Chairchucker

InXile appear to have had to remove a number of stretch goals from the final version of their game. This news is... not going over well. By far, the better course of action is to not over promise.

"Inspired by the mod community from Pillars of Eternity, we would like to add in the option to customize the position of UI elements, toggle pieces of the UI on and off, adjust HUD transparency, and much more." IS there a specific mod or set of mods they might be referring to here?

I am glad they're not going too overboard with the stretch goals. I'm also super glad that they're prioritising localisation into a bunch of different languages so this game is accessible to a wide variety of peeps.

I dare say they will still have some uses. FOR EXAMPLE Back in the day, my brother designed a bunch of scripts for BG2. They were useful even outside of combat, because there was things like 'if wizard does not have stoneskin activated, cast it'. So bringing it back to Pillars; is there a spell you always want one of your casters to cast, first thing at the start of combat? Whack it into AI.

I think I remember hearing something (not sure how accurate this is) about different Obsidz peeps being in different online communities for a better spread of feedback and stuff. Guess Sawyer just got lucky...

https://youtu.be/JB2di69FmhE?t=107

Did you actually play the finished product?

Personally I am totally down with 5 person squads. Was skeptical on Tyranny's 4 people, but I felt it really tightened up combat, especially given (As mentioned just above) the fact that party members have a great deal more options than in the Baldur's Gate games. Apart from spellcasting classes, I don't think there was a great deal of options for the rest of the party in BG apart from 'which weapon to use'. Whereas in PoE and Tyranny, every class has usable skills.

I tried to back that early but Fig wigged out on me so I'm like backer number 300 or something.

Yeah it is, hence the words 'I thought' prefixing it.

Wouldn't really be as simple as that IMO. The game would most likely be balanced for parties of whatever size the cap was. Personally I thought the smaller party was one of the things that made Tyranny's combat superior to PoE's, even though I was definitely skeptical at first.

IMO the biggest issue with a D6 (if you're only using one) arises when you have someone who is either very good or very bad at something, but still has at least 1/6 chance of failing/succeeding.

Started Satellite Reign yesterday because it was on sale and I have good memories of Syndicate. Enjoy it so far.

On the other hand, I used to use Lydia to get a perfect backstab on people, because I wasn't quite good enough to sneak up on them, but I was good enough to hide in the one spot while they rushed past me at the lady in platemail trying to sneak around.

I like Cities: Skylines a fair bit tbh.

I am considering getting Cities: Skylines because it is on sale. Anyone played it and is it dope? OK never mind I just bought it I hope it doesn't suck.

Yeah I reinstalled Skyrim recently because apparently I get the Speccy Edition for free. The levelling system feels very familiar. I don't want to point fingers, but I think Bethesda retroactively ripped off Tyranny.

D:OS2 looks to have better writing. The writing for D:OS didn't bother me too much. The game was all about spilling oil everywhere and then setting the oil on fire and then raining on the fire so it all turned into steam and then electrifying the steam and so on.

I'm trigged. Don't trig me.

There are a few factors that can govern how high a skill is. How many points you put into it at the start, for example. How often you use it. Governing statistics. I think how often you use a skill is probably a bigger contributing factor TBH. Especially if you're like me and keep forgetting to visit the skill trainers every level.

I don't see Sirin's lower lore as being because she missed out on opportunities to train; I see it as being because Lantry is a ridiculous loremaster and she is not.

Not exactly.

The game is full of two factions, The Scarlet Chorus and The Disfavored, who are p. full of themselves. The Disfavored are a bunch of elitists who think that literally no one other than Northmen can possibly be as good as them, the Scarlet Chorus are basically the raiders from Fallout. FWIW 'Graven' apparently means 'an image of worship' which is somewhat appropriate given the attitude the Disfavored have towards their boy Ashe.

If you quit a game because you get annoyed at the name of one of the characters, I'm not sure how to measure whether you'll like any games TBH.

Overwatch: Mystery Heroes tactics. Basically, when hero select comes up, instead of picking the hero that I want to play, I just accept whichever hero the game has selected. Sometimes my teammates do not appreciate my tactics.