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

[Liston]

So I was watching gameplay videos and noticed something:

Was this mentioned before? I don't remember anything. So what is this about? Does your party become tired after a certain amount of in game time like in BG? I'm not sure that I like it, I would like to play without rest for as long as I can and preserve inn/stronghold bonus as a reword. I mean it was a nice larping mechanic in BG but I think that it brings more harm than good here. Also what's the point of leveling athletics only on some of the party members, I'm sure that most people are going to rest as soon as first character get tired. It would be nice if using abilities and taking hits would make you more tired and you would use athletics to counter that.

Here are the other skills:

Spoiler

 

[Sensuki]

Yeah it was mentioned before, but maybe not in this thread.

p. funny how the Lore skill is p. much useless in combat on expert mode

The Athletics combat bonus is scraping the barrel compared to the Stealth, Survival and Mechanics combat bonuses.

 

[Liston]

Yeah it was mentioned before, but maybe not in this thread.

p. funny how the Lore skill is p. much useless in combat on expert mode

The Athletics combat bonus is scraping the barrel compared to the Stealth, Survival and Mechanics combat bonuses.

There is no monster encyclopedia in expert mode or it doesn't show monsters stats?
Is there something official about getting tiered? I didn't find anything on the wiki and I'm slightly out of the loop about recent updates.

 

[Sensuki]

Half of the benefit of the Lore skill is you get more info per hit out of an enemy in the tooltips. Expert mode disables those tooltips (or you can elect to turn them off).

Personally I don't give a rats about knowing monster stats. Half the fun of playing the game for the first time is learning that shit by trial and error, you can look that shit up on the wiki rather than investing in skill points for it later on.

Only worth taking for dialogue options.

 

[Sensuki]

Gosh I'm tired

 

[felipepepe]

Gosh I'm tired

No, you're frustrated that Sawyer didn't give you XP for your arguments.

 

[Sensuki]

I didn't make any arguments.

2am here, probably another hour to go at least zzzz

 

[Infinitron]

I see that people are intent on having this thread go out with a bang.

Can we reach 1310 pages before the beta is released and I start moving all the posts to the new thread?

 

[Sensuki]

This has been the best thread since Darkest Desires Part V over on the Head-Fi forums.

 

[AN4RCHID]

I see that people are intent on having this thread go out with a bang.

Can we reach 1310 pages before the beta is released and I start moving all the posts to the new thread?

So, what are everyone's opinions on cooldowns?

 

[Zorba the Hutt]

A new thread is probably a good idea, this one's about to become self-aware.

 

[Duraframe300]

I see that people are intent on having this thread go out with a bang.

Can we reach 1310 pages before the beta is released and I start moving all the posts to the new thread?

NEW THREAD?

TRAITORRRRRRRRRRR.

I thought we'd get to 10'000.

Whole day ruined.

 

[Sensuki]

Dimitri Berman is online

 

[Bubbles]

Dimitri Berman is online

IT'S HAPPENING

 

[Sensuki]

It's not happening until Brandon Adler is online (I don't think).

 

[Abu Antar]

It's not happening until Brandon Adler is online (I don't think).

I'm guessing another hour or two from this post is a reasonable guess.

 

[Sensuki]

yeah pretty much

Backer Updates are always done at 10AM PST, so like 45-50 mins away at minimum

 

[Maculo]

I hope you do not have work in the morning Sensuki.

 

[Sensuki]

Nope, thankfully. I actually had the last day of my job on friday last week.

Bookshops are a dying industry and my company has been cutting store staff hours to the bone, my store is now down to 1 person (the store manager).

Perfect time to be unemployed though.

 

[Infinitron]

yeah pretty much

Backer Updates are always done at 10AM PST, so like 45-50 mins away at minimum

Always since they moved to Wednesday, you mean.

But, today is not Wednesday.

 

[Bubbles]

Today is Monday, which is earlier in the week, so the backer update should come out earlier as well.

 

[Sensuki]

Just got an email and was like O_O

false alarm, Lisa Gerrard website spam mail.

 

[Delterius]

I hope you got a lot of xp from slaying that huge strawman roshan.

Not a strawman. What is "objective based XP"? It's basically saying that the only way you progress is by doing what the designers have planned for you to do.

And that's a new one.

 

[Sensuki]

Brandon is online.

laaag over at the obsidian forums

 

[Bubbles]

IT'S HAPPENING