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    Even with latest patch, melee rogue is unbelievably horrible.

    in Pillars of Eternity: Characters Builds, Strategies & the Unity Engine (Spoiler Warning!)

    Posted · Edited by luzarius

    Just tried melee rogue, see if it sucked any less, nope, still sucks real bad.   I mean really bad.   Tried it on POTD Trial of Iron, died to three xaurip's. I was level 2.  Missed the backstab from stealth, missed the blinding strike, then proceeded to do 4-5 dmg until I died.   Rogue is horrible. 

    I already know that ranged rogue is viable, but not melee rogue.

    Any chance of getting the entire game voice acted?

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

    Posted

    The new Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition includes voice acting for every line of dialogue in their game.  This is a major update they're pushing out in about a week.  The game went from barely any voice acting to all of it being voice acted, pretty impressive.

     

    Any chance Pillars of Eternity could do that? The massive amounts of reading in this game kills me.  I'd pay for it.

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    Feature Request - Combat pause when queued attacks get interrupted or canceled.

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

    Posted · Edited by luzarius

    The last time I played POE, I died on path of the damned difficulty. I had no idea my ranger wasn't firing her arquebus even though I queued her attacks.  Had I known my ranger got interrupted, I would've won the fight by a hair.  It turns out the Druid Ogres I were fighting were able to cancel all queued attacks whenever they attack with their spells.

     

    It would be great if you could add a feature that auto pauses combat when a companions queued attacks get canceled/interrupted for any reason.

     

    Thanks!

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    I died on Path of the Damned Trial of Iron - Please advise on my strategy (VIDEO) - Death

    in Pillars of Eternity: Characters Builds, Strategies & the Unity Engine (Spoiler Warning!)

    Posted · Edited by luzarius

    So you never beat the game, even once?

     

    No, going to try again when the expansion and patch comes out.

     

    Attempting to beat the game blind in trial of iron is where the fun is for me :) Sadly this game does not hold the same emotional drive I get from games like Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Witcher.

     

    There is just too much combat and without a tactics system, a lot of the fights are repetitive.

    I died on Path of the Damned Trial of Iron - Please advise on my strategy (VIDEO) - Death

    in Pillars of Eternity: Characters Builds, Strategies & the Unity Engine (Spoiler Warning!)

    Posted · Edited by luzarius

    I died on Path of the Damned Trial of Iron

    Please advise on my approach (VIDEO) - Death

     

    http://www.twitch.tv/luzarius/v/9134529

     

    Problems

    - No entry for Ogres in the Bestiary, didn't know their weaknesses.

    - I let my guard down, too much combat in the game makes it a bit boring.

    - I should've eaten proper food.

    - I should've waited until level 9, someone recently told me about a spell called clear that priests get.

    - For some reason my ranger didn't do the attacks that I had queued up.

     

    I'm looking for the masters of the game to critique and point out all my mistakes. It was a fun fight that caught me off guard. I let my guard down for a second due to boredom and it cost me.  Learn from my mistakes.

     

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    Cut content: Durance and Grieving Mother

    in Pillars of Eternity: Stories (Spoiler Warning!)

    Posted · Edited by luzarius

    Durance & Grieving Mother are my favorite characters in the game so far.   Grieving Mother has given me the emotionaly drive I need to finish the game on POTD, TOI.   She complelely captures my imagination. 

    Without Durance & Grieving Mother, I probably would've stopped playing the game. I'm currently halfway through Act 2 I think.

    Now that I think about it, I think I like Grieving Mother just a tad bit more than Durance, we're talking 51/49 here.

    So why exactly should I buy the expansion?

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

    Posted · Edited by luzarius

    If there is a romance option, I will buy the expansion in two seconds.  Hopefully every sentence will be voice acted with lots of intellectually stimulating, thought provoking content. One male and one female would be perfect.

    Let's just hope that she doesn't look like a man like Cassandra Pentaghast.

     

    (Grieving Mother should've been a romance option).

    Salty Mast scenes fade to black?

    in Pillars of Eternity: Stories (Spoiler Warning!)

    Posted · Edited by luzarius

    The Witcher's sex cards were so, so bad. You wanna talk about immersion breaking...

    There is nothing immersion breaking about this:

     

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    Beautful, artistic drawing of a gorgeous, fantastical woman. Completely captures the imagination.  This art style is similar to POE's existing art direction.  Since POE isn't 3D heavy, the next logical step is 2d portraits like the one above.

     

     

    As to the topic, assuming this isn't trolling, I kinda expected (brief, mostly-SFW!) "scripted interactions," and  I'll concede immediate fade-to-black is a bit of a copout, but how is this something you can get worked up about? It's like complaining the the game doesn't animate you character sitting down at the bar and getting wasted, except that would be less likely to get the game an AO rating.

     

    I'm not trolling. I take immersion seriously.

     

    Like you said, it's not that big of a deal. I'm suggesting that maybe in a future update, an expansion or even Pillars of Eternity II they consider some artistic drawings of male & female patrons of the brothel to be shown after you sex them, something tasteful that simply enhances immersion.

     

     

     

    As to the topic, assuming this isn't trolling, I kinda expected (brief, mostly-SFW!) "scripted interactions," and  I'll concede immediate fade-to-black is a bit of a copout, but how is this something you can get worked up about?

     

    "Gay men are removing the porn from my video games and making the women look like men" is Luzarius' pet hangup.

     

    The art depictions can include male NPC's as well. I mentioned that in the original post.  I think LGB is part of the POE lore, aren't there books that cover this in game?

    Salty Mast scenes fade to black?

    in Pillars of Eternity: Stories (Spoiler Warning!)

    Posted · Edited by luzarius

    I play eroge, bro. I like sexual appeal just fine. But I don't need to be titillated 100% of the time.

     

    Are you just, like, unclear on how to acquire pornography? Because I feel like asking for more of it in PoE is inefficient.

     

     

    It's a brothel, titilation is needed to enhance immersion.  Some different music would've been ideal as well.

     

    (As an aside, does anyone else sometimes feel like this whole immersion thing is getting out of hand? I feel like some day I'm going to find a person saying, "Oh, I don't read books, turning the pages breaks immersion." Obviously an exaggeration, but it seems that way, sometimes.)

     

    No, take Dragon Age 2 Blooming Rose for example, the music matches the environment perfectly.

     

    Immersive music that makes you feel like you're in a brothel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu85MMoptkI

     

    You're ... what? Look, to be clear the devs are almost certainly not going to follow this type of suggestion, if only because it'd be a foolish thing to do from a business perspective: they'd have to spend money on something with little or no potential for positive return and the possibility of ensuing bad press. This thread isn't a vote (nor could it be), it's you going on about how video games don't provide you with enough pictures of sexy ladies.

     

    If you have a real problem with that, you don't need to acquire a consensus, or negotiate for some kind of deal. Hire an artist and code up a mod if you feel so passionately about the subject. But don't expect your critics to be any less critical because you're willing to "meet [them] half way," when they have no stake in coming to an agreement with you.

     

    Ok, can you meet me 1/10 of the way? If there is a brothel in Pillars of Eternity II or the expansion, how about one single screenshot of two stick figures hugging each other?

     

    (EDIT POST) Just scrolled down.. Omg, there .. you did.. the stick figure.. omg hahah

     

    We got you covered.

     

    3N1JBoy.jpg

    I just.. scrolled down .... afte responding to that guy, there was the stick figure.. lol.. amazing

    Salty Mast scenes fade to black?

    in Pillars of Eternity: Stories (Spoiler Warning!)

    Posted · Edited by luzarius

    Fading to black breaks immersion.  Since you guys don't like sexual appeal, I'm willing to meet you half way:

     

    How about a single drawing, no color, showing two figures under the sheet covers on a bed?

     

    Can you guys handle that or is that asking too much? How about more violence instead of sex? Extreme, graphic violence is just fine, but sex is a no no right?

    *shakes head*

     

    Hey, I'm curious. Are you the types of people that want an end to all sexual appeal in gaming?

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    Salty Mast scenes fade to black?

    in Pillars of Eternity: Stories (Spoiler Warning!)

    Posted · Edited by luzarius

    I was expecting some nice artistic drawings of some kind after doing the nasty with Lyrinia. The game has talented artists who know how to draw.  Remember Witcher 1's sex cards? Something like that would've been great.   

    Keep in mind my recommendation applies to both male & female, so no matter who your character sleeps with, you'll be treated to some tasteful, sexual appealing art of of the patrons working at the Salty Mast.  

    Perhaps these can be added in the expansion or maybe even version 2.0 patch update? 

    Witcher 3 has all those sex scenes, so why not just a a few drawings instead of a fade to black at the Salty Mast?

     

    Lyrinia's legs demand justice!

    Why is this game so hard?

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

    Posted

    So I have been playing on medium because I used to play the old isometric RPGs (Baldur's Gate I & II, Icewind Dale II, Fallout I & II, NWN I & II), and I'm blown away at how hard some of the fights are. I'm currently doing the Bronze Beneath the Lake quest, and all of the fights that I have with Shadows are difficult if not impossible. The fights take ages but despite casting every buff and direct damage spell that I have available, the Shadows simply tank it all and kill all my party. 

     

    Struggling to see where I'm going wrong, my party consists of the PC (a mage), the mage NPC, the priest NPC, the warrier NPC, the bard NPC and a custom created warrior NPC. I have decent equipment on everybody and I frequently pause the game to issue commands, but it still seems like all of combat is a terribly complicated and unexplained mess (there doesn't seem to be a way of seeing the to-hit rolls?). The buffs that I have available to me don't see to be very effective either, in fact most of the priest's spells seem pretty pointless, as does the bard. But every single spell and effect seems to be unique so it's not like the buffs in old IE games where you'd know that a spell would buff say strength (and therefore to-hit rolls and damage done) for a decent amount of time.

     

    Does it get any easier or am I doing something wrong? I'm honestly thinking of bailing on it because the combat system seems way more hardcore than I'm used to.

     

    It starts out that way.  It's actually a good thing that you're struggling, overcoming the difficulty is what makes the game fun, all the experimentation you're going to want to do will pay off, enjoy the ride.

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