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

[Reinhardt]

So which magran challenges are good?

 

[AwesomeButton]

So which magran challenges are good?

Eothas' I'd say. You can try Abydon's too, for a nice money sink, in case you need one.

 

[Safav Hamon]

Eothas + Abydon + Galawain + Skaen + Rymrgand + Woedica for ultimate challenge.

I don't recommend it on your first playthrough though.

 

[Reinhardt]

What about loli protection mode?

 

[Safav Hamon]

Not unless you like spamming withdraw every battle

 

[Reinhardt]

withdraw

I don't even know what is "withdraw"

 

[Safav Hamon]

Tier 2 priest spell

 

[Reinhardt]

This shit is for cowards.

 

[Safav Hamon]

Good luck then. I don't see any way to beat Ondra's challenge without it.

 

[Reinhardt]

I don't recommend it on your first playthrough though.

Nigga, i finished my first playthrough same day you joined codex.

 

[Safav Hamon]

Then you should know it has been rebalanced many times since release. Beating all six of those challenges on PoTD with level scaling is nearly impossible.

 

[Reinhardt]

Why would i chose level scaling? If i wanted to play Skyrim i would just install it with loverslab mods.

 

[Safav Hamon]

Like it or not, level scaling makes the game harder. Only cowards turn it off.

 

[Reinhardt]

Only cowards turn it off.

Said someone who knows about that "withdraw" thing.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Why would i chose level scaling? If i wanted to play Skyrim i would just install it with loverslab mods.

You can choose to scale lower-than-your level enemies up to your level, but not scale higher-than-your level encounters down. Also PotD means +15 to all enemy defenses and +2 to their Armor Rating. Make sure you prepare foods that boost your penetration, and keep an eye on abilities which lower enemy AR.

On a sidenote - pardon my sexism, but I couldn't help but notice how all the male archmages are portrayed as either bufoons or evildoers, while all the female ones are sensible and striving to maintain peace and order.

 

[Safav Hamon]

Only cowards turn it off.

Said someone who knows about that "withdraw" thing.

I don't get it. It's a mediocre spell at best.

 

[Reinhardt]

while all the female ones are sensible and striving to maintain peace and order.

Seeing there is still no peace or order they are just as incompetent.

 

[Reinhardt]

mediocre

I prefer term "balanced"

 

[entr0py]

Why would i chose level scaling? If i wanted to play Skyrim i would just install it with loverslab mods.

Use "Level-scaling", "Only up", "Everywhere" options otherwise game will be a snoozefest that no God challenges will remedy. PotD with level scaling (up) though give proper challenge till at least lvl 16 if you choose your battles wisely (going for stronger enemies as much as you can).

 

[AwesomeButton]

The challenge is quite good up to the end, with the latest patches' encounter tuning.

 

[Efe]

going for stronger enemies as much as you can?
up till lv12-13 all ive seen are 1 skull at least.
i honestly thought about turning scaling off cos apparently scaling to your level means exceeding your level in sawyers book.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

It scales to your level based on what level the encounter was designed for in a first place.

 

[Flou]

I doubt there's going to be a next game. At least not an isometric RPG. Prepare for PoE3: Elder Scrolls.

I believe they will finish the story with a 3rd game, an isometric game. Microsoft doesn't seem to care what game they are working on, as long as it is something that Obsidian wants to make. And I bet there's plenty of people at Obsidian who want to finish the trilogy.

It will cost them around 10-15 million dollars + marketing and this time Sawyer won't be there to reinvent the wheel again which should make the development easier. That's pretty much nothing at all for MS. Now imagine if someone comes up with a story that MS killed the ending for Pillars of Eternity trilogy. That hurts their efforts of trying to be the good guys a lot. So no, don't see MS killing off the 3rd game that would be Feargus if anyone and when he finally has the chance to finish one gaming trilogy, would he not take it?

That said, Parker's Skyrim game will be set in Eora. They would be stupid to name it Pillars of Eternity 3 though. It will have it's own title so the two different kind of games won't get mixed by casual twats.

And seeing how Feargus wants the company to work on multiple projects, there is definately room for smaller projects such as isometric Pillars of Eternity 3 and Sawyer's tactical rpg.
Obsidian staff number is nearing 200 on LinkedIn, they are now at 190. They added a few animators and few programmers the last time I checked.

 

[Lacrymas]

Why does this need to be a trilogy. This didn't need to be a duology in the first place and they shot themselves in the foot by making it a direct continuation. Making a second direct continuation is stupid.

 

[Quillon]

I believe they will finish the story with a 3rd game, an isometric game. Microsoft doesn't seem to care what game they are working on, as long as it is something that Obsidian wants to make. And I bet there's plenty of people at Obsidian who want to finish the trilogy.

They might want a third iso game but I don't think the story demands another game/being trilogy.

That said, Parker's Skyrim game will be set in Eora.

It's farked.

It might get fucked cos of other reasons but not for being set in Eora. Mainstream would eat up an aRPG Deadfire with the same story, characters, gameworld etc that plays like witcher or skyrim.