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

[Sensuki]

Probably a good idea to not do anything game related this update to let the fire from last week burn out. Strategic Q&A update.

 

[Zed]

Probably a good idea to not do anything game related this update to let the fire from last week burn out. Strategic Q&A update.

well we sent them quite a lot of questions, too.

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

Probably a good idea to not do anything game mechanics related this update to let the fire from last week burn out. Strategic Q&A update.

Fixed.

 

[Sensuki]

Sawyer on Dragons

Their intelligence develops very slowly. When they are wurms (li'l babyz) they are about as smart as cats (i.e. driven almost entirely by instinct). They are dangerous but not difficult for adventurers to kill (which they do, in droves). If they survive being wurms, after several decades, their intelligence has improved to somewhere in the range of primates. They are also much larger and more dangerous. This stage of development is the drake phase. It is when people really start getting alarmed about them and advocate hunting them down and killing them at any cost. Very few survive past the drake phase. The ones that do are bad news.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3506352&pagenumber=450#post417318856

 

[Arkeus]

So that means the Dragon proper have no real desire to protect their young/hide them...

 

[Jim the Dinosaur]

Plus they must be laying thousands of eggs in a lifetime for even one to have a chance of reaching maturity. Sounds very vaguely Reign of Fire-ish, but even there the smallest ones were safely on top of the food chain. Sounds weird all in all, not sure why they didn't just go with different species.

 

[Sensuki]

So that means the Dragon proper have no real desire to protect their young/hide them...

They usually lay eggs when they are still drakes, which makes them (and the eggs/wurms) very vulnerable

http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...rid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=450#post417323282

 

[Kem0sabe]

Very "survival of the fittest" inclined Dragons, not sure how sociable these things will be, very nasty indeed. Will be interesting to see how they will aproach player interactions with them.

 

[Sensuki]

I am pretty sure they have a Dragon egg 'event' in the Vertical slice, I think that village will become Dyrford or Loghome on the map.

 

[Jedi Exile]

It would be nice to have some non-hostile or even friendly dragons like in BG2.

 

[Cynic]

D&D dragons are just awesome. It's great how they all have different kinds of traits and personalities, some more intelligent than the others.

It was always fun playing PnP to encounter these enormous, hugely dangerous beings and then have a conversation with them. I think BG2 managed to capture this feeling really well.

Hoping to see some stuff like that in PE.

 

[Gozma]

I hope there are a lot of "Fuck you got mine" old dragons that are happy to continue the wurm/drake culling cycle so competitors for them never get the chance to get their foot in the door.

 

[Cynic]

The best encounter I ever had with a Dragon in PnP was with a very old Gold Dragon who had developed a taste for spiced tea and wore spectacles. His treasure consisted of all sorts of rare teas and priceless tea sets, one of which had been crafted with a magical jewel that was essential for the party to complete a certain part of our quest.

 

[bminorkey]

from something awful:

Either way, even if we meet a dragon that's as smart or smarter than a human, I want it to most definitely not think like a human. I want to feel like, if I'm capable of communicating with it at all, that it's like talking to an alien.

 

[Logic_error]

That sounds easy to achieve.

Make it a female dragon. Should be alien enough for most of his kind.

 

[Excidium]

Easier said than done but yeah that would be very nice.

 

[Space Satan]

I kinda liked the Grimoire, such wise tips it gave me. Plus cheap blindness was neat.

 

[Roguey]

he's the antichrist, born in the year 400 to usher in the age of Satan. only he didn't feel like it so he changed his name to Aurelius Ambrosius, conquered britain, then retired to live as a druid until Uther hired him to help rape Ygraine

i made a conlang where y is a /iː/ sound and ppl said it looked weird and they didn't know how to pronounce it and i wanted to die

Alas, poor Josh. Making games for ignoramuses.

 

[Blaine]

Alas, poor Josh. Making games for ignoramuses.

Ignorance of arcane, pretentious frippery is hardly inexcusable.

 

[Duraframe300]

New Pics

http://www.gamestar.de/index.cfm?pid=1674&pk=48834&fk=95728&i=14

 

[Kem0sabe]

The art on those wilderness ruins shots is not that interesting, pity the low res.

 

[Infinitron]

The art on those wilderness ruins shots is not that interesting, pity the low res.

What low res?

http://images.gamestar.de/images/idgwpgsgp/bdb/2410633/bigimage.jpg

 

[J_C]

Those pics almost look like concept arts, and not rendered by the engine. There are smudged colors on the ground, like it was hand painted.

 

[Infinitron]

Those pics almost look like concept arts, and not rendered by the engine. There are smudged colors on the ground, like it was hand painted.

That's why the gallery is called Project Eternity - Artworks und Konzeptgrafiken.

 

[Kem0sabe]

The art on those wilderness ruins shots is not that interesting, pity the low res.

What low res?

http://images.gamestar.de/images/idgwpgsgp/bdb/2410633/bigimage.jpg

Never mind, multitasking searching for redheads on the interweb.

And yes, those are definitely concept art and not very interesting ones at that, looks like something out of a random baldurs gate wilderness shot. Would need a bit more flair in my opinion.