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Post by zagibu on Jul 20, 2023 17:02:04 GMT
Oh, by the way, the paused real time combat has the advantage that you can more easily apply multiple buff rounds before you are actually engaged in combat. I'm currently playing PoE 2 in turn based mode, and it seems much harder to buff your party up before or during the start of a tough fight.
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Sept 23, 2023 14:24:54 GMT
I just wanted to point out that the first game is currently on sale on Steam for 6,99 € and for less than 10 if you also want White March.
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Post by zagibu on Sept 23, 2023 17:36:19 GMT
I have still not progressed with the main story in 2. I did Beast of Winter first, then Kazuwari, and now I'm in the Forgotten Sanctum. Which is pretty cool, mostly because of Tayn, the slightly mad wizard who made the spell Tayn's Chaotic Orb. He's an NPC in there and has some funny dialogue. You also meet Llengrath again and have to decide whose advice to follow. And you are supposed to take both Fassina and Aloth with you, so it's kind of a big wizard party. Oh and you are hunting a fifth wizard, by the way, another famous one who designed a spell that can be learned.
This is what I like about PoE, you can actually meet all these legendary people and have a chat with them and even fight some of them. And for some reason it doesn't feel dumb like in LotR or even DnD games, because it's a fresh IP and you only learn about these guys from ingame lore anyway, so there is no inflated expectations connected to them.
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Sept 23, 2023 18:38:35 GMT
I'm afraid of how long that is going to take next time with at least some of the DLC added. But it certainly sounds interesting.
Did the game actually push you to take Fassina and Aloth with you? I haven't seen that since NWN2 I think.
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Post by zagibu on Sept 23, 2023 19:37:14 GMT
No, there's just icons in the journal when you click on the quest/task that show you who is recommended to be in your party. It is mainly used for marking the companion quests, but also adds some additional dialogue for other situations.
And yeah, I've clocked almost 200 hours now. Kazuwari can probably be skipped, it's mostly one big arena with lots of big fights going on in there and some brief backcountry hikes. Then you can go hunt for artifacts all through the whole peninsula and all it does when you bring them back is unlock more arena fights.
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Post by zagibu on Oct 11, 2023 10:38:06 GMT
Just finished PoE 2. I did all the expansions and no quests left open at the end. The only thing I didn't do is kill the special optional "titan" monsters, like the crystal spider or the mountain of ooze that you can find in remote places. Took me 206 hours in total. The ending is very sudden, there is one boss fight (that you can circumvent if you did some specific thing earlier in the game), and then there was one other much easier fight before you can basically decide the fate of the world. It's actually quite well done in that if you are only interested in what happens with Eothas, you can finish the game in less than 30 hours, but if you want to explore everything including the expansions, it has enough content for 200 hours. Like ToomuchFluffy wrote, it might seem like the ending is set in stone. The god Eothas destroys the wheel of souls, no matter what you did before or what you tell him. But the aftermath described in the epilogue can turn out very different. First of all, you can convince him to end it all, and it will basically destroy the world. But even if you don't, there is a lot of variety in the epilogue. Although it is mostly shaped by your actions prior to reaching Ukaizo, what you tell Eothas at the end is also mixed into the outcome as well. What happens to the Deafire archipelago in general is mostly based on how you interacted with the various factions, but also how you reached Ukaizo. I went alone, and it seems this decision turned into a very chaotic future for the Deadfire, because no faction had an obvious advantage over the other, so they all started fighting each other and nobody really emerged victorious. The epilogue also covers what happens to the different factions, important places, and compagnions you met during your travels. All different outcomes are shown here on this wiki page: pillarsofeternity.fandom.com/wiki/Pillars_of_Eternity_II:_Deadfire_endingsAnd like I predicted, there is a special slide for giving Wael's body to Concelhaut, although it's not as spectacular as I hoped:  |
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jul 11, 2024 4:44:52 GMT
Apparently a recent update for Pillars 1 has caused all kinds of problems with performance and save-files and people claim that it has blown up installation size to 55GB... Seems like it's a public Beta (?). At least for me it says 33GB for install size.
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Post by lukasz on Jul 11, 2024 6:01:20 GMT
Apparently a recent update for Pillars 1 has caused all kinds of problems with performance and save-files and people claim that it has blown up installation size to 55GB... Seems like it's a public Beta (?). At least for me it says 33GB for install size. Haha Main fix: Fixed an issue that caused some users to receive DLC content and/or backer items without having proper access to them. How generous! |
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jul 11, 2024 6:37:39 GMT
Yeah, there is an Obsidian person commenting on it in a steam thread, but there is no separate thread or official update for the patch anywhere.
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