bleedthefreak

Hey guys, I wanted to mess around with the character creation stuff this weekend to try and get an idea for my first character, but I don't want to run thorugh the BB content again since the full game is so close to release - is there a cheat/console command I can run to level up to 8 right away with a party of characters or anything like that? Thanks in advance! -Scott

I'm not going to wait. Patches are for the second play through!

I don't understand how anyone can think this game has any poor animations - that is a statement that makes me wonder what said folks consider "good" animations, because I feel like these look terrific. Combat with engagement feels great, I do think view distance is fine, but movement speed should be lowered globally.

That seems like an excellent solution, actually. Well done, drunetovich!

What Luckmann is describing is excellent, and it's also how Dragon Age Inquisition does it. That way if you roll up a new character that new character's quick-save doesn't accidentally over write the quick-save you had been using with your main game, for instance. It's awesome and every RPG should use it going forward, including PoE.

I love low-INT dialog, myself. Last night I finally remembered to give a character 14 INT so I could check out that optional dialog with the folks at the start there that give you the quest to flush the target out of the town. Sadly, it was just an extra line of dialog that didn't change anything. Still, it's cool whenever stats can made any changes to dialog. Speaking of that - do my companions stats never play into dialog? Is it only the main characters stats and skills and class and etc.? I always thought it was handled well in Storm of Zehir where you could select a character during dialog and get his options to pick, as if he were "speaking up" during the conversation.

It's a fancy word for "speaker" or the person talking. I honestly haven't noticed when I was playing, so I can't answer the actual question.

Well, like I said above, I honestly feel like the action is moving swiftly enough that with so many party members as I have I'm pausing constantly, and am not able to do something like set up a strategy, assign commands to everyone, and unpause to watch my strategy come together because 1.2 seconds later I'm pausing again, and then ever 1.2 seconds after that. If it's just me, though, maybe I just need to play some more to get used to it. I have several friends who are big RPG gamers but all prefer turn-based games and they watched me playing and commented on how they couldn't follow what was happening very well, so for gamers such as these (let alone the unwashed masses) it's a shame the game is going to quickly for folks new to the genre to dive in. Hopefully the full game, starting you off with just a few characters and smaller encounters, will be a better way to ease into the game and the mechanics.

It said "Slow Mode Activated" on the screen. I'm not saying it is NOT slow or anyuthing, just that toggling between slow mode and regular mode there doesn't seem to be a difference. There IS a difference, yes, but I feel like if you are offering a slow mode, make it SLOW not "a little slower".

Hey guys, I don't spend as much time on these boards as I should, but I wanted to put my 2 cents in on the beta while I had the opportunity to be heard. Sorry in advance if this has already been addressed/discussed! I tried out the latest build and noticed I can press "S" for "slow mode" but when I press it while things are slower, they are still too fast for me to process all that's happening. I played the crap out of stuff like Baldur's Gate and IWD, both when they came out and several times over the years, and for some reason PoE I have a harder time following the action and reacting accordingly. Maybe I'm just getting old, or a maybe it's just being a little unfamiliar with the rules systems, or a bit of both? I had hoped Slow Mode would be sort of like half or quarter speed, somewhat like the real-time pausable combat in the UFO games did. To be honest, slow mode is fast enough that I played for awhile wondering "why do my guys walk a bit slower?" but not otherwise realizing I was even IN slow mode. Has this been addressed at all, or talked about? Is there a way to toggle down to a third, "Super Slow" mode for old fogies like me who enjoy a tactical challenge but don't want to constantly pause the game ever half a second? The action would be a lot more fun to watch as it unfolds slowly, I believe. Also, since it was suggested on the comments of a YouTube video I recorded, I'll bring up an idea someone passed along to me - the ability to re-watch a battle that has occurred where the pausing isn't taken into account. So every time you pause, the recording pauses, so if you re-watch it later you just see the action from start to finish. I thought that was a nifty idea, so I'm bringing it up here. Thanks for all the hard work! -Scott