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WOOOT!!! Found my name. I paid somewhere between $100-$200; I helped fund Kickstarter but I'm really thinking I donated somewhere around $50 or so. However thru the Portal I donated an additional $135 cause that's what my order said. Anyways after the latest patch (and its a possibility my name was on there to begin with) I found my name. There are four sections of names Kickstarter Gold Level Backers (many) *Additional Kickstarter Gold Level Backers (not too many) Kickstarter Backers (omg a ton of em LOL) Additional Kickstarter Backers (decent amount) I landed on the final phase........the 'additional Kickstarter Backers' So don't forget..........4 Sections of Credits!! (now back to look at my Strat Guide lol) (not in there LOL; but however it occurred to me; my Backer Tier says "Special In Game Thanks", so duh it wont be published in a book hehe, ooops)

LOL I couldn't see my name either Thankfully it was alphabetical but I checked both Gold Kickstarter and regular Kickstarter; almost saw my name but my last not included. Now I felt I thought I made the survey in time, did I?

i saw this in the 1st build so i'm not sure why it does that. And if i remember correctly when you engage in combat the boar attacks you too

I created a new game. Upon entering the game I checked Cleric/Wizard for their spells. All is good. I checked for Grimoire; that is good too. Got quest to find Thief; killed Thief; quest updated; went back to Medreth and got XP and Medreth left. Did all that within 10minutes; so far...no problems YAY. Now to go back and loot the dead Thief and get the quest inside the Inn

So knowing what I did wrong in my 1st playthrough (needing to use main menu for loading games so my quests dont get broken); I decided to create a new character This time I created a monk (previous was Paladin) I got the first quest in finding the Female Thief inside the INN; now first time I told her to go East (Spare her) and went back to Medreth but quest didnt really update So I decided to kill the Thief and here are my outcomes: 1-Thief dies and 2 party members are apparently knocked unconscious. Suprisingly I was able to escape Top floor and even exit the Inn with 3/5 members. But seeing as the party members didnt come back to life I thought, well I'll visit the Temple for resurrection. Nope that didnt work. Said I must gather my party before entering. Meanwhile thinking lets go back inside the Inn and rest; nope..... I must gather my party before venturing forth 2-Outcome #2 I defeated the Thief and was ready to exit Top Floor but my main character was completely frozen up. I couldnt even exit Top Floor; tried double clicking him like mad and ordering him to move or even collect loot. Nothing....so on to outcome #3 3-Thief dies and now my rogue cannot move. Same as #2 (seriously??!!!!) 4-Outcome #4 Thief dies and shockingly, shockingly enough i have full control of my party; I went back to Medreth, completed the quest and Medreth went away but all 4 outcomes still came at a price and you'll see that in one second.......... My Wizard has no spells!! Yes thats right the BB Wizard has no spells. I mean sure; I can click the Wizard and see Level 1-4 but when I click each Level its supposed to open up his memorized spells and nothing was in it. Now here i thought okay no big deal I can just re load and see if theres a change/glitch. But heck even his inventory lacks the Book "Grimoire" So Playthrough #2 ruined! (total playtime round #2 maybe 30minutes) Now what I am wondering......can Pillars of Eternity Beta support Multiple Character Save slots? I created a Paladin and gave him a name. I created a Monk and gave him a name. Now each of those has its save slots. So I have 6 saves within PoE. Is there a bug that says if I dont overwrite all existing saves that any additional party members can be bugged? Well I will find out on Playthrough #3 when I create another new game...this time to double check inventory, spells before proceeding with any quests!

Serious? And if my party dies; do I quit to Main Menu then load?

***SPOILERS AHEAD*** **I will highlight questions for easy reply** According to my steam client I have put in at least 5hrs of PoE Beta and I might be at my ends of the rope here. First off here are the areas I have found: Dryford Village Dryford Crossing>Cave>Dryford Ruins Stormwall Gorge>Lle a Rhemen So thats 6 places. Are there more? Aside from the Dryford Ruins I have cleared out all other areas. Upon entering the village I went nuts and accepted every quest imaginable. Like finding some bandit inside the Inn; and trying to locate the missing daughter; and "who ate my pigs"? Well I found the bandit inside the Inn; told her to slip away, went back and I got attacked. Quest didnt complete. I found the Ogre who supposedly is holding the missing daughter but he said he never saw her; asked about the pigs and eventually he just attacked me. Is anyone getting quests completed? Mine isnt. **edit (and yes after killing the ogre and basically wiping away the maps; I have revisited each NPC to see if their Dialogue will update; allowing me to further the quest tracker)** So I had lockpicks in my inventory but it wasnt working while in game but I came to the forums and apparently what I need to do is to read the combat log for the Lockpick Message. I may be shy on my skills or lacking of lockpicks. I ask about the lockpicks because after fighting some NPCs next to the Inn theres a locked door; I cannot enter. Then I descended into the Dryford Ruins and almost each door is locked and I cannot proceed whatsoever. Needless to say 3 characters were 100% stuck; I've even saved twice; loaded twice and nothing. I used a Fighter and the Wizard to clear out enemies checked all corpses and loot and nothing was about a key to the big doorway (or doors). So aside from wiping out Dryford Ruins; is there another sub basement or another location hidden within?? Inventory/Looting. Well I might need to read the forums again but I just dont understand looting corpses. I mean if I have my whole party selected and my main character has nothing but 1 GrappleHook in inventory and I go loot a corpse and choose the "take all" why wont he loot? What is it with each character and numbers on their portraits. At first Im thinking its number of slots available for looting 7 means 7 slots and 2 means 2 slots left. But yet if I select myself which has 7 slots; why cant I pick up the loot? I only came across 1 Camping Gear Crafting? HA; I think I'm still missing ingredients which I cant seem to find. I've bought from the Alchemist/Weapon Store but havent crafted a single item I think aside from hiring an adventurer to test out; and creating a new class to try out, I may just start from scratch (regarding title of thread here) ? At first I couldnt figure out why when I *supposedly die* and rest of party is full health do I get a "You must load a save/party died" error. But it finally occured to me.....way back in Baldurs Gate 2 if my Heroic Main Character dies, everyone basically dies LOL. Sometimes though its hard to tell if you're really dead or just knocked down

and I dont know I might be wrong on this (about it being too long) but I utilized a stopwatch and came up with these results: Upon launching .exe game and hitting "Load Game" and selecting...27seconds If your party has died and you choose "Load" it takes 14seconds When transitioning from a Blacksmith store to the outside it takes..........10seconds My specs are: 6 Core Processor 8 Gigs System RAM 10mb download speed DSL

Anyone know how fast the Beta key will be delivered? I just upgraded my Backer Value; lets say 5:55pm PST How fast will I receive my Beta key so I can start downloading? If I get it before anyone else comments I will re post the timeframe ***Edit** Thinking I was waiting for an email; apparently it was listed in my 'product tab' on the portal homepage...the one to buy/upgrade kickstarter pledges. While now I'm not 100% sure on the timeframe. I did log in at 6:20pm PST and was able to generate a key. So 25minutes at maximum

wow that seemed very easy. Thank you VERY much. That solved my issue. Basically my mouse pointer needs to be in front of the character for he/she to attack front; if the cursor is behind then it will constantly attack from behind. I just played thru the Heroes' Crypt on my 2nd character and had no problems whatsoever with attacking correctly. You helped me a great deal

off the top of my head; I know during dialog I have to position my mouse correctly so it aligns up with the speech I want my character to use. As far as combat/targetting. Well if I use my mouse and point at a barrel, the character still doesnt hit it. But I will try it some more tonight.

No my test is not 100% effective. Even though I'm facing forward and I attack, and while my character automatically fires behind me (not in front) and by pressing the letter D; it does not make the character fire the correct way. So I'm still stumped. I'm not sure why my characters do this.

So I dont know if my current issue is in relation to the recent PC patch and the infamous June 23rd or what but let me say my issue. Okay so I'm in the game. I see an enemy coming towards me; ok now hes in front of me, I hit the attack button but whats this? My character immediately attacks behind me; not in front of me. Needless to say this has to be the most frustrating thing of all. Dont get me wrong Ive now reached 50% of the game. Absolutely love this game. LOL in fact I love it so much that I am playing each character and bring the other characters equivelant to my main character so I'm putting in x4 times the hours. (for instance I'll play from Stormsong Cavern, where you get your party member all the way to the 1st Causeway entrance; then bring each other characters to that point) Point being; I'm having issues targetting things (barrels to break) or even enemies. So its like this; in order for me to actually attack the enemy is that he needs to be behind me for me to attack properly. Now I may have stumbled upon something the last 10minutes of gameplay last night but i havent fully 100% tested this yet. When I'm facing forward, IF by chance when I hit the attack button and my character attacks/swings behind me; if I press the letter D button my character will then attack properly in front of me. But hypothetically lets say that it doesnt fix the issue. What then? I heard that people were having some issues with the recent PC version patch of mixing keyboard letters A and D; lol and honestly I havent really noticed. But anyways here I am, wondering why my character/characters (since its happened to more than 1 character I'm playing) when facing forward does the character always always always attack behind me???? Thanks PS. I'm about to watch a movie here shortly so I'll be back in 2.5hrs (or less). Then I'll go play the game and check it out too. Just seeking first thoughts/fixes before I attempt to play PPS. I dont have any configuration changed. So everything is at defaults. I didnt reverse Y Axis, or X axis, or change any keyboard layouts (by the way, does this new patch allow you to modify the key bindings????)

and I'm sure I wouldnt be buying a game either if it had to have a constant connection and I lived somewhere that the connection was horrible or that I couldnt afford it. Let alone I guess activate it. Then again you need an active connection just to activate your operating system so I guess in my case; lets say in 2 months time I have no money, and then my hard drive crashes, I have to install the OS but guess what; 30 days later I cannot use much of the computer because I cannot get it activated. At any rate, in cases like needing an internet connection I too would be upset. Lets look at this from a different perspective though........the good news is that at least companies arent issuing a DRM on a product you already own months down the road. Lets say for instance; A HA; Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion; Bethesda. Lets be thankful that they arent issuing out a DRM on that game even though we've had it for years..............lol does that make sense? Thankfully these people issue the DRM stats up front before you ever buy it and thankfully they dont ever change once you do own the game

I cant speak for the entire world but I'll just speak for myself. I work hard for my money, or rather credit cards LOL. I've been working straight for nearly 16 years now. I work full time around 36hrs a week and probably only earning 12 dollars an hour. When a PC game comes out, I spend the 60 dollars, I install it. If its a good game, I'll probably just keep it on the hard drive and not worry about uninstalling it. I have a Desktop PC and a Laptop but I refuse to play a game on my laptop; besides I spent 2500 dollars on this desktop and only 700 for my laptop. If its a game that I dont really care for; Rogue Warrior; I'll beat it and un install it but I"ll make sure its pretty much gone from my computer. Yes I understand DRM is attached to your computer, meaning one would have to go thru the hard drive with a fine toothpick to get rid of it. Uninstalling the game via Add/Remove programs and also going into the registry I hear doesnt completely remove the DRM file for that specific game. But ok in the case like Alpha Protocol, it said what??? 5 installs? You buy it, you install it......what is the percentage rate of people that un install the game after they beat it? Maybe I'm different because I have a bigger hard drive that isnt concerned about free space?????? So what, you shelf the game for 6 months and re install it which would make #2 so I guess in the case of APs DRM that means that if people play the game and un install it right away their 60 dollar game lasts them 2yrs whereas other games that dont have DRM (ie Diablo 2) can last them 10 years and have 400 installations??? Is that why people hate DRM? Because DRM usually constraints the number of installs? What about if a person was to reformat the hard drive? I'll admit that I dont reformat my Hard Drive like some magazines say one should.........every 6 months or every year but if people do reformat the hard drive; that would get rid of the DRM file in which it opens it back up right? So wouldnt that seem like a fair choice; buy the game for 60 dollars; play it, un install it, shelf it for 6 months re install it. 2yrs go by you're install limit has been reached, reformat the hard drive from scratch re install the OS and now your PC game has 5 installations left right? At any rate, I guess I just dont see what the big deal is? Ubisoft games now require and active internet connection at all times to play, doesnt that apply to Steam games as well? I'm already using DSL so that doesnt bother me too much; but what does bother me is that when I do want to play and their servers are having hiccups thats whats irrating LOL Anyways just my 2cp PS. Its almost every game I'm interested in buying. I hear people complain that they wont buy the game cause of DRM. Again its not specfic to AP.