Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity [BETA RELEASED, GO TO THE NEW THREAD]

[garren]

Where is my gameplay video??

Yes I am butthurt

 

[LeJosh]

BAdler says shut up about it, after talking about it in the update.

Less spoilers and more polish for us - the filthy public - that is their reasoning. Apparently.

"Look for a video that shows some non-spoiler, polished gameplay sometime in the next couple of months."

 

[Zed]

I *think* it's Polina's. I didn't like her Earth Godlike portraits either, but I think this one is slightly better than those. It's weird because her portrait of Kana Rua is quite good.

It had nothing to with quality, but perspective and presentation of facial features.

BAdler says shut up about it, after talking about it in the update.

Less spoilers and more polish for us - the filthy public - that is their reasoning. Apparently.

"Look for a video that shows some non-spoiler, polished gameplay sometime in the next couple of months."

Maybe they never managed to fix floating feet.

 

[J_C]

I think it is just concept art, not an ingame icon.

Also, I would hit her.

 

[SCO]

I think they said near the beginning that there would be no mod tools.

Someone at Obsidian said they would try to expose as much data as possible in human readable files, so modders could make changes that way.

A pity that is not the 'correct' way to have composable modding (tables, tables everywhere).

 

[Suicidal]

Too white and oversexualized.

Needs more

Get with the times Obsidian!

 

[Sensuki]

I *think* it's Polina's. I didn't like her Earth Godlike portraits either, but I think this one is slightly better than those. It's weird because her portrait of Kana Rua is quite good.

It had nothing to with quality, but perspective and presentation of facial features.

Doing a profile style shot is weird, I agree. I don't mind the style for the most part although some of the sections of the portrait appear a bit blurry, in the hair and armor/cape, which is weird to me. But that just might be the jpeg compression.

 

[Sensuki]

The portrait was done by a contract artist:

The portrait was done by an artist we hired and not by our in-house team.

 

[Sensuki]

Josh replying in the thread. Some people asked some blatantly obvious questions so I won't bother quoting those. Here's a good one:

Carnage doesn't use special animations, just the standard attacks. It would be too expensive to animate special Carnage variants for all weapon types. The number of enemies that can be affected by Carnage depends on how close together they are and how high the barbarian's Int is. Carnage hits can cause Interrupts, yes. However, because barbarians have a lower base Accuracy than other melee classes, and Interrupt chance is influenced by Grazes and Crits, they will tend to cause Interrupts less often per hit compared to a fighter, rogue, or paladin with equivalent gear/attributes/level.

 

[Infinitron]

The number of enemies that can be affected by Carnage depends on how close together they are and how high the barbarian's Int is.

Dat gamism

 

[Excidium]

That's what you get for naming stats in a way that pleases 'tarded IE fans. It's not "gamism"

 

[Sensuki]

Well previously that would have been Resolve

I really don't care what the stats are called, just the numbers behind them.

 

[ZagorTeNej]

Sensuki, did they say how many portraits will be just for player use (not that of an NPC) and will NPC portraits be available for PC at all?

 

[Zed]

I *think* it's Polina's. I didn't like her Earth Godlike portraits either, but I think this one is slightly better than those. It's weird because her portrait of Kana Rua is quite good.

It had nothing to with quality, but perspective and presentation of facial features.

Doing a profile style shot is weird, I agree. I don't mind the style for the most part although some of the sections of the portrait appear a bit blurry, in the hair and armor/cape, which is weird to me. But that just might be the jpeg compression.

At this size, portraits can be a bit blurry.

This is the portrait resized to the "big in-game portrait" size (210x330):

I don't really perceive any blur at this size.

And this is the smaller portrait.

or maybe

 

[Jedi Exile]

Too white and oversexualized.

Needs more

Get with the times Obsidian!

 

[Sensuki]

We do not currently have "style" specializations, but it's something we'd like to do if there's time. If so, it would be implemented as a Talent that a variety of characters could take. Shields don't inherently have special abilities beyond boosting the wielder's Deflection and slowing their overall weapon attack rate.

I don't know if this has been changed from minus accuracy to minus action speed

 

[Excidium]

Why do they make the black chicks ugly? Thinly veiled racism

 

[Visperas]

Why do they make the black chicks ugly? Thinly veiled racism

You're racist and Rihana is beautiful.

 

[Athelas]

That Bioware character isn't ugly so much as she's wearing what looks like the wallpaper of my parents' bedroom.
Also, DAT COLLAR and DEM SHOULDERPADS.

Obsidian is clearly more progressive than Bioware since they don't let Pallegina conceal her afro.

 

[Sensuki]

Btw there's now 15 Fighter abilities listed on the wiki:

http://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/Fighter

but I think the max abilities a character can have is 14 (3 at 1st level, one every level thereafter, max level 12).

One of them may have been cut, or there's actually more than 15 to choose from maybe?

 

[Sensuki]

Dandy Hat of the Diseased Yak was created by this guy: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/member.php?u=7059

 

[coffeetable]

Too white and oversexualized.

Needs more

Get with the times Obsidian!

they dont look anything alike

 

[Jaesun]

Have they shown any art for any of the Paladin class/npc's? Just curious. May have missed that.

 

[norolim]

It will be very difficult to make an offensive fighter with those abilities. I don't like.

 

[Sensuki]

Have they shown any art for any of the Paladin class/npc's? Just curious. May have missed that.

http://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/1/1b/PalleginaPortrait.jpg

Pallegina. Female Godlike Hylea Paladin. Written by Josh Sawyer

http://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/Paladin