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Doubt it, that's not really how they use the beta branch.

Shame, a Unbroken/Monk build using 8m disengagements might have been quite fun

On Steam at least it, and the two White March DLCs, at 40% at the moment. If you want to play Deadfire but have heard it's currently buggy and untuned and you haven't yet played PoE why not take advantage of this deal? That might explain the upturn in sales.

The original argument was that continuing the Watcher's story was an obstacle to new players who hadn't played PoE but, for some reason, the same doesn't apply to the Witcher 3. No one (as far as I understand it) is saying one can't enjoy the Witcher 3 without having played the previous two; they're trying to find out why flamesium thinks it's different for Deadfire.

At least he has big hands. That's gotta count for something right?

The world isn't ready for a Dwarf Companion. I know it's sad, but it's true. Sexy humanoid spider romances on the other hand: Shadow of War has shown we're not only ready, we need them!

Oh good point, the party size has dropped to five. Yeah perhaps. I have no idea what the actual most powerful combination would be. The game's so easy at the moment and there are so many broken combinations that it would be next to impossible to compare.

Wake up you, wake up! Come on! We've got to get out of here!

You need to kill Thaos again to save your White March decisions. The game does actually save after killing him, but it's a hidden save.

Six Fighter/Monks using Mob Stance and Swift Flurry or similar.

Same. So much of the voice acting in BG and (especially) BG2 is stuck in my head (in a good way). If "Ah, the child of bhaal has awoken" doesn't immediately start a sequence of lines in your head in Irenicus's voice then you didn't play BG2 enough (or I played it too much perhaps).

At the moment only Gift from the Machine and Effigies Resentment talents are transferred over, and in those cases you only regain them some time down the main quest.

I thought that went without saying.

BG and BG2 had them when travelling between maps. In BG2 there were a couple that led to actual content (slavers and harpers iirc) but the rest were just pointless distractions. EDIT: a reminder: "you have been waylaid by enemies and must defend yourself".

Should be fine. PotD takes a bit of getting used to - suddenly you miss and graze a lot more, and you need to delay some quests/encounters* - but it isn't that hard, and your party looks fine. Just take it slowly and be willing to reload to avoid some quests/encounters and you'll be fine. Once you hit the mid-late game it becomes easier anyway, and only the hardest fights really pose a challenge. Monk's are a fun class to play as long as you don't mind a bit of micro. The advantage of PotD is that you'll build up wounds more quickly (since enemies will tend to do more damage) so will be able to spam your abilities more often. *The one that I always think of is the two Forest Lurkers near the Shrine of Galawain in Black Meadow. On Hard I can beat this fairly easily regardless of my character. On PotD it can be quite hard if you go early depending on your class.

You didn't refer to the other people in this thread as simians. You're not Edwin.

That's sold somewhere else I believe (in Neketaka, though I can't remember exactly where).

That'd be cool, although the way dispositions work for Paladins and Priests would probably have to be changed quite a bit to make it work. I feel like the system was just overused in Deadfire. So often you have five or six options in a conversation, of which only one isn't tagged with a disposition (so if you're trying to role-play a certain way you're often forced to pick up dispositions) and so many NPCs react to your dispositions multiple times in conversations.

Well of course and it'll be bisexual, or more precisely it doesn't see gender (see Spindle Man). It'll also be the first time the romance won't be optional as the companion will read your mind and see that you are attracted to it regardless of what your character actually says. Won't this reduce player agency you ask? No, of course no, who wouldn't be attracted to a hot, sexy Vithrack?

Do quarterstaffs and pikes cause engagement? The Ogre summons don't unless you force them to get closer to their target (they have reach essentially). Given that, and the description of Instruments of Pain, I'd assume they remain melee but engagement requires you to be withing standard melee range.

Agreed. Obsidian did the right thing in making Twinned Arrow an active ability, but they should at least double the bond cost, if not triple it, to make it balanced

Boeroer = Serafen confirmed?

Not sure what shops sell them, but you can find a unique Pollaxe in the Old City dungeon in Neketaka and a soulbound one southwest of Takenaka (exact coordinates are 37'21" South 55'30" East). But yes, a lot of weapons are severely lacking unique options whereas some have loads (there are something like nine unique sabres and only one unique club). Obsidian have acknowledged this and said they'll try to change it in the three planned DLCs.

Indeed.

There's a conversation early in the game (I think when recruiting Xoti) where you're forced to choose between two conversation options, both of which have disposition tags (iirc honest or clever). I'm sure there are more out there, I just noticed this one because I started a new play through last night. This really annoys: what if I don't want to develop a reputation for honesty or being a smart alec? There should always be at least one disposition free option available. As far as I remember there always was in PoE. As far as I remember this was never the case in PoE, but I always felt it should be. How can I have a reputation for being honest and being a liar (PoE1), or being both kind and cruel?