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tuluse

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Arkeus said:
Pretty much, yes. RWTP presupposes not having queues, as pause is used in order to react to new threats and challenges, and queues are basically "you can predict what's going to happen and nothing is threatening you".
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Go play Total War and tell me this again.
 
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tuluse said:
Arkeus said:
Pretty much, yes. RWTP presupposes not having queues, as pause is used in order to react to new threats and challenges, and queues are basically "you can predict what's going to happen and nothing is threatening you".
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Go play Total War and tell me this again.
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wat?

Anyway, the funny thing is that it looks like the main reason lots of these people want queues is to make it easier to chain attacks without accidentally wasting unnecessary time in between them. In other words, their queue will probably never have more than two things in it.

Thing is, PoE's optional ATB meter feature already gives you this. You'll always know exactly when you can bring in your next attack. Or maybe the game can even let you implicitly "queue" one single attack during the recovery time of the previous one. The IE games basically already did this if you chose to do something during the downtime of your six second round.
 
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Infinitron said:
wat?

Anyway, the funny thing is that it looks like the main reason lots of these people want queues is to make it easier to chain attacks without accidentally wasting unnecessary time in between them. In other words, their queue will probably never have more than two things in it.

Thing is, PoE's optional ATB meter feature already gives you this. You'll always know exactly when you can bring in your next attack. Or maybe the game can even let you implicitly "queue" one single attack during the recovery time of the previous one. The IE games basically already did this if you chose to do something during the downtime of your six second round.
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Total war is rtwp and has queued actions
 
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"we've shown barbarians and wizards"
Where?

The Aumaua are looking a bit Avatar (the Cameron film), from the screenshots and the low quality I'm having to watch these videos in. Not a huge fan, which is a shame because I do like water/coastal races

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Youtube video of Day 2.

At 13:40, is that use of the in game slow-mo/speed-up system?
 
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Infinitron said:
tuluse said:
Arkeus said:
Pretty much, yes. RWTP presupposes not having queues, as pause is used in order to react to new threats and challenges, and queues are basically "you can predict what's going to happen and nothing is threatening you".
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Go play Total War and tell me this again.
Click to expand...

wat?

Anyway, the funny thing is that it looks like the main reason lots of these people want queues is to make it easier to chain attacks without accidentally wasting unnecessary time in between them. In other words, their queue will probably never have more than two things in it.

Thing is, PoE's optional ATB meter feature already gives you this. You'll always know exactly when you can bring in your next attack. Or maybe the game can even let you implicitly "queue" one single attack during the recovery time of the previous one. The IE games basically already did this if you chose to do something during the downtime of your six second round.
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Probably it won't be very useful to queue more than 2 or 3 actions at a time. It's still a nice feature to have so I can say, order my dude to move to a position and cast a single target nuke, or cast 2 buffs or a nuke, or what have you. Let's be honest here, the latest gameplay video showcases fighting freakin' Giant Beetles. This is not all that complex or dynamic and I highly doubt the beetles are going to find some ingenious way of punishing me because I queued up a couple attacks.
 
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Raggg said:
Let's be honest here, the latest gameplay video showcases fighting freakin' Giant Beetles. This is not all that complex or dynamic and I highly doubt the beetles are going to find some ingenious way of punishing me because I queued up a couple attacks.
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Eorian beetles have won two nobel prizes and one macarthur man. They also all wear Mensa t-shirts.
 

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The IE games had an action queue, but only for one action. Movement and standard attacks always cancelled current actions and also emptied the queue IIRC.

That said, there isn't anything wrong with with raising the limit of the action queue by a small number. Shift + clicking to queue actions isn't a necessary feature, but it is nice to have.
 
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I can't understand what people have against action queueing, I have never heard that somebody complained about it in Aurora engine.

I don't like that you have only 4 companions at level 5 which should be a middle of the game. I can understand that they want to gradually increase difficulty and complexity but I hate it when I can't build my party from the early game. Beside that and some minor grievances I really like what I'm seeing.
 
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Anthony Davis said:
I love Adam to death, I would fight six.. no, seven giant beetles for him... but this moment needs to be sweetly savored.
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Do you guys play and test games the other teams are working on at Obsidian?

Can you fire it up and show him how it's done?
 
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