Supplementary materials (cookbook, almanac, guidebook etc)

[Roguey]

Yeah I'm not playing this until a month or two at the earliest so I'll talk about this stuff.

The cookbook had way too many megabytes per page; so unnecessary. I guess I might try the pudding one day, but otherwise, none of the recipes really appealed to me.

I liked the style in which the almanac was written. My favorite comments came from the blue ink. Backalley Midden is my hero, and I like how the guidebook gave a conflicting version of its story (which already had two endings). I wanted to make that contentious Durgan hardcake recipe (minus cuttlebone), but uh... it has eggs and isn't actually "cooked." If I eat it and get sick, can I sue Obsidian?

The lore in the guidebook was surprisingly entertaining. This is a pretty interesting world JES (and friends) envisioned, far more appealing to me than the likes of Faerun, Thedas, Arcanum, Middle Earth, or well any trad-fant setting I can think of. Soul-science, tyranny of the wealthy, and cruelty to outgroups, compelling stuff.

 

[Kattze]

Yeah I'm not playing this until a month or two at the earliest .

Wai?

You want the game to be fully patched?

 

[Roguey]

I realized that I probably can't take Obsidian to court because they'll just print out the post where I reveal I know the risks involved with eating raw eggs.

Yeah I'm not playing this until a month or two at the earliest .

Wai?

You want the game to be fully patched?

It won't be fully patched, but Josh said that bugwise it was somewhere in-between New Vegas and DS3. It took them a little less than two months to get NV into a playable condition. It took about 2 1/2 weeks for DS3 to become playable (with mouse and keyboard). Apparently it'll take them a month or probably more to ship my DRM-free disc, so by the time I get it, there will likely be enough patching and balance tweaks to make it solid enough.