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Eediot Jedi posted:End of an era lads at long last, i will be able to make Ulfar small, and myself huge
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Naramyth posted:I thought I read they lid off a bunch of employees and were almost bankrupt but I can’t find that info again so uh hearsay nonsense I guess Sounds like HBS.
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Naramyth posted:I thought I read they lid off a bunch of employees and were almost bankrupt but I can’t find that info again so uh hearsay nonsense I guess Laid off a bunch of employees is almost certainly true--this happens like clockwork after every major release to the point where even Larian-is-private cannot meaningfully change my response unless shown evidence to the contrary. Almost bankrupt is a hilariously laughable claim that needs a gigantic "CITATION NEEDED" stamped on it. Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:at long last, i will be able to make Ulfar small, and myself huge Two different solutions. Owlcat trying to accommodate Ulfar with mechanic and map changes, Toybox with 'lol just shrink him'. What a time to be alive 
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Feb 20, 2024 05:37
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There's absolutely no mention of any lay-offs at Larian, no one talking about it on twitter, nothing. I don't know what evidence you need of this thing that didn't happen.
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Feb 20, 2024 05:44
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Naramyth posted:I thought I read they lid off a bunch of employees and were almost bankrupt but I can’t find that info again so uh hearsay nonsense I guess You're thinking of Harebrained Schemes. Larian is doing perfectly fine (and is celebrating a bajillion awards), as is Owlcat.
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I opened the office door and Larian was inside and they were firing everyone and one of the fired people looked up at me and said 'tell my story'
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Feb 20, 2024 05:50
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it's wild we could be talking about this big cool patch but instead all anyone wants to talk about is phantom layoffs and whether or not voice acting is good (answer: it doesn't matter that war's over and voice acting won) I for one will not be missing the Argenta Meta
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Feb 20, 2024 05:53
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throughout my first playthrough i was wondering if i should have made a pyromancer. looks like it was really broken though so i guess its a good thing i didnt. anyway it looks fun, gonna play as one when i do another playthrough in a few years
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It looks like literally everything was broken though, pyros weren't special.Blockhouse posted:it's wild we could be talking about this big cool patch but instead all anyone wants to talk about is phantom layoffs and whether or not voice acting is good (answer: it doesn't matter that war's over and voice acting won) I booted the game, went to a warp encounter combat I had ready to go. Arch militant ulfar still turn 1 wiped the enemy, with one officer helping him out. Didn't respec or change equipment. It was good equipment tbf. Ulfar didn't have his charge ability, not even in the skill list, where you can grab the icons to put them on the hot bar. When I tried the respec ability on my character, it reset to level 1, but I couldn't actually level up until I left the arena, which coincidentally was back to the ship. I did that after combat though. Then I decided I couldn't be arsed respeccing, equipping my whole party to test combat anyhow. Good patch in theory! Lots of fixes and changes I am excited by. Wish I could give more a poo poo!
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Feb 20, 2024 06:42
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shut up, im convincing myself i made the right choice
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Feb 20, 2024 07:00
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Anyone else experiencing slowdowns with the new patch? Sometimes when my RT uses Lightning Arc on enemies the game slows down massively. On one occasion I was about to Task Manager out of the game because it was so slow before things cleared up.
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DaysBefore posted:I mean it is a legitimate bottleneck for devs to commit to full voice acting. See Morrowind -> Oblivion. Personally I prefer the mix that Owlcat does where important characters in important scenes get cool voices but some sidequest with General Nobody can vomit paragraph after paragraph of unvoiced but well written text at you This. I like the approach of Owlcat, BG1/2, Neverwinter Nights 1-2, Pillars of Eternity 1 (2 went for the full voice acting, but actually not, but it still felt like it limited NPC interactions. Which, on the other hand, may be to the best if you remember PoE1 walls of text), Tyranny. I don't want to listen to NPCs doing basic exposition with voices and I feel guilty for skipping it, and being walking encyclopedia suits some NPCs. I also don't like how in most modern voiced NPCs the world is filled with NPCs you can't talk with. The numerous tricks RPGs use to circumvent the limitations of voice acting irritate me. In some older RPGs you could ask a random person on the street where the tavern is or what's happening (e.g. see Arcanum or Morrowind) and get varied response depending on circumstances like race or social status of the inconsequential characters. Nowadays RPGs send a welcoming NPC your way when you enter town dumping all this on you. You can't put specific directions in VA unless the game map is fully finished, or you can't put a random requirements there so people say "I've marked it on your map" or "here I've written what I need on thjs note". Anyway Owlcat does it right at the moment.
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Feb 20, 2024 09:21
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Jack Trades posted:The goal is to not make the player weaker. It's to bring different strategies into being closer to each other in terms of power. That's fun for a while, but like playing with cheat codes, it gets old. I was planning to make my next playthrough not use the game-breaking builds in favour of something fluffier so I could engage more with the combat. Their wording suggests the plan might be to make everything as powerful as Officer-AM, which would remove that option. I hope that's not in fact the plan and it's just unclear wording. Zephro fucked around with this message at 10:21 on Feb 20, 2024 |
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Feb 20, 2024 10:07
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The patch helped with a bunch of UI annoyances. The Gamepad controls had some problems. Like when you turn on popups describing an item and want to equip it the popup blocks most of your character sheet, you have to cancel equipping, turn off the popup and equip again. Not anymore. A lot of minor nuisances like that kept me from playing the game more than balance concerns and bugs. I still had bugs though, hope it will be better now.
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Feb 20, 2024 10:59
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ilitarist posted:The patch helped with a bunch of UI annoyances. The Gamepad controls had some problems. Like when you turn on popups describing an item and want to equip it the popup blocks most of your character sheet, you have to cancel equipping, turn off the popup and equip again. Not anymore. A lot of minor nuisances like that kept me from playing the game more than balance concerns and bugs. I still had bugs though, hope it will be better now. I keep saying, six months after launch is when it is going to be at a playable state without bigger issues and my prediction seems to be right so far.
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Feb 20, 2024 14:01
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SpaceDrake posted:You're thinking of Harebrained Schemes. Noooo my little robot men! Does this mean no battle tech sequel?
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evilmiera posted:I keep saying, six months after launch is when it is going to be at a playable state without bigger issues and my prediction seems to be right so far. The problem is that they release their first big dlc with a new character at that point, so it will have brand new issues. Though I guess Ulbrig DLC for Wrath was not that messy.
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I like this game a lot and enjoyed playing Kingmaker and Wrath while waiting for this patch... but I've kinda been lukewarm or turned off by every DLC they've ever made for anything. Demon Twins & Bear Bro are the only ones I found at least mildly enjoyable, and if they make an effort for DLC companions to be integrated with and react to the main ones I'll be stoked.
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Feb 20, 2024 14:39
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I didn't like Pathfinder games but I think the idea behind roguelike expansions is great. Every story-focused RPG must have a mode like this. Even replayable RPGs suffer from the fact you know all the quest rewards and party members. A randomized mode, however basic, would be great for many classic party-based RPGs as a side dish.
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I definitely wouldn't mind a roguelite DLC for this game, considering that it actually has a fun combat system unlike the Pathfinder game.
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I am not sure yet about this game if the variety of builds and enemies can support a roguelike mode. I didn't like Pathfinder combat but it had a lot of space for experiments. I wish there was a DLC like that for some other RPGs. Pillars of Eternity 2 has great deep mechanics, but it's a very roleplaying-focused game and it's easy to play through the game several times feeling like you've scratched the surface.
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I'm sure I'm not the only person here who only really appreciated the combat in this game as a way to play with new toys. This game was a colony building / ship combat game first and foremost and the on foot combat was only something I looked forward to after buying a shiny new heavy bolter or power sword or something. It being easy to trivialize and obliterate every combat encounter was a feature not a bug for me. I'm extremely hyped for the expansions really leaning into The parts of the game I found the most fun. As far as I can tell the expansions might as well be called "Ship poo poo" and "Hope your colonies are profitable because we're about to tax the gently caress out of them"
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Mortismal's quick breakdown of the patch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnG05u390n0 My first impressions have been that having only run with 1 officer I haven't seen any problems with playing out combat the way I'm used to. Enemies seem a lot easier to hit, have less HP, and Ulfar is basically exploding everything he looks at. Playing on normal, it feels like a regular game's normal and not Owlcat's standard. On the subject of VO, I can agree that wanting to record every single line is too much. What really matters is hearing the random character banter, and when you have the direct, personal conversations with your party members on the bridge. Also, every single time Abelard introduces you it needs to be fully voiced with orchestral backing.
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While I normally do not really care about VA, I believe every single line from Pasqal should be voiced. He is the Omnissiah’s bestest boy.
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Pasqal is the best. also a super mega ultra heretic. I followed his advice most of the time when he piped up about colony poo poo and everything he's about is a terrible idea that's going to get us all murdered. Yeah let's have the strange computer that totally isn't using the warp or an abominable intelligence plot warp routes for us. This totally won't create the first common cause between the mechanicus, administratum, Inquisition, ecclesiarchy and navigator houses in 12,000 years of Imperial history. "Listen, the cog guy says it's a good idea and he's got rank on all y'all when it comes to this stuff. He wouldn't give us bad advice."
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a7m2 posted:Are any of the romances relatively well written? I liked my platonic relationship with eldar waifu. Not really the norm for rpg romances.
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Janissary Hop posted:I liked my platonic relationship with eldar waifu. Not really the norm for rpg romances. That sounds interesting. I've started a dogmatic character but I'm aiming to play them as more of a pragmatist. Will your alignment influence the romancability options?
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How's the co-op?
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a7m2 posted:That sounds interesting. I've started a dogmatic character but I'm aiming to play them as more of a pragmatist. Will your alignment influence the romancability options? I think the only one that's a hard no is chaos, which will make several companions leave at some point. But from a roleplaying perspective a dogmatic character is going to have a hard time justifying having a xenos in their party, let alone treating them with enough respect to connect with them.
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I believe positive results on several eldar events require a minimum threshold of iconoclasm.
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Typical Pubbie posted:How's the co-op? It's just for combat. Second player is not present till party members are there to control. They don't have their own characters but control some of the party members. They'll be able to get their own character only after prologue when mercenaries are available. So don't imagine it being anything like BG3.
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Janissary Hop posted:I think the only one that's a hard no is chaos, which will make several companions leave at some point. But from a roleplaying perspective a dogmatic character is going to have a hard time justifying having a xenos in their party, let alone treating them with enough respect to connect with them.
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Nessus posted:Counterpoint: the Rogue Trader has the 'I do what the gently caress I want!!' note from "The big guy," and as such is entitled to consort with xenos. That's true, but consorting usually extends to letting them help kill things for you, not making a lot of choices to improve their emotional wellbeing and trying to right the wrongs inflicted upon them by other humans.
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Let's be real, basically all of Illy's problems come from other Eldar, both before and after you meet her.
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Nessus posted:Counterpoint: the Rogue Trader has the 'I do what the gently caress I want!!' note from "The big guy," and as such is entitled to consort with xenos. Being authorized to do something is a lot different from actually doing it in practice, even if the authorization comes from throne daddy himself. Everyone knows you're authorized to have an eldar waifu, but it doesn't stop the inquisitor from threatening to jail you or the dogmatic trader from threatening to burn you or your own citizens and nobles from recoiling in horror.
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Rapid-fire is useless now. I'm hitting my teammates even when they're well out of the red zone and Controlled Shot is on.
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Eediot Jedi posted:Then I decided I couldn't be arsed respeccing, equipping my whole party to test combat anyhow. I respeced Ulfar and instantly regretted it after clicking approx 15 thousand buttons to get him back to lvl 45. Didn't bother with the other ones. Then went to kill the Space Marines and Lord of Change and it was still pretty trivial. The Lord of Change had 6000 hp so I assumed there was a gimmick to the fight. The gimmick turned out to be overwhelming bolter fire. It's feels like everyone is operating on different scales. Bad guy has 6000 hp and hits for 4-6 damage, sometimes in a big hit 40. My dudes have like 100 hp and burst fire for 500+ damage multiple times a round.
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Arglebargle III posted:Noooo my little robot men! Does this mean no battle tech sequel? That's terrible news. Battletech was great, I had just started a new career mode this week.
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