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

[Lacrymas]

Too bad we couldn't reach the sea monsters stretch goal, that way the sailing wouldn't have been such nothingness. Now that I think about it, however, they probably would've been a part of the sea battles interface and not creatures you fight with your party, so maybe we didn't actually lose anything.

 

[Daidre]

Too bad we couldn't reach the sea monsters stretch goal, that way the sailing wouldn't have been such nothingness. Now that I think about it, however, they probably would've been a part of the sea battles interface and not creatures you fight with your party, so maybe we didn't actually lose anything.

Knowing Obsidian they would have tried to do something cool, failed, rolled back all their attempts, replaced it with textbooks and ended up with the main story not 4 but 3 quests long.

 

[NJClaw]

Too bad we couldn't reach the sea monsters stretch goal, that way the sailing wouldn't have been such nothingness. Now that I think about it, however, they probably would've been a part of the sea battles interface and not creatures you fight with your party, so maybe we didn't actually lose anything.

Mh, I would still take the illustrations.

 

[Ulysa]

I don't often go looking for romances in games, since most are cringy as hell, but well I'm in my second playthough and I was thinking that an Eothas romance would've been interesting. There's already a natural connection. .

 

[Haplo]

Hehe, so after so much patching and balancing, a monk's Swift Flurry can still proc of itself (and off Heartbeat Drumming, if sufficiently high level).
Vs low Deflection enemies and/or with buffed Attack that can lead to like 4 hits instead of 1. Or maybe 8. And squishies simply explode... And I don't even have Heartbeat Drumming yet...

Monks are fun! Shadowdancers too, btw.

 

[Haplo]

Like this:

 

[2house2fly]

I was making cool soulbound weapons with individual abilities for every level of every class and my PC crashed and I lost an ENTIRE weapon s' upgrades and no recovery options work. I have to start the full thing from scratch! Fuck! Maybe I should do soulbounds more like thje actual game, where they have like one unique effect per class and that's it. IU'm drubk and upset.

 

[Dodo1610]

Is it a bug or does the Sawyer fun police really prevent you from placing more than one trap at a time?

 

[MajorMace]

1 by character

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

Two important things to say here.

1. "GIRLS PLAY VIDEO GAMES TOO! IN FACT 70% GAMERS ARE GIRLS ACCORDING TO A (((STUDY)))"
2. This shit has been announced what, 4 years ago? Years later, only 10 people bothered playing POE on some hard difficulty. Game sucks, nobody plays it. Flop.

 

[Infinitron]

The Ultimate achievement for Deadfire was added to the game in May 2019: https://rpgcodex.net/article.php?id=11142

It's more than "some hard difficulty", it's a Nintendo-hard insane mode for autists. It took three months for the first person to achieve it: https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/1159625874099982336

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

insane mode for autists

three months for the first person to achieve it

Three months for some random loser who just bothered to play the game in the first place *zzzZZzzzzzZZZz*

Some records here took years to achieve:



This one took 20:

 

[Roguey]

1. "GIRLS PLAY VIDEO GAMES TOO! IN FACT 70% GAMERS ARE GIRLS ACCORDING TO A (((STUDY)))"

Min Kim and Yue Dai are both gender neutral names. When it comes to women, only autistic Asians would have the fortitude to go through this.

(by the way, Korean and Chinese.... Black Cat and Lilura? )

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

Min Kim and Yue Dai are both gender neutral names. When it comes to women, only autistic Asians would have the fortitude to go through this.

I know. For the sake of argument, let's assume one of them is female. That's female audience for you.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

So I'm thinking about replaying this, are there mods worth trying?

 

[oldmanpaco]

So I'm thinking about replaying this, are there mods worth trying?

https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/89

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

It's not exactly what I had in mind, but I'll take it, never enough butts. :D

 

[vortex]

So I'm thinking about replaying this, are there mods worth trying?

I'm waiting for Director's cut edition.

 

[Thac0]

You don't even need to mod the game to get naked. There is a bath towel you can add over a console command. It is usually autoequipped in the bathhouse only, and equipping it makes all your characters fully nude.

 

[Diggfinger]

Like this:

is that Path of the Damned Difficulty?

 

[Haplo]

Like this:

is that Path of the Damned Difficulty?

Sure, don't remember playing anything else in PoE2.

Of course, my chars were a bit overleveled for the area, I guess.

Mostly you notice 3-4 Swift Flurry Crit chains on a semi-regular basis. Still do a lot more damage per hit now (Deathblows and much stronger lashes), so the total damage per flurry can be pretty similar.

 

[Haplo]

So I'm thinking about replaying this, are there mods worth trying?

Community Patch is a rather safe and conservative balancing/improvement effort:
https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/335

If you're open to more changes, sometimes slightly more daring (but still usually not gamechanging), you can also install Deadfire Balance Polishing mod on top:
https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/438

 

[Lacrymas]

That community patch is all buffs though, with which I don't really agree. The most egregious change is -10 Deflection instead of +50% recovery on the sabre modal, that makes them probably the best weapon in the game by far.

 

[Haplo]

...provided that you want to ignore defenses. -10 Deflection is huge for a defensive minded character.
Eder is portrayed as a sabre user, but I'd rarely use that modal on him. My current main char Forbidden Fist / Trickster often uses sabres - but I also never use the modal.

Please note modals are treated as "active" abilities and don't stack - with food bonuses (Hot Razor Skewers) or activated abilities/spells (Thunderous Blows, Champion's Boon).

Modals are much better/more useful on weapons, where they are actually unique (or damn strong in case of accuracy bonuses) - such as morningstar, flail, club, rod, hunting bow, arbalest, crossbow, arquebus, rapier, pistol, shields, pike.

I consider the Community Patch very nice. It buffs some sad abilities to become actually useful - such as Uncanny Luck providing 10% Crit conversion (instead of 5%) or Improved Critical boosting critical damage (additive) by +15% (instead of +10%).

 

[Vityaz]

So I'm thinking about replaying this, are there mods worth trying?

I just use the mod that enables the 6th party slot, like in POE1.

https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/288

Can't say I've noticed any balance breakage, at least not in my experience.