Eternity Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire + DLC Thread - now with turn-based combat!

[Steezus]

I don't remember there being a young drake on POTD at the ruin where you find Aloth. Did they increase the difficulty and is it noticeable throughout the entire game?

 

[Abu Antar]

Sort of. PotD seems to be more difficult early game, with added enemies and fixed scaling. Still roflstomp everything later on.

 

[fantadomat]

It’s driven by dark comedy

Gather the sails,close the gunports,rope the cargo and bring me the Rum,a shit storm is coming!

 

[aweigh]

“White March reflected a desire to be the 1990s expansion experience - that was what they were trying to capture and I think that has a lot to do with why it was packaged the way it was. Deadfire isn’t as rooted in that as the original game was, so that leaves us a little more room with which to play.”

Actually, this text says quite a lot about what to expect. White March was meant to be an Expansion Pack, something meaty that expanded on the base game or added new assets...

Meanwhile, Deadfire DLCs will be just that: Downloadable Content, not expansions.

 

[Safav Hamon]

Obsidian keeps referring to them as "expansive DLC"

 

[Neanderthal]

Obsidian keeps referring to them as "expensive DLC"

FTFY.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Feyd Rautha]

you can grape people in this

 

[AwesomeButton]

Once again, RPG writing in a nutshell:

Whether or not we can change anything, at least we can say we were there

I find myself asking this question more and more often - "who wrote this shit?!"



There was also a possible PC response about "It's up to us to mitigate the damage" Where did xe hear that, a fucking office meeting? Who speaks like that in an RPG?

The Naga leader however was pretty good. The disparity in quality is crazy in this game's writing. Also I liked Hasongo overall.

 

[Lacrymas]

Hasongo was surprisingly decent, with a lot of ways to go through it, yeah. The disparity in quality comes from a general lack of understanding of how long "stretches" of writing work (like RPGs usually are), or an inability to write long things in general. What they do is come up with ideas and slap them here and there, naturally some ideas are better than others and that's why some things are good and some aren't. They don't, or can't, expand on these ideas, however, and they hang motionlessly in the air. Contrast KotOR2, where the whole game feeds into Kreia's ideology and works towards supporting that narrative structure. Not only is the idea of the Force being fishy a good one and absolutely supported by lore, it's not simply a side quest that goes nowhere. They could've easily had Kreia as a side NPC saying something like "I hate the Force because it makes us fight each other, go do something trivial for me" and PoE1 and 2 would've plopped out.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Very exciting, the name "Gaderian Bosc" provides us with a glimpse of what the "narrative design" masters of the quill consider dark humor.

Very witty indeed!

 

[TT1]

Well... sorry Eothas

Spoiler

 

[aweigh]

I kind of wish they would've just gone with completely new slate of companions, a la Mask of the Betrayer.

 

[fantadomat]

Well... sorry Eothas

Spoiler

Is this from the nu dlc or ?

 

[Crispy]

Awesome performance fix for the game here.

I've tried this myself, makes the game run buttery-smooth now. No threats detected in any of its files. Give it a try.

Spoiler

...something mods will fix it something something...

 

[Jezal_k23]

Wow. It even has a little message to Obsidian on how to fix the game's performance, and saying it improves Tyranny and Numenera too. Probably would improve PoE1 as well? Either way if it really triples the fps of the games then it's "mods will fix it" of the highest order. I wonder what their programmers who spent so long trying to optimize Pillars/Deadfire will think when they see this.

 

[Lady_Error]

I think you guys might have fun with this:

Press the ^ button (next to the 1 button)

Type in: Iroll20s (activates cheat mode, be careful you lose achievements)

Type in: giveitem item_misc_bathing_attire_03

Put on the new item ---> Profit (well, not exactly, but you'll see)

 

[Crispy]

Just tell us what it is.

Edit: Oh.

So ive come accross this little gem: item_misc_bathing_attire_03
press the tilde key and type iroll20s. then type, giveitem item_misc_bathing_attire_03
that will give you a chest item where you can equip it and see any and all your chars naked.

 

[TT1]

Well... sorry Eothas

Spoiler

Is this from the nu dlc or ?

Nah, I just got a list with all the assets from the game and was testing spawning some enemies with the console.

Pretty funny, actually. All previous companions are in the game and you can spawn them all. No dialogues, just empty assets for you to kill.

 

[aweigh]

TT1

can you whip up some BASHING shields? Don't know why they removed them.

 

[Bio Force Ape]

Just tell us what it is.

Edit: Oh.

So ive come accross this little gem: item_misc_bathing_attire_03
press the tilde key and type iroll20s. then type, giveitem item_misc_bathing_attire_03
that will give you a chest item where you can equip it and see any and all your chars naked.

The naked people in the bathhouse are wearing it.

 

[Shadenuat]

I played up to high levels with bashing shield (a buckler). Not great, almost no difference in damage. Larder Door from PoE1 was pretty worhless too, AFAIK.

 

[Bio Force Ape]

It was basically like dual wielding with a really shitty and slow offhand.

 

[Shadenuat]

God I hate dual wielding = double damage in modern RPGs. Weapons for left hand should be restricted to light things like daggers with unique status effects like in Wizardry games. (and even in them DW sometimes is super good)

 

[Rinslin Merwind]

God I hate dual wielding = double damage in modern RPGs. Weapons for left hand should be restricted to light things like daggers with unique status effects like in Wizardry games. (and even in them DW sometimes is super good)

If we speaking about more realistic approach - in most cases off-hand weapon was used to parry attack and only in rare cases you can actually hit your opponent (it's simply not handy to trying reach enemy with dagger in the middle of sword fight, you need to wait a moment). My apologies in advance, but system where even not enchanted daggers give status effects, while remain passive though combat, sounds equal unrealistic to system, where wielding two heavy ass swords give more damage. There should be a parry system then.