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I guess this phenomenon is additionally reinforced by the fact that CRPG lovers also need to finish their playthroughs of Wasteland 2 / PoE1 / Tyranny / DoS 1-2 / Tides of Numenera, etc. It makes sense that they are not in hurry to buy Deadfire. Very anecdotal, but I actually do know someone that feels this way. They like the game series but not so much that they have to buy it right now, so they're thinking they'll probably wait until the DLC's are out. Obviously, they might still not buy it at that point, but I think that's a legitimate mentality.

Is this....spoilery? I think this is kind of spoilery. I don't think the Wheel was retconned. Explanation in spoilers to be safe:

I think it's extra hard not to call it meta gaming if your character or you yourself aren't comfortable with being awful (for lack of a better word). There's not really a nice option to sabotage the two missions. Which sounds kind of obvious when I say it, but still. I'm used to quests where there's a benevolent "right" way to do a lot of things. That said, as the previous two have mentioned, a more wary or suspicious or savvy Watcher would definitely pick up on this, I think. Even I thought Maia was acting weird and something was going on, before I knew what was going on, and I tend to be very trusting/helpful to companions in RPG's. I just assumed that there would be a way for my Watcher to guide Maia down a better/nicer path and/or get them to talk about it the nice way. Game had me fooled.

If she's making comments like she's going crazy or has a lot of bloodlust, I'm going to guess the game's bugged for you. Or the voice over part in combat is, at least.

I've pretty much lost my mind listening to this and writing it down, but I'll try to write down the points I remember- you can check the transcript I posted above, if it helps to read it (instead of listening). I've found it's a lot easier to read German (which I've been casually learning for over a year or two) than listen to it, as a native English speaker. I'm also just going to talk about things related to the game directly - let me know if you want me to touch on all of the questions and answers. They showed the Beast of Winter teaser a couple of times. One at the beginning (roughly ten minutes in) and the very end. Beast of Winter is out August 2nd, 2018, price at $9.99 Beast of Winter will touch a lot on the culture(s) of pale elves, and Ryrmgand, and how they follow Ryrmgand. There should be some reactivity to Watchers that are pale elves or from the White that Wends. Most, but not all the kith in the new area(s) will be pale elves. Beast of Winter DLC will not change the possible endings for the base game, but there will be some content at the very end of the game (ending slides?) that you will only get with the Beast of Winter DLC. Beast of Winter has a new companion/sidekick? that does react to some of the base game content and is essential to the DLC content. Ydwin will have some thoughts and reactions to the pale elf society(societies?) in Beast of Winter. The pale elves and what they're doing in this DLC have some kind of crossover with the pale elves and what they were doing in Twin Elms, in Pillars of Eternity 1. There is not a new faction to side with for the end of base game (Deadfire). There may or may not be in future DLC's (though I would personally assume no, right now). All deities have godlikes, which can have very varied forms (e.g. Galawain godlikes can appear/show up very differently). There are no tie-in novels planned right now, but there will be some kind of tie-in fiction for the games in the near(ish?) future. (I would guess short stories). A lot of the dev stream was Alex talking about his opinions, thoughts, experience on development for the base game - which was very cool, but I left itout in case that wasn't what you were looking for.

Sorry for the crazy delay, I don't know if you still even want this. Making a transcript was way more work and time than I would have ever expected. I tried to bold the questions and write down what I heard accurately, while minimizing the speech fillers ("um", "like") and parts where someone would cut off a thought to go to some other one.

Yes, next quest is Ashen Maw. Then Mundane is right. Do Ashen Maw, then all the factions you have a high enough rep in will give you their last faction quest (you can only do one, though).

I think it's really interesting how involved mythmaking (as you put it) is in unifying a cultural and national identity. It seems to be extremely common when a country is unifying/forming. One of the things I liked about the Huana in this game is they show a lot of the behavior you'd expect before a collection of cultures form into one. Both the sort of segmented identities and the kind of efforts to partner them and blur the lines. Oh! I actually don't remember that! There is also a Huana (and Ruatai) woman that shows interest in that historical artifact that Arkemyr has, but in that case, there was an additional or ulterior motive for that.

Wait, you still have the Hosongo quest!? What?? Please go there and let me know if you still have the Eothas conversation. That would be crazy. Ashen Maw triggers pre end-game. The end end game, as mentioned, is Ondra's Mortar, but I think Ashen Maw forces the faction quests to reach their end point for all the factions. Where all the factions take off their kid gloves and ask you to do some pretty serious stuff.

I actually wanted to mention that! But I forgot. Very good observation. This combined with some of the other things makes me lean more toward that he's being purposefully manipulative and calculating. The way he treats people is completely dependent on the results he'll get from those people.

They've already shown Ondra has multiple kinds of representations in her godlikes (moon, marine (Tekehu), and Alex in the last dev stream mentioned that Galawain's godlikes can appear in many different forms, so it's totally possible a Wael godlike has a bajillion eyes, and another has no eyes, and another looks completely different.

Oh, the item? (I had to google) I'm completely guessing, but I think so. The game never makes an option to tell her, "Oh, yeah, I ****ed this up on purpose." So I think so long as you complete the quest, you get it. Even if you horribly messed up the quest (on purpose) in the process.

?? What are the callouts?

If I have time, I'll make a transcript. I don't know of anyone else making one.

Oh cool! Man, this makes me want to learn the language. Right now, I can't even see the pieces and how they work together. Is the modal particle just to suggest tone or does it do /mean something else? Edit : I just hijacked this thread, sorry! Got too excited.. I love that you're working on these translations! I'd love to help, but I only know a little German and what I say usually doesn't make sense to actual speakers. :/

I speak Chinese and English, my main problem with making a translation is that i don't quite understand what you are referring to by saying a Norwegian Blue, it seems to me like it would be a drink. In which case the translation is quite free and could be done either by using characters that match the sounds in English or by simply translating the meaning like 你有没有一杯蓝色挪威？ The meaning of the words are important to choose the proper measure word. For instance, I have read on the internet that in monthy python a Norwegian Blue is a type of parrot, in that case it would translate to 你有没有一只"蓝色挪威“鹦鹉? or in case you don't feel the need to clear up it is a parrot it would simply be 你有没有一只蓝色挪威?. In the second example you would not be able to know right away from the sentence if it is a parrot, but the measure word would tell you it is either a small animal or a bird. In the case it is not a drink or a parrot, then the translation would be different of course. Actually if you give me more info i would be happy to tell, i am actually Latin American, but i have lived in china for 6 years and work in an all Chinese speaking environment so i can provide some help, and if i cant tell you the answer right away, i can at least ask one of my delightful coworkers. Man, that is so cool! How'd /why'd you move(?) to China? How'd you learn Chinese? Also, it was really interesting seeing you talk about the parrot translation. What's actually changing in the sentence? You said the measurement word? There's a word that says the measurement in the sentence?

At least it will benefit corpse eaters, if they ever include fishing. Hahaha. That's wonderfully messed up.

He gems and haws, cuts the guy loose, and then makes him walk into the ocean. That’s killing him (for some reason). Would be funny if he shows up on your boat as a stowaway. “Yeah, I went underwater... but yer boat was right there!” I wish I could just take him with me or something. My boat's right there. But yeah, you see his dead body in the water. :/

Wait really? But then the fruit thing is ruined right?

The stream was aggressively spoiler free until the end, which was where they showed the DLC. I can help try to list points if someone doesn't soon - I can't right now because I'm on the phone and it would be painful.

people complained that PoE1 wasn't railroady enough, so this is what you get EDIT: Missed the party, but have a question just in case the devs are still reading this thread: will the DLC adventure add ending slides to the main game like White March did in PoE1? This may have been answered in the stream, but I can't watch for a couple of hours I can help with this! Going off memory, but they did mention the DLC would add new ending slides. Also, as of now, there will be no changes to the main story's ending choices.

Thank you guys for the dev stream! I've never seen a developer do one of those before, it was cool to listen to. Also, Serafen is a fantastic character for a ton of reasons and I love the whole conversation and moment he gives you the spiffy captain hat. Also, the bit about Dragon Age : Origins : "I could write that. Sorry Bioware." Ha

This is touching on what someone said earlier : What happens to the souls when luminous adra is mined? Are they dispersed? Are they destroyed when mined or when the adra is used? I got the vibe that the soul's energy is being used. What happens if My apologies if this has been answered in the games! I might have missed or forgotten something.

Yeah, that's sort of been my biggest issue with it. I've been wondering about maybe doing an Inquisitor, but then people have said that Bleak Walker would be too limiting from a roleplay perspective because it'd typecast Rauatai as being cruel. I do like the idea of being an Inquisitor though. You could reason that it's just *your * character that's cruel, and the system accepts it /turns a blind eye because you do enough good for the Rauatai. People aren't usually - 100%- representative of their country or group. I'm sure there are cruel people integrated in any of the factions in Deadfire. Edit : that said, I was going to originally suggest cipher? or chanter because I read they're part of the typical Rauatai army /military forces. But you could make pretty much anything work.

To answer the original poster, the quest text is kind of awkward, but the reason they say you framed Tamua is because you essentially let the executioner guy believe it was him. I have a question though, does this affect Tikawara's ending at all?