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Has anybody found it to be buggy? Just wondering as there are a lot of complaints and stuff on the steam forum.

Well, any item that comes from PoE1 is going to have new assets for it, so, returning items will be pretty limited in number. I remember something about how your interaction with Llengrath (whether you keep the skull or not and whether you kill him (her? not sure the current Llengraths gender) or not) plays out would have an affect on things in Deadfire.

So, um, this looks a lot like PoE in many ways, should I get just Divinity:Original Sin 1 (well, the enhanced version) or just 2 or both? And yeah, the heck is up with the super long neck on the elf character, looked wierdly out of place on an otherwise human proportioned body.

I think it might be something similar to the way the newgame+ feature works in Tyranny (and possibly other games). I recall that it's supposed to make a special and hidden save right at the endgame which PoE2 will be able to read and transfer. The function is already in I believe and has been for a while (don't know how long), which is why we can make new games right now of stuff with endings that we want to transfer to PoE2 while we wait for PoE2.

B-But Popular Vote!!!11!!!11!1 (lol, and I'm being silly there) In all seriousness though, as you imply, having millions more than the other party doesn't matter if a good chunk of them decide to sit out the election

Doubt it'd affect the election much since those that believe such accusations are likely to vote Republican anyway. It'd be a concern if Trump decides to harp on about rigged polls because he's potentially invalidating BOTH parties elections. It'd actually be more of a concern in 2020 because there would be more focus on one race and not 100s of others and a handfull of particularily up-in-the-air seats.

I don't actually think conservatives bussed the nazis into Charlottesville, a lot of them certainly bussed themselves into Charlottesville. I was just holding up a mirror to the accusation to show how silly it sounds when flipped on it's head. As for the bussing and carpooling people to the polls, that isn't illegal or shady (unless you've got solid evidence of misdeeds), despite what some people may think.

The left? Oh, maybe the right bused the nazis to Charlottesville? Hows that cake? Or perhaps, take this alteration: "When the right is busing Nazis to cities (here in Charlotte we saw the buses and there was a riot), it's gonna be hard separating themselves away from them from the public's view now that they are popular." You also seem to be equating the presence of buses to a riot, so, do you mean the buses caused the riot?

The Democrats have been trying to do the exact opposite and distance themselves as much as possible from antifa.

I imagine that they'll try to link the old assets to the new assets to minimize having to reset it to where it was. I don't see how changing the watchers race would make sense even if there was a story reason for it. Changing background would be fine though and it could reflect the last five years or something.

I guess you could try editing the save? You'd have to know what to do and what to look for though....

Oh, I misunderstood then. Still not really seeing what their appeal would be. Seems like if they're going to be in the same slot as regular companions, they'd go back to a party size of six. Hopefully at some point Obsidian will go through the sidekick stuff and explain it in further detail.

Are you sure that's how it works? I was assuming they'd be attached on the same way pets are, maybe it's the label of sidekick and the fact that they aren't as fully fleshed out as the companions are.

The sidekicks mostly seem like a mechanism to have more than five companions in a party. I'm not sure if they're using them in some way beyond that function.

'Storm folk' sounds like a placeholder for where he came from, or perhaps the way he was found, a shipwreck from a storm. Also, isn't the sea east of the Deadfire the one filled with all these monstrous beasts? Basically "HERE BE DRAGONS!". fakeedit: Actually, the book that talks about monsters of the Deadfire doesn't really specifiy whether they are in the sea to the east or the west of the Deadfire. I guess Bonteru might be the plainest because his backstory is spelled out right there. We'll just have to see how they're written. Also, there's supposedly some quest attached to them via which you can have them join your team. Would be cool if they each had some quest exploring their backgrounds, fill them out somewhat.

This thread has gone silly all right.

Her concept is offputting, really? Is it just because some people thought she was anime kawaii or something? Me, it seems like she's supposed to be a pioneer in forensics science or something, which I think is awesome. Same here actually. I find that guys background particularily interesting, probably because of the mystery of it. Radora sounds like basically an alcoholic who can't keep a job for long and Bonteru sounds like someone who could give bonuses to the team.

@Gromnir: That's the difference, you've been around the Obsidian boards for many years, I've been around here barely more than six months, so of course I'm not going to know where Josh Sawyer is from, and I was answering Sannon's question.

It seems that Winsconsin people have a fascination for cheese akin to that of the French. Is it known as the Dairy State or something? He lives in California (or more specifically, Irvine, California, where the Obsidian office is), don't know if he's from Wisconsin. It's main nickname is the badger state, but it's other nickname is America's dairyland, since it's one of the main dairy producing areas and is particularily famous for it's cheese.

I don't recall that subplot ever involving the Engwithians dabbling in animancy. From memory, it was more or less Ondra deciding that this civilizations time had come (talk about the creations turning on their creator(s)) and that some things needed to be forgotten and lost to time. She then called down a moon which was basically a giant asteroid. There was also this pact that the gods had agreed on together to not intervene directly in mortal affairs because the last time they did so, things went pear shaped, not sure if this pact was made before or after the event. Abydon (in Greek titan form) had other ideas and flaunted that, he used his giant hammer to shatter said falling moon and sacrificed himself. There was also apparently a love affair between the two. The Eoran pantheon wouldn't look too out of place in the Greek pantheon since the gods and goddesses themselves have definite personalities and at times, seem almost human.

Or more likely he just got distracted by other things, or took the hint that using tweets isn't the best way to deal with NK.

Yeah, I wasn't sure what exactly the method was. Sort of sounds like a Vulcan mindmeld or something.

Well, Thaos is cursed with the ability to be reborn with all his past memories and the ability to jump from body to body. Llengrath seems to be more of a title bestowed on someone who was taught all the secrets of Llengraths magic. I'm not entirely clear on how the whole transfer works, whether it's akin to the Sith Lord thing of master and apprentice and the apprentice takes the title of Sith Lord when the master dies (for whatever reason) or some sort of telepathic transfer of knowledge. Though as for Llengrath 'being a few cups short of a full cupboard', I'd be paranoid too if I had the secrets of the original Llengrath and the knowledge gained by his successors rattling around in my head since all kinds of people, bad and good, would want that knowledge. So, yeah, both are different sorts of immortality. So now others know not to eat it. We wouldn't be here where we are now if it weren't for all this you are against. The real issue here are ethics, which experiments are ok to conduct, and which are not. If some bloke wants to test something on himself, go ahead, but if he forces his way on somebody else that is a no-go. Thing is that they haven't reached the level of science ethics that we have now. It took a long while and a lot of debate to reach our current standards of ethics. As far as I know, there isn't any sort of single influential school in Eora that has set or any commonly agreed on ethics which animancers follow, let alone enforcement. The sanitarium and it's headman do have their ethics, but their influence doesn't seem to extend beyond the city.

That's the problem with terrorism, people get desensitized to them (beyond the initial immediate panic locally) to the point where it has no real effect, making the terrorism ineffectual. Of course, the terrorists don't realize that. At this point, I think they're just bombing for the sake of bombing and killing people than any real goal.

As far as I remember enslaving souls was the only thing animancers in the game ever did, that really worked. There was an unsuccessful soul-psychoanalyst and lots of attemptes to "heal" Waidwens Legacy by, guess what, fiddling around with souls. Wasn't one of the doctors trying to use animal souls? Sounds healthy. Even the Engwithians just managed to channel souls from here to there. The Engwithians managed to get good enough at animancy to create gods from nothing, whole cloth transformation of souls. They clearly knew considerably more about it than the people of "modern day" Eora. I agree with you that whether or not that's a good thing is open to interpretation. The issue with animancers in Pillars is that they came in two stripes; good but incompetent, or highly morally-questionable and competent. You never see an animancer who's trying to do something ethical succeed. Persumably those people must exist, but they're never given any screen time. Even Pallegina, your most pro-animancy companion, seems to only like animancy because of the potential for profit. She doesn't have any kind of vision of a better world for people through animancy. We don't even know yet how they did that with the manufactured gods. Though obviously the Engwithians are far more advanced in some parts of animancy than others, compared to modern PoE animancy. In defense of Pallegina, she's not a scientist and is essentially a lobbyist for politicians, so, obviously she sees it through a political lens.