Eternity Pillars of Eternity + The White March Expansion Thread

[Prime Junta]

Are there any quests known to break savegames?

Not in a long time. Your experience sounds extremely unusual. Report it on Obsidian's feedback forum?

 

[Turjan]

Are there any quests known to break savegames?

Not in a long time. Your experience sounds extremely unusual. Report it on Obsidian's feedback forum?

I guess the report would be extremely unhelpful, as I did lots of quests between those savegames.

Edit: I just remembered that Eder's dialog bugged out. He had the dialog bubble on display when I was in First Fires, only visiting the Crucible Keep. He had a few new lines, but the dialog bubble reappeared when I left First Fires. He didn't have anything to talk though, and the bubble didn't go away (unlike Bubbles).

 

[Roguey]

Sounds like you fell victim to the "opening the application twice" bug https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/88412-303-every-single-map-reset/

Never do that btw.

 

[Turjan]

Sounds like you fell victim to the "opening the application twice" bug https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/88412-303-every-single-map-reset/

Never do that btw.

I'm not aware of having done that, but who knows.

 

[Turjan]

I just noticed that you can have inadvertently two instances of the game open. The game crashed after the text adventure sequence inside Cliaban Rilag. The window collapsed and the game was unresponsive. The main game then restarted by itself (with the Obsidian logo intro). Only after a while of playing I noticed that the other process was still open. Fortunately, the saves are okay, as the other instance probably didn't try to access anything anymore.

Anyway, I'm nearly done with Defiance Bay now (well, much of it a second time), and the quests there were quite enjoyable. I noticed that I probably didn't follow the intended sequence, given how, after the Dyrford area, Defiance Bay has been mostly a breeze so far.

By the way, I followed the suggestion to respec my druid from resolve to perception some time ago, and it made a noticeable difference in effectiveness. I switched out a few talents though, too.

 

[Tigranes]

In general, the game is a breeze after reaching DB, though upscaled WM content now provides some challenge.

 

[Turjan]

Can anyone tell me whether Longwatch Falls in White March pt.1 is locked until a certain point in the story? I ask because it's inaccessible in my game.

 

[Sentinel]

I don't recall having to do anything to access it. I just grabbed the quest in town that told me to go through it and off I went.

 

[Turjan]

Hmm, so this is another bug then? Oh joy.

 

[Sentinel]

I can't find anyone having problems accessing Longwatch Falls on google. What exactly happens? Icon to travel doesn't show up? Clicking it doesn't do anything?

 

[Turjan]

The icon is there, but it's not doing anything when I click on it. Other icons react to a cursor hovering over it, this one doesn't.

Edit: Doesn't this map get updated in White March II? I still have some hope that it will fix itself at some point. Maybe.

 

[Sentinel]

You are trying to access it through the eastern path in Stalwart, right?
Try switching the game to full-screen and see if it works.

 

[Grunker]

It's locked, it will unlock later. I ran into the same question and also thought it was a bug. But it's not.

 

[Turjan]

TheSentinel: I'm already using fullscreen mode. Thanks for trying to help though.

It's locked, it will unlock later. I ran into the same question and also thought it was a bug. But it's not.

Ah, thanks. I'll finish Durgan's Battery then first.

Edit: They should have greyed this out like on the main map.

 

[Grunker]

They indeed should

 

[Barnabas]

Just defeated the master below. Worship me.

 

[Roguey]

Question for those who have completed the megadungeon after 3.0:

Do the levels get more interesting after level 7? During my first playthrough, the rote nature of fights was on account of my being overleveled, but now when I'm fighting everything either at or below the level intended and needing to use a lot of per-rest resources, it's still boring because every level only has one or two encounters designed for it with slight variations. By contrast, I'm still enjoying the increased difficulty of going through the critical path at the lowest level possible. As much as I want to see Vithrack, I'm wondering if it'll be better to just abandon Od Nua and stick to the crit path up until Burial Isle, then take on bounties.

 

[Shadenuat]

Do the levels get more interesting after level 7?

No, patching couldn't fix what was always dead.

And I'd say final boss is not unique anymore. The "fun" whatever there might be is not worth grinding through trash. It is overshadowed by new fights in expansions that offer better encounters.

 

[Infinitron]

Question for those who have completed the megadungeon after 3.0:

Do the levels get more interesting after level 7? During my first playthrough, the rote nature of fights was on account of my being overleveled, but now when I'm fighting everything either at or below the level intended and needing to use a lot of per-rest resources, it's still boring because every level only has one or two encounters designed for it with slight variations. By contrast, I'm still enjoying the increased difficulty of going through the critical path at the lowest level possible. As much as I want to see Vithrack, I'm wondering if it'll be better to just abandon Od Nua and stick to the crit path up until Burial Isle, then take on bounties.

Level 7? You haven't even met Cabiros. You might want to finish Heritage Hill and learn Engwithan before you do that, though...

 

[Grunker]

TEP shouldn't even be compared to Durlag's or Watcher's. They have nothing in common except being areas in a game that also has monsters. Your enjoyment of TEP hinges solely of your enjoyment of the combat.

 

[Infinitron]

IMO The Endless Paths are good™, because they're the one place in vanilla PoE that really feels detached from the mundane current concerns of the Dyrwood. They're able to deliver a broader, more epic vision of the setting that reaches back into the distant past and the secret places of the world. It's only in the last levels that this really sinks in, though.

 

[Grunker]

You're either being delusional or apologetic

 

[Grunker]

(I like a few of the encounters, but compared to the sprawling puzzles, unexpected weirdness, glorious loot, wondrous locales and miniquests of Durlag/Watcher's, TEP is a barren container of endless monsters and nearly nothing interesting... and loot isn't even all that in Durlag's)

 

[Infinitron]

(I like a few of the encounters, but compared to the sprawling puzzles, unexpected weirdness, glorious loot, wondrous locales and miniquests of Durlag/Watcher's, TEP is a barren container of endless monsters and nearly nothing interesting... and loot isn't even all that in Durlag's)

I'm not comparing it with those dungeons. I just think it serves an important purpose in expanding the scope and vision of the setting as seen in the game. Does Eora have anything like Underdark Illithid colonies and other such things? If you don't play The Endless Paths, you won't know. It's fun to be a discoverer.

 

[Grunker]

You don't need 15 levels that make up nearly 1/4 of the game's content to tell that. You're basically letting TEP off the hook for all the shit on its cost-side by pointing to the diminuitive benefit that it has a minute bit of interesting fluff that could have been delivered, way, waaaaaaaay less obnoxiously