Wbino Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 I refuse to hit TAB. I refuse to hit TAB. I refuse to hit TAB. (Trying to convince myself.....) Gaming is interactive...watching TV ..not so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantousent Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 No, it's not cheating! Come... to the dark side! Seriously, how does pixel hunting prove any prowess? Now, if hitting tab made all your foes fall dead, *that* would be cheating. <.< EDIT: Even rhetorical questions use a question mark, don't they? 14 Fionavar's Holliday Wishes to all members of our online community: Happy Holidays Join the revelry at the Obsidian Plays channel:Obsidian Plays Remembering tarna, Phosphor, Metadigital, and Visceris. Drink mead heartily in the halls of Valhalla, my friends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungri Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 How are you going to find the tiny loot spots? Tab isnt cheating. However maybe all blue loot containers should be automatically highlighted while you are searching and nearby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryy Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Tab is cheating like knowing the map layout in COD is cheating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt516 Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Nah. Tab lets you get around a "gamey" thing, which is that some items are interactable and some aren't. This has no "real-world" equivalent other than not wasting time looking at all the completely non-interesting stuff. Think of Tab as asking the DM "I glance around me for anything of interest - do I see anything?". The game *does* have a mechanic for finding hidden things in Scouting mode. And there's plenty of hidden stuff. All the stuff you can find with Tab was put there for "free", as it were. All this is moot if you find pixel-hunting more fun. It IS a single-player game, after all. Play how you want. :D 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takamorisan Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Good luck doing certain quests, those items are located in the least expected place if you don't highlight it :v Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wulfburk Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Even with tab i miss ****, imagine without it *hic* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukenin Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Hitting TaB is very retro. Nowadays people just hit Coke Zero or Pepsi Max or some such. It's not cheating unless you're a pro gamer going against a Diet Dew sponsorship contract or some such, especially while livestreaming your Let's Play Pillars of Eternity—Five Chanters and a Priest rehearsal. Hit all the TaB you want within moderation. The game don't care. Drink responsibly. Don't forget to vote. Just say no to mugs, unless they are mugs of TaB. 2 --/\/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryy Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Also, the obvious: Hitting Tab is cheating if that name is short for Tabitha and she is not your wife. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungri Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Hitting women should never be encouraged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryy Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 That, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungri Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Unless she's into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avantre Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 I mapped it to my mouse's side buttons so I could casually tap it with my thumb as I'm moving around - I'd have wasted so much time mousing over crates that weren't actually loot boxes without it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantousent Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Now, if they put in a player 'pet' who went around picking up loot for him, that would be pretty cheesy. I'd rail against it. I would use. ...But I'd rail against it. 2 Fionavar's Holliday Wishes to all members of our online community: Happy Holidays Join the revelry at the Obsidian Plays channel:Obsidian Plays Remembering tarna, Phosphor, Metadigital, and Visceris. Drink mead heartily in the halls of Valhalla, my friends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukenin Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 I believe you can just drag the Area loot slider all the way to the right until it says "Eora". Then you need only loot once. I could be wrong. 2 --/\/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curryinahurry Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Hitting Tab isn't cheating since the game has 'Scouting Objects' which are the real hidden objects that people can scour the map for is they really want to loot every item possible. Pixel hunting is just plain silly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungri Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Now, if they put in a player 'pet' who went around picking up loot for him, that would be pretty cheesy. I'd rail against it. I would use. ...But I'd rail against it. You know the Guans Pledge is pure PTW right? ... You sell it to Haegan for 1537 copper along with the 750c dissapointer, and by the time you get to the first town you can buy 5 level 2 adventurers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorkboy Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 (edited) Cheating? Who cares, as long as it's optional? I tend to forget to use it, because I enjoy "pixel hunting" more. Edited April 1, 2015 by dorkboy This statement is false. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukenin Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Now, if they put in a player 'pet' who went around picking up loot for him, that would be pretty cheesy. I'd rail against it. I would use. ...But I'd rail against it. You know the Guans Pledge is pure PTW right? ... You sell it to Haegan for 1537 copper along with the 750c dissapointer, and by the time you get to the first town you can buy 5 level 2 adventurers. Why, I could roll out a gun choir of rogues! --/\/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceribaen Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 I mapped it to my mouse's side buttons so I could casually tap it with my thumb as I'm moving around - I'd have wasted so much time mousing over crates that weren't actually loot boxes without it. I actually just remapped Tab to the interactable toggle. That way I just have to hit it once per play session and not worry about missing anything obvious or having to hold down a button as I run around. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerwyn Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 I'm with the person that said that TAB highlighting could be removed if there was a stat or system that allowed you to passively highlight nearby loot containers (something like the NWN/DnD "spot" skill). Either way, feels like just a commodity to get around a limitation inherent to videogames, and not really cheating. The really hidden loot containers/doors do require you to scout nearby to be able to find them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Messier-31 Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 1 It would be of small avail to talk of magic in the air... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sephie Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 I don't think so. Scouting reveals secrets and traps, look at tab as a manual easier way to look at interesting things around you, as easy as looking around. Although I guess if that applied it should've been reduced to your vision range and not being able to highlight things accross the map :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barakav Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 (edited) Yes it is CHEATING! you should restart the game every time you are doing it.... Edited April 1, 2015 by barakav 3 An ex-biophysicist but currently Studying Schwarzschild singularities' black holes' Hawking radiation using LAZORS and hypersonic sound wave models. My main objective is to use my results to take over the world! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apolloooo Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 it's a function for normal people that isn't masochist pixel hunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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