Pillars of Eternity

[Bardalicious]

Comes out Thursday. Anyone else following this game? Looks like it'll be right up the alley of any classic RPG gamers that fell in love with titles such as Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale, etc.


I just found out about it yesterday, placing my pre-order today for the release Thursday this week.

Check out the trailer. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NA8DvRoBuY)

[Millburn]

I've been making characters in the Backer Beta for months now. Super super excited for Thursday.

[Ezalor]

game actually looks good.

how much?

[Bardalicious]

It's like 45 USD for the first tier of pre order. Then 80 or so for the highest tier that includes a bunch of behind the scenes and lore type stuff, which I wasn't too interested in.

Should be noted you can snag it on either Steam or on GOG.com for a DRM-free copy.

[MrSparkle001]

Oh shit, does this mean when people talk about POE they might be talking about this instead of POE?

[Realanlon]

Grabbing this for sure. I'm a huge fan of the old Infinity Engine games, and classic PC RPG in general. This looks right up my alley.

Pretty stoked!

[Zade]

anyone play this today? thinking about picking it up

[Millburn]

It releases in 3 and a half hours. I've already got lunch and dinner made out just to neckbeard the shit out of today. I'm so freaking excited!

[Millburn]

IT BEGINS!

[Utmost]

I see a shotgun on the cover in the hands of a plate clad female. Mayhap it's an arquebus? I remember the last time I saw a firearm in the hands of a cover art subject. But yeah these kind of games are where it's at, minus firearms.

[Tibbz]

ahhh cant wait to head home to try this out... dang you work and responsibilities

[Pokesan]

Any major bugginess or other nonsense for launch day? Looking to pick it up soon if it's good

[Zade]

im downloading it now. will let you know by EOD

[Millburn]

Literally the only bug I've encountered so far is sometimes when an NPC spawns and immediately starts a convo with you it disregards your audio settings for voice levels. So it can give you a bit of a scare lol

This game is everything I wanted it to be. It's Planescape and Baldurs Gate all wrapped up into a new age wrapper. Mmmm it tastes so good.

[Tibbz]

well poop one of my rigs had an incident now I am stuck out here in the middle of South Texas heck for a few days :( soon PoE... soon

[KagatobLuvsAnimu]

I can't support a company who's devs have no spines. The next day or two will decide whether they get my money.
https://mobile.twitter.com/jesawyer/status/582200461127634945

[Byel]

Haha..what a stupid joke and an even dumber freakshow throwing a fit about it.

Hope they don't bow down to the pink mafia

[radditsu]

Rogues are broken. Dont be a rogue.

[radditsu]

I like to play rogues in crpgs...or rangers. But rangers seem like WoW rangers.

[radditsu]

Sorry "hunter"

[MrSparkle001]

I can't support a company who's devs have no spines. The next day or two will decide whether they get my money.
https://mobile.twitter.com/jesawyer/status/582200461127634945

That's just :mad:

[Pokesan]

the internet will be always be angry about something

this something is particularly dumb

[HalflingWarrior]

HAHAHA I thought that was hilarious honestly

Also, game is absolutely fantastic. Definitely play it on Normal or Hard difficulty even though the game suggests playing on Easy even for "recently returning CRPG vets." I had to reroll about 10 hours because it was just WAY too easy on "Easy."

Graphics are TOP NOTCH, absolutely amazing. Sound design as well as music also get an A+ as does the gameplay itself.

Obsidian did a really good job of modernizing the CRPG experience and streamlining it, while allowing it to still feel like an old-school CRPG; they didn't "dumb it down" any, all the things they removed were basically the result of 2nd gen DnD rulesets that they used in BG/BG2.

If anything I'd say they made the game more difficult, by adding the camping-supplies-requirement to rest. No more resting 4 or 5 times after every major fight to refill all your health and spells like you did in BG2 --- and let's be honest, we ALL did that!

[Tibbz]

about 20 hours in and the game is fantastic and difficult enough on normal. I do keep getting the sound bug (constant clicking) but its apparently due to be fixed in the upcoming patch.

[HappyTr33z]

Loving Pillars of Eternity so far. Playing thru on hard difficulty with expert mode and trial of iron enabled playing as a Paladin. From what I have seen of the game it is definitely a worthy successor to the Infinity Engine games.

Edit : Just read that shit about the "offensive" joke. I really wish everyone who so easily gets offended and has to make everything political would just be rounded up and executed, the world would be a better place.

[Bardalicious]

The feigned outrage at what was obviously a light-hearted joke is pretty lol for sure.

This game is kicking major ass though, albeit I only have a few hours in atm. Definitely recommend buying this one though. I'm going to have to put it on the backburner for now unfortunately, until I make it through Divinity first.

[HalflingWarrior]

Mann I tell ya, Hard difficulty just seemed way to easy for an Obsidian game, and here's why.....

https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/73449-stat-bonus-modifiers-can-erroneously-be-applied-multiple-times-allowing-stats-to-grow-beyond-intended-values/

A totally GAMEBREAKING bug that you all most likely have on your current playthroughs:

Basically say your Eder is level 4 with the "Wary Defender" modal talent which gives you +15/10/10/10 to all four of your defenses; every time you save/load in a city where a companion has been recruited all four of your defensives stats will be PERMANENTLY increased by that amount.

Unfortunately, the same effect applies to any ITEM stat bonuses on your character's as well.

[HalflingWarrior]

Thought I'll add:

Obsidian has PROMISED a patch THIS WEEK and I really hope they deliver on that. Pillars of Eternity is easily one of my top five games from the past 5 years and that's not nostalgia I only played Baldur's Gate 1/2 for the first time in the past year on my Nvidia Shield.

[KagatobLuvsAnimu]

Yep they caved, not gonna give them my money now. Thankfully the game is completely DRM free.

[Ezalor]

actually obsidian approached the guy who wrote the poem what he wanted to do and he said to remove it.

also no one believes you were gonna spend your allowance money anyway, but grats on finding an excuse to self-righteous about your piracy

game is great btw

[Flamewraith]

I really enjoyed it, but I got to twin elms and just burn out. I guess I came looking for a Baldur's gate game and although it was close, it just didn't quite capture it in my opinion. I mostly dislike the lack of companion depth. There is very little bantering or interjections, and none of them seem to really have any care for whatever I'm doing. I think the only companion to ever voice disagreement was aloth during the animancy hearing. I also went with a sword and board warrior, but it seemed like most mobs in the game had heavy defense to my sword. Companions with blunt weapons seemed to always hit high, but my warrior was only hitting high on every third type of enemy. I was constantly switching to my blunt set. However the game is amazing otherwise.

[KagatobLuvsAnimu]

actually obsidian approached the guy who wrote the poem what he wanted to do and he said to remove it.

Yes, because it was a PR get out of jail free card, which they played with gusto.

[Patriam1066]

actually obsidian approached the guy who wrote the poem what he wanted to do and he said to remove it.

also no one believes you were gonna spend your allowance money anyway, but grats on finding an excuse to self-righteous about your piracy

game is great btw

lol'ed