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This may not be true so don't take to for granted, but: 30 hours for the Main Story (critical path) by spamming through the conversations at rapid speed (i.e. skipping conversations essentially). Source: Anthony Davis from one his twitch streams. IMO: Full playthroughs will vary A LOT, but I presume you can EASILY spend 80+ hours on a single full playthrough (side quests, etc.). Keep in mind that 2/3's of the content in the game is optional content.

Woops, my bad on my part. Calculation error. Yea, 1 PM EST release. But according to Brandon, shouldn't it be 12:00 PM EST for us then? Steam says 1 PM EST?

It's Kotaku. Did you really expect them to read anything? I don't follow Kotaku at all, so I wouldn't know.

Steam says you're an hour off (as it currently says 2 days and 0 hours). 1pm Eastern Time (1000 PDT) Their off by 2 hours, 2:00 PM EST release for me (18:00 GMT?) disregard.

Will we have access to the extras after the pre-load is done (Almanac, Guidebook, Digital Prima Guide, Game Manual, etc. etc.)?

Have they even bothered to read the manual that comes with the game? They seem to not understand that there's a friggen Cyclopedia that explains the game mechanics to them, yet none of them even mentioned it. *facepalm*

Just redeemed my Backer Key on the Obsidian Portal, pre-loading now!

Yes.

Or else you will eat your shoe.

I didn't watch them, but yea most likely spoilers lol.

I was looking at some of the streamers on twitch, and I decided to pop in on this gamer chick's stream of Pillars. It was terrifyingly awful. She was blasting HER OWN MUSIC on top of the game's music. I then decided to ask her why, and she said her "audience" loves her music and told me to leave. She was also not even playing. I swear, 95% of these streamers are spending time reading donations, subscriber updates, etc. then playing the game. It's quite a disgusting cultural phenomenon that Twitch created with these "personality streamers".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBR6TOdb73g

Enemies do full damage? Traps do more damage? Do you have a source for this information? My understanding was that stat scaling like this only occurs on POTD. Easy/Normal/Hard are only differ by which particular enemies spawn. For example... Easy: Wolf Normal: 2 Wolf Hard: Wolf + Elder Wolf POTD: All of the above + some stat scaling Someone on the Codex forums checked the code. It's apparently 50% damage on easy, 75% damage on Normal, Full damage on Hard + PoD. If you want to know for sure, PM Sensuki and let me know. Well that Codexer was wrong.

They are very few legit devs these days, Obsidian is one of them. They really care about the RPG genre.

People keep saying this but who are you talking about ;p? Even if they are, who cares? The game isn't 50 gigs and you can't play it until the 26th preload or not. Why the hostility? "Most" of us here want to pre-load because we get access to the EXTRAS (Guidebook, Almanac, etc, etc.).

I hope Obsidian tweets his videos out. Free marketing.

Devs haven't been posting whatsoever today. They probably are in crunch mode for the Day 1 Patch possibly or finalizing some stuff on their end for us to get our keys.

#4 on Steam #1 on GMG #1 on GoG

its say more about game difficulty, than viability of companions. Anyway i will never agree with argument - "its ok that companions are gimped if i can finish game anyway". But if you can beat the game without significant problems then they... aren't gimped? No, they are. It just means that game is not challenging enough to punish you for their poor stats. It's funny you think the companions have "poor" stats. Almost all attribute spreads are viable, it's how the game was designed. I'm going to bet you never played the Backer Beta and never touched an IE game because you have no clue what you're talking about.

It's now #4 on the list!

First learn what sneak attacks are and what backstabs are.

its say more about game difficulty, than viability of companions. Anyway i will never agree with argument - "its ok that companions are gimped if i can finish game anyway". I completely disagree. It means you have to out of your way to make a GIMPED character. A gimped character in my eyes is someone that impedes your progress so much it's a struggle to finish the game.

Watch this if you haven't. On Hard, enemies do full damage, and there more enemies added to each encounter and some of them are "bigger" variants like an Elder Wolf instead of a Wolf. Traps do more damage. You only get 2 camping supplies.

They aren't doing that. Documentary is part of backer rewards and champion+royal edition upgrades.

Keep in mind, Josh Sawyer beat the game on Hard with only companions. So they are very viable.