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

[IHaveHugeNick]

One thing that still fucking infuriates me is how soundtracks always cuts in retarded ways. I'm swimming around, enjoying the shanties and then , WHAM, they stop playing because I stepped out of the ship for 2 seconds to pick up some fruit. The same goes with rest of the soundtrack. It's pretty bad in and of itself, but it doesn't help that I never get to hear the whole track, like, any of them, before they cut.

Fucking hell what a retarded design. I started another run because I gotta beat SSS with level scaling, but eventually I just ended up playing the soundtrack from the mp3s with the game muted.

Get your shit together Obsidian.

 

[Grunker]

Is there a way to make a monk's AI cast a summon (i.e. The Dichotomous Soul) whenever he has wounds for it and it isn't cast already? I can figure the first part out, but not how to avoid my monk just spamming it right after finishing the first cast, if he has enough wounds.

 

[Haplo]

I think you can add a delay to commands?

 

[Grunker]

Great, just what I was looking for.

 

[Safav Hamon]

One thing that still fucking infuriates me is how soundtracks always cuts in retarded ways. I'm swimming around, enjoying the shanties and then , WHAM, they stop playing because I stepped out of the ship for 2 seconds to pick up some fruit. The same goes with rest of the soundtrack. It's pretty bad in and of itself, but it doesn't help that I never get to hear the whole track, like, any of them, before they cut.

Fucking hell what a retarded design. I started another run because I gotta beat SSS with level scaling, but eventually I just ended up playing the soundtrack from the mp3s with the game muted.

Get your shit together Obsidian.

They turned reactive music off by default in the last patch. Check your settings.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Too bad it still cuts in retarded ways.

 

[AwesomeButton]

One thing that still fucking infuriates me is how soundtracks always cuts in retarded ways. I'm swimming around, enjoying the shanties and then , WHAM, they stop playing because I stepped out of the ship for 2 seconds to pick up some fruit. The same goes with rest of the soundtrack. It's pretty bad in and of itself, but it doesn't help that I never get to hear the whole track, like, any of them, before they cut.

Fucking hell what a retarded design. I started another run because I gotta beat SSS with level scaling, but eventually I just ended up playing the soundtrack from the mp3s with the game muted.

Get your shit together Obsidian.

They turned reactive music off by default in the last patch. Check your settings.

I think "reactive music" only means that the track will react to whether you are sneaking or walking, by including more instruments into the melody. There is a post by Justin Bell on the Obsidian forum. Reactive music also add changes to music at certain dialogue junctions. Damned if I ever felt the effects of any of this. The music in this game is a huge wasted opportunity, real shame.

In other news:
Practicing perfect tactical discipline, I beat the final encounter in Poko Kohara, only get slaughtered by 1 greater sand blight, 4 sand blights and 2 sand beetles upon taking the fast exit from the dungeon's last level to the surface. I'm really not feeling like it - I'll backtrack through the whole dungeon and use the front entrance instead of the quick exit so I don't have to run into that combat.

Also, the fact that an armor costing 26 000 cp can be damaged and ultimately destroyed in combat really makes you consider what gear to enter combat with. Whoever was crying about lack of long term resource management should check this out. I wonder if they'll actually implement the challenge where abilities are per rest only. It will quickly get crazy if played together with a couple of other challenges

 

[Heroic Liberator]

So this is the etymological origin of that meme storm made up by Sawyer whose name I can't spell.

 

[Grunker]

lol

 

[2house2fly]

No, this is

 

[AwesomeButton]

'Wick' means "village" in old German (I believe) and is an equivalent of the Latin 'vicus'. But I'm not sure if Bîaŵac has anything to do with "wick", could be a coincidence. Pillars' Glanfathan is based on Gaelic languages (Cornish, Welsh, Irish), so the etymology could be completely different.

 

[Grunker]

A pox and a kick in the balls to whoever designed the Waidwen-section of Beast of Winter. Christ that was like being locked inside a room for a week with only GD to keep me company

 

[Safav Hamon]

That's the best quest in the DLC

 

[Grunker]

I sincerely hope you're kidding. I can't even take jokes like that right now

 

[Grunker]

Also what's with the fights in this place? The smooth - if perhaps easier compared to PoE1 - challenges of the main game have so far been substituted with HP sponges that pose no significant long term threat but take forever to bring down. I guess this was what you were talking about, Prime Junta?

The only satisfying fight so far were the frost shades that rushed your back line and spawned Greater Ice Blights when they died. That was cool.

 

[BEvers]

Even metacritic doesn't care anymore:

 

[Safav Hamon]

I sincerely hope you're kidding. I can't even take jokes like that right now

No. I thought it was a fantastic quest all around. I'm not alone in that opinion either.

 

[Grunker]

Did you also like how you have to wait for a boring animation then a loading screen about 17.000 thousand times even if you're sure about what to do, and woe to you if you aren't?

 

[AwesomeButton]

When I start getting annoyed by such things, for me it means I'm rushing through the game. Maybe take a little break and come back in the evening?

 

[2house2fly]

Even metacritic doesn't care anymore:

Nobody's going to review the free DLC which gives you three more player portraits to crew your ship and a green steering wheel

 

[BEvers]

Even metacritic doesn't care anymore:

Nobody's going to review the free DLC which gives you three more player portraits to crew your ship and a green steering wheel

I don't think anybody expected them to review it, but don't you see another issue there?

 

[Safav Hamon]

Fan reception to the DLC has been mostly positive. Only negatives I've heard outside the codex is that it's too short, there are too many puzzles, and it's too hard (particularly Neriscylas).

 

[JarlFrank]

Even metacritic doesn't care anymore:

Nobody's going to review the free DLC which gives you three more player portraits to crew your ship and a green steering wheel

I don't think anybody expected them to review it, but don't you see another issue there?

Obviously the DLC adds playable lizardmen pirates, I see no issue there.

 

[2house2fly]

Oh, ha. The free DLC is called Scalawags, so they're 0/2

 

[Grunker]

lol, I literally can't beat Neriscyrlas. It's not that it kills me. Quite the contrary. It's that once I get Neriscyrlas to the 50% hp trigger where she activates Llengrath's Safeguard, neither of us can kill the other. After 30 full minutes on the final try I just went fuck it. I can get her to about 25% at which point she heals back up.

I'm sorry but the encounter design in this DLC went down the drain. I don't mind losing to a build/gear/level/tactics check by being raped, but it speaks to a flaw when neither side can hurt the other. Most fights in the DLC (again, excepting the frost shades which were cool) have been push-overs, but very long push-overs due to mob-tankyness.

A far cry from White March's first, excellent dragon fight that had you juggling scary, jumpy adds while you attempted to decide what you focused on meanwhile having to kill the dragon itself fast enough to avoid getting AoE'd to death.