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Anonymous No.3868743 [Report] >>3868745 >>3868770 >>3868896 >>3869000 >>3869244 >>3869288 >>3869424 >>3869481 >>3869637 >>3869741
PoE 1 TB open beta announcement
>Hey-Hey people! Josh here
>Turn-based mode. Finally, I can take my time deciding which obscure status effect will permanently cripple my enemies, while the AI politely waits its turn to ruin my day
basically subj
Anonymous No.3868745 [Report] >>3869048
>>3868743 (OP)
I'm not gonna complain about more ways to play the game.
Anonymous No.3868768 [Report] >>3868925
Still have 0 interest in trying this boring ass shit game again.
Anonymous No.3868770 [Report]
>>3868743 (OP)
Not sure if this will actually nudge me to relay again, but I did enjoy white march.
And I played as a Wizard, so a cipher run could be cool
Anonymous No.3868896 [Report] >>3868908
>>3868743 (OP)
The beta download is 1 terabyte?
Anonymous No.3868908 [Report] >>3868925
>>3868896
They accidentally put Sawyer's selfie collection in it.
Anonymous No.3868924 [Report] >>3868991
While I personally prefer turn-based over RTWP, this sounds like shit. Turn based mods work for DnD games because DnD was, obviously, designed to be turn based, and RTWP is just modifying that to be simultaneous turnbased under the hood. When a game is designed from the ground up to RTWP, it's just not the same. And the turn based mode for PoE2 was awful, it was super tedious and poorly balanced and made the game take forever for mundane trash fights. It turns the game into an arbitrary action point system that it was never originally designed around.
Anonymous No.3868925 [Report] >>3868941
>>3868908
Are there dick pics or something?
>>3868768
Ok, bye, Felicia.
Anonymous No.3868941 [Report] >>3868949
>>3868925
>Sawyer
>libido
lol, no
Anonymous No.3868949 [Report] >>3868992 >>3869028 >>3869753
>>3868941
He's literally the reason his Gary Stu isn't a romance option in PoE (as if you'd ever want to...), because it's his Gary Stu and he veto'd it. According to multiple interviews with other devs involved in the projects. Because of playerbase outcry, though, Eder got a side quest in Deadfire about his ex-girlfriend having a son that might have been Eder's (but wasn't, you find out later). The weird thing is that Eder is extremely vocal and blunt about raunchy topics like sex and drugs in both games, and most of the companions are ultra-sluts. Especially Tekehu, Rekke and Serafen.
Anonymous No.3868962 [Report] >>3869569
Another Soiyer worship thread by the resident weirdo look at him go for 300+ posts.
Anonymous No.3868991 [Report] >>3869450
>>3868924
>When a game is designed from the ground up to RTWP, it's just not the same
they are actually addressing that
here is the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mj6HObhD_8
Anonymous No.3868992 [Report]
>>3868949
Anonymous No.3869000 [Report] >>3869025
>>3868743 (OP)
Pillars of Eternity 3 coming soon
Anonymous No.3869005 [Report] >>3869022
I was surprised they didn't put in a "secret" romance in OW2 like did in Awoved. I get it, if it's not a gay fish, he doesn't want it.
Anonymous No.3869022 [Report] >>3869029 >>3869040
>>3869005
Was he working on any of those two games though?
Anonymous No.3869023 [Report]
I was hoping they would improve the graphics and animations as well.
Anonymous No.3869025 [Report] >>3869325
>>3869000
didn't they resolve the boring eothas plot?
Anonymous No.3869028 [Report] >>3869322
>>3868949
This obsession with having all character romanceable is a bigger problem. Not only for the coomer shit, but because these retards have absolutely no standards. The romance could be utter dogshit but they'll still eat it up like pigs at a trough.
Anonymous No.3869029 [Report] >>3869040
>>3869022
>Was he working on any of those two games though?

No, but don't expect anons on this board to know anything about the games they're talking about.
Anonymous No.3869040 [Report] >>3869043 >>3869289
>>3869022
>>3869029
What's your argument, exactly? That the rest of Obshitian doesn't share his hangups, unless he's in charge of a project?
Anonymous No.3869043 [Report] >>3869070
>>3869040
You or some anon said dumb wrong shit an was told it was wrong. Own it instead of deflecting with asspulls.
Anonymous No.3869048 [Report] >>3869447
>>3868745
Ok but why would I want to play PoE?
Anonymous No.3869070 [Report] >>3869077
>>3869043
Okay, who are the key people responsible for recent Obsidian slop, so I can insult them?
Anonymous No.3869077 [Report]
>>3869070
Not sure who you want to blame and for what games. Carrie was the director for Avowed and Tim and Leonard worked on Outer Worlds. Josh worked on Pentiment.
Anonymous No.3869244 [Report]
>>3868743 (OP)
No problem for me, tho I am fine with rtwp also.
Anonymous No.3869268 [Report]
POE2's TB mode has a big problem where they just copypasted the RTWP rules into TB, this means RTWP abilities don't work on TB and vice versa. They claim they are going to try to prevent this with their TB mode for POE1 but I'm fearing they will just make it worse.
Anonymous No.3869282 [Report]
well you can provide you priceless feedback so they don't
hell maybe they will even see you as the game design genius you are and get you on the pay roll as the idea guy
Anonymous No.3869288 [Report]
>>3868743 (OP)
It sucked ass in Deadfire, I don't get who this is for, and I say this as a PoE enjoyer and everything.
Anonymous No.3869289 [Report]
>>3869040
Yes.
Anonymous No.3869322 [Report] >>3869324 >>3869354
>>3869028
It's not that all companions should be romanceable, it's that Eder spends literally every moment while traveling with you being your rizzboi cheerleader and flirting nonstop while being consistently emotionally supportive and protective of you. He depends on you for his own emotional stability and character development in the way that a pet does, and all while being consistently protective of you, literally and metaphorically? Come on. In such a parasocial arrangement, it's pretty easy to understand how it's just expected that he'd develop into a romance. None of the actually romanceable companions have anywhere near that level of intimacy or development with the Watcher, not even Aloth (who is the second companion you meet after Eder). He is the specific companion that has the most justification for being romanceable. Maybe Serafen eventually, because by the end of Deadfire you have been deeply involved in Serafen's personal life and character development, and he's canonically bisexual outside of you so you could at least justify him being "player sexual" without it just being pandering.

So it's not about some just default assumption that all companions should be romanceable, it's more a problem of misleading the player with inconsistent usage of the same signal methods which label all the other romance options as available. It's a rug pull. And the way they handle it is a very pointed "let's just be friends"... after which he keeps behaving with a very romance-coded "protective guardian" intimacy.

So either he was intended to be a romance option, or the writers COMPLETELY failed to understand the assignment, because none of the other non-romanceable companions have such a problem.
Anonymous No.3869324 [Report] >>3869326
>>3869322
>and flirting nonstop
I don't recall him ever flirting with my most heterosexual watcher.
Only played PoE1, though.
Anonymous No.3869325 [Report] >>3869416
>>3869025
That was resolved at the end of Deadfire. Though I haven't played avowed, I don't think it's really been explained what happens to the gods after the Wheel is broken. I think the gods tell you that they'll still exist and stuff afterwards but that they will likely starve if something isn't done (though it'll take a few generations). There isn't much of a suggestion of what'll happen to Eothas afterwards, though he implies that he'll go "elsewhere" or "away", the context of that conversation does not mean that he'll cease to exist. It's more likely that he'll retreat into some kind of hermitage in the spirit-space away from the other gods who probably fucking hate him now.

If you awaken Wael's body in Deadfire and have them fight Eothas, they fail to stop him, but I don't think it's shown that Wael's body is killed, so it's possible that they at least cling to some measure of longevity. It's reasonable to assume that some of the other gods also lay plans to construct secret bodies for themselves in the decades after the events of Deadfire.

But anyway, Eothas's little tantrum is concluded in Deadfire. If he's ever involved in Eora's events afterwards, it's probably as the despised asshole who ruined everything because of his fucking ego. As much of a cunt as Woedica is, she was partly right: he pulled the dough out of the oven before it was even half baked. Regardless of how you feel about the Engwithan experiment in the first place.
Anonymous No.3869326 [Report] >>3869328 >>3869334
>>3869324
I don't remember a feat called "heterosexual" in that game. How is your character's sexual orientation encoded in the engine?
Anonymous No.3869328 [Report] >>3869335
>>3869326
Okay.
I don't recall him ever flirting with my watcher.
Only played PoE1, though.
Will you now engage with the actual topic of my post?
Anonymous No.3869334 [Report] >>3869336
>>3869326
You wouldn't need a feat to define something like that, you can just track it naturally as the PC engages in dialogue. Like how during character creation you choose your background but then in the prologue you get to detail some of the specifics in a conversation with one of the early NPCs.
Anonymous No.3869335 [Report] >>3869364
>>3869328
Will you engage with mine?
Here's why I'm not validating yours: because I can't make you see something you are intensely interested in not seeing. That you either don't see or refuse to admit to seeing something doesn't mean it isn't there.
Anonymous No.3869336 [Report] >>3869338
>>3869334
Does the game do that? I mean, does the game actually in fact do that?
Anonymous No.3869338 [Report]
>>3869336
Yes.
Anonymous No.3869354 [Report] >>3869392
>>3869322
Maybe they don't want Eder to be that way. Maybe they think it works better for Eder to be your bro. There was no misleading, just you lusting after him.
Anonymous No.3869360 [Report] >>3869410 >>3869417
Adding tb to a rtwp game never works.
Anonymous No.3869364 [Report]
>>3869335
>because I can't make you see something you are intensely interested in not seeing
Okay, nice that you already decided that for me.
But can you just show it? It's something that's more pronounced in PoE2, which I didn't play? Because, again, I didn't see any of in PoE1. And that's not me trying to ignore it, I just did not get the vibes at all.
Just a screenshot. Or a scene on youtube. I will look at it.
Anonymous No.3869392 [Report] >>3869561
>>3869354
That 'anon' also wrote paragraphs serenading Sosiel from WOTR, he is kinda insane.
Anonymous No.3869410 [Report]
>>3869360
Of course it doesn’t. Turn based still drags quite a bit in a few dos2 and bg3 battles and those games are designed from the ground up for turnbased.
Like theirs 50 encounters in all of dos2, a 60-80 hour game.
Poe1 has several areas with 50 battles in them alone
Anonymous No.3869416 [Report]
>>3869325
Are you fucking retarded?
Eothas was 100% right in what he did and the only "God" with a shred of decency.
Anonymous No.3869417 [Report] >>3869570
>>3869360
it worked in WOTR
Anonymous No.3869424 [Report] >>3869450
>>3868743 (OP)
The tb mode in PoE 2 was so bad. What improvements have they made?
Anonymous No.3869447 [Report]
>>3869048
You're thinking of Path of Exile, this is Pillars of Eternity.
Anonymous No.3869450 [Report]
>>3869424
>>3868991
Anonymous No.3869481 [Report] >>3869562 >>3869569
>>3868743 (OP)
>game design genius
>behind multiple RPG classics
>handsome
>loved by everyone
Josh makes me so mad, please stop posting him
Anonymous No.3869561 [Report] >>3869626
>>3869392
Uhhhh no I didn't? And I don't like Eder. He's an unbathed bumpkin moron and he's religious. Even after discovering that the gods of the setting were artificially constructed abominations formed from thousands and thousands of victims who were murdered and fused together in a grand ritual process...
Anonymous No.3869562 [Report]
>>3869481
>describing Josh Sawyer as handsome
Anonymous No.3869569 [Report]
>>3869481
See >>3868962
Anonymous No.3869570 [Report]
>>3869417
It's value neutral since the combat was terrible in the first place.
Anonymous No.3869626 [Report] >>3869631
>>3869561
>Even after discovering that the gods...
what? you didn't finish
Anonymous No.3869631 [Report]
>>3869626
Farquaad doesn't play games, just skims through youtube videos
Anonymous No.3869637 [Report] >>3869645
>>3868743 (OP)
yhis fag 100% spends 2h in front of a mirror doing make up before he posts a video
Anonymous No.3869645 [Report]
>>3869637
Not everyone wants to show up looking like they just came from an arrest mugshot
Anonymous No.3869697 [Report]
> Black Souls General!
>Sequel General!
>Josh Sawyer General!
Anonymous No.3869741 [Report]
>>3868743 (OP)
the PoE setting is always going to be my #1 CRPG potential-man franchise, such a shame how nothingburger it has been after all these years.
Anonymous No.3869753 [Report]
>>3868949
Being against romances is one of Sawyer's few good takes.
Anonymous No.3870343 [Report] >>3870359
>Josh Sawyer
>Tim Cain
>Involved in the creation of some of the greatest RPGs in history
>They're youtubers now
Dudes, I'm pretty sure the industry is going to crash soon.
Anonymous No.3870359 [Report]
>>3870343
>youtubers
They're knowledge sharing, which is what more devs should do.