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

Didn't you hear man? Simulation is bad design

 

Wonder if using heavy armor is a must as a warrior, id like to play like a kensai.

 

I'd think you'd be better of taking a mage class and picking martial feats than picking the warrior and picking magical feats based on the snippets released so far.

 

Kensais are not mages, they are warriors that search for a higher level of mastery with their weapons by leaving behind anything that may encumber them. They use their weapons for offense and defense, and they rely on their heightened senses and speed to make up for the lack of protection.

 

Infinitron
Gonna take advantage of your vast knowledge.

Do you know if any/all of the inxile and obsidian proyects will support new game+ or character importing.

 

Propably. Sawyer said that he would like to be able to import your characters in the sequel ala BG/Gold Box games

 

I wonder if there won't be an amazing terminology issue when the game comes out. People complain that figuring out Thac0 was confusing. Hope the tooltips are thorough and effective.

 

People had trouble figuring out thac0 because it was only explained in the manual. I doubt you'll have any sort of that trouble with this game.

 

I wonder how they will handle companions and stuff like that so as to maintain awesome "I knew them from last game"-feelings but avoid Jaheira + Minsc in cages no matter what you do.

 

I imagine they will move the second game to diferent regions of the world, so you will have the same character with diferent companions, and every game will be stand alone with a bigger arc hidden in them. Maybe i'm wrong, but since propably every NPC will be killable, i cannot imagine them trying to pul a mass effect thing. And we saw how well that ended.

 

That sucks. I hate games that reuse protagonist and themes but disposes of all central companions from game to game for convinience.

 

Can't they just have part of the cast return where it makes sense, but if they are dead in an imported save they stay dead? Even if that would leave you with slots to fill, there's always the adventurer's hall.

 

Josh has stated that you will be able to import your party into the Project Eternity sequel, rather than just the PC.

Some attribute-stuff:

No IWD style portraits though:

Probs get BG1 style instead albeit more stylized.

 

I'm not as hostile to Sawyer's ideas as some of the people here, but that really doesn't make any sense. Why would someone who's intelligent decide to become a barbarian rather than something more suited to their skills?

 

Well this isn't D&D, so the only big difference between a Barbarian and a Rogue for example is how they fight. They get the same amount of skills and all that.

A Rogue and a Barbarian could wear the same gear, have the same stats and talents and the differences between the characters would come down to class abilities and skill bonuses.

 

The "problem" is that all boils down to combat scalings in the end. Intelligent barbarian gets his calculated blows as opposed to Strong Barbarian with his brutal cleave.

 

wouldnt call it barbarian, would call it savage, and untapping the power of your body by using your own emotions isnt a bad idea, anger, hatred, fantatism, passion, they can be powerful tools when it comes to doing physical stuff. If you were born smart and are able to see it from a logical standpoint it only makes sense, especially if some kind of training is readily available.
I had a pretty smart fighter that spent a prolongued amount of with a tribe during a big conflict, he ended up becoming a sort of champion of the tribe, got his own animal totem and spiritual counceling from the shaman.

Anything can be justified by roleplaying, if you think its silly then its really you that is being too narrowminded.

 

So you larp you are very smart about anatomy and strike where it hurts more or some shit because your attacks now scale off int?

 

Isn't that quoted post up there by Sawyer?

 

The way they work or the way they are named though? You can have an inteligence stat and having it affect damage output for example

 

I think they mentioned somewhere that all the stats will have some relation to your soul, which is also what the narrative centers around.

 

Or int affects the number of active abilities you get, and have to use them intelligently while a strong dumb fighter would just smash shit with a few abilities.