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

[FreeKaner]

this doesn't look too fair.

For which side? It's actually a p. evenly matched encounter. The cavalry cannot match the musketmen which have better firepower due numbers and the cavalry can't close on the muskets due the pikes. Ranged light cavalry is good for harassing but not much else and will be withered down quickly in an actual firefight due relatively low numbers and pistols being weaker in range, accuracy and impact. Pistols also can't penetrate breastplates at a range which muskets can. The advantage of the horse pistols is their speed and hit&run tactics, in which they will close the distance, fire a volley and move away before the infantry can properly react.

 

[Jarpie]

WTF: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/...eternity-ii-deadfire-coming-to-consoles.aspx?

Pillars Of Eternity II: Deadfire Coming To Consoles

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is nearing completion for PC, Mac, and Linux, with a release planned for April 3. For players without a dedicated gaming PC, you can still look forward to a chance to try out this sequel, as Game Informer has learned that Deadfire is set to come to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch during the holiday season of 2018.

While Obsidian heads up primary development duties for Pillars II on PC, the game is being ported to consoles by developer Red Cerberus. Versus Evil and Obsidian are working together to publish the game.

For more on Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, check out our four-page feature in the latest issue of Game Informer, releasing today.

Our Take
The original Pillars of Eternity was a fantastic isometric role-playing game, and there’s good reason to believe that its sequel will continue the tradition of excellence. The original game released last summer for Xbox One and PlayStation 4; it’s good news that console players won’t have to wait quite so long for the sequel. Undoubtedly, Nintendo enthusiasts should also be excited to see the game heading to the Switch, a platform that is still establishing its cred as a role-playing game destination.

lol did Josh know about this? This is what he says in the TheSixthAxis preview: http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2018/02/06/taking-to-the-high-seas-in-pillars-of-eternity-ii-deadfire/

For those on console, looking to continue their journey from the first game, it might be a long wait, if it happens at all. The first game’s port was created by a team at Paradox Interactive, but Obsidian have partnered with a different publisher for the sequel. Even so, Josh said, “I think there’s the possibility for it, but what I’ve said, and this is honest, is that everything we focus on for this game is about PC, Mac and Linux. Clearly Paradox Arctic showed you can port this style of game to console, and to their credit it seems like the people that bought it on console really seemed to enjoy it. Whether or not the audience is there, I don’t know because I don’t have the sales figures, so I would say nothing would prohibit the game being on console, but the main platforms are PC, Mac and Linux.

Obsidian strikes again.

 

[Lacrymas]

Like I said before, the game doesn't feel like it has been "retrofitted" to better play on consoles. It's actually worse to play on consoles because you have to click more. The changes they've made is not due to consoles, it's due to their own futile attempts to cater to both grognards and normies.

 

[Vexxt]

Is there even an audience for a game like this on console?

 

[Lacrymas]

Probably, given that they tested the viability with PoE1 on consoles.

 

[Ent]

How do you even play a game like this on console? Are there a ton of Radial menus?

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Sentinel]

♫ Suddenly, I'm not half the game I could be
There's a system hanging over me
Oh, Sawyer, I just wanted D&D ♫

 

[Lacrymas]

Why is he playing a Fighter/Wizard? He should be playing a straight-up Wizard to see how terrible they truly are. At least without spamming Empower and resting after every fight, but even then it's gimmicky.

 

[Ulfhednar]

Yesterday
Zork was such an easy game to play...
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in Yesterday.

 

[Sentinel]

Because conceptually Fighter/Wizard strikes the perfect balance between the martial and the arcane arts.

 

[Lacrymas]

So what? The Fighter is completely carrying this combination and I'm afraid he'll miss the forest for the fighter trees.

 

[Ulfhednar]

Isn't Aloth along for the ride?

 

[Sentinel]

So what? The Fighter is completely carrying this combination and I'm afraid he'll miss the forest for the fighter trees.

It was a joke about balance.

 

[Lacrymas]

Ah. You should've italicized balance then. ;D

 

[Ramnozack]

Honestly unless it's actually LOTR or Forgotten realms people need to stop forcing Dwarves/Gnomes/random cliche shorties into every setting. The tinge of cliche is just annoying.

Thats a grudgin, manling.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Now this is a story all about how,
My life got flipped turned upside down
Now I'd like to take a minute here by the wire
To tell you how Josh Sawyer has ruined Deadfire.

West Wisconsin, born and raised.
MS Excel is how he spends most of his days.
Balancing, abstracting and sometimes subtracting.

When a couple of devs who were up to no good
Tried to make a game with a D&D mood
Josh went and balanced their every desire
And that's how Josh Sawyer has ruined Deadfire.

 

[Infinitron]

More secret codes: https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/95782-worldofeternity-funny-business-speculation/?p=1977200

Hey. Know what always makes me feel better? More mystery codes!!!!

Here's number 7!

KFK5Lj

Code 8, courtesy of ManifestedISO. RMaM4A

Another code if no one saw it:

Look in the lower right corner on the wooden railing. "XQrdGv"

What counts, the date the magazine is released, or the date the cover was "shown"/"announced".

Aside from XQrdGv on the front page of UK PC Gamer, the issue also features the screenshots with RMaM4A and KFK5Lj on pages 43 and 45.

I wonder what further mysteries the US edition, or other magazine features might bring us...

More of these are GOG keys, but apparently that's fairly common with random strings.

 

[imweasel]

Spoiler

Now this is a story all about how,
My life got flipped turned upside down
Now I'd like to take a minute here by the wire
To tell you how Josh Sawyer has ruined Deadfire.

West California, born and raised.
MS Excel is how he spends most of his days.
Balancing, abstracting and sometimes subtracting.

When a couple of devs who were up to no good
Tried to make a game with a D&D mood
Josh went and balanced their every desire
And that's how Josh Sawyer has ruined Deadfire.

Sawyer is from Wisconsin, but the rest is sound.

Calling it now. Max 400K sold copies and there will never be a PoE 3 because of diminishing returns. Infinitron would subsequently hang himself because Sawyerism would have failed.

 

[Lacrymas]

So, are we getting free copies from these codes or what?

 

[Infinitron]

So, are we getting free copies from these codes or what?

Nobody can figure out what they are! They may have gone too far with this ARG after how easily people solved the last one (the DEADFIRE letters in the countdown to the Fig campaign last year).

 

[CptMace]

Is there a list of these codes somewhere ? On reddit maybe ? I'm eager to crack that case with my superhuman mental capacities.
It'd be cool if they hid some of those in the actual game's backgrounds, m&m gold message style. Leading us to a pirate treasure or something. I guess I'm fabulously optimistic...

 

[Infinitron]

Is there a list of these codes somewhere ? On reddit maybe ? I'm eager to crack that case with my superhuman mental capacities.

Yeah, Ethics Gradient is keeping track of them in the OP of that thread: https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/95782-worldofeternity-funny-business-speculation/

 

[CptMace]

Looks like they're just redeeming codes for GOG after all.

 

[Infinitron]

Looks like they're just redeeming codes for GOG after all.

As I said it might be a coincidence, it's apparently remarkably easy to accidentally create a GOG key.

https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/95782-worldofeternity-funny-business-speculation/?p=1977634

Yep. GOG accepts random letters. I just closed my eyes and pressed randomly on my keyboard and got Witcher 3: Wild Hunt as a result.

askldj~

GOG redeeming is probably not related.