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

Muskets are steampunk now? Nice to learn that my great grandfather was a hardcore steampunk.

 

Let the retards and biodrones rail against the lack of romances. This is our game. They can't ruin it for us this time.

 

RUINED! RUUUUUUUUUUUUINED I TELL YOU!

 

Brennecke's gaining development weight, damn shame.

 

I love Adam. He's such a total goofball. He's like "WHADDAP PLAYA PLAYAS!!!" And then he realized like 2 seconds in that that's not who he really is and that he's more the quiet type of guy and his whole demeanor changes.

Also his hat reminds me of this guy:

 

This game is goddamn beautiful.

 

I'm actually working pretty hard and family has been keeping me SUPER busy. I just have had some time TODAY to pop on between compiles and merge resolutions.

 

What is up with the pixels on the window panes? Pixels are missing where there should be pixels and vice versa. Did you cut out the window panes for the dynamic lighting with the magic wand tool in photoshop? Other than that, everything looks great. Welll deserved brofists to the PoE tech guys.



Now show us some good gameplay, you assholes. That E3 demo better be good.

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Thats a bit racist...

 

https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/471719748179615744

Yesssssssssssssss.

 

Well, animancy does seem pretty 'steampunk' if you're willing to stretch the definition to include anachronistic but 'mundane' technology doing fantastical things.

 

"Elfpunk"

God, I hate this world.

 

Hmm, not sure I like this faux-realistic approach. In IE games you chose weapons based on their cool magical special abilities, likewise for armor, for the most part. Trying to add to that too much mundane modifiers into it just muddles that up in a likely not very interesting, RPS way, and those rules have quite little to do with real combat either.

 

It seems like each character will be carrying 2-4 weapons that they will switch between during battles as you pick one that works best for the current encounter.

Seems like a nice upgrade on IE where you found your super weapon and just used it exclusively.

 

I did switch to fire-damage weapons when fighting trolls, or a weapon with disruption properties for fighting undead. So IE did allow for contextual swapping of weapons to some degree.

 

True dat. I've always wanted to use maces and polearms, but if it wasn't for classes that specialized in them, very few games made them viable.

 

If you're just switching the weapon for best damage, but doing the same routine regardless of your weapon, it's pointless. Just busywork of calculating the best DPS for a situation and switching to that.

The problem with 2ed D&D was that the proficiencies forced you to exclusively use a single type of weapon per character, so you couldn't do much switching unless you happened to have several good weapons of the same type, which did happen but not quite enough. But the different magic weapons, at least in BG2, were very varied and interesting. Whether a weapon granted you defensive bonuses, superb damage, spellcasting bonus, stunning attacks, etc., was definitely more interesting than "good vs X type of armor". It is after all a game predominantly about magic so why not focus on that.

Now, I don't have a problem with having different mundane weapons be different... But they should vary by something else than dps vs. different targets, cause that doesn't affect your fighting style, but just the length of a fight.