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SunAndSpring posted:Alright how do I get rid of the lovely cash register noise? I'm getting sick of this poo poo already. Are you on PC? If not, you can take perks to sometimes replace it with other annoying noises.
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Merry Magpie posted:I have to respectfully disagree, but I invite you to introduce any examples. There are absolutely missions where the ambiguity is a part of it. There are several characters who are Synths and who it never comes up for unless you happen to murder them and check their bodies. Like the mission with the compound and the girl you have to rescue it turns out they were in fact entirely correct and she was a synth all along. There's also conflict over the idea that they can even be human. You have someone like Glory whose every line of dialogue is basically "So, uh, I'm pretty sure I'm alive but everyone keeps telling me I'm a machine" and who dies with the surprisingly uncomfortable line "isn't there supposed to be a light?" It's a hamfisted slavery metaphor but there is actual ambiguity presented in the story over if synths are legitimately living beings or just defective AIs. The story obviously favors the former but there are missions which hint at both and there's some uncomfortable subtext to the Railroad as well in that they 'free' synths by effectively killing them and replacing them with another person, something that is presented as kind of hosed up. Even though the slavery metaphor is pretty apt it goes along with the idea that synths are not individuals in the same way and you get things like that one guy you freed talking awkwardly about how everyone tells him it will be better if he erases himself where it's framed like his dying message. The Shaun stuff on the other hand is utterly meaningless. It is your character's motivation but they don't need that motivation. Every single person you speak to once you leave the Vault talks about the Institute and every faction sidequest leads you there even without Shaun being brought into play. Father making you the Institute successor relies on you being his mother/father but only in the most trivial way and his actual reasoning for it (we need someone who is a leader, not a scientist) could just as readily apply to a Institute-friendly Wastelander instead. It theoretically gives your protagonist a motivation but then the rest of the game gives you plenty of other motivations to find out about the Institute instead. Obviously this is tempered through "Bethesda is bad at writing." I am not claiming they are successful. Just that they tried. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Nov 9, 2015 |
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Nov 9, 2015 23:51
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TG-Chrono posted:The defence of lovely narrative and characters in this, an RPG. Would you defend Pillars of Eternity if someone called it poo poo compared to Lord of the Rings?
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SunAndSpring posted:Alright how do I get rid of the lovely cash register noise? I'm getting sick of this poo poo already. This might be able to be modded out without needing the GECK equivalent.
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Nov 9, 2015 23:56
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Nov 9, 2015 23:57
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Is there a way to reset your perks?
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Nov 9, 2015 23:57
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For those of you struggling to use an Aussie VPN, I just VPN'd from Stockholm and FO4 seems to be preparing for launch
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Nov 9, 2015 23:58
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TG-Chrono posted:It's like Bethesda fans haven't seen Obsidian's latest effort, God's own Pillars of Eternity Mainstream gamers not knowing about the spiritual sequel of a game that nobody played? I'm shocked.
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Nov 9, 2015 23:59
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Playing it on PC now, and I'm surprised it runs as well as it does on such high settings. Game defaulted me to very high and I expect to have to turn some stuff down so I can record footage, but considering recent launches like Arkham Knight I'm pleased.
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Nov 10, 2015 00:00
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Pillars of Eternity is good. Fallout 4, though I have not yet played it, will probably also be good.
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Nov 10, 2015 00:01
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Parasara posted:For those of you struggling to use an Aussie VPN, I just VPN'd from Stockholm and FO4 seems to be preparing for launch Did you have to change your Store Settings or just run it with the VPN?
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:Wait on a price drop and pick it up on PC deeply discounted. Game won't ever be better but it will be cheaper
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AlternateAccount posted:Did you have to change your Store Settings or just run it with the VPN? Just VPN, worked for me as well right now.
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Well, I'm running it surprisingly well on my rig from 1989. If anybody is interested; X4 631 @ 3.1Ghz 8GB RAM Slightly fettled GTX460 (The 768Mb version, believe it or not.) Latest nVidia drivers Granted, everything is as low as possible, but the result is pretty smooth even at 1080p. Tad choppy in deep bushy areas but overall manageable. I should really upgrade..
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Ravenfood posted:Mods. FNV was significantly improved by them and it was starting from a better place, and every other Bethesda game was drastically improved. There's really no reason to get a Bethesda game at release, IMO. That's true but I'm not going to give a bad game points because motivated players who paid $60 plus time invested can fix it
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Nov 10, 2015 00:07
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MisterBibs posted:Mainstream gamers not knowing about the spiritual sequel of a game that nobody played? I'm shocked. I would argue that PoE was more styled off of Baldur's Gate, or the Infinity Engine games in general. ImpAtom posted:The Shaun stuff on the other hand is utterly meaningless. It is your character's motivation but they don't need that motivation. Every single person you speak to once you leave the Vault talks about the Institute and every faction sidequest leads you there even without Shaun being brought into play. Father making you the Institute successor relies on you being his mother/father but only in the most trivial way and his actual reasoning for it (we need someone who is a leader, not a scientist) could just as readily apply to a Institute-friendly Wastelander instead. It theoretically gives your protagonist a motivation but then the rest of the game gives you plenty of other motivations to find out about the Institute instead.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:How the gently caress do I scrap all these junk items? I think you have to take it to a settlement or home like the garage to be able to scrap the item.
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:That's true but I'm not going to give a bad game points because motivated players who paid $60 plus time invested can fix it Yeah but give credit at least for making it so easily moddable. It's not like that's the norm for games. Most AAA games come out and are poo poo on release and get some patches and that's about it.
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I think it also autoscraps items if you're in the settlement building GUI, as opposed to just collecting things as you're exploring.
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Put my settings down to minimum and still getting lag spikes taking it down to 40 or so fps, so guess my cpu really is to blame 
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ImpAtom posted:
Glory is entirely aware she is a synth. Valentine, despite looking like a broken mannequin in a trench coat, has more characterization than any other companion. The game broadly paints advanced synths as sapient beings. The only proponents of the "defective AI" position are the Institute, the glaringly obvious villains responsible for murdering and replacing people. They are also biased because they are reliant on synth labor. It is hard to read this as moral ambiguity on the nature of synths. On your second point, I completely agree. The player has no reason to care about a spouse and child they met minutes ago. Bethesda chose to make it central to the plot and the character's motivation. It is simply bad writing.
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Speedball posted:This video would have sold me if I wasn't already. Nice. Also of note is the character  Building an ultra goober character is awesome and the animation fluidity is terrifying.
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So, bringing this back to see if there are more responses now : can anyone comment on differences between hard and normal? I like the idea of more legendary mobs spawning (and their gear), but don't want to deal with everything becoming a massive sponge. Is there a huge difference in spawns between the two?
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Crabtree posted:I think you have to take it to a settlement or home like the garage to be able to scrap the item. I really hope you're not saying I gotta dump all these items on the floor of my settlement and scrap em one by one. There's got to be an easier way. Odette posted:PC UI is loving balls. Yeah, it's pretty awful. Hotkeys are all wrong, the interface is not consistent in what buttons are okay to press (e and enter do the same thing!!), etc F for favorites? wtf is this poo poo, get outa here, bind that poo poo to 1-4 asswipes
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GreenBuckanneer posted:How the gently caress do I scrap all these junk items? Go to work bench, select deposit all junk. When crafting it will automatically extract the materials you need. The only things you need to scrap manually are all the big items already in the world that you can't pickup like trees and cars Mr Beens fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Nov 10, 2015 |
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Moridin920 posted:Yeah but give credit at least for making it so easily moddable. It's not like that's the norm for games. Yeah, that's true. That and playing a silent blank slate amid all the stupid Cinematic RPG Experiences of this era is why I play Bethesda games and, well...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQi8yERBWI0 best review
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I really wish I could buy a voice pack to make the main character geordie. E: And also a gopher.
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I downloaded the game all day at work and used the VPN thing to fully load the game, but my laptop is poo poo so the game failed to run. I'm trying to copy it over to my desktop at home using a homegroup, but that is nothing but endless hassles. I got it over and started steam in offline mode and it said that it wasn't ready to play in offline mode. Fine. I have the whole 25.2gb in my common folder, whatever. I get the vpn on my desktop and begin to launch steam. It shows that the game isn't even preloaded or anything. I deleted it and am transferring the files over from my laptop to the desktop again. ANy advice?
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oh wow u were right, this is the best review
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Mystic Stylez posted:How is the PC performance? Will I be able to run this with decent graphics and framerate at 1600x900 in a i5 3570/GTX660/16GB of RAM? You can literally find this answer multiple times in the thread, even though it is not directly answered. You also neglected to say what specs you'd be running it on. For reference, I upgraded from an i5 2500k and GTX 660 to a GTX 970 and i7 4790k just to run this game on ultra settings with max shadows and godrays, and I think I still might have to turn godrays down.
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Masterful.
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What exactly does the first rank of Local Leader do? Does it just create a shared inventory for resources among all workbenches?
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Merry Magpie posted:The only proponents of the "defective AI" position are the Institute, the glaringly obvious villains responsible for murdering and replacing people. They are also biased because they are reliant on synth labor. There are others in other sidequests and as I said the Railroad is weird in that they are pro-freeing Synths but pretty straightforwardly do not view the synths as actual individuals. They are more interested in freeing them physically than actually freeing the person. I'd say this is just bad Bethesda writing but they actually have characters bring it up so the intended it. There are more sympathetic characters who don't really like synths, partially due to the extreme paranoia around them and just partially due to liking the idea. They really want this to be a theme of the game because people bring it up constantly, they're just not great at following through. The game obviously wants you to be pro-synth but it tries, ineptly, to pain some ambiguity there. I suspect half the reason the Institute is so needlessly cacklingly evil is because they couldn't find a better way to make you pick the 'right' choice because the institute's synth-replacement stuff doesn't actually make any sense. Some of it is explained as the railroad being involved but some of it is just goofy evil because otherwise people might pick to side with their stupid son.
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Odette posted:PC UI is loving balls. Just let me double-tap R to scrap the drat trees! 
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