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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.

It’s been confirmed multiple times that Forgotten Sanctum is the last of the paid, premium content. However, it has been said that the team working on the overall game still has some things it’s working on. How major those are - I don’t know.

I think the highest I have seen so far was 20. It seemed more like a flavour/early inspection thing, so there might be somethign more extreme. Though both expansions are aimed pretty much at end game content so they might be similar in that respect.

Baldur’s Gate2 Fallout: New Vegas Witcher 3 Gothic 2 Deus Ex

Or simply ban all players.

I promise myself I will never play incomplete game again, though usualy curiosity or excitement takes better of me.

Just before starting the new DLC I went aboard my ship to check the new conversation options with Yidwin. During our talks she mentioned what seems like location from Forgotten Sanctum, even though I haven't been there yet. The issue/oversight can be easily found using this save - just add Yid to the party and ask her about Republics and libraries. At this point DLC hasn't been activated yet. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17XSpLfxPnaDJqetUCjA8vfPZTQDZp1uY/view?usp=sharing

It's in Dark Cupboard. I received an official letter about it, even during beta. Now when the whole thing is out I am sure you can find it by yourself. For anyone interested when you sacrifice the pet to it it will remember its apperance and its buff. Then you can create a pet by choosing the look, the bonus and name it. Therefore you can have your favourity pet, with your favourite buff and give it your favourite name!

Yup. It's actualy already in the beta (or was unless it was patched out). I actually really like the feature, and I already sacrificed one of my multiple cats. For science of course.... or an achievement.

NPCs refuse to talk with you because of your obvious . . . eagerness.

Yes, and it is good news. If you add romance into an RPG, its smart to cater to many tastes/roleplaying options. A big chunk of time is spent to develop fairly shallow romance options for multiple companions. Its also limits who your companions can be. While romancable companions can, and have been good after so many RPG they all become samey. I personally felt original Pillars greatly benefited from not having romances - as the result it had quite a few "fresh" companions. I do find it odd when every person who spends time with you is an available date. Hard to believe all those super attractive people don't have lifes on their own and all wait for their chosen one and the chosen one is you! Deadfire had a shot at it, and I see it as one of the elements which weakened its companions (this and ambitious way of delivering their story, which in my opinion, didn't pay off). So yeah, not having romancable companions is a plus in my book.

We know more about Obsidian secret project. However, there is a new secret project in works according to gamespot. https://youtu.be/58qKmxO_YfQ?t=1225 What could it possibly be? First Obsidian game under Microsoft banner?

I might have used wrong word there. I didn’t mean “streamlines” as a bad term.