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    Auto-Pause on Weapon Ineffective: Confusing? Bugged?

    in Pillars of Eternity: Technical Support (Spoiler Warning!)

    Posted · Edited by pedroantonio

    Hey I know we already posted this but I felt like taking a screenshot after the 1.03 update fixed the autopause "Character Hit",  just to be sure there's awareness about the other autopause bugs (I use autopause a lot and I wouldn't like these bugs to be forgotten) .

     

    As it can be seen in the combat log, "Weapon Ineffective" is still triggered by the enemy wolf making 1.0 damage on my character, and "Spell cast" is also still triggered by my character when he begins casting the spell of the preorder ring (should be triggered only by enemy casting, according to tooltip). So for those two options the behaviour is still backwards.

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    Patch notes for 1.03

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

    Posted · Edited by pedroantonio

    "Character Hit Autopause option should be working as intended."
     

    I wonder if "Spell Cast" and "Weapon Ineffective" autopause options got fixed as well, they were presenting the same wrong behaviour, Spell Cast was triggering on your casting instead of on enemy casting and Weapon Ineffective when enemy weapons were ineffective, not yours.


     

    I feel offended do you?

    in Pillars of Eternity: Technical Support (Spoiler Warning!)

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    What's mature and rational about defending someone who treats you with disrespect? Obsidian (and many, many other devs) obviously hold a certain amount of disregard towards their own customers by essentially making them unpaid beta testers for their products, rather than actually polishing them before release (or, at minimum, warning people that the product in question is buggy).

    I don't feel disrespected by Obsidian in the slightest. I'm studying computer programming myself and I know that managing complexity is the main problem in software development, and complexity leads to bugs, some amount of which are always unavoidable. There's no QA team that can find bugs more efficiently than thousands of people using your software at the same time; that's the reason why there're always undetected bugs on release, because budget is limited in every project and only a certain amount of that budget goes to QA.

     

    There's no perfect software. All software endures a period of maintaining after release, it's common and normal. They are working in a patch, it will be released, and everybody will forget the "ofenses" in less than a month, as it always happens. There are more important things in life than waiting for a videogame patch.

    I feel offended do you?

    in Pillars of Eternity: Technical Support (Spoiler Warning!)

    Posted

    They way I see it yet again I was sold a car without a wheel. It is that simple.

    No, is not that simple at all. It's not a car without wheel, it's a car whose first manufacturing batch has a slight problem with the air conditioning, or with the electrical system; something annoying, but minor and that still allows you to drive.

     

    With one important difference; your defective "car" will be repaired soon in a matter of hours (depending on your bandwith), without you being forced to drive it to the repair shop.

     

    Considering that, I don't feel ofended. Just mildly annoyed, I'll survive.

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    Your RPG system sucks!

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

    Posted · Edited by pedroantonio

     

    (...)And trying to manage a party of 6 in real-time combat is patently absurd - even at slow speed. All it does is result in spamming the space bar pauses. DOS is infinitely better with its turn-based combat.(...)

    This one baffles me. You're a backer, and a kickstarter one, no less.

     

    Have you played ANY of the games they repeated over and over they were gonna get inspiration from?

    Do you know all of those games used real time with pause instead of turn based (and the pause was central to the gameplay, not some addendun for slow players)?

    Did you even read the kickstarter?

    And if you read it, and you didn't know how real time with pause plays, why didn't you investigate a bit before backing?

     

    You must be a troll, nobody can be that stupid.

    Red glowing attack and move icons

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

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    I'm pretty sure it means the enemy is flanked by you and your party member.  Much like D&D, even if you're not attacking them, your party member is still getting a flanking bonus.

    I just tried caused flanking on the starting wolves with Calisca, a ranger and his bear, but the attack icon remained normal.

     

    I also tried getting engaged with an enemy and then hovering the attack icon over a far enemy (thinking the meaning could maybe be "attacking that will make you receive a disengagement attack from your current engaging enemy"), but it also remained normal.

     

    So I think it's not that.

    Red glowing attack and move icons

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

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    I'm sorry if this has been already asked and answered, but I've been searching in the forums for terms like "red glow" or "red glowing sword" and I didn't find anything.

    After playing some hours I've managed to understand by myself the meaning of the different character ground circles (who's attacking who, who's engaged, etc).

    Now, about the movement icon, I've observed that when a character is engaged by an enemy, the movement icon gets a red glow, which disappears when engagement is broken, so that red glow means "if you move, you'll be hit by a disengagement attack".

    But I've observed that sometimes the attack icon "the sword" glows also red. Mostly when I move it over an enemy who's engaged by one of my characters, but not necessarily while I have selected that same character. Like, I have a fighter in front engaging an enemy, select my archer in the back, and when I hover over the enemy, the attack icon is glowing red.

    I know that it glows blue when you're gonna use an ability on the enemy (like blinding strike), but I can't understand the meaning of the red glow.

    So, anybody knows the meaning of that red glowing in the attack icon?

    Finding hidden items explained please

    in Pillars of Eternity: Stories (Spoiler Warning!)

    Posted · Edited by pedroantonio

    Although I admit that coming from DnD games, detecting with mechanics seems to make no sense, after thinking about it a bit, it makes sense to me.

    I think that, to detect a hidden trap, or a hidden mechanism, you have to be familiar with hidden traps and mechanisms, with how they are constructed and installed; from that point of view, it makes sense that it is the mechanics skill that allows you to realize there's a trap in front of you, because if your mechanics skill is high enough, you know what to look for. It would not make sense if it was stealth, because the skill to hide yourself doesn't suddenly gives you trap engineering knowledge.

    That said, I agree that conflating the "searching for traps" and "hide in shadows" stances in the scouting mode has made things confusing, one tend to intuitively assume your character is just trying to hide, not trying to detect anything, and then think "why do I have to hide to pay attention to traps?". But you're actually scouting, which for me could be translated to "just being careful and attentive, watching your steps in case there's danger".



    EDIT: oh, the conversation was mostly about non-trap hidden items. Yeah, in that regard it doesn't make sense. My bad, I read too fast.

    EDIT 2: although it depends of the way those non-traps are hidden. Like, something hidden just behind a curtain shouldn't need mechanics, but something like a hidden room behind a fake wall that doesn't make architectonical sense with the rest of the room could be something a mechanics (think engineering) knowledge would help finding.

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    Auto-Pause on Weapon Ineffective: Confusing? Bugged?

    in Pillars of Eternity: Technical Support (Spoiler Warning!)

    Posted

    Hi, I'd like to add that this "inverse" behaviour is happening also with the "Character hit" and "Spell Cast" auto pause options.

    When I check "Character hit", the related autopause always triggers exactly after one of my characters hits an enemy, instead of triggering when an enemy hits one of my characters.

    And when I check "Spell Cast" and I cast a spell, the related autopause triggers in response to my casting, and according to the tooltip, it should trigger when an enemy begins casting an spell, not the player.

    I've checked the rest of the autopause options and those three (Weapon ineffective, Character hit and Spell cast) are the ones I have found behaving "backwards". I haven't experienced the "Extraordinary defense" situation yet, so that's the only one I haven't checked yet.

     

    Day one patch?

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

    Posted · Edited by pedroantonio

     

    Not to be paranoid, but how do we know the guy at GOG is right? I think somebody from Obsidian should give confirmation about the state of the patch (installed, not installed, working on it, etc)

     

    Darren already confirmed, but just to clarify for anyone else that may be wondering: the blue text in the thread I linked is a GOG employee.

     

    Yeah, I know blue guy is an employee, I just thought he maybe didn't have all the info and wanted Obsidian to confirm, as Darren kindly did.

    Save folder - where are you ?

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

    Posted · Edited by pedroantonio

    Btw, don't want to derail the thread,but since you're a developer, can you give us any confirmation wether the day 1 patch is already applied or not to version 1.0.2.0508 of the game?

     

    EDIT: I see you answered this in the other thread, thanks!!

     

    https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/71798-day-one-patch/page-2?do=findComment&comment=1600729

    Day one patch?

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

    Posted

     

    Whether this includes the supposed "Day 1 patch" or not, I have no idea, but I sure bloody hope so, considering how slow GOG usually is with patching otherwise.

     

     

    GOG version includes the day 1 patch. See Here

     

    Not to be paranoid, but how do we know the guy at GOG is right? I think somebody from Obsidian should give confirmation about the state of the patch (installed, not installed, working on it, etc)

    Save folder - where are you ?

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

    Posted · Edited by pedroantonio

    I have a steam version and I found the savegame at:

    C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Temp\Obsidian Entertainment\Pillars of Eternity

    maybe it's the same for all editions.

    Btw, isn't a "Temp" folder a strange place to put savegames? what if I decide to clean tempfiles one day?

    EDIT: found another one, I think this is the good one:

    C:\Users\USERNAME\Saved Games\Pillars of Eternity

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    Official Keys Thread v 1.01

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

    Posted · Edited by pedroantonio

     

    Okay okay! But remember, he *is* a backer! :Cant's broad grin icon:

     

    I'm a backer too, so out of respect I'll allow him to get his pitchfork too, then we can have a pitchfork duel.

     

    That makes me think...why aren't pitchforks an in-game weapon? I demand a delay so they can be implemented :devil:. Now seriously, it would be funny if every backer-insipired npc get a pitchfork in their inventory in a future update.

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