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Gentlemen, prepare to have your minds blown. http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/rpg-codex-interview-chris-avellone-on-pillars-cut-content-game-development-hierarchies-and-more.121588/page-8#post-5590121

Mods should pin this thread.

Archived: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/254486517?t=10m08s

Starting soon: https://www.twitch.tv/obsidian Contact Fereed! https://www.reddit.com/user/Fereed

Oh heck, this means we might be missing codes because of ad blockers.

Important thing to realize: When game developers talk about Bethesda RPGs or "making a Skyrim", they don't mean literally those games. They mean games that follow that broad open world action-RPG format that Bethesda pioneered. I mean, come on. You think Sawyer and Obsidian don't realize that Fallout 4 has garbage narrative design? Of course they do.

Anything here? https://www.twitch.tv/videos/252031193?t=06h06m21s

Hey Ethics Gradient, you should rename the thread now that we know what the funny business is about. You can do that by entering the full editor of the first post.

Not sure if this helps:

It's mfvU5r Thanks Grotesque.

Hahahaha: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/248089459?t=02h36m20s Manifest SD?

Another code shirt: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/248089459?t=02h17m06s It's the same one.

Archived: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/245952827?t=01m18s

Is that Fereed guy from Reddit who did the transcripts for many of these streams still around? Somebody should contact him.

Will we get to see the non-beta content that was shown at GDC? (this question is for right now, not for the stream)

https://www.pcgamesn.com/pillars-of-eternity-2-deadfire/pillars-of-eternity-2-romance

These are totally going to turn out to just be codes you can enter to get Berath's Blessing unlockables or something like that.

https://twitter.com/kgarsten/status/972313523689701378

No. System Shock 3 has a publisher (Starbreeze Studios), this doesn't. Which is kind of the whole point.

This is like saying that in PoE1 you had to "stack damage in builds". Damage was how you penetrated armor in PoE1, now it's something else. What's the difference? It's part of what you need to deal with to play the game well. As for rote automatic tactics, there's a third option you didn't mention. The most obvious solution is removing or otherwise limiting the Pen buffs. Just like you would do with a rote damage buff in PoE1.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/229121722?t=09m10s

Up-to-date list of today's previews and interviews here: http://www.rpgcodex.net/article.php?id=10830

More importantly I think, just because there's dumbing down doesn't mean it's dumbing down for consoles. There's plenty of room to dumb down for PC too.