloths would still take quite a bit of work, even if amount of written words weren't nearly as large.

Ha! Llengrath just walked away before I could give her the Godseed. I guess I have my new "orlan baby" for PoE3 reactivity.

Those are not Wael godlikes. Your second theory is somewhat closer to the truth.

That's been my guess, and that's what I was hoping for. Excellent.

Obsidian = Hand Occult confirmed.

That would be highly immature of her. Well, they did add the new Ydwin conversation, however, whenever it was recorded with Forgotten Sanctum or before is unknown. It is also possible she might have Ukaizo reactivity - didn't check it, but I has been reported that other sidekick have. If all of those were recorded before, it makes sense they wouldn't book her to record those few lines for FS, or that they didn't mind if she wasn't available. If they did record those with FS I am a bit surprised they didn't pack in narration and slides. Either way, I hope it will make it into the game eventually.

Fair enough. Remids me of the time when I watched "The Usual Suspects" and was disappointed that Kevin Spacey was the bad guy. "Because of course he is. That was the twist?"

Well, what would you have, rather than ultimatum? Those are political factions we are talking about, and from different countries. For them it's win or loose game, and when they see opportunity they don't hesitate to act. Certainly not something comfortable to ally with, but it does feel believable. To bad game ends soon after that, and there is no chance to explore benefits of supporting one faction/detremend of not taking sides and letting factions tear Deadfire apart.

Neat! I wonder what else is hidden. Obs needs to work on their patch notes. Not only they add new stuff to the game for no extra charge, but they also hide it from us!