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  1. I've been able to get radically different allegiance results with the same save file. It feels like maybe the final part of the game was not as thoroughly tested as the rest.

     

    I've killed the Hazanui, installed Castol as VTC director, ignored the pirates, and sided with the Huana. Furrante was my nemesis. Maia left the party.

     

    Then I killed the Hazanui, installed Castol as VTC director, killed Furrante AND Aeldys, and sided with the Huana. The Canta Niesce was my nemesis. Pallegina didn't have an ending slide.

  2. I talked to the RDC leader NPC (Hazanui Karu) accepted their allegiance quest and then refused to go through with it, prompting her and all her cronies to attack me. When I killed her the quest failed. Fine.

     

    Afterwards I went and spoke to the Huana faction leader NPC (Queen Onekaza) and I had the option to pledge allegiance to her. I did (this is the faction I wanted to side with)

     

    However, pledging allegiance to the Huana did NOT automatically fail the VTC allegiance quest. I was able to complete "Skipping Ahead" and then Director Castol's trial. When I spoke to him afterwards I automatically pledged allegiance to the VTC (there was no option to refuse this)

     

    This resulted in "The Coming Storm" journal entry being completed and stating I sided with the Huana, but when I went to Ondra's Mortar to finish the game the VTC were my allies.

     

    I assume that once you pledge allegiance to one leader all of the other allegiance quests shoukd fail, but it seems that killing one leader messes up the exclusivity checks somehow.

  3. This is on my list of mod notes currently. I keep a couple of journal entries while playing on things I think should be changed. This will require editing the game assembly though, which I can do now with the help of patchwork framework. A lot of the things I have planned are on hold for the moment though for several reasons, so no idea when I might get around to that specific thing.

    Thank you for even considering it.

    It really bugs me that my character with maxed benevolence and 1 point in cruel can still trigger cruel checks.

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    So I finished a playthrough siding with the Huana, killed Furrante and Aeldys to put Pim in charge, did the VTC quests to ensure Castol remained director, and killed the Royal Deadfire folks after refusing their final quest to assassinate the queen to ensure Castol stayed in his position. My strongest rival turned out to be the Royal Deadfire Company (which was ideal for the ending I was shooting for) but I have no idea how I got them as my rival instead of the VTC, since I resolved Poko Kohara in favor of the VTC (I couldn't get Castol to remain as director otherwise) and only did A Matter of Import to push their questline to offer A Final Maneuver (although Atsura did congratulate me on taking out the slavers that I did for the Huana quest A Fruitful Alliance). I did do Maia's personal quest (but ensured both agents the missives were for couldn't do the assassinations, either by being tailed or catching a mild case of death).

     

    So not sure what quests impact this formula exactly. But if someone is trying to figure it out that's how it played out this time. I am likely going to try a VTC/RDC playthrough trying to go for as positive an ending as I did playing Huana and will try to post what rivals I got.

    That sounds like a pretty good outcome to me. Getting really tired of the imperialist, socialist sharks.

     

    Did Maia leave you? How did you handle Sayuka?

    I skipped Sakuya other than to turn in A Matter of Import and finish Serafen's quest. Maia did not leave me (she seemed pretty chill with murdering her bosses) and said nothing.
    I tried accepting Karu's offer of allegiance and then refusing to go through with it (so I had to murder everyone in the RDC HQ) and when I spoke to Maia afterwards she left.

     

    I did complete the quests at Sayuka - I killed the druids (only because I couldn't side with them) but I flooded the machine at Cignath Mor.

     

    I also completed Maia's quest but unwittingly helped her assassin buddies. However, when I spoke to her after she completed her own assassination, she seemed to admire the Huana for picking up right where their ranga left off, so I thought maybe I could reason with her.

  5. I think it would be preferable for dispositions to be assigned to pairs that oppose each other, and gaining points in one puts the same negative points in the other.

     

    Opposing dispositions (my take):

     

    Benevolent <> Cruel

    Honest <> Shady

    Passionate <> Rational

    Aggressive <> Diplomatic

    Clever <> Stoic

     

    In addition to the disposition gain bug being fixed I think this would go a long way towards making the disposition system feel better.

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  6. So I finished a playthrough siding with the Huana, killed Furrante and Aeldys to put Pim in charge, did the VTC quests to ensure Castol remained director, and killed the Royal Deadfire folks after refusing their final quest to assassinate the queen to ensure Castol stayed in his position. My strongest rival turned out to be the Royal Deadfire Company (which was ideal for the ending I was shooting for) but I have no idea how I got them as my rival instead of the VTC, since I resolved Poko Kohara in favor of the VTC (I couldn't get Castol to remain as director otherwise) and only did A Matter of Import to push their questline to offer A Final Maneuver (although Atsura did congratulate me on taking out the slavers that I did for the Huana quest A Fruitful Alliance). I did do Maia's personal quest (but ensured both agents the missives were for couldn't do the assassinations, either by being tailed or catching a mild case of death).

     

    So not sure what quests impact this formula exactly. But if someone is trying to figure it out that's how it played out this time. I am likely going to try a VTC/RDC playthrough trying to go for as positive an ending as I did playing Huana and will try to post what rivals I got.

    That sounds like a pretty good outcome to me. Getting really tired of the imperialist, socialist sharks.

     

    Did Maia leave you? How did you handle Sayuka?

  7. I copied all of the companions'/sidekicks' normal portraits and overwrote the watercolor portraits with them. You can find them in the "gui" folder under "PillarsofEternityII_data" in the game files.

     

    Unfortunately the NPCs only have watercolor portraits, so you'll have to wait and see if anyone is up to the challenge of un-watercoloring all of those. :p

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  8. Someone on the Nexus was kind enough to format some of the old voices from Pillars 1 for use in Deadfire.

     

    I was curious if I could add them as new voice sets rather than overwriting existing voice sets, so I gave them new names ("noble" > "virtuous") named the folders appropriately and dropped them in the Voices folder.

     

    Sadly, that didn't work - when I made a new character the new voice sets didn't show up in character creation. How can I add them in?

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