Ashen Rohk

Avast! Room for one more on board?

Token bull**** inclusion. Because we all know how well that's worked out recently.

You needed NPCs guarding/manning Caed Nua to provide your security and prestige ratings which dictated guests, attacks and quests so I can't really see why they'd abandon that mechanic for what is essentially the same thing. Yes, but they've specifically said so far: no crew except your companions. Ah, I'd missed that. Thanks!

4 mirrian dorrahs!

Money isn't everything. Bioware spent $300,000,000 on a Star Wars game and we got The Old Republic.

#fulvanolives

You needed NPCs guarding/manning Caed Nua to provide your security and prestige ratings which dictated guests, attacks and quests so I can't really see why they'd abandon that mechanic for what is essentially the same thing.

There was something in the Update about getting new hulls and other customisations, including being able to steal other ships. So it's possible we could commandeer a galleon at some point and have a bigger, more customisable crew. Either that or a Monkey Island 3 recruitment quest and ensuing sing-song.

Was about to make this exact post!

Avast! :D

Besides, the only way to play BG2 is to solo monk that mother****er.

Ha, no way. That's a lot of coin to drop to never follow up on it.

I think this is a great idea! I'd love to see it. I assume most of us caught the Black Hound (BG3) in Gilded Vale? I think there'll be a smattering of these anyway?

Kinda annoyed the the disc is a Steam Installer and not an actual copy of the game, that's one of many reasons I still buy physical copies of games. Obsidian, please reconsider this. I want my copy of the game, NOT a licence for Steam.

It'll probably be doable through the Nexus Mod site, it's where the most recent version of the IE mod is stored. Along with literally dozens of mods that put semi-naked women as portraits.

I'd be down for some kind of special ammunition. Biggest problem with BG2 et all was that you could only have 40 in a stack. If you up the stack limit it eventually becomes redundant, so a system like D:OS's arrows could be interesting.

I dunno. Unless it's changed that much since the original Backer Beta? I never used it in the game.

Dangit! As a UKer I have to be up for work early! Is there anywhere we can submit questions on the forum for Josh to answer?

Wow who switched the mod to use that crap ass textures? Not me, that's for damn sure! Also, the Pat Rothfuss companion was cut!? They made a pretty major deal over him joining the team. I'd say he ran out of time because he was writing Kingkiller 3 but we know that's not likely

I completely missed this - what have they removed? Edit: Found it. Crafting is out, a companion is out and the Oasis city is out (although from what I understand a lot has been incorporated into Bloom)

Oooh, there's only a UI Customisation stretch goal! Edit: Includes demo of the IE mod!

My old watcher just so happened to be a fire-godlike monk. He punched people. It hurt them a lot.

My thoughts about party AI!

IIRC Obsidian have said that they're not looking at Tyranny-esque combat mechanics for PoE2, at least in that there won't be synergy based skills and the combat will work more like an IE game. You wanted an IE game, you're getting the sequel to an IE game. We're going to be having per-rest/encounter skills. Let's deal with that.

As people have said, if you want DRM make sure you use your key with GoG. HOWEVER. If you end up with beta access it will more than likely only be on Steam. If you use your key on Steam for beta access you won't be able to transfer across to GoG at a later date.