Pillars of Eternity Beta Discussion [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Bubbles]

According to his profile, his favourite game is Dragon Age 2.

 

[Duraframe300]

Another stream here: http://www.twitch.tv/aspie_lad

To those already playing: Does pressing Q perform a quicksave like in Infinity Engine games? Just curious.

No F5 is quicksave.

You can change that though.

 

[bonescraper]

Great chacacter creation, decent music, shit combat and interface. And who the fuck thought tall grass would look good in a 2d game? Would not beta again.

 

[Jezal_k23]

There sure is a lot of uninteresting dialogue in the beta. It's like a version of PS:T set in Beregost.

And there you go, the first streamer got wiped by the road beetles and rage quit.

What difficulty was he playing it in btw? Did you see?

 

[Malaphusis]

Why does this streamer feel the need to type back to chatter questions? We can HEAR HIM.

 

[Makagulfazel]

The dude with the fez is a waste of bandwidth. 2.9GBs of things I actually want coming my way.

 

[Bubbles]

What difficulty was he playing it in btw? Did you see?

Pretty sure he left it at default.

 

[Shadenuat]

Is "solid" UI with all the borders in?

 

[Duraframe300]

Is "solid" UI with all the borders in?

As I said. Not yet, apparently.

 

[Malaphusis]

The Fez Streamer is rolling a Godlike Paladin...cause we haven't watched that combo in action a thousand times over the weekend.

 

[Hegel]

12 constitution on his main tank, it's a disaster waiting to happen

 

[Duraframe300]

The Fez Streamer is rolling a Godlike Paladin...cause we haven't watched that combo in action a thousand times over the weekend.

Went Moon Godlike with Orlan Parents + Cipher. Pretty decent so far. (Not far in)

 

[Bubbles]

The Fez Streamer is rolling a Godlike Paladin...cause we haven't watched that combo in action a thousand times over the weekend.

That's why he's rolling it, because he already knows how to build it properly. Aspie Lad.

 

[Sensuki]

Nice main theme music

 

[Grotesque]

Where the FUCK is that awesome cranking and bolt reloading animation of the arbalest from the beta movies on the internet? That was the highlight

 

[poetic codex]

First impression=not good because it's the kind of system I just can't seem to like. PoE has a very passive, percentage based stat and skill system. At least Larian did something different with the cool environment/spell interactions. In this game,however, the majority of skills are passive, and stats just grant a percentage boost. Mechanics-wise, you'll be doing the same thing at level 20, that you were doing at level 5, just with a higher probability of succeeding. I need more active feats. I need more to do in combat than just watch numbers and probabilities interact.

 

[Zed]

I've already scribbled down a lot of notes, but I can't play any more now, too damn tired. I'll play a lot more tomorrow. Top of the list from just an hour of playing are these three points:

I accidentally hit some hotkey to halve the speed of the game, and the 'default speed key' doesn't work (you'll have to bind it first, too - still doesn't work). So game over if you hit that.

The state of AI and pathing makes the gameplay flow very badly. Hopefully they fix this soon so people can play it properly.

As with most game nowadays, one of my major gripes from the get-go is the camera. In this case, the zoom is useless. Have it zoomed in, and the game looks nice but feels cramped. Zoom out, and the game looks a lot worse and the characters become tiny, but you can see a much better distance in relation to the FoW.

 

[Infinitron]

First impression=not good because it's the kind of system I just can't seem to like. PoE has a very passive, percentage based stat and skill system. At least Larian did something different with the cool environment/spell interactions. In this game,however, the majority of skills are passive, and stats just grant a percentage boost. Mechanics-wise, you'll be doing the same thing at level 20, that you were doing at level 5, just with a higher probability of succeeding. I need more active feats. I need more to do in combat than just watch numbers and probabilities interact.

Funny that you say that, considering there's a large number of people on this forum who worry that PoE is TOO active.

 

[Frusciante]

I crash a lot. During char generation when selection certain options, when loading new areas, when talking to people etc. It happens in specific places. I think it has something to do with my harddisk which has been malfunctioning for a while.

 

[Abu Antar]

I am pleased.

 

[likaq]

Graphics is gorgeous.

 

[Duraframe300]

As with most game nowadays, one of my major gripes from the get-go is the camera. In this case, the zoom is useless. Have it zoomed in, and the game looks nice but feels cramped. Zoom out, and the game looks a lot worse and the characters become tiny, but you can see a much better distance in relation to the FoW.

I actually thought zoomed out looked better as zoomed in.

IMO, of course.

 

[Frusciante]

I've already scribbled down a lot of notes, but I can't play any more now, too damn tired. I'll play a lot more tomorrow. Top of the list from just an hour of playing are these three points:

I accidentally hit some hotkey to halve the speed of the game, and the 'default speed key' doesn't work (you'll have to bind it first, too - still doesn't work). So game over if you hit that.

The state of AI and pathing makes the gameplay flow very badly. Hopefully they fix this soon so people can play it properly.

As with most game nowadays, one of my major gripes from the get-go is the camera. In this case, the zoom is useless. Have it zoomed in, and the game looks nice but feels cramped. Zoom out, and the game looks a lot worse and the characters become tiny, but you can see a much better distance in relation to the FoW.

S is the hotkey for slow and speed up is something like D or A

 

[Bubbles]

One hotkey is for 50% speed, the other is for 200% speed. The hotkey for normal speed does not work.

 

[poetic codex]

Funny that you say that, considering there's a large number of people on this forum who worry that PoE is TOO active.

^Maybe they're talking about micromanagement? Yes, things can feel hectic because you have to control the party members individually and make copious use of the pause button especially against tough opponents like those beetles. But that still doesn't take away from the fact that you're interacting with just passive skills, and passive feats. How about a feat that blows enemies back? A spell that causes the ground to turn into quicksand, and then leave enemies stuck so they can become pincushions for your archers? Shapeshifting that grants entirely new abilities to your character, which disappear when he returns to his original form? Granted, I've only played for about 40 minutes, but the first impression is what counts no matter how brief.