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You forgot the one from two hours ago: https://twitter.com/WorldofEternity/status/875412289960026113

Theres no guarantee that Hardcore Gamer will write an article, but the award is certainly indication that they are impressed. Not sure if they have to get permission to release the article because maybe the Obsidian guys may want to wait for a particular thing to happen first.

You could look at their site I don't know how big they are in the gaming critic community, but they're definetly covering E3 all over the place. Clearly they liked something about PoE2:Deadfire, so, I guess we might see an article from them sometime.

I think thats these stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Critics_Awards ? Also, 'hardcore gamer' isn't a category, unless Hardcore Gamer is the critic/magazine/reviewer.

Aarik's and Katrina's (who are also at E3) twitter don't have anything notable yet either. edit: Ninja'd

Only three minor things and yet a 1.4gb download, what's up with that?

For a 1.4gb patch, that's not very much...... What's hidden in there?

That is odd. I wonder what TOS violations they're talking about. Also, you'd think they'd warn about the TOS violations maybe.

just arrived? I thought they'd be there the whole four days.

Besides, they can easily plan around a few days, especially with something as important and influential as E3.

Which I'm guessing belongs to Barik, judging by the design. It does look a heck of a lot like Barik's helm, yeah, you're right. Would be good to have a way of freeing him other than giving his soul to Voices of Nerat.

I knew it, I had a feeing that there was yet more content because I didn't see anything with the new looking content. Edit: That broken mask at the end of the teaser looks pretty cool. edit2: Also, PC Gamer previews it a little.

Steam just started downloading something big for Tyranny! And by big, I mean 3.6 GB. It's one big patch: link to thread about patch, and I get the feeling that there may still be more content coming, edit: Fixing link as posting the whole thing broke it somehow.

I don't know if this counts as a teaser, but he's posted up a photo of the PoE2 Deadfire shirt, which I guess are being sold at E3. https://www.instagram.com/p/BVP-eqPl0pG/?taken-by=jesawyer1975&hl=en

That's not actually revealing of anything new. Nice bit of artwork though.

He seems to completely avoid the enchantment question, or at least makes it rather ambigous, IMO. Also, Icewind Dale was over 15 years ago, he's worked on a lot of projects since and I'm sure he'd build on past experience since doing Icewind Dale.

Oh, he worked on Icewind Dale, didn't know that. Also, he COMPLETELY avoids the enchanting question, or at least leaves it really ambigous, IMO. The description of the unique rapier is interesting though.

E3 doesn't even start until tomorrow, so, there won't be anything yet.

Might be in preparation for something for E3, though it's likely they'll release it alongside other E3 stuff.

If they want to do a mid-game expansion, the developers could always insert a level jump at the appropriate point, accompanied by a " time passes, events occur" cut scene. I.e. split the original game into two parts. Wouldn't that still screw up the rest of the regular game balance wise?

Jokes on you firkraag, lol.

I am hoping it's a hatchet. I didn't like most the hatchet models in Pillars. It looks identical to an exceptional battleaxe to me, or one of the unique ones which use the same or slightly modified model.

As a side note, I really like the model of that axe. Kind of looks like it's an exceptional quality axe as the model is similar. Could be an unique axe since some of the unique axes use the same or similar model. Also, they really need to add some sort of strap that connects it to the belt or whatever, because as it is, it just looks like it's magnetized or otherwise just glued to the side. There's no logical support for it to hang off of. Oh, and, evidently we can now 'holster' the weapon while in the character/inventory screen rather than just hold it all the time. Though the holstered weapon is new for PoE2.

Looks, interesting. So, DLC expansion?

Yeah, the discussion seemed like it was supposed to be about joke or less-than-serious items, but it got derailed on the particulars of makeshift/improvised weapons/armor and then went into harpoon stuff. That skull-flail which Josh Sawyer previewed earlier might go in that category as it's a 'memorial/tribute flail' that one of the devs designed (or requested if they didn't design it themselves). Having Ogres in the Deadfire would be cool too, they certainly seem capable of building ships if they wished to.