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

[tuluse]

I wish all that tech stuff about graphics was an official kickstarter update.

You can take the company away from the PR guys, but you can't take the PR out of the company.

 

[Sensuki]

This was over the week (since the last update), so it might be talked about in the next or a coming update.

What did they say was coming up

Vertical Slice Progress, Fulfillment and other goodies.

 

[Infinitron]

http://www.formspring.me/JESawyer/q/475523297363126588

Welp.

 

[Excidium]

There will be 2 pages of intense denial when I check this thread tomorrow

 

[Blaine]

There will be 2 pages of intense denial when I check this thread tomorrow

JOSH SAWYER WANTS TO END FUN [Obsidian's Project Eternity Thread]

Now featuring:

• doublespeak
• equivocation
• obfuscation
• waffling
• backpedaling
• goalpost-shifting
• water-muddying
• apologism
• assorted hypocrisy

 

[Infinitron]

There's nothing much to deny. It's not necessarily a game breaker, any more than having 20 Con in AD&D is.

Let's post about this on the Obsidian forums and try to provoke some rage, though.

 

[Excidium]

There's nothing much to deny. It's not necessarily a game breaker, any more than having 20 Con in AD&D is.

Every fighter in AD&D has 20 CON anyway.

 

[Infinitron]

Is it on all the time or just during combat?

Stamina auto-regenerates outside of combat for all classes. The fighter is apparently the only class that has auto-regeneration of stamina within combat as well.

Melnorme 17m
How fast does it regenerate?

JESawyer 1m
The passive ability is not fast enough to save them from a really brutal assault, but it's enough to make a difference in a longer engagement.

 

[Blaine]

Will cover mechanics be confirmed next week?

 

[Infinitron]

Here's that thread: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/64...ity-will-have-stamina-regeneration-in-combat/

Will cover mechanics be confirmed next week?

Wasteland 2 already has cover mechanics.

 

[Excidium]

Is it on all the time or just during combat?

Stamina auto-regenerates outside of combat for all classes. The fighter is apparently the only class that has auto-regeneration of stamina within combat as well.

Yeah I remembered that.

Melnorme 17m
How fast does it regenerate?

JESawyer 1m
The passive ability is not fast enough to save them from a really brutal assault, but it's enough to make a difference in a longer engagement.

Sounds somewhat more significant than 1 HP/hour.

Here's that thread: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/64...ity-will-have-stamina-regeneration-in-combat/

Will cover mechanics be confirmed next week?

Wasteland 2 already has cover mechanics.

Hey, there's nothing wrong with cover mechanics. It's what people are supposed to go for when there is shit flying around.

Undestructible and automatic cover on the other hand...

 

[Brother None]

Whoa, anyone know what software that is for the scripting?

I think it's Obsidian's in-house dialogue tool.

It is, yeah. It's neat.

 

[Gozma]

I thought the stamina regen issue was already post-outrage. Being your regenerating Halo shield was always the point of it. And to produce Codex credits this was how Betrayal at Krondor and Darklands handled it

GOING DARK SO I CAN TRY TO ENJOY THESE GAMES ON A PRECRITICAL LEVEL

 

[coffeetable]

I wish all that tech stuff about graphics was an official kickstarter update.

You can take the company away from the PR guys, but you can't take the PR out of the company.

what

this constant trickle interesting info on formspring/reddit/forums/etc is about as far from structured pr as you can get. any pr guy would be tearing their hair out right

e: also considering the size of IE dungeons, it was always going to be either regenning stamina, buckets of potions or buckets of heal spells. regeneration is by far the most elegant of the three.

 

[Infinitron]

Being your regenerating Halo shield was always the point of it.

It's not a Halo shield. It's more like armor in Doom, since you always take health damage too.

 

[Diablo169]

I'm still not convinced all the shit they are planning is going to be fun or rewarding in an RTWP system anyway. This is hardly the biggest deal breaker for me. I need to see some actually combat game play to see for myself.

 

[Grunker]

There will be 2 pages of intense denial when I check this thread tomorrow

JOSH SAWYER WANTS TO END FUN [Obsidian's Project Eternity Thread]

Now featuring:

• doublespeak
• equivocation
• obfuscation
• waffling
• backpedaling
• goalpost-shifting
• water-muddying
• apologism
• assorted hypocrisy

Hey, sort of like you just reacted to legitimate criticism in the Star Citizen thread, huh?

 

[circ]

So. Combat that's edging towards horrible DS3 consolitis possibly and rogues that aren't rogues. Sounds fun. Yeah I'm gonna pick up a rogue for their goddamn crit bonus. Even DA2 had shit for rogues to do.

 

[coffeetable]

Hey, sort of like you just reacted to legitimate criticism in the Star Citizen thread, huh?

has there been a codex post-your-kickstarter-predictions thread yet

because that'd be entertaining

 

[Roguey]

So. Combat that's edging towards horrible DS3 consolitis possibly and rogues that aren't rogues. Sounds fun. Yeah I'm gonna pick up a rogue for their goddamn crit bonus. Even DA2 had shit for rogues to do.

How are they not rogue-like? They get a bonus to both stealth and mechanics and are the only class that gets a bonus to both. Massive backstab damage has been a rogue feature for ages.

 

[DraQ]

Massive backstab damage has been a roguey feature for ages.

Fixed.

You're doing pretty good job with your false-flag feminist herpaderp so it's only appropriate.

 

[Arkeus]

I have two dumb UI questions i am not sure wer know about: I expect we will have a journal, but will there be a part of the journal where we can write our own notes? Likewise, can we make our own annotations on the maps?

Second question is, we all know expert mode will force all the 'self-help' details off. Does this mean it will also force the quest part auto-journal off? (By that, i mean stuff like automatically logging in our journal where we must do each quests, and when a part of a quest is 'done'). Likewise for maps annotation?

It could make things more interesting.

 

[Grunker]

I would like my game to be difficult. I don't think writing everything down myself is difficulty. So I hope not. Same goes for map annotations once I make discoveries myself.

I do hope it turns off anything resembling a quest compass though.

In fact, letting players turn on/off these options as they like sound infinitely better than an arbitrary Expert-mode.

 

[J_C]

Map annotations would be welcome from my part. I always liked in BG2 that I could put a mark on quest giver, so when I have 15 quests in my journal, I can easily find the people where I have to return after finishing a quest.

 

[Arkeus]

In fact, letting players turn on/off these options as they like sound infinitely better than an arbitrary Expert-mode.

We were told that expert mod is basically 'turning on all the options that increases difficulty with no choice to turn them off', and that in the easy/normal/hard/very hard modes, you could simply turn them on or turn them off. I am not even sure that expert mode needs you to play on very hard either (you could probably play it on normal...).