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Is accessibility all that knowable in advance?

The Witcher 3 sales numbers are fascinating. Almost nobody who is a self-proclaimed fan has played the first game. Very few have played the second. The third is one of the more successful games of it's time. At some point I think the experience is what people are after more, and Deadfire sells a unique experience.

Probably, but I can't complain about that. As long as Pillars is managing to draw in people, I benefit from that.

How many oil pipelines run through Syria?

Haven't decided yet, but I do kind of want at least one single-class in my party. Aloth will probably be pure wizard for me.

ground under boots?

Part of me longs for a MMO that recaptures the magic of vanilla-WoW, however I don't think I'll ever find another MMO that is for me. I always preferred getting lost in the PvE and organizing with people you'd meet who also had business in the niche corner of the world as you did. I haven't found a single mmo that recaptured that magic, it's all too stream-lined and systemic, and the look skinner-boxes just don't appeal to me anymore.

The fact that some of the portraits have been updated a bit I think is a sign that the team is willing to iterate and improve upon designs. Even still, I do feel a bit bad for griping, if only because the work is a talented creative endeavor. But I guess that's the backer's privilege. I think we has humans are very sensitive to facial details, and even when portraits are based on real people there is this mix between tge real person and creative character design layer. Even if Eder's new portrait is based on another Max von Sydow portrait, the creative layer may diverge in another direction. So it's always a tricky thing to balance. We get these 2D looks at a character, and it can be hard to rotate the art in a way that captures the character believably from another direction. I think a lot of this aspects are where my hangups lie.

I thought so too, particularly because Pallegina lost her sharp refined jaw line for a massive rounded line-backer jaw. edit: Pallegina had a wide jaw in the first one, but all the Deadfire jaws are large in the same way. Pallegina used to have this elegant Olivia Wilde look about her.

"Redeem on steam, double dip on gog."

Cold War 2: Atomic Boogaloo

As for the lips, my suggestion is back off the lipstick look just a bit and keep to a natural look. I see you've lowered and plumped her lips slightly, which doesn't quite work. Keep to a thiner style or if you have to match the model give the center portion some contour. The other official sources for her are probably the best thing to draw from, more so than the model.

I also thought Mirke's liver was about to fail when I first saw her. Back to Maia, I did think she looked a little "ill" in a way that Kana didn't. Or it's like her portrait was done on an aged parchment or something. The chin and pock-mark are slightly unflattering, which is true. Or is it a scar? If you look at the other official art for her, she is captured in a more flattering way, that your fix does seem to be more in-line with. I'm fine with Maia being a 8 instead of a 9, and can entirely see why you made the changes you did. If they don't change her appearance, I'll say it again, you're lighting is an improvement. You're lighting is more natural which also fits in line with some of the other portraits.

I do like your fix, it's well done and the lighting brings out her eyes and patterning. I've always been totally fine with the original though. Plus I always see the portrait as a more official take on the character than the model, especially given Pillars1.

I'd like to watch this, but I think I'm going media blackout for this game. I know they'll restrict content to the beginning, but I love experiencing the open of a game with fresh eyes.

"You know that unmarked island in the far NW is going to have some crazy sh*t." Or Ondra's Mortar I think insta explosion if you try sail into the Mortar. Sounds like a challenge for the critical path.

"You know that unmarked island in the far NW is going to have some crazy sh*t." Or Ondra's Mortar

It's funny how Matt looks like the love child of Eder and Aloth. Also, I really enjoyed reading the new character bios.

I'm really liking these new edits. While I thought the 4Chan edits were a little too ideal, I couldn't help but prefer most of the edits when comparing them to the originals. (Still swooning over that Xoti one though.) Now I think I'm back to handily preferring the official portraits. Except Pallegina, whose original portrait I adore (seriously one of my favorite all time portraits,) but really fails to capture how I've come to picture her. Was Eder's cleaned up? I can't quite tell, I don't dislike it but I still feel the likeness from the first game is a bit off and it's not just a matter of age.

EG, great signature

I imagine the best way to track down the rest would be using search engines to find other media publications that we may have missed, then other than that obsessively crawling frame by frame through tons of their media output. I hope all the codes are visually in plain sight and not hidden away in beta assets or something. I wonder if any codes are hidden physically in the beta textures?

this is genius

Nobody wanted Iraq 2.0, it was politically and economically infeasible. Plus Russia entangles things as they help to prop up the single-party domination of Syria.

No problem with that, I listen to plenty of music that draws from shared language of samples. Reggae just often feels especially lazy to me because a lot of the music I listen to evolved from or has been heavily influenced by those roots, and really displays how much innovation could be had otherwise. I feel ya with metal though, I only dabble on the edges of that genre and I'm sure I'm missing some of the better or more respectable stuff. Although I tend to respect metal fans because I realize metal is an incredibly rich area of music, and I find it parallels a lot of what I listen.