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

[FreeKaner]

I cannot think of any particular ones in Deadfire as I don't play with qualifiers on but for example in PoE1 Skaen's bloodpool required cruel disposition for sacrifice. There was also a quest in Dyrford where if you had deceptive disposition the thief you are looking for would just attack you on sight. There are others where dispositions enable or disable particular conversation options and even solutions to quests.

The actual problem is the fact that there is no way to reduce dispositiosn whatsoever, which is just silly.

 

[Parabalus]

I cannot think of any particular ones in Deadfire as I don't play with qualifiers on but for example in PoE1 Skaen's bloodpool required cruel disposition for sacrifice. There was also a quest in Dyrford where if you had deceptive disposition the thief you are looking for would just attack you on sight. There are others where dispositions enable or disable particular conversation options and even solutions to quests.

The actual problem is the fact that there is no way to reduce dispositiosn whatsoever, which is just silly.

Yes, they should have copy-pasted the D:OS 1 system, they already have opposites for every disposition, really makes Obs look retarded.

 

[FreeKaner]

I don't think a direct opposition is necessary, but there are ways where you can act calm which could reduce aggressive, acting uncaring reducing passionate etc. It could be more fluid instead of a march towards maxed out dispositions.

 

[MajorMace]

Dispositions have no use if your pc isn't a priest or a paladin.
As kaner said, they unlock dialog options and some flavour when maxed out, like in the first game. There's not much going on, I suggest disabling their tag in the options and forgetting about them altogether.

 

[FreeKaner]

It's interesting that they didn't make it like relationship system. Where you could have degrees of influence of disposition, for example for disposition being rude to a lost soul should be like ">" while torturing someone can be ">>" and putting an entire village to sword could be ">>>" but also ways where you could get it reduced but only as "<" so if you are walking slaughter it will still max out regardless but few cruel acts done here and there could be negated.

For reference, it appears that every arrow is 3 times in magnitude than the last. So you need 9 "<" to negate a ">>>".

 

[Lacrymas]

Dispositions don't do anything again? Shocking and unexpected.

 

[FreeKaner]

Dispositions don't do anything again? Shocking and unexpected.

They do things though. So feel free to be shocked.

 

[Reinhardt]

Ydwin is a good girl. Smart one. For some reason she has 15k exp more than my watcher.

 

[Grunker]

Dispositions don't do anything again? Shocking and unexpected.

Depends on what you mean by do. They change a bunch of quests, as in allowing you to skip obstacles, give you additional rewards, block you from completing specific parts etc. A few of these effects are unique like giving you a special option to do something within the game to earn a free talent.

Relative to most games of this type, I'd say they do quite a lot. Quest diversity and impact of systems is not a problem this game has.

Ydwin is a good girl. Smart one. For some reason she has 15k exp more than my watcher.

In my game my Watcher ended up behind everyone else. Dunno what was going on with that.

 

[Reinhardt]

Well, i have 60 xp less than Pallegina, ~700 less than Maia, but 15.000... And we are still lvl 10. She's almost 12.

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.wga.org/news-events/new...y-and-videogame-writing-nominations-announced

VIDEOGAME WRITING

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Associate Narrative Directors Matthew Zagurak, Joel Janisse, James Richard Mittag; Narrative Director Melissa MacCoubrey; Story by Jonathan Dumont, Melissa MacCoubrey, Hugo Giard; Scriptwriters Madeleine Hart, Betty Robertson, Jesse Scoble, Diana Sherman, Kelly Bender, Jojo Chia, Ian Fun, Zachary M. Parris, Ken Williamson, Daniel Bingham, Jordan Lemos, Simon Mackenzie, Katelyn MacMullin, Susan Patrick, Alissa Ralph, Stephen Rhodes; Team Lead Writer Sam Gill; AI Writers Jonathan Flieger, Kimberly Ann Sparks; Ubisoft Quebec

Batman: The Enemy Within, Episode 5-Same Stitch, Lead Writer James Windeler; Written by Meghan Thornton, Ross Beeley, Lauren Mee; Story by Meghan Thornton, Michael Kirkbride; Telltale Games

God of War, Written by Matt Sophos, Richard Zangrande Gaubert, Cory Barlog; Story and Narrative Design Lead Matt Sophos; Story and Narrative Design Richard Zangrande Gaubert; Narrative Design Orion Walker, Adam Dolin; Sony Interactive Entertainment

Marvel’s Spider-Man, Story Lead Jon Paquette; Writers Benjamin Arfmann, Kelsey Beachum; Co-Written by Christos Gage; Additional Story Contributions by Dan Slott; Insomniac Games & Sony Interactive Entertainment

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, Narrative Designers Alex Scokel, Eric Fenstermaker, Kate Dollarhyde, Megan Starks, Olivia Veras, Paul Kirsch; Additional Writing Tony Evans, John Schmautz, Casey Hollingshead, Nitai Poddar; Narrative Design Leads Carrie Patel, Josh Sawyer; Obsidian Entertainment

 

[Reinhardt]

I see they are in good company.

 

[AwesomeButton]

The luminous adra potion should be a drug. The Eoran equivalent of Coke, more precisely.

Dispositions have no use if your pc isn't a priest or a paladin.
As kaner said, they unlock dialog options and some flavour when maxed out, like in the first game. There's not much going on, I suggest disabling their tag in the options and forgetting about them altogether.

Disabling their icons actually improved the experience for me. I now hear the voice of my character in my head, and don't think "this should sound cruel", "this should sound shady"... The problem is that I don't always guess what the writer had in mind for this line. Something that sounds like a joke to me sounds "shady" to the writer, but I can't see the marker.

 

[Lacrymas]

If you are a Priest or Paladin, you can't really afford to be all willy-nilly with the dispositions and guessing what the writer thought is ...inefficient.

 

[MajorMace]

If you are a Priest or Paladin, you can't really afford to be all willy-nilly with the dispositions and guessing what the writer thought is ...inefficient.

This.
I tried going blind in poe1 at release back then, playing a paladin PC.
I had to pick the talent which nullifies the malus :shrug:

 

[Safav Hamon]

Dispositions don't do anything again? Shocking and unexpected.

They control hundreds of silent dialogue checks in game.

There's also a misconception that maxed out disposition = extra dialogue. Most silent disposition checks are mutually exclusive and tied to a specific number, so a player with only one maxed disposition will get relatively the same amount of extra dialogue as someone with every disposition maxed. Furthermore, having a maxed out disposition can have negative consequences. Some dialogue options will only succeed if your disposition is low enough.

 

[AwesomeButton]

The weapon Essense Interrupter is a little buggy.

After another attempt at the enchanted armor that gave me no loot and no XP, I intuited the reason. When you kill a target that has been hit with Essense Interrupter at least once, there is a random chance that a random creature will be spawned in its place and will be allied to the party.

When I was killing the enchanted armor this would spawn some creature, and thus the armor's dying animation would not play and a loot container would not display at the spot where it died.

Fuck. Well, at least I figured it out and killed the enchanted armor a third time, now with The Red Hand. And voila, the loot is there. Still no XP though. I guess this comes from some other bestiary pool.

EDIT: i just saw this has been reported last on 17 december, and it looks like it has been reported before.

 

[Reinhardt]

I'm regretting picking Abydon's challenge. Appreciate money sink, but overall it's more annoying than interesting and really messes with game pace if you play as melee party and don't go rest>spam strongest spells>rest again but trying to push your party to limit. In old city dungeon i've spent more time checking and repairing all characters equip after each fight than actually fighting. Also it cost me ~30k gold.

 

[FreeKaner]

I'm regretting picking Abydon's challenge. Appreciate money sink, but overall it's more annoying than interesting and really messes with game pace if you play as melee party and don't go rest>spam strongest spells>rest again but trying to push your party to limit. In old city dungeon i've spent more time checking and repairing all characters equip after each fight than actually fighting. Also it cost me ~30k gold.

The way it's implemented is very annoying. It should have been in the rest interface not enchant for each individual item, the wear down should have also been exponential in malus instead of the linear anti-quality.

 

[AwesomeButton]

The best part is that the more expensive the weapon, the more expensive the repair. That's actively discouraging you from using or upgrading unique weapons.

 

[Reinhardt]

Yeah, it's fine for most Deadfire content i.e. single room islands, bounties or ship boarding, when you fight once, grab all that fine/exceptional/superb loot for sale which cover repair cost and done with it but something longer and it becomes really tedious and most of the time just not worth it.

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

really tedious and most of the time just not worth it.

so like the rest of the game then.

 

[Grunker]

The best part is that the more expensive the weapon, the more expensive the repair. That's actively discouraging you from using or upgrading unique weapons.

Let me tell you about adra ban

 

[Riddler]

The best part is that the more expensive the weapon, the more expensive the repair. That's actively discouraging you from using or upgrading unique weapons.

Let me tell you about adra ban

There are plenty of other upgrade items though (dragon loot, final boss in SSS etc.) but I see your point.

 

[AwesomeButton]

The best part is that the more expensive the weapon, the more expensive the repair. That's actively discouraging you from using or upgrading unique weapons.

Let me tell you about adra ban

Tell me if it can be bought at some merchant. I believe it can only be found in the world.