Patch 1.3.8.0.87535 is live!

[benzado]

On 3/26/2025 at 1:03 PM, cstanick said:

Steam Linux users: support is now live and will be maintained in future patches.

Can you clarify whether this means the GOG Linux build will or won't be updated? Currently, the GOG Windows and Mac versions are up-to-date but the GOG Linux version is 3.07.0.1318 (from around 2018).

I actually play the GOG Linux version on my Steam Deck and I was thrilled to learn about an update after all this time! But now I'm wondering if I have to choose between playing the old version or buying another copy of the same game on Steam.

[Chiatroll]

I was just getting back to this game after finished avowed because I wanted to see the world details again since it has been so long. No I'm considering waiting on the turn based but this year is quite the range of time.

[Elric Galad]

On 3/26/2025 at 6:03 PM, cstanick said:

• Constant Recovery now scales properly and outperforms Veteran's Recovery, as intended.

Just in case someone wondered :

Constant Recovery is now   5+1.5 per 3 level per tick (checked in game + in file)

Rapid Recovery still adds     2+0.6 per 3 level per tick (unchanged)

Veteran Recovery is still     3+1 per 3 level per tick (unchanged)

Edited Friday at 05:54 AM by Elric Galad

[AlexanderHendry]

Have you added controller support to the PC yet? I'm disabled and can't play at a desk!

[Obsidianware]

This is amazing, great excuse to go back to Pillars!

But will we ever get controller support? A lot of us have PC's plugged into TV's these days.

[kobrakai]

Is all of this PC only? Or is it for all the platforms?

[OneBgBdArtemis]

So does this mean I can actually pick up where I left off after 55 hours of play time and the achievements, which dictated a certain play style, will now work?

A la craft x amount of x or gather ALL party members NOT tracking because I turned my console off.

I'd love to finish this game. Been sitting for years

PoE2 was stellar and after completing Avowed with 127 hours in It, absolutely brilliant, I'd really like to finish PoE

[Warkot]

Have the Xbox cumulative achievements been fixed as well? 

[benzado]

On 3/27/2025 at 4:08 PM, benzado said:

Can you clarify whether this means the GOG Linux build will or won't be updated? Currently, the GOG Windows and Mac versions are up-to-date but the GOG Linux version is 3.07.0.1318 (from around 2018).

Looks like all I needed was a little patience. The GOG Linux version is now 3.8.0.87535 also! 

[Phenomenum]

I'm taking a risk of ban, but... This is a set-up for the next game?

[thelee]

On 3/26/2025 at 10:52 AM, thelee said:

I've been talking/begging about this since 2016, even added it as a begging section to my gamefaqs guide. I will literally re-install PoE1 just to take a look at this. With the last patch in 2024 I promised a hand-written letter of effusive praise if the devs got around to fixing this as well, and now I have it on this week's todo list to go out and buy some stationary. thankyousomuchomg

oh man, it was a bit of a journey trying to decipher posts and notes I wrote nine (!!) years ago, but i can confirm that the trap accuracy bug is in fact fixed. it feels so good to get this fixed, almost a bit in disbelief that it finally happened - i have an entire section of my old gamefaqs guide that i need to delete.

as promised, a hand-written letter is on its way to the irvine offices. thanks so much

 

[Phenomenum]

1 hour ago, thelee said:

oh man, it was a bit of a journey trying to decipher posts and notes I wrote nine (!!) years ago, but i can confirm that the trap accuracy bug is in fact fixed. it feels so good to get this fixed, almost a bit in disbelief that it finally happened - i have an entire section of my old gamefaqs guide that i need to delete.

as promised, a hand-written letter is on its way to the irvine offices. thanks so much

 

Wow, man... It was definitely worth waiting 10 years for 

[Boeroer]

5 hours ago, Phenomenum said:

I'm taking a risk of ban, but... This is a set-up for the next game?

Those are weekdays in Eld-Aedyran:

https://pillarsofeternity.fandom.com/wiki/Anni_Iroccio#Days 

[Boeroer]

4 hours ago, thelee said:

[Phenomenum]

1 hour ago, Boeroer said:

Those are weekdays in Eld-Aedyran:

Emmm. You're missing the point)

1. Added

<GenderNeutralText />

2. Turn-Based Combat.

So, i think, we can see Pillars of Eternity 3. More than that, a'm sure: because BG3 has hurt a Josh's ego.

And i'm sure, Josh haven't said it all yet about Pillars. 

Edited Saturday at 10:29 PM by Phenomenum

[thelee]

2 hours ago, Boeroer said:

Something is effed up between my iPhone camera -> Google photos -> my gaming PC man, I spent way too much time just trying to not having it on its side (no matter what I did it would end up on left orientation or right orientation, never vertical). I had to do a mix of resizing and file format changes to obliterate whatever metadata was getting confused about photo orientation.

I guess I’ll post a bigger one but at least it’s a proof for now in case my letter gets lost in the corporate mailbox

Edited Saturday at 11:43 PM by thelee

[thelee]

5 hours ago, Phenomenum said:

Wow, man... It was definitely worth waiting 10 years for 

The best time for the fix was in 2016. The second best time is now

[Boeroer]

2 hours ago, Phenomenum said:

Emmm. You're missing the point)

1. Added

<GenderNeutralText />

2. Turn-Based Combat.

So, i think, we can see Pillars of Eternity 3. More than that, a'm sure: because BG3 has hurt a Josh's ego.

And i'm sure, Josh haven't said it all yet about Pillars. 

I do not follow. What's the exact reasoning?

Adding GenderNeutralText tags to an XML file and adding Turn Based Mode to PoE is a hint for PoE3?

 

[Boeroer]

1 hour ago, thelee said:

Something is effed up between my iPhone camera -> Google photos -> my gaming PC man, I spent way too much time just trying to not having it on its side (no matter what I did it would end up on left orientation or right orientation, never vertical). I had to do a mix of resizing and file format changes to obliterate whatever metadata was getting confused about photo orientation.

I guess I’ll post a bigger one but at least it’s a proof for now in case my letter gets lost in the corporate mailbox

Yeah your mistakes began with "iPhone".

[Kvellen]

3 hours ago, Phenomenum said:

Emmm. You're missing the point)

1. Added

<GenderNeutralText />

2. Turn-Based Combat.

So, i think, we can see Pillars of Eternity 3. More than that, a'm sure: because BG3 has hurt a Josh's ego. 

And i'm sure, Josh haven't said it all yet about Pillars. 

To be fair I was staring at that previous post for quite a while before I saw anything that looked different. No one outside of modders is really all too familiar with stringtable entry structures I guess 

It is an interesting find! Though searching through the files there are no instances of the populated <GenderNeutralText> . So perhaps part of an initial set up for the option that'll be patched in alongside the Turn-based mode? Or maybe just something the OEITools puts into the .stringtable files now as a result of updates to the tools made to account for the option in Avowed.

Edited Sunday at 01:23 AM by Kvellen

[Boeroer]

Iirc those tags are used in Deadfire, aren't they?

I assume some (inhouse?) tool might add those tags nowadays which it didn't back in the old PoE days - and since they didn't patch PoE for a very long time it might be that the updated tool just automatically added those in the scope of the newest patch?

[Kvellen]

3 hours ago, Boeroer said:

Iirc those tags are used in Deadfire, aren't they?

Deadfire only has <DefaultText /> and <FemaleText /> entries in all it's .stringtable files. Which are used for reactivity to the player's choice of gender in character in creation.

Interestingly there is a "Neuter" gender in both Pillars of Eternity games. But is only ever used by creatures and maybe the occasional npc. It isn't implemented to be applicable to player characters from what I have seen.

3 hours ago, Boeroer said:

I assume some (inhouse?) tool might add those tags nowadays which it didn't back in the old PoE days - and since they didn't patch PoE for a very long time it might be that the updated tool just automatically added those in the scope of the newest patch?

That would be my own assumption as well. Most likely the result of a more recent addition made to OEI Tools (the internal tool used by Obsidian) for use in Avowed, Outer Worlds 2, and future Obsidian games. And not really indicative of any specific plans for a Pillars games.

Edited Sunday at 11:43 AM by Kvellen

[Boeroer]

5 hours ago, Kvellen said:

That would be my own assumption as well. Most likely the result of a more recent addition made to OEI Tools (the internal tool used by Obsidian) for use in Avowed, Outer Worlds 2, and future Obsidian games. And not really indicative of any specific plans for a Pillars games.

Yes, something like that.

Of course I would be very happy if that's not what happened and we'll get PoE3.

[gregory.sobrio]

Thank you very much, this is incredible! Will the turn based mode be on console also? 

[Chaospread]

13 hours ago, Boeroer said:

Yes, something like that.

Of course I would be very happy if that's not what happened and we'll get PoE3.

Yeah, the sum of all that is: "let us dream"