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Bekarna’s research prepares for the reveal of the Wheel being in Deadfire. It is possible we will learn a bit more about it the 3 expansions, if it will continue this story thread. There is confusion regarding how life worked before the wheel was created by Engwith and what destrying of the wheel means for the future.

Sounds like the highest praise there could be. You know what is even better? Glass of whiskey and PoE.

They certainly can expand on it. “Will they?” Is a better question. As they will probably need to get voice actors for an expansion it could be a chance to record some additional lines. The first and easiest way to expand characters is to give them a bit more things to talk about - ask Eder how he ended up with me on the ship, ask Xoti about the lantern etc- like in PoE1 and Tyranny. I am with @Larkson that current system needs fixing before we see if and how much it needs further iteration. But as a speculation: the relationship system would make more sense to me, if each individual “reputation” was tracked separately and had response when reaching certain level - right now I feel as if interactions are too few, to justify having system, build around them. That might be much writing though, depending how many “reputations” are companions likely to trigger between each other.

Yes, as a sequl to PoE1 it is somewhat disappointed as it doesnt deliver in the area, which made me care about the sequel in the first place. However, everything else is superb, so... it’s still great? Maybe?

Josh protects.

Oh, you know i have to ask: Scavenger Hunt items on GOG?

So doing certain quests in certain order cuts you off from completing other quests. I would report it in the bug forum for devs to see if something could be done about it.

It’s not, that I would prefer to see different companions, I just wish I had more reunion moments with old companions. Especially that, except for Pallegina, returning companions don’t join you because of their duty. Not being able to talk to them really bothered me.

Oh I got one! Companion with an interesting character arc. We lack those in Deadfire

Continuing redownloading the game with no issues so far. Windows was using the disc and memory extensivelly yesterday so it's possible something was blocking something else. I have 200GB free so it shouldn't be a space related issue. EDIT: Yup, it installed without any issues this time around. Maybe I should have simply restart my PC or GOG solved its issue overnight. Luckiily this time GOG installed all DLCs at once.

Hallo chums. I am curious if anyone else encountered issues when updating Deadfire via GOG. After length download and installation I have received the message „instalation failed: disk access problem”. Followed with some troubleshooting including messing with security software. Ended up uninstalling and redownloading the whole thing. Midway through the download the same error popped out. The issue most probably lies with gog galaxy and I will continue fixing it tomorrow, but just wanted to check if it’s an isolated, Deadfire unrelated issue.

I enjoyed the game a great deal. The point above is probably my main disappointment. While I have expected to be somewhat disappointed by the story - I don't believe you can follow a great story with a sequel - the change of narrative focus in Deadfire took me by surprise. However, treating it as a fallout2 style adventure it is a pretty good stuff. It might be trying to juggle a bit too many ideas at once (it is sort of openworld, but not really; its dungeon crawler, but not really; its faction focused, but not really; its about gods and events of cosmic importance, but not really etc, its about you your ship and making a fortune in Deadfire, but not really) but I hope it will start shining brighter and brighter with every but of polish. Right now it's a pretty damn good time and a solid RPG adventure.

It's pay to win, man.

The current system fits into overall asthetic, mechanics and, most importantly, keeps you in the shoes of the captain. I have no doubt there could be a good minigame with the same feel made, but I would have them focus on what they have and improve upon it, rather than start from scratch. I think the ship2ship system could use work, but I am not sure if adding additional mechanics on top of existing ones would solve its problem. Right now, there simply isn't a reason to manouver around. The most advanced strategy I had was having different cannons on different sides and choosing the side I want to face my enemy with based on the range. Improve the ship combat so the already implimented mechanics works well, rather than adding new once which will be just as one sided as the existing ones.

Companions react to certain things. You will have her personal quest no matter what. Romance adds a bit of content, but not much unless you are interested in said romance.

I do like idea of PotD being riddiculus, for those who beat the game, know the encounters/builds/mechanics.

My experiences with romances has been lame. Didn’t commit to any in my playthrough but I did explore different paths and reload. I usually remember initial dialogue (companion getting horny), then some middle point and the “finale” comes near the end. Certainly my dislike for those comes from bugged dispositions and most of the companions initiating romance minutes after getting recruited. Aside from being weird it also throws pacing out of the windows as acts1&2 of romance come early within the game, while I had to wait tenths of hours for it to move forward. I also didn’t feel there was any growth between my character and romancable person. If one is looking for shark meat and gets frustrated:

hopefully, since this is a smaller game, they will do better with patches this go-round. I will say... they DID try. I'll give them that. huh...? ekhm... Deadfire is not smaller than PoE1. If anything, it has more mechanics, maps and interations for something to go wrong.

Is Eora a planet? After Deadfire I am not sure about anything anymore.

Too bad. Even if they improve the game in months to come, and Deadfire will become a gem it has potential to be, luke-warm reviews and initial reception will stay.

That’s curious. I did notice, that my graphic card doesn’t work too hard. By default Deadfire even switched to my integrated card. Usually when I run a game card gets heated and fans go crazy. Not so much with Deadfire. Playing through Tyranny, and graphic card seems to work much harder. If the main stress is indeed on CPU that would explain that behaviour and explain why Deadfire has such issues with running well on my laptop. Naturally, any further optimisation would be greatly appreciated if possible. (I don’t know how computers and programming works)

Not how I remember it (and I replayed it many many many times trying to like it ever since release. My most recent playthrough was within last year, finally beating all expansions). I could spend the dreadful hour or two, talking to companions in the camp and gettin 10+ reputation with each conversation. Figuring out what they want to hear was easy, as the writing wasn’t exactly subtle. There were reactions when adventuring but they were for most part insignificant (i dislike helpin people: minus 1-3 Morrigan points). There were some major ones, but they were... extreme choices, I would have never picked outside “I want to see how it plays out). Anyway, going through the right, private, conversation paths and doing their personal quests were enough to keep everyone 80+. Well, except the elf assassin guy. But I kept killing him outright after my first play through. Edit: oh and I fed the dwarf with alcohol so I don’t have to talk to him.

Thx. Curious. Does any one know how the xp fo idle character is calculated? I see you have sidekicks and a mercenary. I never bother level sidekicks up and made no mercenaries. Maybe the more people you recruit the less xp every idle individual gains? It certainly seems like too much of a difference.

I don’t think it is possible to catch a lightening in the bottle twice. I think Deadfire is a New Vegas sprititual successor, and it just doesn’t work as well as it did the first time around. I think that a lot of appeal of Fallout isn’t in Wasteland - yes, both are post apocalyptic wasteland settings, but a lot of charm of fallout comes from its interest in society, satire, humour and retro sf feel. Playing Wasteland2 felt different. What I am trying to say is: I feel like themes and world of Wasteland is different enough, to not really be a good candidate for a Fallout knockoff. I would be greatly disappointed with Wasteland2 if I expected it to be a fallout game, but I enjoyed it as it’s own thing. The PoE&Tyranny releases felt a bit too safe for me - not that they were not ambitious, but appeal of Obsidian games was always the creativity and originality. Deadfire feels almost... formulaic. We have seen those ideas before, and unfortunately in many cases - done better. Better dungeons, better faction system, better companions, better crit path. While there are some games I would like to see sprititual successors too (like Alpha Protocol) I feel NV is too good to be repeated. Unique mechanics, coming together with a unique setting and story. Hoping that the secret project will be the fresh new idea, we are waiting for.