Chairchucker

It's 'palate', you Paradoxical buffoons!

Well, if the link I posted is to be believed, it certainly seems like you'll be getting your wish.

Some enterprising fellow on Reddit found this little gem. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1658966/000121390017002557/f1apos5_figpublishing.htm From that page: "Obsidian currently has four games in development: Pillars of Eternity II; Tyranny DLC; Pathfinder: Adventures; and an unannounced title with a major publisher."

Ah thanks, didn't see that one.

Pistol whipping might be useful on a pistol toting ranger. So they'd be a character who ideally wants to stay shooting all the time, but if someone gets up in their grill they can get slapping.

http://imgur.com/a/bIES8 At the Abbey of the Fallen Moon, whenever I ask someone else to throw the grappling hook, Eder butts in (in the text, at any rate) If I do it myself he remembers his place, though.

Fulvano probably keeps going back to hand in quests.

lol this conversation is dumb

Did someone mention already that 20 bucks gets you all the DLC? Probably but here it is again everyone buy some DLC IMO.

So. 149 gets a pig pin, 500 gets a pig plushie, eh. Tempting...

Doesn't actually exist, sorry. (I think I had him in one list and then deleted and/or forgot about him I dunno.) (Anyway most of the BG2 'companions' were probably closer to 'sidekicks' in terms of content.)

BG2 Companions (but not quite because slightly less interaction): Aerie, Anomen, Cernd, Edwin, Imoen, Jaheira, Jan, Keldorn, Korgan, Mazzy, Nalia, Viconia. (Characters who EITHER have a quest after you get them or you can romance.) BG2 sidekicks: Haer'Dalis, Minsc, Yoshimo Some people like Minsc despite him not having 'companion level' interaction. Some people never romanced Aerie, Jaheira, Anomen or Viconia, and thus didn't get the extra interactions with them, and still didn't mind having them around. Not many people criticised BG2 as being 'Frankensteinish' or whatever for having NPCs with varying levels of interaction.

Sidekick is a neat idea IMO. Gives a bit more variety for those who want more to pick from, but the devs don't have to go nuts creating all the permutations of interactions for each one. Might also be useful for people who 'accidentally' got one or more of the continuing companions killed, or make them angry in number 2.

Also that references the way companions feel about each other, so hopefully Eder will live happily ever after with Pallegina or something.

LOL we're getting not one single item of that wishlist.

Or if you're a horrible monster, make Eder multiclass into that ranger kit that has a ghost pet.

Huh, so they do. They don't have to deal with the endurance/health mechanic though, so that's something.

I always put my ranger pet at the front in combat, (in PoE1) because it doesn't have to worry about wounds.

https://www.fig.co/campaigns/deadfire?update=241#updates "Subclasses are similar to kits in 2nd Edition AD&D (featured in Baldur's Gate 2)."

They've previous said they'd only do romances if they could Do It Right (which to me feels like code for not happening) They've already said that they've got a replacement for the stronghold which most people are pretty confident is gonna be a sweet pirate ship, apparently they'll release more on this later One of the stretch goals they've attained was watercolour portraits which is what will be used for dialogue Non combat related quest resolutions was already in the first one and will almost certainly be in the sequel There were a fair few unique objects that could be found and used with other objects JE Sawyer has confirmed they plan to do a bit more with factions already.

Not really, though? Like, the retraining system means that if you decide that certain builds are better for certain encounters, you can ensure your character is optimally build for each battle. Can't really do that with restarting. (I never bothered using the retrain ability, personally, but I'm glad it's there for people who want it. Same with the adventurer's hall.)

Good stretch goal IMO. Gives a little something to those who want to see extra content (sub-classes and level cap) but still stays somewhat grounded. BTW, JE Sawyer previously described the sub-classes as being most analogous to kits in BG2, if you've played that. (If you haven't, some of the differences were pretty significant, and it seems like this is likely to be the case for PoE2 sub-classes as well. Specifically mentioned there will be a druid sub-class that focusses on shapeshifting, which I expect will be popular.)

It's an argument that has been directly refuted a number of times, and the refutation goes roughly as follows: When a developer makes a game with a maximum party size of a certain number, they balance encounters around that number. JE Sawyer has mentioned elsewhere that they found that restricting parties to five members and balancing encounters accordingly made for a better tactical experience. You can't balance a game for the maximum number of companions and also for every number of companions less than that, so you must make the maximum number where you want to balance the game.

I think the reason they're not going to be convinced is that they've spent a lot of their adult lives making and balancing CRPGs; JE Sawyer has been working on them for just under 18 years. The decisions they've made come as the result of a lot of experience making and playtesting games, and watching people with all different experience levels play their games. It is going to be very difficult to convince them to reverse a decision they've obviously put some thought into, especially when the arguments are rubbish like 'but if someone wants to play with 5 they could just choose not to recruit that last person'. EDIT: I have heard it suggested that one of the advantages of crowdfunding is that it also opens a dialogue with fans regarding the development of the game. I would suggest that it is also one of the disadvantages, because it opens a company up to a lot of people who think they know what makes a game good, but often actually don't.