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

[asper]

People, go post some quality questions and we'll vote them up. http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/10/12/project-eternity-obsidian-live-chat/

The level of the questions up to now is pretty low

 

[Captain Shrek]

Okay...
The last question is a troll, right?

Comment From Fight Club
Exactly what is the level of inspiration are we looking from the Infinity engine games? Is it going to be more than the pre-rendered backgrounds?​

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[Zed]

They should have just made an interview with community questions or something. This shit's slooow.

 

[Infinitron]

Lots of clueless faggots clogging up the chat. If we spam enough GOOD questions we might get through.

 

[LeStryfe79]

Tards

 

[gromit]

Can we expect the game world to be even bigger than that in Baldur's Gate 2 (in terms of its sheer volume, the amount of quests, npc interactions and such)?

 

[Semper]

PC Gamer ask Obsidian if Project Eternity will run on DirectX 11 to it's full potential like ability to render Unlimited Particles and Tessellation.

 

[Infinitron]

Comment From CasperVanDien
Tell Josh to post shirtless pics, I need them for a friend - thanks.

I love that last part.

 

[golgepapaz]

Tell Josh to post shirtless pics, I need them for a friend - thanks.

 

[Infinitron]

NEW INFO:

the other race we haven't talked about yet are called the aumaua. they are larger than humans and are found in a lot of coastal and island areas. like orlans, they look somewhat... different, but they are still a bipedal race. we're still working on their concepts (as we are with orlans), but we will show them when we feel they're in a good place.

 

[Captain Shrek]

NEW INFO:

]the other race we haven't talked about yet are called the aumaua. they are larger than humans and are found in a lot of coastal and island areas. like orlans, they look somewhat... different, but they are still a bipedal race. we're still working on their concepts (as we are with orlans), but we will show them when we feel they're in a good place.[/SIZE]

Not sure, but that could be a gag.

 

[golgepapaz]

Yeah That's new indeed , Hope they are not aquatic or some shit like that..

 

[asper]

OMG

Is there a chance of Justin Sweet's (creator of IWD II portraits) involvement in the Project?

We've talked here about contacting Vance and Justin but we haven't had a chance yet.

 

[golgepapaz]

Adam Brennecke:
We've talked here about contacting Vance and Justin but we haven't had a chance yet.


Oh please, pretty please

 

[Infinitron]

Ugh, maybe we need to appoint an official Codex copy-paster.

 

[oldmanpaco]

Jesus is that slow going. 35 minutes and only about 6 questions answered.

 

[asper]

Ugh, maybe we need to appoint an official Codex copy-paster.

The person coming last should just delete his post. Like I did with all of mine when trying to be faster than you..

Jesus is that slow going. 35 minutes and only about 6 questions answered.

Maybe it's for the best, the questions aren't very inspiring anyway. No surprise, how much can you actually keep on asking about this game? They have said a lot in their updates and it's still in early planning stages..

 

[Infinitron]

we don't really think about things in terms of good or evil choices, but in terms of choices that a relatively sane/rational person would make with an understandable motive. sometimes it makes sense to allow players to be cruel, but it has to work in the context of what's going on. the game and its story aren't about being good or evil but deciding what values (and people, and groups) are most important to you -- and what you're willing to sacrifice to defend them.

we haven't decided on the number of subraces per race, and cultures are separate from races/subraces, so that's even more up in the air. if we do have more subraces for certain races than other, it will not be by a large margin. we want to make the field of choices relatively even.

 

[Surf Solar]

The last time I myself contacted Mr Sweet (it was a couple of months before though) he said he is already involved in a larger project IIRC - have to dig for that email. Maybe the situation has changed now though, I would LOVE to see his artwork in the game.

 

[Vault Dweller]

we don't really think about things in terms of good or evil choices, but in terms of choices that a relatively sane/rational person would make with an understandable motive. sometimes it makes sense to allow players to be cruel, but it has to work in the context of what's going on. the game and its story aren't about being good or evil but deciding what values (and people, and groups) are most important to you -- and what you're willing to sacrifice to defend them.

Beautiful.

 

[Lockkaliber]

we don't really think about things in terms of good or evil choices, but in terms of choices that a relatively sane/rational person would make with an understandable motive. sometimes it makes sense to allow players to be cruel, but it has to work in the context of what's going on. the game and its story aren't about being good or evil but deciding what values (and people, and groups) are most important to you -- and what you're willing to sacrifice to defend them.

Beautiful.

Mastermind's gonna shit himself with anger

 

[Semper]

They have said a lot in their updates

and there are still a lot of imbeciles out there not getting the basics... will there be guns? is it first person? does kickstarter mean that the game will be for free for everyone? will hit points really regenerate rapidly during combat? because that's what i read! hurr durr...

 

[Cynic]

Monk looks alright. Better than Drow and Dyke at least.

To be honest I never liked the idea of Monks in High fantasy settings. I always found it hard to imagine that a guy with FISTS AND MITTENS beating up those dragons. To save him they had to give all kinds of "wisdom" bonuses... and that Paralyzing facepalm.

Monks in DnD are clearly magical, they just have internal magic.

Also, fuck you sometimes I want to roll play as Bruce Lee.

Then play a good fighting game like Tekken 2 or something. There is Forrest Law there (or was it still Marshall Law?).

There were both (I think).

Monk is fine, though I never played a PnP game in an edition of D&D when they existed. They are just some magical bros who channel all their power through their body. I learnt Kung Fu for a few years and honestly, I am a very typical non spiritual, atheistic, scientifically minded person but the Chi stuff felt very real to me. Fittest I have ever been as well and that came from just standing in stance, doing forms, and light sparring. The abs just appeared. There is some kind of way of channeling power through your body, if you choose to extend that to attacking other people, you can become a lethal weapon yourself.

I guess you oppose them in the setting, but fucking hell there is so much weird shit in there, the Asian influence stuff can be quite cool if done right.

 

[Lockkaliber]

yay my question got posted and answered.

 

[Semper]

meanwhile THIS guy got his official invitation from obsidian to lurk around...

Darren from Obsidian apologized in the main comments section, and invited me back next week for a tour if I so desire.