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Thing is, as a rogue, you get sneak attacks regardless of stealth: in the first two seconds of combat and when enemies are under the influence of certain effects (blinded, hobbled etc.) So I found stealth nice for scouting, but other than that it doesn't give me that much combat advantage. I just open with a salvo from my entire team save the tank. My rogue is primarily melee, so I played around with backstab, but it really isn't a good choice to risk getting swarmed by a group of enemies when I can just sneak attack with my pistol from afar much more safely. Maybe if there were more ways to turn invisible in combat, but you get Backstab earlier than Shadowing Beyond and building around it isn't worth it IMO. So I stopped investing in stealth, focused on mechanics and rely on sneak attacks after CC spells from other team members.

That's BS. Stealth is a regular skill, you think using a skill the way it was designed is cheating? You might as well say that choosing a diplomatic quest solution to avoid bloodshed is cheating. It makes no sense to expect a solo DiD run to charge head on into every battle. On the contrary, knowing which fights to avoid - and how to avoid them - is a part of the challenge.

8/10 is exactly how I'd rate Pillars of Eternity too, but more to the point, I'd rate D:OS at about 7/10 and the real question is how he could be crazy enough to rate DA:I at 9/10. The context is more important than the score, here, I think. I think that PoE really deserves 8/10, but if he rates both D:OS and DA:I at 9/10, I can see how people are asking him what the hell he's smoking. Personal preference? It depends how you weight all elements, I'm sure there are things Inquisition does better than Pillars (team relations, for example. Or exploration.) But I haven't played the other two games, so I have no idea what score they deserve.

What's EoS?

8/10 is exactly how I'd rate Pillars. The real problem is that nowadays any score below 9 is considered a disappointment.

You'll never know unless they record the whole run . Even then video can be just edited. So you'll never know unless they stream the whole run .I know, but I'm very trusting and I'll probably believe their word. But really, Obsidian should figure out a way to save in combat to avoid this situation.

It's still very impressive and I congratulate you, but I want to see someone do it without cheesing in-combat reloads.

Auto-leveled companions aren't nearly as bad as people make them out to be. I reached Hiravias and the Grieving Mother at like, level 8, and they're doing perfectly well on Normal, so they should be adequate on Hard. Especially if you grab everyone earlier than me - and you can do it by level 4 if you know where to go. There's no need to make everyone specialize in a different skill. You need a mechanics guy, if not you, then Durance or Aloth. Lore is a great choice for your character because only your score is checked in dialogues - everyone else can get lore as needed for scrolls. Survival isn't particularly useful, neither is stealth. Athletics is the one I bring at least to 4 on everyone because it's easy to get fatigued. If you leave companions in the stronghold, you will be able to level them up to your level when you rehire them. They'll be a little bit behind in progress to the next level, but that's not a big deal.

But then they made early game very casual-unfriendly, with every encounter in Valewood destroying a solo newbie and then the temple of Eothas... Even folks with good attribute distribution will start questioning it. That's a rather illogical move.

TES is my favorite game series, but... what? A tactical party-based RPG on Skyrim's engine? Lol no. But at least it would be wonderfully moddable, so there's that. DAO is probably the closest thing to what you want.

Nearly every fantasy RPG makes you the chosen one and very few allow you to ignore it the way Elder Scrolls games do. PoE is refreshing in that while you're special, you aren't the only one with these powers, they're just very rare - but even so, not so very different from the skills of a cipher. Anyway, yes, it's important and you can't ignore it.

That's actually an act of mercy. There is more to this story, you can find the explanation in the diaries of previous 'adventurers' that went there and started dying one by one. In regards to that particular xaurip there is also a third way - most beneficial to the both sides. ooh, do tell in a PM. Can't figure that one out. me either, its one of the only dialogs in the game that doesnt tell you what skill you're missing...and I've tried a lot of options with that lil guyI'm 99% sure you need an item to get another dialogue option. I still have that quest item, I didn't use it anywhere else in Cilant Lis so I assume it's for the xaurip - but I never went back to him, so I could be wrong.

There was a workaround, entering the building while stealthed I think. Try that. The biggest thing in the Archive is that if you get the key, you can easily take the P... something Theorems for another quest without being seen.

If it was worked into the game setting, I would see nothing wrong with it. The tombstone didn't say "KILL ALL TRANNIES", it was worked, cleverly, into the game world. If "Neo Nazi" was worked into the game as let's say, a racist faction, that had their own writings, I'd think that would make for a more interesting gameworld, even if I don't agree with content. To point that out in another game, notice how the original "The Witcher" had a lot of racism and bigotry in the game, but it was well integrated into the game world and made it a lot more interesting and creative. That doesn't mean CD Project are racists or evil, it's just part of the game world. Sure, I had no problem at all with this memorial and I don't think its removal was necessary. However, throwing a fit about stifled creative freedom is ridiculous. It's Obsidian's game and ultimately it's their decision what texts fit into it. You want to have complete freedom, make your own game. The only person who could legitimately be outraged is the backer who wrote the memorial - all memorials should have been diligently scrutinized before releasing the game and that decision should have been final.

Free speech people, would you be okay with including a neo-nazist manifesto and a detailed description of male genitalia as backer memorials?

Barbarians aren't really a tank class, they're primarily melee damage dealers. What equipment do your frontliners use? You can check enemy level in the bestiary in your journal.

Wael does have a thing for "accidentally" losing items.

I backed for $78 in total: $50 reward tier + additions. That makes it the most expensive game I've ever bought (you guessed it, I don't buy collector's editions). Is it the best game I've ever played? No. I doubt it will even make it on the list of my favorite games, but I'm enjoying it all the same. I think the setting has potential and I'm eager for a sequel. There are clearly many underdeveloped gameplay elements, I hope Obsidian will improve them now that they're more financially stable, especially if they decide to do another Kickstarter for extra money injection. I don't regret backing it in the slightest.

Voiceovers are one of the most expensive features. I don't want more, in fact, I'd be perfectly fine with less VO if it meant this money went into expanding other gameplay elements - like a stronghold that isn't insanely boring, although I'm not a great fan of strongholds either, so maybe this isn't the best example.

Pirated version wont automaticaly update through gog or steam.He will have to download another torrent of whole updated game or standalone update (if someone does it)Updates are pirated as well, although it can become quite a hassle if they're released very often. Somewhere down the line a fully updated version will appear. GOG makes it trivially easy to pirate games, but of course Steam is no protection from pirates either. Curiously, despite having a DRM-free version, it was the DRM version of Witcher 2 that was most often pirated. For fame? To protest DRM? I have no clue. Also, GOG doesn't automatically update games, so it's the same manual download for pirates and legit owners.

Yes, but the two are unrelated. The dungeon would be there even if the stronghold stretch goal had never been reached, and you can explore it without investing a single coin in keep upgrades and maintenance.

I won't hold it against Obsidian if they decide splitting it is the best option, but I would prefer a complete expansion. I never play episodic games until they're finished. Either way, I hope backers who paid for the expansion will get both parts, not just the first one.

Rogue, human, ocean folk, the Living Lands, drifter.

Sell everything you don't use. That lore thing is probably bestiary. There is no kill XP, instead you gain XP by collecting information about enemies. After encountering one type several times, it fills up the info and you can't gain any more XP from fighting it.

I wanted to know how much time each of them spent with me and their damage numbers, but it seems everything goes back to 0 when I dismiss them. Aloth was with me from the beginning of the game, I left him in the stronghold for one mission and now it's like he's brand new to the team... Anyone else finds this mildly irritating? edit: I just realized the title can be misleading. I didn't mean attributes etc., of course, just personal statistics.