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It has indeed, but still enemies make no use of potions, scrolls, or items' spellbound abilities. They never try to suppress afflictions you cause them, or help each other out when in a group. Basically when you're fighting a mob, you're actually fighting a number of individual enemies that act as though the other weren't even there for the most part. Whatever you do, A.I. will never change what they are doing to react/adapt. After a while, it becomes really predictable and easy to best. Adaptive A.I. is actually extreme difficult to do and time consuming and its testing is difficult and and resource consuming. Which is why games mostly use A.I. that use more or less complex behavior lists where there are coded triggers that change how A.I. behaves and premade behavior models that A.I. will follow. Which of course means that when player learns those triggers and behavior models then A.I. become predictable, which usually also means that it is quite easy to beat.
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Truth why Finn leaves FO and don't feel bad on killing his ex-comrades
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Picture has naked people in it, but I would say that it is not sexual in anyway Welcome to Finland where weather don't prevent traditional celebrations
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They have added with patches system in game that enemies switch target if they can't harm or if they are really ineffective against character they are engaging, which means that if they can't really harm your tank they try to attack some other members of your party. There maybe some suicide prevention algorithm that checks how much disengagement they will take and if that is too high they will not change target or some other reason why they sometimes still continue to fight against characters that they can't even hit. Enemies also seem to have some priorities when they switch their targets For example they seem to more likely go after ranged/magic using characters than melee They seem to go after those characters who they can harm most If they are engaged with high damage dealing melee character they seem to be less keen to switch their target Also characters with high DPS may be higher on target priority list than support/cc oriented characters. These are just my observations without any scientific proof.
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That is just heresy. Analyzing fictive universes with magnifier is part of the fun.
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Exactly. What people seem to not understand about Kylo Ren even though the movie signals it very, very carefully is that he's basically an angsty teenager with little to no self-control and an unhealthy dose of hero worship towards Vader, who has somehow managed to skid along on sheer force talent alone, but never had the training to make real use of that talent, or a need to step up his game. I think he was the best part of the movie, honestly. Movie does piss poor job to show Kylo Ren's inner struggle and it gives very little reason behind that struggle. Does he need any more reason beyond "he's a stupid teenager doing stupid teenage rebellion stuff with the power of a god at his fingertips"? Not necessary, but movie didn't give that as explanation why he has such hard time. And also teenage rebellion starts to become quite old when you are nearer to 30 years old (as according to official canon he was born 0-1 years after battle of Endor which was 30 years before beginning the movie).
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Exactly. What people seem to not understand about Kylo Ren even though the movie signals it very, very carefully is that he's basically an angsty teenager with little to no self-control and an unhealthy dose of hero worship towards Vader, who has somehow managed to skid along on sheer force talent alone, but never had the training to make real use of that talent, or a need to step up his game. I think he was the best part of the movie, honestly. Movie does piss poor job to show Kylo Ren's inner struggle and it gives very little reason behind that struggle. Especially why he fears succumbing to light side, it's not ever explained why Kylo Ren thinks that light side is bad or powerless. . Darth Vader in A New Hope had quite clear motivation behind his actions, crush all those oppose Galactic Empire, and he was shown as super competent in what he does, although he had his flaws like for example he had little tolerance towards things that he saw incompetence and was quick to punish for it and he don't take insults towards him well. So Vader was not anyway example of great writing, but he is well enough composed that viewers never questions his motivations and his visual display, music in scenes where he is and how other people perform around him make him menacing and gives him that feel that make him well remembered even after several decades. Meaning that you don't necessary need remarkable writing to make iconic character. Kylo Ren is somewhat opposite of Vader in character design, he don't have clear motivations, he struggles with his identity, he is not that competent in his actions, he blames himself more of set backs than others, also his visual and audio designs aren't fully set in certain atmosphere, as we keep seeing him in and out of his mask and his voice changes depending on that and he don't have similar set in audio track as Vader. So Kylo Ren is character that is made for deeper character arc than what we saw in the movie, which does disservice for the movie, but I would guess that current writers of Star Wars follow modern block buster trend where whole movie series is seen as one piece and it don't matter if character has flaws from point of singular movie.
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Disappointed with 2.0 Respec
Elerond replied to Rooz's topic in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
Players should only be able to respec choices that they themselves made in the game, because main purpose of respec is to allow players to fix their characters if they are broken because of bug, wrong description, patch, etc., so that player don't need to start long campaign from beginning because of something that wasn't their fault in anyway and which is also difficult to foresee. If premade companions are bad then developer need to fix them instead of just putting tool in game so that players can fix them by themselves that is just cheap cop out. -
But what do you feel when you look at this speech? I mean, if we claim that it's not "convincing" we must compare it to the real deal. I can't make comparison as I don't understand Italian. And yet reactions from audience make Mussolini's speech have bigger emotional reaction in me than Hux's speech (which I understand) which gives some indication how poorly Hux's speech scene worked for me. But any way we don't need to compare it to real deal, because it is movie that is set to scifi universe that don't exist in real life and it does not portray historic figures, events, etc.. So it can't excuse performance that don't impact viewer by appealing historic examples. Meaning it is moment in movie that itself need to justify its existence and in my opinion it fails and by doing so it makes movie duller experience. Okay. But if you do understand German, then you could take any of Hitler's speeches instead. My point is that I don't expect you to feel roused by Hitler's or Mussolini's speeches even if you did understand them. I certainly don't. So I think the criticism against Hux's speech that you didn't feel an "emotional impact" is practically moot. He needed to portray a certain type of speech accurately, which he did in my opinion. There is something seriously wrong when the director tries his hardest to portray Space Nazis, and then people say that they don't feel any emotional impact from the speeches giving us an insight into their psychology. Guess what, luckily most of the audience don't feel any "emotional impact" from speeches by Actual Nazis either. And that's what you would expect. Now you could argue that the entire concept of the First Order and the Empire is just too blatantly just Space Nazis, but that would be a much deeper criticism of the entire Star Wars mythos. My understanding of German is not well enough to understand his speeches. Director can try portray space nazis as much he wants but if his efforts leave viewer bored then he has failed in what he tried to do (if boring the viewers wasn't what he tried to do) Space Nazis in my opinion felt much more threating and their speeched more impactful in Iron Sky (which is just low budget comedy about Nazis that fled in Moon after WW2 and now are coming back to conquer world) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joTf7I1gel0
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But what do you feel when you look at this speech? I mean, if we claim that it's not "convincing" we must compare it to the real deal. I can't make comparison as I don't understand Italian. And yet reactions from audience make Mussolini's speech have bigger emotional reaction in me than Hux's speech (which I understand) which gives some indication how poorly Hux's speech scene worked for me. But any way we don't need to compare it to real deal, because it is movie that is set to scifi universe that don't exist in real life and it does not portray historic figures, events, etc.. So it can't excuse performance that don't impact viewer by appealing historic examples. Meaning it is moment in movie that itself need to justify its existence and in my opinion it fails and by doing so it makes movie duller experience.
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Did you expect to be convinced by the speech? Can you give an example of what the speech should have been like? Yeah, but you could also make the argument that Hitler and Stalin had no need to further inflame the passions of their brainwashed armies as well. Yet they held speeches. Why? I would say that problem with his speech is not style or even content (content on such speeches don't really even matter if we believe studies as speaker's performance and charisma are the things that convinces listeners that message that they hear is the truth not the words), but that its performance is unconvincing. Of course such speeches are very difficult to perform in convincing manner, but in my opinion if you can't do them well you should not do them, because when such speeches fail they just make everything they are linked look worse. Of course if one things the speech in movie was convincing and Hux had charismatic presence needed then the speech probably felt that it was good addition to the movie, but for me, who didn't find speech convincing and didn't felt that Hux has enough charismatic presence, the speech just felt flat and unnecessary. I see how the speech probably was meant to give First Order fascistic wipe, but in my opinion it mostly made First Order look like wannabe evils that don't really know what they believe in. In other words speech didn't make me feel dread, scared, inspired, etc. but instead it just felt dull. So I see what its purpose probably was, but for me it just failed to play that part, which makes it bad.
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What would you do if you had unlimited time and money?
Elerond replied to Heijoushin's topic in Way Off-Topic
If I get immortality and unlimited monetary resources then I would eventually take over world and then I probably would build inter galactic empire. Of course this would be just side product of my ultimate goal to build most superior gaming machine that can exist and fill it with most superior games that can exist, and because both of those goals are unachievable because of nature of such things my quest just fill continue forever and so will continue the rising number of collateral damage that I do (of course I will think that I am making universe better place by making it work according to my ideologies, but I am quite sure that everybody will not think that my way is best way, but what they can do I am immortal and I don't run out of resources ) -
In case of it being regular commercial copy then you can register your copy to Steam by using key that come with the game. If it is Kickstarter copy of the game then you are on more problematic waters, as it is DRM free version that is not linked to any of the digital stores/distributors, which would mean that you would need somebody to gift you key to digital store version or buy such key by yourself.
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The Weird, Random, and Interesting things that Fit Nowhere Else Thread
Elerond replied to Blarghagh's topic in Way Off-Topic
Debunking hoax news is pointless because the people who fall for hoax news stories are frequently only interested in consuming information that conforms with their views — even when it’s demonstrably fake https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12/18/what-was-fake-on-the-internet-this-week-why-this-is-the-final-column/ -
Shame on you, Obsidian.
Elerond replied to Xanar's topic in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
In all honesty there are certain things a person should look for in a video game kickstarter to warn you off from donating. The kickstarter being posted by Doublefine is one of them. They have no clue how to budget, they are so into their own hype they don't realize that they haven't actually made a good game in an insanely long time, and every game they do release always fails to meet their marketing spiel for it, most of the time on basically all levels. Oh and of course you can be sure they will miss their original release window by months, possibly an entire year. Have they even released the second half of that first kickstarter yet? They released Act 2 in April 28 2015 -
"I also don't want this to end up like Lost. I hope JJ knows what all the flashbacks and visions mean" JJ don't direct next movie so I don't think it is up to him how they will explain Rey's past.
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They have one big benefit when they make their characters and plot devices and such things. As there is no quite lot of people that make and produce different media around the film, which give them ability explain everything in the movies without needing to explain them in the movies themselves. So they can use as much of rule of cool they want and then use other media to explain why those things we okey in Star Wars universe and then see how millions and millions of their fans explain things to people through social media. So they don't need and they don't rely on movies alone to explain things that happen in Star Wars universe, but instead they will force people to consume Star Wars in multitude of media if they want to get full picture of things and fans rejoice lot.
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Quotas and limitations in labor market are exceptions to Schengen agreement that richer EU countries demanded before they accepted taking more countries in the union. So if you don't think that suppressing Schengen agreement will bring more limitations to EU's workforce movement then I would say that you are quite trusting or you don't realize where current political winds in EU are blowing. I may have expressed my thoughts in too obscure way, but I did say that limiting support or removing it entirely is something that politicians in richer EU countries want to do if they can find way that doesn't bite them back, meaning that if there is option where poorer EU themselves want cutting that support down then richer countries will be more than willing to let poorer countries have their will in the matter. And to get poorer countries to want such thing is the trick where refugee crisis and poorer countries unwillingness to take refugees can come handy, by for example giving countries option to buy their way out to take refugees by paying more in EU's fund, which effectively will cut or even fully undermine economical support that richer countries give for the poorer countries. So if by adding bit bureaucracy to EU will make poorer countries themselves cut their effective support from richer countries then you can be quite sure that richer countries will take that offer and even better if they can take that option and quilt trip poorer countries how they don't do their part in this humanitarian crisis. So I don't think that EU will cut it support to poorer countries, but instead it will introduce new systems that effectively will cut down those supports. Which will effectively countries themselves pay those projects that EU wants them to do from their own pockets.
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You don't think things are slightly more newsworthy when they come from the mouth of a person who is trying to become the leader of the free world than they are when they come from a cartoonist, an advocacy group, or a congressional staffer? If I actually took Trump seriously maybe. I keep thinking we'll wake up tomorrow and he's still on the Apprentice and this was all a silly dream. But if he fools around and actually get's elected.... well we'll all be screwed but at least it will be entertaining. Say, that might make a good campaign slogan for him. But that cartoon the Washington Post ran was pretty low, even for that rag. And the cartoonist doubled down on it. If I were on the Pulitzer committee I'd be on the phone asking her to return hers. It seems that it was WP's editor that doubled down not the cartoonist and journalist from post seem to think they both are idiots because they just helped Cruz's campaign instead of doing something useful. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/12/23/why-that-now-retracted-washington-post-cartoon-is-a-gift-to-ted-cruz/
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You mean that ACLU of Colorado voluntary board member that was forced to resigns after their comments in facebook? And how ACLU's accrual leaders had to apologize said comments?
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Enemies don't have health. If you have a really tanky fighter with really low damage wailing on an enemy fighter, both regenerate stamina faster than they damage it. Eventually your fighter will drop because his health reaches zero; the enemy fighter will just stand there indefinitely. I am not sure if that is actually true. As I tested it some patches ago. Enemies (an enemy as I tested it against just one enemy fighter) actually eventually start to lose their max endurance and eventually die, even if they heal more than you can damage them. That was result of over 10 minutes long fight where my character could only do 1-3 points damage per hit.
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Planescape: Torment is PC Gamer's Bestest RPG of All Time
Elerond replied to ktchong's topic in Computer and Console
PST actually gives answer to its main question But as it is question with now definite answer and it is roleplay game so it can use and uses quite well it own nature to answer that question. Answer that every player finds is not the only answer the question but one of the many and it is some what personal to each player as their playthroughs as whole are actually the answers that game gives to its fundamental question. It is one of the things that make PST as great game as it is. Because it lets player be the writer for its main question, it is not approach that fits in all games and story telling, but in RPGs it is approach that works because RPGs should be games where player tells the story in more or less restricted way (of course as they are games they still need to have rules and goals to actually do that game part and not only story telling/roleplay part). So I would say that thing that makes PST great RPG is the way how it lets player to answer to the question that game rises. And it think it fails some what with those questions that player can't answer in the game. As in my opinion it is essential that all the answer that player can give/find to the questions can be given/found in the game itself. -
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