[How many companions will there be in total?]

Is there any information on voice actors for the new companions (or major characters)?

I don't think so, though there may be an announcement coming about this shortly.

[Welcome to the Deadfire. Backer Beta!]

Is there any way to get into beta with pre-order on steam?

I am afraid there is not.

[Let’s make Deadfire UI the bestest it can be]

Ah! I see. It didn't bother me at the slightest.

Me neither - I like it, this way we can clearly see what is in the slot we are considering putting the item into.

[POE to POE2 Transmission, Saves and Characters...]

They have gone into great detail:

 

You can import a save game that has completed the game, but you have to recreate your character.

 

For information about how the choices gets transferred, see here.

[Player sexual companion]

There is no rpg or game in general (that we know if right now) which forces you into a homosexual relationship, if it dies, it always makes sure to say so in the description to let players know exactly what they're getting into. And like you said, the devs are pretty loud about it.

 

There have always been rpg's and games in general which force you into a homosexual relationship though. A bit strange when you think about it, since homosexuality isn't anymore accepted as it was years ago when gaming industry first kicked off.

 

Could you please elaborate on this, because the two emphasised pieces of texts seems to be in opposition.

[Josh Sawyer's tweets and teasers, part III]

Josh is carrying the bazooka wrong, it should be the other way around (though to be fair, he acknowledged this years ago). I think he was handed it at a party, and the picture was taken right afterwards.

[ESRB Rating...]

I am not 100% sure how ones earn certain raitings in games. I imagine that just like movies, there is a list of certain “do”, “do not” and that it’s not always a reliable way of judging games content. Some dark themes of PoE alone probably would push it beyond 17+. First PoE had 17+ rating as well, so check how it was rating in whatever system you are using for a reference. I doubt those two would be much apart.

 

Here is a quick primer for rating systems around the world.

[Fearmongering thread]

 

 

 

 

 

I would make a gag about Tommy Wiseau getting hired to voice Tekehu but, actually, that would be awesome.

 

Oh hai Aloth.

 

Okay now I really want the Watcher to wrestle a wand off a svef dealer who Aloth has crossed, then later, when Pallegina cheats on him, kill himself with it.

"You're lying I never hit you! You're TEARING ME APART, PALLEGINA!"

 

 

[Aloth walks into blacksmith's store.]

 

Aloth: Hi.

Proprietor: Oh hi, Aloth. I didn't know it was you. [Grabs random package.] Here you go.

Aloth: That's meee. How much is it?

Proprietor: It'll be eighteen go--

Aloth: Here you go! Keep the change. Hi, doggy.

Proprietor: You're my favorite customer.

Aloth [deadpan]: Thanks a lot. Bye.

Proprietor: Bye-bye.

Iselmyr: I dona know why ya can't talk like a person, pointy-ear.

 

 

Do I have to watch "The Room" in order to understand this joke?

 

Or I'll just assume this is how bad the movie goes 

 

 

You just need to watch

scene - you should be able to find the rest of the refereed scenes from there.

[Fearmongering thread]

* Due to last minute focus testing Deadfire will now be a Multiplayer-only title with all players on the same shard - there will be both PvE and PvP,

* In addition to the above, there will be no text chat feature. Instead there will be a global voice chat that you cannot disable.

[It's still possible back this game?]

 

It don't think so, but give it a try here : http://eternity.obsidian.net/backer/pledges

Very doubtful though, you're gonna have to pre-order. [or wait] 

I can't do anything here unfortunately. It's an injustice that who discover only now the game can't have the cool items of the Fig campaign. Do you think can be a possibility to contact the support? Thanks!

 

 

Since they are a part of the company that made the decision to close down the option to back the project, and instead begin the pre-order process, I don't think there is anything they can do for you.

[It's still possible back this game?]

Ship has sailed long ago. But you can always buy it!

 

Indeed, you should even be able to pre-order it!

[Josh Sawyer's tweets and teasers, part 2]

Might is coming back in the next backer beta: https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/975553952929296384

[Josh Sawyer's tweets and teasers, part 2]

Hey Josh, played a bit of the backer beta and noticed that multiple weapon sets no longer show up on characters. Was it taken out or just not implemented in the beta? I personally loved the "Armed to the Teeth" vibe our characters could have in PoE, and its absence in DF would be a darn shame IMHO.

[Save Import VS Choice Selection]

Need some Insight, I'm not sure I fully understand how Import practically works :

 

[steam] : Whenever I wanna play the First Game, I just install it & all my Saved Game are here. [in some sort of a "Steam Cloud", I guess...]

But for the Secong Game, should I reinstall Pillars I, so Deadfire has "Access" to these "Hidden Saved Game // End Game States" ?

 

Do I have to Reinstall Pillars, then Look For // Copy // Paste the Hidden Save somewhere, then manually copy it in whatever Folder when Deadfire is out & fully Installed ?

I guess the main Question is :

• Does Deadfire automatically accesses Pillars I End Game Saves, when it's not Installed ?

The practical side of this bugs me out...

 

If you played PoE1, then it would have created a folder on your computer where the save games were stored. When you uninstalled PoE1, that folder, and everything in it, was not deleted. When you install PoE2, I assume it will look for that folder and try to find an endgame save.

 

This is however speculation, based on how other games tend to handle this, since I have seen no specifics on how PoE2 is going to find the save files.

[Level Scaling: All, crit path only or none? Thoughts?]

I am leaning towards either Scale critical path only + Scale up only or No scaling. I do like a challenge, but I also like to perform curb-stomp battles now and again if I feel I have "earned it".

[Voice acting in Pillars @]

Sorry if this has been gone over a few times before, but will there be full voice acting in Pillars 2? Like Divinity 2 style?

 

There will not be full voice acting. However, the voice acting budget has been doubled (I don't have a quote, but I doubt this will translate directly to twice the amount of voice acting), and the writers have gotten better guidelines on how to mix voiced and non-voiced sections - there should be no more "[voiced bit] [unvoiced descriptive text] [voiced bit]".

[Deadfire delayed to May 8th]

It is official ? 

 

Yes it is - here is their official message to backers.

[Deadfire delayed to May 8th]

Good. As a consumer I am fine with delaying the game a month to get a more polished experience.

 

I only hope that it dosen't strain Obsidian too much financially.

[Eye tracking?]

Honestly I don't think PoE or any game adjacent to the IE genre is a good fit for eye tracking - too much precision clicking.

 

However I don't have any experience with the technology, so I would be interested in learning how precise it is.

[WTF are sidekicks?]

 

Weren't most "companions" in Baldur's Gate like sidekicks? Even the ones who had own quests, usually had really short ones. At least short and simple in comparison to the much longer and more complex quests of the Pillars 1 companions. Sometimes I think too many people haven't actually played BG in a long long time.

 

Wait.. What? I just bought bg2ee on android and that's better than i remembered... Dialogues are absolutely brilliant. Companions talk with each other, interact with you and with npcs... The interactions are far superior than poe 1 imho, and their personalities are developed a lot better (in poe, as in many other modern rpgs you get an npc and then you have to go through a wall of text having talking to them... While in bg2 the talking develop through the whole story).

 

Some prersonal quests are easily forgettable (i.e. Keldorn) but some others are quite good. I can bet from now that dialogues wise bg2 will be still superior to poe (and that's decades later...)

 

 

I think huang was referring to Baldur's Gate 1.

[Collector Edition Game Guide]

No, not the Guidebook but the game guide, in PoE it was a hard cover from Prima.

As far as I know they are not making a new printed game guide.

[Fig backer DLC missing/ wrong key?]

But there's a preorder that incudes a dlcs.

It will likely be released to us when the game is about to go live.

[Fig backer DLC missing/ wrong key?]

The deadfire team has most likely not begun actually producing the DLC, therefore there is no product, therefore there are no DLC keys.

 

Once the game has been released, there will likely go a period of 2-4 months before Obsidian announces the first of the DLCs, and at that point they might give us the first DLC key, or they might wait until they closer to release of the first DLC. The same applies to the second and the third DLC.

 

Don't worry, we are all going to get our DLC keys.

[Question about Pillars of Eternity Deadfire Obisidian Edition includes]

At this point only the Deadfire development team has any idea what the three DLC packs will contain and how big they are going to be. I would assume that combined they would add as much content as White March 1 and 2, but that is just a guess. Their release date is likewise unknown.

 

I do however think it is safe to assume that they will contain new locations, quests, weapons, and things like that. Maybe new companions and sidekicks, but that is more speculative.

[Launch Date For Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Announced, Pre-Orders Now Live!]

Okay thanks guys! Now I'm especially interested in how GOG handles this

 

You can redeem the code you get from Obsidian on either the GOG website or in their Galaxy client. In either case the redeemed game is added to your library - you will have to wait for it to be released before you can begin the installation (I cannot remember GOG doing pre-installs).

 

GOG also has an infrastructure for pre-orders (you can, for example, preorder Deadfire), so redeeming your key before the game is released is really a non-issue.