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If I ever felt a tiniest, slightest, most minuscule pang of conscience about ing TV stuff, this right here would be my justification. Well, that and "This content is locked in your region" bullsh†t. Whenever I see that thing, I feel irresistible urge to find and download locked content even if I had no initial interest to ever watch it.

I've read this was related to number of savegame files, as in loading times increasing along with that number. It indeed got a little better for me when I wiped majority of saves.

You'd think it be easier to chew and sort tasty bits from yuck bits if food's gibbed, but noooo, gibs be invisible and inedible. Barbarians should not be this picky about their food as if they were some pampered mage or somethin'

It's kind of like "Stardew Valley" -- you want to grind, you can crack those spreadsheets open and do so, or you can water your patch of 15 turnips in a minute and go have fun in town. Environment's v. easy on eyes and fishing minigame better than in Valley IMO. Music's a bit bland though.

I checked my library and what do you know, I actually own it! Even moar, I vaguely remember trying to play it too, but I had no idea what was happening and why and then I think some orcs came and bashed my tower in and I quit.

Your first two Obsidian games, I take? Otherwise you'd know they don't exactly do epic fantasies with the "Mary Sue McWishfulfillment the Spawn of Bhaal, the Fusrodah of Big Huge Lizards, the NPC of the GM etc etc yadda yadda" type of protagonist. Even their most bog-standard fantasy game's, "Neverwinter Nights 2", protag isn't that much of a power fantasy vessel (unless you go full hog on being Eeeeevil in MOTB, but even then it's arguable if there's any "you" left in that thing). So, no, you cannot fight a god in such a setting, let alone crush him with all the might of your Twenty Levels of Experience, because he's ancient construct of ineffable power and you're a temporary iteration of substance those constructs have been manipulating since their creation -- and were created with precise purpose to manipulate it. Your opinion having a sway on him is big enough. I do trust Obsidian won't start making power trip fantasies just because Deadire did not sell well, but still...fingers crossed.

TGIF!!!!

I boarded them all the time before and decided to try something new. Or fruit (that you get I imagine by raiding orchards on those islands you visit like a true pirate!) and water which cancels each other, but then you give them some lager sometimes and it's all good. Anyway, I'm getting the hang of it and what do you know, ship sinking is actually fun ! Unfortunately I couldn't sink any of those fatass armored galleons yet, at least with a sloop. Loaded a save with a better equipped dhow and sank that pain-in-the-ass galleon full of fighters and goldpacts, albeit with some luck since few lucky shots with events stunlocked AI so bad it never even fired on me. Also found out that on slaver ships only the captain has the level that's on the ship and the rest of crew are pushovers so that red skull means nothing. Would have saved me much time dodging that prick who always spawns and beelines to you when you try to get to Neketaka for the first time. Unfortunately current weather has fantastic synergy with Deadfire's attempts to fry my video card so I'm postponing experiments with ship sinking until better, colder times.

Thanks a lot guys, with the help of mixed tactics just dropped Well-weathered Cormio (Beggar With Fruit wasn't around) Although he did land a few hits on me and I won basically by facing the side of his ship with only one cannon where I had two and going full speed-hold-shoot. Tried that jibe thing, still can't quite get it but ah well, it's just the first battle where I more or less knew what I was doing and with a crew straight outta Port Maje to boot. A question though -- how do I know if the enemy is about to fire? By counting turns since their last salvo or is there any other way to tell? Because that bastard always chose to fire right after my hold position.

So after years of boarding I decided to see what's with that ship combat. And I keep losing because, I suspect, my strategy of "turn the left side cannons at the target, shoot, turn the right side cannons at the target, shoot" is a little faulty. Thing is, my whole naval experience consists of Obra Dinn the game and The Terror the TV series, so none of them fancy ship words make any sense. Google doesn't help much here, because it offers me Wikipedia pages where fancy naval words are explained using other fancy naval words. I remember Boeroer posting some cheesy strat times ago, but didn't think to bookmark it then and now its buried under under sands of time and poorly working search keywords. So any tips in simple, comprehensible words would be greatly appreciated.

Ha. I normally don't mind gem RNG - tons of weapons and stuff in the game, if I don't have mats to enchant something I planned, I can enchant something else with mats I have and possibly discover shiny new gear I didn't pay attention to before - but pyrite is a nasty little exception to that. I still remember unfondly the run with nary a drop of that blighted thing.

It's kind of hard not to encounter her in PoE1 unless you avoid half of Ondra's gift. My solo runner met her but never recruited; she can be hired in the Palace and later in the Embassy and acts really cold, like there's bad blood between her and the Watcher. But it's probably the same like with Aloth and Eder -- if you never met them in PoE1, you don't meet them in Deadfire.

TGIF!

Agreed on both counts. Lovecraft country was so good, but Egypt wore me down at the end so much I didn't even get to Uberwald.

You get to be sorry cop if you apologize a lot. So it seems that your US cop has been replaced with Canadian cop.

Replace Heineken with Stella Artois when in Belgium. Also, "Avoid tourist traps and find where locals drink/eat" is generally great advice. Majestic's bit too harsh on German beers IMO, I had some nice ones and Franziskaner is legit great. Lambics >>> lagers and I so miss gueuze.

And here I am lamenting the fact that no Star Wars game would allow me to play as a Hutt.

I imagine this is how my Hell will look like -- eternity of doing DS boss fights. Sometimes devils would grant me a reprieve with a pivot table or two in MS Excel on dependency between climate and agriculture in Faroe Islands, just so that going back to DS was more painful.

You say it as if it is a bad thing. Anyway. I played LOTRO a little years ago and starter areas were all fun, but as soon as you leave them it's ten bear arses quests all the way down. SWTOR, my choice of lowbrow gaming, is much better about that.

That's a good idea. Also, if you replace clear spirit with brandy, lemon peels with cherries and sugar with, well, a bit less sugar, you can get a different yet delicious kind of adult lemonade. Well, cherryade.

Tried it once. It tasted of lemon so unnatural that even dishwashing liquid manufacturers wouldn't add it to their stuff on account of being too artificial. Vile, vile concoction.

While the thread denizens wait with baited breath for AL's examples, I remembered v. similar kerfuffle re: Dragon Age 2. In that game if you went with Doormat personality type, you could eventually corner oneself into the situation where you had either accept playersexual NPC's advances or tell him to f*ck off in quite rude manner. So those completely secure in their sexuality types had a meltdown A) tearing that NPC a new one for daring to hit on them first, B) complaining that they had to be, like, so rude to said NPC to let him down. Good times.