Preview Pillars of Eternity II Fig Update #39: Josh Sawyer Social Media Feature Compilation #3

[Infinitron]

Tags: Josh Sawyer; Katrina Garsten; Obsidian Entertainment; Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

Obsidian's latest Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Fig update is another feature demonstration video, this time including features from Josh Sawyer's social media feeds as well as a few never-before-seen ones from Obsidian's internal blogs. The main highlight is the introduction of various types of throwable grenades (hi Divinity!). Other new features include dancing & puking NPCs and Josh Sawyer's animancy cat. Here's the video, introduced as usual by Katrina Garsten:

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No creepy Josh cameo this time, but in the next update he'll be giving an in-depth explanation of Deadfire's multiclassing and subclassing systems, including gameplay footage.

 

[l3loodAngel]

If sesame doesn't have the super power to "make game developers great again" I don't care. Btw does this game pay homage to JS cat? If that's the case I am happy.

 

[Jedi Exile]

I want my undead black cat from PoE back.

 

[garren]

:incloosive:

 

[Iskramor]

Its mindbogling on what shit they are wasting time and resources becasue reasons thats why....

 

[Ocelot570]

It's amazing how Obsidian is way better at resource managing than inXile... InXile produced shit with torment after millions of dollars and four years. Obsidian is already kicking their ass after little more than a year and I believe less money.

 

[skyst]

Its mindbogling on what shit they are wasting time and resources becasue reasons thats why....

You don't get preorders with tweets about bug fixes and balances.

Whether or not you get preorders with tweets about animated cats is another discussion.

 

[Iskramor]

Its mindbogling on what shit they are wasting time and resources becasue reasons thats why....

You don't get preorders with tweets about bug fixes and balances.

Whether or not you get preorders with tweets about animated cats is another discussion.

Pls elaborate

 

[Infinitron]

It's amazing how Obsidian is way better at resource managing than inXile... InXile produced shit with torment after millions of dollars and four years. Obsidian is already kicking their ass after little more than a year and I believe less money.

They are better, but for this game they already had a working engine from PoE1 to start with.

 

[Ulfhednar]

It's amazing how Obsidian is way better at resource managing than inXile... InXile produced shit with torment after millions of dollars and four years. Obsidian is already kicking their ass after little more than a year and I believe less money.

They are better, but for this game they already had a working engine from PoE1 to start with.

So did InXile for T:ToN...

 

[Junmarko]

Btw, has anyone received their fundraiser rewards yet? Spoke to Crooked Bee a few weeks a go, and gave him my Obsidian account name. Still nothing on their end...

 

[Iznaliu]

It's amazing how Obsidian is way better at resource managing than inXile... InXile produced shit with torment after millions of dollars and four years. Obsidian is already kicking their ass after little more than a year and I believe less money.

Fargo fucked up Interplay, so it's no shock that he fucks up InXile.

 

[Jaesun]

Fargo fucked up Interplay, so it's no shock that he fucks up InXile.

How did he fuck up Interplay exactly?

 

[Kasparov]

They are better, but for this game they already had a working engine from PoE1 to start with.

So did InXile for T:ToN...

Not really. Wasteland was 3D while they went the pre-rendered backgrounds way with TToN. Unless they made a deal with Obsidian and got both dialogue/quest designer and graphics shaders, they had to write those themselves.

Combat was different as well - that Crisis system was supposed to be a big innovative part of the game - while Pillars is refining an existing system.

 

[Excidium II]

That girl would be really nice if she gained some.

 

[Junmarko]

Combat was differwnt as well - that crisis system was supposed to be a big innovative part of the game.

What was there, was pretty good. Shame they gave up on a full execution of it. Was nice too see a game throwing non-combat tactics at you.

 

[Kasparov]

Combat was differwnt as well - that crisis system was supposed to be a big innovative part of the game.

What was there, was pretty good. Shame they gave up on a full execution of it. Was nice too see a game throwing non-combat tactics at you.

You mean the TToN Crisis encounters? Or the system on paper?

In-game I think it wasn´t sustainable when you had more than four or five enemies. Similar to good ol´ Fallout I and II - it can be fun in small encounters, but with seven muties and fifteen neutral citizens it was no longer fun.

 

[Junmarko]

You mean the TToN Crisis encounters? Or the system on paper?

In-game I think it wasn´t sustainable when you had more than four or five enemies. Similar to good ol´ Fallout I and II - it can be fun in small encounters, but with seven muties and fifteen neutral citizens it was no longer fun.

Well, both. I did enjoy the encounters - the minuscule amount of them. It was fun knowing the game was going to dish out something completely random each time.

But it did feel like it never left the conceptual phase. No one on that team could agree on one approach and the whole game suffered because of it. Wasteland 2 was better because at least it knew exactly what it wanted to focus on.

 

[Prime Junta]

Not really. Wasteland was 3D while they went the pre-rendered backgrounds way with TToN. Unless they made a deal with Obsidian and got both dialogue/quest designer and graphics shaders, they had to write those themselves.

Um, I thought that's exactly what they did.

 

[Kasparov]

Well they advertised Obsidian´s tool, but I didn´t hear anything about the art and graphics shaders being shared.

But combat in TToN - promising as a concept, not up to par in execution. I mean I do know how much work it is to tailor make one such encounter (I see it every day when I walk into the writers´ room), but still. Everyone´s a critic, aren´t they :D

 

[Junmarko]

I mean I do know how much work it is to tailor make one such encounter (I see it every day when I walk into the writers´ room), but still.

A bit different when the guy designing them "quits". Or whatever happened there with Saunders. Shame.

 

[Kasparov]

I mean I do know how much work it is to tailor make one such encounter (I see it every day when I walk into the writers´ room), but still.

A bit different when the guy designing them "quits". Or whatever happened there with Saunders. Shame.

Sure. If it was his baby, then that makes sense.

 

[Bohrain]

It's amazing how Obsidian is way better at resource managing than inXile... InXile produced shit with torment after millions of dollars and four years. Obsidian is already kicking their ass after little more than a year and I believe less money.

Obsidian have had less stuff to do from scratch and I think that their staff is in one physical location, which should make organizing their work far more simple.

 

[aweigh]

TToN's failings were not related to mechanics.

it was the awful writing.