Pillars of Eternity Beta Discussion [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

I'll PM you your new signature come March 26. I think it'll reflect your fanboyism of some other things...

 

I can hardly wait.

 

No need to worry that auto loot will cover the whole map. I'm sure it just covers a certain radius around the body you clicked, because that's how it was done every time I've seen that implemented. Whole map would be too extreme. Would be kinda dumb too.

 

Um...Could be Matt Barton. Maybe.

"...you don't want to pick up every piece of trash from a map..."

MB Confirmed!

Zep--

 

I liked how WL2 did it. All the lootable objects nearby got listed, but they were separate.

 

Although I think there will be a seperate loot option, I don't know why Sensuki is against area looting. You don't lose anything with being able to see the loot of several nearby creature.

 

- Idk about Sensuki, but for me anything that draws PoE further away from BG2 is bad.
- Whenever I killed a tough party in BG2, I'd always rush to loot the dead leader, to study his loot. Then go study the mage's loot. Etc.... The whole concept is now gone.
- The area looting mechanism stinks of modern video games and is therefore immersion breaking.
- It takes away choice, however small it may be. I don't want to deal with the loot of everyone I killed, I'm only interested in that goblin shaman's loot, for instance.

 

Got it. Well I always looted everybody anyway, so this just saves me some time. If something is no value to me, I just don't pick it up, regardless if I found it on a boss or a smaller creature.

 

What could be worse than being a plant?

 

Look at the bright side - most of the BB community will be able to try it out and vocally denounce it as a shit mechanic. I hope we convince them to cut it out from the final game.

So, any guesses on what's the next step? I'm thinking about auto pickpocket radius. I mean why not, saves you the trouble of walking up to NPCs, right.

 

I have few "grognardy" requests, and an individual looting system would be one of them, but area looting isn't, in any way, shape, or form, something bad.

Seriously, what's the issue? I'm going to be a little annoyed if they remove completely the individual looting system and don't let it stay as an option, but area loot the only thing it does is making looting quicker by not making you go from corpse to corpse.

 

Being Lord Carlos Wafflebum?

 

Personally, I get a feeling of reward when looting freshly killed corpses. And they are taking that away now.

 

The majority will prefer area looting. We may be able to mod it out, as we keep all of the code from previous versions. Bester has the right to be the most angry though as he is the guy that will have to change it back.

 

lol

 

BTW Area loot did not make it into the BB

 

Ask him if it allows you to loot bodies individually if you want to.

 

Hm. Thanks for info. I guess, as a new feature, it will be full of bugs. So we can still try to propose possible changes even after release...

 

Did it right now. Bester You can start thinking about that sig for me.

 

If you want optional area loot, *maaaybe* there's a chance we can force it to be optional - http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/70923-area-looting-confirmed/

 

you guys think it's fun to loot individual bodies, but no... no it's not.

 

For me it's basically just an ease of life feature that does no harm whatsoever. I have no real attachment to the feeling of looting each body individually.

 

This was one of the greatest features of Jagged Alliance 2.

Number of people/containers I individually looted in JA2: Fucking zero (though you do have to open the containers first).

 

Well it was a useful option but I rarely used it. For me it was like: I killed a group, I looted them. Then I killed another group, I looted them. I haven't waited with the looting until I killed everybody on the map and looting everything at the same time.