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As long as chanter can't chant outside combat and summon unlimited number if creatures to kill everything from map without me needing to risk my party I will say that any other class should not have ability pre-buff because otherwise it will kill my immersion with the game

There are romance plot lines in the game There is cheap sex in the game which only point is to give player bonuses There are several gay romance plot lines in the game which on includes female pc. There is tragic romantic tale that includes three people and has severe Shakespearian feeling in it. There is so sexual character in game that even most pan sexuals can't be so open minded. There is two spirited companion with both male and female soul and another companion that restlessly pursues that companion female aspect. And any of these content is not backer made. Only thing that is missing is PC to be able to romance some of the companions. But I has to say that I am quite pleased of amount of romantic content that we got

You probably could get House Doemenel sponsor you and if not you should get Lady Webb to sent you in her name.

Events in keep are random Hit rolls are random Some of loot is random

Your definition of attack is false and is demagogical. Also opinions of idiots are not valid by definition regardless of what you think about it. Let say that you say that you are american and I start to claim that you are actually French, I am actually attacking your person here regardless of what is truth or is it just my opinion because of your heritage or something else. Because I single out you and claim that you don't tell truth or something, instead of talking generally about something. There is were few valid opinion in world if opinions of idiots aren't sufficed in my opinion.

She identifies as woman and she is legally considered to be woman, claiming otherwise is just plain attacking another forum user, which is against rules of this forum. No it isn't. Considering MtF transsexuals to still be male is a valid opinion and is neither hateful nor intolerant. It is in no way an attack on someone. Attacking another users person is against forum rules regardless of what you think about world. Every opinion is valid even if it's utterly wrong and absolute idiotic and don't match with real world.

She identifies as woman and she is legally considered to be woman, claiming otherwise is just plain attacking another forum user, which is against rules of this forum.

Weren't you one that in earlier topic asked Obsidian to make changes how wizards work because you didn't like how they worked? And now you are offended when somebody else asked them to make changes in their game and they did? I am bit confused why you think that one change is against all the morals and other is just good service. game balance concerns =/= catering to annoying internet SJW fad concerns Game content is game content regardless of how it is used in the game. If you don't like how gameplay works and want changes it is not any different than not like some writing in game and asking to change it. In both cases you don't like work that Obsidian has put out and want to them change it. And it was backer of game that asked change in that memorial because she felt that it was offensive towards her.

And this thing went from bad to worse... Oh boy. Well - I'm grateful I never backed this with more than the minimum required for the basegame. I feel so bad for the people who spent hundreds or more, only to be shat on. Maybe you should check to see if the backer agreed to the change before you go off the deep end? Yeah, that's what I was thinking. It could have been that the backer asked for it to be changed to stop the drama. This kind of drama never stops, because there is always people that feel that their feelings are hurt even if they don't have anything to do with the subject.

Weren't you one that in earlier topic asked Obsidian to make changes how wizards work because you didn't like how they worked? And now you are offended when somebody else asked them to make changes in their game and they did? I am bit confused why you think that one change is against all the morals and other is just good service.

My Edér can knock be down as usual.

Click your intellect in character sheet and check if it says that you get the intellect bonus from Horn.

I have this same issue EDIT: I think that issue is that new icon is not scaled correctly

That is because Gul in question was already dead, but not before Durance started hit animation and because it was dead it could not take more damage anymore, which it show that damage done is 0. As you can see from your auto-pause information that Durance target was destroyed.

As game breaking than any bugs in PoE. Here is full list of bugs in GTA games if you are so sure that they didn't have any http://gta.wikia.com/Glitches EDIT: Interesting fact, with GTA V budget you could make 100 PoEs.

First of all just because other games were buggy it doesn't make it OK for this one to release broken. I am not talking about small annoyances nobody minds. I am talking about such core functionality like: EQUIPPING ITEMS, SAVE / LOAD. RPG's are not special. Think about GTA 5. It worked on release didn't it ? Yet it was far more complex. But that's a side issue. If you knew nothing about game development or programming this still should not even be your problem. You see a product on a shop shelf. You expect it to work. And please also note that it has nothing to do with my opinion of the actual experience which I like! It has everything to do with offensive release policy. GTA 5 was full of bugs when it was released. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exhMLCeP9Pc See like example how their cut scenes didn't even work properly, and that was one most expensive games in history to make

I'd define a major bug as one which significantly impairs the core functionality of the software in question. This is a CRPG. Its core functionality is to entertain. One of the ways it does so is through the fictional accumulation of power and abilities. There are multiple bugs with impair this and they are therefore "major". So bad writing is major bug? If it's severe enough, yes, absolutely. Then I would say that your use of word bug is such that most people will not understand what you actually mean. Bug is generally understood to mean glitch in how software works, and what I have seen PoE only has quite minor glitches in its scripting and some bit more serious scripting problems that can in some cases force player to load the game. But nothing that seriously prevent most of the people playing the game. If you find game to be enjoyable because of those scripting glitches that is different from game having major bugs that would mean that there are fundamental problems in how game's code works and how it interacts with other software. Which are bugs that need to be fixed with hotfixes because they aren't just annoying but they posses threat for those who play they game or even have it installed. I would also consider bugs that prevent people playing game at all as major bugs as they mean that players didn't get working product when they bought the game. But scripting errors that make some systems in game work differently to what they were described I would not ever call as major bug or scripting that don't always launch correctly. But if you find game unenjoyable then that is unfortunate but sad reality when you buy entertainment as everyone has different tastes which means that every piece of entertainment don't work for them. If you feel that entertainment would had been more entertaining if it had higher production value that is fine opinion and you probably should look more AAA games which have much higher production values if you don't want risk you money on products with lower production value.

I'd define a major bug as one which significantly impairs the core functionality of the software in question. This is a CRPG. Its core functionality is to entertain. One of the ways it does so is through the fictional accumulation of power and abilities. There are multiple bugs with impair this and they are therefore "major". So bad writing is major bug?

I suppose the bugs with Windows, web browsers, financial planning software, big data software, educational software, etc. etc. were my imagination? You have yet to provide an actual argument about how a normal and competent development is guaranteed to produce zero bugs, and how each bug is clearly the result of extraordinary incompetence. You have also not provided an argument about how developers are meant to 'take it into account', beyond doing a lot of Q&A, patching the game on Day 1 and then in Week 1, and postponing the game for polish. All of which has been done. You answered your own question: do a lot of QA. Testing and bugfixing is an integral and ongoing part of the development process. To again clarify, I'm talking about MAJOR bugs. Producing complex software which is entirely bug-free isn't a reasonable proposition and I don't expect any company to be able to accomplish it. Producing complex software which is free of bugs that undermine the essential functions of said software for a significant portion of the user base is an entirely different matter and thousands of developers do it every year. What major bug you speak? Bugs that leave your computer open to criminals? Bugs that let criminals steal your money from your bank account? Bugs that let criminals steal your credit card information? I didn't know that there are such bugs in PoE can you point where someone has found one of such?

A delayed release could hurt Obsidian's revenue as well, especially when we seem to be in a time of CRPG resurgence. When releasing software saying "just two more weeks" is dangerous because you will never have a bug-free product on launch no matter how hard you try; just the larger group of players when compared to your beta testers and QA team will bring in new scenarios that you could not have thought of or possibly tested. I agree that some of these bugs are serious, but saying that Obsidian should have delayed again to try and catch every issue while they have to consider competition, the cost to continue development and the financial state of their company (OE was planning on shutting down before POE) then it should be obvious as to why they released. If you're that hung up on buying buggy software, wait a few months before you purchase. A fiercely competitive market and unstable revenue streams aren't the fault of the consumer and they're perfectly normal parts of a free market economy. Obsidian may have found themselves in a situation where they had no financially tenable solution other than to release a buggy game, but that doesn't mean that those of us buying it owe them some kind of "forgiveness". We can empathize with their passion for making games and the challenging circumstances under which they have to operate while still holding them accountable for their shortcomings. Games are pieces of art and they work as they creator intend them to work. So if there are bug it is just because they are part of their art and you are evil person if you ask them to edit their art work as that is censorship

THIS is exact the lie I was talking about! Espezialy computer games do NOT have that many code lines compared to other software. http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/million-lines-of-code/ Quake 3 engine (just the graphic) a bit over 300k lines. Cry Engine 2 or Age of Empire online a bit over 1 millions lines. Unreal 2 engine around 2 million lines. Compared to something simple like Google Chrome which has 5-7 million lines ... Facebook 60++ million lines (WTF??? what for??? *g*). Average modern car software 100++ million lines. Games are NOT that complicate and most of the code is invented 35+ years ago and can be downloaded! And just imagin ... if a computer game with let's say 3 million code lines has so many (and sometimes critical) bugs ... would you EVER again trust a modern car software? With auto park asistent, auto drive (Google-Car), break asistent, lane hold asistent, routing-planer ... what ever . The second statement is, unfortunatly, true . But it hits all and everyone working as software engineer. In germany for example we have no spezial IT union and no collective agreement . That's why I stoped to work as game coder. Yea, I did this job 3 years. Up to 18 hours 7 days every week. The closer the release date, the more hours. I started it as I LOVE games ... then I had to learn the hard way what's your position ... and what the position of the publisher/investors (the REAL bad boys) . I decided: before I'm part of a BUGed release because of greedy publishers/investors ... I'll never be part of this modern slave holders anymore. There are software and there are software. Windows and Linux have millions of lines of code just for their kernels let alone software that comes with them, but they also have thousands of developers and they have been developed over decades (Most of your average car computers code lines come from operating system which they use.) Google chrome is also product of over decade worth of developing time and it has been developed by hundreds if not thousands of people. Game engines also have quite lot code lines, although not any where near the amount what previously mentioned pieces of software have, but they also have developed during very long time and by relatively large number of people. PoE for example don't probably have even 100k lines that Obsidian has written, but it only has under 10 programmers and it has been coded and scripted in two years. It is also made in format where some of it features are hard to test by automatic tests and going it through fully takes quite lot time from human. Difficulty software development is not only in number of lines that something has but how big it is compared to team and time frame where it is done.

Because pre-buffing is tedious and if you allowed it you would need to balance encounters around this thus forcing everyone to pre-buff. This one doesn't make any sense(IN-GAME). There is no justification for this whatsoever IN-GAME. It is absolutely contrived. What, there is an invisible god in the sky who bans certain spells from being used until enemies see you? Please.. There are lots of things that don't have in-game justification but work as they work because of mechanics of game

Yeah balance don't matter in single player games as we see that only half of this threads messages are complaining how wizards are weaker than other classes

There are quite lot enemies and some armors (Exceptional/Superb Breastplates Fine/Exceptional/Superb Mails) that have either slash or crush DR and in some case both over 5 points lower than pierce DR. So estoc is not always superior, especially when you compare it to pollaxe, But there are only three type enemies whose slash DR is over 5 point lower than their pierce DR: Adra Dragon, Giant Dank Spore, and Forest Lurker. So Estoc is nearly always superior to Great Sword, only reasons to pick great sword as your weapon of choice are Tidefall and Justice which are quite good magic swords for burst damage dealers. Pollaxe is good secondary weapon for estoc against those enemies that are vulnerable to crush and those few that are vulnerable slash. EDIT: What makes Pollaxe and Estoc even better companion weapons each other is fact that they are in same weapon focus group.

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