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    Anyway to see what was said to me in the past?

    in Pillars of Eternity: Stories (Spoiler Warning!)

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    So I am in the temple under Gilded Vale.  I came to 3 Bells, and I figure that the "ghosts" I saw earlier in the temple probably gave me a clues on what order to ring those bells. The problem is, I don't remember exactly what the text said, and I cannot find anywhere where it was recorded for me to read it again to figure it out.

     

    So am I missing something, is there a way to see what has been said to me before?  I don't want the order of the bells to be given in this thread, I just want to know if I can see what has been said to me in the past.

    I am not very good with these types of games, I have some questions...

    in Pillars of Eternity: Characters Builds, Strategies & the Unity Engine (Spoiler Warning!)

    Posted · Edited by eisberg

    I am going to be playing on easy because I am not very good at these games, but still want to play it. How stressed out do I have to be with character builds? I am trying to figure out how to build a Fighter tank, and I look at all the attributes and all of them seem important for a tank as well. So I decided to not drop anything below 10.

     

    This is what I am thinking I am going to have the fighter Tank as, and I plan on having 2 of them in my party. I have it set so I can choose companions stats when they join the group, so 2nd fighter to join I plan on doing the same build.

     

    Mig: (10) -Figured extra damage is not important for a tank, and I get Fort from Con

    Con: (14) Extra Health and Endurance seem very important, plus the increase in Fortitude

    Dex: (10) I get Reflex from PER. Wasn't sure if I needed more action speed or not. Should I put points into this?

    PER: (16) This felt very important, the ability to interupt, having tha accuracy to hit, and the reflex to move out of the way all seem very important

    INT:(10) Already getting Will from RES. Increase AOE and duration didn't seem all that important. Is this something that I am fine with dropping below 10 and putting more points into RES or something else?

    RES:(18) Has 2 of the 4 defense stats (Will and Deflection), plus concentration to help avoiding interupts. Seems highly important.

     

    I figure if I am 2 tanks, and at least 1 healing class I should be ok through out the game. Does that sound right?

     

    Any thoughts or suggestions? Any help would be much appreciated.

    Why people say constitution is useless ?

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    At Might 4 you shouldn't be able to wear heavy armour or lift a decent weapon. Tsk. I hope they add that sort of mechanism.

     

    This whole Might being both physical and mental strength and Intel being AoE on everything is also pretty horrible imo. How do you play a dumb Barbarian who cleaves everything in sight?

     

    You need to change your thinking.  The barbarian that can cleave everything in sight is intelligent on how to wield that sword to cleave everything in sight.  You can still be a dumb barbarian, you just have to change your preconcieved notions about the stats in this game, and not compare them to old games.

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    PoE - Sales figures STEAM

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    So, is there any word on Sales at GoG?

    I mean it's still the topseller 1 1/2 week, and the pricier editions are again on rank 3 + 4.

    Is there a site like steamspy or was anything official said?

     

    Of course, GoG will not add that much revenue then steam does, but it seems that there will be also

    some good revenue coming from GoG.

    Would be nice to know.

    It is said that Steam holds ~80% of all digital sales for PC Gaming, GoG basically confirmed this with Witcher 2 shortly after release of that game.  Assuming that Steamspy is somewhat accurate, this would put total digital sales around 321,000 +/- 27,000

    PoE - Sales figures STEAM

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    Can people just let this freaking thing go already? It's minor crap. Nobody cares......people probably should have just have just shut up about it in the first place and let it be but no apparently some people got butthurt and started creating words to whine about it so Obsidian discussed a change with the creator so it's done. It doesn't matter, nobody cares either way even if I would have preferred that Obsidian had said f___ political correctness we don't care how much you whine, this isn't about you so go take your butthurt elsewhere.

     

    I don't have butthurt, I just don't see why Obsidian couldn't have made their position on speech and censorship clear before I wasted my $50 on their game. Now I have it sitting in my library and I can't play it because they forced an unethical game patch on me. If someone was offended, they could've created an optional patch for those people, not screw with my game. This is why I dislike digital distribution. Had it been a physical copy, I could've returned it or sold it, but on Steam I'm out of $50 and don't have a game I can play.

     

     

    1- There is a mod that puts the original limerick back into the game

    2- I cannot believe something as petty as this actually prevented you from playing the game that you already paid for.  This makes you just as bad as those who were offended by something so petty.

    3- Obsidian didn't do anything unethical.

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    No buffing outside of combat, why?

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    No pre-buffing was one of the better improvements they made over the IE games.  When there was pre-buffing, there was less tactical choices to make.  Now there are more tactical choices to make.

     

    Again, this argument has absolutely no rational basis, the opposite is true. The pure possibility to use buff spells outside of combat do NOT make it mandatory, nor even possible to use them for every encounter.

    But with all spells being possible to cast at all times (which makes more sense from a character agency and immersion point of view anyway), you can decide to buff before an encounter or you can decide against it (either for conserving spells or simply not feeling buffs are necessary for this fight).

    With buffing spells prohibited out of combat, you simply cannot make that choice. It is a reduction of choice, nothing else.

     

     

    Nope, completely disagree.  Pre-buffing is a reduction of choice during combat, that is less spells that you need to take into consideration during combat.  Pre-buffing takes away from tactical choices.  Pre-buffing is a no-brainer, and all it does is take away choices during combat, which in turns makes the combat even easier because of less decisions to make.

     

     

    Can you please explain how having more options results in having less choice? I sure don't get it. You seem to base this view on the strange assumption that 'pre-buffing is a no-brainer', a mandatory decision you have to make just because you can, yet I have yet to read a single reason for that.

     

     

    Pre-buffing is the obvious no brainer, it was the far superior choice to make that Not Pre-buffing wasn't really a choice in the first place.  Just because some fights can be easy, doesn't negate the fact that a lot of fights are going to be obviously hard so Pre-buffing was the vastly superior option to take that the other option is basically negated and really isn't an option in the first place.

     

    Pre-buffing takes away tactical choices during combat, it makes it so you have less spells/buffs/whatever to choose from during combat, which means that combat is even easier cause you have less decisions to make. {Do I cast this buff spell, or do I cast an offensive spell} as compared to your idea {Cast offensive spell}.

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    No buffing outside of combat, why?

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    No pre-buffing was one of the better improvements they made over the IE games.  When there was pre-buffing, there was less tactical choices to make.  Now there are more tactical choices to make.

     

    Again, this argument has absolutely no rational basis, the opposite is true. The pure possibility to use buff spells outside of combat do NOT make it mandatory, nor even possible to use them for every encounter.

    But with all spells being possible to cast at all times (which makes more sense from a character agency and immersion point of view anyway), you can decide to buff before an encounter or you can decide against it (either for conserving spells or simply not feeling buffs are necessary for this fight).

    With buffing spells prohibited out of combat, you simply cannot make that choice. It is a reduction of choice, nothing else.

     

     

    Nope, completely disagree.  Pre-buffing is a reduction of choice during combat, that is less spells that you need to take into consideration during combat.  Pre-buffing takes away from tactical choices.  Pre-buffing is a no-brainer, and all it does is take away choices during combat, which in turns makes the combat even easier because of less decisions to make.

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    PoE - Sales figures STEAM

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    I truly wish I had waited to buy this. Instead, I was so excited that I decided to pre-order, and then Obsidian had to reveal their true face of censorship by censoring the you know what poem. Now I have a game that I bought but will never play...serves me right for not waiting. That's why the smart people wait, not only do they get it for less, but they can also avoid situations like this.

    I'm not commenting on the politics of any particular discussion, but if you think a third party created an injustice, don't let them create another one by denying you the enjoyment of the game on top of it. Whatever politics abound, it's still a game, you own it, and it would be a shame if you let someone else deprive you of its use. I know tempers are running hot on this issue, but I just hope you reconsider and at least give the game a shot. Hell, even if you really love it, I'm not saying come back and praise the game. Keep complaining if you want, but at least get the use of the product you've purchased. :Cant's Dutch uncle icon:

     

     

    It wasn't a third party that created the "injustice" though. It was Obsidian, who decided, to pursue a policy of censorship and displayed themselves as anti-free speech. It feels wrong for me that my money has gone to a company, whose values, are entirely against my own. I am a strong proponent and believer in free speech and dislike censorship, which is a polar opposite to the values Obsidian displayed in this situation. It feels wrong for me to play a game, knowing that it was produced by a developer who does not believe in the right of free speech and easily caves in to special interests just to make a quick buck.

     

     

    You do not know what the Right of Free Speech is.  Everyone involved exercised free speech in that situation.

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    Why is release date so close to Bloodborne?

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    I was thinking to myself "What the heck is Bloodborne?".  I keep myself up to date on RPGs, so I honestly thought I somehow missed a major RPG that is releasing soon.  But after reading the replies here, looks like it is a PS4 exclusive.  I don't even own a console at all, so that explains why I have never heard of Bloodborne.

     

    I highly doubt the game releasing at the same time as Bloodborne is a big deal, completely different games on completely different platforms.'

     

    Also, Witcher 3 delaying had nothing to do with Bloodbourne.

    Mature ESRB rating

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    I'll never understand how some people can be okay with killing by chopping, crushing, piercing, burning, electrocuting, and whatnot, but somehow a few swear words represents a threshold that shouldn't be crossed. I'm American, so I see this quite often, but the reasoning always seems asinine. Personally, I prefer realism in that when you or someone around is in a life or death situation then more often then not swearing will probably be taking place.

     

    Words are words, and they have the same effect no matter where they come from, movie, game, talking to other people, your neighbors yelling at each other, ect.  But killing in game and killing in real life have no where near the same effect.

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    Mature ESRB rating

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    First of all, this game looks awesome. I really, really, really, want to give Obsidian my money for this game. It's made me start a new game of Baldur's Gate 2 just to scratch the isometric rpg itch I've been having recently.

     

    Now, I'm probably in the minority asking about this, but it's a concern that will determine whether or not I'll buy this game.

     

    So: based on the Mature ESRB, how prevalent is the (stronger) profanity in this game?

     

    The ESRB summary says:

     

     

    The word “f**k” appears in dialogue.

     

     So, is that one instance? Is there only one dialogue where it appears? How often is it used? I guess we won't really know until the full game is out. 

     

    Don't get me wrong, I appreciate more "mature" writing and themes. I don't mind "lore based profanity". But I recently bought Shadowrun:Dragonfall, and the (more explicit) profanity occurred so often that it was immersion breaking and annoying, and unfortunately Steam doesn't offer refunds. However, I recently learned that GOG offers refunds, so I can certainly try it out.

     

    GoG will not give you a refund because you do not like the content of the game:  This is from their website about refunds:

     

    If, within 30 days after the purchase of your game, you experience technical problems or game-breaking bugs that prevent you from finishing your game, contact our customer support. They will do their best to help you fix the problem and if, at the end of their attempts to solve the problem your game is still not working, we'll give you back your money.

     

    http://www.gog.com/support/website_help/money_back_guarantee

    Why is there no pre-load on GOG?

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    Preloading gives you a encrypted version of the game the steam client then decrypts it on release day. GOG can't do that as they don't have a client to do that kind of DRM stuff.

     

    I have often wondered what the download speed versus decrypt time tradeoff is.

    Incorrect actually.  For Witcher 2 they, GoG,  had a pre-load, then on the day of the release, you just had to download a very small file to play the game.

    I am weird

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

    Posted

    I actually never played any of the old infinity engine games.  I mean, I tried to play BG 1 back when it was new, and I was a teenager at the time.  But the constant need to pause the game during combat pretty much annoyed me.  Now I am much older, and I do not know if I will like it or not.

     

    Now here is the weird part, I still backed the game on Kickstarter, despite not knowing if I would enjoy it or not.  =D  So yeah, I took a chance on it, hoping that now that I am older that I can hopefully enjoy and appreciate the pausing combat.  What really got me to back the game is knowing that Obsidian are basically masters when it comes to story, consequences, and characters.

     

    Anyone else like me?

    Any chance for a demo on X-mas?

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    Honestly, that is just a waste of money to make a demo.  There is a lot of information about how demos are actually bad for the sales of a game, rather than being good for it.  One reason is that it is actually really hard to make an effective demo, it is easy to make a bad demo for a good game.  Another reason is that demos can give people their "fix", you would not believe how many gamers actually complete games, it is around 15% or so, a demo can give the non completing gamers their "fix" and they won't buy the game, where as they would have bought it if there was no demo.  There are other reasons, and makes for some good reading if you search on the internet.

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    Vote it up ;)

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    That was a stupid way to do voting on those games.  The vast majority of the games on that list I don't even want to play, yet I am forced to vote for 1 if I want my vote to count for the few games I want to play.

     

    1. Witcher 3

    2. Pillars of Eternity

    3. Dragon Age Inquisition

    4. Star Citizen

    5. Thief

    6. Wolfenstein New Order 

     

    The other 48 games on that list I don't even care about at all.

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