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

Alright, fess up, which one of you fuckers spawned this alt?

 

Hey bro, no need to offend me, I'm just curious as to what one of the lead developers of Project Eternity sexual orientation is, I'm not trying to offend anyone here..

 

Am I the only one who has got tired of Project Eternity?

 

Well, I've lowered my rather large pledge to something more reasonable, given the cooldown reveal. I've played and enjoyed games with cooldown systems, but it was not what I was expecting from this project. If they clarify it and explain it in a way that isn't idiotic, perhaps I'll raise the pledge. Cooldowns could work, as long as they're not ridiculously short. If they work over a long-term period of time, I could see it used effectively to eliminate Rest-spamming while at the same time keeping combat meaningful and tactical. It would eliminate dungeon-wide management of spells which would be a negative, but it would still keep individual battles meaningful. It wouldn't be perfect.

Still, I wonder why they don't want to use a form of Vancian magic? I mean, it's not entirely true that it's not used at all nowadays. Hell, Dark Souls, a sequel to an MP based game, actually used something similar to a Vancian system (Each spell gets limited uses. You cannot recover them without resting at a check-point, which also respawns all monsters) and it sold rather well. They can make it work in a modern system. They can make it work even if it's not exactly like the Vancian systems of old.

 

No.

 

Trying too hard, etc.

 

No, nothing, zip, nada, ei vittu mitään.

 

Yes.

We're going by on one miserable little quote by Feargus and Sawyer's (admittedly retarded) reasonings on SA.

Edit: to be fair, that's probably the thing that pisses me off in a bad way, Sawyer catering to those dumbfucks at something awful.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if that was mostly due to the lack of a $15 dollar tier. The lowest tier right now is $25, so you can pretty much expect less pledges but more money per pledge.

 

No, you are the one trying to hard, all I did was ask a question and I was expecting an answer, you are trying to portray me as a troll, just because you are obviously mad about something

 

You are suggestion functionally the same thing as level scaling. The point is that it makes leveling pointless and exploration trivial (encounters will be your level, not walkover or impossible).

BG2 was OK because it concerned very few encounters.

What you're suggesting is almost as bad as normal level-scaling.

 

He is not gay.

 

Thanks man, that's all I wanted to know.

 

What difference would've it made?

 

Talking to yourself?

Yes, I think your avatar is offensive.

 

Maybe nothing, I dunno, I'm just curious, we will see it when the game gets released I guess..

 

I just had a vision of people in the Obsidian office giggling like schoolgirls at the codex's reaction.
Any chance that slipping "cooldowns" and "level-scaling" was to troll?

 

It's still a mechanic that mostly limits player freedom does little else.

Again; this was never a problem before. Level-scaling fixes a problem that doesn't exist. Why? Tell me the fuck why?

 

Level scaling and cool downs in PE now? Funding withdrawn. I'm not paying Obsidian to remake Dragon Age. Fuck those losers.

 

So that if you visit a dungeon or area tuned for a certain level when you're a higher level, you don't steamroll the place. Obviously there needs to be some kind of believable range but this is the idea.

If anything it's meant to give you more freedom, so that you can visit areas in a less strict order in order to retain challenge. At least this is the way I see it.

The "tuned for a certain level" is what a lot of games lose when they go full retard.