Katarack21

Yennifer and Triss are both pretty terrible people and I kind of hated them equally.

Yeah, that's pretty much *exactly* what a lapdesk is designed for.

I found Viconia's romance one of the best, actually. It's difficult to do successfully and while you can get "sex" almost immediately, doing so actually destroys the romance progression--successfully getting a "romance" with Viconia requires *turning down* the sex when offered and further working within *her* context for what a worthwhile man is.

Wait.. you click those? That’s a dedicated for skill based gameplay I am not sure I should admire or pity:-). “Space” is your best friend. I know a guy who played through the entirety of BG totally unaware that pause-and-play was a thing. Just real time the whole way through. It's pretty amazing what people can accomplish rofl

Indeed, just the changes of cast times have really helped combat feel much better. It's a vast improvement.

A Tyranny-style ability to pin a specific enemies info on the screen would be *exquisite*. I use that constantly in my playthroughs of Tyranny, and it would be really great to see it in Deadfire.

The UI improvements are fairly major and make a *real* difference in the quality of the game. Really digging them. Noticed that movement on the overmap is rather choppy, though. Wonder why that is.

WOO-HOO (again)!

There was never a schedule for this beta patch.

They've upgraded the relationship system in PoE 2 so that party members can leave, fight each other, etc. based on their reactions to your actions over time. So according to them, yes, it has changed.

I figure there is still a chance until the Obsidian offices close, which is around 5:00 Pacific time. I'll keep my hopes up until then lol

Didn't really read much of it. I was so excited I fired up the beta immediately, was confused at the lack of update, came back to the forums and it was gone. What I saw didn't say anything we don't already know, but again there was a fair bit I didn't read.

For about half a second patch notes for a new beta release were on the forum. It was apparently a misclick, but it confirms that they are in fact working on a beta update.

In an unrelated note, I'd pay a fair bit of money for a Soul Reaver HD remaster.

The character in your avatar is wearing nothing but that cloth wrapped around his face, you know. Raziel goes full frontal at all times.So you suggest I change my avatar before commenting?I think he was trying to downlow tell you that your hypocrisy is showing.Except there's no hypocrisy. People are talking about human nudity specifically and Raziel the reaver isn't human.Or maybe I'm missing the sarcasm. How could you profane a priest by turning him into a eunuch?Is the priest human? Or a made up race surrounded by things we don't really know about? I really would need more info to than that to give you a solid answer. I mean again, nudity is different meanings for different species. I'm pretty sure that Raziel was born a human, considering that his back story states that he was "sired" by Kain. So he's not really a member of a made-up race as much as just a made-up dude who was infected.

There is one fight which is potentially more challenging than those two - but I have a feeling that you will be fine. You know I took down Concelhaus without to many problems, but the ****ing dragons are real bastards for some reason. The Master Below and the dragon in WM both kick my ass with great regularity.

In Raziels defense all the interesting bits have rotted off.

How. . .Just. . .How. . .I ended the game with like a quarter of a million. Aside from the Paladin shield in the first town, I never paid for anything. The best loot and spells are plundered off dead enemies. . .What the devil did you find to spend your money on? Making scrolls and potions mostly. Just *tons* of scrolls and potions. Buying ingredients for scrolls and potions, plus the actual gold cost of making them. Plus I buy lots of food, for prebuffing purposes.

This is how I remember it. I could have remembered it wrong, but I don't think so. The thing I remember so vividly is that there was no nice way to reject him, and doing so gained 'rivalry points'. I remembered it as 'loss of friendship points' but now I remember it was rivalry points that are gained. I was quite irritated by that. And I really didn't like the way the writers portrayed Anders in DA2 either. As for DrowsyEmperor's comment on Bioware, I don't think he was arguing against the inclusion of LGBTQ+ romances exactly, but I may have misunderstood his words. Anders "flirt" deal is generic enough that it didn't strike me as being romantic. I *didn't pick the romance option* and I went on with my game; me and Anders stayed best bros fighting Templars together and it was never an issue. It's virtually impossible not to pick up some rivalry points with everybody, so that didn't bother me. It seemed to me less about my character being a jerk and more about Anders being miffed at getting rejected, which seems perfectly okay to me. Lots of people get a little pissy at being rejected, doesn't mean they can't still be best friends who bond over a mutual hatred of Templars. Almost every character in that game has a dialogue at some point that seems a little iffy--it could be flirtatious it could be not--and that's generally the point where you get the option of clicking the "heart" icon or not doing so. With Anders the difference is that he comes right out about it and you have more "romance" options in the dialogue then "not romance" options, so you have to actually pay attention. The point is it's still just an *option*. You can choose to romance him or you can choose to *not* romance him; the choice is *entirely* up to you. It's not a forced relationship; at no point does the game *make* you be gay. You can be in a homosexual relationship, a straight relationship, or no relationship at all--your characters sexuality is *up to you*. What you said was 'romance never came up'. That's clearly not the case with myself and all the people I quoted: romance does come up, and not only that but it is handled extremely poorly, in that the only option to turn him down is a particularly cold, heartless one, and then he has a hissy fit and gains rivalry points. So romance does come up without any sexual interest being shown by the player. Not saying any more than that, merely that what you said was inaccurate. For the record I agree totally that even this doesn't represent the romance being 'forced down your throat'. I actually think a lot of the hate Anders gets is simply because he is such a whiny bitch. Zevran is way flirtier than he is but I distinctly remember turning down Zev and him being really cool with it, which contrasts sharply with Anders responds. Even so that only happens if you deliberately foster a relationship with him--you have to get to a certain point of friendship before he'll start that. If you don't talk to him and just use him as a fighting companion, that'll never happen; you also get several options to flirt with him before that starts. It's totally possible to play through the game with Anders as your companion and literally never have romance come up. As a side note, I didn't even realize it was possible to romance Fenris and I *never* went without him in my party, because he's just a total badass. Just made me sad when I had to kill him at the end. ****ing Templars.

I am now 100% that there *will* in fact be another backer beta update, most likely this week. For about half a second there were patch notes on the forums, but apparently it was a misclick.

WOO-HOO!

This is how I remember it. I could have remembered it wrong, but I don't think so. The thing I remember so vividly is that there was no nice way to reject him, and doing so gained 'rivalry points'. I remembered it as 'loss of friendship points' but now I remember it was rivalry points that are gained. I was quite irritated by that. And I really didn't like the way the writers portrayed Anders in DA2 either. As for DrowsyEmperor's comment on Bioware, I don't think he was arguing against the inclusion of LGBTQ+ romances exactly, but I may have misunderstood his words. Anders "flirt" deal is generic enough that it didn't strike me as being romantic. I *didn't pick the romance option* and I went on with my game; me and Anders stayed best bros fighting Templars together and it was never an issue. It's virtually impossible not to pick up some rivalry points with everybody, so that didn't bother me. It seemed to me less about my character being a jerk and more about Anders being miffed at getting rejected, which seems perfectly okay to me. Lots of people get a little pissy at being rejected, doesn't mean they can't still be best friends who bond over a mutual hatred of Templars. Almost every character in that game has a dialogue at some point that seems a little iffy--it could be flirtatious it could be not--and that's generally the point where you get the option of clicking the "heart" icon or not doing so. With Anders the difference is that he comes right out about it and you have more "romance" options in the dialogue then "not romance" options, so you have to actually pay attention. The point is it's still just an *option*. You can choose to romance him or you can choose to *not* romance him; the choice is *entirely* up to you. It's not a forced relationship; at no point does the game *make* you be gay. You can be in a homosexual relationship, a straight relationship, or no relationship at all--your characters sexuality is *up to you*.

Including non-heterosexuals in a game is not a crusade. I think you need to look the word up, cause you don't seem to understand what it means, or your are exagerating in a way which is ridiculous. And you're unaware of the zeal with which Bioware, and a part of their community, pushed the issue - ergo the crusade comment. No other video-game company made such an issue of it, nor were they as self-congratulatory over something so unimportant (in the grand scheme of things) as Bioware was. Way back when, you could take part in a gay marriage in Temple of Elemental Evil, and nobody cared (myself included), because it was obviously put in there just for the heck of it. In Arcanum, as well as some other games, you could actually engage in bestiality, but this was. again, done as a joke. Actually, it's not bull****. It's an opinion, just like your own. People are fully within their rights to find something 'gross' and to rather not have it, or to push for other content they actually like instead, in the entertainment they're financing with their money. You can argue: 'don't buy it if it turns you off', or ignore it - but that is completely besides the point of whether it is legitimate claim or not. It's equally legitimate to wanting it included. Some opinions are just worthless trash. Does that offend you? Well, it's just my opinion. You don't have a right to question it. I'm not questioning it, I respect your response more than you did mine. There is no rule saying I have to respect your opinion. It's an opinion. That means it's up for debate and I can call it horse **** all day long. I can insult your opinion without insulting *you*. Your opinion is an inanimate concept, an *idea* based on nothing more than what you think, and ideas are always open to criticism. It's the tone of your post that speaks of what you're bringing to the conversation. You know this as well as I do, which is why you're now trying to make it sound like you weren't trying to insult with your post, which you were. If you wanted to be critical there are xy different ways to express it. *shrug* It doesn't really matter though. No, I really wasn't. You took it personal--that's on you. I was insulting the idea that gay people are gross. Nothing in my post hints at anything else. I didn't even *mention* you because I was talking in generics about the greater gaming community, not about you. You're just really sensitive about this issue.

If you’re offended, don’t play.What about my comment makes you think I'm offended? For crying out loud, I play Witcher games lol I'm not offended or sensitive, I just don't see how nudity would benefit this game specifically is all. Sonic - I’ve learned to ignore this guy. Your post didn’t suggest in any way that you were offended. Achilles is bored waiting for May 8 and picks fights in forums because he isn’t very successful or liked in his real life.