Infinitron Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/576122829113970689 Josh Sawyer@jesawyer area looting should be in the backer beta update btw ~* #pillarsofeternity 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morhilane Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Was that ever mentioned as a feature? 1 Azarhal, Chanter and Keeper of Truth of the Obsidian Order of Eternity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h3st Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 I'm not in the backer beta, but, sweeeeeeeeet. 1 Fnord. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voss Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Useful. Patch notes/changelog would also be useful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Brennecke Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 I don't think the area loot got into the Backer Beta build on time. But it will make it for release. The new BB is a few days old at this point (and not today's build), thus the confusion. 2 Follow me on twitter - @adam_brennecke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sensuki Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Can it be made optional? Because I really don't like it. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nonek Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Seconded, really degenerate feature that I dislike intensely. 7 Quite an experience to live in misery isn't it? That's what it is to be married with children.I've seen things you people can't even imagine. Pearly Kings glittering on the Elephant and Castle, Morris Men dancing 'til the last light of midsummer. I watched Druid fires burning in the ruins of Stonehenge, and Yorkshiremen gurning for prizes. All these things will be lost in time, like alopecia on a skinhead. Time for tiffin. Tea for the teapot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sensuki Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 (edited) I think I speak for a fair majority of the RPGCodex on this topic as well, too. Edited March 12, 2015 by Sensuki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flow Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Could you convene a meeting of RPGCodex and collectively explain what looting individual corpses adds to game play? 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinitron Posted March 12, 2015 Author Share Posted March 12, 2015 (edited) Could you convene a meeting of RPGCodex and collectively explain what looting individual corpses adds to game play? lol grognards Edited March 12, 2015 by Infinitron 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zed Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 I think area looting is good, at least as an option. I'd use it. The only thing I don't like about loot in PoE are the strong visuals, i.e. the "loot glow." I'm not particularly fond of people trying to speak on the behalf of an entire community, especially on a topic not gauged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marky Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 (edited) ^EDIT: I find loot glow annoying too. Can it be made optional? Because I really don't like it. I don't understand, how does this detract from the game? Can't you loot one enemy at a time anyway if you want to? Edited March 12, 2015 by Marky 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nonek Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 I'd just like to add that I am not a member of the esteemed RPG Codex. I simply far prefer to choose what items I pick up, avoid cursed items, assign items to my various different party members, and manage my inventory rather than have the game play itself. It also adds far more to verisimilitude. 5 Quite an experience to live in misery isn't it? That's what it is to be married with children.I've seen things you people can't even imagine. Pearly Kings glittering on the Elephant and Castle, Morris Men dancing 'til the last light of midsummer. I watched Druid fires burning in the ruins of Stonehenge, and Yorkshiremen gurning for prizes. All these things will be lost in time, like alopecia on a skinhead. Time for tiffin. Tea for the teapot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainMace Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 (edited) I simply far prefer to choose what items I pick up, avoid cursed items, assign items to my various different party members, and manage my inventory I don't quite understand how you can't do that with area looting ? I mean we're not talking about auto-looting here, are we ? Edited March 12, 2015 by CaptainMace 3 Qu'avez-vous fait de l'honneur de la patrie ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flow Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 I'd just like to add that I am not a member of the esteemed RPG Codex. I simply far prefer to choose what items I pick up, avoid cursed items, assign items to my various different party members, and manage my inventory rather than have the game play itself. It also adds far more to verisimilitude. Obviously we all want and need to manage inventory and assign gear to party members. Looting is not inventory management. One click to stash, then distribute gear from the stash. Clicking on individual corpses adds nothing to immersion for me but, hey. YMMV. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lychnidos Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 (edited) I'd just like to add that I am not a member of the esteemed RPG Codex. I simply far prefer to choose what items I pick up, avoid cursed items, assign items to my various different party members, and manage my inventory rather than have the game play itself. It also adds far more to verisimilitude. How does area looting prevent any of that? Edit: I had the tread open for some time before posting. Edited March 12, 2015 by Lychnidos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamerlane Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 I'd just like to add that I am not a member of the esteemed RPG Codex. I simply far prefer to choose what items I pick up, avoid cursed items, assign items to my various different party members, and manage my inventory rather than have the game play itself. It also adds far more to verisimilitude. Yeah, uh... are you mixing up area loot with auto loot? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nonek Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 You can distribute from the stash? I thought that was only available at campsites and the stronghold or somesuch. Quite an experience to live in misery isn't it? That's what it is to be married with children.I've seen things you people can't even imagine. Pearly Kings glittering on the Elephant and Castle, Morris Men dancing 'til the last light of midsummer. I watched Druid fires burning in the ruins of Stonehenge, and Yorkshiremen gurning for prizes. All these things will be lost in time, like alopecia on a skinhead. Time for tiffin. Tea for the teapot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bester Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 - Anything that draws PoE further away from BG2 is bad, cause less of an "IE Spiritual Successor". Different feels from the game = not ie successor.- Whenever I killed a tough party in BG2, I'd always rush to loot the dead leader, to study his loot. Then go study the mage's loot. Etc.... The whole concept is now gone, as I'll be looking at loot from lots of bodies at the same time not even knowing which body dropped what.- The area looting is slightly immersion breaking, due to it stinking of modern video games mechanisms and simply being irritating on its own.- It takes away choice, however small it may be. I don't want to deal with the loot of everyone I killed, I'm only interested in that goblin shaman's loot, for instance. 10 IE Mod for Pillars of Eternity: link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunBroSolaire Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 If it works like Wasteland 2 where you just loot the immediate surroundings and each inventory is kept separate, then I don't mind it. If you can press a button to loot everything on the battlefield at once, ehhhhh.... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Brennecke Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 We don't have any current plans to make this optional. 2 Follow me on twitter - @adam_brennecke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lephys Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Can we get confirmation that this is basically just ranged/group looting, and not insta/auto-looting? Methinks Tamerlane has the right of it, and most people seem to be protesting awfully hard against auto looting. Area looting sounds like what was in Wasteland 2. You still have to manually take what you want and leave what you don't, from each corpse, but you can loot them all within a certain radius at the same time, without having to jog to-and-fro to each corpse. The only problem with that I can fathom is if you somehow murder something across an unpassable chasm, and the loot area still lets you loot it from a distance. 4 Should we not start with some Ipelagos, or at least some Greater Ipelagos, before tackling a named Arch Ipelago? 6_u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunBroSolaire Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Are the inventories still separated in anyway, or do they just get pooled together? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinitron Posted March 12, 2015 Author Share Posted March 12, 2015 (edited) Josh Sawyer @jesawyer 51m51 minutes ago @dragon_83_ when you click on a corpse, it groups that corpse with all others within 3m. that's the only way corpse looting works now. Seems pretty clear to me. Edited March 12, 2015 by Infinitron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunBroSolaire Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 So don't keep me in suspense Infinitron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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