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

When Sawyer talks about spiking damage, he is referring to burst damage ie. in the post above (which I think is an old quote from around about the narrative update).

edit: btw just realized we are actually talking about the same thing. I missed one of your posts.

highest single-target, single-hit damage I believe comes from their 'flanking' bonus, which just means that another character has to be engaging the target. The Rogue can use this bonus via a melee weapon or a range weapon within a certain range (I think they use in game metres?).

 

It's actually a new post on SA. (if you mean my post)

 

Ah so it is. It's mostly just a repeat of previously stated information bunched all together (examples of diff rogue weapon builds, druids flaming sword, fighters and shields, companion writing later on).

 

Yesssssssssss.

What a scrub. It can be a toothless area if you have high sneak, dozens of rad-x and radaway, and EMP grenades to handle the boss's turrets. As always it's great to see that Josh doesn't care about making some people miserable.

 

Never used auto-pause myself. Pointless lol. Manual all the way.

Still, I can see why people like it, requires less attention.

 

That's not how IE rounds work, is it? IE seems to counts "rounds" for each individual character. If I attack a second later than my opponent, it doesn't delay my actual attacks by 5 seconds, it just means I'm acting behind my opponent.

 

I think from what youve been telling me that this is what they have in mind


light weapon/light armor class with lots of "distract" and "dont hit me" kind of skills, very high damage output that falls appart the moment the enemy is facing them, skill based and fun to play, probably at a slower pace on the game, but the basic idea.

 

I never found that an issue *shrug*. Then again I played on 40 FPS.

 

That's not how it works. A spellcaster will begin the casting of a spell exactly when you tell her to, except if she is still affected by spell delay. A fighter will attack the second you ask him to as well, as long as he isn't in a round where he just did it. It doesn't start some sort of "round counter" when you attack and then you don't get to attack if you don't input commands before the next round starts. At least, that's the behaviour I recall. I could be wrong.

 

Nope, you are right. initiative does count tho, it dictates when your first round starts as soon as you enter in battle mode.

 

Firstly, I'm not arguing for or against pseudo-rounds (I don't see much difference, honestly), I just wanted to point out an error. Secondly, I'm pretty sure switching targets works. Say a warrior has two attacks in a round. You tell him to attack someone. Before he starts the second attack you switch targets. I believe he will attempt the second attack against the new target. Again, I'm not sure though.

 

Personally I only used auto-pause at the start of combat.

 

Only used it on traps, them fools like to move over them a lot... (and I still couldn't memorizes trap locations )

 

Start of Combat
Trap Sighted
Weapon Unusable

Stuff like that, for me. I used it more to become aware of something (like a trap) than to trade for my own space-presses.

 

Oh God, I forgot how much I hated traps in the IE engine.

 

I had like every auto-pause option on. Just wait for the game to pause -> do something awesome.

 

I've asked Sawyer about the damage spike/burst confusion on formspring. let's see if he answers.

 

It's not confusing, but okay.

Sawyer very active today.

Here are some topics for discussion, Codex - benefit for using 1H weapons?

I would also like to know if the ability to wield 1H weapons like a Longsword two handed will be in. Probably not but we'll see.

 

Its not that its confusing, its that we dont know if he knows that we think he got it wrong, ergo hes going to ask if he knows what he knows so that we confirm wether he knows or doesnt know.
you know?

 

Since Anthony Davis is now going back to Obsidian, should he retroactively be given the advertising plant tag for this thread?

 

I love how upset Sawyer makes himself over making what I'm pretty sure is the most simulationist approach to armor in any major crpg to date. But as long as he can repeat to himself over and over again "DT and movement limitations have nothing to do with making sense, just fun, just fun, just fun" he'll be fine.