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Why would he get a full reward and you get a partial reward if you picked the same day? That's unfair. We can discuss what we want do regarding reward splits later on after we get a bunch of people joining in and organize the funding stuff. IMO If you pick the same day as other people, you "equally" share the reward. If it's just one person, then they get all of it. I think as the thread gains popularity most days will have a few names to them. Equally in quotation marks because we're not sure what that means yet.

November 17th - Malekith November 18th - Sarex November 25th - salo November 27th - Macrae November 28th - Karranthain December 1st - Zinnwaldite December 2nd - gamerdude130 December 5th - Doppelschwert December 9th - Sensuki December 12th - IndiraLightFoot December 16th - Karkarov, MasterPrudent, Bendu December 17th - Night Stalker December 18th - ashtonw January 5th, 2015 - Flow January 13th, 2015 - ManifestedISO June 16th, 2015 - Grunker

Die Ugly Knobgoblins!!

Those guys aren't Glanfathans I don't think. They're probably part of The Hand Occult or Skaen Cultists or some **** we don't know about yet.

Well in the other games I just recall there being more responses that weren't simply one-liners. The NPC writing in the BGs is pretty reminiscent of 90s media. Not all the time. Irenicus was cool, but he told you what his plan was and that's how you knew how to beat him (at least partially), reminded me a bit of Shredder from the Ninja Turtles. Sarevok didn't do that though.

There's four or five of them, I think.

Yes the NPC lines all felt very natural, although I thought the player responses were ... really dry.

They look like they do sfa damage at the moment, particularly to armored units.

November 17th - Malekith November 18th - Sarex November 25th - salo November 27th - Macrae November 28th - Karranthain December 1st - Zinnwaldite December 2nd - gamerdude130 December 5th - Doppelschwert December 9th - Sensuki December 12th - IndiraLightFoot December 16th - Karkarov December 18th - ashtonw January 5th, 2015 - Flow January 13th, 2015 - ManifestedISO June 16th, 2015 - Grunker

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There's been topics on this before, and this is the main reason they wanted a durability mechanic. If you don't invest in the Player Stronghold, you'll have absolutely truck loads of extra money. I personally don't have a problem with having a ridiculous amount of money in the game, and now that the content for the game is no longer being created, any suggestions about money sinks other than alterations to the formula are not very useful. You could make hiring adventurers costly, but I think it's better to make it so that the prices make sense in the setting/world, rather than complete gamism. Crafting also consumes money.

I thought Paradox was doing a physical release like any other game, that will be sold in the stores. You can pre-order a boxed copy atm, btw for $50 + shipping.

Maybe you're just reading a bit too much into my words rather than my request for a few more enemies in those encounters on harder difficulties, which I'm sure there will be. The Wolf encounter could be one singular harder wolf. 3-4 Glanfathans in the second encounter, 4 or so in the 3rd. Three Skuldr's in the Ruins with one in between the two that will aggro if the first one is attacked (or something like that). Couple more spiders. One or two more Black Oozes. This is a very large assumption based on what I've seen, but that should be manageable by the three party members. You could also do it with less by resting.

Yeah something like that. If there's like 6 people that are a day off they'd all get a prize or be up for a prize, depending on how many in's we get.

I'll have to ask a moderator to edit the OP (Gfted1, Lady Crimson, Tigranes etc) and I'll just keep reposting the list November 17th - Malekith November 18th - Sarex November 25th - salo November 27th - Macrae November 28th - Karranthain December 1st - Zinnwaldite December 2nd - gamerdude130 December 9th - Sensuki December 12th - IndiraLightFoot December 16th - Karkarov June 16th, 2015 - Grunker I'll close the voting on September 1st as well.

Mainstream Call of Duty (Non-modded CoD4, CoD5, Black Ops, MW2, MW3, Black Ops 2, all that bull**** with attack dogs, choppers, stun grenades etc) is absolutely horrible and everything you think about it is absolutely correct and then some. Competitive Call of Duty (Call of Duty 1 with PAM Mod, Call of Duty 2 with PAM Mod and Call of Duty 4 with Promod) were quite valid FPS games that required quite a bit of skill to play, particularly the earlier titles, which focused more on individual aim, skill and game smarts, whereas CoD4 is more about team performance as it's harder to shine as an individual player. What you said is a tautology, but I see what you're getting at. I think my point about making distinctions due to historical expectations still stands.

If there's multiple people that guess the date (there will probably be quite a few), we obviously can't give all of those people another digital download, but we'll work it out anyway. We could set it up so that everyone who wants to make a valid vote paypals X money (max of probably like $1) to the Obsidian Paypal account and then they sort out the reward redemption or something. We'll sort it out a bit later anyway.

We could all chip in 50 cents and buy them an extra copy or something.

We did this over at the Grim Dawn forums for the release of the Grim Dawn Alpha, but since the release is only a few months away (or is it!) now, I thought it would be fun to guess the release date of Pillars of Eternity. Gentleman's Rules: You can only post your guess once, first guess is the guess that will be used and will be compiled in the OP as a vertical list You can only pick a single date You can pick any date starting from September 1, 2014 You can have the same date as someone else, but it makes the "reward" for winning not as good Valid votes after a certain point may require a small donation (50c or $1) to the prize pool (we'll sort that out later) My guess is Tuesday, December 9th 2014. September 30th - Sad Panda November 3rd - Tankallex November 11th - Bogeyfox November 13th - Labadal November 17th - Malekith November 18th - Sarex, Immortalis November 19th - mstark November 20th - Sedrefilos November 25th - salo, Fatback, Bryy November 26th - Texoru November 27th - Macrae November 28th - Karranthain November 30th - TheTeaMustFlow December 1st - Zinnwaldite December 2nd - gamerdude130, Forlorn Hope December 3rd - Trodat December 4th - curryinahurry, HiroProtagonist December 5th - Doppelschwert December 6th - Elerond December 8th - NothingToSeeHere, Arouet December 9th - Sensuki, PieSnatcher, zhoom455 December 10th - Grace85 December 11th - SqueakyCat, artyom December 12th - IndiraLightFoot, wolfdyne December 14th - Namutree December 15th - Lephys December 16th (full) - Karkarov, MasterPrudent, Bendu, Urthor December 17th - Night Stalker December 18th - ashtonw, Pidesco, Zeckul December 21st - exodiark December 22nd - Arden December 23rd - ShadySands, vril January 5th, 2015 - Flow January 13th, 2015 - ManifestedISO January 15th, 2015 - nikolokolus, h^2 January 18th, 2015 - Lysen January 20th, 2015 - Sondai January 28th, 2015 - Gorbag January 31st, 2015 - JSFOCC February 6th, 2015 - BLnoT February 14th, 2015 - evilmiera March 10th, 2015 - MikeTheRed March 17th, 2015 - Lord Gorchnik April 1st, 2015 - gromnir June 16th, 2015 - Grunker

There is actually. Let me find the quote for you and I'll edit my post.

You sure you're not just saying that because in recent years it's been a fad to point out stuff like that? It might just depend on your social circles, I don't know. I played competitive Call of Duty (1, 2, 4 and a bit of Black Ops) in the Australian PC Call of Duty scene for 8 years (2005-2012). There were almost zero girls that played between 2005-2007. I literally did not encounter one single female PC Call of Duty player in that time. There was like a handful of girls in 2008 that played in the casual (free) leagues and by 2010 there was enough that the female AU PC Call of Duty players were given special permission to form an all girls team called "Girls Gone Wild" and they were also allowed to play in their home teams as well (none of the guys were allowed to do that). Most of them played in the lower tier competitive leagues, and there was only one girl that ever made the top league (DashDash / Karmun Suen). Even still, the ratio was like 100 males to 1 female. In competitive games especially, there is usually a large difference in skill between male and female gamers. Sure, there are certainly female gamers that are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than the majority of male players, but nowhere near as good as the best male players. That's why there are often different leagues for male and female gamers at a competititve ($) level just like there is in sports. You use the word female gamer when you are making a distinction between male gamers and female gamers, just like you would if you were talking about a male tennis player or a female tennis player. When ManifestedISO said "wow she's pretty good for a girl gamer" he was making a perfectly normal distinction between male and female gamers, because historically, male gamers are generally more interested in things like mechanics and stuff like that, but Meghan Sullivan oneUPed both of the GiantBomb interviewers in that regard, and he was just surprised because that's not what you would expect. I would say that's a completely normal response. It's not sexist, it's not misogynistic, it's a completely bloody normal statement based on historical expectations. And in my eyes anyone who thinks otherwise has just been influenced by the recent social justice warrior trend that has been popularized by many gaming sites such as RockPaperShotgun. Quite frankly I'm sick of it. I can completely understand a chick saying something like "you could just call me a gamer, you know :P" in a jesting manner but the guys who white knight the issue over completely normal statements like the one ManifestedISO made are just plain ridiculous in my opinion. I guess if you're coming from something like a World of Warcraft environment or something like that, there's probably a more even ratio of guys to girls playing or something.

Sure, I'll pay that. The Baldur's Gate 1 opening was really easy. Josh has said that Normal difficulty will be similar to Baldur's Gate 1 and Icewind Dale 1 difficulty (not that challenging) and Hard will be more BG2/IWD2 level difficulty. That's what I was referring to specifically. By the way, there's no reason to have a snarky tone in your posts. Pretty sure you know what I meant. We know that difficulty settings changes the nature of the encounters. So I'd expect on Path of the Damned to face a few more Glanfathan Warriors in those groups. A few more spiders, and maybe two or three Black Oozes at once. If you do it solo (without Calisca or Heodan) you'll probs have to use the camping supplies.

Bullsh1t. People have been saying girl gamer since like the early 2000s at least, as far as I can remember. It's because gaming has traditionally been more of a male activity, it's only now that gaming is a part of pop culture that it's evened out a bit more. It's like in a majority white area and you say "that asian guy" to refer to your friend called Steven Ho. It's not being racist and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Same with saying girl gamer.

I don't see the issue with the term "girl gamer" either. Anyone who does is just trying to be a social justice warrior.

I think a more active combat idle would be the solution - characters currently hold their weapons at waist level which is kind of unrealistic. In the Baldur's Gate games, characters held their shields in front of their body and their weapons up. In Icewind Dale they looked a lot more passive. Josh said on his tumblr that characters have combat fidgets, but they don't occur very often at the moment and the frequency will be raised.