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Not even gay.com gaming subforum would spend half of 100+ page thread talking about bisexuality of the companions.gay.com gaming subforum
Not even gay.com gaming subforum would spend half of 100+ page thread talking about bisexuality of the companions.gay.com gaming subforum
Beta boys like you would be out dying in the field. Don't tell me you've ever dreamed of being the Grand Vizier.I want everyone to respect my cultural traditions and right to have harems as I participate in aggressive conquest. Thank you for your concern.
It's not just the hitting on the PC thing. Maia, Serafen, and fishboy bring up in regular dialogues how they are DTF anything and everything. It's especially out of character for Maia, this supposedly hyper disciplined soldier, to immediately start sharing her sexual depravities with her new captain. And the fact that they're all bisexual just drives home how they were written to pander. New Vegas handled this fine with Cass and Arcade.You only know they're bisexual because you read about it on the Internet, the bisexuality as such is a non-issue. These are for all intents and purposes gay romance options.
I have more respect for people who own up to being squicked out by teh homos then to all this fake pretension about "bad writing".
The real bad writing is the concept of RPG romances in general, gay or straight. I mean I guess the gay romances are a bit worse simply because most players can't imagine themselves engaging in them in real life under any circumstance, but that seems like a difference of degree rather than kind.
Don try to twist my words. I said people in general, not me. I'm obviously used to this kind of thing, otherwhise I would not read the Codex. The difference between you and me is that I can put myself in other people's shoes. You can't.
I think it's bad writing because it cheapens the companions, they stop feeling like real people in the world are become this tool merely there for the pleasure of the player. It'd be one thing it was established that everyone in Eora is bisexual but you're telling me that out of 7 or 8 companions I meet, they're all bisexual? What are the odds?Folks don't be dishonest, you don't care about the companions being "bisexual", you care about male companions wanting to fuck your male PC
You only know they're bisexual because you read about it on the Internet, the bisexuality as such is a non-issue. These are for all intents and purposes gay romance options.
I have more respect for people who own up to being squicked out by teh homos then to all this fake pretension about "bad writing".
The real bad writing is the concept of RPG romances in general, gay or straight. I mean I guess the gay romances are a bit worse simply because most players can't imagine themselves engaging in them in real life under any circumstance, but that seems like a difference of degree rather than kind.
Anyway, PoE1 had hundreds of pages long threads on the Obsidian forums whining about romances, so this is what you get.
It's not just the hitting on the PC thing. Maia, Serafen, and fishboy bring up in regular dialogues how they are DTF anything and everything. It's especially out of character for Maia, this supposedly hyper disciplined soldier, to immediately start sharing her sexual depravities with her new captain. And the fact that they're all bisexual just drives home how they were written to pander. New Vegas handled this fine with Cass and Arcade.You only know they're bisexual because you read about it on the Internet, the bisexuality as such is a non-issue. These are for all intents and purposes gay romance options.
I have more respect for people who own up to being squicked out by teh homos then to all this fake pretension about "bad writing".
The real bad writing is the concept of RPG romances in general, gay or straight. I mean I guess the gay romances are a bit worse simply because most players can't imagine themselves engaging in them in real life under any circumstance, but that seems like a difference of degree rather than kind.
On another note, I've been thinking this game is really stingy on gold this whole time. I finally sold out my stash and got a fat 10,000 deadfire bucks so I finally had some spending money. Nope, 5 minutes later all my money is wiped out. smdh.
Also every time I level up, the third weapon slot gets reset to unarmed.
Besides this, I'm not finding it a very buggy game.
I don't even know if it is scarce, the game is deleting my moneyz randomly. I think when you get cash as a quest reward it resets your wealth to only that amount.Like PoE1 cash is hard early, this last longer than the 1st game , later on "trash" drops legendary XX which sells for 10k a pop.
No, you are confused. It’s one thing to criticise SJW pandering and their influence on culture. It’s another thing to criticise minorities sexual orientation, and it is still another thing to engage in autistic debates about cRPG minutiae, including writing, realism of the setting, etc. This can be hardly called a crusade. This what we do when we are not shitposting. I’m sorry that you are so defensive due to other people’s prejudices, but you should stop and think before you make these associations.And because "people in general" have a problem, you are on a crusade to make those filthy bisexuals go away. Why are you trying to defend an obviously irrational position? Especially since you are so inclined towards the "facts"? Why don't you have a strong opinion on this and have to rely on what the "majority" of people think? I've made it perfectly clear that I'm against romances in games because, 99% of the time, they are cringey and creepy, so I don't have a personal stake in the romances in PoE2.
LMAOMy PC is a tiny Orlan, forgive me if I'm not thrilled about gigantic Aumaua putting his elephant-sized dick in my ass and all the way to my liver.
Someone explain this fucking math to me please. No matter what I do with those numbers, it doesn't add up.
The game adds all coefficients together. Bonuses, maluses, doesn't matter.
In PoE1 it worked fine, since there weren't enough big maluses.
While in Deadfire a similar approach would lead to negative damage on under-penetrating graze.
A lazy workaround could be to limit the damage at 0, or 20% of original value.
A better way would be to divide sum_of_bonuses by sum_of_maluses (all numbers being positive, so the result will be positive as well, plus it ends up with meaningful result).
But Deadfire went on the path of double-inversion. Which personally I see as math shenanigans, as they use different sub-formulas for bonuses and maluses, and do not cancel-out nicely if they have same absolute values. Specifically, imagine that you have:
+25% action speed from Frenzy, which translates into 1.25 speed coefficient; and
-25% action speed from Arbalest's modal, which translates into 0.75 speed coefficient
The game takes 1.25 and transforms it into +0.25 (step_value) via [coef - 1] formula
The game takes 0.75 and transforms it into -0.(3) (step_value) via [1 - 1/coef] formula
Now it adds them together: step_sum = 0.25 - 0.333333 = -0.083333
And after that computes the final coefficient:
- if step_sum is greater than 0: final_coef = step_sum + 1
- if step_sum is less than 0: final_coef = 1 / (1 - step_sum)
In our case it's the later, thus final_coef = 1 / (1 - -0.083333) = 0.92
And finnaly: phase_time = base_phase_time / final_coef
So if you had 6s reload; with Frenzy and Arbalest's modal you will have 6.52s, even if one effect was giving you +25% action speed, and another -25% action speed.
P.S. We call it double inversion because:
- individual malus coefficients are inverted when computing their individual step values
- if step_sum is below zero, it is inverted in order to get final coefficient
there's nothing inherently wrong with boss phases imo. just because MMOs popularized them (did they?) doesn't make it a bad thing.So I just had my first dragon fight on veteran, rendered completely trivial and ridicule by the general undertuning of enemy's stats.
the encounter design is straight out of an mmo, to make it worse. With safe spots, phases depending on the boss health etc... meeeeh