Maeldun

After so many years I try to play this game and yet still, Pillars of Eternity - Not Responding During level up screen game causes computer to completely freeze. Even after so many reports over so many years, no other game or application is this egregious in its misuse of computer resources.

If you're on Steam you should be able to roll back to 3.07 (1.3.8.1318) using the beta branch. You can then stop the update by setting it to only download when launching the game and then only launch PoE with Steam in offline mode. There are other methods of blocking the update but this is the easiest.

I would bet it has to do with licensing. Obsidian probably already had a license agreement for Unity 2019 and Unity pissed everyone off last year with their ill-advised attempt to revise their licensing fee structure so I wouldn't blame any developer for having second thoughts about renewing that license under new terms.

I'll be blocking this update until or unless these issues introduced by the new update are fixed. Several people mentioned bugs before the patch went live yet none of them were addressed nor their comments even acknowledged - and new issues were introduced. Even the community fixes made over the last 6 1/2 years (3.07 was released in 12/2017) are broken by this update. Can you at least let us know whether there will be continued support to fix this mess? To be clear, I'm not talking about any particular bugs that people wanted fixed - I'm referring to things you broke in this update that weren't broken in 3.07.

I've been a silent but attentive user of this game's community and it's surprising that this game is going to get another patch after so long. I'll defer to all the other, far more active members for the items to be considered for the patch. If I could suggest one item that hasn't been mentioned in this thread it would be to fix the constant pausing/freezing of the game during character generation/level up/retrain screens. After clicking enough buttons the UI will slow down until it freezes for 10-20 seconds. Task Manager reports that the application is not responding. This is an issue that has been reported by many other individuals, both in this community and over on Steam and none of the suggested fixes address the problem. To reproduce the issue you just need to cycle through the different skill points (up/down) available talents or, during character generation, different hair/head or color options. Invariably, after enough clicks the UI slows down until it freezes. It's very frustrating and has on many occasions thrown cold water on my desire to play the game.