Pillars of Eternity: your opinion so far?
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I'm listening. Can you explain why you found the original message on the headstone offensive enough to warrant a public bullying campaign against the developer? There are some fairly strong claims being made that it was deliberately misinterpreted in order to satisfy the weekly outrage quota.DoPo said:
I won't speak for DoPo, but as a fellow backer: I don't care. I don't care a whit. I don't care about the poem, I don't care about the complaints about the poem, I don't care about the countercomplaints to the complaints about the poem, I don't care that JE Sawyer & his team changed the poem, and I don't care about the complaints about the poem being changed. I have a hard time understanding anyone who cares about any of it, one way or the other. And I especially can't understand anyone believing "censorship" applies to the debacle.StreamerDarkly said:
How about everyone just chill the fuck out and play the game? It's real good!
I was like whoa what the hell did they do that people are so enraged over!? So I looked it up and... they removed an off color joke from a tomb stone because someone bitched about it.
Of all the things... this is what the internet is pitching a fit about? Seriously?
Of all the things... this is what the internet is pitching a fit about? Seriously?
It is a good game, but I don't like it when devs buckle to one asshole on the internet. I'll probably go back to this game when I feel like it, but its gone down on my priority list now when I got like 5 other games I can play instead. Maybe the game won't be as much of a mess performance wise instead.Don Incognito said:
Still, it upsets me to see one of my favorite developers fold like this.
Pillars of Eternity is a fine game and should be enjoyed by all, much as this controversy free opinion should be enjoyed by all.
Only played the game for a few hours but love it so far. Quick question: is there a way you can drop items? I don't mean put them in your stash, I mean just drop them on the ground. If there is I haven't figured out a way to do it. Thanks!
BloatedGuppy said:
Sweet. It's nice to see Edgegate has taken over another thread by not contributing more than to prod at others rather than contributing to what they're looking for. Part of the same old, all passive aggressive, more euphoric Escapist! Golden age times.
in all honesty, I do agree that the thread didn't need to turn into another outlet for the tombstone fiasco, we already had one that closed and another one that is openly contributing to it *right now*, so it's unnecessary. Just felt like shitposting a shitpost to add another shitpost I shippose.
anyways
OT: anyone notice any changes/boost/nerfs on your characters/party with the new patch being out? I haven't gotten a chance to hop on yet, just got back from work, but I'm hoping it boosts my party a bit, I'm having fun with the combat, but "normal" is certainly more challenging than I was expecting... random baddies aren't just insta-kills depending on if I'm not paying attention to my party locations, one if not two of the squishier guys will get one hit KO'd before I even realize they were out of position.
I'm assuming you mean just drag it outside your inventory screen? Yeah I tried that and it didn't seem to do anything.Thorn14 said:
Backed this game and am happy with it.
Absolutely loved the level of detail in character creation.
It's all relatively minor stuff, I suppose, but being able to choose culture, social standing and other little aspects just really feeds my hungry inner roleplayer.
Not very far into it as it stands though.
Graphically, very impressed.
The only thing I may change from standard is turning off the 'gib' kills.
They do fill me with nostalgia for BG but some of the explosions don't fit with the attacking weapon.
That said, it was the same in BG so that may have been the intent.
Always did make me chuckle once in a while to attack someone with a dagger and watch the chunks fly, like you'd hit some hitherto unknown pocket of methane in the poor targeted bandit.
Maybe I'll keep it on after all.
Anyway, but an hour in and I'm quite satisfied.
Absolutely loved the level of detail in character creation.
It's all relatively minor stuff, I suppose, but being able to choose culture, social standing and other little aspects just really feeds my hungry inner roleplayer.
Not very far into it as it stands though.
Graphically, very impressed.
The only thing I may change from standard is turning off the 'gib' kills.
They do fill me with nostalgia for BG but some of the explosions don't fit with the attacking weapon.
That said, it was the same in BG so that may have been the intent.
Always did make me chuckle once in a while to attack someone with a dagger and watch the chunks fly, like you'd hit some hitherto unknown pocket of methane in the poor targeted bandit.
Maybe I'll keep it on after all.
Anyway, but an hour in and I'm quite satisfied.
Conceded. I have altered the offending post.gmaverick019 said:
I do, however, trust that this page justifies the eye rolling that occurred after the hue and cry went up about 'less politics, more games'. Less politics indeed.
"Hey, what do you think of Pillars of Eternity?"
"I know I won't be buying it because of POLITICS WOROROWOWOWROORWOR"
Actually, what they did was they asked the guy if he wanted to change it, because they didn't plan to do so. This is what was posted on their forums by the guy who wrote the original limerick.hybridial said:
"Actually, there was a choice. They asked me if I wanted to change in light of what happened. I chose to change it so that they can concentrate on the game instead of this PR nightmare. They weren't going to change it, they asked ME if I wanted to. I can find another platform to write my controversial crap, and I will. They, on the other hand, did the right thing and allowed me to decide the fate of the epitaph. I chose to turn into something that made fun of the *****-bastards that were complaining.
They went above and beyond what I would have expected them to do."
So yeah, they didn't cave. They did what the backer wanted. I'd call the the high road. And besides, what it was changed to was awesome.
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I've yet to encounter any of the major bugs so I cannot comment on those but I'm having fun so far.
Played up to Defiance Bay with a 3 man party: Monk+Tank Pally+Cipher and finally added in a dps Pally to round out my party. Just hit lvl 9 on my PC with Defiance bay and the first 3 bounties done.
Played up to Defiance Bay with a 3 man party: Monk+Tank Pally+Cipher and finally added in a dps Pally to round out my party. Just hit lvl 9 on my PC with Defiance bay and the first 3 bounties done.
Are you sure? The stat creep one is even worse than the double-click bug in terms of being sneaky. I was 100% certain I'd avoided bugs, then found out my Eder had all his defensive stats bloated by 20+.Aethryl said:
So far I've only played a bit before being brought down by the game crippling bugs. I've shelved it till it's working, probably sometime around Xmas realistically given the state it's in.
As for censorship you have to realise there's a huge difference between the government saying "This is illegal to say and we'll imprison you for it" and individuals saying "You know what, that's a bit tasteless and I'd prefer it if it wasn't publicly associated with me. Do you mind if we change it a bit?"
As for censorship you have to realise there's a huge difference between the government saying "This is illegal to say and we'll imprison you for it" and individuals saying "You know what, that's a bit tasteless and I'd prefer it if it wasn't publicly associated with me. Do you mind if we change it a bit?"
As far as balance goes, it's mostly nerfs on some of the overpowered stuff and some improved ranges on Wizard spells.gmaverick019 said:
Sure-Handed Ila chant now gives 1.2x reload speed instead of 2x
Slicken wizard spell only afflicts prone status once instead of over and over
Chill Fog wizard spell doesn't only hit enemies anymore (bye bye level 1 safety cloud of freeze damage and blindness)
Mind Blades cypher spell damage was tuned down
Curse of Blackened Sight spell only afflicts enemies with blindness now
Ranger's Bonded Grief debuff upon pet KO has been made less crippling
There's some other balance stuff, but I can't quite remember how significant they are
Sucks that Chill Fog was nerfed. I leaned on that spell in like every fight. Now I actually have to aim it rather than just dropping it on the melee without thought. CURSE YOU GAME BALANCE!!!!!11!Norrdicus said: