Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity [BETA RELEASED, GO TO THE NEW THREAD]

[Sensuki]

Ahh now the Grunker LoL whiteknighting makes sense, he has it in his task bar.

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Why am I not surprised that Grunker would play the most casual Moba. :p

 

[Grunker]

 

[Spectacle]

Josh Sawyer's desktop as of yesterday:
Things of interest: 091913 public playtest--define "public"? That's too early for the game journalist thing, possibly a demonstration for the team at Obsidian.

That's D&D Next, I have the same folder on my desktop. So not Obsidian business, unless they're secretly working on a D&D CRPG.
(And in that case he'd probably have the latest internal playtest, not the public one)

 

[Excidium]

Josh Sawyer's desktop as of yesterday:
Things of interest: 091913 public playtest--define "public"? That's too early for the game journalist thing, possibly a demonstration for the team at Obsidian.

That's D&D Next, I have the same folder on my desktop. So not Obsidian business, unless they're secretly working on a D&D CRPG.
(And in that case he'd probably have the latest internal playtest, not the public one)

2slow

WMP is also there, and who uses that?

I do

http://mpc-hc.org/

thank me later

Fixed.

 

[Sensuki]

That korean player is also good. Forget the name.

 

[Irxy]

Nothing wrong with IE, hating it is just a habit from IE 6.0 era when it was easy to bloat it with malware if you are stupid.

 

[PlanHex]

WMP is also there, and who uses that?

I do

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

thank me later

I dunno man, heard the library features aren't the best atm and I mostly use it for music.

 

[Zed]

foobar for music, vlc for video, notepad for notes, pornhub for porn, photoshop for image editing, reddit for animal pics, windows 7 64bit for OS, nintendo 3ds for console, firefox for browser, bit-hdtv for movie torrents, roxbox for metal torrents, obscure russian malware-infested websites for 60s70s music torrents, flashback for swedish news, rpg codex for everything else

it's that ez man

 

[Space Satan]

F:NV didn't support interjections because of the first-person dialogue system that F3 used. PoE already supports interjection and banter.
E: Also, F:NV's companions averaged 591 nodes of dialogue, which is on-par with KotOR2, MotB, BG2, etc.

 

[Roguey]

on-par with... BG2

Like the thing I was talking about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Infinitron]

on-par with... BG2

Like the thing I was talking about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What, the statement that the amount of text in BG2 is on par with modern console RPGs? Not really - "number of nodes" isn't the same thing as the sheer amount of verbiage within each node.

 

[Roguey]

What, the statement that the amount of text in BG2 is on par with modern console RPGs? Not really - "number of nodes" isn't the same thing as the sheer amount of verbiage within each node.

It was in response to

I do recall enjoying the companion quests in FO:NV however my only gripe would be that once you had helped them to resolve their issue that was their interaction pretty much over, Presumably the PoE NPCs not being voice acted will have a bit more to say about everything? Including interjections and ideally disagreements with either your course of action or other NPC interjections?

Plus most characters in BG2 were not Jan Jansen. They even had

Each of the dialogue nodes (dialogue piece) spoken by an NPC should be limited to two lines. Only in VERY RARE circumstances are more than two used.

as a rule.

 

[Infinitron]

Plus most characters in BG2 were not Jan Jansen. They even had

Each of the dialogue nodes (dialogue piece) spoken by an NPC should be limited to two lines. Only in VERY RARE circumstances are more than two used.

as a rule.

Well, judging by the freakout over "word counts" in ToB I suspect they violated that rule frequently in the base game

 

[Roguey]

Well, judging by the freakout over "word counts" in ToB I suspect they violated that rule frequently in the base game

That's not dialogue. That's in-line with what I said about where the majority of text in BG is.

 

[PlanHex]

foobar for music, vlc for video, notepad for notes, pornhub for porn, photoshop for image editing, reddit for animal pics, windows 7 64bit for OS, nintendo 3ds for console, firefox for browser, bit-hdtv for movie torrents, roxbox for metal torrents, obscure russian malware-infested websites for 60s70s music torrents, flashback for swedish news, rpg codex for everything else

it's that ez man

foobar looks pretty good.
thanks!

 

[Sensuki]

foobar2000 is the best music player, has been for 10+ years.

 

[Goegoff]

SA forums seem to be temporarily open for stalking viewing:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3506352&userid=17931

 

[Infinitron]

SA forums seem to be temporarily open for stalking viewing:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3506352&userid=17931

That's the old thread.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3593502&userid=17931

 

[tuluse]

On how fighters play:

Fighters can knock dudes on their asses, both individually and, at higher levels, in groups. Also they can act like big sheets of burly flypaper and catch scrubs who try to rush by them. Their disengagement attacks are gnarly, they constantly regenerate Stamina, they convert a percentage of Grazes to Hits (this was modified from their earlier Confident Aim ability), they can shield nearby allies, and they get weapon specialization. The specialization damage bonus isn't as flashy as using a paladin's Flames of Devotion, but they gain the damage benefit with every hit forever. They're designed to be reliable, efficient, and nigh-indestructible. They're not the guys you pick to have a single shining moment in the sun before they explode and collapse, but I think they are great characters. Then again, I loved playing a warden in 4E, so I'm biased toward "slow burn" defender types.

I think they should consider changing the name of the fighter class. For one, fighter is a dumb class name, all classes fight. For two, it makes people think it will play like a dnd fighter, and it doesn't. Something like defender or knight or brawler would communicate what the class's role is better.

 

[Infinitron]

On how fighters play:

Fighters can knock dudes on their asses, both individually and, at higher levels, in groups. Also they can act like big sheets of burly flypaper and catch scrubs who try to rush by them. Their disengagement attacks are gnarly, they constantly regenerate Stamina, they convert a percentage of Grazes to Hits (this was modified from their earlier Confident Aim ability), they can shield nearby allies, and they get weapon specialization. The specialization damage bonus isn't as flashy as using a paladin's Flames of Devotion, but they gain the damage benefit with every hit forever. They're designed to be reliable, efficient, and nigh-indestructible. They're not the guys you pick to have a single shining moment in the sun before they explode and collapse, but I think they are great characters. Then again, I loved playing a warden in 4E, so I'm biased toward "slow burn" defender types.

I think they should consider changing the name of the fighter class. For one, fighter is a dumb class name, all classes fight. For two, it makes people think it will play like a dnd fighter, and it doesn't. Something like defender or knight or brawler would communicate what the class's role is better.

That shit is old http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...we-need-an-update.75947/page-993#post-3000965

 

[tuluse]

Heh, I forgot reading that.

But still I added my valuable commentary

 

[hiver]

On how fighters play:

Fighters can knock dudes on their asses, both individually and, at higher levels, in groups. Also they can act like big sheets of burly flypaper and catch scrubs who try to rush by them. Their disengagement attacks are gnarly, they constantly regenerate Stamina, they convert a percentage of Grazes to Hits (this was modified from their earlier Confident Aim ability), they can shield nearby allies, and they get weapon specialization. The specialization damage bonus isn't as flashy as using a paladin's Flames of Devotion, but they gain the damage benefit with every hit forever. They're designed to be reliable, efficient, and nigh-indestructible. They're not the guys you pick to have a single shining moment in the sun before they explode and collapse, but I think they are great characters. Then again, I loved playing a warden in 4E, so I'm biased toward "slow burn" defender types.

I think they should consider changing the name of the fighter class. For one, fighter is a dumb class name, all classes fight. For two, it makes people think it will play like a dnd fighter, and it doesn't. Something like defender or knight or brawler would communicate what the class's role is better.

Soldier.

 

[PlanHex]

On how fighters play:

Fighters can knock dudes on their asses, both individually and, at higher levels, in groups. Also they can act like big sheets of burly flypaper and catch scrubs who try to rush by them. Their disengagement attacks are gnarly, they constantly regenerate Stamina, they convert a percentage of Grazes to Hits (this was modified from their earlier Confident Aim ability), they can shield nearby allies, and they get weapon specialization. The specialization damage bonus isn't as flashy as using a paladin's Flames of Devotion, but they gain the damage benefit with every hit forever. They're designed to be reliable, efficient, and nigh-indestructible. They're not the guys you pick to have a single shining moment in the sun before they explode and collapse, but I think they are great characters. Then again, I loved playing a warden in 4E, so I'm biased toward "slow burn" defender types.

I think they should consider changing the name of the fighter class. For one, fighter is a dumb class name, all classes fight. For two, it makes people think it will play like a dnd fighter, and it doesn't. Something like defender or knight or brawler would communicate what the class's role is better.

Soldier.

Edér is a soldier by profession, but his class is rogue, so that's a no go.

Besides, the reason the names are mostly DnD stuff is probably all about keeping the 'feel' of IE games, like Josh talked about in that recent presentation.

 

[tuluse]

Edér is a soldier by profession, but his class is rogue, so that's a no go.

Besides, the reason the names are mostly DnD stuff is probably all about keeping the 'feel' of IE games, like Josh talked about in that recent presentation.

If you have a fighter that doesn't play like a fighter it doesn't keep the feel. Saying "there's no more fighter class, but here try these other classes instead" would be more honest.