Pillars of Eternity Beta Discussion [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[J_C]

Hey, sewers are good, don't piss on my place of living!

 

[Athelas]

They just had to have a sewer level, I guess. I hope the companions will at least acknowledge the fact that they're, you know, wading through shit.

The game looks beautiful, and even better in motion than it does on screenshots. Can't wait to see what they do with a less conservative setting.

 

[Rostere]

I am asking him about it on Something Awful. Anyway here's another screeny - cool items and stuff.

Oooo - fashion!

 

[Maculo]

Oh good, for a moment I was worried that we would not have a full sewer level in an RPG.

 

[Infinitron]

Sewer-running, kiddo. Takin' a crawl through the urban man's dungeon, alright?

 

[Sensuki]

That dungeon isn't actually urban.

 

[Infinitron]

New Royal Edition of Pillars of Eternity available for pre-order on GOG: http://af.gog.com/game/pillars_of_eternity_royal_edition?as=1649904300

Pillars of Eternity: Royal Edition is the biggest, richest, and completest pre-order package for the long-awaited spiritual successor to a beloved heroic fantasy RPG saga. Available now for pre-orders on GOG.com, for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Recapture the deep sense of exploration, the joy of a pulsating adventure, and the thrill of leading your own band of companions across a new fantasy realm and into the depths of monster-infested dungeons in search of lost treasures and ancient mysteries. Beautiful pre-rendered environments laced with an engaging story and characters that bring the world to life wait to be discovered!

Pillars of Eternity: Royal Edition packs in even more bonus content that is unavailable anywhere else. Four pieces of exclusive Royal Edition goodies will be yours right away:

A digital novella by Chris Avellone

Collector's Book PDF

High-resolution Concept Art pieces

Digital Strategy Guide
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Gather your goodies and venture forth with Pillars of Eternity: Royal Edition. But if that's overwhelming, you can always pre-order the fantastic Pillars of Eternity: Champion Edition or basic Hero Edition of the game, DRM-free, on GOG.com!

I imagine it'll show up on Steam later on. Actually, the mention of the MCA novella makes me think we're gonna get a KS update soon.

 

[LESS T_T]

It's also on Paradox Store: https://www.paradoxplaza.com/pillars-of-eternity-royal-edition

Hmm, I don't think I ever saw those screenshots...

 

[Sensuki]

Yeah they're new. Just looked at them myself.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Great composition in this screenshot, the art is quite good.

 

[Infinitron]

Here are all the new screenshots:

 

[Infinitron]

In addition to those, I found these weird GOG-exclusive(?) screenshots on the Hero/Champion Edition that I hadn't noticed before:

 

[Athelas]

Recapture the deep sense of exploration, the joy of a pulsating adventure, and the thrill of leading your own band of companions across a new fantasy realm and into the depths of monster-infested dungeons in search of lost treasures and ancient mysteries. Beautiful pre-rendered environments laced with an engaging story and characters that bring the world to life wait to be discovered!

Notably absent from this description: tactical combat.

Hey, at least they're being honest.

 

[Sensuki]

BAdler is currently posting in the PE Announcements, probably about the Champion Edition or whatever.

 

[Sensuki]

New Update actually: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/70039-update-88-final-sprint-and-release-date/#entry1557176

End of March, as expected

 

[Infinitron]

MARCH 2015! Fucking called it.

 

[Rostere]

I could have sworn I read March 26th somewhere...

 

[Infinitron]

I could have sworn I read March 26th somewhere...

Not 26th, but: http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/28-219/Pillars-of-Eternity-Guidebook-Volume-One-HC

 

[Duraframe300]

Update by Brandon Adler, Lead Producer



Hello, everyone. As most of you know, the Eternity team has been hard at work squashing bugs and polishing the game for release. Every day the build is getting better and we are inching closer to when we can share the full game with you. We have some important information for you, such as the...



... Release Date!

If you have been waiting for word on a release date, the Pillars of Eternity team has some exciting news for you. The final game will be released on March 26th, 2015! At that time you will be able to purchase it "for reals" on Steam, GOG, and other online retailers.



This is also when we will be posting information about how you can redeem your game (and other backer rewards) on our Backer Portal.

If you’d like to make sure your order is correct, you can visit the Orders tab in your Account Profile. Any order there listed as “confirmed” is what we currently have confirmed for you. You can click on orders specifically to get more detail about your completed pledge.



If you’re a backer getting physical goods, we’ll be sending an e-mail around the end of February that will ask you to confirm your shipping address for us. You can verify and edit your address now if you’ve recently moved. We’ll keep you posted on when we’ll need final address edits!



Leads Meeting

Our Executive Producer and Lead Programmer, Adam Brennecke, shot some footage of our leads meeting yesterday. We thought you guys might get a kick out of seeing one of our daily meetings. I can't promise the most riveting 20 minutes, but it will give you a bit of insight into what we do every morning.







Sprint to the Finish

In these last few months the team is laser-focused on a few keys areas:

• Polishing and Bugs. The entire team is busy fixing as many bugs as possible. We are also going through the existing content and polishing it up – check out the brigandine!

• Finalization of... Everything. We are also in the process of finalizing everything from backer reward items to game boxes. It is quite a bit of stuff, but we are making great progress and everything is on track for the release date.
• Showing Off the Game. In addition to finishing up the game and everything else surrounding it, we are also going to be showing off the game. We will be doing a live stream tomorrow at 1pm PST (21:00 GMT), on Paradox's Twitch page. Also look for us at PAX South later this month and PAX East in March (PAX East isn't confirmed yet) where some of the Pillars team will be giving a preview of the game and answering panel questions. It may even be live streamed!

That's it for now, be on the lookout for our next update where we go over backer rewards (including redemption on our Backer Portal).

 

[Rahdulan]

They certainly look less then I expected them to.

 

[Raghar]

MARCH 2015! Fucking called it.

I would be heavily playing GTA V.

 

[Sensuki]

Now that the release date has been announced, I can finally do my PE Codex Preview.

 

[J_C]

I miss the great, interesting fun updates of Larian. I know the guys are at work, but Larian constantly gave us great video updates. The PoE updates in the last 5 months were boring. They scrapped the video updates, which were very interesting when they did it at the start of the project.

 

[Sensuki]

We get a documentary soon though.

 

[Zed]

I don't think Obsidian are doing a solid UI.