beatspores

I wanted to center it on Neketaka so of course it's cut on the sides because of this. Although, if I used my brain I should have just extended the water to the left and bottom since they're all islands. I'll get to this later and update the post.

Started out just playing around with my own map to test some stuff but sort of never stopped so now it's a wallpaper. Hope you like it. Here are HQ image downloads: 4K plain: https://drive.proton.me/urls/32KKBTZCVM#MYLolStaN4em 4K ultrawide plain: https://drive.proton.me/urls/6T90PG8P20#sB24q7rgLSB7 4K Windows 100% scale: https://drive.proton.me/urls/JP3R5DPGS0#406FJv9VkOvG 4K Windows 125% scale: https://drive.proton.me/urls/MH9QYS895R#94iEVgwEvO0m 4K ultrawide Windows 100% scale: https://drive.proton.me/urls/492C91HV64#0oAGQ5V41YO6 4K ultrawide Windows 125% scale: https://drive.proton.me/urls/DFZS3G98J4#opES5sA2x2qK 4K Mac: https://drive.proton.me/urls/QBN6BQ4BX8#pfBL5fPYEacq 4K ultrawide Mac: https://drive.proton.me/urls/H1KCEMH890#HQBHvyyqRxZX If you like it and use it post a screenshot so I can see if works out well with the Windows bar on the bottom. I only have a mac. Regards / b

Thank you so much for taking the time to look at this. Unfortunately I can't get this to work. I've tried several different kinds of keys but nothing happens either on or off. I also get a couple of error messages. Image 1 is when I try to bind an F-key, image 2 is when I try to bind a "regular" key, image 3 is when I try to reset the setting. When I use the ClearBoundCommands nothing shows about if it was registered or not. I'm on mac by the way, running from a game install file downloaded from GOG, if that changes anything in this.

Hey thanks for clicking. I want to bind the "smart camera" to a hotkey I can use in-game without going into the settings menu to on / off that all the time. I've looked around in the .gamedatabundles and also with Apotheosis but I can't find anything myself. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, regards / b

Greetings. I want to know if it is at all possible to make custom AI scripts for the first Pillars game. NOT Deadfire. I love the custom AI editor for Deadfire and I find it elevates the game something fierce. Not only does it do mundane tasks like healing without you having to click it and not really have to pay attention to it. I could go on ad infinitum, and I will probably write a detailed guide on it, but in short: it is awesome. But, the AI script editor is a new feature in Deadfire and unfortunately does not exist for the first Pillars game. Obviously the game does have a way better AI for your enemies than you can set up for your party. So, there must be some way to access this even though you will likely have to dig deeper into the system than in Deadfire. Does anyone know how to go about this? Thanks, regards / b

Thank you very much for the information about this!

Hi. I want an item that drops from this fight and of course I want it as fast as possible. How I can get to that fight the fastest, Beasts of the Slayer: Tactical Ogres? Thank, regards / beatspores

Hi. I purchased the Cloak of Poverty from Thaenic. I purchased stuff so I got 0 gold. Since that didn't give me any resolve bonus I tried putting it on and off again, saving and loading, restarting game client and loading, rebooting computer, tried selling stuff so that I didn't have 0 gold but still within the bonus range. None of that makes the cloak do what it is intended to. I also tried loading a save before purchasing the cloak, and this time with some money on me, but within the bonus range, but that did not work either. I can't upload a save file because it's 2.6 MB so larger than what's allowed to attach. Please let me know how to fix it. Thanks / b

Hi. I'm playing with a Rogue Assassin and naturally I get the Slippers of the Assassin for footwear. The item works as intended in terms of gameplay but it seems pretty much always that the character invisibility visual mode never turns off. Not during the fight or even after the fight has ended. Makes the whole thing quite a chore to use as you have to quick save and quick load to get rid of the bug. Again, it works as intended gameplay-wise but not visually. Also if you're invisible, visually, during the fight it's hard to know what's going on with your character. Regards / beatspores

Edit: I made a mistake posting this under beta patch. I will post a new thread under the regular technical support. Please remove this thread, thank you.

Ah, hm. Maybe I'm mistaken then... it's just I thought for sure that it did work before. Maybe a dev can chime in here?

Hi. I'm not getting the god boons at Hasongo. Worked before on previous playthroughs but now it doesn't. Tried both Galawain - distribute soul essence - and Skaen - devote to Woedica - via the set POE state options in Deadfire menu. Edit: Forgot to add that the effigy pool and gift of the machine stats kicks in as normal. Thanks / beatspores

Sawyer wrote somewhere perhaps in an answer to a question or whatever that they wanted companions to be unique, hence the limitation regarding your Watcher character. Personally I prefer it this way even though I'm disappointed with the absolute majority of the companions in Deadfire. I'm surprised. I thoroughly enjoyed Deadfire's music and I'm impressed with the work. Naturally I don't like everything but that's likely an impossible task to achieve. Following are my favourites. And if anybody cares, likely not, I also liked this piece very much. Makes me want that they return to a more gloomy setting next game, whatever it may be.

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

What I miss from the first game is that whenever you face an opponent it said what type the creature was when you hovered over it. In Deadfire there's no information like that. The thing is it matters because of some abilities and items.

Perhaps a kind of full out war between 2 cities but with several major players in the war that have their own agendas and trying to come out on top in different ways. The tides of the war would change the world map in different ways depending on which nation controls what, or has swayed which group. The two cities/nations and you yourself, will affect the world either through the front lines and/or through assassinations or schemes from the dark. There could be two or more end-game bosses, of which one will become your antagonist, and perhaps other ones who can't reveal their true identity in order to benefit when the war comes to an end, or to play both sides. I like games in which the story affects the gameplay itself, such as antagonists stealing your powers, not just some story power such as only your soul or whatever but also a game ability you could otherwise use, and games that uses your choices against yourself like infiltrating your party. Well, just an idea, I don't think I'm an awesome author of stories, I just like total mayhem and hidden agendas and backstabbery. Also, for the love of god please support real-time-with-pause in future games.

Gonna look that up, thanks for the tip! Yes Syndicate Wars, never played it didn't have a computer back then but it looked badass!

Yes yes I know CD Project Red are doing the Cyberpunk 2077 and while it looks cool and cinematic it does not scratch my itch. Isometric RPGs are just ballers man, the focus isn't action per say but strategy and special abilities you get to choose when you level up, and awesome quests that can be solved in different ways, or not at all! While I realize that Obsidian making an isometric cyberpunk game in the wake of CD P.R.'s game is low I just so hope they will because the whole gameplay and take on it would be different. Ok, wall of text incoming. I think it would be a solid way for Obsidian to take in between, I dare say, Deadfire and the third game in the series. Because it would be a clean slate where they get to apply the knowledge gained, and I think shown in the refined gameplay and other features of Deadfire, but to a whole different setting from anything close to fantasy, with new requirements and new possibilities. Think about all the cool stuff it could mean! They could make an expansive megacity using the Deadfire ship mechanism where you can drive your hover car between locations that you can enter and load that map. Later when you get the cash you can purchase a flying vehicle that can go in a straight line and perhaps allow you to land in the same locations of course, but also maybe previously not accessible ones, but you could land on them at new spots. For example at the top of a skyscraper instead of driving to its street, thus giving you a different way to infiltrate the building. There could also be car chases with a different kind of combat from the ship one in Deadfire, but using the same base principle. Information would play a more important role because of the high tech, but also preferably very dark, setting. Not only with how you find out about quests but also how you should target them. Perhaps you hear about some important energy cells or whatever made by some high profile company. You could hack the hover truck's GPS and intercept them in transit something like the car chase mentioned above. Or perhaps you can look up the company's driver employees and just accidentally happen to run into them at a bar or whatever before the date of transaction and social engineer information on the weak spot of the loading/unloading of the energy cells, which would require a passive or active skill check or some such. If you haven't heard about the term social engineering look up "Kevin Mitnick social engineering", or just think of it as Deadfire Insight/Bluff. Further uses of information would be being able to get the blueprint layout of a corp. executive's mansion or hack the security cameras for a live feed of the guards whereabouts. Something I loved about the original Thief games, like Thief 2 for example, was that you got a blueprint drawing of the building you were to thief your way in to before the mission, and you got to load out your guy with the info you had at hand. So for a game such as this you would have your stash in your vehicle and can only load up on stuff for every quest/mission according to your strength stat or something. Preferably hacking wouldn't be like 1 stat or 1 skill but split into different kinds of hacking. So hacking for blueprints or information would be different from hacking live communication channels. Or something like you have to get the proper deciphering code out of several ones used in the world, so deciphering codes would be highly sought after in the underworld. Maybe the targets realize they've been hacked and goes over to a different encryption code that you may or may not have acquired. Do you postpone your mission or do you take your chances and load up on lots of fire power to make up for the information you don't have? Character level up progression and making your character would define the gameplay, as it does for Pillars as you know. But I think for a cyberpunk game it would make for a different set of mechanisms. At level up you get to choose new class specific abilities and upgrades, provided you have the resource required. But some abilities make you more or perhaps less vulnerable to specific attacks. One ability could be that you augment two or all of your companions with connected communication so that they can share skill checks at a distance, a distance allowed for by the upgrade points. This could be handy when infiltrating a building with your most stealthy companion, but need high skill checks for specific points. But there would be a vulnerability here that can be abused by your enemies in fights where they can hack you in combat, similar to a low Will defense number in Pillars. So more abilities makes you stronger and more all-round for both outside of and in combat, but also more vulnerable to hacking from enemies that specialize in that kind of abuse. Furthermore, perhaps this connected communication upgrade just mentioned, perhaps every skill check used during the mission, at the same high tech place, increases the chances that the security system made up of guards and other measures, gets wise and realize they're under attack, and changes their routes or start to go actively looking for you. Combat in Deadfire I think is great and I don't think there's a way to be revolutionary in the real-time-with-pause system. But the parallels wouldn't be 1 to 1 of course. Area of effect damage would be different kinds of shotguns, grenades, napalm or maybe flamethrowers, shockwave weapons etc. Stuns could be taser guns, EMP weapons etc etc. I know lots of people love the Ranger class in RPGs and there would of course be an equivalent in this game where you get a quadrocopter or a walking robot, or even an augmented real bulldog that can take a hit. Wizards don't really have a place in this type of world I think but Pillars Ciphers most certainly do, they would be more of the combat hacker type character. Then there would be more brutish type characters that can carry a huge minigun with lots of sustained damage but low accuracy, grenade launcher, or perhaps loaded for frontline melee combat similar to a Barbarian with a carnage range. Rogue type characters would be agile operatives specializing in one-target damage with abilities more or less directly translated such as the given backstab, invisible-camouflage stuff, hobble attacks etc etc. So combat itself would be quite familiar but again the abilities you acquire perhaps even more defines your playstyle with your strengths and weaknesses from the abilities you've chosen. A challenge I think with a cyberpunk game is that you can't use all kinds of different beasts to have a large variety of enemy types. But I think it's not all that important to have a visual difference on everything. You can do some stuff that is more or less unique for every encounter. Partly what composition of classes your enemies have and the types of attacks they prefer, their special tactics etc, perhaps they have unique abilities as a group something like Tyranny had for 2 party members. And you can also make all kinds of different robots with unique attributes. Furthermore you can have fringe cases where some people have augmented themselves to no longer be counted as human. They can be self-sustaining but now deranged and live in the darkest corners of forgotten parts of the city, immune to most cyber hack technologies. For this type of game I think Obsidian, because of course I want them to make it, should choose to have a max 3 or 4 hero party, but more emphasis on using different companions for different missions, now that you can gather some information about the mission before you chose your lineup, but of course you don't have the complete story at the beginning, and for some missions you have no idea what you're up against. Some targets make it a principle to not be connected to the outside world to be as secure as possible. Anyways, the companions you're not currently using acquire levels themselves something similar to the Pillars Caed Nua missions but I'm thinking you level them up when you hire them for a job by providing them the resources required for certain upgrade abilities. As you hire companions for every job you have to share the bounty credits on the score, because their lives do not start and end with you and your in game avatar, and their cut would be influenced by how much resources you spend on their level up in between missions. So if you want you can spend all your credits and resources on yourself, soloing the game throughout or make like you and 1 other companion as strong as possible but also less dynamic in how you tackle the quests. Romance-wise you can only romance red light district courtesan robots OK? As you can tell I can go on and on about this and if you've read this far I would like to thank you for it. What are your thoughts about a cyberpunk game in between Deadfire and a Pillars 3? Regards / beatspores I initially made this post in reddit/r/projecteternity but it hit me maybe I should post it here.

Thank you but probably best to not bother the devs with this, I am sure you and them have much more important stuff to do. So I wait for someone from the community to help out if they can. Thanks / beatspores

Hiya. I have accidentally sold the Ordinary Sword to some merchant in Neketaka or Dunnage. I have double checked those vendors, all but 1 that I have killed. I killed the Spindle Man or whatever he's called, the Vithrak darling in Delver's Row. I don't think I sold the sword to him but not sure. So the question is: is there a way to check the save file for what merchants has what in inventory, and preferably even dead vendors then? I know there are some save file editors but I've never used one before. If that does not pan out, do you have a suggestion for other cool one handed swords? I already have Modwyn and Whispers of Yenwood. I can't off the Valeria dude because I'm playing with Pallegina. Thanks / beatspores

A somewhat similar bug is the Dawnstar medicine quest. Can't remember precisely what caused it but you can get the medicine from the guy how many times you want as long as you, if I remember correctly, tell him you killed the Spider guy in a dialogue loop. A detail about this is that I think I stole it from him in a chest before I spoke to him, if that matters. It's a fringe case and no real effect on the game so I won't bother filing a new thread about it.

Yea I encounter this problem every now and again in different places of the menus.

Hehe, scratch that. I'm an idiot, you have to prepare them by clicking on them. Don't know why I didn't try that before. Sorry everybody!

For example Sigil of Atrophy Wardstone. I had it in the quick item slot before an encounter with that sigil and I still get the attack and the until-rest-permanent effect.

I thought the effect was gonna be passing so I didn't record exactly when it happened, sorry. I think it happened some time around getting the No Pity for the Lost ability. It doesn't impede the game or anything but it's a bug nonetheless, though I'm sure you have more important bugs to deal with before this one. I'm currently playing a priest of Berath so I'm thinking it's kinda a death guard hands effect...!