Eternity Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire + DLC Thread - now with turn-based combat!

[AwesomeButton]

They were already tagged for mainstream GOTY just for the SJW filth dripping from the game's writing.

 

[Lacrymas]

Now that you mention SJW filth, Tekehu has only ever talked about sex with the other companions since I got him. This is not normal human interaction, it's a dummy's understanding of a (bi)sexual person.

 

[Butter]

Tekehu is the reason you can hire druid mercenaries.

 

[Roguey]

Paul Kirsch, heterosexual married dweeb: I want to be progressive, so how will I write this fish man?

I know, I'll make him a degenerate.

*Sawyer shrugs, Patel rubberstamps, the Deadfire tumblr discord squees*

 

[AwesomeButton]

Roxor did warn about companions being written as flaming homos

 

[AwesomeButton]

*Sawyer shrugs, Patel rubberstamps, the Deadfire tumblr discord squees*

You mean "Sawyer has no time to learn of this because he is busy writing Pallegina, writing quest lines, and designing ship combat, among other things"

 

[Lacrymas]

You just want to slap the shit out of these writers and tell them to clean their room and do their homework. This is the result of a too lackluster education system in 'Murica, these kids need to read some (non-fiction) books.

 

[Butter]

You just want to slap the shit out of these writers and tell them to clean their room and do their homework. This is the result of a too lackluster education system in 'Murica, these kids need to read some (non-fiction) books.

The education system in America has been shit for a long time. This is more the result of a degenerating culture. When your writers are all genderqueer otherkin who graduated from the Tumblr School of Fan Fiction, instead of sweaty grognards who grew up playing AD&D, this is the kind of storytelling you're stuck with.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Now that you mention SJW filth, Tekehu has only ever talked about sex with the other companions since I got him. This is not normal human interaction, it's a dummy's understanding of a (bi)sexual person.

Tekehu is the reason you can hire druid mercenaries.

choosing to make Tekehu a full companion instead of Ydwin was a fucking horrible decision

I can't imagine how that decision came about. "Who would make a more interesting companion... the annoying bisexual fishman, or the elf animancer that managed to remove herself from the wheel?"

 

[2house2fly]

The education system in America has been shit for a long time. This is more the result of a degenerating culture. When your writers are all genderqueer otherkin who graduated from the Tumblr School of Fan Fiction, instead of sweaty grognards who grew up playing AD&D, this is the kind of storytelling you're stuck with.

I don't know that any of these terms apply to any of the writers on Deadfire, with the exception of Alex Scokel who's probably the best writer they have.

 

[Roguey]

You just want to slap the shit out of these writers and tell them to clean their room and do their homework. This is the result of a too lackluster education system in 'Murica, these kids need to read some (non-fiction) books.

Kids? Kirsch is in his 30s. So's Patel.

 

[jf8350143]

The turn based combat makes me wonder, what else will they add into the game? Change sidekicks into a companions? I imagine that's not as hard as making a entirely new combat mode and rebalance everything around it.

 

[Riddler]

The issue is California and the fetishization of all things considered hallow by the blue church. Paradoxically anything they should have insight into (women, homosexuals, "minority races") they are terrible at describing/conceptualising and turn them into some kind of idealised caricatures of themselves.

It's the worst kind of larping and akin to "nice guys" acting out their ideas about what "women want".

Since they like to talk so much about fetishization and othering, perhaps it might do for them to look in a mirror?

 

[AwesomeButton]

The Deadfire Law: having more than one writer on an RPG is having dead weight on the budget.

I don't know that any of these terms apply to any of the writers on Deadfire, with the exception of Alex Scokel who's probably the best writer they have.

I want to reiterate this. Alex Scokel is the best they have right now, and I don't think he is bad on his own either.

Kids?

Maybe with respect to their life experience.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Lol, 3rd level druid spell Returning Storm has better damage and duration than the 5th level druid spell Relentless Storm:

Spoiler

 

[Parabalus]

Lol, 3rd level druid spell Returning Storm has better damage and duration than the 5th level druid spell Relentless Storm:

Spoiler

Read it again, the lvl 3 one strikes one enemy, the lvl 5 one strikes all enemies.

Both are great.

 

[dragonul09]

Just started playing again and after about 50 tries I finally defeated Duragaon or something and I can safely say these megabosses are bullshit. Who in their right minds find these bloated pile of dung fun to play agaisnt?

 

[TemplarGR]

Just started playing again and after about 50 tries I finally defeated Duragaon or something and I can safely say these megabosses are bullshit. Who in their right minds find these bloated pile of dung fun to play agaisnt?

Pretentious people who think Dark Souls is the pinnacle of game design, AKA the "git gud" moron brigade. This shitty decade of gaming will always be remember for 3 things:

1) The git gud mentality, used to excuse lame game design and non-existant playtesting and game balancing

2) The multiplayer focused bullshit used to promote games as a service and entrappment of gamers into a few select games due to sunken cost fallacy

3) The kickstarter and early access model which allowed a lot of scammers to cash on nostalgia with shitty games that only on the surface look like classics of decades ago.

All 3 things were just attempts to increase income from games while minimizing game development invesment and costs. AKA making more profit. All of these things will stop once the game industry crashes.

So, to answer your question, when you see such elements as bullshit megaboses in a game, you know it is always no1 at play...

 

[Lacrymas]

The concept of megabosses isn't a bad one, especially in a game which was lacking in end-game challenges. And they are optional. Maybe they are too influenced by JRPG and MMO bosses from what I've read about them, but I'll have to play them by myself in order to judge that, or whether it's indeed a git gut issue.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

MMO bosses

If you mean 'WoW bosses', then I see nothing wrong here.
It's one of the few good things it contributed to RPGs, largely formed out of the competitive nature of raiding locking the developers in an arms race with the raiders for increasingly difficult content.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Lol, 3rd level druid spell Returning Storm has better damage and duration than the 5th level druid spell Relentless Storm:

Spoiler

Read it again, the lvl 3 one strikes one enemy, the lvl 5 one strikes all enemies.

Both are great.

No. This is what the text description says, but the description above the text, which is generated from the spell properties, says "Area of Effect: Foe Target + 7.6m Radius from Caster" for both spells.

I have used Returning storm, and indeed it works inside the radius, not exclusively on the target.

 

[FreeKaner]

Lol, 3rd level druid spell Returning Storm has better damage and duration than the 5th level druid spell Relentless Storm:

Spoiler

Read it again, the lvl 3 one strikes one enemy, the lvl 5 one strikes all enemies.

Both are great.

No. This is what the text description says, but the description above the text, which is generated from the spell properties, says "Area of Effect: Foe Target + 7.6m Radius from Caster" for both spells.

I have used Returning storm, and indeed it works inside the radius, not exclusively on the target.

Relentless storm hits all targets in the area of effect, returning storm hits only one target. Relentless storm is also more frequent.

 

[Parabalus]

Lol, 3rd level druid spell Returning Storm has better damage and duration than the 5th level druid spell Relentless Storm:

Spoiler

Read it again, the lvl 3 one strikes one enemy, the lvl 5 one strikes all enemies.

Both are great.

No. This is what the text description says, but the description above the text, which is generated from the spell properties, says "Area of Effect: Foe Target + 7.6m Radius from Caster" for both spells.

I have used Returning storm, and indeed it works inside the radius, not exclusively on the target.

What is puzzling you?

You have a AoE radius around you druid, returning (lvl 3) hits 1 target every tick, relentless (lvl 5) hits all enemies inside the radius every tick.

I just loaded a save and it works as described.

 

[Lacrymas]

Relentless Storm was grotesquely OP in PoE1. But yeah, the difference is that Returning strikes 1 random enemy periodically, while Relentless strikes them all.

 

[FreeKaner]

Combination of pull of eora and spell shaping is extremely fun. You can use spell shaping to make pull of eora extremely large since the power level only affects accuracy, then you cast a downsized aoe spell in smack middle of it with extra power level (increasing hit chance as much as 15%) for some spectacular results.