OldViking

Really? Anyone who calls that crap decent, i would never hire. Then again, i would never give my money to a company to make a game. I don't have to find excuses for ****ty work.

So, you are running around, doing quests randomly and as much out of order as you can in a game, where every reviewer mentioned necessity to follow the plot to keep it coherent, and you are surprised something does not make enough sense?! PoE was designed (from the beginning) to give you maximum freedom in a gameplay (so, if you want to test your skills you can do it ignoring everything but fighting and selected quests), but plot was very strict and demanding of attention from the first game - one misstep and you loose important pieces of story. Same in PoE2: you want to explore and shoot things - go ahead, but if you follow the plot - you do it in a scripted order or loose the plot line. If I have to explain why your Watcher is supposed to report back to the second in command of the Huana nation (yes, the Prince) after said Watcher accepted and finished the task Prince gave him - I do not see why any kind of motivation or role-playing in general might be important to you at all. Not sure why am doing Captain Obvious here, either, since all your complains are exactly as Yria said: you like character - you do not care about why s/he with you, you do not like character - everything is "wrong" in the story. Sorry have to say it, this is the most stupid apology for bad quest design. Before i play the game i am supposed to look up a rewiewer, to tell me in wich order i should do quests? No, this is not how good quest design works, ever. It's not bad quest design when you and your character are explicitly told, in-game, that certain actions/quests are highly important and thus should be prioritized, only to have the warning be ignored because you want to barge into every house in Neketaka before doing the time-critical thing you were there for in the first place. You're free to sail around willy-nilly discovering the deadfire on your own, randomly barging into every house on your way and ignoring the role-playing aspect beyond the conversational level. Nothing wrong with playing the game like that, since it was obviously designed with that option in mind; However, complaining that this derails the plot is ridiculous, since you're the one who chose to derail it in the first place. There's plot everywhere, and most of it is well-connected. Barging through without any care for plot and complaining about it's "lack" afterwards is rather petulant: you can't eat your cake and still have it as well. My main complain is So, you are running around, doing quests randomly and as much out of order as you can in a game, where every reviewer mentioned necessity to follow the plot. Rewiewer, yeah. This is by all means stupid. You can just not playing the game and watch it on youtube. I prefer to not spoil myself, thanks. Besides rewiewer are s**t. In my first playthrough i followed the path laid out before me. So i have no problem with that. But if you don't follow the path, then some dialogues later on don't make much sense. So if you give the player the opportunity to go wild, than it should reflected in outcomes of later quests and or companion dialogues. If it does not, it is bad quest design. I played with the lame story companions once and never again, so i can go all wild. Xoti > religious zealot and unbearable accent Serafen > wannabe cool midget pirate Fishboy > stinks like fish Edér > moronic simpleton and bully Aloth > elfy Bird > butthurt bird Maja > meh nympho

So, you are running around, doing quests randomly and as much out of order as you can in a game, where every reviewer mentioned necessity to follow the plot to keep it coherent, and you are surprised something does not make enough sense?! PoE was designed (from the beginning) to give you maximum freedom in a gameplay (so, if you want to test your skills you can do it ignoring everything but fighting and selected quests), but plot was very strict and demanding of attention from the first game - one misstep and you loose important pieces of story. Same in PoE2: you want to explore and shoot things - go ahead, but if you follow the plot - you do it in a scripted order or loose the plot line. If I have to explain why your Watcher is supposed to report back to the second in command of the Huana nation (yes, the Prince) after said Watcher accepted and finished the task Prince gave him - I do not see why any kind of motivation or role-playing in general might be important to you at all. Not sure why am doing Captain Obvious here, either, since all your complains are exactly as Yria said: you like character - you do not care about why s/he with you, you do not like character - everything is "wrong" in the story. Sorry have to say it, this is the most stupid apology for bad quest design. Before i play the game i am supposed to look up a rewiewer, to tell me in wich order i should do quests? No, this is not how good quest design works, ever.

Yeah omg is right, "Legendär" will not drop, that staff is "hervorragend" superb.

Load of bull****. PoE just because of it's system that has more granularity in it is the definition of tedious. It's all about tedious gameplay and repeatedly using abilities you use every combat on every character. Unless you play it on story mode or smh. If you master BG2 you can go through it very quickly. PoE if you don't exploit, is same repetition every combat. "having job and family made me terrible at games" lololo dude. Why say game is pile of crap? Just say it honestly, that it's too difficult for you because you are bad and don't want to improve or spend any effort on the game. So much this.

I hope you don't mean that horrible remake of BGII with playing recently-

Well, Deadfires writing is really not that good. Lame main story, lame companions. I know Obsidian can do way better than this. I am dissapointed actually. Is the game fun to play? Absolutley, but not because of the writing. For me the best story Obsidian ever did, was Fallout New Vegas, i was so glad that Crapthesda was only the publisher for this amazing game.

Ah ok, dann habe ich was missverstanden. Ich dachte das war für den deutschen Loka patch... Habe schon die Hände über dem Kopf zusammengeschlagen.

Also anstatt frisches Gesicht oder frische Schnauze, würde ich lieber fremder nehmen. Frisches Gesicht oder frische Schnauze sagt kein normaler Mensch.

I am an old bastard, but let me tell you, German localisations voiced or not were always terrible. The only ones saying german localisations are good or even acceptable are the ones, who speak no other language and or even not their native one correct. My school english was terrible. I only invested time to learn it by playing games. Games that were unberable for me to play in it's German version. That said, i am with no doubt, not even an average skilled user when it comes to english, but at least i can play games without ripping my remaining hair off.

Well, Xoti is not better. I really hate stupid religious zealots and she is a prime example. Her cringeworthy accent doesn't help either. I really dislike all the story companions, but xoti, serafen and fishboy are the worst. Im so glad i don't have to take any of the cast with me.

My Watcher and hired adventurers. Can't stand any of the story companions.

You know what i like about you guys? You are present, you communicate with us. Many other devs are silent and pissing players off. I appreciate it really. Thank you to all of you lads and lasses at Obsidian.

Reminds me of a certain game from Bugthesda...

You mean you are attracted to simpletons and idiots?

Agreed

Point 4 is what pisses me really off. There is not even an illusion of choice in this game. I can't call my companions out for behaving like an idiot>Edér, like an stupid religious zealot>Xoti, Pallegina dares to threaten me, if i not solve a problem peacefully and i can not response? I can't shut up Edér when he goes all creepy with Iselmyr? The list goes on. Smells like the writers are protecting their pets. Edit: That is the reason why i don't take any of the cast with me and rather make my own adventurers

That explains a lot. A well, Germany had a symbol of quality that was worth much around the world "Made in Germany". Today it is a shallow phrase. Quality work is to much to ask in in these days. Maybe it's because i am old, but my parents taught me from the start, if you do something do it right or not at all.

It isn't his hardware or drivers. I had the exact same issue since release. Personally i fixed mine by uninstalling from my SSD to my HDD. BSOD implies something went wrong with the OS itself. I know Windows is garbage, but I can't imagine its so pathetic that a program can take it out. Well, looking around the net finding anything about this error, the error indeed implies either a video card driver issue or a power supply issue. But windows is a bitch as we all know. What you could also try, if the game is installed on an ssd, is looking for a firmware update. But windows is a bitch.

Translations are always outsourced to a local company that is then paid to translate eveeeeerything in the game to that said language. You can probably find the company that did the French and German localization by looking through the credits. Yes but that is even worse is it not? Let's say they outsource it, in my case to a german company to translate the game. That german company has done a piss poor job translating the game. I would be embarrassed. I mean translators should know that you not translate every word or meaning literally. Obsidian could have saved money by not translating at all.

I feel you. The german translation is not better. Without a mod unbearable. If you translate a game Obsidian, never use google translator because google is ***t. Oh and don't translate a word's meaning always literally. That's not how translation works.

A bug that should be fixed with 1.1 but as you see, the bug is not fixed. Don't respec! If you want to respec use the unity console mod from nexus to get your lost abilities back. The mod does not disable achievements.

Okay stop, you clearly don't understand the mechanics/realities of Eora. Iselmyr is not "someone else". Iselmyr IS ALOTH. He awakened to one of his past lives, this happened because in his current life he was not standing up for himself so his soul proactively did what it had to do to protect itself. If people get Aloth to come to terms with Iselmyr and face up to the reality of why she happened, shocker, he starts standing up for himself, and actually can be a bit of a "meanie" (really Obsidian, that isn't even a curse word). There are scenes in my Deadfire game where he outright insults Pallegina/Eder calling them names and or stupid. In fact, he is far ruder and condescending to them than they are him. So again, he is the same person as Iselmyr, if you teach him to stand up for himself anyway. Why anyone would choose to keep her around is beyond me, because it just means Aloth as a character does not grow. Lastly, more critically, has anyone even gotten this so called Eder/Iselmyr romance to happen? There are data mined game files, that's nice, but any search of google on this subject only leads to this very forum where people talk about data mining it. No videos, no threads where people discuss it happening in their game, no one talking about how they got it to happen. Data mined files aren't real, because they might be "in the data" but they don't exist "in the game". Though I do agree Obsidian (and game Dev's in general) should do a better job of removing files/data that are not used in the final product. Here you go That is all i could find on youtube Creepy Edér is creepy Even if it is in the game i would not see it, because i can't stand Edér. Not that i like any of them. In my history Edér, Aloth and Pallegina are dead and the cast from PoE 2 i don't recruit or let them clean my ship.

I tihnk you have to complete her quest before you can enchant her items. If i remember correct.

Nooooo Wait, what???? Soul annihilation got nerfed that hard? Time to delete my cipher and back to my paladin/unbroken immortal tank.