Keep in mind the game and story will absolutely be designed around having absolutely zero knowledge of that world ahead of time.
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Eternity Avowed - Obsidian's first person action-RPG in the Pillars of Eternity setting - coming Fall 2024
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Keep in mind the game and story will absolutely be designed around having absolutely zero knowledge of that world ahead of time.
Zeriel
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The impact of particle effects I guess. It is weird though. Looking back to like Baldur's Gate, they were using the same technology under the hood to make the VFX. Actually in general I'm curious why the design direction of VFX from back then is so much more creative and unique than now. Looking at say, the Dimension Door effect from BG2, that's clearly built using particle effects or at least looks the same, but a modern iteration of that would be so much more simple and boring.
He wrote the best parts in Tyranny (Tunon, Graven Ashe, Barik, Verse and Voices of Nerat). Especially Tunon is brilliantly done.
On Deadfire he wrote Nemnok, The Guardian of Ukaizo, that dragon in Nekataka, Maia Rua and Tekehu. Tekehu was annoying, but mostly due to the romance mechanics that were buggy as fuck at launch and due to the decision to make most of the character to be playersexual.
On Forgotten Sanctum he wrote most of it. Tayn especially was very well done and Concelhaut and Bekarna were not far behind.
His role on TOW was very limited as he was quite busy with Deadfire DLCs and whatever that cancelled project was. Junlai Tenyson, Lilya Hagen and Captain MacRedd weren't badly written if you ask me. He did not write any companions for TOW.
So, hopefully he has a big role on Avowed and on Perils on Gorgon.
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You like having a literal tower of shit in your party?
rusty_shackleford
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his portrait being traced from an indian actor makes so much more sense now
Compared to the other companions in the game, yes?
rusty_shackleford
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I recall the scribe being pretty likeable.
Nifft Batuff
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Nobody noticed that the movement of the flame in the trailer is completely wrong. And it is the main thing they had to animate for this presentation.
Nifft Batuff
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It seem programmed by kids that haven't ever seen a real fire in their life. The movement of a flame on an arrow that moves at that velocity is way more hectic and turbulent.
A random search show me this. In this case the arrow is not even flying and there is just a little wind around it. Look at the flame.
A random search show me this. In this case the arrow is not even flying and there is just a little wind around it. Look at the flame.
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He's basically a subservient bitch if you play evil, which is pretty neat.
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fantadomat
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Ahhh wasn't the first game all about her?! That is retarded lol
And this is why we have the autist rating.
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Duraframe300
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Except potentially the bit about physics interacting with Magic Systems.
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Yeah, there’s that. It instantly brought the Half Life 2 gravity gun to my mind for some reason.
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Timed dialogues confirmed, aka "realtime whether system".
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Grain of salt...
- fully open world, much much larger than Skyrim (very differently “larger”, more proper word would be “denser” and “more contrasted” at the same time)
- primarily set in the The Living Lands region of Eora (not sure if it’ll go like that as explicit later on, but that was starting point)
- big focus on world-reactivity, lighting and next-gen AI systems and physics (special focus on physics with magic systems - have no clue what would that mean)
- realtime whether system (don’t have full details but fog is very important as realtime element, rivers will have specific micro physics systems regarding this)
- very advanced character creation tool (didn’t get more info)
- mod support (for now PC is/will be very dominant as creation tool, but I’ll be playable fully on Xbox)
- very large number of fractions but very different approach than with Skyrim
- you’ll be able to have companions (different than Outer Worlds)
- storyset: fight against incoming threat of tyranny (independent from previous stories)
- game has bosses planned and some of them are very very large
- Gods will have special say in the game
- great focus on iconic landmarks, statues and buildings
- two large cities planned with many smaller ones with strong focus on contrasting wild-areas, rivers, mountains and desolated areas (yes, you’ll be able to swim)
- fully respecting POE creatures lore with new additions
- dynamic presentation of dialogue
- for now idea is to keep “you can kill everyone in the game” option
- around 100 people are on the project for 2y (smaller number for 7m of preproduction), in total 2y 7m
- full production is already a thing
- team will still grow
- target date: late 2022/early 2023
Keep in mind that some parts of this can change during the development process.
- fully open world, much much larger than Skyrim (very differently “larger”, more proper word would be “denser” and “more contrasted” at the same time)
- primarily set in the The Living Lands region of Eora (not sure if it’ll go like that as explicit later on, but that was starting point)
- big focus on world-reactivity, lighting and next-gen AI systems and physics (special focus on physics with magic systems - have no clue what would that mean)
- realtime whether system (don’t have full details but fog is very important as realtime element, rivers will have specific micro physics systems regarding this)
- very advanced character creation tool (didn’t get more info)
- mod support (for now PC is/will be very dominant as creation tool, but I’ll be playable fully on Xbox)
- very large number of fractions but very different approach than with Skyrim
- you’ll be able to have companions (different than Outer Worlds)
- storyset: fight against incoming threat of tyranny (independent from previous stories)
- game has bosses planned and some of them are very very large
- Gods will have special say in the game
- great focus on iconic landmarks, statues and buildings
- two large cities planned with many smaller ones with strong focus on contrasting wild-areas, rivers, mountains and desolated areas (yes, you’ll be able to swim)
- fully respecting POE creatures lore with new additions
- dynamic presentation of dialogue
- for now idea is to keep “you can kill everyone in the game” option
- around 100 people are on the project for 2y (smaller number for 7m of preproduction), in total 2y 7m
- full production is already a thing
- team will still grow
- target date: late 2022/early 2023
Keep in mind that some parts of this can change during the development process.
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