Obsidian's "Pillars of Eternity"

[rk47]

Schild, I can't believe you. I hate to come out like this but personally, I find it immensely jarring and immersion-breaking to find a fictional universe where for no explained reason everyone is apparently straight.

[schild]

Get rekt, m8.

[rk47]

Hey asshole,  it reads... "Firedorn Lightbringer Here lies Firedorn, a hero in bed He once was alive and now he's dead The last woman be bedded, turned out a man and crying in shame, of a cliff he ran"

What kind of world are we living in to tolerate that kind of discrimination on trans?
Holy shit. Wake up man, it's 2015!

[schild]

What kind of world are we living in to tolerate that kind of discrimination on trans?

[Rendakor]

Hey asshole,  it reads... "Firedorn Lightbringer Here lies Firedorn, a hero in bed He once was alive and now he's dead The last woman be bedded, turned out a man and crying in shame, of a cliff he ran"

What kind of world are we living in to tolerate that kind of discrimination on trans?
Holy shit. Wake up man, it's 2015!

I didn't realize you were so tolerant!

[Pennilenko]

I am so confused right now.

[Signe]

Me, too.  :(

[Hutch]

To summarize:
Bored schild trolled the thread, using sjw gender politics bait as his weapon of choice.
rk trolled him right back. In his right hand he wields irony, and in his left he brandishes confusion.
Now they are battling for supremacy.

[schild]

Wrong. Rk sent me the tweet on Steam. As a fan of absurd extremes, particularly SJWs taking their fights wherever they can find the them, I posted it as a piece of Twitter performance art. Rk is actually on my side in this and thinks this is as stupid as I do.

But he played the part well for a hut dwelling, fried chicken eating,  southeast asian.

[lamaros]

Stop shitting up the thread you egotistical twit. Who fucking cares.

[Tebonas]

You really want to drag this games thread into the Politics Forum crying and screaming, do you?
Let me veer this back ontopic.

I tried to erradicte those Fanfic dummies from the face of Eora, but as it turns out the rest of the city turns against you and attack when you do so. You lying liars that lie!

[rk47]

You really want to drag this games thread into the Politics Forum crying and screaming, do you?
Let me veer this back ontopic.

I tried to erradicte those Fanfic dummies from the face of Eora, but as it turns out the rest of the city turns against you and attack when you do so. You lying liars that lie!

  I kept quiet for that.

[Hutch]

Stop shitting up the thread you egotistical twit. Who fucking cares.

[lamaros]

I think I might have gotten to the bit where the plot gets stupid and the suspension of disbelief goes and starts ruining everything. Hopefully not.

[Comstar]

Why does the name Desslock sound familiar?

If I recall wrongly, he posted a lot in the old UO/EQ age. Not on LtM, EQ Vault or something? Mostly I recall being annoyed at his seeming superiority to everyone else. I'm glad he had enough money and courage to back the game that much.

Also, you should let that beef with Arcadaian just go. Guy wound-up managing a Chic-Fil-A someone else owned. Be happy at that and move on.

I behaved very badly towards him, I hope he's ok and still wearing hats online somewhere.

[Miasma]

Apparently there are a couple bugs with stats and such as well, but they haven't hit my game.

Hmm.  I'm missing a point after character creation and I thought it was just me being thick.  But I think maybe it's not.

I thought that happened to me but it turns out that for some odd reason it applies the +1 cultural sub-race stat point before you even choose one.  So when you get to the sub-race selection a couple screens later and change it the +1 goes to something else and is removed from the old stat.

[lamaros]

I think Desslock was an old gamespot reviewer?

[rk47]

There are bugs too if you save when temporarily buff and reload.
It appears the temporary change becomes permanent. 
This may happen to the enemies too. Beware. 

[Ironwood]

Oh for fucks sake.

[Falconeer]

I think Desslock was an old gamespot reviewer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xInOaYudWOY

Star Blazers was HUGE in Italy in 1981.

[Lucas]

Yep, I strongly suggest to hold off 'til the patch (looking at the dev tracker, they've already fixed the equipment and stat accumulation bugs) then start a brand new game. Hopefully, the patch won't introduce new problems 

[calapine]

What's a good difficulty for playing this game in "ironman mode" (only one save game)?


Also did they rename "Ironman" into "Trial of Iron" for PC reasons?  *runs*

[Falconeer]

What's a good difficulty for playing this game in "ironman mode" (only one save game)?


Also did they rename "Ironman" into "Trial of Iron" for PC reasons?  *runs*

That would make sense and I hope so.

[calapine]

That would make sense and I hope so.

Hmm, disagree. It seems overly (as in pointlessly) sensitive. And I don't like the doctoring with language for political reasons.

But oh well. This is a) politics forums, b) one of the discussions were no one is going to convince the other person anyway. (And c) overly nit-picky thing to complain about. So one is doing the exact thing one is complaining about. Argh!)

[Ironwood]

Why don't we complain about the bug that has retroactively fucked over our characters ??

[rk47]

I got lazy one day and decide to have fun.  

[calapine]

Why don't we complain about the bug that has retroactively fucked over our characters ??

Me? Cause I haven't started playing yet. 

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This seems to be the bug rk mentioned:

Stat bonus modifiers can erroneously be applied multiple times allowing stats to grow beyond intended values

Looks like it's best to wait with the game for a while (depending on how much one is bothered by bugs like this).

[calapine]

Another bug (I am reading the official forums due to boredom):

<Name of spell> doesn't end


Summary is that in some fights the hostile debuffs/damage spells do not end after combat. Dismissing affected companions or save+reload doesn't seem to fix it either.

[Ceryse]

Personally, I haven't complained about bugs because.. well, I haven't experienced any. I never double-clicked equipment, so never got that bug (for which there's a work around unless it happens to the pc). Never had the permament buff bug, because I've never buffed, saved, loaded. Never had a ranger bug because the D&D games taught me to never play a ranger. Didn't get stuck anywhere or anything. Didn't even get the Act 2 quest line bug with the three factions (which is related to the Winds of Steel knights quest).

Didn't even try to avoid them, just never got them, so nothing to complain about. The patch this week should help a lot of these (and, knowing Obsidian, create some new interesting ones), but I haven't put off playing waiting for it (just because I haven't had time, sadly).

[Ironwood]

Never had a ranger bug because the D&D games taught me to never play a ranger.

Heh.

On the other hand, it sucks to be a Drizzzzzzzzzzt fanboy.

[rk47]

Uhm...the game crash when I try to leave first castle I think...
The only solution is to use console command n teleport back to town.
Bravo. 

[tmp]

I got lazy one day and decide to have fun.  

... you've decided to re-create DAI experience in PoE?

(fuck those bears)

[Yegolev]

Obsidian's Console Commands of Eternity: When Will It Be Finished?

[Signe]

What to do?  Do I give up Steam Achievements (yet again) and use the console to fix my characters?  Or do I wait for a patch? 

[Lucas]

What to do?  Do I give up Steam Achievements (yet again) and use the console to fix my characters?  Or do I wait for a patch? 

If you really can't wait to go ahead with the game and/or don't have anything else to play, sure, try to use the workarounds; otherwise, I would wait a couple more days for the patch in order to enjoy the game at its fullest.