Eternity Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pre-DLC Thread [GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Herald of Durance]

I quite enjoyed the encounter in Rimmergand's realm so I'm looking forward to the DLC. Still don't get why anyone would create a god like that, though. Engwithans must've been crazy.

 

[FreeKaner]

God of actual death is important for any pantheon I would say.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Pacific Rimjob Right in The Deadfire DLC

 

[fantadomat]

Adam says: The Beast of Winter DLC is set in a wintery zone, sort of like The White March..

FUCKEN-A!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111

Sawyer's return to greatness is here at last. :D

You do remember Saywer is not involved with the DLC, right?

And what if it turns out that is better than the base game?! Could Sawyer be the reason PoE2 is that bad?

 

[frajaq]

God of actual death is important for any pantheon I would say.

guy is the god of erasing the setting, some of the Engiwthans must have been really really fucked up in the head man

 

[Lacrymas]

And what if it turns out that is better than the base game?! Could Sawyer be the reason PoE2 is that bad?

He's the one responsible for most, if not all, of the incline elements. So no. PoE2 is also not bad.

 

[Abu Antar]

Deals with the gods

oh no

also say what you want about rimjobguard, at least he has the right idea (aka nuke it from orbit)

Spoiler

 

[Lacrymas]

Rymrgand is like a watered down and shittier version of Darth Nihilus, at least he had a reason to do it, however selfish it was. Rymrgand doesn't, apart from it being "his portfolio".

 

[Herald of Durance]

Do the gods have a reason to do anything or are they just "programmed" to do what they're supposed to?

 

[Shadenuat]

I think they're like bunch of broken AIs who lived too long and got extra personality quirks. Which sounds good before you meet with their writing in person.

When will we go to Lake of Drowned Tombs? Or Living Lands? Make that instead of mystical realms of mystery.

 

[fantadomat]

And what if it turns out that is better than the base game?! Could Sawyer be the reason PoE2 is that bad?

He's the one responsible for most, if not all, of the incline elements. So no. PoE2 is also not bad.

Maybe or maybe not,we don't know with certainty. Also the game is shit.

 

[Lacrymas]

The only truly shit things are the writing and ship management. Neither the combat, nor the encounters, not the itemization, nor the exploration, nor the aesthetic quality of the maps is shit. The other minor, and not so minor, gripes I have is the frequency of the loading screens due to the tiny maps, the PEN mechanic, the scaling defenses that are much more noticeable here than in PoE1, and the dungeons being tiny and not really dungeons. I'm not saying it's great, it can be much more than it is, but I expected much worse. I'm also expecting a huge dip in the quality in the last third of the game.

 

[2house2fly]

I quite enjoyed the encounter in Rimmergand's realm so I'm looking forward to the DLC. Still don't get why anyone would create a god like that, though. Engwithans must've been crazy.

My assumption is that they adapted their own pantheon

 

[Shadenuat]

The final maps of the game are basically cut content. Emptier than Fortress of Regrets.

 

[AwesomeButton]

To be fair to the game, how many great dungeons can you name in the same game, if you take the IE games? All of Icewind Dale has Severed Hand and I guess Upper Dorn's Deep as truly great dungeons. BGII had Firkaag's dungeon, Umar Hills' dungeon, the Sphere, and what else...?

 

[Shadenuat]

IWD was all ok dungeons. Valley of Shadows was ok for starting party & Dragon Eye was scary. Fuckin poison traps & Yxomenei.

BG2 had Helm's Keep. Which is better than anything PoE did yet.

And Underdork of course.

Sewers > cult of eye too was nice. About as nice as Neketaka's gulag.

 

[AwesomeButton]

IWD was all ok dungeons. Valley of Shadows was ok for starting party & Dragon Eye was scary. Fuckin poison traps & Yxomenei.

BG2 had Helm's Keep. Which is better than anything PoE did yet.

I've played IWD quite recently, so your glasses are rosey, and remind me what Helm's Keep was? I don't think there was such thing in BG2.

Mind you, I'm talking really remarkable dungeons. Dragon's Eye only gets interesting at level 5. Thrash mobs cover the way before that.

 

[Shadenuat]

I re-played IWD EE when it came out so no they aren't.

Watcher's Keep the mega dungeon with Demogorgon.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Oh, Watcher's Keep was added with ToB, so I did't count that. But yes, I remember that was good too, though I can't say I remember it for anything specific.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I re-played IWD EE when it came out so no they aren't.

I'm talking about this March-April, as I was waiting for Deadfire.

 

[Shadenuat]

What's the difference.

IWD dungeons are at least big enough for player to think about resources and feel the "depth" of dungeon adventuring.

Deadfire dungeons are just a room or two. You will spend maybe an hour or two in biggest of them all.

Concidering that the most fun way of playing Deadfire is rolling with your own SoZ party killing and looting, not having some good dungeons is sad.

 

[Darth Roxor]

The only truly shit things are the writing and ship management. Neither the combat, nor the encounters, not the itemization, nor the exploration, nor the aesthetic quality of the maps is shit. The other minor, and not so minor, gripes I have is the frequency of the loading screens due to the tiny maps, the PEN mechanic, the scaling defenses that are much more noticeable here than in PoE1, and the dungeons being tiny and not really dungeons. I'm not saying it's great, it can be much more than it is, but I expected much worse. I'm also expecting a huge dip in the quality in the last third of the game.

lacrymas's journey in this thread has come very far indeed

 

[fantadomat]

To be fair to the game, how many great dungeons can you name in the same game, if you take the IE games? All of Icewind Dale has Severed Hand and I guess Upper Dorn's Deep as truly great dungeons. BGII had Firkaag's dungeon, Umar Hills' dungeon, the Sphere, and what else...?

As you can name any dungeons in PoE2,the game have like 5 of them,the rest is just one-two rooms with enemy. BG2 had the underdark,it is far better dungeon than the whole POE2.

Lacrymas The game have a lot more shit. Only good thing about is the looks and the gulag area with its connected dungeon. How many mods do you use? If the combat is that good why don't you play it vanilla?

 

[fantadomat]

The only truly shit things are the writing and ship management. Neither the combat, nor the encounters, not the itemization, nor the exploration, nor the aesthetic quality of the maps is shit. The other minor, and not so minor, gripes I have is the frequency of the loading screens due to the tiny maps, the PEN mechanic, the scaling defenses that are much more noticeable here than in PoE1, and the dungeons being tiny and not really dungeons. I'm not saying it's great, it can be much more than it is, but I expected much worse. I'm also expecting a huge dip in the quality in the last third of the game.

lacrymas's journey in this thread has come very far indeed

But he hasn't arrived at the finis.


Review,when?

 

[Darth Roxor]

also speaking of IWD, one of my fondest RPG experiences ever is getting my barb hit by a histachii in the middle of dragon's eye 2nd level and realising that i've run out of disease cures - so i could only go forth and destroy because resting or going back would mean deff

what happened next was a frantic push forward as that fucker kept getting plinked for -1 until he finally bit the dirt right after i killed yxunomei, in a majestic display of "mission accomplished, off to valhalla"

this would never happen in a moderntard game