Game News Pillars of Eternity II Fig Update #4: Xoti Joins the Party!

[Zed]

Tags: Obsidian Entertainment; Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

The Deadfire train keeps on chuggin', and with Infinitron gone, you're stuck with me writing all of these exciting updates. Anyhow, with the 7th companion (Xoti – is that pronounced koti, soti or ksoti? Josh Sawyer, please re-activate your Codex account and answer in this thread) stretch-goal being hit at $1.8M, Obsidian has readied yet another stretch goal. I think it's their best one yet!

Here are the details.

At $2.2M, NPCs (that's non-companion NPCs) will be given watercolor portraits courtesy of Obsidian artist Matt Hansen.

Very nice! The new stretch-goal also includes a customizable user interface, and yet another game translation: Italian-o! Eeeeey!

As for the UI customization, this is what the update says:

Second, we would like to add a highly requested feature, UI Customization. Inspired by the mod community from Pillars of Eternity, we would like to add in the option to customize the position of UI elements, toggle pieces of the UI on and off, adjust HUD transparency, and much more.​

Inspired by the mod community Codex user Bester! High praise! Grats man!

Look forward to the next update on returning companions coming tomorrow, penned by Carrie Patel! (Actually tonight, but it's not official until we post it, and we must sleep).

 

[a bear named spigot]

The Deadfire train keeps on chuggin', and with Infinitron gone, you're stuck with me writing all of these exciting updates.

I'm okay with you not writing these updates either

 

[Major_Blackhart]

They should, for portraits, just use a high resolution of the face you choose. Face changes expression based on actions at the moment.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Italian

 

[Turok]

Really!!??, i am the only one that this stretch goals sux?

 

[Major_Blackhart]

No. I tend to agree as well. The issue is that for a small amount of money (in the long term) you are potentially promising huge game changing choices and additions. The time value of money comes into play here. They may be too far into development for some things to be done, and to go back would cost far more than that goal would have brought them.
What they could do is partially implement some things already, or make them easily implementable, that way they can hold off until an expansion if necessary.

Sub classes? Doesn't necessarily change the game a lot, just character development and some quest options / dialog choices. Other things can be HUGE deals on coding, design, etc.

I'm not big overall on some of these options. Sub classes seem like the next step in class design: specializing or cross specialization: a fighter who can do some self buffing like a wizard, etc.

 

[Zorba the Hutt]

Italian

Was just thinking that... new companion and Italian translation



Top timing

 

[The Great Deceiver]

These portraits remind me of the King of the Dragon Pass.

 

[duanth123]

Really!!??, i am the only one that this stretch goals sux?

A higher level cap as a stretch goal was pretty cynical. Kinda shoots the impression that this is a BG2 style leap in the foot from a marketing perspective.

And I'm guessing there will be another level cap increase towards the end of funding period from 18-20.

And lol at whoever hoped there wouldn't be xaurips.

You never heard of ocean xaurips, son?

Are they really going to leave all those models unused?

 

[Sannom]

And lol at whoever hoped there wouldn't be xaurips.

You never heard of ocean xaurips, son?

There were Xaurips in the launch trailer, even!

 

[Roguey]

I'm okay with you not writing these updates either

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[Pentagon]

I really dig the watercolor artwork!

 

[Invictus]

So what happended to Infinitron?

 

[l3loodAngel]

You never heard of ocean xaurips, son?

No papa, I did not. Please tell me more about xaurips. Are they like "Heinz ketchup", do they come in 57 varieties I mean?

 

[Fenix]

(Xoti – is that pronounced koti, soti or ksoti? Josh Sawyer, please re-activate your Codex account and answer in this thread)

Zoti? Like Xena - Zena/Zina lol, exactly like one Russian name pupular in old days, now usually associated with image of monumental fat woman.

What a wonderful sjw-holiday! Negro-woman, asian guy, something of blue color with horns, and an old white guy! Like all white man just stopped to procreate, and now only gaffers have remained.

These portraits remind me of the King of the Dragon Pass.

Yeah, with only exception I pointed above.

 

[oldmanpaco]

At $2.2M, NPCs (that's non-companion NPCs) will be given watercolor portraits courtesy of Obsidian artist Matt Hansen.

This might not seem like much but that BGT mod that adds portraits to dozens of npc's is really pretty cool.