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

[Alienman]

 

[Prime Junta]

There is way too much good cheer in this thread.

Let's talk about balance and degenerate strategies. That ought to sort it out.

 

[Lacrymas]

It's not even leaked on the Russian sites, something seems fishy to me, since even random indies have EA releases up.

There are some comparatively high-profile releases that also don't have ...demo versions on Russian sites, like the standalone expansion to HoMM7. So, yeah, it's weird.

 

[FreeKaner]

It's not even leaked on the Russian sites, something seems fishy to me, since even random indies have EA releases up.

There are some comparatively high-profile releases that also don't have ...demo versions on Russian sites, like the standalone expansion to HoMM7. So, yeah, it's weird.

A real slav does not play beyond HoMM3 that's why.

 

[Infinitron]

It is possible that the unavailability of the PoE2 beta on torrent sites correlates with a decline of videogame piracy in general over the past few years. I haven't seen any numbers though.

 

[Jimmious]

It's not even leaked on the Russian sites, something seems fishy to me, since even random indies have EA releases up.

There are some comparatively high-profile releases that also don't have ...demo versions on Russian sites, like the standalone expansion to HoMM7. So, yeah, it's weird.

A real slav does not play beyond HoMM3 that's why.

He then starts creating his own Fallout clone

 

[Alienman]

Natural order of things.

 

[Lacrymas]

It is possible that the unavailability of the PoE2 beta on torrent sites correlates with a decline of videogame piracy in general over the past few years. I haven't seen any numbers though.

These are the only statistics that can be vaguely compared that I found -

https://www.havocscope.com/digital-piracy-united-kingdom/ 2013, 18% of people admitted to pirating entertainment. Only in the UK. According to this study, https://torrentfreak.com/media-companies-track-pirated-downloads-for-marketing-purposes-150218/ , pirating games is around 14% of pirated digital entertainment.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/745996/gamers-pirating-video-games/ 2016, 35% of people admitted to pirating PC games. Worldwide. The problem with comparing these studies is obviously the demographics being polled. This statistic is probably being aimed at PC gamers, while the other one is the population at large.

According to another study, https://www.pcgamer.com/the-state-of-pc-piracy-in-2016/, the most aggressive pirates are in the US, with comparatively poor countries, like those in Eastern Europe, representing a very minor subset of piracy. Soooo, make of that what you will.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

I would guess that currently piracy suffers from the same problem that entire PC market has. The market gets choked with the neverending flood of shovelware and sometimes even the legitimate games slip under the pirate radars.

 

[jungl]

Im pretty sure they delayed this a month so they can do their twitch marketing shilling. So many normie nerds in their 20-30s spend money going to this comic conventions and wasting time watching shit like critical role despite not seeing very few of the voice actors actual work in stuff lol. Now you got a thousands of nerd parroting about pillars of eternity 2 cause the critical role guys brought them up. Question is will they buy pillars 2? No xD

 

[Parabalus]

It is possible that the unavailability of the PoE2 beta on torrent sites correlates with a decline of videogame piracy in general over the past few years. I haven't seen any numbers though.

Denuvo and more games having an online component/frequent updates might be a factor - they made pirated games more akin to a demo, even for easy stuff like GoG it's a hassle to keep up with the latest version instead of paying a few bucks.

Reminds me of a Gaben quote:

“The people who are telling you that Russians pirate everything are the people who wait six months to localize their product into Russia,” said Newell. “It doesn't take much in terms of providing a better service to make pirates a non-issue.”

 

[Thonius]

As a russian I stopped pirate shit long time ago... sooooo. ( it's both games decline, increase in expandable income, lack of time, f2p games such as dota, mod scene, sales and steam)
And to pirate demo/beta you gotta be a hardass fan. I'm sure beta is somewhere in the webz... you just have to search at a right place.

 

[Quillon]

lol dat durance

 

[Prime Junta]

lol dat durance

Well Chris did write him, so it's only fair they'd use him as the body model.

 

[Lacrymas]

As a russian I stopped pirate shit long time ago... sooooo. ( it's both games decline, increase in expandable income, lack of time, f2p games such as dota, mod scene, sales and steam)
And to pirate demo/beta you gotta be a hardass fan. I'm sure beta is somewhere in the webz... you just have to search at a right place.

As a slav, I only pirate games that aren't available DRM-free.

 

[Ibn Sina]

The entire premise is retarded . People where killing each other because of religious wars so the Engwirh? create a pantheon of gods, instead of the obvious choice of creating one monotheistic deity, a supreme deity to stomp all others. One god to combine all the aspects, empowered with omniscience and omnipotence instead of this plethora of gods whom are at each other throats.

 

[Ninjerk]

PoE story begins with the caravan stopping because you are too ill and then you being sent to fight wolves to get your own medicine.

So yeah, my hopes are not very high.

The game also forgets that it just told you through a wizened old caravan leader that you'll die if you don't get the medicine because it needed to soul wind or whatever.

 

[Quillon]

http://eternity.obsidian.net/news/c...rtnership-for-pillars-of-eternity-ii-deadfire

CRITICAL ROLE AND OBSIDIAN ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP FOR PILLARS OF ETERNITY II: DEADFIRE

Irvine, CA, April 10th – Obsidian Entertainment, developers of genre-defining RPGs such as Fallout: New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity, in partnership with publisher Versus Evil, and Critical Role, the biggest group in live-stream tabletop role-playing, are proud to announce their collaboration on the forthcoming Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire. As a special treat for fans of the show, the Critical Role cast is returning to the characters they popularized in their first Dungeons & Dragons campaign, Vox Machina, allowing Deadfire players to choose Critical Role’s character voices for their created party members in the game. Special Vox Machina player portraits will also be available as a free DLC when Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire launches on May 8th.

“I was such a fan of the original Pillars game, and thoroughly enjoying being a part of the vibrant world the team created,” says voice actor and Critical Role DM, Matthew Mercer. “With the wonderful folks of Obsidian now bringing the entire cast of Critical Role to bring even more of the world of Eora to life, it’s sparked this incredible opportunity to bring our Critical Role characters of Vox Machina into their world via custom art and voice sets. A truly surreal milestone for this D&D nerd.”

“Working closely with the cast of Critical Role to bring Deadfire’s companions and story to life has been an amazing experience,” states Obsidian Entertainment Audio Director, Justin E. Bell, “Their incredible acting talent, ensemble chemistry, and tabletop roleplaying expertise coupled with Obsidian’s expertise in making deep, immersive, CRPG’s is the perfect combination. Together we’ve made something really special that we’re very proud of, and we can’t wait to share it with fans of RPGs when Deadfire releases.”

Critters and fans of Obsidian RPGs alike can pre-order Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfirenow from Critical Role (via versusevil.com), GOG, or Steam.

 

[Iskramor]

I'm not entirely comfortable with leaking it for mass consumption. Even though I despise paid betas, it was gifted to me and I kinda don't want to betray that trust.

But its infinitron who gifted right? So its not a big deal and dont pretend that you are moral you bisexual drug using degenerate trash

 

[Iskramor]

The only thing to look forward is the Roxor review.

Why would you care for his opinion is he some cult leader here or some other shit??

 

[Naesaki]

PoE story begins with the caravan stopping because you are too ill and then you being sent to fight wolves to get your own medicine.

So yeah, my hopes are not very high.

You could also just kill the entire caravan at the start and what not and completely ignore getting yourself cured of your ailment, you get some alternate slides before it then cuts to the biawic. Such a missed opportunity to have you dies days later cause you didn't find the berries to cure said ailment.

 

[dragonul09]

PoE story begins with the caravan stopping because you are too ill and then you being sent to fight wolves to get your own medicine.

So yeah, my hopes are not very high.

When they said PoE will be the ''spiritual'' succesor of Baldurs Gate, they meant it, they took the all the boring and predictable parts from BG like generic story, generic setting, generic monsters etc. and of course the important bit, combat was a total cluster fuck. I mean it takes a lot of talent to make a combat system worse than something that was created 20 years ago, real fucking talent.

 

[Alienman]

What the fug is critical role?

 

[Lacrymas]

PoE story begins with the caravan stopping because you are too ill and then you being sent to fight wolves to get your own medicine.

So yeah, my hopes are not very high.

You could also just kill the entire caravan at the start and what not and completely ignore getting yourself cured of your ailment, you get some alternate slides before it then cuts to the biawic. Such a missed opportunity to have you dies days later cause you didn't find the berries to cure said ailment.

Nobody said you are going to die from the stomach ache. I think he said that doing something specific can get you killed, like drinking water or alcohol, or something like that.

 

[Otterz]

If I see just one more reference to Crit Role/Vox Machina I'm going to flip. Don't get me wrong: I am glad they managed to hire some quality VAs for Deadfire, but this whole whole "Collab! DLC! Intermingling fandoms! HYPE!!" is literally dragging my patience across the negative side of the chart.