Night Stalker

Josh Sawyer has stated that all mechanical game features that comes with the expansion will also be added to the base game, no matter if you own the expansion or not. I do not know if this also applies to the higher level cap or the abilities, but I think you will need the expansion for that. From what I have been able to gather from the developers, it seems unlikely, at least with this expansion.

What exactly do you mean by "supporters of this forum"? Is it some kind of social media integration?

Feargus Urquhart (CEO of Obsidian) has said that they are considering growing PoE into a franchise with licensed novels, games and possibly a PnP RPG, and have already launched a Kickstarter for a card game. In any case a lot of mechanics would have to change from the game to a PnP version. First of all PoE has no concept of 'turns', but rather uses absolute time for both activating abilities, and how long they last, and then there is the percentage issues you yourself raised. In short, Josh Sawyer has gone on record many times that a lot of the mechanics of PoE were designed to be easy to work in a computer game, rather than to emulate an already existing PnP game.

It could be, but I don' think it automatically follows. I got the impression that it would be more of a "Season pass" thing, where buying it would net you both parts, with the first part released months before the second part, but they would add up to a single full expansion pack. Feargus' remark seems more to be more about nipping any confusion whether or not backers would get the whole expansion pack in the bud, rather than whether it is going to be two separate products that add up to the size of a single expansion pack. No mater which way it goes I will be looking forward to see what they come up with.

If you really want to give Obsidian money, you can always buy some keys for PoE and just sit on them.

I have a hard time believing Obsidian would require people to pay for each part separately, when they explicitly said they were making a "real" expansion pack. I have a feeling that it would leave people with a sour taste in peoples mouths if a old-school throwback like PoE tried something that just seemed similar to current DLC practices.

If you use Steam, have you tried to verify your files? Otherwise, have you tried to reinstall the game and then patch it to the latest version?

Steam uses a different patching method than GOG.com - I think Steam replaces all the files affected, whereas GoG.com provides a program that makes the affected files into the new patched files. Since the GOG.com version only contains the difference, plus an overhead for the program, its patches are usually smaller than the Steam patches.

Exactly. It doesn't make a lick of sense. They delay the shipping of the CD version UNTIL AFTER 1.05 is released, but the base game is 1.04!? There is a lead time when producing physical discs (point in time where the plant they use is available + time required to press the discs). They probably sent their game master with the 1.04 image over between the completion of 1.04 and 1.05, in order to have the discs pressed, so that they would be able to send them out around now.

No, the Unity engine is a general purpose third party game engine that Obsidian picked to use as their basis for the engine that powers PoE. In the process they modified and extended it (as all game companies that uses a third party engine does) to make it suitable for implementing a IE like game.

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The developers have stated that the chance of MP being added is next to nil.

The backer version is entirely DRM free, they have stated that on multiple occasions. You can install it off the disc, and run it without any Internet connection whatsoever.

Based on your last post, I don't think you will enjoy PoE. It takes its main inspiration from the IE games, like the Icewind Dale games, which had a heavy focus on party-based combat. You can of course solo it (and no party members are forced upon you after a very short tutorial area), but it was not balanced around it. Also, while PoE still has a lot of options for character customization, there is no option to dual- or multiclass, and I highly doubt it will ever be added.

Multiple people in the EU, myself included, have received their physical goodies.

"Technical" reasons: 1. NWN 1/2 already exist, and do exactly that. PoE is a different type of game. 2. PoE was built to be a single player game, trying to make it into a multiplayer game would most likely result in a half-baked multiplayer solution. 3. Trying to fit a DM system into PoE will be incredibly hard, if not practically impossible. as the game was not designed with it in mind. 4. There would be a need to create a standalone tools, which would be a major drain on OE's resources, that could otherwise have gone into the game. 5. Due to the use of prerendered backgrounds, it will be far harder to create maps than it was in NWN 1/2. Personal reasons: 1. I already have a real-world gaming group, so that need is filled. 2. I am at a point in my life where my free time for computer games is limited, but my gaming budget, and list of unfinished games that I mean to play, is inversely expanded. So I value 80 hours of professional authored experience in my CRPGs over 1000 hours made by well-meaning amateurs.

I would rather not have multiplayer in the expansion - I would rather like to see the effort go into new features and content.

It will be multiplatform.

Got my stuff last Wednesday. I am from Denmark.

In fact the GOG.com patch is out now!

Did you get the CE or just the normal box? Looking at your backer badge, I suspect it's the normal edition? Darren mentioned the normal editions won't ship until the discs have been printed with the 1.04 patch. He also mentions that folks with tiers that include a physical copy should have gotten an extra digital copy so that we wouldn't need to wait to play. I certainly haven't received such a copy. On the other hand it will certainly save my husband and me money to adopt Obsidian's view that all we need for access to their games is a single GOG copy. In the past we've each purchased our own copies, but clearly it would be foolish to continue to do so. I got mine Hero copy, but it wasn't there at the begining, so it might be worth checking your products page again. Otherwise i'd reach out to the support staff.

Backer from Denmark chiming in. I have recived an e-mail, and I should get my stuff in the middle of the week.

GOG.com does not currently have an auto-updater, so you will manually have to download and apply the patches. There is a patch out already, so you should go and grab and apply that one.

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argentina the people who backed this backed it because they wanted a type of game that was no longer made - the IE like games. Games with prerendered graphics, a iso-metric perspective (or at least something resembling a 3/4 perspective), tactical and party based. A good analogy is to think of the backers as film buffs who have funded a slow black-and-white movie, because they feel they simply are not made anymore. What you are proposing is that the next should go full color, because someone else found a new way of making the colors extra vivid. Your suggestion is simply at odds with the basic premise of why most people are attracted to this game. Sui Generis' engine may be perfectly fine for Sui Genesis, but what it would cost for Obsidian to modify it to their needs, if that is in fact realistic, is not worth it for PoE 2, compared to the engine they already have.