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Thankfully I have the 8th free so yeah I'll be there :D
Most likely won't be til the 9th though because my internet is garbage and I got it on gog instead of steam.
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So, based on the latest update, Vela will have a talking sword as a mom. What could possible go wrong?
:D well if you want her to be a warrior she has a head start at least
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> crying
Disliking the moment is one thing. Crying about it years later as a forced romance (despite it being no such thing. At most it's a forced flirtation and you know what? I've had one of those in every single BW game except DAI as a female character and somehow I managed to reject them and move along.
I disliked that moment with Anders and I have had guys literally beg me to have sex with them and it didn't bother me, so no, it isn't that.
I think that they are all scared, the idea of a guy hitting on you is scarying if you still have doubts of who you are and what you like, lack of confidence.Dear lord people still going on about that forced Anders flirt? My god some people have the thinnest of skins. He hit on you, you can shut him down. Jesus christ at some people acting like an unwanted advance that's easily shut down is the end of the universe. (And the only way to even get hit on is to pick the diplomatic super nice supportive guy options twice in the conversation. Pick any thing else and he doesn't even hit on you).
"But I get five rivalry points!" that you can make up in the very next conversation. Oh noes. (especially hilarious given Anders is one of the easiest companions to max out friendship on. Give me a break).
It's very easy to dismiss criticism as 'oh they're just bigots'.
Hell even male PCs get hit on unavoidably by female characters. Somehow people managed to reject them just fine for their preferred partner without acting like it was the end of the world years later.
> end of the world
Do you ever stop to think that your hyperbole doesn't accurately represent reality?
Constantly bringing it up the way some people do in every single thread to do about same sex romances does hit my definition of crying about it and acting like they were traumatized by it. Especially given the language they usually use.
And yes I'm very used to hearing that over-exaggerated complaint so please don't try to tell me about an accurate representation. Anders is not forced on you as a romance option. He hits on you, you can reject him and its never brought up again other than the rivalry hit. (that once again is laughably easy to make up)
Strange, I don't remember people complaining about Zevran despite him doing a similar thing.
I have actually. Generally only in BioWare boards thankfully he's not trotted out like Anders was probably because Zevran required a certain amount of approval before he offered and unlike Anders it's a missable conversation. Also unlike Anders he's not trotted out by people who obviously didn't play the game and just want to push a bs lie. That and if early on you tell Zev you're not interested in men he doesn't even give you the massage conversation I'm pretty sure. That said I've played DA2 too more often than DAO so I can't be completely certain.
(Also wtf why can't I trim some of these quotes?)
> Zevran required a certain amount of approval before he offered
> and unlike Anders it's a missable conversation
? What's to wonder. You had to speak to Zevran at camp with 30+ approval before he offered the sex conversation. Thus it's miss-able. You can't even recruit Anders (who is a forced companion) without saving Karl and the conversation where he hits on you is a forced conversation right after that quest. You do realize people had Zevran at a higher approval for him not to stab you in the back but still got him betraying them because they never spoke to him and got the "I'm your man" conversation right? It was one of the more hilarious "why won't he stop betraying me" things I had to explain. (Some people even ran into the same issue with Bull which lol)
Fenris had the same issue with turning on people when they sided with the mages despite having enough approval to stay loyal. People skip non forced conversations quite often.
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> crying
Disliking the moment is one thing. Crying about it years later as a forced romance (despite it being no such thing. At most it's a forced flirtation and you know what? I've had one of those in every single BW game except DAI as a female character and somehow I managed to reject them and move along.
I disliked that moment with Anders and I have had guys literally beg me to have sex with them and it didn't bother me, so no, it isn't that.
I think that they are all scared, the idea of a guy hitting on you is scarying if you still have doubts of who you are and what you like, lack of confidence.Dear lord people still going on about that forced Anders flirt? My god some people have the thinnest of skins. He hit on you, you can shut him down. Jesus christ at some people acting like an unwanted advance that's easily shut down is the end of the universe. (And the only way to even get hit on is to pick the diplomatic super nice supportive guy options twice in the conversation. Pick any thing else and he doesn't even hit on you).
"But I get five rivalry points!" that you can make up in the very next conversation. Oh noes. (especially hilarious given Anders is one of the easiest companions to max out friendship on. Give me a break).
It's very easy to dismiss criticism as 'oh they're just bigots'.
Hell even male PCs get hit on unavoidably by female characters. Somehow people managed to reject them just fine for their preferred partner without acting like it was the end of the world years later.
> end of the world
Do you ever stop to think that your hyperbole doesn't accurately represent reality?
Constantly bringing it up the way some people do in every single thread to do about same sex romances does hit my definition of crying about it and acting like they were traumatized by it. Especially given the language they usually use.
And yes I'm very used to hearing that over-exaggerated complaint so please don't try to tell me about an accurate representation. Anders is not forced on you as a romance option. He hits on you, you can reject him and its never brought up again other than the rivalry hit. (that once again is laughably easy to make up)
Strange, I don't remember people complaining about Zevran despite him doing a similar thing.
I have actually. Generally only in BioWare boards thankfully he's not trotted out like Anders was probably because Zevran required a certain amount of approval before he offered and unlike Anders it's a missable conversation. Also unlike Anders he's not trotted out by people who obviously didn't play the game and just want to push a bs lie (thanks to that silly comic). That and if early on you tell Zev you're not interested in men he doesn't even give you the massage conversation I'm pretty sure. That said I've played DA2 more often and more recently than DAO so I can't be completely certain.
(Also wtf why can't I trim some of these quotes?)
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I disliked that moment with Anders and I have had guys literally beg me to have sex with them and it didn't bother me, so no, it isn't that.
I think that they are all scared, the idea of a guy hitting on you is scarying if you still have doubts of who you are and what you like, lack of confidence.Dear lord people still going on about that forced Anders flirt? My god some people have the thinnest of skins. He hit on you, you can shut him down. Jesus christ at some people acting like an unwanted advance that's easily shut down is the end of the universe. (And the only way to even get hit on is to pick the diplomatic super nice supportive guy options twice in the conversation. Pick any thing else and he doesn't even hit on you).
"But I get five rivalry points!" that you can make up in the very next conversation. Oh noes. (especially hilarious given Anders is one of the easiest companions to max out friendship on. Give me a break).
It's very easy to dismiss criticism as 'oh they're just bigots'.
Disliking the moment is one thing. Crying about it years later as a forced romance (despite it being no such thing. At most it's a forced flirtation and you know what? I've had one of those in every single BW game except DAI as a female character and somehow I managed to reject them and move along.
Hell even male PCs get hit on unavoidably by female characters. Somehow people managed to reject them just fine for their preferred partner without acting like it was the end of the world years later.
> crying
> end of the world
Do you ever stop to think that your hyperbole doesn't accurately represent reality?
Constantly bringing it up the way some people do in every single thread to do about same sex romances does hit my definition of crying about it and acting like they were traumatized by it. Especially given the language they usually use.
And yes I'm very used to hearing that over-exaggerated complaint so please don't try to tell me about an accurate representation. Anders is not forced on you as a romance option. He hits on you, you can reject him and its never brought up again other than the rivalry hit. (that once again is laughably easy to make up). It's also hilarious because it's the only time that every happened and yet people cling to it as this horrible awful thing that'll constantly happen.
Now if that's not you that's great. But I've heard that very attitude expressed multiple times and it's tiresome.
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I think that they are all scared, the idea of a guy hitting on you is scarying if you still have doubts of who you are and what you like, lack of confidence.Dear lord people still going on about that forced Anders flirt? My god some people have the thinnest of skins. He hit on you, you can shut him down. Jesus christ at some people acting like an unwanted advance that's easily shut down is the end of the universe. (And the only way to even get hit on is to pick the diplomatic super nice supportive guy options twice in the conversation. Pick any thing else and he doesn't even hit on you).
"But I get five rivalry points!" that you can make up in the very next conversation. Oh noes. (especially hilarious given Anders is one of the easiest companions to max out friendship on. Give me a break).
I disliked that moment with Anders and I have had guys literally beg me to have sex with them and it didn't bother me, so no, it isn't that.
It's very easy to dismiss criticism as 'oh they're just bigots'.
Disliking the moment is one thing. Crying about it years later as a forced romance (despite it being no such thing. At most it's a forced flirtation and you know what? I've had one of those in every single BW game except DAI as a female character and somehow I managed to reject them and move along.)
Hell even male PCs get hit on unavoidably by female characters. Somehow people managed to reject them just fine for their preferred partner without acting like it was the end of the world years later.
It'd be one thing if people were asking for the option to let people down without being a douchebag (because sometimes the rejects were a bit much like jesus I felt like a monster when rejecting Merrill). But the "how dare X character hits on my PC!" is laughable.
Dear lord people still going on about that forced Anders flirt? My god some people have the thinnest of skins. He hit on you, you can shut him down. Jesus christ at some people acting like an unwanted advance that's easily shut down is the end of the universe. (And the only way to even get hit on is to pick the diplomatic super nice supportive guy options twice in the conversation. Pick any thing else and he doesn't even hit on you).
"But I get five rivalry points!" that you can make up in the very next conversation. Oh noes. (especially hilarious given Anders is one of the easiest companions to max out friendship on. Give me a break).
I think that they are all scared, the idea of a guy hitting on you is scarying if you still have doubts of who you are and what you like, lack of confidence.
Seriously I don't get it. Like I can't think of a single BW game other than DAI my fem protag wasn't hit on at least once. And sometimes in a very crass manner. My PC said no and moved along. Oh noes.
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Dear lord people still going on about that forced Anders flirt? My god some people have the thinnest of skins. He hit on you, you can shut him down. Jesus christ at some people acting like an unwanted advance that's easily shut down is the end of the universe. (And the only way to even get hit on is to pick the diplomatic super nice supportive guy options twice in the conversation. Pick any thing else and he doesn't even hit on you).
"But I get five rivalry points!" that you can make up in the very next conversation. Oh noes. (especially hilarious given Anders is one of the easiest companions to max out friendship on. Give me a break).
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Kind of weird that pistols are effected by strength. Its a firearm why does it care how much strength I'm using. (and so do wands?!? shouldn't the strength scaling be melee only because it's kind of dumb otherwise).
Rip my pistol mage from before I guess. This sucks.
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Oh I was worried for a second. I got my beta key but my product key was missing XD
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Good to know cheese never changes :D
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re: spells, I think they need to do a comprehensive pass on casting times, effects, and durations.
The low level powers need to cast faster especially. Minor Missiles and Whisper of Treason and other basic bread and butter effects need to be things you can get off the ground quickly, otherwise casters are twiddling their thumbs while everyone else fights.
I think having SOME long cast powers is a good idea but they should be the higher level / more powerful effects and have correspondingly longer durations. Whisper of Treason is six seconds of cast time for ten seconds of charm, who thinks that's a good trade?
Agreed. The whole point of low level spells are that they're quick to cast but have limited damage/effects. Not sure why it takes so long to cast lvl 1 spells.
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Single class feels very weak compared to multi-classing and removing universal talents seems like it's going to kill creativity in builds.
Yeah I like playing pure mages so I went wizard and it just felt awful. Also did they nerf the spells because I felt like i was tickling the enemies.
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Yeah I actually like the health change but I play on normal for a reason XD
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Nah I'm having a bit of a mess with performance too. My comp's getting a bit long in the tooth i7 4790k and a 970 but still I shouldn't be getting super stuttering and framedrops.
Player sexual companion
in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
Posted · Edited by Ryz009
Oh my bad. XD But yeah sorry that's just something that bugged me from years back. Waaay too much time debating it to be neutral on it. (Amusingly enough there is an actual forced romance in DAO in a bug with Leliana where if you do her Marjoline quest a certain way it flags her as romanced. That lead to a rather amusing conversation when I got back to camp. Alistair wasn't pleased needless to say XD) They never fixed it either lol. Edit 2: Oh wait there's another one Liara in ME1. In which if you use the renegade no you're trapped in her romance (that's the only reason my renedouche had an LI) and unlike Leliana once it's flagged unless you get the Ashley/Kaidan confrontation you're stuck in her romance. That's really the only true forced romance in any BW game that I've played. (I didn't play NWN though.) Ashley/Kaidan are borderline in that they have weird triggers for their romances but you get a really obvious out with them so I don't count it
Liara meanwhile fools you into thinking you've rejected her and then hours later you've realized you're trapped 
But honestly I just take it as BW being less hide the gay romance in DA2 and onwards. Trying to trigger Sky's gay romance in JE was an exercise in frustration until I played a CF character and realized I had to be a complete **** to the female romance options before having his romance initiation conversation for it to trigger. Zevran constantly asks if the male PC's okay with him hitting on him despite it not being character friendly at all and hitting on everyone else shamelessly. (If anything inconsistencies like that bother me way more than being hit on. Looking at you Bull...though he does have an excuse. Kinda.)
My main desire with NPC initiated romances is I get friendly and rude options to reject them. Anders rejection main issue was that your PC was a bit too aggressive with it that it was just a bad look (especially since the only way to even get to that point was to be overly diplomatic to begin with so it wasn't even consistent with Hawke's character). With Zevran/Sky at least you can be more neutral/friendly with the rejections. Considering he only hits on the PC if they're super supportive and understanding of his and Karl's relationship I see nothing wrong with someone as clingy and desperate as Anders hitting on Hawke in that scenario or his disapproval of being rejected. (Also may I add that if you do flirt with him for whatever reason you at least get the option to stop him before he shoves his tongue down your throat before his act 2 romance scene *even getting an option that literally has Hawke say not a word but lets the kiss play unimpeded which had me laughing like a maniac once I realized it) unlike poor FemHawke who just gets a non optional tonsil hockey scene with no dialogue wheel to back out of it). So even if you accidentally flag his romance with that giant heart icon you're not forced into anything romantic without being given ample opportunities to back out. It just really made no sense that a sympathetic and supportive Hawke (who is the only Hawke that can get hit on in this scenario) wouldn't be such in their rejection of Anders.
Well least I see the BBCCode option now. Wish it wasn't so hard to spot XD