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

[Tytus]

Fucking hell bros can I just say that they have gonna full retard over at the Obsidian forums. People are saying shit like "I want the game to do this" etc., for fucks sake,

Yeah, it's almost like we are at the Codex.

But we are discussing it between ourselves, not writing directly to the devs on their official forums and expect results.

 

[J_C]

I know, i was just kidding.

 

[tuluse]

Rat people now with added troglodyte flavor!

Actually, I like these skuldr, but I'd like them more if I knew how to pronounce their name. :/

I'm going with Skull-durr until further notice.

 

[t]

Praise the gods you didn't read Pool of Radiance book - that was such a pile of shit, that even when I was young and stupid, had problems finishing it.

This one?: http://isa.pl/p494-Sadzawka-Blasku-przeceniona-00100037.html

Sadzawka Blasku ja pierdolę

 

[norolim]

Praise the gods you didn't read Pool of Radiance book - that was such a pile of shit, that even when I was young and stupid, had problems finishing it.

This one?: http://isa.pl/p494-Sadzawka-Blasku-przeceniona-00100037.html

Sadzawka Blasku ja pierdolę

:D Killer title. I kept laughing for 20 minutes. Is the book as good?

 

[Tytus]

Praise the gods you didn't read Pool of Radiance book - that was such a pile of shit, that even when I was young and stupid, had problems finishing it.

This one?: http://isa.pl/p494-Sadzawka-Blasku-przeceniona-00100037.html

Sadzawka Blasku ja pierdolę

:D Killer title. I kept laughing for 20 minutes. Is the book as good?

Still better than "Basen Lśnienia". So it coud've been worse.

 

[t]

But "sadzawka"... feels like

 

[Tytus]

To me "sadzawka" feels more like

But I get your point.

 

[Sensuki]

Sawyer answered a few of my Q's on the Obsidian forums.

Awesome news guys, glad to hear everything is running along smoothly (y)

I would like to know more about the structure of class level advancement. I recall asking in an interview with Josh I did last year whether the advancement system would be homogeneous like 4E or staggered like 2E/3E/3.5E etc, it would be cool to see an example of that.

Some other stuff I'm interested in would be the quest/experience system, whether the armor system was changed again or not and combat animations, whether there will be frontswing/backswing animations, if they are cancellable by microing and how ranged weapon animations are being handled (aim, fire, reload etc)

The advancement system is not as homogeneous as 4E, but classes do gain a class-specific ability (passive, modal, or active-use) every level.

We're implementing the quest system right now. We're going to use a visual flowchart for our quest implementation which should help with seeing the potential complications of branching or skipping objectives. The armor system hasn't changed since the last revision a while back. The system currently uses a single DT for a suit of armor with additional modifiers applied for things it is better or worse at. E.g. ordinary mail has 12 DT but it is 40% worse against crushing attacks. We're still implementing some aspects of the reloading system. Aim and fire are part of the same animation. Reloading is separate and moving interrupts it. Reloading a bow is relatively fast. Reloading a crossbow or arbalest is more time-consuming, and reloading a firearm is the most time-consuming (though not as long as it would be in real life). Most attack animations will probably not have early cancels, but we will probably have them for longer events like casting spells or special attacks.

Are you still adhering to the weight classifications (Light, Medium, Heavy)?

They are organized like that conceptually, but currently those classifications don't have any direct correlation to specific game effects.

That should hopefully answer some of Hormalakh's frantic questions about the armor system haha.

 

[Sensuki]

With weaknesses and strengths against different damage types, it's also a lot easier to communicate that through the UI. Additionally, once you've learned the strengths and weaknesses of a given armor or creature type, it stays consistent. If you see someone in crummy Oromi steel mail (the worst steel in the Dyrwood), it has a lower base DT, but it still has -40% DT against crushing attacks. When you go up against guys in March or Ymyran steel mail much later, it still has -40% DT against crushing even though the base DT is significantly higher.

He seems to be in an answerable mood atm, I'll see what else I can squeeze out.

 

[Infinitron]

Sensuki Please provide links.

 

[AstroZombie]

http://www.formspring.me/JESawyer

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[Infinitron]

http://www.formspring.me/JESawyer

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No: http://forums.obsidian.net/index.ph...ilters[forums][searchInKey]=&userMode=content

 

[AstroZombie]

http://www.formspring.me/JESawyer

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No: http://forums.obsidian.net/index.ph...ilters[forums][searchInKey]=&userMode=content

Nice! Thanks.

 

[Infinitron]

Are you still adhering to the weight classifications (Light, Medium, Heavy)?

They are organized like that conceptually, but currently those classifications don't have any direct correlation to specific game effects.

That should hopefully answer some of Hormalakh's frantic questions about the armor system haha.

http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/63696-update-51-prototype-2-update/?p=1326433

Every type of armor has a specific speed penalty that correlates with (but is not specifically calculated by) "weight" (higher DT).

 

[General Maxson]

Can't wait to wear gothic plate.

 

[Rake]

http://www.formspring.me/GZiets/q/451434543107295031
Ziets on bestiary.

 

[Sensuki]

Hahah I asked George *exactly* the same question earlier. Looks like someone beat me to the punch

He deflected that one pretty well though.

 

[Brzęczyszczykiewicz]

Why do you subject yourself to such agony? It's not like there's no good books out there.

After reading book like this everything else feels better.

Still better than "Basen Lśnienia". So it coud've been worse.

At least translation is more or less correct. According to filmweb they translated "The Desolation of Smaug" into "Samotna Góra"

 

[garren]

How fast can you switch weapon sets? Since reloading firearms is the slowest action among ranged weapons, it would be cool tactic if you could, say, unload your rifle to an enclosing enemy, then switch to your pistol and unload that too, then switch to melee. Nice amount of damage before the enemy reaches you, doable only once per fight.

 

[Tytus]

How fast can you switch weapon sets? Since reloading firearms is the slowest action among ranged weapons, it would be cool tactic if you could, say, unload your rifle to an enclosing enemy, then switch to your pistol and unload that too, then switch to melee. Nice amount of damage before the enemy reaches you, doable only once per fight.

It would immedietely become an opening move to every fight. So every fight would become more like an mmo encounter when everytime you start with using the same skillset.

 

[tuluse]

I think guns are going to have significantly lower accuracy than bows and crossbows. Remember, wheellocks.

 

[garren]

It would immedietely become an opening move to every fight. So every fight would become more like an mmo encounter when everytime you start with using the same skillset.

I disagree. Obviously the character of my example would need to have good melee and firearms skills to use that tactic successfully, and we don't know much about what other things melee characters can do while the enemy approaches. Prepare some sort of special attack? Set a trap? Do some other special long range action? Charge the enemy so your ranged fighters have more breathing room? Enemy design is also a factor, some could be so fast that you simply don't have time to do all that stuff.

However I agree that if weapon switching is faster than reloading then every firearms character would carry a couple of firearms with them and unload them all before using the default one for the rest of the fight, which could be unbalanced. So uh.. yeah.

 

[April]

There will be modal abilities right? What if switching weapons disrupted the modal abilities for a short period while the wielder got used to the new weapon or something like that?

 

[t]

At least translation is more or less correct. According to filmweb they translated "The Desolation of Smaug" into "Samotna Góra"

Don't even start me on that... "Die Hard" -> "Szklana pułapka" ("Glass Trap" for our nonpolish fellows)