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morhilane
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Maybe those DLCs are not big enough and don't need a director of that weight. Maybe he has more important/pressing things to do.
It often happens that new director are "trained" on DLCs. Josh mentioned he wanted to move to something else after 6 years on POE and if Obsidian wants to do POE3 soon, they need a new director.
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Doesn't change the fact that I gave her the boot as soon as Maia and Pallegina became available, because hello, sane ladies who kick ass.
Maia and Pallegina...sane?
Bouahahahahahahaha
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Then how did those strong souls originally reproduce?
I don't think reproduce is the right term, strengthen is more adequate. Also, how it happens probably didn't change, the gods are just forcing the process to happen/or and trying to manipulate the outcomes. Like supped up animancers/Watchers.
I just realized that the gods are just artificially super strengthened souls. I suspect we are going to learn that they were created by fusing weaker souls to Engwithans Watcher in POE3. Which means that they were not programmed like I initially though. Also, the term Berath's Wheel would actually be because the Engwithan Berath created it before being turned into a god or right after...
I even suspect there is some failed attempts, you find a venerated crocodile statue in the Engwithans Poko ruins that match no known gods for example.
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I actually think people in this thread have forgotten an old information about souls. In the guidebook vol1, it mention that a soul age and fracture over long period of time: "Souls can split apart or merge together during their long absence". That's where the concept of strong soul come from, it's a well preserved soul that isn't fractured.
Also, rereading the guidebook vol1 section on souls, it straight up says that gods manipulate souls and send them back to the living world through Berath's Wheel. It also says that Rymrgand wants the resurrection cycle dismantled -
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Maia trying to romance me directly after the assassination of the queen, between all those corpses, was the weirdest thing ever.
That...actually sound like something Maia would do.
I <3 Maia.
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Knowing Eder and based on his convo with Hiravias, he's probably just dumb and think Orlan are cute for being tiny or something.He is definitely not doing it intentionally no, he is anything but malicious. But I think he barely considers them more than animals... He got better in Deadfire, but still.
He haven't tried to pet my Captain Watcher yet. There is still hope.
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I kinda wish there was more encounters while moving across the multi-district cities (whatever they are "random" or pre-made). There are some, but they are all tied to quests, instead of one-off meeting while traveling the streets.
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Aloth was one of my favorite companions in PoE I, and I was looking forward to the whole relationship that is carried through a few games thing, be it romance of friendship. Especially since my Watcher was a nerdy wizard pretty similar to Aloth, so it felt like they should naturally connect.
But here comes Deadfire, and Aloth just wouldn't approve of anything I do (but would gladly disapprove of my every joke), and my heart is a bit broken. Aloth why can't we be good friends dammit?
Yeah he seems a complete jackass in this.
When I talk to him he replies.. 'Can I HELP YOU with something' in an irritated voice. PFFT!
Get off my ship if you're gonna be like that!
he was probably reading..
Maia ask him if he is reading anything interesting in banter. He is very enthusiastic to talk about it.
She also told him to not blow up the ship once.
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POE1 had a second big city as a stretch goal, POE2 did not.
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What was considered a "proper reincarnation"? Not being reincarnated into an animal or splintered? Maybe being reincarnated at all? Why were the gods needed for this? To pray for better outcome?
My impression of the Od Nua story is that he wanted his son to always be a "prince".
There is some overhead dialogues in Deadfire that mention that Roparu are reincarnated into higher cast in their next life and Berath reincarnate you into a little furry creature at the start of the game if you pick the Wheel instead of playing the game (which is nasty and funny at the same time). And there is Thaos, we are told in POE1 that Woedica makes sure he is the same in all reincarnation. There is also the godlikes, who's soul is linked to specific gods via a chimes (similar to what Berath does at the start of the game). So, the gods have some controls, what they do with it probably depends on their whims and goals.
It also raise a very good question about Watchers. Are they created by the gods or bugs in the system?
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The story didn't make much sense to me. I took over a year to catch up with a guy who told me where he was going and couldn't be missed sizewise, while sailing from one corner of the archipelago to the other multiple times. Also I don't really understand the thing about the wheel. If it was made by mortals in the first place, why would breaking it eventually destroy life? How did life exist before in that case? It seems to be more a case of the gods having artificially created some form of soul recycling in order to make themselves immortal. Either that or I didn't understand it, which is also possible.
The Engwithans hijacked the chaotic natural reincarnation when they created a system, the Wheel, to powers their artificial gods (all that happened about 2000 years ago). Eothas broke the system as a test for mortals to "fix". The amount of souls is finite, without reincarnation working (whatever natural or the Wheel) nothing can be born again so eventually everything will be returned to the state of "soul".
The 3rd game will probably be about fixing/restoring a reincarnation cycle with various anti-gods/pro-gods factions and Rymrgand being totally against it because he wants the death of all things.
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Xoti can end up with a romantic relationship with 3 characters: Edér, Maia and the Watcher.
With two. Xoti can become good friends with Eder, if you nudge them in the right direction, otherwise Eder takes her aside and tells her he's not interested.
During the game she is all over Edér in a romantic way though unless he tells her he's not interest. So ok, she doesn't end up in a romantic relationship with him, but she does show romantic interest in 3 different characters.
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So they decided to go with player-sexual companions after all, despite all their bravado of not doing so. Disgusting. It feels like Obsidian is in an utter moral decline, they obviously no longer have a moral spine at all.
I fail to see which of them is player-sexual.
I'm pretty sure Tekehu and Serafen are pansexual...and Serafen flirt with everything, even birds.
Xoti can end up with a romantic relationship with 3 characters: Edér, Maia and the Watcher.
Maia express preferring women and you get to meet some of her exes in the game. She can dump the Watcher as well.
Aloth shows no attraction to the Watcher until the player does the first move. I always though he was asexual personally (asexual doesn't mean aromantic).
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I gave the map to the Huana, left it intact on the island, and got Ruatains.
Oddly, despite killing her Hazanui, Maia remained employed by them in her epilogue.
So much for the logical explanation then. Also got the happy Maia ending even though she screwed them over and murdered the high commander. Remained respected by her people everywhere she went. Well I guess fear brings respect, never know when she is going to shoot you in the face.
Game is bugged.
As Maia would says: "if someone shoot at you, you shoot back and don't ask questions".
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So it seems if you pick up Cornett of the Depths first, then the whole quest, even the whole old city area is bugged
The area isn't buggy, Mad Morena's gang will attack you if you haven't got a reason to be there, you need to get quest from either Aldys, Dereo or Enoi (a Roparu in the Gullet) so they don't attack you.
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the dialogues or flag are bugged...reading peoples reports stuff..I'm pretty sure they are . Cose some stuff never happen in my game at all .
Side note: I don't mind Xoti and Maia hit on me..about time too!
and next you know they are going to ask you relationship advice: Xoti about Maia and Maia about Xoti.
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You killed people and guards didn't see and you are complaining they aren't attacking you?
You didn't check the background of either family either.
The quest allows you to support either family, backstab both or have them work together. Oh and be careful what happens if Pallegina is in the party, some of the end result are not to her liking. Also, you killed a quest giver.
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So reading a few posts, it seems that what I took as Maia hitting on me wasn't Maia hitting one me.
I find it hilarious how different those companion dialogues flags behave, lol.
Wait which dialogue?
I really hate rangers
And my 3 ranged slots are usually filled with my PC, Aloth and Xoti.It was an awkward question-conversation about captain/subordinate relationship. I picked the "lets keep this professional", but nothing about the whole thing was necessarily "I wannabe more than friend".
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The game support replay quite well.
I also think it might be more interesting with focusing on one faction from the get go, instead of doing everyone and then deciding who you think is less worst. Example, make a character with Rauatai background and support RDC, pick Maia ASAP and make sure all quests are resolved in a way that would favor Rauatai. Let the other companions waddle in your decisions making.
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So reading a few posts, it seems that what I took as Maia hitting on me wasn't Maia hitting one me.
I find it hilarious how different those companion dialogues flags behave, lol.
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Players complained POE1 had too much trash fights, not enough ways of avoiding combat and that the cities didn't have enough content.
In POE2, they practically removed trash fights outside a few places that are supposed to be infested or if you makes everyone in an area hates you. Outside bounties, a lots of fight are avoidable via dialogues as well.
If you want to play a murderous hobo, play a murderous hobo.The game isn't stopping you. I don't guarantee that your party is going to like you though.
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Try disabling Steam overlay (or GOG overlay, because it has one too).
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Looks like Eothas broke something, but something was there before but worked differently, nobody knows how
. That's not what the gods have said in the game though, and it's weird that people have to go to the designer devs to get plot explanations.What did the gods say in game that contradicts what Josh said?
They've said that with the Wheel broken souls will go to the Beyond but won't reincarnate and sooner or later all of Eora will be lifeless. Josh implies that the machine was there for the gods to manipulate the process, with it broken gods won't be able to do so anymore and it will be...more chaotic maybe?
Again, how does that contradict anything that Josh said? He only discusses the state of things before the disappearance of the Engwithans.
It's a contradiction in the game lore. People somehow lived on Eora before the Wheel for untold generations and didn't die out, but here the gods are saying that everyone is screwed now with the Wheel broken and will die out. Earlier lore said that reincarnation was natural on Eora, but here it says that it is not and was created by Engwithans. I appreciate Josh giving us some meta knowledge, but it is very poorly presented in the game itself.
There are no contradictions. Josh confirms what was said in POE1: reincarnation happened before the gods in some forms. He even use the example of Od Nua, an Engwithan, trying to have his son reincarnate into a proper vessel because there was no gods around to do so. There are no information on how that worked in POE1, only that it happened and that the Beyond existed.
What you are complaining about is that the gods are either clueless about how it worked before them, lying to save their own asses because they are the ones that depends on the artificial system or/and what Eothas did broke both the artificial and natural systems. Eora gods aren't omniscient entities with all the knowledge of the universe, they are artificial and pre-programmed with specific duties. They can't even see people with damaged souls.
And lets not forget that Ondra loves to flush any knowledge of what was prior to the gods or how they came to be into the toilet or via moon throwing.
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I think people that say this just didn't use the companions they didn't like. Sort of like how G0-T0 was a really interesting character in KOTOR 2 but no one used him because they found him boring, so he never got to talk so they never got to figure out why he wasn't boring. It's possible this is true of Deadfire's companions as well and glitches are just screwing me.
Maia gave me the "postman quest" only after I took 2 small pro-Huana choices (against the Republic, wasn't even a RDC related quest) and she dropped to 0 disposition (she was almost at 2 prior to that). She also doesn't gain/lose disposition with any of the party members despite seeing approval/disapproval flags.
I suspect some conversation aren't triggering just because some disposition are raising too fast or not at all (my Aloth is stuck at 0).
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And my 3 ranged slots are usually filled with my PC, Aloth and Xoti.
. That's not what the gods have said in the game though, and it's weird that people have to go to the designer devs to get plot explanations.
I was helping assassination all along?!
in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Stories (Spoiler Warning!)
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lol, I finished her quest and her boss told me that everyone did their mission successfully and I did Tikawara after that and the leader was still very much alive.