Eternity Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire + DLC Thread - now with turn-based combat!

[fantadomat]

I don't know what toasters you are running, but I haven't had any crashes.

It is not about the pc mate,the game just have hard time finding its own data. Most of my crashes were when i hit f9 to reload,then the game couldn't find X file and died. Also decent amount of the bugs are still in the game,still some of them were fixed. In the end the game is dead and shitty.

 

[Joni Odin von Hassenstein]

I didn't have any crashes until today, where whenever I try to leave the Hall of the Unseen the game crashes.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I don't know what toasters you are running, but I haven't had any crashes.

It is not about the pc mate,the game just have hard time finding its own data. Most of my crashes were when i hit f9 to reload,then the game couldn't find X file and died. Also decent amount of the bugs are still in the game,still some of them were fixed. In the end the game is dead and shitty.

Piracy is wrong.

 

[Lacrymas]

What's insane is that there are other loading screens in the game files. There are Pillars 1-style non-isometric renderings of Tikawara, Poko Kahara, Queen's Berth and the Gullet, maybe others I've forgotten. Plus one new one for each DLC, that you only get in the DLC areas. Why don't they use these loading screens that they already have?!

Can they be modded in?

 

[MajorMace]

Those who claim Deadfire's loading times are bad have clearly repressed their memories of

No they haven't.
PoE1 had absolutely insufferable loading times. That doesn't affect the reality of deadfire's loading times, which are indeed super long and get on the player's nerves pretty quickly (especially since there is a lot of back and forth in this game).
I have no memory of how long or short the loading times were in IE games back then, but obviously playing them today - either vanilla, modded or EE versions - represents a much better experience on that aspect alone (on top of a lot of other things) since they're instant.
And thing with deadfire is, I have little hope that the rig can help that in the long run, as in I don't believe our super gaming rigs in 5 years will make these loading times any shorter. So it's there to stay.

As for crashes and game-breaking bugs, I don't have any either. I do still encounter broken scripts, which is annoying.

 

[Orma]

Ok, killed Belranga on first try with my current party.
Not having eder for a tank definitely helps.

No casualties (or knockdowns) other than an antelope pet companion, which actually died to the paralyze + scream combo.

Was thinking of reloading but it just woke up a couple minutes after the battle ended, ranger magic I guess.

Spoiler

EZ

 

[Lacrymas]

I have little hope that the rig can help that in the long run, as in I don't believe our super gaming rigs in 5 years will make these loading times any shorter. So it's there to stay.

If we get a lot of RAM in 5 years, we can set up RAMDisks and the loading times will probably be almost instant, but that doesn't excuse the atrocious loading times now, nor are RAMdisks a particularly common and widely-known thing.

 

[Safav Hamon]

These are all six loading screens in the game files

Spoiler

 

[Lacrymas]

They are actually pretty cool, they remind me a bit of Myst.

 

[2house2fly]

Got a new graphics card for my toaster, I can now play Deadfire at 1080p with maxed out graphics and get around 30fps. For a laugh I installed Warframe, a Destinylike co-op shooter with flashy hi-res graphics, which I can also play at 1080p with maxed out graphics and get around 30fps. I don't know if Warframe is optimised insanely well or Deadfire insanely badly, but I know which I'd bet on

 

[MajorMace]

I remember trying Warframe out back in 2013 or something. It ran super smoothly back then, to the point that I was pleasantly surprised as it was some little fps from an obscure studio.
It's a well-optimised game, I think the relative narrowness of the level design helps (although it must have changed since then, the version I played was a beta or something).
On the other hand, deadfire is not well optimised. Summons making the framerate stutter - or freeze - make me lose my hair. I'm not into techs so maybe it's the poor ass opensource engine they used that causes this though. Obsidian programming has never been on point anyway, so I wouldn't be surprised if they fucked up a little on top of the engine choice.
So I'd say both, 2house2fly.

 

[Mazisky]

Both Pillars are unoptimized and run like a mess on most powerful rigs. They are good games and they look cool, but costant frame drops are so annoying.

 

[FreeKaner]

The frame drops after summoning a creature is the most annoying of them all.

 

[fantadomat]

The frame drops after summoning a creature is the most annoying of them all.

Summoning is for cucks,backstab it until it bleeds away!

 

[TT1]

These are all six loading screens in the game files

Spoiler

Well, they are never used. This is for sure.

 

[2house2fly]

I recall Sawyer saying there was some argument about loading screens on the team. He wanted to have a bunch of loading screens like this https://i.imgur.com/68evL9a.jpg?1

The idea being that more comic images illustrating game mechanics would be fun and draw people in. If you're glad there aren't a ton of loading screens like that then thank the collaborative development process for overruling the project director

 

[MajorMace]

Terrible choice. Xaurips have good dexterity, targetting their reflex is a poor idea.

 

[Yosharian]

Got a new graphics card for my toaster, I can now play Deadfire at 1080p with maxed out graphics and get around 30fps. For a laugh I installed Warframe, a Destinylike co-op shooter with flashy hi-res graphics, which I can also play at 1080p with maxed out graphics and get around 30fps. I don't know if Warframe is optimised insanely well or Deadfire insanely badly, but I know which I'd bet on

I have a reasonably fast i7 and a 1080TI, and I get frame drops down to 45 FPS in Neketaka. I assure you it's Deadfire that's badly optimized.

 

[Sabotin]

The fancy lighting does take a lot of resources, so does ssao (but for minimal effect), I think it could have been optimised better, too. Specially when you turn lighting on/off and compare, you can notice that sometimes it is very aliased on contrasting edges and even pixely. I'm guessing that's where most of AA work goes and why it can't be turned off normally. Another thing they could do is to cut off some area at the edges of the map. Specially the ship boarding ones, why would you need 100m sea extra around the ships, the number of characters murders my fps good enough already.

By the way, I'm not sure how these things actually work, but how come after loading into a new area the games is max fps and low gpu usage for like 10s and only after that it maxes gpu and drops to "normal" fps? Does it render some stuff while loading or is there something in the background that turn on only after a while?

 

[AwesomeButton]

TT1 how can loading screens be modded in?

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

The most effective FPS optimization is to ditch Xoti's lantern.

 

[AwesomeButton]

One of the most effective narrative optimizations is to ditch companions entirely. But Xoti is one of the worst.

 

[Grunker]

The only technical issue in my game is what I think is a memory leak (?). After playing for 3-4 hours I get low FPS, fixed on restart.

Besides that I've had maybe one crash.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I've kept the game running for 5-6 hours at a time, alt-tabbing to do other stuff and going back in. No problems or slowdowns.

i7 4790k / GTX 780 / 8GB DDR4 Edit: oh yeah, on SSD.

 

[Grunker]

^ i7 / GTX 980 /16 gigs DDR4 (and SSD obviously). So I think it's just some software related thingymagick