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

[Lord Carlos Wafflebum]

Bet's on. What will be the signature for the loser?

I'll PM you your new signature come March 26. I think it'll reflect your fanboyism of some other things...

What could be worse than being a plant?

 

[AwesomeButton]

FFS

area looting should be in the backer beta update btw ~* #pillarsofeternity

Look at the bright side - most of the BB community will be able to try it out and vocally denounce it as a shit mechanic. I hope we convince them to cut it out from the final game.

So, any guesses on what's the next step? I'm thinking about auto pickpocket radius. I mean why not, saves you the trouble of walking up to NPCs, right.

 

[Bleed the Man]

I have few "grognardy" requests, and an individual looting system would be one of them, but area looting isn't, in any way, shape, or form, something bad.

Seriously, what's the issue? I'm going to be a little annoyed if they remove completely the individual looting system and don't let it stay as an option, but area loot the only thing it does is making looting quicker by not making you go from corpse to corpse.

 

[J_C]

Bet's on. What will be the signature for the loser?

I'll PM you your new signature come March 26. I think it'll reflect your fanboyism of some other things...

What could be worse than being a plant?

Being Lord Carlos Wafflebum?

 

[AwesomeButton]

I have few "grognardy" requests, and an individual looting system would be one of them, but area looting isn't, in any way, shape, or form, something bad.

Seriously, what's the issue? I'm going to be a little annoyed if they remove completely the individual looting system and don't let it stay as an option, but area loot the only thing it does is making looting quicker by not making you go from corpse to corpse.

Personally, I get a feeling of reward when looting freshly killed corpses. And they are taking that away now.

 

[Sensuki]

FFS

area looting should be in the backer beta update btw ~* #pillarsofeternity

Look at the bright side - most of the BB community will be able to try it out and vocally denounce it as a shit mechanic. I hope we convince them to cut it out from the final game.

So, any guesses on what's the next step? I'm thinking about auto pickpocket radius. I mean why not, saves you the trouble of walking up to NPCs, right.

The majority will prefer area looting. We may be able to mod it out, as we keep all of the code from previous versions. Bester has the right to be the most angry though as he is the guy that will have to change it back.

 

[coffeetable]

Personally, I get a feeling of reward when looting freshly killed corpses.

lol

 

[Sensuki]

BTW Area loot did not make it into the BB

I don't think the area loot got into the Backer Beta build on time. But it will make it for release. The new BB is a few days old at this point (and not today's build), thus the confusion.

 

[Athelas]

Ask him if it allows you to loot bodies individually if you want to.

 

[ushas]

Hm. Thanks for info. I guess, as a new feature, it will be full of bugs. So we can still try to propose possible changes even after release...

 

[J_C]

Ask him if it allows you to loot bodies individually if you want to.

Did it right now. Bester You can start thinking about that sig for me.

when you click on a corpse, it groups that corpse with all others within 3m. that's the only way corpse looting works now.

 

[Sensuki]

If you want optional area loot, *maaaybe* there's a chance we can force it to be optional - http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/70923-area-looting-confirmed/

 

[Weirdstuffinspace]

you guys think it's fun to loot individual bodies, but no... no it's not.

 

[Jezal_k23]

For me it's basically just an ease of life feature that does no harm whatsoever. I have no real attachment to the feeling of looting each body individually.

 

[J_C]

you guys think it's fun to loot individual bodies, but no... no it's not.

 

[Roguey]

If you open basicly the whole map's loot containers, than it is shit.

This was one of the greatest features of Jagged Alliance 2.

Number of people/containers I individually looted in JA2: Fucking zero (though you do have to open the containers first).

 

[J_C]

If you open basicly the whole map's loot containers, than it is shit.

This was one of the greatest features of Jagged Alliance 2.

Number of people/containers I individually looted in JA2: Fucking zero.

Well it was a useful option but I rarely used it. For me it was like: I killed a group, I looted them. Then I killed another group, I looted them. I haven't waited with the looting until I killed everybody on the map and looting everything at the same time.

 

[Sensuki]

Downloading nao

 

[Zed]

I like area/AoE loot.

With area loot, they could make the loot glows a little more discreet too.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

Look at the bright side - most of the BB community will be able to try it out and vocally denounce it as a shit mechanic. I hope we convince them to cut it out from the final game.

No, just look at this thread, most people love this modern crap.

So, any guesses on what's the next step? I'm thinking about auto pickpocket radius. I mean why not, saves you the trouble of walking up to NPCs, right.

Heh, I guess they didn't tell you... poe has no pickpocketing lol, cause it goes against Sawyer's definition of fun.

By the way, I was looking at some related mechanics - such as methods called when you steal from somebody's chest, and it'd be possible to mod pickpocketing in based on those mechanics.

 

[Roguey]

Didn't know 1999 was modern, hee.

 

[Shevek]

You can mod in additional skills (pickpocketting, etc)? Or would it use existing skills for the check?

 

[AN4RCHID]

Josh Sawyer ‏@jesawyer 38m38 minutes ago
@dragon_83_ when you click on a corpse, it groups that corpse with all others within 3m. that's the only way corpse looting works now.

So at least it's a small area.

 

[tuluse]

Didn't know 1999 was modern, hee.

Cue Sawyer quote about Fallout 1 fans?

 

[Infinitron]

Fuckton of new player portraits (some are "palette swapped", though)