Mashiki

This was one of the things I liked the most, and there are several other games that do that option just as well via stealth mechanics. i.e. skipping enemies and finding secret paths and all that.

Well any IE game aoe damage spells hit your party as well, they're always a situational cast. I have three grimoires now for my wizard and switch between targeted use and a aoe-only grimoire, then I have a dibilitator and controller grimoire as well.

Most spells have an aoe effect, I think if you're in the front line you're getting healing splash-over to the enemy.

So you're saying that because they show the fan radius it's not as dangerous. I disagree with that assessment though, but that's fine.

Yep, they're called Wichts.

In my book it should be OP'd, it's one of those highly difficult spells to use and very situational. The chance of FF is very high using it as well, and the chance of the enemy negating part or all of the damage is also good.

Far as I know it's impossible. Maybe one of the devs could chime in.

Well giving them what they want solves the problem pretty easily. I like grenades. I just happen to give it to them, sans pin, and neatly stored in their pocket.

Some people just want to be the bad guy. I once played fallout as an evil, self-driven person bent on only their personal desire to get what they want and then killed people when their usefulness was at an end.

Well my stash isn't overly full, I did have a lot of crap in there at one point but sold it all. It seems that some items persist in merchant stores, in turn that creates bloat in the save game which in turn causes the save time and loads to increase. When I started my saves were ~1-2MB they're ~13MB now, and it seems that the game is loading a lot of game data into locallow as well. http://i.imgur.com/sxMvouI.png

Well, let's be honest shall we? These people aren't the audience, they most likely don't own the game, they didn't back the game. They're throwing a hissyfit because someone told them to in most cases. They're perpetually offended, they then go out of their way to threaten, attack, and try to drown out the opinions, thoughts, feelings, and stances on it under the guise of various 'isms' while attempting to claim the moral high ground. Of course when you look at what they actually say, you see that they're ideologically bankrupt, believe that there are no bad targets, and have zero problems pushing their ideology onto someone else while claiming to be "open, inclusive," and all that. In short, you could call them intellectual terrorists. Or if that rankles you too much, simply use bigots and be done with it. Myself? I'm tired of them trying to insert their perpetually offended ideology into the things I enjoy. It of course gets worse when you start getting into issues relating to sexuality, and then you see them for the neo-puritans that they are. Then you quickly realize that the previous actions are all linked back to that puritanism.

Peh. Trusting Kotaku on something is like trusting World Weekly News for factual information.

Yep it's working perfectly Thanks BAdler, there's quite a few people happy over on the steam forums over it now too.

Still not able to see the achievement list, I am using the beta client though. Though achievements are now working at least on my end.

Well I'm now getting some achievements. I was on Act 2 for about 3 hours and then suddenly "act 1 completed" kicked over. Still can't view the individual achievements though without it redirecting.

I'll just go ahead and call that wrong now. Since I have nearly 300 games on my library and a good number of them were bought from sites like GMG a couple of others like D:OS and W2 were also given keys like PoE. Going to your library and profile doesn't work either, something got screwed in the pooch somewhere. I got the kickstarter badge, nothing else, nothing tracks except hours played, got 4 cards for my effort but that's it.

I *should* be in bed, I should be sleeping. Still playing since 1pm...we've got ourselves a winner guys. I have a feeling that this is going to go down as one of those classic games that everyone loves.

I wasn't in the backer beta, and the creation date is for today. So either there's something wrong with PoE and it's creation settings, or there's a conflict against the UAC in Win8 and it's being forced to locallow. Don't mind the imgur link, it's faster than waiting for the forums right now. http://i.imgur.com/nUmIvWe.png

FYI on Windows 8 saves are located: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Obsidian Entertainment\Pillars of Eternity\CurrentGame

The version listed on steam is 1.0.2.0508

Ah one of those folks who don't read books, and requires their entertainment to be in very small doses with lots of bangs, explosions, and more explosions. Almost shocking right?

FYI for those that don't know, how the stolen and sold to resellers bit works. What happens is someone makes a copy of the key manifest at a legit site, then sells it through a channel to the other site. This means that two or more people are then given the same key, and one person gets screwed. Usually keys are provided in .xls format, so I'm sure you can see how easy it would be for someone to copy it. Especially if the person in question is manually input them into some other sites database. Believe it or not, some sites actually do use people to enter keys manually still. Interestingly enough though, there are a few sites that buy legally in bulk retail boxed copies and input the keys into their database. I believe Green Man Gaming has done this in the past, and I know nuuvum(Brazilian e-store retailer) does as well. And for a site to order say...3k-10k boxed copies they get a substantial bulk discount, so I'm sure people can see how some sites are able to offer a discount even on release day.

Why does it go up and down like some sort of sinusoidal function? I didn't see that anyone explained why, but if you notice the date/time it corresponds to when people are online/not at work/etc in various regions of the world.

Looking at the usual CD-key trade sites, they're hammering fast on the price. I can see two sites offering "gifting and regional UK/RU" keys for $11 already. As a backer, I'd like Obsidian to get their moneys worth from those that didn't back.

Your internet connection is ridiculous, buddy; there I was all happy with my 45 minute preload :D I was thinking the same thing, I'm in Canada and I'm still stuck waiting 30 minutes for the preload. Not like it really matters or anything, since I can't play it but I'll tell ya...I wouldn't mind having internet that fast.