Wormerine

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!

I doubt it. It's not like they disabled it throughout (right...? didn't check). It's more likely that Ashley wasn't available for recording or something. The god sequences aren't a bit problem as there actually isn't much for hear to read. But it sucks if there is no narration for new ending slides. That will feel weirdly off. It would be cool if they found a way to patch them in, but with no new major content coming up that might not happen.

I doubt there will be more audio options rather than English. While certainly makes for a better product for those not fluent in English it is a massive investment, especially for an RPG where amount of lines is expected to be significant. In the end it is a mid budget title - I can’t imagine their audio budget to be big enough to support recording sessions in multiple languages. Subtitle translation should be a thing. I hear those haven’t been great lately though. Hopefully 2K might connect Obsidian with a better translation teams than what they used for PoEs.

Yeah, it’s alright. But I don’t think that not having those damages game in any way. In the end it’s about how skill helps you save resources. I am curious if OW will use Deus Ex system (the higher hacking skill the less lockpicks required) or if it will be a hard cap (need that much skill to lockpick). Personally I though the original DE multi tool/lockpick system was great, as it opened more ways for people who invested in hacking/lockpicking, while still allowing everyone to open each, individual lock with enough resources.

Yeah, it’s a great dungeon. I pretty much loved it except the conclusion. I found the lore interesting especially as it goes into the future, but it’s already all wrong. Ha! Can’t trust any of it.

Correct. The circles are simply traps. There is part of the artefact which you can steal without alerting enemies, or you can fight them if you are up for a fairly challenging fight.

I might be off but here is how I understand it: Politically uninvolved party members: -Eder, Xoti, Aloth. Maybe its possible for them to leave if you really dislike what you do, but all I got was serious talk with eder. -Pallegina - she is a strong supporter of Valians and will be upset if you do anything against Valians. She will leave you if you mess up quests involving feud of prominent Valian families . If you side with Huana she will leave, and if you pin sabotage of Rauataian powder house on VTC director she will leave you as well. Side note: I remember Josh tweating that if Pallegina is having "disgraced" background she will accept nothing less than siding with Valians. However, this claim has been contested by several players. -Serafen - not so much interested in politics, but if you agree to support slavers he will leave. -Takehu - he will leave if you side with RDC - as their plan is fairly anti-huana Maia - she will leave when you agree to target RDC: so siding with Valians or Huana. I'm not sure if it's possible for companions to leave due to differences, but even if it is, those can be easily resolved. I did finish game with Pal and Xoti in the party for example. In addition all the leaving has been buggy throughout the games release - for example on my first playthrough no one left, and there are reports of companions not leaving if they are not present during the event. However, those are bugs and they might have been patched by now.

No Ashley Johnson wonderful narration for scripted interaction with supernatural creatures in Beyond this time around. Sad face.

I would go Veteran and upscale all. If you are a completionist I would also download mod to reduce XP gain. I am not 100% sure how balanced the game is now. I found expansions just right on Veteran - somewhat challenging, couple deaths, but never overwhelming. The biggest problem in Deadfire is tendency to overlevel content - therefore xp mod. I am not sure what game considers as crit path, I would just suggest to upscale all.

The good thing about factions that I can completely see supporting each one of them depending on character I played. VTC was a fit for my main PC so here is my vote.

It works for me just fine - didn't use enough empowers to progress, but they are getting registered. Just to make sure, you have to empower abilities - I don't think refreshing your resource pool works.

So much stupid. Microsoft acquisition has been recent, as far as the word goes they are still figuring things out, and Outer Worlds doesn't have anything to do with Microsoft. That project has been long on the making. Decision to limit camera options for purely FTP has been made by Obsidian due to budget limitations. Who knows, maybe with big backing of Microsoft it would have 3rd person view, just to match current "Bethesda" model.

Cool. Quite appropriate as some more is revealed about his home country.

After defeating Oracle, and talking the Wael I picked the option to give Wael's body to Councelhaut. However, after leaving the conversation I decided to kill Oracle instead (I assume that kills the body as she is "the brain). However, when I returned to main hall were wizards were waiting for me, Councelhaut claimed to have new body and the discription mentioned tentacles even though he was floating by me and it was him speaking (skulls image, centered on him). See for yourself: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16SG5cUO_USj7Xht3RBpiDUkJ-3efcHS5/view?usp=sharing

I don't think it's supposed to be. I don't think it is as important as allowing character builds to differ from each other, but the better the combat the more fun the experience. I don't hate combat as much as other people, but so far enemies look dull and combat seems like a snooze fest. It doesn't turn me off, as I play RPGs for RPGing. I treat combat in those as an element of overall experience, not as the main focus. I am curious to see if there is more to it. It is just the first demo.

Pretty much above: dual weapon damage means your character will target the weaker defence. Deadfire really really doesn't want to running around with the same weapon. I personally like dual weapons damage as that means I have to switch weapons less. There are also many ways to bring/raise penetration.

I did read through it and certainly some worthy suggestions but some of those ask for developing new technology/functionality which is no small feat. I am a big fan of seeing your own body in FPS. In video it does seem like a floating hand with a gun. That said, if I remember well, dishonoured protagonist don’t have a body and it works just fine. OW is a sf RPG but it’s no starcitizen. While some cool flavours for planets and locations would be nice, I don’t expect them to be anything more that had made maps which you travel inbetween using map, ala Mass Effect.and I don’t think they need to be anything more than that. Yhh, ok time to disagree. Cover system. While the combat doesn’t look too interesting so far, I certainly don’t long for a cover system. Cover in FPview could be alright, new Deus Ex cover is bad bad bad (and so is switching between FPS and TPS for no reason). Hope so see some cooler things in combat but inspecting texture resolution on boxes and walls isn’t on of them. Deployable shields, gravity bombs that kind of stuff.

There actually isn’t. Like not even the little. We have isometrics to choose from for now, and phrase “Baldur’s Gate3” worries me. I got over it and got re-married couple times already. Not you are claiming to resurrect my first wife, but she is also not my first, and expect me to be excited about it. 18 years ago I would. Now I sit with a shotgun on my porch and suspiciously watch what this abomination will do. One second thought, this analogy doesn’t really work.